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SAN  FRANCISCO,  JANUARY  2,  1897. 


Number  1. 


Printed  and  Published  etery  Saturday  by  the  proprietor,  FRED  MARRIOTT 
5S  Kearny  street.  Sam  Francisco.  Entered  at  San  Francisco  Pott- 
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tion and  advertising  rates. 

THE  New   Year  is   greeted   hopefully   by  many  a  man 
who  believes  it  cannot  bring  him  worse   luck    than  he 
had  in  1896.  

THE  excommunication  of  Tolstoi  by  the  Holy  Synod  of 
the  Greek  church  may  be  expected  to  have  about  as 
much  effect  as  the  famous  ban  laid  upon  the  jackdaw  of 
Rheims. 


GOVERNOR  BUDD  favors  some  radical  changes  in  the 
laws  relative  to  the  commitmeut  of  insane  persons, 
and  to  the  management  of  the  State  asylums.  It  is  high 
time  for  some  remedial  legislation  in  this  respect. 

THE  late  train-wrecking  in  Alabama,  with  its  awful 
loss  of  life,  indicates  not  only  the  necessity  of  making 
this  atrocious  crime  punishable  with  death,  but  also  the 
need  of  a  rigorous  enforcement  of  the  penalty.  A  due  re- 
gard for  the  safety  of  the  public  makes  this  imperative. 

REAL  estate  men  say,  with  good  reason,  that  there 
was  never  a  better  time  than  this  for  investment  in 
San  Francisco.  Property  has  suffered  a  downward 
tendency  for  three  years  past,  but  the  indications  are  now 
decidedly  favorable  for  a  general  improvement  in  this 
regard. 

SWORDING  to  reports  received  by  the  State  Board  of 
Trade,  more  people  are  coming  into  California  this 
winter  than  for  many  years  past.  This  is  gratifying  in- 
telligence. With  this  immigration  of  homeseekers,  and 
improved  prices  for  wheat,  land  values  should  rise  and 
there  should  be  a  general  return  of  prosperity. 

THE  learned  gentlemen  who  attempt  to  substitute 
reason  and  analysis  for  authority  and  faith,  as  found- 
ations for  the  Christian  religion,  merely  create  alarm  and 
uncertainty  where  before  there  was  serene,  if  unthinking, 
confidence  and  belief.  It  is  but  a  step  from  the  so-called 
"rational"  Christianity  to  complete  agnosticism. 

A  TREATY  of  arbitration  between  England  and 
America,  if  agreed  upon  as  reported,  will  rank  as 
one  of  the  most  notable  achievements  of  the  present  Ad- 
ministration. It  may  not  be  an  absolute  safeguard 
against  war,  .but  it  gives  to  both  countries  assurances  of  a 
long  continuance  of  their  present  peaceful  relations. 

THERE  is  bitter  complaint  in  Germany  that  the 
aristocracy  have  a  monopoly  of  official  positions  in 
the  civil  service,  as  well  as  in  the  army  and  navy.  The 
mutterings  of  discontent  among  the  masses,  and  the  rapid 
growth  of  socialism  and  democracy,  indicate  that  the  im- 
perial Government  is  more  in  danger  from  the  German 
people  than  from  its  foreign  enemies. 

THE  experiment  of  rural  mail  delivery  is  shortly  to  be 
tried  in  a  district  of  Santa  Clara  county,  by  order  of 
the  postal  authorities.  Should  the  results  be  satisfactory, 
farmers  and  fruit  growers  in  all  well  populated  localities 
will,  we  hope,  be  afforded  the  same  facilities.  They  are 
entitled  to  all  the  conveniences  the  Government  may  be 
enabled  to  furnish. 


IT  is  not  always  wise  to  give  advice  about  making  money, 
but  to  those  who  are  seeking  a  profitable  rural  indus- 
try it  seems  perfectly  safe  to  recommend  the  cultivation 
of  the  orange  in  suitable  localities  of  Northern  California. 
The  fruit  matures  so  early,  in  the  foothills  of  this  division 
of  the  State,  that  it  comes  into  market  in  November,  thus 
securiug  to  the  grower  much  better  prices  than  can  be 
had  for  the  bulk  of  the  Southern  California  crop. 


NEWS  comes  from  Berlin  that  three  hundred  German 
factories  have  resumed  work,  in  consequence  of  the 
election  of  McKinley.  This  is  rather  curious.  His 
victory,  the  Protectionists  assured  us,  would  reopen  the 
mills  and  factories  in  this  country — not  in  Europe.  The 
explanation  may  be  that  the  German  manufacturers  ex- 
pect to  sell  goods  in  America,  despite  the  tariff,  and  to 
get  their  pay  in  sound  money. 


THE  low  price  of  silver  has  led  to  increase  of  gold  min- 
ing in  Nevada,  where  many  promising  auriferous 
properties  are  being  de\  eloped.  It  is  of  course  well 
known  that  a  large  percentage  of  the  Comstock  bullion 
has  been  gold,  but  Nevada  has  been  generally  regarded  as 
identified  with  the  one  great  mining  interest  of  silver.  In 
the  future,  however,  it  may  be  that  her  output  of  gold 
will  exceed  that  of  the  white  metal. 


THE  darkest  blot  in  the  history  of  California  politics  is 
undoubtedly  the  treachery  of  U.  S.  Senator  George 
C.  Perkins  towards  the  Hon.  James  C.  Waymire,  in  not 
exerting  his  influence  to  secure  for  him,  as  California's 
representative,  a  position  to  Mclvinley's  cabinet.  Judge 
Waymire  has  hosts  of  friends  in  this  State  who  had  hoped 
to  see  him  thus  honored  in  return  for  his  invaluable  ser- 
vices to  his  party.  A  better  man  could  not  be  found,  and 
that  he  has  been  turned  down  by  the  delegation  at  Wash- 
ington goes  far  to  prove  that  Senator  Perkins  is  unaware 
of  the  desires  of  the  party  he  is  supposed  to  represent, 
and  with  which  he  is  expected  to  be  in  accord. 

IP  such  sensational  journals  as  the  Examiner  could  be 
believed,  a  large  part  of  the  business  of  the  American 
courts  consists  in  invalidating  laws  on  the  pretense  that 
they  are  unconstitutional,  the  true  reason  being  that  the 
acts  in  question  do  not  suit  the  judges.  There  is  very 
little  foundation  for  such  sweeping  strictures.  It  would 
be  wholly  useless  to  have  written  constitutions,  unless 
their  terms  are  to  be  enforced,  and  necessarily  this 
power  can  be  exercised  only  through  the  courts.  If 
judges  are  not  to  follow  their  honest  opinions,  and  are  to 
be  governed  by  popular  seutiment  of  the  clamor  of  news- 
papers, our  constitutions  would  better  be  abolished  alto- 
gether. 

THE  grave  charges  preferred  by  Mr.  Frank  Schmidt 
against  those  in  authority  at  the  City  and  County 
Hospital,  and  accusing  certain  doctors  there  (whose 
names  are  unfortunately  unknown)  of  improperly  treating 
and  insulting  his  wife  while  undergoing  an  operation,  must 
not  be  allowed  to  pass  unnoticed.  Not  only  the  press  of 
this  city,  but  also  all  reputable  practitioners,  should  de- 
mand that  the  matter  be  looked  into  immediately  and  that 
the  guilty  parties,  if  convicted  upon  investigation,  receive 
commensurate  punishment.  The  City  and  County  Hospital 
has  long  been  little  less  than  a  disgrace  to  the  city,  and  if 
it  be  true  that  defenceless  women  are  insulted  there,  then 
the  whole  management  must  be  changed.  As  taxpayers, 
ha>«s  a  Hght  tt>  demand  it. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1897. 


Truth  About  The  Bryanite  orators  during  the  late  cam- 
Oup  Farmers,  paign  worked  the  country  into  almost 
sadness  over  the  condition  of  the  Western 
farmers.  On  the  highest  official  authority,  we  now  know 
that  there  was  more  fiction  than  fact  in  the  oratory  of 
that  time.  The  report  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture, 
just  issued,  tells  us  that  seventy-two  percent  of  the  farms 
in  the  United  States,  occupied  by  their  owners,  are  abso- 
■  lutely  free  from  mortgages  or  other  incumbrances,  and 
that  three-fourths  of  the  borrowings  have  gone  either  for 
the  purchase  of  farms  or  their  improvement.  The  West 
and  South,  he  shows,  are  comparatively  free  from  mort- 
gages, and  that  it  is  the  older  and  poorer  farms  along  the 
north  A  dan  tic  that  are  in  debt.  This  is  particularly  true 
of  iNew  Jersey,  which,  in  proportion  to  its  farm  values,  car- 
ries a  greater  burden  of  indebtedness  than  any  other 
State  in  the  union.  The  recent  claims  that  the  farmers 
are  almost  universally  in  debt,  despondent  and  suffering, 
the  Secretary  declares  to  be  without  any  foundation,  a  be- 
littlement  of  agriculture,  and  an  indignity  to,  every  intelli- 
gent and  practical  farmer.  The  tillers  of  the  soil,  he  says, 
are  not  mendicants,  nor  wards  of  the  Government,  to  be 
treated  to  annuities,  but  the  representatives  of  the  oldest, 
most  honorable,  and  most  essential  occupation  of  the 
human  race,  upon  which  all  other  vocations  depend  for 
subsistence  and  prosperity.  Farmers  are  proverbially 
grumblers,  and  as  such,  too  frequently  mislead  people  not 
over  familiar  with  their  ways.  Most  of  them  have  a  snug  . 
little  sum  put  away  to  meet  any  emergency,  and  with 
those  who  have  not  there  is  no  need  to  waste  sympathy. 
The  man  who  has  a  farm  fairly  well  stocked  is  about  as 
securely  and  certainly  provided  for  as  any  man  can  be  in 
this  world.  He  can  live  on  his  own,  even  though  he  see 
not  a  dollar  of  money.  City  life  has  its  charms  for  men 
who  like  excitement,  more  or  less  unhealthy,  but  for  sober 
satisfaction  and  true  comfort  the  life  of  the  husbandman  is 
much  to  be  preferred.  Nowhere  else  iu  this  wide  world 
are  his  lines  cast  in  more  pleasant  places  than  in  this  fair 
California  of  ours. 

Who  Shall  Be  The  loyalty  of  Californians  to  deserving 
Our  Senator?  Californians  is  proverbial.  This  is  proba- 
bly due  to  the  fact  that,  as  a  rule,  Cali- 
fornians are  hard  workers,  and  struggles  that  culminate 
in  success  are  ever  respected.  Few  of  our  leading  men 
were  nursed  in  the  lap  of  luxury;  nearly  all  of  them  have 
swung  themselves  into  prominence  by  continued  applica- 
tion. With  our  young  men  to-day  this  is  as  much  a  truth 
as  it  was  of  their  sires  in  the  days  of  '49.  And  the  young 
men  are  the  [ones,  especially  in  politics,  who  are  to  the 
fore  at  present.  In  the  Republican  party  there  are  many 
young  men  worthy  and  able  of  taking  a  position  beside  the 
Honorable  Stephen  M.  White  in  the  United  States  Senate. 
It  only  remains  to  be  settled  which  one  is  most  worthy  of 
being  sent  there. 

We  run  through  with  pride  the  recognition  extended  in 
the  past  to  such  men  as  Sargent,  Miller,  Williams,  Felton, 
all  men  of  strong  individuality.  Then  comes  Perkins,  who 
has  been  honored  as  Governor  and  Senator,  but  has  al- 
ways filled  his  positions  with  indifference,  and  has  never 
been  bold  enough  a  statesman  to  carry  the  confidence  of 
his  whole  State.  He  has  always  had  about  him  a  little 
clique  or  private  combination  that  he  makes  use  of,  and 
whom  he  has  always  repaid  with  some  small  place,  or, 
more  frequently,  with  a  promise  unfulfilled.  In  the  last 
campaign  he  was  unmindful  of  the  pre-eminent  and  all- 
absorbing  consideration  that  was  McKinley  and  Hobart, 
and  almost  lost  the  State  to  the  Party  by  getting  up  dissen- 
sions iu  trying  to  pledge  the  various  County  delegations 
to  him  for  United  States  Senator.  In  little  or  noth- 
ing did  he  advance  the  cause  of  the  general  ticket,  either 
by  personal  effort  or  by  contribution.  In  the  last,  as  in 
other  campaigns,  he  withheld  himself,  to  use  a  common 
expression,  to  see  which  way  the  cat  was  going  to  jump 
before  he  became  active.  Whenever  he  thought  that  the 
Republican  party  would  be  successful,  then  with  a  great 
hurrah  and  fuss  and  feathers  he  suddenly  appeared  upon 
the  scene,  and  attempted  to  convey  the  impression  that 
he  had  been  doing  everything  necessary  to  carry  the 
whole  campaign. 

By  singular  contrast,  we  can  name  numbers  of  men  who 
have  been  unselfishly  devoted  to  the  Republican  party, 


and  who  for  years  have  served  it  in  season  and  out  of  sea- 
son, and  who  served  it  best  when  success  seemed  most 
doubtful.  They  were  stimulated  by  the  very  possibility  to 
their  best  efforts  on  account  of  impending  defeat,  and  all 
for  the  love  of  party  without  the  hope  of  reward,  save  the 
pride  of  party  success.  We  recall  a  few  instances  of  men 
who  were  not  only  prominent  in  the  last  campaign,  but 
also  in  the  campaigns  of  the  last  fifteen  years.  George 
Knight,  General  Barnes,  General  Chipman,  Samuel  M. 
Shortridge,  Judge  Carpenter,  Frank  Coombs,  Colonel 
John  P.  Jackson,  Judge  James  A.  Waymire,  Henry  C. 
Dibble,  Colonel  H.  I.  Kowalsky,  Hon.  Frank  McGowan, 
and  others  too  numerous  to  mention.  All  of  these  gentle- 
men have  labored  unselfishly  for  the  success  of  their  party. 
And  when  a  party  has  so  many  prominent  men,  such  as 
those  whose  names  we  have  just  mentioned,  and  whose 
loyalty  to  the  cause  has  gained  them  the  love  of  the  entire 
party  throughout  the  State,  we  naturally  look  to  the 
selection  of  one  of  their  number  as  the  man  whom  the 
party  can  best  afford  to  appoint  to  do  it  honor  as  against 
the  selfish  cormorant  who  seeks  to  honor  himself.  Some 
of  the  men  we  mentioned,  we  think,  are  justly  ambitious 
and  should  be  recognized,  and  if  the  members  of  the  pres- 
ent Legislature  should  see  fit  to  honor,  for  instance,  the 
Honorable  Samuel  M.  Shortridge  with  the  position  of 
United  States  Senator,  this  State  of  California  would  feel 
that  one  of  its  brainiest  and  manliest  representatives  had 
been  justly  chosen.  We  purposely  select  the  name  of  Mr. 
Shortridge  because  we  have  beard  him  spoken  of  for  this 
position,  and  because  California  would  have  in  him  a  cham- 
pion and  a  defender  after  her  own  heart,  and  one  equal 
to  the  best  talent  now  occupying  like  positions  from  other 
States.  But  whoever  the  Legislature  selects,  whether 
one  of  the  gentlemen  just  mentioned  or  some  other  worthy 
person  not  yet  spoken  of,  we  will  feel  that  it  has  done 
much  towards  striking  down  a  selfish  and  unworthy  man. 
We  feel  forced  to  say  in  conclusion  that  no  matter  who 
■votes  for  the  Honorable  George  C.  Perkins  for  United 
States  Senator,  that  there  is  one  man  more  than  others 
who  cannot  vote  for  him  and  yet  maintain  his  self-respect, 
letting  alone  holding  the  esteem  of  his  friends  and  neigh- 
bors.    That  man  is  Judge  James  A.  Waymire. 

The  Writing    It  behooves  the  merchants  of  this  city  to 
On  bestir  themselves  if  they  do  not  wish  to 

The  Wan.  see  what  little  trade  is  still  theirs  diverted 
by  the  more  enterprising  cities  in  this 
State.  We  refer  more  especially  to  the  city  of  Los 
Angeles,  which  is  rapidly  becoming  a  rival  to  San  Fran- 
cisco in  more  senses  of  the  word  than  one.  That  the 
rivalry  is  friendly  makes  it  none  the  less  dangerous.  A 
city  rises  in  importance  according  to  the  amount  of 
business  done  in  its  limits.  Its  progress  is  determined  by 
the  enterprise  and  success  of  its  individual  merchants. 
Commercial  apathy  means  ultimate  ruin.  The  News  Letter, 
while  having  the  interests  of  all  California  at  heart,  is 
mainly  interested  in  San  Francisco  and  would  gladly  see 
it  maintain  that  supremacy  which  has  hitherto  been 
accorded  it.  We  repeat,  however,  that  our  title  to  this 
supremacy  is  being  undermined  by  the  sister  city  above 
mentioned,  and  unless  our  business  men  bestir  themselves 
the  commercial  laurels  may  not  m  uch  longer  be  ours.  While 
our  merchants  sit  in  their  dusty  offices  and  complain  about 
hard  times,  those  of  Los  Angeles  are  busy  attending  to 
business  or  engaged  in  drumming  it  up.  While  five  houses 
in  nearly  every  one  of  our  blocks  are  empty  and  idle,  new 
buildings,  imposing  and  substantially  constructed,  are 
springing  up  everywhere  in  the  sister  city.  The  general 
feeling  about  the  place  is  one  of  energy"  and  bustle  and 
those  who  complain  are  usually  the  idlers  found  in  every 
community.  A  message  is  being  writ  upon  our  walls. 
Will  our  merchants  decipher  and  understand  it  in  time? 
Or  are  they  willing  that  the  days  of  this  great  city,  so 
rich  in  glorious  possibilities,  should  be  numbered? 

There  all  the  It  was  a  well-earned  honor  which  has  just 
Honor  Lies,  been  tendered  the  Hon.  Alexander  K. 
McClure,  editor  of  the  Philadelphia  Times, 
in  the  form  of  a  public  dinner,  upon  his  completion  of  half 
a  century's  continuous  labor  in  the  field  of  journalism— a 
testimonial  gained  by  the  most  arduous  work  and  most 
faithful  public  service,    Colonel  McClure  is  secure  in  the 


Januaty  2,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


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title  of  the  Nestor  d  Pennsylvania  journalism.      Indeed, 

no  living  editor  exceeds  his  length  of  service  in  this  coun- 
try, except  Mr.  Dana  of  the  New  York  Sun,  ami  In-  by  only 
two  or  three  years.  Pew,  living  or  dead,  have  completed 
utive  years  in  the  same  profession.  Colonel 
ire  was  borii  in  1828,  and  is  therefore  not  an  old  man 
yet.  His  life  work  was  begun  by  the  establishment  of  a 
country  newspaper  in  Perry  County.  Pennsylvania,  in 
1846.  "He  has  lived  in  a  period  of  the  greatest  historical 
importance,  and  of  stupendous  achievement  in  all  lines  of 
progress,  which  gave  wide  scope  to  his  great  ability.  The 
friend  and  co-worker  of  Lincoln,  of  Grant,  of  the  great 
war  Governor  Curtin  of  his  own  State,  and  of  all  the  noted 
men  of  his  time,  Colonel  McClure  and  his  paper  have  ac 
cepted  the  full  share  in  the  struggles  of  the  nation  iu  war 
and  politics.  It  was  natural,  therefore,  that  Governors. 
Senators,  Congressmen,  and  public  servants  generally, 
should  have  met  to  honor  him  and  testify  their  apprecia- 
tion of  his  character.  Officers  and  individuals,  policies 
and  parties,  have  risen  in  their  turn,  left  their  imprint  on 
the  pages  of  history,  more  or  less  indelibly,  and  have 
passed  away  since  he  began  the  career  which  has  brought 
him  fame  and  honor,  but  his  paper  still  remains,  a  power 
in  our  national  life,  and  an  evidence  of  the  pre-eminence  of 
his  calling  over  mere  politics.  One  note  in  his  eloquent 
speech  of  acknowledgment  is  the  key  to  his  success,  and 
voices  a  sentiment  worthy  of  the  attention  of  every  jour- 
nalist. He  said:  " I  have  long  held  that  the  responsible 
direction  of  a  widely  read  and  respected  newspaper  is  the 
highest  trust  under  our  free  Government.  I  do  not  thus 
speak  of  it  to  claim  for  it  honors  that  may  be  questioned, 
but  to  present  the  oppressive  responsibilities  which  rest 
upon  those  who  are  to-day  educating  a  nation  of  seventy 
millions  of  people  under  a  Government  where  every  citi- 
zen is  a  sovereign,  and  where  the  people  hold  in  their  own 
hands  the  destiny  of  the  greatest  republic  of  the  world." 
Great  thoughts  are  in  those  few  words.  The  general 
adoption  of  their  timely  suggestions  by  those  who  control 
the  press  would  raise  tbe  moral  tone  of  the  nation  by  leaps 
and  bounds.  Long  may  the  genial  Colonel  live  to  set  an 
example  of  clean,  sturdy,  patriotic  journalism  before  his 
brethren  of  the  pen. 

A  History-Making    One  who  reads  the  news  of  the  world 
Epoch.  from   day   to  day,    with    its   gradual 

movement  here  and  there,  scarcely 
realizes  the  momentous  changes  which  are  taking  place. 
But  let  him  sum  up  the  events  of  a  few  years  and  add 
those  which  are  transpiring,  and  he  must  be  impressed 
with  the  fact  that  we  are  living  in  a  rapid,  history-making 
period.  Looking  no  farther  back  than  the  Chinese-Japan- 
ese war,  let  us  see  what  events  of  importance  the  short 
space  includes  merely  in  the  world's  political  history.  To 
begin  with,  we  note  the  development  of  two  Oriental 
nations  into  important  powers;  the  absorption  of  Formosa 
by  Japan,  and  the  independence  of  Corea.  Russia's  de- 
sire for  a  better  foot-hold  on  the  Pacific,  and  her  jealousy 
of  Japan  is  prophetic  of  still  greater  changes  in  that  re- 
gion in  the  near  future.  It  may  culminate  in  a  seizure  of 
Chinese  territory  or  a  war  with  Japan,  or  both.  The 
French  are  practically  forced  out  of  Egypt,  and  the  Sou- 
dan is  rapidly  falling  under  English  rule.  Southern  and 
Central  Africa  are  being  explored  and  colonized,  while  the 
Madagascar  of  the  Hovas  is  already  a  French  possession. 
The  concert  of  Europe  has  declared  that  Turkey  must 
sink  to  the  level  of  a  ward  of  the  Powers,  with  a  con- 
tinual threat  of  dismemberment  hanging  over  her.  The 
troubles  of  Spain  are  no  small  item  in  the  general  shaking 
up.  Cuba,  so  long  her  much-abused  colony,  may  try  ber 
hand  at  self-government.  The  Pearl  of  the  Antilles  might 
have  been  a  polished  pearl  to-day,  instead  of  the  rough 
gem  she  is,  if  her  fate  had  been  in  the  hands  of  a  more 
progressive  power  than  Spain.  The  Philippine  Islands  are 
another  proof  of  the  same  truth.  There  are  1400  of  the 
islands,  large  and  small,  with  an  area  of  115,000  square 
miles.  They  have  a  splendid  climate,  and  are  capable  of 
vast  development.  They  have  belonged  to  Spain  for  three 
centuries,  and  to-day  Spain  cannot  report  their  flora  and 
fauna,  their  geological  formation,  nor  even  their  popula- 
tion. She  may  now  lose  them — it  is  to  be  hoped  she  will — 
and  when  she  does  there  will  be  a  lively  scramble  for  them, 
with  Russia  and  Japan  foremost  in  the  race.      Spain  her- 


self is  threatened  with  revolution  at    home,  and   may   yet 
e  a  Carlisl  Republic.  The  fate  of  Hawaii  must 
>!  through  American  influence,    Will  it  be  a  Republic, 
d  Btal  es,  or  a  count.i  of  1  lalifornia?    1  >ne 
ol  these  three  conditions  seems  to  be  its  destiny,      Bi 
1900,  all  the  impending  changes  we   have    noted    mu 
worked  out,  with  others,  perhaps,   which  have  do 
given  evidence  of  their  coming.     When  they  are  complete, 
what  a  stirring  history  can  be   written   of    the   compara- 
tively peaceful  decade  with  which  the  century  closes! 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1897. 


MEN     WHO      POSE     AS      MINING     PROMOTERS. 

TU(  INING  is  again  a  popular  fad  in  San  Francisco,  and 
I"  for  the  time  being  every  one  who  can  make  a  con- 
nection of  some  kind  with  a  movement  which  suggests  the 
possibility  of  cleaning  up  a  rapid  fortune  on  a  magnificent 
scale  does  so.  Report  has  it  that  money  is  being  made  in  the 
business,  and  this  is  enough  to  change  the  occupations  of  a 
large  portion  of  the  community  which  never  proposes  to 
let  a  chance  escape  to  make  a  dollar,  provided  the  chance 
does  not  involve  any  pecuniary  outlay  upon  its  own  part. 
All  that  has  to  be  done  now,  according  to  the  views  of 
many,  is  to  get  control  of  a  piece  of  mining  ground  for  a 
nominal  sum,  and  in  turn  dispose  of  it  to  some  stranger, 
who  later  on  is  inveigled  into  the  bargain  by  the  promoter 
whose  services  have  been  enlisted  for  the  occasion. 

During  the  coming  year  it  is  fondly  expected  that  an 
army  of  men  in  search  of  California  mines  will  invade  the 
State.  This  belief  is  established  beyond  doubt  in  the  minds 
of  many  by  the  millions  which  have  been  changing  hands 
daily  of  late  in  mining  transactions.  It  doesn't  matter 
that  the  bulk  of  the  sales  are  merely  on  paper.  They 
loom  up  large,  and  that  is  enough  to  excite  the  acquisitive 
soul  hungering  after  a  wealth  which  has  been  too  long 
coming  in  the  past.  To  meet  the  demand  for  mines,  every 
hole  in  the  ground  from  Siskiyou  to  San  Diego  has  been  in- 
spected, and  old  records  have  been  burnished  up  in  a  man- 
ner which  dims  effectually  that  portion  bearing  upon  fail- 
ure in  the  past.  If  good  intentions  count  for  anything, 
the  entire  ownership  of  the  State  in  everything  which  per- 
tains to  mineral  deposits  will  change  hands  during  the 
coming  twelve  months. 

In  order  to  facilitate  matters,  new  mining  companies 
are  now  being  incorporated  at  a  rate  which  is  astonishing. 
The  incorporators  represent  all  classes,  and  consist  in  the 
main  of  men  who  know  as  much  about  a  mine  as  it  is 
likely  to  do  about  them.  The  weaving  spider,  however,  is 
behind  each  and  all  of  these  apparently  innocent-looking 
little  associations  of  honest  citizens.  The  man  of  affairs 
controlling  the  destiny  of  schemes  launches  with  an  airy 
capital  of  floating  millions,  which  it  is  proposed  to  solidify 
into  cold,  hard  coin  of  the  republic  under  the  fostering 
manipulation  of  the  master  mind. 

A  motley  crowd,  it  would  appear,  were  the  various  occu- 
pations of  new  mining  corporations  segregated.  All 
trades  are  represented,  and  for  that  matter  every  walk  in 
life,  no  matter  how  humble  it  may  be.  Shares  take  the 
form  of  a  lottery  ticket  with  the  promise  of  fortune  on  an 
equally  elaborate  scale.  A  few  of  the  companies  repre- 
sented start  out  with  a  bona-jide  intention  of  seeking  this 
fortune  by  legitimate  work,  and  with  chances  for  success 
in  their  case,  while  the  others  base  their  hopes  of  profit 
solely  upon  a  sale  to  some  liberally  disposed  buyer. 

The  so-called  promoters  of  mining  sales  here  and  in  all 
the  leading  markets  of  the  old  and  new  world  are  alive  to 
the  situation.  Voluminous  correspondence  goes  on  be- 
tween them,  the  objective  point  in  all  cases  being  to  pro- 
vide alluring  bait  for  the  trap  set  for  the  unwary  investor. 
The  latter  does  not  know,  of  course,  that  when  it  comes 
down  to  million  dollar  propositions  California,  even  with  all 
her  store  of  gold,  cannot  produce  more  than  half-a-dozen 
mines  of  the  class,  and  that  when  they  are  marketed  the 
itinerant  peddler  will  not  be  engaged  in  the  sale.  For 
this  reason  he  proves  an  easy  victim  to  the  alluring  tales 
of  ready-made  bonanzas  which  do  not  exist,  and  turns  his 
fortune  over  as  plunder  to  the  promoter  and  his  clique  of 
assistants. 

This  city  is  simply  alive  with  these  sharks.  Montgomery 
street  is  lined  with  them  from  early  morning  until  the  shad- 
ows fall  and  the  mining  offices  close  as  a  matter  of  economy 
in  gas  bills.  Their  game  is  the  man  from  London  or  the  East, 
the  sleek,  well-fed  looking  heavy-weight,  who  poses  as 
confidential  man  of  world-renowned  banking  firms.  A  nod 
from  this-  great  man  to  one  of  the  hungry-eyed  parasites 
waiting  to  get  an  audience,  is  enough  to  bring  down  upon 
his  head  an  anathema  maranatha  strong  in  feeling  as  it 
may  be  in  invective. 

These  imported  accessories  before  the  fact  in  the 
slaughter  of  innocents  abroad,  like  any  other  class  of 
financial  operator,  can  be  summed  up  as  good,  bad,  and 
indifferent,  with  the  good,  as  usual,  in  a  very  hopeless 
minority.  The  men  of  the  latter  type  are  difficult  to  reach 


They  are  out  of  range  of  the  mob,  and  keep  there  as  much 
as  possible.  When  you  meet  them  you  find  a  gentleman, 
and  one  who  is  well  versed  in  every  detail  of  the  business 
in  which  he  is  engaged.  He  does  not  find  it  necessary  to 
air  his  strong  connections  abroad,  but  any  statements  he 
may  make,  or  arrangements,  can  be  depended  upon. 

The  pompous,  arrogant,  self-sufficient,  and  loud-talking 
representative  of  the  class  can  be  safely  catalogued  indif- 
ferent. He  has  just  brains  enough  to  make  a  thorough- 
going ass  of  himself,  and  not  enough  to  make  him  danger- 
ous to  any  one  but  himself.  He  knows  all  about  mining, 
and  can  afford,  from  his  lofty  perch  of  superiority,  to 
sneer  at  anything  which  does  not  suit  his  views  ■  or  meet 
with  his  approval.  This  type  of  promoter  is  over  plentiful 
just  now;  mostly  foreign;  is  short-lived,  however,  fortun- 
ately, and  apt  to  get  mad  at  a  moment's  notice,  and  kick 
himself  out  of  the  State  by  mistake,  to  the  satisfaction  of 
all  who  happened  to  come  in  contact  with  him. 

The  "  bad "  promoter,  as  be  is  now  in  evidence,  is' a 
suave  article.  With  a  record  for  villainy  in  the  past, 
this  species  is  looked  to  for  the  assistance  which  exper- 
ience promises  in  carrying  out  some  nefarious  operations. 
A  sneak  of  the  lower  order,  he  can  be  depended  upon  just 
so  long  as  it  pays  to  be  true  to  any  side.  Mean  enough 
for  a  spy,  tout,  or  any  other  qualification  of  low-class  ras- 
cality, involving  doctored  reports,  salted  mines,  with  a 
bogus  reputation  as  a  mining  expert,  the  smiling  syco- 
phant rubs  shoulders  with  honest  men,  a  living  example 
of  unjailed  corruption,  an  offense  to  public  decency  and 
morality.  Knowing  absolutely  nothing  of  the  mining  pro- 
fession by  practical  experience,  and  caring  less,  the  sole 
forte  of  this  predatory  scamp  is  a  brazen  effrontery  which 
imposes  upon  his  victims,  who,  carried  away  by  plausible 
statements  of  profits  in  store,  only  awaken  from  a 'spell 
cast  over  them  to  find  they  have  fallen  a  prey  to  the  slick 
confidence  operator.  Sometimes  the  "  bad " :  operator 
gets  involved  in  the  toils  of  law,  but  Justice  invariably 
finds  him  a  raw  customer  to  deal  with,  and  he  is  set  free 
to  pursue  his  way  to  a  fortune  which,  when  attained,  Ms 
salve  enough  for  a  conscience  unaffected  by  the  finger  of 
public  scorn. 

The  less  harmful  type  is  the  gentlemanly-garbed  individ- 
ual of  professedly  scientific  attainments,  who  comes  here 
backed  by  a  syndicate  ready  to  invest  millions  upon  his 
word.  Some  of  this  class  have  money  supplied  them  from 
some  quarter,  which  enables  them  to  travel  about  in  good 
style,  and  perfect  their  education,  if  inclined  that  way,  by 
inspecting  mines.  This  very  nice  position  ends,  of  course, 
when  the  mistake  is  made  of  approving  a  property  and 
suggesting  its  purchase.  But,  on  the  other  hand,  not  a 
few  of  the  class  are  impecunious,  and  the  first  chance  foi 
employment  affords  an  opportunity  to  demand  money  for 
expenses.  A  poor  chance  is,  however,  afforded  in  this 
State  for  a  game  of  that  kind  just  now,  the  honest  mine- 
owner  being  more  interested  in  raking  in  cash  than  in 
paying  any  out. 

Another  batch  of  the  syndicated  advance  agents  is 
backed  with  money  by  what  are  known  as  development 
companies.  The  soft  point  with  these  gentlemen  is  a  de- 
sire to  get  a  showy  mining  property  for  a  comparatively 
small  sum  of  money,  which  will  stand  inflation  for  stock- 
jobbing purposes  on  the  other  side— of  the  Rockies  or  At- 
lantic, as  the  case  may  be.  The  elastic  proportions  of  •  a 
property  of  this  class  is  to  be  gauged  entirely  by  the 
amount  of  ore  which  can  be  figured  up  in  evidence  as  a 
standard  for  possible  dividends  in  the  future.'  In  this  way 
a  mine  bought  at  a  premium  of  $500,000  is  widened  out  to 
a  couple  of  million  when  it  reaches  the  dearly  beloved  who 
provide  the  necessary  funds.  The  investors  in  a  case  of 
this  kind  take  the  chances,  it  might  be  added,  and  the  pro- 
moters the  coin. 

In  view,  therefore,  of  the  vast  number  of  irresponsibles 
attracted  to  the  business  temporarily,  it  will  be  wise  for 
the  owners  of  valuable  mines  to  be  careful  with  whom  they 
deal  if  they  intend  to  take  advantage  of  the  opportunities 
now  offering  in  the  market.  In  the  hands  of  any  of  our 
old-time  mining  men  of  good  repute  they  are  safe.  But  with 
strangers,  the  man  who  objects  to  having  his  credentials 
scrutinized,  and  who  is  unknown,  by  letter  or  otherwise,  to 
local  bankers  or  men  of  prominence,  should  be  ignored,  no 
matter  how  tempting  the  proposition  he  may  advance.    ' 

John  Finlay. 


January  2,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


THE     SAN      JOAQUIN     VALLEY     CITRUS      FAIR. 


TMI  if  California  are  being  gradually  dls- 

-  Fair  was  held  in 

which   all   the  1  'mm   San   Joaquin    to 

Kern,  were  represented   in   the  exhibit  of  citrus   fruits. 

u  out-and-out  success,   and  baa  attracted 

much  attention  on  account  of  the  line  exhibits  made  by 
some  of  the  leading  firms  of  this  State.  Every  count;  In 
the  San  Joaquin  Valley  was  handsomely  represented  in 
citrus  and  other  semi-tropic  fruits,  and  a  majority  of  them 
in  great  abundance. 

The  possibilities  of  this  great  valley  are  varied  and  im- 
mensi  County  made  the  first   advance   in   raisin 

culture,  and  has  kept  well  to  the  front.  It  has  tn 
universally  recognized  as  the  ''Raisin  Center."  This 
county  has  raised  and  shipped  more  raisins  during  the 
past  ten  years  than  all  the  balance  of  the  State  combined, 
and  California  is  the  only  State  in  the  Union  where  they 
are  produced. 

Among  the  many  exhibits  of  raisins,  that  of  the  Eagle 
Packing  Company,  winner  of  the  first  premium  at  the 
Columbian  Exposition,  under  the  management  of  Noble 
P.rothers,  was  most  prominent.  This  firm  is  responsible 
for  much  of  Fresno's  fame  abroad,  and  one  cannot  wonder 
at  it,  when  confronted  with  such  an  exhibit  of  raisins, 
packed  in  a  variety  ot  excellent  styles,  and  bearing  an 
artistic   "  Bird  of  Freedom"  as  a  trade-mark. 

Marshall  &  Wilson,  of  the  Fresno  Nursery,  were  also  to 
the  front,  with  their  name  and  business  exquisitely  in- 
scribed in  dried  fruits,  on  a  background  of  raisins,  with  a 
large  fruit  cross,  ic  imitation  of  variegated  marble,  in  the 
center  of  the  design.  It  bespeaks  the  quality  of  their 
products,  and  will  be  sent  to  the  Hamburg  Exposition. 

A  fine  display  was  also  made  by  Serapian  Bros,  of  dried 
fruits,  citrus  fruits,  and  raisins.  They  are  extensive 
growers,  packers,  and  shippers  of  these  products,  and  of 
figs.  Their  enterprise  was  illustrated,  two  years  ago,  in 
the  starting  of  overland  mule  transportation  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, in  opposition  to  the  railroad. 

Another  handsome  exhibit,  and  one  which  attracted 
much  attention,  was  that  of  the  St.  George  Vineyard. 
The  St.  George  is  one  of  the  oldest,  largest,  and  best  ap- 
pointed wineries  in  the  State,  and  the  wine  produced 
there  is  rapidly  becoming  a  favorite,  owing  to  the  undevi- 
ating  qualities  of  purity  and  general  excellence. 

The  Citrus  Fair  has  done  much  to  advertise  California  in 
a  legitimate  manner,  and  its  promoters  deserve  a  large 
amount  of  praise  for  the  untiring  energy  they  displayed, 
and  which  has  made  of  the  Fair  an  unqualified  success. 

ONE  of  the  public  benefactors  of  Los  Angeles  has  lately 
been  visiting  this  city.  This  gentleman  is  Mr.  G.  J. 
Griffith,  who  gave  that  city  what  is  probably  the  largest 
park  in  the  world,  as  it  comprises  over  3000  acres.  The 
park  lies  one  mile  north  of  the  north  line  of  Los  Angeles, 
and  is  an  absolutely  ideal  spot.  The  gift  was  a  most  gen- 
erous one,  as  the  land  is  worth  a  fortune  in  itself.  Mr. 
Griffith,  however,  is  a  gentleman  whose  enterprise  has 
made  him  the  possessor  of  millions,  and  this  last  gift  will 
gain  for  him  the  love  of  an  entire  city.  One  stipulation 
made  with  the  gift  is  that  no  car  line  running  to  the  park 
shall  be  allowed  to  charge  more  than  five  cents  for  each 
trip.  It  will  thus  become  the  most  popular  of  all  the  re- 
creation grounds  of  beautiful  Los  Angeles.  It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  Mr.  Griffith  will  be  permitted  a  long  life  to  en- 
joy the  popularity  he  has  so  justly  earned. 


Eastward  Through  The  Rockies. 

The  traveler,  tourist,  or  business  man  is  wise  when  he  selects  the 
Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  "Great  Salt  Lake  Route"  for  his  route 
to  the  East.  It  is  the  only  trans-cootinental  line  passing  directly 
through  Salt  Lake  City,  and  in  addition  to  the  glimpse  it  affords  of 
the  Temple  City,  the  Great  Salt  Lake,  and  the  picturesque  Salt  Lake 
and  Utah  Valleys,  it  offers  the  choice  of  three  distinct  routes  through 
the  mountains  and  the  most  magnificent  scenery  in  the  world. 
Double  daily  train  service  and  through  Pullman  and  Tourist  sleep- 
ing cars  between  Los  Angeles,  San  Francisco,  Denver,  and  Chicago. 
Monday,  Tuesday,  and  Wednesday,  of  each  week,  Pullman  Tourist 
cars  are  run  from  Los  Angeles  to  Boston  via  Chicago,  without 
change. 

For  pamphlets  descriptive  of  the  "Great  Salt  Lake  Route,"  write 
W.  H.  Snedakeu,  General  Agent,  14  Montgomery  Street. 


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January  2,  1897. 


NO  leader  of  cotillions,  manager  of  private  theatricals 
and  frequent  diner-out  is  more  popular  in  society 
circles  than  big  Ray  Sherman  who  a  few  years  ago,  in  ad- 
dition to  his  social  accomplishments,  was  the  football  idol 
of  the  State  University.  During  part  of  the  Christmas 
holidays  he  was  a  guest  at  a  Marin  County  house  party. 
On  the  morning  fixed  for  his  return  to  the  city,  while 
wearing  a  new  suit  of  tweed,  made  expressly  for  this 
visit  and  somewhat  hurriedly  put  together,  he  had  the 
misfortune  in  vaulting  over  a  fence,  to  split  open  a  long 
seam  in  his  trousers.  The  only  other  costume  he  had  with 
him  was  his  evening  dress,  and  he  could  not  very  well 
travel  homeward  in  his  swallow-tail  coat,  especially  as  he 
was  to  accompany  two  young  ladies,  who  were  also  guests 
at  the  same  house.  During  his  college  days  Ray  had  in 
emergencies,  learned  to  use  his  needle,  so  hurrying  to  his 
room,  he  gathered  together  the  ends  of  the  rent  and 
sewed  it  up  as  best  he  could.  This  amateur  expedient 
served  its  purpose  so  long  as  Sherman  remained  in  a 
standing  position.  But,  having  neglected  to  insert  a 
piece  of  cloth  in  the  rent,  when  he  took  his  seat  in  the 
carriage  to  be  driven  to  the  train,  he  was  horrified  to 
hear  an  ominous  report  like  the  breaking  up  of  a  glacier 
in  the  spring. 

"What's  that?"  asked  one  of  the  startled  girls. 

Ray  knew  only  too  well  that  the  long  seam  had  re- 
opened, but  he  tried  to  look  unconscious  and  suggested 
that  it  was  probably  the  effect  of  the  rain  on  the  trees. 
He  had  no  overcoat  to  cover  the  weak  spot  in  his  armor, 
so  he  had  to  stand  up  against  the  wall  of  the  little  railway 
station  and  when  the  party  boarded  the  train,  Sherman 
backed  away  from  the  train  with  the  politeness  of  a 
Chesterfield  of  the  old  school.  That  trip  to  town  was  a 
memorable  one  to  the  wretched  Ray,  and  aged  him  more 
than  the  invention  of  forty  new  figures  for  the  German. 
His  misery  was  partially  alleviated  when  on  the  ferry  he 
fortunately  encounted  a  friend,  whom  he  forcibly  des- 
poiled of  an  overcoat  to  hide  the  cause  of  his  woe.  The 
worst  of  it  all  was  that  the  girls  somehow  discovered  the 
cause  of  their  escort's  unhappiness  and  the  story  was  too 
good  to  keep.  They  smile  now  when  Sherman  boldly  turns 
his  back  and  walks  calmly  away  from  them. 


One  peculiarity  about  Willie  K.  Ball,  the  art  connoisseur 
and  society  favorite,  is  his  delight  in  accomplishments 
which  are  usually  deemed  purely  feminine.  He  uses  the 
needle  and  the  crochet  hook  deftly,  and  frequently  pre- 
sents to  admiring  lady  friends  samples  of  his  skill  in  fine 
sewing  and  embroidery.  As  may  be  imagined,  these 
idiosyncracies  do  not  generally  endear  Ball  to  men  at  first 
glance,  although  he  has  a  wide  circle  of  intimates  whom  he 
periodically  invites  to  entertainments  at  his  rooms.  He 
gave  a  holiday  card  party,  at  which  a  dozen  men  were 
present,  and  when  the  throats  of  all  were  parched  with 
many  cigarettes,  his  historian  relates  that  Ball  produced 
a  one  quart  bottle  of  beer,  while  two  dozen  eyes  anxiously 
followed  the  movements  of  the  host.  Placing*  the  bottle  on 
the  table  with  a  bang,  "Willie  turned  to  his  guests  in  a 
spirit  of  true  hospitality. 

"See  here,"  he  said.  "This  is  Christmas  week,  and  you 
fellows  don't  get  home  until  you  drink  every  drop  of  that." 
*  *  * 

"Peck"  Eppinger  is  chiefly  remarkable  for  the  good 
times  he  has,  and  the  young  merchant  obtained  his  soubri- 
quet in  the  gay  Bohemian  circles  which  he  frequents.  He 
celebrated  one  particular  night  of  the  holidays  in  right 
royal  style,  and  every  individual  who  crossed  his  path 
quaffed  champagne  at  "  Peck's  "  expense.  His  culminat- 
ing act  oE  entertainment  was  the  scattering  of  gold  coins 
among  the  scrambling  crowd  who  surrounded  his  carriage 
as  he  started  from  one  resort  to  another.  As  he  was 
about  to  depart,  a  policeman  thoughtlessly   appeared   on 


the  scene,  and  as  "Peck"  considered  this  intrusion  a  per- 
sonal reflection,  he  displayed  such  forcible  resentment  that 
the  cop  uninvited  entered  Eppinger's  carriage  and  accom- 
panied him,  despite  his  protests,  to  the  nearest  police  sta- 
tion. After  the  little  matter  of  bailing  him  out  had  been 
accomplished  through  the  offices  of  a  faithful  friend,  the 
latter  ordered  the  cabman  to  drive  directly  to  the  Eppin- 
ger home.  "Peck"  objected  so  strenuously  to  this 
arrangement  that  his  friend  was  constrained  to  break 
"  Peck's  "  walking  stick  over  its  owner's  head,  which  dis- 
cipline reduced  the  festive  Eppinger  to  as  meek  a  state 
of  compliance  as  could  be  desired.  With  an  achmg  head 
and  an  indistinct  recollection  of  the  manner  in  which  he 
had  received  his  injuries,  on  the  following  day  "Peck" 
sought  out  his  good  Samaritan  and  requested  his  company 
to  police  headquarters. 

"  What  do  you  want  to  go  there  again  for?"  asked  the 
astonished  friend.  "  Haven't  you  had  enough  ?  You  take 
my  advice,  and  give  the  police  a  wide  berth." 

"Oh,  I  am  going  to  prefer  charges  against  the  cop,"  re- 
plied "Peck." 

"  What  for  ?  "  was  the  disgusted  query. 

"  For  clubbing  me  over  the  head  in  the  carriage,"  re- 
joined "  Peck,"  innocently,  rubbing  his  head  with  a  ten- 
der hand. 

It  is  reasonably  certain  that  the  Police  Commissioners 
will  never  be  called  upon   to  investigate   that  particular 
charge  of  clubbing  against  the  patrolman. 
*  *  # 

Governor  Budd  has  never  been  suspected  of  possessing 
a  forgiving  spirit,  and  it  is  bis  boast  that  he  forgets  an  in- 
jury only  when  he  has  repaid  his  enemy  with  liberal  inter- 
est. He  has  squared  up  most  of  his  debts  of  malice,  but 
he  sorrowfully  admits  that  there  is  one  big  account  upon 
which  he  still  occupies  the  wrong  side  of  the  ledger.  Dur- 
ing the  gubernatorial  campaign  two  years  ago,  nothing 
caused  Budd  so  great  perturbation  as  the  "Nancy"  car- 
toons drawn  by  that  cynical  artist,  Clarence  Webster. 
Budd  never  encountered  the  artist,  although  when  the 
bloom  is  on  the  rye,  he  has  frequently  expressed  in  fero- 
cious language  a  strong  desire  for  a  personal  interview 
with  Webster  in  a  sealed  apartment.  At  a  holiday  dinner 
given  in  San  Francisco,  the  Governor  was  seated  next  to 
a  mild-looking,  spectacled  gentleman,  who  proved  a  most 
entertaining  table  companion.  The  Governor  had  failed 
to  catch  the  name  of  his  neighbor,  who  told  quaint  stories 
with  the  dry  wit  which  has  given  the  artist-humorist  high 
rank  as  a  raconteur.  As  the  dinner  ended,  Budd  expressed 
his  gratification  at  meeting  his  witty  companion,  and 
begged  to  inquire  his  name. 

"Webster,"  demurely  replied  that  gentleman. 

"And  your  business?"  continued  the  Chief  Executive  of 
the  State. 

"Newspaper  artist,"  said  Webster,  with  imperturbable 
gravity.  Noting  Budd's  savage  look  of  interrogation,  he 
continued  serenely:  "Yes,  I  drew  those  cartoons  you  are 
thinking  about." 

The  Governor's  face  was  a  study.  He  felt  he  had  been 
caught  in  a  trap,  and  that  some  courtesy  had  been  squeezed 
out  of  him  under  false  pretences.  He  turned  the  famous 
Stockton  purple  hue  and  almost  foamed  at  the  mouth.  He 
struggled  with  himself  for  several  minutes,  and  then  ex- 
ploded. 

"Well,"  he  finally  roared,  banging  his  fist  upon  the 
table,  "I  suppose  it's  a  case  of  every  man  to  bis  trade, 
but  I'm  damned  if  I  like  yours!" 


Oh,  wonderful  figures  have  they — 
These  nymphs  of  the  flying  ballet ! 

To  see  them  o'  nights 

In  their  neatly  filled  tights 
Is  worth  all  the  fee  that  we  pay. 

As  an  ocular  vision  they  seem 

A  beautiful  flesh-and-blood  dream, 
But  nobody  knows 
What  those  tights  would  disclose 

Should  the  tell-tale  X-ray  on  them  gleam  1 

The  handsomest  calendars  for  1897,  besides  all  other  kinds  of 
stationery,  are  to  be  had  of  Cooper  &  Co.,  the  Market  Street 
stationers.  This  firm  only  carries  the  finest  qualities  of  such  goods 
and  if  you  buy  there  you  will  be  assured  satisfaction. 


Janu.i 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Kid  a  ChiUtm;i  .v.t   loft    tins   State    (ras 

d  \".  La  Motte,   who 
owns  a  large  vii  Ellen,   and  also  writes  art 

..ii   horticulture  '    Iris  ollio'   In    tliis    city. 

in.l.  in  bis  time,  luis 
e  pretty  pranks  at  the  expense  of  bis  friends. 
Mr.  La  Motte  is  much  interested  in  Immigration,  whioh  he 
labors  bard  to  promote,  and.  incidentally,  it  may  In'  stated 
that  he  is  one  of  the  best  informed  men  in  the  State  on 
imia'b  resources  and  possibilities.  In  the  furtherance 
of  bis  plans  to  attract  desirable  settlers,  he  writes  many 

rn  residents.       One    Of  bis  correspondents 
i  to  have  an  insatiable  thirst    for  information  about 

t  nia.  and.  as  soon  as  Mr.  La  Motte  bad  auswered 
one  batch  of  questions,  along  would  come  another  series  of 
queries,  with  hypercritical  comments  on  the  facts  as  they 

•  cut  to  him. 
Mr  La  Motte  became  very  tired  of  his  correspondent. 
realizinjr  that  he  was  simply  wasting  his  time.  The  climax 
came  when  the  Eastern  man  wrote  recently,  asking  if  it 
were  true  that  Oalifornians  were  preyed  upon  by  partic- 
ularly vicious  tteas.  La  Motte  replied  that  this  was  a  big 
State,  inhabited  by  big  people,  and  turning  out  big  pro- 
with  fleas  of  proportionate  size  to  the  magnificent 
dimensions  of  everything  else.  He  bad  just  found  on  his 
ranch  a  ground  insect  two  inches  long,  resembling  the  flea 
in  form,  but  of  quite  different  habits  and  pursuits.  The 
Mexicans  call  it  "  the  deer  killer,"  from  a  legend  that, 
when  deer  sleep,  it  bores  into  their  ears  and  causes  death. 
For  his  correspondent's  better  information,  he  forwarded 
this  formidable-looking  insect  as  a  specimen  of  the  Califor- 
nia flea,  attaching  it  to  a  bit  of  cardboard  labeled  ;' with 
the  compliments  of  the  season."  Mr.  La  Motte  chuckles 
to  himself  as  he  pictures  the  horror  of  his  correspondent 
at  sight  of  the  mammoth  'flea."  This  object  lesson  pro- 
bably constitutes  the  closing  chapter  of  that  correspond- 
ence. 


At  the  recent  Horse  Show,  many  curious  eyes  peeped 
into  the  stall  of  the  brown  broodmare,  Tone,  winner  of 
first  prize  in  her  class.  Horsemen  accorded  her  the  close 
inspection  and  homage  due  "the  mother  of  a  record- 
breaker,"  for  Tone  has  earned  that  enviable  distinction 
and  a  lasting  place  in  turf  history  as  the  dam  of  Agitato, 
2:091,  holder  of  the  world's  record  for  three-year-old 
pacers.  Agitato's  brilliant  campaign  on  the  Montana  and 
California  circuits  is  a  matter  of  great  pride  to  John  P. 
Boyd,  owner  of  Tone,  and,  from  all  appearances,  Mr.  Boyd 
will  continue  to  produce  such  raciDg  phenomenons.  His 
"Owyhee  "  (by  Charles  Derby,  2:20)  also  a  blue-ribbon  win- 
ner at  the  show,  went  through  the  circuit  last  summer 
without  losing  a  single  heat,  and  took  a  record  of  2:24,  be- 
coming, thereby,  the  champion  two-year-old  trotter  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  for  189b'.  Among  the  pacers  at  the  exhibi- 
tion, Mr.  Boyd's  two-year-old,  "Kawookum,"  attracted 
general  attention.  He  is  brother  to  the  great  Diablo,  who 
had  a  record  of  2:0!H  as  a  four-year-old.  In  the  yearling 
class,  Mr.  Boyd  exhibited  the  most  promising  youngster 
of  the  year,  royally  bred  and  perfectly  proportioned,  viz., 
Goodway,  a  bay  colt  by  Steinway,  and  brother  to  Charles 
Derby,  the  sire  of  Diablo,  Owyhee,  and  Kawookum.  Bar- 
ring accident,  he  will  add  to  the  laurels  already  won  by 
Oakwood  Park  Stock  Farm.  The  blue  ribbon  in  the  two- 
year-old  filly  class  properly  went  to  Oakwood  Belle.  She 
appropriately  takes  her  name  from  the  farm,  and  a  more 
stylish  Miss  never  walked  in  aristocratic  horsedom. 

John  P.  Boyd's  mining  career,  a  part  of  the  State's  suc- 
cessful history,  bids  fair  to  be  surpassed  by  his  horse- 
breeding  operations.  On  his  Oakwood  Park  Stock  Farm, 
in  Contra  Costa  County,  are  horses  rich  in  the  most 
valued  blood  lines  of  the  standard-bred  trotter;  lines  that 
make  the  production  of  an  Agitato  or  a  Diablo,  reasonably 
certain.  These  blood  lines,  too,  are  found  transmitting 
their  qualities  of  speed  and  stamina  to  the  superb  style  of 
the  carriage  horses,  bred  by  Mr.  Boyd. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1897. 


The    Book 

of 
The  Week1 


For  the  last  four  or  five   years   Mr.  I.  Zang- 
will  has  contributed  to  the  Pall  Mall  Maga- 
zine  a  department   entitled    "Without  Pre- 
judice," in  which  he  has  commented  on  men, 
women,  life,  manners,  and  literature.     Such  of  these  com- 
ments as  do  not  depend  upon  the  books,  plays,  or  pictures 
of  others,  he  has  gathered  together  into   this  volume.     In 
the  course  of  these  essays  he  is  humorous,  witty,  sarcastic, 
caustic,  paradoxical,    and   heterodoxical,    but   never  dull. 
Though  he  uses  the  phrase    "without   prejudice,"  he  does 
not  wish  it  to  be  understood  that   he  has  no  positive  con- 
victions.    He  very   truly  says   that   to   the  common  man 
every  strong  statement' that   does   not   tally  with  his  own 
invertebrate  ignorance  seems   to    be   a  prejudiced  one; 
whereas  on  the  lips  of  a  man  of  intelligence  and  culture  it 
is  the   utterance   of  conviction  upon  good  grounds   and 
mature    reflection.     Prejudice    is"  Hn    unreasoning    pre- 
possession for  or  against  a  thing  or  person:   postjudice  is 
something  quite  different.     Open  the  book  where  one  will, 
one  isstruck by  theinsightandlevel-headedDess  everywhere 
displayed.     Among  other  aspects  of  this  wide  and  wicked 
world  Mr.  Zangwill  has  carefully  observed  table-turning, 
spirit  rapping,   the   planchette,   and   other   phenomena  of 
"Borderland,"  and  analyses  them  in  a  clear  and  convinc- 
ing manner.     He  makes  it  plain  that,  though  he  may  now 
and  then  have  yielded  to  these  "intellectual  whoredoms" 
(to  borrow  an  apt   phrase  of  Mr.   Mallock),  he  has  never 
permitted  his  will  or  his   intelligence   to   be  debauched  by 
them.     Like  most  clever  men,  Mr.    Zangwill  is  not  averse 
to  raising  the  hair  of  the  hyper-pious  by  taking  an  ancient 
and  venerable  maxim  and  standing  it  upon  its  head.     To 
this  another  very  brilliant  man — Oscar  Wildo — was  much 
addicted,  and  many   amusing  examples  of   this  tendency 
are  to  be  found  in   his  volume  of  essays  entitled  "Inten- 
tions,"  but   with  Wilde   paradox  making   had  become   a 
trick  and  degenerated  into   a  mannerism.     In  ZangwiU's 
writing  the    paradox   merely    flashes    across    the   page 
like   a  streak   of  forked    lightning,    startling  us   by  its 
sudden  glare.     On  pages  140  and  141   of    this  volume  is  a 
letter   addressed   by  Zangwill    to    Wilde   parodying   the 
latter's  style,  in  the  course  of  which  he  says:    "I  say  these 
things  to  make  it  quite  clear  to  you  that  I  speak  to  you 
more  ia   anger   than  in   sorrow.     You  are  much  too  im- 
portant to  be  discussed  seriously,  and  if  I  take  the  trouble 
to  give  you  advice,   it  is  only  because    I  am  so  much 
younger  than  you."     All  who   are  familiar  with  Wilde's 
style  will  acknowledge  this   to   be   an  excellent  imitation. 
In  a  Uttle  two-page  essay  on  "The   Franchise  Farce"  our 
author  falls  foul  of  the  capitalists  who   defend   bribery  on 
the  ground  that  universal  suffrage   is   so   great  a  menace 
to  the  safety  and  well-being  of  the  community  that  it  be- 
comes necessary  to  nullify  it  by  universal  corruption.     He 
justly  says   that   to   enfranchise   the  negro   and   then  to 
render  his  vote  nugatory  by  false   counting   is  to  set  up  a 
double  standard  of  morals,  which  infects  the  whole  nation, 
and   spreads  into  every  department  of  the  national  life. 
The  kind  of  corrupt   thinking  thus   engendered  was  ver}' 
clearly  shown  at  the   recent   Presidential  election,  when 
millions  of  voters   proved  their   willingness   to  repudiate 
half  of  the  nation's  debts,  and  spend  the  nation's  money  in 
buying   silver  from  its   producers  at   twice   the  market 
value.     The  remarks  "Concerning  General  Elections,"  "In 
Defence  of  Gambling,"   on    "Art  in  England,"    "Love  in 
Life  and  Literature,"   are  all  lively,  attractive,  and  full  of 
suggestion.     Zangwill  seems   to  have  quite  shaken  off  all 
prejudice  (in  the  unfavorable  sense),   and  to  see   things 
straight   and   clear,   in  their  true   relations:  he  does  not 
seem  to  be  the  victim  of  excess  of  patriotism,  race-feeling, 
bias  for  or  against  revealed  religion,   or   any  form  of  un- 
reason whatever.     Like  all  persons  of  intelligence  and  in- 
sight, he  is  at  heart  an  aristocrat,  that  is,  he  thinks  that 
the  foolish  people   are,    at  present,   in  a  terribly  over- 
whelming majority  all  around   and  about  us  in  the  wide 
world,    and  that  it  can  never   be   right  that  the  foolish 
should  rule  the  wise. 

*  Without  Prejudice.    By  I.  Zangwill,  New  York:  the  Centurv 
Co.    Price  $1.50. 


In  an  essay  on  "The  influence  of  names"  Mr.  Zangwill 
elaborates  an  ingenious  theory  that  a  large  proportion  of 
eminent  writers  in  English  have  an  "r"  in  their  names. 
If  you  run  through  the  authors'  names  that  come  into 
your  mind  you  will  be  surprised  bow  often  the  fateful  V 
appears.  Among  dead  novelists  alone  think  of  Thackeray, 
Charles  Dickens,  Walter  Scott,  Charles  Reade,  George 
Eliot  (Marian  Evans),  Bulwer  Lytton,  Charlotte  Bronte 
(Currer  Bell),  Trollope,  Disraeli.  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin, 
having  acquired  the  necessary  'r'  by  becoming  Mrs. 
Riggs,  has  published  her  first  long  story,  "Marm  Lisa," 
in  which  she  manifests  an  intimate  acquaintance  with 
kindergarten  work,  and  much  sympathy  with  young 
children.  Mrs.  S.  Cora  Grubb,  the  foolish,  ignorant, 
hysterical  creature,  who  attends  to  everything  but  her 
obvious  duties,  and  bemuddles  her  pate  with  cheiromancy, 
astrology,  theosophy,  Christian  science,  Edenism, 
hypnotism,  spiritualism,  and  every  vain  thing  imagined  by 
the  incurably  feeble-minded,  is  capitally  drawn.  The 
poor,  half-idiotic  Lisa,  under  the  fostering  care  of 
Mistress  Mary  and  her  kind  assistants,  is  rescued  from 
her  mental  darkness,  and  in  the  crowning  episode  of  the 
book  displays  positive  heroism.  The  story  is  well  written 
and  the  interest  is  sustained  to  the  very  end. 


Marm  Lisa,  by  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin.  Houghton  Mifflin  &  Co. 
Boston  and  New  York.    1897.    Price,  $1. 

It  is  amusing  to  observe  the  ideas  of  propriety  enter- 
tained by  the  editors  of  different  magazines.  In  the 
November  issue  of  a  certain  five-cent  periodical  there 
appeared  a  cut  of  Miss  Cissy  Fitzgerald  from  a  photo- 
graph by  Sarony  of  New  York,  in  which  that  sprightly 
young  person  appears  with  her  right  leg  gayly  thrown 
over  her  left,  incidentally  displaying  a  good  deal  of  black 
stocking  and  white  lace.  In  the  December  issue  of 
another  five-cent  magazine  appears  a  reproduction  of  the 
same  photograph,  with  the  offending  limb  and  the  shock- 
ing lace  cut  off,  but  still  showing  the  skirts  thrown  up. 
Yet  probably  both  these  editors  would  readily  enough 
Press  pass-t  the  doorkeeper  of  the  theatre  to  see  the 
actual  leg  (to  say  nothing  of  the  vivacious  Cissy's  wicked 
wink),  from  the  reproduction  of  a  picture  of  which  as  a 
magazine  cut  one  of  them  at  any  rate  shrinks.  Again:  a 
popular  ten-cent  magazine  famous  for  its  reproductions  of 
photographs  of  actresses,  and  of  pictures  displaying  the 
female  form  as  nearly  nude  as  possible,  recently  sent  back 
to  us  as  "hardly  proper  for  reproduction"  some  photo- 
graphs of  South  Sea  Island  women,  which  were  after- 
wards reproduced  in  a  25-cent  magazine  devoted  to  the 
cause  of  home  education,  edited  by  a  Doctor  of  Divinity, 
and  contributed  to  by  some  of  the  best  known  writers  of 
the  day. 

Messrs.  Gelett  Burgess  and  Porter  Garnett  have  con- 
solidated themselves  into  a  publishing  firm,  and  are  about 
to  issue  "Seen  and  Unseen;  or  the  Monologues  of  a  Home- 
less Snail,"  a  collection  of  songs  by  a  young  Japanese 
gentleman  named  Yone  Noguchi.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Tokio,  and  was  for  some  time  secretary  to 
the  Editor  of  a  Tokio  magazine.  He  has  written  articles 
in  his  own  tongue  on  California  scenery,  and  has  edited  a 
newspaper  for  his  countrymen  in  this  city.  Much  of  his 
time  in  California  has  been  spent  upon  Joaquin  Miller's 
ranch,  where  he  rambles,  dreams,  and  writes.  The  new 
firm  intends  soon  to  issue  a  "bi-weekly"  review,  to  be  en- 
titled "Phyllida,  or  the  Milkmaid,"  and  to  be  devoted  to 
literary  topics,  short  essays,  and  the  doings  of  town  and 
country.  Whether  we  are  to  expect  the  periodical  to  ap- 
pear once  in  two  weeks,  or  twice  a  week,  it  is  impossible 
to  say.  The  term  "bi-monthly"  involves  the  same  ambig- 
uity, but  in  that  case  it  is  easily  avoided  by  the  use  of 
"fortnightly,"  which  can  mean  nothing  else  but  once  in 
fourteen  nights. 

Mrs.  Anna  Bowman  Dodd,  author  of  a  pleasant,  gossipy, 
if  rather  gushing  little  book  describing  visits  to  several 
cathedrals  in  the  West  and  South  of  England,  is  about  to 
publish  a  volume,  the  scene  of  which  is  laid  in  that  curious 
and  little  known  region,  the  Broads  of  Norfolk.  The  book 
is  to  be  published  by  the  Macmillan  Co. ,  and  adorned  with 
many  sketches  by  Joseph  Pennell.  It  will,  doubtless,  pre- 
sent an  interesting  picture  of  a  remarkable  part  of  old 
England,  that  is  full  of  quaint  characters. 


January  2,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


" Washington's  Pn>  -ion  of   the  Coming  War," 

issued  by  the  Golden  Gate  Promoting   Company,  Is  an  ac- 
count of  how  San    Francisco  was   saved  from   being  des- 
i  by  the   JtNMH   fleet.     The   ./•  /  ma    is 

.1  Sir  Patrick  MoDermott  of  the  British  Army,  who 
ill  from    fiyinft   machines   little  original  pack n 
high  explosives  upon  the  decks  of  the  enemy's  battleships. 
■  >    n.>t    know    exactly    what     the    company    which 
publishes  this   brotAurt   intends  to   promote,    but  that  it  is 
not  the  writing  of  good  English  may  be  gathered  from  a 
lung  the  condition  of  San  Francisco 
in   1899.     "The   affiliated  colleges   and   the  great  Sutro 
library  were  now  attended  by  the  studious  youth,  and  the 
vanity  fair,  the  mental  acrobat,  and  the  beauteous  display 
of  the  lovely  se\        How  a   library  can   be  attended  by  a 
fair,  and  a  college  by  a  display,  is  not  clear.     For  the  rest 
the  production   is   poorly   and   inaccurately   printed,  and 
contains  many  minor  errors  and  absurdities. 

A  calendar  for  1897  has  been  prepared  by  N.  W.  Ayer 
&  Son,  the  newspaper  advertising  agents,  of  Philadelphia, 
which  is  the  most  useful  of  the  many  we  have  seen  thus 
far.  The  dates  are  printed  in  large  type  and  can  be  read 
across  a  room,  and  its  general  handsome  appearance 
makes  it  worthy  a  place  in  any  library  or  office.  For  the 
sum  of  23  cents  this  calendar  will  be  sent,  securely  packed, 
to  any  address  in  the  country. 

The  Christmas  number  of  the  Los  Angeles  Capital  was  a 
beauty  in  every  sense  of  the  word.  It  reflects  much  credit 
upon  those  in  charge,  and  will  undoubtedly  be  appreciated 
in  other  places  besides  Los  Angeles. 

THE  successful  transmission  of  electric  power  from 
Newcastle  to  Sacramento,  a  distance  of  thirty  miles, 
is  one  of  the  most  notable  events  of  the  month  in  California. 
At  Newcastle  the  electric  energy  is  generated  from  the 
water  power  of  the  South  Yuba  Canal  Company.  A  few 
years  ago  such  long  distance  transmission  of  electricity 
for  power  purposes  was  regarded  as  wholly  impracticable. 
Now  that  the  contrary  has  been  abundantly  demonstrated, 
the  prospect  is  that  with  improved  appliances  and  in- 
creased knowledge  of  electrical  phenomena,  much  of  the 
water  power  now  idle  will  be  employed  to  advantage  in 
this  way. 

M  OST  of  the  efforts  to  set  aside  wills,  upon  the  ground 
_|  I  of  undue  influence,  prove  abortive.  It  is  a  sound 
principle  of  the  law  that  undue  influence  is  not  to  be  pre- 
sumed unless  unfair  advantage  has  manifestly  been  taken 
of  some  relation  of  trust  and  confidence  by  the  benefi- 
ciaries of  the  contested  instrument.  If  men  and  women 
are  not  to  be  allowed  to  do  with  their  property  as  they 
may  see  fit,  wills  would  better  be  abolished. 


IT  is  related  that  a  Jew  and  a  Christian  once  argued  with 
each  other  so  candidly,  as  to  the  merits  of  their  res- 
pective faiths,  that  at  the  close  of  the  discussion  the  Jew 
became  a  Christian  and  the  Christian  a  Jew.  This  has 
been  regarded  as  a  joke,  but  Professor  Howison  insists 
that  a  certain  learned  Rabbi  is  in  reality  a  Christian, 
while,  on  the  other  hand,  the  Rabbi  is  equally  positive  that 
the  Professor's  so-called  Christian  philosophy  is  nothing 
more  than  Judaism.     Thus  extremes  meet. 


NOWHERE  in  the  world  will  be  found  so  beautiful  a 
Park  as  to  that  to  which  we  can  lay  claim.  Our 
illustration  this  week  shows  one  especially  picturesque 
spot  in  it,  the  Huntington  Palls,  with  its  placid  lake  shel- 
tered from  the  wind,  where  one  can  enjoy  an  hour's  boat- 
ing. The  dreamy  beauty  of  the  place  must  be  seen  to  be 
fully  appreciated. 

Ideal  Champagne. 
With  due  deference  to  the  well-known  fastidious  proclivities  of 
California  Champagne  consumers,  Messrs.  Moet  tfc  Chandon,  who, 
as  is  well  known,  are  the  largest  vineyard  owners  in  the  Champagne, 
have  concluded  to  ship  henceforth  their  renowned  "White  Seal 
Grande  Cuvee"  to  this  Coast.  This  brand  is  celebrated  as  a  great 
favorite  among  the  select  circles  in  London  and  other  large  cities  in 
Europe,  it  being  a  clean  and  deliciously  dry  wine,  and  the  "  White 
Seal  Grande  Cuvee"  is  also  bound  to  become  popular  here  with 
people  of  a  discriminating  palate. 


Kelly's  Corn  Cure  never  fails.    25  cents.    102  Eddy  street. 


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make  estimates.  eJVIHl    I  111V  I IVIL/UL,    San  Francisco. 

TELEPHONE  NO.  MAIN  1634. 


Head  Golds, 


Catarrh,  dry  mucous  membranes,  soon  yield  to  the 
treatment  ot  the  famous  DR.  MCKENZIE'S  CA- 
TARRH CURE. 


BE  CONVINCED  FREE. 


you  call  at  the 

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(Edwin  W.Joy), 

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To  show  that  Dr.  MoKenzle's  Catarrh  Cure  gives  In- 
stant relief  and  continues  to  drive  away  the  cold  or 
catarrh,  7  free  trials  per  week  will  be  allowed  you  if 


Call  for  free  treatment  of  Dr. 
McKenzie's  Catarrh  Cure. 


ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 
Alta  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca 
tionof  works— Go  Id  Hill,  Gold  Hill  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  14th  day  of  December,  1896,  an  assessment  (No.  54),  of  Five  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

18TH  DAY  OF  J  ANUARY,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  the  8th  day  of  February,  1897,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  E.  JABOBUS,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  33,  Nevada   Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,   San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

PROF.   A.    LOISETTE'S 

ASSIMILATIVE  MEMORY  SYSTEM. 

The  last,  most  complete  and  perfect  edition. 
MIND-WANDERING  CURED.      SPEAKING  WITHOUT  NOTES. 

Handsomely  bound,  with  portrait  and  autograph.  Price 
$2  50  American,  10s.  6d.  English.  Prospectus  with  opin- 
ions of  Educators.  Scientific  Professional  and  Business 
Men  all  over  the  world  FREE.  Address.  A.  LOISETTE, 
237  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  or  200  Regent  St,,  London. 
Not  sold  elsewhere. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1897. 


■  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 


if 


[ERE  is  a  Paris  correspondent's  account 
of  the  Divine  Sarah  in  a  new  measure 
of  immortality:  "Lorenzo  the  Degenerate,  or 
Lorenzaccio  de  Medicis  is  from  first  to  last, 
as  given  at  the  Renaissance,  un  article  de 
Paris.  I  mean  the  characters,  for  the  ac- 
cessories are  purely  Renaissance  and  Florentine.  Perhaps 
it  is  as  well  that  whim  and  fancy  should  predominate  in 
the  personations— or  rather  personation,  for  there  is  but 
one  player  in  the  drama,  Mme.  Sarah  Bernhardt.  She  is 
stage  manager,  star,  everything;  the  others  are  merely 
well-broken-in  foils.  Musset's  drama  has  been  so  adapted 
for  her  as  to  be  a  monologue,  broken  by  answers  or  ob- 
servations to  serve  as  rests,  or  bring  out  more  clearly  the 
drift  of  the  play.  During  these  pauses  for  the  title-role, 
Lorenzo  glides  stealthilv  into  corners.  Lorenzaccio  is 
neither  he,  she,  nor  it,  but  an  oblique,  enigmatic  third-sex 
being,  who  never  shows  himself  plainly  until  the  drop-cur- 
tain scene.  And  then  one  feels  that  one  only  knows  about 
a  few  of  his  vices.  The  rest  are  still  his  own  secret.  In 
this  part  Sarah  Bernhardt  is  a  curious  creature— interest- 
ing, fascinating,  though  slightly  sickening.  There  is  a 
good  deal  of  the  leopard  or  the  panther  in  her  gracile  ways 
and  remorseless  ferocity.  She  is  through  and  through 
corrupt  and  immoral;  but  no  more  conscious  of  her  state 
than  if  she  were  a  feline  of  the  desert. 

"It  is  marvelous  how  a  single  player  can  fill  the  four 
acts,  and  in  a  drama  with  a  chief  character  who  is  all  dis- 
simulation. There  are  only  here  and  there  a  few  out- 
bursts of  genuine  feeling.  The  revelation  of  the  scheme  in 
which  the  whole  plot  lies  is  less  than  gradual.  If  there 
were  passionate  outbursts  and  thrilling  by-play,  the  drama 
would  miss  its  mark.  Besides,  Lorenzo  is  not  only  an 
Italian,  but  a  Florentine.  He  would  not  let  his  own  mother 
divine  his  thoughts.  When  soliloquizing,  he  remembers 
that  walls  have  ears. 

"Another  of  the  difficulties  surmounted  is  having  to  wear 
a  single  costume  from  the  beginning  of  the  first  act  to  the 
close  of  the  drop-curtain  scene.  I  think  Sarah  Bernhardt 
plumper  than  she  used  to  be.  The  make-up  of  her  face 
gives  her  a  striking  resemblance  to  Sir  Henry  Irving, 
with  a  something  that  reminds  one  of  Sardou.  Her  am- 
bition is  to  out-Irving  Irving  in  a  transposition  of  his  Ham- 
let to  the  key  of  Lorenzaccio,  and  by  keeping  close  to  him 
—  without  exactly  copying  him — in  plastic  poses,  get-up, 
expression,  mannerisms,  and  the  show  of  an  all-absorbing 
personality.  Mme.  Bernhardt  is  a  she  or  third-sex  Irving, 
or  a  transubstantiation  of  Sir  Henry,  whimsical,  curious, 
amusing  in  a  subtle  way,  and  by  no  means  caricatural. 
The  hair  of  the  great  actress  this  time  is  cut  short,  in  the 
Florentine  sixteenth-century  fashion,  but  clusters  round 
the  forehead.  The  doublet  fits  like  a  jersey,  and  the  baggy 
shorts  have  a  petticoatish  air  akin  to  knickers,  though 
they  do  not  descend  farther  than  half-way  to  the  knees." 
*  #  * 

I  do  not  feel  myself  in  the  proper  mood  to  grapple  with 
the  theatrical  past  of  '96.  The  Christmas  shows  have  lost 
me  my  balance  and  authority.  I  joy  in  a  spectacular 
present  glittering  with  sleek,  shimmering  seraphim.  There 
are  heavier  pens  than  mine  to  make  statistics  of  the  dead. 
Out  of  a  town  full  of  ballets,  I  choose  the  Orpheum  for  my 
flowers.  There  the  ballet  bids  fair  to  carry  the  holiday 
spirit  some  weeks  into  the  new  year.  It  was  a  tremen- 
dous undertaking  for  Manager  Walter,  engaging  these 
fifty  or  more  dancers  and  their  directors,  in  addition  to 
the  otherwise  expensive  show  billed,  but  the  venture  has 
been  a  success  from  every  standpoint,  and  it  is,  perhaps, 
the  best  advertisement  the  Orpheum  has  ever  had.  What- 
ever little  irregularities  in  the  lights  and  the  dancers, 
which  may  have  marred  the  opening  performance,  are 
now,  happily,  nowise  in  evidence.  Kiralfy  has  instilled 
immeasurable  ginger  in  the  girls;  they  dance  with  splendid 
enthusiasm,  even  wildly  at  times,  and  yet  there  is  discip- 
line, surety,  and  a  well-balanced  picture  in  the  ensemble. 


The  flying  ballet  is,  of  course,  a  question  of  mechanism  and 
effects,  and  of  more  interest  as  a  novelty  than  as  a  serious 
phase  of  ballet  work,  but  it  enhances  illusion,  and  gives 
graceful  sky  effect  to  the  stage  picture. 

Abachi  and  Maschand  do  a  remarkable  acrobatic  turn, 
and  the  three  Misses  Dunbar,  besides  assisting  in  the  ballet, 
still  sing  their  coster  songs,  and  expose  their  little  spectac- 
ular panties. 

*  *  * 

JaeJc  and  the  Beanstalk  has  made  a  surprisingly  big  hit  at 
the  Tivoli,  where,  from  all  appearances,  it  will  be  con- 
tinued several  weeks  to  come.  There  are  less  gags  than 
usual,  and  more  crisp  music,  and  the  transformation  scene 
is  of  particular  brilliancy  and  beauty.  All  the  favorites 
and  several  new  people  are  in  the  cast. 

*  #  # 

The  popular  Frawleys  have  put  in  a  busy  holiday  week 
with  three  of  their  last  season's  plays,  His  Wife's  Father, 
The  Great  Unknown,  and  Men  and  Women,  all  of  which  have 
been  reviewed  in  earlier  issues  of  the  News  Letter.  Sun- 
day night's  performance  of  Men  and  Women  closes  the 
Frawley  engagement  at  the  Columbia. 

*  *  * 

Denman  Thompson's  rural  classic,  Tlie  Old  Homestead, 
comes  to  the  Baldwin  Monday  night.  I  have  not  seen 
the  cast,  but  the  press-agent  says,  "it  is  the  strongest 
that  has  ever  enacted  this  pretty  ideal  of  New  England 
life;  and  its  musical  features,  being  rendered  by  a  selected 
choir  of  twenty  trained  voices,  adds  greatly  to  the  charm. 
By  playing  at  the  Baldwin  The  Old,  Homestead,  not  only 
offers  luxurious  seats  and  surroundings  to  the  average 
theatre-goer  who  loves  this  old  play,  but  it  will  give 
society  in  general,  and  country-club  people  in  particular, 
a  delightful  picture  of  rustic  life." 

*  *  * 

Next  week  the  bill  at  the  Orpheum  will  be  further 
strengthened  by  four  new  acts,  prominent  among  which  is 
Hallen  and  Fuller,  in  a  comedy  sketch,  An  Artist,  and  His 
Model.  The  first-mentioned  name  is  that  of  our  old  farce- 
comedy  friend,  Fred  Hallen,  of  Hallen  and  Hart  fame. 
The  second  is  Mollie  Fuller,  his  wife.  The  other  new  people 
are:  Miss  Anna  Caldwell,  singing  comedienne;  the  two 
Bostons,  English  eccentriques,  and  Charles  Wayne,  late  of 
Lillian  Russell's  company,  in  a  monologue. 

While  it  may  be  disclosing  some  of  the  many  surprises 
Mr.  Joseph  Murphy  has  in  store  for  the  Columbia  patrons, 
I  cannot  resist  publishing  in  full  this  little  prose  poem, 
which  I  have  just  received  from  his  press  agent : 

Let  any  blast  patron  of  the  theatre  who  remembers  seeing  Joseph 
Murphy  in  his  Irish  play,  Shaun  Rtiue,  ten  or  a  dozen  years  ago,  sie 
the  same  actor  to-day  in  the  same  play,  and  he  will  probably  leave 
the  theatre  when  the  curtain  comes  down  on  the  last  act,  and  not 
before.  More  than  that,  he  will  find  his  way  homeward,  meditating 
and  wondering  how  it  is  that  Mr.  Murphy  has  retained  bis  youthful 
good  looks,  his  graceful  legs,  and  nimble  feet,  and  his  sweet,  strong, 
manly  singing  voice.  It  is  a  conundrum  that  can  only  be  answered 
by  proving  that  it  is  true  as  stated,  just  as  Mr.  Murphy  presents  the 
proof  each  time  he  appears  as  Larry  Donovan  and  Shaun  Rhue. 
The  rendition  of  the  song,  "  A  Handful  of  Earth,"  by  Larry,  while 
kneeling  at  his  mother's  grave,  after  having  been  driven  away  from 
his  home,  is  a  benediction. 

Mr.  Murphy  will  commence  a  fortnight's  engagement  at 
the  Columbia  on  Monday,  presenting  for  the  first  week 
Shaun  Rhue.  The  regular  popular  prices  of  the  Columbia 
will  prevail. 

SS  we  go  to  press  news  comes  to  us  of  the  death  of 
Joseph  B.  McCullagh,  editor-in-chief  of  the  St.  Louis 
Daily-Globe  Democrat.  Mr.  McCullagh  worked  his  way 
up  from  a  reporter  to  the  responsible  position  he  occupied 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  had  been  ailing  for  some 
time  and  for  the  last  few  days  had  edited  his  paper  from 
the  sick  room.  A  more  able  all-round  newspaper  man 
never  lived,  and  the  excellence  of  his  paper  was  largely 
due  to  his  untiring  efforts. 


THE  late  J.  Ross  Jackson,  who  expired  in  this  city  last 
Wednesday,  was  one  of  the  best  known  newspaper 
men  on  the  Coast.  Of  late  years  he  had  retired  from 
active  journalism  but  still  kept  in  touch  with  his  old 
associates,  by  all  of  whom  he  will  long  be  mourned. 


January  j,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


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THE      PLEASURES     OF     RUIN. 

Tnd — and  it  is  really  marvelous 
bow  •,  me  under  adversity— 

1  advantages  in  the  state  of 
ruin,  which,  if  not   q  the   pleasures  of 

Hope,  or  Memory,  or  Imagination,    do  mueh   to  reconcile 
the  change  in  our  circumsl  die  Bret   feeling 

Ktreme   relief   that   the   whole  thing  is  over  and 
The  smash  has  come;  writs    and 
hments  have  blossomed  into  sheriffs  officers  and   the 
auctioneer,  whose   fell   and   inexorable  hammer  has   made 
short  work  of  our  goods  and  chattels;  our  wealthy  friends 
have  said  just  what  we  expected,  and  Brown,  who  used  to 
look  dinners  and  twenty-dollar  pieces  at  us  whenever  he 
met  us  before,  now  crosses  over  to  the  opposite  side  of  the 
The   cheap   lodgings   in   the  shady  neighborhood 
have  become  stern  and   ineradicable  facts,    and   we  can 
look  about  us  at  last  and  endeavor  to  make  the  best  of  the 
position.   But  now  you  have  a  newly-acquired  sense  of  free- 
dom, to  which,  perhaps,  you  have  long  been  a  stranger.   It  is 
no  longer  a  question  whether  you  shall  dine  at  Delmonico's 
or  the  Maison  IMcho,  but  in  all  probability  the   choice   will 
lie— if  your  taste  still  inclines  to  the  French  menu,   of  the 
/•of  six   courses   for   twenty-five   cents,    or,    if 
your  fancy  lies  more  in    the   American  style,   one   of   the 
popular-price  restaurants,  three  dishes  for  a  quarter.    No 
r  will  the  varying  merits  of  chicken  gumbo,  or  turtle 
soup,  salmon  mayonnaise,    and   aspic   of  lobster,    truffled 
turkey,  and  oyster  stuffed  capon  come  between  you  and 
your  night's  rest.     Again,  your  present  circumstances  are 
such  that  you  are  no  longer   harassed   by  the   touters  for 
riptions,  male  and  female,  and,  therefore,  you  find  it 
needless   to  discuss   the  comparative  merits  of  the  claims 
put  forward  by  the  friends  of  the  Cannibal  Islanders  for 
Worcestershire  sauce,  or  by  the  friends  of   the  Mayor  of 
Milpitas  for  a  drinking  fountain,   to  be  placed  in  the  plaza 
in  honor  of  that  distinguished  grocer  and  municipal  chief. 

When  you  go  to  the  theatre  or  opera  you  are  no  longer 
compelled  to  pay  fifty  or  a  hundred  per  cent,  for  the  privi- 
lege of  receiving  your  ticket  from  an  agent,  and  you  go 
to  the  gallery,  where,  if  the  peanuts  and  lager  beer  are  a 
bit  of  a  nuisance  at  first,  you  soon  get  accustomed  to  it; 
at  any  rate,  you  are  permitted  to  hear  the  play  without 
being  bored  by  one  of  Brown's  "good  stories"  during 
the  prima  donru i's  chief  aria,  or  while  the  eminent  trage- 
dian is  giving  some  fine  piece  of  declamation. 

In  fact,  you  discover  sources  of  gratuitous  amusement 
which  indifference  has,  hitherto,  hidden  from  you.  Instead 
of  the  sojourn  at  B'lingham  or  Del  Monte,  you  enjoy  your- 
self with  the  attractions  at  the  Park,  at  Sutro  Heights, 
or  a  five-cent  ride  to  Ingleside,  and  a  stroll  along  the  Ala- 
meda from  there  to  the  beach,  or,  if  your  fancy  takes  you 
across  the  bay,  a  day  at  Leona  Heights,  where  you  can 
enjoy  the  fresh  air.  which  you  will  come  to  think  as  pleas- 
ant as  at  Santa  Cruz  or  at  other  resorts  you  may  have 
been  in  the  habit  of  visiting  at  a  much  greater  distance 
from  the  city. 

But  the  time  when  you  do  really  enjoy  the  ;'  Pleasures  of 
Ruin  "is  when  that  exquisite  moment  comes — which  it 
will,  sooner  or  later,  when  a  temporary,  or  it  may  be  a 
permanent,  change  in  your  fortunes  takes  place.  If  you 
are  an  author,  your  book  has  found  a  publisher;  if  an  art- 
ist, your  picture  a  buyer;  or  some  one  pays  up  an  old  debt, 
or  some  distant  relative  mentions  your  name  in  his  will. 
Whatever  it  may  be,  the  keen  appreciation  of  the  benefits 
we  formerly  enjoyed,  which  our  vicissitudes  have  taught 
us,  and  the  knowledge  we  have  acquired  of  the  dingier 
side  of  nature,  give  a  remarkable  zest  to  our  return  to  a 
brighter  life.  And  if  a  man  has  good  health  and  spirits  he 
will  find  that  it  is  as  true  that  "  hope  springs  eternal  in 
the  human  breast"  as  that  when  things  are  at  their 
worst  they  mend;  and,  if  he  be  of  an  extra-hopeful  disfjosi- 
tion,  he  will  welcome  the  increased  depression  of  his  for- 
tunes as  a  sure  forerunner  of  a  change  of  luck. 


Paso  Robles. 
Our  new  mud  bath  house  is  finished.  The  arrangement  of  baths, 
dressing  rooms,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  floor.  No  stairs  or  steps  to 
climb.  Wi  are  now  unquestionably  the  finest  sanitarium  or  health 
resort  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Rest  and  health  seekers  are  Paso  Robles 
seekers,  Rates,  $10,  $12.50,  $15,  and  $17.50  per  week.  Climate  warm. 


TI1K  sentiment  of  the  Irrigation   Congress   In    Arizona 
was  prai  ticall;  unanimous  that  the  arid    lands  of  the 
t  be  reclaimed.       This  idea  has 
ted  of  late  years.     The  great  difficulty  in  the  way  of 
ompusbmenl  Is  the  lark  of  water.       Bui    it    is   pro- 
that  Congress  cede  the  arid  lands  to  the  Stati 
spectivrlv.  and  that  loans  from   the  National  Treasui 
of  the  National  credit,   to  the  extent  of  a  million  dollars  to 
each  State,    be  made  for   the  purpose  of  reclaiming  the 
ceded  lands.     It  is  a  great  scheme,    with   magnificent  op- 
portunities for  jobs. 

Til  K  improvement  of  our  navigable  rivers,  by  means  of 
dredging,  debris  dams,  levees,  cut-offs  and  other 
means,  with  incidental  aid  to  hydraulic  mining,  is  to  be 
■1  the  most  important  matters  before  the  Legislature 
this  winter.  The  Sacramento  river,  in  particular,  calls 
for  attention.  It  should  be  practicable,  at  this  late  day, 
to  unite  upon  a  scheme  advantageous  to  all  concerned. 

IF,  as  Congressman  Loud  contends,  it  costs  the  Govern- 
ment from  $20,000,000  to  140.000,000  a  year  to  carry 
serial  novels  and  "sample  copy"  newspapers  in  the  mails, 
there  is  need  of  amending  the  postal  laws.  The  carriage 
of  mail  matter  at  a  cost  of  twelve  cents  a  pound,  with  a 
charge  to  the  public  of  only  one  cent,  would  appear  to  be 
bad  business. 

CHICAGO  is  reaching  out  energetically  for  the  trade  of 
China.     It  might  be   well  for  San  Francisco  to  put 
forth  a  little  effort  in  the  same  direction. 


Baldwin    Theatre-  A" HirMAN  &  Co-  "ISSSHSSi! 

Sunday  night,  Jan.  3d:  Last  time  Palmer  Cox's  "Brownies.1' 
Beginning  Monday,  January  4th,  Denman  Thompson's  famous 
play, 

THE    OLD    HOMESTEAD. 

The  original  Old  Homestead  Double  Quartette.  Select  com- 
pany of  twenty-three  players     Wonderful  electrical  effects. 


GA|11„L'  TL«W1 The  "Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 
OIUmDia  I  neclXre-  Friedlander,Gottlob&Co.,  Lessees 
and  Managers. 
One  week.  Commencing  Monday,  January  4th.  Special  en- 
gagement of  the  legitimate  Irish  comedian,  JOSEPH  MUR- 
PHY, supported  by  his  New  York  Stock  Company,  in  the  com- 
panion drama  to  "  Kerry  Gow,"  entitled. 


SHAUN     RHUE, 

Introducing  Mr.  Murphy's  world-famous  song,  ' 
Earth."  Reserved  seats,  nights,  25c.  50c,  75c,  $1; 
50c,  and  75c.    January  11th:  KERRY  GOW. 


A   Handful  of 
matinees,  25o, 


xJrphBU  m  •    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 

Week  commencing  Monday,  January  4th.     A    brilliant  openiug 
of  the  New  Year. 

HALLEN  X>    FULLER, 

America's  comedy  Sketch  artists;  the  Two  Bostons,  grotesque 
comedians;  Anna  Caldwell,  singing  comedienne;  Charles 
Wayne.  America's  premiere  eccentrique;  Nilsson's  aerial  ballet 
and  Kiralfy's  grand  opera  ballet,  and  a  great  vaudeville  show. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday. 
Matinee  Prices :  Parquet,  any  seat,  25c. ;  balcony,  any  seat,  10c. ; 
children,  10c,  any  part. 

T'    -_1'    /"\  I— 1  _  Mrs.  Ernestine  Kreling. 

I  VOl  I    Upera     (lOUSe.  Proprietor  and  Manager 

Our  holiday  spec-tacle, 

clAGK  AND   THE   BEANSTALK. 

The  King,  the  Queen,  Jack,  the  Cow,  the  Giant,  the  Fairies,  the 
Goddesses,  the  Mortals.    Seats  now  on  sale. 
Next  opera— THE  WONDERFUL  LAMP. 
Popular  Prices , 25c  and50o 


I  I        'J        T"    _     I  The  only  perfect  winter  race  track  in 

Ingleside    I  rack,      America 

PACIFIC    COAST    (JOCKEY    CLUB. 

Racing  from  December  28th  to  January  9th,  inclusive.  Five  or 
more  races  daily,  rain  or  shine;  first  race  at  2  p.m. 
Take  Southern  Pacific  trains  at  Third  and  Townsend  streets 
depot,  leaving  at  One  o'clock  p.  m.  Fare  for  round  trip,  includ- 
ing admission  to  grounds,  $1 .  Take  Mission  street  electric  line 
direct  to  track. 

The  Pommery  Sec  Stakes,  Tuesday,  December  29th;  the  Cali- 
fornia Oaks,  Thursday,  December  31st;  the  Shrieve  &  Co.  Cup, 
Friday.  January  1st. 
W.  S.  Leake,  Secretary.       A.  B   Spreckels,  President. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 
Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
Office  of  cne  Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society,  corner  Market,  McAllis- 
ter, and  Jones  streets.  San  Francisco,  Dec.  30,  1896.  At  a  regular  meeting 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  this  Society,  held  this  day,  a  dividend  has  been 
declared  at  the  rate  of  four  (4)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  all  deposits  for  the 
six  months  ending  December  30, 1896,  free  from  all  taxes,  and  payable  on 
and  after  January  2, 1897.  ROBERT  J.  TOBIN,  Secretary. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  BETTER. 


January  2,  1897. 


The  house  of  Rothschild  is  about 
The  Expansion  System    the  best  advertised  and  the  most 
Again  at  Work.  badly  abused  firm  in  Europe.  The 

name  alone,  like  that  of  the  Old 
Lady  of  Threadneedle  street,  is  the  synonym  for  financial 
solidity  the  world  over,  and,  in  connection  with  man  or  in- 
stitution, a  sufficient  sponsor  for  millions.  Five  out  of 
every  ten  of  the  grandees  who  land  in  this  town  with  a 
bounce  and  swagger  in  miningdom  manage  to  have  it  leak 
out  in  the  early  stages  of  the  game  that  they  expect  the 
homage  due  to  agents  of  the  great  European  financiers, 
who  in  this  way  are  held  responsible  unwittingly  by  innum- 
erable shortcomings  and  absurdities,  about  which  they  are 
never  likely  to  learn  unless  by  sheer  accident.  Like  the 
Rat-catcher  to  Her  Brittanic  Majesty,  it  is  easy  for  any 
one  to  pose  as  agent  on  the  lookout  for  a  mine  for  the 
Rothschilds.  Like  all  bankers  and  financial  men  of  stand- 
ing abroad,  they  are  approachable  on  business  matters 
minus  the  ceremony  attached  to  an  interview  with  newly- 
gilded  gingerbread  in  more  modern  communities,  and  it 
only  requires  money  to  tap  a  wire  at  anymoment;  so  that, 
unless  it  comes  to  an  actual  showdown  of  credentials,  it  is 
a  difficult  matter  to  detect  the  fraud  who  may  have  the 
courtesy  of  a  correspondent  from  this  widely-respected 
firm  without  being  upon  friendly,  let  alone  confidential, 
relations  with  it.  These  remarks  are  suggested  by  the 
way  in  which  the  firm  was  dragged  into  the  Iron  Mountain 
deal  this  week,  in  an  utterly  unwarranted  manner. 

The  story  referred  to  goes  on  to  tell 
Evolution  of  a  the  good  people  of  California  about  a 
Golden  Butterfly,  tremendous  deal  which  has  just  been 
concluded  here,  involviug  the  payment 
of  $5,000,000  by  the  Rothschilds  for  the  Iron  Mountain 
mine  of  Shasta,  which  is  accredited  with  being  a  copper 
deposit  of  more  or  less  magnitude,  according  to  the  man- 
ner in  which  the  description  impresses  the  reader.  The 
reason  ascribed  for  this  exciting  move  on  the  part  of  the 
London  bankers  is  that  they  believe  gold  is  about  to  be 
dethroned  to  make  room  on  the  top  perch  for  copper.  This 
whoop-up,  with  its  1800  additional  men  at  work  attach- 
ment, has  been  occasioned  by  the  fact  that  some  changes 
are  about  to  be  made  in  the  construction  of  the  English 
company  which  transformed  the  old  Iron  Mountain  mine  of 
Squaw  Creek  by  purchase,  some  two  years  ago,  into  the 
Mountain  Mines,  Limited,  of  Keswick,  California,  with 
head  offices  at  No.  3  Lombard  street,  London,  E.  C.  The 
MathesoDS  of  London  were  the  prime  movers  in  the  enter- 
prise, and  the  connection  of  the  Rothschild  house  is  due  to 
its  business  relations  with  this  firm  in  the  control  of  giant 
copper-producing  mines  in  Spain.  The  new  company  has 
expended  a  large  sum  of  money  at  Keswick  (named  after 
a  director  of  the  company),  probably  in  the  neighborhood 
of  $500,000,  erecting  smelters  and  constructing  a  railroad. 
The  property  cost,  at  the  outside,  $250,000,  in  the  first 
place,  of  which  the  original  owners  only  got  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  $150,000,  the  balance  being  paid  out  to  make  a 
couple  of  promoters  comfortable  for  life.  This  runs  the 
total  cost  of  the  ground  and  works  up  to  $750,000,  or  per- 
haps a  little  more — within  $1,000,000  in  any  event. 

These  figures  are  small,  ranged  along- 
Copper  Crowned  side  of  those  of  the  new  Mountain  Cop- 
Metallic  King.  per  Company,  which  has  now  absorbed 
the  Shasta  mines  and  property  of  the 
Mountain  Mines,  furnishing  an  object  lesson  for  the  former 
owners  of  the  old  Iron  Mountain  and  other  mining  men  of 
California  of  what  the  British  promoter  can  achieve  when 
he  starts  in.  The  share  capital  of  the  new  concern  amounts 
in  round  numbers  to  $6,250,000,  including  the  purchase 
price  of  what  is  described  as  the  New  Jersey  Metal  Refin- 
ing Works,  situate  at  Elizabeth,  in  the  State  of  New  Jer- 
sey. This  must  be  a  gigantic  institution  of  its  kind,  judg- 
ing from  the  fact  that,  allowing  the  exceedingly  liberal 
estimate  of  $1,000,000  for  the  Keswick  property,  the  sum 
of  $5,250,000  is  involved  in  the  purchase  of  its  plant.  As 
an  industrial  enterprise,  the  promoters,  who  are  evidently 


wise  in  their  generation,  will  doubtless  have  little  difficulty 
in  raising  the  money  they  ask,  eliminating  as  they  are  in  a 
position  to  do,  to  a  certain  extent  at  least,  the  chances  of 
mining.  In  view  of  the  facts,  however,  it  is  difficult  to 
recognize  any  warrant  for  the  local  announcement  that 
the  Messrs.  Rothschild  had  invested  $5,000,000  in  the 
purchase  of  the  California  mines.  The  tendency  to  exag- 
geration in  all  matters  pertaining  to  mining  at  present  is 
not  calculated  to  benefit  the  industry.  It  creates  a  bad 
impression  abroad  among  people  who  know  the  true  facts 
of  the  case,  and  disturbs  confidence  among  investors. 

Mining  operators   of   all  degree    in 

A  Cautious  Market     this   part  of  the   world  had  better 

Fop  Gold  Mines.       disabuse  their  minds  of  the  idea  that 

London  and  Paris  are  ready  tc  fall 
over  head  and  heels  in  love  with  anything  they  may 
feel  disposed  to  hurl  at  the  natives.  Who  ever  tells  them 
so  may  mean  well,  but  he  does  not  know  more  than  the 
law  allows  about  the  situation  in  either  city.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  investors  are  more  than  ordinarily  cautious  in  both 
of  these  burgs,  and  merit  alone  is  sufficient  to  attract  even 
investigation.  Paris  is  absolutely  dull  for  all  mining  in- 
vestments, the  indifference  of  buyers  being  due  entirely  to 
the  actions  of  promoters  in  forcing  business  beyond  the 
sustaining  power  of  the  market  which  is  now  suffering 
from  a  bad  attack  of  indigestion.  London  promoters  are 
loaded  down  temporarily  with  industrial  ventures,  which 
are  now  the  fad,  so  that  little  is  done  in  foreign  mines  be- 
yond arranging  for  a  coup  or  two  in  spring,  when  it  is 
thought  the  public  can  be  trusted  to  absorb  a  few  shares 
which  promise  a  fair  working  profit.  At  present,  efforts 
are  limited  in  this  line  to  working  off  a  few  stocks  of 
small  concerns  in  Scotland  and  the  provinces. 

The  Pacific  Coast  Mining  Agency 

A  Local  Mining  Company  has  blossomed  out  dur- 

Dev«Iopment  Company,     ing  the   week,    in   the   object  of 

carrying  on  the  purchase  and 
sale  of  mines  on  an  elaborate  scale.  The  names  of  the  men 
who  stand  sponsor  for  the  reputation  of  the  concern  are 
well-known  in  the  manufacturing  and  financial  world,  and 
in  this  respect  the  proposition  is  above  reproach.  The 
only  trouble  likely  to  arise  is  that  the  other  manufacturers 
of  mining  machinery  in  this  city  may  feel  that  their  bus- 
iness prospects  are  jeopardized  by  a  formidable  rival  of 
this  kind,  which  is  not  making  a  new  departure  of  the 
kind  for  the  good  of  its  promoter's  health.  If  all  the 
varied  business  interests  connected  with  the  mining 
industry  get  banded  together  in  cliques  to  control  the 
situation  from  the  grass  roots  up,  as  well  as  down,  we 
will  have  some  lively  times  in  town.  The  mine-owner  cer- 
tainly will  not  be  the  loser  in  the  competition  for  trade,  if 
the  promoter  does.  In  Horatio  Beveridge  the  new  com- 
pany has  a  manager  who  understands  the  ropes,  with 
foreign  connections  which  should  prove  invaluable. 

The  tone  of  the  market  on  Pine  street 
Business  Dull  is  steady,  notwithstanding  that  the  dis- 
On  Pine  Street,     position  of  operators  is  bearish  in  the 

extreme.  The  holidays  may  have  some- 
thing to  do  with  the  dullness  in  trade.  At  any  rate  it  is  a 
valid  excuse,  and,  it  can  only  be  hoped,  a  correct  one. 
Ore  is  being  extracted  from  the  Chollar-Brunswick  with- 
out much  being  said  about  the  matter,  the  management 
evidently  appreciating  the  fact  that  deeds,  not  words, 
must  speak  in  the  future.  The  proposition  to  start  in  at 
American  Flat  is  again  afoot.  It  is  a  pity  that  some  of 
the  big  men  in  the  business  cannot  be  induced  to  take  the 
initiative  in  the  unwatering  of  mines  in  this  district, 
which  have  always  been  handicapped  by  lack  of  proper 
attention.  Work  in  this  direction  would  likely  be  much 
more  profitable  than  grubbing  about  upper  levels  on  the 
Comstock. 

If  the  insurance  men  of  this  city 
Los  Angeles  Fire         are  unable  to   arrive   at  an  ar- 
Underwriters  Combine,     rangement     whereby    they    can 
pool  their  issues  at  a  profit  to 
all,  the  fraternity  down  South  proposes   to  do   so  in  self- 
protection.     Strange  to  say,  they  have  come  to  San  Fran- 
cisco to  find  out  how  to  do  it,    and  have  already  succeeded 
pretty  well  in  accomplishing  the  desired  results. 


January  2,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


'5 


'  Hear  the  Crier!"   "What  ihaderllarl  thout" 
'Oocthtt  «lllpl»T  thedtivil.slr,  with  you." 


TH  K  Examiner  has  fallen  all  over  itself   with   righteous 
horror  at  what  it  pleases  to  declare  is  personal  malig- 
nity, wanton  cruelty,  and  Inhuman  persecution  on  the  part 

of  Mr.  Vining,  in  causing  the  arrest  of  one  Albert  Chou,  a 
newsboy,  and  has  thrown  itself  into  the  breach  with  the 
rare  heroism  that  invariably  distinguishes  that  highly 
moral  journal  when  it  can  tret  a  little  free  advertising  by 
posing  as  a  friend  of  the  down-trodden  and  afflicted.  Ac- 
cording to  his  portrait  in  the  sheet  in  question,  Albert  is 
rather  a  tough  specimen  of  his  kind,  instead  of  the  inno- 
cent, abused  young  hero  depicted  by  the  facile  pen  of  a 
space  writer  in  mortal  terror  of  losing  his  job.  Doubtless 
the  youthful  Albert  deserves  punishment  in  some  form, 
but  is  it  not  rather  more  than  he  deserves  to  be  defended 
by  the  Examiner? 

"  XL  NXIOUS  Correspondent"  bombards  this  office  with 
J\  queries  as  to  whether  the  Mrs.  Lease  who  got 
mixed  up  the  other  day  in  a  shooting  scrape  with  her 
husband,  on  account  of  the  attentions  paid  her  by  another 
man  named  Woods,  is  the  silver-tongued  Mary  Yellin  of 
Populistic  and  petticoated  fame.  No,  it  is  not  the  same. 
To  begin  with,  Papa  Lease  is  too  well  traiued  to  become 
mutinous,  and  domestic  cares  weigh  too  heavily  upon  him 
to  keep  tab  on  his  wife.  Besides,  no  man,  unless  he  were 
drunk,  would  dream  of  making  love  to  a  rampant  stump 
speaker  like  Mary.  So  far  as  she  and  her  ilk  are  con- 
cerned, however,  it  would  be  a  good  idea  for  civic  peace  if 
they  would  all  take  to  the  Woods. 

"T.rHAT  is  justice?"  howled  the  speaker  of  the  evening 
W  at  the  meeting  of  the  Socialist  Labor  Party  one 
night  this  week.  Justice,  my  wild-eyed  bomb-thrower,  is 
the  power  that  is  supposed  to  reach  out  and  gather  in 
criminals  and  disturbers  of  the  peace,  and  were  its  laws  in 
active  operation  in  this  city,  it  would  be  short  grass  and 
dry  pickings  for  you  and  others  of  your  ilk.  We  all  know 
what  Justice  is,  but  cannot  always  locate  her  in  San 
Francisco. 

S  BURGLAR  with  long,  bushy  whiskers,  choked  a  Pul- 
ton-street housekeeper  into  insensibility  the  other 
day,  but  we  do  not  agree  with  the  detectives  now  working 
on  the  case  that  the  unknown  thug  was  a  well-known 
Police  Court  Judge  on  a  Christmas  spree.  Innocent  men 
have  before  this  been  the  victims  of  purely  circumstantial 
evidence.  The  Town  Crier  has  frequently  warned  the 
Judge  that  his  reckless  extravagance  in  whiskers  would 
get  him  into  trouble. 

LOUISA  Worthington,  who  has  already  had  three 
trials,  is  now  attempting  the  threadbare  insanity 
dodge  on  a  fourth  one.  The 'Susie  Martin  case  has  prob- 
ably given  the  murderess  fresh  courage  to  renew  her 
battle  against  justice.  A  few  wholesome  life  imprison- 
ments and  hangings  would  have  a  highly  beneficial  effect 
upon  the  morals  of  this  pistol-practicing  community. 

SEVERAL  more  newly-fledged  attorneys  have  been  ad- 
mitted to  practice  by  Supreme  Court  decree.  When 
the  number  of  lawyers  in  the  city  is  taken  into  consider- 
ation, it  is  hardly  surprising  that  they  throng  like  vultures 
around  an  estate,  and  pounce  with  tiger-like  clutches  on 
the  wills  of  the  departed.  The  situation,  after  all,  must 
be  a  desperate  one.     Even  a  lawyer  has  to  live. 

TWO  policemen  having  been  dismissed  from  the  force 
for  drinking  while  on  duty,  the  question  now  arises  as 
to  what  we  shall  do  for  them.  The  Town  Crier  suggests 
that  they  be  assigned  to  editorial  positions  on  the 
Examiner.  Their  weakness  will  be  their  best  qualification 
for  the  job. 

OAKLAND  is  going  to  raise  potatoes  a  la  Pingree.  We 
wish  her  success.  Her  crop  of  fossils  and  cranks  has 
been  so  prolific  that  there  is  no  reason  why  the  succulent 
and  life-saving  spud  should  not  flourish  there. 

IT  does  not  require  the  wisdom  of  a  seer  to  prophesy  that 
W.  H.  T.  Durrant  will  die  of  a  peaceful  old  age. 


J  A  KB   RUDOLPH,    the    miscreant    who    goes  about 
peppering   people   with   hot  lead  from   a  loaded  gun 
carri.  :it!v  For  that  purpose,  and  who  claims  that 

at  not  know  what  he  is  doing  when  be  Is  drunk,  should 
be  given  several  years  behind  the  bars  as  an  li 
to  BObrletv.      Excuses   should    not   serve  you,    Jake;  the 
chestnut  plea  you  always  make  is  nothing  but  a  time-worn 
fake. 

IT  is  singular  that  in  trying  to  clear  up  the  mystery  Bur 
rounding  the  suicide  of  a  despondent  cigar-maker   this 
week,  the  detectives  have  laid  no  stress  on   the  (act  that 

the  unfortunate  man  just  previous  to  his  demise  had  been 
seen  smoking  one  of  his  own  cigars.  As  up  to  that  moment 
he  was  in  the  best  of  health  and  spirits,  subsequent  events 
are  transparent  as  crystal  to  the  Town  Crier's  mind. 


N 


OW  that  the  holidays  are  o'er, 

The  great  Examiner  will  cea9e 
Its  generous  ( V)  free-ad  uproar 
About  the  "gaunt  wolf  at  the  door;" 
And  leave,  unnoticed,  as  before, 

The  poor,  tp  starve  to  death  in  peace. 


WALTER  HYDE,  of  Alameda,  has  invented  a  machine 
that  rolls  him  over  hourly  during  the  stilly  watches 
of  the  night.  If  Mr.  Hyde  would  only  invent  something, 
now,  that  would  roll  some  of  San  Francisco's  unesteemed 
citizens  over  in  the  night,  and  keep  them  rolling,  to  a 
point,  say,  about  half  way  between  the  water  front  and 
Goat  Island,  he  would  be  canonized  as  a  public  benefactor. 

JUDGE  Slack  issued  an  order  this  week,  compelling  a 
recalcitrant  husband  to  pay  his  wife  six  dollars  per 
week  for  her  support.  Any  man  who  has  a  wife  capable 
of  existing  on  six  dollars  weekly,  and  who  does  not  appre- 
ciate the  blessing,  ought  to  be  punished  by  taking  unto 
himself  one  who  will  make  six  hundred  fly,  and  then  cry 
for  more. 

SFTER  all,  there  is  not  so  much  of  a  novelty  about  that 
dancing  cow  at  a  local  playhouse.  The  Town  Crier 
has  seen  some  terpsichorean  cavortings  and  gyrations  at 
the  private  entertainments  of  some  of  our  local  "aris- 
tocracy" (Lord  help  us!)  that  would  put  that  interesting 
and  conscientious  bovine  quite  to  the  blush. 

FERHAPS  the  easiest  and  best  way  to  rid  ourselves  of 
Chinese  cheap  labor  is  to  encourage  the  continuance 
of  bloodshed  in  Chinatown  until  the  last  pigtail  is  laid  low. 
If  they  kill  each  other  off,  we  shall  be  quite  relieved  of  re- 
sponsibility, and  will  be  the  better  for  their  disappearance 
from  our  midst. 

"T-TATCH  night"  was  generally  observed  according  to 
W  annual  custom  throughout  the  city  on  New  Year's 
Eve,  but  the  light-fingered  gentry  who  relieve  us  under 
cover  of  darkness  of  our  time-pieces  keep  "watch  night"  un- 
observed, according  to  nocturnal  custom,  the  year  round. 
Watch  out  for  yours. 

THE  Pacific  Coast  Women's  Press  Association,  at  its 
last  meeting,  discussed  newspapers  in  all  their 
phases.  Probably  the  subject  was  treated  from  the  stand- 
point of  the  reader.  It  certainly  could  not  have  been 
from  that  of  a  newspaper  writer. 

BERKELEY'S  arc  lights  have  been  snuffed  out,  but  the 
intellectual  lights  that  shed  effulgence  through  the 
craniums  of  Berkeley's  brain-laden  faculty  shine  on  and  on 
with  undimmed  luster  and  no  extra  charges  to  tax  payers. 

WHATEVER  else  may  be  said  to  the  disparagement  of 
the  Farallones  as  a  place  of  residence  or  a  site  for  a 
grammar  school,  it  cannot  be  asserted  that  the  locality  is 
insufficiently  ventilated. 

CONSIDERING  the  fact  that  $10,500  is  but  a  drop  in 
the  bucket  of  money  needed  to  put  the  County  Hos- 
pital into  proper  sanitary  condition,  would  it  not  be  better 
to  abandon  the  structure  at   once   to   the   bats  and  rats. 

WITH  its  street  illuminations  nightly  overhead,  and  its 
cobbles  always  under  foot,  San  Francisco  may  now 
justly  claim  the  distinction  of  being  the  best-lighted  and 
worst-paved  city  in  these  United  States. 

BENEATH  this  stone  lies  Asa  Fisk. 
He  died  'cos  business  was  not  brisk. 
IT  is  indeed  a  dull  day  in  San  Francisco  when  a  will  is  not 
disputed. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1897. 


SOCIETY  does  not  seem  to  have  "enthused"  to  any 
great  extent  over  the  holidays  this  year,  as  the  en- 
tertainments have  been  neither  numerous,  nor  large  in 
size.  To  be  sure,  there  have  been  theatre  parties  and 
small  dinners,  but  with  the  exception  of  the  Club  dances, 
terpsichore  has  not  made  the  showing  usually  looked  for 
and"  expected  during  the  holiday  season  proper. 

The  Christmas  Eve  dance  of  the  Fortnightly  Club  was 
one  of  the  pleasantest  of  the  winter  so  far.  The  hall  had 
a  very  pretty  Christmas  dressing  of  evergreens,  holly  and 
red  berries,  intermingled  with  mistletoe,  and  the  attend- 
ance of  beaux  and  belles  was  unusually  large,  all  entering 
into  the  spirit  of  the  affair  with  zest.  To  Miss  Genevive 
Goad  fell  the  honor  of  leading  the  cotillion,  which  she  did 
'  with  the  1  assistance  of  a  trio  of  young  beaux  of  the  club, 
and  acquitted  herself  charmingly,  some  of  the  figures 
danced  being  both  original  and  pretty. 

The  cotillion  given  by  Miss  Jennie  Moore  on  Christmas 
night  was  a  brilliant  gathering.  The  whole  upper  floor  of 
the  San  Francisco  Verein  Club  was  given  up  to  the  use  of 
the  young  hostess  and  her  guests,  the  decorations  of  the 
ballroom  being  in  ferns,  palms  and  light  berries.  The 
gowns  worn  by  the  young  ladies  were  remarkably  hand- 
some, the  young  hostess,  who  led  the  cotillion  with  Jesse 
Triest,  wearing  a  lovely  costume  of  pale  green  satin  com- 
bined with  lavender.  There  were  five  figures  danced,  and 
the  favors  consisted  of  fans,  hric-a-hrac,  jewelry,  etc.  An 
elaborate  supper  was  served  at  midnight,  after  which 
there  was  general  dancing  until  the  early  morning  hours. 

On  Saturday  night  Howard  Adams  and  Miss  Gertrude 
Bates  led  the  cotillion  of  the  Saturday  Evening  Club  at 
Lunt's  Hall.  The  figures  were  all  new,  as  was  the  music 
to  which  they  were  danced,  and  the  entire  affair  was  a 
very  pronounced  success. 

Miss  Jean  Hush  was  the  leader  of  the  Leap  Year  cotil- 
lion of  the  Oakland  Friday  Night  Club,  which  took  place  at 
Ebell  Hall  on  New  Year's  Eve,  the  last  Leap  Year  dance 
that  will  be  given  for  eight  years! 

The  dinners  of  Mrs.  Joseph  Ehrman,  Dr.  Herzstein  and 
Mrs.  M.  Schweitzer,  the  latter  at  the  Cliff  House  yester- 
day, were  in  honor  of  Miss  Helen  Schweitzer  and  her 
fiancee,  Samuel  Steifel;  Miss  Olga  Triest's  entertainment 
was  in  the  form  of  a  dance.  The  dinner  given  by  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  I.  N.  Walter  was  in  celebration  of  the  twentieth  an- 
niversary of  their  wedding,  at  which  were  seated  upwards 
of  thirty  of  their  intimate  friends.  Mrs.  S.  M.  Van  Wyck's 
recent  tea  was  in  compliment  to  Miss  Jones. 

The  wedding  ceremony  of  Miss  Rose  Fechheimer  and 
Alfred  Lilienfield  was  performed  by  Rabbi  Voorsanger  at 
the  home  of  the  bride,  on  Broadway,  last  Tuesday  after- 
noon. Miss  Anna  Liebenthal  and  Miss  Edith  Greenbaum 
were  the  bride's  attendants,  and  the  guests  were  limited 
to  the  relatives  of  the  contracting  parties,  owing  to  the 
recent  sad  affliction  in  the  bride's  family. 

On  Thursday  Grace  Church  was  the  scene  of  the  mar- 
riage of  Miss  Bessie  Younger  and  Burns  McDonald,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Foute  tying  the  nuptial  knot  at  the  hour  of  noon, 
amid  lovely  floral  surroundings,  in  which  pink  was  the 
dominating  tint,  and  in  the  presence  of  a  very  large  num- 
ber of  the  friends  of  the  young  couple.  Miss  Maud  Younger 
officiated  as  her  sister's  maid-oii- honor,  the  Misses  Lucille 
Younger,  Francis  Curry,  Julia  Crocker,  Mae  Tucker,  and 
Kate  Clarke  forming  a  bevy  of  pretty  bridesmaids.  Duke 
Baxter  supported  the  groom  as  best  man,  and  Messrs. 
Herbert  Younger,  Ed.  Greenway,  George  Cameron, 
Frank  Owen,  Sam  Buckbee,  and  Dr.  P.  L.  Brown  ap- 
peared as  ushers.  Following  the  church  service  a  wed- 
ding breakfast  for  the  bridal  party  was  served  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  and  the  honeymoon  will  be  spent  in  the 
southern  part  of  the  State. 


The  marriage  of  Miss  Helen  Schweitzer  and  Samuel 
Steifel  will  be  solemnized  next  Tuesday  at  noon  at  the 
Schweitzer  residence,  on  Leavenworth  street.  The  fair 
bride  has  selected  the  Misses  Belle  Gerstle,  Cora  Miller, 
Alice  Greenebaum,  and  Agnes  Brandenstein  for  her  at- 
tendants that  day,  and  Miss  Clara  Joseph  will  officiate  as 
maid-of-honor. 

A  number  of  engagements  have  been  announced  since 
the  last  issue  of  the  News  Letter,  prominent  among 
them  being  those  of  Miss  JuUa  Crocker  and  Samuel  Buck- 
bee;  Miss  Alice  Ames  and  Arthur  Allen;  Miss  Anna  Hobbs 
and  Lieutenant  Frank  Ferris,  U.  S.  A. ;  Miss  Mattie  Ehr- 
man and  Albert  Frank;  Miss  Mattie  Shainwald  and  Leo 
Mayers,  Miss  Mollie  Hutchinson  and  Ernest  Piexotto,  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  J.  Ralston's  friends  are  congratulating 
ttiem  upon  the  engagement  of  their  son,  Louis  Ralston,  to 
Miss  Louise  Sumner,  of  Utica,  New  York.  It  was  at  a 
dinner  given  by  Mrs.  E.  J.  McCutcheon  last  week  that  the 
announcement  was  made  of  the  Ames-Alleu  engagement, 
the  understanding  between  the  young  people,  while  exist- 
ing for  more  than  a  year  past,  only  now  being  made  pub- 
lic, and  the  wedding  will,  'tis  said,  be  an  event  of  the  aprh 
Lenten  season. 

The  Concordia  and  the  San  Francisco  Verein  Clubs  both 
gave  dances  on  New  Year's  eve.  Mrs.  Rounseville  Wild- 
man's  tea  was  the  chief  society  event  of  New  Year's  Day, 
and  it  is  with  regret  that  her  friends  hear  of  her  intended 
departure  for  Mexico.  Mrs.  Wildman  is  so  indefatigable  a 
hostess  she  will  be  indeed  a  loss  to  the  social  world,  so  it 
is  hoped  her  absence  will  not  be  a  very  prolonged  one. 

The  New  Year's  amusements  at  Burlingame  this  year 
combined  a  pigeon  shoot  in  the  morning,  a  steeple  chase  in 
the  afternoon,  and  then  another  drag  hunt,  with  finally  a 
dance  at  the  Club  House  in  the  evening. 

Among  the  pleasures  that  society  has  in  prospect  are 
the  dance  of  the  Monday  Night  Club  at  Golden  Gate  Hall, 
next  Monday  evening;  the  cotillion  of  the  Friday  Night 
Club,  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall;  the  game  of  football,  which 
will  be  played  at  Central  Park  next  Saturday  between  the 
Army  and  Navy  teams,  and  the  team  from  the  University 
Club,  which  promises  to  be  a  decidedly  society  affair;  and 
the  Army  cotillion  of  the  Friday  Fortnightly  Club,  which 
will  be  danced  on  the  evening  of  the  15th  of  January,  at 
Lunt's  Hall,  Lieutenants  Kilburn  and  Nolan  dividing  the 
honors  as  "leaders." 

January  is  to  be  a  month  of  "at  homes,"  many  of  our 
hostesses  sending  out  cards  for  certain  afternoons  during 
the  month,  as,  for  instance,  Mrs.  Beede,  who  is  residing 
with  Mrs.  Rounseville  Wildeman,  has  named  Tuesdays 
during  January;  Mrs.  Smedburg,  Wednesdays;  Mrs.  Gor- 
don Blanding,  Mrs.  Will  Barnes,  and  Mrs.  Webster  Jones, 
Fridays  during  the  month. 

Mrs.  Frank  S.  Johnson,  who  has  been  at  Coronado 
Beach  for  the  last  six  weeks  with  her  children,  has  been 
joined  by  Mr.  Johnson,  who  is  now  spending  the  holidays  at 
this  resort.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Johnson  will  open  up  their  sum- 
mer home  in  San  Rafael  early  in  March. 

Miss  Daisy  Doud  will  shortly  leave  for  the  Farallones, 
where  she  will  instruct  ten  little  children  whose  homes  are 
on  that  lonely  island.  Miss  Doud  has  many  friends  in  this 
city,  all  of  whom  will  wish  her  success  when  she  starts 
upon  her  mission. 

The  ladies  of  Sorosis  have  issued  instructions  for  next 
Monday  afternoon  to  meet  and  listen  to  Mr.  Frank  Lin- 
coln, the  renowned  entertainer.  Mrs.  H.  E.  Huntington 
will  provide  the  programme. 

The  best  way  to  buy  anything  is  to  borrow  it 
first. 

Get  a  package  of  Schilling  '.f  Best  tea  of  yonr 
grocer.  He  pays  you  your  money  back  if  you 
don't  like  it. 

That's  our  way  of  lending. 


January  2,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER 


"  He  called  me  dear."     "That  doesn't  prove   anything. 
Gas  is  dear." — Washington  Capital. 


Max  Abraham,  the  Caterer,  428  Geary  street,  has  had  his  hands 
full  during  the  holiday  season.  Mr.  Abraham  attends  to  banquets, 
dinners  or  luncheons  and  by  retaining  him  you  can  be  assured  of 
satisfaction  in  every  detail.  He  is  patronized  by  all  society  and  is 
recognized  aa  the  Prince  of  Caterers. 


REMOUAL. 


Pr    Ymwjfer.  who  came   from   Chicago   to  attend  his 

idinjf,    will  leave  again  on  his  return 

■day  afternoon,    and   it    will   be   some    time  ere  San 

-ees  him  again.     Mrs.  Younger  will  remain  here 

a  few  weeks  lunger  ere  she  joins  her  husband  in  the  Windy 

.iml  later   the   entire   family    will    sail    for   Europe, 

the   marriage   of   Miss  Alice  Younger   and  Baron 

:  t  will  take  place  at  Vienna,  in  June.     Mr.  and  Mrs. 

Jim  Rot inson  anticipate   a    trip   to   Europe,    leaving  here 

early   in    February:    Douglas   Dick     is   now   in   Scotland, 

whither  he  lias  gone  on  a  brief  business  trip. 

Lrewell  pink  luncheon  was  given  to  Mrs.  John  .1 
Husband  by  her  sister.  Mrs.  Dr.  Byron,  Haines  at  the 
beautiful  Haines  residence  in  Belvedere  on  Wednesday 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Husband  leave  this  week  for  London 
in  which  city  they  will  make  their  home.  At  the  dinner 
fouiteen  covers  were  set,  among  those  present  being, 
rve,  Miss  Patricia  disprove.  Miss  Charlotte 
Cunningham.  Miss  May  Rcis,  Miss  Lillie  Reis,  Miss 
Kathryn  Dillon,  Miss  Vesta  Jordan,  Mrs.  H.  L.  Read, 
Mrs.  James  Russell,  and  Mrs.  Frank  Dickson. 

The  beautiful  and  imposing  ceremonies  at  the  late  Kate 
Field's  funeral  will  long  be  remembered  by  all  those  who 
witnessed  them.  To  Mrs.  Highton  is  due  the  credit  for 
the  artistic  and  perfect  manner  in  which  the  ceremonies 
were  conducted.  She  instigated  the  good  work  and  saw 
that  it  was  carried  through  to  a  successful  conclusion. 
Not  only  this  State,  for  whom  she  acted,  but  the  journalists 
of  the  world  are  indebted  to  her.  She  has  proved  herself 
to  be  a  loyal  friend,  indeed,  to  the  departed. 

Miss  Maud  Ingles  Francis,  who  has  been  studying  in 
Paris  and  Dresden  for  the  last  five  years,  returned  to  this 
Coast  to  assist  as  bridesmaid  at  the  wedding  of  Miss  Cora 
Goodrich  of  Los  Angeles.  Miss  Francis  is  a  sister-in-law  to 
J.  Schroeder  by  marriage  and  is  now  a  guest  of  her 
brother-in-law  and  his  wife  at  the  California  Hotel.  In 
three  or  four  weeks  Miss  Francis  expects  to  return  to  her 
home  in  Peoria,  111. 

Clarence  Eddy,  the  famous  organist  who  lately  visited 
this  city,  was  entertained  at  a  dinner  party  on  Saturday 
evening  last  given  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  H.  Mills  at  their 
residence,  2800  Jackson  street.  After  the  dinner  Mr. 
Eddy  attended  the  High  and  Low  Jinks  given  at  the 
Bohemian  Club  and  left  for  the  East  on  the  following 
morning. 

Mrs.  Julia  Melville  Snyder,  the  well  known  teacher  of 
vocal  music,  has  moved  her  studio  to  2517}  California 
street  between  Steiner  and  Pierce  streets.  Few  of  our 
teachers  are  so  universally  liked  as  is  Mrs.  Snyder.  Her 
method  of  teaching  dramatic  elocution  is  most  thorough 
and  many  of  her  pupils  now  occupy  prominent  positions  on 
the  stage. 

The  members  of  Ignatian  Council  No.  35  Young  Men's 
Institute  are  perfecting  arrangements  for  their  annual 
party  to  be  held  on  Friday  evening,  January  22nd,  at 
N.  S.  G.  W.  Hall.  This  event  promises  to  eclipse  all 
former  affairs  given  under  this  Council's  auspices. 

Mrs.  J.  W.  Coleman  and  Miss  Jessie,  Miss  Florence  Ives, 
Mrs.  James  Phelan,  Mrs.  Frank  Sullivan,  and  Miss  Ada 
are  all  at  home  again  after  long  absences  in  the  East  and 
elsewhere. 

Captain  and  Mrs.  W.  A.  Nevills  have  been  spending  the 
holiday  season  in  town,  and  are  domiciled  at  their  apart- 
ments in  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  F.  Verdenal  have  been  visiting  their 
daughter,  the  wife  of  Colonel  Forsyth  of  Fresno,  during 
the  holidays. 

The  second  of  the  Ehrman-Frank  engagement  recep- 
tions will  be  held  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu  to-morrow. 

The  Union  League  Club  will  give  a  ladies'  reception  on 
Friday  evening  next,  the  8th  of  January. 


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world. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1897. 


TWO    A.  M.    IN    A    BROWNSTONE. 

By  Felix  Montague. 

mWO  o'clock! 
The  deep  toll  of  the  city  clock  startles  the  black 
silence  that  hangs  over  the  city  like  a  pall.  The 
-*-  muffled  cathedral  chime,  as  it  reverberates  through 
the  hallway,  sounds  like  the  hollow  sepulchral  voice  of 
death.  Black  shadows  flit  nervously  over  the  mosaic  floor. 
The  dim  light  flares  up  for  a  moment;  then  gloom  and  quiet. 
Silence  as  profound  as  death. 

A  heavy  silken  portiere  quivers,  moves.  Two  dark 
glistening  ej'es  peer  up  and  down  the  hall.  Softly  the 
dark  object  steals  from  behind  the  portiere,  and,  with  tread 
as  still  as  murder  itself,  passes  under  the  dim  light  at  the 
foot  of  the  stairs.  There,  pausing,  listening,  it  breathlessly 
peers  up  the  gloomy  stairway. 
The  intruder  mounts  the  first  step,   listens.      Takes  the 


'  second,  listens  again,  then  the  third  and  fourth,  and.  grow- 
ing bolder,  climbs  stealthily  to  the  top  of  the  flight.  Not 
a  sound.  Peering  through  the  darkness,  the  noiseless  vis- 
itor glides  cautiously  to  a  door,  a  door  at  the  end  of  the 
corridor.  The  door  is  ajar,  and  the  deep  regular  breath- 
ing of  the  sleeper  may  be  heard.  The  dark  object  is  now 
in  the  moon-lit  room.  All  is  quiet  save  the  regular  breath- 
ing. Then  comes  a  grating  sound  from  the  room.  The 
breathing  ceases.  The  bed  spririgs  squeak.  The  grating 
sound  is  quiet.     The  silence  is  intense. 

Suddenly  a  sharp  report,  a  shattering  of  glass,  a  curse. 
A  white-robed  figure  rushes  madly  across  the  corridor 
after  the  dark  object.  A  missile  is  hurled  at  the  intruder 
racing  down  the  stairs.  It  misses,  and  thumps  and  bumps 
against  the  bannisters.  Doors  in  the  upper  corridor  fly 
open.  Voices  cry:  i£  What's  the  matter  ?  "  The  white- 
robed  figure  answers:  "Oh!  a  rat,  and  I've  broken  a  mir- 
ror.    D — n ! ' ' 


OUR      NEW     YEAR'S     GIFTS. 

NEW  Year's  gifts,  New  Year's  gifts, 
Please  come,  all  attend, 
The  News  Lettek  proffers  its  New  Year's 
gifts 
To  every  faithful  friend. 

For  Wally  Hobart  a  little  dog, 

And  a  little  huntsman,  too, 
"With  a  little  voice  and  a  little  horn 

To  wind  a  view— halloo. 

For  Mayor  Phelan  a  little  whip 

"With  a  lash  with  a  little  sting, 
To  lay  it  on  when  occasion  calls, 

And  scourge  the  cunning  ring. 

To  Frank  McCoppin,  whom  all  men  like 
Because  he's  honest  and  square, 

Some  better  luck  with  a  bob-tailed  flush, 
And  success  when  he  draws  to  a  pair. 

To  Charlie  Josselyn  so  debonair, 

Who  dresses  in  excellent  taste, 
A  chance  to  the  club  with  joy  declare, 

"  By  the  Lord,  I  have  found  my  waist." 

To  Billy  Barton,  the  exile,  back 
From  the  frozen  and  stormy  East, 

Some  sort  of  fabric  to  hide  from  men 
The  sight  of  his  Bowery  vest. 

To  Donald  Graham,  whose  neckwear  doth 
With  the  rainbow's  tinting  vie, 

A  something  to  dazzle  in  color  and  glare 
The  latest  London  tie. 

To  Porter  Ashe  a  little  book, 

Which  circulates  on  the  sly, 
And  the  title  upon  this  little  work 

Is  simply:  "  The  Art  to  Guy." 

To  Lansing  Mizner,  fat,  honest  boy, 

Who  knows  not  deceit  or  guile, 
A  gift  to  make  life  more  complete, 

A  well-worn  property  smile. 

To  Mayor  Sutro  a  picture  wild 

As  a  maniac's  wildest  dream, 
Of  purposes  smashed  and  intentions  foiled, 

And  its  title:  "  What  Might  Have  Been." 

To  Harry  Dimond  a  carpet  fine, 

A  rare  Oriental  mat, 
To  replace  in  cunning  and  high  design 

The  one  that  was  spoiled  in  "  The  Flat." 

To  Charley  Baldwin  the  needed  knack 

Of  how  to  handle  the  reins, 
To  Follansbee  a  better  hat 

Than  the  one  he  wears  on  the  plains. 

To  Jere  Lynch  a  little  hook, 

Familiar  to  little  folk, 
And  of  use  to  all ;  whose  title  is, 

"  Good  French  as  She  is  Spoke." 

To  Sammy  Rainey  a  brief  request: 
"  Since  you  own  us,  Sammy  dear, 

Go  light,  go  light,  the  times  are  tight, 
Don't  squeeze  us  too  hard  this  year." 


To  Jimmy  Hamilton,  actors'  friend, 

Of  Napoleonic  mold. 
The  Thespian  ribbon,  the  Lodi  cross, 

And  the  fleur-de-lis  in  gold. 
To  Peter  Donahue,  rosy  and  young, 

Whose  complexion  never  pales, 
A  nice  medalion,  on  ivory  done. 

Of  his  friend  the  Prince  of  Wales. 

To  James  M.  Thompson,  the  bold  cashier. 

Mill  Valley's  cowboy  king, 
A  pistol  whose  ring  is  true  and  clear, 

And  a  Bowie  that  hath  a  sting. 


And  more  than  we  enumerate, 

Gifts  to  the  kind  and  true; 
With  warm  hands  and  hearts  elate, 

Our  friends  we  give  to  you ; 

We  give,  and  wish  yon  all  God-speed 
Throughout  the  coming  year. 

To  cull  the  rose  and  shun  the  weed 
While  will  mirth  o'er  masters  care. 

The  clouds  are  speeding  from  the  sky. 
And.  rising  calm  and  clear, 

We  see  and  hail  prosperity 
To  mar£  the  glad  New  Year. 


January  2.  1897, 


SAX   PRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


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FF  with  your  hat  as  the  H 

And  let  the  heart  have  v 
You're  man  enough  for  a  tear  in  your  eye 

That  you  will  not  wijie  away  ; 

You're  man  enough  for  a  thrill  that  goes 

To  your  very  finger-tips — 
Ay  !  the  lump  just  then  in  your  throat  that  rose 

Spoke  more  than  your  parted  lips. 

Lift  up  the  boy  on  your  shoulder,  high, 
And  show  him  the  faded  shred— 

Those  stripes  would  be  red  as  the  sunset  sky 
If  Peath  could  have  dyed  them  red. 

The.'man  that  bore  it  with  Death  has  lain 
These  twenty  years  and^more ;  — 

He  died  that  the  work  should  not  be  vain 
Of  the  men  who  bore  it  before. 

The  man  that  bears  it  is  bent  and  old, 
And  ragged  his  beard  and  gray, — 

But  look  at  his  eye  tire  young  and  bold, 
At  the  tune  that  he  bears  them  play. 

The  old  tune  thunders  through  all  the  air. 
And  strikes  right  m  to  the  heart;— 

If  ever  it  calls. for  you,  boy,  be  there  ! 
Be  there,  and  ready  to  start. 

Off*  with  your  hat  as  the  flag  goes  by  ! 

Uncover  the  youngster's  head  ! 
Teach  him  to  hold  it  holy  and  high, 

For  the  sake  of  its^sacred  dead. 


MY    LITTLE    GIRL.— samuel  minturn  peck,  is  times-democrat- 

My  little  girl  is  nested 

\.Vithin  her  tiuy  bed, 
With  amber  ringlets  crested 

Around  her  dainty  head; 
She  lies  so  calm  and  still}7, 

She  breathes  so  soft  and  low, 
She  calls  to  mind  a  lily 

Half  hidden  in  the  snow. 

A  weary  little  mortal 

Has  gone  to  slumberland ; 
The  Pixies  at  the  portal 

Have  caught  her  by  the  hand : 
She  dreams  her  broken  dolly 

Will  soon  be  mended  there, 
That  looks  so  melancholy 

LTpon  the  rocking-chair. 

I  kiss  your  wayward  tresses, 

My  drowsy  little  queen; 
I  know  you  have  caresses 

From  floating  forms  unseen; 
O  angels,  let  me  keep  her 

To  kiss  away  my  cares, 
This  darling  little  sleeper 

Who  has  my  love  and  prayers. 


WHEN   GRAN'MA   WAS   THAHE.-atlanta  constitution. 

The  old  house  seemed  to  brighten  with  a  peaceful,  lovin'  light 
A-drivin*  out  the  shadders  t'  the  bosom  o'  the  night;      C^  _J 
The  look  o'  calm  contentment  on  her  face,  so  soft  'n  fair," 
I  Made  ever'thing  'pear  better— when  gran'ma  was  thare.  ^ 

The  beams  ud  come  a-creepin'  through  the  morniu'  glory  vine, 
'N '  golden  rays  o'  sunshine  about  her  head  'ud  twine, 
Tell  they  made  a  perfec'  halo  with  the  silver  in  her  hair, 
A-dancin'  'n*  a-bethin' — when  gran'ma  was  thare. 

Ever'thing  got  quiet,  with  a  kind  o*  pure  delight, 
*N'  put  us  all  to  smilin'  when  her  face  come  in  sight; 
Thare  'ud  be  a  lovin'  quiver  in  the  little  rockin1  chair, 
Jes'  like  it  was  happy,  too— when  gran'ma  was  thare. 

'N'  now  the  little  churchyard  holds  a  saddened  charm  for  me, 
I  never  go  a-near  it  but  I  pause  beneath  a  tree, 
Whose  boughs  're  alius  sighin',  with  the  faintest  breath  o'  air, 
A-sorrowin'  'n'  a-sayin'  that — gran'ma  is  thare. 


'Macbeth"  means   tough- 

.  when  applied  t<> 

lamp  *  himneys  ;   perfection  »>f 

I   besides,  if  you  get   the 

Number  made  for  your  lamp. 

Let  us  s<mk1  you  the  Index. 

Geo  A  Macbeth  Co 

I  |  ri   Pa 


CITY    INDEX    AND    PURCHASER'S    GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 
Ladies'  Grill  Room,  Palace  Hotel.     Direct  entrance  from  Market  street. 
Open  until  midnif-'in . 
Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  333-334  Pine  street.     Rooms  for 

ladies  and  families,  private  entrance.    John  Bergez,  Proprietor. 
Maison  Tortoni,  French  Rotlsserlc,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Nevada  Restaurant,  4\7  Pine  st.   Private  rooms ;  meals  50c.    Loupy  Bros 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  St.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Brun. 


DENTISTS 

Dr 

Thomas 

L.  Hill, 

OFFICE 

Odd  Fellows 

'Building,  southwest 

cor. 

Seventh  and  Market 

streets. 

Office  hours : 

9  a.  m.  to  5  p.m. 

Consultation  Hours 

4  to  5. 

Dr 

R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
A  Sovereign  Remedy.     DR.  PARKER'S  COUGH  CURE      One  dose  will 
stop  a  cough.    It  never  fails.    Try  it.  Price  25c,  George  Dahlbender  &  Co., 
214  Kearny  street. 

Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jcnes.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrell  St.,  S.  P. 

BOILERMAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

PRINTING    AND    RUBBER    STAMPS. 
Koch  &  Harney,  (Jas.  H.  Harney,  Geo.  T.  Koch),  Job  Printers,  648  Sacra- 
mento St.  Fine  printing  and  embossing,  seals,  rubber  stamps,  stencils,  etc. 

CANDIES. 

Latest  English  Pear  Drops.    Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 

VEHICLES 
Latest  style  Victoria,  only  used  a  few  times;  also,  three-seated  drag, 
500  Golden  Gate  Avenue. 


Gray  Bros., 


316  Montgomery  Street,  S.  F. 

No.  205  New  High  St.,  Los  Angeles. 


Goncrete  Artificial 
Stone  Work. 


GEORGE  GOODMAN 


Patentee   and 
Manufacturer  of 


Artificial  Stone 

Schillinger's  Patent  ]  In  all  Its  branches 

Side  Walk  and  Garden  Walk  a  specialty." 

Office:    307  Montgomery  street,  (Nevada  block) San  Francisco 


WINDOW  SHADES 
PAPER  HANGING 
TINTING  or 
FRESCOING. 


Jas.  Dully  &  Go., 

20  GEARY   ST. 

Estimates  cheerfully  given. 
Telephone  Grant  39. 


MORRIS  &  KENNEDY'S  ART  GALLERY 

19  and  21   POST  ST.,  San   Francisco. 


New  and  Elegant 

PAINTINGS,    PICTURES,  and    FRAMES 


-fit  Greatly  Reduced  Prices. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  BETTER. 


January  2,  1897 


In  response  to  many  inquiries  from 
all  parts  of  the  country  about  the 
Railway  and  Dock  Construction 
Company 


The  officials  hereby  give  full  infor- 
mation in  regard  to  the  company, 
its  business  and  prospects. 


The  company  offers  20,000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  in  lots  to  suit 
purchasers  at  $20  per  share.  The  par  value  is  $100  per  share— full 
paid  and  unassessable— stockholders  have  no  Individual  liability 
whatever.  The  company  has  no  indebtedness  of  any  kind — is  in 
solid  financial  condition— and,  as  there  are  no  bonds  nor  mortgages, 
all  the  earnings  go  to  the  stockholders. 

The  adoption  of  this  Company's  system  of  construction  by  the 
United  States  Government,  or  any  Foreign  Government,  or  by  any 
one  of  the  large  cities  in  America  or  Europe  will  cause  the  stock  to 
rise  above  par  ($100)  immediately. 

The  most  conservative  investors,  old  shrewd  bear  operators  on  the 
stock  exchange,  have  bought  this  stock  and  confidently  predict  it  is 
sure  to  pay  large  dividends  and  sell  at  over  $200  a  share  as  the  Kail 
way  and  Dock  Construction  Co.  commence  business  under  much 
more  favorable  conditions  than  did  the  Bell  Telephone  Co.,  whose 
stock  rose  from  about  $10  to  over  200;  or  the  original  Edison  Electric 
Co.,  whose  stock  rose  from  45  to  $3000  a  share,  or  the  many  other 
eompanies  owning  useful  inventions  whose  stocks  rose  rapidly  in 
value  while  paying  large  dividends  to  the  alert  original  investors. 

Many  prominent  men  in  banking,  railway  and  financial  circles 
and  other  expert  judges  of  stock  values  predict  that  this  stock  will 
pay  large  dividends  and  will  sell  at  over  $200  per  share  for  the 
following  reasons: 

The  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company  controls  all  the 
rights,  titles,  patents  and  interests  in  and  the  sole,  absolute  and  ex- 
clusive right  to  manufacture  and  sell  the  new  indestructible  piles 
that  do  away  altogether  with  the  millions  of  wooden  piles  heretofore 
used  everywhere,  which  only  last  a  short  time,  as  alternate  moisture 
and  drying  and  the  marine  worms  soon  destroy  the  wood,  and  leave 
a  deceptive  shell,  incapable  to  sustain  a  load  that  requires  the  full 
strength  of  the  original  pile.  Old  wooden  piles  must  be  continually 
replaced  at  great  expense. 

Nothing  can  compete  with  the  indestructible  Pile  in  the  construc- 
tion of  piers,  docks,  bulkheads,  sea-walls,  foundations  for  bridges, 
lighthouses,  jetties,  breakwaters  or  other  improvements  in  rivers, 
harbors  or  on  the  sea  coast. 

This  pile  is  an  absolute  necessity  in  railway  trestlework,  as  it 
guarantees  safety,  and  it  will  last  forever,  and  there  is  an  enormous 
demand  for  it. 

One  defective  wooden  pile  derailing  a  train  causes  a  loss  of  many 
thousands  of  dollars  in  lives  and  property  destroyed. 

Applications  are  pouring  in  from  engineers,  contractors  and  rail- 
way officials  all  over  the  United  States.  These  men  are  quick  to  see 
the  certainty  of  profit.  They  are  perhaps  better  able  to  judge  than 
others,  because,  out  of  a  total  of  1S91  railroads,  373  of  these  railway 
companies  are  now  preparing  to  build  20,547  miles  of  new  line.  The 
great  superiority  of  the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company's 
system  of  solid,  substantial,  indestructible  trestle  work  is  causing 
the  demand  in  this  special  field. 

Estimated  earnings  from  this  one  source  of  profit  will  pay  $7  per 
share  annual  dividends — this  is  equal  to  35  per  cent,  cash  dividends 
per  year  on  stock  bought  now  at  present  price  of  $20  per  share. 

Other  and  larger  sources  of  profit  will  come  from  contracts  now  in 
view,  viz: — 

In  place  of  the  old  wooden  docks,  covered  by  temporary  sheds, 
which  now  disfigure  the  water  fronts  of  our  cities,  this  company  will 
build  solid,  indestructible  piers,  on  which  permanent  iron,  stone  or 
brick  buildings  are  put  up  just  the  same  as  on  land. 

Private  owners  of  dock  property  as  well  as  dock  officials  in  the 
numerous  cities  are  becoming  aware  of  the  great  advantage  of  using 
the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company's  system  of  building 
indestructible  piers  to  make  a  solid  foundation,  upon  which  large 
buildings  can  be  erected,  from  which  they  can  get  big  revenues  for 
rentals,  etc. 

$27,000,000  have  already  been  expended  in  improving  Southern 
harbors  and  their  approaches. 

In  projects  now  under  way  over  fifty  million  dollars  will  be  spent 
in  improving  navigation  in  rivers,  bays,  etc.,  throughout  the  coun- 


try on  jetties,  breakwaters,  and  other  work  in  which  the  indestructi- 
ble Pile  is  a  great  necessity. 

The  city  of  New  York  is  spending  $5,000,000  a  year  improving  the 
city  water  front. 

In  a  private  conversation  Hon.  J.  Sergeant  Cram,  ex-President  of 
the  Board  of  Dock  Commissioners  said:  "There  is  an  immense 
fortune  in  this  company's  system  of  construction." 

The  U.  S.  Senate  Committee  have  recommended  the  expenditure 
of  eighty  million  dollars  for  the  protection  of  our  seacoast.  About 
ten  millions  a  year  will  be  spent  during  the  next  eight  years. 

The  United  States  Government  spent  about  $10,000,000  in  deepen- 
ing the  entrance  of  the  Mississippi  to  divert  tidal  action  by  old  style 
work,  which  will  be  supplanted  in  future  by  the  Railway  and  Dock 
Construction  Company's  system.  $6,000,000  has  already  been  ex- 
pended on  the  two  immense  jetties  in  the  bay  at  Galveston:  they 
are  simply  loose  rock  dumped  into  the  water.  Each  jetty  is  about 
£%  miles  long  and  forms  a  continuous  pyramid  1U0  feet  wide  at  the 
bottom,  tapering  to  15 feet  wide  at  the  top  above  the  water.  The 
Railway  and  ?.Dock  Construction  Company  build  indestructible 
jetties  of  the  same  size  at  the  bottom  as  the  top  and  save  this  enor- 
mous waste  of  stone  and  labor. 

The  "St.  Louis  Critic''  strongly  advocates  the  adoption  of  this  com- 
pany's system  of  indestructible  jetties  to  deepen  the  Mississippi  at 
St.  Louis. 

To  provide  additional  funds  to  execute  some  of  this  work,  the 
company  offers  20,000  shares  to  the  public  in  lots  to  suit  at  the 
low  price  of  $20.00  per  share  in  order  to  have  the  stock  quickly 
taken.  There  are  no  salaried  officials.  The  money  derived  from  the 
sale  of  stock,  when  not  used  in  profitable  construction  work,  remains 
in  the  company's  treasury. 

Many  leading  marine  engineers  and  experts  say:  "This  com- 
pany's system  of  construction  is  coming  into  universal  use  in  build- 
ing all  improvements  in  rivers  and  harbors." 

As  the  business  in  sight  is  too  large  for  this  company  to  handle 
alone,  the  subsidiary  companies  now  being  organized  in  the 
principal  States  each  pay  a  certain  amount  in  cash  and  one-third 
of  their  capital  stock  into  the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Co.'s 
treasury.  In  addition  to  large  sums  in  cash  the  company  will  re- 
ceive about  $20,000,000  in  securities  in  this  way,  on  which  dividends 
will  be  paid  from  the  earnings  of  the  subsidiary  companies.  These 
dividends  all  go  to  the  holders  of  Railway  an  I  Dock  Construction 
stock. 

With  a^large  surplus  and  an  ample  cash  working  capital  the  com- 
pany will  hold  assets  of  $200  per  share  for  each  share  now  offered  at 
$20  when  all  details  are  completed. 

Application   will  be  made  to  list  the  shares  on  the  stock  exchange. 

Owing  to  the  financial  depression  and  uncertainty  before  the  elec- 
tion the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company  would  not  accept 
numerous  contracts  for  work  amounting  to  about  three  millions  of 
dollars.  They  were  offered  first  mortgage  bonds  in  payment  but  the 
bonds  could  not  be  sold  at  that  time  in  New  York  or  London  at 
satisfactory  prices.  English  bankers  are  now  negotiating  to  r'r-»e  a 
large  block  of  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  stock  and  apply 
for  an  official  quotation  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange. 

The  officials  and  large  stockholders  are  well-known  practical 
financiers  and  business  men,  whose  names  are  at  once  a  synonym  for 
trustworthy,  capable  management  and  a  guarantee  that  any  stock 
in  which  they  invest  is  safe,  solid  and  profitable.    Among  them  are 

Among  the  stockholders  are: 

Geo.  W.  Dunn,  Esq.,  president  of  the  company, head  of  the  bank- 
ing house  of  George  W.  Dunn  &  Co.,  New  York,  and  president, 
director  and  trustee  of  other  corporations ;  he  has  been  prominent  in 
Wall  Street  for 20  years  as  a  careful  level-headed  financier;  Hon. 
Thomas  Murphy,  vice-president,  ex-Senator,  Collector  of  the  port  of 
New  York  under  President  U.  8.  Grant;  R.  A.  B.  Dayton,  Esq., 
counsel  for  the  company,  Temple  Court,  New  York;  Eugene  Harvey, 
Esq.,  second  vice-president,  banker,  Drexel  building,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.;  R.  M.  Stanbrough,  Esq.,  Kingston,  N.  Y.;  George D.  Hilyard, 
Esq.,  contractor,  N.  Y.;  W.  R.  Childs,  Esq.,  of  the  Calumet  and 
Hecla  Copper  Company,  Calumet,  Mich. ;  Edward  A.  Wilson,  Esq., 
secretary;  M.  Hoff,  assistant  secretary ;  George  B.  Shelhorn,  Esq.. 
receiver,  Montgomery,  Tuscaloosa  and  Memphis  Railway  Co. , 
Montgomery,  Ala;  Y.  Carryer,  Esq.,  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  Rail- 
way Company,  Field,  B.  C,  Canada;  Howard  Swineford,  Esq.,  of 
Howard  Swineford  &  Co.  Richmond,  Va.;  Jacob  Deyo,  cashier, 
Huguenot  Bank,  New  Paltz,  N.  Y. ;  S.  J.  Gifford,  Dunkirk,  N.  Y.. 
and  several  rich  and  influential  railway  and  political  magnates  who 
will  have  seats  in  the  Board  of  Directors  later  on. 

Address  all  applications  for  stock  and  remit  for  the  number  of 
shares  wanted  to  the  Financial  Agents  of  the  company,  Messrs, 


GEO.  W.   DUNN  &  CO., 


2  Wall  St.. 


New  York. 


by  check,  draft,  money  order,    registered   letter   or    by  express;  or 
have  the  stock  sent  by  express  C.  O.  D. 

The  right  is  reserved  to  reject  any  application  for  stock, and  to 
allot  only  a  part  of  the  shares  applied  for,  and  to  advance  the  price 
"without  notice. 


Janu 


SAN   PRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


j    MOW  WE   MISSED  OUR 

CHRISTMAS  DINNER. 

By    dohn    P.    Albro. 

PROBABLY  no  portion  of  the   wide-spreading  Rocky 
eels    tl»'    Hitter    Root    Range,   which 

stretches  along  tin'  Northern  boundary  of   Idaho  nearly  to 

the   >  i  Park,   in    inaccessibility    and  the  wild 

grandeur  of  its  scenery.  Snows,  almost  eternal,  cap  its 
lofty  summit,,  and  linger  in  its  shady  narrow  gorges  long 
after  the  surrounding  country  bathes  in  summer  heat. 
it  is  a  picturesque  though  difficult  region  for  railroading 
but.  notwithstanding  the  expense  and  labor,  necessity  lias 
compelled  more  than  one  transcontinental  line  to  brave  its 
>US  passes.  I  had  been  miuing,  with  my  partner 
Howard  Mindon.  all  the  summer  of  189 —  on  the  western 
slope  of  one  of  these  passes.  We  had  been  moderately 
successful.  Christmas  was  approaching  and  the  cold  and 
snow  had  begun  to  interfere  with  the  season's  work.  Not 
only  that,  but'a  natural  longing  to  spend  the  holidays  at 
home  with  friends  induced  us  to  shut  down  our  little  mill 
and  seek  a  more  congenial  climate.  We  were  delayed  in 
starting  and  as  the  passenjjer  train  ran  only  once  a  day 
and  was  reported  indefinitely  late  on  account  of  storms, 
we  decided  to  take  the  freight  train  which  passed  our 
little  station  eastward  bound  in  the  evening.  Packing  up 
our  little  store  of  accumulated  wealth,  we  boarded  the 
caboose  of  a  lumber  traiu.  The  train  was  made  up,  be- 
sides the  caboose,  of  twelve  cars  heavily  loaded  with 
lumber  from  Puget  Sound,  drawn  by  a  huge  Mogul  engine 
much  in  vogue  on  those  difficult  grades.  We  were  soon  in 
the  mountains  happy  to  have  a  respite  from  our  rough 
toil  and  in  the  anticipation  of  Christmas  joy  which  we 
knew  awaited  us.  The  train  toiled  painfully  up  to  the 
crest  of  the  grade.  Better  time  might  be  expected  and 
in  that  we  were  not  disappointed.  We  had  barely 
traveled  a  mile  when  the  speed  attained  attracted  our  at- 
tention as  well  as  that  of  the  conductor  and  rear  brake- 
man,  our  only  company.  Soon  the  flying  rocks  and  trees, 
and  the  swaying  of  the  car  showed  that  the  sober  limit  of 
freight  train  travel  was  being  far  exceeded.  The  con- 
ductor showed  uneasiness  and  got  up,  staggered  his  way 
to  the  door  and  opened  it  just  as  through  the  crisp  air 
came  a  wild  screech  from  the  engine  for  brakes.  The 
engine  could  not  hold  the  traiu.  We  were  all  aroused  to  the 
situation  in  an  instant.  The  conductor  sprang  to  the 
front  brake  and  twisted  the  wheel  in  desperation. 
Howard  and  I  together  reached  the  rear  platform  and 
put  our  combined  strength  to  the  task  of  setting  the 
brake  there,  while  the  brakeman  climbed  the  lumber  cars 
in  front,  jumping  from  one  to  the  other  as  fast  as  he  could 
turn  the  brakes.  We  were  now  going  at  an  incredible 
speed.  The  wind  of  our  movement  rushed  through  the 
open  doors  so  fiercely  as  to  nearly  sweep  us  from  our  feet. 
The  cars  in  the  long  train  were  weaving  from  side  to  side 
as  they  struck  the  sharp  curves  and  the  light  caboose  at 
the  end  rocked  with  a  violence  that  threatened  to  throw 
it  from  the  tracks  at  any  moment.  The  train  was  so  far 
beyond  control  that  the  brakes  had  no  apparent  effect, 
for  the  wheels  slid  along  the  glistening  rails  as  though 
they  were  ice  and  our  train  a  brand  new  bob  sled.  The 
conductor  had  gone  forward  to  help  the  brakemen,  and 
Mindou  and  I,  our  usefulness  at  an  end,  climbed  into  the 
little  lookout  on  the  roof  to  watch  what  was  going  on 
ahead.  The  sight  was  not  one  to  encourage  dreams  of 
Christmas  pleasures.  The  great  mass  of  the  runaway 
train  was  thundering  down  one  of  the  most  perilous  in- 
clines known  in  the  Rockies.  The  descent  itself  was  but  a 
part  of  the  danger.  One  must  imagine  the  abrupt  curves 
round  which  the  flying  monster  rushed  with  half  the 
wheels  apparently  in  the  air,  the  jagged  rocks  which 
lined  the  route  ready  to  make  kindling  wood  of  any  car 
that  left  the  track,  and  the  yawning  ravines,  a  hundred 
feet  in  depth  or  more,  open  mouthed  to  receive  us,  in 
order  to  appreciate  our  situation.  We  had  run  five  miles 
from  the  summit  and  knew  that  Devil's  Gulch  was  just 
ahead.  Could  we  pass  it  in  safety?  Around  the  project- 
ing point  ahead  it  lay,  and  we  gripped  each  other's  hands 
and  set  our  teeth   to  await   the  awful  issue.     Our  eyes 


d  upon  the  engine.  It  abot  a  round  the  curve 
and  struck  the  straight  track  over  the  gulch,  Rolling 
like  a  ship  in  a  storm  It  still  held  to  the  safe  path.  Car 
after  oar  followed  suit,  untO  the  middle  "f  the  train  was 

reached.     On   the    sixth    ear    the     rear    brakeman     was 

straining  at  the   wheel.    The  pace   was   too  much,    The 

carandtheone  behind  it  shot  out  from  the  curve  and 
plunged  down  the  terrible  abyss.  \\  ■ 
expecting  to  go  the  same  road  in  our  turn  We  heard  the 
despairing  yell  of  the  brakeman  and  the  dull  thud  of 
shivered  ears  against  the  rocks  below  which  to 
his  awful  fate.  The  coupling  had  broken  and 
we  were  still  on  the  track.  The  gulch  was  passed  bu1 
equal  dangers  lay  ahead,  magnified  by  the  fact  that  our 
train  was  now  in  two  wildly  careening  sections.  We  saw 
the  fireman  wave  his  hands  in  warning  to  us  to  save  our- 
selves, and  saw  him  jump  into  a  mass  of  snow  and  rocks, 
against  the  mountain  side.  The  head  brakeman  quickly 
followed  his  example.  We  saw  them  lie  stunned  and  help- 
less as  we  thundered  past,  and  learned  afterward  that  they 
escaped  alive  but  both  sadly  crippled.  Car  after  car 
from  our  decimated  train  fell  by  the  wayside  until  only 
two  remained  ahead  of  the  caboose  on  our  section,  and 
only  one  was  still  with  the  engine.  The  conductor  had 
scrambled  back  to  the  caboose.  We  held  a  hurried  con- 
sultation and  decided  to  stick  to  the  car.  Fifteen  awful 
minutes  passed  in  similar  suspense;  minutes,  anyone  of 
which  might  be  our  last.  At  the  end  of  that  time  we  had 
reached  the  plain  and  the  long  level  track  ahead  aroused 
a  hope  of  safety.  The  speed  was  slackening  noticeably, 
but  a  rod  on  the  engine  had  broken  loose  and  was  piercing 
the  boiler  at  ever  turn  of  the  drivers.  It  was  suddenly 
jolted  from  the  track  a  few  hundred  yards  ahead  of  us  and 
lay  with  its  nose  in  a  ditch  in  a  cloud  of  escaping  steam, 
and  we  were  at  last  brought  to  a  halt  by  crashing  into  it. 
Beyond  a  few  bruises  we  found  ourselves  unhurt,  but  the 
engineer,  brave  and  faithful  to  the  last  like  so  many  of  his 
calling,  was  found  scalded  to  death  by  the  escaping  steam. 
Mindou  and  I  ate  our  Christmas  turkey  on  New  Year's 
day  that  year,  with  many  a  sigh  for  our  less  fortunate 
conpanions,  thankful  for  our  lives,  determined  that  hence- 
forward passenger  trains  would  be  good  enough  accom- 
modation for  us. 

No  finer  stock  of  Jewelry  and  Silverware  was  ever  exhibited  in  this 
city  than  A.  Hirschman,  No.  10  Post  street,  (Masonic  Temple)  has 
on  exhibition,  and  his  prices  are  most  reasonable. 

A  delicious  luncheon  is  served  for  ladies  at  the  Maison  Riche 
during  shopping  hours. 


DSE 


HERGULES 


GAS,  GASOLINE,  and 
OIL  ENGINES. 
Best  to  ouy  and  cheapest  to  operate  for  Mining:, 
Milling,  Pumping,  Hoisting,  and  all  Stationary 
and  Marine  Work.  All  sizes  and  styles  from  1  to 
SOU  horse  power. 

3000  in  use.    Catalogue  free.    Satisfaction  guar- 
anteed or  money  refunded. 

HERCULES  GAS  ENGINE  WORKS, 

Office:  405-407  Sansouie  street,  S.  F. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1897- 


_   PJ-VERYONE    in    our 
L/  cit 


city  seems  to  have 
had  a  joyous  Christmas;  even  the  poor  were  more  gener- 
ously remembered  than  ever  before,  and  society — well, 
society  always  has  a  good  time.  The  girls  had  heaps  of 
pretty  presents  and  the  men  enough  ties  and  handker- 
chiefs to  last  indefinitely.  There  are  whispers  of  several 
new  engagements  to  be  announced  at  the  opening  of  the 
New  Year.  One  of  two  sisters  and  two.  brothers  will  not 
very  much  astonish  society,  as  things  have  been  pointing 
that  way  for  some  time  past. 

*  *  * 

How  many  of  us  will  start  in  the  New  Year  with  in- 
numerable good  desires,  good '  resolves,  and  good  inten- 
tions, and  alas  !  how  many  will  have  built  their  hopes  on 
sand  and  their  string  of  good  intentions  turn  to  be  a  mere 
thread  broken  by  the  first  pull  at  it  !  A  few  pretty  buds 
have  confided  their  set  purpose  to  us,  and  they  are  so 
earnest,  too.  Miss  Helen  Wagner  is  going  to  be  as  good 
as  good  can  be,  going  to  church  every  Sunday,  and  joining 
some  charitable  society  to  help  the  deserving  poor.  Miss 
Clemmie  Kip  is  going  to  give  up  theatre  parties;  Miss 
Mary  Kip  to  abjure  making  conquests;  Miss  Caro  Crockett 
is  going  to  give  half  her  pocket  money  to  the  poor;  Miss 
Helen  Hopkins  will  do  without  one  pair  of  gloves  a  month 
from  her  allowance,  and  devote  the  same  to  some  worthy 
charity;  Miss  Kate  Salisbury  will  knit  a  pair  of  wristlets 
for  some  deserving  old  man;  Miss  May  Belle  G  win  will  stop 
breaking  hearts;  Miss  Ethel  Cohen  will  not  be  so  general 
in  her  fascinations,  but  settle  on  one;  Miss  Gertie  Foreman 
will  study  the  map  of  South  Africa;  Miss  Cora  Smedburg 
will  not  pout  once  during  the  year;  Miss  Marie  Zane  will 
find  a  key  to  her  affections.  These  are  a  few;  more  later 
on,  when  the  girls  announce  themselves. 

*  *  * 

The  news  that  Dr.  Harry  Tevis  meditates  making 
Bakersfield  his  future  home  has  created  quite  a  ripple  of 
disturbance  among  his  fair  friends  in  the  city,  for  who  is 
a  more  popular  member  of  society  than  the  handsome 
young  doctor  ?  However,  the  profession  which  he  has 
chosen  is  overstocked  in  the  city,  and  they  say  he  is  ambi- 
tious of  doing  good  work  in  it,  so  will  devote  his  profes- 
sional labors  to  the  rural  districts  and  enjoy  the  social  side 
of  life  at  his  brother  Will's.  Mrs.  Will  Tevis  is  very  fond  of 
large  house  parties,  and  our  prettiest  belles  never  refuse 
an  invitation  to  make  one  of  the  bidden  thereto. 

*  *  * 

Gay  doings  are  still  the  order  of  the  day  at  the  snug 
Hotel  Rafael.  The  climate  of  San  Rafael  is  anything  but 
wintry,  and  many  of  our  leading  society  folk  appear  to 
appreciate  the  fact  as  they  are  still  to  be  found  there. 
Manager  Warfield  makes  the  comfort  of  each  guest  his 
own  business,  and  that  all  are  well  looked  after  goes  with- 
out saying.  New  Year's  Day  was  celebrated  in  good  old- 
fashioned  manner  by  the  guests  there  assembled. 

*  *  * 

The  B'lingham  "hunt"  was  not  the  success  hoped  for 
by  the  habituh  of  that  swagger  settlement.  Possibly,  the 
holiday  ties  of  town,  the  unsettled  state  of  the  weather, 
and  the  newness  of  the  thing  may,  in  a  measure,  account 
for  this,  and  people  say  that  the  next  affair  of  the  kind 
will  be  a  howling  success.     Qui  vivra  terra. 

*  *  # 

It  is  considered  a  coincidence  by  the  society  girls  that 
two  of  their  number — Miss  Julia  Crocker  and  Miss  Alice 
Ames — should  have  signalized  their  return  from  European 
travel  by  a  resolve  to  settle  down  in  the  quiet  path  of 
domestic  life. 


Little  Lady  Hesketh — Flo'  Sharon — seems  to  have  set- 
tled down  into  English  country  life,  her  absorbing  pastime 
being  hunting.  Californian  friends  who  have  been  in  her 
vicinity  say  her  old  home  and  its  associations  have  quite 
lost  all  charm  for  her. 


To  Physicians  and  the  Public 


In  Cases  of  1  Dozen  Bottles. 

Of  perfect  and  reliable  purity,  unequaled  for  MEDICINAL  and  TABLE 

use,  and  guaranteed  by  shippers.    This  wine  is  invaluable 

as  a  restorative  for  the  invalid. 


For  sale  by  all  the  Leading  Dealers  and  Grocers. 

CHARLES  MEINECKE  &.  CO., 


Sole  Agents 


314  Sacramento  St. 


Going  out  of 
Business. 


Commencing    nonday,  Jan     4th 


$125,000 


CLOAKS, 
SUITS,  etc. 

The  entire  stock  to  be  sold  during  npxt  30 
days  at  a  TREMENDOUS    SACRIFICE 

ARHAND    CAILLEAU, 

Cor.  Ceary  St.  and  Grant  Ave. 


Gomct,  OoIoiiq. 


The  oldest  and  most  reliable  brand  on  the 
market.  Sold  only  in  1-3  pound  papers  at 
20  cents  per  paper.  All  grocers  keep  it. 

ANNUAL    MEETING 
Bullion  Mining  Co. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Bullion  Mining 
Company  -will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  11,  331  Pine 
street,  San  Francisco,  on 

THURSDAY,  the  14th  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Direc- 
tors to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  busi- 
ness as  may  come  before  the  meeting.  Transfer  books  will  close  on  Tues- 
day, the- 12  th.  day  of  January,  1897,  at  iS^o'clock  m. 

R.  R    GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  11,  331  Pine  street,  S.  F.,Oal 

Mining  Machinery 

and   SUPPLIES 

THE     ROPP    STRAIGHT    LINE     FURNACE. 
HUNTINGTON     CENTRIFUGAL    ROLLER     MILL. 
ENGINES,     BOILERS,     STEAM     PUMPS. 
WOOD-WORKING    AND     IRON-WORKING    MACHINERY. 

PARKE,   LACY   &  CO., 

21  and  S3  Fremont  Street,  San  Francisco. 


January  2,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   1  BTTER. 


CHRISTMAS  almost   upon  us   and    the 

ground  white  enough  with  snow  to  sat- 

ven  the  most  gloomy  dreaders  of  a  green  Cbiistmas. 

very   beautiful   and    most   inconvenient.     One    can 
t  about  and  for  all  excepting   the   favored   few 
who  dwell  in  the  midst  of  things,  the  shops  display  in  vain 
their   tempting   wares.     There   is   nothing   very    new    in 
Christmas  decoration  this  year,    nor   in   holiday  gifts:  but 
where  so  much  is  beautiful  there   is   no   necessity  for  any- 
new.     Hut  year  by  year  the  drain  upon  one's  pocket- 
book  Incomes  more  and  more  severe  for  the  veriest  trifles 
are  of  an  extravagance  in  price  appalling  to  think  of.     In 
lam  e  with  the   sentiment   that   Christmas  means   a 

I  titive  race  in  lavish  if  not  reckless  expenditure,  the 

II  of  flower-giving  is   at    its   height,  and   as  nothing 
higher  in  price  than   orchids   and  violets,  these  are 

the  choice.  They  may  not  be  sent,  as  of 
old,  in  a  simple  card  board  box,  but  must  be  enclosed  in  a 
gorgeously  painted  case,  fastened  with  yards  of  broad  rib- 
bon, or  else  sent  in  crystal  or  porcelain  vases,  whose  ap- 
pearance will  at  once  indicate  their  foreign  manufacture. 
Thus  are  all  save  the  rich  excluded  from  the  pretty  cus- 
tom of  flower  sendiug.  In  bon-bons  it  is  the  same;  but  he 
whose  purse  will  allow  him  to  echo  his  heart's  sentiment 
with  the  jingle  of  coin  may  express  his  Christmas  hopes  in 
"sweets  to  the  sweet.' 

The  bicycle  shines  forth  more  radiantly  than  ever,  and 
there  are  special  departments  in  all  the  stores  for  the  sale 
of  everything  that  can  in  auy  sense  be  associated  with  the 
royal  master  of  the  road.  A  sensation  has  been  caused  by 
the  engagement  in  a  big  shop  of  Choynski.  the  Californian 
pugilist,  as  the  manager  of  the  "athletic  goods  depart- 
ment," and  ODe  paper  humorously  suggests  the  possibility 
of  his  giving  lessons  in  knock-down  blows  to  all  exasper- 
ating or  tiresome  purchasers.  The  suggestion  is  pictur- 
esque. 

We  have  had  a  true  social  sensation  this  week  in  the 
raid  made  by  Captain  Chapman,  of  the  "Tenderloin  Pre- 
cinct," upon  Sherry's,  the  exclusive  and  fashionable  restau- 
rant in  Fifth  Avenue,  where  many  not  of  the  Four  Hun- 
dred, but  of  the  still  more  conservative  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty,  are  wont  to  gather.  The  occasion  was  a  dinner 
given  by  Herbert  Seeley,  grandson  of  the  late  P.  T. 
Barnum,  to  his  brother,  who  is  soon  to  marry.  As  is  very 
often  the  case  nowadays,  the  dinner  guests  were  diverted 
by  a  vaudeville  show — skirt  dancing,  banjo-playing  and  that 
sort  of  thing  during  the  evening,  An  agent  from  whom 
the  talent  was  not  engaged  announced  to  the  Police  Cap- 
tain during  the  afternoon  that  an  indecent  entertainment 
was  arranged,  and  that,  his  own  daughter  had  indignantly 
and  with  tears  told  him  that  she  had  been  asked  to  dance 
in  the  altogether.  This  is  the  Captain's  explanation  why 
he  burst  in  upon  a  peaceful  dinner  party  when  alsoiutely 
nothing  improper  was  taking  place,  and  where  his  arrival 
was  naturally  resented.  Result — a  cataclysm  in  society 
and  threats  of  all  sorts  of  revenge  from  the  Gallic  Sherry. 

An  amusing  afterpiece  to  this  tempest  has  been  played 
in  New  Rochelle,  where  the  members  of  the  New  Rochelle 
Yacht  Club  gave  a  smoker,  with  vaudeville,  a  few  nights 
ago.  Lena  Routt,  one  of  the  dancers  at  Mr.  Seeley's  din- 
ner, was  a  dancer  at  the  smoker,  and  since  the  raid  all  the 
wives  and  sweethearts  of  the  New  Rochelle  yachtsmen 
have  made  life  agreeable  for  their  present  and  future 
lords,  and  I  am  told  that  one  man  has  gone  so  far  as  to 
make  out  an  affidavit  before  a  notary  that  the  smoker  was 
respectable.  This,  it  is  stated,  he  intends  as  a  Christmas 
gift  for  his  wife.  And,  by  the  way,  I  heard  only  this  morn- 
ing of  an  odd  Christmas  gift  which  the  wife  and  daughter 
of  a  wealthy  Harlem  merchant  are  making  to  the  head  of 
their  family.  It  is  a  pledge  not  to  drink  for  one  year, 
signed  by  the  mother,  and  a  similar  pledge  for  six  months, 
signed  by  the  daughter;  neither  of  the  women  is  addicted 
to  drink,  but  both  admit  that  they  find  abstinence  difficult. 

Society  is  in  its  very  whirl  at  present.  There  was  a 
pretty  wedding  yesterday,  when  Miss  Duncan,  a  grand- 
niece  of  John  C.  Calhoun  and  a  niece  of  Mr.  Thomas  Addis 


Emmet  was  married  al  it  Emmet's  residence.     Thi 
Vrchbisho 
,  and  a  wedding  breakfast,   limited    ■ 

Ferrer,   an  intimate  frii 
family,  played  the  wedding  music. 

Amadee de Guervllle,  well  known  amongst  v,u  for  his 
work  as  Japanese  war  correspondent  and  lab 
turer,  was  married   today   to   Miss  Laura  Spraker,  who 
has  youth,  beauty,    and  wealth.      De  Gin 
hosts  of  friends  for  himself  amongst  the  best  peoi 
York, 

.Mrs.  Oelriohs  and  .Miss  Pair   were  the  only  two  Califor- 
nia^ who  graced  the    Patriarchs' Ball,      Mrs.  Oelrlchs  ] 
saw  at  the  opera  not  long  ago,   very  beautiful  in  pale 
satin,  and  more  animated  than  I  hare  ever  seen  her. 

Henry  Scott  and  family  are  at  the  Holland  House. 
"  Jack  "  Wentworth,  of  Sacramento,  at  the  Albemarle. 
Miss  Ida  Scooffy  has  just  returned  to  New  York,  and  will 
leave  for  California  almost  immediately  after  Christmas. 

"  Joe  "  Redding  leaves  to-morrow  to  spend  the  Christ- 
mas holidays  with  friends  in  New  Hampshire,  but  will  re- 
turn before  the  New  Year. 

December  S3,  1896.  Passe  Pautoct. 

The  most  beautiful  things  in  Japanese  bronzes,  ivories,  tapestries 
and  curios  are  to  be  had  of  G.  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  (525  Market  Street. 
Such  things  are  rapidly  becoming  rare  and  only  in  a  few  places  can 
the  genuine  article  be  obtained  at  a  low  cost. 


DELINQUENT    SALE     NOTICE. 
Ostrander  Repeating  Gun  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ot  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  o 
works  or  factory— 36  New  street,  East  Bo- ton,  Mass. 


NOTICE— There  are  delinquent  upon  tbe 
account  of  an  assessment  (No  5),  levied  on 
the  several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names 
ers,  as  follows: 


following  described  stock,  on 
the  22d  day  of  August,  1896, 
of  the  respective  sharehold 


No. 

No. 

NAME.           Cei 

tificatc 

Shares 

Am't 

C.  A.  Macomber 

405 

500 

50 

" 

406 

500 

50 

A.  H.  Brawner 

119 

600 

60 

" 

120 

600 

60 

" 

121 

300 

30 

" 

190 

500 

50 

" 

209 

500 

50 

" 

210 

1,000 

100 

211 

1,000 

100 

W.  P.  Ray.  17.  S.  N. 

123 

1,000 

100 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Carter 

194 

500 

50 

'• 

311 

500 

50 

J.  M.  Helm 

164 

600 

60 

" 

258 

301 

30  10 

" 

260 

155 

15  50 

W.  H.  H.  Hart 

416 

1,000 

100 

M.  W.  Kirwan 

434 

1.000 

100 

Catherines.  Whiteside 

204 

1,000 

100 

George  H  Hoover 

389 

50 

5 

W.  S.  2.eilin 

213 

250 

25 

Mrs.  Mary  Mearse  Gait 

179 

1,000 

100 

John  A.  Wright 

430 

105 

10  50 

Gso.  O.  Davis,  Trustee 

435 

200 

20 

436 

200 

20 

" 

437 

100 

10 

E.  p.  Cole 

397 

500 

50 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  23d  day  of  August,  1896,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  No.  216  Bush  street,  rooms  50  and  51,  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco,  California,  on 

THURSDAY,  THE  22ND  DAY  OF  OCTOBER,  1896, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delinquent  assessment 
thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale, 

M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  216  Bush  street,  Rooms  50  and  51,  SanFrancisco,  Califo  oia. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  post- 
poned until 

FRIDAY,  the  20th  DAY  of  NOVEMBER,  1896, 
at  the  same  time  and  place.  M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 

SanFrancisco,  October 22, 1896. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating   Gun 
Company,  held  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  post- 
poned until 

FRIDAY,  tbe  18th  DAY  of  DECEMBER,  1896, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  November  19,  1836. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  tbe  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  tbe  office  of  the  company  on  the  18th  Inst.,  the  sale  of  de- 
linquent stock  was  postponed  until 

THURSDAY,  the  14th  DAY  OF  JANUARY.  U97, 
at  the  same  time,   at  rooms  25  and  26.  216  Bush  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  Dec  28, 1897 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1897. 


DEAR  EDITH  :  It  is  evident  that  the  latest  method  of 
fashion  in  Paris  is  to  have  the  bodice  and  skirt  both 
of  one  material,  relieved,  of  course,  with  any  amount  of 
color  in  the  very  ornate  and  elaborate  decoration.  This 
style,  however,  does  not  seem  to  interfere  with  the  reign 
of  the  still  popular  separate  waist. 

We  are  gradually  growing  accustomed  to  the  present 
styles,  and  learning  to  live  up  to  them.  Parting  from  our 
full  sleeves  was  a  terrible  wrench;  but  the  sacrifice  is  ac- 
complished, and  we  have  found  means  of  obtaining  the 
same  effects.  Bows  of  ribbon  placed  rather  low  on  the 
shoulder,  frills  and  ruffles  that  stand  out  like  a  coxcomb, 
give  that  style  of  width  across  the  shoulders  which  is  in- 
variably becoming.  In  Paris,  coat-sleeves  are  made  quite 
plain,  and  the  ruffled  sleeve  is  either  surmounted  by  a 
wide  bow  and  elegant  drapery  or  two  or  three  frills.  The 
Louis  Seize  sleeve  is  plain  at  the  top,  all  the  fullness  com- 
ing in  at  the  elbow.  Sometimes  a  double  set  of  frills  forms 
two  fans,  one  on  each  side  of  the  arm.  Endless  top  drap- 
eries are  indulged  in,  and  if  the  skirt  is  of  a  gossamer  ma- 
terial, it  is  a  pretty  idea  to  have  five  or  seven  little  frill 
flounces  for  the  top  of  the  sleeve.  Many  of  these  flounc- 
ings  are  edged  or  bound  with  satin  or  velvet  bebe  ribbon, 
black  velvet  being  used  to  trim  vivid  pinks  or  ambers, 
whilst  apple-green,  or  turquoise,  or  even  poppy-red,  would 
be  trimmed  with  white  satin  bebe  ribbon.  Indeed,  ribbons 
are  still  greatly  in  favor.  A  rather  wide  ribbon  does  duty 
in  short  loops  for  a  basque,  and  decorates  the  fronts  of 
bodices  in  a  new  Prince  of  Wales  bow,  forming  three  loops 
at  the  top  (like  the  Prince's  feathers),  and  two  below. 
The  real  butterfly  bow,  when  properly  made,  is  a  perfect 
finish  for  the  back  of  waist  and  neck,  but  it  requires  skill- 
ful handling.  The  center  must  be  ruched  or  gathered  to 
imitate  the  butterfly's  body,  and  the  side  loops  carefully 
arranged  like  the  lovely  insect's  wings.  Ribbons,  like 
everything  else,  must  be  judiciously  used,  for  they  can 
make  or  mar  the  dress.  Inch-wide  velvet  ribbon  may  be 
turned  to  advantage  in  a  hundred  ways,  and  nothing  can 
be  prettier.  Belts  of  it  wind  three  times  round  the  waist, 
securely  fastened  by  fancy  pins,  and  bretelles  of  the  same 
are  fastened  by  rosettes  with  a  brilliant  paste  center  over 
the  shoulders.  On  the  skirts,  graduated  widths  are  used 
in  five  or  seven  rows — they  begin  narrow,  gradually  widen- 
ing as  they  reach  the  hem.  Or  they  are  made  into  a  trellis- 
work,  unless  Vs  or  a  Greek  design  is  preferred. 

Velvets  are  extensively  used  in  combination  with  silk 
and  wool;  chameleon  and  illuminated  shadings,  raised  and 
sunken  designs,  plaids  and  stripes  are  all  seen — in  fact,  the 
patterns  and  color  combinations  are  as  varied  as  those  of 
the  silks. 

Trimmings  are  greatly  used,  even  skirts  being  orna- 
mented with  passementerie  or  embroidered  bands.  Wide 
passementeries  are  noticeable  in  jet  and  colors  for  trim- 
ming boleros  and  waists;  narrow  colored  beaded  gimps  in 
garnet,  brown,  and  green  are  in  demand.  Made-up  satin 
and  velvet  revers  in  a  combination  of  embroidery,  lace,  and 
beads,  are  a  pretty  addition  to  bodices  or  jackets. 

Belinda. 

Through  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Kailroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  from  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Ticket  office,  &44  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
phone Main  1531. 

No  restaurant  in  this  city  is  better  known  or  more  justly  popular 
than  is  Swain's  Bakery,  213  Sutter  Street.  The  restaurant  is 
patronized  by  our  leading  society  folk  and  is  the  best  place  in  town 
to  obtain  a  meal  perfectly  cooked.  Should  you  be  ordering  pies,  or 
pastries,  or  such  delicacies,  ring  up  Swain's  by  telephone  and  your 
order  will  receive  immediate  attention.  A  special  feature  is  the  $1 
dinner  between  the  hours  of  5  and  8  p.m. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  '-Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  teething . 


Grand  Annual 
Midwinter 
Clearance  Sale 


Now  in  Progress. 


Everything  at  | 

Prodigious 

Sacrifice. 


See  Daily  Papers  for  Particulars. 


MURPHY  BUILDING,  Market  and  Jones  Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

203  to  207  N  Spring  St.  bet.  Temple  and  First  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  I 

FINE  FURS! 
and 

SEALSKIN 
GARriENTS 

to  order.  Remodeling  an 
repairing  at  prices  far  Is 
low  those  of  any  other  fn 
rier  on  the  Pacific  Coal 
All  work  guaranteed. 

flD.  K060UR,, 

FASHIONABLE   FURRIEB 
5%  Kearny  Street  (Up-stairs), 

Opposite  Chronicle.    Formerly  cutter  with   Revillon  Freres,   Paris    Lo> 
don.  New  York. 

Egyptian  enamel, 

The  most  perfect  beautifler  the  world  has  ever  known;) 
instantly  transforms  the  sallowest  complexion  into  onej 
peerless  beauty,  and  imparts  the  natural  freshness  aft 
bloom  of  youth ;  it  defies  detection,  will  not  rub  off,  lasts  a 
day,  and  is  perfectly  harmless.  Endorsed  by  prominei 
physicians.  Price,  50  cents  and  $1:  large  size  sent  prepai 
to  any  part  of  the  United  States  or  Canada  on  receipt^ 
price.    Manufactured  only  by 

JUpC        M  I       RlltlDP     131  POST  STREET. 

/Illc>.    ill.    tl.     DUblol      San  Francisco,  Cal.,  U.  S.  A. 


- 


J  D.  SULLIVAN, 

ATTORN  EY-AT-LAVJ 

Rooms  34-38,  3d  Floor  Chronicle  Building,  San  Francisco. 

Dr.   F.  G.  PAGUE, 

Dentist. 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building,  819  Market  stre 


Janua 


SAX   FRANCISCO   NEWS  l.i  TTER. 


25 


MANZArHITA. 


.ice  be  unto  you  tii  tide, 

The  way*  are  many  and  the  world  is  wide; 

•  »■  awhile  this  crucifix  before, 
And  let  your  heart  of  hearts  keep  open  door! 

ill  the  I'brist-child  enter  unaware 
With  lips  of  benefice  and  shining  hair. 

Oh,  mirth-abounding,  u'  tnta  I'lmis. 

Make  thou  our  Christmas,  let  who  will  our  laws! 
Lead  thou  each  wanderer  to  B0Q16  hearthstone  Vide, 

Thai  n  >ne  !>■■  lonely  on  this  Christtnas-tlde, 

Or  if  one  dre:mis  ol  borne  in  passes  gray, 
Prop  by  his  side  this  man/itnita  spray. 

Kipe  berries  red,  what  tender  thoughts  ye  bring 
Of  holly,  home  and  heaven's  transcendent  Kin.,', 
Who,  toiling,  trod  .ludean  sands  alone, 
That  each  might  keep  glad  Christmas  with  his  own  ; 
Peace,  peace  on  earth,  good  will  to  warring  men, 
Ring,  happy  bells,  forever  and  again! 

(lood  friends,  sweet  friends,  this  time  of  joyous  cheer, 
dispelling  distance  brings  your  faces  near. 
And  welds  what  scattered  links  of  love  below, 
Within  the  regnant  yule  log's  ruddy  glow; 
Hut  ways  are  many  and  the  world  is  wide — 
t-iod's  peace  abide  with  you  this  Christmas-tide. 

Annie  Hbbbbbt. 


Ul  I!.  Edouard  Cucuel,  whose  charming  articles  and 
1  sketches  descriptive  of  life  in  Paris  have  so  often  ap- 
eared  in  the  News  Letter,"  is  at  present  visiting  his 
arents  in  this  city.  Some  years  ago  Mr.  Cucuel  studied 
the  San  Francisco  Art  School,  and  then  accepted  a 
osition  on  the  Call,  his  illustrative  work  even  in  those 
ays  attracting  much  attention.  He  left  San  Francisco, 
owever,  and  studied  in  Paris  for  four  years,  becoming 
ne  of  the  most  popular  and  able  of  the  little  circle  of 
merican  students  there.  His  clever  sketches  appearing 
several  of  the  leading  Parisian  dailies  brought  him  into 
onsiderable  prominence,  and  he  is  now  a  valued  member  of 
he  New  York  Herald's  staff.  After  his  vacation  the  young 
rtist  will  return  to  that  city,  followed  by  the  good  wishes 
f  hosts  of  friends  on  this  Coast. 


'P'HE  feet  of  the  Four  Hundred  must  needs  be  well  shod. 
1  So  indeed  must  the  feet  of  anyone  who  makes  pre- 
ense  to  gentility,  and  it  is  a  matter  of  note  that  the 
tyle  of  my  lady's  shoe  (and  of  man's  too,  for  that  matter) 
:hanges  oftener  than  the  fashion  of  her  sleeve.  The  cus- 
om  maker  of  fine  footwear  seems  to  be  the  only  salvation 
or  the  ultra  fashionable,  and  J.  M.  McNulty,  of  139  Post 
Street,  is  the  "Redfern  of  the  Foot"  for  San  Francisco 
society.  He  came  from  Thomas'  of  London,  and,  to  quote 
timself  "makes  shoes  for  the  best  people  here  and  the 
>est  that  come  here."  He  makes  his  own  lasts,  imports 
ill  his  stock,  and  needless  to  say,  the  quality  of  his  work 
s  above  criticism. 


DNE  of  the  most  charming  calendars  for  this  year  is 
entitled  the  Joaquiu  Miller  Calendar,  published  by  the 
(Vhitaker  and  Ray  Co.  of  this  city.  The  calendar  is 
Jelicately  illustrated  with  Californian  flowers  and  contains 
some  good  specimens  of  the  verse  of  America's  greatest 
iving  poet.  It  is  just  the  thing  to  send  to  your  friends  as 
i  memento  of  this  State. 


Are  You  Going  East? 
The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad,  Santa  Fe  Route,  is  the  coolest 
ind  most  comfortable  summer  line,  owing  to  its  elevation  and  ab- 
tence  of  alkali  dust.  Particularly  adapted  to  the  transportation  of 
'amilies  or  large  parties,  owing  to  its  Pullman  palace  drawing  room 
ind  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleepers,  which  run  daily  through 
irom  Oakland  to  Chicago  via  Kansas  City.  Ticket  office,  644  Market 
itreet,  Chronicle  building.    Telephone  Main  1531. 


Have  you  been  out  to  Leona  Heights  yet?  If  not  you  have 
missed  one  of  the  simple  pleasures  of  life.  Commodious  electric 
;ars  run  there  from  all  parts  of  Oakland  and  Alameda  and  the 
round  trip  is  only  fifty  cents.  There  is  a  good  restaurant  on  the 
grounds,  but  no  bar.  This  precludes  the  appearance  of  any  roughs 
on  the  premises. 

The  Genuint:  "  Bkown's  Bronchial  Tkochbb  "  are  sold  only  lotoses. 
They  aro  wondortully  effective  for  Coughs  and  Throat  Troubles. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO, 

SHIPPING  AND^OMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 
309and  311  Sansome  St.  ....         San   Francisco,  Ca 

CORRESPONDENTS  ■ 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIB 43  and  «  Throadnccdlo  81.,  London 

SIMPSON.  MACKIRDY  &QQ »  South  Ca.tle  St.,  Liverpool 

INSURANCE. 


FIRE,   MARINE,    AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,000,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),  OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager.  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fibb  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Gompanu    ol  North  America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  PENN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Polloy  Holders 6,032,019 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  413  California  St.,  S.  P. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO,  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000.000 

Assets 8,192.001 .69 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,509,409 .41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD    &   DICKSON,  S.F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St. 

AACHEN  AND  MUNICH  FIRE  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

OF'  AIX   LA    CHAPELLE,    GERMANY.  Established  1826 

Capital.  $2,2S0,0CKa  Total  Assets,  18,854,653  65. 

UNITED  STATE"       EPARTMKNT:  204  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 

VOSS,  CONRAD  St,  CO.,  General  Managers. 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  Established^. 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON   NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  m 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF   LIVERPOOL. 

Capital 16,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents, 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

RD  Dlf^nfjrYQ  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu 
Ut\.  muunu  O  ine— A  specific  lor  Exhausted  Vitality,  Phystoal 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medioine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
d.  Q.  STEELE  &  CO.,  636  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mall  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED-Box  of  50  pills,  II  85;  of  100  pills,  12;  of  200  pills, 
13  60 ;  of  400  pills,  16 ;  Preparatory  pills,  ti.   Send  for  circular. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1897. 


The  Doctor — Mrs.  Briggs  has  sent  for  me  to  go  and  see 
her  boy,  and  I  must  go  at  once.  His  Wife — What  is  the 
matter  with  the  boy?  The  Doctor — I  don't  know;  but 
Mrs.  Briggs  has  a  book  on  "  What  to  do  Before  the  Doc- 
tor Comes,"  and  I  must  hurry  up  before  she  does  it. — Col- 
lier's Weekly. 

"Have  you  been  able  to  catch  the  Speaker's  eye?" 
asked  the  first  lady  Member  of  Parliament.  "  Have  I  ?  " 
rejoined  the  second  M.  P.  "Well,  rather;  I  wore  my 
navy  blue  bengaline  with  the  heliotrope  sleeves,  and  the 
Speaker  couldn't  keep  his  eyes  off  me. ' ' — Pearson's  Weekly. 

"What  do  they  mean  by  'salting  a  mine,'  popper?" 
asked  the  small  boy.  "  Is  it  anything  like  salting  meat  ?  " 
"No,  indeed,"  answered  Mr.  Bittwuntz.  "When  a  man 
salts  meat,  it  is  because  he  wants  to  keep  it." — Cincinnati 
Enquirer. 

"Hark!"  cried  the  long-haired  magazine  poet,  "how 
the  people  cheer  me — how  they  recognize  genius  !  "  "You 
are  mistaken,"  whispered  his  wife;  "  they  think  you're  a 
football  player  I" — Atlanta  Constitution. 

"  Mudger  feels  sure  his  new  '  Romeo  and  Juliet'  will  make 
a  hit."  "  What  are  the  high  lights?"  "Juliet  dives  off 
the  balcony  in  her  bloomers  and  they  escape  on  their 
wheels." — Chicago  Record. 

"Waddington,  I  notice  you  don't  talk  much  when  you  dine 
out."  "  No;  it  takes  all  the  brains  J  can  muster  to  work 
things  so  I  won't  come  out  with  an  oyster  fork  for  my 
after-dinner  coffee." — Chicago  Record. 

He — When  I  was  a  child,  don't  you  know,  I  fell  off  my 
rockin'  horse  and  was  knocked  senseless.  She — Oh,  what 
a  pity  you  weren't  treated  for  it  at  the  time.  It's  too  late 
now,  I  suppose. — Fun. 

"  It  is  no  mere  figure  of  speech  to  say  that  that  man  is 
actuated  by  a  stern  sense  of  duty."  "Who  is  he?  "  "He 
manages  the  rudder  on  one  of  the  ferryboats." — Detroit 
Free  Press. 

Dawson — What  is  your  business,  may  I  ask  ?  Boorish 
Stranoer — I'm  a  gentleman,  sir.  That's  my  business. 
Dawson — Ah!    You  failed,  I  see. — Odds  and  Ends. 

Fuddy — I  wonder  how  Cramer  came  to  marry  that  Bur- 
ley  woman?  Duddy — Perhaps  he  had  to  do  it  in  payment 
of  an  election  bet. — Boston  Transcript. 

"  Brassy,  I  thought  you  wuz  to  be  captain  of  the  Cyclone 
football  team ?  "  "I  wuz,  but  me  mother  cut  me  hair 
when  I  wuz  asleep." — Detroit  Free  Press. 

Maud — What  is  the  height  of  your  ambition,  dear?  Marie 
(blushing) — Oh,  something  between  five  and  a  half  and  six 
feet.— Tit-Bits. 

Bender — Miss  Styles  asked  me  to  call  again.  Fender — 
Oh,  indeed  !  What  firm  are  you  collecting  for  now? — 
Yonkers  Statesman. 

"  That  couple  in  the  next  flat  seem  fond  of  ea.ch  other." 
"Yes;  he  lets  her  try  to  shave  him." — Chicago  Record. 

Tommy — Oh,  paw!  Mr.  Flagg — Well  ?  Tommy — How 
can  a  solid  fact  leak  out? — Indianapolis  Journal. 

"  His  life  is  an  open  book."  "Yes;  he  never  closed  ac- 
counts."— Chicago  Journal. 


BANKING. 


The  Overland   Limited, 

ONLY  3}4  DAYS  TO   CHICAGO.     4%  DAYS  TO   NEW  YOEK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


The  Press  Clipping  Bdbead,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics ,  business 
and  personal. 


MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny,  Mechanics'  Institute  Building. 
Guaranteed  Capital,  $1,000,000.     Paid-TJp  Capital,  8300,000. 

OFFICERS 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN,  President.  |  S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,   John  A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Well,  Fargo,  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    When  opening  accounts  send  signature. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 $24,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee.G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  A.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday  even- 
ings, 6:30  to  8. 

WELLS  FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets. 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus $6,250,000 

John  J.  Valentine President  I  Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier  I  F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

BRANCHES. 

N.  Y,  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  MeCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 


THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND.  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  536  California  St.,  S.  F. 


Capital  actually  paid  up  in  Cash,  81,000,000. 
Deposits, Dec.  81, 1895 J30,737,586  59. 


Reserve  Fund »  715,000 

Guararteed  Capital.  .$1,200,000 


DIRECTORS. 

B .  A .  BECKE  R President 

EDWARD  KRTJSE Vice-President 

DANIEL  MEYER 2d  Vice-President 

H.  Horstman,  Ign.  Steinhart,  Nic  Van  Bergen,  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ, 
D.  N.  Walter. 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 
INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.    LOANS  MADE. 


William  Alvord 
Wm.  Babcock 
Adam  Grant 


DIRECTORS. 
S.  L.  Abbot.  Jr. 
O.  D.  Baldwin 

W.  S  Jones 


H.  H.  Hewlett 
E.  J.  McCutchen. 
J.  B.Lincoln. 


Occidental  Hotel, 


A  quiet  home,  centrally  located,  for 
those  who  appreciate  comfort  and 
attention. 


Wm.  B.  Hooper,  flanager. 


San  Francisco 


You  Must  Look  Neat. 


Suits  Cleaned 
and  Pressed 


$1.00 


Bau  Gitu  Clothing  Renovatoru, 


Suits  called  for  and  delivered. 


23H  Geary  St.,  Easterbrook  B'ld'g, 
Rooms  19-20-21.  'Phone  Grant  158. 


The  Banjo. 

flshton  P.  Stevens. 


*"*—'© 


STTJDIO :    26  Montgomery  street, 
Room  8.     Pupils   prepared  for  Stage, 
Concert,  or  Drawing  Room.    A  Specia 
Class  for 
teachers  who  wish  to  perfect  themselves  in  the  Banjo's  harmony  and  teohnic 


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January  i.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  I  I  TTER. 


NEW     YEAR     RUMORS. 

[aril  that  during  Ninety-Seven 
This  town  will  boycott  all  the  papers 
That  lore  a  he;  ami  put.  loan 

An  end  t"  jmrna. 
Will  hang,  with  rope  that  will  not  break, 
The  Bend  that  perpetrates  a  fake. 
I  hear  that  ministers  will  preach 

Once  more  their  sermons  from  the  Bible, 
Nor  for  fat  salaries  beseech. 

(I  really  hope  this  isn't  libel  . 
The  rumor,  too,  is  growing  rife 
That  every  man  will  love  his  wife. 
Nay.  more,  that  Hene. lifts  will 

To  ijuote  that  chestnut  old.  moss-carrietl, 
About  the  club  where,  night  till  moru, 

All  innocently  they  have  tarried, 
Hut  stay  in  their  domestic  hives 
Each  blessed  evening  of  their  lives. 

These  are  queer  things,  I  will  admit, 

To  gain  authenticated  rumor, 
But  I've  not  told  you  all  of  it. 

A  signed  death-warrant  to  the  bloomet     • 
Will  soon  be  filed  away,  I  hear, 
Among  the  archives  of  the  year. 
One  more  reform.    When  winter  days 

Have  melted  into  torrid  summer 
We  shall  not  have  to  dodge  the  gaze 

Of  every  idiot  new-comer 
Who  made  the  air  around  us  blue 
With  •'  Is  it  hot  enough  for  you  ?  " 

They're  saying,  too,  that  all  our  girls 

Until  they've  reached  the  sere  and  yellow 

With  wrinkled  brows  and  corkscrew  curls, 
Will  never  love  a  richer  fellow. 

I  might  believe  the  rest  of  it; 

But  this  last  New  Year  rumor?    Nit! 

The  Pim,o8oi'Hi':R. 


LOOK  to  your  laurels,  Southern  California!  Fresno  has 
thrown  down  the  gauntlet  as  a  producer  of  the  golden 
lemon  and  orange,  and  has  backed  her  claim  to  recognition 
by  a  successful  Citrus  Fair.  The  favored  fruits  of  the 
"frostless  belt"  are  now  as  an  aureole  around  the  head  of 
the  Raisin  Queen.  Long  live  Fresno!  Long  live  the 
grape!  The  grape  helped  the  Fair  to  succeed.  Instance 
the  magnificent  Pagoda  of  the  St.  George  vineyard,  whose 
luscious  wines  brought  home  a  medal  from  the  Atlanta 
Exposition.  The  choice  viutages  from  "Maltermoro" 
were  beautifully  .displayed  by  Manager  John  H.  Markham, 
of  the  Fresno  Branch,  and  the  report  of  its  success  is  re- 
counted with  pride  at  the  branch  cellar,  123  Market 
street,  in  this  city.  It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  all  the 
wines  from  the  St.  George  vineyard  are  absolutely  pure. 
Adulteration  is  an  unheard  of  thing,  and,  figuratively 
speaking,  it  can  be  said  that  the'  wine  goes  direct  from  the 
grape  to  the  bottle.  This  is  one  of  the  prime  reasons  why 
these  wines  are  so  popular  among  connoisseurs.  The  Bur- 
gundy put  up  at  the  St.  George  Vineyard  is  as  palatable 
and  delightful  a  wine  as  any  person  can  desire.  It  is 
really  surprising  that  so  excellent  a  wine  can  be  produced 
here  in  California. 


THE  partnership  formerly  existing  between  S.  E.  Dut- 
ton  and  John  Partridge,  under  the  firm  name  of  Dut> 
ton  &  Partridge,  has  been  dissolved  by  mutual  consent. 
Mr.  Partridge  has  purchased  the  entire  business,  and  will 
continue  as  a  Stationer  and  Bookbinder,  at  306  California 
street.  Having  also  a  thoroughly  equipped  printing  office 
of  his  own  at  42-44  Steuart  Street,  Mr.  Partridge  will  un- 
doubtedly secure  for  himself  a  fair  share  of  the  city's 
trade  in  this  particular  line.  The  work  turned  out  under 
his  personal  supervision  is  the  best  that  can  be  procured, 
and  his  prices  are  as  reasonable  as  those  of  any  other 
first-class  house.  Orders  for  Printing,  Lithographing, 
Bookbinding,  Stationery,  etc.,  may  be  left  at  either  office 
and  will  receive  immediate  attention. 


The  late  Senator  Faironce  said  ot  the  J.  F.  Cutter  old  Bourbon 
Whiskey  that  it  was  the  finest  ever  manufactured.  The  Senator 
was  a  good  judge  of  such  things  and  his  opinion  holds  good  even  to- 
day. E.  Martin  &  Co.,  411  Market  street,  are  the  agents  for  this 
delectable  liquid  and  furnish  our  leading  houses  with  it. 


BANKING. 
BANK  OF  BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 

Incorpnru:. 
Capital  Pal.s 

MADOrni  1  ao  Lombahd  sinritT.LoKooR 

tamo,  in  dumbla;    Portland 

)ti' 

This  Miink  -  oeral  Benktu 

Jcct  to  Check,  and  Spi 

available  In  a:  mtj  ftd. 

vancos  made  on  good  collator*]  aeeurU]  .,  rates 

upon  Us  Head  Offloe  and  Branches,  ami  upon  Its  Agents,  as  follows- 

New  Yokk— Mere)  Canada;  Cm<  National  Bank; 

LlVKHPocu,— Norlh   and  Soulh   Wales   Hank;  British    Linen 

Company;  Ikki.ano— Hank  of  Ireland;    ,v  idon  Hank  of  Mexico; 

SorTll  AJORICi      l.< .ndi. 11  Bl  I    .:  China  and 

Japan— Chartered  Itank  of  India,  Ausiralln  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zeai.ano—  Hunk  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  HanklnK  Company  ot 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demkuaka  and  Trinidad  (Weal  Indies)— Colonial  Hank. 

BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital $3,000,000  00 

Surplus  and  Undivided  Proi  ,  8.168,180  ?u 

WILLIAM  ALVORD President  ICHARLKS  K,  WKIIOI\  .ViCC-Pres't 

ALLEN  M.CLAY Beoretary    THOMAS  BROWN Cannier 

S.  Prentiss  Smith....  Ass't  Cashier  1 1.  F.  Moulton 2d  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laidlaw  &  Co.;  the  Hank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  Bank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Rothschild  Freres;  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand— Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Christiania,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  In  Italy. 


THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 


Capital., 


..$1,000,000 


Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  £  in  Francisco. 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill,  Cashier.  Allen  Knight,  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bru&uiere,  F.  W.Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents  :  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Dresel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sotter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital $2,500,000  |  Paid  UpCapltal $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund $850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers1  Credits  issued. 


SIG.  GREENEBAUM 
C.  ALTSCHUL 


I  Managers. 


CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  of  san  prancisco. 

Cor.  Market,  Montgomery,  and  Post  Sts. 

Paid-up  Capital »1,000,000. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER. .    , President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 

Capital  authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  Up $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  f  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sella  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bill=  fnr  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  nuliion.  ION.  STEINHAR^  j  Managers 

NEVADA  WAREHOUSE  AND  DOCK  COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  tons.  Regular  warehouse  for  San  Francisco 
Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  a^d  storing  of  Grain 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  wheat. 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  grain  stored  In  warehouses. 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  first-class  companies,  or  grain  Bold, 
If  desired,  at  current  rates. 

OFFICE— 202  Sansome  St. ,  over  the  Anglo-Callfornii*  Bunk. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  2,  1897. 


SOUTHERN     PACIFIC    COMPANY 

(Pacific    System.) 

Trains  Leave  and  are  Dae  to  Arrive  at 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 

Leave,  \     From  Nov.  7,  1:00  p.  m.    1896.  |  Arrive 

*6 :00  A  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  way  stations  8 :45  A 
7:00a  Atlantic  Express,  Ogdenand  East    8:45  p 
7:00  A  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Rumsey,  Sac- 
ramento, Oroville,  and  Redding, 

via  Davis 6 :45  p 

7:30  A  Martinez,   San  Ramon,  Vallejo, 

Napa,  Calistoga,  and  Santa  Rosa    6:15  p 
S:S0a  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville  and  Red 

Bluff 4:15  P 

•8:80  A  Peters  and  Milton *7:15p 

9:00a  New  Orleans  Express,  Raymond 
(for  Yosemite),  Fresno,  Bakers- 
fleld,  Santa  Barbara,  Los  An- 
geles, Doming,    El    Paso,    New 

Orleans,  and  East 4:45  p 

9 :00  A  Martinez  and  Stockton 4 :45  p 

9:00  A.  Vallejo 6:15p 

Niles,  San  Jose  Llvermore,  and 

S  tockton 7 :15  p 

♦1:00  p  Sacramento  River  steamers......  *9:00P 

tl:30P  Port  Costa  and  "Way  Stations....  t7>45p 

4:00  p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo, 
Napa,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa 9:15A 

4:O0p  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Woodland, 
Knight's    Landing,    Marysville, 

Oroville,  and  Sacramento 11:15a 

4:30P  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  Llvermore..    8:45a 
4:30p  Los   Angeles  Express,  Stockton, 
Fresno,  Santa  Barbara  and  Los 

Angeles : 10 :45  a 

4 :30  p  Santa  Fe  Route ,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojave  and  East 10:45a 

6:00p  European  mall,  Ogdenand  East..    9:45A 
6:00 p  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose...    7:45a 

J7 :00  p  Vallejo fj  :45  P 

7:00 p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento, 
Marysville,   Redding,    Portland, 

Puget  Sound  and  East 11 :15  A 

110 :05p  "Sunset  Limited."    Fresno,  Los 
Angeles,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans, 
and  East g!3:45p 

Santa  Cbdz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 

8:15  a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  BoulderCreek,  Santa  Cruz 

and  way  stations 5 :50  p 

*2 :15  P  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boulder 
Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal 

way  stations *11 :20  a 

4:15  p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9:50  a 

tll:45p  Hunters'  Excursion,  San  Jose 

and  way  stations J7 :20  p 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

6:45  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New 

Almaden  "Wednesdays  only) 1 :30  p 

8:15  A  San  Jose,  TresPinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles,  San 
Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe,  Surf  and 

grincipal  way  stations 7 :05  P 
an  Jose  and  way  stations 5 :03  p 

11:30  a  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 3:30P 

*3 :30  p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park,  San  Jose, 
Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  Pacific  Grove  *10 :40  a 

*3:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:50A 

*4 :30  p  San  Jose  and  "Way  Stations *8 :10  A 

5:30p  San    Jose    and    principal    way 

stations *8 :50  a 

6 :30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 :35  A 

tll:45P  San  Jose  and  way  stations f?:48F 


San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local. 


i*6 


10 

ill. 

3: 


ttll 


:00  Al 

:00  a 

:00  a 

:00  a 

.00  a 

:00  p 

:00p 

:00  p 

:00p 

:30p 

:0Op 

:00p 

:00p 

:15  p) 

Melrose, 
Seminary  Park, 

FlTCHBURG, 

San  Leandro, 

and 

Haywards. 


i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 
t  From  Niles . 


10 
Lt+12 


:15  a 

45  A 

:45  A 
:45  A 
:46  p 
45  P 
:45  P 
:45  P 
:15  p 
:45  p 
;45  p 
:45  p 
50  p 
00  P 


CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 
(s!ir°8)  SAN  FKAN0Iac°-F°°t  o'  Market  street 

•7:15,9:00,  and  11:00  A.  M.,  11:00,  *2'00  I3'00 
_    *4:00,t5:00and*6:00p.  M  '■«',w.uu, 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway 

*='?£  Mining.  P  tor  Atternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  tSaturdays  only. 

**.».     ..       ™.    JSundaysonly. 
tt  Monday  .Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only . 

HTuesdays  and  Saturdays. 
gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for 
5S.™£S.oy?!Sg?8!  f.rom  hotels  and  residences. 

a?s,."£ Agents  ,or  Time  caras  ana 


CANTEEN      YARNS. 


ftMEMBEE  of  the  military  band  at 
a  certain  barrack  came  to  the 
surgeon  recently  with  a  long  face  and 
a  plaintive  story  about  a  sore  throat. 

"Sore  throat,  eh?"  said  the  surgeon 
pleasantly.  "Let  me  see.  Oh,  that's 
not  so  bad.  A  slight  irritation,  noth- 
ing more.  You'll  be  all  right  in  a  day 
or  two.  I  think  you  had  better  take 
no  risk  of  renewing  the  trouble  by 
using  your  throat,  though,  so  I  will 
recommend  you  for  a  fortnight's  sick 
leave." 

Armed  with  the  surgeon's  certifi- 
cate, the  bandsman  obtained  his  two 
weeks'  sick  leave.  The  two  weeks 
had  just  come  to  an  end,  when  he  met 
the  surgeon  on  the  parade  ground. 
The  bandsman  saluted. 

The  surgeon  recognized  the  face  and 
stopped. 

"How's  the  throat?"  he  asked 
pleasantly. 

"It's  quite  well,  sir,"  was  the  reply. 

"That's  good,"  said  the  surgeon. 
"You  can  get  back  to  your  duty  with- 
out fear.  By  the  way,  what  instru- 
ment do  you  handle  in  the  band?" 

"The  small  drum,  sir,"  said  the 
musician. 

A  good  story  has  been  going  the 
rounds  of  a  Dorset  battalion  of  volun- 
teers. An  officer  in  attendance  at  a 
shooting  competition  noticed  two  of 
the  men  firing  with  anything  but 
William-Tell-like  precision. 

Approaching  them,  he  angrily  ex- 
claimed: "You  fellows  don't  know 
the  way  to  shoot;  lend  me  a  rifle  and 
let  me  show  you." 

"Bang,"  and  the  target  was  missed. 

A  broad  grin  overspread  the  faces 
of  the  two  privates,  but  the  officer 
was  equal  to  the  occasion. 

Turning  to  the  first,  with  a  frown 
upon  his  countenance,  he  remarked: 
"That's  the  way  you  shoot,  sir." 

A  second  attempt,  and  a  similar  re- 
sult. 

Turning  to  the  other,  he  continued: 
"And  that's  the  way  you   shoot,  sir." 

A  third  shot,  and  an  "inner"  was 
fluked. 

With  pardonable  pride  the  officer 
returned  the  rifle,  triumphantly, 
adding: 

"And  that's  the  way  /shoot!" 

The  men  ever  since  have  enter- 
tained a  very  high  opinion  of  him  as  a 
marksman. 

— London  V.  S.  Magazine. 


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CEANIC  S.S.  CO.    f\       days  to 

HAWAII,    SAMOA,        lw       HONOLULU 
NEW  ZEALAND,         SfH  BV 

AUSTRALIA.  VTS-S.  AUSTRALIA. 

S.  S.  "Zealandia,"  Thursday,  January  7th,  at 

2  P.M. 

S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu  only,  Tuesday, 

January  26,  at  2  p.m. 

Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 

South  Africa.  J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS. CO., 

Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.    Freight  office,  327 

Mai-U*»t  St. .  P^"    FrarxMcnn 


SOLID   SILVER 

4 cen  ta.  Tbie ib  a  Gentleman's  Scarf  Pin 
or  Ladies'  Stick  Fin,  two  inches  lone1 
we  only  show  the  top.  The  double  heart 
is  solid  Bterling  silver  warranted  925-lono 
fine  1  Sample  by  mail  Four  4'euts  in 
IVntaqe- Stumps.     Address, 

LYJtX*  CO.,  48  Bond  Bt.,Kew  York* 

The  Grand  Pacific,  g?»B$E£» 

MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month. 
Telephone:  Grant,  507. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH   PACIFIC 
RAILWAY    CO. 

Tibdkon  Ferry-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00,  11:00  A  M;  12:35,3:30 
5:1U,  0:30  p  m.  Thursdays— Extra  trip  at 
11:30  p  M.  Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1:50 
and  11:30  pm. 

SUNDAYS— 8:00,  9:30,  11:00  A  M;  1:30.  3:30,  5:00, 
6:20  pm. 

SAN  RAFAEL  TO  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  AM;  12:45, 
3 :40. 5 :  10  p  w.  Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :55 
and  6 :35  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40,  11:10  am;  1:40,3:40,5:00, 
6:25  P  M. 
Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park, 

same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  s.  f. 

In  Effect 

Arrive  in  S.  F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays.j  DEsirtioN. 

Sundays. 

Week 
Days. 

7:30AM 
3:30  PM 
5:10  pM 

8:00  am 
9:30  AM 
5:nnpM 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Ssnta  Rosa. 

10:40  am 
6:10pm 
7:15  pm 

8:40am 
10:25am 
6:22pm 

Fulton, 

Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyservllle, 

Cloverdale. 

3:30  pm 

8:00  am 

7:35pm 

6:22pm 

7:30  am|  8:00AM  I^VkfahJ  7:35PM 

6  :22pm 

3:30pm|  8:00am  1  Guernevillej  7:35pm 

10  25AM 
6:22  PM 

7:30am|  8:0OAM  1     Sonoma,     110:40am 
5:10pm|  5:00pm  1  Glen  Ellen.  I  6:10pm 

8:40  AM 
6:22pm 

7:30AM|  8:00AM  1  c5„ha.Ktn„„i    110:40am 
3:30pm|  5:00pm  |  Sevastopol.  |  6.10PM 

10:25AM 
6:22pm 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  atGeyservillefor  Skaggs'  Springs;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake- 
port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and  Bartlett 
Springs;  at  Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga 
Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper 
Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  River- 
side. Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights, 
Hullville,  Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Har- 
ris, Scotia,  and  Eureka. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  re- 
duced rates. 

On  Sundays  ,Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points 
beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle 
Building. 

H.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN. 


Gen.  Manager. 


Gen.  Passenger  Agent. 


PACIFIC    COAST    STEAMSHIP    CO. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf,  San  Fran- 
cisco for  ports  in  Alaska,  9  a.m.,  Dec.  JO,  26. 

For  B.  C.  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  Dec.  5,10, 
15.  20,  26,  30,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pom- 
ona," at  2  P.  M.  Dec.  7,  11,  15,  19.  23,  27,  31,  and 
every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports, 
at  9  a.  M.;  Dec.  5,  9, 13, 17,  21,  26,  29,  and  every 
fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford 
Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los  Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los 
Angeles)  and  Newport,  Dec.  7,  11,  15, 19,  23,  27, 
31.  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter,  at  11  a.  m. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del 
Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La  Paz.  Santa  Rosalia, 
and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10 
A.  m.,  25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  right  to  change  steam- 
ers or  sailing  dates. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New 
Montgomery  street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents, 
No.  10  Market  street,  San  Francisco 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO 

For  Japan  and  China. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  AND  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  1  P  M,  for  YOKOHAMA  and 
HONGKONG,  calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo).  Naga- 
saki and  Shanghai,  and  connecting  at  Hong- 
kong with  steamers  for  India,  etc.  No  cargo  re- 
ceived on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 

Belgic Tuesday,  December  29. 1896 

Coptic  (via Honolulu)... .Saturday,  Jan.  16,  1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  Feb.  2, 1897 

Doric Tussday,  February  23, 1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's 
Office,  No.  421  Market  street,  corner  First. 


D.  D.  STUBBS, Secretary. 


WITH  S.  F.  NEWS  LETTER. 


JANUARY  9,  1897. 


MR.    SAMUEL    M.    SHORTRIDGE; 
Candidate   for   United   States   Senator, 


Price  per  Co/>y.  10  Cents. 


Annual  Subscri/! 


Ne^s--J|'Ett  er 


Vol.  I IV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  JANUARY  9.  1897. 


Number  2. 


Printed  and  Pubtiefied  eery  tfulurduy  Oy  1  fir  proprietor.  FRED  MARRIOTT 
5S  AVurny  street.  Han  Francisco.  Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post- 
ofice  as  Hecond-ctass  Matter. 

The  office  of  III)  mn  LETTER  in  -Win  York  City  it  at  Tempi*  Court; 
and  at  Chicago.  9u3  Boyce  Building,  (Frank  K  Morrison,  Eastern 
Representative),  u-hers  information  mayor  obtained  regarding  subscrip- 
tion and  adrtrtistng  ratts. 


M 


AVi  >H  Phelan  commences  work  with  the  good  wishes 
of  every  honest  and  intelligent  citizen. 

J  I'  DGE  Sanderson,  in  stepping  down  from   the   Bench, 
has  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that   he  has  done  his 
duty  conscientiously  and  well. 

THE  sugar  plantations  of  Cuba  are  said  to  be  well-nigh 
destroyed,  but  the  harvest  of  lies  from   that  troubled 
island  was  never  more  abundant  than  at  the  present  time. 


CALIFORNIA  is  over  supplied  with  poker-playing 
farmers  and  kid-gloved  fruit  growers.  More  down- 
right earnest  work  is  needed  in  the  country,  and  less  sit- 
ting upon  the  fences  waiting  for  the  "home-seeker"  to 
come  along  with  a  pocketful  of  money. 

M  ILLIONS  of  dollars  are  expended  by  tourists  and 
J"  health-seekers  in  Southern  California  each  year. 
With  proper  advertising,  suitable  hotels  and  other  induce- 
ments, this  part  of  the  State  would  likewise  profit  largely 
by  the  entertainment  of  travelers  and  visitors. 

THE  Health  Officer  at  Berkeley  does  not  receive  the 
support  of  the  local  school  directors  in  his  efforts  to 
enforce  vaccination.  These  gentlemen  are  strangely  de- 
ficient in  knowledge.  A  certificate  of  vaccination  should 
everywhere  be  insisted  upon,  as  a  requirement  of  admis- 
sion to  the  public  schools.  This  rule  is  strictly  followed  in 
San  Francisco. 

IN  one  respect,  at  least,  Santa  Clara  sets  a  fine  example 
to  many  other  counties  in  this  State.  No  less  than 
two  hundred  and  fifty  miles  of  her  roads,  outside  of  city 
and  town  limits,  are  systematically  sprinkled.  The  plant 
for  this  purpose,  including  ninety  miles  of  pipe  line,  has 
cost  $150,000.  This  is  one  of  the  reasons  why  Santa 
Clara  has  such  good  roads,  and  why  her  lands  command 
good  prices. 

NO  less  than  seventy-two  applicants  for  admission  to 
the  bar  underwent  examination  this  week  before  Com- 
missioners of  the  Supreme  Court.  Most  of  these  mis- 
guided young  men  would  earn  a  better  living  by  following 
the  plow  than  they  are  likely  to  enjoy  for  years  to  come  in 
their  mischosen  profession.  There  are  too  many  lawyers 
now,  and  not  half  of  them  can  fairly  be  called  successful. 

THE  wholesale  removals  of  deputies  and  other  public 
servants,  with  each  administrative  change  in  the 
City  Hall,  is  one  of  the  evils  of  the  spoils  system.  A  num- 
ber of  experienced  and  capable  men  have  recently  been 
dismissed,  merely  for  the  purpose  of  rewarding  political 
henchmen.  While  this  practice  continues,  there  is  small 
encouragement  for  any  deputy  to  perfect  himself  in  the 
duties  of  his  position. 

THE  report  of  the  Code  Commissioners  contains  many 
good  recommendations,  the  adoption  of  which  by  the 
Legislature  would  serve  to  clear  up  and  improve  the  ex- 
isting law  of  the  State  in  relation  to  .various  important 
matters.  None  of  the  proposed  amendments  has,  so  far, 
excited  much  opposition.  The  Commission  seems  to  have 
done  good  and  careful  work,  and  its  report  justifies  the 
appropriation  for  this  purpose. 


PRESIDENT  Doorman  of  the  Merchants'  Association 
well  says,  in  reply  to  Dr.  Stallard,  that  the  methods 
of  governing  foreign  municipalities  are  not  applicable  in 
this  country.  The  chief  reason  is  that  politics  here  pre 
vents  the  election  of  officials  for  their  personal  merit,  the 
nominations  being,  with  few  exceptions,  controlled  by 
corrupt  bosses.  Concentration  of  power  in  the  executive 
head  has  proved  to  be  the  best  course  for  American  cities. 


IN  the  absence  of  a  duty  on  anthracite,  commonly  known 
as  hard  coal,  its  importation  has  steadily  increased  at 
this  port.  Ten  years  ago,  the  yearly  imports  here  scarcely 
reached  two  thousand  tons;  last  year  they  amounted  to 
about  ninety  thousand  tons.  This  coal  comes  from  Swan- 
sea, Wales.  Its  admission,  free  of  duty,  is  obviously  a  dis- 
tinct benefit  to  our  consumers,  but,  curiously  enough,  Con- 
gressman Loud  is  said  to  have  been  urged  from  California 
to  have  a  protective  duty  put  upon  anthracite.  This  might 
help  Pennsylvania,  but  where  would  be  the  gain  to  this 
State  ? 

ftSSEMBLYMAN  Cutter  proposes  an  amendment  to  the 
Constitution  to  the  effect  that  the  death  or  disability 
of  a  juror,  during  the  trial  of  a  civil  or  criminal  cause, 
excepting  capital  offenses,  shall  not  interfere  with  the 
rendering  of  a  verdict,  so  long  as  three-fourths  of  the 
original  number  of  jurors  remain  in  the  box.  It  also  allows 
three-fourths  of  the  original  number  of  jurors  to  give  a  ver- 
dict in  all  criminal  cases  less  than  capital,  as  now  in  all 
civil  cases.  This  amendment  would  cure  serious  defects 
in  the  existing  jury  system.     It  should  be  adopted. 


THE  British  system  of  municipal  government  consists 
in  the  selection  of  a  large  administrative  board,  with 
no  concentration  of  power.  This  has  worked  admirably  in 
such  cities  as  Glasgow  and  Birmingham,  which  are  models 
of  good  government.  But  party  politics  cuts  no  figure  in 
the  choice  of  aldermen  or  councilmen  abroad.  Here  the 
selection  of  a  satisfactory  governing  board  is  not  to  be  ex- 
pected under  the  present  political  system.  For  this 
reason  it  has  proved  best,  in  American  cities,  to  concen- 
trate power  as  much  as  possible — particularly  in  the  hands 
of  the  Mayor. 

NOW  that  the  new  Board  of  Education  and  the  Grand 
Jury  have  determined  to  investigate  affairs  apper- 
taining to  the  School  Department,  there  is  every  chance 
that  many  of  the  glaring  abuses  permitted  under  the  old 
Boards  will  be  stopped  in  short  order.  The  over-employ- 
ment of  teachers  and  substitutes,  the  result  in  many  cases 
of  a  pernicious  system  of  favoritism,  is  apparently  the  most 
glaring.  By  cutting  this  list  down  considerably  and  con- 
fining it  within  reasonable  limits,  much  money  will  be 
saved  to  tax-payers,  and  a  just  return  of  services  will  be 
demanded  of  those  remaining  and  receiving  full  and  ade- 
quate remuneration. 


■p^XPERIENCE  has  shown  the  folly  of  making  laws 
lie  against  usury.  Such  enactments  were  long  ago 
shown  to  be  injurious  to  borrowers,  and  merely  an  ob- 
struction to  enterprise  and  business.  Exorbitant  rates 
of  interest  are  justly  condemned  in  the  popular  mind,  but 
yet  more  harm  is  done  by  legislative  attempts  to  check  the 
gains  of  money-lenders  than  by  leaving  capital  to  offset 
the  risks  of  loans  by  the  charge  demanded  for  the  use  of 
money.  The  rate  of  interest  is  always  proportioned  to 
the  supply  and  demand  for  money,  the  security  afforded, 
and  various  other  conditions.  Laws  never  have  controlled 
it,  and  never  will. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  9,  1897. 


THE      LAW-MAKING      BODY      IN      SESSION. 

CALIFORNIA'S  Legislatures  have  never  been  things  of 
beauty,  much  less  joys  for  ever.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
they  have  too  often  been  ugly,  corrupt,  festering  ulcers 
upou  the  body  politic.  Their  members  have  formed  "com- 
bines" to  extort  blood  from  everything  that  would  bleed,  and 
their  methods  have  been  shamelessly  confessed  in  open 
court,  but  without  anybody  being  punished.  Every 
material  interest  that  could  be  harassed  by  legislation 
cunningly  devised  for  that  purpose,  has  been  compelled  to 
purchase  immunity  by  a  liberal  distribution  of  largess 
among  hungry  members.  Legislators  go  to  Sacramento 
at  the  beginning  of  every  session  with  their  grip  sack 
stuffed  full  of  "cinch"  bills,  supplied  them,  in  many  in- 
stances, by  rascally  lawyers  who,  in  the  course  of  their 
practice,  have  learned  how  this,  that,  or  the  other  inter- 
est may  be  bled.  The  nursing  of  these  measures  until  they 
accomplished  their  purpose,  has  occupied  the  time  and  at- 
tention of  members  to  the  exclusion  of  all  considerations  of 
public  usefulness.  It  has  been  as  if  the  Legislature  were 
designed  as  a  mere  gouging  instrument  for  the  use  and 
benefit  of  needy  and  seedy  politicians.  An  army  made  up 
of  members,  lobbyists,  attaches,  aDd  hangers-on,  manages 
to  live  from  year  to  year,  God  only  knows  how,  upon  the 
things  that  can  be  picked  up  around  the  Capitol  at  every 
session.  These  evils  have  of  late  years  gone  from  bad  to 
worse.  In  earlier  days,  an  outward  show  of  decency  was 
preserved,  but  when  Boss  Buckley's  reign  began,  all  pre- 
tenses to  honesty  were  thrown  to  the  winds,  and  scandal- 
ous bargainings,  corruption,  and  licentiousness  ran  riot 
around  the  legislative  halls.  It  has  hardly  been  possible 
to  exaggerate  the  condition  of  affairs.  Not  a  tithe  of  what 
happened  was  ever  told,  yet  more  than  enough  has  time 
and  again  been  revealed  to  cause  good  citizens  to  blush  for 
their  so-called  representative  men.  To  the  shame  of  this 
great  city,  which  elects  over  one-fourth  of  the  whole  Legis- 
lature, its  delegations  have  usually  been  the  very  worst 
in  the  pack.  Once  upon  a  time,  the  country  members 
could  be  depended  upon  to  neutralize  the  evil  machinations 
of  the  city  delegates,  but,  as  evil  communications  corrupt 
good  manners,  so  it  came  to  pass  that  little  dependence 
could  be  placed  upon  enough  members  to  constitute  a 
majority.  The  Capitol  became  a  place  for  the  purchase 
and  sale  of  things  that  ought  to  be  above  all  price,  and 
California's  Legislature  became  a  byword  and  a  reproach 
among  men.  Good  citizens  heaved  a  sigh  of  relief  and 
thanked  God  when  each  biennial  session  came  to  an  end. 

Is  this  bad  history  to  repeat  itself  in  regard  to  the  Legis- 
lature now  in  session  ?  There  are  grounds  for  both  hope 
and  fear.  The  hope  springs  from  various  considerations. 
In  the  first  place,  quite  a  number  of  men  of  ability  and 
character  are  members  of  this  Legislature,  and,  whilst 
they  do  not  constitute  a  majority,  it  may  well  be  believed 
that  this  little  leaven  will  cause  an  elevation  of  the  whole. 
The  last  election  was  an  earnest  one,  that  betokened  a 
quickening  of  the  public  conscience.  It  would  seem  to  fol- 
low that  members  elected  under  a  revived  condition  of 
public  spirit  would  necessarily  share  in  the  more  earnest 
convictions  of  their  constituents.  Public  opinion  is  not  as 
quiescent  as  it  used  to  be,  and  we  do  not  believe  that  the 
doings  at  Sacramento  of  recent  years  would  now  be  toler- 
ated. Members  will  do  well  to  take  account  of  the  better 
spirit  of  the  times,  and  govern  themselves  accordingly. 
A  bad  record  will  now  bring  more  odium  than  formerly. 
As  the  members  generally  realize  that  fact,  they  will,  it 
may  be  presumed,  be  more  cautious.  Those  who  hope  for 
future  political  preferment  will  be  more  than  cautious  to  es- 
chew evil;  they  will  be  mindful  to  be  aggressive  for  the  right. 
If  they  can  return  home  with  the  proud  consciousness  of 
duties  well  and  faithfully  performed,  they  will  be  rare  exceD- 
tions  to  the  general  rule  of  recent  legislators,  and  may  rest 
assured  of  their  ultimate  reward  at  the  hands  of  a  grate- 
ful people.  At  the  same  time,  it  is  to  be  regretted  that 
there  are  already  grounds  for  fear  in  the  number  of  bad 
bills  announced  for  introduction.  All  the  old  cinch  bills 
appear  to  have  been  resurrected,  and  a  majority  of  them 
are  in  the  hands  of  members  of  the  San  Francisco  delega- 
tion. The  signs  indicate  that  there  is  already  another 
"combine,"  or  the  hope  of  one.  It  cannot  too  soon  be  fer- 
reted out  and  exposed;  a  consideration  which  forces  upon 
us  an  expression  of  a  hope  that  the  dailies  will  be  faithfully 


and  adequately  represented  at  Sacramento  this  winter. 
They  have  not  always  been  so  represented.  A  few  sessions 
ago,  a  majority  of  the  correspondents  were  found  to  be  on 
Buckley's  list  of  sinecurists,  and  at  no  time  have  the  dailies 
been  represented  by  sufficient  reportorial  strength.  It  is 
not  enough  that  a  long  and  dry  detail  of  the  routine  busi- 
ness should  be  given.  Each  daily  would  find  more  interest- 
ing and  useful  work  to  do  by  detailing  two  bright  report- 
ers to  watch  the  ways  that  are  dark  and  tricks  that  are 
vain  of  the  lobbies  in  both  Houses.  It  is  there  that  hap- 
penings occur  in  which  the  public  are  most  interested.  It 
is  there  that  "scoops,"  which  so  delight  the  heart  of  the 
managing  editor,  are  to  be  made. 

The  less  disturbance  by  threatened  legislation  this  ses- 
sion the.  better.  The  State  is  not  conscious  of  suffering  to 
any  extent  by  reason  of  having  too  few  laws.  It  will  not 
realize  that  it  has  lost  anything  if  not  another  enactment 
is  added  to  the  statute  book  this  session.  In  fact,  we  have 
already  too  many  laws,  and  could  well  dispense  with  not  a 
few  of  them.  In  that  respect  we  are  governed  too  much. 
He  should  be  esteemed  the  model  legislator  who  best  ex- 
poses and  prevents  the  passage  of  bad  bills.  As  times  go, 
the  more  ignorant  and  impracticable  the  member,  the  more 
ambitious  he  is  to  add  something  to  an  already  too 
plethoric  statute  book.  This  fallacious  idea  cannot  be  too 
soon  abandoned.  If  the  Legislature  would  at  this  session 
cut  down  its  appropriations  to  the  necessary  expenses  of 
the  various  institutions  of  the  State,  levy  a  rate  propor- 
tioned to  this  wise  economy,  and  then  adjourn  sine  die,  it 
would  deserve  better  of  the  people  of  California  than  any 
Legislature  it  has  ever  had,  and  would  live  in  the  memories 
of  men,  as  well  as  in  the  pages  of  history,  as  an  exemplar 
and  an  ideal  to  representative  bodies  generally.  Without 
a  doubt,  our  people  would  will  that  it  should  so  do,  could 
they  be  consulted.  If  the  life  of  the  session  must  be  pro- 
longed to  the  full  sixty  days  permitted  to  it  by  law,  let 
that  life  be  as  uneventful  as  possible.  Our  people  desire 
to  be  let  alone  in  their  present  well-doing,  and  have  no 
need  of  heroic  laws,  anyway. 

The         The  contest  now  on  in  Sacramento  over  the 
Senatorial   choice  of  the   United  States   Senator  should 
Contest,      attract      the      attention      and    interest    ot 
the    people     of     California    to     an    unusual 
degree,  on  account  of  the  elements  which  enter  into  it,  and 
the  lines  upon  which  it  is  being  conducted  by  the  respective 
candidates.     It  has  been  some  time  since  talent,  ambition, 
youth,  brains  and  eloquence  have  engaged  in  a  contest  for 
the  high  office  of  Senator  against  wealth,    age  and  medio- 
crity before  the  California  Legislature,  and  the  spectacle 
of  a  comparatively  young  man  who  possesses  the  former 
entering  the  lists  with  one  who  is  generally  notable  for  the 
latter,  may  well  excite  the  interest  of  every  citizen. 

The  career  of  Samuel  M.  Shortridgein  California,  which, 
through  years  of  gradual  growth  in  public  esteem  has 
finally  led  up  to  an  assertion  of  his  claims  upon  the  office 
of  U.  S.  Senator,  is  one  which  should  awaken  admiration 
in  the  mind  of  every  man  who  himself  has  strong  and 
noble  ambitions  for  the  attainment  of  honor  and  the 
achievement  of  success  in  life. 

Mr.  Shortridge  came  to  California  a  poor  boy,  com- 
pelled from  his  childhood  to  labor  for  a  livelihood  and  an 
education.  He  worked  among  the  miners  of  Nevada 
County  until  he  could  earn  enough  money  to  go  to  school. 
He  then  attended  the  public  schools  and  passed  through 
all  their  gradations  until  he  had  fitted  himself  to  teach  in 
the  schools  in  which  he  had  been  taught.  He  thus  ob- 
tained the  means  which  enabled  him  to  attend  a  law 
school,  and  to  gratify  his  first  ambition  for  a  professional 
career. 

The  expanding  of  his  natural  talents  and  acquired  at- 
tainments during  this  struggle  for  an  education  and  pre- 
paration for  a  calling,  awakened  in  his  mind  a  new  and  a 
nobler  aspiration.  He  felt  himself  capable  of  becoming  an 
orator,  and  began  to  display  a  power  of  moving  the  minds 
of  men  through  his  eloquent  and  thoughtful  discussions  of 
public  affairs.  The  possession  of  this  talent  in  a  marked 
degree  suggested  to  the  mind  of  Mr.  Shortridge  and  to  his 
many  friends  the  idea  that  there  was  a  proper  forum  for 
their  display,  and  aroused  his  ambition  to  attain,  sooner 
or  later,  a  seat  in  the  United  States  Senate.  For  the 
past  several  years  this  ambition  has  been  one  of  the  fore- 


Jannai 


SAN   FRANC  WS   LETTER. 


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re.  and  lie 

irnin  when- 

By 

f  eloquent 

literature  of  all 

(I  tlinutflitflil    • 

of  pub  lilitiea 

thoroughly  pre- 
pared himself  t < »    till    tlic    high   office   of  On  I 

s1    and  impartial    judge  of  bis  attain- 
-  will   deny  bis  eminent   titness   for   the  plan-.     The 
many  friends  of  Samuel   M.   Shortrtdge,  throughout  the 
ifcrnia,    realize    that    the    timi  when 

i   tlie  Republican    Party  should  have 
their    proper     n  and     when      his    talents    and 

matured  powers  of  thought  and  expression  should  be  given 
a  proper  sphere.  They  believe  that  t In-  time  has  come  In 
the  nation  when        -  rve  the  re 

proaeh  of  being  a  elub  of  millionaires,  and  should  b> 
a  council  of  statesmen.  They  deem  it  especially  fitting 
that  California  which  has  clone  more  than  its  share  in 
bringing  upon  the  Senate  the  former  reproach  should 
make  a  present  attempt  to  restore  to  it  the  latter  virtue. 
It  is  for  this  reason  that  the  candidacy  of  Samuel  M. 
Shortridge  for  the  Senate  is  growing  daily  in  favor  and 
strength  before  the  State  Legislature,  and  is  meeting 
with  widespread  approval  among  those  who  possess  a 
proper  conception  of  the  kind  of  man  a  Senator  should  be, 
and  who  believe  that  the  State  of  California  would  honor 
itself  by  selecting  one  of  its  foremost  representatives  in 
culture  and  in  eloquence  to  fill  the  place. 

The  Governor's     Governor  Budd's   message   to  the  legis- 
Message.  lature   is   a  long,    clear,   forcible  docu- 

ment, brimfull  of  useful  information  and 
valuable  suggestions.  A  careful  reading  of  it  leaves  the 
impression  on  one's  mind  that  our  Governor  is  strenuously 
endeavoring  to  do  his  duty  to  the  whole  State,  and  that  he 
is  bringing  to  the  performance  of  that  task  an  active 
temperament,  quick  perceptions,  and  considerable  execu- 
tive ability.  Not  in  many  years  has  such  a  man  occupied 
the  gubernatorial  chair.  He  fits  the  times,  and  the  times 
suit  him.  A  spirit  of  retrenchment  and  reform  is  abroad 
in  the  State,  and  it  is  apparent  that  Governor  Budd  is  in 
close  touch  with  it.  As  results  of  his  occupancy  of  office, 
taxes  are  being  materially  reduced,  and  this  whilst  greater 
efficiency  is  being  maintained  in  all  branches  of  the  public 
service.  Every  institution  and  departmenthas  been  bettered 
by  the  Governor's  earnest  and  intelligent  supervision.  His 
recommendations,  which  are  numerous,  appear  to  be  all 
well  considered,  and  are  calculated  to  make  for  better  and 
more  economical  government.  If  our  legislators  would 
throw  as;de  the  thousand,  or  more,  bills  they  propose  in- 
troducing, and  assiduously  devote  themselves  to  giving 
effect  to  the  Governor's  suggestions,  they  would  find  work 
enough  to  do  for  this  session,  and  would  make  a  record  in 
advance  of  any  legislature  the  State  has  ever  had.  Now 
is  the  time  for  the  press  of  the  State  to  be  earnest  and 
vigilant  in  expressing  and  enforcing  public  opinion.  Our 
law  making  body  must  not  be  permitted  to  forget  what 
the  people  have  demanded.  Nothing  is  clearer  than  that 
the  people  desire  a  low  tax  rate,  and,  for  the  rest,  to  be 
let  alone  to  recuperate.  The  Governor  has  shown  how 
this  can  be  done,  and  his  lead  ought  to  be  followed.  The. 
State  has  been  generous  to  the  point  of  extravagance, 
and  its  Government  is  now  practically  a  vast-eleemosynary 
institution.  It  should  run  its  different  institutions  on 
strict  business  principles,  which  it  does  not  do  when  it 
pays  twice  as  much  for  supplies  in  one  place  as  it  does  in 
another.  There  should  be  one  purchasing  agency  for  all. 
Managers  and  Superintendents  should  have  as  little  to  do 
as  possible  with  contractors.  The  Governor's  suggestions 
as  to  changing  the  incidence  of  taxation  will  cause  dis- 
cussion, but  he  is  right  in  saying  that  reality  ought  not  to 
bear  the  whole  burden  of  government. 

New  Light      The   opponents  of   refunding  in  Congress 
On  Funding,      are  beginning  to  perceive  that   there   are 
more  difficulties  in  the  way  of  the  Govern- 
ment foreclosing  its  liens  than  they  had  supposed.  Senator 
Pettigrew,  having  a  grievance  against   the   Union  Pacific 


lud-mouthi 

■h  his 
him  with  i  • 
have  i  the    fact    that    tin 

me  would  I*  «  ithout    its  i. 

Sidelines.      The  ban    one  half    the    total 

revenue  of  the  v  tern,  and  are  not  covered   by   the 

ir    now    wants  the  t  ln\  em- 
inent to  buy  the  the  side  lines.      It  appears  that 

are  securities   In   the  market   of  the  value  of  $10, 

000,000    which    it  be    an   advantage    to  buy   up.  and 

the  Senator  wishes  Congress  to  vote  the  necessary  m 

Thus  a  qui  to   I        fron!    which   the  anti  re 

s  have  all  tudloi  They  cod: 

be  induced  to  BO)',  because  they  did  DO  I  what  use 

the  main  lines  would  be  to  the  Government,  or  to  anybody, 
without  their  equipment,   terminals,   feeders. 
etc.     The  Southern  Pacific  Company  could  drop  the 
trai  out  of  its  system   to  morrow  and  yet   carry  on  its 
business    pretty    much    as    if    nothing    had    happened. 
The    Government    would  have  ;>    road  bed   From    Ogden 

by  way  of  Niles  to  San  .lose,  but  that  is  all.  except 
the  great  debt  it  would  then  have  to  either  pay 
off  or  renew.  For  our  own  part,  we  cannot  see  why 
Mr.  Huntington,  or  any  of  his  associates,  need  care 
what  becomes  of  their  offer  to  assume  the  Central's 
debts  and  furnish  further  security,  if  time  be  granted 
them.  The  Government  has  nothing  to  foreclose  worth 
foreclosing,  whilst  they  have  nothing  to  lose  the 
loss  of  which  would  harass  them  overmuch.  We  can  see, 
however,  and  that  very  plainly,  that  it  is  of  the  great- 
est consequence  to  this  city  to  maintain  its  one  direct  line 
to  Chicago,  and,  to  that  maintenance,  its  terminals  and 
feeders  are  indispensable.  Los  Angeles  and  the  Southern 
counties  generally  would  be  benefited  by  the  abandon- 
ment, or  even  the  crippling  of  the  Central  Pacific.  The 
line  to  Salt  Lake  City  would  in  that  case,  and  in  that  only, 
be  built,  and  the  port  of  San  Francisco  would  either  be 
shut  off  from  direct  connection  with  Chicago,  orsuffercom- 
petition  with  a  better  route  to  either  San  Pedro  or  Santa 
Monica.  The  Central  Pacific,  by  itself,  is  nothing;  as  a 
part  of  a  great  system,  it  is  the  best  available  guarantee 
of  the  continued  supremacy  of  San  Francisco  as  a  commer- 
cial entrepdt. 

Loans  to  the  There  is  a  redundancy  of  idle  money  in 
Farmers  and  San  Francisco  that  would  soon  find  safe 
Other  Producers,  andprofitableemploymentif  only  it  were 
sought  in  the  right  direction.  Because 
it  takes  less  time  and  trouble  to  investigate  the  title  and 
value  of  a  city  lot  than  it  does  those  of  a  back  country 
farm,  the  disposition  has  been  to  loan  too  much  on  the  one 
and  little  or  nothing  on  the  other.  Sound  policy  would 
dictate  an  opposite  policy.  To  make  San  Francisco  per- 
manently prosperous,  there  is  now  a  pressing  need  to  de- 
velop the  country  tributary  to  her.  That  is  the  way  in 
which  great  cities  are  built  up.  Vacant  city  lots  yield 
nothing,  and  of  residential  houses  this  peninsula  has 
enough  for  the  present  requirements  of  the  existing  pop- 
ulation. It  is  well  to  light  up  the  streets  we  have,  to  add 
betterments  to  our  highways,  and  improve  down-town 
places  of  business,  but  there  is  little  profit  in  adding  to 
the  number  of  tenantless  houses.  Money  that  is  invested 
in  dead  property  is  an  injury  to  borrower  and  lender  alike, 
whereas  money  placed  in  productive  and  profitable  enter- 
prises fructifies,  increases,  gives  employment,  and,  in  the 
end,  multiplies  homes  in  this  city  in  the  very  best  way  pos- 
sible. In  many  of  our  older  States  the  value  of  country 
securities  is  so  well  understood  that  their  owners  borrow 
money  cheauer  than  it  can  be  obtained  on  city  realty. 
Secretary  Morton,  in  his  last  annual  report,  makes  this 
abundantly  clear.  In  seventeen  States  the  average  rate 
of  interest  on  farm  mortgages  is  less  than  that  demanded 
on  city  residential  property.  In  Pennsylvania,  Mary- 
land, Virginia.  West  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Michigan,  Wis- 
consin, Iowa,  Kansas,  Texas,  and  Alabama  the  interest 
exacted  of  farmers  is  less  than  that  required  from  owners 
of  other  realty.  The  difference  varies  from  one-half  of  one 
per  cent,  to  one  and-one-half  per  cent.  Investors  invar- 
iably prefer  the  productive  borrower  to  the  one  who  has 
city  property  that  may  be  productive  or  not,  just  as  it 
may  happen'to  find  a  tenant.     The   Secretary  points  out 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  9,  1897. 


that  country  land  values  have  increased  in  the  last  decade, 
showing  that  there  is  no  diminution  in  the  security  held. 
"We  are  not  belittling  city  values,  but  pointing  out  the 
surest  way  to  increase  them.  Build  up  the  country,  in- 
crease the  number  of  people  who  produce  something,  ren- 
der the  employment  of  capital  and  labor  productive,  mul- 
tiply the  transactions  of  our  middlemen,  enlarge  our  in- 
dustrial population — accomplish  all  these  things  by  lend- 
ing a  helping  hand  to  country  development,  and  then,  as 
surely  as  effect  follows  cause,  the  Queen  City  of  the  Pacific 
will  prosper  as  never  before. 

The  Mayor's  Mayor  Phelan's  inaugural  address  has  the 
Inaugural.  right  ring  about  it.  He  speaks  with  that 
certainty,  clearness,  and  force  that  can 
only  come  from  full  and  exact  knowledge.  He  renders  it 
obvious  from  the  start  that  he  is  well  equipped  for  the 
creditable  discharge  of  even  more  onerous  duties  than 
those  which  he  is  permitted  to  perfsrm  under  the  existing 
laws  of  this  municipality.  The  pity  is  that  the  new  charter 
was  not  ratified  at  the  same  time  with  the  election  of  a 
Mayor  so  pre-eminently  qualified  to  put  it  into  successful 
operation.  As  it  is,  it  will  not  do  to  expect  too  much  from 
Mayor  Phelan.  Great  as  his  capacity  undoubtedly  is,  and 
good  as  his  intentions  are,  he  can  accomplish  but  little 
under  his  present  grant  of  powers.  Nearly  all  he  can  do 
he  has  done,  in  pointing  out  intelligently  and  well  the 
nature  and  extent  of  the  practical  reforms  which  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  alone  has  the  power  to  carry  into 
effect.  There  can  be.  and  there  must  be,  lower  taxation, 
and  greater  efficiency  in  the  public  service.  It  will  always 
remain  a  marvel  that  during  the  hardest  times  this  city 
ever  knew,  the  very  highest  rate  of  taxation  was  need- 
lessly imposed,  and  borne  by  oppressed  taxpayers  with  a 
submission  worthy  of  a  better  cause.  A  rate  of  $2.25  on 
the  hundred,  yielding  a  total  of  86,896,872,  was  an  intoler- 
able burden  that  would  have  resulted  in  a  general  refusal 
to  pay  in  a  less  law-abiding  city  than  this.  When  to  this 
is  added  the  sum  of  $1.630,513,' derived  from  licenses  and 
other  sources  of  revenue,  it  must  be  conceded  that  for  a 
city  practically  out  of  debt,  the  burden  of  taxation  is 
shamefully  too  great.  If  the  newly-elected  Supervisors 
take  kindly  to  the  well-considered  suggestions  of  the 
Mayor,  he  and  they  working  in  harmony  together  will  give 
San  Francisco  a  better  municipal  administration  than  it 
has  known  in  many  years.  If  the  Mayor  has  but  little 
power  to  do  much  of  either  good  or  evil,  the  Supervisors 
are  abundantly  endowed  with  the  capacity  to  do  either  or 
both.  In  these  days  of  much  civic  pride,  it  will  go  hard 
with  them  if  they  do  not  find  a  way  to  do  less  of  evil  and 
more  of  good  than  their  predecessors  of  unhappy  memory. 

Reform  the  Elect-  The  Baltimore  American  has  taken 
oral  College.  up  the  question  of  the  inconsistencies 
in  the  electoral  vote  as  apportioned 
among  the  States,  with  considerable  warmth  and  much 
reason.  In  studying  the  election  returns,  The  Amer- 
ican is  impressed  with  the  fact  that  Maryland  cast  250,841 
votes,  and  South  Carolina  68,938  votes,  on  November  3rd 
last.  And  yet  Maryland  has  only  eight  votes  in  the  elec- 
toral college,  while  South  Carolina  has  nine.  In  other 
words,  each  elector  in  the  former  State  represents  31,355 
voters,  and  in  the  latter  only  7,723.  "  Where  is  the  just- 
ice ?  "  inquires  The  American.  Though  the  whole  coun- 
try knows  why  it  is  so,  the  question  is  a  very  pertinent 
and  timely  one,  and  is  by  no  means  answered  in  the  flip- 
pant reply  of  the  Charleston  News  and  Courier  that  "they 
appear  to  have  reduced  ballot-box  stuffing  to  a  science  in 
Maryland."  It  has  not  been  charged,  and  there  is  no 
reason  to  believe,  that  Maryland's  vote  was  a  dishonest 
one.  The  State  had  a  population  of  1,042,390  in  1890,  and, 
considering  the  natural  increase,  the  vote  cast  would  be 
about  one  for  every  five  of  the  population,  which  is  the 
usual  estimate  throughout  the  country.  The  vote  was  un- 
questionably normal,  and  fairly  represented  the  will  of  the 
whole  people.  The  census  of  1890  gives  South  Carolina 
1,151,149  inhabitants.  We  do  not  know  what  increase 
there  may  have  been  in  the  last  six  years,  but,  upon  the 
figures  given,  South  Carolina  cast,  or  at  least  counted, 
only  one  vote  for  more  than  sixteen  of  the  population.  San 
Francisco  cast  nearly  as  many  votes   with  only  about  one- 


third  the  number  of  inhabitants.  The  normal  colored  vote 
of  South  Carolina,  if  honestly  counted,  would  be  twice  the 
vote  that  has  been  returned  to  the  whole  State.  If  this 
condition  affected  alone  the  State  in  which  it  obtains,  the 
matter  might  be  left  to  its  inhabitants  for  solution.  But 
when  the  vote  of  a  man  in  one  section  equals  the  vote  of 
more  than  three  men  in  other  sections  of  the  country  in 
the  selection  of  national  officers  and  representatives,  the 
wrong  becomes  too  serious  to  pass  unnoticed.  If  the 
present  method  of  electing  Presidents  is  to  continue,  the 
votes  in  the  electoral  college  should  be  apportioned  upon 
the  votes  cast  at  the  previous  Presidential  election.  There 
is  the  justice  for  which  The  Baltimore  American  justly 
clamors. 

A  Suggestion     Hawthorne's  advice   that  only   aged  men 
From  be  sent  to  battle  is  worth  consideration  at 

The  Dead.  this  present  moment.  He  may  not  have 
foreseen  the  present  Cuban  situation. 
His  prophetic  glance  may  not  have  rested  on  the  aged 
Senators  who  are  so  permeated  with  martial  valor,  but 
we  recommend  to  these  elderly  gentlemen  and  to  the 
country  at  large  that  his  suggestion  be  followed.  It  will 
be  especially  attractive  to  the  Senators  themselves.  It 
offers  them  an  opportunity  to  close  their  public  careers 
in  a  blaze  of  glory.  History  would  embalm  their  deeds 
for  the  perusal  of  remotest  posterity.  Accounts  of  their 
prowess  on  the  tented  field  would  fix  their  names  indelibly 
in  the  rolls  of  fame,  while  their  jingo  resolutions  will  be  soon 
forgotten.  Spaniards  are  notably  an  impulsive,  impres- 
sionable, superstitious  race,  and  when  they  beheld 
battalions  of  hoary-headed  wraiths  advancing  upon  them, 
must  surely  surrender  at  discretion.  The  war  would  end 
without  carnage.  It  would  be  the  next  best  thing  to 
arbitration,  and  far  more  satisfactory  than  the  "good 
offices"  they  propose.  When  Cuba  was  pacified,  those  of 
our  ancient  and  honorable  champions  who  did  not  catch 
the  yellow  fever,  and  those  who  did  not  prefer  the  climate 
of  the  ever  faithful  isle  for  their  rheumatism,  might  re- 
turn to  receive  the  plaudits  and  the  pensions  of  their 
grateful  country.  It  would  be  no  small  advantage,  too,  to 
allow  the  young  and  vigorous  men  to  remain  at  home  and 
continue  the  active  development  of  our  resources.  This 
should  not  be  overlooked.  The  sooDer  it  is  carried  out 
the  sooner  we  shall  be  relieved  of  the  humiliating  spectacle 
now  presented  by  the  Senate,  and  the  better  it  will  be 
for  the  United  States,  the  Cubans,  the  Senators  them- 
selves, and  in  short,  all  concerned  except,  perhaps,  the 
Spaniards. 

The  City  And  The  Board  of  Health  has  done  well  in 
County  Hospital,  taking  a  firmer  grip  on  the  manage- 
ment of  the  City  and  County  Hospital. 
Heroic  action  was  necessary,  and  it  must  be  conceded  that 
there  is  not  a  little  heroism  in  a  member  of  the  Board, 
having  a  good  private  practice,  personally  taking  bold  of 
the  management  until  it  can  be  placed  upon  a  creditable 
footing.  We  notice  that  it  is  proposed  to  spend  over  $10,- 
000  in  improving  the  plumbing  and  sanitary  condition  of 
the  Hospital,  and  no  doubt  the  proposed  improvements 
are  urgently  needed,  if  the  building  is  much  longer  to 
serve  its  present  purposes.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  it  ought 
long  since  to  have  been  supplanted  by  a  newer  and  better 
structure,  and  we  know  nf  no  more  pressing  obligation  up- 
on the  New  Board  of  Supervisors  than  that  of  making 
provision  for  such  a  Hospital  as  this  City  and  County  ought 
to  have.  If  we  begin  to  patch  up  the  old  building  now,  we 
shall  have  to  keep  on  patching  it  until  more  money  is  ex- 
pended than  would  provide  a  new  and  adequate  structure. 
It  is  not  alone  the  sewers  and  plumbing  that  are  out  of 
order;  the  floors  are  rotten  and  ought  to  have  been  re- 
moved long  since.  They  have  threatened  collapse  for 
many  a  day  past.  Erected  in  1869,  when  Dr.  Beverly 
Cole  was  chairman  of  the  Supervisors'  Health  Committee, 
the  building  was  only  intended  as  a  make-shift  from  the 
start.  It  has  seen  service  far  too  long.  Cold,  draughty,  and 
badly  arranged  in  every  way,  the  time  has  fully  arrived  when 
a  new  building  should  be  provided.  A  City  and  County 
Hospital  is  the  greatest,  the  most  useful,  and  the  most 
necessary  of  the  city's  charitable  institutions.  We  could 
have  done  far  better  without  a  new  Hall  of  jLStice  than 
without  a  new  Hospital. 


Januaiy  9,  1897. 


SAN   FRANC  \VS   LETTER. 


AT      THE      CAPITOL. 

•.re  January  tl,  l-:>7. 

THE  Lee  nas  come,"  and  this,   the  thirty- 

I  e   tbe  11 
In  fact,   more  Important 
will  come  up  for  ition  than  mosl  | 

.my  idea  of,  and.   aft.  -   natorial  question 

next  week,  both  bouses  will  settle  down  to  work, 
and  work  they  must,  unless  the  members  wish  to  Ptaj  in 
Sacramento  more  than  tbe  Constitutional  time-  sixty 
at  their  own  expense.  It  is  only  right  to  say.  how- 
ever, that  both  houses  have  already  evidenced  a  laudable 
•  t  down  to  work,  and  in  this  regard  the  Assem- 
bly has  made  a  better  record  than  the  Senate. 

The  economical  trait  is  largely  in  evidence  in  both 
houses,  and  the  lists  of  attach  1  have  been  carefully  pruned, 
and  many  disappointed  office-seekers  are  now  homeward 
bound,  some  on  foot  and  some  otherwise.  That  reminds 
one  that  there  were  missing  this  year  many  of  the  old-time 
place-seekers,  who  bob  up  serenely  each  recurring  ses- 
sion. Of  course,  some  of  them  are  dead,  but  usually  there 
has  been  any  quantity,  if  not  quality,  of  new  material 
to  take  the  places  of  the  missing  ones.  The  female  place- 
seeker  is,  the  Lord  be  blessed,  few  in  number — and,  by 
the  way,  greatly  improved  in  personal  appearance.  This 
year  they  can  be  classed  as  few,  young,  and,  to  all  appear- 
ances, decent. 

The  colored  contingent  is  here,  though,  in  large  and 
black  numbers,  and  every  Afro-American  club  in  the 
State  has  representatives  on  the  ground  who  are  willing  to 
take  any  kind  of  a  job  for  any  kind  of  a  per  <l!im,  and  a 
goodly  number  have  been  provided  for — of  course,  after 
members'  sons,  brothers,  wives,  and  daughters  have  been 
properly  looked  after. 

In  this  regard  it  may  be  said  that  more   legislators  this 
•  year  have  provided  for  their  families,    who   are   here  with 
them,    than   ever   before — a   fact   that   their  patronage- 
seeking  constituents   will   not   forget   when   they  run  for 
office  again,  as  most  legislators  generally  do. 

Tbe  Senate  is  really  composed  of  some  very  bright  men 
and  any  quantity  of  oratorical  ability.  In  fact,  when  sil- 
ver-tongued Wolfe.  Dickinson,  Stratton,  Seawell,  La  Rue, 
Doty,  Braunhart,  Bert,  Morehouse,  Flint,  Bulla,  and 
others,  less  silver-tongued  but  as  voluable,  get  in  action, 
one  wonders  whether  the  few  who  are  not  orators  can, 
with  the  four  walls  of  the  Senate  chamber  also  considered, 
stand  tbe  pressure. 

To  be  Presiding  Officer  oQ  the  Senate  requires  more 
ability  and  tact  than  most,  people  would  imagine.  Although, 

generally  speaking,  the 
Senate  is  a  dignified,  and, 
at  the  same  time,  consid- 
ate  body,  at  times  it  re- 
quires a  sharp,  wide-awake 
and  determined  chairman, 
and  from  every  indication, 
Lieutenant-Governor  Wil- 
liam T.  Jeter  is  happily  the 
combination  of  all  these 
qualities,  and  it  is  safe  to 
say  is  one  of  the  most  cap- 
able and  satisfactory  Pre- 
siding Officers  the  Senate 
has  had  for  many  sessions. 
Although,  in  the  appoint- 
ment of  committees,  Mr. 
Jeter  is  of  opposite  po- 
litical faith  from  the  ma- 
jority of  the  Senate,  he  has 
already  by  his  fairness  and 
consideration,  won  the  re- 
spect of  the  majority,  and 
has  made  friends  who  will  not  fail  to  recognize  bis  quali- 
ties. Mr.  Jeter,  it  will  be  remembered,  was  the  Demo- 
cratic nominee  for  Lieutenant-Governor  two  years  ago, 
and  next  to  Governor  Budd  and  Supreme  Judge  Temple, 
who  were  elected,  received  the  highest  vote  on  the  ticket. 
Upon  the  death  of  Lieutenant-Governor  Millard,  Governor 
Budd  chose  Mr.  Jeter  to  act  as  Lieutenant-Governor.  Mr. 
Jeter  lives  in  Santa  Cruz,  and  has  for  twelve  years  served 
the  people  of  both  his  county  and  city  in  public  service. 


Z/teutenant- Governor  Wm.  T.Jeter. 


Jr.,   who    v*  .  ,1  t„    (|,0 

the  Chun 
By   the   waj 
Flint  •     ■  ■.,  1  be  MiiiN  s  of  ti 

ing  maiden,  be  having  married  a  lovely  Vermont  lady  a  few 
since,  and  Mrs.  Flinl  Is  here  with  her  distinguished 
husband. 

Frank  J,  Brani  on,  tbe  always  efficient  and,  because  of 
his  efficiency,  in  |  Clerk  i.f  the  Senate,  was 

retail  ed  In  the  position.  TI  ere  is  no  man  behind  the  desk 
more  capable  and  mere  familiar  with  legislative  procedure 
than  Mr.  Brandon,  and  his  knowledge  is  always  a  great 
help  not  only  to  tbe  Senators  themselves,  but  to  the  pre- 
siding officer  in  particular. 

The  Assembly  is  always,  probably  because  numerically 
larger,  and  therefore  mentally  weaker,  inferior  both  in 
personal  appearance  and  individual  ability  than  the  Sen- 
ate. True,  there  are  some  very  bright  men  in  that  body 
— yea,  some  very  able  men,  but  there  are  a  large  number 
of  what  one  of  the  pages  calls  "nits" — a  term  both  de- 
scriptive as  to  ability  and  personality.  The  "nits,"  how- 
ever, are  never  heard  of  except — if  on  tbe  Republican 
side — they  forget  to  provide  a  job  for  some  constituent, 
who  tells  his  tale  of  woe  again  and  again  in  the  favorite 
gathering  place  in  said  Assemblyman's  district,  and  so 
they  do  little  harm,  except  drawing  their  pay.  The 
San  Francisco  delegation — well,  they  are  all  here,  and  for 
obvious  reasons  are  bunched  up  together  on  the  left-hand 
side  of  the  Assembly  chamber.  The  country  members 
have  among  them  a  number  of  reformers,  who,  with  their 
panaceas  in  tbe  shape  of  legislation  for  social,  financial, 
and  other  evils,  will  have  to  be  tolerated,  because  they 
were  elected,  till  the  end  of  the  session. 

Frank  L.  Coombs,  of  Napa,  was  elected  Speaker,  and 
will  make  an  efficient  one.  S.  J.  Duckworth,  Chief  Clerk 
of  last  session,  was  chosen  to  succeed  himself. 

The  youngest  member,  and  one  of  the  ablest,  is  A.  W. 
North,  of  Yolo,  who  will  make  a  record  for  himself. 

Later,  I  will  send  you  some  photographs  and  something 
about  some  of  the  more  prominent  of  our  law-makers. 

Peg. 

The   Patriarchs'   Ball. 

This  ultra-fashionable  affair  was  removed  Ibis  year  from  Delmonico 
to  tbe  Waldorf,  and  was  exceptionally  magnificent.  The  toilets 
were  superb,  the  music  sublime,  and  the  menu  a  masterpiece  of 
culinary  art,  interspersed  with  claret,  Aloet  &  Cbandon  champagne 
and  Johannis  "Water. 


The  latest  and  most  elegant  things  in  gent's  furnishing  goods  are 
to  be  had  of  Jjlm  W.  Oarmanv,  25  Kearny  St. 


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I  US  lit 

(Dated  Jan.  2) 
of 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  9,  1S97. 


'-  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's."—  Tom  Moore. 

DURING    the   first  performance   of    A 
Paris  Tragedy,  when  Loie  Puller  kicked 
off  her  little  number  six  slippers,  and  turned 
over  on  the  divan,  and  snuggled  close  in  her 
IB  white  silk  nightie,  and  went  to  sleep  agaia, 
I   said  to  my  companion:    "If    you   have 
tears,  prepare  to  shed  them  now." 

I  foresaw  Miss  Fuller's  finish. 

Learning  that  Mr.  Peter  Robertson  was  to  take  La 
Loie  in  hand,  and  cut  her  pantomime  to  the  dimensions  of 
thirty  minutes,  I  waited  writing  until  I  had  seen  a  revised 
performance.  This  happened  on  Saturday  afternoon,  and 
I  felt  then  as  1  had  felt  before,  that  Miss  Fuller's  part  of 
Madame,  in  .4  Paris  Tragi  d y,  could  be  better  acted  by 
any  fil'teeu-per-week  actress  from  Morosco's  or  the  Alca- 
zar. Mr.  Robertson's  editing  merely  curtails  the  time  it 
takes  Loie  Fuller  to  show  an  audience  the  sort  of  a  stage 
lady  she  would  have  been  without  the  illuminated  petti- 
coats. 

I  am  too  sincere  an  admirer  of  Loie  Fuller's  genius  in 
silk  and  calcium  not  to  deplore  this  dull,  sickening  thud 
upon  an  art  that  defies  her  at  every  point.  She  has 
neither  the  facile  gesture,  nor  the  fleet,  fluent  facial  ex- 
pression, nor  yet  the  gift  of  alert,  suggestive  magnetism 
for  legitimate  pantomime.  Even  in  her  own  sphere  of  the 
dance  she  shows  little,  if  any,  personality:  there  is  a  tre- 
mendous execution  art  power  which  moulds  mechanism 
into  glorious  dance-pictures,  giving  them  the  throb  of  life 
and  color  of  all  radiant  nature;  but  little  of  the  artiste's 
personality  is  felt  with  these.  Loie  Fuller  is  to  her  dances 
very  much  what  Augustin  Daly  is  to  Ada  Rehan — and,  I 
daresay,  in  pantomime  quite  as  strange  and  woeful  a 
spectacle  as  Mr.  Dalv  would  be  playing  the  part  of  Viola, 
in    Twelfth  Night. 

Miss  Fuller  used  to  instruct  the  critics.  Now  the 
critics  will  breathe  some  mild,  pedantic  whispers  to  Miss 
Fuller.  A  Paris  Tragedy  is  programmed  ''from  the 
French."  I  advise  Miss  Fuller  to  keep  it  as  far  from 
France  as  possible.  She  does  not  act  in  French.  Carry- 
ing coals  to  Newcastle  is  a  lucrative  business  compared 
with  carrying  this  quality  of  pantomime  to  Paris. 
*  *  * 

When  I  am  an  old,  old  man,  with  dangling  whiskers  aud 
doddering  anecdotes,  every  season  or  two  will  find  me 
hobbling;  toward  a  performance  of  The  Old  Homestead,  and 
writing  a  paragraph  about  it  afterwards.  Of  this  I  feel 
sure.  Trilby  may  be  buried  a  thousand  fathoms  deep, 
Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  pass  into  peaceful  oblivion,  and  Bern- 
hardt grow  middle-aged,  but  that  dear,  old,  till-doomsday 
classic  of  the  barnyard  will  jog  on  forever.  Fleshy  prob- 
lems have  come  and  gone,  flaring  melodramas  have  burned 
themselves  out,  kid  gloved  melodrama  has  sprung  a  re- 
naissance on  us  under  the  polite  euphemism  of  "romantic" 
without  securing  permanency  for  any  one  play,  farce- 
oomedy  and  hair-oiled  boarding-house  society  drama  are 
vanquished  in  a  season — but  The  Old  Homestead,  incontest- 
ably  commonplace,  uncompromisingly  obvious,  and  irre- 
deemably pure,  skips  lightly  over  the  graves  of  its  con- 
temporaries, and  year  by  year  welcomes  a  new  posterity. 

I  cannot  tell  you  why  this  play  lives,  why  it  has  survived 
twenty  chauges  of  cast,  and  now,  in  the  hands  of  inglorious 
road  players  entertains  you  and  me  at  the  Baldwin 
Theatre.  I  used  to  know  when  I  was  wiser  and  younger, 
but  somehow  I  must  give  it  up  now.  It  would  be  infinitely 
easier  for  me  to  write  why  Ibsen  (of  whom  I  know  com- 
paratively little)  is  not  popular  in  England,  than  why 
Thompson  (whose  play  I  know  backwards)  is  foreverlast- 
ingly  a  success  in  America.  Not  hearing  any  clamors  for 
Ibsen  exegesis,  I  will  return  to  The  Old  Homestead,  which 
has  already  helped  me  over  considerable  space  on  a  dull 
theatrical  week.  The  old  play  takes  on  no  fine  citified 
airs  because  it  is  playing  at  the  Baldwin.  The  double 
quartette  sings  well,  and  the  cast  throughout  is  most  con- 
vincingly rural  and  economical. 


Charles  Wayne  is  the  particular,  transcendent 
luminary  of  the  four  new  features  on  the  Orpheum  bill. 
He  does  not  say  this  himself;  he  is  modestly  typed  as  a 
"premier  eccentrique" — but  don't  mind  that.  Mr.  Wayne 
has  such  amazingly  complicated  legs  that  it  would  be  im- 
possible to  print  them  in  any  language  but  French.  How- 
ever, nimble  legs  are  only  the  beginning  of  his  fascinations; 
he  is  skillful  at  song,  jests  jovially,  aud  his  person  is  dainty 
and  picturesque.  He  was  once  in  comic  opera,  but  when 
that  business  fell  into  the  hands  and  feet  of  tumblers  and 
contortionists,  he  reformed,  and  went  into  vaudeville.  The 
transmogrification  is  perfect:  now  he  articulates  in  under- 
standable English,  his  gags  belong  to  this  end  of  the  cen- 
tury, and  his  pyrotechnic  dancing  is  full  of  novel  figures. 
Charles  Wayne  is  a  very  entertaining  person  from  the  top 
of  his  beaver  down. 

I  am  disappointed  in  Hallen  and  Puller.  In  abridging 
and  modifying  their  skit  to  what  they  trustfully  believe  is 
the  level  of  au  Orpheum  hit,  they  have  landed  low — leav- 
ing, in  fact,  very  little  that  is  either  new  or  diverting. 
Hallen's  sportive  tailoring  is  just  as  smart  and  refreshing 
as  it  was  in  his  palmy  farce-comedy  days,  and  Mollie 
Fuller  soubrettes  in  the  old,  usual  way,  and  they  both  sing 
and  dance  airily  in  conventional  music  hall  style.  But 
somehow  I  expected  more  of  their  fifteen  minutes — a  brisk 
duel  in  repartee,  an  infectious  song  or  two,  and  a  real  new 
joke — and  I  didn't  get  it. 

The  Two  Bostons  are  redeemed  by  the  cleverness  of 
their  trained  dogs.  In  the  tongue  of  a  more  refined  Bos- 
ton, they  are  not  worth  beans  without  them.  Bar  the 
dancing  of  the  longer  and  leaner,  which  is  a  good  bit  of 
grotesque  work,  their  fun  is  loud,  coarse  and  obesely 
British;  one  line  in  particular  is  too  stupidly  and  caudidly 
vulgar  even  for  vaudeville.  But  the  dogs  are  chaste  and 
clever,  and  well  worth  seeing,  even  at  the  expense  of 
listening  to  their  masters. 

*  *  # 

I  missed  hearing  Miss  Caldwell's  songs,  but  I  caught 
Rosner  and  his  band  in  the  act  of  playing  some  Faust 
music.  It  was  beautifully  done.  He's  a  great  little  man, 
that  Rosner;  he  has  address,  and  piquancy,  aud  magnet- 
ism, and  authority,  and  humor,  and  circumstance,  and 
lots  of  other  things  which  most  variety  leaders  have  not. 
•  *  *  * 

Joseph  Murphy  was  at  home,  being  ill,  when  I  called  at 
the  Columbia  Theatre  Tuesday  night  to  see  Shaun  Rime, 
and  his  brother  John  played  the  part.  It's  a  great  thing 
to  have  a  brother  John — particularly  if  you  are  Joseph 
Murphy,  and  he  looks  like  you  to  the  very  picture,  and 
speaks  the  same  rich,  verdant  Irish-American.  A  less  con- 
scientious management  than  that  of  the  Columbia  would 
have  made  a  deep  secret  of  Joe's  illness,  and  then  John 
would  have  had  a  week  of  being  not  only  Larry  Donovan, 
but  his  millionaire  brother  besides,  for.  outside  the  pockets, 
they  are  as  alike  as  two  peas.  But  Mr.  Friedlander  was 
over  in  Oakland  Tuesday  night,  and  Mr.  Gottlob  would 
not  hear  of  the  deception  when  I  proposed  it.  So  some- 
body made  a  speech,  and  John  went  on  as  plain  John,  and 
served  Larry  up  in  choice,  Irish  style.  There  are 
lots  of  good  democrats  in  the  cast:  Mr.'  Sheehan,  Mr. 
Daley,  Mr.  Gorrein,  aud  Miss  Farrel;  and  what  the  others 
lack  in  nativity  they  make  up  in  simulation. 

Ashton  Stevens. 
***** 

The  Old  Homestead  runs  another  week  at  the  Baldwin, 
with  an  extra  performance  on  Sunday  night.  A  big  musical 
sensation  is  on  for  the  week  following:  Lillian  Nordica,  in 
company  with  Sofia  Scalchi,  Barou  Bertrald,  J.  C.  Demp- 
sey,  and  Luckstone,  the  pianist,  will  give  a  series  of  three 
concerts.  An  act  of  Siegfried,  one  of  Faust,  and  a  scene 
from  another  opera  (it  is  to  be  hoped  Wagnerian),  are  to 
be  sung  in  costume,  besides  miscellaneous  song  readings. 
It  is  possible  that  Hinrichs  and  the  symphony  orchestra 
will  be  engaged  for  these  concerts. 

The  Orpheum  promises  a  big  musical  novelty  next  week, 
in  the  Royal  Hungarian  Court  Orchestra,  which  comes 
direct  frcm  Europe  under  the  direction  of  Matus.  Lieut. 
Noble,  ventriloquist,  will  also  be  a  new  attraction.  New 
marches  and  new  asrial  gyrations  are  being  rehearsed  by 
the  ballet. 


January  9,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   I      . 


Thi-  '!>   Murph.  Irown- 

■\  to  what  -    tiill  at  the 

'  ;bia: 

80  lonu  »»  1 1  ish   plays  shall  ronlinu*  to  attract   the  attention  oi 
ratbesoog  hide  Island   |aat  this   - 
Cbannal.  just  so  long  will  son  Murphj 

O'Haia.  retain  its  sTergrean  frssfanevs  and  Its  tbrUllngly  atlraoliTS 
Maaksmttta  m  0  as  be 

thenn's  father,  night  after  night,  tin  til   thl 
woman  ■  habit  aud  randan   >ih-1i   nenfta  ■.memory;  he 

may  make  horseshoes  and  put  them  onto  the  horse  until  motoi 
vehicles  annihilate  the  equina  species ;  andhemaj  send  hlatralned 
<  irner  pigeons  from  the  race  track  to  the  l'rew  farm,  until  Old  Erin 
abandon*  tli-  ir  lor  the  trolley  and  its   tracks  of  steel ;  hut 

er he  flnds an  andlenoe  thai  tires  of  the  story,  its 
res.  and  its  delightful  scenery. 

Jack  s  beanstalk  has  taken  on  another  week's  growth. 
An  influx  of  new  songs,  dances,  and  specialties  bids  fair  to 
keep  it  green  and  growing  in  the  Tivoli  for  several  weeks 
to  come.  Jack  and  tht  />'• am iiiUi  is  now  in  the  smoothest 
running  order;  the  many  spectacular  features  are  skill- 
fully handled  and  most  of  the  east  has  improved  since  the 
opening  week.  West's  Irishwoman  and  Little  Jack 
Hobertson's  Puck  are  big  hits,  and  of  course  Hartman  is 
enjoying  boundless  popularity. 

The  Kev.  Haskett  Smith.  M.  A.,  author  of  numerous 
entertaining  volumes  of  travel  in  the  Holy  Land,  is  at 
present  lecturing  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hall,  on  the  Orient. 
The  lectures  are  illustrated  by  magnificent  pictures  and 
views,  and  the  entertaiuments  are  proving  exceedingly 
pipular.  The  Rev.  Smith  will  give  his  last  lecture  next 
.Monday  night  on  "Egypt."  The  lectures  are  delightful, 
aud  well  worth  listening  to. 


MERITED      RECOGNITION. 


FEW  of  the  Improve- 
ment Clubs  of  this  city 
have  done  so  much  good 
1  for  their  respective  dis- 
tricts as  that  of  Point 
Lobos.  The  club  consists 
of  energetic  gentlemen  who 
are  determined  to  make 
the  Richmond  District  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  in  the 
city.  How  much  they  have 
accomplished  will  be  seen 
when  one  compares  the 
Richmond  District  of  to- 
day with  that  of  a  few 
years  ago.  The  officers  of 
the  club,  however,  say  that 
to  George  R.  Fletcher, 
their  untiring  President,  is 
due  the  greater  part  of 
the  praise  for  all  that  has 
been  accomplished.  He 
has  twice  held  this  important  position,  and  a  few  nights 
ago  he  received  a  most  handsome  diamond  badge  in  recog- 
nition of  his  valuable  services  and  leadership.  Did  every 
improvement  club  in  this  city  have  such  a  leader,  San 
Francisco  would  be  the  gainer. 


George  11 .  Fletcher 


The  Overland   Limited. 


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If  you  have  not  been  to  Leona  Heights  yet,  you  have  missed  one 
of  the  preltiest  of  excursions.  Commodious  cars  run  there  from 
all  parts  of  Oakland  and  Alameda.  The  round  trip  is  only  fifty 
cents  and  as  there  is  no  bar  on  the  grounds  no  roughs  ever  resort 
there  of  a  Sunday. 

The  Uio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
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The  >;rviit  popularity  tt  dm  acquired  etui  r.ndiiy 
bo  traced  '<■  lu  uoIqim  loo»tlor,  its  bo 

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and ana  lasi  n  ., ,,,  ji  >seph 

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will...  Presenting   001  oolj  realintlo  plotun 

Life  and  ^^ s  in  the  B! raid  isle,  bul  ud  everyday  tale  Id  ■ 

land.    January  18th:  "The  Devil's  AuoMoo," 

B-,N,./!~        Tkrt,i^       AL>  Hayman  &  Co.,  (Incorporated) 
ald\A/in      I  neatre-  proprietors 

Regular  performance  Sunday  evening  Now  In  its  last  olghta. 
BonuinlQg   tor   next    week  onlj .  Denman  Thompson's   fufnous 

"   THE    OLD     HOMESTEAD. 

Select  company  of  33  players.  The  great  double  MUartette. 
Novel  eleulrical  effects.  Last  performance  Suuilay  January 
17th  Beginning  Tuesday,  Jan.  i9th:  Lillian  Nouiuca  oper- 
atic concerts. 

T!./~ll    0„«-^     H„..„„      Mrs.  Ernestine  Kreling. 
IVOII    Vjpera     llOUSe.  Proprietor  and  Manager 

Next  weelt,  the  SECOND  EDITION  oi 

cJAGK  AND    THE   BEANSTALK. 

The  King,  the  Queen,  Jack,  the  Cow,  the  Giant,  the  Fairies,  the 
Goddesses,  the  Mortals. 

New  songs !    New  dances  !    New  skits !    Seals  now  on  sale. 
Next  opera— THE  WONDERFUL  LAMP. 
Popular  Prices 25c  and  50c 

Oi  San  Francisco's  Greatest    Music    Hall.       O'Farrell 

rpneUm.    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 

Week  commencing  Monday,  January  Uth,  Direct  from  Europe, 
the  famous  royal 

HUNGARIAN  COURT  ORCHESTRA, 

Under  the  direotion  of  P.  K.  Matus,  the  most  famed  clarionet 
virtuoso  in  all  Europe.    Another  European  noveliy.  Lieutenant 
Noble,  Europe's  greatest  ventriloquist;  Hallen  &'Fuller,  Chas. 
Wayne.  Annie  Caldwell  the  two  Bostons,  Abachi   &  Masand; 
continued  success  of  Nilsson's  aerial  ballet  and  Ktralfy's  grand 
opera  ballet;  new  costumes,  new  scenery,  new  marches. 
The  famous  Hungarian  Orchestra  will  play  in    tbe  Orpheum 
Annex  eve-y  evening  after  the  performance  in  the  theatre. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday, 
Matinee  Prices :  Parquet,  any  seat,  25c. ;  balcony,  any  seat,  10c. ; 
children.  10c  .  any  part. 

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fornia Oaks,  Thursday,  December  31st;  the  Shrieve  &  Co.  Cup, 
Friday,  January  1st. 
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Dr.   F.  G.  PAGUE, 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  9,  1897. 


AN      ARCHITECTURAL      TRIUMPH. 


ONE  of  the  most  pleasing  evidences  of  San  Francisco's 
progress  is  the  building  of  stone  residences  instead  of 
those  of  frame.  True,  we  have  many  superb  houses  con- 
structed of  redwood,  but,  architecturally  speaking,  they 
are  unsatisfactory.  No  matter  how  elaborate  they  may 
be,  they  lack  the  substantial  appearance  of  either  stone 
or  brick  structures.  The  departure  of  W.  F.  Whittier  is 
a  commendable  one,  and  his  recently  completed  home 
will  for  a  long  time  be  a  pride  to  the  city.  It  is  located  at 
the  corner  of  Jackson  and  Laguna  streets,  high  on  the 
slope  of  the  hill,  and  its  rear  windows  command  the  broad 
sweep  of  the  bay.  Built  of  red  sand-stone,  on  a  founda- 
tion of  lighter  hue,  and  roofed  with  dark  red  tiles,  remin- 
iscent of  old  mission  days,  it  appears  massive  in  contrast 
to  its  wooden  neighbors,  yet  every  detail  of  curves,  cor- 
nices, windows,  and  ornamentations,  are  pleasing  to  the 
eye.  The  marble  entrance  leads  to  an  interior  in  keeping 
with  the  outward  magnificence.  The  house  will  long  stand  as 
a  monument  to  the  ability  of  the, architect,  Edward  R. 
Swain.  His  success  in  this  instance  marks  the  beginning  of 
a  new  era  in  San  Francisco  architecture. 

To  obtain  soft  outlines  and  artistic 
Sandstone  as  an  decoration  is  impossible  with  wooden 
Aid  to  Art.  materials,  and  even  with  most  varie- 
ties of  stone,  but  in  the  Arizona  Red 
Sandstone  a  quality  of  texture  is  presented  which  admits 
of  the  most  delicate  carving.  The  architect  has  taken  full 
advantage  of  this  quality  to  give  expression  to  his  finest 
decorative  conceptions.  The  warm,  rich  color  of  the  stont 
is  so  uniform  that  no  streaks  or  blotches  mar  the  beauty 
of  the  structure.  The  Whittier  building  is  a  source  of 
pride  to  Clinton  J.  Hutchins,  agent  of  the  Arizona  Sand- 
stone Company,  whose  offices  are  at  the  Builders'  Ex- 
change. The  Arizona  Sandstone  Company  is  one  of  the 
most  enterprising  in  this  particular  line  of  business,  and 
has  done  much  toward  beautifying  this  city  by  the  con- 
struction of  handsome  edifices. 

One  of  the  difficulties  in  building  on  our 

Cutting  Down     hills  is  the  securing   of   a  proper  grade. 

a  Hill.  The  Whittier  lot  was  admirably  prepared 

for  the  foundation  by  contractors  Warren 

&  Malley,  who  at  present  are  grading  and  leveling  the  site 

of  the  old  Bay  District  race  track,  and  also  filling  in  the 

Fair  estate  property  at  Harbor  View. 

No  residence  in  these  days  can  lay 
Art  and  utility  in  full  claim  to  elegance  unless  its  ap- 
Modern  Appliances,  rliances  possess  the  highest  degree 
of  art  and  beauty,  in  addition  to 
their  necessary  utility.  In  this  respect,  the  Whittier  home 
stands  without  an  equal.  The  J.  L.  Mott  Iron  Works  of 
New  York,  reputed  leaders  in  their  line,  furnished  all  the 
bath-tubs,  porcelain  lined,  and  artistically  decorated  with 
various  designs;  the  lavatories  made  of  Italian  statuary 
marble;  their  celebrated  jet  "Primo"  water  closets;  deco- 
rated Cauldon  China  Basins,  and  Bidets'  and  Imperial 
Porcelain  Ware  for  the  kitchen  sinks,  and  laundry  tubs. 
In  fact,  these  details  are  perfect.  The  New  York  firm 
has  an  office  and  show  room,  No.  27  Flood  building,  where 
M.  S.  James,  their  Pacific  coast  representative,  is  ever 
read3r  to  show  their  goods. 

Footsteps  should  be  saved  in  large  houses. 
A  Residence     This  mansion  is  provided  with  a  passenger 
Elevator.        elevator,  installed  by   the   Cahill  &  Hall 
Elevator  Company,  of  214  Mission  street. 
It  is  a  hydraulic  ram  elevator,  noiseless  and   smooth   run- 
ning, and  though  primarily  intended  for  passenger  service, 
is  of  sufficient  capacity  to  raise  pianos  and  furniture.    The 
firm  has  a  number  of  similar  elevators  in  other  prominent 
residences. 

No  small   responsibility  rests   upon   the 
Glory  of         painter     of    magnificent    houses.       The 
Rich  Coloring,     conception  and   application  of   rich  col- 
oring  and   delicate  tints,    with  full    re- 
gard to  harmonious  effect  is,  in  the  Whittier  house,  a  de- 
cided compliment  to  the  ability  of  Thomas  Downing,  of  615 
Mission  street. 

The  interior  woodwork  is  probably  the  lead- 
Elegant        ing  evidence  of  luxurious   finish,    and   illus- 
Woodwork.     trates  the  high  class  of  work  turned  out  by 
Fink  &  Schindler,  of   1309-1315  Market  St. 


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serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as 
may  come  before  the  meeting.  Transfer  books  will  close  on  Monday, 
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»a^_/TvHK  old  adage  >:»>  it 
1  is  an  ill  wind  that 
1  nobody  good.  This  seems  to  be  exemplified  in  the 
fact  that  the  buda  are  oongratulatinfr  themselves  so  heart- 
ily  over  the  marriage  ol  Miss  Emma  Spreekels,  because  it 
moved  thai  charming,  heavily-dowered  young  lady 
from  the  ranks  of  belledom.  and  thus  left  more  chance  for 
their  own  conquests.  Now  that  Miss  Spreekels  has  be- 
come a  bride,  there  remain  but  two  very  rich  California 
heiresses— Miss  Fair  and  >li>*  Flood.      The  former  has 

turned  her  pretty  back  upon  San  Francisco  in  favor  of 
New  York,  and  the  latter  (say  her  intimate  friends)  has 
given  up  society,  and  intends  to  lead  a  life  of  single 
blessedness  for  aye.  Weddings,  however,  continue  in  our 
fashionable  world.  Miss  Lizzie  Carroll  and  Will  Whittier 
have  decided  upon  February  for  their  wedding,  and  that 
of  Miss  Alice  Ames  and  Arthur  Allen  will  come  soon  after. 
If  rumor  may  be'  relied  upon,  there  will  be  another  wed- 
ding in  the  Boardman  family  ere  long,  the  bride  a  popular 

belle. 

*  *  * 

Sad.  pearly  tears  are  bedimming  the  eyes  of  some  of 
our  fairest  women  of  society  that  handsome  Colonel  Lovell 
has  departed  for  Philadelphia  without  so  much  as  engag- 
ing himself  to  one  of  them.  "  The  dear  Colonel"  has  been 
voted  one  of  the  "  best  catches  of  the  season,"  and  many 
a  pretty  belle  has  had  delightful  dreams  in  which  he 
figured  as  a  loving  bridegroom.  And  now,  for  some 
unexplained  cause,  he  has  suddenly  departed  for  the  East 
without  fixing  any  date  for  his  return  !  It  has  been  whis- 
pered, since  his  departure — that  a  previous  engagement 
made  in  Philadelphia,  with  Miss  Gussie  Van  Tonne,  the 
wealthy  banker's  daughter  and  heiress,  bound  the  "dear 
Colonel's  "  heart  and  affections  to  such  an  extent  that  he 
was  prevented  from  succumbing  to  the  luring  charms  and 
languishing  sighs  of  our  dainty  belles.  Possibly  the  good 
Gods  will,  in  a  pitying  mood,  send  another  Adonis  to  re- 
place Colonel  Lovell,  in  the  hearts   and   affections   of   the 

disappointed  darlings. 

*  *  * 

The  guests  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  are  unanimous  in  declar- 
ing that  never  were  holidays  more  delightfully  spent  than 
were  those  at  that  charming  place.  Cosey  fireside  stories, 
agreeable  card  parties,  delicious  fare,  and  congenial  com- 
panionship, made  the  time  pass  swiftly  by,  and  the  Christ- 
mas and  New  Year  jollities  were  thoroughly  enjoyed  by  all. 

*  *  * 

There  is  a  whisper  in  the  air  that  one  of  the  features  of 
this  season  will  be  the  bachelors'  ball,  to  be  given  at  one  of 
the  large  halls  by  the  men  of  society  as  a  compliment  to 
their  lady  friends.  That  it  will  be  a  brilliant  success, 
should  the  whisper  prove  true,  goes  without  saying. 

*  #  * 

The  last  fad  among  our  girls  is  "spouting" — in  other 
words,  the  pretty  creatures  have  taken  furiously  to 
theatricals,  and  if  the  craze  continues,  society  may  reason- 
ably look  for  some  amateur  performances,  possibly  for  a 
pet  charity,  before  the  winter  is  over. 

*  #  * 

Dame  Rumor  asserts  most  positively  that  the  venerable 
beau,  W.  Scott  Jones,  is  seriously  considering  taking  unto 
himself  a  wife — a  very  charming  lady,  whose  social 
triumphs  began  at  the  nation's  capital  many  years  ago. 

*  *  * 

The  new  army  beaux  of  the  Third  Artillery  are  proving 
very  popular  in  the  swim,  and,  the  girls  say,  are  all  good 
dancers.  The  next  Fortnightly  will  test  the  powers  of 
these  martial  heroes,  as  it  is  to  be  an  army  and  navy  cotil- 
lion. 

Japanese  curios  are  sought  after  the  whole  world  over  but  in  no 
place  can  such  rare  ones  be  obtained  as  in  San  Francisco.  The 
visitor  to  the  store  of  6.  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  625  Market  Street,  will  ob- 
tain the  best  obtainable  at  very  reasonable  prices.  The  store  is  well 
worth  a  visit. 


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January  9,  1897. 


A  Book       William  Wornum,  the  narrator  of  this  story, 
of  is  a  son  of  the  village  tailor,    a  law  practi- 

the  Week.*  tioner  in  the  Superior  Courts  of  Oconee 
County,  and  the  brother  of  Jane.  William 
tells  of  the  simple  life  of  his  native  village  in  a  pleasant 
sympathetic  manner,  and  keeps  the  reader's  interest  un- 
flagging until  he  is  swept  into  the  matrimonial  net  and 
brought  to  the  end  of  his  memoirs.  "Sister  Jane"  is  a 
bard-featured,  quick-tempered,  sharp-tongued  woman, 
with  few  of  the  charms  of  the  sex,  except  the  inconsis- 
tency that  never  deserts  it.  Yet  she  has  an  honest  heart 
withal,  and  forms  shrewd  and  for  the  most  part  correct 
judgments  about  her  neighbors  and  acquaintances,  who 
stand  in  considerable  awe  of  her.  Free  Betsey,  the  enfran- 
chised negro  woman  who  tells  fortunes  by  the  cards, 
Grandsire  Johnny  Roach,  Uncle  Jimmie  Cosby,  the  revival- 
ist preacher,  full  of  stirring  words,  and  Jincy,  the  lover 
of  birds,  squirrels,  and  every  furred  and  feathered  thing 
that  dwells  in  the  woods — all  these  are  quaint  characters, 
drawn  with  graphic  and  artistic  touch.  Mary  Bullard  is 
a  charming  girl,  with  whom  William  has  been  on  intimate 
terms  ever  since  they  were  boy  and  girl  together. 
William,  however,  is  a  slow  lover,  and  it  takes  him  a  pro- 
vokingly  long  time  to  discover  that  he  is  over  head  and 
ears  in  love  with  Mary.  But  at  last  he  takes  the  plunge, 
makes  a  declaration,  and  is  at  once  accepted.  Colonel 
Bullard,  the  great  land-owner  of  the  village,  and  Mrs. 
Bullard,  his  wife,  are  the  most  shadowy  figures  of  the 
story;  and  people  accustomed  to  the  lines  of  demarcation 
in  British  society  will  wonder  how  an  uncommonly  pretty 
and  attractive  girl,  daughter  of  a  Colonel  and  man  of 
property  and  social  standing,  could  possibly  be  on  terms 
of  the  greatest  intimacy  with  the  son  and  daughter  of  the 
tailor  of  their  own  village.  We  do  not  know  where 
Oconee  county  is,  but  evidently  the  social  distinctions  of 
that  region  are  few  and  inconsiderable,  and  are,  doubtless, 
correctly  portrayed  by  Mr.  Harris.  Some  exciting 
events  happen  in  the  village:  a  child  is  lost,  the  Colonel's 
brother  becomes  a  wanderer  over  the  face  of  the  earth, 
pulling  up  at  last  in  California — that  wild  and  woolly 
1  egion  to  which  the  Easterner  sends  all  his  scapegraces. 
The  brother  and  the  lost  child  meet  and  become  fast 
friends;  later,  they  turn  up  in  their"  old  home,  the  one  a 
rich  man  and  the  other  a  handsome  boy.  The  story  is 
well  told,  and  the  author  evidently  understands  the  kind 
of  life  he  pictures  for  us.  The  volume,  like  all  issued  from 
the  Riverside  Press,  is  accurately  and  clearly  printed, 
and  the  cover  is  pretty  and  tasteful. 

*  Sister  Jane,  Her  Friends  and  Acquaintances,  a  narrative  of  cer- 
tain events  and  episodes  transcribed  from  the  papers  of  the  late 
William  Wornunr  by  Joel  Chandler  Harris.  Boston  and  New  York. 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company.    1896.     Price  $1.50. 

Mrs.  Earle,  in  the  course  of  investigations  for  her  books 
on  colonial  history,  found  it  necessary  to  ransack  many 
old  diaries,  family  histories,  and  court  records.  Thus 
she  accumulated  a  considerable  quantity  of  notes  that 
were  not  used  in  any  of  her  published  volumes.  Such  of 
these  notes  as  refer  to  the  quaint  (and  happily  now  ob- 
solete) punishments  in  vogue  in  former  days,  she  has  col- 
lected in  this  book,  which  she  dedicates  to  "All  curious 
and  ingenious  gentlemen  and  gentlewomen  who  can  gain 
from  acts  of  the  past  a  delight  in  the  present  days  of 
virtue,  wisdom  and  the  humanities."  Scattered  through 
the  volume  are  curious  illustrations, .  printed  on  parch- 
ment-like paper  in  brown  ink,  showing  the  bilboes,  the 
stocks,  the  duckiDg  stool,  the  pillory,  and  other  ingenious 
instruments  of  confinement  and  torture.  These  illustra- 
tions are  not  so  bad  as  one  might  infer  from  the  Dame  of 
their  designer — one  Hazenplug.  We  should  like  F  son 
Anna  Shaw  and  some  others  of  her  tribe  to  be  treated  to 
the  same  punishment  as  Ann  Boulder,  who,  in  or  about 
the  year  1652,  was  ordered  "to  stand  in  irons  half-an-hour 
with  a  paper  on  her  breast  marked  Pubuck  Destroyer  or 
Peace."  And  we  think  it  would  do  the  Rev.  C.  Overman 
Brown,  D.   D.,    (Decies  Damnatus.    or   ten  times  damned) 


good  to  be  made  to  walk  round  Union  Square  barefooted, 
clad  only  in  his  shirt,  and  carrying  a  large  faggot  in  his 
hand.  At  any  rate,  if  it  did  him  no  good,  it 
would  make  us  "feel  good"  to  see  him  thus  doing 
public  penance. 

Curious  Punishments  of  Bygone  Days,  by  Alice  Morse  Earle. 
Chicago.    Herbert  S.  Stone  and  Co.  1896. 

At  the  exhibition  of  the  Book  and  News  trade  in 
London  in  October  of  last  year  the  Macmillan  Company 
was  awarded  the  gold  medal  for  general  excellence  in 
book  manufacture,  including  printing,  illustrating,  binding 
etc.  The  firm,  which  originated,  we  believe,  in  the  Eng- 
lish University  town  of  Cambridge,  now  has  houses  in 
London  and  New  York,  and  also  in  Australia.  Lately  the 
firm  has  published  two  handsome  volumes  on  "The  Castles 
of  England,  their  story  and  structure,"  illustrated  with 
full-page  plates  and  many  smaller  pictures.  Owing  to 
the  facts  that  no  foreign  foe  has  for  many  centuries  ef- 
fected a  landing  on  English  soil,  and  that  there  has  been 
no  civil  war  since  the  struggle  between  the  Cavaliers  and 
the  Roundheads,  the  mediaeval  castles  of  England  are  in 
splendid  preservation.  Windsor,  Arundel,  Warwick, 
Belvoir,  Shirburn,  and  many  others,  have  been  lived  in 
continuously  since  they  were  built,  and  form  the  most 
picturesque  and  delightful  residences  that  can  be  imagined. 
Out  of  the  six  hundred  stone  castles  of  England  five  hun- 
dred remain  to  the  present  day,  and  this  sumptuous  work 
aims  at  recording  all  that  is  known  about  them.  The 
first  volume  of  the  work  was  to  have  been  brought  out  in 
November,  1896,  but  we  have  not  yet  seen  it.  These 
volumes  include  only  the  castles  of  England;  those  of 
Wales,  Scotland,  and  Ireland,  will  be  treated  of  in  other 
books.  The  wealth  of  associations  and  romantic  incidents 
gathered  about  these  historic  castles  is  astonishing;  a 
single  grand  stronghold  like  that  of  Warwick  is  worth  a 
whole  continent  like  Australia.  To  know  the  lives  of  its 
various  owners  is  to  know  a  large  part  of  the  history  of 
England. 

In  an  article  entitled  "The  Brewing  of  the  Storm"  in 
the  December  issue  of  The  Forum,  Professor  Goldwin 
Smith  makes  some  valuable  comments  on  the  late  Presi- 
dential election.  Among  other  things  he  says  that  the 
great  immigration  of  poor  laborers  into  the  United  States 
has  tended  to  produce  two  clearly  marked  classes,  that  of 
capitalist  employers,  and  that  of  factory  workers.  The 
latter  are  naturally  discontented,  and,  under  the  influence 
of  agitators,  become  the  easy  victims  of  socialistic  and 
anarchistic  schemers  of  all  kinds.  Protectionism  is  res- 
ponsible for  another  batch  of  evil  consequences.  Capital- 
ists of  all  sorts  learn  to  look  on  the  public  exchequer  as  a 
vast  grab-bag,  out  of  which  everyone  tries  to  get  as 
large  a  share  as  possible;  workpeople  learn  to  look  to 
legislation,  and  not  to  their  own  skill  and  industry,  to 
raise  their  wages.  When  a  hundred  different  branches  of 
industry  are  protected,  the  silver  producer  cannot  see 
why  his  industry  should  be  unprotected;  accordingly  he 
besieges  the  doors  of  the  legislative  halls,  clamoring  for  a 
measure  compelling  the  nation  to  buy  his  silver  at  twice 
its  market  value.  Hosiers,  hatters,  grocers,  bootmakers, 
brickmakers,  dealers  and  manufacturers  of  all  kinds  join 
in  the  scramble.  All  this  confusion  of  ideas  is  worse  con- 
founded by  men  like  Henry  George  and  Edward  Bellamy, 
who,  without  political,  economical,  logical  or  other  train- 
ing, scatter  broadcast  over  the  land  the  wildest  notions 
and  the  most  reckless  dogmas. 

A  second  edition  of  the  late  John  Tyndall's  '  'Glaciers  of 
the  Alps"  has  been  issued  by  Messrs  Longmans,  Green  & 
Co.  It  is  a  charming  book,  written  in  a  simple  and 
pellucid  style  that  makes  even  difficult  things  plain.  Pro- 
fessor Tyndall  was  an  enthusiastic  and  adventurous 
mountain-climber,  whose  observations  on  glaciers  and 
their  formation  will  be  interesting  to  any  person  who  lives 
in  a  country  where  glacial  effects  are  to  be  seen,  and  will 
give  him  a  clearer  idea  than  he  ever  had  before  of  their 
origin. 

The  Christmas  Herald,  published  by  Hugh  Murphy  and 
Frank  P.  Scully  of  this  city,  is  a  bright  little  paper,  full  of 
choice  reading  matter  eminently  suitable  for  the  family 
circle.  The  Christmas  number,  consisting  of  twenty-four 
pages,  was  well  worth  the  small  price  asked  for  it. 


January  9,  1897 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   1 


EJK&iD 


BOHEMIAN  UPS  AND  DOWNS.-*JfF  mio's  washi*oto*. 


'  117  A  V  up  in  a  garret  high 
VV    J  ust  a  lew 


feet  fnmi  (he  sky. 
Dwell  I  in  Bohemia. 

What  rare  I  for  au^M  In-low" 
There  have  1  nor  friend  nor  U 
I'ily  I  the  struggling  throng 
While  I  live   mj  life  of  song 
I  p  herein  Bohemia. 

Tween  my  teeth  my  briar-root— 
Best  of  friends,  since  almost  niute- 

Kare  thing  in   Bohemia; 
I'pwani  as  tin-  tin.  k  smoke  curls 
What  care  I  fur  simp 'ring  girls.' 
Lore  i*  weak  ;  my  pipe  is  strong; 
Why  for  love,  then,  be  the  song 

Sung  here  in  Bohemia? 

Oft  my  little  songs  fall  flat, 
Hungry?    What  care  1  for  that, 

Fasting  in  Bohemia? 
But  my  only  coat  in  pawn, 
Live  on  that  and  still  sing  on ; 
Puff  my  pipe  and  think  I've  dined— 
Barmecidal  feasts  I  find 

Often  in  Bohemia. 

Haply  then  my  rhymelets  take. 
With  a  check  my  fast  to  break, 

Feast  we  in  Bohemia, 
'Round  the  corner  of  the  block, 
Sign  o'erhead  a  crowing  cock, 
Mug  of  beer  and  sandwich  fine ; 
What  care  we  how  nabobs  dine, 

Feasting  in  Bohemia? 

Friends  have  I,  some  three  or  four- 
Quite  enough,  for  who  has  more 

In  or  out  Bohemia? 
With  them  joy  is  always  young, 
Grief  is  but  a  song  that's  sung; 
Live  we,  laugh  we  debonair, 
Skies  are  bright  and  winds  are  fair 
Always  in  Bohemia! 


AFTERWARDS-— john  e.  healy,  in  London  weekly  sun. 


Did  I  love  you,  little  girl, 

Once  in  other  days? 
Was  the  world  the  place  wherein 

All  the  golden  ways 
Led  to  you,  and  all  the  birds 

Only  sang  your  praise? 

Did  I  love  you,  little  girl? 

Was  it  you  whose  eyes, 
Twice  a  dozen  months  ago, 

Lit  the  Arcadian  skies 
Where  we  walked  with  summer-time, 

Happy  and  unwise? 

Did  I  love  you,  little  girl? 

Are  you  sure  'tis  true? 
Was  it  for  your  shrine  I  plucked 

Rosemary  and  rue? 
Was  my  pastoral  queen  of  love 

You— and  only  you? 

Did  I  love  yon,  Utile  girl, 

Not  so  long  ago? 
Can  such  sudden  ebb  succeed 

Such  a  passionate  glow? 
Still  I  dream  of  linked  lips ; 

Tell  me,  was  it  so? 

Did  you  love  me,  little  girl? 

Could  such  sorrow  be? 
Have  I  locked  your  simple  heart 

But  to  lose  the  key  ? 
God  forgive  me,  little  girl, 

If  you  weep  for  me ! 


Head  Golds, 


Catarrh,  dry  mucous  membranes,  soon  yield  to  tbe 
treatment  of  the  famous  DR.  MCKENZIE'S  CA- 
TARRH CURE. 


BE  CONVINCED  FREE. 


To  show  that  Dr.  McKenzle's  Catarrh  Cure  gives  In- 
stant relief  and  continues  to  drive  away  the  cold  or 
catarrh,  7  free  trials  per  week  will  be  allowed  you  if 
you  call  at  the 


Baldwin  Pharmacy, 

(Edwin  W.  Joy), 
Market  and  Powell  Sts. 


Call  for  free  treatment  of  Dr. 
McKenzle's  Catarrh  Cure. 


You  Must  Look  Neat. 


Suits  Cleaned 
and  Pressed 


$1.00 


Bau  Gitu  Glothino  Renovatoru, 


Suits  called  for  and  delivered. 


23^4  Geary  St.,  Easterbrook  B'ld'g, 
Rooms  19-20-21.  'Phone  Grant  168 


WINDOW  SHADES 
PAPER  HANGING 
TINTING  or 
FRESCOING. 


Jas.  Dotty  &  Go. 

20  GEARY   ST. 

Estimates  cheerfully  given. 
Telephone  Grant  39. 


Gray  Bros., 


316  Montgomery  Street,  S.  F. 

No.  205  New  High  St.,  Los  Angelrs. 


Concrete  Artificial 
Stone  Work. 


GEORGE   GOODMAN 


Patentee  and 
Manufacturer  of 

Artificial  Stone 

Schilltnger's  Patent  ]  In  all  its  branches 

Side  Walk  and  Garden  Walk  a  specialty." 

Office:    307  Montgomery  street,  (Nevada  block)  San  Franciscc 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 

SHIPPING    AND  COMMISSION    MERCHANTS 
General  Agents 

OCEANIC   STEAMSHIP   COMPANY, 
GILLINGHAM   CEMENT. 
3»7  flARKET  ST.,  Corner  Fremont,  S.  P. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  9,  1897. 


A  proposition  is  now  under  way  at  Vir- 
Draining  the  ginia  City  which  should  merit  the  sup- 
American  Flat,  port  of  every  one  who  deals  in  the  local 
mining  share  market.  Its  success  will 
mean  the  renewal  of  activity  in  the  Nevada  mines  and  in 
speculation  in  this  city.  The  American  Flat  ledges,  which 
were  neglected  in  years  gone  by  and  submerged  at  the 
water  level  in  the  craze  for  everything  on  the  Comstock, 
are  now  attracting  attention.  Some  of  the  leading  men  in 
the  business  are  now  determined  to  drain  this  wealthy  dis- 
trict by  extending  the  Sutro  tunnel  through  the  district  at 
a  depth  of  1100  feet,  the  distance  to  be  covered  being 
about  a  mile  and  a  half.  This  wbuld  tap  the  old  Rock 
Island,  Baltimore  and  Knickerbocker  ledges,  which  paid 
handsomely  down  to  the  water  level,  where  the  companies 
had  to  stop  work  failing  the  money  necessary  to  put  in  the 
machinery  required  to  handle  the  water.  The  right  peo- 
ple are  back  of  the  enterprise  now,  and  it  will  be  hoped 
that  the  coming  year  will  see  the  work  well  under  way, 
and  nearing  its  consummation.  The  absurdity  of  a  policy 
which  threw  millions  down  the  Comstock  shafts,  completely 
ignoring  every  other  mineral  deposit  off  the  main  lode,  is 
now  apparent,  but  it  has  taken  a  siege  of  dull  times  to 
convert  the  victims  of  a  delusion  which  has  cost  them 
dearly. 

The  mining  fever  is  spreading  badly  in  the 
California  community,  and  if  the  dollars  were  pour- 
Gold  Mines,  ing  in  at  the  rate  they  are  going  down  on 
paper,  the  town  would  be  packed  with  the 
chariots  of  another  batch  of  the  newly  enriched,  while  the 
beggars  would  do  the  grandee  act  on  horseback.  A  fair 
sample  of  the  rapid  enhancement  of  mining  values,  and  the 
enlarged  ideas  of  the  promotion  class  came  under  notice  of 
local  mining  men  during  the  past  week.  A  new  million 
dollar  proposition  cropped  up  in  the  street,  hatched  in  the 
fertile  brain  of  a  new  arrival  from  over  the  border.  Run- 
ning the  game  down,  the  owners  were  finally  located,  who 
held  the  property  at  $700,000,  a  drop  of  $250,000  when  the 
commissions  were  stripped  off  the  deal.  The  property 
in  question  is  a  water-logged  concern  which  could  have 
been  pulled  in  a  year  ago  for  $8000.  The  present  owners 
obtained  a  working  bond  on  it  for  $50,000,  drained  the 
ground  and  put  up  a  mill.  It  is  now  awaiting  the  foreign 
tenderfoot,  who  can  take  the  entire  bakery  for  $700,000,  if 
bought  direct.  This  is  a  fair  sample  of  the  estimate 
placed  upon  the  intelligence  of  the  coming  mine  buyers, 
who,  if  posted  on  their  business,  must  feel  hightly  nattered. 

Business  in    the    mining  market  has 

The  Pine  Street,     been   dull   during   the   holiday  season. 

Market.       '    Prices  have  been  low,  and  the   shares 

devoid  of  the  buoyancy  which  attracts 
investors.  The  mines,  however,  hold  their  own  remark- 
ably well.  The  last  official  letter  from  the  Chollar-Bruns- 
wick  Mine  would  have  created  a  stir  on  the  street  some 
years  ago.  The  high  grade  of  ore  opening  up  above  the 
200-level  is  a  surprise  to  the  friends  and  supporters  of  the 
"streak  and  bunch"  theory,  which  has  destroyed  the  con- 
fidence of  the  public  in  the  new  find.  The  showing,  in  face 
of  this  unfriendly  work  of  street-scalpers,  is  better  than 
the  Comstock  ever  made  in  its  infancy,  but  this  is  over- 
looked by  people  who  follow  blindly  any  lead  which  hap- 
pens to  suit  their  ideas  for  the  time  being.  There  is  a 
prospect  now  for  more  activity  in  the  market,  and  higher 
prices  are  anticipated  by  dealers  in  all  the  leading  shares. 

IT  is  amusing  to  learn  at  this  stage  of  the  game  that  the 
old  Kennedy  mine  is  destined  to  outrank  the  Utica.  It 
ought  to  have  opened  up  a  little  better  in  its  3'ounger  days 
to  attain  such  a  degree  of  eminence.  At  its  depth,  there 
might  possibly  be  more  millions  in  a  sale  if  the  right  class 
of  purchaser  could  be  dug  up. 

7WT  ARK  Sullivan,  a  well-known  and  capable  young  min- 
J  1  ing  man  of  Madera  County,  has  accepted  the  super- 
intendency  of  the  Savannah  Gold  Mines  at  Grub  Gulch. 


The  following  letter   arrived  in  the  last 

■    A  Voice  From     Australian  mailfrom  Kalgoorlie.     Itmay 

Westralia.        interest  some  of  our  California  readers  in 

so  far  as  the  paragraph  on  the  famous 
Comstock  mine  is  concerned.  The  balance  relating  to  the 
Paddington  Consols  will  be  Greek  to  most  of  the  boys  and 
girls  on  Pine  street,  although  some  may  catch  the  point 
where  it  bears  on  Charley  Kaufman: 

Mining  Editor  News  Letter — As  the  mystery  with  which  the 
Paddington  Consols  invest  their  property  is  becoming  somewhat 
notorious  on  these  fields,  a  short  account  of  Mr.  Jas.  C.  Dwyer  may 
enlighten  the  public. 

1  have  learned  that  Mr.  Dwyer  first  distinguished  himself  in  the 
mining  circles  of  California  in  the  early  '70s.  Through  the  influence 
of  Mr.  Chas  Patton,  a  director  in  the  Yellow  Jacket  Company,  Mr. 
Dwyer  secured  a  contract  to  sink  winzes,  drive  drifts,  etc.,  in  the 
Yellow  Jacket  Mine,  on  the  Comstock  Lode.  Mr.  Dwyer  fulfilled 
his  contract  in  six  months,  clearing  £9,000.  In  the  process  of  his 
work  he  discovered  the  Yellow  Jacket  bonanza,  and,  according  to 
his  agreement  with  Patton,  to  give  him  alone  information  of  the 
mine,  he  was  enabled  to  purchase  shares  at  low  prices,  and  sell  at 
the  highest.  He  thus  cleared  £(50,000,  while  his  friend  profited  to 
the  extent  of  £400,000. 

When  the  public  knows  this  it  has  the  key  to  the  situation,  which 
is  that  Mr.  Kaufman  could  not  have  made  Mr.  Dwyer  his  manager 
unless  manipulation  was  intended.  Yours  respectfully, 

Chas.  H.  Taylor. 

Kalgoorlie,  W.  A.,  Nov.  10, 1896. 

The  phenomenal  financial  growth  of  the 
A  Prosperous  Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society  con- 
Financial  Concern,  tinues.  Every  annual  report  shows  an 
increase  in  its  assets,  which  have  now 
reached  a  point  close  to  $40,000,000,  placing  the  bank  in 
the  front  of  financial  institutions  of  its  class  in  the  world. 
The  exact  amount  of  its  credits  on  December  31st  last  was 
$37,207,801.74.  Of  this  sum  no  less  than  $26,190,549.14  is 
represented  by  promissory  notes  secured  by  first  mort- 
gages on  real  estate,  the  bulk  of  which  is  city  property. 
United  States  bonds  of  the  value  of  $4,696,355.84  are  held 
by  the  bank,  and  in  addition  $1,890,866.68  in  miscellaneous 
bonds,  consisting  of  such  gilt-edged  securities  as  Market- 
street  Cable  6s,  Spring  Valley  4  per  cents,  Sutter-street 
5  per  cents,  and  Omnibus  6  per  cents.  The  real  property 
owned  by  the  bank  in  the  city  and  county  of  San  Francisco 
is  valued  at  $827,223,  including  the  palatial  office  building 
of  the  corporation.  The  cash  in  its  vaults  amounts  to 
$3,093,342.95,  exclusive  of  the  reserve  fund  amounting  to 
$2,682,099.12.  The  deposits  in  the  Hibernia  have  largely 
increased  during  the  past  six  months,  showing  the  confi- 
dence reposed  in  its  financial  solidity  and  good  manage- 
ment by  the  public. 

The  members  of  the  local  Stock  and 
Local  Stocks  in  Bond  Exchange  continue  to  do  a  large 
Good  Demand,  business  in  the  better  class  of  securi- 
ties, showing  that  money  is  not  scarce 
with  investors.  An  attempt  to  boom  the  powder  list  on 
the  strength  of  a  reported  combination,  has  fallen  rather 
flat,  owing  to  the  fact  that  the  public  failed  to  appreciate 
the  situation  as  delineated  by  the  schemers  at  the  back  of 
the  little  job.  While  conferences  have  undoubtedly  been 
held  looking  toward  the  consummation  of  a  compact,  they 
have  been  arranged  entirely  by  the  smaller  companies  who 
would  not  object  to  assistance  from  those  who  are  better 
fixed  financially  than  themselves.  To  arrange  a  compact 
of  the  kind,  concessions  will  have  to  be  made  which  are  not 
altogether  palatable  to  some  of  the  concerns  which,  for  all 
the  business  now  going  on,  have  enough  to  do  to  keep  their 
heads  above  water. 

The  extensive  gold  mountain  known   as 
Siskiyou  Mine     the  Quartz  Hill   property   at  Scott  Bar, 
Looming  Up.      Siskiyou  County,  has  just  been  examined 
by  a  party  of  mining  experts,    who  have 
carefully  investigated  its  value  and  merit,  and  pronounced 
it  one  of  the  most  extensive,    if  not  the  largest,  gold-bear- 
ing quartz   deposit  in  California,    favorably  located  for 
working  on  a  large  scale;  at  least  eighty  stamps  should  be 
erected  to  begin  crushing.     M.  F.  Campbell,   who  was  one 
of  the  party  of  experts  that  last  season   examined   this 
mountain,  has  accompanied  this  last  party  as  one  of   the 
experts.     He  found  the  cross-cut  run  into  the  mountain, 
showing  new  reserves,  and  felt  highly  pleased  with  the  re- 
sults.     Siskiyou  county   can  claim  in  Quartz  Hill  a  most 
valuable  property. 


January  o,  1897. 


ft 


1  Hfir  the  Crier"    "What  the  derll  ftr: 
'One  thai  will pl»v  the ili' vii. «lr,  ■  itii  •. 


OWING  to  the  fact  tliat  an  Examiner  theatrii 
made  the  announcement   in   he 
real  at  M  1 

lestrians,  and  traffic  for  several  hours  intei 
in  front  of  the  Mission  street  | 

d  among  the  free-lunch  fiends  with  lightning  ra 
ami  the  thoroughfare  was  blocked  for  a  quarter  of  a  mile 
by  a  thirst;  throng,  a  large  proportion  ol  which  swarmed 
that  way  from  the  neighborhood  ol   the  1  iiy  Ball. 
an  unhappy  error,  ami  should  not  occur  again, 

LANGTRY,  the  somewha  lily,  has  a  hus- 

band who  does  not  propose  to  be  snuffed  out  of  sight 
bv  a  California  divorce  court,  and   who  indignantly  d 
the  assertion  that  he  has  been  supported  all  these  years 

from  the  proceeds  of  his  erstwhile  companion's  income  as 
an  actress    who  has    basked    in  the  blistering   smiles   of 
royalty.     It  is  indeed  unusual   to  record   the  fact    I 
San   Francisco    divorce    suit    is    to    be    contested.     Mr. 
Laogtry's  next  move  will  be  watched  with  interest. 

THE  Reverend  W.  D.  P.  Bliss  of  Boston  has  delivered  a 
lecture  in  choicest  Bostonese  at  the  Turk  street 
''Temple."  on  "Socialism,"  the  Reverend  J,  E.  Scotl 
assisting  in  the   entertainment.     Surety   we   have  enough 

preachers  who  do  not    preach,    without    importing  th 

from  the  Hub  or  any  other  portion  of  the  effete  East. 
What  we  want  is  sweet  surcease  from  such  noisy  divines 
as  Will  Do  Politics  Bliss  and  Jaw  Exerciser  Scott.  We 
devoutly  wish  none  others  would  apply. 

JAMES  Patterson,  Jr.  has  toyed  with  the  X-ray,  and 
now  is  a  sadder  and  a  wiser  man.  In  his  bubbling  en- 
thusiasm for  science,  he  has  come  near  immolating  himself 
upon  the  altar  of  his  devotion  to  its  experiments,  and  has 
succeeded  in  burning  enough  holes  in  himself  to  give  him  a 
slight  idea  of  what  the  hereafter  will  do  to  sinners.  There 
is  really  no  need  nowadays  for  a  man  to  roast  himself  in 
this  fashion.  The  dailies  should  not  be  deprived  of  their 
prerogatives. 

THE  unfortunate  falling  out  of  Librarian  Peterson,  of 
the  Oakland  Free  Library,  with  his  better  half,  is 
much  to  be  regretted.  When  men  of  sedentary  occupa- 
tions come  into  conflict  with  their  spouses,  what  is  to  be 
expected  of  men  whose  daily  occupation  leads  them  into 
the  path  of  temptation — such  as  the  clergy,  the  police,  and 
the  holy  company  of  merchants  ?  Mr.  Peterson  should 
have  kept  his  marital  muddle  a  secret. 

riTH  hungry  look  and  itching  hand 
Bach  new  Assemblyman  doth  stand 
Beside  the  man  who  hold  (he  sack 
And  hopes  to  bring  a  portion  back. 
Not  oft  these  fellows  get  a  chance 
To  fill  the  pockets  of  their  pants; 
The  sooner  done,  the  sooner  oer, 
Please  God,  they'll  trouble  then  no  more. 


W1 


HIS  Excellency  the  Governor  is  to  be  congratulated  up- 
on having  delivered  himself  of  so  voluminous  a  mes- 
sage as  that  presented  to  our  legislators  at  Sacramento. 
Whether  these  latter  can  read  or  not,  and  in  most  cases 
their  ability  to  do  so  is  questionable,  a  proof  is  given  to  the 
world  that  Mr.  Budd  can  write.  We  may  be  taxed  for  the 
printing  of  the  stuff,  but  that  is  only  an  item,  after  all 

SEVENTY-TWO  applicants  are  clamoring  for  admis- 
sion to  the  legal  bar  of  this  State.  It  is  now  in  order 
to  increase  our  Almshouse  accommodations  at  once.  Pov- 
erty is  no  crime,  and  we  cannot  sit  by  unfeelingly  and  see 
our  fellow  beings  starve,  no  matter  how  deeply  we  de- 
plore their  lack  of  judgment. 
IT  is  not  surprising  that  society  girls  should  yearn  for  the 
exciting  life  that  accompanies  a  stage  career.  The 
Town  Crieh's  sympathy  is  wid  'em.  Three  pin 
sky-blue-yellow  luncheons  would  send  him  into  delirium 
tremens,  yet  a  girl  is  expected  to  endure  such  things  and 
thrive,  from  season  to  season. 


1  '.     i  •    ■ 

brethren  •■• 

■  r;i  them 


1 

Bl    from    his 
idaj    :n  the   fields  near  Ingle 
e .  during  his  ah  id  now 

morning  before  breakfast, 
r,  in  the  rumor  that   he  Is  one  of 

111     training     for    the    editorial 

■  id  the  requirements  of  such 

lion. 

Til  E  ladie  1  1  rial  Union  are 

ing  arrangements  to  appear  in  a  body  before  the 
Sunei  1   that  the  <  lity  Sail  ! 

members  of  their  own  sex   for   purification.     Whether  the 
rvisorswill  bl    or  not  remains  to 

be  seen,     Some  of  them,    we   understand,   are  exceedingly 

the  brunt  of  the 
on.  We  shall  watch  for  the  result  with  expectancy. 

IT  is  to  be  hoped  the  1    gislature  will  not  turn  a  deaf  ear 
petition  of  the  workingmen  of  San  Francisco 
be    granted     free     soap    as    an     inducement 
for  them  to   perform   their   weekly  ablutions.     Mr.  Sutro 
having  kindly  placed  his   baths   at   their  disposal  for  one 
week,  we  id    that  the  condition  of  the 

horny  mouthed  son  of  toil  wi'i  be  materially  improved  dur- 
ing the 

HARRY  F.  Mann  and  his  wife  sought  the  friendly  shel- 
:  the  Receiving  Hospital  this  week  for  the  salving 
of  wounds  received  in  a  light,  over  a  pair  of  shoes,  with  a 
shoemaker.  The  toe  of  a  boot  has  frequently  done  active 
service  in  altercations,  andold  shoes  have  from  time  imme- 
morial been  the  price  of  midnight  slumbers,  but  the  ap- 
pearance of  footgear  as  a  bone  of  contention  smacks  of 
novelty. 

THESE  Mothers1  Congresses  that  meet, 
Some  methods  new  will  teach,  it  may  be, 
But  all  tbe  same  it's  safe  to  say 

That  in  the  old,  old-fashioned  way 
Their  slippers  will  come  into  play 

When  they  proceed  to  spank  the  baby. 

IN  case  the  boodle  being  distributed  at  Sacramento 
might  prove  too  powerful  a  lodestone  for  the  Town 
1  i  hi:,  be  has  been  chained  to  the  News  Letter  safe 
(empty)  and  will  not  be  granted  his  liberty  until  the  last 
of  our  self-conscious  Solons  has  retired  to  his  inglorious 
hamlet  to  blow  in  his  portion  of  ill-gotten  gain. 

SN  unfortunate  street  sweeper,  who  was  run  over  by  a 
team  on  Market  street,  intends  suing  the  owners  for 
some  :?;;o,000.  How  comes  this  particular  individual  to 
estimate  himself  at  so  high  a  figure  as  $30,000  ?  Willie 
Hearst   comes  no  higher  than  that. 

SMAN  cannot  expect  to  have  the  daily  newspapers  re- 
cord the  fact  that  he  has  a  cold  in  the  head,  or  has 
sneezed  three  times  in  succession,  until  he  has  become  a 
multi-millionaire.  Such  distinction  is  reserved  alone  for 
the  rich. 

THE  easy  manner  in  which  several  budding  politicians 
presented  their  Bills  in  the  Assembly  goes  far  to 
prove  that  they  have  all  had  more  or  less  experience  with 
that  fiend  in  human  guise — the  dun. 

SOME  Eastern  philanthropists  are  publishing  a  journal 
entitled,  "What  to  Eat."  The  Town  Crier  has 
scratched  himself  bald  over  the  question:  "  How  To  Get 
It." 

WHEN  a  man  is  said  to  be  "on   trial  for  his  life,"  the 
statement  bears  a  literal  significance   in  San  Fran- 
cisco.    It  takes  a  lifetime  to  reach  a  verdict. 

HOW  is  it  that  little  Willie  Hearst   has   not  pitched  his 
tent  at  Sacrartento?     Surely  he  is   aware  of  the  pre- 
sence of  a  sack  in  that  most  holy  of  cities. 

NO  wonder  it  lias  been  so  cold  of  late  in  San  Francisco. 
All  the  hot  stulf  is  assembled  at  Sacramento. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  9,  1897. 


DEAR  EDITH  :  The  popularity  of  lace  as  a  garniture 
is  well  maintained.  One  can  hardly  say  that  it  is 
more  popular  than  ever,  for  the  climax  of  its  popularity 
was  attained  long  ago.  The  combination  of  lace  and  fur 
is  a  conspicuous  feature  of  winter  fashions.  The  fur 
shoulder  cape,  with  its  complement  of  many  sable  or  mink 
tails,  is  further  ornamented  with  a  fall  of  very  costly  lace. 
Some  of  the  high  rolling  fur  collars  or  collars  lined  with 
fur,  have  folds  of  lace  laid  between  the  collar  and  the  neck. 
There  are  cravat  ends  of  lace  which  are  allowed  to  hang 
straight,  or  otherwise  are  softly  knotted  beneath  the  chin. 

Many  of  the  chestnut,  Havana,  vand  nasturtium  shades 
have  acquired  new  beauty  this  season,  and  are  greatly  in 
evidence,  and  among  certain  high-class  modistes  and 
tailors  all  the  rich  browns,  fawns  and  grays  are  more  used 
than  any  other  colors  for  elegant,  day  costumes.  Next  in 
favor  are  the  handsome  silk-and- wool  mixtures,  the  basket- 
cloths  and  boucles  in  black  and  colors. 

The  Scotch  tweeds  for  winter  show  great  variety  in  de- 
sign, and  for  utility  uses  are  made  with  good-length  coats, 
and  seven-gored  skirts.  Costumes  of  richly-colored  tailor 
cloths  have  natty  jacket  bodices  made  double-breasted 
over  the  chest  and  cut  out  slightly  on  the  very  lower  por- 
tion to  show  the  points  of  vest  made  of  white  cloth,  Suede 
kid,  or  decorated  velvet  or  satin.  These  give  uncommon 
style  to  the  gown. 

Military  scarlet  and  rich  Danish  red  are  undoubtedly 
very  fashionable  colors  for  children  this  winter,  among 
these  being  scarlet  cloth  coats  and  Tarn  O'Shanter  caps  to 
match.  Entire  suits  of  this  brilliant  color  are  brought  out 
both  for  the  small  men  and  maidens,  and  smart  little  blouses 
are  made  variously  in  combinations  of  red  and  white,  red 
and  blue,  scarlet  and  green,  etc.,  some  braided,  others 
finished  with  straight  lines  of  gold,  white,  or  black  cord. 
Plum  color,  rich  brown,  and  soft  fawn  shades  are  likewise 
used  on  stylish  and  picturesque  suits,  and  corduroy  and 
velveteen  with  trimmings  of  handsome  Irish  crochet  lace 
are  in  great  vogue.  Pretty  lace  sets  of  wide  collar  and 
deep  cuffs  are  added  to  fancy  velvet  costumes  for  both 
boys  and  girls. 

It  is  very  smart  to  make  the  dress  match  the  revers. 
These,  if  of  red,  are  in  tone  with  the  deep  red  dress.  If 
of  gray  satin,  they  match  a  gray  gown,  and  if  of  white, 
they  are  worn  with  plain  black.  White  broadcloth  skirts 
are  considerably  worn.  They  tone  toward  gray,  and  are 
very  pretty. 

To  meet  the  requirements  of  the  new  style  of  hair-dress- 
ing, many  hats  have  strings  which  cross  at  the  back  and 
tie  at  the  left  side.  Flowers  and  rosettes  are  not  so  gen- 
erally seen  beneath  the  brim,  but  rest  on  strings  at  the 
back  midway  between  the  neck  and  the  hat.  The  promi- 
nent jug-handle  style  of  coiffure  is  now  wholly  passi.  The 
center  coil  comes  closer  to  the  head,  and  often  the  hair  is 
carried  to  the  top  of  the  head,  and  arranged  en  Pompa- 
dour in  a  series  of  soft  puffs,  braids  or  coils,  arranged  in 
some  original  fashion  that  best  suits  the  face.  It  is  quite 
the  style  to  again  part  the  hair  on  the  left  side  and  wave 
it  on  both  sides  of  the  parting.  A  few  women  who  admire 
classic  modes  are  arranging  their  tresses  a  la  Grecque. 
This  is  always  a  most  trying  coiffure.  Belinda. 

Paso  Robles. 
Our  new  mud  bath  house  is  finished.  The  arrangement  of  baths, 
dressing  rooms,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  floor.  No  stairs  or  steps  to 
climb.  We  are  now  unquestionably  the  finest  sanitarium  or  health 
resort  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Rest  and  health  seekers  are  Paso  Robles 
seekers,  Rates,  $10,  $12.50,  $15,  and  $17.50  per  week.  Climate  warm. 

Of  all  the  well-tried  Bourbon  whiskeys  on  the  market  the  cele- 
brated "Argonaut'' brand  is  undoubtedly  the  peer.  This  delectable 
fluid  has  been  recommended  by  the  most  eminent  physicians  and 
has  proven  itself  a  favorite  among  connoisseurs.  The  agents  for 
this  Coast  are  Messrs.  E.  Martin  &  Co,  411  Market  street,  whose 
reputation  alone  is  a  guaranty  for  the  fine  quality  of  their  goods. 

Kelly's  Corn  Cure  never  fails.    25  cents.    102  Eddy  street. 


Grand  Annual 
Midwinter 
Clearance  Sale 


Now  in  Progress. 


Everything  at  a 

Prodigious 

Sacrifice. 


See  Daily  Papers  for  Particulars. 


MURPHY  BUILDING,  Market  and  Jones  Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

203  to  207  N  Spring  St.  bet.  Temple  and  First  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

FINE  FURS 
and 

SEALSKIN 
f^     QARHENTS 

to  order.  Remodeling  and 
repairing  at  prices  far  be- 
low those  of  any  oilier  fur- 
rier on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
All  work  guaranteed. 

flD.  K060UR, 

FASHIONABLE  FURRIER, 
$%   Kearny  Street  (Up-stairs), 

Opposite  Chronicle.    Formerly  cutter  with  Revillon  Freres,  Paris,  Lon- 
don, New  York. 

Imperial  Hair  Regenerator 

If  you  value  your  hair,  use  only  the  Imperial  Hair 
Regenerator,  to  make  GRAY  HAIR  its  natural  color, 
or  BLEACHED  HAIR  any  color  desired.  Baths  do 
not  affect  it.  Neither  does  curling  or  crimping.  In- 
comparable for  the  BEARD  on  account  of  its  durability 
and  cleanliness. 

No.  1,  Black;  2,  Dark  Brown;  3,  Medium 
Brown;  4,  Chestnut;  5,  Light  Chestnut; 
6,  Gold  Blonde;  7,  Ash  Blonde. 


PRICE,  $1  50  and  $3 
IMPERIAL   CHEMICAL  M'F'G, 


CO, 


292  Filth  Ave.,  IS.  Y. 

For  sale  by  Druggists  and  Hairdressers 
in  San  Francisco;  sold  and  applied  by 
Stanislas  Strozynski  and  Goldstein  & 
Cohn. 


Joseph  oillott's  Steel  Pens, 


Gold  Medals.  Paris  1878-1889.  These  pens  are  "  the  best 
in  the  world."    Sole  agent  for  the  United  States. 
MR.  HENRY  HOE,  91  John  Street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers. 


January  v.  1897. 


s.w  prancisco  news  LET 


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'•Wii*on  has  a  most  unhappy  way  of  expressing  himself." 

"He  told  me  he  was  going  to   propose  to  that  charming 

widow  from  Chicago."     "He  did,   but  his  clumsy 

effort  to  be  off-hand  and  easy  spoiled  it.  He  had  read 
these  allusions  to  Chicago  divorces  until  be  thought  they 

true."  "What  did  he  say  to  the  widow.''  "He 
asked  her  if  she  was  engaged  for  her  next  wedding." — 
Washington  Star. 

"What  kind  of  goods,  ma'am?"  asked  the  salesman. 
"I  think."  replied  the  young  woman  who  had  just  bought 
B  wheel  and  was  about  to  order  her  first  riding  suit,  "you 
may  show  me  some  of  your  early  fall  styles." — Chicago 
Tribune. 

"Nan,  we  are  going  to  have  individual  communion  cups 
in  our  church."  "How  lovely!"  "Yes;  and  won't  it  be 
charming  when  we  have  individual  clergymen — one  for 
every  girl  in  the  parish?" — Chicago  Record. 

Sexton  (from  the  vestry  room) — Dr.  Blank — Dr.  Blank — 
the  church  is  on  tire.  Dr.  Blank  (from  the  pulpit) — 
Very  well,  William:  I  will  retire.  Perhaps  you'd  better 
wake  up  the  congregation. — Harper's  Bazar. 

Ambling  Anderson — I  see  by  de  papers  dat  de  new 
t'ousand-dollar  notes  is  badly  printed  on  bum  paper. 
Facetious  Fabrington — Is  dat  so?  It's  funny  I  ain't 
noticed  it.— New  York  World. 

Nursegiri — I  lost    track    of    the    child,    mum,    and 

"Good  gracious!  Why  didn't  you  speak  to  a  policeman?" 
Nceseqibl — I  was  speakiug  to  wan  all  the  toime,  mum. 
— Pearson's  Weekly. 

She — It  requires  six  things  to  make  married  life  happy. 
He — Indeed!  Sue — Yes;  the  first  is  a  model  husband. 
He — And  then?  She — The  other  five  consists  of  money. 
■ — La  Caricature. 

"Angel  cake,"  said  the  married  man,  who  refused  to 
permit  the  use  of  his  name,  "Is  so  called  because  it 
would  require  an  angel  to  eat  it  without  suppressed  pro- 
fanity."— Puck. 

Deacon  Black — How  did  you  like  it  down  at  Bloomtown? 
Rev.  White — I  tell  you,  they're  wide  awake  down  there! 
"Oh,  then  you  didn't  preach  for  them?" — Yonkers 
Statesman. 

"Delia,  don't  you  feel  bad  about  separating  from  your 
husband?"  "Oh,  horribly,  Julia;  you  see,  I  have  his  name 
embroidered  all  over  my  autograph  pillow."  —  Chicago 
Record. 

"Do  you  enjoy  novel  reading,  Miss  Belinda?"  "Oh,  very 
much;  one  can  associate  with  people  in  fiction  that  one 
wouldn't  dare  to  speak  to  in  real  life." — Chicago  Record. 

"The  apple  crop  is  enormous  this  year."  "Yes,  and 
they  say  that  apples  are  brain  food."  "Well,  they  didn't 
act  that  way  on  Adam  and  Eve." — Chicago  Record. 

Duzbey — I  understand  that  Mrs.  Buzbuz  had  begun 
divorce  proceedings.  Doobey  —  On  what  grounds? 
Duzbey — South  Dakota. — Roxbm-g  Gazette. 

"What  makes  you  think  that  Oldly  is  an  honest  man?" 
"Because  I  heard  him  tell  his  wife  that  he  stayed  out  all 
night  to  play  poker." — Detroit  Free  Press. 

Somebody  asked  a  girl  what  she  would  do  if  she  had  a 
mustache  on  her  upper  lip.  "If  I  liked  the  man  I'd  keep 
quiet,"  said  she. — Ex. 

"is  there  any  English  equivalent  of  'raconteur?'" 
"Well,  'bore'  fills  the  bill  in  some  places." — Puck. 

Adoiphus — I've  half  a  mind Kate — There    Dolly, 

don't  exaggerate. — Boston  Transcript. 

Through  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  from  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Tioketofflce,  644  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
phone Main  1531. 


thcr  lamp-chimm 
quarter  0  good  as  Macbcth's; 
nr  cheap  in  the  long  run. 

You  want  the  righl  shape 
besides.  We'll  send  you  the 
Index  ;    free. 

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CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 


RESTAURANTS. 
Bergez't  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  332-334  Pino  street.      Rooms  tor 

ladles  and  families,  private  entrance.    John  Bergez,  Proprietor. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserle,  111   O'Farrell  street.    Prlvato  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantlnl,  Proprietor. 
Nevada  Restaurant, -117  Pino  St.    Private  rooms;  meals  50c.     LonPY  Bros 
Poodle    Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms.      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Bkun. 

DENTISTS. 

Or.  Thomas  L.  Hill, 

OFFICE:  Odd  Fellows' Building,  southwest  cor.  Seventh  and  Market 
streets.    Office  hours :  9  A.  m.  to  5  P.  M.    Consultation  Hours :  4  to  6. 

Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St..  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  8tamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105 O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILERMAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

PRINTING   AND   RUBBER   STAMPS. 
Harney,  (Jas.  H.  Harney,  Geo.  T.  Koch),  Job  Printers,  648  Sacra- 


Koch 

men  to  St 


Fine  printing  and  embossing,  seals,  rubber  stamps,  stencils,  etc. 

CANDIES.  ~ 

Latest  English  Pear  Drops.    Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 

VEHICLES 
Latest  style  Victoria,  only  used  a  few  times;  also,  three-seated  drag, 
500  Golden  Gate  Avenue. 


INDIA  OPIUfl  CURE, 


.  D.  Kimmis,  Proprietor. 

OPIUM,  MORPHINE 


Room  1,  Columbian  Building, 
916  Market  Street,  S.  F. 

and   COCAINE 


And  allother  opiate  habits  cured  speedily  and  effectively  or  money  re- 
funded.   Ladies  treated  privately  at  home. 


BRUSHES 


For  barbers,  bakers,  bootblacks,  bath-houses,  bil- 
liard tables,  brewers,  book-binders,  candy-makers, 
canners,  dyers,  flour-mills,  foundries,  laundries, 
paper-hangers,  printers,  painters,  shoe  factories, 
stablemen,  tar-roofers,  tanners  tailors,  etc. 


BUCHANAN   BROS., 

BRUSH   MANUFACTURERS,  609  Sacramento  St.  ,S.  F       Tel.  5610. 

LA    GRANDE    LAUNDRY,       Telephone,  Bush  IS. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE:  23 Powell  St.,  opp.  Baldwin  Hotel. 
BRANCH :  1 1  Taylor  street,  near  Golden  Gate  avenue. 
LAUNDRY:  Twelfth  St.,  bet.  Folsom  and  Howard,  S.  F. 
All  ordinary  mending,  sewing  on  buttons,  etc.,  free  of 
charge.  Orders  left  at  office  will  receive  prompt  attention. 
Work  called  for  and  delivered  to  any  part  of  the  city  free  of 
charge. 

Tru  the    SftN   FRftNGlSGO   LAUNDRY, 

Office,  33  Geaiy  street.    Telephone  Main  5125. 
Oakland  Offloe— 864  Broadway.    Telephone  Main  658. 

United  States  Laundry, 

Office;  1004  Market  St.,  near  Baldwin.    Telephone,  South  4-3-0. 

U/oah   r\on  nriH  Wnmpn  Should  use   DAMIANA  BIT- 
WeaK  1  lcn  antl    WUmen  TERS,  the  great  Mexloan  rem- 
edy •  it  gives  health  and  strength  to  the  Sexual  Organs.    Depot  at  323  Mar- 
k  et  street,  San  Franoisco.     (Send  tor  oircular.) 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  9,  1897. 


WHEN  the  news  reached  this  city  that  there  was  a  bog 
moving  in  Ireland,  and  that  Ireland  itself  was  slowly, 
but  surely,  creeping  towards  California,  there  was  im- 
mense excitement  among  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians. 
It  was  proposed  to  appoint  a  delegation  which  should  com- 
prise the  most  prominent  members  of  the  Order,  to  sail  out 
through  the  Golden  Gate  and  greet  the  "Ould  Sod," 
somewhere  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Farallones.  The  moment 
this  geographical  wonder  became  known  in  political  circles, 
there  was  a  wild  rush  for  places  on  the  committee.  Of 
course,  it  was  understood  that  the  chairman  of  this  com- 
mittee might  aspire  to  any  office  in  the  gift  of  the  State, 
backed  up  by  this  augmentation  of  the  Irish  vote.  One  of 
the  most  serious  considerations  accompanying  the  recep- 
tion of  Ireland  was  how  the  new  Hibernians  were  to  be 
accommodated  on  the  police  force.  It  was  felt  all  around 
that  it  would  be  a  dangerous  thing  to  deny  them  this  office, 
to  which  their  accident  of  birth  entitled  them.  This  diffi- 
culty was  solved,  however,  by  the  clever  suggestion  of 
Judge  Toohy  that  it  might  be  necessary  to  establish  tro- 
ehas  in  every  county  to  check  the  invasion  of  the  potato- 
bug,  and  that  the  new  and  stalwart  fighting  material  the 
old  country  would  bring,  would  be  admirably  adapted  for 
this  purpose.  It  would  be  impossible  to  move  the  Land  of 
Sorrows  in  through  the  Golden  Gate,  and,  therefore,  some 
position  off  the  western  shore,  not  too  remote  from  the 
Cliff  House,  would  have  to  be  chosen.  A  committee  on 
ways  and  means  will  undoubtedly  provide  for  the  running 
of  a  line  of  steamers  between  Ireland  and  the  ocean  beach. 
A  small  fee  of  admission  will  be  charged  those  who  want 
to  make  temporary  visits  to  the  land  of  their  birth,  and 
those  who,  having  heard  so  much  about  Ireland,  will  be 
anxious  to  inspect  her  mountains  and  rivers,  her  ruined 
abbeys,  and  the  lakes  of  Killarney.  The  graves  of  her 
patriots  will  be  shown  to  tourists,  and  huge  markets  for 
the  sale  of  shamrocks  and  black-thorn  sticks  will  be  estab- 
lished. Whether  the  "land  of  the  free  and  the  home  of 
the  brave"  will  be  annexed  to  the  United  States  is  a  mat- 
ter which  will  have  to  be  decided  by  the  party  now  in 
power.  It  is  more  than  probable,  however,  that  the  people 
of  Ireland  themselves  will  insist  upon  a  king,  and  the  tur- 
moil that  must  follow  the  presentation  of  the  members  of 
the  Irish  royal  families  which  are  scattered  all  over  the 
surface  of  the  globe,  will  afford  some  nice  practice  in  riot 
drill  for  the  new  police  force.  Again,  it  will  be  a  matter 
of  importance  to  the  revenues  of  this  State  whether  the 
native  "  potheen  "  whiskey  can  be  admitted  free  of  duty 
or  not. 


The  death  of  J.  Boss  Jackson  has  been  the  immediate 
cause  for  the  revival  of  many  anecdotes  concerning  bis 
doings,  the  recalling  of  some  of  the  witticisms  for  which 
he  was  famous  and  examples  of  his  keen  and  clever  re- 
partee. His  wit  was  spontaneous,  so  much  of  the  point 
and  piquancy  is  lost  in  a  subsequent  narration.  His 
humor  sparkled  but  never  burned,  and  there  was  no 
malice  in  his  chaffing.  He  was  accustomed  to  say  that  he 
could  never  see  the  point  of  a  joke  until  the  gas  was 
lighted,  but  when  evening  came  and  good  cheer  abounded 
he  was  the  life  of  every  party.  After  others  had  dropped 
by  the  wayside  or  disappeared  under  the  table,  Jackson 
always  remained  master  of  himself.  In  'this  respect  he 
was  counted  one  of  the  wonders  of  the  town.  He  liked  to 
hear  a  good  story  and  to  tell  one  even  at  his  own  expense. 
One  favorite  anecdote  was  an  account  of  how  his  wife 
beat  him  at  a  famous  game  of  billiards.  The  Jacksons  were 
among  the  guests  at  a  Gilroy  house  party  and  the  weather 
gathered  all  the  company  around  the  long  green  table. 
Ross  was  an  expert  player  and  had  instructed  bis  wife 
and  daughter  in  the  game  until  they,  too,  had  attained  a 
degree  of  proficiency  of  which  he  was  proud.  Mrs. 
Jackson  confided  in  the  others  that  she  would  take  ''a 
rise  out  of  her  husband  and  at  the   same   time  beat  him  on 


the  string."  On  pretense  of  giving  him  a  new  variety  of 
crcktail  concerning  the  ingredients  of  which  he  was 
pledged  to  ask  no  questions,  she  made  him  a  concoction  of 
mescal  and  bitters.  He  was  given  a  drink  after  almost  every 
shot  and  being  -unused  to,  the  terrible  beverage,  it  soon 
had  its  effect.     All  the  guests  guyed  Ross  about  his  play. 

"Why,  I  can  beat  you .  myself,  "  said  Mrs.  Jackson, 
tantaliziugly. 

Jackson  smiled  indulgently  at  what  he  considered  her 
woman's  conceit. 

"Well,  I  will  play  you  a  game  for  twenty  dollars,"  she 
said. 

Rois  thought  this  a  good  chance  to  recoup  himself  for  a 
spring  bonnet  and  joyfully  assented,  so  confident  of  win- 
ning, that  he  insisted  the  stakes  should  be  deposited  with 
a  gentleman  present.  By  this  time  the  effect  of  the 
mescal  was  such  that  his  aim  and  vision  became  defective 
and  he  hist  the  gome  by  a  good  many  points.  He  was 
terribly  chagrined  and  it  was  several  days  before  any- 
one ventured  to  enlighten  him  as  to  the  direct  cause  of 
his  defeat. 

On  another  occasion  Jackson  was  entertaining  a  ranch- 
man who  at  his  home  drank  nothing  but  good  old  Bourbon, 
to  the  influence  of  which  he  was  impervious.  Ross  ordered 
a  gin  fizz  and  the  countryman  without  the  least  idea  of 
what  the  beverage  was  like  said  he  would  take  the  same. 
The.farmer  thought  the  "Jim  Fizz,"  as  he  called  it,  must 
be  a  temperance  drink  so  mild  did  it  seem,  and  he  had  a 
number  in  rapid  succession.  In  answer  to  his  inquiry, 
Ross  told  him  the  drink  was  named  after  James  Fizz,  who 
had  invented  it. 

"Who  is  this  Jim  Fizz?"  asked  the  rancher  with  grow- 
ing enthusiasm.     "I  would  like  to  make  his  acquaintance." 

Ross  quizzically  eyed  bis  friend,  who  was  in  a  fair  way 
to  become  gloriously  inebriated. 

"You  had  better  look  out  for  him,"  he  warned.  "Jim 
Fizz  does  up  every  one  who  sticks  to  him." 


In  the  matter  "of  cravats,  Edward  Eyre  is  at  once  the 
pride  and  sorrow  of  the  Produce  Exchange, — a  mingling 
of  joy  and  envy.  He  is  exceedingly  fastidious  concerning 
his  neckwear,  always  adorning  himself  with  the  latest 
product  of  the  haberdasher  and  it  is  a  matter  of  principle 
with  him  never  to  wear  the  same  one  on  successive  days. 
His  friends  say  he  keeps  a  necktie  journal,  wherein  is 
recorded  the  date  of  wearing  a  certain  cravat,  which  after 
one  day's  use  is  carefully  laid  aside  not  to  reappear  within 
two  months.  The  men  on  the  floor  of  the  Call  Board 
planned  a  surprise  for  Eyre  which  materialized  just  be- 
fore Christmas  Eve.  They  desired  to  see  him  so 
thoroughly  equipped  that  during  1897  he  would  wear  a 
new  tie  every  morning  in  the  year  and  all  the  bulls  and 
bears  made  contributions  so  that  the  total  numbered  365. 
Every  donor  to  "Eddie's  necktie  stocking,"  as  it  was 
called,  chose  his  own  samples  and  a  big  grain  sackful 
accumulated  at  the  Produce  Exchange  of  these  weird 
specimens.  The  cravats  constitute  a  fantastic  collection 
and  if  Eyre  pays  his  friends  the  compliment  of  wearing 
their  gifts,  he  will  be  a.  brave  man,  but  an  unhappy  one. 
The  loudest  colors  and  most  flashy  patterns  procurable  are 
in  the  assortment  which  includes  all  the  freak  styles  known 
to  the  furnisher,  from  a  red  and  green  muffler  to  a  yellow 
shoe-string. 

*  *  * 

When  Francis  &  Valentine's  place  was  in  the  claws  of 
the  fire  fiend;  when  the  flames  were  tearing  the  place  to 
pieces,  and  the  water  tower  from  aloft  was  pouring  down 
a  glorious  stream  of  water,  up  the  tottering  staircase 
darted  an  individual  with  the  fire  of  heroism  in  his  eye. 
He  did  not  come  to  rescue  any  woman  lying  appalled  and 
stricken  by  the  peril  of  the  situation.  It  was  not  his  part 
to  gather  in  the  orphan  child  neglected  by  its  mercenary 
nurse.  The  stream  from  the  water-tower  came  pouring 
down  the  stairway,  and  in  the  face  of  danger,  of  fire  and 
water,  this  heroic  lad  unscrewed  the  telephone  from  the 
wall  and  fled  the  ruined  building,  bearing  under  his  arm 
the  type  of  his  allegiance  to  that  most  useful  article. 
He  had  faced  the  fire  and  breasted  the  rushing  stream, 
and  won  from  the  very  heart  of  the  conflagration  the 
telephone  box. 


Janu. 


s\N    FRANCISCO  NEWS   I.KITKR. 


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Swinnerton  riding 

Sutro  demolishing   the 


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good  wine  and  shaking  dice 
for  t!  ■ 

a  tandem  bicycle  in  the  1'ark;  Mi 

plaster  m<"  at  "The  Heights;"  Durrant  a   pew- 

opener  in  a  fashionable  church:  Talbot  Clifton  back  from 
Europe,  and  buying  more  horses  from  Dan  McCarthy:  Mi>s 
Anna  Shaw  married  and  rooking  a  cradle:  Mayor  Plielan 
with  the  scalps  of  a  "Solid  Seven."  at  his  boh;  William 
(ireer  Harrison  tramping  from  the  "Sierras  to  the  sea;' 
Joaquin  Miller  with  his  hair  cut  A  '.i  Pompadour;  the  "old- 
sters and  the  youngsters'  of  the  Pacific  Union  Club  united 
in  the  bonds  of  love  and  harmony:  the  "  long  and  the  short 
fellows"  who  do  all  the  footpad  business  captured  by  the 
police;  large  poster  pictures  and  bigger  type  in  the 
dailies;  "  Long  Green'  Lawrence  engaged  in  geological 
pursuits  at  Folsom,  examining  quarries,  etc.;  the  "short 
bit"  financial  infamy  abolished:  Judge  Campbell's  whiskers 
shorn  down  to  the  roots:  Colonel  Dan  Burns  keeping  a  cigar 
store:  women's  hats  left  with  cloaks  and  umbrellas  in  the 
dressing  rooms  of  the  theatres;  and  all  the  churches  har- 
monious. 

OBITUARY. 

THE  death  of  Thomas  J.  Shackleford  removes  from  our 
midst  one  of  our  brightest  and  most  prominent  attor- 
neys. He  came  to  California  in  the  early  days,  and  set- 
tled in  Tulare  County.  In  the  early  sixties  he  was  elected 
County  Clerk  of  that  county,  and  subsequently  served  a 
term  in  the  Legislature,  and  two  terms  as  Secretary  of 
the  State  Senate. 

George  W.  Meade.  Another  prominent  Californian,  Geo. 
W.  Meade,  expired  this  week  in  Los 
Angeles.  For  a  time  he  was  largely  identified  with  the 
raisin-packing  industry  at  Fresno,  and  did  much  for  the 
towns  of  Santa  Barbara,  Riverside,  Santa  Rosa,  RedlaDds, 
and  elsewhere.  At  one  time  he  was  a  leading  commission 
merchant  in  this  city,  and  built  the  Meade  Block  on  Drumm 
street. 

George  Haas.  The  funeral  of  George  Haas,  the  well- 
known  candy  manufacturer  and  dealer, 
took  place  on  Tuesday  at  Cypress  Lawn  Cemetery.  Im- 
posing ceremonies  were  held  at  the  Masonic  Temple,  the 
deceased  having  been  a  Knight  Templar.  Mr.  Haas  was 
born  in  Germany,  but  came  to  this  Coast  as  a  boy. 


THE  semi-annual  report  of  the  City  and  County  Alms- 
house, submitted  to  the  Board  of  Health  by  Superin- 
tendent E.  A.  Reddy,  is  most  satisfactory  in  every  re- 
spect, and  speaks  eloquently  for  that  gentleman's  manage- 
ment of  the  institution.  The  inmates  are  well  cared  for, 
and  all  seem  pleased  with  their  surroundings,  although  the 
expenditure  is  considerably  within  the  appropriation 
allowed.  The  suggestions  of  Superintendent  Reddy  for 
further  improvements  will  undoubtedly  receive  the  atten- 
tion of  the  Board. 


PROFESSOR  Dupuy,  the  popular  French  lecturer,  re- 
sumed his  course   of    instructive  lectures  Thursday 
last,  and  will  continue  them  every  Thursday. 

Are  You  Going  East? 
The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad,  Santa  Fe  Route,  is  the  coolest 
and  most  comfortable  summer  line,  owinej  to  its  elevation  and  ab- 
sence of  alkali  dust.  Particularly  adapted  to  the  transportation  of 
families  or  large  parties,  owing  to  its  Pullman  palace  drawing  room 
and  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleepers,  which  run  daily  through 
from  Oakland  to  Chicago  via  Kansas  City.  Ticket  office,  644  Market 
street,  Chronicle  building.    Telephone  Main  1531. 


Viewing  the  Senatorial  fight  now  in  progress  in  Sacramento,  and 
hearing  the  noise  of  the  battle  from  afar  off,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no 
matter  upon  whom  the  Senatorial  mantle  of  California  falls,  that 
statesman  will  drink   Keystone  Monogram  Whiskey. 

A  Sovereign  Remedy. 
DR.  PARKER'S  COUGH  CURE.    One  dose  will  stop  a  cough.    It  never 
fails.    Try  it.    Price  35c.    George  Dahlbender  &  Co  ,  214  Kearny  street. 


Bronchitis.    Sudden  changes  of  the  weather  cause  Bronchial  Troubles. 
''Brown's  Bronchial  Troches"  will  give  effectual  relief. 


tM  vitality  ami  energy,  a  good  appetite,  am! 
feet  health  are  i  btained   and  endure    by  taking 


Peruvian 
Bitters. 


W.  H.  RflMS&y. 

Successor  to 

REEVE  4  RAMSEY 

Merchant  -^   Tailor 
12!  Montfjomeru  Street, 

Opposite  Occidental  Botel. 

J   D.  SULLIVAN. 

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 

Rooms  34-38.  3d  Floor  Chronicle  Building,  San  Francisco. 

DELINQUENT    SALE     NOTICE. 
Ostrander  Repeating  Gun  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  o 
works  or  factory — 36  New  street,  East  Boston.  Mass. 

NOTICE— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  an  assessment  (No.  5),  levied  on  the  22d  day  of  August,  t896, 
the  several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  sharehold 
ers,  as  follows: 

No.  No. 

Name.  Certificate    Shares    Am  t 

C.  A.  Macomber  405  500  50 

406  500  50 

W.  P.  Ray,  U.S.  N.  123         1,000         100 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Carter         104  500  50 

311  500  50 

J.  M.  Helm  164  600  60 

358  301  30  10 

"  260  155  15  50 

W.  H.  H.  Hart  416         1,000         100 

Catherine  S.  Whiteside      204         1,000        100 
George  H   Hoover  389  50  5 

W.  S    Zeilin  213  250  25 

Mrs.  Mary  Mearse  Gait      179         1.000        100 
John  A.  Wright  430  '105  10  50 

Gdo.  O.  Davis,  Trustee       435  200  20 

436  200  20 

437  100  10 
E.  P.  Cole                               397            500          50 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
onthe22d  day  of  August,  1896,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  No.  216  Bush  street,  rooms  50  and  51.  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco,  California,  on 

THURSDAY,  the  22nd  DAY  OF  OCTOBER,  1896, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  M.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delinquent  assessment 
thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale, 

M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  216  Bush  street,  Rooms  50  and  51.  SanFrancisco,  Califo  nia. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  this  day,  the. sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  post- 
poned until 

FRIDAY,  the  20th  DAY  of  NOVEMBER,  1896, 
at  the  same  time  and  place.  M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco.  October  22, 1896. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Direotors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  this  day,  the  sale  of  tne  above  delinquent  stock  was  post- 
poned until 

FRIDAY,  the  18th  DAY  of  DECEMBER,  1896, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  November  19,  1896. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  the  office  of  the  company  on  the  18th  inst ,  the  sale  of  the 
above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 

THURSDAY,  the  14th  DAY  OP  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26.  216  Bush  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  Dec.  28,  1897 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meetirgof  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  on  the  6th  inst. ,  the  sale  of  the 
above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 

WEDNESDAY,  the  27th  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  Sao  Francisco  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
SanFrancisco,  January  6,  1897. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  9,  1897 


THE  New  Year  was  very  merrily  ushered  in,  not  alone 
by  the  crowds  who,  with  tin  horns  and  oil  cans  in 
hand,  made  night  most  hideous  upon  the  streets  for  sev- 
eral hours,  but  at  the  homes,  where  jollity  reigned  and 
toasts  were  drank  to  the  prosperity  which  1897  is  to  bring 
us.  There  were  two  grand  affairs  at  two  of  the  clubs — 
the  Concordia  and  the  San  Francisco  Verein.  The  latter 
club  always  gives  an  entertainment  on  New  Year's  Eve, 
and  this  year,  besides  the  usual  ball,  there  was  an  excel- 
lent vaudeville  performance,  in  which  negro  specialties, 
serpentine  dances,  Japanese.  Irish,  and  French  delinea- 
tions were  given  ;  Mrs.  William  Greenebaum,  the  Misses 
Jennie  Moore,  Alice  Greenebaum;  Hilda  Gerstle,  and  Alice 
Friedlander,  Julius  Kahn,  Jessie  Triest,  and  Manfred 
Brandenstein  took  part.  It  was  greatly  enjoyed  and 
vociferously  applauded.  Then  followed  dancing,  an  elab- 
orate supper,  and  then  more  dancing,  so  the  l>lew  Year 
was  several  hours  old  ere  the  festivity  came  to  an  end. 

Miss  Dorothy  Hermann  was  the  belle  of  the  Concordia 
ball.  This  most  popular  and  beautiful  young  lady  was 
prettily  dressed  iu  white  chiffon,  trimmed  with  pink  r^ses, 
and  was  the  recipient  of  much  favorable  comment. 

New  Year  Eve  dances  were  not,  however,  confined  to 
the  clubs,  an  especially  pleasant  party  being  given  by 
Mrs.  J.  O'B.  Gunn,  at  her  home  on  Clay  street,  where 
terpsichore  was  the  chief  feature  of  the  evening's  pleasure 
and  a  merry  supper  a  delightful  finale.  Another  pleasant 
gathering  was  the  progressive  euchre  party  given  by 
Mrs.  J.  W".  Dutton,  when  the  game,  at  which  some  lovely 
prizes  were  won,  was  followed  by  a  handsome  supper. 

So  much  for  town.  In  the  country,  house  parties  were 
the  rule,  and  those  who  have  homes  of  their  own  down 
San  Josewards  had  each  a  number  of  friends  to  help  them 
hasten  the  passing,  and  welcome  the  coming  year.  The 
Hunt  at  Burlingame  last  Saturday  was  successful  enough 
to  greatly  please  the  promoters  of  the  sport,  who  are 
confident  that  it  is  here  to  stay,  and  that  time  will  but 
increase  its  popularity.  The  polo  contest  on  Sunday  was 
also  a  good  one,  the  Benedicts  carrying  off  the  laurels 
from  the  Bachelors,  who  vow  the  next  one  shall  not  be 
won  from  them. 

Two  of  the  most  untiring  of  our  hostesses  made  their 
friends  welcome  early  in  the  year,  Mrs.  Rounseville  Wild- 
man's  tea  on  New  Year's  afternoon  proving  one  of  the 
most  enjoyable  affairs  of  the  kind  given  this  winter.  Pos- 
sibly the  reflection  that  it  was  a  sort  of  adieu  of  the  host- 
ess induced  the  large  attendance  of  her  friends,  and  it  was 
very  reminiscent  of  old-time  New  Year's  calls  to  many  of 
them,  save  that  it  was  not  men  alone  who  called  with  good 
wishes,  but  that  ladies  were  largely  in  the  majority.  Mrs. 
Wildman  was  assisted  by  a  whole  bevy  of  charmingly  cos- 
tumed young  ladies,  who  were  most  assiduous  in  their  at- 
tentions to  the  guests. 

Mrs.  Jewett  <-hose  the  second  of  January  for  her  de- 
lightful entertainment,  and,  on  Saturday  evening,  her 
pretty  rooms  were  tastefully  arranged  with  Christmas 
greens  and  red  berries,  and  filled  with  friends  who  en- 
joyed a  most  unique  evening's  pleasure,  one  of  the  items 
being  a  distribution  of  gifts  by  lot,  some  of  which  elicited 
much  amusement,  and  all  were  much  admired.  Music  and 
supper  were  among  the  other  pleasures  of  the  affair. 

Of  the  myriad  of  pink  and  white  weddings  which  have 
been  so  much  of  a  fad  for  several  seasons  past,  none  have 
exceeded  in  beauty  of  detail  the  ceremony  of  last  Tuesday, 
when,  at  the  hour  of  noon,  Miss  Helen  Schweitzer  became 
Mrs.  Samuel  Steifel.  The  marriage  took  place  at  the 
Schweitzer  residence  on  Leavenworth  street,  where,  on 
entering,  the  hall  presented  a  beautiful  appearance  with 
its  artistic  arrangement  of  palms,  calla  lilies,  and  white 
tulle;  but  the  most  charming  effect  was  in  the  long  parlor 
to  the  left  of  the  hall,  which  resembled  a  vast  conserva- 
tory with  its  wealth  of  blossoms,  shaded  from  pale  pink  to 


crimson,  green  foliage,  etc.  Here,  before  an  improvised 
altar  of  pink  and  white  embroidered  silks,  whereon  gleamed 
innumerable  pink  tapers  amid  masses  of  pink  roses,  Rabbi 
Voorsanger  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  The  pretty  petite  bride's 
costume  was  of  white  tulle  over  heavy  white  satin,  a  wreath 
of  orange  blossoms  and  fleecy  tulle  vail,  and  the  bouquet  was 
of  white  orchids  and  lilies  of  the  valley.  Miss  Clara  Joseph, 
who  officiated  as  maid-of-honor,  wore  a  gown  of  white 
mousseline  cle  soie  over  white  silk;  the  Misses  Cora  Miller, 
Alice  Greenebaum,  Agnes  Brandenstein,  and  Belle  Gerstle 
were  gowned  in  pink  moire,  and  all  the  young  ladies  wore 
black  velvet  Gainsborough  hats  and  plumes.  Two  pretty 
little  maidens,  Edith  and  Florence  Guggenheim,  acquitted 
themselves  charmingly  as  flower  girls;  Joseph  Scherburg 
supported  the  groom  as  best  man.  After  the  ceremony, 
and  congratulations  had  been  received,  the  company  pro- 
ceeded to  a  tent  which  had  been  erected  -on  the  lawn, 
where  a  sumptuous  wedding  feast  was  served,  and  later 
in  the  day  the  happy  pair  departed  on  a  honeymoon  trip, 
prior  to  their  longer  journey  Eastward  to  their  future 
home  in  New  York. 

The  first  sensation  of  the  New  Year  came  in  the  an- 
nouncement of  Miss  Emma  Spreckels'  marriage  to  Mr. 
Thomas  Watson,  which  was  a  surprise  to  everybody.  The 
new  brownstone  mansion  on  Van  Ness  avenue,  which  is 
rapidly  approaching  completion,  has  been  regarded  as  a 
fitting  home  for  so  charming  a  young  lady  as  Miss 
Spreckels  was  thought  to  be  by  society  at  large,  and  the 
query  which  is  being  discussed  by  it  is,  will  she  still  preside 
at  the  festivities  which  are  hoped  for  and  expected  when 
it  is  occupied  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Claus  Spreckels?  In  other 
words,  will  she  live  with  the  old  folks  or  in  a  home  of  her 
own?  In  the  meantime  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Watson  are  the  re- 
cipients of  many  congratulations,  and  the  good  wishes  of 
all  who  know  them. 

This  has  been  a  week  of  club  dances  and  club  entertain- 
ments. The  Monday  Night  Club  opened  it  with  the  second 
of  their  enjoyable  dances  at  Golden  Gate  Hall,  at  which 
the  attendance  was  large,  and  a  charming  evening  was 
spent.  On  Wednesday  evening  the  third  dance  of  the 
Assembly  Cotillion  Ciub  came  off  at  Lunt's  Hall,  when 
Mr.  Yanke,  as  leader,  introduced  several  new  and  pretty 
figures  in  the  cotillion.  Thursday  evening  the  Thursday 
Night  Club  had  a  dance  at  Lunt's  Hall,  and  last  evening 
the  third  of  the  Friday  Night  cotillions  was  danced  at 
Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  Mr.  Green  way  leading  with  Miss  Caro 
Crockett  as  his  partner.  As  usual,  the  arrangements 
were  excellent,  the  decorations  pretty,  the  figures  danced 
charming,  and  the  supper  delicious.  It  is  agreed  on  all 
sides  that  the  cotillion  of  the  season  will  prove  to  be  the 
one  danced  next  month,  at  which  a  number  of  surprises 
are  promised  in  the  shape  of  lighting  the  hall,  etc.  Great 
things  are  also  expected  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  Friday 
Fortnightlies  next  week,  when  it  will  be  the  long  talked-of 
Army  and  Navy  night.  The  cotillion  of  the  Saturday  Night 
Club,  which  was  the  closing  event  of  last  week,  was  on 
rather  a  larger  and  more  formal  scale  than  their  usual 
parties,  and  proved  to  be  most  pleasant.  General  dancing 
was  first  in  order,  then  came  the  cotillion,  which  was  led  by 
Howard  Adams,  the  figures  being  all  new  and  original, 
the  favors  consisting  of  fans,  bon-bons,  etc. 

The  theatres  have  not  been  neglected  this  week,  though 
theatre  parties  have  not  been  generally  given  during  the 
holidays.  Now,  however,  a  large  number  are  being  ar- 
ranged for  the  engagement  of  Madam  Modjeska;  an  added 
zest  to  the  pleasure  of  seeing  that  popular  actress  is  the 
fact  that  both  Mrs.  Francis  Edgerton,  who  is  such  a 
society  favorite,  and  Miss  Francis  Jolliffe  will  make  their 
debut  in  the  profession  they  contemplate  adopting,  Mrs. 
Edgerton  appearing  as  Queen  Elizabeth  to  Madam  Mod- 
jeska's  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots. 

The  most  economical  tea  is  tea  that  tastes  the 
best  and  does  most  good — if  it  doesn't  cost  too 
much. 

Schilling 's  Best  doesn't  cost  much — your 
money  back  if  you  don't  like  it. 


January  9,  1897. 


SAN   IK  UfCISCO  NEWS    I 


■  home  last    Monday   afternoon,   when  the 
club  g  at    which    Frank  L/nooln  was 

of  honor— Mr.  II  |y  other  homUn 

out      Christinas  decorations  were  ofoourse  in  order 
uuU  instrumental  music,  recitations,  on.  were  on  the  pro- 
gramme,  which  was  arranged   by  Mrs.  II.  K   Huntington, 
after  which  there  was  R  issiau    tea   and  unlimited  chat. 
•(  the  Century  Club,  who  arc  ever  in   the  van 
when  novelty  i-  the  prime  factor,   opened  the  New  Year 
last  Thursday  evening  with  a  unique  entertainment  at  their 
dab  bouse  on  Sutter  street.     It  was  entitled   "An   [ndian 
ami  tlu'  decorations  were  of  o character  to  cor 
mil  with  that  idea,  being  curios  of  all  kinds,  trinkets, 
and  pictures  of  Indian  life.    Tin-  speakers  of  the  evening 
Miss  [na  Coolbritb,  Miss  Graue  Hudson,  whose  paiul 
il  Indian  papooses  are  so  realistic   and   so   much   ad- 
mired, and  Dr.  Hudson,  who  contributed  many  of  the  OUri- 
ous  and  beautiful  baskets  which    adorned    the  walls  of  the 

rooms. 

Mrs.  Geiselman's  yellow  tea  last  Saturday  afternoon  was 
for  the  ili'lmt  of  her  daughter  Grace.  The  decorations  were 
in  yellow,  acacia  blooms  taking  a  prominent  place;  the 
youu^;  Ufbutanii   and   her  assistants  were    all   gowned    in 

white,  with  yellow  sashes  and  corsage  bouquets,  and  dur- 
ing the  afternoon  a  very  large  number  of  guests  were  en- 
tertained, the  festivities  being  prolonged  by  the  young 
people  until  a  late  hour  in  the  evening.  Mrs.  James  New- 
lands  was  also  another  recent  tea  hostess;  her  guest  of 
honor,  Mrs.  Allen  of  San  Jose.  The  chief  guests  at  Mrs. 
Miehler's  University  Club  luncheon  were  Mrs.  and  Miss 
lirowu  of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  Dr.  Younger,  who  has 
been  detained  here  by  the  illuess  of  his  daughter  Alice, 
that  role  at  the  banquet  given  by  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Clyde 
Payne,  the  other  guests  being  medicos  also. 

Mr.  S.  H.  Priedlander  leaves  to-night  for  Portland, 
Oregon,  on  business  connected  with  the  various  enter- 
prises of  his  firm.  Mr.  Priedlander  will  be  absent  for  ten 
days  after  which  he  will  return  to  devote  his  time  to  the 
interests  of  the  Carnival  of  the  Golden  Gate. 

The  installation  of  the  officers  of  the  Franco-American 
Lodge  to-night  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  will  be  celebrated  by 
au  invitation  ball.  The  grand  march  commences  at  9 
o'clock.     No  return  checks  ! 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Bertha  J.  Hart  and  Mr.  I.  W.  Cahen 
takes  place  January  17,  1897.  Only  the  immediate  family 
will  he  present  at  the  ceremony. 

The  Fred  Sharons  and  Miss  Lena  Blanding  are  said  to 
be  on  the  eve  of  a  return  to  California. 


"I  like  the 


small 


■  carline." 
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a  Wash 


NO  champagnes  are  so  rapidly  coming  into  favor  to- 
day as  the  ''Haraszthy  Brut  "  and  the  uHaraszthy 
Dry"  brands.  Not  only  are  they  well  patronized  here, 
Imt  they  have  proved  themselves  universal  favorites  in 
Europe,  owing'  to  their  unsurpassable  qualities.  At  several 
exhibitions  the  wines  have  been  awarded  the  highest  prizes 
and  their  popularity  is  ever  on  the  increase  among  con- 
noisseurs. The  drinker  of  good  wine  is  ever  on  the  look- 
out for  an  improvement,  and  in  these  brands  he  will  find  it. 

"Our  Society   Blue   Book" 
For  the  season  of    1896-97  is  now  ready  for  delivery.    It   contains 
the  names,  addresses  and  reception  days  of  most  of  the  prominent 
families  ot  this  city  and    other  points    on  the  Coast.    Also  lists  of 
members  of  the  most  prominent  Clubs  with  their  business   addresses. 

San  Francisco  Street  and  Avenue  Guide,  Ladies'  Shopping  Guide, 
etc.    Price  Five  Dollars.    C.  C.  Hoag,  Publisher. 

Trade  supplied  by  Hartwell,  Mitches*  &  Willis,  Successors  to 
Bodge  Bros,  225  Post  St.,  and  107  Montgomery  St. 

Of  all  the  many  preparations  patronized  by  ladies  as  complexion 
beautifiers  none  is  so  universal  a  favorite  as  Camelline.  It  is  ab- 
solutely harmless  and  its  merits  are  endorsed  by  some  of  the  best 
known  women  of  the  present  day.  Having  tried  it  once,  none  other 
will  ever  give  satisfaction.  Wakelee  &  Co.,  the  well-known  druggists, 
originated  this  boon  to  ladies. 

Max  Abraham,  the  Caterer,  428  Geary  street,  is  the  man  to  go  to 
if  you  wish  all  the  worry  of  a  banquet  taken  oft  your  hands.  Mr. 
Abraham  is  patronized  by  our  leading  hostesses  and  by  securing  his 
services  you  can  be  assured  of  success. 

Mothers,  besure  and  use  ,-Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  teething. 

The  King  of  Pills  Is  Beecham's— BEECHAM'S 


t^/ Then  si 

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has  been  u 

apwith 
h<  r  Pearl- 
inc — all  unnecessary.  If  you  don*l 
li  Pearlinc  to  do  the 
^^/  work  easily  and  alone,  you  bring 
Pearline  clown  to  the  level  of  soap,  which  means 
hard  work  and  rubbing.  If  you  use  enough 
Pearline,  the  soap  is  a  needless  expense,  to  say 
the  least.    UseP  a*-JW*aln^         'irected.  sos 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
For  the  half  year  ending  December  SI.  1691),  a  dividend  has  been  declared 
at  the  rate  of  four  and  iw  -tenths  (-1  frlOl  per  .cent  per  annum  on  Term  De 
posits,  and  three  and  oae-half  (3V6)  per  cent  per  annum  on  Ordinary  De- 
posits, free  of  taxes,  payable  <<u  and  after  Satimiur.  January  2.  1807,  Divi- 
dends not  culled  for  ar«  added  to  and  'jear  the  same  rate  of  dividend  as 
the  principal  from  aod  after  January  1.  189? 

CYRUS  W    CARMANY,  Cashier. 
Office:  101  Montgomery  street,  cor  Sutter,  San  Fraoeisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND    NOTICE. 

Mutual  Savings  BanK  of  San   Francisco. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  Dec.  31, 1806,  a  dividend  has  been  declared 
at  the  rate  of  four  (4)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  terra  deposits,  »nd  three  and 
one-third  (3H)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  ordinary  deposits,  free  of  taxes, 
payable  on  and  after  Saturday,  January  2,  1897. 

Office— 33  Post  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal.      GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

Security  Savings  Bank. 
Dividends  on  Term  Deposits  at  the  rate  of  four  andone-tifth  (4  1-5)    per 
cent  per  annum,  and  on  Ordinary  Deposits   at   the  rate  of  three  and  one- 
half  (3Va)   per  cent  per  annum  for  the  half  year  ending  December  31,  1896, 
will  be  payable  free  of  taxes  on  and  after  January  2,  1897 

S    L.  ABtfOT  JR.,  Secretary. 
Office:    222  Montg  mery  street,  Mills  Building.  San  Francisco 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  Dec.  31st,  1896,  a  dividend  has  been  de- 
clared at  the  rate  of  four  and  twenty-six  one  hundredths  (4  26- !■  it)  per  cent 
per  annum  on  Term  Deposits,  and  three  and  fifty  five  one  hundredths 
13  55-HrtJ)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Ordinary  Deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable 
on  and  after  Saturday,  January  2, 1897.  GEO.  TOURNY,  Secretary. 

Office— 526  California  street. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

San  Francisco  Savings  Union. 

For  the  half  year  ending  Dec .  31 ,  1896.  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at  the 
rate  per  annum  of  four  and  two-tenths  (4  2)  per  cent,  on  term  deposits  and 
three  and  live-tenths  i3  5)  percent,  on  ordinary  deposits,  free  of  taxes, 
payable  on  and  afte*  Saturday,  January  2,  18y7. 

Office— 632  California  street,  cor.  Webb  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
Office  of  cne  Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society,  corner  Market,  McAllis 
ter,  and  Jones  streets,  San  Francisco,  Dec  3u,  1896.  At  a  regular  meeting 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  this  Society,  held  this  day,  a  dividend  has  been 
declared  at  the  rate  of  four  (4)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  all  deposits  lor  the 
six  months  ending  December  3U,  1896,  free  from  all  taxes,  and  payable  on 
and  after  January  2,  1897.  ROBERT  J.  TOBIN.  Secretary. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  9,  1897. 


"  'pEARS  ter  me  thet  Adsom's  would  be  the  best  way 
J7  ter  git  there."  The  speaker  was  the  last  of  maiiy 
who  had  drawled  out  an  opinion.  The  person  addressed, 
a  tall  muscular  Englishman,  gazed  at  the  circle  of  faces 
before  him.  He  was  slightly  puzzled.  He  had  taken  ad- 
vantage of  a  holiday  to  travel  the  one  hundred  miles  inter- 
vening between  San  Francisco  and  Cloverville,  in  search  of 
timber  land  which  he  had  purchased  several  years 
previously  without  having  seen  it.  His  arrival  in  Clover- 
ville had  been  the  cause  of  considerable  excitement. 
Twenty-rive  miles  off  the  railroad  in  California  means  com- 
parative barbarism,  and  there  was  an  unmistakable  out- 
of-the-world  flavor  about  the  place.  The  natural  advan- 
tages of  the  little  settlement  were  of  the  finest.  Every 
afternoon  a  gentle  breeze  blew  inland  from  the  west,  so 
punctually  that  its  advent  was  as  much  looked  for  as  the 
rising  or  setting  of  the  sun.  In  spite  of  these  advantages 
the  hamlet  bad  not  grown  perceptibly  in  forty  years. 
The  high  range  of  hills  which  separated  it  from  the  rail- 
road— symbolical  of  civilization  and  the  world — seemed  to 
guard  it  with  a  conservative  jealousy  that  opposed  pro- 
gress in  any  form.  The  hotel,  which  with  the  black- 
smith's shop,  one  store  and  three  saloons,  comprised  the 
busiuess  portion  of  the  town,  was  most  primitive. 
Harraden  ate  a  wretched  dinner  and  was  glad  to  leave 
the  dining  room  for  the  office, — a  bare  room,  unfurnished 
with  the  exception  of  a  cast  iron  stove  and  a  few  hard 
chairs, — where  he  propounded  a  few  questions  to  mine 
host. 

During  the  conversation  he  was  conscious  that  faces 
were  peering  in  at  the  windows  and  figures  were  slipping 
into  the  room.  Before  long  every  male  inhabitant  of  the 
village  from  half  grown  boys  to  tottering  old  men 
surrounded  him  in  a  hypnotized  circle. 

"I  calc'late  the  best  way  would  be  by  the  P'int  Sand 
road,"  drawled  an  old  man  in  faded  blue  denims.  "Ef 
Cat  Crick  and  Moss  Crick  ]ine  on  your  land,  it'll  be  'bout 
eight  miles  right  up  Clear  Crick  ter  git  to  it.  I  come  here 
in  '45,"  he  added  with  a  touch  of  pride,  "and  I  calc'late  I 
ought  ter  know  this  section  pri-tty  thoroughly." 

"Eight  miles,"  George  Harraden  repeated.  He 
turned  to  the  first  speaker.  "And  you  say  it  is  five  miles 
to  the  place  on  the  top  of  the  mountains,  and  two  miles  be- 
yond to  the  land?" 

" 'Bout  that,  I  call  it,  from  Adsom's."  The  oldest  in- 
habitant gave  a  sniff  of  disgust.  In  the  opinions  ex- 
pressed the  distance  had  varied  from  three  miles  to  ten. 

Mr.  Harraden  arose.  "I'll  walk  it  by  the  mountain 
road  and  ascertain  the  correct  distance,"  he  said. 

"Better  tell  him  suthin  'bout  Adsom,  then,"  an  old  man 
suggested  to  the  host.     The  latter  nodded  and  explained. 

"You  see,  Adsom's  ben  queer  fer  some  leetle  time.  Jest 
wheels,  I  say.  He  aint  zactly  crazy,  though  folks  thought 
so  at  one  time  and  went  up  there  ter  git  him  fer  ter  shet 
him  up.  They  found  him  a  plantin'  corn,  as  sane  as  any  of 
'em;  and  sence  then  folks  bev  let  him  alone.  But  he  has 
sort  of  spells  like  when  he's  most  an  id  jit.  Jest  sets 
'round  queer  like,  or  gits  up  on  the  highest  pint  of  laud  he's 
got,  when  he  sees  anybuddy  a-comin'.  I  think  it's  livin' 
on  nothin'  much  'cept  coffee  thet's  done  it.  Ef  you  strike 
him  when  he's  feelin'  all  right,  why,  like  enough,  he'll  show 
yer  the  way  ter  your  property.  But  ef  he's  queer  ycu 
jest  keep  right  on  past  his  house — the  waggin  road  stops 
there — but  there's  a  trail  what  runs  past  the  sody  spring 
and  Dobson's  old  house.  It  runs  'long  the  ridge  a  ways 
and  then  drops  down  to  the  crick  on  t'other  side." 

"Is  there  anyone  living  in  Dobson's  house?  " 

"No,  nor  aint  been  this  ten  year.  Yer  see  'twas  one  of 
them  houses  jest  built  ter  Ble  a  homestid  claim  on  the  land, 
and  then  left.  You  can't  miss  the  place  where  the  cricks 
jiue.  Don't  know  as  anyone  hez  seen  old  Adsom  lately. 
Ike!"  b"  "ailed   to   a  faded   personality  that,  apparently, 


Elizabeth  QptbeidilTCi^ 

was  glued  to  the  door  post,  "hevn't  seen  nothin'  of  Ad- 
som lately,  hev  yer?"  The  faded  personality  shook  its 
head.  "Hevn't  seen  anyone  who  hez,  hev  yer?"  Again 
the  shake  of  the  head  in  scared  pantomime. 

"I  wuz  up  thar,"  a  small  voice  piped.  The  owner  was  a 
slip  of  a  boy,  tow  headed  and  forlorn,  but  possessed  of  a 
pair  of  keen,  bright  eyes. 

"You  wuz,  Eh?    When?" 

"Went  over  thet  thar  way  a-fishin'  last  week." 

"Waal,  yer  seed  Adsom  then,  I  reckon?  " 

"No.     I  reckoned  I  didn't  want  ter,  neither." 

"Why  not?  Aint  afeared  of  thet  harmless  old  critter, 
be  ye?" 

"Waal,  I  went  inter  the  house  'n  he  wasn't  thar,  but  I 
see  suthin'  thar  thet  made  me  git  out  pretty  quick." 

As  if  by  one  impulse  the  little  group  closed  in  around 
the  speaker.  Curiosity  was  written  on  the  faces.  The 
boy  enjoyed  the  situation  and  was  in  no  haste  to  draw  it  to 
a  conclusion. 

"Waal  waal,  youngster,  tell  us  what  'twas  you  see!" 
said  his  questioner  impatiently. 

"I  see,"  the  boy  began  with  impressive  slowness,  "I  see 
a-lyin'  on  the  table  a  San  Francisco  paper  not  more'n  two 
days  old,  and  old  Adsom's  specs  covered  with  dust  a- 
hangin'  up  on  the  wall." 

The  questioner  smiled  incredulously.  "Fer  a  youngster, 
you  alius  were  a  good  hand  ter  yarn  it,"  was  his  comment. 
"Reckon  you  wouldn't  mind  yarnin'  'bout  the  date  of  the 
paper.     Anyhow,  Adsom's  queer." 

"He  aint  queer  enough  ter  read  without  his  specs,"  re- 
marked the  landlord.  "But  you  couldn't  raiss  the  trail  ef 
you  tried,"  he  added  turning  to  Harraden,  "  'cause  it's 
the  only  one  there  is." 

Thus  directed  George  Harraden  set  forth.  With  his 
long  English  stride  he  soon  left  the  village  far  below  him 
as  he  climbed  the  first  rolling  spurs  of  the  ridge.  There 
was  something  quaint  about  the  place  in  spite  of  its  crude- 
ness.  There  was  a  charm  which  the  railroad  town,  for 
all  its  boasted  daily  connection  with  the  city,  could  never 
possess.  The  scattered  shake  houses,  with  their  mud  and 
stick  chimneys  and  dooryards  gay  with  poppies  had  a 
charm  of  their  own. 

The  road  became  steeper  as  he  ascended.  When  it 
turned  he  could  get  an  occasional  glimpse  of  a  patch  of 
pale  green  far  above  him  on  the  summit,  that  he  knew 
marked  Adsom's  oat  field.  This  spot  was  a  little  to  the 
south  from  his  position,  and  he  began  wishing  that  he 
could  reach  the  top  of  the  ridge  directly  above  him.  He 
fancied  that,  could  he  do  so,  he  would  be  able  to  see  the 
junction  of  the  two  creeks  on  the  other  side.  A  rough  life 
in  Australia  and  South  America  had  bred  a  contempt  for 
beaten  tracks,  and  he  soon  struck  upward  through  a 
grove  of  madrone  and  redwood.  A  sudden  sharp  pitch 
brought  him  to  the  top,  where,  as  he  had  thought,  he  could 
view  the  country  on  both  sides.  A  few  yards  southward 
brought  him  to  the  edge  of  a  slope  and  he  threw  himself 
down  under  a  tree  to  rest. 

Directly  below  him,  not  a  hundred  yards  distant,  was  the 
little  mountain  farm  bouse  surrounded  by  its  tiny  orchard 
and  grain  fields.  The  place  was  a  gem.  There  was  a 
coziness  about  the  way  in  which  it  nestled  in  the  little 
hollow;  yet  it  commanded  a  view  on  one  side  of  the  bound- 
aries of  half  a  dozen  counties. 

"It  is  the  embodiment  of  peaceful  rest,  this  breezy,  bill- 
top  little  farm!"  George  Harraden  exclaimed.  "One 
could  live  here  and  let  the  world  go  by."  And  then  he  be- 
gan to  speculate,  inconsistently,  on  the  dull  life  of  ihe 
owner.  His  former  idea  that  the  early  settlers  of  Cali- 
fornia were  all  millionaires  was  somewhat  shaken. 
"Fancy  a  man's  coming  here  in  '45,  getting  land  for  the 
trouble  of  taking  it  up,  and  being  poor  to-day!  "  he  said  to 
himself  in  wonder.     The  thought  was  barely  expressed  be- 


January  ■. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   N!-:\VS   LETTER 


fore  a  figure  appeared  in   the  doorway  of  the  hoi  - 
'hat  of  a  man,   -  n    band, 

ountry   in    the     direction     of    ' 

•  •d  from  his  movements    that   he    was 

iy  which  he  had   come.     The  man 
adva  the   porch   and    Harraden  could 

but  note  the   elasticity   .>f   the  youthful  figure, 

'     white    hair.      "A    few   minutes 
and  I'll  po  down   and   make   his  acquaintance 

!    must    have    a    drink  from  that 
icta    I    know   bubbles,    crystal  clear,  under  that 
••  by  the  porch." 
lenly,  the  man  disappeared  in   the  house.     When  be 
returned  he  no  longer  held  the  spy-glass,   but   in  it- 
was  a  revolver. 

ter  carefully  cleaning  and  loading  the  weapon,  he 
placed  it  in  his  pocket  and.  grasping  a  hoe  wbich  leaned 
against  the  porch,  he  ran  like  a  deer  to  the  steepest  part 
rnfield.  Harraden  watched  this  performance 
with  considerable  curiosity.  "Some  one  is  coining, 
evidently.''  he  concluded. 

Presently  there  came  in  view  a  lean  country  boy  rid- 
ing a  mule  bareback.  He  hallooed  to  the  old  man  several 
times  before  the  latter  gave  any  sign  of  having  heard. 
'"Aint  seed  a  stray  black  heifer  hereabouts,  hev  yer?"  the 
boy  shouted.  Adsom  shook  his  head  and  went  on  hoeing 
industriously.  Harraden  noticed  that  his  back  was  bent 
and  that  he  limped  painfully  when  he  moved  a  few  steps. 
The  boy  turned  the  mule's  head  and  returned  the  way  he 
had  come.  Adsom  hoed  on  for  a  few  minutes  and  then  he 
sprang  down  the  hillside  and  entered  the  house.  There 
was  something  so  queer  about  the  man's  actions  that 
Harraden  resolved  not  t6  disturb  him.  He  could  see  the 
trail  leading  along  the  ridge,  and  he  decided  to  make  his 
way  to  it  through  the  timber. 

It  was  beautiful  in  the  wood.  With  his  English  ideas  it 
hardly  seemed  possible  that  it  could  be  Christmas.  The 
redwood  had  put  forth  pale  green  tips  from  all  its  out- 
spread leaves.  Clusters  of  the  scarlet  berries  of  the 
toyones, — the  Christmas  berry  of  California, — contrasted 
beautifully  with  the  gray  boughs  of  the  buckeye.  The 
brilliant  red  bark  of  the  madrone  shone  as  if  freshly 
varnished,  and  the  darker  red  of  the  manzanita  gleamed 
like  old  mahogany.  The  sun  was  warm  in  the  open  spots 
where  it  shown  on  the  young  green  grass.  It  was  not 
winter.  In  California  one  season  masquerades  as  each 
one  of  the  four  in  turn.  Was  it  fancy  that  made  Harraden 
turn  several  times  with  the  feeling  that  he  was  being 
followed?  He  saw  nothing,  yet  the  idea  that  a  shadow 
slipped  along  behind  him  from  tree  to  tree,  recurred  con- 
stantly. Was  it  a  premonition  that  brought  to  his  mind 
the  old  warning,  so  familiar  to  him  in  Buenos  Ayres: 
'Never  allow  a  man  behind  you  to  approach  nearer  than 
fifteen  feet?" 

After  a  little  the  trail  plunged  suddenly  down  a  steep 
ravine,  and  he  could  see  the  frame  of  an  unpainted  house 
just  ahead.  At  his  feet  a  coppery  deposit  on  a  little 
rocky  basin  told  him  that  he  had  reached  the  soda  spring. 
He  drew  a  traveling  cup  from  his  pocket  and  stooped  to 
fill  it,  when  something  whizzed  by  his  head.  He  dropped 
the  cup  and  sprang  behind  the  giant  trunk  of  a  laurel. 
Although  armed,  he  was  at  a  great  disadvantage,  as  his 
enemy  was  almost  directly  above  him  on  the  steep  hillside. 
The  deserted  house  was  a  short  distance  through  the 
trees  and  he  resolved  to  run  for  it.  Two  more  bullets 
sped  after  him  as  he  dashed  for  the  shelter;  but,  with  the 
exception  of  a  slight  flesh  wound  on  the  left  hand,  he  was 
unharmed.  The  house,  gray  from  exposure  to  the  weather, 
was  without  doors  or  windows,  the  merest  broken  shell  of 
a  dwelling.  There  were  chinks  in  plenty,  and  through  one 
of  these  Harraden  watched  the  trail.  That  his  assailant 
was  old  Adsom  and  that  he  was  crazy  he  did  not  doubt, 
but  he  felt  he  must  protect  himself.  He  soon  discovered 
the  figure  slipping  along  the  wood  above  the  house  and  he 
fixed  upon  a  spot  where  he  must  pass  a  longer  opening 
between  two  trees.  He  aimed  low,  not  wishing  to  do  more 
than  disable  him.  The  man  fell  with  a  cry  of  rage  and 
Harraden  saw,  by  his  efforts  to  rise,  that  his  leg  was 
broken.  "Poor  fellow!  "  he  exclaimed.  "He  did  not  know 
what  he  was  doing." 

A  slight  sound  behind  him  made  him  turn  his  head,  and 
the  sight  that  met  his  gaze  nearly  stunned  him.     A  figure 


ttOOd  in  tl  . 
the  man  he 
He  noticed  thai  the  man 

the  earth  floor 

Then  the  trutl 
on  Harraden.     Phis 

had  followed  him  must    be  his  Impersonator. 

•f  the  strange  conduol  of  the  latter  at  the  farm 
Irmed  this  suspicion.     A   glance  at  the  wounded 
man  showed   In  ess,  bul    remembering   tl 

was  armed,  Barraden  resolved  to  make  a  wide 
strike  the  trail  further  up  the  oanyon.     When 

his  story  to  th.'  landlord  of  the  Clovcrville  hotel  the  latter 
said  one  word.  "Mullen!"    that   in    a    short,   spaa 

was  repeated  from  one  end  of  the  country  to  the  other. 
Men  left  plough  and  horses  standing  in   tnefurrougl 
hasten  to  the  SC  lory  of    tl,,-    t,  ,i,.,.  0f 

three  persons,   some  months   previously,   was  retold 
the  futile  efforts  of  sheriffs  and  citizens  throughout 

State  to  apprehend  I  he  murderer,  were  recalled  in  detail. 

When  they  reached  him  he  had  -n  dead  for  some  time. 

shot  through  the-  heart.     His  face  had  been  cleverly  D 
up  in  imitation  of  old  Adsom,    and    beside   him  lav  a  wig  of 
bushy  white  hair. 

"Who'd  a  thought  it!"  ejaculated  the  landlord.  "Ike 
and  Miller's  boy  hev  ben  by  and  spoke  ter  him  a  dozen 
times,  and  never  knowed  they  wuz  passin'  their  fortin  by. 
That  ere  ten  thousand  dollars  reward'U  be  quite  a  tidy 
leetle  sum,  Mr.  Hairdon."  He  drew  a  sigh.  "But  he's 
gone  and  beat  us  a-killin'  bisself.  I  wanted  ter  see  him 
hang  fur  it.  What  I  can't  make  out  is  why  on  airth  he 
didn't  kill  thet  tbar  ole  idjit?  Pood's  ben  carried  ter  him 
reg'lar.  Must  hev  ben  some  idee  he'd  got 'bout  compen- 
sation— his  lettin'  him  live  and  carin'  fer  him, — when  he 
could  hev  killed  him  jest  as  well  as  not." 

Thb  Press  Clipping  Bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  P.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Paolflo  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics,  business 
and  personal. 

BANKING. 
MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny,  Mechanics' Institute  Building. 
Guaranteed  Capital,  »1 ,000,000.     Paid-Up  Capital,  »300,000. 

OFFICERS 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN,  President.  I  S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John   A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  en  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Well,  Fargo,  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    When  opening  accounts  send  signature. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits,  Dec.  31,  1895 $24,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E    B.  POND,  Vloe-President 

Directors— Thomas  Magee/G,  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  seourity.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  A.  m.  to  3  p.m.  Saturday  even- 
ings, 0:30  to  8. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  St.,  S.  F. 

Capital  actually  paid  up  In  Cash,  11,000,000.      Reserve  Fund (  715,000 

Deposits,  Dec.  31,1895 130,727,586  59.        Guaranteed  Capital..  $1,200,000 

.DIRECTORS. 

B .  A .  BECKER President 

EDWARD  KRUSE Vice-President 

DANIEL  M E YER 2d  Vloe-President 

H.  Horstman,  Ign.  Steinhart,  Nic  Van  Bergen,  Emil  Route,  H.  B.  Russ, 
D.  N.  Walter 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

282  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.     LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbot.  Jr.  H.H.Hewlett 


Wm.  Babcock 
Adam  Grant 


O.  D.Baldwin 
W.  S  Jones 


E.  J.  McCutchen. 
J.  B.Lincoln. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


January  g,  1897. 


BANKING. 


BANK  OF  BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up.  $3,000.00       Reserve  Fund,  $500,000. 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lom  bard  Street,  London 

Branches— "Victoria,  Vancouver.  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B,  C. ; 
Kaslo,  B.  C 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants1  Bank  of  Canada;  Chicago— First  National  Bank; 
Liverpool-— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland — British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America — London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan — Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  or 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital $3,000,000  00 

Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits  (October  1,  1894) . .  3.158,129  70 

WILLIAM  ALVORD President  I  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP.  .Vice-Pres't 

ALLEN  M.  CLAY Secretary    THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.Prentiss  Smith....  Ass't  Cashier  1 1.  F.  Moulton 2d  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laidlaw  &  Co.;  tbe  Bank  or  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  Bank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Rothschild  Freres;  Virginia  Citt  (Nev.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand— Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York.  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Christiania.  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital »1,000,000 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  ?  in  Francisco. 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller.  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  F.   W.  Wolfe.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.Sumner,  Albert  Mil" 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf.  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Banlt  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics*  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.   Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital $2,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital 18,000,000 

Reserve  Fund $850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBATJM  l„..„„  „ 
C.  ALTSCHUL  }  Managers. 

CR0CKER-W00LW0RTH  NATIONAL  BANK  °F  SAN  francisco. 

Cor.  Market,  Montgomery,  and  Post  Sts. 

Paid-rjp  Capital $1,000,000. 

WM.  H.CROCKER President 

WJ?'  £*$7&ii Vvice-PrfsSdent 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 

Capital  authorized $6,000,000  1  Paid  Up $1,500  000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  [  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  w.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 
telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world.    Sends  bill*  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STE1NHART     !»»„„„„„„ 
P.  N.  LILIENTBAL  [Managers 

WELLS   FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets. 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus $6,250,000 

John  J.  Valentine President  I  Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier  I  F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

^RANCHES. 

N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Ben].  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homers.  King,  George  E.Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 


In  response  to  many  inquiries  from 
all  parts  of  the  country  about  the 
Railway  and  Dock  Construction 
Company 


The  officials  hereby  give  full  infor- 
mation in  regard  to  the  company, 
its  business  and  prospects. 


The  company  offers  20,000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  in  lots  to  suit 
purchasers  at  $20  per  share.  The  par  value  is  $100  per  share — full 
paid  and  unassessable — stockholders  have  no  individual  liability 
whatever.  The  company  has  no  indebtedness  of  any  kind— is  in 
solid  financial  condition — and,  as  there  are  no  bonds  nor  mortgages , 
all  the  earnings  go  to  the  stockholders. 

The  adoption  of  this  Company's  system  of  construction  by  the 
United  States  Government,  or  any  Foreign  Government,  or  by  any 
one  of  the  large  cities  in  America  or  Europe  will  cause  the  stock  to 
rise  above  par  ($100)  immediately. 

Tbe  most  confervative  investors,  old  shrewd  bear  operators  on  the 
stock  exchange,  have  bought  this  stock  and  confidently  predict  it  is 
sure  to  pay  large  dividends  and  sell  at  over  $200  a  share  as  the  Rail 
way  and  Dock  Construction  Co.  commence  business  under  much 
more  favorable  conditions  than  did  the  Bell  Telephone  Co.,  whose 
stock  rose  from  about  $10  to  over  200;  or  the  original  Edison  Electric 
Co.,  whose  stock  rose  from  45  to  $3000  a  share,  or  the  many  other 
companies  owning  useful  inventions  whose  stocks  rose  rapidly  in 
value  while  paying  large  dividends  to  the  alert  original  investors. 

Many  prominent  men  in  banking,  railway  and  financial  circles 
and  other  expert  judges  of  stock  values  predict  that  this  stock  will 
pay  large  dividends  and  will  sell  at  over  $200  per  share  for  the 
following  reasons: 

The  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company  controls  all  the 
rights,  titles,  patents  and  interests  in  and  the  sole,  absolute  and  ex- 
clusive right  to  manufacture  and  sell  the  new  indestructible  piles 
that  do  away  altogether  with  the  millions  of  wooden  piles  heretofore 
used  everywhere,  which  only  last  a  short  time,  as  alternate  moisture 
and  drying  and  the  marine  worms  soon  destroy  the  wood,  and  leave 
a  deceptive  shell,  incapable  to  sustain  a  load  that  requires  the  full 
strength  of  tbe  original  pile.  Gld  wooden  piles  must  be  continually 
replaced  at  great  expense. 

Nothing  can  compete  with  the  indestructible  Pile  in  Ihe  construc- 
tion of  piers,  docks,  bulkheads,  sea-walls,  foundations  for  bridges, 
lighthouses,  jetties,  breakwaters  or  other  improvements  in  riveis, 
harbors  or  on  the  sea  coast. 

This  pile  is  an  absolute  necessity  in  railwuv  trestlework  as  i\ 
guarantees  safety,  and  it  will  last  forever,  and  tnere  is  an  enonfus 
demand  for  it. 

One  defective  wooden  pile  derailing  a  train  causes  a  loss  of  many 
thousands  of  dollars  in  lives  and  property  destroyed. 

Applications  are  pouring  in  from  engineers,  contractors  and  rail- 
way officials  all  over  the  United  States.  These  men  are  quick  to  see 
tbe  certainty  of  profit.  They  are  perhaps  better  able  to  judge  than 
others,  because,  out  of  a  total  of  1891  railroads,  373  of  these  railway 
companies  are  now  preparing  to  build  20,547  miles  of  new  line.  The 
great  superiority  of  the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company's 
system  of  solid,  substantial,  indestructible  trestle  work  is  causing 
the  demand  in  this  special  field. 

Estimated  earnings  from  this  one  source  of  profit  will  pay  $7  per 
share  annual  dividends — this  is  equal  to  35  per  cent,  cash  dividends 
per  year  on  stock  bought  now  at  present  price  of  $20  per  share. 

Other  and  larger  sources  of  profit  will  come  from  contracts  now  in 
view,  viz: — 

In  place  of  the  old  wooden  docks,  covered  by  temporary  sheds, 
which  now  disfigure  tbe  water  fronts  of  our  cities,  this  company  will 
build  solid,  indestructible  piers,  on  which  permanent  iron,  stone  or 
brick  buildings  are  put  up  just  the  same  as  on  land. 

Private  owners  of  dock  property  as  well  as  dock  officials  in  the 
numerous  cities  are  becoming  aware  of  the  great  advantage  of  using 
the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company's  system  of  building 
indestructible  piers  to  make  a  solid  foundation,  upon  which  large 
buildings  can  be  erected,  from  which  they  can  get  big  revenues  for 
rentals,  etc. 

$27,000,000  have  already  been  expended  in  improving  Southern 
harbors  and  their  approaches. 

In  projects  now  under  way  over  fifty  million  dollars  will  be  spent 
in  improving  navigation  in  rivers,  bays,  etc.,  throughout  the  coun- 


January  <,.  1897. 


FRANC1  fRR. 


GEO.  W.  DUNN  &  CO., 


2  Wall  St., 


New  York. 

by  express;  or 


by  check,  draft,  money  order,    registered    letter 
have  tbe  stock  sent  by  express  C.  O.  D. 

The  right  is  reserved  to  reject  any  application  for  stock  and  to 
allot  only  a  part  of  the  shares  applied  for,  and  to  advance  the  price 
w.thout  notice. 


•  -.  breakwater*,  and  other  work  in  which  the  Indi 
blr  l'ile  is  a  grea' 

The  my  of  Sew  York  la  ipendiDct    ■ 1  n  rear  improving  the 

city  water  h 

In  a  priva-  ;,.nl  ,,| 

the  It 

'ii." 
Th--  mended   the 

ity  million  dollar-  for  Ihi 

.1  year  will  be  spent  dur 

it  alnnit  $1<  I,  epen 

ippl  to  divert  tidal  action  by  old  style 

work,  which  will  be  supplanted  in  future  by  Ibl  id  Dock 

is  already   b 
pendeil  on  tbe  two  immi-nse  jetties  m   the  bay  al  Qalveston:  the; 
are  simply  ;  imped  Into  the    water.    Each  jetty  ia  aboal 

itlnaoas  pyramid  1U0  feet  wide  al  the 
bottom,  tapertog  to  15 feet  wide  at  the  top  above  the  water.  The 
Railway   and    Dock   Construction   Company   build   indestructible 

of  the  same  size  at  the  bottom  as  the   top  and  save  thl 
mou9  waste  of  stone  and  labor. 

The-  '  ti'"  strongly  advn.ates  the  adoption  of  this  com- 

pany's system  of  indestructible  jetties  to  deepen  the  Mississippi  al 
St.  l.ouis. 

To  provide  additional  funds  to  execute  some  of  this  work,  the 
company  offers  20,000  shares  to  the  public  in  lots  to  suit  at  the 
low  price  of  S20.00  per  share  in  order  to  have  the  stock  qniokly 
tak<  n.  There  are  no  salaried  officials.  The  money  derived  from  the 
aale  of  stock,  when  not  used  in  profitable  construction  work,  remains 
in  the  company's  treasury. 

.Many  leading  marine  engineers  and  experts  say:  "This  com- 
pany's system  of  construction  is  coming  into  universal  use  in  build- 
ing all  improvements  in  rivers  and  haibors." 

As  the  business  in  sight  is  too  large  for  this  company  to  handle 
alone,  the  subsidiary  companies  now  being  organized  in  tbe 
principal  States  each  pay  a  certain  amount  in  cash  and  one-third 
of  their  capital  stock  into  the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Co.'s 
treasury.  In  addition  to  large  sums  in  cash  the  company  will  re- 
ceive about  $20,000,000  in  securities  in  this  way,  on  which  dividends 
will  be  paid  from  the  earnings  of  the  subsidiary  companies.  These 
dividends  all  go  to  the  holders  of  Kail  way  an  I  Dock  Construction 
stock. 

With  a  large  surplus  and  an  ample  cash  working  capital  the  com- 
pany will  hold  assets  ol  ¥200  per  share  for  each  share  now  offered  at 
$20  when  all  details  are  completed. 

Application   will  be  made  to  list  the  shares  on  the  stock  exchange. 

Owing  to  the  financial  depression  and  uncertainty  before  the  elec- 
tion the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company  would  not  accept 
numerous  contracts  for  work  amounting  to  about  three  millions  of 
dollars.  They  were  offered  first  mortgage  bonds  in  payment  but  the 
bonds  could  not  be  sold  at  that  time  in  New  York  or  London  at 
satisfactory  prices.  English  bankers  are  now  negotiating  to  r'--  •>  a 
large  block  of  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  stock  and  apply 
for  an  official  quotation  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange. 

The  ollicials  and  large  stockholders  are  well-known  practical 
financiers  and  business  men,  whose  names  are  at  once  a  synonym  for 
trustworthy,  capable  management  and  a  guarantee  that  any  stock 
in  which  they  invest  is  safe,  solid  and  profitable.     Among  them  are 

Among  the  stockholders  are: 

Geo.  W.  Dunn,  Esq..  president  of  the  company,  head  of  the  bank- 
ing house  of  George  W.  Dunn  &  Co.,  New  York,  and  president, 
director  and  trustee  of  other  corporations ;  he  has  been  prominent  in 
Wall  Sireet  for  20  years  as  a  careful  level-beaded  financier;  Hon. 
Thomas  Murphy,  vice-president,  ex-Senator,  Collector  of  the  port  of 
New  York  under  President  U.  S.  Grant;  R.  A.  B.  Dayton.  Esq., 
counsel  lor  the  company,  Temple  Court,  New  Y'ork;  Eugene  Harvey, 
Esq., second  vice-president,  banker,  Drexel  building,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.;  R.  M.  Stanbrongh,  E-q..  Kingston,  N.  Y. ;  GeorgeD.  Hilyard, 
Esq.,  contractor.  N.  Y.;  W.  R.  Childs,  Esq.,  of  the  Calumet  and 
Hecla  Copper  Company,  Calumet,  Mich.;  Edward  A.  Wilson,  Esq., 
secretary  ;  M.  Hoff.  assistant  secretary ;  George  B.  Shelborn,  Esq.. 
receiver,  Montgomery,  Tuscaloosa  and  Memphis  Railway  Co., 
Montgomery,  Ala;  Y.  Carryer,  Esq.,  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  Rail- 
way Company,  Field,  B.  C,  Canada;  Howard  Swineford,  Esq.,  of 
Howard  Swineford  &  Co.  Richmond,  Va.;  Jacob  Deyo,  cashier, 
Huguenot  Bank,  New  Paltz.N.  Y.;  S.  J.  Gitt'ord,  Dunkirk,  N.  Y.. 
and  several  rich  and  influential  railway  and  political  magnates  who 
will  have  seats  in  the  Board  of  Directors  later  on. 

Address  all  applications  for  stock  and  remit  for  the  number  of 
shares  wanted  to  the  Financial  Agents  of  the  company,  Messrs, 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 


SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MfcRCHANTS 
Fire  and   Marine  Insurance  Agents, 

San   Francisco,  Ca 


309  and  311  Sansome  St 


NTS: 
F1NDLAV.  DURHAM  A.  11                       nand46Thrc.dncedlo  St..  London 
SIMPSON,  MACK1RDY  1  W  South  Castle  St..  Liverpool 


INSURANCE. 


FIRE,    MARINE.    AND    INLAND   INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,000,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),  OF   MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 


SOLID    SECURITY. 

CHAS.  A. 
Fire  Insurance. 


OVEP    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

LATON,  Manager  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 


Founded  A.  D.  179? 


Insurance 


North   America 


►ompany    ol 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  PENN. 

Paid-up  Capital $3,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT   FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up H.O00.00O 

Assets 3,192.001 .69 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,506,409 .41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD    &    DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  5oi  Montgomery  St. 
AACHEN  AND  MUNICH  FIRE  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

OF    AIX   LA    CHAPELLE,    GERMANY.  Established  1826 

Capital.  }2,250.00C.  Total  Assets,  16,854,653  65. 

UNITED  STATE        EPARTMETTT:  204  Sansome  St.,  S.  P. 

VOSS,  CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 


Established  1782. 


PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON    NSURANCE  CO.  incorporate*  iw» 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF    LIVERPOOL. 

Capital 16,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents. 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

HO  RimDn'Q  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu 
UV\.  PIUUPLi  O  lne— A  specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Phystoal- 
Debllity,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Paciflo  States. 
J.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED— Box  or  50  pills,  Jl  25;  of  100  pills,  $2;  of  200  pills, 
»3  50;  of  400  pills,  $6;  Preparatory  Pills.  J2.    Send  for  circular. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


January  9,  1897. 


SOUTHERN     PACIFIC    COMPANY 

(Pacific    System.) 

Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  at 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Leave. 


From  January  1,  if&~ 


I  Arrive 


t*6-00  AT 

8:O0A 

9:00  a 

10:00  A 

ill  .00  A 

2:00  P 

3:00  P 

4:00  P 

5:00  p 

5:30  p 

7:00  p 

8:00  p 

9:00  p 

tHl:15  Pj 

7:15  A 

<9:45  A 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

Fitchbdrg, 

12:45  P 

San  Leandro, 

(1:45  P 

and 

4:45  p 

TTivwinrw 

5:45  p 

6:15  P 

7:45  P 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

8:45  P 

t  From  Niles 

9:45  P 

10:50  p 

Ltt 12:00  p 

*6 :00  A  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  way  stations  8 :45  a 

7 :00  a  Atlantic  Express,  Ogden  and  East    8 -.45  p 

7:00  a  Benieia,  Vacaville,  Rumsey,  Sac- 
ramento, Oroville,  and  Redding, 
via  Davis 6 :45  P 

7:30  A  Martinez,    San  Ramon,    Vallejo, 

Napa,  Cahstoga,  and  Santa  Rosa    6:15  P 

8:30  a  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,    Marys ville,   Chico. 

Tehama,  and  Red  Bluff 4:15  P 

•8:30  A  Peters  and  Milton *7:15p 

9:00a  New  Orleans  Express,  Raymond 
(for  Yosemite),  Fresno,  Bakers- 
field,  Santa  Barbara,  Los  An- 
geles, Deming,  El  Paso,  New 
Orleans,  and  East 4:45p 

9 :00  a  Martinez  and  Stockton 4 :45  P 

9: 00  A  Vallejo 6 :15  P 

Niles,  San  Jose  Livermore,  and 

Stockton 7:15P 

*1:00P  Sacramento  Riversteamers *9:0UP 

1:00  p  Niles,  San  Jose,  andLivermore..    8:15  a 
tl:30P  Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations,...  t7:45p 

4:00  P  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo, 
Napa,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 
Santa  Rosa 9 :15  A 

4 :00p  Benieia,  Vacaville,  Woodland, 
Knight's  Landing,  Marysville, 
Oroville,  and  Sacramento 11:15a 

4:30p  Lathrop,  Stockton,  Modesto,  Mer- 
ced, and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles, 
returning  via  Martinez 11 :45  A 

5:00 P  Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy, 
Fresno,  banta  Barbara,  and  Los 
Angeles 10 .45  a 

5 :00  p  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojave  and  East 10:45A 

6 :00  p  European  mail,  Ogden  and  East . .    9 :45  a 

6:00p  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose...    7:45  a 
J7:00p  Vallejo f7:45p 

7 :00p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento, 
Marysville,  Redding,  Portland, 
Puget  Sound  and  East 11:15a 

K10:00p  "Sunset  Limited."  Fresno,  Los 
Angeles,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans, 
and  East §12:45p 

Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 

8:15A  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  BoulderCreek,  Santa  Cruz 
and  way  stations 5 :50  P 

♦2:15  P  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boulder 
Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal 
way  stations *11 :20  A 

4 :15  p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gates 9 :50  a 

fll:45p  Hunters'  Excursion,  San  Jose 

and  way  stations J7 :20  p 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

6:45a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New 

Almaden  Wednesdays  only) 1 :30  p 

8:15A  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles,  San 
Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and 

principal  way  stations 7 :00  p 

10 :40  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations 5:0U  p 

11:30  A  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 3:30  P 

*2 :30  P  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park,  San  Jose, 
Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas ,  Monterey,  Pacific  Grove  *10 :40  A 

*3 :30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9 :45  A 

*4 :30  p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8 :05  a 

5:30pSan    Jose    and    principal    way 

stations *8 :45  A 

6:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6:35  a 

tll:45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations f7:45p 

San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local. 


CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 
From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street 
(Slip  8). 

*7:15,  9:00,  and  11:00  A.  M.,  11:00,  *2:00, 13:00, 
*4 :00, 15 :00  and  *6 :00  P.  M. 
From  Oakland — Foot  of  Broadway. 

*6:00,  8:00,   10:00  A.  M.;  J12-.00,  *1:00,  12:00, 
*3:00, 14:00  *5:00P.M. 

A  for  Morning.  P  for  Aiternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted.  tSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only. 
ft  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays. 

gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  PACIFIC  TRANSFER  COMPANY  Will  call  for 

and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and  residences. 
Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  Information. 


FOUND     WANTING. 

Jeanne  d'Arc  lacked  education; 

Pompadour  lacked  depth  of  mind; 
Maintenon  lacked  toleration ; 

Esther  might  have  been  more  kind. 

Hebrew  Sarah  lacked  humaneness; 

Good  Octavia  wanted  wit; 
Greek  Xantippe  lacked  urbaneness; 

Eliot  wasn't  chic  a  bit. 
Cleopatra  lacked  humility; 

Ruth  was  minus  wordly  wealth; 
Bess  of  England  lacked  civility ; 

Saint  Theresa  lacked  in  health. 

Aspasia  lacked  in  social  station ; 

Paula  lacked  in  style  and  fashion ; 
De  Stael  lacked  domestication ; 

Phryne  didn't  lack  in  passion. 
Poll  is  perfect,  but,  yon  see, 

Lacks  in  toto  love  for  me. 

— Cincinnati  Tribune. 


WHY      HE     PROPOSED. 

"Well,"  said  Miss  Hungerford  to  Mr. 
Gildersleeve,  as  they  sat  on  the  piazza  of  a 
summer  hotel  and  looked  about  them,  not- 
ing the  other  guests  with  critical  eye, 
"when  I  am  married — if  I  ever  am  married 
— I  shall' not  march  straight  from  the  altar 
and  put  myself  on  exhibition  at  a  summer 
resort." 

'•That  is  a  commendable  resolution," 
replied  Mr.  Gildersleeve. 

•■Just  notice  the  three  or  four  honey- 
mooning couples  at  this  hotel  now." 

"I've  noticed  them,  and,  do  you  know, 
I've  rather  envied  the  bridegrooms." 

"Have  you?  Weil,  I  haven't  envied  the 
brides.  I  don't  believe  in  public  lovemaking 
eituer  before  or  after  marriage." 

"The  honey-mooners  here  seem  to  enjoy 
it,  and  it  furnishes  a  great  deal  of  amuse- 
ment to  some  of  the  old  married  people." 

"Well,  no  one  will  ever  obtain  amuse- 
ment at  my  expense  in  that  way,"  Miss 
Hungerford  went  on.  *'I  consider  newly 
wedded  affection  too  sacred  a  thing  to  be 
put  on  exhibition." 

"Of  course  you  are  right,  Miss  Hunger- 
ford, precisely  right." 

"Now,  when  I  am  married,"  Miss  Hunger- 
ford proceeded,  "I  am  going  straight  to  my 
dear  old  aunt's  place  in  the  Catskills.  It's 
the  finest  retreat  imaginable  in  the  hot 
summer  days.  I  usually  go  there  to  rest  up 
after  a  month  at  the  shore.  Perfect  solitude 
you  know,  the  nicest  cottage,  with  well- 
trained  servants.  You  can  lie  in  the  ham- 
mock all  day  long  and  breathe  the  most 
delicious  air.  Then  you  can  row  on  the 
dearest  little  lake,  and  take  the  most  de- 
lightful walks,  with  no  danger  of  anybody's 
intruding  on  your  privacy.  When  I  was 
there  last  summer,  aunty  dear  said :  'Now, 
Annie,  when  you  get  married,  I  want  you 
to  come  straight  here  with  your  husband 
and  enjoy  your  honeymoon  as  it  ought  to 
be  enjoyed.  You  and  he  are  welcome  to 
stay  a  month,  or  two  if  you  like ;  the  longer 
the  better.'  Now,  don't  you  think  it  would 
be  much  better  to  spend  a  honeymoon  in  a 
place  like  that  than  at  a  crowded  watering 
place  like  this,  Mr.  Gildersleeve?" 

"Indeed,  I  do,  Miss  Hungerford."  He 
moved  nearer  to  her  and  added:  "Annie, 
love,  let's  start  right  away." 

"Oh,  George,  this  is  so  very  sudden !  I'll 
need  at  least  two  weeks  to  get  ready  for  the 
wedding." 

She  was  ready  in  time,  however,  and  now 
they  are  at  her  aunt's.—  Harper's  Bazar. 


OCEANIC  S.S.  CO.  f\ 

HAWAII,    SAMOA,  &% 

NEW  ZEALAND,  B| 

AUSTRALIA.  \J? S 


DAYS  TO 

HONOLULU 


CEANICS.S.  CO. 

HAWAII,    SAMOA, 
NEW  ZEALAND, 
AUSTRALIA.  U-Ps.S.  AUSTRALIA. 

S.  S.  "Zealandia,"  Thursday,  January  7th,  at 
2  P.  M. 

S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu  only,  Tuesday, 
January  26,  at  2  p.  m. 

Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa.  J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &BROS.CO. , 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 

TH6  Grand  Pacific,  §£?$££££•• 

MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month. 
Telephone:  Grant,  507. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH   PACIFIC 
RAILWAY    CO. 

Tibcron  Ferry-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00,  11:00  A  M;  12:35,3:30 
5:10,  6:30  P  M.  Thursdays— Extra  trip  at 
11:30  p  M.  Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1:50 
and  11  :30  pm. 

SUNDAYS— 8:00,  9:30, 11:00  A  M;  1:30.  3:30,  5:00, 
6:20  PM. 

SAN  RAFAEL  TO  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  Am;  12:45, 
3 :40, 5 :10  p  M.  Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :55 
and  6:35  pm. 

SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40,  11:10  AM;  1:40,3:40,5:00, 
6:25  pm. 
Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park, 

same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  F. 

In  Effect 
Oct.  14, 1896 

Desti'tion. 

Arrive  ih  S.  F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays. 

Sundays. 

Week 
Days. 

7:30AM 
3:30pm 
5:10  pm 

8:00AM 
9:30am 
5:00  pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

10 :40  A  M 
6:10  pm 
7:35  pm 

8:40AM 
10:25AM 
6  :22pm 

Fulton, 

Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyserville, 

Cloverdale. 

10:25  AM 

3:30  pm 

8:66  am 

7:35PM 

6:22pm 

7:30  am|  8:00AM  j^Vg&J  7:35PM 

6:22pm 

3-IopmI  8:00am  I  Guerneville|  7:35pm 

10  25am 
6:22  PM 

7:30am|  8:00am  1     Sonoma,      10:40am 
5:10pm|  5:00pm  |  Glen  Ellen.  |  6:10pm 

8:40  am 
6:22pm 

7:30am|  8:00am  1  <=Pha!,tfmnl   |10:40am 
3:30pm|  5:00pm  I  S>et>astopol.  |  6:10pM 

10:25  AM 
6:22PM 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs' Springs;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake- 
port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and  Bartlett 
Springs ;  at  Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga 
Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper 
Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  River- 
side. Lierley's,  Buckneirs  Sashedoin  Heights, 
Hullville,  Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal,  Willitts,  Canto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Har- 
ris, Scotia,  and  Eureka. 

Saturday- to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  re- 
duced rates. 

On  Sundays,  Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points 
beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle 
Building. 

H.C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Passenger  Agent. 

PACIFIC    COAST    STEAMSHIP    CO. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf,  San  Fran- 
cisco for  ports  in  Alaska,  9  a.m..  Jan.  9,  24. 

For  B.  C.  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  Jan.  4,9, 
14,  19,  24,  29,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay ),  Steamer  "Pom- 
ona," at  2  P.  M.  Jan.  4,  8,  12,  16,  20,  24,  28,  and 
every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports, 
at  9  a.  m.;  Jan.  2,  6, 10, 14, 18,  22,  26,  30,  and  every 
fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford 
Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los  Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los 
Angeles)  and  Newport,  Jan.  4,  8,  12, 16,  20,  24, 
28,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter,  at  11  a.  m. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  del 
Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La  Paz,  Santa  Rosalia, 
and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10 
A.  m  . ,  25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  right  to  change  steam- 
ers or  sailing  dates. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New 
Montgomery  street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents, 
No.  10  Market  street,  San  Francisco 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO 

For  Japan  and  China. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  1  P  M,  for  YOKOHAMA  and 
HONGKONG,  calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Naga- 
saki and  Shanghai,  and  connecting  at  Hong- 
kong with  steamers  for  India,  etc.  No  cargo  re- 
ceived on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Coptic  (via Honolulu)... -Saturday,  Jan.  16, 1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  Feb.  2, 1897 

Doric Tuesday,  February  23, 1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu),  Saturday,  March  13, 1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's 
Office,  No.  421  Market  street,  corner  First. 

D.  D.  STUBBS, Secretary. 


Price  per  Copy.  10  Cents. 


Annua:  Hon,  $4.00. 


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W,  Kearny  «(r«/,  .San  JVa»«i»eo.  Sntertd  at  San  Francisco  Post- 
oJKct  a*  Second-class  Matter, 

Tks  office  of  the  XBYiS  LBTTBB  in  Xew  fort  City  it  at  Temple  Court; 
and  at  Chicago,  Ml  Boyce  Building.  {Frank  B  MorrUon.  Battern 
Representative),  trbere  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  subtcrip- 
tion  and  advertising  rates. 

ODB  fruit  growers  are  finding  out  that  robins  are 
among  their  best  friends.  These  birds,  if  unmolested, 
may  do  the  State  more  good  than  a  costly  Horticultural 
Commission. 

THE  Rev.  floor^e  Swan  of  Berkeley  very  sensibly  ob- 
jects to  the  study  of  classic  mythology  in  the  public 
schools.  Bultioch's  "Age  of  Fable"  is  a  highly  interesting 
book,  but  something  more  useful  should  eDgage  the  at- 
tention of  the  pupils. 

INTEREST  in  the  Nicaragua  Canal  project  seems  to  be 
reviving  at  Washington.  There  is  a  prospect  that  a 
measure  will  be  adopted  at  this  session,  calling  for  a  re- 
survey  of  the  canal  line,  with  provisions  for  construction 
work  under  the  direction  of  the  Government. 


IT  is  announced  that  an  important  move  has  been  made 
in  Judge  Coffey's  court,  as  a  result  of  which  a  speedy 
settlement  will  be  reached  of  a  large  estate.  This  move 
must  have  been  an  oversight  on  the  part  of  the  attorneys, 
but  such  things  cannot  always  be  guarded  against  in  the 
practice  of  law. 

IT  was  an  absurd  thing  to  close  the  public  schools  for 
half  a  day,  on  account  of  the  death  of  School  Director 
Halsted.  He  had  never  served  in  that  capacity,  and 
even  if  he  bad  been  a  life-long  member  of  the  Board  there 
would  be  no  occasion  for  wasting  the  time  of  teachers  and 
children  in  this  manner. 


IT  is  to  be  hoped  that  Senator  Proctor's  proposed  con- 
stitutional amendment,  increasing  the  Presidential 
term  to  six  years,  and  making  the  President  ineligible  for 
re-election,  will  be  approved  by  Congress  and  ultimately 
become  law.  It  also  increases  the  term  of  Representa- 
tives to  three  years,  which  is  likewise  a  desirable  change. 

IN  the  unholy  scramble  for  tariff  benefits  at  Washington, 
nearly  all  interests  appear  to  be  clamorously  repre- 
sented, except  those  of  the  consumer.  If  this  State  has 
to  submit  to  an  increased  duty  on  coal,  it  will  go  far  to 
neutralize  any  gains  that  may  be  made  through  higher 
duties  on  fruit.  San  Francisco,  in  particular,  must  suffer 
from  dearer  coal. 


IN  insisting  that  the  Grand  Jury  has  no  right  to  inquire 
into  the  expenditures  of  the  school  department,  with 
the  view  to  detect  extravagance  or  waste,  Superintendent 
Babcock  has  but  excited  suspicion  against  the  school 
Board.  If  the  public  mooey  is  being  wisely  expended, 
there  is  no  reason  why  the  Grand  Jury  should  not  be 
allowed  to  make  kuown  that  interesting  fact. 


A  KANSAS  legislator  has  framed  a  bill  designed  to  pre- 
vent any  man  from  owning  more  land  than  may  be 
embraced  in  a  homestead.  It  authorizes  anybody  to  make 
a  tender  of  money  for  land,  other  than  a  homestead,  and 
if  the  offer  is  refused  the  proper  amount  is  determined  in 
court  by  a  jury,  which  sum  the  owner  is  obliged  to  accept. 
This  is  lending  the  power  of  eminent  domain  to  take  pri- 
vate property  for  private  uses,  and  is  clearly  in  conflict 
with  the  federal  constitution. 


THAT  a  son  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  the  most  tru  | 
cratic,  in  a  social  sense,  of  all  our   r  should 

le  the  leader  of  the  most  exclusive  set  of  Chici 
ty,  is  a  striking  example  of  the   mutability  of  families 
in  America. 


TEE  outrage  at  Orangevale,  in  Sacramento  County, 
where  >i\  Japanese  laborers  were  strung  up  by  the 
neck  and  nearly  killed,  by  a  mob  of  whit.'  ruffians,  was 
most  disgraceful.  Such  cowardly  assaults  on  lnoffei 
foreigners  cast  infinite  discredit  upon  California.  The 
newspapers  that  Falsely  represent  our  labor  latere 
endangered  by  the  Japanese  are  tin-  chief  promoters  of 
this  sort  of  mischief. 

NO  great  degree  of  enthusiasm  has  been  excited  by  the 
memorial  asking  Congress  to  establish  a  leper  hosoi- 
tal  in  this  State.  There  seems  to  be  need  of  such  an  in- 
stitution somewhere  in  the  United  States,  but  San  Fran- 
ciscans are  certainly  not  anxious  to  have  it  established  in 
this  neighborhood.  This  is  not  from  fear  of  infection,  but 
because  of  the  gloomy  associations  that  must  always  sur- 
round a  hospital  of  this  sort. 

THE  Populist  Party  is  shouting  for  greenbacks  as  the 
cure-all  of  financial  ills.  Its  leaders  declare  that  they 
took  up  the  silver  fight  as  the  entering  wedge  for  their 
main  issue  of  paper  money.  The  proposed  retirement  of 
the  greenbacks  in  circulation  will  give  the  Populists  oppor- 
tunity for  talk  on  this  subject.  But  it  is  quite  certain 
that  the  fiat  money  idea  has  no  strength  in  Congress.  The 
country  is  in  no  danger  from  this  sort  of  visionary  finance. 

THERE  is  not  so  much  need  of  more  courts  in  Califor- 
nia as  of  a  reform  of  legal  procedure  by  which  a  final 
determination  of  law  suits  could  be  speedily  obtained  at 
reasonable  cost.  The  law's  delays  are  proverbial,  but 
most  of  them  are  needless  and  inexcusable.  It  is  probable 
that  more  substantial  justice  was  had  in  the  old  English 
market-place  courts,  where  every  cause  was  finally  de- 
cided on  the  day  it  arose,  than  is  attained  through  the 
complicated  machinery  of  our  modern  courts. 


THE  Bates  dredger,  which  has  proved  so  effective  on 
the  Mississippi  river,  differs  chiefly  in  the  matter  of 
capacity  from  the  Bowers  or  Von  Schmidt  dredger,  well- 
known  in  California.  The  principle  of  stirring  up  the  bot- 
tom, and  lifting  the  liquified  mud  by  suction,  is  the  same 
in  both.  It  is  not  unlikely  that  the  Legislature  will  ap- 
propriate a  sum  sufficient  for  the  purchase  of  a  big  dred- 
ger of  this  sort,  to  be  used  on  the  Sacramento  river.  It 
would  be  a  good  investment  for  the  State. 

THE  prominence  given  the  arrest  of  Murderer  Butler, 
by  the  sensational  portion  of  the  daily  press,  must  be  an 
eye-opener  to  the  foreign  officers  whe  are  mixed  up  in  a 
hurly-burly  of  excitement  which  must  be  new  to  them, 
considering  the  matter-of-fact  manner  in  which  these  af- 
fairs are  handled  in  other  parts  of  the  world.  Keeping 
the  unfortunate  strangers  cooped  up  in  uncomfortable 
quarters  on  a  wharf,  with  telephonic  communication  avail- 
able with  all  the  hotels,  is  not  the  least  ridiculous  feature 
of  the  situation.  Morever,  instead  of  sending  a  revenue 
cutter  out  to  herald  the  arrest  of  a  "  dangerous  man,"  it 
would  seem  that  the  pilot  boat  could  have  simplified  the 
whole  matter  by  a  letter  of  instructions  to  the  captain  of 
the  vessel,  who,  between  the  cruising  ground  and  the 
coast,  could  easily  find  an  opportunity  to  clap  the  unsus- 
pecting murderer  in  irons,  for  safe  delivery  to  the  police 
in  waiting. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  16,  1897. 


THE     FUNDING     BILL     DEFEATED. 

SERAID  to  deal  conservatively  with  a  measure  in  which 
large  money  interests  were  involved,  and  in  regard  to 
which  the  possibilities  of  suspicion  and  scandal  were  great, 
the  House  of  Representatives   has  defeated  the  Pacific 
Railroads  funding  bill.     From  a   California  standpoint,  we 
continue  to  think  it  au  unwise    decision,    and  we  venture 
the  prediction  that   the   day  will  come   when  our  people 
would  reverse  that  decision,  if  they  could.    If  two  per  cent 
payment  by  the  Roads  on  the  amount  of  the  Government's 
lien  was  insufficient,  how  much  better  off  will  our  shippers 
be  when  the  Roads  are   sold   to   the   highest  bidder?     No 
syndicate  would  put  money  into  such   an   enterprise  with 
the  expectation  of  earning  less  than  four  per  cent  per  an- 
num.    That,  of  course,  means  that  the  net  earnings  must 
be  double  what  would  have   sufficed  under  the  proposed 
funding  bill.     That  is  the  kernel  of   this  much  misrepre- 
sented railroad  question.     So  long  as  arithmetic  has  any 
value,  four  will  remain  twice  as  much  as  two,    and  the 
doubling  of  the  interest  on  the  Pacific  Railroads'  debt  will 
mean  the  collection  of  a  great  many  more  millions  a  year 
from  our  people.     What  there  is   in  that    to   grow  wildly 
enthusiastic  over  no  sane  man  can  tell.     That  the  railroad 
has  necessarily  made   enemies,    and  has  been  fought,  not 
because  of  the  injustice  of  its  cause,    but  because  of  the 
malice  and  hatred  it  has  begotten,  goes  without  saying.   It 
is  a  fatal  trick  we  have  in   California  to  hate  every  man 
and  institution  that  succeeds.     We  never,   for  instance, 
permit  one  of  ourselves  to  rise   to  importance  in  national 
politics,  or  to  become  a  cabinet  minister.     If,  perchance, 
a  President-elect  intimates  that  he  would  like  to  draw  one 
of  his  official  family  from  the  Pacific  Coast,   we  at  once 
start  in  to  destroy  every  man  of   mark,    and  invariably 
finish  up    by   recommending    a  colorless  man,    who  will 
ne^'er  amount  to  much.     We  are  too  jealous  one  of  another 
to   re-elect  our  congressmen   often  enough  for  them  to 
learn  the  ropes,  and  become   useful   to   their  constituents 
and  to  the  country.     We  are  so  equally  divided  politically 
that  we  cut  the  singular  figure  of  chosing  electors  favor- 
able to  both  Presidential  candidates.    As  a  rule,  when  the 
rest  of  the  country  goes  Republican  we   are  Democratic 
and  when  the  Democrats  are  on  top  and  something  is  to  be 
gained  from  them,    we   usually    have    some  weakling  con- 
gressmen in  Washington  making  puny   attacks  upon  the 
powers  that    be,    and    rendering    everything  Californian 
obnoxious.     If  we  did  not  like  the  proposed  funding  bill,  it 
would  have  been  the  part    of    wisdom    to    have  gone  into 
consultation  with  railroad  officials  to  find  out  what  could 
have  been  done,  and,  in  the  last  resort,  to  have  delivered 
them  an  ultimatum. 

Reason  should  always  hold  sway  when  large  material  in- 
terests are  involved.  We  see  how  that  is  in  the  case  of 
millionaire  stockholders  who  have  much  to  lose.  They 
may  say  hard  things  of  the  other  fellow,  and  hate  him  like 
poison,  but  they  take  care  to  "get  together"  in  the  end 
and  combine  for  mutual  protection.  Whoever  else  loses 
they  win,  and  so  go  on  from  one  triumph  to  another. 
There  was  every  reason  why  the  people  of  California  and 
the  railroad  men  should  have  come  together.  It  was  to 
the  interest  of  this  Coast  that  the  best  possible  terms 
should  have  been  made,  always,  provided,  that  the  rail- 
road gave  guarantees  that  its  customers  should  adequat- 
ely share  in  the  easy  terms  obtained.  That  could  all  have 
been  arranged  by  consultation  and  agreement  and  a  way 
could  have  been  found  to  render  it  binding.  Every  dollar, 
in  either  interest  or  principal,  that  Congress  consented  to 
throw  off  the  original  debt,  would  have  been  in  the  nature 
of  a  dollar  subsidy  granted  to  the  traffic  of  this  Coast. 
The  disposition  of  the  rest  of  the  country  was  highly 
favorable  to  helping  this  section  in  that  way.  A  just  and 
liberal  view  was  held  of  the  subject  matter.  It  was  felt 
that  the  men  who  built  the  Pacific  railroads  in  the  first 
place,  and  the  men  who  are  building  up  a  commonwealth 
on  these  shores,  were  worthy  not  only  of  just,  but  even  of 
generous  treatment.  It  was  not  forgotten  that  the  bonds 
upon  which  dollar  for  dollar,  with  interest  at  the  rate  of 
six  per  cent  is  now  demanded,  were  sold  originally  for  no 
more  than  sixty  cents  on  the  dollar.  It  was  also  remem- 
bered that  the  prices  of  rails  and  other  material  were 
two  or  three  times  greater  then  than  now.  The  road  was 
undertaken  as  a  national  necessity.     It   has  accomplished 


all  and  more  than  was  expected  of  it.  It  has  brought  all 
parts  of  the  country  together,  led  the  Indian  difficulty  to  a 
peaceful  end,  rendered  California  and  its  wonders  access- 
ible to  the  world,  and  has  in  one  way  and  another  saved 
the  Government  more  money  than  the  amount  of  the  bonds 
it  guaranteed.  With  these  and  other  like  considerations 
in  view,  there  was  every  disposition  in  the  East  to  have 
forgiven  the  entire  debt,  if  only  California  had  desired  it. 
But  our  people  were  not  that  way  minded.  Led  by  per- 
sons actuated  by  hatred,  malice,  and  all  uncharitableness, 
they  preferred  revenge,  even  if  railroad  chaos  should  re- 
sult. To  foreclose  is  easier  said  than  done.  If  accom- 
plished, the  Government  will  have  a  white  elephant  on  its 
hands.     The  end  is  not  yet. 

The  Examiner  and  One  can  readily  understand  why  the 
Grove  L.  Johnson.  Examiner  saw  fit  to  mutilate  and 
suppress  the  speech  of  Grove  L.John- 
son at  Washington,  wherein  that  gentleman  treated  the 
youthful  Mr.  Hearst  to  as  excoriating  and  just  a  roast  as 
it  has  ever  been  the  fortune  of  a  man  to  receive.  Had  some 
demagogue,  purchased,  perhaps  not  by  gold,  but  by  the 
plaudits  of  a  number  of  illiterate  and  prirciple-ignoring 
Californians,  been  speaking,  and  had  he  seen  fit  to  throw 
bouquets  at  that  paragon  of  moneyed  journalists,  then  we 
should  have  been  treated  to  the  speech  in  full,  with  a  few 
extra  remarks  thrown  in  by  some  pandering  editorial 
writer.  As  it  was,  Mr.  Hearst  was  shown  up  in  his  true 
colors  and  as  every  intelligent  Californian  sees  him.  Mr. 
Johnson  properly  decided  to  explain  to  the  nation's  repre- 
sentatives and  Easterners  in  general,  that  men  of  the 
Hearst  and  Sutro  type  are  not  good  specimens  of 
Western  civilization,  but  that  they  are  merely  the  well- 
clothed  leaders  of  a  minority,  whose  chief  claim  to  con- 
sideration lies  in  its  very  offensiveness.  Time  was  when  the 
ravings  of  Mr.  Sutro  and  the  virtuous  indignation  of  Mr. 
Hearst  were  not  without  effect.  Demagogues  and  dogs 
must  have  their  day.  and  always  attract  attention  until 
disposed  of.  The  fall  of  these  two  gentlemen  came  when 
people  asked  themselves  :  "What  has  either  of  them  given 
us  as  compared  to  the  railroad  they  both  decry  ?  "  The 
one,  a  Hebrew  adventurer,  gave  the  mining  world  a  tun- 
nel, in  exchange,  however,  for  millions,  and  the  deal  will 
cause  the  righteous  abuse  of  the  purchasers  to  follow  his 
gold-greedy  ghost  even  into  Gehenna;  the  other,  a  sprig  of 
our  own  soap-sud  aristocracy,  has  given  us  a  newspaper 
whose  apparent  mission  has  been,  and  is,  to  blast  every  legi- 
timate California  industry,  to  picture  us  as  a  race  of  male 
and  female  desperadoes,  as  foes  to  virtue,  to  decency,  and 
to  right,  and  to  damn  us  generally  in  the  eyes  of  the  world. 
Congressman  Johnson  is  entitled  to  the  thanks  of  all  true 
Californians  for  the  service  he  has  rendered  us  in  turning 
the  searchlight  of  investigation  upon  these  two  men,  and  in 
holding  them  up  to  public  scorn.  That  the  Examiner  refused 
to  print  his  speech  was  not  to  be  wondered  at.  It  is  as 
much  the  enemy  to  truth  as  it  is  to  this  fair  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

Progress  Of  The  The  National  Civil  Service  Reform 
Reform  League  has  just  held  its  annual  session 

In  Civil  Service,  in  Philadelphia.  Most  remarkable 
progress  was  shown  in  the  reports 
and  addresses.  The  first  movement  toward  reform  was 
made  during  Grant's  second  term.  It  failed  because  the 
spoilsmen  were  too  strong.  During  the  administration 
following  it  was  introduced  into  the  Interior  Department 
at  Washington,  and  in  the  Custom  House  and  Post  Office 
at  New  York.  From  that  time  the  growth  has  been  rapid, 
although  it  has  faced  the  continual  opposition  of  pro- 
fessional politics.  The  present  law  was  passed  in  1882. 
At  the  close  of  1884,  there  were  less  than  15,000  govern- 
ment employees  in  the  classified  service.  At  the  present 
time  there  are  nearly  90,000.  New  York  and  Massa- 
chusetts have  adopted  the  system  in  State  government, 
and  Pennsylvania  is  expected  to  pass  a  law  for  the  same 
purpose  at  the  present  session  of  her  Legislature.  The 
City  of  Chicago  introduced  the  merit  system  by  a  majority 
of  50,000  votes,  indicating  its  popularity  with  the  people. 
The  plan  has  either  been  already  adopted,  or  movements 
are  under  way  looking  to  that  end  in  the  cities  of  New 
Orleans,  San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles,  Denver,  Seattle, 
Tacoma,   Galveston,   St.   Louis  and    Wheeling,   W.   Va. 


January  16,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


thstanding  thi-.  firm  hold  the  efforts  of  the  spoils- 
men against  it  arc  still  desperate,  and  what  is  worse  their 
methods  are  insidious.  Doable  U  they  are  to  tight  the 
reform  openly,  their  efforts  are  directed  toward  obtaining, 

by  specious  arguments,  from  the  Civil  Service  Commis 
the  adoption  of  such  rules  and  amendments  as  tend  to 
v  the  real  intent  of  the  law.  Strange  to  Bay,  an 
association  has  been  formed  in  New  York  with  this 
avowed  purpose.  Strenuous  efforts  are  being  made  by 
them  to  transfer  the  management  of  civil  service  examina- 
tions from  the  Commission  to  heads  of  departments,  the 
effect  of  which  would  be  to  destroy  the  merit  system  in 
aoy  department  controlled  by  a  spoilsman.  They  demand 
that  heads  of  departments  shall  have  the  right  to  approve 
or  amend  questions.  This  is  equally  insidious.  If  a  spoils- 
man with  appointments  to  make,  knows  the  questions,  his 
heelers  will  know  them  also  and  their  answers  too.  They 
require  the  right  to  make  appointments  from  the  whole 
list  of  eligibles  instead  of  from  the  highest  three  in  grade. 
as  at  present.  As  the  minimum  of  the  grades  on  the 
eligible  list  is  seventy  per  cent,  a  compliance  with  this 
proposal  would  sacrifice  the  purpose  of  the  law  to  award 
appointments  to  merit  as  shown  in  competitive  examina- 
tion. These  demands  should  clearly  not  be  granted  and 
the  National  League  will  do  good  work  if  they  compass 
their  prompt  denial.  There  are  already  rules  adopted 
which  are  unjust  to  merit  and  serve  as  entering  wedges 
for  the  spoilsmen.  To  illustrate:  the  people  will  be  best 
served  if  the  most  meritorious  eligible  has  the  widest 
chance  of  appointment  to  the  public  service.  An  appli- 
cant, we  will  suppose,  entered  the  examinations  in  April 
1896,  for  a  certain  grade  in  the  Customs  service.  He  has 
gained  the  highest  percentage  in  the  list  of  eligibles. 
Now  the  law  does  not  permit  his  appointment  to  the  ser- 
vice except  in  the  grade  for  which  he  applies,  and  yet 
after  his  position  on  the  list  was  obtained,  the  Commission 
promulgated  a  new  rule  that  "  any  employee  may  be  pro- 
moted or  transferred  to  the  lowest  class  in  any  other 
grade,  upon  passing  a  non-competitive  examination." 
That  is  to  say,  the  eligible  with  a  standing  of  98  per  cent, 
may  be  shouldered  to  one  side,  to  clear  the  way  of  a  favor- 
ite who  gains  seventy  per  cent  in  a  non-competitive  ex- 
amination. He  spends  time  and  money  to  gain  his  place 
on  the  list  on  the  faith  of  the  law  that  it  would  be  of  value. 
What  right  has  the  Commission  to  destroy  that  compact  by 
a  retroactive  rule?  It  is  clearly  an  injustice  to  him,  de- 
trimental to  the  public  service,  valuable  only  to  the  poli- 
tician and  his  protege,  and  should  be  rescinded  before  the 
breach  made  is  widened  by  the  spoilsmen. 

Canadian  Independence     The    question    of    the    future   of 
and   Annexation.  Canada  shows  signs  of  becoming 

a  very  interesting  one  in  the 
near  future,  not  only  ftr  the  Dominion,  but  for  the  United 
States.  Two  parties  are  rapidly  forming  in  Canada — one 
favoring  an  imperial  federation  with  the  mother  country 
and  her  colonies;  the  other  urging  a  closer  union  with  the 
United  States — a  sentiment  which  is  sure  to  develop  into 
a  desire  for  annexation.  The  reasons  for  the  present  un- 
rest are  plain.  Manitoba  is  notoriously  displeased  with 
her  associates.  To  begin  with,  she  is  situated  deplorably. 
Cut  off  from  both  ends  of  the  Dominion  by  immense  tracts 
of  desolate  and  practically  uninhabitable  areas;  over- 
ridden by  Imperialism  and  Railwayism,  and  coerced  from 
Ottawa,  it  is  not  surprising  that  her  eyes  turn  longingly 
to  the  South.  Ontario  and  Quebec  are  little  better  off. 
The  proposed  federation  would  be  sure  to  cast  upon  them 
a  largely  increased  burden  for  military  and  naval  pur- 
poses, while  it  would  deprive  them  in  a  large  measure  of 
the  independence  they  now  have.  In  the  meantime,  they 
see  the  most  energetic  portion  of  their  population  per- 
manently removing  to  the  United  States  in  steadily  in- 
creasing numbers.  To  sacrifice  themselves  to  the  inter- 
ests of  England  and  Australia  would  not  in  any  way  bet- 
ter their  condition.  But  what  of  the  United  States?  The 
very  reasons  which  are  increasing  the  popularity  of  annex- 
ation in  Canada,  joined  with  others,  are  the  very  reasons 
which  would  make  Canada  an  undesirable  acquisition  for 
us.  The  Dominion  cannot  offer  us  a  quid  pro  quo.  There 
are  extensive  wheat  lands  in  her  middle  West,  but  it  is 
noticeable  that  they  are  not  attracting  a  large  popula- 
tion, and  we  have  already  more  of  such  land  than  we  can 


ith  profit.     There  are,    undoubtedly,    rich   nth* 
liritish  Columbia,    bul  ,•  bound  to  I 

■  ■     ipi 
the  burden  of  Canadian  debt,  without  bringing 
lent  in  assets.   It  would  compel  1 
Increased  and  unusua  rt  line  on  tv 

It  would  add  to  our   present    difficulties   with    tran^ 
Dental  railways.    It  would  add  to  our  cltlienshlp  a  large 

ciass  whose  aims,  objects,  ambitions,  ami  noodesof  thought 
are  wholly  antagonistic  to  the  spirit  of  our  Institutloi 
people  as  difficult   for   us    I  .ie   as   would   be 

Spanish  races  of  the  West  Indies  or  the  Kanakas  of  the 
Pacific.  Were  the  increased  land  area  desirable,  the 
Canadians  would  not  exhibit  so  much  willingness  to  leave 
it.      We  could  purcba  I    of  it  now  for  one-half  the 

money  they  have  put  into  it.  If  it  is  of  so  little  value  to 
them,  why,  then,  should  we  covet  it  '!  It  would  add  noth- 
ing to  our  greatness  and  much  to  our  burdens.  We  have 
land  enough,  debts  enough,  and  troublesenough,  and  neither 
of  the  four  cardinal  points  can  offer  us  an  adequate  reason 
for  extending  our  domain. 

Improving  The  It  is  one  of  the  most  promising  signs  in 
Electoral  American  politics  that  our  people,  when- 
Franchise.  ever  and  wherever  appealed  to,  have 
shown  more  than  willingness  to  improve 
the  conditions  upon  which  the  electoral  franchise  is  exer- 
cised. Two  years  ago  the  people  of  California  carried  a 
constitutional  amendment,  by  a  large  majority,  empower- 
ing the  Legislature  to  impose  an  educational  qualification 
as  a  pre-requisite  to  voting.  At  the  election  in  November 
last  two  States  submitted  constitutional  amendments  to 
popular  vote,  rendering  the  exercise  of  the  suffrage  more 
difficult  to  foreign  immigrants.  Hitherto  Texas  has  al- 
lowed all  comers  to  vote  who  have  resided  in  the  State 
one  year,  provided  that  on  the  day  of  election,  or  before, 
they  declared  an  intention  to  become  citizens.  The  last 
Legislature  submitted  a  proposition  that  such  a  declara- 
tion must  be  made  not  less  than  six  months  before  the 
election,  and  it  carried  by  an  almost  unanimous  vote. 
Minnesota  has  permitted  foreigners  to  vote  upon  a  simple 
declaration  of  intention,  but  an  amendment  was  carried 
at  the  late  election  requiring  full  citizenship;  which  of 
course,  means  a  residence  of  five  years.  That  such  a 
proposal  should  have  succeeded  in  Minnesota  is  remark- 
able, because  six-tenths  of  the  population  of  that  State 
are  of  foreign  birth.  Last,  but  not  least,  Congress  has 
imposed  an  educational  qualification  as  a  necessity  to  all 
immigrants  who  would  land  on  our  shores.  That  measure 
has  been  generally  acquiesced  in  and  approved.  These 
signs  of  a  conservative  trend  in  the  popular  mind,  will 
give  no  little  satisfaction  to  thoughtful  men  everywhere. 
To  be  sure,  these  amendments  fall  very  far  short  of  what 
is  needed,  but  they  are  to  be  welcomed  as  indicating  pro- 
gress in  the  right  direction. 

Republican  Times  have  changed  since  a  newly-elected 
Simplicity.  President  of  the  United  States  rode  down 
to  the  Capitol  alone,  hitched  his  horse  to  a 
post,  was  sworn  in,  returned  as  he  came,  and  thus  ended 
the  inaugural  ceremony.  All  accounts  from  Washington 
indicate  that  President-elect  McKinley  is  to  be  inaugu- 
rated with  a  degree  of  pomp  and  splendor  that  will  put  in 
the  shade  all  previous  occasions  of  like  nature.  The 
Springfield  Republican  is  the  respectable  authority  for 
the  statement  that  "  prices  for  windows  on  Pennsylvania 
avenue,  on  inauguration  day,  are  rising  rapidly.  Latest 
quotations:  single  windows,  $75  to  $100;  single  rooms, 
with  two  or  three  windows,  $300;  suite  with  eight  win- 
dows, $1,000  to  $5,000."  These  prices  will  be  paid  for  the 
privilege  of  seeing  Grover  Cleveland  and  William  McKin- 
ley ride  in  the  same  carriage,  and  witnessing  the  longest 
parade  ever  known  at  an  inauguration  at  the  capital  city. 
On  the  way  to  the  Capitol  the  Ohio  man  will  sit  on  the 
left,  but,  when  the  return  trip  is  made,  the  New  Yorker 
will  take  that  seat.  All  this  pageantry  would  look  better 
if  it  were  the  spontaneous  outcome  of  enthusiasm  on  the 
part  of  the  people.  Mark  Hanna  is  engineering  it  all,  and 
using  the  surplus  "fat"  fried  out  of  the  protected  indus- 
tries. Evidently  no  money  is  to  be  spared  to  give  McKin- 
ley a  prodigious  "send  off."  We  think  he  will  live  long 
enough  to  regret  it. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  16,  1897. 


Concerning  The  Lodge-Corliss  Bill,  which  will  shortly 
Immigration,  come  before  the  United  States  Senate,  aims 
not  so  much  at  the  exclusion  of  foreigners 
generally,  but  of  those  who  are  ignorant  alike  of  their  own 
language,  of  an  occupation,  and  of  the  standards  of  living 
and  character  which  distinguish  the  American  people. 
This  is  a  measure  which  will  meet  with  the  hearty  ap- 
proval of  every  man  interested  in  the  welfare  of  this 
country,  and  its  desirability  will  undoubtedly  be  recog- 
nized by  those  to  whom  it  goes  for  ultimate  recognition. 
The  passage  of  this  Bill  will  restrict,  in  a  large  measure, 
the  immigration  of  that  most  undesirable  and  illiterate  ele- 
ment, consisting  of  the  Slav,  Latin,  and  Asiatic  races.  To 
class  along  with  these  immigrants  those  coming  from  the 
United  Kingdom,  France,  Germany,  and  Scandinavia,  is 
as  unjust  as  it  is  foolish.  During  the  last  fiscal  year  the 
average  illiteracy  of  emigrants  from  Austria,  Hungary, 
Italy,  Poland,  and  Russia  was  40.1  per  cent,  while  of  those 
coming  from  the  other  mentioned  countries  it  was  only 
3.7  per  cent.  Statistics  also  show  that,  while  the  former 
seldom  become  naturalized,  the  "latter  hasten  to  take  out 
their  papers  and  develop  into  good  and  patriotic  citizens. 
By  the  census  of  1890,  of  the  Slav,  Latin,  and  Asiatic 
foreign  born  in  the  United  States,  32.0  per  cent,  were 
aliens,  while  of  the  British,  German,  and  Scandinavian 
only  9.9  per  cent,  were  aliens.  The  immigration  of  this 
undesirable  element  has  been  steadily  increasing  during 
the  last  six  years,  and  it  is  time  a  halt  was- called.  Of 
pauper  labor  we  have  already  more  than  enough.  By 
permitting  the  ranks  of  the  dissatisfied  to  swell,  property 
and  law-abiding  citizens  are  endangered,  and  the  welfare 
of  the  Republic  is  undermined.  Of  frugal,  intelligent,  and 
capable  immigrants  we  cannot  have  too  many.  In  time 
they  become  employers  of  labor  themselves,  and  thus  help 
to  rid  the  human  market  of  some  of  its  excess  stock.  They 
soon  recogDize  how  much  better  off  they  are  in  this  coun- 
try than  under  the  Governments  to  which  they  formerl}' 
owed  allegiance,  and  they  gradually  become  good  Amer- 
icans in  every  sense  of  the  word.  The  others,  on  the  other 
hand,  associate  only  with  their  fellows,  and  remain 
strangers  to  our  ways  and  institutions.  In  their  own 
countries  they  are  of  use  merely  as  food  for  shot  and  shell. 
Seeing  that  we  have  no  such  use  for  them,  we  had  better 
refuse  them  admittance  within  our  peaceful  gates. 

Our  Part  The  Cuban  question  was  beset  with  difficulties 
in  Cuba,  from  the  start.  We  had  no  right  to  rob  a 
country  with  which  we  had  treaties  of  friend- 
ship, unity  and  commerce  of  the  gem  of  her  possessions. 
At  the  same  time,  we  had  selfish  interests  to  promote  in 
aiding  whichever  side  could  best  govern  Cuba.  If  the 
Spanish  government  could  repress  the  rebellion,  establish 
order,  and  put  commerce  on  a  satisfactory  footing,  well 
and  good.  We  wanted  no  more.  But  it  is  plain  to  all  ob- 
servers that  that  is  something  she  has  utterly  failed  to  do. 
The  last  loan  she  raised  for  the  purpose  of  quieting  Cuba 
is  nearly  all  gone,  and  almost  nothing  has  been  accomp- 
lished. Spain  is  practically  exhausted,  whilst  the  rebellion 
still  flourishes.  In  this  condition  of  affairs  it  may  well  be 
believed  that  there  is  unusual  truth  in  the  press  dispatches 
which  say  that  Spain  is  ready  to  accept  the  mediation  of 
the  United  States,  and  to  give  Cuba  independence  in 
everything  but  name.  But  President  Cleveland,  it  is  to 
be  feared,  has  undertaken  a  big  contract  when  he  promises 
to  get  the  consent  of  the  Cuban  hot-heads  to  a  settlement 
that  contains  the  substance  of  all  that  they  have  ever  con- 
tended for.  It  may  be  that  he  has  brought  pressure  to 
bear  upon  them  in  advance,  and  knows  exactly  what  they 
will  do.  If  so,  he  has  prepared  a  diplomatic  coup  that 
will  do  him  honor.  The  Senate  does  not  like  the  bloodless 
victories  that  the  President  is  winning.  Its  members 
want  to  do  the  whole  business  themselves,  without  possess- 
ing a  single  qualification  for  the  doing  of  it.  They  desire 
to  meddle  in,  and  muddle  the  affairs  of  all  creation. 
Whilst,  however,  Cameron,  Mills,  and  the  rest  of  them  are 
igniting  fire-brands,  the  President  bids  fair  to  extinguish 
the  whole  conflagration.  Cuba  levying  and  spending  her 
own  taxes,  managing  her  own  affairs,  and  dividing  the 
offices  around  among  her  own  people,  ought  to  be  one  of 
the  most  happy  and  prosperous  corners  of  God's  earth, 
but  will  she  be?  About  that  there  must  remain  grave 
doubt,  until  the  trial  is   actually  made. 


Our  North  Atlantic    The  efforts  of  our  Government  to  ac- 
Squadron.  quire  a  serviceable  navy,    which  have 

been  progressing  for  the  last  decade, 
are  at  last  bearing  some  practical  fruit.  With  the  excep- 
tion of  a  few  tire-eaters,  we  do  not  want  war  with  Spain. 
Barring  a  few  enthusiasts,  we  do  not  want  Cuba.  For 
nearly  two  years  Spain  has  been  so  continually  irritated 
by  our  jingoism  that  it  is  quite  possible  that  the  posses- 
sion of  a  respectable  navy  has  saved  our  Atlantic  seaboard 
from  attack.  However  that  may  be,  it  is  with  a  comfort- 
able feeling  that  Uncle  Sam  sits  on  the  rocky  brow  that 
overlooks  his  "sea-born  Salamis,"  and  counts  his  ships  at 
break  of  day.  He  sees  before  him  his  North  Atlantic 
Squadron,  now  grown  to  the  proportions  of  a  fleet.  It  in- 
cludes two  battleships  of  the  first  class — the  Massa- 
chusetts and  Indiana — supposed  to  be  unexcelled  as  fight- 
ing machines;  two  second-class  battleships — the  Maine 
and  Texas — both  possessing  the  confidence  of  the  Navy 
Department,  at  least.  Of  powerful  modern  monitors, 
with  the  heaviest  of  armament,  there  are  the  Puritan, 
Miantonomoh,  and  Amphitrite.  The  armored  cruisers 
New  York,  Brooklyn,  and  the  swift  Columbia  complete 
the  heavy  ships  of  the  line,  while  the  supplemental  fleet 
includes  the  cruisers  Montgomery  and  Raleigh,  the  '  ram 
Katahdin,  the  dynamite  vessel  Vesuvius,  and  the  torpedo 
boats  Cushing  and  Ericsson,  not  to  mention  several 
cruisers  which  could  quickly  be  called  home  from  foreign 
waters.  Weak  as  we  are  in  torpedo  boats,  the  above  pre- 
sents a  fleet  powerful  enough  to  guard  our  coasts  against 
any  power  of  the  Spanish  class,  and  to  take  the  aggressive 
in  the  West  Indies  if  the  necessity  arises.  "  He  is  thrice 
armed  who  hath  his  quarrel  just,"  but  it  is  pleasant  to 
know  that  we  have  the  means  to  sustain  a  just  quarrel,  if 
it  should  arise  out  of  the  present  complications. 

The  Propagation  New  York  City  has  been  exercised  for 
Of  Criminals.  many  months  over  the  trial  and  re- 
trial of  Maria  Barberi,  for  the  murder 
of  her  lover,  Dominico  Cataldo,  in  April  1895.  Society 
ladies  have  wasted  tons  of  sentiment  and  hot- house  flowers 
on  this  accused  woman.  On  the  10th  of  December  the 
farce  was  completed  by  a  verdict  of  acquittal,  the  defense 
being  psychical  epilepsy  and  consequent  irresponsibility 
for  crime.  She  may  now,  we  presume,  make  continued 
crime  her  legalized  profession.  Not  the  least  interesting 
development  of  the  trial  is  the  fact  that  the  mother  of  the 
murderess  went  on  the  stand  for  the  defense  and  testified 
that  she  had  borne  thirteen  children  including  the  play- 
ful Maria,  and  that  every  one  of  the  baker's  dozen  was 
weak  minded  and  epileptic.  The  question  now  arises: 
What  will  it  cost  the  country  to  take  care  of  Mother 
Barberi's  brood  of  criminals  and  incompetents  during  the 
coming  years,  provided  each  one  makes  as  good  a  record 
as  Maria?  Here  is  a  practical  test  for  Prof.  Lombroso, 
and  those  who  think  with  him  that  the  naturally  vicious 
should  not  be  permitted  to  propagate  criminals  and  idiots 
at  the  expense  of  the  public,  and  transmit  to  posterity  the 
increasing  evils  of  their  weaknesses. 

The  Purification  The  Society  of  Friends  lately  held  its 
of  the  Press.  annual  meeting  in  Baltimore,  and  has 
issued  an  appeal  to  the  editors  and 
journalists  of  the  country,  requesting  them  to  give  less 
prominence  to  crime  and  scandal  in  the  columns  at  their 
disposal,  and  otherwise  to  labor  in  the  interests  of  pure 
journalism.  This  appeal  could  well  be  heeded  by  many 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  where  journalism  is,  in  many 
cases,  the  most  degraded  of  the  professions.  More  promi- 
nence should  be  given  to  virtue  and  good  deeds,  even  if  the 
illiterate  and  unwashed  prefer  sensationalism  and  scandal. 
It  is  apparently  forgotten  that  there  are  respectable  and 
God-fearing  people  in  California,  and  that  they  must  be 
supplied  with  the  news.  The  average  newspaper  is  run 
for  the  edification  of  the  saloon  keeper  and  his  patrons, 
and  other  people  must  suffer  accordingly.  The  so-called 
"Sunday  paper  "  is  of  itself  a  desecration  of  the  holy  Sab- 
bath, and  does  more  harm  with  its  subtle  impurity  than 
all  the  yellow-covered  novels  ir.  existence.  It  is  refreshing 
to  know  that  there  is  at  least  one  daily  paper  in  this  city 
the  columns  of  which  are  clean,  and  which  does  not  take 
contamination  into  the  home.  This  journal  is  the  Call,  and 
it  would  be  good  for  this  State  if  there  were  more  like  it. 


Janumy  16,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LBTTER. 


HON.     GEORGE     C.      PERKINS. 

THE   Republican   I'arty  has  once    more    sent  to  the 
OniV  -cnate  George  <      Perking 

of  pronounced  ability  and  1  That    he    would   In- 

elected  at  Sacramento  to  succeed  himself   became   an   as 
sured  thing  when  Mr.  Samuel  Shortr  retire 

from  the  tight,  and  thus  help  along  his  opi»  ctory. 

In  connection  with  the  tight   so   latel  and  which 

was  wat'ed  with  all  the  ardor  usual  to  political  campaigns, 
great  praise  is  due  to  the  re-elected  Senator  for  the 


minded  >].:  . 
with 

men,  who  n 
There  is    much    for 
Washington.    Hasten 
and  our  p. 
advertised.   This  5 
of    doing,    and 
hands.       But  there  is    another    tasl.  tor    to 

perform,  and  a  hard  one       This    (ask    demands    her. 

strength,  and  is  nothing  :,  ounteraoting  thl 


ice  against  the  West  n 
alnen 


and  dignified  fight  his  managers,  acting  under  his  instruc- 
tions, made  for  him.  It  was  a  hard  battle,  and  victory 
was  honorably  contended  for  on  all  sides.  We  feel  sure 
that  Mr.  Perkins  knew  nothing  about  the  disgusting 
methods  indulged  in  by  the  abusive  Examiner  to  prejudice 
popular  opinion  against  Mr.  Shortridge.  No  gentleman, 
or  anyone  with  the  first  instincts  of  a  gentleman,  could 
condone  that  journalistic  blackguardism,  neither  would  he 
wish  to  defeat  an  adversary  by  such  aid.  Mr.  Perkins 
himself  comes  out  of  the  fight  with  clean  hands,  but  it  has 
been  made  painfully  apparent  that  we  have  in  California, 
for  a  leading  Democratic  journal,  a  foul-tongued  and  evil- 


influence  of  Mr.  Hearst's  San  Francisco  newspaper — the 
Examiner.  The  organ  of  demagogues  and  desperadoes, 
its  columns  open  to  the  harlot  and  the  quack,  its  till  as 
hungry  for  the  nickel  of  the  beggar  as  it  is  for  the  dollars 
wrenched  from  the  wealthy,  the  paper  is  an  eyesore  to  the 
community  and  a  disgrace  and  a  danger  to  the  State.  It 
remains  for  Senator  Perkins  to  continue  the  good  work 
commenced  by  Grove  L.  Johnson,  and  place  Mr.  Hearst  in 
his  proper  relation  to  California.  When  this  position  is 
adequately  explained,  Easterners  will  be  willing  to  invest 
their  money  here.  There  is  great  work  ahead  for  the 
Senator,  and  we  trust  he  will  not  shirk  it. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  i6,  1897. 


■  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 


V 


^HERE  is  danger  for  the  public  lurking 
in  these  long,  dull,  theatrical  weeks. 
It  is  at  such  times  the  critic's  fancy  lightly 
turns  to  thoughts  of  play-making.  Not 
that  I  am  menacing  dramatic  literature 
with  anything  of  my  own,  having,  as  yet, 
too  much  disesteem  for  my  enemies.  Besides,  I  should 
dislike  my  young,  hopeful  life  tinged  by  the  bitterness  of 
inglorious  authorship,  or  handicapped  by  the  misfortune 
of  premature  success. 

But  there  are  other  busy  pens  who  have  no  such  nice 
ideas  about  maintaining  the  balance  of  the  critical  tem- 
perament. Mr.  Frawley  told  me  there  were  but  two 
critics  in  the  whole  town  who  had  not  offered  him  from  one 
to  three  plays  for  production  by  his  company.  I  don't 
know  who  the  other  fellow  is,  but  I'd  like  to  know — we 
seem  to  be  disengaged  on  the  same  fishing  days. 

Of  course,  this  practice  of  writing  plays  is  not  confined 
to  critics  alone.  There  are  others.  After  Greer  Harri- 
son's experience  with  Runnymede,  the  laic  dramatist 
dramatized  unseen  for  a  space.  Then  Leo  Cooper's  students 
in  the  actorial  art  cautiously  began  giving  performances 
of  one  and  two-act  "original  plays,"  and  the  fever  burned 
again.  Every  third  person  I  met  was  either  writing  a 
play  or  had  one  finished,  and  wanted  an  opinion  (favorable, 
you  may  be  sure)  until  I  wondered  where  I  could  find  a 
plain,  pleasure-seeking  theatre-goer,  who  had  not  turned 
his  recreation  into  a  trade. 

In  justice  to  Mr.  Cooper,  I  must  confess  that  I  have 
never  been  present  at  one  of  his  students'  matinees,  and  I 
am  willing  to  take  his  word  for  it  that  the  comedies,  farces, 
and  tragedies  he  and  his  disciples  present  are  valuable 
additions  to  the  drama;  but,  in  the  gentleness  of  my 
nature,  I  have  been  induced  to  read  many  manuscript 
plays,  and  each  time  it  has  been  to  either  lose  a  friend  or 
make  an  enemy. 

I  opened  my  heart  to  Mr.  Bouvier  the  other  night  I 
asked  him  if  he  had  ever  struck  upon  a  successful  way  of 
staving  off  the  embryo  dramatist. 

"  Easiest  thing  in  the  world,"  said  Bouvier,  falling  into 
a  now-watcb-me  pose.  "Now,  say  you're  the  man  with 
a  play,  and  I'm  myself,  the  manager.  You  walk  up 
briskly,  manner  courteous,  smile  bland,  and  all  that  sort 
of  thing. 

You  say:  'Mr.  Bouvier,  I  believe.' 

I  nod. 

"'  My  friend  Mr.  Friedlander,'  you  continue,  'advised 
me  to  call  on  you.  I  have  a  play,  The  Homebreaker;  it's  in 
five  acts.  Mr.  Friedlander  says  it's  almost  too  ambitious 
for  his  theatre,  and  he  recommends  my  reading  it  to  you. 
There's  one  thing  I  can  tell  you  right  now — it's  absolutely 
original  and ' 

"Here  I  stop  you  with  a  gentle  gesture.  '  My  dear 
sir,'  I  say,  '  while  I  may  to  you  appear  selfish  and  un- 
reasonable, and  unappreciative  of  the  honor  you  do  me.  I 
cannot  read  your  play.  I  myself  have  recently  finished  a 
play,  a  society  drama  I  should  say,  in  four  acts,  The  Wife- 
napper,  and  all  the  little  influence  I  may  have  must  be  ex- 
erted to  my  own  advantage.  I  appreciate  the  compliment 
from  you,  and  I  am  grateful  for  Mr.  Friedlander's  kind- 
ness, but  the  theatrical  business  isn't  what  it  used  to  be, 
and,  to  tell  you  the  truth,  I  don't  know  where  I'll  land  if 
this  play  of  mine  doesn't  go  on  and  pull  me  out  of  the 
hole.' 

"Say?  Why,  what  can  he  say  ?  He  walks  away,  won- 
dering what  the  stage  is  coming  to  when  base,  commer- 
cial influence  is  pitted  against  real  brains  and  literature. 
And,"  finishes  Mr.  Bouvier,  balancing  easily  on  his  heels, 
"  there  you  are." 

*  *  * 

If  I  had  Joe  Murphy's  youth,  I  would  go  somewhere  and 
grow  up  with  the  country.  And  I  would  certainly  take 
with  me 

A  handful  of  earth 

From  the  land  of  my  birth 


which  has  been  such  good-paying,  gilt-edged  real  estate 
for  Joseph.  That  and  the  horseshoes  have  made  him  mil- 
lions; he  can  afford  to  be  sick  if  he  wants  to,  and  to  have 
a  private  press-agent  bard  of  his  own  to  sing  the  song  of 
Murphy.  And  in  view  of  this,  there  is  something  genuine 
and  generous  in  the  fact  of  his  being  on  the  stage  at  all, 
and  I  believe  he  only  acts  out  of  brotherly  love  and  patriot- 
ism— just  to  keep  the  dear,  old,  boggy  isle  green  in  the 
hearts  of  his  countrymen.  And  they  meet  him  a  good  half 
way  with  whole-armed,  vivifying  applause,  as  he  bounds 
boyishly  over  the  Columbia  stage  in  the  pink  and  mettle 
of  his  sixty  sunn}'  summers.  Who  can  criticise  him  ?  and 
who  wants  to  ?  and  who  would  read  the  criticism  if  any  one 
could  be  found  to  write  it  ?  Joseph  Murphy  is  to  be  re- 
garded as  a  dilettante,  not  a  professional,  and  by  the  time 
I  am  sixty  and  he  a  hundred  and  twenty,  he  will  have 
smoothed  out  1  he  Kerry  Gow  and  Shnun  Rhve  to  suit  the 
generation.  Meantime,  here's  to  Joseph  Murphy — and 
when  he's  ill  a-bed,  here's  to  brother  John,  who,  to  be 
punctual,  has  ten  years  the  start  of  him. 

Johnnie,  me  old  friend  John ! 

Johnnie,  me  old  friend  John  ! 

There  never  were  two  such  actors  as  Joe 

And 

nie 
John 

me 

old 

friend 

John! 

*  *  * 

Nine  Hungarian  rhapsodists,  who  style  themselves  The 
Royal  Hungarian  Court  Orchestra,  and  a  Swedish  ventril- 
oquist with  an  almost  unlimited  repertory  of  dexterously 
handled  figures,  and  who  is  named  on  the  programme 
Lieut.  Noble,  are  the  reinforcements  at  the  Orpheum. 
The  Hungarian  band  is  composed  of  soloists,  and,  while 
their  ensemble  is  free,  dashing,  and  impetuous,  after  the 
manner  of  Hungarians,  I  daresay  the  Orpheumites  will 
shower  most  of  their  enthusiasm  upon  the  solos.  Collec- 
tively, the  visitors  will  have  a  hard  time  displacing  the 
popularity  of  Rosner's  little  hybrid  band;  but  if  the  virtu- 
osity of  the  other  eight  is  to  be  estimated  by 
that  of  their  leader,  Matus — whom  I  heard  play  the  clar- 
ionet Monday  night  with  surpassing  fluency  and  delightful 
tonal  integrity,  and  several  other  degrees  of  long-haired, 
adjectivious  excellence  whi^h  are  not  exactly  in  order  for 
an  Orpheum  notice — you  will  miss  some  animate  music  by 
staying  away. 

*  *  * 

Nordica,  glorified  by  the  recent  success  of  Beyreuth,  is  now  at  her 
best — that  is,  the  best  this  generation  will  know.  No  other  Amer- 
ican singer  has  ever  achieved  anything  like  the  glories  that  illumine 
her  progress  to  world-wide  fame.  And  even  of  the  singers  foreign 
born  and  foreign  trained,  none  ha3  shown  gifts  and  attainments  such 
as  hers.  Pen  can  only  hope  to  celebrate  her  talents  and  graces;  for 
analysis  is  well  nigh  futile,  and  criticism  almost  impertinent. 

I  did  not  write  the  foregoing  myself,  much  as  I  worship 
at  this  American  songstress's  shrine  and  much  as  I  sym- 
pathize with  the  futility  of  analysis  and  the  impertinence 
of  criticism.  It  is  a  stanza  from  the  advance  courier's 
authoritative  pen,  and  it  foretells  the  coming  of  Nordica 
and  her  comrades  to  the  Baldwin  Tuesday  night,  where 
you,  and  I,  and  all  pretenders  to  art  and  fashion  will  re- 
ceive her  as  befits  a  queen  of  song.  Dear  old  Scalchi  is  of 
the  party,  with  lots  of  rich  'celloness,  I  understand,  left  in 
her  great,  wide,  warm  voice.  Barron  Berthald,  tenor, 
and  John  C.  Dempsey,  basso  cantate,  complete  the  quar- 
tette, which,  augmented  by  Luckstone,  the  pianist,  and 
an  orchestra,  will  sing  in  the  three  concerts, 
announced  for  Tuesday  and  Thursday  nights,  and  Saturday 
afternoon.  The  first  part  of  each  programme  is  given  up 
to  miscellaneous  songs,  arias,  and  concerted  numbers,  to 
be  concluded  with  an  act,  or  scene,  from  opera.  Fanst, 
Tuesday;   Trovjtore,  Thursday;  and  Siegfried  at  the  Satur- 

dav  matinee. 

*  *  * 

Altogether  a  hopeful-look-ins  week  is  looming  up,  with 
the  additional  prospect  of  some  real  plays  and  famous  act- 
ing when  a  week  later  Modjeska  opens  her  season. 

The  Columbia's  bid  for  patronage  is  Charles  H.  Yale's 
timc-defier,  The  Devil's  Auction,  in  which  are  promised  the 
acme  of  scenic  splendor,  a  lively  bicycle  satire,  a  seductive 


January  16,  1897. 


SAM   PRANCISCO  Nl-ws   LBTTBR. 


ballet,  bevies  of  beautiful  jjir:.-.  regiments  of  trained 
comedians,  aerial  artists  on  the  ikyught  ladder,  dialect 
specialists,  quips  and  songs  beyond  number,  and  a  sou- 
brette  whose  banjo  playing  is  urn. galled. 

Besides  a  new  sailor's  frolic  by  the  ballet,    the  Orpheum 
announces   three   new   attraction.-.  :    Hinns  A    Uinns   (im- 
mensely clever  musical  burlesquers.  who  were  here  a 
son  or  two  ago),  the  Frantz  family  of  acrobats,  and  V 
and  Waring,  comedians. 

le  ami  tlit  Beanstalk  will  run  another  week,   and   then 
be  shelved  among  the  availuble  assets  of  the  Tivoli. 

A  communication  from  undaunted  Mr.  Ureenbaum  asks 
me  to  state  that  the  San  Francisco  Symphony  Society  has 
been  brilliantly  organized  with  a  guarantee  fund  of  several 
thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Phil  LUlenthal  has  been  elected 
treasurer;  Mr.  Hinrichs  will  be  conductor,  and  Mr.  Beel 
concert-master;  and  the  orchestra  will  number  tifty-five 
instruments.  All  that  is  needed  is  an  appreciative  public 
to  swell  the  subscription  lists — which  are  wide  open  at  the 
music  stores — eo  to  the  concerts,  and  look  cultured.  The 
season  will  be  given  at  the  Columbia  on  alternate  Thurs- 
day afternoons,  beginning  February  4th. 

Hugo  Hero'.d,  the  son  of  San  Francisco's  musical  Patri- 
arch, will  give  a  song  recital  at  Golden  Gate  Hall  on  the 
evening  of  the  2!)th  inst. 

That  s  all. Ashton  Stevens. 

THE    DANCE    OF    THE    DEAD  —from  the  German  of  goithe. 


THE  sexton  looked  forth  at  the  mid  hour  of  night, 
O'er  the  tombs  where  the  dead  were  recliniDg; 
The  moon,  at  its  full,  gave  a  great,  ghostly  light. 

And  the  churchyard  as  day  was  shining. 
First  one,  then  another— ah,  terrible  sight! — 
Each  grave  opened  wide,  and,  in  gowns  long  and  white, 
The  dead  all  arose  from  their  sleeping, 
Round  the  tombs  grimly  dancing  and  leaping. 

In  a  skeleton  ring,  then,  together  they  bung, 

While  they  danced  as  the  waves  of  the  ocean — 
The  poor  and  the  rich,  the  old  and  the  young — 

But  their  grave-clothes  hindered  their  motion ; 
And,  as  here  no  modesty  held  its  broad  sway, 
They  all  shook  them  off,  and  around  them  there  lay 

Their  winding  sheets,  here  and  there  scattered, 

And  they  naked— but  that  little  mattered. 

In  a  frenzy  of  joy  then  they  swung  their  long  shanks. 

Their  long  fingers  in  unison  snapping, 
And  they  clicked  and  clacked  as  they  played  their  wild  pranks 

As  though  timber  on  timber  were  clapping. 
Then  the  sexton  laughed  loudly  again  and  again, 
And  mischief  gave  slyly  the  thought  to  his  brain; 
"  Now  quickly— 'tis  joking,  not  thieving— 

Steal  a  winding  sheet !    None  are  perceiving." 

It  was  done;  and  then  swiftly  he  fled  in  affright 

Behind  the  great  door  of  the  tower, 
While  the  dance  still  continued,  the  moonbtams  bright 

O'er  the  weird  scene  still  holding  their  power. 
At  last  it  was  o'er,  and  the  skeleton  crowd, 
One  after  another,  each  slipped,  on  its  shroud. 

Then  into  their  cold  graven  they  glided. 

And  silence  once  more  presided. 

Butone— 'tis  the  last — trips  and  stumbles  along, 

And  eager  each  tombstone  it  scratches ; 
But  none  of  its  comrades  have  doue  it  this  wrong, 

For  the  scent  in  the  air  now  it  catches. 
The  church  gate  it  rattled,  but  backward  was  pressed ; 
To  the  joy  of  the  sexton,  the  door  had  been  blessed — 

With  crosses  of  iron  'twas  covered, 

And  angels'  wings  over  it  hovereH. 

Its  shroud  it  must  have,  else  it  rests  not  again, 

For  soon  its  last  hour  will  be  chiming; 
The  columns  it  grasps  the  high  tow'r  to  attain 

From  summit  to  summit  still  climbing. 
Oh,  sad  for  the  sexton,  for  swifter  it  glides, 
And  onward  it  rushes  in  wonderful  strides  ! 

O  mischief!  'tis  thou  hast  undone  him; 

Heaven  held  him!  'tis  almost  upon  him. 

The  sexton  grew  pale,  in  his  horror  he  shook, 

And  the  shroud  would  have  yielded  with  gladness; 
Near,  nearer  it  came,  then  its  last  leap  it  took 

In  a  frenzy  of  rage  and  of  madness. 
For  an  instant  the  moon  no  longer  shone; 
"One I"  thundered  the  clock  in  a  terrible  tone; 

Its  limbs  through  the  air  wildly  dashing, 

Down— down— fell  the  skeleton,  crashing ! 


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January  16,  1897. 


NEW  YORK  swelldom  is  now  gossiping  about  that  din- 
ner at  Sherry's  and  the  modest  young  lady  who  burst 
into  tears  when  asked  to  dance  in  the  "altogether."  Yet 
there  was  a  bachelor  dinner  party  given  in  this  city  some 
time  ago,  where  there  was  no  squeamishness,  but  where 
the  attempt  at  art  was  made  the  apology  for  the  naked- 
ness of  the  surroundings.  A  certain  wealthy  young  gen- 
tleman was  going  to  Europe,  and  determined,  like  Lord 
Bateman,  before  he  went  abroad  strange  countries  for  to 
see,  to  give  his  friends  a  farewell  dinner  which  sho  uld  teach 
them  not  to  forget  him.  He  applied  to  a  friend  of  his  who 
was  presumed  to  be  a  man  of  invention  and  originality,  to 
devise  this  banquet. 

"  I  want  something  startling,"  he  said;  "something  out 
of  the  common.  •  I  don't  mean  as  far  as  the  eating  and 
drinking  goes,  because  all  novelty  in  that  line  is  exhausted. 
But  something  startling,  old  fellow,  and  never  mind  the 
expense.  I'll  foot  the  bills  and  consider  myself  your  debtor 
for  life." 

So  the  mentor  set  his  wits  a- working  to  please  this  young 
Telemachus,  and  announced  one  day  that  the  plan  was 
ready,  and  pocketed  a  check  of  three  figures  to  arrange 
with  the  talent.  The  dinner  was  an  exquisite  affair,  given 
at  a  place  where  all  tl.at  sort  of  thing  is  done  up  to  the 
handle.  When  the  desert  was  set  upon  the  table,  the 
lights  were  lowered,  and  a  strain  of  weird,  Oriental  music 
was  played  by  a  few  musicians,  invisible  to  the  guests. 
Presently  the  portieres  at  one  end  of  the  dining  room  were 
softly  withdrawn,  and  a  young  girl,  attired  in  the  costume 
of  a  Roman  cup-bearer,  entered,  stepping  slowly,  and 
swinging  a  censer  filled  with  burning  herbs  of  pungent  but 
most  agreeable  perfume.  She  chanted  a  sort  of  hymn  as 
she  moved,  and  incensed  each  guest,  and  after  making  the 
circuit  of  the  room,  retired,  while  the  revelers  applauded 
loudly.  Now  the  music  became  more  animated,  and  again 
the  portieres  were  withdrawn,  and  again  the  lovely  censer- 
bearer  appeared,  this  time  leading  a  procession  composed 
of  six  very  handsome  young  women,  who  bore  a  huge  shell, 
or  imitation  of  a  sea  shell,  upon  their  gleaming  shoulders, 
and  who  represented  the  nymphs  of  Venus  Aphrodite, 
carrying  the  Queen  of  Beauty  to  the  banquet.  Three 
were  dark,  and  three  blonde,  and  wore  sea-green  gauzy 
robes,  while  their  feet  were  perfectly  bare.  The  guests 
arose  and  made  way  for  them,  while  they  placed  the  shell 
in  the  center  of  the  table,  and  then  danced  about  it  chant- 
ing a  song  in  praise  of  love  in  excellent  time  and  rythm. 
When  the  song  was  concluded,  they  took  from  a  basket 
carried  by  a  plump,  tiny  Cupid,  wreathes  of  flowers,  with 
which  they  crowned  the  guests.  All  the  literary  part  had 
been  wiitten  by  the  mentor  for  the  feast,  and  contained 
appropriate  sentiments.  Then  at  a  signal  from  the  host, 
the  lid  of  the  shell  was  opened,  and  Venus  herself,  the  most 
beautiful  of  all,  slowly  arose  from  her  casing,  and  the  pic- 
ture was  so  intensely  picturesque,  and  so  artistic,  that 
the  utter  lack  of  the  garments  of  conventionality  was  for- 
gotten, and  the  enthusiasm  of  the  guests  was  unbounded. 
Venus  sang  an  adieu  to  the  host,  and  with  her  nymphs 
pledged  him  in  wine  from  goblets  made  after  the  pattern 
of  the  antique,  while  Cupid,  holdiug  her  doves,  crouched  at 
her  side.  What  might  otherwise  be  deemed  a  rather 
risque  spectacle,  because  of  its  artistic  presenting,  had  not 
a  single  element  of  coarseness.  But  it  would  not  do  to 
give  a  censorious  and  mock  modest  world  too  close  an  in- 
sight into  the  doings  of  the  epicureans. 
*  *  * 

Mr.  James  M.  Hamilton  went  to  a  private  masquerade 
a  few  days  ago  attired  as  Mephistopheles,  a  character 
which  he  is  pleased  to  assume  upon  those  festive  occasions. 
AH  through  that  revel  did  Mr.  Hamilton,  "the  Actors' 
Friend,"  behave  himself  most  agreeably  as  the  devil,  and 
the  reproachful  rattle  of  the  milk-cart  was  heard  on  the 
stony  street  when  he  emerged  from  his  hack  and  rang  the 
bell  of  the  family  mansion  on  California  street.  The  pious 
domestic  who  attends  to  one  part  of  the  menage  was  com- 
pleting a  long  letter  to  a  brother  in  Ireland,  while  the 
crimson  figure  on  the  steps  was  alternately  wrestling  with 


the  latch  key  and  the  door  bell.  She  looked  out  of  the 
window,  and  the  spectacle  of  the  great  enemy  of  man- 
kind boldly  claiming  admission  (for  Nora  knew  nothing  of 
the  masquerade)  completely  paralyzed  the  good  creature. 
"Mother  of  Mercy,  intercede  for  me  1"  she  screamed,  as 
she  emptied  a  can  of  holy  water  on  the  gay  masquerader 
beneath,  and  put  her  hands  to  her  ears  to  shut  out  the 
hissing  sound  she  felt  must  follow.  Well,  Mr.  Hamilton 
finally  got  in.  But  the  next  time  he  goes  to  a  masquerade 
he  will  afford  Nora  a  private  rehearsal  before  he  departs. 
*  *  * 

This  seems  to  be  a  winter  of  club  discontent.  The  Cos- 
mos is  in  a  sad  muddle,  and  the  Pacific-Union  differences 
are  far  from  reconciliation.  The  oldsters  do  not  want  to 
give  up  their  snug  quarters  on  Union  Square  for  a  gaudy 
palace  on  Van  Ness  avenue.  They  like  to  slip  away  to 
lunch,  and  a  quiet  rubber  afterwards,  and  still  be  within 
five  or  eight  minutes'  run  of  business  headquarters.  The 
youngsters  want  a  place  where  they  can  entertain  their 
sisters,  cousins,  sweethearts,  wives,  and  aunts,  and  witch 
them  with  their  noble  trenchership.  The  ladies  are  all 
on  the  side  of  the  young  men.  And  why  not  ?  Their 
supremacy  means  a  letting  down  of  the  bars  that  separate 
club  life  from  womankind,  a  season  of  game  dinners,  and 
an  annex  where  they  can  exchange  views  after  the  fatigues 
of  shopping.  Now,  the  matter  has  virtually  taken  this 
shape  :  The  oldsters  will  dissolve  and  build  a  clubhouse  for 
themselves,  and  restrict  the  membership  to  a  couple  of 
hundred  or  less.  The  Bohemian  Club  must  profit  largely 
by  the  split,  because  many  Pacific  Union  men  are  also 
members  of  the  Bohemian,  and  the  quarters  of  the  latter, 
on  Post  street  and  Grant  avenue,  being  so  accessible,  they 
will  make  it  their  habitat  and  spend  their  shekels  there. 

*  #  # 

As  the  son  of  a  clergyman,  Horace  Piatt  is  to  be  re- 
garded as  an  authority  upon  things  heavenly.  The  witty 
lawyer  tells  a  story  of  his  encounter  with  a  dirty-faced 
urchin,  whose  countenance  was  in  marked  contrast  to  his 
beautiful  raiment.  The  boy  was  arrayed  in  Pauntleroy 
style  and  his  modish  costume  was  unexceptional.  His 
most  objectionable  feature  was  his  coarse  red  hair  which 
fell  over  the  shoulders  of  his  velvet  coat  in  its  long  un- 
curled length,  looking  for  all  the  world  like  the  tail  of  a 
chestnut  horse.  His  appearance  was  astriking  commen- 
tary on  misplaced  parental  admiration,  and  the  tout 
ensemble  jarred  on  the  aesthetic  nature  of  the  president  of 
the  Art  Association.  Piatt  felt  particularly  disagreeable 
that  day  and  the  smile  which  usually  divides  his  cheeks 
was  absent.  He  stopped  the  boy  to  deliver  himself  of  some 
surplus  irritation. 

"See  here,"  he  said  severely,  "why  don't  you  get  your 
hair  cut?" 

"Oh,"  calmly  replied  the  ingenuous  youth,  aged  seven, 
"Mamma  wants  me  to  look  like  one"  of  them  damned 
cherubims." 

*  #  * 

La  vie  est  vaiiie; 

"  Our  Jim,"  secure, 
Talks  fight  again, 
Et  puis— bon  jour. 

La  vie  est  breve. 

Says  Fitz:  "  I  bar 
This  windy  knave, 

Et  puis— bon  soir. 

*  *  * 

Prank  Unger  sailed  for  Honolulu  last  week  with  Edgar 
Crimmins,  of  New  York,  to  make  straight  the  paths  in  the 
summer  isles  for  Harry  Gillig,  Donald  deV.  Graham,  and 
Aleck  Hamilton,  who  depart  to-day  for  the  same  sultry 
clime.  Therefore  shall  there  be  a  gap  in  Bohemia  until 
the  return  of  the  wanderers.  Mr.  Graham  will  give  three 
concerts  in  Honolulu,  assisted  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marquardt, 
Miss  Alice  Turner,  soprano,  and  Mr.  Gillig  will  also  sing 
on  those  occasions.  Mr.  Graham  will  resume  his  lessons 
after  February  14th.  It  is  not  necessary  to  say  that  the 
visit  of  those  Bohemians  will  make  glad  the  loyalists  who 
mourn  the  pomp  and  circumstance  of  the  fallen  court,  as 
well  as  those  of  the  stern  republicans  who,  under  Oliver 
Cromwell  Dole,  are  sharing  the  blessings  of  equality.  Not 
that  President  Dole  is  a  Puritan.  By  no  means.  He  can 
play  the  cavalier  as  well  as  any  roisterer  that  ever  wore 
love  locks. 


January  16.  1897. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


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judge   from    the  en- 
thusiasm   manifested 
by  numbers  of  pretu  .t    the  football  game   last 

Saturday,  King,  of  the  Army,  kicked  himself  into  high 
favor.  One  pretty  girl,  whose  bright  sallies  always  make 
her  a  songhtfor  social  figure,  remarked  that  he  was  "as 
good  at  football  as  in  dancing  the  cotillion."  There  was 
a  very  fashionable  crowd  present  at  the  game,  and  feeling 
ran  high  for  the  University  chaps  on  one  hand,  and  the 
boys  in  blue  on  the  other,  but  the  soldiers  carried  the  day. 
thanks  to  King's  superb  playing;  in  fact,  as  a  plunger,  he 
was  a  brilliant  success.  The  girls  risked  red  noses  and 
braved  the  icy  wind  in  their  eagerness  to  watch  his  move- 
ments. Wiltsee's  tall  form  towered  above  the  crowd,  as 
he  chatted  here  and  there  with  the  different  belles.  Harry 
Tevis  was  accompanied  by  his  pater  and  brother  Hugh. 
The  widower  Lieutenant  of  the  army  was  in  great  demand; 
all  his  favorite  girls  were  there,  but,  as  usual,  the  stylish 
blonde  had  the  innings.  Duperu  was  devotion  itseU*  to 
the  stately  brunette,  though  rumor  says  a  soon  to  be 
young  matron  is  trying  her  best  to  win  him  for  her  sister. 
Winnie  Jones  looked  blue  about  the  gills,  poor  old  chap, 
and  General  Barnes  vied  with  any  man  present  in  attrac- 
tive appearance.  The  Hoffman  sisters  had  a  bevy  of  ad- 
mirers around  them.  Mrs.  O  Neil  Reis  and  Miss  Brooks 
were  warmly  greeted  by  their  friends,  who  so  seldom  see 
them  in  town  nowadays.  Miss  Younger  was  strongly 
on  the  side  of  the  'Varsity  boys,  as  was  Miss  Ida  Gibbons. 
Greer  Harrison  was  so  excited  he  asked  a  friend  if  a  ball 
game  would  not  be  a  good   thing  to  introduce  into  his  new 

play. 

*  *  * 

It  must  be  frankly  admitted  that  the  "house  party,"  so 
striking  a  feature  of  British  life,  is  not,  as  yet.  as  satis- 
factory an  affair  with  our  Anglophobian  settlements  of 
B'lingham  and  San  Mateo.  While  the  friends  who  assem- 
bled at  the  different  homes  in  that  would-be  aristocratic 
vicinity  no  doubt  had  a  pleasant  enough  time  in  a  way, 
yet  it  is  as  house  parties  they  were  dismally  a  failure,  de- 
pending entirely  upon  the  club  house  gatherings  for  the 
festivities,  no  one  house  crowd  being  sufficient  in  itself  to 
provide  recreation  without  aid  from  its  neighbors.  As 
a  bright  young  woman  observed,   "it  is   the   same  faces 

everywhere." 

*  *  # 

One  of  the  most  enjoyable  affairs  yet  held  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael  was  the  festive  Twelfth  Night  gathering,  when  the 
guests  at  that  delightful  hostelrie  indulged  in  the  old-time 
games  peculiar  to  that  holiday.  Much  merriment  was 
caused  by  the  horoscope  drawn  for  several  of  the  men 
present,  and  the  refreshments  served  at  the  wind-up  were 
worthy  of  mine  host  Warfield,  who  is  noted  for  his  effi- 
ciency in  that  line. 

*  *  * 

In  the  way  of  future  gayeties,  'tis  said  a  leading  mem- 
ber of  our  beau  monde  is  going  to  introduce  the  latest 
Gotham  fad,  of  having  her  grown-up  guests  come  to  a 
party  attired  as  children — short  frocks,  pinafores,  and 
knickerbockers.  As  most  of  the  fashionable  folk  of  the 
day  indulge  in  childish  ways,  no  doubt  the  idea  will  be  ex- 
ceptionally successful  in  the  harmony  of  the  whole. 

*  *  » 

The  return  to  the  swim  of  Miss  Julia  Crocker  was  a 
feature  of  the  last  Friday  night  cotillion.  Miss  Crocker 
was  warmly  welcomed,  and  was  the  recipient  of  many  con- 
gratulations upon  her  recently  announced  engagement  to 

Sam  Buckbee. 

*  *  * 

On  dit  the  guests  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu  are  meditating 
giving  a  dance  some  time  before  Lent,  which  is  joyous 
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January  16,  1897. 


A  Book  of    A  little  book,   but  a  good  one.      Lying  land- 
the  jobbers  and  ingloriously  mendacious  real   es- 

Week.*  tate  dealers  have  so  loudly  and  so  persist- 
ently "boomed"  Southern  California,  de- 
scribing it  as  an  earthly  paradise,  free  from  every  ill  that 
flesh  is  heir  to,  that  it  is  high  time  for  a  sober  account, 
written  by  intelligent  people  for  intelligent  people.  Such 
an  account  we  have  here.  To  the  literary  person  it  is,  of 
course,  matter  of  regret  that  only  two  of  the  eight  chap- 
ters are  by  Beatrice  Harraden,  the  remaining  six,  which 
deal  with  Southern  California  from  the  physician's  point  of 
view,  being  by  her  medical  collaborator,  who,  though  he 
flings  about,  as  do  all  medicos,  a 'good  many  terms,  such 
as  ''phthisis,  tuberculosis,  cirrhosis,  etc.,"  yet  writes  sen- 
sibly and  gives  much  useful  information.  He  points  out 
that  there  are  many  climates  in  Southern  California,  suit- 
able for  many  different  ailments,  and  that  the  invalid  must 
exercise  much  care  and  judgment  in  choosing  the  spot 
best  suited  to  his  particular  disease,  and  the  particular 
stage  to  which  it  has  advanced.  Having  chosen  his  place 
of  residence  wisely,  the  invalid  must  then  live  wisely.  It 
is  foolish  for  people  who  cannot  afford  in  Southern  Califor- 
nia the  comforts  and  attentions  to  which  they  have  been 
accustomed  in  their  own  homes,  to  expect  an  immediate  im- 
provement in  their  health.  It  is  even  probable  that  the 
fatigue  of  reaching  the  Pacific  Slope,  and  the  excitement 
of  new  surroundings,  will  at  first  cause  the  invalid  to  go 
back  somewhat.  A  reasonable  time,  as  the  lawyers  say, 
must  be  given  before  the  climate  can  work  any  distinct 
benefit.  And  what  is  a  reasonable  time  depends  on  the  cir- 
cumstances of  each  case.  The  reader  is  reminded  that 
Southern  California  is  a  pioneer  country,  and  that  domes- 
tic service  is  both  dear  and  inefficient,  as  in  all  newly- 
opened  lands.  The  invalid  must  place  his  greatest  hope  of 
benefit  from  the  climate,  in  living  an  almost  entirely  out- 
door life,  being  careful,  however,  not  to  push  outdoor  ex- 
ercise to  the  verge  of  fatigue  and  exhaustion.  In  the  first 
chapter  the  author  of  "Ships  That  Pass  in  the  Night " 
writes  enthusiastically  of  the  beauties  and  charms  of 
Southern  California — of  the  free,  unrestrained,  open-air 
life,  the  riding  and  driving,  the  moonlight  excursions,  the 
botanizing  expeditions,  of  the  wealth  and  luxuriance  of 
bright-hued  flowers,  and  the  dancing  waters  of  the  bright 
blue  Pacific  Ocean.  In  "  Out-door  Life  for  Women  "  Miss 
Harraden  comments  on  the  ease  with  which,  when  water 
is  at  hand,  the  desert  can  be  made  to  blossom  as  a  rose, 
and  tells  how  a  girl  from  one  of  the  Eastern  States  started 
a  strawberry  ranch,  and  how  another  lady  cultivated  pam- 
pas grass,  to  the  strengthening  of  their  health  and  the 
filling  of  their  purses.  The  book  will  prove  very  useful  to 
invalids  who  are  contemplating  taking  up  their  residence 
in  Southern  California,  and  though  it  is  at  times  somewhat 
technical  and  overladen  with  statistics  of  temperature, 
rainfall,  and  other  matters,  it  furnishes  the  reader  with 
many  cold  facts  (such  as,  for  example,  that  the  maximum 
temperature  recorded  at  Mammoth  Tank  on  the  Colorado 
Desert  is  128  degrees  Fahrenheit),  and  plenty  of  useful 
suggestions.  The  little  volume  is  appropriately  bound  in 
a  cover  adorned  with  a  design  of  cactus  and  palm. 

*"  Two  Health-Seekers  in  Southern  California."  by  William  A. 
Edwards,  M.  D.,  and  Beatrice  Harraden.  Phila.  J.  B.  Lippincott 
Company.    1897.     Price,  ?1. 

Some  time  ago,  the  Chicago  Record  offered  thirty  thou- 
sand dollars  in  prizes  for  "stories  of  mystery."  Out  of 
816  stories  sent  in  for  competition,  "Sons  and  Fathers  " 
won  the  bad  pre-eminence  of  first  place.  The  worthless- 
ness  of  contests  of  this  kind  for  bringing  out  any  real  liter- 
ary talent  is  pretty  conclusively  shown  by  the  stories  that 
won  the  prizes  in  this  competition.  "  Sons  and  Fathers  " 
is  mysterious  enough  in  all  conscience,  full  of  dreams, 
visions,  wild  imaginings,  and  supernatural  incidents,  told 
in  a  banal,  commonplace  manner,  boresome  and  tedious  to 
the  last  degree.  The  tale  is  a  mere  tale,  with  no  literary 
merit  whatever.     In  fact,  after  struggling  painfully,  and 


with  many  smothered  imprecations,  through  about  half  of 
it,  we  refused  to  budge  an  inch  further,  and,  not  caring  in 
the  least  whose  son  the  hero  was,  we  left  the  mystery  un- 
solved. The  general  character  of  the  book  may  be  gathered 
from  the  titles  of  a  few  of  the  chapters:  "Back!  Would 
You  Murder  Her  ?  "  "The  Tragedy  in  the  Storm,"  "In 
the  Crimson  Mists  of  Sunset,"  "The  Shadow  Over  the 
Hall,"  "The  Rainbow  in  the  Mist,"  "The  Face  of  the 
Body-Snatcher. "  We  are  irresistibly  reminded  of  "The 
Poisoned  Gum-Drop;  or  the  Candyman's  Revenge." 

"Sons  and  Fathers,"  by  Harry  Stillwell  Edwards.  Published  by 
Kand,  McNally  &  Co.,  Chicago  and  New  York.    189G. 

The  Roycroft  Printing  shop,  of  East  Aurora,  N.  Y.,  has 
issued  a  well-printed  hrochiire,  entitled  "Foreign  Ideas  in 
the  Catholic  Church  in  America,"  by  the  Rev.  Father 
George  Zurcher,  Pastor  of  St.  Joseph's  Church,  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.  From  a  perusal  of  its  four  chapters,  we  gather 
that  the  Catholics  of  this  country  are  desirous  to  re-estab- 
lish the  Pope  as  a  temporal  sovereign,  and  that  the  Ger- 
man Catholics  in  the  United  States  are  aggressive,  over- 
bearing, and  exacting  in  their  relations  with  their  breth- 
ren of  other  nationalities.  We  further  gather  that  the 
German  Catholics  are  much  in  favor  of  the  removal  of  re- 
strictions on  the  sale  of  lager  beer  at  Church  picnics,  and 
are  by  no  means  bigoted  advocates  of  water-drinking. 
These  Teutonic  churchmen,  with  the  overbearing  airs 
characteristic  of  the  Kaiser's  fellow-countrymen,  say  that 
"America  is  no  nation,  no  race,  no  people":  that  "We 
have  citizens  of  a  Republic,  but  no  nation,  and  no  nalional 
language  outside  the  languages  which  the  races  immigrated 
(sic)  speak  in  their  families."  Now,  while  it  may  be  true 
that  the  United  States  is  not  a  nation  in  the  sense  in  which 
Great  Britain  or  France  is  a  nation,  yet  we  certainly  are 
of  opinion  that  English  is  the  national  language  of  this 
country,  and  that  attempts  of  knots  of  Poles,  Hungarians, 
Dutchmen  or  Portuguese,  to  insist  upon  the  use  of  these 
tongues  by  their  American-born  children  should  be  sup- 
pressed. We  may  be,  and  doubtless  are,  prejudiced  in 
favor  of  the  English  language,  but  we  certainly  think  that 
any  man  may  be  proud  to  speak  the  language  of  Shakes- 
peare and  Milton,  and  that,  if  he  cannot  say  what  he  wants 
to  say  in  it,  he  had  better  give  up  the  effort  to  make  him- 
self understood  and  relapse  into  silence.  "Them's  our 
sentiments." 

It  gives  one  a  strange  feeling  to  see  the  title  of  a  book 
by  the  late  Walter  Pater  under  the  head  of  "Fiction;" 
but  there  it  is.  His  "Gaston  de  Latour,"  a  fragment  of  a 
romance,  edited  by  his  friend  Shadwell,  of  Oriel  College, 
Oxford,  has  just  been  issued  by  the  Macmillan  Co.  Walter 
Pater's  work  has  far  too  much  distinction,  and  presup- 
poses in  his  readers  far  too  high  a  degree  of  culture,  for  it 
to  be  possible  that  his  writings  should  ever  become 
"popular."  But  he  is  a  beautiful  and  finished  stylist,  and 
his  taste  in  language,  philosophy,  and  art,  being  securely 
founded  on  the  great  masters,  is  unerring.  Plato  and 
Shakespeare  were  his  teachers,  and  his  theory  of  life  was 
that  a  man  should  live  in  close  touch  with  the  men  and 
women  round  him,  and  endeavor  to  reach  perfection  with 
regard  to  bis  own  time  and  place.  We  say  that  this  was 
j  his  theory,  his  practice,  so  far  as  we  recollect  it,  perhaps 
j  scarcely  conformed  thereto:  but  this  is  to  be  set  down 
to  his  fastidious  and  perhaps  hyper-refined  temperament. 

The  Christmas  or  third  issue  of  a  new  periodical,  "  The 
Sportman's  Magazine,"  presents  itself  to  us  in  a  hand- 
somely illuminated  cover.  It  deals  with  field  sports  of  all 
kinds.  Some  of  the  articles  in  the  December  issue  are 
"  Calling  for  Moose  in  hew  Brunswick,"  "After  Big  Fish 
at  Santa  Catalina,"  "Hunting  Mountain  Goat  in  the  Cas- 
cades," and  "General  Custer  as  a  sportsman."  The  maga- 
zine is  on  much  the  same  lines  as  Outing.  There  is  a  reg- 
ular department  entitled  "Photography  for  Amateurs," 
in  which  "  the  Prof essor "  criticises  pictures  offered  for 
competition,  and  particulars  are  given  of  liberal  prizes 
offered  for  the  best  amateur  photographs  of  subjects  of 
particular  classes.  In  "Current  Topics"  the  Horse 
Show,  the  polo  and  football  season,  and  other  matters  of 
interest  to  sportsmen  are  found.  The  subscription  price 
is  two  dollars  a  year,  one-third  less  than  that  of  its  older 
rival,  Outing.  This  little  bit  of  arithmetic  is  commended 
to  The  Bookman,  with  our  respects. 


January  i6,  1897. 


SAX   PRANCISCO   NEWS   1  I 


For  MUM 

tian.  name  la   Iarael  .   the   Pa! 

•n  men  and  books   under    the    I 
'lie.-.'        In    1  ,,.   ,,f    tna( 

hanil-  .lical  he  bi 

Stic  manner  with  tl  ■  «  ritlin 

for  you  in  many  places  and  in  many  moods,  and  I  eannot 
hope  to  ha  I  the  mood  of  dullness.      Bui   n 

the  pen  falls  from  my  tired   lingers,   audi  ha\ 
strength  to  pick  it  up   to  bid   you  farewell    without 
prejudice."     In  the  January  issue  of"  the  Pall  Mall.  Mr.  A 
,'uiller-Couch.  who  has  published   ;i   pleasant 

volume,  entitled  "Adventures  In  Criticism,"  gives  us  the 
Brat  of  his  under  the  heading  "From  a  Cornish 

Window.'  This  issue  also  contains  an  article  on  "Cadet 
Life  at  West  Point.''  Iiy  Lieutenant  Hastings  Drown,  and 
one  on  Warwick  Castle  by  Frances  Evelyn  Warwick,  nit 
Martian),  better  known  as  the  Countess  of  Warwick  or 
Lady  Brooke.  Prom  a  perusal  of  as  much  of  this  article 
as  we  could  read  we  infer  that  her  ladyship,  though  a 
clever  and  fascinating  woman,  has  not  served  any  journal- 
istic apprenticeship.  If  we  take  away  from  the  article 
the  passages  i|U0ted  from  books,  and  the"  titles  of  pictures 
transcribed  from  a  catalogue.  110  editor  would  give  two- 
and-a-half  dollars  for  what  some  people,  using  a  bastard 
English  begotten  by  book-keeping  out  of  ledger,  call  "  the 
balance." 

The  California  State  Mining  Bureau  has  issued  its  thir- 
teenth Report  of  the  State  Mineralogist  for  the  two  years 
ending  September  15,  18!Hi.  Tt  contains  upwards  of  700 
closely- printed  pages,  and  is  illustrated  with  many  fine 
reproductions  of  photographic  views  of  mines  and  mining 
machinery.  The  State  is  taken.  County  by  County,  and 
full  details  are  given  of  all  the  mines  of  any  importance  in 
operation.  We  are  requested  to  mention  the"  fact  that 
any  citizen  of  the  State  may  obtain  a  copy  of  this  exhaust- 
ive report  by  sending  his  name  and  address  (accompanied 
by  the  stamps  for  postage  on  the  book)  to  the  California 
State  Mining  Bureau,  No.  24  Fourth  street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  poet  has  said:  "There  is  no  place  like  home,"  and 
to  make  a  place  worthy  the  name  of  home  is  one  of 
the  grandest  achievements  of  men.  We  know  of  but  one 
man  who,  by  unceasing  watchfulness,  courtesy,  and  care, 
tact,  talent,  and  indomitable  energy,  has  succeeded  in 
making  an  ideal  home,  not  only  for  residents,  but  for 
weary  travelers  from  all  parts  of  the  civilized  world,  and 
that  man  is  Major  William  B.  Hooper,  managerof  the  Occi- 
dental Hotel  of  this  city. 

That  celebrated  divine,  John  P.  Newman,  Bishop  of 
California,  one  of  its  inmates,  and  who  has  been  a  guest  in 
the  largest  and  best  hotels  in  every  land,  says:  "The 
Occidental  stands  unrivaled  not  only  for  its  epicurean 
table,  but  for  those  home  comforts  and  enjoyments  with 
which  the  Major  makes  all  his  guests  feel  that  they  have 
really  found  a  home." 

The  Overland  Limited, 

ONLY  Z%   DAYS  TO   CHICAGO.      4J^   DAYS  TO   NEW   YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  wituout  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


A  trip  to  Leona  Heights,  the  fashionable  pleasure  resort,  should 
be  undertaken  by  everyone  who  wishes  to  see  the  delightful  spots  in 
the  immediate  vicinity  of  Oakland  and  Alameda.  Commodious  cars 
run  there  from  all  parts  of  the  just  mentioned  towns  and  fifty  cents 
covers  the  round  trip.  On  the  grounds,  will  be  found  a  first-class 
restaurant  but  no  bar,  which  effectually  keeps  off  the  undesirable 
class  of  visitors. 


Upon  one  thing  our  legislators  at  Sacramento  were  all  agreed. 
That  was  that  no  whiskey  equals  in  purity  and  general  excellence 
the  famous  J.  F.  Cutter  brand  of  old  Bourbon.  Several  cases  have 
been  forwarded  to  the  Capital  by  E.  Martin  &  Co.,  the  agents  for 
this  Coast,  from  their  office  at  411  Market  St. 


The  Press  Clipping  Bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  P.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics,  business 
And  personal. 


"A  perfect  type  of  the  highest  order] 
of  excellence  in  manufacture."    > 

of 

Breakfast 

Locoa 

Absolutely  Pure. 
1 1  Delicious. 
Nutritious. 

COSTS  LESS  THAN  ONE  CENT  A  CUP , 

Be  sure  that  you  get  the 
genuine  article,  made  at 

DORCHESTER,  MASS., 

By  SALTER  BAKER  &  CO.,  Ltd.  \ 

Established  17S0. 


Army  and  Navy  Club 


Is  the  only 


.WHISKEY 


on  the  market,  every  package  ot  which  bears 
an  affidavit  guaranteeing  it  to  be  absolutely 
PURE  and  over  SIX  YEARS  OLD. 

MtYERFELD,   MITCHELL  &  CO, 

116  FRONT  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

A   Wonderful  Medicine 

J*iffl£M$ 

For  Bilious  aDd  Nervous  disorders,  such  as  Wind  and  Pain  in  the  Stom- 
ach, Sick  Headache,  Giddiness,  Fullness  and  Swelling  after  meals,  Dizzi- 
ness and  Drowsiness,  Cold  Chills,  Flushings  of  Heat,  Loss  of  Appetite, 
Shortness  of  Breath,  Costiveness,  Blotches  on  the  Skin,  Disturbed  Sleep, 
Frightful  Dreams,  and  all  Nervous  and  Trembling  Sensations,  etc.,  when 
these  symptoms  are  caused  by  constipation,  as  most  of  thfm  are.  THE 
FIRST  DOSE  WILL  GIVE  RELIEF  IN  TWENTY  MINUTES- 
This  is  no  fiction.  Every  sufferer  is  earnestly  invited  to  try  one  Box  of 
these  Pills  and  they  will  be  acknowledged  to  be 

A    WONDERFUL    MEDICINE. 

BEECHAM'S  PILLS,  taken  as  directed,  will  quickly  restore  Females  to 
complete  health.  They  promptly  remove  obstructions  or  irregularities  of 
the  system.    For  a 

Weak   Stomach 

Impaired   Digestion 

Disordered    Liver 

they  act  like  magic— a  few  doses  will  work  wonders  upon  the  Vital  Organs ; 
strengthening  the  muscular  system,  restoring  the  long-lost  complexion, 
bringing  back  the  keen  edge  of  appetite,  and  arousing  with  the  Rosebud 
of  Health  the  whole  physical  energy  of  the  human  frame.  These  are 
facts  admitted  by  thousands,  in  all  classes  of  society,  and  one  of  the  best 
guarantees  to  the  Nervous  and  Debilitated  is  that  Beecham's  Pills  have 
the  Largest  Sale  of  any  Patent  Medicine  in  the  World. 

WITHOUT  A   RIVAL. 

Annual  Sales  more   than  6.000,000   Boxes. 


25c.  at  Drugstores,  or  will  be  sent  by  TJ.  S.  Agents,  B. 
365  Canal  St.,  New  York,  post  paid,  upon  receipt  of  price, 
application. 


F.  ALLEN  CO. 
Book  free  upon 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  16,  1897. 


The  sun  does  not  shine  to  the  content- 
Mining  Stocks  in  ment  of  the  Pine  street  operator.  The 
Dull  Request.  aspect  in  and  out  of  the  Board  rooms 
is  still  wintry  enough  to  chill  the  most 
sanguine  depositor  among  the  speculative  element.  Dur- 
ing the  week,  a  light  advance  at  the  south-end  group  sug- 
gested the  hope  that  better  times  had  dawned,  but,  as 
usual,  hope  was  nipped  in  the  bud.  The  rise  in  values 
gave  the  "  bear  "  clique  an  opportunity  to  dump  stock  on 
the  manipulators  of  the  shares,  and  this  soon  stamped  the 
life  out  of  the  game  again.  There  is  a  hungry  lot  on  the 
street  just  now,  and  the  chance  for  a  five  cent  deal  causes 
a  rush  only  equaled  by  that  of  a  ravenous  shark  on  its 
prev.  There  is  no  such  thing  as  nursing  the  market  into 
shape,  with  such  a  crew  around,  unless  at  the  expenditure 
of  a  large  sum  of  money,  which  would  only  be  warranted 
on  the  part  of  manipulators  by  a  really  good  ore  develop- 
ment. Even  then  it  would  be  a  case  of  standing  off  the 
parasitic  element  at  first,  and  working  it  gradually  into  a 
corner  where  it  could  be  choked  to  death  iu  time.  There 
is  a  chance  for  an  improvement  of  importance  at  the  Gold 
Hill  end,  where  a  drive  is  being  made  for  the  west  county 
in  very  promising  ground.  A  find  of  ore  there  would 
change  the  complexion  of  affairs  on  the  street  and  help  out 
a  number  of  deserving  people  now  helplessly  at  the  mercy 
of  a  piratical  horde,  equal  to  any  little  mean  and  contempt- 
ible trickery  which  the  small,  miserable  soul  can  devise. 
The  Con. -Cal. -Virginia,  Crown  Point,  and  Hale  &  Nor- 
cross  assessments  were  delinquent  this  week. 

The  Griffith  Consolidated  Mine,  a  prom- 
Another  Gold  ising  piece  of  property  on  the  Mother 
Mine  Sold.  Lode,  located  near  Diamond  Springs,  El 
Dorado  County,  was  bought  by  Mr.  P. 
George  Gow,  of  the  Jumper  Mine,  during  the  week.  The 
shaft  of  this  property  is  only  down,  as  yet,  some  140  feet 
on  a  vein  of  fair  grade  ore  from  two  to  three  feet  wide,  on 
which  considerable  drifting  has  been  done.  The  improve- 
ments are  small,  but,  as  the  ore  reserves  are  large,  it  is 
the  intention  of  Mr.  Gow  to  duplicate  the  plant  on  a  much 
larger  scale.  The  price  paid  is  in  the  neighborhood  of 
$200,000.  The  bona  fide  intentions  of  the  purchasers  of  this 
ground,  and  their  previous  investments  in  the  Jumper  and 
New  Era  Mines,  of  Tuolumne  County,  is  evident  from  their 
selections  being  all  young  prospects.  They  are  not  look- 
ing for  old  shells  with  a  reputation,  useful  for  extracting 
money  from  the  pockets  of  over-credulous  investors  in 
Great  Britain.  It  is  noteworthy  that  the  schemers  now 
foraging  all  over  the  State  as  purveyors  for  the  London 
market,  want  something  of  the  kind  with  a  history,  owned 
by  people  lax  enough  in  principle  to  permit  loading  up 
prices  with  commissions  to  any  point  the  rascally  pro- 
moters may  desire.  These  people  have  no  use  for  the 
legitimate  propositions  favored  by  such  investors  as  the 
Glasgow  owners  of  the  Jumper  and  Griffiths. 

While  the  press  of  Virginia  City  seems  in 
The  American  earnest  in  its  efforts  to  enthuse  people 
Flat  Revival.  there  and  elsewhere  into  taking  up  the 
project  of  re-opening  the  mines  in  and 
around  American  Flat,  it  will  be  hoped  that  they  will  suc- 
ceed in  their  purpose.  The  merits  of  the  scheme  have  been 
well  aired  now,  and  the  next  step  should  be  organization 
to  put  the  proposed  plans  into  execution.  Talk  will  not 
suffice  to  develop  a  heavy  enterprise  of  this  character. 
Money  is  the  main  desideratum,  and  plenty  of  it  at  that. 
There  are  many  who  believe  that  these  mines  are  worth 
the  venture,  and  it  is  very  probable  that  with  the  right 
men  at  the  head  of  the  movement,  all  the  financial  aid  re- 
quired would  be  forthcoming  in  short  order.  The  San 
Francisco  Stock  Exchange  has  so  far  never  even  noticed 
the  matter,  but  then  this  is  in  keeping  with  its  vastly  pro- 
gressive ideas,  which  are  generally  in  a  backward  direc- 
tion. It  seems  a  pity  that  the  fate  of  the  speculative 
business  in  this  city  should  be  held  in  such  sinewless  hands, 
which  only  grow  tireless  in  opposing  anything  of  a  char- 
acter likely  to  benefit  an  institution  in  the  final  stages  of 
decay. 


When  it  is  understood  that  the  big 
The  Boom  in  California  Powder  Company  is  doing 
Powder  Snares,  more  business  in  thirty  days  now  than 
it  used  to  do  in  six  months,  and  only 
getting  cost  price  for  it,  little  argument  is  necessary  to 
establish  the  proposition  that,  pooling  the  interests  of  all 
the  companies  on  a  basis  of  profits,  no  matter  how  small 
they  may  be,  would  be  both  sensible  and  prudent.  That 
an  attempt  has  been  made  to  carry  out  some  plan  of  this 
kind  will  be  admitted,  the  negotiations  being,  however,  of 
a  rather  one-sided  character  so  far,  with  prospects  of  suc- 
cess dependent  entirely  upon  concessions  upon  the  part  of 
the  weaker  concerns,  which  would  practically  knock  them 
out  of  the  manufacturing  field,  in  particular  on  especially 
profitable  lines.  Does  it  not  seem  strange,  therefore, 
with  this  knowledge  of  the  exact  situation,  that  the  Giant 
stock  has  been  the  only  one  to  boom  at  extravagant  rates 
on  the  mere  prospects  of  a  combine?  Here  are  shares  of 
a  company  which  owes  enough  now  to  put  up  a  new  pow- 
der manufacturing  plant,  which  suddenly  jump  from  $17  to 
$26.50  in  a  few  weeks,  upon  the  strength  of  a  reported 
compact  which  does  not  affect  prices  of  the  stock  in  other 
companies,  much  more  favorably  situated  financially,  and 
yet  there  are  people  in  the  business  who  will  tell  you  the 
advance  is  quite  natural,  nothing  artificial  about  it  at  all. 
Of  course  not!  Judging  from  the  success  which  has  at- 
tended for  years  past  operations  of  the  most  brazen  char- 
acter, to  which  cheerful  reference  could  be  made,  a  highly 
profitable  field  really  exists  in  this  town  for  some  brainy  in- 
dividual capable  of  work  which  could  really  be  termed  clever. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  San  Fran- 
The  Profits  in  cisco  Breweries,  Limited,  was  held  in 
Local  Brewing.  London  last  month.  The  Directors  paid 
no  dividend,  content  with  wiping  out  a 
lot  of  old  debts  aggregating  between  £13,000  and  £14,000. 
The  company  made  a  profit  last  year  on  a  small  scale,  with 
larger  sales  of  beer,  and  flattering  prospects  are  held  out 
for  the  coming  twelve  months.  The  year  of  1895  is  re- 
ferred to  in  the  report  as  one  of  unprecedented  dullness  in 
trade,  and  to  the  loss  made  then  is  accredited  the  absorp- 
tion of  the  profits  this  year.  The  company's  trade  has 
been  growing  steadily  of  late,  and  its  affairs  are  now  in  a 
condition  highly  suggestive  of  future  prosperity. 

A  new  fire  insurance  company,  entitled 
New  American    the  Inter-Commerce  Insurance  Company 
Fire  Company,     of  the  United  States,  is  in  course  of  for- 
mation in  New  York.     It  will  have  a 
capital  of  $200,000,  and  a  surplus  of  an  equal  amount.  The 
list  of  incorporators  contains  the  names  of  a  number  of 
well-known  men  in  financial  circles.     It  is  announced  that 
farm  property,  dwellings,  and  long-term  lists  will  not  be 
written,  but  that  liberal  lines  will  be  written  on  choice 
mercantile  risks  and  manufacturing  plants  with   standard 
sprinkler  equipments.     It  is  expected  that  the  company 
will  begin  to  write  business  about  February  1st. 

H.  H.  Vereker  left  for  the  Lane  mine 
Mining  Gold  on    on  the  Coquille  river,  Oregon,   on  Wed- 
.the  Coquille.       nesday  last.     He  will  have  charge  of 
the  engineering  department  in  the  work- 
ing of  a  new  process  which  the  gold  mining  company  is 
hopeful  will  prove  a  success.     The  Lane  mine  was  always 
rich,  but  the  gold,  being  flaky,  was  lost  in  large  quantities. 
It  is  proposed  to  work  over  the  tailings  on  the  new  prin- 
ciples, by  which  it  is  proposed  to  catch  the  greasy  gold 
from  out  of  the  black  sand.     Mr.  Vereker  is  generally  con- 
sidered well  up  in  the  duties  of  a  mining  engineer. 

The  production  of  gold  in  California  for 

Millions  Flying    the  past  year  is  estimated  at  $16,000,000. 

In  the  Air.         If  the  statements  appearing  in  print 

during  the  past  six  months   could  be 

credited,  about  $32, 000,000 of  foreign  gold  has  been  dumped 

in  this  State,  most  of  it  coming  out  of  the  pockets  of  the 

Rothschild  family.     It  is  little  wonder,  then,  that  the  ideas 

of  mine  owners  have  been  inflated  beyond  reason  by  the 

publication  of  such  ridiculous  nonsense.     As   a  matter  of 

fact,  money  was   never   tighter  in  London   than   it  is  at 

present. 

CAPTAIN  Thomas  Mein  (formerly  manager  of  the  Rob- 
inson Gold  Mine,  S.  A.  R),  has  joined  the  Boards  of 
the  Alaska-Treadwell,  the  Alaska-Mexican,  and  the 
Alaska  United  Gold  mining  companies. 


January  16,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


"Hear  the  Crier:"    "Whil  Ihe  derllert  thou'" 
"Cmelhel  wIllpItT  the dertl.ilr.  with  rou." 


TBETowi  irikr  lately  received  an  invitation  to  be- 
come an  honorary  member  of  the  holy  order  of 
Ancient  Colonial  Dames,  a  society  composed  mainly  of 
antique  ladies  having  proofs  positive  that  their  ano 
did  not  perambulate  the  streets  of  their  native  hamlets 
with  barrows  or  participate  in  the  furtherance  of  the  wel- 
fare of  their  fellow  citizens  by  occasionally  purifying  their 
linen.  The  Town  Crier  did  not  Bee  his  way  clear  to  join 
the  antiques,  although  he  can  prove  the  existence  of  his 
grandparents  as  clearly  as  the  eldest  of  them.  The  men 
of  his  family,  as  well  as  the  women,  have  never  labored 
with  their  hands;  as  penmen  or  pickpockets  they  have 
ever  preferred  their  fingers.  The  reason  why  the" Town 
Crier  refused  to  have  his  well-sounding  and  distinguished 
name  emblazoned  on  the  pay  roll  of  the  order  of  Ancient 
Colonial  Dames  is  that  he  is  a  modest  man  of  genteel 
breeding,  and  his  experience  has  taught  him  that  ladies  who 
brag  about  the  past  refinement  of  their  families  are  often 
ignorant  themselves  of  the  canons  of  modern  good  manners. 
In  other  words,  the  descendants  of  Colonial  Dames  are  not 
necessarily  ladies. 

IT  is  now  as  much  as  any  woman's  reputation  is  worth  to 
go  to  Oakland,  or  take  an  afternoon  trip  to  Alameda. 
Since  election,  the  dailies  have  had  to  resort  to  desperate 
methods  to  hatch  up  sensations,  and  if  a  maid  or  matron 
happens  to  go  a  few  blocks  from  home,  or  bow  to  a  gentle- 
man on  the  street,  her  elopement  is  a  foregone  conclusion. 
The  Town  Crier  is  in  mortal  fear  himself  every  time  he 
raises  his  bat  to  a  fair  acquaintance. 

IT  is  devoutly  to  be  hoped  that  the  acquittal  of  Mrs. 
Hartley,  slayer  of  Senator  Foley,  may  not  cause 
another  epidemic  of  crime  in  this  city,  in  which  women  will 
seek  to  avenge  themselves  for  wrongs  real  or  fancied  by 
the  reckless  use  of  loaded  pistols.  As  long  as  the  in- 
furiated sex  confines  its  operations  to  rolling  pins  and  flat- 
irons,  man  is  comparatively  safe. 

THE  batch  of  brides  turned  out  this  year 
From  each  paternal  nest, 
Would  indicate  that  papa  dear 

la  going  to  have  a  rest. 
And  tbat  a  younger  man  must  hoard 
The  cash  to  pay  his  daughter's  board.. 

ST  last  the  searchlight  of  investigation  is  being  turned 
on  the  prosecuting  attorneys  and  clerks  who  fatten 
in  the  Police  Courts.  Usually  these  gentlemen  are  politi- 
cal bummers,  who  would  appear  to  advantage  behind  the 
bars  themselves.  Seeing  that  we  cannot  hang  them,  let 
us  at  least  dispense  with  their  services  and  keep  them 
from  fattening  at  the  public  crib. 

THAT  was  a  curious  blunder  in  the  Examiner  of  Sunday 
last,  by  which  David  Dudley  Field,  eminent  as  a  codi- 
fier  of  law,  was  represented  as  "the  codfisher."  The  Call 
of  the  same  day  used  the  word  "thorax"'  instead  of 
"larynx,"  throughout  an  article  on  the  resuscitation  of 
persons  apparently  drowned.  Where  are  the  proof- 
readers? 

ONE  Lapizonda,  a  fourth-rate  actor,  has  been  arrested 
for  grand  larceny.  Was  it  necessary  to  trump  up 
such  a  long-delayed  charge  as  that?  Why  not  have  run 
him  in  at  the  outset  of  his  career  on  the  far  more  serious 
offense  of  bad  acting? 

SCARCE  have  we  wished  each  other  well  in  greeting, 
Scarce  is  toe  glad  New  Year  upon  its  way ; 
When  we  are  told  that  there  will  be  a  meeting 

Of  women  and  their  congresses  in  May. 
Oh,  vanished  hope  of  peace  that  was  to  be  1 
We  thought  that  '97  would  set  us  free  I 

BY  all  means  let  the  City  Hall  be  renovated  and  cleaned 
by  responsible  parties.  In  the  meanwhile,  every  man 
emerging  from  its  doors  should  be  placed  for  a  time  in 
quarantine,  so  as  not  to  pollute  his  fellows. 

IT  is  to  be  supposed  that  Colonel  Dan  Burns  found  another 
mine  at  Sacramento. 


A  Their 

medicines  and  ,   with 

''n''1"  !  1  tent,  no  doubt,    ti ... 

turbnnce  has  reached  the  n 

They  cure  n<   with  ilieir  horrid  pffll 

These  wily,  kerned  men, 
And  Ihen  present  their  momtrotis  Mill 
To  make  ni  »irk  again. 

SHARKEY  denies  that  he  is  about  to  be  married. 
This  la  not  strange.  The  woman  of  to  -day  who  iredl 
does  so  with  the  Intention  of  doing  all  the  subsequent 
knocking-out  that  is  necessary,    She  la  not  apt  to  face 

such  defeat  at  the  outset  as  the  bride   of   a  Sharkey  must 
'   contemplate.      Pugilists     are     not    the    most    desirable 
matrimonial  prey. 

THE  very  latest  device   for  free  advertising  has  been 
introduced  by   Yaw,    the   steeple-noted  vocalist,  who 
circulated  the  report  that  she  had  died  without  even  time 
in  which  to  say  her  prayers.     It  worked  to  a  charm.     We 
may  now  expect  to  bear  of  the  demise  and   subsequent  re- 
|   surrection  of  every  professional  in  the  country. 

FROM  the  lively  manner  in  which  young  women  are  at- 
tempting to  die  for  love  lately,  it  would  seem  that  the 
teachings  of  the  man-hating  New  Woman,  which  at  one 
time  threatened  to  uproot  sentiment  from  the  hearts  of 
womenkind  generally,  have  had  no  influence  after  all — at 
least  not  around  these  diggings. 

THE  Town  Crier  suggests  that  Jake  Rudolph  be  incar- 
cerated in  a  jail  for  life,  and  as  he  seems  to  have  a  fond- 
ness for  using  his  fingers,  he  might  put  in  his  time  making 
jute  bags,  or  some  such  useful  articles.  For  such  a  fellow 
to  be  allowed  to  roam  the  streets,  is  to  endanger  the  life  of 
every  law-abiding  citizen. 

JOHN  THOMPSON,  the  man  who  has  been  arrested 
for  stealing  sugar  from  a  grocer,  need  not  be  des- 
pondent. He  should  demand  tbat  the  pilfered  commodity 
be  analyzed,  bribe  the  chemist  to  swear  that  it  is  merely 
a  mixture  of  cornstarch  and  sand,  and  the  rest  is  com- 
paratively easy  sailing. 

OH  where  is  T.  V.  Cator  gone. 
The  Populistic  Thunder  Bird? 
Nay,  can  it  be,  so  crushed  is  be 

That  never  more  will  be  be  beard* 
Or  will  he  wait  a  few  short  years 
And  melt  our  hearts  again  with  tears  ? 

DE.  WILEY,  the  man  who  befriended  a  youth  named 
,  Julius  Hirsch,  saved  him  from  starvation  and  other 
inconveniences  and  got  robbed  by  him  as  a  reward  for  his 
kindness,  will  probably  conclude  that  the  role  of  the 
Good  Samaritan  is  all  very  well,  but  that  it  does  not  work 
with  highly  desirable  results  in  San  Francisco. 

HORNED  rattle-snakes  are  said  to  be  plentiful  in 
Death  Valley,  but  one  does  not  need  to  go  outside 
the  city  limits  for  snake  lore.  For  variety,  liveliness, 
abundance  and  brilliancy,  the  breeds  vouched  for  by  some 
of  the  Town  Crier's  bucolic  acquaintances  cannot  be  sur- 
passed. 
IT  must  have  been  extremely  embarrassing  for  the  land- 
lady whose  boarder  died  at  her  table  the  other  day. 
Results  of  the  average  boarding  house  regime  are  usually 
of  a  fatal  character,  but  they  are  seldom  so  suddenly 
developed. 

HALF-A-DOZEN  pages  of  Funding  Bill  matter  in  Tues- 
day's Examiner  saved  the  public  from  an  equal 
amount  of  fake  news  and  morbid  sensationalism.  This 
was,    indeed,  something  to  be  thankful  for. 

TEN  coroner's  inqvesls  ard  ten  divorce  suits  in  one  day 
may  not  be  much  of  a  record  in  New  York  City,  but 
for  San  Francisco  it  is  a  fair  average,  and  shows  that  we 
are  not  as  Silurian  as  some  folks  think. 

NOW  tbat  the  "Octopus"  has  been  downed,  what  will 
become  of  Uncle  Sutro  ?     Sooner  than  fade  from  out 
the  public's  notice,  we  fear  he  will  start  a  railroad  himself. 

WANTED:     The  photo  of  a  bride  who  was  not  declared 
to  be  beautiful  by  the  society  reporter  at   the  wed- 
ding. 

THE  Exhumer    rightly   considers  itself    a   fly  paper. 
Even  dollars  stick  to  it. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  16,  1897. 


3  (ft   ®Q>»' 


DEAR  EDITH : — The  newest  designs  for  evening  gowns 
which  have  come  from  Paris  in  the  past  fortnight 
are  extremely  elegant  and  betray  a  slight  reaction  from 
the  very  ornate  patterns  which  have  been  so  much  in 
vogue  during  the  past  months.  In  every  instance  the 
costume  is  made  of  the  same  material,  both  waist  and 
skirt,  and  in  most  of  these  the  two  are  separate  garments. 
In  one  out  of  three  the  robe  is  a  masterpiece  of  fitting, 
and  flows  in  uninterrupted  and  graceful  lines  from  the 
shoulder  or  the  inferior  line  of  the  corsage  to  the  floor. 
Each  design  is  decollete.  There  is  a  slight  variation  in 
treatment,  although  the  general  type  may  be  said  to  be 
cut  rather  low  in  the  front  and  the  middle  of  the  front, 
and  to  run  upward  in  a  curved  line  to  the  shoulder  or  the 
edge  of  the  shoulder,  and  thence  downward  in  a  graceful 
curve  to  the  middle  of  the  back.  The  variation  depends 
upon  the  figure  of  the  wearer.  Where  the  shoulder  is  ugly 
or  angular  the  shoulder  strap  and  decoration  conceal  it. 
Where  it  is  rounded  or  beauliful,  the  decoration  passes  on 
the  outside.  Where  the  upper  arm  is  plump  and  hand- 
some, it  is  exposed  from  just  above  the  elbow  to  a  thin 
line  of  shell  trimming  in  silk,  ribbon,  crepe  or  lace  or  a 
festoon  of  flowers  at  the  edge  of  the  shoulder. 

Bolero  jackets  are  as  much  worn  as  ever,  in  spite  of 
hopes,  protests  and  prognostications  against  their  again 
appearing  in  exclusive  circles  as  good  style.  They  are 
universally  becoming,  and  are  triumphant  as  a  finish  to 
the  natty  street  costumes,  for  which  they  are  particularly 
appropriate.  Some  of  them  are  made  of  elegant  brocades, 
which  need  no  trimming  except  on  the  edge,  and  are 
slashed  almost  to  the  neck  in  the  back,  showing  a  hand- 
some, plain,  rich  effect  in  the  waist  underneath.  For  the 
young  miss  they  are  trimmed  all  around  the  edge  with  a 
fine  knife-plaiting  of  chiffon  about  three  inches  in  depth, 
while  others  have  a  fine  silk  or  beaded  fringe.  One  of  the 
newest  ideas  in  bolero  jackets  is  to  trim  the  shoulders 
with  caps  or  frills  to  fall  over  the  top  of  the  sleeve  in  the 
waist  beneath. 

A  bridesmaid's  dress  seen  recently  was  of  pale  green 
silk  made  with  full  skirt,  relieved  only  by  a  twist  of 
mousseline  de  soie  around  the  foot.  The  waist  was  a 
round  one  of  the  same  silk,  entirely  veiled  with  green 
mousseline  de  soie.  This  gave  a  very  fairylike  look  to  the 
dress.  A  long  silken  sash  of  green  was  wound  around  the 
waist  and  tied  at  the  side  with  small  loops  and  long  ends. 
The  throat,  which  was  cut  square,  was  finished  with  a 
twists  of  the  same  silk.  The  sleeve  puffs  were  of  green 
silk  and  were  quite  full.  They  were  put  on  to  look  like 
small  balloons  or  the  mythical  wings  of  a  goddess.  The 
floating  ends  of  the  sash,  the  sleeve  puffs  and  the  lightness 
of  the  mousseline  de  soie  gave  this  dress  a  particularly 
airy  appearance. 

Tucks  are  still  used  on  skirts,  bodices  and  sleeves  in 
many  ways,  and  these  can  be  made  with  far  more  effect 
than  the  simple  style  of  decoration  might  be  deemed 
capable  of.  The  tucks  may  run  wide  or  narrow,  or  both 
in  conjunction,  they  may  be  straight  or  diagonal,  in  short, 
tucking  a  garment,  like  shirring  it  in  smallest  silk  stitches, 
can  be  made  quite  a  fine  art,  and  the  fashion  prevails  this 
season  among  the  heaviest  as  well  as  the  most  diaphanous 
textiles.  Belinda. 

Through  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Kailroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  Jrom  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
phone Main  1531. 

San  Francisco  is  the  best  place  in  all  the  world  where  to  buy 
antique  Japanese  curios,  ivories,  bronzes,  and  tapestries.  And  in 
all  San  Francisco  there  is  no  place  where  such  a  fine  variety  is  to  be 
found,  and  at  such  reasonable  prices  as  at  Geo.  T.  Marsh's,  625 
Market  Street,  under  the  Palace  Hotel. 


Grand  Annual 
Midwinter 
Clearance  Sale 


Now  in  Progress. 


Everything  at  a 

Prodigious 

Sacrifice. 


See  Daily  Papers  for  Particulars. 


MURPHY  BUILDING,  Market  and  Jones  Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

203  to  207  N  Spring  St.  bet.  Temple  and  First  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

FINE  FURS 
and 

SEALSKIN 
iJ,     GARHENTS 

to  order.  Remodeling  and 
repairing  at  prices  far  be- 
low those  of  any  other  fur- 
rier on  the  Pacific  "Coast. 
AH  -work  guaranteed. 

flD.  K060UR, 

FASHIONABLE   FURRIER, 

$}4   Kearny  Street  (Up-stairs), 

Opposite  Chronicle.    Formerly  cutter  with  Revillon  Freres,  Paris,  Lon- 
don. New  York. 


Gray  Bros., 


316  Montgomery  Street,  S.  F. 

No.  205  New  High  St..  Los  angelrs. 


Concrete  Artificial 
Stone  Work. 


GEORGE   GOODMAN 


Patentee   and 
Manufacturer  of 

Artificial  Stone 

Schillinger's  Patent  ]  in  all  its  branches 

Side  Walk  and  Garden  Walk  a  specialty." 

Office :    307  Montgomery  street,  (Nevada  block)  San  Franciscc 

Joseph  Gillott's  Steel  Pens, 

Gold  Medals,  Paris  1878-1889.  These  pens  are  "  the  best 
In  the  world.      Sole  agent  for  the  United  States. 
MR.  HENRY  HOE.  91  John  Street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers. 


January  16.  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   Ni:\VS    I 


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J,... -J  -wi; 


A    DREAM.—  HESTt*  CMLDWiu  o»*.  -owe  comrn'0*. 


u 


PON  a  lime,  so  sweet,  so  deir,  n  dream 

Came  floating  through  the  wairhes  of  the  night: 

With  gmtlaal  tooeb,  untucked  the  gates  o(  will, 
And  all  my  siriven-ior  paUane*  put  to  (light. 

I'litroinmele.l  by  N<  rong  hold. 

For  she  had  closed  her  tired  eyes  in  sleep. 
Free  as  the  air.  forth  in  BlyslAn  helds 

of  glorious  fancy  my  strong  soul  did  leap. 

There,  with  glad  feet,  and  heart  all  fluttering  fast; 

With  sweet  presentiment  of  bliss  unsolved, 
1  wandered,  kuee-deep.  through  the  fragrant  grass; 

While  'neath  a  cloudless  sky  the  world  revolved. 

And  then,  as  naturally  as  shone  the  Ban, 

t'ameone  to  meet  me.  through  the  blossoming  ways 
Like  two  blithe,  care-free  children,  there  we  strayed, 

And  plucked  from  Ages'  hoard  the  flower  of  days. 

And  never,  never  while  I  live  alone, 

Shall  e'er  depart  the  memory  of  that  day ; 

While,  warm  within  my  heart,  the  touch  of  hand, 
Of  whispered  words,  and  clinging  lips  shall  stay. 

And  still,  with  tender  arm  about  ruy  life. 

The  dear,  sad  angel  of  Renunciation  stands. 

And  says:  "  Have  patience,  soul;  thy  garden  fair 
Thou'lt  And  beyond  the  years  in  happier  lands." 

DIVIDED.—  FLORENCE  A.  JONES. 

0  God !  that  hapless  dead  should  vex  our  peace ! 

Why  should  she  follow  rue  with  grave  bound  feet, 
Haunting  me  with  those  dead  eyes,  stern  and  sweet; 
Standing  with  clasped  hands,  while  I  pray  release? 

In  the  long,  awful  watches  of  the  night 

1  hear  her  trailing  garments  on  the  stair; 
1  smell  the  one  dead  rose  that  decks  her  hair; 

1  know  just  where  she  stands,  so  still  and  white. 

I  feel  a  cold,  dead  hand  clasp  close  my  own  ; 

Poor  little  hand,  that  wears  no  wedding  ring; 

Dear  hand,  that  with  love's  wont  gave  everything; 
O,  little  hand,  would  God  I  could  atone  I 

O  wife,  whose  dark  head  nestles  on  my  heart, 
You,  whom  I  honor  as  sin  honors  good. 
The  perfect  type  of  pure,  cold  womanhood, 

You  do  not  dream  how  far  we  are  apart  I 

Alas  for  him  whose  wisdom  comes  too  latel 
I  know  that,  after  all,  love's  way  is  best, 
The  love  that  giveth  all,  at  Love's  behest; 

O,  bitter-sweet!    O,  love  insatiate! 


THE    EMPTY    HOUSE—  Westminster  budget. 

To  think  the  moonlight  shines  to-night 
In  the  dismantled  rooms  that  were 

Love's  own,  the  moonlight,  cold  and  white, 
Upon  the  desolate  walls  and  bare! 

To  think  the  dawn  shall  rise  and  -lood 

The  empty  house  that  was  Love's  own, 

Wherein  Love's  hours  were  warm  and  good, 
Wherein  Love's  heart  hung  heavy  as  stone ! 

To  think  I  shall  come  there  no  more 

To  the  familiar  place,  to  know 
The  stranger's  foot  shall  cross  the  floor 

Of  old  where  I  was  wont  to  go! 

0  house  that  like  a  little  ghost 

Calls  to  me  through  the  night  and  rain, 

1  know  not  if  I  love  you  most 

For  all  the  joy  or  all  the  pain: 

For  hours  in  which  my  joy  lay  dead, 

For  hours  in  which  all  heaven  I  knew — 

Only  my  life,  when  all  is  said, 

Leaves  an  immortal  past  with  you ! 


much 
to  de>  with  your  light   as  your 

lamp  has. 

Tin-  Index  tills  what  Num- 
ber t<>  .  ■  :       -iilt  free. 

"  Pearl    top  "    or    "  pearl 

glass." 

Geo  A   Macbeth  Co 

Pittsburgh  Pa 


CITY    INDEX    AND    PURCHASER'S    GUIDE 


RESTAURANTS. 

Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  HMM  Pine  street  Rooms  for 
ladles  and  families,  private  entrance.    John  Merger.  Proprietor. 

Malton  Tortoni,  French  Rotlsserte,  HI  O'Farrell  street.  Private  dining 
rooms  and  banquet  ball.    S.  Constantlnl,  Proprietor 

Nevada  Restaurant,  sit?  Pine  st.   Private  rooms;  meals  50c.    LorPY  Bros 

Poodle  Dog  Restaurant,  S.  F  cor.  Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st  Private 
dining  and  banquet  rooms.      Tol.  428.      A.  B   Blanco  &  B   Brum 

DENTISTS. 

Dr.  Thomas  L.  Hill, 

OFFICE:  Odd  Fellows' Building,  southwest  cor.  Seventh  and  Market 
streets.    Office  hours :  9  a.  m.  to  5  p.  m  .    Consultation  Hours :  4  to  5. 

Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY  827  Braunan 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  16,  1897. 


Piugwinch — Congratulate  me,  dear  boy!  I'm  engaged  to 
the  wealthy  Mrs.  Gradster.  Pigsnuffle— So  glad,  old 
man!  But — er — are  you  sure  she  is  really  so  rich? 
Plugwinch— Sure?  I  should  say  so!  Why,  she  was  ar- 
rested for  shoplifting  and  acquitted  as  a  kleptomaniac. — 
Truth. 

"Pardon  me,"  said  the  new  boarder  after  the  others  had 
left  the  table,  "but  I'm  not  up  in  table  etiquette  and  don't 
know  just  how  oranges  should  be  eaten."  "Very  sparing- 
ly, sir,  very  sparingly,  at  this  time  of  year,"  answered  the 
thrifty  landlady. — Detroit  Free  Press. 

"Look  at  that  foolish  Mr.  Baker  out  on  a  day  like  this 
without  an  unbrella.  Is  he  crazy?"  "I'm  afraid  he  is. 
Let's  hurry  on.  I  don't  want  to  meet  him."  "Why  not?" 
"He  may  recognize  this  umbrella.  It's  his." — Pearson's 
Weekly. 

"Louise  was  furious  about  her  wedding."  "What  was 
the  matter?"  "The  organist  was  a  rejected  lover  and  he 
played  the  bridal  couple  out  of  church  with  the  tune, 
'He's  got  an  Elephant  on  His  Hands.' " — New  York 
Herald. 

"Nearly  3  in  the  morning!  This  is  a  nice  time  for  you  to 
come  home!"  "You  see  it  was  this  way,  my  dear.  I  was 
detained  a  little,  so  I  put  off  coming  home  for  a  bit  longer, 
so  that  I  should  not  disturb  you  in  your  beauty  sleep. 

He — There  is  one  thing  to  be  said  about  the  Scotch 
dialect  stories  now  floating  about.  She — And  what  is 
that?  He — They  may  be  the  same  old  stories,  but  no  one 
will  recognize  them. — Yonkers  Statesmen. 

"So  it  was  a  happy  marriage?"  "Quite.  The  bride 
was  happy,  the  bride's  mother  was  blissful,  the  Count  was 
in  ecstasy,  and  I  understand  that  his  creditors  are  in  a 
state  of  delirious  joy." — Pearson's  Weekly. 

"All  I  ask,"  said  the  man  with  the  business  glint  in  his. 
eye,  "is  that  they  will  give  me  plenty  of  rope."  Then  it 
was  that  they  recognized  him  as  a  manufacturer  of  cam- 
paign cigars. — Indianapolis  Journal. 

She — You  know,  dear,  we  won't  get  any  of  father's 
money  while  he  lives.  He — I  know,  but  he's  going  to  re- 
side with  us,  and  you're  going  to  do  the  cooking.  Let's 
hope  for  the  best. — Philadelphia  Times. 

"Why  do  you  beg?"  asked  the  kind  hearted  woman.  "I 
can't  help  it,  ma'am,"  said  the  beggar.  "My  wife's  a 
widder  with  five  children,  and  they  looks  to  me  for 
support." — Cleveland  Plain  Dealer. 

"Bridget,  I've  discovered  that  you  carry  more  food  home 
with  you  than  you  cook  for  us."  "Yes'm,  but  me  fambly 
iz  bigger'n  yourn." — Chicago  Record. 

He — I'm  working  on  a  flying  machine,  dear.  She — It's 
too  bad  you  haven't  got  it  with  you.  I  hear  papa  coming 
downstairs. — Yonkers  Statesman. 

"He's  one  of  the  kindest  of  men  to  animals."  "Yes;  I 
understand  he  shuts  his  eyes  when  he  sees  a  Frankfurter." 
— Yonkers  Statesman. 

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(crushed) — Heavens!  I  hope  bicycles  will  be  cheaper  next 
year. — Puck, 

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contracter.  Muggins — What  line?  Juggins — Debts.  — 
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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


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A     SPECIMEN     OF     CUBAN     CORRESPONDENCE. 

January,  I 
abh  //.  A' 
thai  will  print  it  Pr.ut  Mr.  Editor.  —  Feeling  it  my  duty 
as  a  representative  of  the  great  American  people  to  use 
my  Qod-ffiven  talents  in  their  service,  I  resolved  to  visit 
Cuba  and  probe  the  lamentaKf  situation  there  to  the 
bottom.  I  have  done  so.  and  from  this  moment  the  Dotted 
B  may  lay  aside  her  fears  as  a  garment.  1  took  two 
of  my  lives  in  my  hand  in  facing  loth  a  Spanish  and  an  In- 
surgent death.  That  is  nothing.  Providence  has  mirac- 
ulously preserved  me  to  tell  my  story  to  a  breathless 
world. 

I  landed  in  Havana  on  the  — th,  and  at  once  hunted  up 
lodgings  on  a  back  street.  Reporters  of  every  tongue  ana 
clime  followed  me,  importunate  for  interviews.  I  slipped 
into  my  apartments  and  locked  the  door,  intending  to  re- 
main until  morning.  At  diuner  time  the  landlady  informed 
me  that  there  was  nothing  to  cook.  She  said:  "Things 
have  been  mighty  scarce,  Senor,  since  they  stopped  grindin* 
cane." 

I  remembered  noticing,  as  I  came  along  the  street,  that 
our  house  backed  up  against  a  yard  in  which  there  was  a 
chicken  coop.  To  steal  out  the  back  way,  climb  the  fence, 
avoid  the  dog,  and  return  with  a  fine  fowl,  was  the  work 
of  only  a  couple  of  hours  for  me.  The  next  morning  I 
called  on  General  Lee,  who  took  me  at  once  to  the  Cap- 
tain-General. We  discovered  General  VVeyler  hard  at 
work  on  a  typewriter.  He  is  a  little  man,  not  bigger 
than  Uncle  Ben  Harrison,  but  fiercer.  When  he  saw  me, 
he  clambered  down  from  his  stool,  raised  himself  on  tip-toe, 
threw  his  arms  around  my  neck,  and  sobbed  for  joy.  His 
true  soldierly  instincts  had  recognized  me. 

"I  am  glad  you  came,"  said  he,  "  I  wish  all  the  Amer- 
icans would  come  and  see  for  themselves  bow  things  are 
here." 

"General,"  I  replied  solemnly,  "I  have  come  to  learn  the 
whole  tiuth  about  this  Cuban  uprising.  What  report  shall 
I  make  to  my  countrymen  ?  " 

He  laid  his  thin  forefinger  along  his  Spanish  nose,  which 
first  saw  the  light  in  Ohio,  and,  with  a  candid  twinkle  in 
his  eye,  he  said:  "Mahoney,  there  is  nothing  in  it." 

Just  then  a  bullet  crashed  through  the  window,  plunked 
its  way  through  his  military  chapeau,  and  passed  out  by 
way  of  the  opposite  wall.  Without  a  tremor,  the  General 
turned  to  an  aide:  "  Go,  Captain,"  said  he,  "  and  tell  those 
Cubans  that,  if  they  want  to  practice  target  shooting, 
they  must  go  down  into  Pinar  del  Rio,  where  it  won't  dis- 
turb me." 

He  turned  to  me  kindly,  and  asked.  "  Where  were  you 
last  night,  Mahoney  ?  Your  strange  disappearance  for 
some  hours  has  been  cabled  to  every  capital  in  Europe, 
and  I  am  just  writing  an  explanation  of  it  for  the  Impar- 
cial,  at  Madrid." 

"I  was  out  foraging — I  mean  reconnoitering  the  insur- 
gents," said  I,  "in  the  interest  of  my  search  after  the 
truth." 

"  I  am  glad  you  did,"  he  replied;  "  the  fact  that  you  are 
alive  proves  that  there  are  no  rebels  within  a  hundred 
miles  of  Havana,  and  that  the  country  is  safer  to  visit 
than  the  District  of  Columbia." 

"  I  intended  to  ask  you  for  a  passport,"  said  I. 

"  You  won't  need  any,"  he  answered.  "  A  steamer  leaves 
for  New  York  within  the  hour.  I  will  see  you  safe  on 
board  myself. ' 

He  was  so  urgent  that  we  started  at  once  for  the 
wharf,  a  company  of  Spanish  infantry  following  as  an  es- 
cort of  honor,  I  suppose.  I  parted  affectionately  from  the 
General,  and  turned  to  Lee.  "  Fitz,"  said  I;  "what  shall 
I  say  to  the  boys  for  you  ?  " 

"Just  tell  them  that  you  saw  me,"  he  replied,  "and 
say  to  Olney,  privately,  that  I  think  just  as  I  did  when  I 
saw  him  last." 

The  whistle  blew,  I  sprang  on  board,  and  was  soon  at 
sea,  firmly  convinced  that  the  Cubans  can  never  be  con- 
quered. The  evidence  on  that  point  is  cumulative,  and 
may  be  summed  up  as  follows: 

First — Morgan  and  Call  say  so. 

Second — All  the  jingo  newspapers  say  so. 

Third— General  Lee  thinks  so,  and 

Fourth— To  cap  the  climax,   General  Weyler  says  there 


are  no  rebels,  and.  if  there  ere  none,  how  i 
qoen 

IffWetbi  ussion  in  ii.  'will 

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you  remit. 

Till",  death    of    Mr  .nin,    on    Wednesday    last, 

the  count]  I  its  most  noted  mining  en- 

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came  to  this  country,  where  he  became  identified  with  the 
Comstock  mines.  He  has  been  connected,  in  one  way  or 
another,  with  nearly  all  the  larger  mining  properties. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  16,  1897- 


AT    THE    CAPiTOL. 


Sacramento,  Jan.  13,  1897. 

NOW  that  the  Senatorial  fight  is  over,  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that  the  Legislature  will  settle  down  to  work,  for 
work  it  must  if  ever  the  mass  of  bills  now  before  both 
houses  are  carefully  considered — as  they  are  supposed  to 
be — in  the  next  six  weeks  still  remaining  of  the  session. 

What  I  said  last  week  about  the  economical  Assembly 
was  only  correct, — as  events  have  since  demonstrated, — 
in  so  much  as  the  permanent  organization  is  concerned; 
but  in  the  amount  paid  for  temporary  organization  the  re- 
cord has  been  broken  and  in  this  regard  come  murmurs 
of  the  first  scandal  of  the  session.  Over  $4000  was  paid 
the  temporary  officers  and  attaches,  and  I  have  seen 
figures  where  when  Ed.  Leake  was  Chief  Clerk  and  tem- 
porary organizer  of  the  Assembly  the  expense  was  hardly 
$400.  This  robbery  of  the  Treasury,  for  it  is  nothing  else, 
should  receive  the  attention  of  the-  Legislature  and  Chief 
Clerks  who  are  anxious  to  please  every  member  of  the 
majority  in  order  to  ensure  their  re-election,  should  be  pre- 
vented from  perpetrating  a  repetition  of  this  year's  out- 
rage. As  it  is,  the  law  permits  the  Chief  Clerk  to  appoint 
such  temporary  attaches  as  he  sees  fit,  and  the  gates  for 
patronage-seekers  being  left  open  in  this  careless  manner 
the  hungry  gang  rushes  in  to  help  raid  the  Treasury.  Of 
course,  if  these  persons  earned  any  part  of  the  money  paid 
them  it  might  partly  justify  the  steal,  but  they  don't. 
The  law  provides  that  certain  officers  shall  hold  during  the 
temporary  organization.  They  are  sufficient  numerically 
and  should  be  in  ability  to  do  the  work  required. 

The  scandal  to  which  I  refer  has  been  gossiped  around 
all  the  week  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  this  petty  larceny  steal 
will  be  properly  and  thoroughly  investigated.  I  simply 
give  you  the  rumors  and  hope  the  publication  of  them  will 
cause  the  offender  or  offenders  to  receive  their  just  de- 
serts. In  brief,  so  the  story  goes,  all  the  temporary 
attaches  who  were  allowed  mileage  payable  out  of  the  con- 
tingent fund  of  the  Assembly,  some  six  or  seven  in  number, 
whose  total  mileages  amounted  to  slightly  over  $100,  were 
compelled  to  "divvy"  with  the  Committee  on  Mileage's 
chairman.  Assemblyman  Oscar  F.  Breiling,  of  the 
Alameda  County  delegation,  is  chairman  of  this  committee. 
Being  told  of  the  reports  he  denied  the  truth  of  them  and 
said  he  would  investigate.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  will 
clear  himself,  for  although  Assemblymen  come  cheap,  $50 
is  a  remarkably  small  price  for  one  to  sell  himself  and  to 
seven  persons  at  that.  Of  course,  there  may  be  some  one 
else  who  is  to  blame  aud  perhaps  Breiling  is,  as  he  says, 
innocent,  so  I  give  him  the  full  benefit  of  the  doubt.  The 
fact  remains  and  I  have  it  authoritatively  that  the  attaches 
were  compelled  "to  divvy"  their  mileage.  Besides  this,  I 
understand  there  is  absolute  proof  that  the  temporary 
roll  of  attaches  was  stuffed  by  some  one  and  a  special 
committee  is  trying  to  find  out  who  did  it. 

The  Eght  won  by  Leslie  Blackburn,  of  Alameda,  for 
Sergeant-at-Arms  of  the  Senate  was  an  unprecedented 
one.  He  was  opposed  by  members  of  his  own  county  dele- 
gation, and  bitterly,  too, 
and  besides,  was  nomi- 
nated in  caucus  by  a 
Senator  from  another 
part  of  the  State.  How- 
ever, he  had  made  so 
satisfactory  a  record 
two  years  ago,  and  his 
supporters  were  more 
than  enthusiastic  in  his 
behalf,  so  opposition  was 
futile.  Mr.  Blackburn 
is  a  man  of  pleasing  per- 
sonality, and  his  experi- 
ence has  especially  fit- 
ted him  for  the  position 
he  has  ably  and,  I  pro- 
phesy, will  again  satis- 
factorily fill.  In  politics, 
it  is  needless  to  say,  he 
is  a  staunch  Republican, 
and  is  a  leader  in  Alameda  County,  which  by  no  means 
bounds   the  extent  of  his  personal  and  political  influence 


Leslie  Blackburn. 


Frederick  S.  Stratton-. 


and  popularity.  As  Deputy  Sheriff,  under  Sheriff  Hussey 
of  Alameda  county,  he  rendered  the  State  effectual  service. 
For  four  years,  Mr.  Blackburn  filled  the  onerous  position 
of  Deputy  United  States  Marshall  of  Arizona,  and  gained 
much  praise  from  high  quarters.  He  also  took  an  active 
part  in  Virginia  City  politics  in  the  early  days,  and  can 
count  as  his  friends  to-day  all  the  most  prominent  people 
of  that  State. 

In  the  house  over  300  bills  have  been  introduced  and  in 
the  Senate  over  275  bills,  so  it  is  evident  there  is  plenty  to 
do. 

The  occasion  of  the  election  of  George  C.  Perkins,  on 
Tuesday,  gave  an  opportunity  to  judge  some  of  the  orators 
in  both  houses. 

In  the  Senate  Senator  George  C.  Perkins  was  placed  in 
nomination  by  Frederick  S.  Stratton,  of  Alameda  County, 
and  his  speech  was  an  oratorical  effort  that  was  worthy  of 

the  occasion  and  the  person 
in  subject.  The  galleries 
and  the  lobby  of  the  Senate 
Chamber  were  crowded, 
and  the  attention  given  to 
Mr.  Stratton's  speech,  and 
the  applause  that  greeted 
the  conclusion  of  his  effect- 
ive presentation,  proved 
that  Mr.  Stratton's  reputa- 
tion as  an  orator  was  well 
founded. 

Though  a  young  man  in 
years,  Senator  Stratton  is 
easily  one  of  the  ablest  men 
in  the  Senate,  and,  as  a 
compliment  to  his  abilities 
and  energy,  besides  being 
Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Elections,  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  important  com- 
mittee on  City,  City  and 
County,  and  Town  Governments,  County  Government,  and 
Township  Organization;  and  Judiciary. 

Last  November  he  was  elected  State  Senator  from  the 
Twenty-Seventh  District  by  a  phenomenal  majority,  and 
that  he  will  well  merit  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  goes 
without  saying.  As  an  attorney,  Mr.  Stratton  has  already 
made  his  mark,  and  the  list  of  important  cases  won  by 
him  not  only  show  his  ability,  but  also  his  versatility. 

Mr.  Stratton  has  much  important  legislation  in  hand, 
and  many  of  the  bills  he  has  introduced  are  of  great  im- 
portance, and  their  passage  will  result  to  much  good  to 
the  public,  who  are  not  slow,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  to  appre- 
ciate a  man  like  Mr.  Stratton,  of  more  than  average  tal- 
ents and  ability. 

Senator  R.  N.  Bulla,  of  Los  Angeles,  who  ably  repre- 
sents the  Thirty-seventh  Senatorial  District,  seconded  the 
nomination  of  Senator  Perkins.  His  speech  was  a  splen- 
did effort,  but  not  at  all  a 
surprise  to  his  friends  who 
are  fully  aware  of  his  abil- 
ities, for  Senator  Bulla  is 
not  alone  a  good  talker, 
but  an  energetic  and  faith- 
ful worker  as  well.  This  is 
his  first  term  as  Senator, 
although  he  was  sent  to 
the  Assembly  from  his  dis- 
trict for  two  consecutive 
terms.  At  home  Mr. 
Bulla  practices  law,  and 
stands  high  in  his  profes- 
sion. As  chairman  of  the 
very  important  Committee 
on  Claims,  Retrenchment, 
and  Public  Expenditures, 
and  as  a  member  of  the 
Committees  on  City,  City 
and  County,  and  Town 
Government;  Constitution- 
al Amendments;  Elections; 
Judiciary,  and  State  Prisons  and  Prison  Buildings,  Sena- 
tor Bulla  will  find  plenty  to  do,  and  with  his  untiring  energy 
and  devotion  to  his  work,  will  prove  equal  to  the  occasion. 


Senator  R    N.  Bulla 


January  16.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  IVBWS  I.KTTKR. 


Senator  J.  N  Gille 
tor  Perkins,  was  not 
ceded  him.     Senator 


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■  ;ng  speech,  also  for  Sena- 
lit  than  those    which    pre- 
baa  an  m  delivery, 

and     the    Fir-t     District, 
which  he  represents,    has 
him  a  Btting 
\Senator   Frank  Mo- 
111,    whose   reputation 
as  an  orator  is  State  wide. 
Mr.  Gillette    is   an   attor- 
.it  Eureka,  Humboldt 
County,    where   he   has  a 
trge  practice  and  a  large 
'ituenev  whom  he  will, 
1    am    sure,     serve    with 
credit  and  ability.     This  is 
Mr.  Gillette's  final  term  in 
the   Legislature,    but    for 
six  years  he  was  City  At- 
torney of  Eureka.       He  is 
Chairman  of  the  important 
Committee    on  City,   City 
and  County  and  Town  Gov- 
ernment, and  a  member  of 
the  Committees   on   Bank 
tor  J.  a  i.uuiu  aid   Banking,   Commerce, 

Harbors.  Rivers,  and  Coast  Defenses;  Counties  and 
County  Boundaries;  Judiciary;  and  Public  and  Swamp 
and  Overflowed  Lands.  Mr.  Gillette  has  already  intro- 
duced several  important  measures,  and  the  fish  industries 
of  Humboldt  County,  and  the  State  dairying  interests  will 
receive  his  careful  and  most  energetic  attention. 

Senators  Dickinson  and  Smith  also  made  seconding 
speeches,  which  were  well  delivered   and  nicely  received. 

In  the  Assembly  by  far  the  best  speeches  were  made  by 
those  gentlemen  who  nominated  "lost  causes."  Judge  E. 
A.  Bridgford,  of  Colusa,  placed  James  G.  Maguire  in  nomi- 
nation, and  E.  J.  Emmons,  of  Kern,  nominated  T.  V.  Cator. 
Their  speeches  were  the  best  of  the  day.  Judge  Waymire, 
of  Alameda,  who  nominated  Senator  Perkins,  made  a  good 
speech,  and  Assemblymen  Bettmann  and  Hill  seconded  the 
nomination. 

On  Monday  last  Mr.  George  M.  Francis,  of  Napa,  was 
elected  unanimously  the  bearer  of  California's  electoral 
vote  to  Washington,  and  left  San  Francisco  for  that  city 
on  Thursday.  Mr.  Francis 
is  one  of  the  best-known 
Republicans  in  this  State, 
and  besides  his  good  war 
record,  has  made  a  reputa- 
tion for  himself  as  one  of  the 
leading  journalists  of  that 
party.  He  gained  his  first 
taste  of  fighting  in  1862, 
when,  at  the  age  of  18,  he 
was  sent  from  Wisconsin, 
where  his  home  was,  to  help 
put  down  some  Indian 
troubles  in  the  north.  That 
took  three  months,  and  then 
he  went  South  to  Kentucky. 
His  commanding  officer  was 
the  famous  "Fighting  Joe" 
Mower,  a  reckless  fire- 
eater,  and  Mr.  Francis  had 
many  opportunities  of  dis-  GmrSfe  iL  Fran"1' 

tinguishing  himself.  He  participated  in  "Sherman's 
march  to  the  Sea,"  and  was  fortunate  enough  to  come  out 
of  the  war  with  much  honor  and  his  life.  Mr.  Francis 
then  worked  on  the  old  La  Crosse  Republican,  and  finally 
went  to  San  Francisco.  That  was  twenty-six  years  ago, 
and  a  year  later  he  acquired  an  interest  in  the  Napa  Reg- 
ister, a  strong  Republican  journal.  Many  leading  journal- 
ists of  to-day  have  at  one  time  or  another  been  his  part- 
ners, but  for  the  last  fifteen  years  he  has  run  his  paper 
alone.  He  is  a  genial  gentleman,  and  makes  friends  of  all 
with  whom  he  comes  in  contact.  Mr.  Francis  expects  to 
be  absent  from  the  State  about  a  month.  Mrs.  Francis 
accompanies  him  to  Washington,  and  when  his  duties  are 
performed  he  will  indulge  in  a  well-merited  holiday  trip 
through  the  East  before  resuming  his  editorial  duties. 


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only  one  hundwed  dollars  and  forty  cents.  I  tink  de  wesolu- 
tion  ought  to  be  adopted.     See!" 

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A  Sovereign  Remedy. 
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ANNUAL    MEETING. 

Belcher  Silver  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Belcher  Silver 
Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  tne  office  of  cue  company  rooms  37 
and  38,  third  floor  Mills  building,  San  Francisco,  Cal  .  on 

TUESDAY,  the  26TB  DAY  OP  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Direc- 
tors to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  busi- 
ness as  may  come  before  the  meeting.  Transfer  books  will  close  on  Satur- 
day, the  33d  day  of  January,  1897  at  13  o'clock  M. 

C    l..  PERKINS,  Secretary. 

Office— Rooms  37  and  38,  third  floor.  Mills  Building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush 
and  Montgomery  streets  Sau  Francisco,  Cal 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 
Hutchinson  Sugar  Plantation  Company. 
Dividend  No.  39,  of  25  cents  per  share,  of  the  Hutchinson  Sugar  Planta- 
tion Company,  will  be  payable  at  the  office  of  the  company,  327  Market  St., 
on  and   after  Friday,  January  22,    1897.      Transfer  books  will  close  on 
Saturday,  Jan   16.  1897.  at  la  o'clock  m.        E.  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 

ANNUAL    MEETING. 

Oceanic  Steamship  Company 
The  regular  annual  nr-eling  ol  the  stockholders  of  the  Oceanic  Steam- 
ship lompany  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  327  Market  street, 
San  Francisco,  Cal  ,  on 

THURSDAY,  the  21st  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  1 1  o'clock  a  m  .  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Direc- 
tors, to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  busi- 
ness as   may  come  before  ihe  meeting      Transfer  bojks  will  close  on 
Saturday,  January  9,  at  12  o'clock  M. 

E    H    SHELDON,  Secretary. 
Office:  327  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Dr.  LEANER, 


Most  skilled 


Chiropodist 


on  the  coast 

Manicure  attendants     Corns  bun'ons.  ingrowing  nails, 
chilblains  and  warts  extracted  without  pain  by  tbe  New  Treatment, 

Office,  702  Market  St      Office  hours:    9  a  m.  to  6  p.m. 
Sundays,  11  a.  m.  to  1  p  m. 

Dr.   F.  G.  PAGUE, 

Dentist. 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building, 


819  Market  street 


Q)R.  ARTHUR  T.   REGENSBURGER, 

Office  and  Residence:  40fl">4  Post  St..  San  Francisco. 
Office  Hours :  9  to  12  A.  M. ;  1  to  5  p.  m. 


Dentist. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  16,  1897. 


IF  last  week  was  one  of  dinners,  among  the  most  notice- 
able of  them  being  those  given  by  Mrs.  Josselyn,  Mr. 
Whittier  and  Mr.  Greenway,  this  week  has  been  largely 
devoted  to  luncheons.  It  was  too  bad  that  Miss  Julia 
Crocker  should  have  had  such  disagreeable  weather  for 
her  luncheon  on  Wednesday,  her  first  appearance  as  host- 
ess since  her  return  from  abroad;  her  guests  were  all 
young  ladies,  who  were  invited  to  meet  Miss  Noyes.  Mrs. 
Frank  Pixley  chose  cards  as  the  medium  for  entertaining 
the  young  friends  of  her  niece,  Miss  Edith  Nelson,  on 
Thursday  afternoon,  and  a  large  number  were  present  in 
her  pretty  rooms  that  day. 

Mrs.  Tingley  Lawrence  presided  over  a  pleasant  gathering 
on  Monday  evening,  when  original  readings  of  reminiscences 
of  life  in  Corea  were  given,  under  the  title  of  "An  Evening 
in  the  Land  of  the  Morning/'  Mrs.  W.  J.  Lowrey  and  her 
daughters  gave  a  tea  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  and  enter- 
tained a  large  number  of  guests.  On  Wednesday  the 
Baroness  Von  Meyerinck  gave  an  "at  home,"  when  Miss 
Ida  Chase  Lee  gave  a  talk  on  the  "Attitude  of  the  Vocal- 
ist." Quite  a  number  of  our  beaux  and  belles  went  across 
the  bay  to  the  cotillion  in  Oakland  on  Wednesday  evening, 
and  were  guests  of  the  ladies  who  chaperoned  the  party. 
On  Thursday  the  Mills  Club  gave  a  tea  in  their  new  quar- 
ters in  the  Native  Sons'  Building,  between  the  hours  of 
three  and  five  o'clock.  To-day,  at  the  studio  of  Miss 
Marie  Withrow,  Miss  Ida  Chase  Lee  will  repeat  her 
"Vocalist"  talk. 

Pink,  white  and  green  were  the  dominating  hues  in  the 
decorations  at  the  wedding  of  Miss  Clemence  Reiss  and 
Adolph  Nordman,  which  took  place  at  the  Concordia  Club, 
on  Van  Ness  avenue,  on  Tuesday  last.  The  ceremony 
was  performed  in  the  ballroom,  which  was  wreathed  with 
holly,  hung  with  golden  bells,  and  festooned  with  pale  pink 
and  Nile  green  bunting,  studded  with  golden  stars,  and 
underneath  a  pink  and  green  canopy  at  the  south  end  of 
the  room,  Rabbi  Voorsanger  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  To 
the  strains  of  the  Mendelssohn  wedding  march  the  proces- 
sion entered  the  room,  which  was  filled  with  guests,  at 
half-past  six,  the  ushers,  Messrs.  Reiss,  Feigenbaum, 
Galland  and  Blum  coming  first;  then  followed  the  ring 
bearer,  little  Miss  Jeanne  Block,  in  a  frock  of  white  gauze 
over  pink  silk,  and  the  flower  girls,  Rosa  Block  and  May 
Nordman,  similarly  attired.  Then  appeared  the  brides- 
maids, Misses  Julia  Reiss,  Nanette  Reiss,  Bessie  Nordman, 
Wanda  Galland  and  Helen  Blum,  gowned  alike  in  white 
tulle  over  white  silk,  and  carrying  bouquets  of  pink  roses. 
Miss  Flora  Reiss,  as  maid-of-honor,  came  next,  wearing 
white  tulle  over  pink  silk,  and  finally  the  lovely  bride  and 
her  father,  Bernhard  Reiss.  The  bridal  costume  was  of 
white  ducbesse  satin,  trimmed  with  tulle  and  orange  blos- 
soms, a  tulle  vail  confined  to  her  coiffeur  by  a  spray  of 
orange  blossoms,  and  the  bridal  bouquet  was  of  lilies  of  the 
valley.  Mrs.  Leon  Nordman  accompanied  the  groom,  who 
was  supported  by  Jesse  Newbauer  as  best  man.  After 
the  ceremony  an  elaborate  dinner  was  served  in  the  ban- 
quet hall  of  the  club;  then  followed  dancing  until  a  very 
late  hour.     Coronado  has  been  the  scene  of  the  honeymoon. 

February  4th  is  the  date  set  for  the  wedding  of  Miss 
May  Scott  and  N.  Castle,  and  will  be  but  a  very  quiet  af- 
fair, owing  to  the  recent  death  of  the  groom's  father,  etc. 
It  will  take  place  at  the  Scott  residence,  on  Vallejo  street. 

Among  the  engagements  of  the  new  year  are  those  of 
Miss  Sarah  Bluxome  and  James  Wooster,  with  the  Easter- 
tide named  as  the  time  for  their  wedding.  The  engage- 
ments have  also  just  been  made  public  of  Miss  Teen  Goodall 
and  Hugo  B.  Keil,  and  of  Miss  Mabel  Estee  and  Leonard 
Everett,  and  the  wedding  will  likely  be  an  event  of  the 
near  future,  probably  before  Lent. 

There  have  been  many  hops  and  small  dances  given  at 
the  Presidio  during  the  past  few  years,  the  majority  of 
which  have  been  extremely  pleasant,  as  button  gatherings 


generally  are,  but  the  dawn  of  '97  will  see  the  first  ball 
given  at  that  post  in  a  long  period  of  time.  ' '  The  officers 
of  the  United  States  Army  stationed  at  the  Presidio  "  will 
be  the  hosts  at  this  enchanting  affair.  ■  which  will  take 
place  at  the  Presidio  next  Tuesday  evening,  and,  it  is  a 
foregone  conclusion,   but  few,   if  any,  regrets  will  be  sent. 

It  goes  without  saying  that  the  football  game  of  last 
Saturday  was  a  gala  affair,  drawing  such  a  crowd  of 
society  lights  as  have  not  before  been  seen  together  this 
winter.  The  Army  and  Navy  team  have  been  made  great 
heroes  of  for  their  defeat  of  the  University  fellows,  and 
their  heads  are  well-nigh  turned  by  the  compliments  show- 
ered on  them  by  the  fair  ones  who  witnessed  their  triumph. 
Another  feather  in  their  caps  was  the  success  of  the 
cotillion  arranged  by  the  Army  chaps  for  the  Friday  Fort- 
nightly Club,  which  was  danced  last  evening,  and  which 
must  receive  fuller  notice  next  week. 

The  Colonial  Dames  held  their  first  meeting  in  the  new 
year  at  Mrs.  Selden  Wright's  last  week,  the  chief  feature 
of  the  gathering  being  the  very  interesting  paper  read  by 
Mrs.  Henry  Gibbons  on  "the  causes  which  led  to  the 
American  Revolution."  Then  there  was  tea  and  light  re- 
freshments, land  a  lively  chat  much  enjoyed  by  the  ladies 
who  were  present. 

The  Laurel  Hall  Club  was  another  of  those  which  had  an 
entertainment  last  week,  introducing  some  new  arrivals 
in  the  city,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henri  Fairweather,  who  gave 
"An  English  Mosaic  of  Old  Ballads,"  a  lecture  followed  by 
songs,  which  proved  both  interesting  and  entertaining. 

The  fancy  dress  german  of  the  Entre  Nous  Club,  which 
will  be  given  in  Maple  Hall  on  Friday  evening,  the  29th, 
promises  to  be  a  very  brilliant  affair.  The  ladies  of  the 
Club  are  busily  preparing  their  costumes,  some  of  which 
will  be  dainty  and  fetching  in  the  extreme,  and  all  will  be 
new  and  handsome,  and  the  evening  is  looked  forward  to 
with  expectant  delight  by  all  who  are  lucky  enough  to  be 
the  guests  on  that  occasion. 

Other  anticipated  delights  are  the  concert  parties  to 
hear  Nordica  and  her  company,  who  will  warble  for  us 
next  week. 

The  remaining  Thursdays  in  January  and  those  in  Feb- 
ruary have  been  named  by  Mrs.  John  H.  Jewett  to  be  "  at 
home"  to  her  friends.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  Hecht  will  give  a 
ball  at  the  San  Francisco  Verein  Club  this  evening,  which 
will  be  a  very  brilliant  affair. 

Recent  arrivals  from  the  Orient  include  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Walter  Newhall,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M.  Rothehild,  all  of 
whom  returned  from  a  trip  to  Japan  by  the  steamer  Coptic. 

Mrs.  Yemans  gave  a  very  pleasant  progressive  euchre 
party  Friday,  January  8th,  at  the  residence  of  her  father, 
Mr.  t».  J.  Staples,  711  Taylor  street.  There  were  five 
tables,  the  prizes  being  won  by  Mrs.  H.  L.  Van  Wyke, 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Schroeder,  Miss  Rosaline  Bryant,  and  Mrs. 
Blue. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Carroll  and  William  Robinson  Whittier 
will  be  married  on  the  27th  inst.  at  the  residence  of  the 
bride's  mother,  1520  Van  Ness  avenue.  Archbishop  Rior- 
dan  will  perform  the  ceremony,  and  only  the  immediate 
relations  of  the  contracting  parties  will  be  present. 

It  is  not  generally  known  that  Miss  Maude  Hines,  who 
played  such  a  dainty  Ethel  Oranger  in  A  Serious  Tangle 
at  the  Alcazar  last  week,  is  an  Alameda  girl.  Moreover, 
this  performance  marked  her  professional  debut. 

The  Land  of  the  Midnight  Sun  has  brought  to  Morosco's 
the  old-time  appearance  of  melodramatic  prosperity. 

Much  of  the  worry  attendant  upon  giving  a  large  dinner  or  ban- 
quet can  be  despensed  with  by  placiDg  the  whole  matter  in  the  bands 
of  a  competent  caterer.  Mr.  Max  Abraham,  of  428  Geary  Street, 
attends  to  all  the  leadiDg  society  banquets  in  this  city  and  by  utiliz- 
ing his  experience  and  services  thorough  satisfaction  is  assured  in 
every  detail. 

We  do  all  we  can  to  help  your  grocer  sell 
Schilling  V  Best  tea. 

If  you  don't  like  it,  he  returns  your  money 
in  full ;  we  pay  him  to  do  it. 


January  16,  1897. 


SAN   PRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


E\  EN  apart  from   ils   biblical   association,    Um 

JOrda  During 

over  1,200  feet.  At  no  point   la  it   naviflac 

sinai'  tanoe,  ami  presents  the 

uniqi  river  which  lias  never  been  navigable, 

flowing  into  a  sea  which  contain;,   not  one    living  creature. 

Since  I.e.-  XIII.  lias  filled  the  chair  of  St.  Peter  he 

has  repressed  the  humorous  side  of  his  nature  which  made 
him  greatly  in  demand  as  a  diner-out  while  filling  the 
office  of  nuncio  at  Brussels.  Always  severe  in  matters  ol 
propriety,  he  was  deeply  offended  on  one  of  these  occasions 
by  a  baron  who  passed  linn  a  snuff  box  on  the  lid  of  which 
was  enameled  a  feminine  figure  ■  n  dahabUU.  Admirably 
controlling  his  annoyance,  his  future  holiness  re 
"\  cry  pretty!     Is  it  your  wife'.'" 

Manuel  Garcia,  the  once  famous  singer,  will  cele- 
brate the  ninety-first  anniversary  of  his  birth  on  April  17. 
His  friends  iu  London  intend  to  commemorate  the  occasion 
in  a  fitting  manner.  Garcia  was  born  in  Madrid  in  1805. 
With  his  father  be  went  to  Naples,  where  he  became  a 
pupil  of  the  tenor  Anzani.  Later  he  became  a  professor 
at  the  Paris  Conservatory  and  also  at  the  Royal  Academy 
of  Music  in  London.     Jenny  Lind  was  one  of  his  pupils. 

Germany  has  made  some  bold  experiments  at  rail- 
road speed  on  the  line  between  Berlin  and  Gorlitz.  The 
best  performance  was  661  miles,  which  was  twelve  miles 
better  than  the  highest  speed  of  the  fastest  German  train, 
the  Berlin  Hamburg  lightning  express,  which  does  117!  in 
3*  hours.  Ordinary  German  express  trains  make  495 
miles  an  hour. 

— — A  recent  sale  of  books  in  London  brought  out  a 
curious  fact.  It  was  a  presentation  copy  of  Keats'  poems. 
1817,  first  edition,  with  the  autograph  "To  W.  Words1 
worth,  with  the  author's  sincere  reverence,"  and  brought 
$230,  but  Wordsworth  had  never  cut  the  leaves. 

The   Paris   Figaro,  in    remarking  on  the  perfect 

figure  of  the  beautiful  queen  of  Servia  and  of  the  exquisite 
and  stately  carriage  of  her  head,  attributes  it  to  the  fact 
that  her  majesty  has  never  used  a  pillow  and  that  she  was 
trained  from  girlhood  to  sleep  on  a  narrow,  hard  mattress. 

To  keep  the   30,000  odd  miles  of    telegraph  line  in 

order  in  Great  Britain  and  provide  for  the  proper  dis- 
patch and  delivery  of  the  millions  of  messages  that  pass 
over  them  every  month,  entails  an  expenditure  of  about 
$11,250,000  a  year. 

A    useful    charity    called    the    London    Spectacle 

Mission  provides  spectacles  for  needle-women  and  other 
deserving  persons  dependent  on  their  eyesight  for  a  living. 
Last  year  726  applicants  were   provided  with  spectacles. 

"Our  Society  Blue  Book" 

For  the  season  of  1896-97  is  now  ready  for  delivery.  It  contains 
the  names,  addresses  and  reception  days  of  most  of  the  prominent 
families  ot  this  city  and  other  points  on  the  Coast.  Also  lists  of 
members  of  the  most  prominent  Clubs  with  their  business  addresses. 

San  Francisco  Street  and  Avenue  Guide,  Ladies'  Shopping  Guide, 
etc.    Price  Five  Dollars.    C.  C.  Hoag,  Publisher. 

Trade  supplied  by  Hartwell,  Mitchell  &  Willis,  Successors  to 
Dodge  Bros,  225  Post  St.,  and  107  Montgomery  St. 


Paso  Robles. 
Our  new  mud  bath  house  is  finished.  The  arrangement  ot  baths, 
dressing  rooms,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  floor.  No  stairs  or  steps  to 
chmb.  We  are  now  unquestionably  the  finest  sanitarium  or  health 
resort  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Rest  and  health  seekers  are  Paso  Robles 
seekers,  Rates,  $10,  $12.50,  $15,  and  $17.60  per  week.  Climate  warm. 


Camelline  has,  with  just  cause,  been  called  the  Queen  of  Com- 
plexion beautifiers.  After  repeated  tests  its  ingredients  have  been 
found  to  be  absolutely  harmless,  and  its  action  on  the  skin  is  most 
beneficial.  Camelline  was  originated  by  Wakelee  &  Co.,  the  drug- 
gists, and  it  has  met  with  astonishing  success  the  world  over. 


The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedakek,  General  Agent. 


'C77be  0/7/y  De/rf/fr/ce  of 
/o/er/rat/ona/  ffeputef/on  " 


If  unable  to  obtain  3O2O0ONT  o(  your  Druggist,  one 
complete  package  largo  bottle  with  box  of  powder  will 
Be  sent  prepaid  by  oxpresa  or  mall  on  reoeipt  of  regular 

SU'vif'i?*'. 75i.'"!:a»J»">t«mpS.  HALL*  I1UCKH,  Prop... 
its  W..hin3.on  3,..  N.w  T.,|„  -lo  Holbom  VLduct.  Lornlon,  Eng. 


Pacific  Towel  Company  *0\^v^ 

Furnishes  clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates:  Clean  hand 
towels  each  week,  $1  per  month;  12  clean  hand  towels  each  week; 
$1  50  per  month;  4  clean  roller  towels  each  week,  $1,  6  months 
6  clean  roller  towels  each  week.  SI  85  per  month. 

SOUND  ABROAD  THE  FAME  OF  THE  UNIVERSAL  FAVORITE, 

Grab-flppie  Blossom  Perfume 


AND  THE  WORLD  RENOW    ED- 

Grown  Lavender  Sails. 

1  Chief  among  the  fashionable  scents  is  'Crab-Apple  Blossoms.'  a 
delicate  pe-fume  of  the  highest  Quality;  oneot  toe  choices  i  ever  produced." 
—Court,  Journal. 

'■Ic  would  not  be  possible  to  conceive  of  a  more  delicate  and  delightful 
perfume  than  the  Crab-Apple  Blossoms,  w biota  is  put  up  by  the  Crown 
Perfumery  Company,  of  Loudon.  It  taas  the  aroma  of  SpriDg  in  it,  and  one 
could  use  It  for  a  lifetime  and  never  tire  of  it  " — JWew   Fbrk  Observer. 

No  articles  of  the  toilet  have  ever  been  produced  which  have  been  re- 
ceived with  the  enthusiasm  which  has  greeted  the  Crab-Apple  Blos- 
som Perfume  ana  The  Crown  Lavender  Salts.  They  are  literally 
the  delight  of  two  worlds,  and  are  as  eagerly  sought  in  London  and  Paris, 
as  in  New  York.  They  are  daily  bringing  pleasure  comfort,  health  and  re- 
freshment to  thousands  of  homes,  and  are  sold  by  all  dealers  in  perfumery. 

Annual  Sales, 
More  than  Halt  a  Million  Bottles- 
Exclusive  Productions  of  the 

Crown  Perfumery  Co. 

177  New  Bond  St.,  London. 


Beware  of  fraudulent  imitations,  which 
cly  disappoint  the  pure  >aser.  Sold 
only  in  the  bottles  of  the  company,  with 
the  well-known  Crown  Stopper.  No 
others  are  genuine. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  i6,  1897. 


BANKING. 


BANK  OF  BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up,  $3,000,00       Reserve  Fund,  8500,000. 

Southeast  Cor.  Bosh  and  Sansome  Sts. 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lombard  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chic  ago— First  National  Bank ; 
Liverpootj— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland — British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico — London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  oi 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital $3,000,000  00 

Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits  (October  1, 1894). .  3.158,129  70 

WILLIAM  ALVORD President  |  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP. . Vice-Pres't 

ALLEN  M.  CLAY Secretary    THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Prentiss  Smith — Ass't  Cashier  1 1.  F.  Moulton 2d  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laidlaw  &  Co.;  the  Bank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  Bank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Rothschild  Freres:  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand — Bank  of 
New  Zealand ;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Christiania,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 


Capital.. 


..$1,000,000 


Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  ?  in  Francisco. 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill,  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolfe,  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Brugulere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil- 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf.  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics*  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.   Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital 12,600,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital 12,000,000 

Reserve  Fund t850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS — New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  oitles  oi  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  Issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM 1  „„„„  „„„ 
C.  ALTSCHTJL  j- Managers. 

CR0CKER-W00LW0RTH  NATIONAL  BANK  of  san  francisco. 

Cor.  Market,  Montgomery,  and  Post  Sts. 

Paid-Up  Capital 81,000,000. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 

Capital  authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  Up 11,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co..  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bill*1  'nr  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART     1  vra„a„arD 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL  f  Managers 

WELLS  FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets. 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16.250,000 

John  J.  Valentine President  I  Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier  I  F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

1BRANCHES. 

N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldrldge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 


In  response  to  many  inquiries  from 
all  parts  of  the  country  about  the 
Railway  and  Dock  Construction 
Company 


The  officials  hereby  give  full  infor- 
mation in  regard  to  the  company, 
its  business  and  prospects. 


The  company  offers  20,000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  in  lots  to  suit 
purchasers  at  $20  per  share.  The  par  value  is  $100  per  share— full 
paid  and  unassessable — stockholders  have  no  individual  liability 
whatever.  The  company  has  no  indebtedness  of  any  kind — is  in 
solid  financial  condition— and,  as  there  are  no  bonds  nor  mortgages, 
all  the  earnings  go  to  the  stockholders. 

The  adoption  of  this  Company's  system  of  construction  by  the 
United  States  Government,  or  any  Foreign  Government,  or  by  any 
one  of  the  large  cities  in  America  or  Europe  will  cause  the  stock  to 
rise  above  par  ($100)  immediately. 

The  most  conservative  investors,  old  shrewd  bear  operators  on  the 
stock  exchange,  have  bought  this  stock  and  confidently  predict  it  is 
sure  to  pay  large  dividends  and  sell  at  over  $200  a  share  as  the  Rail 
way  and  Dock  Construction  Co.  commence  business  under  much 
more  favorable  conditions  than  did  the  Bell  Telephone  Co. ,  whose 
stock  rose  from  about  $10  to  over  200;  or  the  original  Edison  Electric 
Co.,  whose  stock  rose  from  45  to  $3000  a  share,  or  the  many  other 
companies  owning  useful  inventions  whose  stocks  rose  rapidly  in 
value  while  paying  large  dividends  to  the  alert  original  investors. 

Many  prominent  men  in  banking,  railway  and  financial  circles 
and  other  expert  judges  of  stock  values  predict  that  this  stock  will 
pay  large  dividends  and  will  sell  at  over  $200  per  share  for  the 
following  reasons: 

The  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company  controls  all  the 
rights,  titles,  patents  and  interests  in  and  the  sole,  absolute  and  ex- 
clusive right  to  manufacture  and  sell  the  new  indestructible  piles 
that  do  away  altogether  with  the  millions  of  wooden  piles  heretofore 
used  everywhere,  which  only  last  a  short  time,  as  alternate  moisture 
and  drying  and  the  marine  worms  soon  destroy  the  wood,  and  leave 
a  deceptive  shell,  incapable  to  sustain  a  load  that  requires  the  full 
strength  of  the  original  pile.  Old  wooden  piles  must  be  continually 
replaced  at  great  expense. 

Nothing  can  compete  with  the  indestructible  Pile  in  the  construc- 
tion of  piers,  docks,  bulkheads,  sea-walls,  foundations  for  bridges, 
lighthouses,  jetties,  breakwaters  or  other  improvements  in  rivers, 
harbors  or  on  the  sea  coast. 

This  pile  is  an  absolute  necessity  in  railway  trestlework ,  as  it 
guarantees  safety,  and  it  will  last  forever,  and  tnere  is  an  enormous 
demand  for  it. 

One  defective  wooden  pile  derailing  a  train  causes  a  loss  of  many 
thousands  of  dollars  in  lives  and  property  destroyed. 

Applications  are  pouring  in  from  engineers,  contractors  and  rail- 
way officials  all  over  the  United  States.  These  men  are  quick  to  see 
the  certainty  of  profit.  They  are  perhaps  better  able  to  judge  than 
others,  because,  out  of  a  total  of  1891  railroads,  373  of  these  railway 
companies  are  now  preparing  to  build  20,547  miles  of  new  line.  The 
great  superiority  of  the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company's 
system  of  solid,  substantial,  indestructible  trestle  work  is  causing 
the  demand  in  this  special  field. 

Estimated  earnings  from  this  one  source  of  profit  will  pay  $7  per 
share  annual  dividends — this  is  equal  to  35  per  cent,  cash  dividends 
per  year  on  stock  bought  now  at  present  price  of  $20  per  share. 

Other  and  larger  sources  of  profit  will  come  from  contracts  now  in 
view,  viz: — 

In  place  of  the  old  wooden  docks,  covered  by  temporary  sheds, 
which  now  disfigure  the  water  fronts  of  our  cities,  this  company  will 
build  solid,  indestructible  piers,  on  which  permanent  iron,  stone  or 
brick  buildings  are  put  up  just  the  same  as  on  land. 

Private  owners  of  dock  property  as  well  as  dock  officials  in  the 
numerous  cities  are  becoming  aware  of  the  great  advantage  of  using 
the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company's  system  of  building 
indestructible  piers  to  make  a  solid  foundation,  upon  which  large 
buildings  can  be  erected,  from  which  they  can  get  big  revenues  for 
rentals,  etc. 

$27,000,000  have  already  been  expended  in  improving  Southern 
harbors  and  their  approaches. 

In  projects  now  under  way  over  fifty  million  dollars  will  be  spent 
in  improving  navigation  in  rivers,  bays,  etc.,  throughout  the  coun- 


January  16,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


try  on  )ettie».  breakwater*,  and  otnrr  work  In  which  the  intlrstrucli- 
ble  Pile  is  a  irreal  necessity. 

The  rily  of  New  York  is  spending  ».>.iiOO  000  a  year  inii.rorine  the 
city  water  Iront. 

In  a  private  conversation  Hon.  J.  fliiajMl  Cram.  ex-President  ol 
the  Board  of  Dock  OommiaaiOMn  said:  "There  is  an  immense 
fortune  in  this  cumptny's  ijttam  ..( ,  ..n-irurtion." 

The  I'.  S.  Senate  Committee  have  r,  immanded  the  expenditure 
of  eiithty  milium  dollars  for  the  protection  of  our  seacoast.  About 
»en  millions  a  year  will  be  spent  daring  the  next  eiftht  years. 

The  United  Stales  Oovernnient  spent  about  ♦10,000.000  in  dl 
inline  entrance  of  the  Mississippi  to  divert  tidal  action  by  Old  Style 
work,  which  will  l>e  supplanted  in  fulure  bv  the  Kailwavan 
Consiruciion  Company's  system,  ti  000,000  has  already  baanax- 
pended  mi  the  two  innuense  jetties  in  the  tiav  at  Qalveaton:  they 
are  simply  loose  rock  dumped  into  the  water."  lCich  jetty  is  about 
t'l  miles  long  and  forms  a  c  intlnaous  pvramid  Iki  feet  wide  at  the 
bottom,  taperinc  to  IS  feet  wide  at  the  top  above  the  water.  The 
Kailway  and  Pock  Construction  Company  build  indestructible 
jetties  of  the  same  size  at  the  bottom  as  the  top  and  save  this  enor- 
mous waste  of  stone  and  labor. 

The  "St.  Louis  Critic"  strongly  advocates  the  adoption  of  this  com- 
pany's system  of  indestructible  jetties  to  deepen  the  Mississippi  at 
St.  Louis. 

To  provide  additional  funds  to  execute  some  of  this  work,  the 
company  offers  20,000  thares  to  the  public  in  lots  to  suit  at  the 
low  price  of  $20.00  per  share  in  order  to  have  the  stock  ouickly 
takeo.  There  are  no  salaried  ottlcials.  The  money  derived  from  the 
sale  of  stock,  when  not  used  in  profitable  construction  work,  remains 
in  the  company's  treasury. 

Many  leading  marine  engineers  and  experts  say:  "This  com- 
pany's system  of  construction  is  coming  into  universal  use  in  build 
ing  all  improvements  in  rivers  and  haibors." 

As  the  business  in  sight  is  too  large  for  this  company  to  handle 
alone,  the  subsidiary  companies  now  being  organized  in  the 
principal  States  each  pay  a  certain  amount  in  cash  and  one-third 
of  their  capital  stock  into  the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Co.'s 
treasury.  In  addition  to  large  sums  in  cash  the  company  will  re- 
ceive about  $20,000,000  in  securities  in  this  way,  on  which  dividends 
will  be  paid  from  the  earnings  of  the  subsidiary  companies.  These 
dividends  all  go  to  the  holders  of  Railway  anl  Dock  Construction 
stock. 

With  a  large  surplus  and  an  ample  cash  working  capital  the  com- 
pany will  hold  assets  of  $200  per  share  for  each  share  now  offered  at 
$20  when  all  details  are  completed. 

Application   will  be  made  to  list  the  shares  on  the  stock  exchange. 

Owing  to  the  financial  depression  and  uncertainty  before  the  elec- 
tion the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company  would  not  accept 
numerous  contracts  for  work  amounting  to  about  three  millions  of 
dollars.  They  were  offered  first  mortgage  bonds  in  payment  but  the 
bonds  could  not  be  sold  at  that  time  in  New  York  or  London  at 
satisfactory  prices.  English  bankers  are  now  negotiating  to  pi-->e  a 
large  block  of  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  stock  and  apply 
for  an  official  quotation  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange. 

The  officials  and  large  stockholders  are  well-known  practical 
financiers  and  business  men,  whose  names  are  at  once  a  synonym  for 
trustworthy,  capable  management  and  a  guarantee  that  any  stock 
in  which  they  invest  is  safe,  solid  and  profitable.     Among  them  are 

Among  the  stockholders  are : 

Geo.  W.  Dunn,  Esq..  president  of  the  company, head  of  the  bank- 
ing house  of  George  W.  Dunn  &  Co.,  New  York,  and  president, 
director  and  trustee  of  other  corporations ;  he  has  been  prominent  in 
Wall  Street  for  20  years  as  a  careful  level-beaded  financier;  Hon. 
Thomas  Murphy,  vice-president,  ex-Senator,  Collector  of  the  port  of 
New  York  under  President  U.  8.  Grant;  R.  A.  B.  Dayton,  Esq., 
counsel  for  the  company,  Temple  Court,  New  York;  Eugene  Harvey, 
Esq.,  second  vice-president,  banker,  Drexel  building,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.;  R.  M.  Stanbrough,  Esq..  Kingston,  N.  Y.;  GeorgeD.  Hilyard, 
Esq.,  contractor,  N.  Y.;  W.  R.  Childs,  Esq.,  of  the  Calumet  and 
Hecla  Copper  Company,  Calumet,  Mich.;  Edward  A.  Wilson,  Esq., 
secretary ;  M.  Hoff.  assistant  secretary ;  George  B.  Shelborn,  Esq.. 
receiver,  Montgomery.  Tuscaloosa  and  Memphis  Railway  Co., 
Montgomery,  Ala;  Y.  Carryer,  Esq.,  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  Rail- 
way Company,  Field,  B.  C,  Canada;  Howard  Swineford,  Esq.,  of 
Howard  Swineford  <£  Co.  Richmond,  Va. ;  Jacob  Deyo,  cashier, 
Huguenot  Bank,  New  Paltz.N.  Y.;  S.  J.  Gilford,  Dunkirk,  N.  Y.. 
and  several  rich  and  influential  railway  and  political  magnates  who 
will  have  seats  in  the  Board  of  Directors  later  on. 

Address  all  applications  for  stock  and  remit  for  the  number  of 
shares  wanted  to  the  Financial  Agents  of  the  company,  Messrs, 


GEO.  W.  DUNN  &  CO., 


2  Wall  St., 


New  York. 


by  check,  draft,  money  order,    registered    letter   or    by  express;  or 
have  the  stock  sent  by  express  C.  O.  D. 

The  right  is  reserved  to  reject  any  application  for  stock. and  to 
allot  only  a  part  of  the  shares  applied  for,  and  to  advance  the  price 
without  notice. 


BANKING. 


MUUSTT,  l'«»hlrr»DdS<Ttr 

ahtiii  11  a   sxiin  1         Sown 


Savings  and  Loan 
SOGieiu,. 


101 


Montgomery  St.,  Cor.  of  Sutter  St. 

(Formerly  819  Clay  Btrcet),  S    F  ,  Cal 


The  Oldest  Incorporated  Savings  Bank  In  the  State. 
Guarantee  Capital       -----      $1,000,000 


$750,000 
175,000 

$925,000 


A.  N    Drown 
E    C.  Burr 


Capital  Stock  Paid-up  in  Gold  Coin 
Reserve  Fund  - 


DIRECTORS : 

S.  C    Bigelow  Horace  Davis  G.  E.  Goodman 

Isaac  Hyde  Arthur  A.  Smith        F.  H    Woods 

Willis  E  Davis 

Loans  made  at  lowest  rates  on  approved  collaterals   and  on  City  and 
Country  Real  Estate.    Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits  leceived. 


MUTUAL   SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN   FRANCISCO. 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny,  Mechanics'  Institute  Building. 

Guaranteed  Capital,  91,000,000.      Paid-Up  Capital,  9300,000. 

officers 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN,  President.  I  S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 

Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,   John    A.    Hooper,  C.  G- 

Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 

and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY.  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    Whenopeuing  accounts  send  signatuie. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits,  Dec.  31,  1895 924,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 

Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  aotual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.    No  charge  is  made  for 

ftass-book  or  entrance  fee.    Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  u.    Saturday  even- 
ngs,6:30to8. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  St..  S.  F. 

Capital  actually  paid  up  In  Cash,  (1,000,000.      Reserve  Fund I  715,000 

Deposits,  Dec.  31,1895 130,727,586  59.        Guaranteed  Capital..  $1,200,000 

DIRECTORS. 

B.  A.  BECKER  President 

EDWARD  KKUS  E Vice-President 

DANIEL  MEYER 2d  Vice-President 

H.  Horstman,  Ign.  Steinhart,  Nic  Van  Bergen,  Emll  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ 
D.  N.  Walter. 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

232  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 


William  Alvord 
Win.  Babcock 
Adam  Grant 


INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 
No.  526  California  St.. 

DIRECTORS. 

S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr. 
O   D   Baldwin 
W.  S.  Jones 


LOANS  MADE. 
S.  F. 


H.  H.  Hewlett 
E.  J.  McCutchen 
J.  B.  Lincoln 


Tru  the    SAN   FRANCISCO   LAUNDRY, 

Office,  33  Geaiy  street.    Telephone  Main  5125. 
Oakland  Office— 864  Broadway.    Telephone  Main  658. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


January  16; 1897. 


SOUTHERN      PACIFIC     COMPANY 

(Pacific    System.) 

Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  at 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Leave. 


From  January  1,  1897. 


|  Arrive 


6:45  P 


*6:00a  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  way  stations  8:45  A 

7:00a  Atlantic  Express,  Ogden  and  East    8:45p 

7:00  a  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Rumsey,  Sac- 
ramento, Oroville,  and  Redding, 
via  Davis 

7:30  A  Martinez,    San  Ramon,   Vallejo, 

Napa,  Calistoga,  and  Santa  Rosa    6:15  P 

8:30A  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento.    Marysville,  Chieo, 

Tehama,  and  Red  Bluff 4 :15  P 

•8:30  A  Peters  and  Milton *7:15p 

9:00a  New  Orleans  Express,  Raymond 
(for  Yosemite),  Fresno,  Bakers- 
field,  Santa  Barbara,  Los  An- 
geles, Deming,  El  Paso,  New 
Orleans,  and  Eas  t 4 :45  P 

9 :00  A  Martinez  and  Stockton 4 :45  P 

9:00  A  Vallejo 6:15  P 

Niles,  San  Jose  Livermore,  and 

S Eockton 7 :15  P 

*1 :00  p  Sacramento  River  steamers *9:00p 

1:00  P  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  Livermore..    €:45a 
tl:S0p  Port  Costa  and  "Way  Stations....  |7:45p 

4:00  p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo, 
Napa,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 
Santa  Rosa 9:15  A 

4  :00p  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Woodland, 
Knight's  Landing,  Marysville, 
Oroville,  and  Sacramento 11:15  a 

4:30  p  Lathrop,  Stockton,  Modesto,  Mer- 
ced, and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles, 
returning  via  Martinez 11 :45  A 

5:00p  Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy, 
Fresno,  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los 
Angeles 10 .45  a 

5 :00  P  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojave  and  East 10:45  A 

6:00p  European  mail,  Ogden  and  East..    9:45  A 

6:00p  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose...    7:45 A 
J7:00P  Vallejo f?:45P 

7:00 p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento, 
Marysville,  Redding,  Portland, 
Puget  Sound  and  East 11 :15  A 

H10:00p  "Sunset  Limited."  Fresno,  Los 
Angeles,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans, 
and  East 312 :45  p 


Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 


8:15A  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  BoulderCreek,  Santa  Cruz 
and  way  stations 5 :50  P 

•3:15  P  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boulder 
Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal 
way  stations *11 :20  h 

4:15  P  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9:50  A 

til  :45p  Hunters1  Excursion,  San  Jose 

and  way  stations $7 :20  P 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

6:45  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New 

Almaden  Wednesdays  only) 1 :30  p 

8:15  a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles,  San 
Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and 

principal  way  stations 7 :00  p 

10 :40  A  San  Jose  and  way  stations 5 :0U  p 

11 :30  A  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 3 :30  P 

*2:30p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose, 
Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey , Pacific  Grove  *10 :40  a 

*3 :30  P  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9 :4b  A 

*4 :30  P  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8 :05  A 

5:30  p  San    Jose    and    principal    way 

stations *8:45  a 

6:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6:35a 

tll:45p  San  Jose  and  waystations f7:45p 


San  Leandro  and  Eatwahds  Local. 

i*6-00  Al 

f      7:15  A 

8:00A 

(9:45  A 

9:00a 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00  a 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

ill  .00  A 

Fitchburg, 

13:45  p 

2:00  p 

San  Leandro, 

<1:45  p 

3:00  p 

,           and 

Haywards.                 J 

4:45  P 

4:00  p 

5:45  p 

5:00  P 

6:15  p 

5:30  p 

7:45  P 

7:00  p 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

8:45  P 

8:00  P 

t  From  Niles 

9:45  P 

9:00  P 

10:50  p 

ttll:15  P 

ltH2:00  p 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

,^F0^  SAN  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street 
(Slip  8). 

*7:15.  9:00,  and  11:00  a.m.,  11:00,  •2:00,13:00. 
*4 :00,  J5 :00  and  *6 :00  p.  m.  ' 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway 

•6:00,8:00,   10:00  A.  M.;  112:00,  *1:00,  J2:00, 
♦3:00,14:00  *5  :00p,m.  .*■"", 

A  for  Morning.  P  tor  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  tSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only, 
ft  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays. 

gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for 
and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and  residences. 
Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 


DEBIT    AND    CREDIT. 

HARRY  CRAGIN  WALKER,  IN  TRUTH. 

I  never  was  good  at  figures, 
But  now  that  the  ball  is  done 
I'll  square  my  accounts,  and  balance 
Expenses  with  girls  and  fun. 
Let's  see;  the  tickets  two  dollars, 
And  four  for  the  carriage  and  pair, 
And  three  tor  the  jacqueminot  roses — 
She  looked  out  of  sight  I  declare. 
That's  nine.     Well,  I  guess  that  com- 
pletes it 
From  the  liability  side. 
And  now  for  the  assets — one  item 
Is  all  that  I  find  for  a  guide. 

And  yet  that  lone  figure's  sufficient 
To  more  than  offset  it — and  this 
Is  the  fractional  part  of  a  minute 
That  1  spent  in  a  last  good-night  kiss. 


FOR    SHAME,    FOR    SHAME! 

CY   WARMAN,   IN  JUDGE. 

I  was  gazing  through  the  window 

Of  a  Paris  studio, 
A  kind  of  hot-house  window, 

At  a  marble  Trilby  there, 
With  rounded  knees  and  dimpled  arms 

And— 0,  like  drifted  snow, 
And  wondered  if  on  all  this  earth 

Walked  woman  half  so  fair. 
And  all  about  were  people 

Painting  pictures  of  the  same. 
Who  paused  not  when  I  entered, 

But,  at  a  signal,  they 
Laid  down  their  paint  and  pencils, 

And,  O.  for  shame,  for  shame! 
The  marble  maid  stood  up  and  yawned 

And  smiled  and  walked  away. 


TWO    WOMEN.- 


-BOSTON  COURIER- 


The  Beauty. 

The  bloom    of   the    rose   in   her  soft  cheek 
glows. 
She's  as  fair  as  the  new-born  day, 
And  her  eyes  are  as  bright  as  the  stars  at 
night, 
For  she  takes  off  her  hat  at  the  play. 

The  Fright. 
A  towering  hat  with  a  plumaged  crest 

At  the  play  she  is  bound  to  wear, 
And  her  face  is  so  homely  she  has  to  rest 

Her  cheeks  at  night  on  a  chair. 

George  Morrow  &  6o, 

(Established  1854.) 

HflY    AND    GRftIN 
Commission  Merchants. 

39  Clay  St.  and  28  Commercial  St.,  S.  P. 

Branches  at  Bay  Districc,  Ingleside,  and  Third 
St.  Hay  Wharf.  Telephone  No.  35. 


Thos   Peice. 


Arthur  F.  Price 


'MIC 


THOS.  PRI6E  &  SON 

ASSAY    OFFICE, 
CHEMICAL    LABORATORY. 
BULLION     ROOMS, 
and    ORE    FLOORS. 
534  Sacramento  street. 

S  S  "Australia",  for 
Honolulu  only.  Tues- 
day, January  26,  at  2 
p    m. 

S.  S.  "Monowai," 
Thursday    February 
4th,  at  2  P.  M. 
Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa.  J.  D  SPRECKELS  &BROS.CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.    Freight  office,  327 
Market  St. .  San   Francisco. 

THe  Grand  Pacific,  Sfsssss- 

MRS.  ELLA  COKBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month. 
Telephone:  Grant,  507. 


@1PII^ 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH   PACIFIC 
RAILWAY    CO. 

Tibubon  Ferrt-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00,  11:00  A  M;  12:35,3:30 
5:10,  6:30  P  M.  Thursdays— Extra  trip  at 
11:30  P  M.  Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1:50 
and  11  :30  pm. 

SUNDAYS— 8:00,9:30,11:00  a  m;  1:30.  3:30,  5:00, 
6:20  pm. 

SAN  RAFAEL  TO  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  am;  12:45, 
3 :40,  5 :10  P  M.  Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :55 
and  6 :35  P  M. 

SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40,  11:10  am;  1:40,3:40,5:00, 
6:25  pm. 
Between  San  Francisco  and  SchuetzenPark, 

same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  F. 


I    In  Effect 
|  Oct.  14, 1896 

Da?£  Sundays.  S^So* 


7:30am 
3:30  PM 
5:10  PM 


!:O0AM 

*  :30am 
>:00pm 


Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 


Fulton, 

Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyserville, 

Cloverdale. 


Arrive  inS.  F. 


Sundays,  gg* 


10:40  AM  8:40am 
6  :10pm  10:25  am 
7:35  pm  6:22pm 


7:30am   8:00am 


I  Pieta,  Hop-  I 
lland,  Ukiah.l 


7 :30A  Ml 
3:30pm 


8:00 am    Guernevllle    7:35pm 


7:30  am| 
5:10pm| 


8:00am  I      Sonoma, 
5:00  pm  I  Glen  Ellen. 


10:40  am 
6:10pm 


7 :30  AMI 
3:30pm| 


5;ooPM|Seba8t°po1- 


10:40  AM 
6:10PM 


10  25AM 


8:40AM 
6:22pm 


10:25AM 

6:22pm 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs'  Springs;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake- 
port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and  Bartlett 
Springs;  atUkiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga 
Springs.  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper 
Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  River- 
side, Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights, 
Hullville,  Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Har- 
ris, Scotia,  and  Eureka. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  re- 
duced rates. 

On  Sundays,  Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points 
beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle 
Building. 

H.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Passenger  Agent. 

PACIFIC    COAST    STEAMSHIP    CO. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf,  San  Fran- 
cisco for  ports  in  Alaska.  9  a.m.,  Jan.  9,  24. 

For  B.  C.  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  Jan.  4,9, 
14,  19,  24,  29,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  ■'Pom- 
ona," at  2  P.  M.  Jan.  4,  8,  12,  16,  20.  24,28,  and 
every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports, 
at  9  A.  m.;  Jan.  2,  6, 10, 14, 18,  22,  26,  30,  and  every 
fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford 
Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los  Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los 
Angeles)  and  Newport,  Jan.  4,  8,  12, 16,  20,  24, 
28,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter,  at  11  A.  m. 

ForEnsenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  del 
Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La  Paz,  Santa  Rosalia, 
and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10 
A.  m.  ,  25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  right  to  change  steam- 
ers or  sailing  dates. 

Ticket  Office — Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New 
Montgomery  street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents, 
No.  10  Market  street,  San  Francisco 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO 
For  Japan  and  China. 
Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  1  P  M,  for  YOKOHAMA  and 
HONGKONG,  calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Naga- 
saki and  Shanghai,  and  connecting  at  Hong- 
kong with  steamers  for  India,  etc.  No  cargo  re- 
ceived on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  Feb.  2, 1897 

noRTC Tuesday,  February  23, 1897 

Belgic  (via  Honolulu),  Saturday,  March  13, 1897 
Coptic  (via Honolulu)... .Thursday,  April  1, 1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  Rates. 
For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's 
Office,  No.  421  Market  street,  corner  First. 


D.  D.  STUBBS, Secretary. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO,  JANUARY  23,  1897. 


Number  4. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  ■:, proprietor.  FRED  HARRIOT  1 
5^  Kearny  street.  San  Francisco       Entered   at    San    Francisco 
ojlct  a*  Second-class  Matter. 

The  OJUe  of  the  SEWS  LETTER  (n  Mm  Yorl  City  it  at  Temple  Court; 
and  at  Chicago,  903  Boyce  B.til.ling.  (Front  E  Morrison.  Eastern 
Representative),  where  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  eubtcrip 
tion  and  advertising  rates. 

THE    Christian    Endeavor   visitors   will    be    welcomed 
heartily  to  San  Francisco   next  summer.     TIT 
good  field  for  their  efforts. 


THE  "defective  flue"  is  a  most  wearisome  iteration.     Is 
it   Dot   possible   for   the    reporters   to  write  in  plain 
English  of  a  faulty  chimney? 

THE  shouters  for  restrictive  taxation  of  foreigD  trade, 
which  is  so-called  protection,  are  willing  to  leave  the 
mass  of  the  people  to  the  mercy  of  trusts  and  other  com- 
binations in  restraint  of  trade. 


THERE  has  been  so  much  war  talk  during  the  past 
twelve  months,  that  Congress  should  be  disposed  to 
grant  the  requests  of  General  Miles  for  liberal  appro- 
priations. This  would  mean  nearly  a  million  dollars  for 
fortifications  of  San  Francisco.  Lime  Point  would  then 
become,  in  reality,  the  "Gibraltar  of  the  Pacific  Coast." 


THE  Chamber  of  Commerce  has  taken  up  the  cudgels 
against  extravagance  in  the  Harbor  Commission,  and 
the  imposition  of  unnecessary  quarantine  tolls  on  shipping. 
This  is  one  of  the  most  expensive  ports  in  the  world  for 
ships,  and  it  ought  to  be  one  of  the  cheapest.  Our  foreign 
commerce  must  languish  so  long  as  the  existing  abuses 
and  exactions  continue. 


EVERY  possible  precaution  should  be  taken  against 
the  introduction  of  the  East  Indian  or  bubonic  plague. 
The  national  health  authorities  have  already  moved  in  the 
matter,  and  our  local  and  State  officials  should  likewise 
be  alive  to  the  danger.  In  Bombay  thousands  have  been 
stricken,  the  deaths  being  in  the  proportion  of  two  out  of 
three. 

ONE  of  the  greatest  abuses  in  this  State  is  the  allow- 
ance of  mileage  to  public  officials,  in  amounts  far 
above  the  actual  cost  of  transportation.  The  law  should 
restrict  mileage,  in  all  cases,  to  the  sum  actually  expended. 
Under  the  present  system,  members  of  the  Legislature, 
for  example,  receive  several  times  as  much  as  the  railroad 
fare  to  and  from  Sacramento.  This  is  an  imposition  on 
the  taxpayers.      

NO  more  of  the  people's  money  should  be  expended  on 
the  Home  for  the  Training  of  Peeble-Minded  Children. 
The  State  should  not  encourage  the  production  of  this  sort 
of  offspring.  The  institution  is  simply  a  means  of  enabling 
parents  to  shift  upon  the  pub'ic  the  burden  of  caring  for 
children  who  should  be  provided  for  at  home.  Pity  for  the 
unfortunate  should  not  blind  legislators  to  the  mischievous 
results  of  the  policy  represented  in  the  Home  mentioned. 


MANY  of  the  bills  introduced  at  Sacramento  are  either 
wholly  needless  or  altogether  absurd.  What  could 
be  more  superfluous  than  the  bill  "to  prohibit  unauthor- 
ized persons  from  wearing  the  rosette  of  the  Loyal 
Legion?"  It  would  be  just  as  much  in  order  to  prohibit 
anybody  but  a  mandarin  from  wearing  a  colored  button  on 
his  cap.  These  things  are  the  subject  of  severe  regulation 
in  China,  but  have  no  place  in  our  American  system  of 
government. 


T BE  Home  Products  Exhibition  at   Los  Angeles  is   a 
(rood  Qterprtse.     It  shows  that    tin- 

era  city  is  making  good  progress  in   manufacturing  indus- 
tries, and  tends  to  give  tliem  increased   support. 


IN  the  re-election  of  Senator  Jones,  Nevada  showed  due 
apprei  iation  of  the  services  and  abilities  of  one  of  the 
ablest  men  in  Hie  upper  house  of  Congress.  No  public 
man  in  this  country  has  surpassed  Senator  Jones  in  the 
championship  of  the  silver  interests  of  his  State,  and  he  is 
entitled  to  his  reward. 


THE  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Public  Library  in  Plain- 
field,  N.  J.,  at  a  late  meeting,  resolved  that  as  pur- 
veyor of  clean  and  elevating  literature,  they  could  not 
take  the  responsibility  of  retaining  on  their  subscription 
list  papers  of  the  New  York  World  class.  The  rival  of  the 
World  is  also  debarred  from  their  reading-room.  These 
journals  can  do  even  more  haTn  in  the  family  than  in  the 
library,  which  suggests  the  next  step  in  the  warfare 
against  evil. 

THE  new  Governor  of  the  State  of  Washington  intro- 
duced an  innovation  upon  the  occasion  of  his  induction 
into  office  last  week.  The  usual  custom  has  been  to  at- 
tend the  inauguration  of  the  Governoi  with  carriages,  and 
all  the  pomp  and  circumstance  of  mimic  military  display. 
Governor  Rogers  walked  with  his  friends  to  the  Capitol  in 
the  ways  of  Jeffersonian  simplicity,  although  he  is  a  Popu- 
list. It  will  be  a  good  thing  for  the  people  of  that  State 
if  he  continue  in  this  meek  and  unostentatious  path. 


PRESIDENT  Jordan,  of  Stanford  University,  has  made 
an  unanswerable  argument  in  favor  of  exempting 
such  educational  institutions  from  taxation.  The  Univer- 
sity now  pays  taxes  to  the  amount  of  thirty  thousand  dol- 
lars annually.  This  sum  could  not  be  more  profitably  ex- 
pended for  the  benefit  of  the  State  than  in  enlarging  the 
usefulness  of  the  institution.  And  so  with  all  other 
academies  of  non-sectarian  learning.  Our  Constitution 
should  be  amended  in  this  respect,  to  conform  to  the  lib- 
eral spirit  of  the  age. 

THE  pending  Nicaragua  canal  bill  gives  the  Government 
of  the  United  States  control  and  direction  of  the 
waterway,  through  the  -provision  for  ownership  of  seven- 
tenths  of  the  stock  and  the  selection  of  a  like  proportion 
of  the  directorate.  The  stock  would  be  issued  to  the 
Government  in  consideration  of  the  guaranty  by  the  latter 
of  the  bonds  of  the  company.  With  the  safeguards  pro- 
vided, there  is  every  reason  to  believe  that  the  canal  earn- 
ings could  be  made  to  pay  the  bonds  as  they  mature,  as 
well  as  a  reasonable  return  on  the  stock.  The  existing 
canal  company  and  the  Government  of  Nicaragua  are 
fairly  entitled  to  the  provisions  allowed  them  by  the  bill. 

IT  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  Post  Office  authorities  at 
Washington  will  see  fit  to  close  immediately  with  the 
offer  made  them  by  our  Board  of  Harbor  Commissioners  to 
rent  the  Government  a  large  and  desirable  portion  of  the 
new  Ferry  Building  for  the  sum  of  $1,000  a  month.  Post- 
master McCoppin  has  given  the  matter  his  closest  atten- 
tion, and  is  satisfied  that  this  figure  is  not  exorbitant,  and 
that  the  interests  of  the  public  will  be  served  by  securing 
quarters  for  the  Postal  Department  in  the  new  depot.  It 
is  owing  to  this  spirit  of  pettiness  and  senseless  economy, 
ever  manifested  by  certain  officials  and  a  portion  of  our 
local  press,  that  San  Francisco  is  often  deprived  of  bene- 
fits when  just  within  her  grasp. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


REFORMING     THE     COURTS. 


SN  avalanche  of  proposals  is  upon  us  for  reforming 
the  judiciary  of  the  State.  Things  have  got  to  be  so 
unbearable  that  a  demand  is  heard  on  every  hand  for  re- 
lief. The  calendars  of  all  the  Courts  are  choked,  the 
judges  claim  to  be  oppressed  with  work,  finality  in  litiga- 
tion is  almost  unknown,  and  in  the  vast  majority  of  in- 
stances it  is  cheaper  to  abandon  a  just  claim  than  to  en- 
deavor to  enforce  it  by  law.  Id  fact,  there  is  a  virtual 
denial  of  justice  in  this  State  that  greatly  detracts  from 
its  desirableness  as  a  place  of  residence  and  business.  "We 
are  not  of  those  who  believe  that  the  cause  of  all  the  mis- 
chief is  to  be  found  in  the  Judges,  who,  as  a  rule,  are  better 
than  the  system  they  administer.  Considering  the  inade- 
quacy of  their  official  salaries,  and  their  obligations  to 
practicing  lawyers  at  election  times,  the  marvel  is,  not 
that  we  secure  the  services  of  the  best  men,  but  that  we 
get  as  good  men  as  we  do.  As  long  as  we  have  an  elective 
judiciary,  we  shall  have  judges  on. the  Bench  too  weak  to 
discipline  the  all  too  many  shameless  lawyers  of  the  period, 
who,  bound  by  no  rules  of  court  and  by  no  code  of  honor, 
turn  the  judicial  machinery  into  a  vehicle  of  injustice  and 
oppression.  If  the  judges  were  strong  enough  to  frame 
strict  rules  to  govern  the  proceedings  in  their  courts,  and 
to  enforce  them  with  uniformity  and  firmness,  more  than 
one  half  the  tricks,  subterfuges,  perjuries,  delays  and 
other  abominations  that  now  so  often  render  our  courts 
potent  for  mischief,  but  impotent  for  good,  would  be  done 
away  with.  But  a  stream  cannot  rise  higher  than  its 
source,  nor  can  even  a  judge,  strive  as  he  may  and  often 
does,  become  superior  to  the  influences  that  secure  his 
nomination  and  election. 

One  great  evil  is  that  we  have  too  many  lawyers  who 
must  either  "get  up"  cases  or  starve.  They  provoke 
litigation,  and,  if  it  is  without  merit,  so  much  the  better. 
In  that  case,  their  skill  is  exercised  in  worrying  the  other 
side  and  in  warding  off,  or  in  devising  means  to  evade  a 
decision.  Thus  it  comes  that  final  judgments  in  this  State 
are  seldom  worth  the  paper  they  are  written  on.  The 
attorney  has  anticipated  the  result,  and  by  means,  pro- 
bably false,  fraudulent,  and  colorable,  has  enabled  his 
client,  a  rascal  like  himself,  to  escape  the  consequences  of 
a  too  long  delayed  execution.  This  is  not  the  exception 
to  the  rule,  but  is  the  very  rule  itself.  It  is  a  fact  that 
the  names  of  some  2,000  practicing  lawyers  appear  in  the 
San  Francisco  D  rectory.  200  capable  men  would  suffice 
for  all  the  ligitimate  business  there  is  to  do,  and  that  pro- 
bably is  about  the  number  of  the  fittest  that  deserve  to 
survive.  If  the  balance  could  be  set  to  shoveling  sand,  or 
to  some  other  useful  occupation,  we  could  dispense  with 
one  half  of  our  present  courts  and  yet  keep  abreast  of  the 
work  in  hand.  Even  as  things  are,  two  short  rules  could 
be  framed  that  if  rigidly  enforced  would  curtail  litigation 
at  least  one  half.  First,  contracts  between  attorney  and 
client  contingent  upon  the  result,  ought  to  be  declared 
contrary  to  public  policy  and  void.  No  officer  of  the 
court  ought  to  be  pecuniarily  interested  in  the  result  of 
litigation.  It  is  contrary  to  the  best  traditions  of  the 
Bar  that  he  should  be,  and,  if  the  decisions  in  the  books 
always  prevailed  in  this  State,  an  attorney  so  offending 
could  be  disbarred.  Then  again,  litigation  is  not  made 
sufficiently  onerous  to  the  losing  side.  It  ought  to  cost 
more  to  improperly  bring  or  defend  a  suit.  In  extreme 
cases,  the  judges  ought  to  exercise  their  present  power  of 
awarding  exemplary  costs.  In  older  States  and  countries 
where  the  practice  of  law  is  subject  to  strict  regulation, 
the  invariable  rule  is  to  make  the  losing  side  pay  all  the 
costs  of  the  winning  one.  That  is  equitable  and  just,  and 
is  the  best  preventive  of  litigation  known  among  men.  A 
simple  amendment  to  the  codes  to  that  effect  would  work 
wonders.  We  should  soon  hear  no  more  of  crowded 
calendars,  congested  courts,  or  overworked  judges. 

It  goes  without  saying  that  reform  which  means  reduc- 
ing litigation  to  a  minimum  is  not  to  be  expected  from 
lawyers  in  practice.  Their  interests  lie  the  other  way, 
and  self  preservation  is  the  first  law  of  nature.  Nobody, 
therefore,  need  be  surprised  that  proposals  to  increase  the 
number  of  courts,  which  means  an  enlargement  of  the 
volume  of  litigation,  are  tbebestthelawyers  have  tooffer  a 
long  suffering  people.  It  is  claimed  that  twelve  depart- 
ments of  the  Superior  Court  are  not  enough  for  this  city. 


If  they  are  not,  it  is  a  fact  shameful  to  litigants,  lawyers, 
judges  and  all  concerned.  The  Bar  association  proposes 
to  actually  create  three  new  appellate  courts.  The  State 
is  to  be  divided  into  three  judicial  districts,  and  an  appel- 
late court,  consisting  of  three  judges,  is  to  be  given  to 
each.  These  Courts,  we  hasten  to  say,  are  not  intended 
to  supersede  the  Supreme  Court,  but  are  to  be  an  inter- 
mediary between  it  and  the  Superior  Courts.  By  this  ar- 
rangement there  will,  in  certain  cases,  be  two  appeals  in- 
stead of  one,  and,  consequently,  much  more  litigation,  in- 
stead of  less.  It  is  a  lawyer's  measure  all  through,  and 
must  have  caused  a  merry  twinkle  in  the  eye,  and  a  laugh 
in  the  sleeve  of  the  man  who  drafted  it  in  the  name  of  re- 
form. It  would  be  amusing,  if  it  were  not  hurtful  to  the 
body  politic,  to  see  a  lot  of  hungry  lawyers  hastening  to 
the  Capitol,  button-holeing  bucolic  members  and  pretend- 
ing to  clip  their  own  professional  wings  in  the  interests  of 
judicial  simplicity!  Reform  of  the  courts  is  badly  needed, 
but  it  will  not  come  to  us  that  way. 

The  Senate  It  is  said  that  the  Senate  will  hang 

and  th?  up  the  arbitration  treaty  and  let  it 

Arbitration  Treaty,  die.  The  excuse  is  made  that  there 
is  no  immediate  necessity  for  it;  no 
issue  pending  to  which  it  is  applicable,  and  that  it  will  be 
time  enough  to  consider  some  such  measure  when  circum- 
stances arise  to  bring  it  within  the  domain  of  practical 
politics.  That  is  not  the  tone  or  temper  of  public  opinion. 
Not  much  is  to  be  expected  these  times  of  the  U.  S. 
Senate,  but  its  members  might  reasonably  be  presumed  to 
know  the  force  of  educated  thought  there  is  at  the  back  of 
this  measure.  The  best  minds  of  the  country  look  upon  it 
as  a  beneficent  proposal,  well  calculated  to  render  war  be- 
tween the  two  great  branches  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  race 
impossible.  The  fact  that  there  is  now  no  burning  issue 
in  existence,  only  tends  to  show  that  this  period  of  calm  is 
just  the  very  time  in  which  to  ratify  it.  To  wait  for  the 
coming  of  a  time  of  passion  would  be  folly.  The  very  ob- 
ject of  the  treaty  is  to  prepare  for-  and  guard  against  the 
poss-ible  arrival  of  such  a  period.  We  suspect  the  real 
truth  is  that  the  Senatorial  dislike  of  President  Cleveland 
is  at  the  bottom  of  the  disinclination  to  ratify  a  treaty 
that  has  so  much  to  recommend  it.  There  is  too  much 
glory  in  it  for  a  man  whom  certain  Senators  so  cordially 
hate.  But  they  may  as  well  yield  and  do  the  graceful 
thing  at  once,  and  thereby  save  their  own  credit  at  home, 
and  the  country's  abroad.  That,  or  a  similar  treaty,  has 
got  to  come,  and,  when  it  does,  due  credit  will  be  given  to 
the  President  and  the  able  Secretary  of  State  by  whom  it 
was  first  proposed. 

The  Examiner  It   would    be    interesting   to  know 

and  the  what  failure   to  levy  tribute  upon 

Park  Commissioners,  the  Park  Commissioners  has 
caused  the  Examiner  to  assail  the 
business  capacity,  the  uprightness  and  ability  of  the  gen- 
tlemen who  have  charge  of  the  people's  great  play-ground 
in  this  city.  Certainly  no  one  who  is  acquainted  with  the 
methods  of  that  paper  will  for  one  moment  imagine  that  it 
is  sincere  in  its  attack  upon  these  well-knowu  and  highly- 
respected  gentlemen,  for  it  is  a  clearly-recognized  fact 
that  the  Examiner  interests  itself  in  nothing  that  does  not 
concern  its  own  pocket-book.  The  fact  that  the  men  who 
are  faithfully  serving  the  people  as  Park  Commissioners 
are  among  the  foremost  citizens  of  this  city,  that  they  are 
men  of  wealth,  undoubted  character  and  standing  in  San 
Francisco,  count  for  nothing  with  this  disreputable  repre- 
sentative of  all  that  is  bad  in  journalism.  If  there  be  any- 
where in  this  city  evidence  of  faithful  performance  of  duty, 
of  work  wisely  planned  and  skilfully  executed,  it  will  be 
found  at  Golden  Gate  Park.  Comparatively  a  few  years 
ago,  where  now  beautiful  tropical  life,  refreshing  foliage, 
winding  roadways  and  delightful  retreats  greet  the  eye 
and  gratify  the  taste,  was  nothing  but  a  wilderness  of 
sand.  The  work  accomplished  shows  that  the  people's 
money  has  yielded  a  satisfactory  return.  Taken  alone,  the 
Park  is  an  unanswerable  argument  for  the  wisdom  of  its 
management.  That  the  Examiner  should  trail  its  dirty 
course  across  this  fair  picture,  and  seek  to  bring  discredit 
and  suspicion  upon  honorable  and  patriotic  citizens,  is  but 
another  evidence  of  its  vicious  and  criminal  character. 


January  i;. 


SAN   PRANCISCO  NI-WS   LBTTBR. 


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many  yean  a|  trade  balance  with 

other  nations  was  on  the  wrong  side  of  the  ledger.      We 

took  more  from  them  than  they  liought  from  us.  \'. 
all  that  we  had  to  soil,  which  was  not  a  little,  bul  wi 
away  all  too  much  money  for  high-priced  luxuries  that  we 
could  well  have  done  without.  An  era  of  extravagance 
had  been  upon  us  for  years,  and  although  in  1893  we  were 
suddenly  confronted  with  a  money  panic  and  hard  times. 
it  took-  us  two  years  to  begin  to  learn  to  mend  our  ways, 
retrench  our  individual  expenditures,  and  live  within  our 
means.  But  it  is.  happily,  clear  that  the  nation,  as  B 
whole,  has  learnt  the  needed  lesson  at  last.  During  the 
first  ten  months  of  1S90,  for  which  alone  the  figures  are 
complete,  the  balance  of  foreign  trade  in  favor  of  the 
United  States  amounted  to  tho  immense  sum  of  Jl'flil.iw;.  Tim. 
whereas,  during  the  same  period  of  the  previous  year  we 
had  imported  considerably  more  than  we  had  exported. 
Between  the  showings  for  the  two  periods  there  is  all  the 
difference  in  the  world.  The  one  led  up  to  the  hardest  of 
hard  times;  the  other  is  the  unquestionable  precursor  of 
wide-spread  and  general  prosperity.  Up  to  November, 
cereals  had  not  appreciated  much  in  price,  so  that  the  in- 
creased business  of  the  year  is  not  due  to  the  accident  of  a 
season  by  which  Europe  is  now  being  forced  to  buy  our 
grain  in  larger  quantity  and  at  higher  prices.  The  results 
of  that,  for  us,  happy  accident,  will  come  into  the  returns 
for  1897,  and  will  cut  considerable  of  a  figure  there.  The 
export  of  merchandise  is  accountable  for  over  70  per  cent. 
of  last  year's  increase  of  exports.  Wheat,  cotton,  com, 
and  other  products  of  the  farm  make  up  the  other  30  per 
cent.  Exports  of  bicycles  and  bicycle  appliances  increased 
nearly  $3,000,000;  shipments  to  England,  Canada,  and 
Australia  having  grown  from  almost  nothing  a  vear  ago  to 
a  very  active  and  flourishing  trade  to-day.  Exports  of 
cotton  cloths  was  larger  by  $5,661,859  in  the  ten  months  of 
1896  than  in  1895,  nearly  all  of  the  increase  coming  in  our 
trade  with  China  and  Canada,  two  fields  of  commerce  once 
surrendered  almost  wholly  to  the  English  manufacturers. 
Of  machinery,  our  total  exports  increased  $4,593,07(1  over 
1895,  and  here  we  have  invaded  the  personal  domain  of  the 
European  manufacturer,  for  Great  Britain  and  the  Euro- 
pean States  took  from  us  upwards  of  five  millions  more 
than  in  the  preceding  year.  In  practically  every  other 
branch  of  American  manufacture,  including  leather,  lead, 
zinc,  wood  and  paper  goods,  manufactured  tobacco,  and 
canned  provisions,  there  has  been  an  increase  over  1895 
running  from  5  to  200  per  cent.  Our  Treasury  reserve  of 
gold  is  no  longer  in  danger  of  depletion.  We  are  now  lend- 
ing part  of  our  trade  balance  in  London  and  Berlin,  where 
money  is  actually  worth  more  than  in  New  York.  This 
trade  development,  remarkable  as  it  is,  will  show  even 
more  astonishing  enlargements  during  1897.'  The  better 
prices  now  being  realized  for  cereals  and  cotton  will  largely 
increase  the  figures.  These  signs  of  the  times  are  not  to 
be  mistaken,  and  are  full  of  good  cheer. 

Greater  New  York  Greater  New  York  will  contain  a 
and  Its  Charter.  population  at  least  six  times  larger 
than  that  of  San  Francisco.  It  em- 
braces the  consolidated  cities  of  New  York,  Brooklyn, 
Long  Island,  and  environs.  As  our  people  seem  unable  to 
make  up  their  minds  as  to  what  they  really  do  want  in  the 
way  of  a  charter,  it  will  be  interesting  to  note  that  the 
Empire  City  finds  no  like  difficulty.  A  charter  commission, 
made  up  of  some  of  the  ablest  men  of  the  State,  has 
framed  a  measure  that  gives  a  fair  degree  of  satisfac- 
tion, and  is  pretty  sure  of  adoption  by  the  Legislature.  It 
provides  for  a  legislative  department,  consisting  of  two 
chambers,  but  it  takes  care  to  leave  this  little  Parliament 
absolutely  powerless,  except  when  it  agrees  with  the 
Mayor.  It  cannot  vote  bills,  involving  appropriations  of 
public  money,  or  increasing  municipal  charges,  or  grant- 
ing franchises,  except  after  an  interval  of  five  days  after 
the  publication  of  an  abstract  of  the  measure,  and   then 


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Very  specially  noteworthy  features  of  the  new  charter  arc 
the  Ba  egislatlve  power  to  grant 

franchises,  and  the  provisions  for  Boa]  assumption  by  the 

City  Of  all  street  monopolies      No    new   franchise   is 

granted  for  a  longer  period   than  twenty-five   veins,  and 

all  franchises,  with  their  plant,  appurtenance-.,    pro] 
etc.,  are  to  revert  to  the   city    at    the  termination   of   the 
i  for  whii  h  they  were  to  originally  run,   and  the  city 

may  by  ordinance  provide  for  the  o  eof  by 

or  by  lessees      The  price  thus  paid  for  the  fran 
is  the  value  of  the  improvements  effected   under  it. 

Those  are  all  Striking  proposals,  that,  in  view  of  Our  timid 

local  discussions  overchartermatters,  seem  to  border  upon 

the  hazardous.  Yet  it  is  reasonable  to  believe  that  there 
is  greater  wisdom  in  the  greater  city.  At  any  rate, 
time  that  San  Krancisco  undertook  the  control  of  her  own 
affairs.  Anything  is  better  than  a  jumble  of  laws  that 
defeat  each  other.  A  general  law  could  be  passed  at  this 
session  that  would  considerably  ameliorate  matters.  Suoh 
a  law  should  have  been  devised  immediately  after  the  de- 
feat of  the  charter  was  known,  but  then,  the  interests  of 
this  municipality  are  never  looked  after  as  those  of  a  pri- 
vate corporation  are.  We  need  a  great  civic  leader.  Have 
we  the  makings  of  one  in  Mayor  Phelan  ? 

Success  To  The  No  class  of  Government  employees  are 
Letter-Carriers.  more  in  favor  with  the  public,  than  the 
letter-carriers.  They  are  noted  for 
faithful  and  attentive  devotion  to  their  onerous  duties,  and 
daily  exercise  a  large  responsibility  in  the  delivery  of  im- 
portant communications,  valuable  documents,  registered 
money  packages  and  other  matter  intrusted  to  their  care. 
They  know  many  secrets  gathered  in  the  regular  discharge 
of  their  tasks,  but  whoever  hears  of  a  letter-carrier  re- 
creant to  his  trust?  And  yet  these  efficient  and  hard- 
working servants  of  Uncle  Sam  must  toil  through  four  or 
five  years  of  probation  before  receiving  regular  pay  from 
the  Government.  During  these  preparatory  years  of  ser- 
vice as  "substitutes"  their  meager  pittance  of  about  $30 
a  month  comes  out  of  the  pockets  of  the  "regulars,"  who 
are  themselves  inadequately  paid.  Under  the  present 
system,  after  securing  a  regular  position,  the  pay  is  but 
$600  the  first  year;  the  second  year  $800,  and  the  third, 
$1,000.  For  seven  years  the  Letter-Carrier's  National 
Association  has  been  striving  for  the  passage  of  an  Act  by 
Congress  to  provide  for  better  remuneration.  The  measure 
now  on  the  Speaker's  desk  was  favorably  reported  from 
committee,  and  passed  the  Senate  unanimously  in  June 
last.  It  provides,  among  its  other  good  features,  for  a 
new  or  additional  class,  whose  members  will  be  entitled  to 
$1,200  a  year.  This  will  be  for  carriers  of  seven  or  eight 
years'  service,  and  it  will  enable  the  substitutes  to  get 
regular  employment  earlier  that  is  possible  under  the  pre- 
sent classification.  It  is  known  that  230  Representatives 
favor  the  bill,  and  if  it  should  reach  a  vote  at  the  present 
session  it  will  certainly  become  a  law.  We  hope  it  will 
be  pushed,  for  it  is  a  most  deserving  measure,  of  which 
the  people  must  cordially  approve. 

The  Degeneracy     A  lamentable  sight  is   just   now   being 
of  the  witnessed    all    over  the  country.      A 

U.  S.  Senate.  majority  of  the  States  are  engaged  in 
electing  tneu  to  the  United  States 
Senate  who  are  unfit  to  go  there.  Not  a  man  entitled  to 
the  distinguished  consideration  attaching  to  a  member  of 
the  highest  law-making  body  in  the  nation,  is  visible  any- 
where along  the  line.  Small  men  of  little  mental  calibre, 
and  no  legislative  experience,  are  being  sent  to  occupy 
seats  once  filled  by  the  greatest  in  the  land.  Peffer,  Hans- 
borough,  Kryle,  Mitchell,  Tillman,  and  their  like,  are  being 
made  the  successors  of  Webster,  Clay,  Calhoun,  Benton, 
Sumner,  and  Seward.    It  is  not  alone  that  from  such  small 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


Western  States  as  Utah,  Idaho,  Wyoming,  Montana, 
Nevada,  Dakota,  and  Washington,  that  these  nondescripts 
are  being  packed  into  the  United  States  Senate.  New 
York,  Pennsylvania,  and  Illinois,  the  three  most  populated 
States  in  the  Union,  are  doiog  hardly  as  well  as  some  of 
the  wild  and  wooly  States.  New  York  had  a  great  candi- 
date in  the  person  of  Lawyer  Choate.  Known  all  over 
the  country  for  his  learning  and  ability,  and  supported  by 
all  that  was  clean  and  decent  in  his  State,  he  received  just 
'7  votes,  whilst  144  were  cast  for  Tom  Piatt,  the  most  ras- 
cally Boss  of  modern  times.  In  Pennsylvania,  since  the 
retirement  of  the  Camerons,  Quay's  power  has  become 
absolute.  He  names  whom  he  pleases  as  his  colleague,  and 
the  Legislature  obeys.  With  a  young  ward  politician  of 
Philadelphia,  named  Penrose,  he  has  just  beaten  John 
Wanamaker  by  a  majority  of  two  to  one.  In  Illinois,  a 
"  boodle"  Alderman  named  Madden,  who  runs  with  the 
"machine,"  is  called  "Billy"  by  the  boys,  and  makes  no 
pretentions  to  any  but  "practical"  politics,  is  said  to  be 
sure  of  election.  These  three  States  gave  McKinley  in 
November  pluralities  reaching  the  unprecedented  total  of 
717,500,  and  therefore  underwent  what  may  be  supposed 
to  be  a  new  baptism  in  the  cause  of  honesty,  purity,  and 
good  faith  in  Government.  That  was  their  answer  to  the 
Populist  programme  of  repudiation  and  dishonor,  and  yet 
in  each  case  there  rises  up  out  of  the  victory,  in  greater 
power  than  ever,  the  despoiling,  corrupting  power  of  the 
Boss,  holding  Legislatures  in  bis  hands,  dictating  Senator- 
ial elections,  and  levying  tribute  on  corporations  and  pro- 
tected industries.  Is  it  so  great  a  marvel,  after  all,  that 
the  popular  party  has  become  a  socialist  party?  Whither 
are   we  drifting? 

Compulsory  It  appears  that  there  are  something  like 
Attendance  15,000  children  of  school  age  in  San  Fran- 
At  School,  cisco  who  attend  neither  public  nor  private 
schools.  That  is  the  estimate  of  the  Census 
Marshals,  and  close  observers  of  matters  of  this  kind  be- 
lieve it  is  not  far  wrong.  The  City  Superintendent  of 
Public  Schools  now  proposes  to  enforce  the  law  rendering 
attendance  at  school  during  certain  months  of  the  year 
compulsory.  It  seems  anomalous  that  in  these  days  of 
education  and  enlightenment,  so  many  children  of  parents 
who  must  necessarily  pay  taxes,  should  be  found  wander- 
ing the  streets  instead  of  undergoing  a  training  to  fit  them 
for  the  battle  of  life.  The  schools  are  free  to  all,  and  no 
excuse  on  the  ground  of  poverty  is  available.  If  judiciously 
enforced  by  a  discriminating  official,  the  compulsory  law  is 
a  good  one.  Of  course,  in  a  few  extreme  cases,  which  may 
well  be  believed  to  be  the  exceptions  to  the  rule,  it  may 
be  found  necessary  to  extend  some  leniency.  There  are 
children  mentally  or  physically  unfit  to  attend  school. 
There  are  others  the  sole  support  of  widowed  mothers. 
But  there  are  a  great  many  more  who  are  able  to  attend 
school,  and  whom  it  is  little  less  than  a  crime  to  keep 
away  from  there.  They  are  mostly  the  children  of  unedu- 
cated parents,  who  need  to  be  taught  the  value  of  a  school 
training.  To  all  such,  the  compulsory  law  cannot  be  too 
soon  applied.  At  the  same  time,  where  is  the  accommo- 
dation for  such  an  influx  of  new  scholars?  Our  under- 
standing is  that  the  existing  school  buildings  are  fully 
occupied  already.  It  is  in  order  for  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion to  make  known  the  facts. 


A  Few  Census  A  glance  at  the  latest  French  census  re- 
Facts  veals  some   curious,    and   at  the    same 

From  France,  time  some  alarming  conditions.  It  ap- 
pears that  while  all  other  countries  of 
Europe  are  gaining  in  population,  that  of  France  is  practi- 
cally stationary,  with  a  decided  tendency  toward  diminu- 
tion. The  largest  proportion  of  births  to  100  deaths  is 
found  >n  England,  where  it  is  171.  The  average  of  all  the 
European  countries  is  140.  But  in  France  it  is  only  101. 
At  the  beginning  of  the  century  France  had  nearly  twice 
the  population  of  the  United  Kingdom.  At  present,  not- 
withstanding the  steady  loss  in  England  by  emigration, 
that  country  has  40  millions  against  less  than  39  millions 
in  France.  France  has  gained  only  about  11  millions  dur- 
ing this  century,  but  scarcely  any  of  that  small  increase 
has  been  gained  since  1890.  The  gain  for  the  last  five 
years  has  been  only  124,000,  and  it  is   to  be  noted  that 


87,000  of  that  is  in  Paris  alone.  In  the  same  period  Ger- 
many has  increased  nearly  three  millions.  The  causes 
which  are  charged  with  this  condition  in  France  are  be- 
lieved to  be  the  practical  refusal  of  all  except  the  labor- 
ing classes  to  bear  children;  the  many  obstructions  to 
marriage  presented  by  the  laws;  the  too  strict  control  of 
parents  over  the  marriages  of  their  children,  and  the  tra- 
ditions which  render  a  dowry  requisite  to  the  wedding  of  a 
daughter.  Marriage  in  France  is  made  rather  a  matter 
of  business,  with  an  eye  single  to  the  pecuniary  gain,  in- 
stead of  being  left  to  the  sentiment,  the  mutual  love  and 
confidence  of  the  sexes.  Great  effort  is  made  in  France 
to  provide  a  dowry  for  the  daughter,  but  if  the  son  is  to 
be  provided  for,  or  launched  in  business,  the  daughter's 
dowry  is  sacrificed  to  him  and  she  condemned  to  spinster- 
hood,  for  what  Frenchman  would  take  her  sans  dot?  The 
increase  which  France  is  receiving  is  from  the  working 
classes,  and  that  in  itself  presents  an  interesting  question 
as  to  what  the  effect  is  to  be  on  the  social  conditions  of 
the  future.  Placed  as  France  is,  shoulder  to  shoulder 
with  the  growing  military  powers  of  Europe,  it  is  not 
probable  that  with  decreasing  numbers  she  can  maintain 
her  relative  strength  in  armies.  Altogether  a  problem  is 
presented,  the  solving  of  which  may  change  the  map  of 
Europe. 

The  Examiner's  The  Examiner  has  several  libel  suits 
OwnLibel  Suits,  hanging  fire.  It  always  has.  Never 
ready  to  prove  its  allegations,  because 
they  are  nearly  always  malicious  and  seldom  provable,  it 
betakes  itself  to  the  miserable,  beggarly,  contemptible 
method  of  hiring  pettifogging  lawyers  to  weary  the  plain- 
tiff out.  It  has  within  the  past  six  years  gotten  rid  of 
more  libel  suits  in  that  cowardly  way  than  the  News 
Letter  has  had  brought  against  it  during  the  more  than 
forty  years  of  its  existence.  When  the  libelled  one  is  not 
a  woman,  but  proves  to  be  a  great  deal  of  a  man,  the 
Examiner  frets  and  fumes  and  bullies  to  the  last  moment 
and  then — takes  water.  After  hounding  Heath  of  Fresno 
almost  to  the  gallows,  that  is  how  it  acted  towards  him. 
It  was  particularly  abusive  andmalicious  in  the  epithets  it 
hurled  at  Ex-Auditor  Strother,  vaunted  its  courage,  and 
pretended  that  it  wished  for  nothing  better  than  law  pro- 
ceedings. When,  however,  it  was  taken  at  its  word,  it 
whined  like  a  whipped  cur,  begged  for  mercy,  and  accepted 
it  at  the  hands  of  the  man  it  had  doneits level  best  to  ruin. 
The  apology  it  had  to  publish  was  simply  pitiful  in  its 
humility.  With  such  a  record,  it  had  better  attend  to  its 
own  libel  suits,  before  intruding  its  malice  into  those  of 
others.  It  does  not  like  the  News  Letter  and  it  would  be 
surprising  if  it  did.  This  journal  is  considerable  of  a  cor- 
rective to  the  hatred,  malice,  and  all  uncharitableness 
that,  perhaps,  cause  Mr.  Hearst's  paper  to  be  feared,  but 
certainly  not  loved.  The  News  Letter  caters  not  to 
the  crowd,  bids  not  for  their  nickels,  and  fears  not  their 
frowns.  It  has  a  constituency  as  wide  as  the  world,  made 
up  of  thoughtful  men  and  women,  who  have  nothing  in 
common  with  the  vilest  sheet  published  on  American  soil, 
which  is  saying  not  a  little.  The  young  scapegrace  who 
owns  that  sheet  may  flout  his  mistress  in  the  face  of  San 
Francisco's  respectability,  may  publish  hererrotic  sayings 
in  his  two  papers,  may  dishonor  the  name  of  the  father 
who  begat  him  and  of  the  mother  whose  fortune  he  is 
squandering,  but  all  that  will  not  constitute  him  a  worthy 
journalist,  or  a  fit  censor  of  other  men,  or  a  true  man  or 
anything  else  that  men  esteem.  He  has,  however, — one 
redeeming  trait — he  never  fails  to  read  his  News  Letter. 
If  he  keeps  on  he  may  yet  learn  that  egging  on  libel  suits 
is  contrary  to  journalistic  ethics,  beneath  contempt,  and  a 
game  that  two  can  play  at. 


Salaries  and  The  salaries  paid  to  public  officials  are 
Pickings.  frequently  only  a  small  part  of  the  emolu- 
ments of  their  offices.  Inexperienced 
citizens  wonder  why  there  is  invariably  a  warm  contest  for 
membership  in  the  Board  of  Health  and  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation, no  salaries  being  paid  the  members  of  these  bodies. 
It  is  not  impossible  that  if  the  salary  of  every  elected  offi- 
cial in  this  city  were  abolished,  there  would  be  as  great  a 
struggle  as  ever  to  possess  the  offices,  for  politicians  would 
find  means  of  making  money  out  of   them   by  methods   as 


Januaiy  23,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


mate,  in  Iheir  opinion.  a<  those  pursued  now.     There 
must  be  compensations  in  the  Hoard 
who  have  ordinary  bi  i    to   and   fain 

provide  for.  would   not   b. 

tor  term  after  term.  A  I 
for  instance,  when  text-books  for  tli. 
the  public  schools  are  chosen.  Some  of  I 
the  Board  are  peculiar.  The  shorthand  text  hook  i-  an 
example.  Phonography  is  a  part  of  the  course  of  study 
at  the  Polytechnic  High  School.  It  would  naturally  be 
supposed  that  if  the  young  people  there  are  to  become 
good  shorthand  writers,  able  to  read  the  notes  of  others, 
and  to  write  notes  that  others  can  read,  they  should  be  in- 
structed in  a  standard  system.  Instead,  however,  the 
High  School  pupils  are  obliged  to  study  a  style  of  short- 
band  that  is  wholly  dissimilar  from  the  recognized  systems 
of  phonography  in  this  country.  There  is  no  intention  of 
casting  any  reflection  here  on  the  so-called  Eclectic  sys- 
tem that  is  in  vogue  at  the  Polytechnic.  It  may  be  good 
enough,  although  leading  reporters  have  avoided  it  be- 
cause of  its  alleged  lack  of  practical  utility.  The  only 
point  made  is  that  with  other  systems  in  general  use 
throughout  the  country,  the  School  Directors  were  led  to 
select  a  text  book  which  shorthand  writers  in  this  city 
did  not  employ  at  all,  and  the  local  sales  of  which  have 
since  been  limited  mainly  to  the  High  School.  "What  argu- 
ments were  used  to  convince  the  directors  that  the  High 
School  pupils  should  be  forced  to  purchase  this  book,  the 
price  of  which  is  high,  may  be  conjectured. 

On  the  Good     The  question  of  improving  the   roadways. 
Roads  which  is  a  growing   agitation   in  many  of 

Movement.  the  States,  makes  timely  any  testimony 
bearing  on  the  need  of  such  improve- 
ments. On  this  point  we  note  a  valuable  contribution 
from  a  practical  farmer.  He  states  that  he  lives  on  a 
little  ten-acre  place,  eight  miles  from  a  railway  station. 
He  hauls  from  the  station  two  tons  of  fertilizer,  making 
eight  loads  for  one  horse,  and  six  hours  for  each  trip, 
which  he  calculates  to  be  at  a  cost  of  $4  80.  His  produce 
consisting  of  5110  crates  of  vegetables,  is  hauled  to  the  rail- 
way at  a  cost  of  $42.60,  requiring,  as  it  does,  seventy-one 
trips  in  the  present  condition  of  the  roads,  which  are 
heavy  and  sandy.  With  the  roadway  properly  improved, 
he  could  haul  his  fertilizer  in  four  trips  of  four  hours  each, 
at  a  cost  of  $1.60,  and  his  vegetables  in  thirty- five  trips  at 
a  cost  of  $14.  The  time  spent  on  the  roads  requires  him 
to  hire  an  extra  man.  He  figures  that  the  bad  condition 
of  the  road  is  a  tax  of  ten  dollars  per  acre  each  year  upon 
his  little  farm,  which  could  be  saved  in  horses,  time  and 
hired  help  if  the  ways  were  put  in  proper  condition.  The 
same  argument  applies  on  a  city  street.  It  would  be  in- 
teresting to  know  what  San  Francisco  pays  in  horseflesh, 
broken  wagons,  and  loss  of  time  for  the  condition  of  some 
of  her  pavements.  More  than  enough,  surely,  to  improve 
them.  A  Boston  paper  says  that  it  costs  five  dollars  to 
swear  on  the  streets  of  that  city.  With  the  temptation 
to  profanity  provoked  by  our  Market  street  pavement, 
that  figure  would  be  considered  remarkably  cheap.  The 
interest  in  good  roads  which  is  awakening  in  California  is 
commendable,  and  should  have  the  best  of  support.  The 
News  Letter  is  pleased  to  notice  the  good  work  being 
done  by  our  townsman,  Mr.  Marsden  Mansou,  and  the 
Bureau  of  Highways,  of  which  he  is  an  active  member. 
The  S3'stem  of  road  repairing  in  the  State  has  been  to  the 
last  degree  chaotic.  The  report  of  the  Bureau,  just 
issued,  shows  that  the  preliminary  work  on  the  basis  of 
better  methods  is  well  begun.  The  capable  men  who  are 
doing  it  should  be  kept  at  it. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's.'1 — Tom  Moore. 


THE  taste  of  the  Widow  of  Beyrueth  is 
improving.  It  is  no  longer  really  com- 
pulsory to  associate  the  abdominal  embon- 
point, the  general  gelatinous  blowsiness, 
§BS  the  leathern  lung  and  the  cast-iron  throat 
with  the  leading  lady  of  the  Wagnerian 
drama.  Lillian  Nordica  combines  a  seemly,  if  not  sensa- 
tional personality  with  the  better  traditions  of  lyric  opera 
and  the  rugged  dramaisms  of  new  German}'.  She  tries  to 
'  mean  what  sbe  sings  and  half  the  time  succeeds — which  is 
a  big  average  ;  for  song  is  elusive  as  we  take  it  now  in  a 
bigger  dramatic  significance.  And  Nordica's  Marguerite, 
who  might  be  Mrs.  Tanqueray,  or  Nora  Helmer,  or  any- 
body besides  the  Gretchen  of  song  and  story,  is  only  a 
large  specimen  of  what  Nordica's  temperament  is  not. 
Nordica  is  not  heroic  in  the  unfeminine  sense;  but  she  is 
too  regal,  in  the  deck  of  cards  sense,  too  sure,  in  the 
woman  of  the  world  sense,  too  obviously  actorial,  in  the 
musical  sense,  to  flutter  the  pulse  in  Faust.  She  sat  at  the 
spinning  wheel,  her  fingers  busying  over  the' flax,  and 
hummed,  abstractedly,  indifferently,  "Once  there  reigned 
a  King  in  Thule."  And  this  was  as  it  should  be.  It  was 
real  art,  not  art  art.  Then,  with  as  much  consternation 
and  rapture  as  a  housemaid  would  exhibit  on  finding  the 
morning  newspaper  in  its  accustomed  corner  of  the  door- 
mat, she  discovered  the  jewel  casket,  put  on  the  glittering 
ear-bobs  and  the  soft  seductive  pearls  and  sang  to  them 
what  might  have  been  a  respectable  treatise  by  Mr.  Bok 
on  the  propriety  of  a  young,  unmarried  woman  wearing 
such  "scenery  and  effects''  with  post-prandial  costume. 
And  she  met  Faust  with  the  cynical  philosophy  of  Magda, 
who  says,  "it's  always  a  tenor  with  us,"  and  treated  him 
with  practical  consideration  and  untumultuous,  unen- 
thralled,  unimpassioned,  bade  him  to  her  bower.  And  the 
devil  gloated  his  Ha!  Ha!  Ha!  Ha!  for  a  white  soul  sullied. 

But  it  was  an  easy  going  soul,  that  which  Nordica  found 
in  Marguerite,  and  its  whiteness  was  rather  world-worn, 
and  it  went  to  its  dechastening  with  excessive  presence  of 
mind,  and  Faust  was  as  much  sinned  with  as  sinning. 

All  this  may  be  very  modern  and  very  unneurotic  and 
Nordica,  no  doubt,  has  her  own  opinion  of  Marguerite's 
temperature,  which  is  not  wholly  to  the  comfort  of  reju- 
venated Dr.  Faustus,  or  closely  faithful  to  Goethe,  or  illu- 
minative of  Gounod's  score,  or  enchanting  to  an  audience. 


It  was  said  to  me  in  extenuation  by  several  sorrowful 
musicians,  that  it  was  impossible  to  gauge  a  singer's 
ability  in  the  limited  opportunity  offered  by  a  single  act  of 
an  opera,  but  even  then  I  could  not  get  it  through  my 
head  how  two  hours  more  of  an  un-Gounodian  and  un- 
romantic  Marguerite  was  going  to  make  her  any  better; 
particularly  when  a  few  moments  before  the  same  singer 
had  suug  the  audience  into  frenzied  quivers  with  Erkel's 
Erszebeth  aria.  It  was  this  tempest  of  Hungarian  melo- 
drama that  made  the  night  Nordica's — this  and  the  two 
encore  songs  which  followed  it.  Otherwise  the  night  was 
anybody's — even  poor,  old  Scalchi's;  for  Scalehi  poured 
her  depleted  best  into  everything  she  sang.  And  when 
Nordica  clicked  her  heel  before  the  flaming  tour  de  force 
which  ended  the  Magyar  aria,  and  the  wonderful  notes 
welled  out  from  her  tense  open  throat,  like  everyone's  else 
in  the  Baldwin,  my  chair  grew  too  small  for  my  enthusiasm. 
I  wanted  plenty  of  room  and  the  moral  courage  to  swing 
my  hat.  In  the  fever  of  that  moment  I  would  have  sworn 
she  could  conquer  anything — anything! — from  tubercu- 
luscious  Violetta  to  Trilby's  Chopin  Impromptu.  But  she 
drew  the  line  easily  and  swiftly  at  Marguerite. 

Nordica  is  a  great  singer,  a  fabulous  singer  in  her  own 
dramatic  lines — and  they  are  not  narrow  lines,  either, 
withal  they  exclude  Marguerite,  for  she  sang  "When  Love 
is  Kind"  with  fragile  fancy,  giving  it  the  life,  color  and 
humor  of  a  comedy  in  miniature,  and  she  sang  a  lullaby, 
by  Luckstone,  with  a  kiss  and  a  caress,  and  a  motherly 
pat  in  every  tone.     I  am  not  taking   the   standard  of  Miss 


Any-old-person's  ballad  recital  when  I  say  Nordica  sang 
these  little  songs  exquisitely — she  made  creations  of  them. 
There  was  a  picture  and  a  story  in  each,  and  her  enuncia- 
tion was  a  lesson  in  English. 

*  *  * 

Peter  Robertson,  I  see  by  several  morning  papers,  says 
that  Scalchi's  "Annie  Laurie  "  is  a  lesson  in  Scotch.  Now 
that  I  think  of  it  the  burr  did  come  out  in  rich,  wide 
plaids;  and,  unless  sentimentality  seizes  me — for  I,  too, 
have  a  heartspot  with  Scalehi  written  on  it  in  indelible 
italics,  which  might  impair  my  truth  and  make  me  banal, 
I  must  begin  and  end  my  eulogy  by  echoing  clansman  Rob- 
ertson. Scalchi's  Scotch  is  superb.  Still,  a  whole  square, 
three  deep,  of  fuzzy-kneed  Highlanders,  accompanied  by 
four  bands  of  bagpipes,  and  Ian  McLaren  and  James 
Barrie  and  a  glossary  to  boot,  cannot  make  me  forget  the 
time  when  Scalehi  could  sing — sing  till  you  thrilled  to  the 
marrow  with  richness  of  it,  the  great,  big,  round  perfec- 
tion of  it.  And  of  this  voice,  which  belonged  to  history 
years  ago,  what  is  left  ?  Not  enough  full  notes  to  buy  May 
Yohe  a  new  lordling.  The  upper  tones  are  broken  and 
blared,  the  lower  are  husky,  timberless  and  coughsome. 
Yes;  the  method  is  still  there;  but  method  is  madness 
when  it  attempts  to  gild  an  old  and  tarnished  voice. 

*  *  * 

Just  judging  from  appearances,  and  names  and  their 
significance,  I  should  have  take  Berthald  for  Dempsey. 
He  looks  more  that  way.  But  Mr.  Berthald  is  by  no 
means  a  bad  man  if  you  judge  him  with  your  ears.  He 
has  a  somewhat  obscure  but  resourceful  tenor  and  he 
made  a  great  deal  more  out  of  the  Prize  Song  from  Die 
Meistn-singer  than  the  orchestra  evidently  intended  he 
should;  and  he  shared  his  encore  with  the  composer, 
which  was  tactful  in  more  ways  than  one,  for  I  fear  he 
would  be  a  bit  ponderous  in  ballads.  And  with  this  excep- 
tion encores  meant  ballads  every  time  Monday  night. 
I  haven't  the  least  idea  why.  Mr.  Dempsey  sang  that 
touching  temperance  poem  "Drink  to  Me  Only  With  Thine 
Eyes"  in  a  pure  steadfast  way,  which  suited  that  song 
much  better  then  than  the  same  pure  steadfast  way  did 
Mephisto's  music. 

The  orchestra,  composed  of  Mr.  August  Hinricbs  and 
his  musical  union  friends,  and  under  the  direction  of  Luck- 
stone,  experienced  perhaps  less  unhappy  accidents  than 
usually  attend  this  sort  of  an  orchestra  on  this  sort  of  an 
occasion. 

The  audience  was  a  swollen  success. 

*  *  # 

Thursday  was  Scalchi's  night,  so  far  as  Trovatore  was 
concerned,  and,  if  it  comes  down  to  fine  distinctions, 
Scalchi's  even  in  the  concert  half  of  the  programme. 
Nordica  sang  "Dich  Theure  Halle,"  from  Tannhauser,  in 
drawing-room  spirit.  Of  course  one  cannot  demand  atmos- 
phere and  intense  Germanism  amid  the  rigor  of  concert 
surroundings  and  with  a  frugal  piano  accompaniment,  but 
Nordica  achieved  such  fine  fury,  such  almost  Amazonian 
passion  in  the  Magyar  aria  Tuesday  night,  that  we  ex- 
pected more  than  a  Vere  de  Vere  reading  of  the  Wagner. 
However,  she  atoned  handsomely  with  three  encores, 
Arne's  "Where  the  Bee  Sucks,"  Foerster's  "  Ich  liebe 
dich,"  and  "Robin  Adair,"  all  sung  imaginatively  and  sym- 
pathetically. And  I  wondered  again  over  the  singular 
contradictions  of  this  musical  temperament,  which  can  woo 
such  sweet  romance  from  simple  ballads  and  fail  so  lament- 
ably in  Marguerite.  No  one  expected  a  great  Leonora 
of  Nordica,  and  no  one  was  surprised.  She  patronized 
Verdi  as  a  funny  old-timer  who  dealt  in  fancy  work  trage- 
dies to  the  beat  of  waltzful  triplet  strings.  Not  so  with 
Scalehi,  who  is  no  modern,  and  whose  heart  is  true  to  the 
trustful  old  music  of  a  byegone  day.  Scalehi  did  her  noble 
best;  she  fought  time  and  nature,  and  occasionally  a  big 
broad  note  surged  out  and  swept  us  back  to  the  other 
days,  when  Wagner  was  an  upstart  and   Verdi  king,  and 

Scalehi  the  contralto  of  the  world. 

*  #  * 

I  would  not  advise  you  to  take  a  Three  Dollar  mood  to 
the  Columbia.  The  Devil's  Auction  is  not  worth  it.  After 
four  furious  acts  of  dances,  songs  and  gags,  harassed  by 
decadent  scenery  from  the  year  1,  and  the  most  villain- 
ously played  music  I  have  ever  heard  from  any  orchestra 
in  any  place,  I  left  the  theatre  with  but  two  moving 
mements    within    recall.      The    first    was    Miss    Mayo's 


January  23,  189; 


SAN    PRAXCISCO  NEWS 


ut«d   i  • 

sli  of  vaudi 
and  p 


rapt  grit  ami  enter: 
found  bar  ».iy  in 1. 1  tl 

where,  l>y  ■ 

There  is  not  u  woman  at  the  1  'rphenm.  nor  baa  Ihen 

in  many  moons,  who  could  light  the  gas  (or  Mamie  Mayo 

In  the  other  bright  moment  occurred  :i  pair  of  old-fash 
ioned  pantalettes  — the  kind  grandmother  used  to  make 
This  spectacular  ganm  i   with    lively   human 

freight,  and  aimed  plural  end  at   the  audi.  to  be 

wedged  in  a  ear  window  during    The  Trials  of  the  Trolley. " 
Many  persons  present  pronoum-ed  it  the  chief  attraction 
of  the  evening,  and  1   understand  the  management  relies 
upon  this  feature  as  one  of  the  principal  drawers 
*  •  ♦ 

Mr.  Philip  Hastings,  who  is  known  to  the  local  author- 
ities in  connection  with  "He  Ain't  In  It,"  "Guess  A  trnin. '' 
and  other  song's  which  disturbed  the  peace  and  incited  riot 
in  "90  and  '91,  and  to  dramatic  critics  by  his  skill  at  adjec- 
tive and  fluent  circulation  of  the  advance  notice,  is  one  of 
the  new  attractions  at  the  Orphemn.  Mr.  Hastings 
is  not  to  be  seen  upon  the  stage.  Owing  to  the  money- 
moon  of  Mr.  Moore,  who  is  balancing  his  experience  with 
the  fame  and  fortune  of  the  queen  of  scandal.  Mrs. 
Dimond  (now  about  to  elevate  the  stage),  Mr.  Hastings 
is  retained  by  the  Orpheum  management  in  the  capacity 
of  prose-poet  and  press  agent  On  the  other  side  of  the 
lights  the  Franzes,  a  family  of  seven  men,  women  and  boy 
acrobats,  do  an  absorbing  turn.  John  Wilson  and  Bertha 
Waring  accomplish  some  capital  gags,  and  Binns  and 
Binns,  the  well-remembered  musical  comedians,  have 
secured  a  new  lease  of  Orpheum  favor.       Ashton  Stevens. 

A  wonderful  actress  in  a  wonderful  play  opens  at  the 
Baldwin  Monday  night. — Modjeska  in  Magda.  This  play 
and  player  are  linked  in  dramatic  history.  It  was 
Modjeska's  acting  of  Magda  that  established  this  grim, 
absorbing  play  in  the  Saxon  and  Latin  tongues.  Bern- 
hardt and  Duse  have  each  paid  tribute  to  Suderman's 
master  creation,  and  many  who  have  seen  the  three 
actresses  in  the  part,  give  the  preference  to  Modjeska. 
Joseph  Howarth,  an  actor  of  big  reputation,  heads  the 
supporting  company.  The  stage  direction  is  in  the  hands 
of  George  Osbourne.  Magda  is  the  bill  until  Saturday 
night,  when  Mary  Stuart  will  be  presented. 

The  Tivoli  will  also  launch  a  big  production  on  Saturday 
night — Aladdin,  which  George  Lask,  Ferris  Hartman,  and 
their  associate  librettists,  composers  and  compilers,  have 
been  brewing  for  some  months.  The  Tivoli  is  getting  to 
be  very  timely  in  the  matter  of  spectacular  pieces.  Jack 
and  the  Beanstalk  opened  almost  instantaneously  with  the 
big  New  York  holiday  show,  and  now  Aladdin  comes 
just  as  the  big  pantomime  by  that  name  is  making 
a  sensation  at  Drury  Lane,  London.  During  the  week, 
until  Saturday,  Maritana  will  be  suDg. 

Bessie  Clayton,  who  has  been  singing  and  dancing  with 
the  Trip  tu  Chinatown  company  in  Australia,  and  Alcide 
Capitaine,  an  aerial  wonder  from  Italy,  are  the  new  cards 
for  the  Orpheum.  Mr.  Hastings  says  that  the  crowned 
heads  and  press  of  Europe  have  pronounced  Miss  Capitaine 
"the  perfect  woman,"  because  her  remarkable  muscular 
development  is  completely  concealed  by  her  superb 
physical  beauty.     Johnnies,  take  warning! 

Nordica  will  give  an  extra  concert  on  Sunday  night,  and 
sing  again  the  famous  Erszebeth  aria.  The  quartette  from 
Rigoletto  concludes  the  programme.  The  matinee  to-day 
will  bring  out  the  famous  closing  scene  to  Siegfried;  Nor- 
dica as  the  demi-goddess,  Brunhilde. 

The  town  is  full  of  musical  enthusiasm,  and  subscriptions 
are  coming  in  handsomely  for  the  new  Symphony  Society. 
A  new  symphony  by  Dr.  Dvorak  is  promised  for  the  open- 
ing concert. 

Guilo  Minetti,  violinist,  Roderick  Herold,  pianist,  and 
Miss  M.  Genevieve  Maroney,  soprano,  will  assist  Hugo 
Herold  in  his  song  recital  at  Golden  Gate  Hall  Jan.  29th. 


Nowhere  can  such  delightful  flowers  be  obtained  all  the  year 
round  as  in  California.  And  nowhere  in  this  city  can  they  be  bought 
in  such  profusion  and  at  such  low  prices  as  at  Leopold's,  39  Post 
street.  If  you  wish  a  boutonniere  or  a  fine  hot-house  plant,  or  if 
you  wish  floral  decorations  for  banquets  or  functions,  Leopold  will 
satisfy  your  wants. 


St.  Denis 


Hra*d«a*  A 

Nl  v\    M>wk 

I   I   HOPI    SN   I'l    \N 
Room*  It   *,n  prr  da?  and  t  pw  arda. 

In  ft  u  <»1*  *t  and  ut*<  :hTr>    *r«-    Irm 

1   itian  1  tin 

The  gre*1  popularity  II  h»«  »c«jutrod  rao  readily 

ilk.'  at 

WILLIAn    TAYLOR     &     SON. 


Columbia  Theatre- 


Baldwin     Theatre- 


Orph 


The*  Ocm"  Theatre  of  tbo  Coast. 
KrlodliimlfT.  Gottlob  &  Co.,  Leaaeea 
and  Managers. 
Only  one  morr  week.    Commencing  Monday,  January  85th. 

DEVIL'S    AUCTION. 

Sixty  people;  l-n  tons  nf  massive   scenery:  three  fan 

inters,    a    dasiltng    wrulth    nl    ri  splendent    magnifies 

acme  ol  i  porfi  of  etaboiau  dlaplay;  live 

grand  ballets,  entirely  new;  the  Danco df  the  B\x 

rani:  On  Parage;  the  Rtaito  »>r  tni  Queen  of  ine  Mallet;  the 

foreign   specialties     introducing  Touner  &  Frobel.    Coe  Uee 

Troupe*  Lorella  D«o.    The  ncau  iful  transformation. 

rent  of  Spring     Itob.  tat:  Tra  Pbudioal  Pathbb. 

al.  Hayman  &  Co.,  (Incorporated) 
Proprietors. 

To-morrow  (Sunday)  night.  Farewell:  Nordica  Popular  and 
Operatic  urn  eatral  Concert 

Engagement  limited  to  two  woks.  Beginning  Monday,  Janu- 
ary *5ili      The  peerless 

MODdESKA, 

Assisted  by  the  sterling    actor     Mh     JOSBPB  QAWOBTB,  and    I. 
thoroughly  comolete  and  eilieien!  organization,   In   a  BerlOfl   01 
carefully  prepared  presen  auons      First  week,  Aral  i\\- 
and  Saturday  matinee.  Suderman's  great  piay.  MAGDA.     Sat- 
urday night,  MAKY  STUART.    Monday,  Feb.  1st:  MACBETH. 

San  Francisoo's  Greatest   Music    Hall.      O'Farrell 
GU  m  .    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 
Week  commenciDt,' Monday,  January  25th.  Direct  from  Vienna 

ALGIDE    CAPITAINE, 

Europe's  most  marvelous  aerial  artiste;  Bessie  Clayton,  "the 
prettiest,  daintiest,  and  most  bewitching  dancer  that  ever  daz- 
zled au  audience:"  iremendous  success  of  the  Franz  Family; 
Binns  &  Binns ;  Wilson  &  Waring;  Lieutenant  Noble,  Sweden's 
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children,  10c,  any  part. 


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Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  14th  day  of  January,  1897,  an  assessment.  No.  49,  of  Ten 
(10)  cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately  in  United  States  go  1<J  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  room  11,  311  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cai. 

Any  s  took  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
18th  DAY  OF  FEBRUARY,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  llth  day  of  March, 
1897.    to    pay  the  delinquent    assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  ad- 
vertising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


THERE  are  black  sheep  in  every  flock,  there  are  scrubs 
in  every  profession,  there  are  unworthy  and  indecent 
men  on  every  block  we  travel.  The  Examiner  has  had  for 
years  upon  its  staff  a  man  in  a  position  of  trust  who  is  to- 
day, and  has  been  for  years,  an  object  of  the  dislike  and 
contempt  of  every  honest  minded  journalist  in  the  State. 
We  refer  to  "Andy,"  now  familiarly  known  as  "Long 
Green"  Lawrence.  This  person,  utterly  destitute  of 
literary  ability,  a  gutter-snipe  in  the  most  extreme  sense 
of  the  word,  a  conspirator  and  lick-spittle,  a  petty  tyrant 
where  tyranny  could  assume  the  form  of  extortion,  has,  by 
some  incomprehensible  luck,  and  for  some  incomprehensi- 
ble reason,  been  retained  by  Mr.  Hearst  as  one  of  the 
guiding  lights  of  his  paper.  A  light  to  guide  to  what,  a 
power  to  control  what,  an  influence  to  shape  what? 
There  can  be  but  one  reply.  The  light  that  "Long  Green" 
Lawrence  shows  is  the  lantern  that  guides  to  the  sewers, 
the  power  is  to  tear  open  the  most  sacred  and  cherished 
secrets  of  families,  the  influence  to  help  destroy  innocent 
men  and  women  by  garbling  the  incidents  of  their  private 
lives,  to  distort  circumstances  with  which  the  public  have 
absolutely  no  concern,  although  the  attempt  is  made  to 
excite  their  morbid  interest  in  this  wholesale  butchery  of 
character. 

*  #  * 

How  long  shall  men  like  "Long  Green"  Lawrence  be 
permitted  to  endure  in  this  community?  Shall  this  hired 
assassin  of  right  and  morality  place  his  foul  hand,  unre- 
restrained,  upon  those  things  which  decent  people  demand 
shall  be  held  sacred?  He  stands  alone  in  the  profession  as 
a  pestilential  whelp  to  whom  even  the  sneaking  body- 
guard that  surrounds  him  pay  reverence  with  tongues  in 
cheek.  Bluff,  hearty  Tom  Williams,  the  Examiner's  busi- 
ness manager,  communicates  his  disgust  to  his  cuspidor 
when  "Long  Green"  Lawrence  crosses  the  threshold  of 
the  Market  street  office.  He  is  despised  and  bated,  but 
still  he  maintains  his  position  by  that  inexplicable  prompt- 
ing which  oftentimes  leads  men  of  wealth  to  employ  the 
vilest  instruments  to  carry  out  their  designs. 

*  *  * 

During  all  this  fellow's  career  on  the  Examiner  there  is 
Dot  a  good  word  to  be  said  about  him.  His  associates 
have  been  of  the  lowest,  and  he  has  been  shunned  by  the 
gentlemen  on  his  paper,  who  have  persistently  sneered  at 
his  practices,  and  denounced  his  vice.  That  such  an  in- 
dividual should  not  alone  possess  a  shadow  of  authority, 
but  that  he  should  be  tolerated  at  all,  is  an  argument  in 
favor  of  the  all-enduring  patience  of  this  community.  We 
are  accused  of  supporting  a  corrupt  and  demoralizing 
press,  and  how  can  we  dare  refute  the  assertion  when 
such  characters  as  "Long  Green"  Lawrence  are  mentioned 
as  journalists,  even  though  their  identification  with  every 
disreputable  job,  upon  which  now  and  then  light  is  shed, 
is  established.  If  William  Hearst  is  not  lost  to  all  sense 
of  decency  he  will  retire  this  ex-peanut  butcher  to  ob- 
scurity, and  let  bim  tumble  naturally  into  the  meshes  of 
the  law. 


The  artists  are  combining  to  make  a  move  in  a  business 
direction.  And  it  is  high  time.  The  painting  of  pictures 
is  a  delightful  and  aesthetic  amusement,  but  one  cannot 
live  ou  the  odors  of  the  studio,  and  the  stomach  is  so 
anatomically  confined  that  it  only  enjoys  art  by  its  results. 
Now,  the  Art  Association,  while  an  excellent  institution 
for  education  in  art,  and  for  the  support  of  a  few  teachers, 
does  not  put  a  dime  into  the  pockets  of  the  majority  of  the 
Brethren  of  the  Brush.  It  is  hard  times  with  the  artists, 
for  the  picture  buyer  is  a  melancholy  infrequency.  Now 
an  informal  meeting  was  held  at  the  club  a  few  evenings 
ago,  and  the  plan  of  a  combine  outlined.  In  the  first 
place,  the  chairman,  president,  director,  or  whatever  his 
title  may  be  of  this,  movement,  must  not  be  an  artist.  The 
necessity  for  this  is  evident  to  all  who  have  had  the  entree 


of  the  studios.  In  the  next  place,  a  sort  of  monthly  draw- 
ing, an  Art  Union  scheme  for  which  a  certain  number  of 
tickets  might  be  issued,  the  proceeds  to  be  divided  among 
the  contributing  artists.  This  should  also  take  the  form 
of  an  entertainment,  music,  songs,  short  acts,  etc.,  wind- 
ing up  with  a  Spanish  supper  under  the  direction  of  that 
inimitable  Castilian  chef,  Charles  Rollo  Peters,  for  whose 
impressions  of  Monterey  scenery  a  box  car  is  now  loading 
at  the  ancient  capital.  Properly  and  harmoniously  man- 
aged, a  scheme  of  this  nature  would  give  each  meritorious 
and  industrious  artist  an  assured  monthly  income,  and 
keep  the  wolf,   not   only  from  the  door,  but  in  the  next 

block. 

*  *  # 

Quite  a  clever  story  is  told  on  one  of  our  last  season's 
brides,  which  caused  a  great  deal  of  merriment  among  ber 
circle.  This  young  matron  in  question,  belonging  as  she 
does  to  the  order  of  nouveau  riche,  is  ever  desirous  of  im- 
pressing upon  others  her  own  importance  and  social  stand- 
ing, and  considers  New  York  the  home  of  American  aris- 
tocracy. At  one  of  our  recent  social  functions,  she  met  a 
young  lady  from  Washington,  who  is  spending  the  winter 
on  this  coast.  To  the  great  annoyance  of  this  stranger, 
the  madam  immediately  cultivated  her,  and  insisted  when- 
ever they  met  on  presenting  her  as  "  her  friend  Miss  D 

from  New  York."     Miss  D ,  wishing  to  put  a  stop   to 

such  proceedings,  decided  upon  a  way  most  quiet  and 
effectual.  The  occasion  soon  presented  itself  at  a  very 
large  tea  given  on  Van  Ness  avenue.  Our  Washington 
friend,  on  entering  the  drawing-room,  was  soon  espied  by 
our  Madame  Nouveau  Riche,  who  advanced  most  gra- 
ciously, exclaiming  so  all  might  hear:  "Ah!  My  friend 
Miss  D ,  from  New  York." 

Imagine  the  horror  depicted  on  Madame's  countenance 
when  Miss  D replied  in  a  placid  and  gentle  tone: 

"  Yes — from  the  Bowery  !  " 

A  general  titter  pervaded  the  vast  assemblage.  It  is 
superfluous  to  say  that  the  annoyance  was  removed. 


Harry  "Dimond  laments  tbe  aggressiveness  of  the  new 
woman,  whose  rampant  actions,  he  believes,  are  forcing 
the  lords  of  creation  into  positions  of  secondary  importance. 
Finding  it  necessary  to  give  some  personal  instructions  at 
tbe  French  laundry  he  patronizes,  he  sought  tbe  ostensi- 
ble proprietor,  but  was  by  him  referred  to  madame. 
Dimond  speedily  found  that  the  woman  was  unmistakably 
tbe  head  of  both  family  and  business.  He  made  some 
cynical  comment  upon  this  condition,  to  which  the  woman 
readily  assented. 

"  My  husband,  he  not  very  good  for  business,"  she  ex- 
plained. "But,"  she  added  with  a  glow  of  pardonable 
pride,   "he  is  a  fine  laundress!  " 

*  *  * 

There  is  no  doubt  but  William  Greer  Harrison  will  leave 
California  in  a  few  months  to  make  his  permanent  resi- 
dence in  the  East.  Mr.  Harrison  will  be  a  loss  to  the 
literary  and  artistic  life  of  San  Francisco.  He  has  done 
more  for  poor  painters  and  writers  in  this  city  than  will 
ever  transpire,  and  by  his  indomitable  energy  and  encour- 
agement, has  set  many  a  weak  vessel  on  its  way  from 
stormy  to  smooth  waters.  His  family  will  remain  in 
Europe  for  two  years,  and  he  will  attend  to  the  interests 
of  the  Thames  and  Mersey  Company  in  New  York  or  Chi- 
cago. The  Bohemian  Club  will  miss  him  sorely,  for  he  was 
ever  foremost  in  all  the  big  things  the  club  essayed,  and 
was  untiring  in  his  efforts  to  promote  them. 

*  *  * 

A  genius  who  lives  on  Montgomery  avenue  has  done  as 
much  for  his  day  and  generation  in  his  line  as  Edison.  He 
has  invented  a  Welsh  rarebit  which  will  not  clog.  There 
is  nothing  which  provokes  keener  competition  among  the 
amateur  cooks  of  the  clubs  than  the  comparative  excel- 
lence of  their  rarebit.  But  this  Faraday  of  the  kitchen 
has  succeeded  in  mixing  the  ingredients  into  a  soluble 
paste,  which  awaits  only  heat,  toast  and  spoon.  Even 
Peter  Robertson,  who  has  a  larger  quantity  of  Welsh  rare- 
bit scalps  to  his  score  than  any  man  on  earth,  will 
acknowledge  the  quality  of  this  new  breed. 

The  latest  and  most  elegant  things  in  gent's  furnisniDg  goods  are 
to  be  had  of  John  W.  Carmany,  25  Kearny  St. 


January  i 


SAN    !R.\N\  ,  ,  R 


""  looolulu  has  returned  from 

■  i>o,  and  is  much  impr 
.11  ever  made  Honolu 
with  that  tropical  climo  than  the  yenia'.  Paul.     Ill- 
then-  has  been  a  success  from  the  start,  under  all   admin- 
Hut  in  tl  whan   Paul   tit 
the  Islands,  there  wen-    rapid   changes    in    the   ministry. 
During  Premier  Gibson's  administration,  Mr.  Neumann  wiis 
appointed  Attorney-General,  and  as  such,  took    a  - 
the  Cabinet.      Now,  the    uniform   of  a    Cabinet 
Honolulu  during  the  kingdom  wasextremely  elaborate  and 
expensive:  in  fact,    a   perfect    razile-dazzlc   of   gold    lace. 
Mr.  Neumann  sent  on  to  Paris  for  his  ministerial  costume 
The  weeks  rolled  on,  and  the    affairs   of   the   Government 
irrew  more  and  more  unsettled.      Battling  winds  and  un- 
kind ocean  currents   detained    the   good   ship   which    w.is 
bearing  the  ministerial  splendor  to  Honolulu.    On  the  very 
day  the  ship  was  sighted  off  Diamond  Head,  a  vote  of  want 
of  confidence  in  the  Government  was  passed,  and  just   as 
Mr.  Neumann's  sword  and  uniform  was  put  on  the  wharf, 
that  diplomat  surrendered  his  portfolio.     The  uniform  still 
hangs  in  Mr.    Neumann's  closet  in  Honolulu,  a  gorgeous 
monument  to  the  splendors  of  a  departed  kingdom. 
*  *  # 

At  the  Cosmos  Club,  many  of  the  members  with  specu- 
lative tendencies  indulge  in  frequent  games  of  poker,  and 
every  Tuesday  evening  the  game  is  given  such  full  swing 
that  no  pretense  at  discontinuing  play  is  made  until  day- 
light. One  of  the  weekly  all-night  devotees  is  Charlie 
Bandman.  The  last  time  he  played,  he  had  varying  luck, 
at  one  stage  of  the  game  possessing  almost  all  the  chips 
on  the  table,  but  before  the  termination  of  play  losing  all 
bis  money  on  a  flush.  No  phase  of  the  game  escapes  the 
vigilance  of  the  servants  in  attendance,  and  a  player's  luck 
is  quickly  communicated  from  hall  to  kitchen.  When 
Bandman,  feeling  poor  and  hungry,  concluded  it  was  time 
to  go  to  business  on  Wednesday,  he  decided  he  would  first 
have  breakfast  at  the  club,  and  entering  the  dining  room, 
ordered  a  plate  of  hot  cakes  as  a  solace  to  his  simple  appe- 
tite and  in  keeping  with  his  diminished  purse.  He  tried 
to  be  philosophical  over  his  losses,  but  he  was  hardly  pre- 
pared to  overhear  the  waiter  paraphrase  his  order  for  hot 
cakes  at  the  door:  "A  stack  of  whites  for  Mr.  Bandman," 
was  the  intelligent  comentary  on  the  condition  of  the  poker 
player's  exchequer. 

*  *  * 

John  Luther,  the  capitalist,  and  John  Bourne,  the 
caller  of  the  stock  board,  are  the  Heavenly  Twins  of  the 
Bohemian  Club.  Those  two  giddy  fellows,  both  of  whom 
have  passed  the  seventy-year  notch,  have  more  fun  in 
their  way  than  the  friskiest  kid  in  the  club.  Not  that 
their  way  is  a  quiet,  demure  way  by  any  means.  When 
the  Reformer  wishes  the  other  John  to  refresh  himself,  he 
does  not  say  in  a  piping  treble:  "Come,  my  dear  old  fel- 
low, and  let  us  take  off  the  chill";  but  he  gives  him  a 
thump  in  the  ribs  that  would  stagger  a  lightweight,  and 
sings  out  in  a  voice  that  a  boatswain  might  be  proud  of. 

"  Here,  you  young  fellow,  I  cao  see  thirst  in  your  eye." 
When  Uncle  George  Bromley  joins  the  group  things  just 
hum.  In  fact,  it  keeps  the  directors  busy  restraining 
those  young  bloods  from  playing  leap-frog  in  the  social 
room. 

THAT  President  A.  W.  Foster  of  the  San  Francisco  and 
North  Pacific  Railroad  would  come  out  the  victor  in 
his  fight  against  Sidney  V.  Smith,  was  to  be  expected, 
notwithstanding  the  decision  of  so  eminent  a  jurist  as 
Judge  Angelotti  of  Marin  County.  This  decision  has  now 
been  reversed  by  the  Supreme  Court,  which  held  with 
President  Foster  that  Mr.  Smith  was  not  a  director  of  the 
railroad.  Seeing  that  the  present  Directors  and  Mr.  Fos- 
ter all  work  harmoniously  for  the  company's  and  the  stock- 
holders' interests,  good  times  for  all  concerned  may  be 
anticipated. 

Through  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
The  Atlantic  anil  Pnciflo  Kailroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  from  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Ticket  office.  044  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


(From  the  New  York  King,  September  12,  1906) 

THE  announcement  ten  days  ago  of  the  greatest  dis- 
covery of  modern  times  naturally  created  profound 
interest,  not  to  say  excitement,  throughout  the  civilized 
world.  It  is  matter  for  congratulation  that  this  marvel- 
lous achievement  was  made  by  Americans,  or  rather  by 
an  American,  as  one  man  alone  planned  the  feat,  and  to- 
day The  King  is  enabled  to  give  its  readers  the  first  pub- 
lished particulars  of  the  methods  employed  by  the  wealthy 
and  now  famous  Prof.  John  B.  Fairchild  in  his  most 
brilliant  and  successful  attempt  to  reach  the  North  Pole. 
At  great  expense  the  following  special  interview  with  the 
Professor  has  been  cabled  us: 

Honningvaag,  NORWAY.  September  11,  1906. 

The  Discoverer  of  the  North  Pole,  Prof.  J.  B.  Fairchild, 
of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  U.  S.  A.,  was  found  by  me 
after  some  trouble,  and  the  following  is  a  full  account  of 
my  interview  witi.  him.  As  your  regular  correspondent 
cabled,  the  Professor  was  obliged  to  anchor  his  steamer, 
the  North  Pole,  in  a  little  fiord,  or  inlet,  a  few  miles  south 
of  Hammerfest,  and  make  some  slight  repairs  on  her  be- 
fore proceeding  to  the  United  States.  The  whaling-vessel 
which  spoke  the  North  Pole  and  brought  us  the  first  news 
of  the  discovery  gave  such  vague  directions  for  finding  her 
that  I  cruised  about  fruitlessly  for  three  days,  and  the  re- 
presentatives of  the  other  papers  probably  are  still 
angrily  peering  round  the  inlets  in  that  quarter. 

Yesterday  at  dawn,  while  searching  the  extreme  end  of 
our  twenty-eighth  fiord,  we  found  the  North  Pole  close  at 
hand.  In  seeking  a  safe  harbor  for  a  few  days  the  cap- 
tain had  concealed  the  ship  pretty  effectually.  In  half  an 
hour  I  was  on  board  and  congratulating  Prof.  Fairchild 
and  his  companions,  whose  names  you  have  already.  We 
all  went  down  to  the  cabin,  where  I  told  my  business. 

The  Professor  is  a  quiet,  genial,  tall  blonde  Yankee, 
with  large  and  frank  but  piercing  eyes,  and  nervous  to  a 
degree,  but  thoroughly  self-controlled.  He  looks  capable 
of  running  a  college  or  capturing  a  crew  of  pirates. 

It  had  not  escaped  me  that  the  North  Pole  was  a  large 
but,  so  far  as  I  could  see,  very  ordinary-looking  steamer, 
of  2,000  or  3,000  tons.  I  noticed,  however,  that  she 
seemed  to  be  iron-clad,  but  saw  nothing  remarkable  in 
that  fact.  In  answer  to  my  many  questions  the  Professor 
or  his  able  associates  spoke  as  follows: 

"  No,  we  did  not  find  an  open  Polar  Sea,  as  some  men 
have  rather  foolishly  insisted  would  be  the  case:  the  path 
to  the  Pole  is  through  hundreds  of  miles  of  solid  ice. 
Neither  did  we  leave  the  ship  and  travel  over  the  ice, 
This  ship  you  are  on  at  this  moment,  my  friend,  steamed 
through  the  ice  and  remained  for  five  days  and  five  nights 
directly  over  that  point  at  the  northern  extremity  of  the 
earth  commonly  called  its  axis,  or  the  North  Pole.  Your 
eyes  open!  Well,  there  are  14  other  men  on  board  be- 
sides the  crew  of  43,  who  can  bear  witness  to  the  fact  as 
well  as  I,  but  before  you  leave  us  we  will  demonstrate  the 
statement  to  be  a  scientific  possibility."  He  paused,  then 
added,  "And  if  you  don't  admit  it  we  will  take  you  up 
there  and  leave  you  there." 

I  gazed  half-incredulously  at  the  other  gentlemen.  They 
nodded  solemnly,  or  smiled  superiorly,  and  one  of  them  un- 
locked a  drawer  in  a  cabinet  and  took  out  a  tiny  bottle  of 
water,  which  lay  with  many  others  on  cotton-batting. 
Putting  it  in  my  hand  he  remarked  quietly,  '  'North  Pole 
water,  lately  ice.  Keep  it."  While  thanking  him  I 
mentally  resolved  to  be  very  meek  and  mild,  in  face  of  the 
Professor's  awful  threat.     He  continued: 

"The  many  attempts  to  reach  the  Pole  in  the  regula- 
tion manner  by  travelling  over  the  ice  and  establishing 
supply  stations  or  making  cache  along  the  route,  long  ago 
I  felt  to  be  folly  and  almost  crime.  The  cold  weather,  the 
distance,  the  amount  of  supplies  to  be  taken,  uncertainties 


By  Ch&fles  F>  j/gftlet-on 


connected  with  the  ice, — all  these  and  other  things  pre- 
cluded, to  my  mind,  the  bare  possibility  of  ever  reaching 
the  Pole  in  that  way.  To  travel  to  it  through  the  air 
seemed  for  a  time  more  feasible,  but  when  the  three  balloon 
attempts  we  all  know  about  had  for  one  reason  or  another 
failed  utterly,   it  seemed  folly  to  try  again  in  that  way. 

"  About  the  time  the  first  balloon  attempt  was  made,  in 
1896, 1  determined  to  deliberately  think  out  an  original 
plan  by  which  I  could  succeed.  Five  years  ago  the  right 
idea  came  to  me.  I  gave  four  years  and  a  half  to  the 
work  of  preparation,  and  selection  of  my  comrades,  all  of 
whom  were  pledged  to  secrecy,  and  on  June  1st  of  this 
year  we  cleared  from  New  York  City. 

"My  idea?"  The  Professor  smiled  broadly,  and  then 
burst  into  a  laugh. 

"Why,  man,  it  is  simplicity  itself!  The  only  wonder  is 
that  no  man  had  thought  of  it  before.  To  put  all  in  a  sen- 
tence, I  had  a  steamer  built  to  order  after  my  own  plans, 
plated  her  with  three-inch  steel  on  the  outside  up  to  with- 
in three  feet  of  the  rail,  or  taffrail,  as  it  is  sometimes 
called,  placed  within  her  a  powerful  engine  and  electric 
dynamo  combined,  and  then  conveyed  the  electricity  to  the 
steel  plate  on  the  outside  of  the  vessel.  The  immensely 
powerful  current  we  were  able  to  generate  simply  melted  the 
ice  we  wanted  to  pass  through,  and  that's  all  there  is  to  it." 

I  gasped  in  amazement.  In  theory,  the  idea  seemed  as 
though  it  might  be  perfect.  In  practice — well,  they  said 
it  had  worked,  so  there  was  nothing  for  me  to  say.  But 
that  was  not  by  any  means  "all  there  was  to  it,"  as  he 
modestly  expressed  it,  and  in  reply  to  further  questions 
the  Professor  went  on,  speaking  first  of  his  vessel. 

"My  steamer  is  240  feet  long,  of  2,300  tons  register,  and 
is  fitted  out  with  engines  3,000  horse-power,  slightly  mod- 
ified to  meet  the  peculiarities  of  the  fuel  we  used.  I  should 
say  also  that  the  outside  steel  plate  conducting  the 
electricity  is  six  inches  from  the  frame  of  the  vessel,  the 
space  between  being  packed  with  asbestos. 

"  You  are  right:  a  most  powerful  current  of  the  so- 
called  fluid,  electricity,  was  necessary  in  order  to  melt  the 
thick  ice  sufficiently  rapidly  for  us  to  make  any  headway. 
I  will  not  go  into  details  about  the  engine-dynamo  further 
than  to  say  it  is  what  is  called  a  vertical  quadruple  ex- 
pansion engine,  marine  type,  of  2,500  H.  P., — actual,  not 
nominal, — and  carries  a  pair  of  800  kilo-watt  dynamos 
supplying  together  about  13,000  amperes;  its  dimensions 
are  26x18  feet  by  25  feet  high.  I  can  assure  you  it  is  a 
magnificent  piece  of  machinery.  You  must  take  a  look  at 
it  before  you  leave  us. 

"  No,  it  is  never  the  custom  to  have  the  dynamo  run  by 
the  same  engines  that  propel  the  ship,  for  various  reasons, 
chief  of  which  is  that  it  would  be  difficult  to  properly 
operate  the  dynamo  when  it  was  desired  to  do  so  without 
at  the  same  time  running  the  vessel. 

"  In  planning  our  course  we  followed  very  nearly  in  the 
track  of  the  Greely  Expedition,  of  1882;  Lieut.  Lockwood, 
of  that  party,  on  May  13,  1882,  reached  latitude  83°  24/, 
or  a  point  distant  from  the  Pole  396  geographical  miles, 
equal  to  458  statute  miles.  Twice  since  then  have  men 
approached  closer  to  the  Pole:  the  whaling  vessel  Newport 
in  1893,  and  Prof.  Nansen  and  party  in  1896.  But  we  ig- 
nored their  routes  altogether. 

"  Professor  Greely  and  his  party  travelled  for  many 
miles  over  the  ice.  We  encountered  ice  about  60  statute 
miles  south  of  the  extremest  northern  point  he  reached, 
making  it  necessary  for  us  to  traverse  over  500  miles  of 
solid  ice.  As  our  speed  averaged  nearly  one  mile  per 
hour — pretty  fair  travelling,  too,  under  the  circumstances! 
— it  took  us  five  days  of  twenty  four  hours  to  come  to  the 
jumping  off  point.  On  the  way  back  we  have  taken  it  slower. 

"We  found  no  open  water  to  speak  of  and  but  little  thin 
or  broken  ice;  it  was  one  nearly  level  field  of  solid 
glistening  ice,  the  glare  from  which  of  course  compelled 


January  23,  1897. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS 


1 1 


Much  if  not   most  of  the 
time  then-  .„d  go  „-,,  were  constantly 

in  a"  .apwii   of   wal 

'  or  soon  all  sides  and  beneath  the  vessel      We 
no  energy  in  cutting  a  wide  swath 

tricity  not  affi    •   the   coo  why 

should  it'.'     It  is  only   magnetism   which  makes   t!.. 
deviate,  though  if  thai  Instrument  were   held   I 
iino  or  very  close  to  a  live  wire  it    would   doubt 
I     deranged  temporarily.     But  our  compass   scared  ui 
for  a  few  moments!     Because   it  always  points    north, 
what  would  you  expect  it  to  do  on  reaching  the  extremest 
northern   point  of    our    sphere'      Well,    our   instrument 
seemed  drunk,  or  bewildered,    until   Dr.  Coodman  stood  it 
on  its  head,  so    to    speak,    when    all    was    Berene  again. 
There's  a  problem  for  us  to  solve! 

"The  cold  was  something  terrible,  awful,  unspeakable. 
It  was  simply  beyond  words.  For  days  our  spirit-ther- 
mometres  registered— or  did  not  vary  'more  than  two  de- 
grees from— 112  degrees  below  zero  Fahrenheit.  Bu 
weather  we  had  come  prepared  for,  and  I  am  glad  to  say 
that  not  one  of  our  party  of  58  was  severely  frozen  in  any 
part.  So  much  for  having  given  months  of  thought  to 
preparing  for  every  contingency. 

"  We  lost  one  man  by  accident,  it  is  true,  but  that  oc- 
curred through  his  own  carelessness.  You  must  know 
that  Polar  bears— large,  white,  beautiful— sometimes 
came  very  near  the  ship.  Desiring  to  take  back  with  us 
a  few  of  their  magnificent  skins,  we  one  day  took  a  hun- 
dred yards  of  heavily-insulated  wire,  exposed  a  foot  of  one 
end,  attached  the  other  to  the  dynamo  and  sallied  forth. 
While  some  of  us  were  permitting  a  bear  to  chew  the  live 
end,  which  he  did  for  about  one  second,  one  of  the  crew 
stole  up  behind  the  animal  and  put  his  hand  on  him  before 
his  intention  occurred  to  us,  or  before  we  could  jerk  away 
the  wire.  Well,  that's  all!  I  should  say  that  while  we 
have  intelligent  men  for  a  crew,  every  man  bad  been  im- 
pressively and  repeatedly  warned  not  to  run  the  slighest 
risk  whatsoever  of  drawing  a  charge  of  the  terrific  amount 
of  electricity  on  board.  Even  we  ourselves,  experienced 
scientists,  kept  a  look-out  for  one  another  and  took  no 
offence  at  a  word  of  caution.  Of  course  the  wire  that 
caused  the  man's  death  could  convey  but  a  small  part  of 
the  400,000  volts  generated  by  the  dynamo,  but  still  it 
was  a  fearful  charge  and  it  did  its  work  in  a  moment. 

'"  A  possible  source  of  peril  and  the  one  I  had  feared  al- 
most above  all  others  was  the  crashing  down  on  our  ship 
of  some  overtowering  iceberg.  I  feared  that  in  making 
our  way  through  the  enormously  thick  ice  and  among  the 
ill-shapen  mountains  of  it  we  must  expect  to  encounter, 
we  might  undermiue  or  in  some  way  precipitate  upon  us  a 
mass  capable  a  thousand  times  over  of  burying  us  out  of 
sight.  But  we  encountered  few  icebergs  except  at  the 
shore,  so  to  speak.  Moreover,  we  discovered  something 
which  astonished  us  and  relieved  us  from  all  fear  on  that 
score,  something  which  only  experience  could  have  even 
suggested.  This  is  that  as  the  ship  left  the  open  water 
and  gradually  beeran  to  force  her  way  through  the  ice  she 
was  raised  by  the  water  she  had  melted  above  the  level  of 
the  sea,  until  we  sailed  over  and  through  the  plateau  of 
ice  as  we  would  through  any  other  sea.  This  process  was 
gradual,  but  the  very  fact  that  we  were  surrounded  by 
only  a  little  water,  which  froze  again  instantly  as  we  went 
on.  aided  us  much,  if  indeed  it  does  noi  account  lor  the  ex- 
perience. To  express  it  in  other  words,  at  times  the  ship 
simply  travelled  up-hill  and  down,  although  of  course  at  a 
very  slight  angle  only.  Still,  we  got  there!  We  did  not 
have  specially  smooth  sailing,  but  we  managed  to  travel  on 
and  we  avoided  colliding  with  any  suspicious  iceberg. 

"  When  did  we  reach  the  Pole?  On  July  28th.  The  next 
party  that  goes  up  there  will  find  a  veritable  pole  of  heavy 
wood.  At  the  foot  of  it  we  left  a  stout  box  containing 
certain  papers,  a  box  securely  sealed  and  anchored.  By 
the  way,  we  surmounted  that  pole  with  a  plate  of  thin 
steel  bearing  on  one  side  a  painted  United  States  flag,  and 
on  the  other  the  motto,  'Keep  of  the  grass.'  " 

The  Professor  rose  to  indicate  that  the  interview  was 
over.  I  asked  him  about  the  more  scientific  results  of  his 
great  discovery,  but  he  said  good-humoredly  that  he  and 
his  compeers  must  have  more  time  in  which  to  calculate 
and  study  before  publishing  them.     Probably,  also,  they 


and  such  an  im|  nt  that    I    urged  thi 

dynai 

1  <"'!  ■  tQcienl    tor  tin  b  ■ 

such  a  purpose,  fuel  of  soon 

theyv  on  the  ta*k  of  pei 

ting  the  icy  ami  unl  regions  of  the  Arctic  < 

"No,wedld  aid  the  Professor.     'When 

the  leading  Idea  of  the  whole  business  came  to  me,  I 

melting  a  path  tor  the  ship  wit!  v.  it  doubli 

more  than  doubled  the  problem  of  supplying  fuel  tor  the 
engines.  Then  I  set  my  wits  to  work  In  earnest.  We 
could  not  use  coal,  or  .11    east  not  in  its  ordinary  form 

easy  calculation  showed  that  for  an  eight  months  supply  for 

the  engines  I  purposed  using  I  would  have  to  carry  12,01 
13,000  tons,  an  utter  impossibility.   I  proposed  running  no 
risk  of  being  caught     empty-banded    far  from  a  coaling 

station. 

"  Now  the  loss  of  power  from  any  engine  using  coal  is 
great,  amounting  usually  to  S.'i  per  cent.  Even 
engines  as  I  should  take,  the  very  finest  trip  - 
ruple  expansion,  on  land  or  sea  utilize  not  more  than  26 
per  cent  at  the  most,  involving  the  loss  of  fully  three 
charters  of  the  coal.  This  is  a  tremendous  fact,'  but  is 
well  known  to  all  engineers.  It  is  true  that  the  loss  would 
be  the  same  in  portion  no  matter  what  was  fed  to  the 
engines,  but  the  point  was  that  coal  was  too  heavy  and 
too  bulky  anyway.  When  botn  engines  were  running,  our 
steamer  would  have  demanded  three  or  four  tons  per  hour. 
To  bring  supply-vessels  was  totally  out  of  the  question. 

"  Inventors  have  applied  themselves  diligently  to  devis- 
ing methods  by  which  this  loss  of  power  might  be  saved, 
and  these  methods  I  investigated  carefully.  For  one  rea- 
son or  another  none  of  them  satisfied  me.  I  experimented 
myself  a  good  deal,  and  not  caring  to  give  years  to  its 
study,  1  turned  my  thoughts  into  another  channel. 

"The  greatest  heat-producing  article  in  nature  is 
hydrogen  gas.  The  calorific  power  of  one  pound  of 
hydrogen  burned  under  favorable  conditions  is  sufficient  to 
raise  over  34,000  pounds  of  water  from  zero  centigrade  to 
one  degree  centigrade,  or  nearly  the  same  as  from  32 
Fahrenheit  to  34  P.  In  other  words,  and  comparing  it  with 
coal,  one  pound  of  which  yields  about  8,000  thermal  units, 
we  know  that  one  pound  of  hydrogen  gas  yields  over  34,- 
000  thermal  units,  or  over  four  and  one  quarter  times  as 
much  power  as  coal.  Hydrogen  gas  I  must  certainly  use. 
"  Now  of  all  the  four  processes  by  which  we  chemists  ob- 
tain that  gas,  not  one  yields  it  in  an  absolutely  pure  con- 
dition. I  might  have  passed  this  point,  however,  but  the 
best  method  chemists  have  so  far  used  was  inadequate  to 
furnish  more  than  an  infinitesimal  fraction  of  the  vast 
amount  necessary  to  propel  the  ship  and  run  the  dynamo. 
In  short,  I  applied  myself  to  the  task  of  discovering  a  pro- 
cess by  which  I  could  obtain  my  gas  from  the  compound 
always  used — water — easily  enough  and  in  quantities 
sufficient  for  every  purpose. 

"I  succeeded.  Our  motive  power  for  both  engines, 
therefore,  has  been  drawn  daily  from  the  very  water  we 
passed  through.  We  brought  a  little  coal,  about  3,000 
tons,  for  use  in  emergencies,  but  have  noi  touched  it. 
Hydrogen  gas  is  the  calorific  power  which  has  enabled  us 
to  go  to  the  North  Pole.  When  we  reach  New  Haven 
again  I  shall  have  the  discovery  cf  my  process  for  obtain- 
ing that  gas,  also,  to  give  to  the  world,  and  I  think  that 
in  the  near  future  hydrogen  will  take  the  place  of  coal  in 
all  large  ships,  manufacturies,  etc." 

The  interview  was  over.  Before  leaving,  the  engineer- 
in-chief  showed  me  the  interior  workings  of  the  ship,  and 
explained  certain  points  of  great  interest,  such  as  the 
Professor's  method  of  extracting  hydrogen  from  the  water, 
but  this  cablegram   is   already   sufficiently   lengthy. 

The  accident  to  the  steamer  will  delay  the  party  a  few 
days  only.  They  will  then  proceed  at  once  to  the  United 
States,  there  to  enjoy  the  fruits  of  Professor  Pairchild's 
remarkable  achievement,  fruits  which  all  the  civilized 
nations  of  the  globe  will  undoubtedly  hasten  to  bestow  on 
him,  the  more  especially  as  his  expedition  did  not  need  the 
usual  rescuing. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


A   Book        Mr.   A.  T.  Quiller-Couch's  "Adventures   in 
of  Criticism,"    a  collection  of  papers  from  The 

the  Week.*  Speaker  (London),  first  attracted  our  at- 
tention as  being  written  by  one  of  the  most 
brilliant  of  the  younger  Oxford  writers,  and  next  as  being 
dedicated  to  an  old  Oxford  friend.  The  well-printed  vol- 
ume contains  nearly  forty  short  essays  on  various  literary 
topics.  Some  interesting  remarks  are  found  in  the  essay 
entitled  "The  Attitude  of  the  Public  Towards  Letters,"  in 
which  Mr.  Quiller-Couch  clearly  points  out  the  popular 
fallacy  that  the  great  Brain  of  the  Public  is  the  supreme 
judge  of  literature.  Though,  of  course,  it  rests  ultimately 
with  the  Public  to  buy,  ^r  refuse  to  buy,  an  author's 
works,  immense  popular  success  is  a  very  poor  and  inad- 
equate test  of  the  merit  of  a  writer.  The  general  public, 
so  far  from  being  (as  men  who  ought  to  know  better 
sometimes  tell  it)  an  infallible  judge  of  good  literature,  is 
not  even  a  competent  one.  It  is -absurd  to  suppose  that 
the  man  in  the  street  forms  a  truer  estimate  of  a  book 
than  the  man  of  culture.  The  public,  in  so  far  as  it  enter- 
tains right  views  at  all  about  books,  derives  them  from 
that  aristocracy  of  taste  and  intelligence  which  is  no- 
where a  very  numerous  body.  The  average  parson,  the 
average  professional  man,  the  average  commercial  man, 
knows  little  or  nothing  of  literary  matters.  Some  books 
they  can  read,  and  many  others  they  cannot,  and  there's 
an  end  to  it.  It  is  the  cultured  few  who  gradually  impose 
their  views  on  the  many,  and  the  general  public  is  the 
ultimate  judge  only  in  the  sense  that  it  is  the  last  to  be 
convinced.  Take  a  writer  of  such  great  popularity  as  the 
late  R.  L.  Stevenson.  Who  first  found  him  out  ?  Were 
not  men  of  taste  twenty  years  ago  reading  "An  Inland 
Voyage"  with  delight,  and  feeling  that  a  new  star  had 
arisen  in  the  literary  firmament.  And  how  many  years 
ago  is  it  since  "Donkey  Rides  in  the Cevennes  "  or  " Mem- 
ories and  Portraits  "  were  discovered  by  the  great  public? 
How  few,  comparatively,  of  the  many-headed  Demus  have 
even  yet  found  them?  In  "  A  Case  of  Book -stall  Censor- 
ship "  Mr.  Quiller-Couch  comments  amusingly  on  Messrs. 
Eason  &  Son,  a  firm  of  booksellers  who  enjoy  a  monopoly 
of  the  bookstalls  at  the  railway  stations  of  Ireland,  similar 
to  that  enjoyed  by  W.  H.  Smith  &  Son,  at  the  railway 
stations  of  Great  Britain.  Messrs.  Eason  &  Son  refused 
to  sell  Grant  Allen's  "Woman  Who  Did  "  at  any  railway 
station  in  Ireland,  considering  that  its  tendency  was  to- 
wards immorality.  While  this  conduct  was  unquestionably 
honest,  it  was  erroneous,  because  it  is  not  as  literary 
critics  and  judges  of  what  may,  and  what  may  not,  be 
read  that  Messrs.  Eason  are  doing  business;  their  business 
is  to  supply  such  books  as  their  customers  ask  for.  A 
censorship  of  literature  may  be  a  good  thing,  but  let  its 
functions  be  exercised  by  a  man  chosen  for  his  literary 
knowledge,  and  not  by  a  book-vender,  however- honest  and 
successful.  Other  papers  deal  with  Henry  Kingsley  (the 
brother  of  Charles),  Charles  Reade,  Robert  Louis  Steven- 
son, Hall  Caine,  Anthony  Hope  Hawkins,  Frank  R.  Stock- 
ton, "Trilbv,"  etc.  Mr.  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch  has  an  instinct- 
ive dislike  (in  which  we  heartily  join  him)  of  stories  into 
which  hypnotism  and  other  pseudo-scientific-isms  are  in- 
troduced, and  asserts  that  Mr.  du  Maurier's  "Trilby" 
won  its  immense  popularity  not  because  of,  but  in  spite  of, 
the  hypnotism  contained  in  it.  He  goes  on  to  say  that 
"Trilby  "  consists  of  two  incompatible  parts,  one  natural 
and  the  other  supernatural,  and  that  it  is  only  the  charm 
of  the  natural  portion  of  the  tale  that  carries  the  rest 
along;  the  hypnotic  and  scoundrelly  machinations  of  Sven- 
gali  being  redeemed  by  the  dramatic  adventures  of  Trilby, 
Little  Billee,  Taffy,  and  the  Laird,  who  win  a  warm  place 
in  all  hearts. 

*This  story  was  awarded  the  third  prize  in  a  competi- 
tion arranged  by  the  Chicago  Record.  The  title  is  a  not 
very  ingenious  adaptation  of  the  title  of  the  well-known 
romance  by  Ouida,  "  Under  Two  Flags."  The  three  na- 
tional emblems   are  the  American,  the  Cuban,  and   the 


Spanish.  We  find  here  the  murderer,  the  shrewd  detec- 
tive, the  superlatively  beautiful  and  equally  unprincipled 
woman,  and  the  mysterious,  dark,  sombre,  self-contained, 
invincible  man,  that  are  found  in  all  such  stories.  The 
story  is  a  story,  and  nothing  more;  it  has  not  a  trace  of 
literary  quality;  there  is  no  attempt  at  characterization; 
all  the  men  and  women  speak  alike  ;  that  is,  Just  as  the 
New  York  newspaper-man,  who  is  a  leading  feature  of  the 
story,  and  his  confreres  speak.  There  are  adventures, 
hair's-breadth  escapes,  and  complications  of  all  kinds,  spun 
out  somewhat  interminably.  Yet,  to  our  thinking,  the 
story,  poor  as  it  is,  is  better  than  the  bemuddled  tale  to 
which  the  first  prize  in  this  queer  contest  was  awarded; 
we  have  managed  to  read  "Under  Three  Flags"  through; 
the  story  which  won  the  highest  award  beat  us  entirely; 
to  borrow  a  phrase  from  the  race-track,  we  could  not  last 
the  distance. 

*  "  Under  Three  Flags:  ,A  Story  of  Mystery,"  by  B.  L.  Taylor  and 
A.  T.  Thoits.  Published  by  Rand,  McNally  &  Co.,  Chicago  and  Kew 
York.    1896. 

George  W.  Cable,  the  well-known  writer,  edits  a  monthly 
literary  magazine,  entitled  "  The  Symposium."  It  is  pub- 
lished at  Northampton,  Mass.,  is  of  moderate  bulk,  but 
printed  on  good  paper,  and  has  good  pictures.  Iu  the 
December  issue,  Clifton  Johnson,  who  displays  great  taste 
and  skill  in  the  illustration  of  books  by  photographs,  has 
an  article  on  "The  Land  of  Lorna  Doon,"  with  four  illus- 
trations from  his  own  photographs.  An  article  by  Mr. 
Cable  on  J.  M.  Barrie  is  adorned  with  a  portrait  of  Mrs. 
Barrie.  The  magazine  contains  several  stories  and  poems, 
and  five  departments,  the  latter  under  the  titles  of 
"Thoughts  and  Views,"  "In  the  Foreground,"  "Home 
and  Neighbor,"  "In  the  Reading  World,"  and  "Tail- 
pieces." The  periodical  advocates  the  formation  of  Home- 
Culture  clubs,  and  offers  many  advantages  to  those  who 
desire  to  borrow  books  from  the  circulating  library  con- 
nected with  the  magazine.  Though  we  think  that  "home 
culture"  should  mean  the  cultivation  of  homes,  just  as 
horticulture  means  the  cultivation  of  gardens,  or  piscicul- 
ture the  breeding  of  fish,  yet  we  are  willing  to  suppose 
that  it  is  intended  to  mean  the  cultivation  of  the  minds  of 
the  various  members  of  the  family. 

"A  Great  Hotel,"  which  appears  in  the  February  Scrib- 
ner's  as  the  second  article  on  "The  Conduct  of  Great 
Businesses,"  gives  some  astoundiug  facts  as  to  this  modern 
development  of  one  of  the  oldest  businesses  in  the  world. 
There  are  as  many  employees  in  a  great  hotel  as  there  are 
guests;  there  is  a  man  whose  whole  duty  it  is  to  wind 
clocks;  one  head  waiter  in  a  great  hotel  owns  a  yacht  and 
a  summer  residence;  and  hotels  have  their  private  black- 
smith and  paint  shops.  C.  D.  Gibson's  great  series  of 
London  pictures,  which  begin  to  appear  in  this  number,  is 
accompanied  with  his  own  notes  and  impressions,  which 
show  him  to  be  a  bright,  crisp,  and  observant  writer.  The 
pictures  present  entirely  new  types  from  London  streets. 

On  Tuesday  evening,  January  12th,  Mr.  J.  W.  Laing, 
M.  A.,  of  Oxford,  and  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Geographical 
Society,  delivered  a  lecture  at  Union  Square  Hall  on  his 
recent  explorations  in  Vancouver  Island,  illustrated  by 
many  fine  photographs.  The  Rev.  W.  W.  Bolton  gave  an 
amusing  narrative  of  his  experiences  on  the  same  trip. 
The  lecture  was  before  the  Geographical  Society  of  the 
Pacific,  and  was  very  well  attended.  Next  evening,  at 
Pioneers'  Hall,  Mr.  Laing  delivered  a  lecture,  illustrated 
with  fine  stereopticon  views,  on  India,  where  he  was  for- 
merly Head  Master  of  the  college  founded  by  Lord  Mayo 
for  the  education  of  the  sons  of  the  Maharajahs.  This  was 
well  received  by  the  large  ai-dience. 

Professor  Howison  of  the  State  University's  recent  ad- 
dress before  the  California  Teachers'  Association  in  San 
Jose,  on  "Interest  and  Character  as  Educational 
Motives,"  will  be  published  in  pamphlet  form  by  William 
Doxey;  as  also  will  the  report,  by  Dr.  Harris,  the  United 
States  Commissioner  of  Education,  and  Professor  Howison, 
of  a  discussion  on  the  rational  interpretation  of  Christian- 
ity, at  the  conference  of  Presbyterian  ministers  held  on 
December  21st  of  last  year.  At  Easter,  Mr.  Doxey  will 
issue  a  collection  of  the  poems  of  Clarence  F.  Urmy,  a 
Californian  whose  verse  has  won  much  favor  with  magazine 
editors. 


January  33.  1897. 


SAN   PRANCISCO   NEWS   1. 11 


In  the  Christmas  issue  of  the  Itookman  a 
Bent  is  made  in  a  note   upon    Mr     Hamilton    \V.    V 
'EtaaysnnXat  It    is   to   I 


one-half,  so 
bave   i»>»- 

1  rv   critic,    but    I 
Twelve   "increased 


"The  volume  of  the  work 
that  instead  of  the  original   t* 
twenty  four  in  the  final  shape  < 
The  writer  of  thir.  may  l>e  u  fa: 
■.nly  a  weak  arithmetician 
half  '  Is  eighteen;  twelve  raised  to  twenty-four 
a  book  which  originally  contained  twelve  essays,  but    now 
contains  twenty-four,  has  in  it  twice  as  much  malt. 
originally  had;  in  other  words,  it  is   as  large   again 
was  before.     We  should  like  to  propound  to  the  Hook  man  s 
man  the  old  problem:  If  a  herring-and-a  half  cost   a  cent 
and-a-half.  what  is  the  price  per  dozen?     If  he  mastered 
that,  we  would  then  try  him  with  this:  If  a  hen-and-a-half 
lay  an  egg-and-a-half  in  a  da\ --and-a-half.    how  many  eggs 
wi.l  six  hers  lay  in  seven  days?     We  should  be   willing   to 
lay  two  to  one  on  the  problem. 

The  Academy,  one  of  London's  most  serious  literary 
periodicals,  has  lately  adopted  a  novel  manner  of  review- 
ing books  for  boys.  The  Bookman  gives  the  following  ex- 
ample of  the  new  school  of  criticism:  "  '  Harold  the  Norse 
man'  is  simply  a  ripping  story  about  Harold  Haardraada. 
King  of  Norway,  who  was  bowled  out  at  last  by  the  other 
Harold  at  the  Batt'e  of  Stamford  Bridge  with  tostig,  who 
was  a  bit  of  a  bounder.  The  story  is  just  as  good  as  his- 
tory, because  the  writer  has  taken  it  from  the  old  poet 
Johnnies.  This  book  tells  you  all  about  the  Vikings,  how 
they  lived,  and  hunted,  and'  fought;  and  you  feel  that  it  is 
all  real,  because  the  writer  lias  taken  it  all  from  the  chaps 
who  saw  it  done.''  This,  while  decidedly  entertaining,  is 
scarcely  in  conformity  with  one's  preconceived  ideas  of  so 
learned  a  weekly  as  the  Academy. 

A.  Schilling  &  Co.  have  issued  a  neat  little  book  of 
twenty-eight  pages,  with  the  seductive  title,  "Money- 
making."  Therein  they  offer  many  suggestions  to  those 
who  would  make  money  by  advertising,  setting  forth  what 
good  advertising  is,  and  what  it  is  not.  "Advertising  is 
not  antics;  not  mere  show  of  signs;  not  dirt;  not  a  lot  of 
vulgar  and  unpleasant  things.  It  is  what  you  like  to  see 
in  other  stores. "  Frankness,  honesty,  courtesy,  and  several 
other  good,  old-fashioned,  but  (we  had  feared)  rather  out- 
of-date  virtues  are  recommended  to  him  who  would  re- 
tail successfully;  and  samples  of  the  signs  prepared  by 
Messrs.  Schilling  for  use  by  grocers  are  given,  to  aid  them 
in  selecting  those  best  suited  to  the  requirements  of  their 
business. 

PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 

ONE  of  the  most  picturesque  sights  of  the  city  is  the 
old  fort  at  Fort  Point,  which  formerly  guarded  the 
entrance  to  the  harbor,  from  the  Golden  Gate.  The  fort, 
although  still  in  fair  repair,  is  no  longer  used  for  defensive 
purposes,  as  more  modern  fortifications  have  been  con- 
structed in  the  immediate  vicinity. 


THE  determination  of  Mr.  Amadee  Joullin  to  devote 
much  of  his  time  and  attention  to  Indian  studies  is 
most  praiseworthy,  and  will  give  that  artist  a  larger  field 
wherein  to  display  his  capabilities.  A  canvass  just  com- 
pleted, called  "Gone,"  is  the  first  of  this  new  series,  and 
shows  that  he  can  treat  such  studies  with  the  same 
breadth  and  felicity  he  puts  in  his  landscape  work.  We 
shall  look  forward  to  his  future  work  with  pleasure,  know- 
ing that  it  will  in  no  wise  fall  short  of  our  expectations. 


AT  the  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Spring 
Valley  Water  Works  Company,  the  following  direct- 
ors, all  members  of  the  old  board,  were  re-elected  :  Charles 
Webb  Howard,  A.  H.  Payson,  G.  W.  Beaver,  S.  C.  Bige- 
low,  Charles  R.  Bishop,  A.  Borel,  H.  S.  King.  The  re- 
ports submitted  were  most  satisfactory,  and  show  the 
affairs  of  the  company  to  be  in  most  excellent  condition. 

A  Sovereign  Remedy. 

DR.  PARKER'S  COUGH  CURB.    One  dose  will  stop  a  cough.    It  never 
falls.    Try  it.    Price  35c.    George  Dahlbender  &  Co  ,  214  Kearny  street 


The  Press  Clipping  bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  s.  P.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Paoiflo  Coast,  and  supplies  dippings  on  all  topics,  business 
and  personal. 


Gray  Bros., 


318  Montgomery  Street.  S.  F. 

No.  305  New  High  St.,  Los  Angeles. 


Concrete  Artificial 
Stone  Work. 


GEORGE   GOODMAN 


Patentee   and 
Manufacturer  of 


Artificial  Stone 

Sohilllnger's  Patent  ]  in  all  its  branches 

Side  walk  and  Garden  Walk  a  specialty.' 

Office:    307  Montgomery  street,  (Nevada  block)  San  Francisco 


INDIA  OPIUfl  CURE, 


Room  I,  Columbian  Building, 
916  Market  Street,  S.  F. 


B.  D    Kimmis,  Proprietor. 

OPIUM,  MORPHINE  and    COCAINE 

And  all  other  opiate  habits  cured  speedily  and  effectively  or  money  re- 
funded,   Ladies  treated  privately  at  home. 


BRUSHES 


For  barbers,  bakers,  bootblacks,  bath-houses,  bil- 
liard tables,  brewers,  book-binders,  candy-makers, 
canners,  dyers,  flour-mills,  foundries,  laundries, 
paper-hangers,  printers,  painters,  shoe  factories, 
stablemen,  tar-roofers,  tanners  tailors,  etc 


BUCHANAN   BROS., 

BRUSH   MANUFACTURERS,  609  Sacramento  St.  ,S.   F        Tel.  5610. 


COKE—Cheapest  Fuel! 

REDUCTION  In  Prioe. 
Wholesale  {50  bbls.  or  more,)  EIGHTY 
Cents  per  bbl.  Retail  (any  quantity 
under  50  bbls.),  NINETY  Cents  per 
bbl.  At  the  works  or  the 

San  Francisco  Gaslight  Co. 

Howard  and  First  Streets. 


Foot  of  Second  Street 


You  Must  Look  Neat. 


Suits  Cleaned 
and  Pressed 


$1.00 


Bau  Gitu  Clothing  Renovatoru, 


Suits  called  for  and  delivered. 


22K  Geary  St.,  Easterbrook  B'ld'g, 
Rooms  19-20-21.  'Phone  Grant  158. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


A    Fifth   Wheel 
To   a  Coach. 


The  many  who  hold  the  so-called  Min- 
ing Bureau  in  disfavor  as  a  parasiti- 
cal outgrowth  on  the  body  politic,  and 
a  machine  run  in  the  interests  of  a  clique, 
could  adduce  no  better  argument  for  its  abolishment  than 
the  recent  report  which,  in  regard  to  practical  utility, 
would  be  more  aptly  entitled  a  Mining  Directory.  It 
marks  the  latest  and  most  pronounced  stage  of  degeneracy 
in  an  institution  which  is  now  little  more  than  a  free  adver- 
tising agency  for  the  makers  and  inventors  of  mining 
machinery;  of  processes  for  the  manipulation  of  ores,  and 
personal  friends  of  the  powers  that  be.  To  appreciate 
the  merits  of  this  literary  effort,  evolved  at  the  expense  of 
$25,000  of  public  money,  the  reader  will  require  a  library 
of  back  volumes  at  hand  for  reference.  The  books  and  ac- 
cumulation of  mining  data  should  be  turned  over  to  the 
State  University  as  a  nucleus  for  a  School  of  Mines,  which 
would  reflect  some  credit  upon  the  community  at  least, 
and  make  some  return  for  the  money  expended  in  its  sup- 
port. The  museum,  too,  could  be  placed  to  much  better 
advantage  either  in  the  Park  or  with  the  Academy  of 
Sciences,  which  can  boast  of  one  equally  as  interesting,  if 
not  more  so.  The  fact  that  the  most  prominent  mine 
owners  of  the  State  refused  to  grant  admission  to  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Bureau  is  noted,  and  perhaps  may  furn- 
ish its  supporters  with  ammunition  for  a  battle  in  behalf 
of  the  official  recommendation  that  Czar-like  powers  be 
given  the  institution  by  adding  mining  inspectorship  to 
the  duties  of  State  Mineralogist.  What  the  Legislature 
ought  to  do,  provided  it  does  not  wipe  the  Bureau  out  of 
existence,  is  to  make  it  imperative  that  whoever  is  se- 
lected to  fill  the  position  of  chief  of  the  Bureau  should 
possess  a  scientific  as  well  as  a  practical  training  in  the 
profession,  and  furthermore,  that  he  should  devote  his  sole 
time  to  the  duties  for  which  he  is  paid.  Men  engaged  in 
operating  mines  of  their  own,  and  in  other  enterprises 
which  take  up  their  time,  have  no  business  at  the  head  of 
a  public  department,  and  it  should  not  be  permitted. 

Failing  the  individual  possessed  of  the 
Rigging  the  wealth  necessary  to  purchase  their 
Foreign  Market,  wares  at  inflated  prices,  the  scheming 
purveyors  for  mining  markets  abroad 
have  adopted  a  new  and  simpler  method  to  fill  their 
pockets.  The  public  purse  is  now  sought.  Legitimate 
mining  investments,  on  a  moderate  scale  of  profits  in  the 
way  of  a  commission  on  sales,  do  not  suit  these  manipula- 
tors, a  grade  or  two  removed  in  the  social  scale  above  the 
itinerant  "pea  and  thimble"  expert  and  "sure-thing" 
fakirs.  They  are  on  the  look-out  for  some  old  shell  with  a 
record,  which  can  be  burnished  up  to  pass  examination 
from  some  purchasable  scoundrel  labeled  mining  engi- 
neer, bogus  like  the  rest  of  the  outfit.  Equipped  with  a 
mine  (?)  of  this  description,  the  next  step  is  to  bring  a 
company  out  in  London  or  elsewhere  with  high-sounding 
name,  prospectus  full  of  glittering  certainties  in  the  way 
of  profit  on  the  investment,  and  a  "guinea-pig"  directory. 
Men  who  see  through  the  rascally  scheme,  with  power  to 
stop  it  in  the  initial  stages,  are  too  venal  or  cowardly  to 
interfere,  and  the  game  is  played,  the  manipulators  clean- 
ing up  their  ill-gotten  gain  before  the  collapse  comes.  In 
the  case  of  California  properties,  as  a  rule,  the  mine  owner 
cannot  be  held  responsible.  He  rarely  receives  what  his 
mine  is  worth.  Its  value  is  gauged  very  closely,  with  no 
allowances  made  in  dealing  with  him.  The  juggling  is  done 
at  the  other  end,  where  the  profit  is  turned,  should  the 
scaly  transaction  succeed,  to  be  shared  in  by  confederates 
who  assisted  here.  That  the  latter-day  type  of  Sir  Mul- 
berry Hawke  does  not  always  get  off  scot  free  is  evident 
from  the  investigation  now  proceeding  in  London  over  a 
scheme  of  the  kind,  which  is  likely  to  end  in  the  conviction 
of  one  or  more  of  the  Directors.  It  has  already  been  de- 
veloped that  the  real  vendor  or  promoter  had  used  ficti- 
tious names  in  application  for  shares,  and  had  bought 
shares  in  the  market  in  the  names  of  other  people  to  keep 
up  the  price.  One  of  the  Directors  also  admitted  that  an 
understanding  existed  between  himself  and  the  promoter, 


who  was  largely  indebted  to  him,  that  the  latter  should 
give  him  half  the  profits  when  the  company  came  out. 
This  is  a  fair  sample  of  what  is  going  on,  to  the  ultimate 
detriment  of  the  business.  It  is  some  satisfaction  to  know, 
however,  that  money  is  not  pouring  in  from  the  public  so 
freely  as  these  robbers  might  desire,  and  absolute  failure 
has  attended  not  a  few  of  their  schemes. 

The  disaster  which  has  overtaken  the 
A  Deplorable  Thistle  Mining  Company  by  the  flooding 
Mining  Mishap,  of  its  mines  in  Plumas,  is  a  very  regret- 
able  affair.  Without  the  slightest  warn- 
ing the  water  broke  in,  while  driving  one  of  the  gangways 
up  stream  without  the  slightest  appearance  of  moisture  in 
the  gravel,  not  even  affording  time  to  ascertain  whether 
its  source  was  from  the  gravel  or  bed  rock.  If  from  the 
former  the  pumps  will,  it  is  believed,  eventually  drain  the 
mine,  but  if  from  the  latter,  the  only  salvation  for  the  com- 
pany lies  in  a  tunnel,  which  will  take  a  long  time  and  much 
money.  Otherwise  the  mine  will  have  to  be  abandoned. 
The  company  was  never  doing  better  than  when  the  water 
broke  in  and  stopped  work.  The  mine,  which  has  been  in 
operation  for  four  years  past,  in  charge  of  Mr.  C.  B.  Win- 
gate,  was  a  credit  to  its  management,  and  one  which  could 
be  pointed  out  as  a  representative  and  successful  invest- 
ment of  British  capital  in  California.  It  is  hoped  that  the 
water  will  eventually  be  mastered  and  work  resumed  on 
the  property. 

The  bear  brokers  and  "chipping"  fra- 
The  Pine-Street    ternity  on  Pine  street  were   treated  to 
Market.  a  surprise  during  the  week,  in  the  form 

of  an  upheaval  in  prices,  which  sent 
Chollar  up  to  $1  40,  the  other  north-end  and  middle  shares 
showing  a  proportionate  advance.  Unfortunately,  the 
movement  was  short-lived,  and  some  of  the  stocks  dropped 
suddenly  back  to  the  starting  point  almost  faster  than 
they  went  up.  Subsequently,  a  streak  of  high-grade  ore, 
cut  on  the  1550  level  of  Con. -Cal. -Virginia,  helped  to  stiffen 
matters  up  and  enthuse  dealers  to  the  point  of  increasing 
their  holdings.  When  the  Nevada  Legislature  meets,  it  is 
expected  that  it  will  assist  the  American  Flat  drainage 
scheme  to  some  extent,  and  then  the  temper  of  local  in- 
vestors will  be  tested  in  the  matter  of  support.  If  they 
take  kindly  to  the  scheme,  some  lively  times  may  be  ex- 
pected on  the  street. 

Wells,    Fargo   &  Co.'s  annual  report, 
Production  of        compiled  by  President  J.  J.  Valentine, 
Precious  Metals,     of    precious    metals  produced  in  the 
States    and    Territories    west  of  the 
Missouri  River  (including   British   Columbia)   during  1896, 
shows  in   the   aggregate:  Gold,    $54,399,242;  silver,    $35,- 
784,963;    copper,    $28,869,305;    lead,    $7,236,026.      Total 
gross  result,   $126,289,536.     The   "commercial"   value  at 
which  the  several  metals  named  herein  have  been  estimated 
is:  Silver,  67c.  per  oz.;  copper,  lie.  per  lb.,  and  lead,  $3  per 
cwt.     The  production  by  States  was  as  follows:  California, 
$15,631,391;    Nevada,    $2,759,364;    Montana,    $37,270,500; 
Utah,    $10,383,759;  Colorado,    $26,854,844;    Arizona,    $9,- 
265,917;  Idaho,   $8,125,182;    Dakota,    $4,794,765;    Alaska, 
$2,750,955.     The  other  amounts   are   small.     The  exports 
of  silver  during  the  past  year  to  Japan,  China,  the  Straits, 
etc.,  have  been  as  follows:  From  London,  $33,968,620;  from 
San  Francisco,  $9,947,776.     Total,  $43,916,396,  as  against 
$43,956,787  last  year.     Pounds  sterling  estimated  at  $4.84. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  Fire- 
The  Fireman's  Fund     man's    Fund    Insurance    Company 
Election.  was  held  on  Tuesday  last.     In  spite 

of  the  hard  times  which  have  borne 
so  hardly  on  other  companies,    the   company  made   a   re- 
markably  good  financial  showing,    the  net  surplus  being 
swelled  to  $1,104,726.  against  $987,205  for  the  preceding 
year.     The  old  Board  of  Directors  was  re-elected,    as  fol- 
lows :  D.  J.  Staples,  John  O.  Earl,  John  Barton,    John  H. 
Gardiner,  John  T.  Wright,  Thomas  S.  Chard,  W.  H.  Brown, 
P.  W.  Lougee,  J.  C.  Coleman,  John  Bermingham,  and  Wil- 
liam J.  Dutton.    The  officers  remain  the  same  as  last  year. 
The   Giant   shares   were   carried  up  to  $30 
The  Deal      during   the   week,    but    whether   the   good 
In  Powder,     folks  with  money  to  throw  to  the   birds  got 
trapped,  it  is  difficult  to  say.     The  compact 
which  is  supposed  to  affect  these  debt-laden  shares  to  a 
greater  extent  than  those  in  great  solid  concerns  like  the 
California,  is  still  conspicuous  by  its  absence. 


January  23,  1897. 


SAN    PR  \\\ 


15 


"He»r  the  Crier  :'•    "KUi  ibedeill  »rt  tbour 
" One  th»l  will  p|*T  the  ilcrll. sir.  wllhjou." 


proa 

a  ol  1 
tal  it 


OAKLAND  must  be  a  matrimonial  harvest  Held  fori 
dames  and  ancient  S]  -kv  l>ri<U-trrc>. .m> 

there  have  this  week    taken  onto  tl 
older  than  themselves,  and  as  their  own    ages   in  the  mar 
riage  licenses  are  given  as  Bixty-nlne  and  seventy  four  re- 
spectively, it  will  be  seen  that    youthfiilness   is   at    . 
count  with  Cupid  across  the  bay".    The  Town  Chikh   pre- 
diets  that  within  a  month's  time  there  will  not   be   an  old 
maid  or  elderly  widow  in  the  city  limits  in   San  Fran 
Ten  cents  will  take  them  to   Oakland,    and   while    tl 
life  there's  hope. 

YANKING  molars  from  the  jaws  of  howling  patients  is 
splendid  exercise  for  knights  of  the  forceps,  and  it 
would  seem  that  any  dentist  with  a  fairly  good  practice 
could  keep  his  muscles  in  proper  trim  without  joining  an 
athletic  club.  In  a  new  organization  of  this  character  that 
has  just  filed  its  articles  of  incorporation,  a  local  nerve- 
killer  has  been  made  a  prominent  officer,  and  it  is  now 
whispered  that  he  intends  to  become  a  sort  of  dental  San- 
dow,  who  will  be  able  to  pick  up  his  patients  and  shake 
them  off  a  tooth,  instead  of  extracting  the  latter  in  the 
old-fashioned  way. 

WHETHER  Miss  Lillian  Ashley  will  hide  her  attractive 
limbs  in  a  convent  or  will  advertise  them  before  the 
footlights,  remains  to  be  seen.  It  is,  of  course,  hard  to 
believe  that  she  was  damaged  to  the  extent  of  $100,000, 
but  she  probably  knew  best  what  value  to  put  upon  her 
earthly  charms. 

IT  appears  that  the  unfortunate  souls  who  shuffle  oft  this 
mortal  coil  via  the  Morgue  route,  and  hope  by  dying 
unidentified  to  secure  peace  at  last,  without  putting  their 
relatives  and  friends  to  the  inconvenience  of  burying  them, 
are  to  be  denied  even  the  poor  privilege  of  interment  in 
the  Potter's  Field.  The  doctors  want  them  to  experiment 
on,  so,  instead  of  being  decently  planted,  these  hapless 
bodies  must  meet  a  pickled  fate,  in  the  interests  of  science. 
This  is  enough  to  make  a  man  prefer  the  uncertainties  of 
life  to  the  certainties  of  unidentified  dissolution. 

FISTICUFFS,  'sdeath,  divorce; 
A  murderer  on  the  wing; 
A  Morgue  that  prays  that  another  corse 

Each  hour  its  way  may  bring; 
Bullets  and  knives  and  thieves; 
Bloodshed  and  birds  of  nrey— 
These  are  what  San  Francisco  weaves 
In  her  story  of  a  day. 

VIGOROUS  and  effective  methods  are  being  employed 
to  stamp  out  crime  in  Alaska,  and  that  territory  is 
now  a  law-abiding  and  peaceable  place.  These  frontier 
localities,  supposed  to  be  the  hot-beds  of  criminal  lawless- 
ness, can  teach  San  Francisco  a  thing  or  two  in  decency 
and  self-respect.  The  secret  of  the  matter  is,  that  Alaska 
has  not  become  too  highly  civilized  to  be  respectable. 

MARY  and  Thomas  Fiunegan,  both  deaf  mutes,  are 
trying  to  get  divorced,  and  Judge  Troutt  has  been 
sitting  up  nights  trying  to  master  the  intricacies  of  the 
sign  labguage.  It  appears  that  the  Finnegans,  according 
to  their  own  testimony,  fight  continually,  but  their  neigh- 
bors assert  that  they  have  never  heard  them  speak  a 
cross  word. 

EX-SENATOR  Grady  of  Fresno  is  in  hot  water.  He  is 
accused  of  battering  a  waiter,  and  putting  the  final 
touches  to  the  exercise  by  chewing  his  ear.  The  Town 
Crier  is  not  surprised  that  a  Fresno  man  should  be  vio- 
lent and  bloodthirsty  when  at  large,  but  cannot  forbear 
expressing  astonishment  at  his  singular  taste. 

THE  Truckee  carnival  has  enabled  some  scores  of  San 
Franciscans  to  taste  of  the  "delights"  of  the  "good, 
old-fashioned  winter;"  such  joys  as  thousands  of  Eastern 
people  come  to  California  to  avoid. 

THE  Examiner's  man  Friday  is  at  present  running  the 
Santa  Cruz  Penny  Press;  into  the  ground,  presumably. 


how  long  it  • 

fornia,  would  pi  ill  reading  for  him,   and,  su] 

tog  he  might  Induce  him  to  nunc 

With  us  in  the  near  future. 

A  tied  tO  an    ( 'aklaml  Ol 

1  artbquake  shock  which  dis- 
turbed the  worshipers  was  "simply  the  voice  of  thi 
speaking  to  his  |  I'his   pious  interpretation  of  the 

omewhat  doubtful  from   the  cir 
cumstance  thai    the    same   jolt    was   experienced  In  the 
Examiner  office.     The  staff  of  that  establishment  is  so  De- 
nied  to   "shake-ups"   that  the  event   was    scarcely 
remarked. 

PEOPLE  who  turn  on  the  gas,  as  the  easiest  and 
method  of  Bettlii  g  life's  woes,  should  leave  a  di 
with  the  landlady  beforehand.  There  is  not  any  too  much 
profit  in  the  boarding  house  business,  no  matter  what  the 
texture  and  fineness  of  the  hash  provided,  and  it  is  a 
trifle  inconsiderate  to  thus  play  into  the  hands  of  a  cor- 
poration. Will  suicidists  please  be  a  little  less  thoughtless? 
THE  man  who  created  a  sensation  the  other  night  Dy 
bursting  with  a  yell  from  his  room  in  the  early  hours 
of  morning,  and  turning  a  back  somersault  in  his  robe  dt 
nuit  before  the  terrified  guests,  should  be  pitied  rather 
than  blamed  for  his  unusual  conduct.  It  was  not  delirium 
tremens,  nor  sudden  nuttiness.  He  had  inadvertently 
fallen  asleep  while  perusing  the  Sunday  Examiner. 

RUMORS  from  afar  declare  that  the  theme  of  the  next 
Woman's  Congress  will  be  "Education."  This  is  en- 
couraging. By  next  year  the  ladies  may  get  down  to  solid 
business  and  discuss  cookery.  What  this  community  needs 
is  good  digestion,  and  in  this,  fair  woman  holds  man's  life 
and  temper  in  her  hands.  Give  us  proper  food,  and  the 
millennium  is  not  an  impossibility. 

THE  actress  who  desires  an  honest  name, 
Must  see  her  "star"  hopes  glimmer  to  a  candle, 
The  while,  across  the  footlights,  like  a  flame, 
Another  woman  soars  to  fortune,  fame 

And  money,  through  the  magic  aid  of  scandal. 

HAYES  VALLEY  residents  are  weary  of  groping 
about  in  darkness,  falling  into  defective  sewers,  yield- 
ing to  the  too-familiar  embrace  of  the  festive  footpad  and 
the  merry  thug.  They  announce  their  determination  to 
have  light,  and  plenty  of  it,  throughout  that  district.  Thus, 
bit  by  bit,  the  work  of  reform  goes  hopefully  on. 

A  WOMAN  in  this  city  attempted  suicide  this  week,  be- 
cause she  had  two  husbands,  which  was  one  more 
than  she  coveted.  Strange,  very  strange.  And  there 
are  others  who  cannot  succeed  in  landing  so  much  as  one 
upon  the  shore  of  matrimony.  Things  are  so  unevenly 
distributed  in  this  world! 

GOOD  news.  The  main  corridor  in  the  New  City  Hall 
is  going  to  be  washed  out  every  night  hereafter,  instead 
of  every  three  years.  By  the  time  the  entire  building  is 
purified,  it  may  occur  to  the  powers  that  be  to  purify  the 
politics  and  people,  as  well  as  the  pavements  and  floors 
of  that  historic  structure. 

IT  is  not  fair  to  jump  to  the  conclusion  that  the  post- 
mistress across  the  bay  who  eloped  with  a  storekeeper 
and  married  him,  did  so  merely  to  get  the  right  to  open 
his  letters  without  being  liable  to  the  law.  No  woman's 
curiosity  would  carry  her  quite  so  far. 

IT  is  refreshing  to  know  that  the   presence  of  a  lady  in 
the  Board  of  Education  would  cause  "embarrassment" 
to  the  honorable  members.     We  never  imagined  the  blush 
of  modesty  could  tinge  the  cheeks  of  these  gentlemen. 
'  t  \X/HO  was  the  man  they  used  to  call  Durrant  ? 

VV         What  was  his  crime?  "    The  Crier  does  not  know. 
Your  pardon,  dear  subscriber,  but  he  can't 
Recall  what  happened  here  so  long  ago. 

THERE  are  likely  to  be  some  broken  heads  as  well  as 
broken  types  in  the  famous  broken-will  case  of  the 
late  Senator  Fair.  But  the  lawyers  are  not  likely  to  come 
out  broke. 


i6 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


JOHN  J.  Valhntinb,  President,  San  Francisco. 
Gkop.GE  E.  Gray.  First  Vice-President.  San   Francisco. 
DUDLEY  Evans.  Second  Vice-President,  New  York. 
Aaron  STEIN.  Secretary.  San   Francisco. 
H.  B.  PARSONS,  Assistant  Secretary,  New  York. 
HOMER  S.  KING,  Treasurer,  San  Francisco. 


Office  of  the  President. 


thf  J  arjjrr  &  fomprntj, 

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§>an  efcati cisco,   'Sec-aw Get    31,    1896. 


Dear  Sir  :  Tlie  following  is  our  Annual  Report  of  Precious  Metals  produced  in  the  States  and  Territories  west  of  the 
Missouri  River  (including  British  Columbia)  during  1896,  which  shows  in  the  aggregate  :  Gold,  $54,399,242  ;  Silver,  $35,784,963  ; 
Copper,  $28,809,305;  Lead,  $7,236,026.  Total  gross  result,  $126,289,536.  The  "  commercial "  value  at  which  the  several 
metals  named  herein  have  been  estimated  is:  Silver,  67  cts.  per  oz. ;  Copper,  II  cts.  per  lb.;  and  Lead,  $3.00  per  cwt. 

Allowance  must  always  be  made  for  probable  variations  from  reported  figures,  by  reason  of  constantly  increasing 
facilities  for  transporting  bullion,  ores  and  base  metals  from  the  mines  outside  of  the  express  and  the  difficulty  of  getting 
entirely  reliable  data  from  private  sources.  Estimates  obtained  in  this  way  are  liable  to  be  exaggerated  and  are,  to  a  con- 
siderable degree,  guesswork ;  but  with  some  modifications  on  this  account,  made  herein,  the  general  results  reached,  while 
only  approximately  correct,  may  be  accepted-  as  the  closest  approximation  possible  under  the  circumstances. 


STATES  AND  TERRITORIES. 


Gold  Dust  and  Bul- 
lion by  Express. 


Gold  Dust  and 

Bullion  by  Other 

Conveyances. 


Silver  Bullion 
by  Express. 


Ores  and  Base 
Bullion  by  Freight 


California 

Nevada 

Oregon 

Washington 

Al.-iska 

Idaho  

Montana 

Utah 

Colorado 

New  Mexico 

Arizona 

Dakota 

Texas 

Wyoming 

British  Columbia  (entire  Province). 


$n,553.92S 
1,081,656 
1,746,752 
•  345,850 


2,652,500 
4,625,000 

777,698 
12,712.483 

245,H5 
i,3i3,5io 
4>572,265 

25,000 
1,384,000 


Total. 


$43,035,757 


$3,973,376 

950,000 

203.452 

37,500 

2,715,955 


1,163,122 

544,200 
1,775,880 


$       83,839 

478,814 

■     96,784 

170,500 


$        20,248 

248,894 

25,000 


3,272,682 

9,350,000 

1,050,348 

12,185,881 

179,876 

293,618 

185,000 

3",730 

3,50O 

2,100,000 


35,ooo 

2,200,000 

23,295,500 

7,392,59I 

1,956,480 

177,600 

5,882,909 

37,5oo 


856,000 


$15,631,391 
2,759,364 
2,071,988 
553.850 
2,750,955 
8,125,182 
37,270,500 

io,3S3,759 

26,854,844 

1,146,791 

9,265,9I7 

4,794,765 

3",730 

28,500 

4,340,000 


$11,363,485 


$29,762,572 


$42,127,722 


$126,289,536 


The  gross  yield  for  1895,  shown  above,  segregated,  is  approximately  as  follows  : 

Gold 43rihs $  54,399,242 

silver 28i'0% 35,784,963 

Copper 221% 28,869,305 

J^3"1 51% 7,236,026 


Total $126,289,536 

ANNUAL  PRODUCTS  OF  LEAD,  COPPER,  SILVER  AND  GOLD  IN  THE  STATES  AND  TERRITORIES  WEST  OF  THE  MISSOURI  RIVER,    1870-1  89G. 


Year. 


Product'on  as  per  W.  F. 

&  Co's  Statements. 

including  amounts  from 

British  Columbia  and 

West  Coast  of 

Mexico. 


1S70. 
1S7I. 
1872. 
'S73- 
1874. 
>S75- 

1876. 
IS77 
1878. 
.S79. 

1SS0.. 

I8SI.. 

IS82. 

iSS',  . 
■,SK4. 
18S5.. 
I SS6 . . 
1SS7.. 
1SR8. . 
1SS9. . 
1S90.  . 
1891.  . 
1S92. . 
1S93.. 
I.S94.  . 
1895.. 
1S96.  . 


$  54.000,000 
58,284,000 
62.236,959 
72,258,693 
74,401,045 
80,889,057 

90,875,I73 
98,421,754 
81,154,622 
75,349,501 
So, 167,93s 

84,504,417 
92,411,835 
90,313,612 

84,975,954 
90,181,260 
103,011,761 
104,645,959 
1 '4,341,592 
127,677,836 
127,166,410 
118.237,441 
in, 531, 700 
104, 08  r, 59 1 
ro5,H3,489 
118,164,642 
1 26, 289,536 


Product  after 
deo-ucting  amounts 

from  British 

Columbia  and  West 

Coast  of  Mexico. 


The  Net  Products  of  the  States  and  Territories  west  of  the  Missouri  River,  exclu- 
sive of  British  Columbia  and  West  Coast  of  Mexico,  divided,  are  as  follows : 


$  52,150,000 
55,784,000 
60,351, S24 
70,139,860 
71,965,610 

76,703,433 

87,219,859 

95,811,582 

78,276,167 

72,688,SS8 

77,232,512 

81,198,474 

89,207,549 

84,639,212 

8i,633,S35 

87,311,382 

100,160,222 

103,327,770 

112,665,569 

126,723,384 

126,804,855 

117,946,565 

111,259,508 

103,827,623 

104,844,112 

117,896,988 

121,949,536 


$  1,080,000 
2,100,000 
2,250,000 
3,450,000 
3,800,000 
5,100,000 
5 ,040,000 
5,085,250 
3,452,000 
4,185,769 
5,742,390 
6,361,902 
8,008,155 
8,163,550 
6,834,091 
8,562,991 
9,185,192 

9,631,073 
11,263,630 

14,593,32.3 
",509,571 
12,385,780 

".433,947 
7,756,040 
8,223,513 
7,170,367 
6,536,026 


$  SgS.ooo 
1,195,000 
4,055,037 
5,683,921 
6,086,252 
7,838,036 

9,276,755 
10,362,746 
18,261,490 
14,793,763 
20,569,092 
13,261,663 
19,370,516 

23,631,339 
22,276,294 
27,052,115 
28,713.305 


$17,320,000 
19,286,000 
19,924,429 
27,483,302 
29,699,122 

31,635,239 
39,292,924 
45,846,109 
37,248,137 

37,032,857 
38,033,055 
42,987,613 

48,133,039 
42,975,101 

43,529,925 
44,516,599 
52,136,851 
50,833,884 
53,152,747 
64,SoS,637 
62,930,831 
60,614,004 
50,607,601 
38,491,521 
28,721,014 
35,274,777 
33,684,963 


$33,750,ooo 
34,398,000 

38,177,395 
39,206,558 
38,466,488 
39,968,194 
42,886,935 
44,880,223 
37,576,030 
31,470,262 
32,559,067 

30,653,959 
29,011,318 
27,816,640 
25,183,567 
26,393,756 
29,561,424 
32,500,067 
29,987,702 
32,527,661 
31,795,361 
31.685,118 
29,847,444 
33,948,723 
45,623,291 

48,399,729 
53015,242 


,Ize  ej\Ports  of  Silver  during  the  past  year  to  Japan,  China,  the  Straits,  etc.,  have  been  as  follows:      From  Loudon, 
at$4  Sd  Francisco,  $9,947,776.     Total,  $43,916,395,  as  against  $43,956,787  last  year.  .   Pounds  Sterling  estimated 


January  23.  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER 


'7 


^I'liil^    S&vfcw    of    f lu  vico. 

STATEMENT  OF  TB8  PRODCC  t  OF  GOLD  ASDSILVKR  IN  TIIK  UrOBI.II  vND  CORRECTED  FROM  I.S77  To  1896 

VAX 


1S78. 

1879-1880. 

1880 

1885-1SS6. 

1SS6 

1887 

1SS9. 
1889-1890. 
1S90-1S91. 
1S91-1S92 
1S92-1S93. 
1893-1894. 
1894-1S95. 
1S95-1S96. 

Total. 


1,013,000 
937.000 
956,000 
",055,000 
914,000 
1,026,000 
1,047,000 
1,031,000 
1,040,000 
1,100,000 
1,150,000 
1,275,000 
1,400,000 
1,425,000 
4,750,000 
5,475,000 


$28,164,000 


25.' 

34,1 12,000 
34,60  .,000 
34,912,000 
40,706,000 
41,500,000 
43,000,000 
45.75"."O0 
48,500,000 
47,250,000 
54,225,000 
54.450,000 

$708,820,000 


Total. 


f25.584.ooo 
26,006,000 
27,742,000 
30,247,000 
30,266,000 
30,525,000 
32,750,000 
34,140,000 
35,138,000 
35,647,000 
35,943,000 
41,746,000 
42,600,000 
44,150,000 
47,025,000 
49,900,000 
48,675,000 
58,975,000 
59,925,000 


1736,984,000 


EXHIBIT  OF  COINAGE  OF   GOLD,  SILVER   AND  COPPER,  IN    THE    REPUBLIC  OF   MEXICO,  FROM   THE    1st  OF  JULY,  1873,  TO  THE 

30th  OF  JONS,   1S96. 


I873-1874. 
I874-1875. 

1875-1876. 
IS76-1S77. 
1S77-1N7N. 
1878-1879. 
1879-18S0. 
18S0-1SS1. 
18S1-1882. 
ifS2-iSS3. 
1S83-1SS4 
1SS4-1SS5. 
1SS5-1S86. 
1SS6-18S7. 
18S7-1SS8. 
1SSS-1SS9. 
1SS9-1890. 
1S90-1S91. 
1S91-1S92. 
1S92-1893. 
1S93-1S94. 
1894-1S95. 
1S95-1896. 

Total . 


Gold  Dollars. 


|S66,743 
S62,6ig 
809,401 
695,750 
691,99s 
658,206 
521, S26 
492,068 
452,590 
407,600 
328,69s 
423,250 
425,000 
410,000 
340,320 
305,100 
243,298 
308,000 
291,940 
361,672 
553.978 
545,237 
565,786 


#11,561,080 


Silver  Dollars. 


$18,846,067 
19,386,958 
19,454,054 
21,415,128 
22,084,203 

22,  162,987 
24,018,528 

24,617,395 
25,146,260 
24.083,921 

25,377,379 
25,840,728 
25,850,000 
25,600,000 
26,711,000 
25,274,500 
24,328,326 
24,238,000 
25,527,000 
27, 169,876 

30,iS5,6ii 
27,62S,gSi 
22,634,7SS 


$557,581,690 


Copper  Dollars. 


$15,966 
21,712 
30,654 
9.035 
41,364 
16,300 

M.035 
42,258 
11,972 


$203,296 


Summary.— Totals  :  Gold,  $11,561,000:  Silver,  #557,581,690  ;  Copper,  $203  296.     Grand  Total,  $569,346,066. 

EXHIBIT  OF  THE  COINAGE  OF  MEXICO   FROM   THE  ESTABLISHMENT  OF  THE   MINTS  IN    1537  TO  THE  END  OF  THE 

FISCAL    YEAR    OF    1896. 


Colonial  Epoch. 

Cold. 

Silver. 

Copper. 

Total. 

#  S.497.950 
19,889,014 
40,391,447 

$752,067,456 
441,629,211 
888,563,989 

#200,000 
342,893 

$760,765,406 

Independence. 

#6S,77S,4ii 

$2,082,260,656 

#542,893 

$2,151,581,960 

#      557,392 
45,040,628 

#    '8,575,569 
740,246,485 

#5.235,177 

790,522,290 

Republic. 

$45,598,020 

$75S,S22,o54 

f5.235.I77 

$809,655,251 

Eagle  coin,  from  1st  July,  1S73,  to  30th  of  June,  1S96. . 

#11,561,080 

#557,581,690 

$203,296 

$569,346,066 

SUMMARY. 
Colonial  Epoch— from  1537  to  1821,  $2,151,581,960  ;    Independence— from  1S22  to  1873,  $809,655,251  ; 
1873  to  1896,  $569,346,066.     Total,  $3,530,583,277- 


Republic — from 


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President. 


i8 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


\NE  of  the  most  strik- 
ing fads  of  the  day  is 
the  armorial  bearings,  crests,  etc.,  which  are  considered 
de  rigueur  for  all  society  people,  and  it  is  not  a  little  amus- 
ing the  uphill  work — real  work — it  is  to  many  getting  up 
the  requisite  lozenge  for  note  paper,  silver,  and  carriage 
panel.  In  London,  people  who  wish  their  crests  done  (if 
not  already  in  use)  begin  by  tracing  descent,  searching 
genealogy,  and  the  like.  In  New  York  and  San  Fran- 
cisco this  method  is,  for  obvious  reasons,  not  the  one  fol- 
lowed, so  an  expert  designer  is  called  in  to  aid  the  taste 
and  wishes  of  the  wealthy  fashionables  who  wish  to  be  up- 
to-date.  Several  humorous  stories  are  told  of  what  has 
happened  in  Gotham,  where  people  have  been  on  the 
hunt  for  crests  and  mottos,  one  of  them  strongly  remini- 
scent of  the  famous  mot  of  Dean  Swift,  who,  on  being 
asked  by  a  rich  tobacconist  to  suggest  a  proper  motto  for 
his  carriage  crest,  immediately  responded:  "Why,  Quid 
rides,  of  course."  However,  as  our  local  Four  Hundred  is 
of  more  interest  to  us  than  the  doings  of  London'  or  New 
York,  we  took  the  pains  a  few  days  ago  to  examine  a 
display  made  by  a  leading  stationer  of  the  recently  exe- 
cuted crests  and  coats  of  arms  designed  to  order  for  our 
swagger  set.  There  being  "  no  earthly  reason  why  we 
can't  have  strawberry  leaves  if  we  feel  like  it,"  to  quote 
from  a  leading  bud,  that  ducal  insignia  is  used  extensively 
as  well  as  the  five-pointed  coronet  and  the  fleur  de  lis. 
Hands  and  daggers,  griffens'  heads,  and  lions'  couchant  are 
frequent,  but  the  design  of  old  castles  with  knights  in  ar- 
mour seems  to  be  a  favorite  style.  One  lady,  evidently  of 
a  sentimental  turn  of  mind,  has  chosen  a  transfixed  heart 
on  a  shield.  Another  pretty  devise  of  originality  is  a  huge 
stack  of  glittering  gold;  motto,  ''Win  gold  and  pile  it." 
Yet  another  shows  a  steaming  locomotive;  motto,  "Bound 
by  steel."  Of  course,  these  are  the  crests  merely;  the 
armorial  bearings  are  all  more  or  less  gorgeous  in  coloring 
and  heraldry,  and  mark  an  epoch  in  our  fashionable  pro- 
gress at  this  fin  de  siecle,  for  no  one  who  is  any  one  can 
afford  to  be  without  a  crest  nowadays. 

*  *  * 

Another  mark  of  our  gradual  adoption  of  things  British 
is  the  hunt,  which  is  apparently  hovering  about  from 
country  to  town,  unsettled  where  to  stay.  The  difficulty 
of  drawing  sufficiently  large  numbers  of  participants  to  the 
San  Mateo  line  to  make  the  thing  a  success,  has  induced  the 
indefatigable  members  of  the  Pacific  Avenue  riding  club  to 
to  take  a  hand  and  try  what  can  be  done  in  the  way  of  a 
hunt  over  hedges,  fences,  ditches,  and  fields  in  the  Ingle- 
side  District,  whereby  the  club  may  display  its  horseman- 
ship, and  the  city  folk  may  indulge  in  joining  the  sport, 
either  as  riders  or  onlookers.  That  it  will  be  a  success 
of  course  remains  to  be  seen,  but  at  all  events  it  will  be  a 
brilliant  "try,"  as  many  of  the  leading  lights  of  the  swim 
are  among  the  members  of  the  riding  school. 

*  *  * 

Gossip  says  that  when  those  thoroughly  equipped  young 
ladies,  the  Misses  Ethel  Keeney  and  Leontine  Blakeman, 
finally  enter  society  as  acknowledged  grown-up  girls, 
they  will  be  the  sensation  of  the  season;  also  that  Miss 
Florence  Breckenridge  is  another  girl  who  will  make  a 
brilliant  addition  to  society's  ranks.  So  it  behooves  those 
girls  who  are  stars  of  this  year's  social  firmament  to  make 
hay  while  the  sun  shines,  and  get  out  of  the  way  of  the 
new  lights. 

*  *  * 

Several  feasts  are  in  prospect  for  our  epicures.  On 
Tuesday  last,  a  swell  banquet  was  given  at  the  Presidio 
for  three  hundred  persons.  On  Tuesday  next,  the  Laurel 
Hall  Club  will  give  a  supper  for  two  hundred  and  fifty 
guests  at  Beethoven  Hall,  and  on  February  4th,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  H.  P.  Spitz  will  celebrate  their  golden  wedding  by 
giving  a  dinner  to  seventy-five  of  their  friends  at  the  Con- 
cordia Club.  All  these  functions  will  be  attended  to  by 
Max  Abraham,  the  well-known  caterer. 


Miss  Elizabeth  Carroll's  many  friends  are  growling  at 
not  having  been  allowed  the  pleasure  of  seeing  her  in  her 
nuptial  robe,  as  they  had  hoped  a  church  wedding  would 
have  been  her  choice,  but  Miss  Elizabeth  is  nothing  if  not 
positive,  and  she  is  said  to  have  set  her  little  foot  down 
very  positively  on  an  elaborate  wedding,  reserving  all  that 
sort  of  thing  for  the  Whittier  mansion. 

*  *  * 

If  rumor  speaks  by  the  card,  one  of  the  bridesmaids  who 
will  attend  Miss  Carroll  will  hereafter  be  a  bride  ere  many 
moons  have  waned.  "Miss  Julia  Crocker,  of  course,"  say 
our  readers.     Not  so,  dear  friends.      Stately  Miss  Romie 

Wallace  is  the  one  meant. 

*  *  * 

The  perfect  delight  with  which  young  Boardman  was 
greeted  upon  his  return  to  health  and  appearance  at  the 
card  party  by  the  owner  of  those  lovely  eyes,  should  have 
satisfied  him  that  one  conquest  at  least  has  fallen  to  his 
share  in  the  new  Year. 

*  *  * 

Sausalito  folks  are  greatly  exercised  over  some  city  gos- 
sip which  declares  that  Claude  Terry  Hamilton  has  fol- 
lowed Charley  Mcintosh's  example,  and  is  engaged. 

*  *  * 

The  new  army  contingent  can  boast  of  several  pretty 
women  among  them,  as  evidenced  by  the  military  ball- 
room on  Tuesday  evening  last. 

Japanese  curios  are  sought  after  the  whole  world  over  but  in  no 
place  can  such  rare  ones  be  obtained  as  in  San  Francisco.  The 
visitor  to  the  store  of  G.  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  625  Market  Street,  will  ob- 
tain the  best  obtainable  at  very  reasonable  prices.  The  store  is  well 
worth  a  visit. 

The  FINEST  GIN  Imported. 


Especially  Adapted  for  Family  Use 
and  Medicinal  Purposes. 

In    Large   Square    White    Bottles. 


Annexed  Trade  Mark  - 
Appears  on  Cap  and  -  ■ 
is  Blown  in  Shoulder 


Sold  by  Grocers  and  Dealers.. .Beware  of  Filled-Up  Bottles 

CHARLES    MEINECKE   &   CO, 

Sole  Agents.  314  Sacramento  St.,  S.  F. 


Going  out  of 
Business. 

Commencing    flonday,  Jan.  4th 


,000 


CLOAKS, 
SUITS,  etc. 

Tbe  entire  stock  to  be  sold  during  npxt  30 
days  at  a  TREMENDOUS    SACRLFICE, 

ARriAND    CAILLEAU, 

Cor.  Geary  St.  and  Grant  Ave. 


Janua- 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


mi 


•  Th«  difference  at  present  U-ttreen  the  handsome  young 
woman  and  the  codfish,"  said  the  cheerful  idiot,  in  answer 
to  a  question  he  had  evidently  put  to  himself  before  sit  tin.- 
down  at  the  table— "the  difference  between  the  handsome 
young  woman  and  the  codfish  is.  that  one  has  a  chain  c  to 
become  a  fall  bride  and  the  other  to  become  a  ball  fried  : 
After  that  the  hired  girl  passed  them.— Indianapolis 
Journal.  r 

Crimsonbe.k— I  knew  that  fellow  Storms,  the  comedian 
would  come  to  the  front.  Yeast— And  he  has,  has  he?" 
"Why,  certainly.  You  remember  be  used  to  play  the  part 
of  the  hind  legs  of  a  heifer?"  "Yes."  "Well,  now  he's 
playing  the  front  legs.'^Yonkers  Statesman. 

Teacher— Who  can  tell  me  what  induced  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh  to  spread  his  cloak  over  a  puddle  for  Queen 
Elizabeth  to  pass?  Tommy  (whose  father  holds  a  city  ap- 
pointment)—He  was  tryin'  for  the  job  of  street  commission- 
er.— Pearson's  Weekly. 

"I'll  woo  thee  in  the  moonlight,"   sang   the   lover  to  his 
girl,  who  was  gazing  fondly    on    him    from  the  casement. 
'It's  much  cheaper  than  the   gaslight,"   sang  her  father 
the  old  churl,  who  was  taking  observations  from  the  base- 
ment.—Tit-Bits. 

"I  win  have  revenge  on  my  husband!"  shrieked  the  wo- 
man. "Allow  me,  madam,"  said  a  stranger,  with  a 
sympathetic  gleam  in  his  eye,  "to  show  you  this  book  on 
the  art  of  making  shirts." — Judge. 

Choliy— I  wonder  if  your  father  would  fly  into  a  passion 
if  I  asked  him  for  you?  Adelaide— Not  if  you  tell  him 
first  that  he  looks  twenty  years  younger  since  he  shaved 
off  his  whiskers. — Cleveland  Leader. 

Proprietor — Go  tell  that  man  who  just  came  in  to  shut  the 
door.  I  hate  such  carelessness!  Clerk— That  wasn't 
carelessness  on  his  part,  sir;  it  was  precaution.  He's  a 
book  agent. — Roxbury  Gazette. 

"Do  you  think  Julia  will  accept  the  offer  of  her  foreign 
lover?"  "No;  her  father  says  when  they  go  abroad  they 
may  get  something  cheaper  and  just  as'good."— Chicago 
Record. 

Fifth  Form  Boy — Please,  I  want  a  pair  of  gloves. 
Gentlemen's  Outfitter— Kid  gloves?  Fifth  Form  Bot 
— No,  no.     Gloves  for  grown-up  people!— Comic  Cuts. 

"So  Boston  rejected  MacMonnies'  'Bacchante'?"  "Yes; 
they  were  annoyed  because  she  carried  a  bunch  of  grapes 
instead  of  a  pot  of  baked  beans." — Chicago  Record. 

"Was  the  brute  who  struck  his  wife  punished  by  the 
court?"  "No;  when  it  came  to  the  trial  the  woman  would 
not  acknowledge  herself  beaten."— Tit-Bits. 

Hicks — Are  you  fond  of  children?  Wicks — Immoder- 
ately. A  bouse  is  so  restful  after  the  little  dears  have  been 
put  to  bed. — Exchange. 

"Does  your  wife  ever  call  you  up  on  the  telephone?" 
"Yes;  she  calls  me  down  on  it,  too,  sometimes." — Yonkers 
Statesman. 

"I  never  saw  a  more  perfect  fit  tlian  that  dress,  Miss 
Rosebud."  "I  did;  when  papa  got  the  bill  for  it. " — 
Answers. 

"And  now  they  say  that  genius  is  a  disease."  "Don't 
let  that  scare  you;  you  look  perfectly  healthy." — Chicago 
Record. 

She — It  must  be  a  terrible  thing  to  be  paralyzed.  He 
— It  is.     You  feel  so  mean  the  next  morning. — Life. 

Are  You  Going  East? 
The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad,  Santa  Fe  Route,  is  the  coolest 
and  most  comfortable  summer  line,  owing  to  its  elevation  and  ab- 
sence of  alkali  dust.  Particularly  adapted  to  the  transportation  of 
families  or  large  parties,  owing  to  its  Pullman  palace  drawing  room 
and  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleepers,  which  ran  daily  through 
from  Oakland  to  Chicago  via  Kansas  City.  Ticket  office,  644  Market 
street,  Chronicle  building.    Telephone  Main  1531. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 


SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 


309  and  311  Sansome  St 


San  Francisco,  Ca 


"OltKESPONDENTS: 

KINDI.AY,  DURHAM  A  HKODIE 49  and  48  Throadneedle  St..  London 

SIMPSON.  MACKIRDY  A  CO W  South  Caatle  St..  Liverpool 


INSURANCE. 


FIRE.    MARINE,    AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,000,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),   OF  MANCHESTER,   ENQL    ND. 
SOLID    SECURITY.  ZOVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager  489  California  St.,  S.  F. 

Fire  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179!". 

Insurance    6ompanu    ot  Nortn   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,   PENN. 

Paid-up  Capital $3,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,022,010 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  P. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000.000 

Assets 3,192.001. 89 

Surplus  to  Polioy  Holders 1,500,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD   &    DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St. 
AACHEN  AND  MUNICH  FIRE  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

OF    AIX   LA    CHAPELLE,    GERMANY.  Established  1896 

Capital.  I2,350,oou         Total  Assets,  18,854,068  85. 
UNITED  STATE        EPARTMMW:  304  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 

VOSS,  CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  »*««»  ""• 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON   NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  i-m 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 
413  California  St.,  S.F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF   LIVERPOOL. 

Capital 18,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents, 

No.  818  California  St.,  S.  F 

r>R  RltTiRrYQ  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu* 
un.  niV/Unu  O  ine— Aspeolflo  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physloal 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
J.  G.  8TEELE  &  CO.,  886  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Franolsoo. 
Sent  by  mall  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED— Box  of  50  pills,  II  86;  of  100  pills,  82;  of  200  pills, 
18  60 ;  of  400  pills,  86 ;  Preparatory  Pills,  13.    Send  for  clroular. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897 


In  response  to  many  inquiries  from 
all  parts  of  the  country  about  the 
Railway  and  Dock  Construction 
Company 


The  officials  hereby  give  full  infor- 
mation in  regard  to  the  company, 
its  business  and  prospects. 

The  company  offers  20,000  shares  of  stock  for  sale  in  lots  to  suit 
purchasers  at  $20  per  share.  The  par  value  is  $100  per  share— full 
paid  and  unassessable— stockholders  have  no  individual  liability 
whatever.  The  company  has  no  indebtedness  of  any  kind — is  in 
solid  financial  condition — and,  as  there  are  no  bonds  nor  mortgages, 
all  the  earnings  go  to  the  stockholders. 

The  adoption  of  this  Company's  system  of  construction  by  the 
United  States  Government,  or  any  Foreign  Government,  or  by  any 
one  of  the  large  cities  in  America  or  Europe  will  cause  the  stock  to 
rise  above  par  ($100)  immediately. 

The  most  conservative  investors,  old  shrewd  bear  operators  on  the 
stock  exchange,  have  bought  this  stock  and  confidently  predict  it  is 
sure  to  pay  large  dividends  and  sell  at  over  $200  a  share  as  the  Rail 
way  and  Dock  Construction  Co.  commence  business  under  much 
more  favorable  conditions  than  did  the  Bell  Telephone  Co.,  whose 
stock  rose  from  about  $10  to  over  200;  or  the  original  Edison  Electric 
Co.,  whose  stock  rose  from  45  to  $3000  a  share,  or  the  many  other 
companies  owning  useful  inventions  whose  stocks  rose  rapidly  in 
value  while  paying  large  dividends  to  the  alert  original  investors. 

Many  prominent  men  in  banking,  railway  and  financial  circles 
and  other  expert  judges  of  stock  values  predict  that  this  stock  will 
pay  large  dividends  and  will  sell  at  over  $200  per  share  for  the 
following  reasons: 

The  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company  controls  all  the 
rights,  titles,  patents  and  interests  in  and  the  sole,  absolute  and  ex- 
clusive right  to  manufacture  and  sell  the  new  indestructible  piles 
that  do  away  altogether  with  the  millions  of  wooden  piles  heretofore 
used  everywhere,  which  only  last  a  short  time,  as  alternate  moisture 
and  drying  and  the  marine  worms  soon  destroy  the  wood,  and  leave 
a  deceptive  shell,  incapable  to  sustain  a  load  that  requires  the  full 
strength  of  the  original  pile.  Old  wooden  piles  must  be  continually 
replaced  at  great  expense. 

Nothing  can  compete  with  the  indestructible  Pile  in  the  construc- 
tion of  piers,  docks,  bulkheads,  sea-walls,  foundations  for  bridges, 
lighthouses,  jetties,  breakwaters  or  other  improvements  in  rivers, 
harbors  or  on  the  sea  coast. 

This  pile  is  an  absolute  necessity  in  railway  trestlework  as  t. 
guarantees  safety,  and  it  will  last  forever,  and  tnere  is  an  enom.ioua 
demand  for  it. 

One  defective  wooden  pile  derailing  a  train  causes  a  loss  of  many 
thousands  of  dollars  in  lives  and  property  destroyed. 

Applications  are  pouring  in  from  engineers,  contractors  and  rail- 
way officials  all  over  the  TJnited  States.  These  men  are  quick  to  see 
the  certainty  of  profit.  They  are  perhaps  better  able  to  judge  than 
others,  because,  out  of  a  total  of  1891  railroads,  373  of  these  railway 
companies  are  now  preparing  to  build  20,547  miles  of  new  line.  The 
great  superiority  of  the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company's 
system  of  solid,  substantial,  indestructible  trestle  work  is  causing 
the  demand  in  this  special  field. 

Estimated  earnings  from  this  one  source  of  profit  will  pay  $7  per 
share  annual  dividends — this  is  equal  to  35  per  cent,  cash  dividends 
per  year  on  stock  bought  now  at  present  price  of  $20  per  share. 

Other  and  larger  sources  of  profit  will  come  from  contracts  now  in 
view,  viz: — 

In  place  of  the  old  wooden  docks,  covered  by  temporary  sheds, 
which  now  disfigure  the  water  fronts  of  our  cities,  this  company  will 
build  solid,  indestructible  piers,  on  which  permanent  iron,  stone  or 
brick  buildings  are  put  up  just  the  same  as  on  land. 

Private  owners  of  dock  property  as  well  as  dock  officials  in  the 
numerous  cities  are  becoming  aware  of  the  great  advantage  of  using 
the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company's  system  of  building 
indestructible  piers  to  make  a  solid  foundation,  upon  which  large 
buildings  can  be  erected,  from  which  they  can  get  big  revenues  for 
rentals,  etc. 

$27,000,000  have  already  been  expended  in  improving  Southern 
harbors  and  their  approaches. 

In  projects  now  under  way  over  fifty  million  dollars  will  be  spent 
in  improving  navigation  in  rivers,  bays,  etc.,  throughout  the  coun- 


try on  jetties,  breakwaters,  and  other  work  in  which  the  indestructi- 
ble Pile  is  a  great  necessity. 

The  city  of  New  York  is  spending  $5,000,000  a  year  improving  the 
city  water  front. 

In  a  private  conversation  Hon.  J.  Sergeant  Cram,  ex-President  of 
the  Board  of  Dock  Commissioners  said:  "There  is  an  immense 
fortune  in  this  company's  system  of  construction." 

The  U.  S.  Senate  Committee  have  recommended  the  expenditure 
of  eighty  million  dollars  for  the  protection  of  our  seacoast.  About 
ten  millions  a  year  will  be  spent  during  the  next  eight  years. 

The  United  States  Government  spent  about  $10,000,000  in  deepen- 
ing the  entrance  of  the  Mississippi  to  divert  tidal  action  by  old  style 
work,  which  will  be  supplanted  in  future  by  the  Railway  and  Dock 
Construction  Company's  system.  $6,000,000  has  already  been  ex- 
pended on  the  two  immense  jetties  in  the  bay  at  Galveston:  they 
are  simply  loose  rock  dumped  into  the  water.  Each  jetty  is  about 
4%  miles  long  and  forms  a  continuous  pyramid  100  feet  wide  at  the 
bottom,  tapering  to  15 feet  wide  at  the  top  above  the  water.  The 
Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company  build  indestructible 
jetties  of  the  same  size  at  the  bottom  as  the  top  and  save  this  enor- 
mous waste  of  stone  and  labor. 

The  "St.  Louis  Critic"  strongly  advocates  the  adoption  of  this  com- 
pany's system  of  indestructible  jetties  to  deepen  the  Mississippi  at 
St.  Louis. 

To  provide  additional  funds  to  execute  some  of  this  work,  the 
company  offers  20,000  shares  to  the  public  in  lots  to  suit  at  the 
low  price  of  $20.00  per  share  in  order  to  have  the  stock  quickly 
taken.  There  are  no  salaried  officials.  The  money  derived  from  the 
sale  of  stock,  when  not  used  in  profitable  construction  work,  remains 
in  the  company's  treasury. 

Many  leading  marine  engineers  and  experts  say:  "This  com- 
pany's system  of  construction  is  coming  into  universal  use  in  build- 
ing all  improvements  in  rivers  and  harbors." 

As  the  business  in  sight  is  too  large  for  this  company  to  handle 
alone,  the  subsidiary  companies  now  being  organized  in  the 
principal  States  each  pay  a  certain  amount  in  cash  and  one-third 
of  their  capital  stock  into  the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Co.'s 
treasury.  In  addition  to  large  sums  in  cash  the  company  will  re- 
ceive about  $20,000,000  in  securities  in  this  way,  on  which  dividends 
will  be  paid  from  the  earnings  of  the  subsidiary  companies.  These 
dividends  all  go  to  the-  holders  of  Railway  an  J  Dock  Construction 
stock. 

With  a  large  surplus  and  an  ample  cash  working  capital  the  com- 
pany will  hold  assets  of  $200  per  share  for  each  share  now  offered  at 
$20  when  all  details  are  completed. 
Application  will  be  made  to  list  the  shares  on  the  stock  exchange. 
Owing  to  the  financial  depression  and  uncertainty  before  the  elec- 
tion the  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  Company  would  not  accept 
numerous  contracts  for  work  amounting  to  about  three  millions  of 
dollars.  They  were  offered  first  mortgage  bonds  in  payment  but  the 
bonds  could  not  be  sold  at  that  time  in  New  York  or  London  at 
satisfactory  prices.  English  bankers  are  now  negotiating  to  p'-^e  a 
large  block  of  Railway  and  Dock  Construction  stock  and  apply 
for  an  official  quotation  on  the  London  Stock  Exchange. 

The    officials    and   large    stockholders    are    well-known  practical 

financiers  and  business  men,  whose  names  are  at  once  a  synonym  for 

trustworthy,  capable  management  and  a  guarantee  that  any  stock 

in  which  they  invest  is  safe,  solid  and  profitable.    Among  them  are 

Among  the  stockholders  are: 

Geo.  W.  Dunn,  Esq.,  president  of  the  company, head  of  the  bank- 
ing house  of  George  W.  Dunn  &  Co.,  New  York,  and  president, 
director  and  trustee  of  other  corporations;  he  has  been  prominent  in 
Wall  Street  for 20  years  as  a  careful  level-headed  financier;  Hon. 
Thomas  Murphy ,  vice-president,  ex-Senator,  Collector  of  the  port  of 
New  York  under  President  U.  S.  Grant;  R.  A.  B.  Dayton,  Esq., 
counsel  for  the  company,  Temple  Court,  New  York ;  Eugene  Harvey, 
Esq.,  second  vice-president,  banker,  Drexel  building,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.;  R.  M.  Stanbrough,  Esq.,  Kingston,  N.  Y. ;  George  D.  Hilyard, 
Esq.,  contractor,  N.  Y.;  W.  R.  Childs,  Esq.,  of  the  Calumet  and 
Hecla  Copper  Company,  Calumet,  Mich. ;  Edward  A.  Wilson,  Esq., 
secretary;  M.  Hoff,  assistant  secretary ;  George  B.  Sheihorn,  Esq.. 
receiver,  Montgomery,  Tuscaloosa  and  Memphis  Railway  Co., 
Montgomery,  Ala;  Y.  Carryer,  Esq.,  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  Rail- 
way Company,  Field,  B.  C,  Canada;  Howard  Swineford,  Esq.,  of 
Howard  Swineford  &  Co.  Richmond,  Va. ;  Jacob  Deyo,  cashier, 
Huguenot  Bank,  New  Paltz.N.Y.;  S.  J.  Gifford,  Dunkirk,  N.  Y.. 
and  several  rich  and  influential  railway  and  political  magnates  who 
will  have  seats  in  the  Board  of  Directors  later  on. 

Address  all  applications  for  stock  and  remit  for  the  number  of 
shares  wanted  to  the  Financial  Agents  of  the  company,  Messrs, 

GEO.  W.  DUNN  &  CO., 
2  Wall  St.,  New  York. 

by  check,  draft,  money  order,    registered   letter   or    by  express;  or 
have  the  stock  sent  by  express  C.  O.  D. 

The  right  is  reserved  to  reject  any  application  for  stock,  and  to 
allot  only  a  part  of  the  shares  applied  for,  and  to  advance  the  price 
without  notice. 


January  ;  | 


SAN    PRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


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^^J,r;      ;W"  Blanket  Business. 


DEAR  EDITH  irprlahw  *ha1    :i  quantity  of 

dresses  are  trimmed  with  fur,  both  for  day  ami  even- 
ing wear.     Here  la  .1  i   •  ■  •  ■■      iwn  of  cabb 
which  is  a    i;ootl    mrnlel    of    the    fur-trimuidl   Indoor 

The  edge  of  the  trained  skirt  is  trimmed  with  a  fifteen- 
inch  band  tirade  up  alternately  of  antique  lace  in» 

and  bands  of  golden  otter  ;i>  wide  as  the  lace,  the  fur 
bands  being  edged  with  two  tiny  folds  of  mauve  velvet. 
This  affords  a  wonderfully  tine  color  combination,  the  vel- 
vet edge  showing  up  the  golden  tinge  of  fur,  and  cmtrasts 
beautifully  with  the  green  satin.  The  low  satin  bodice  is 
partly  covered  with  a  lace  Figaro,  edged  with  fur  and 
velvet,  the  lace  being  embroidered  all  over  with  amethysts. 
The  tight  sleeve  is  of  jeweled  lace  with  a  satin  shoulder 
drapery  held  with  amethyst  brooches.  The  waist  on  the 
pointed  bodice  is  marked  by  four  tiny  bands  of  mauve 
velvet. 

Mrs.  Annie  Jenness  Miller  says  that  she  believes  that 
the  house  dress  of  the  future  will  be  short  enough;  "that 
the  woman  who  goes  upstairs  or  who  goes  arouud  with  all 
kinds  of  household  implements,  will  be  able  to  go  upstairs 
naturally,  three  steps  at  a  time  if  she  wants  to,  and  get 
all  the  benefit  she  can  out  of  that  exercise.  Going  up  and 
down  stairs  is  the  best  exercise  in  the  world.  And  yet 
you  can  find  learned  doctors  who  will  warn  women  against 
going  up  and  down  stairs.  They  do  it  justly,  too,  because 
the  learned  doctor  knows  that  a  woman  who  has  a  lot  of 
skirts  pressing  down,  who  lifts  herself  up  and  down  stairs 
on  levers,  so  to  speak,  churns  all  the  vital  organs  and  does 
herself  infinite  harm. 

"I  have  invented  a  houseworker's  dress  which  any  wo- 
man can  carry  out  for  herself,"  Mrs.  Miller  went  on  to 
say.  "It  does  not  require  a  pattern.  All  you  have  to  do 
is  to  make  the  skirt  come  half  way  between  the  knees  and 
the  ankle,  and  make  the  waist  and  skirt  all  in  one  piece. 
Then  you  can  have  a  little  Eton  jacket  hanging  over  a 
chair,  and  when  a  caller  comes  in  all  you  have  to  do  is  to 
slip  off  your  apron  and  slip  on  your  jacket,  and  you  can 
entertain  your  friends  in  the  parlor.  That  is  utility  in 
dress." 

For  evening  dress  the  rou^d-waisted  blouse-bodice  is 
giving  place  to  the  corsage  with  small  points  back  and 
front.  This  is  good  news  because  the  points  suit  all 
figures;  the  waistbelt  does  not.  The  belt  demands  a  small 
waist  and  a  graceful  slenderness  of  build.  Figures  of  the 
broad  type  look  far  better  in  a  pointed  bodice. 

Grotesque  indeed  are  some  of  the  latest  "picture"  hats 
sent  out,  composite  as  to  decoration  and  fearfully  and 
wonderfully  made.  The  brims  in  many  cases  are  irregular 
frills  of  velvet,  the  crown  ridiculously  high,  the  folds  ar- 
ranged in  the  most  fantastic  fashion.  The  apex  of  some 
of  the  Mother  Goose  shapes  sometimes  threatens  to  over- 
weigh  the  base  of  the  crown.  Jeweled  pins,  clasps  and 
slides  are  put  in  to  keep  the  puffs  and  folds  in  place.  If  a 
plain-covered  shape,  the  crown  is  of  the  jam-pot  order,  7 
or  8  inches  high  perhaps.  Bands  of  satin,  bead  galloon  or 
jet  encircle  the  crown,  there  is  a  lowering  bouquet  of 
black  ostrich  feathers  with  others  quite  as  long  sprawling 
anywhere  over  the  brim,  sometimes  directly  in  front  right 
over  the  face,  or  overhanging  the  brim  by  some  inches  at 
the  back.  Belinda. 

Paso  Robles. 
Our  new  mud  bath  house  is  finished.  The  arrangement  of  baths, 
dressing  rooms,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  floor.  No  stairs  or  steps  to 
climb.  We  are  now  unquestionably  the  finest  sanitarium  or  health 
resort  on  the  Pacific  Coast..  Rest  and  health  seekers  are  Paso  Robles 
seekers,  Rates,  $10,  $12.50,  $15,  and  $17.50  per  week.  Climate  warm. 


Of  all  the  well-tried  Bourbon  whiskeys  on  the  market  the  cele- 
brated "Argonaut'' brand  is  undoubtedly  the  peer.  This  delectable 
fluid  has  been  recommended  by  the  most  eminent  physicians  and 
has  proven  itself  a  favorite  among  connoisseurs.  The  agents  for 
this  Coast  are  Messrs.  E.  Martin  &  Co,  411  Market  street,  whose 
reputation  alone  is  a  guaranty  for  the  fine  quality  of  their  goods. 


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Loll     Fine  While  W...I  markets,   from    the  Stockton  Mills.  tO(ir 

OB   InehcN  wide,  n.-l  r,  !•.      j.  &0,Zt) 

....  lol  I,  but  made  for  .-xtra   larffl   bed-,,  tf  O    QC 

tneM  kind,  over  (I  feet  wide     Per  pair WfJ./O 

Lot  :l  -A  heavier  rradc  than  lot  I,  and  same  size  (for  double  fr  0   OC 

unkct.    Per  pair «Pe>.0«3 

Lot  1-- About  800  pairs  Extr                       I. amb's- Wool  Blan- 
kets. ;s>  Inches  wide,  the  V  60  blanket.     Special  this  week  ff  A   yc 

Lot  r>— Heaviest  Texture  Fine  White  Blankets,  same  size  as  ff  A    Cf\ 

lot  1,  on  sale  at tpH-.tJVf 

Lot  6—  Best  Grade  and  I.  arRcst  Size  of  the  F.nlire  Purchase,  ffz  f\(\ 

solid  and  heavy.    Perpalr tPU.UU 


MURPHY  BUILDING,  Market  and  Jones  Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

203  to  207  N  Spring  St.  bet.  Temple  and  First  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

MT.  VERNON  CO.,  Baltimore. 

The  undersigned,  having  been  appointed  Agents  for  the 
Pacific  Coast  for  the  sale  of  the  manufactures  of  above 
company,  have  now  In  store ; 

SAIL  DUCK— ALL  NUMBERS. 

HYDRAULIC—ALL  NUMBERS. 

DRAPER  AND  WAGON  DUCK. 

From  30  to  120  inches  wide;  and  a  complete  assortment 
of  all  qualities  28H-in<m  duck,  from  7  to  15  ozs.,  Inclusive. 

MURPHY,  GRANT  &  CO. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
For  the  half  year  ending  December  31.  1896,  a  dividend  has  been  declared 
at  the  rate  of  four  and  twn-tenths  (4  2-10)  per  cent  per  annum  on  Term  De- 
posits, and  three  and  one-half  (3l/a)  per  cent  per  annum  on  Ordinary  De- 
posits, free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Saturday.  January  2,  1897.  Divi- 
dends not  called  for  are  added  to  and  "oear  tho  same  rate  of  dividend  as 
the  principal  from  and  after  January  1,  1897 

CYRUS  W.  CARMANY,  Cashier. 
Office:  101  Montgomery  street,  cor.  Sutter,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND    NOTICE. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  Deo.  31,  1896,  a  dividend  has  been  declared 
at  the  rate  of  four  (4)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  deposits,  and  three  and 
one-third  (SU)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  ordinary  deposits,  free  of  taxes, 
payable  on  and  after  Saturday,  January  2,  1897. 

Office— 33  Post  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal.      GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  Dec.  31st,  1896,  a  dividend  has  been  de- 
clared at  the  rate  of  four  and  twenty-six  one  hundredths  (4  26-luO)  per  cent 
per  annum  on  Term  Deposits,  and  three  and  tlfiy-flve  one  hundredths 
(3  55-KiO)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Ordinary  Deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable 
on  and  after  Saturday,  January  2,  1897.  GEO.  TOURNY,  Secretary. 

Office— 526  California  street. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
Office  of  one  Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society,  corner  Market,  McAllis- 
ter, and  Jones  streets,  San  Francisco,  Dec.  30,  1896.  At  a  regular  meeting 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  this  Society,  held  this  day,  a  dividend  has  been 
declared  at  the  rate  of  four  (4)  per  cent,  per  annum  ou  all  deposits  for  the 
six  months  ending  December  30,  1896,  free  from  all  taxes,  and  payable  on 
and  after  January  2, 1897. 


ROBERT  J.  TOBIN,  Secretary. 


Jotyanpis 


is  conceded  to  be  the  finest  table  water 
ever  imported. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


AT    THE    OAPITOL. 


Sacramento,  January  21,  1897. 

THE  expose"  of  the  outrageous  squandering  of  the  tax- 
payers' money  in  the  temporary  organization  of  the 
Assembly,  seems  to  have  had  the  effect  of  causing  that 
body  to  think  a  bit  when  any  appropriation  bill  or  resolu- 
tion disbursing  money  comes  up  for  action.  There  is  a  com- 
bination of  Republican  members,  who,  with  the  Democrats 
and  Populists,  will  oppose  any  measure  that  savors  of  an 
extravagant  disposal  of  the  public  funds,  and  it  is  to  be 
hoped  they  will  be  able  to  keep  the  wayward  members 
in  check. 

In  relation  to  the  temporary  roll  scandal,  I  have  been 
reliably  informed  that  investigation  showed  that  the  ac- 
commodating Chief  Clerk  of  the  Assembly,  Mr.  Duckworth, 
who,  by  the  way,  thinks  he  has  been  "roasted" — possibly 
because  he  feels  he  deserves  a  "roast" — appointed  some 
thirty  attaches  on  the  recommendation  of  the  temporary 
Sergeant-at-Arms,  Parkinson,  and  from  two  to  six  attache's 
for  certain  Assemblymen  who  had  political  debts  to  pay. 
There  are  some  Republican  members  who  think  it  would 
be  good  party  politics  to  relieve  Mr.  Duckworth  of  his 
onerous  duties,  and  find  some  clerk  who  is  competent  as 
well  as  honest.  It  would  not  be  hard  to  find  one  as  com- 
petent. I  have  heard  nothing  more  of  the  Breiling  charges, 
and  suppose  they  will  be  overlooked  along  with  the  Duck- 
worth temporary  roll  scandal.  Justice  is  blind,  but  Assem- 
bly investigating  committees  are  deaf,  dumb,  and  blind. 

Since  the  above  was  written,  the  Republican  Assembly 
caucus  has  reached  a  commendable  decision.  If  Mr.  Duck- 
worth will  not  resign,  he  may  be  impeached.  Mr.  Cutter 
is  reported  as  having  sarcastically  remarked  that  the 
members  of  the  Assembly  who  aided  the  stuffing  of  the 
Assembly  temporary  attache  roll  might  consistently  also 
resign.     The  State  would  really  be  the  gainer  thereby. 

There  has  been  exhibited  here  during  the  week  a  voting 
machine,  that  has  attracted  not  only  much  attention,  but 
much  favorable  comment,  and  there  is  little  doubt  but  that 
a  law  will  be  passed  this  session  permitting  the  use  of 
machines  at  elections.  The  machine  referred  to  is  the 
Ducas  voting  machine,  and  those  who  have  seen  others 
say  this  is  the  simplest  and  best  of  any.  It  is  so  arranged 
that  a  person  can  only  vote  once  for  each  officer  to  be 
elected;  for  two  or  more  when  that  number  are  to  be 
voted  for,  and  mixed,  straight  or  independent  candidates 
can  be  voted.  The  ingenuity  displayed  in  its  construction 
is  wonderful,  and  not  alone  does  it  automatically  totalize 
each  candidate's  vote,  but  on  a  paper  roll  marks  con- 
secutively the  vote  of  each  candidate.  Mr.  Ducas,  the  in- 
ventor, explains  its  simplicity  and  excellence  to  large 
crowds  all  day  long. 

There  has  been  introduced  a  bill  making  it  an  offense,  as 
well  as  grounds  for  damages,  to  refuse  a  negro  any  privi- 
lege or  accommodation  allowed  a  white  man.  From  what 
I've  seen  there  is  little  need  of  a  law  of  the  kind  in  Califor- 
nia. If  negroes  have  not  already  these  craved-for  rights, 
they  take  them  and  a  good  many  more.  A  law  curtailing 
their  privileges  might  be  more  in  place. 

The  woman  suffragist  is  once  more  offensive  hereabouts. 
They  are  nothing  if  not  persistent,  and  probably  will  get 
little  but  trouble  for  their  pains.  A  new  argument  with 
them  is  that  Chinamen  voted  in  San  Francisco,  and  they 
want  to  know  if  a  woman  is  Dot  as  good  as  a  Chinaman. 

Senator  Mahoney  was  last  week  chosen  Chairman  of  the 
San  Francisco  delegation,  and  Senator  Percy  Henderson, 
Secretary.  Senator  Samuel  Braunhart  is  reported  to 
have  nominated  and  voted  for  himself  for  Chairman,  being 
violently  opposed  to  Mahoney.  Senator  Braunhart  ought 
to  feel  himself  highly  complimented  by  himself. 

Assemblyman  Power  of  San  Francisco  has  introduced  a 
bill  providing  for  the  construction  of  the  sea  wall  from 
Market  street  to  the  China  Basin. 

Colonel  Thomas  F.  Barry  has  been  urging  the  passage  of 
bills  for  the  relief  of  several  National  Guardsmen  who  were 
injured  during  the  railroad  strike  of  1894,  while  in  the 
performance  of  their  duties.  It  is  to  be  hoped  these  just 
claims  against  the  State  will  be  favorably  considered. 

Senator  Bert  has  introduced  a  bill  prohibiting  nickel-in- 
the-slot  machines  of  any  description.     It  ought  to  pass. 

Senator  Feeney  has  introduced   a  couple  of  suspicious- 


looking  bills.  One  prohibits  the  lowering  of  an  upper 
berth  in  a  sleeping-car  unless  it  is  occupied  by  a  bona-fide 
tenant,  and  the  other  prohibits  employees  of  telephone  or 
electric  light  companies  from  going  into  a  private  house  or 
place  of  business  to  repair  or  string  wires  without  a  writ- 
ten permit,  under  penalty  of  fine.  These  are  a  fine-look- 
ing brace  of  cinch  bills.  However,  there  are  a  number  of 
others  already  introduced — not  by  Mr.  Feeney,  however. 
Assemblyman  Treacy,  who  was  elected  on  the  despised 
so-called  "  Buckley "  ticket,  is  one  of  the  most  capable 
men  from  San  Francisco,  and  has  the  honor  of  bringing 
about  the  passage  of  the  first  bill  this  session — his  own 
measure,  fixing  the  minimum  wages  to  be  paid  on  public 
work  at  $2  per  day.  It  is  too  bad  that  there  are  not  more 
Treacys  in  the  San  Francisco  delegation. 

One  of  the  most  highly  respected  and  able  members  of 
the  Senate  is  C.  M.  Simpson,  who  represents  the  Thirty- 
sixth  District.  Mr.  Simpson  is  a  hold-over  Republican, 
and  last  session,  and  in  this  as  well,  his  record  is  a  most 
favorable  one.  When  Mr.  Simpson  has  anything  to  say 
he  says  it,   and  his  influence  is  not  second   to   any   man 

in  the  Senate.  Down  in 
Pasadena  where  Mr.  Simp- 
son lives,  he  is  thought 
highly  of.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Assembly  in  the 
session  of  1893,  and  prior  to 
that  was  a  member  of  the 
City  Council.  Before  com- 
ing to  California  from  Kan- 
sas, where  he  resided,  Mr. 
Simpson  was  clerk  of  the 
District  Court  for  eight 
years,  Councilman,  City  At- 
torney and  Mayor  in  turn, 
for  men  of  ability  and  integ- 
rity are  appreciated  as 
much  in  Kansas  as  they  are 
in  California.  Mr.  Simpson 
is  a  talented  lawyer,  and  is 
chairman  of  the  very  im- 
portant Judiciary  Commit- 
tee, besides  being  a  member 
of  the  Committees  on  Com- 
merce, Harbors,  Rivers  and  Coast  Defences;  Corpora- 
tions; Counties  and  County  Boundaries,  and  Labor  and 
Capital.  Senator  Simpson  is  an  untiring  worker,  and  it  is 
to  be  hoped  an  appreciated  one  by  his  constituents. 

There  is  a  young  man  in  the  Assembly  to  whom  I  want  to 
call  particular  attention,  because  he  will,  and  has,  directed 
it  to  himself,  and  has  laid  the  stepping  stones  to  a  bright 
political  future.  I  refer  to 
E.  J.  Emmons,  the  talented 
Representative  of  the  Six  ty- 
sixth  District.  Mr.  Em- 
mons was  the  fusion  nomi- 
nee of  the  Populists  and  the 
Democrats,  and  being  with 
the  minority  of  the  Assem- 
bly, can  do  comparatively 
little,  from  a  political  stand- 
point. However,  with  his 
great  ability  he  has  forced 
himself  to  the  front  as  a 
recognized  leader,  and  in 
point  of  ability,  is  the  peer 
of  any  member  of  the  lower 
house.  In  Bakersfield, 
where  Mr.  Emmons  resides 
and  has  a  large  and  lucra- 
tive law  business,  he  is  uni- 
versally liked  and  respect- 
ed. The  friend  of  every 
just  cause  or  measure,  and 

the  open,  avowed  enemy  of  anything  that  savors  of  chican- 
ery or  dishonesty,  he  is  the  kind  of  man  specially  fitted  for 
a  legislator.  A  forcible  and  ready  debater,  he  is  often 
heard,  but  wastes  no  time  nor  words  in  saying.  Mr.  Em- 
mons has  introduced  and  will  urge  the  passage  of  consider- 
able important  legislation,  and  he  is  a  valuable  member  of 
the  committees  on  County  and  Township  Governments; 
Contested  Elections;  Federal  Relations;  and  Judiciary. 


E.  ■/.  Eiiunons. 


January  33,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  1. 1 -:  1 


"f  ability,  an  or.it. t  of  note,  anil   a   legislator 
who  is  a  leader   in    tot  nator 

Harry  V    V 
the     Thirtytii 
Be   Is    tireless    in    the   d 
charye  of  his  duties,  and  tbe 

uiiount  of  work  be  has 
taken  upon   him- 
form  shows  that  Santa  Clara 
County  made  no   mistake  in 

Dg  him.  Mr.  More 
house  came  to  California 
with    his    parents    when    a   '  ^-*  - 

child  four  years  of   ape,  and 
after    a     proper    schooling 

idmitted  to  the  bar. 
He  was  District  Attorney 
of  Monterey  County,  and 
practiced  his  profession  at 
Salinas,  before  moving  to 
San  Jose.  He  is  chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Labor 
and  Capital,  one  of  the  most 
important  committees  this 
session,  as  well  as  a  member  //„ 

of  the  Committees  on  City. 

City  and  County   and   Town   Government,   Education  and 
Public  Morals;  Judiciary;  and  Public  Buildings. 

_ Peg. 

WELL      KNOWN      IN        THE      MINING      WORLD. 

NOW  that  the  mining  industry  has  received  so  healthy 
a  stimulus,  and  new  and  paying  properties  are  crop- 
ping up  all  over  the  West,  the  firms  that  are  interested 
in  the  manufacture  and  erection  of  Mining  and  Milling 
Machinery  will  undoubtedly  be  the  first  to  experience  a 
return  of  good  times.  Mr.  Rogers,  of  the  firm  of  White, 
Rogers  &  Co.,  30t>  Pine  street,  speaking  in  this  connection 
the  other  day,  said  the  firm  of  which  he  is  a  member  and 
which  is  composed  of  experienced  and  practical  Engineers, 
has  already  received  many  new.  and  some  very  large 
orders  for  Mining  and  Milling  machinery  and  supplies,  all 
of  which  they  are  now  able  to  furnish  their  patrons  at  prices 
much  lower  than  formerly  prevailed  on  this  Coast. 

Some  of  the  largest  stamp  Mills  and  Hoisting  plants 
have  been  constructed  by  this  well-known  firm,  the  mem- 
bers of  which  have  been  engaged  in  this  business  for  the 
past  thirty-six  years,  during  which  period  they  have 
gained  a  wide  experience  in  Milling  and  Mining,  which  now 
proves  of  great  value  to  their  many  clients,  needing  Mining 
or  Milling  Machinery  of  any  description. 

In  mining  more  than  in  almost  any  other  branch  of  busi- 
ness practical  experience  is  required  for  the  proper  selec- 
tion and  construction  of  reduction  works  to  treat  the 
various  grades  of  ores  discovered. 

Many  good  prospects  and  even  well  developed  mines  have 
been  ruined  by  the  want  of  this  experience,  and  the  em- 
ployment of  incompetent  persons  to  equip  them. 

The  best  is  none  too  good  for  success,  and  it  is  manifestly 
foolish  to  employ  a  shoemaker  when  a  Lawyer  or  Doctor 
is  required — but  strange  as  itmay  appear  this  is  frequent- 
ly done  in  a  mining  sense  and  failure  naturally  results. 
The  wisdom  of  dealing  with  competent,  reliable  firms  in  any 
profession  where  such  services  are  needed,  requires  no 
demonstration  to  successful  men,  and  this  is  particularly 
true  of  mining. 

In  addition  to  the  firm's  wide  experience  as  construct- 
ing engineers,  ranging  over  every  mineral  section  from 
Alaska  to  South  America,  they  have  been  able  to  obtain 
very  valuable  knowledge  of  the  mines  in  all  of  these  various 
districts  and  can  in  many  instances  obtain  valuable  prop- 
erty at  very  reasonable  prices  and  sometimes  secure 
great  bargains,  which  not  only  advances  their  own  inter- 
ests but  all  others,  when  experienced  men  become  inter- 
ested in  either  new  or  oid  mining  districts. 

This  knowledge  has  often  proved  of  great  value,  and  has 
helped  to  promote  the  healthy  growth  of  a  legitimate 
business  industry,  which  mining  always  is,  when  conducted 
on  lines  of  well-established  business  practice. 

Irritation  of  the  Throat  and  Hoarseness  are  immediately  relieved 
by  "  Brown's  Bronchial  Troches."    Have  them  always  ready. 


^\  Mistress-Maid 

have  their  part  in 
the  great  sa\  ings  that 
from  Pearline. 
Suppose  youVe  the 
mistress.  There's 
■ 
tile  sa\  in- 
time,  etc..  and  the  actual  money  that's  saved  by 
doing  away  with  that  steady  wear  and  tear  on 
everything  washed.  Suppose  you're  the  maid. 
rheres  the  saving  of  labor;  the  absence  of  rub- 
bing; the  hardest  part  of  the  housework  made 
easier  and  pleasanter.  Hut  suppose  you  are 
mistress  and  maid,  both  in  one,  doing  your  own 
work.  Then  there  is  certainly  twice  as  much 
reason  why  you  should  do  every  bit  of  your  wash- 
ing and  cleaning  with  Pearline.  "■: 

DELINQUENT     SALE     NOTICE. 
Ostrander  Repeating  Gun  Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— Han  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works  or  factory— 36  New  street,  East  Boston.  Mass. 

NOTICE--There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  an  assessment  (No  B),  levied  on  tbe  33d  aay  <»r  August,  1896, 
the  several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  sharehold 
ers,  as  follows : 

No.  No 

NAME.  Certificate    Shares    Am  t 

W.P    Ray.  U    <5.  N.  123  1.000  100 

Mrs    Elizabeth  Carter         104  5O0  SO 

811  51 H)  SO 

J.  M.  Helm  164  600  60 

358  30i  30  10 

"  260  155  15  50 

Catherines   Whiteside      ail  1,U»         100 

George  H    Hoover  389  50  S 

Mrs   Mary  Mearse  Gait       179         1,000         urn 
E.  P.  Cole  397  500  50 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
onthe22d  day  of  August.  1896,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of 
tbe  company.  No,  216  bush  street,  rooms  5u  and  51.  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco,  California,  on 

THURSDAY,  THE  33BTD  DAY  OF  OCTOBER,  1896, 
at  the  hour  of  I  o'clock  p.  m    of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delinquent  assessment' 
thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 

M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  216  Bush  street,  Rooms  50  and  51,  SanFranclsco,  Califo  nla. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  post- 
poned until 

FRIDAY,  the  20th  DAY  of  NOVEMBER,  1896, 
at  the  same  time  and  plac.  M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  October  22,  1896. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  this  day,  the  sale  of  tne  above  delinquent  stock  was  post- 
poned until 

FRIDAY,  the  18th  DAY  of  DECEMBER,  1896, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  "WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  November  19,  1896. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  tbe  office  of  the  company  on  the  18th  inst.,  the  sale  of  the 
above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 

THURSDAY,  the  14th  DAY  OF  JANUARY.  1897, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  Dec.  28, 1897 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  the  office  of  the  company, on  the6tb  inst.,  the  sale  of  the 
above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 

WEDNESDAY,  the  27th  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  January  6,  1897. 

ANNUAL    MEETING- 

Belcher  Silver  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders   of  the  Belcher  Silver 
Mining  Company  will  be  held   at   tne  cS'ce  of   the    company,  rooms  37 
and  38,  third  floor  Mills  building,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

TUESDAY,  the  26TH  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  M.,  for  tbe  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Direc- 
tors to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  busi- 
ness as  may  come  before  the  meeting.  Transfer  books  will  close  on  Satur- 
day, the  23d  day  of  January,  1897  at  12  o'clock  M. 

C    L.  PERKINS,  Secretary. 
Office— Rooms  37  and  38,  third  floor.  Mills  Building,  N.   E.   corner  Bush 
and  Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


OUR  beauty  and  fashion  shone  in  divided  ranks  on 
Tuesday  eveniDg,  but  society  is  now  so  large  three  or 
four  functions  can  take  place  au  meme  temps,  and  there 
will  still  be  more  than  enough  to  go  round.  The  musical 
events  of  the  week  have  been,  of  course,  the  Nordica  con- 
certs, and  the  opening  one  of  the  series  drew  such  an  audi- 
ence to  the  Baldwin  on  Tuesday  evening  as  has  not  been 
seen  in  that  pretty  little  theatre  for  many  moons.  The 
ball  at  the  Presidio  the  same  evening  was  one  of  those  de- 
lightful button  affairs  that  are  always  so  enjoyed  by  our 
belles.  The  civilian  beaux  might  perhaps  tell  a  different 
tale.  The  hop  room  was  an  extremely  pretty  sight,  with 
its  military  adornments  of  bunting,  sabres,  small  arms, 
flowers  and  foliage,  and  the  guests  were  made  welcome  by 
their  hosts,  who  were  resplendent  in  all  the  glory  of  mili- 
tary toggery.  Gold  lace  and  bright  buttons  were  largely 
in  evidence  among  the  men,  and  as  for  the  ladies,  they  all 
looked  charmingly  in  most  becoming  and  handsome  attire. 
Dancing  was  the  order  of  the  evening,  only  interrupted  by 
an  elaborate  supper  served  towards  midnight,  after  which 
the  dance  was  resumed  for  several  hours  longer. 

Mrs.  Benson's  gathering  at  the  Presidio  on  Monday 
was  much  enjoyed  by  her  guests;  so  also  was  Mrs.  Avery 
McCarthy's  "at  home"  on  Tuesday.  Among  the  pleasant 
affairs  of  the  month  have  been  the  Wednesday  "at  homes" 
of  Mrs.  Southard  Hoffman  and  her  daughter.  Mrs.  Pedar 
Sather's  recent  luncheon  in  Oakland  was  an  exceedingly 
pleasant  gathering;  it  was  given  in  honor  of  Mrs.  J.  M. 
Phillips,  to  meet  whom  thirty  guests  were  invited.  Last 
night  the  Friday  Fortnightly  Club,  of  Oakland,  had  a 
dance  in  Ebell  Hall. 

The  meeting  of  the  San  Francisco  Friday  Fortnightlies 
last  w  eek  was  one  of  the  most  charming  affairs  of  the  season. 
It  was  an  army  cotillion,  and  the  decorations  of  the  hall 
were  entirely  military  in  character,  consisting  of  bunting 
and  arms  artistically  combined  with  flowers  and  greens, 
and  the  uniforms  worn  by  the  officers  gave  a  finishing 
touch  to  the  brilliancy  of  the  scene.  The  cotillion  was  led 
by  Lieutanants  Noble  and  Dana  Kilburn,  who  had  com- 
plete control  of  the  affair,  and  the  first  set  was  entirely  of 
officers,  with  some  of  our  prettiest  belles  in  lovely  gowns 
as  their  partners.  Four  figures  were  danced,  the  sabre 
figure  being  especially  admired,  and  also  seen  for  the  first 
time.  The  attendance  was  very  large,  and  the  festivities 
prolonged  until  a  later  hour  than  usual  at  these  parties. 
The  lady  managers  have  decided  that  the  next  dance  of 
the  club  shall  be  a  domino  and  mask  affair. 

Another  dance  of  Friday  evening  last  was  that  of  the 
Winter  Cotillion  Club  at  Beethoven  Hall,  when  some  orig- 
inal figures  were  introduced  by  the  leader,  Thos.  P.  Ross, 
who  had  Miss  L.  S.  Young  for  his  partner. 

The  domino  party  given  last  Saturday  evening  by  Mrs. 
A.  Hecht  at  the  San  Francisco  Verein  Club,  for  the  debut 
of  her  daughter  Edith,  was  also  a  success.  The  guests 
were  received  in  the  parlors  of  the  club,  and  at  10  o'clock, 
each  domino  being  provided  with  a  small  lighted  lantern 
in  the  shape  of  a  domino,  marched  to  the  ballroom,  where 
dancing  began,  and  the  evening  was  one  of  great  enjoy- 
ment. Supper  was  served  at  12  o'clock,  when  dominos 
and  masks  were  removed.  Then  followed  more  dancing, 
which  was  kept  up  till  the  morning  light  appeared. 

On  Saturday  afternoon  Mrs.  William  Kohl  gave  a  tea  at 
the  Palace  Hotel,  for  the  purpose  of  introducing  her  new 
daughter-in-law,  Mrs.  Fred  Kohl,  to  her  friends.  The 
Maple  Hall,  which  was  used  for  the  occasion,  was  prettily 
decorated,  a  stringed  orchestra  was  in  attendance,  and 
delicious  refreshments  were  served.  At  the  Berkshire 
Mrs.  C.  O.  Scott  gave  a  tea  also,  at  which  the  recent 
bride,  Mrs.  W.  T.  Sesnon,  was  the  guest  of  honor. 

How  the  wedding  bells  will  chime  next  week!  Every 
day  nearly  one  or  more  splicings  are  named  to  take  place. 
Tuesday  has  been  selected  by  Miss  Teen  Goodall  for  her 
marriage  to  Hugo  D.  Keil,  and  the  nuptial  knot  is  to  be 
tied  at  the  Goodall  residence  on  McAllister  street. 
Wednesday,  however,  seems  to  be  the  favorite  one,  for  on  it 
will  be  celebrated  the   weddings  of  Miss  Rose  Eppinger 


and  Dr.  James  Sharp  at  the  home  of  the  bride  on  Octavia 
street,  of  Miss  Lizzie  Carroll  and  Will  Whittier,  which  will 
be  solemnized  at  noon  by  Archbishop  Riordan  at  the  Car- 
roll residence  on  Van  Ness  avenue,  and  in  the  evening  at 
the  Hotel  Colonial  Miss  Martha  Shainwald  and  L.  M. 
Myers  will  be  the  bride  and  groom.  Miss  Carroll  has 
chosen  the  Misses  Romietta  Wallace  and  Julia  Crocker  to 
attend  her  as  bridesmaids.  Her  sister  Gertrude  will  be 
maid  of  honor,  and  Milton  Latham  the  groom's  best  man. 
Another  wedding  of  next  week  will  be  that  of  Miss  Mollie 
Torbert,  one  of  San  Francisco's  greatest  beauties  and  pet 
belles,  to  George  Kirkpatrick,  and,  to  the  regret  of  her 
California  friends,  the  ceremony  will  not  take  place  here, 
but  at  the  Church  of  All  Angels  in  New  York  on  Thursday 
evening,  after  which  a  dancing  reception  will  be  given  at 
Sherry's  by  her  sister,  lovely  Sheda  Torbert,  now  Mrs. 
Valentine  Snyder  of  New  York.  The  month  will  close 
with  the  wedding  of  Miss  Mollie  Hutchinson  and  Ernest 
Piexotto,  which  will  be  solemnized  in  New  Orleans  on 
the  31st. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Agnes  Smedberg  and  Max  Rosen- 
field  will  be  an  event  of  the  Eastertide,  the  first  week  in 
May  having  been  decided  upon  as  the  date  for  its  cele- 
bration. 

Next  week  will  be  a  pet  one  with  our  fashionables,  as  it 
promises  to  be  well  filled  up  with  gay  doings.  One  of  the 
leaders  will  be  the  reception  which  Mrs.  Stanford  is  giving 
in  honor  of  Bishop  and  Mrs.  Newman  at  her  magnificent 
home  on  California  street,  the  first  time  the  house  has  been 
opened  for  entertaining  since  the  death  of  Senator  Stan- 
ford. It  will  be  an  afternoon  affair  and  on  a  very  elaborate 
scale,  the  hours  from  3  till  6  p.  m.,  during  which  time  it  is 
safe  to  say  all  society  will  be  seen. 

Paris  appears  to  be  the  Mecca  of  Califorrrians  this  win- 
ter. Among  those  there  at  a  recent  date  were:  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Delmas,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joe  Redding, 
Mrs.  Crit  Thornton,  Mrs.  Colton,  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Breyfogle,  Miss  Maud  Howard,  Mrs.  George  Loomis, 
Charley  Felton  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed  Schmieden. 
We  may  soon  expect  to  see  the  Schmiedells,  and  in  Chicago 
they  will  be  joined  by  Miss  Grace  Martin,  who  is  visiting 
friends  there,  and  who  will  journey  homeward  with  the 
Schmiedells.  Mrs.  Harry  Hunt  and  Miss  Hunt  have  re- 
turned from  their  trip  to  Japan.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank 
Hicks  of  Los  Angeles  are  visiting  Mrs.  John  S.  Hofer  at 
her  home  on  Gough  street. 

The  delightful  Hotel  Rafael  has  long  been  considered  the 
most  fashionable  winter  and  summer  society  resort  of  the 
Pacific  Coast.  It  is  only  fifty  minutes  removed  from  San 
Francisco,  and  our  best  belles  and  beaux  congregate  there 
all  the  year  round.  Since  Major  Warfield,  of  the  Califor- 
nia Hotel,  took  personal  charge  of  the  Hotel  Rafael,  it  has 
become  the  Mecca  of  society  folk,  who  look  forward  with 
anticipation  to  spending  a  few  weeks,  or  even  months, 
there.  The  climate  of  San  Rafael  is  the  healthiest  on  the 
Pacific  Coast. 

Miss  Rosamond  O'Connell  made  her  debut  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House  on  Monday  night  in  the  melodrama,  Against 
the  Stream,  when  she  was  cast  as  "Lively  Mag,"  a  small 
part,  in  which,  however,  the  young  debutante  made  a  suc- 
cess. Miss  O'Connell  has  a  quality  most  important  in  an 
actress,  perfect  self-possession,  clear  enunciation,  and  the 
faculty  of  suiting  the  action  to  the  word.  She  has  a  prom- 
ising career  in  the  profession  of  her  choice. 

Numerous  invitations  have  been  issued  by  the  manage- 
ment of  the  Hotel  Mateo,  at  San  Mateo,  for  a  dance  to  be 
given  at  that  fashionable  place  on  Tuesday  evening  next. 
Great  preparations  have  been  made,  and  the  leaders  of 
our  Four  Hundred  will  assemble  there  to  indulge  in  a  few 
hours  of  solid  happiness. 

Dr.  Herzstein  will  leave  the  city  on  an  extended  vaca- 
tion next  Sunday.  He  expects  to  be  gone  about  five 
months,  and  besides  visiting  the  leading  cities  in  the  East, 
will  also  take  in  London,  Paris,  Berlin  and  Vienna. 

Miss  Carrie  Lauer,  daughter  of  Mr.  Chas.  H.  Lauer,  a 
prominent  citizen  of  Eugene,  Oregon,  is  visiting  at  the 
residence  of  Miss  Friedlander,  2018  Buchanan  street. 

Dr.  William  A.  Bryant  has  returned  from  his  trip  to 
Tahiti,  much  improved  in  health. 


January  ;;, 


SAN    FRANC 


AT      THE      RACES 


TIIK  two  we< ,  of  the  California   Jockey   Club 

at  the  pretty  r  iK-en  an 

g  one,    from    the   number  of   fast'  races  run  and 
nunn  •ional  results      The - 

ibove  the  average.  The  \  tamed  the 

.t  of  the  pride  of  the  Hun  -  ,v  \\  -tabic  Mt. 

II.,  by  Mr  Purser's  Buokwa.  Buckwa,  by  the 
■  luality.  until  imbue<l  with 
our  glorious  climate,  ami  it>  performances  were  truly  won- 
derful, seeing  that  it  was  merely  a  selling  jilater,  around 
nikee  and  Gravesend.  California.  Mr.  Coulter's  gocd 
mare,  captured  the  Berkeley  Handicap  with  the  greatest 
of  ease.  Osrio  II.  has  bested  Arrezzo  in  two  battles  royal 
The  son  and  daughter  of  I'averdale  and  Sweet  Borne 
battled  for  the  Naglee  Makes.  The  impressive  win  of  Mr. 
Purser's  Scarf  Pin.  in  the  San  Pablo  Stakes,  and  the  de- 
feat of  the  greatly  advertise. I  llaeon,  by  <vHieen  Blazes,  in 
the  hist  two-vear-old  event  of  the  season,  were  great 
happenings.  The  attendance  has  been  away  above  the 
average.  Nest  week  Ingleside  reopens  for  two  weeks, 
with  every  indication  of  being  as  successful  as  the  preced- 
ing meet. 

Mr.  Purser's  Scarf  Pin  and  Buckwa.  who  won  their  first 
starts  in  California,  also  won  their  first  starts  at  Graves- 
end,  X.  Y. 

Mr.  Dunne's  Formal,  who  defeated  Ferrier,  Mr.  Hobart's 
crack,  ran  fifth  in  the  last  Realization,  which  was  won  by 
Requital. 

Mr.  Dunne's  Preston,  who  won  his  first  six  races  in 
California,  also  won  the  first  race  run  at  Sheephead  Bay 
last  season. 

Colonel  Burns'  Sweet  Faverdale,  full  sister  to  Preston, 
won  four  races  in  the  East,  and  was  five  times  placed. 

Mr.  Spreckels  has  a  promising  youngster  in  Boadicea. 
Blazes,  the  sire  of  Queen  Blazes,  also  sired  that  good 
horse,  Kamsin,  a  frequent  winner  in  California. 

Mr.  Hobart's  crack,  Bright  Phoebus,  the  Realization 
winner  of  1895,  was  left  at  the  post  in  his  first  start  this 
season. 

Out  of  the  first  414  races  run  this  season,  favorites  have 
von  201  times,  second  choices  104  times,  and  outsiders  in 
the  betting  109  times,  a  truly  wonderful  showing.  The 
ten  leading  jockeys  and  number  of  wins  are  as  follows: 
Jones,  79;  H.  Martin,  59;  W.  Martin,  30;  Thorpe,  20; 
Isom,  19,  Slaughter,  18;  Murphy,  17;  Shields,  11. 

The  Brooklyn  Handicap  closed  with  thirty  entries;  the 
Suburban  closed  with  forty-four  entries. 

At  the  coming  Ingleside  meeting  there  will  be  three  two- 
year-old  races  during  the  first  week,  viz.,  on  Tuesday, 
Thursday  and  Saturday.  On  Wednesday  there  will  be  six 
races,  all  one  mile  or  over.  The  Tarpey  Stakes  come  off 
on  January  30th;  Hobart  Stakes  on  February  6th,  and 
the  Ingleside,  of  four  miles,  on  Washington's  Birthday. 

A  COURSE  of  three  delightful  and  instructive  lectures 
will  be  given  by  Professor  David  Starr  Jordan,  Rev. 
Chas.  W.  Wendte  and  Professor  Charles  Mills  Gayley  at 
Golden  Gate  Hall  on  the  28th  inst. ,  and  February  4th  and 
11th.  These  lectures  will  be  given  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Mercantile  Library  Auxiliary,  and  will  undoubtedly 
be  well  attended.  Tickets  for  the  course,  $1;  admission 
for  single  lectures,  50  cents.  The  coupons  may  be  used 
for  one  evening  if  desired. 


THE  Cosmos  Club  will  soon  be  located  in  the  building 
formerly  occupied  by  Miss  Lake's  School.  The  change 
is  expected  to  take  place  about  March  1st,  and  is  being 
looked  forward  to  with  anticipation  by  all  the  members. 
The  quarters  will  be  most  commodious,  and,  when  fitted 
up,  will  be  the  most  elegant  club  rooms  in  the  city. 

The  most  eminent  chemists  have  certified  to  the  fact  that  Caroel- 
Hne,  the  tjueen  of  Complexion  Beautifiers,  is  absolutely  free  from 
mercury,  lead,  and  other  poisonous  matter.  Hundreds  of  eminent 
ladies,  such  as  Ellen  Terry,  Fatti.  Mrs.  Kendal,  and  others,  use  it 
exclusively,  and  among  our  own  fair  sex  it  is  an  especial  favorite. 
Camelline  was  originated  by  Wakelee  &  Co.,  our  well-known  druggists. 

The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedakf.r,  General  Agent. 


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bloom  of  youth;  it  deOes  detection,  will  notruboiT,  lasts  all 
day,  and  Is  perfectly  harmless.  Eodorsed  by  prominent 
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to  any  part  of  the  United  States  or  Canada  on  receiptor 
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If  you  value  your  hair,  use  only  the  Imperial  Hair 
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and  cleanliness. 

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J   D.  SULLIVAN, 

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Rooms  34-38,  3d  Floor  Chronicle  Building,  San  Francisco. 


Dr.  LEANER, 


Most  skilled 


Chiropodist 


on  the  coast 

Manicure  attendants.    Corns,  bunions,  ingrowing  nails, 
chilblains  and  warts  extracted  without  pain  by  the  New  Treatment. 

Oftlce,  702  Market  St.     Oillcehours:    9a  m.  to  6  p.m. 
Sundays,  11  a.  m.  to  1  p.  m. 

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Dentist. 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  ot  Sciences  Building, 


819  Market  street 


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Office  and  Residence :  409K  Post  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Office  Hours :  9  to  IS  A.  m.  ;  1  to  5  p.  M. 


Dentist. 


26 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


SHE    AND    I  —james berry  bensel,  lover's  yearbook (roberts) ■ 


AND  I  said,  "She  is  dead;  I  could  not  brook 
Again  on  that  marvelous  face  to  look. " 
But  they  took  my  hand  and  they  led  me  in, 
And  left  me  alone  with  my  nearest  kin. 
Once  again  in  that  silent  place, 
My  beautiful  and  I,  face  to  face. 
And  I  could  not  speak,  and  I  could  not  stir, 
But  I  stood,  and  with  love  I  looked  on  her. 

With  love  and  with  rapture  and  strange  surprise 

I  looked  on  the  lips  and  the  close-shut  eyes; 

On  the  perfect  rest  and  the  calmscontent 

And  the  happiness  in  her  features  blent, 

And  the  thin  white  hands  that  had  wrought  so  much. 

Now  nerveless  to  kisses  or  fevered  touch, — 

My  beautiful  dead  who  had  known  the  strife, 

The  pain  and  the  sorrow  that  we  call  life, 

Who  had  never  faltered  beneath  her  cross, 

Nor  murmured  when  loss  followed  swift  on  loss. 

And  the  smile  that  sweetened  her  lips  alway 

Lay  light  on  her  heaven-closed  mouth  that  day. 

I  smoothed  from  her  hair  a  silver  thread, 

And  I  wept,  but  could  not  think  her  dead. 

I  felt,  with  a  wonder  too  deep  for  speech, 

She  could  tell  what  only  the  angels  teaeh. 

And  down  over  her  mouth  I  leaned  my  ear, 

Lest  there  might  be  something  I  should  not  hear. 

Then  out  of  the  silence  between  us  stole 

A  message  that  reached  to  my  inmostjsoui. 
"  Why  weep  you  to-day  who  have  wept  before 

That  the  journey  was  roueh  I  must  travel  o'er  ? 
"  Why  mourn  that  my  lips  can  answer  you  not 

When  anguish  and  sorrow  are  both  forgot? 
"  Behold,  all  my  life  I  have  longed  for  rest, — 

Yea,  e'en  when  I  held  you  upon  my  breast. 
"  And  now  that  I  lie  in  a  breathless  sleep, 

Instead  of  rejoicing  you  sigh  and  weep. 
"  My  dearest,  I  know  thatyou  would  not  break — 

If  you  could — my  slumber  and  have  me  wake. 
"  For  though  life  was  full  of  the  things  that  bless, 

I  have  never  till  now  known  happiness. 

Then  I  dried  my  tears,  and  with  lifted  head 

I  left  my  mother,  my  beautiful  dead. 


BALLAD    OF    BLIND    LOVE.-ahdrew  lang- 

Who  have  loved  and  ceased  to  love,  forget 

That  ever  they  loved  in  their  lives,  they  say; 
Only  remember  the  fever  and  fret, 

And  the  pain  of  love,  that  was  all  the  pay ; 

All  the  delight  of  him  passes  away 
From  the  hearts  that  hoped,  and  from  lips  that  met- 
Too  late  did  I  love  you,  my  love,  and  yet 

I  shall  never  forget  to  my  dying  day. 

Too  late  were  we  ware  of  the  secret  net 
That  meshes  the  feet  in  the  flowers  that  stray, 

There  were  we  taken  and  snared,  my  pet, 
In  the  dungeon  of  "  la  fausse  amistie;" 
Help  there  was  none  in  the  wide  world's  fray. 

Joy  was  there  none  in  the  gift  and  the  debt ; 

Too  late  we  knew  it,  too  long  regret — 
I  shall  never  forget  to  ray  dying  day. 

We  must  live  our  lives,  though  the  sun  be  set, 
Must  meet  in  the  masque  where  parts  we  play, 

Must  cross  in  the  maze  of  life's  minuet; 
Our  yea  is  yea,  and  our  nay  is  nay: 
But  while  snows  of  winter,  flowers  of  May 

Are  the  sad  year's  shroud  or  coronet, 

In  the  season  of  rose  or  of  violet, 
I  shall  never  forget  to  my  dying  day. 


Queen,  when  the  clay  is  my  coverlet, 

When  I  am  dead,  and  when  you  are  gray, 
Vow,  when  the  grass  of  the  grave  is  wet, 
"  I  shall  never  forget  to  my  dying  day." 


BANKING. 


BANK  OF  BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter.  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up,  $3,000,00       Reserve  Fund,  $500,000. 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lombard  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo.  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B,  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants1  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— Firs t  Na  tional  Bank ; 
Liverpool — North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland — British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico — London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  oi 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital $3,000,000  00 

Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits  (October  1, 1894). .  3.158,129  70 

WILLIAM  ALVORD President  1  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP. .  Vice-Pres't 

ALLEN  M.  CLAY Secretary    THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Prentiss  Smith Ass't  Cashier  1 1.  F.  Moulton 2d  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laidlaw  &  Co.;  the  Bank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston — Tremont  National  Bank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Rothschild  Freres;  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand— Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York.  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Christiania,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy. 

THE  8ATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital 11,000,000 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  ?  in  Francisco. 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Mzller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  F.   W-  Wolfe.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil- 
ler Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents  :  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City — First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.   Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital 12,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund 1850.000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  Issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM1  Mftnft__r_ 
C.  ALTSCHUL  |  Managers. 

CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  of  san  francisco. 

Cor.  Market,  Montgomery,  and  Post  Sts. 

Paid-Up  Capital 11,000,000. 

WM.  H.CROCKER President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 

Capital  authorized $6,000,000 1  Paid  Up 11,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bill.*  *<•«■  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART     \Mana<™.o 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL  f  Manae«rs 

WELLS   FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets. 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus $6,350,000 

John  J.  Valentine President  1  Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier  |  F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

^BRANCHES. 

N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 


January  .- 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


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THE     WAV     OF      THE     CROSS. 

Al:K  u.thrM«M.  iwtttljr railing: 

m  M  e 
»>r  thr  dim  moorland  whirr  thr  d*w»  «r»  falling. 

■ilia,  il  Ira. 
Korsakr.  for  Me.  the  dear,  familiar  be**, 
Thy  father',  bona*,  ihv    herl.hrd  inciter.. I  places; 
Om  hi  the  atom 

Far  from  the  warmth  ami  light, 
I  have  a  CroM  for  thee. 

Arise-  for  in  the  Bui  the  dawn  is  breaking— 

Am)  Oonia.  awny  ; 
My  burden  on  thy  shoulders  meekly  taking, 

Nor  even  stay 
To  kiss  one*  n  ore.  through  blunting  tears,  ihv  dramt, 
Torla«|i,  with  bleeding,  breaking  heart,  ihv  neareav 
H«nd«  must  unloo-e  their  hold, 
Earth's  joy-  grow  faint  nm!  cold— 
I  will  be  all  lo  • 

Have  I  not  lend  life's  bitter  road  before  thee 

With  bleeding  ■ 
Hearing  alone  the  Cross  that  shineth  o'er  thee 

With  message  sweti? 
For  thy  sake  have  I  wan. lend,  faint  and  weary, 
Through  crowded  city  ways  and  deserts  dreary. 
High  on  the  mountain  bare, 
Through  'he  long  nights  "i  prayer 
Have  1  nut  ihonghl  of  thee? 

When  night  is  darkest  and  the  way  seems  longest, 

I'ress  onward,  still 
Striving,  in  thickest  tight  where  foes  nre  strongest. 

To  do  My   will. 
Look  not  behind  thee  to  Ihv  aool'fl  undoing; 
l"rge  on  thy  footstep —  "faint    yet  still  pursuing." 
When  waves  above  thee  close 
Whisper  to  me  Ihy  woes — 

Am  I  not  near  to  thee? 

'Tis  but  a  little  while,  and  then  the  dawning 

When  I  will  come. 
In  the  bright  sunrise  of  eternal  morning, 

To  call  thee  home. 
If  thou  hast  followed  me  through  gloom  and  sadness, 
Shall  I  not  comfort  thee  with. joy  and  gladness? 
When  life's  dark  days  are  o'er, 
There,  on  the  shining  shore, 

I  have  a  Crown  for  thee.  Geobge  Binc 


OBITUARY. 


MB.  MORAGHAN,  who  expired  at  his  residence,  431 
,  Ridley  street,  a  few  day  afro,  was  one  of  San  Fran- 
cisco's leading?  business  men.  He  came  to  California  in 
1865,  and  opened  a  restaurant  in  the  California  Market. 
His  indomitable  energy  and  enterprise  caused  him  to  suc- 
ceed, and  he  soon  built  up  for  himself  a  large  and  valuable 
business.  He  owned  several  large  tracts  of  tide  lands  in 
the  neighborhood  of  San  Bruno,  and  established  there  some 
of  the  best  paying  oyster  beds  in  the  country.  His  oys- 
ters are  sought  for  everywhere,  ard  are  the  most  luscious 
on  the  market.  At  the  time  of  bis  death,  Mr.  Moraghan 
was  52  years  of  age.  The  funeral  services  were  held  at 
the  Masonic  Temple  under  the  auspices  of  Excelsior  Lodge, 
No.  166,  of  which  the  deceased  was  a  member. 

Captain  Thorn,  who  expired  in  Alameda, 
Captain  Thorn,     on  the  16th  inst.,  came  to  California  in 

the  days  of  '49,  and  followed  the  sea  as 
a  profession,  as  a  captain  of  steamers,  for  many  years. 
For  a  number  of  years  be  was  captain  of  a  ferry  steamer 
on  the  broad-gauge  line  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company, 
but  retired  from  active  service  some  years  ago.  The  de- 
ceased will  long  be  remembered  for  his  genial  disposition 
and  many  sterling  qualities. 

The  Overland   Limited. 

ONLY   3J^   DAYS  TO   CHICAGO.     \%  DAYS  TO   NEW   YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


If  you  have  not  been  to  Leona  Heights  yet,  you  have  missed  one 
of  the  prettiest  of  excursions.  Commodious  cars  run  there  from 
all  parts  of  Oakland  and  Alameda.  The  round  trip  is  only  fifty 
cents  and  as  there  is  no  bar  on  the  grounds  no  roughs  ever  resort 
there  of  a  Sunday. 


CITY    INDEX    AND    PURCHASERS   GUIDE 


Bt»r»*>i-«  Roitaura 
Mutton   Tortoni,    V 


I'rUalc  dlOlDff 


(Iraol    itvn    and    Hunt)    *i       Private 
4*0         A    II    in  an.  ..  A  II    inn  * 


Poorfl*    Dog    R«»t«urant,  S     E 

Ids  »m]  hmpqw 

Oakland   Da.ry   D.  ,  wire  Milk  and 

IP  KM 

Or.   Thomai   L.    Hill, 

OFflCI    Odd  y ■■{',■■■      Miiiiiiinff,  south* cm   oar.   Seventh  and  Market 
Mrcrts      OHIO*  hours     Pa    m    10  5P.M      Consultation  Hour*:  4  toft 

Or.  R.  Outlar,  Big  Suiter  III 

MEDICAL 

.  m>ar  Jonna.     Disease*  of  women  ami  children. 


Dr    Hall,   h  McAllister  St 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.     MAKINS  &  CO  MM  Market  street. 
Selection*  on  approval:  any  place  In  world.    W    F  .(JRKA  NY  .  H27  Brannan 
Th«  W.  H.  Holtls  Stamp  Co.,  'incorporated),     105  O'Farrell  St.,  8.  F. 

BR  makers. 

P.   F.  Duodon's  8an  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  31ft.  nod  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  <  esigned  and  eonMnu 

PRINTING    AND    RUBBER    STAMPS. 
Koch  &  Harney,  (Jas    H.  Harney,  Geo.  T    Koch),  Job  Printers,  648  Sacra- 
mento St.  Fine  printing  and  embossing,  seals,  rubber  stamps,  stencils,  etc. 


CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  ! .-  and  1-lb  boxes. 


Roberts',  Pclk  and  Bush. 


VEHICLES 

Second-hand  Victoria,  O'Brien  &  Son's  pat.    Spring    Buggy,  Surrey   and 
Top  Buggy,  for  salecheap.    500  Goldtn  Gate  avenue. 


Tru  the    SAN    FRANCISCO   LAUNDRY, 

Offloe,  33  Geaiy  street.    Telephone  Main  5126- 
Oakland  Office— 864  Broadway.    Telephone  Main  658. 


BANKING. 


MUTUAL   SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN   FRANCISCO. 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny,  Mechanics'  Institute  Building. 
Guaranteed  Capital,  81,000.000.      Paid-Up  Capital,  8300,000. 

OFFICERS 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN,  President.  IS.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,   John   A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.   Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  MoElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant- 
Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.     Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities GEO.  A.  STORY.  Cashier. 

Depo&its  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  BanliK.    When  opening  accounis  send  signatuie. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 124,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E    B.  POND,  Vice-President 

Directors— Thomas  MageerG.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  Is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Offloe  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.m.  Saturday  even- 
ings, 6:30  to  8. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  St..  S.  P. 

Capital  actually  paid  up  In  Cash,  (1,000,0110.      Reserve  Fund (  715,000 

Deposits,  Dec.  31, 1895 130,787,586  59.       Guaranteed  Capital.  .(1,200,000 

DIRECTORS. 

B    A .  BECKER President 

EDWARD  KKUSE Vloe-President 

DANIEL  MEYER  2d  Vloe-President 

H.  Horstman,  Ign.  Steinhart,  Nic  Van  Bergen,  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ 
D.  N.  Walter. 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 
INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.    LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr. 


Wm.  Babcock 
AdamGraDt 


0.  D.  Baldwin 
W.  S.  Jones 


H.  H.  Hewlett 
E  J.  McCutcben 
J.  B.  Lincoln 


28 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


January  23,  1897. 


"B" 


THE     ART     EPICUREAN. 

;UT  civilized  man  caDnot  live  without  cooks."  Tut, 
tut,  Lord  Lytton!  Let  me  whisper  a  word  in  your 
ear.  If  a  San  Francisco  club  man  were  cast  away  upon  a 
desert  island,  with  soft-shell  crabs  cuddling  up  and  trying 
to  be  sociable  while  the  close-mouthed  oyster  turned  in  its 
bed  at  the  intruder,  that  particular  civilized  man  could 
live  well  without  cooks,  for,  mark  you,  there  are  epicures 
in  this  city  who  can  make  a  poem  out  of  a  ragout,  a 
dream  from  a  chafing  dish.  He  feeds,  and  feeds  well,  be- 
cause he  dines  understandingly,  an  art  which,  to  be  mas- 
tered, must  involve  a  knowledge  of  detail  in  preparation. 
It  is  not  a  rare  occurrence  for  a  clubman  of  San  Francisco 
to  go  to  his  steward,  take  him  aside  and  talk  as  earnestly 
to  him  as  if  he  were  a  candidate  buttonholing  a  politician 
during  "the  late  unpleasantness."  The  steward  preserves 
a  discreet,  attentive  look,  and  withal  a  respectful  admira- 
tion, as  who  should  say,  "There's  a  man  who  understands 
the  beauty  of  dining."  And  the  -club  chefs — they  fairly 
flutter  with  gratified  pride  when  the  sleek,  rosy-eared, 
doubled-chinned  club  man  penetrates  to  their  preserves 
and  talks  understandingly  to  them  of  sauces  and  simmer- 
ings.  They  have  the  soul  of  artists.  Why  even  Joseph, 
the  famous  imported  chef  of  Vanderbilt,  confided  to  a  San 
Francisco  man  that  all  the  Vanderbilt  salary  was  no  in- 
ducement for  him  to  remain  with  the  family  because  they 
did  not  understand  eating,  and  could  not  appreciate  his 
efforts;  and  so  he  folded  up  his  little  caps  and  aprons  and 
took  passage  back  to  beloved  Paris,  where  he  might  per- 
haps get  francs  where  on  this  side  he  received  dollars,  but 
with  the  francs  come  appreciation,  the  sine  qua  non  of  his 
artist  soul,  and  he  no  longer  pines  in  our  uncongenial 
atmosphere. 

The  "lean  and  hungry  look"  is  not  prevalent  among  the 
club  men  of  this  city;  built  instead  are  they  like  the  jolly 
monks  of  the  artists'  pencil — wide  of  girth,  not,  indeed, 
like  the  ascetic  brother,  cadaverous  and  angular — fancy 
his  knowing  the  difference  between  turbot  and  turtle,  bur- 
gundy and  beer!  And  this  leads  to  a  feminine  deduction. 
The  San  Francisco  club  man  is  a  contented  biped.  Why? 
He  is  often  limited  to  single  blessedness,  yet  he  does  not 
allow  meditation  upon  his  lonely  lot  to  gnaw  upon  his 
damask  cheek,  or,  Prometheus-like,  give  up  his  vitals  for 
its  delectation,  fie  has  a  better  use  for  this  necessar3r 
portion  of  his  being.  Instead,  he  envelopes  himself. in  a 
long  apron,  dons  a  cook's  cap,  and,  with  a  bottle  of  le  Ion 
gout  in  one  hand  and  a  broiler  in  the  other,  bids  .defiance 
to  the  blues,  scoffs  at  sentiment  and  disperses  doubtings 
by  calling  forth  the  genii  of  the  lamp  under  the  chafing 
dish.  And  speaking  of  chafing  dishes,  what  a  mine  of  won- 
ders culinary  can  be  opened  up  by  their  manipulation! 

As  witness  to  this,  perhaps  Mr.  Frank  J.  Carolan,  who 
guides  the  destinies  of  the  inner  man  at  the  Burlingame 
Country  Club,  will  forgive  me  for  mentioning  that,  having 
caught  him  red-handed  in  the  verj'  act  of  revising  the  menu 
of  the  club,  he  was  kind  enough  to  give  to  the  News  Let- 
ter some  of  the  possibilities  lurking  in  that  simple  utensil. 
As  to  his  own  preference,  he  can  cook  California  oysters 
in  a  dozen  styles,  any  one  of  which  would  give  him  the 
cordon  lieu  in  any  well-regulated  competition,  while  his 
lobster  a  la  Newberg  cannot  be  excelled,  and  his  sweet- 
breads are  a  feast  for  the  gods. 

The  sweetbreads  are  allowed  to  simmer  gently — note 
that  point:  the  simmering  is  what  brings  out  the  best  that 
is  in  a  chafing-dish  dainty— a  bit  of  butter  having  been 
first  melted  for  their  reception,  then  scramble  two  or 
three  fresh  eggs,  using  a  little  tomato  for  flavoring  and 
some  chopped  green  peppers.  A  soupcon  of  good  old 
Madeira  to  bring  out  the  flavoring  of  the  sweetbreads,  and 
presto! — you  have  a  dish  that  would  tickle  the  palate  of 
the  most  Haze  club  man.  Try  it  yourself,  and  see  if  it's 
not  so. 

Perhaps  you've  been  to  a  Bohemian  Club  high  jinks  and 
feel  just  a  trifle  frayed  around  the  edges.  The  mere 
thought  of  a  hearty  "breakfast  is  intolerable.  It  took 
Amedee  Joullin's  artistic  soul  to  cope  with  the  horns  of 
that  dilemma,  and  this  is  the  breakfast  that  he  and  a  kin- 
dred spirit  discussed  after  a  night  of  Bohemian  revelry. 
Think  of  it — man,  mere  man,  had  this  dainty  little  poem  of 
a  breakfast,  and  yet  I  wot  that  woman  would  not  appre- 
ciate it,  for  I  have  yet  to  see  the   woman  gourmet.     What 


to  man  is  regarded  as  an  important  part  of  the  day's  pro- 
ceedings is  too  often  somewhat  beneath  gentle  woman's 
sovereign  notice,  and  that's  one  reason  why  many  women 
look  so  much  older  than  their  festive  spouses — which  is,  I 
am  aware,  a  slight  digression  from  the  subject  in  hand,  but 
nevertheless  a  small  excursion  with  a  moral  attached  to 
it.  Women  do  not  as  a  general  thing  eat.  They  nibble. 
A  bit  here,  a  taste  of  this,  a  hasty  drink  of  that,  and  they 
fancy,  forsooth,  that  they  have  diced!  But  we  were  speak- 
ing of  breakfast — not  dinner. 

This  debonair  artist  and  his  friend  hied  them  to  Mar- 
chand's  and  ordered  a  simple,  two-course  dejeuner  of  fluffy 
scrambled  eggs,  young  quail  on  toast,  with  a  bit  of  salad 
Romaine  and  a  rum  omelet  to  "top  off."  A  modest  bottle 
of  Veuve  Cliquot  accompanied  this  little  feast  audeux,  and 
cafe  noir  completed  it.  Now  a  man  who  has  wit  and  wis- 
dom to  evolve  a  breakfast  like  that  (for  he  could  cook  as 
well  as  order  it)  would  make  his  fortune  as  a  chef  should  he 
choose  to  lay  aside  pigments  and  palette — cater,  instead, 
to  the  palate,  as  it  were.  But  to  return  to  our  muttons: 
Some  of  the  News  Lettee's  readers  are  wondering  how 
that  salad  was  made.  Simplest  thing  in  the  world.  For 
their  benefit  I  prostrated  myself,  pencil  in  hand,  before 
his  superior  knowledge,  and  came  forth  with  the  precious 
information.  The  Romaine  leaf,  be  it  clearly  understood, 
is  not  the  ordinary  choux  lettuce,  but  the  long,  crisp,  nar- 
row-leafed vegetable,  and  the  leaves  should  never  be  intro- 
duced to  a  knife.  Chicory,  en  passant  it  might  be  said,  is 
the  chrysanthemum-like  lettuce,  and  should  never  be  used 
alone,  as  then  it  is  bitter.  This  salad  Romaine  takes  a 
French  dressing  of  three  tablespoonfuls  of  oil  and  one  of 
vinegar,  slowly  blended,  with  black  pepper  and  salt  to 
taste.  If  you  value  your  happiness,  use  no  parsley,  says 
Mr.  Joullin.  If  you  wish  a  delicate  seasoning  for  a  salad 
or  saute,  use  fins  herbs,  or  astrigen,  sihoulletes,  (a  long, 
grass-like  herb),  chopped  fine.  Garlic  he  eschews,  using 
in  its  stead  the  more  delicate  eschollets.  But'  if  these  are 
to  be  our  salad  days,  there  will  not  be  space  for  a  descrip- 
tion of  his  pet  concoction,  the  one  upon  which  he  stakes 
his  reputation  as  an  artist  (of  the  cuisine) — an  asparagus 
omelet.  It  is  such  a  simple  affair,  and  yet  so  easily 
spoiled,  for  the  young  asparagus  must  be  boiled  only  until 
the  ends  are  nearly  soft — just  on  the  point  of  being  cooked. 
Then  have  the  well-beaten  eggs  ready  to  pour  into  the  hot 
receptacle,  in  which  a  piece  of  butter  is  browning;  cut  the 
ends  of  the  asparagus  off,  turn  the  eggs  into  the  pan  over 
a  brisk  fire,  throw  into  it  the  asparagus  tips,  and  let  the 
fire  and  an  alert  eye  do  the  rest.  Salt  and  pepper,  but  as 
you  value  the  success  of  the  dish,  no  other  seasoning,  else 
away  with  that  delicate  asparagus  flavor  that  enters  so 
largely  into  the  triumphant  whole.  Try  that,  ye  whose 
husband  is  a  confirmed  dyspeptic,  and  if  you  work  con 
amore,  the  result  will  cause  hubby's  "indigestion,  that  con- 
science of  every  bad  stomach,"  to  take  his  grip  and  leave. 
But  time  presses,  newspaper  columns  are  not  elastic,  and 
so  I  must  leave  a  delicious  terrapin  concoction,  confided  by 
a  Maryland  man  (now  a  Pacific-Union  Clubman)  for  another 
chapter,  as  also  a  delicious  salad  recipe  brought  from  the 
Cafe  de  la  Paix  by  a  gentleman  who  is  authority  on  mat- 
ters epicurean.  Some  of  the  dishes  forming  the  menu  of 
the  inaugural  dinner  given  to  our  new  Mayor  must  also  be 
described  next  time,  and  in  the  meantime  polish  up  your 
chafing-dishes  and  practice  on  your  pet  achievements,  for 
it's  quite  the  fad  in  San  Francisco  now. 

Amy  L.  Wells. 


Kelly's  Corn  Cure  never  fails.    25  cents.    102  Eddy  street. 

Lamp-chimney  sellers  can't 
give  you  the  shape  for  your 
lamp,  without  the  Index.  They 
have  it ;  but  some  don't  care. 
Let  us  send  you  one  ;  free. 

"Pearl  top"  and  "pearl 
glass  "  are  trade-mark  names 
for  tough  glass  and  fine  work. 
Geo  A  Macbeth  Co 

Pittsburgh  Pa 


Price  per  Co/>y. 


NEWS  ItETSTER 


Voi.LlV. 


SAN  FRA>  IS97. 


Number  6. 


Frtnttdand  PuaUaKt*  i*try  Saturday    t    :.  pro  frit  lor  .FRM1>  MAHKIOTT 
SS  AVorwy  «fr«#f .  Sam  rYantito       /fnttrtd   at    San    »  . 
oJI<v  a*  M£Witf-«J«i  Matttr. 

T»«»Jfc»  0/   (»«   Mira  LKTTKtt  in   .Wir  ror*  IVy  m  a/  7>fn,,. 
and   X    Cftfc'aao.  SOI    ««y,v    Building,  [PranJt   K     Morruo,, 
B*pTMtntatir>).  ichert information  rnu|r»>  oblaintd  rraardina  «utWr(p- 
Mori  and  adrertittna  ratrt. 

IT  is  admitted  that  many  of  our  laws  arc  virtually  a  dead- 
letter,  but  yet  many  members  of  the  Legislature 
to aet  upon  the  theory  that  tie  remedy   for   this   is   more 
laws. 

FREE  wool  and  lessened  duties  on  woolen  goods  have 
given  the  people  cheaper  clothing  than  they  ever  had 
before.  There  are  fifty  persons  benefited  by  free  wool  to 
one  who  could  profit  by  duties  on  foreign  wool. 

WRECKS  in  Golden  Gate  may  be  expected  next  month. 
The  pilots  are  obliged  to  keep  an  eye  on  the  State 
Capitol  until  the  adjournment  of  the  Legislature.  With 
their  watchfulness  thus  divided,  shipping  may  come  to 
grief. 

IF  the  School  Board  of  this  city  would  cut  off  all  unneces- 
sary expenses,  in  the  way  of  special  teachers  and  the 
like,  there  would  be  money  enough  to  pay  the  regular 
teachers  and  to  keep  the  schools  open  the  usual  number  of 
months  in  the  year. 

IT  IS  to  be  regretted  that  prize-fighting  is  looked  upon 
with  so  much  favor  in  Nevada  that  a  bill  has  been 
passed  permitting  such  brutal  exhibitions.  This  low  form 
of  sport  has  been  denounced  from  one  end  of  the  country 
to  the  other,  and  it  is  now  in  order  to  strike  this  most 
disreputable  of  States  from  the  roll  of  the  Union. 

THERE  is  no  better  body  of  men  in  the  Government 
service  than  our  letter  carriers.  They  work  diligently 
and  faithfully  by  day  and  by  night,  and  are  trustworthy 
and  painstaking  in  fulfilling  their  arduous  duties.  We  hope 
that  Congress  will  recognize  their  services,  and  will  vote 
favorably  on  the  bill  introduced  for  the  purpose  of  grant- 
ing them  better  pay. 

A  STOCK  subject  with  the  pulpit  is  that  of  the  relation 
between  the  rich  and  the  poor.  The  preachers  gen- 
erally condemn  lavish  expenditures  for  fashionable  amuse- 
ments, such  as  fancy  dress  balls,  but  forget  that  these 
outlays  afford  much  needed  employment  to  the  poor.  If 
the  rich  should  stop  spending  money  on  superfluities,  many 
thousands  of  hands  would  be  deprived  of  the  means  of  earn- 
ing bread. 

GREAT  preparations  are  being  made  for  our  coming 
Carnival,  and  it  behooves  all  pc-rsons  to  help  it  along 
to  the  best  of  their  ability.  With  such  an  attraction  vis- 
itors will  come  here  from  all  over  the  country.  Some  of 
them  may  be  prevailed  upon  to  stay  here,  and  many  may 
have  to.  Money  will  be  spent  in  all  directions,  and  all  Cali- 
fornia will  benefit  in  one  way  or  another. 

THE  so-called  "delights  of  winter"  in  the  East  are  for 
the  well-to-do,  who  have  abundance  of  food  and 
clothing,  romfortably-warmed  dwellings,  and  leisure  for 
skating,  sleigh-riding  and  other  recreations  peculiar  to  the 
season.  But  to  the  needy  the  cold  weather  brings  the 
most  cruel  and  bitter  suffering,  usually  intensified  by  the 
lack  of  sufficient  food  and  fuel.  We  have  in  California 
people  whom  we  call  poor,  but  their  condition  is  luxurious 
compared  with  that  of  the  Eastern  poor. 


100    marble   I  •    for 

the  Cll      Hall,   the 
thai  the  Boon  are  kept  Indi 
condition  and  thi  •,,  en. 

able  people  to  find  their  way  from  or,.-  door  to  another. 

THK  English  used  to  think  the  Irish  question  ■  trei 
dous  bore,  but  now  they  groan  in  spirit  over-  tl 
Irish  questions    financial  reform,  the  demand  tor  a  Catho- 
lic 1  Diversity  for  Ireland,  and  the  proposed  Boat d of  Agri- 
culture.    The  green  island  may  be  relied   upon    to   always 
keep  Parliament  in  subjects  for  debate. 

THE  bill  requiring   the  employment  of  a  "specialist  in 
sociological  education,"  in  all  counties  having  a  school 
attendance  of  25  one  of  the  most  preoosterous 

measures  ever  introduced  in  the  California  Legislature. 
We  might  as  well  have  specialists  in  psychology,  penology, 
pathology,  or  embryology  grafted  upon  our  common  school 
system.  The  cranks  should  be  taught  to  keep  their  hands 
off  the  school  moneys 

OYER  in  Alameda  County  a  meddlesome  Grand  Jury  is 
investigating  the  expenditure  of  nineteen  thousand 
dollars  last  year,  by  the  Supervisors,  for  the  support  of 
persons  alleged  to  be  indigent.  The  circumstance  that  it 
was  a  Presidential  year  makes  this  outlay  particularly 
exasperating  to  the  tax-payers.  It  should  now  be  in  or- 
der to  make  the  indigent  do  something  for  the  relief  of  the 
property  owners. 

IF  reports  from  Chicago  be  true,  there  are  vastly  more 
people  carrying  revolvers  in  that  city  than  the  number 
of  those  so  armed  on  all  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  robber 
and  the  foot-pad  make  life  a  series  of  alarms  for  the 
money  handlers  of  the  big  city  by  the  lake.  Despite  all 
sensational  statements  to  the  contrary,  the  truth  is  that 
in  no  other  large  city  of  the  United  States  are  life  and 
property  more  secure  than  in  San  Francisco. 

IT  is  said  that  Emperor  William  regrets  the  policy  of 
conciliation  that  he  formerly  displayed  towards  the 
German  socialists,  and  that  he  has  decided  upon  repres- 
sive measures.  He  is  surrounded  by  flatterers,  who  en- 
courage his  disposition  towards  absolutism.  But  there 
are  millions  of  socialists,  and  in  some  large  cities  they 
compose  three-fifths  of  the  voting  population.  The  Em- 
peror may  find  that  holding  down  the  safety  valve  of  Ger- 
man discontent  is  not  altogether  safe. 


THERE  is  a  growing  belief  that  our  political  system 
puts  too  much  power  in  the  hands  of  the  President. 
In  England,  under  what  is  termed  a  constitutional  mon- 
archy, Parliament  is  omnipotent,  ar.d  the  people  actually 
rule,  through  their  chosen  representatives.  Here  the 
President  often  defies  Congress  and  nullifies  its  acts,  not 
infrequently  when  he  is  in  opposition  to  undoubted  public 
sentiment.  The  Constitution  should  be  amended,  so  as  to 
give  Congress  more  control  of  national  affairs. 


SAN  FRANCISCO'S  debt  is  less  than  a  quarter  of  a 
million,  while  that  of  New  York  is  $110,000,000,  and 
Boston's  is  $43,000,000.  Among  the  principal  cities  of  the 
United  States,  this  is  distinguished  for  having  the  smallest 
debt,  both  absolute  and  p<  r  capita.  And  only  New  York 
and  Boston  excel  this  city  in  the  amount  of  wealth.  Free- 
dom from  debt  is  a  good  thing,  but  yet  we  could  well  afford 
to  issue  bonds  for  sewers  and  other  needed  public  improve- 
ments, so  as  to  give  posterity  a  just  share  of  the  burden 
of  payment. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


DIVORCES     THAT     DISGRACE     THE     COURTS. 


MRS.  "WATSON  of  Alameda  is  now  free  to  do  as  she 
pleases,  and  among  the  things  it  is   sworn   that  she 
pleased  to  do,  was  to  flirt  with  street  car  conductors  and, 
in  the  absence  of  her  husband,  to  receive  male  visitors  that 
she  knew   to  be   objectionable  to  him.     Mr.  Watson,  be- 
cause he  loved,    not   wisely,    but   too  well,    very  naturally 
expressed  his  disapproval  of  conduct  unbecoming  in  the 
wife  of  his   bosom   and  the   mother  of  his  children.     He 
owned  a  desirable  residence,  supplied  it  bountifully,  was  a 
kind  father,  and  appears  to  have   been   an  indulgent  hus- 
band in  all   things   save  his   wife's  flirtations.     He  could 
bear  much,  but  smirks,  and_  smiles,    and   nods  that  are  as 
good  as  winks  to  passing  car  conductors,  he  could  not  stand 
without   remonstrance.      Nor   did   he   quite  like   certain 
pastoral  visits  that  were  always  made  when  he  was  away 
from  home.     Weller   Senr.  gave  his  son  Sam  the  very  ex- 
cellent advice  to   "bevare  of   the  vidders,   Samivel!"     In 
view  of  the  record  San  Francisco,  and  its   environs,  have 
made  during  recent  years,     Mr.  Watson  was  rather  wise 
than  foolish  in  applying   old  Weller's   caution  to  pastor's 
visits.     It  is  all  very  well  for  reverend  gentlemen  to  take 
an  interest  in  the  immortal  souls  of  other  men's  wives,  but 
it  is  no  less  well  for  them  to  consider  the   souls  of  the  hus- 
bands,   just   a  little  bit.     Moreover,    every  man  is,   or  of 
right  ought  to  be,  lord  of  his  own  castle,  aud  entitled  to 
say  who  may,  and  who  may   not   darken  its   portals.     A 
good  wife  would  no  more  think  of   disregarding  the  wishes 
of  her  husband  in  such   a  matter,    than   the  average  man 
thinks  of  introducing  women  into  his   home,    who  with  or 
without  cause,  are  known  to  be  obnoxious   to  his  wife.     It 
is  a  matter  in   which   each   should,    not  grudgingly  or  re- 
luctantly, but  cheerfully,  yield  to  the  other.     That  clergy- 
man best  does  his  duty  who  most  faithfully,    and  by  exam- 
ple as  well  as  precept,  respects  and  sustains  the  authority 
of  the  head  of   the  family.     He  of   all  men  should  bow  to 
that  authority,  and  when  he  does  not,   but  rebels,  and  be- 
comes a  partizan  in  a  divorce  court,  and  helps  to  separate 
"whom  God  hath  joined  together,"  he  forgets  himself  and 
his  duty  to  society.     Because  Mr.  Watson  objected  to  the 
things  we  have   indicated,    he   was   declared  "jealous"  by 
his  wife,  and  that  by   an  extraordinary   decision  of  an  ex- 
traordinary Judge  was  held  to  be   "extreme  cruelty," 
entitling  the  woman  to  a  divorce.     Whoever  heard,  in  real 
life,  of  the  jealousy  of  the  man  she  loves  being  a  cause  of 
"great  mental  anguish"  to  a  woman?  What  if  her  flirting, 
or  worse,  failed  to  arouse  any  feeling  in  him  at  all,  would 
he  not  by  his  indifference,  cause  her  real  mental  distress? 
Would  it  not  pain  any  true  woman  to  think  that  her  spouse 
had  wearied  of  her  and  was  incapable  of  exhibiting  jeal- 
ousy over  her  actions,  and  treating  her  with  indifference  ? 
Not  a  doubt  about  it.     Indeed,   it   is   by  no  means  an  un- 
common thing  for   wives   who  fear   that  the  affections  of 
their  husbands  are   waning,    to   test   the  matter  by  what 
is  called  an    "innocent   flirtation."     Jealousy,    under  such 
circumstances,  is  the  sincerest  form   of   flattery,  and  very 
dear  to  the  female  heart.     Its  absence  would  be  taken,  in 
such  a  case,    to  be  downright   cruelty,     To   declare  that 
jealousy  which  a  loving  husband   naturally   feels  when  he 
sees  his  wife    flirting    with    other  men    to    be  "extreme 
cruelty,"  is  a  monstrous  misinterpretation  of   the  statute 
and  an  outrage  upon  common  sense. 

Mr.  Watson,  because  he  was  jealous — that  is,  because 
he  loved  his  wife — is  punished.  How,  and  to  what  extent? 
By  a  Judge,  apparently  afflicted  with  a  sort  of  mental 
strabismus,  he  is  decreed  to  be  "a  cruel"  husband,  an  un- 
worthy guardian  of  his  children,  and  a  man  to  be  stripped 
of  his  past  savings,  as  well  as  of  his  future  earnings. 
Robbed  of  his  wife,  his  children,  his  home,  his  household 
goods  and  virtually  held  in  slavery  by  a  monthly  payment 
of  alimony,  he  has  had  taken  from  him  pretty  nearly  all  that 
renders  life  worth  living.  All  this,  be  it  remembered, 
without  a  trial  by  a  jury  of  his  countrymen,  and,  indeed, 
without  an  adequate  trial  of  any  kind.  Three  or  four 
short  sittings,  at  which  the  wife  tells  any  story  she  pleases, 
and  at  which  every  little  domestic  molehill  is  exaggerated 
into  a  mountain,  do  not  constitute  a  judicial  investigation 
commensurate  to  the  terrible  consequences  involved.  No 
wonder  that  many  thoughtful  men  are  beginning  to  think 
that  the  time  will  come  when  the  iastitution  of  marriage 
will  fall   into  a   state  of  innocuous   desuetude. 


The  Slaying      The  life  and  doings  in  this  city  of  Fung 
of  Ching,  better  known  as  Little  Pete,  who 

"Little  Pete."  was  killed  by  two  of  his  countrymen 
whilst  he  was  sitting  in  a  barber's  chair 
in  Chinatown  on  Saturday  last,  constitute  one  of  the 
blackest  pages  in  our  municipal  history.  For  pretty  well 
twenty  years  he  defied  law  and  order,  secured  the  protec- 
tion of  the  police  by  processes  easier  understood  than 
described,  profited  by  owning  opium  joints,  gambling  dens, 
slave  women,  man  murderers,  smuggling  outfits,  alarm 
gongs  connecting  police  quarters  with  Chinatown,  and 
heaven  only  knows  what  other  infamous  and  lawless  de- 
vices. He  was  cunning,  secretive,  rich,  powerful,  and  the 
living  embodiment  of  about  all  the  ways  that  were  dark 
and  tricks  that  were  vain,  of  his  own  countrymen.  He 
could  raise  a  corruption  fund  in  quick  order,  and  for 
almost  any  amount.  He  believed  that  the  Police  Depart- 
ment was  constituted  as  well  as  it  could  be,  and  he  could 
always  be  relied  upon  to  promptly  raise  any  required  sum 
to  help  it  pass  pension  bills,  secure  court  decisions  that 
passed  all  understanding,  to  elect  certain  local  candidates 
to  office,  and  generally  to  further  whatever  he  deemed  the 
common  cause.  We  may  not  say,  because  we  cannot 
prove,  that  these  contributions  brought  him  the  immunity 
he  so  long  enjoyed.  We  have  never  had  a  Lexow  Com- 
mittee for  this  city,  and  therefore  have  never  got  to  the 
bottom  of  things.  But  the  broad  fact  stands  out  clear  and 
bold  enough  for  a  wayfaring  man,  though  a  fool,  to  read. 
Little  Pete  was  known  for  pretty  nearly  all  he  was,  yet 
no  harm  came  to  him  at  the  hands  of  our  vigilant  peace 
officers,  and  he  was  rarely  put  to  any  inconvenience,  but 
when  he  was  he  always  seemed  to  have  a  friend  just  where 
he  needed  one.  It  may  have  been  that  his  smartness  and 
cunning  were  too  much  for  our  officials,  but  to  admit  that 
is  to  concede  the  point  that  we  ought  long  ago  to  have  had 
a  band  of  trained  officers  equal  to  at  least  one  Chinaman. 
What  this  city  has  first  and  last  suffered,  and  still  suf- 
fers, from  the  presence  of  Chinatown  in  its  midst,  may 
never  be  computed.  It  has  been  a  festering  cesspool  of 
crime,  disease,  immorality,  unmentionable  vices,  and  of 
contamination  to  both  old  and  young  alike,  that  almost 
passeth  human  understanding.  The  infection  is  to-day 
deeply  embedded  in  persons  and  places  that  are  not  gen- 
erally suspected.  No  one  who  came  into  contact  with 
Chinatown  seemed  to  escape  its  infection.  Even  its  women 
missionaries,  in  too  many  cases,  surrendered  to  its  habits 
with  truly  lamentable  results.  It  is  not  too  much  to  say 
that  the  long-continued  existence  of  this  abomination  has 
in  large  part  been  due  to  the  corrup't  and  corrupting  in- 
fluences of  which  this  man,  Little  Pete,  was  so  pronounced 
a  master.  Of  course  corruption  existed  before  his  day, 
and  will  continue  now  that  he  is  dead,  but  he  had  made 
himself  the  Dens  ex  maehina,  and  leaves  no  equally  danger- 
ous leader  behind.  If  Grand  Juries,  District  Attorneys, 
Police  Judges,  and  vigilant  reporters  will  keep  a  keen  eye 
on  Chinatown  for  a  while,  it  may  be  possible  to  prevent 
the  renewal  of  the  alliances  which  Little  Pete  found  so 
potent  for  evil.  That  such  a  rascally  Chinaman  could  have 
worked  the  mischief  and  secured  the  immunity  he  did, 
must  seem  incredible  to  strangers  who  do  not  know  the 
facts.  This  citv  has  no  cause  to  mourn  the  death  of  Little 
Pete. 

What  Is  The  It  may  safely  be  taken  for  granted  that 
Examiner  the  Examiner's  raid  upon  the  Park  Com- 
After  Now  ?  missioners  is  not  what  it  seems  to  be. 
There  is  a  nigger  in  the  wood  pile  some- 
where. We  do  not  pretend  to  know  exactly  what  the 
facts  are,  but  we  known  the  Examiner  and  the  methods  it 
adopts  under  its  present  editorial  management.  It  has  a 
design  upon  the  Park,  and  it  cannot  be  a  good  one,  be- 
cause the  present  excellent  commissioners  are  deemed  to 
be  in  the  way.  They  are  not  usable  men,  and,  in  conse- 
quence, a  sudden  and  very  extraordinary  effort  is  being 
made  to  get  rid  of  them.  Why?  Can  anybody  tell? 
There  is  no  salary  attached  to  their  offices,  and  nobody  is 
likely  to  hanker  after  their  positions  on  that  account. 
If  Irving  M.  Scott,  John  Rosenf eld t,  and  Joseph  Austin  are 
not  men  whom  no  breath  of  scandal  can  hurt,  then  this 
municipality  is  without  citizens  above  fear  and  beyond  re- 
proach. The  condition  of  the  Park  speaks  for  itself.  It 
is  a  marvel  to   every  body,  and  especially  to  visitors  from 


January  30,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


.i 


moderate 
ident  McLaren 


other  -  it  so  much  i: 

that  he  nets  a  full  day  in  return  fen-  a 

The  awful  0  made  that  he 

subordinates.     These 

two   allegations.  made,    furnish    about    ns  good 

evidence  of  the  competency  of  McLaren  as  a  superinten- 
dent aa  need  be  defiired.  It  is  further  claimed  that  the 
Lodge  in  which  he  is  housed  is  needlessly  permanent  and 
He  necessarily  has  to  live  in  the  quarters  assigned 
him  by  the  Commissioners,  and  they  and  not  he  an 
ponsible.  The  late  W.  W.  Stow  favored  the  building  of  a 
Lodge  that  should  be  a  credit  to  the  Park  for  all  time. 
he  approved  the  plans,  and  watched  all  the  proceedings 
had  in  connection  with  it  with  personal  care.  Possessed  of 
personal  integrity  never  questioned,  and  of  a  judgment  in 
such]  matters  almost  infallible,  no  well  informed  citizen 
will  care  to  question  the  wisdom,  at  the  mere  ipti  d 
the  Examiner,  of  what  he  chose  to  do  as  a  Park  Commis- 
sioner. Independent  in  mind  and  means,  he  made  a  hobby 
of  improving  the  Park,  and  left  our  whole  people  indebted  j 
to  him  for  his  resultful  labors.  Then  the  audacious  allega- 
tion is  made  that  Irving  M.  Scott,  in  effect,  stole  15,000 
from  the  Park  funds  by  collecting  that  much  more  for 
pumping  apparatus  than  it  was  worth.  Pshaw!  Every- 
body knows  that  Mr.  Scott  would  rather  donate  that 
amount  to  the  Park  than  take  one  dime  from  it  to  which 
he  was  not  entitled.  Mr.  Scott  has  not  time  to  go  mous- 
ing around  on  little  looting  expeditions,  but  he  may  find 
time  to  defend  his  honor,  by  forcing  the  Examiner  into 
the  position  of  admitting  that  it  cannot  prove  its  words. 
It  would  not  be  true  to  its  record  if  it  did  not  take  water, 
beg  for  mercy,  and  whine  like  a  whipped  cur.  Stewart 
Menzies,  of  all  men,  was  said  to  be  in  a  steal  by  which  he 
became  possessed  of  the  Casino  building  at  much  less  than 
its  value  and  it  was  intimated  that  McLaren  had  built  a 
road  at  public  expense  for  Menzie's  private  benefit.  A 
brief  explanation  sufficed  to  put  these  lies  at  rest,  but 
they  have  not  been  withdrawn.  It  is  no  doubt  hoped 
that  the  Commissioners  may  be  badgered  into  resigning 
their  positions  in  disgust,  but  that  would  be  to  play  the 
game  of  the  enemy.  The  Examiner  has  a  design,  and  its 
methods  demonstrate  that  it  is  not  a  good  one. 

Railroad  Is  the  era  of  railroad  building  approaching  an 
Building  end?  The  Railway  Age  finds  that  it  has  under- 
in  1896.  gone  a  remarkable  decline  since  1887,  in  which 
year  12,983  miles  of  track  were  laid.  Year 
by  year  fewer  miles  have  been  built,  until  last  year  the 
small  total  of  1802  miles  was  reached.  The  descent  to  ex- 
treme inactivity  has  been  continuous  throughout  nine  years, 
and  it  is  perhaps  well.  The  country  has  fully  enough 
miles  of  road  to  supply  the  requirements  of  its  present 
population.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  United  States  has 
come  by  the  greatest  system  of  railroads  on  earth,  it 
hardly  knows  bow.  A  sum  total  nearly  equal  to  all  the 
gold  and  silver  in  the  world  has  been  borrowed  to  give  us 
nearly  as  many  miles  of  railroad  as  are  owned  by  all  the 
rest  of  creation  put  together.  This  gigantic  business  is 
to-day  paying  nothing  on  70  per  cent  of  its  stock  indebted- 
ness, and  nothing  on  13  per  cent  of  its  bonds.  Yet  what 
would  our  country  have  been,  for  a  century  or  more  to 
come,  if  it  had  not  been  for  the  early  building  of  these 
roads,  for  which  there  has  been  need,  and  for  which  there 
will  yet  be  adequate  profit?  That  the  credit  of  so  new  a 
country  was  equal  to  what  has  been  accomplished  will  al- 
ways remain  one  of  the  marvels  of  the  age.  Meanwhile, 
the  railroad  builder  may  well  take  a  rest.  Yet  he  is  still 
busy  in  California,  which  last  year  headed  the  list  of  States 
in  the  matter  of  mileage  of  new  roads. 

The  Proposed  Bills  have  passed  the  House  of  Repre- 
Postai  sentatives  which  contain  changes  in  the 

Improvements,  postal  service  which  will  be  interesting 
to  the  people  generally.  One  is  to  per- 
mit the  mailing  of  private  postal  cards.  Under  its  pro- 
visions any  card  to  which  a  one-cent  stamp  is  affixed  may 
be  transmitted  by  mail,  provided  it  approximates  in  size 
and  weight  the  present  card  furnished  by  the  Government. 
The  plan  has  been  adopted  in  Great  Britain,  and  in  seven 
months  has  increased  the  card  mail  by  one-fourth;  a  very 
strong  evidence   of  its   popularity   there.     It  would  un- 


doubti 

it.  printing    the, 
would  make  a  fail  of 

engraved.    The  1  rould  prot'n 

Handling   and   storing   ai 
number  of  the  1  ids. 

Another  proposal  is  that 
letters,  wl  Indemnified  to  the  amount 

often  jtered  undei  ten  dollars,  U 

would  be  repaid  in  ful:      Probably  the  majority  of  pi 

latronize  the  Registry  department   believe  that  the 

.-  for  tlie  money  thus  sent 
by  mail.  Such  is  not  the  fact.  The  additional  eight 
cents    on     a     registered     letter    pur  'thing    but 

extra  care  in  its  transmission,  Registered  letters  are 
handled  separately  from  the  ordinary  mail  and  ran 
be  traced  from  sender  to  receiver,  but  the  mere  fact 
of  registration  e  evilly-inclined  to  tfa 

where  the  most  value  is  10  be  found.  Under  the  plan  of  a 
limited  indemnification  it  is  expected  that  the  increased 
use  of  registry  will  be  sufficient  to  make  the  department 
whole  against  any  suns  it  may  be  called  upon  to  repay. 

The  postal  authorities  are  also  experimenting  with  a 
plan  which  makes  the  individual  his  own  postmaster,  if 
approved,  a  little  cabinet,  costing  about  two  dollars 
be  purchased  from  the  department  and  fastened  outside 
one's  front  door.  The  cabinet  will  have  one  compartment 
in  which  the  carrier  will  place  letters  which  he  is  deliver- 
ing; another  in  which  he  will  find  letters  to  be  mailed.  If 
the  householder  has  no  stamps,  he  may  put  the  money  to 
buy  them  in  the  box  with  the  letters,  and  the  carrier  will 
do  the  rest.  Still  another  compartment  is  for  the  purpose 
of  buying  stamps.  Money  is  placed  in  the  box,  and  an  in- 
dicator tells  the  carrier  just  what  stamps  are  required. 
He  takes  the  money  and  leaves  the  stamps  on  his  succeed- 
ing trip.  The  amount  that  can  be  purchased  at  any  one 
time  will  not  exceed  fifty  cents.  Soon  a  man  may  not  need 
to  leave  his  house  for  any  purpose,  and  later  on,  perhaps, 
he  may  be  served  with  all  necessities  while  in  bed. 

The  Arbitration  Treaty     It  is  obvious  that  the  arbitration 
in  Danger.  treaty  is  in  imminent  peril.     The 

small  men  whom  the  poor  politics 
of  the  period  have  brought  to  the  surface  as  United  States 
Senators,  are  beating  the  bush  for  all  sort  of  excuses  for 
delay  and  its  ultimate  defeat.  It  is  now  in  committee  and 
is  not  apparently  to  be  reported  back  to  the  Senate  this 
session.  Meanwhile,  the  Irish  societies  all  over  the 
country  are  being  moved  to  petition  for  its  rejection  on  all 
sorts  of  grounds,  most  of  which  go  straight  to  the  point 
that  it  is  not  desirable  that  this  country  should  be  without 
gi-ievances  pgainst  Great  Britain,  or  debarred  from  mak- 
ing war  against  the  people  of  that  nation  whenever  popu- 
lar clamor  can  be  aroused  to  demand  it,  or  their  European 
complications  seem  to  afford  us  the  usual  opportunity  for 
successful  attack.  That  is  plainly  the  intent  and  meaning 
of  an  avalanche  of  memorials  now  descending  upon  the 
Senate,  which,  by  its  non-action,  seems  to  invite  them, 
and  to  desire  nothing  better.  If  this  issue  is  unhappily  to 
be  raised  at  all,  it  is  better  that  it  should  be  raised  now 
than  later.  Let  us  comprehend,  once  for  all,  just  where 
we  stand.  If  we  are  to  live  in  a  condition  of  perpetual  un- 
rest and  threatening  turmoil  with  the  people  of  our  own 
race,  kindred  and  language  across  the  ocean,  let  us  know 
it,  and  learn  at  whose  instance,  and  for  what  cause  this 
unsatisfactory  state  of  affairs  is  to  be  maintained.  The 
News  Letter  has  no  taste  for  religious,  or  racial  contro- 
versies, and  usually  leaves  them  severely  alone.  It  be- 
lieves that  the  newer  and  better  issues  constantly  arising 
in  this  great  country  supply  all  the  food  for  thought  that 
our  people  require  or  can  digest.  Our  domestic  difficulties 
are  enough  in  all  conscience,  without  participating  in  for- 
eign antipathies  in  which  we  have  no  sort  of  inter- 
est. If  any  section,  race,  or  creed,  less  than  a  majority 
of  the  whole  American  people,  believes  that  it  can  force 
the  United  States  to  maintain  a  standing  army,  and  a  Navy 
of  the  first  class,  in  order  to  fight  causeless  and  prevent- 
able wars,  we  believe  that  it  has  but  to  show  its  hand  in 
order  to  learn  how  grievously  mistaken  it  is.  The  arbi- 
tration treaty  is  a  beneficent  measure,  approved  by  the 
best  American  thought,  and  demanded  by  enlightened 
public  sentiment. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


The  Pacific  Railroad    The  best  journals  of  the  East  are 
Debts.  most  pronounced    in  their  views  of 

the  unwisdom  of  Congress  in  not 
either  passing  the  Funding  Bill  or  devising  some  satisfac- 
tory settlement  of  the  Pacific  Railroad  debts.  The  New 
York  Nation,  and  Springfield  Republican,  fairly  represent 
the  independent  class  of  newspapers  to  which  we  refer. 
The  Nation  in  its  own  clear  and  forceful  way  says,  that 
"in  lieu  of  funding,  foreclosure  is  the  only  remaining  alter- 
native. But  that  would  imply,  in  the  first  place,  an 
issue  of  $60,000,000  in  bonds  with  which  to  pay  off  the  first 
mortgage,  and,  in  the  second  place,  Government  owner- 
ship and  operation  of  the  road.  But  we  all  know  how  very 
bad  it  is  to  issue  bonds,  and  we  can  guess  how  bad  it  would 
be  for  a  Government  to  run  a  railroad.  It  is  perfectly 
certain  that  every  prominent  constituent  would  have  to 
have  a  pass,  and  a  position  on  the  road  for  his  son,  and  get 
his  freight  carried  free.  Congress  can  seriously  contem- 
plate neither  bond  issues  on  account  of  the  road,  nor  its 
operation  by  the  Government.  The  only  inference  is  that 
it  has  shirked,  and  means  to  go  6n  shirking  its  duty  to 
settle  the  question.  It  is  the  same  old  policy  of  drift. 
Drifting  is  good  fun  and  very  easy,  but  in  the  end  the  ship 
goes  to  smash  on  the  rocks.  However,  you  may  always 
hope  to  be  dead  and  well  out  of  it  first.  "  That  is  pretty 
much  the  view  the  News  Lettek  has  always  taken  of 
this  matter.  The  trouble  is  that  funding  involves  a  com- 
plicated fiuancial  transaction  for  which  Congress  at  pre- 
sent has  neither  a  mind  or  taste  of  its  own,  and  is  without 
confidence  in  anybody  who  has.  Then  there  is  an  enviable 
opportunity  to  pose  in  public  as  an  enemy  of  corporations 
and  bloodsuckers.  Add  to  this,  the  inertia  and  cowardice 
of  a  short  session  on  the  eve  of  a  new  administration,  and 
the  shirking  by  Congress  of  a  difficult  and  perhaps  un- 
popular duty,  is  fully  accounted  for.  But  the  Pacific  Rail- 
roads' debt  problem  has  got  to  be  solved  in  some  way,  and 
that  way  will  not  be  found  by  the  Government  embarking 
in  the  railroad  business.  Meanwhile,  foreclosure  proceed- 
ings will  drag  their  slow  way  along  in  the  Courts,  and  the 
end  no  man  may  foresee.  It  will  be  well  if  no  paralysis  falls 
upon  the  commerce  of  this  Coast  in  consequence. 


Renewed  Interest    The  English   are  now  engaged  in  ex- 
in  periments  that  have  a  decided  inter- 

Ramie  Fibre.  est  for  the  textile  trade  everywhere. 
Every  reader  will  remember  the  in- 
cessant talk  in  the  papers  a  few  years  since,  regarding 
the  value  of  the  ramie  fibre,  and  how  confidently  it  was 
expected  to  become  a  serious  rival  of  both  cotton  and  flax. 
The  French  worked  on  ramie  before  the  Americans  took 
it  up.  The  French  gave  it  up,  and  even  the  ingenuity  of 
Americans  failed,  and  the  subject  dropped.  Now  the 
English  have  the  ramie  fever,  and  already  claim  that  suc- 
cess is  just  ahead.  The  great  difficulty  to  overcome  in  the 
preparation  of  the  fibre  is  to  disengage  it  from  the  gummy 
bark  of  the  plant.  The  method  is  necessarily  a  chemical 
one,  and  both  French  and  Americans  failed  to  find  an 
agent  that  would  dissolve  the  gum  without  weakening  the 
fibre.  There  has  been  no  trouble  to  separate  the  fibre, 
but  it  was  always  found  too  much  rotted  by  chemicals 
to  use  in  cloth.  The  English  are  using  a  method  employ- 
ing the  zincate  of  soda,  lately  originated  for  them  by  a 
chemist  of  Indian  nativity.  A  company  has  been  formed, 
and  patents  taken  out  in  every  country.  An  experi- 
mental factory  is  at  work  in  London,  turning  out  two  tons 
of  fibre  a  week  ready  for  spinning.  There  has  never 
seemed  any  doubt  of  the  value  of  ramie,  provided  it  could 
be  successfully  decorticated.  It  is  a  very  light  and  very 
strong  cloth  when  woven,  and  will  not  shrink  or  stretch. 
It  can  be  sold  almost  as  cheap  as  the  cheapest  cotton,  and 
yet  its  smooth  and  glossy  appearance  rivals  linen.  Six 
pounds  of  ramie  will  make  as  much  sail-cloth  as  ten  pounds 
of  flax.  The  canvas  of  the  famous  yacht  Defender  was 
made  from  this  fibre.  The  plant  is  tropical,  and  has  been 
known  to  produce  four  crops  a  year.  If  the  claims  of  suc- 
cess are  well  founded,  we  shall  doubtless  see  the  enterprise 
founded  in  this  country.  Texas  is  known  to  be  an  excel- 
lent climate  for  the  production  of  the  plant,  and  Soulhern 
California  may  prove  to  be  just  as  good.  All  that  the 
planter  has  to  guard  against  is  the  fermentation  of  the 
gum  in  the  bark  before  he  delivers  it  to  the  factory. 


The  Cabinet  The  indications  are  that  President-elect 
Taking  Form.  McKinley  is  at  last  progressing  with  his 
cabinet  making.  As  John  Sherman  has 
himself  announced  the  fact,  there  remains  no  doubt  that 
he  is  to  be  the  new  Secretary  of  State.  A  stronger  man 
than  his  chief,  he  will,  we  think,  be  the  guiding  star  of, 
and  give  complexion  to  the  new  administration.  And  a 
very  quiet,  sober,  sedate  hue  it  will  be.  For  many  years 
past  John  Sherman  has  been  the  most  temporizing,  con- 
servative man  in  Congress.  He  will  carry  nothing  of 
jingo  policy  into  our  relations  with  foreign  nations,  and 
that  is  well,  for  the  country  needs  nothing  so  much  at  this 
time  as  assurances  of  peace,  to  the  end  that  prosperity 
may  be  permitted  to  resume  its  normal  sway.  The  new 
Secretary  will  be  quiet,  dignified  and  inclined  to  smooth 
away  difficulties  and  the  President-elect,  not  being  a 
Cleveland,  will  give  him  a  free  hand  and  let  him  have  his 
own  way.  Unless  the  unexpected  should  happen,  our 
foreign  relations  will  not  trouble  us  overmuch  during  the 
next  four  years.  Judge  Nathan  Goff,  of  West  Virginia,  is 
to  be  the  Attorney  General,  and  he  too,  is  a  safe,  rather 
than  a  brilliant  man.  Our  own  Judge  McKenna  appears 
to  have  been  slated  for  Secretary  of  the  Interior.  In  him 
California  will  have  a  creditable  representative,  and  the 
country  a  most  painstaking  and  conscientious  cabinet 
officer.  Probably  no  better  selection  from  this  Coast 
could  have  been  made.  He  will  devote  himself  to  master- 
ing the  affairs  of  his  office,  and  will  administer  them  with 
marked  executive  ability.  The  leading  idea  which  seems 
to  have  dictated  these  cabinet  selections,  is  that  strength 
and  solidity,  rather  than  brilliancy,  should  form  the  dis- 
tinguishing characteristics  of  this  administration.  Political 
pyrotechnics  are  likely  to  be  at  a  discount  for  some  time 
to  come. 

An  Outline  Of  "What  may  be  accepted  as  an  accurate 
McKinley's  Policy,  statement  of  the  main  features  of  the 
next  administration's  financial  policy 
appears  over  the  signature  of  E.  V.  Smalley  of  Minneapolis, 
who  has  been  having  a  talk  with  the  President-elect. 
There  will  be:  (1)  An  immediate  revision  of  the  tariff  on 
protection  lines,  (2)  The  restoration  of  the  reciprocity 
treaties  of  the  Harrison  administration,  (3)  The  mainten- 
ance of  all  kinds  of  money  at  a  parity  with  gold,  (4) 
Efforts  in  the  direction  of  promoting  international  bi- 
metallism, (5)  The  gradual  retirement  of  the  greenbacks 
by  the  use  of  surplus  revenue  for  that  purpose,  (6)  An  ex- 
tension of  the  National  Bank  system,  so  as  to  permit  of 
branches  being  carried  on  in  small  towns,  (7)  Economy  in 
expenditures,  if  Congress  will  permit,  to  correspond  with 
the  economies  of  the  period  consequent  upon  the  condition 
of  the  times.  This  is  a  modest  programme  that  has  little 
or  no  meaning  in  it,  except  as  to  the  tariff.  The  restora- 
tion of  the  reciprocity  arrangements  is  now  next  to  im- 
possible, for  the  reason  that  nothing  is  left  to  trade  with. 
The  sugar  duties  cannot  again  be  spared;  besides  our  cane 
and  beet  growers  would  object  to  free  trade  in  sugar,  and 
bounties  are  now  impossible.  The  greenback  policy  will 
have  no  immediate  effect,  as  it  will  be  long  before  there 
will  be  any  surplus  revenue  to  speak  of.  The  old  McKinley 
tariff  with  a  few  changes  will  be  re-enacted,  and  an  extra 
session  called  for  the  purpose.  This  is  due  to  the  indus- 
tries that  supplied  the  campaign  fund.  For  the  rest  the 
programme  amounts  to  nothing,  and  that,  perhaps,  is  well. 
The  country,  with  a  rest  from  politics,  will  stick  the  better 
to  business. 

To  Inconvenience     A  Bill  is  at  present  before  the  Legis- 
The  Pub  ic.  lature,  the  tenor  of  which  is  to  com- 

pel the  Pullman  Company  to  leave  up 
all  upper  berths  when  the  same  are  not  occupied.  This 
bill  is  one  of  the  worst  to  crop  up  this  session  and  if 
passed  would  prove  a  great  inconvenience  to  passengers 
and  deprive  them  of  the  little  comfort  they  may  obtain 
while  travelling.  At  present  it  is  customary  to  sell  the 
I  lower  berths  first  and  if  the  upper  berth  remains  unsold 
the  passenger  has  the  privilege  and  comfort  of  both  seats. 
Should  this  bill  pass,  however,  it  will  be  to  the  advantage 
of  the  Pullman  Company  to  sell  both  berths  in  the  section 
before  selling  a  second  lower  berth  in  another  compartment. 
The  bili  is  ridiculous,  and  would  only  inconvenience  the 
travelling  public.     For  this  reason  it  should  be  killed. 


Janu;i: 


WS   LETTER. 


AT    THE    CAPITOL. 


January  - 

WITH  i  uid  half 

the  world  the  i 
b  of  busines 

In    fact,  it  is  0 
the  question  that  all   the   measures  can  i>c  pro 
ed.     Then,  again,  there   is    bell 

lirk  work      Adjournments   are    tak. 
the  afternoon  of  each  day,  and  in   both  houses  the 
lunged   member  much   time,    as    Hennery    said, 

wing  the  rag."  But  let  the  taxpayers  be  thankful 
that  the  Legislature  meets  only  mice  in  two  years,  and 
thai  I  is  only  sixty  days  in  length,  and  that  only 

thirty-five  days  yet  remain.      The  business  of   the  Bi 
I  prophesy,  will  be  able  to  be  summed  up  in  the  statement 
that  the  General  Appropriation  Hill  ami   another   County 
rnment  art  have  been  passed.      By  the  way,  the  Ap- 
propriation bill  is  practically  ready  now. 

The  sensational  scene  in  the  Assembly  last  week,  when 
Chief  Clerk  Duckworth  fainted,  is  still  being  talked  about, 
and  may  prove  the  salvation  of  Duckworth's  future.  Con- 
servative members  think  now  that  he  was  not  all  to  blame. 
and  the  investigating  committee,  in  whose  hands  the  matter 
now  is.  will  undoubtedly  implicate  several  members  of  the 
Assembly  along  with  the  Chief  Clerk.  The  punishment  in 
store  for  them  will  probably  be  a  reprimand  and  advice  to 
not  do  it  again.  A  bill  fixing  the  number,  duties,  and  pay 
of  all  temporary  and  permanent  attaehtt  will  also  be  passed, 
or  rather  a  constitutional  amendment  for  the  offices  of 
both  houses  are  named  by  constitutional  provision.  As- 
semblyman Brieling,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Attaches  and  Mileage,  was  before  the  Investigating  Com- 
mittee the  other  day.  and  if  he  is  as  innocent  a  young  man 
as  his  testimony  would  tend  to  show,  Alameda  County  is  a 
fit  temporary  residing  place,  and  heaven  should  be  his 
permanent  home.  The  poor  fellow  knew  nothing  except 
what  he  was  told,  was  suspicious  of  nothing,  took  every- 
thing for  granted,  and  let  a  list  of  over  one  hundred 
names,  with  an  appropriation  of  nearly  $4,000,  go  through 
with  his  recommendation,  simply  because  he  thought  it 
was  regular.  The  Lord  deliver  us  soon,  and  protect  us  in 
the  future  from  such  abiding  faith. 

Senator  Withington,  who  represents,  in  a  way,  San 
Diego,  made  an  "Indian"  of  himself  in  the  Senate  the  other 
day,  when  he  attempted,  by  resolution,  to  prevent  members 
of  the  press  from  securing  copies  of  bills  from  the  Sergeant- 
at-Arms,  and  accused  some  newspaper  man — unnamed — 
of  taking  nineteen  or  some  other  ridiculous  number  of  each 
bill  for  some  hinted  at  unlawful  and  wasteful  purpose.  He 
was  properly  "called  down"  by  the  newspaper  men  pres- 
ent, and  his  constituents  will  name  his  successor  next 
election. 

The  Senate  is  going  to  investigate  the  disappearance  of 
desks,  chairs,  and  other  furniture  purchased  last  session. 
It  all  came  about  by  Senator  Smith's  remarks  on  what  he 
considered  an  extravagant  appropriation  of  $597.50  to 
pay  for  a  lot  of  new  furniture  for  the  use  of  some  thirteen 
Senate  Committees.  The  old  furniture,  it  was  stated,  was 
being  used  by  various  State  officers,  whose  right  to  pos- 
session of  the  same  is  doubtful.  Senators  Smith,  Gillette 
and  Dickinson  are  to  be  the  investigators.  After  they  in- 
vestigate, I  wonder  what  will  occur.  Most  probably  the 
appropriation  will  be  allowed  for  the  new  furniture  and 
the  old  furniture  deliberately  declared  missing. 

Leslie  Blackburn,  Sergeant-at-Arms  of  the  Senate,  is 
wearing  a  beautiful  gold  badge  presented  him  by  his  ad- 
miring friends  in  Alameda  County. 

Governor  Budd  has  introduced  anew  practice.  When  a 
junketing  committee  makes  a  trip,  along  with  them  goes 
the  Governor.  This  may  be  a  good  idea,  but  these  trips 
cost  money,  and  the  Governor  has  certainly  been  to  all  the 
State  institutions  visited  many  times  before. 

Assemblyman  Harry  Mulcrevey,  of  the  Thirty-seventh 
District,  San  Francisco,  who,  by  the  way,  is  one  of  the  few 
worthy  members  from  the  metropolis,  has  introduced  a 
bill  making  the  theft  of  a  bicycle  a  felony.  All  the  wheel 
owners  in  the  State  are  in  favor  thereof,  and  it  will  un- 
doubtedly pass. 

Next  week  the  selection  of  State  Library  Trustees  will 


be  m;i 

that  body  ••■  -out  for  thi 

taxpayers.      A 

which 
ited    by  1 

cuts.      Exi  I  ag  for 

twenty  years   a  S 

tee  in  San    Mateo,  where   he 

lives,  Mr.  Goodhue  never  be- 
eld  a  public  office,  most 
probably  because  he  never 
sought  it.  for  in  hi 
where  he  has  lived  for  thirty 
years,  he  has  friends  with- 
out number  and  is  univers- 
ally respected.  Mr.  Good- 
hue is  chairman  of  the  com- 
mittee on  Federal  Rein 
and  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittees on  Commerce  and 
Navigation,  M  an  ufactures 
and  Internal  Improvements, 

and  Roads  and  Highways.  Among  the  measures  that  Mr. 
Goodhue  has  introduced  and  is  interested  in,  is  a  bill  look- 
ing for  the  protection  and  regulation  of  the  dairying  in- 
dustry: abill  protecting  the  forests;  good  roadsjand  favors 
the  removal  of  the  tax  on  shipping  and  non-compulsory 
pilotage. 

The  bill  appropriating  $75,000  to  cover  a  deficiency  in 
the  State  Printing  office  will  pass  both  Houses,  despite 
opposition  by  the  minority  and  a  few  of  the  Republicans, 
but  will  undoubtedly  be  vetoed  by  the  Governor.  The 
Governor's  office  and  that  of  the  State  Printer  are  in  op- 
posite wings  of  the  Capitol  building,  and  this  exemplifies 
the  feeling  cordiaU  between  those  officials.  In  the  Senate, 
the  bill  may  be  passed  over  the  Governor's  veto,  but  in  the 
Assembly  the  minority  will  fight  that  appropriation  to 
the  bitter  end,  and  may,  with  the  few  Republicans  afore- 
said, force  a  compromise.  They  are  willing  to  vote  $30,000, 
the  money  to  be  used  exclusively  for  Legislative  printing. 
Business  is  dull  here.  The  latest  quotation  on  Assembly- 
men is  sixty  cents  per  dozen.  Peg. 


o.    G.   Goodhm 


10c.  a  Copy 


$4  a  Year 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


1  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 

TO  my  mind  Sudermann  is  Ibsen  without 
the  whiskers.  In  that  vague  collo- 
quialism, "whiskers,"  I  see  a  symbol:  a 
something  dim  and  tangle-threaded,  bifar- 
EB  ious  adown  the  steep  face  of  modernity, 
grotesquing,  shadowing,  narrowing  nature. 
And  in  the  tensity  of  that  scene  where  Magda  finds  nobility 
and  bigness  in  the  quiet,  self-abnegation  of  the  Rector,  and 
the  Rector  sees  scope  and  triumph  and  fulfillment  in 
Magda's  life,  it  fell  upon  me  stronger,  even  than  before, 
how  vast  and  tangled  Ibsen's  whiskers  are,  how  dense 
they  grow  between  him  and  the  world — the  world  he  never 
looks  full  in  the  face,  but  peeks  at  with  the  corners  of  his 
eyes  out  over  the  hedges  he  has  grown  himself.  Suder- 
man  is  so  daringly  unopinionated,  so  bravely  uninquisitive, 
so  inpeccably  impersonal.  No  moral  trails  his  play  to 
rattle  like  a  can  from  a  dog's  tail.  He  asks  no  ques- 
tion, he  courts  no  interrogation;  he  gives  you  a  pulsing 
picture  of  life  with  all  life's  contradictions  and  friction,  and 
ideals  and  creeds  and  prejudices,  battling  one  against  the 
other  as  they  must  battle  so  long  as  mortal  man  prescribes 
what  is  to  be  beyond  the  frontier  of  his  own  soul. 

*  *  * 

We  chafe  and  stifle  with  Magda  as  the  old  family  chains 
narrow  around  her  again.  We  pity,  even  justify,  the 
proud,  yearning,  bigoted  father,  who  says,  "Look  at  this 
home!  There  is  no  luxury — hardly  even  what  you  call  good 
taste — faded  rugs,  birchen  chairs,  old  pictures;  and  yet 
when  you  see  the  beams  of  the  Western  sun  pour 
through  the  white  curtains  and  lie  with  such  loving  touch 
on  the  old  room,  does  not  something  say  to  you,  'Here 
dwells  true  happiness?'  "  We  sympathize  with  him,  even 
to  understanding  why  he  would  rather  have  had  Magda 
come  home  in  rags  and  tears.  And  yet  Magda  has  but  to 
say,  "Filial  love?  I  would  like  to  take  that  dear,  white 
head  on  my  lap  and  say,  'You  old  child,'  "  and  a  broader, 
bigger  ego  claims  our  sympathy. 

So  it  is  throughout  the  play.  Gentle  sister  Marie 
would  die  a  thousand  deaths  but  defy  not  one  convention 
for  Max,  and  Magda  pityingly  says,  "The  most  terrible  of 
all  passions  becomes  in  their  hands  a  mere  resigned  de- 
fiance of  death."  The  Rector  feels  a  something  pent,  un- 
expressed in  bis  placid,  unworldly  life  and  Magda  urges  him 
on  with,  "to  be  greater  than  our  sins  is  worth  more  than 
all  the  purity  you  preach."  And  the  big  little  egotism  of 
the  Privy  Councillor — so  character-consistent,  so  probable, 
so  inevitable  in  this  mixed  world  of  ours — how  sickly  green 
it  turns  in  the  glare  and  glitter  of  her  scorn!  She  is  a 
wonderful  woman,'  this  refined  vulgarian  Magda,  with  a 
philosophy  and  an  animal  power  which  dominate  everything. 
The  softening  influences  of  the  Rector  only  accentuate  her 
strength.  She  lays  aside  the  light  rapier  of  worldliness  to- 
ward the  last,  when  her  heart  begins  to  choke  and  she 
fights  grimly,  terribly,  as  the  mother  fights  for  her  young, 
with  the  savage  in  her  soul.  And  even  to  the  very  pride- 
brtiken  death  of  her  father  she  conquers,  and  you  feel  the 
awful  justice  of  it  all — and  still  there  is  neither  glory  nor 
content,  nor  aught  but  bitterness  in  the  victory. 

Sudermann  says  nothing  but  "Here  is  life,  look  at  it.  I 
can  show  it  to  you  but  I  cannot  explain  its  justice  or  its 
injustice."  Nor  can  he,  for  even  while  the  ink  was  wet 
upon  his  work,  it  moved  and  breathed  and  became  a  some- 
thing, as  Magda  herself  became,  too  strong,  too  big,  too 
full  of  "I  am  I"  to  stay,  trembling,  under  the  parental  rod. 
And  Sudermann  called  this  creation  of  his  brain,  this  one 
day  snatched  from  the  life  that  might  be  yours,  or  mine  or 
anybody's,  "Heimath" — Home!  Is  it  not  the  irony  of 
genius? 

*  *  * 

I  never  expect  to  see  a  perfect  performance  of  Magda, 
*ud  I  dare  say  no  one  ever  has.  I  can  imagine,  in  the 
hazy  way  one  imagines  things  which  are  perfect  to  one's 
own  satisfaction,  a  performance  wherein  there  is  no  virtu- 
osity, no  star,  but  an  ideal  symphonic  oneness.     But  stars 


have  made  Magda  what  she  is  in  the  realms  of  play-acting, 
and  stars  will  sustain  her  there;  and  I  do  not  think  there 
ever  will  be  enough  ambitious  actresses  to  make  Magda 
herself  hackneyed — as  poor  Canaille  is  hackneyed — any 
more  than  there  ever  will  be  the  inspiration,  study  and 
technical  perfection  in  a  supporting  company  to  bring  out 
that  close,  conflicting  atmosphere  the  author  has  wedded 
to  his  work. 

In  Monday  night's  performance  at  the  Baldwin  Theatre, 
there  were  two  characters  realized,  two  characters  that 
were  truthful  to  Sudermann,  finished  in  all  the  details  of 
acting,  and  worthy  companion  pictures  to  Modjeska's 
famous  Magda — Joseph  Howarth's  Major  Schubert,  and 
George  Osbourne's  Privy  Councillor,  von  Keller.  By  his 
fidelity  to  what  Sudermann  unmistakably  outlines  as  von 
Keller's  character,  and  the  somewhat  ludicrous  misunder- 
standing of  that  author  by  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  the 
daily  newspapers,  Mr.  Osbourne's  interpretation  has  come 
in  for  a  deal  of  slating — slating  so  far  as  the  critics'  inten- 
tion go,  but  in  reality  very  pretty  and  ingenuous  compli- 
ments for  Mr.  Osbourne.  It  is  the  first  time  in  several 
seasons  that  I  have  known  Mr.  Osbourne  to  exact  from 
himself  the  very  best  of  which  he  is  capable.  The  utter 
commonplaceness  of  von  Keller's  appear mce — which  in 
itself  makes  a  tragedy  of  his  ever  having  been  anything  to 
Madga — the  scrupulous,  exasperating  manner,  the  quiet 
pomposity  of  his  speeches,  the  unspeakable  contemptible- 
ness  of  the  man — ever  delicately  suggested  rather  than 
laid  on  with  gnarled  eyebrows  and  fierce  facialisms — 
which  seem  to  have  made  Mr.  Osbourne's  Privy  Councillor 
such  bad  acting  for  my  colleagues,  is,  to  my  thinking,  the 
best,  and  only  possible  true  acting  of  the  part.  The  make- 
up was  faithful  to  Sudermann's  directions,  and  the  manner 
of  the  acting  was  an  illumination  of  the  lines.  If  the  per- 
sons who  wrote  those  trustful  notices  for  Tuesday's  papers 
will  let  go  their  pens  for  a  few  hours  and  read  the  play 
Heimath,  a  very  good  English  version  of  which  is  published 
by  Lamson,  Wolffe  &  Co. ,  they  will  find  that  von  Keller  is 
neither  the  Nelson  Wheatcroft  nor  the  Maurice  Barrymore 
villain,  but  quite  the  sort  of  villain  who  occurs  in  actual 
life,  and  who  does  not  wear  his  black  soul  on  the  outside 
so  that  you  can  measure  it  in  the  first  act. 
*  *  * 

The  enterprise  of  Al.  Hayman  &  Co.  in  giving  us  Mod- 
jeska  at  this  timely  season  is  real  philanthropy — so  far  as 
we  are  concerned — and  not  the  least  of  this  enterprise 
lay  in  bringing  out  Joseph  Howarth,  one  of  the  foremost 
of  young  American  actors,  for  leading  man.  Mr.  Howarth's 
genius  is  ample  enough  to  balance  considerable  discrepancy 
at  the  other  end  of  the  casts.  It  was  not  until  after  the 
first  two  acts  that  he  got  beneath  the  skin,  so  to  speak, 
of  Major  Schubert,  and  then  he  realized  the  part  to  the 
very  center,  blending  the  gentleness,  austerity,  pride,  and 
narrowness  of  this  pitiable  old  mac  with  splendid  convic- 
tion. Howarth,  like  Modjeska,  is  the  player  born,  and 
his  art  is  instinctive,  sensitive,  and  sure. 

The  other  members  of  the  company  are  not  of  a  quality 
to  shine  in  the  peculiar  exigencies  of  a  Sudermann  play. 
Sudermann  is  so  usual  to  every-day  life,  so  untheatric,  so 
unepigrammatic,  even,  that  the  actors  must  feel,  and  be, 
rather  than  act,  in  the  accepted  sense.  Lester  Lonergan 
almost  convinced  me  that  a  young  man  could  play  Rector 
Weber  in  the  early  part  of  the  play,  but  his  mellow  sonor- 
ousness became  monotonous  and  insufficient  in  the  big 
scenes.  Miss  Frances  Jolliffe,  the  debutante  (what  would  a 
Modjeska  season  be  without  a  debutante?)  played  Marie 
very  easily  and  prettily  for  a  novice.  What  she  lacks  is 
not  manner,  but  magnetism.  Max  is  perhaps  the  least 
Sudermannish  of  all  the  characters;  he  might  belong  to 
any  popular  drama.  Landers  Stevens  did  well  enough 
with  Max,  considering  the  popular  view  he  took  of  him, 
and  the  popular  view  most  people  take  of  acting,  but  Lan- 
ders has  the  misfortune  to  be  my  brother,  so  I  doubly  de- 
plore any  stilted  actorial  methods  that  may  have  charac- 
terized his  work.  Miss  Hattie  Foley  infused  large,  farce- 
comedy  comicality  into  Aunt  Franciska,  which,  of  course, 
entirely  ruined  that  immense  contrast  character. 

■  Modjeska's  Magda  is  not  new  to  San  Francisco,  and  it 
never  will  be  old  to  those  of  us  who  preserve  our  better 
appreciation  through  the  dreary  seasons  of  mediocrity  so 
long  as  she  plays  it  as  she  did  this  week.  I  have  never 
seen  Duse,  but  if  she  is   all  the  world   proclaims   her,   it 


January  30.  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   M 


roust  bo  that  hers  is  like  the  beautiful,  ui  us  art 

which  mar,  Modjes,  tiring' 

out  the  big  brutal  note  wb 

■  some  Magda.     S  tome  bitek 

home  1  ho  devil 

her  mien.   Hers  is  a  Magda  of  tine,  febrile  organism 

;>ring  of  the  woman  who  ha-  lived,    the    vital;!  . 
animalism  of  a  life  used  to  freedom       And   ahe   [eels  the 
chains  a  thousand  times   heavier  than    they   were  in   bar 

od.     And  this    time,  her    self-wrought    success,    anil 
tier  child  arm  her  with  a  terrible  justice.     It  i-.  a  charac- 

ition  full  of  nervous  power  and  imperial  imagination 
— easy  to  applaud,  impossible  to  describe. 
•  •  • 
If.  as  her  admirers  insist.  Lillian  Nordica  was  retired 
from  the  Metropolitan  Opera  Company  by  any  private 
malice,  or  jealousy,  or  family  reasons  of  Jean  de  Restke's, 
I  can  see  a  superb  revenge  in  store  for  the  American  song- 
stress if  she  will  take  it  when  she  gets  back  to  New  York. 
Let  Nordica  hire  a  ball,  an  orchestra,  and  any  able-lunged 
tenor,  and  sini:  the  Siegfr  sang  it  for  us  at 

the  Baldwin  Saturday  afternoon,  and  the  Metropolis  is 
hers:  and  there  will  be  such  n  1  amor  around  the  walls  of 
the  Metropolitan  that  St.  .lean  and  his  angels  will  be  only 
too  glad  to  open  wide  the  door.-,  and  let  her  in.  And  it  will 
be  the  biggest  argument  ever  offered  in  favor  of  Am 
singers  for  American  dollars. 

Musical  New  York  is  at  present  given  up  to  two  all-ab- 
sorbing questions— quiet  enough  in  the  title,  but  fraught 
with  terrifying  sensationalism  in  the  discussion  thereof. 
One  is  the  Americans  for  America  proposition;  the  other 
is  the  siugableness  and  intelligableness  of  Wagner's  operas. 
The  musical  journals,  most  notably  the  Musical  Courier, 
are  hot  and  savage  upon  the  pampered  head  of  Jean  de 
Reszke,  who,  they  claim,  in  the  grasp  of  his  greed  and  am- 
bition, is  unwilling  to  share  either  American  ducats  or 
American  plaudits  with  the  singers  of  America.  The 
Metropolitan's  receipts  have  not  been  materially  diminished 
by  all  this;  nevertheless,  the  patriots  are  still  zealous,  and 
noisy,  and  hopeful.  But  the  biggest  strife  is  between  the 
Wagnerites  and  the  auti-Wagnerites.  The  latter  forces, 
composed  of  the  plumbers  and  gasfittersof  the  daily  news- 
papers, are  led  by  little  Alan  Dale,  a  most  entertaining 
and  sulphurous  critic  of  plays  and  play-acting,  but  a  blith- 
ering ass  in  all  the  clefs  of  music.  These  find  nothing  but 
dire  dissonance  and  disturbance  of  the  peace  in  Wagner's 
music.  The  composer  himself  they  call  "  Demented  Dick," 
"Veary  Vagner,"  "Wheezy  Wag,"  and  many  other 
chaste  epithets  which  the  small  fire-cracker  mind  easily 
explodes  upon  those  it  cannot  and  will  not  understand.  The 
Wagnerites,  the  long-haired  soiled  ones,  who  fume,  flare, 
swear,  sweat,  and  die  by  the  Bard  of  Beyreuth,  follow  in 
the  wake  of  short-haired  Mr.  De  Koven  of  The  World  and 
debonair  Mr.  Huneker  of  the  Musical  Courier  and  The  Ad- 
vertiser. In  his  critical  capacity,  Reginald  De  Koven  is 
the  last  man  on  earth  you  would  suspect  of  writing  comic 
operas.  He  goes  to  the  Metropolitan  companioned  by  a 
quadrant,  a  compass,  an  encyclopedia,  a  German-English 
lexicon,  and  a  thermometer — a  most  un-Worldly  person, 
who  reads  very  much  like  The  Tribune.  James  Huneker 
is  a  cosmopolite,  a  classicalist,  a  modern,  a  traditionalist, 
an  innovator,  a  technician,  a  temperamentalist :  he  ex- 
changes color  with  his  subject.  Huneker  is  one  of  the  few 
critics  in  America  who  earn  their  salaries:  he  is  read 
—because  he  has  nerve,  and  verve,  and  enterprise,  and 
judgment,  and  wit. 

If  the  San  Francisco  telegrams  have  not  already  done 
the  work,  Nordica  has  only  to  go  to  conquer.  Of  course, 
she  made  pretty  little  vows  never  to  sing  Briinnhilde 
again,  but  Melba  is  vanquished,  Lehmann  is  passee,  Reszke's 
relative,  Letvinne  is  voted  fourth-rate,  ar.d  New  York 
brandishes  its  golden  horn  of  plenty  and  demands  the  best. 
Nordica  will  never  let  the  opportunity  go.  Besides,  it 
will  be  such  a  sweet,  bitter  one  on  Jean,  who  now  will 
scarcely  risk  importing  Ellen  Gulbranson,  since  that  Chris- 
tiania  matron  so  widely  missed  the  mark  in  the  Berlin 
performances  of  Wagner's  Ring  dps  Nibelungen.  And 
then,  Reszke's  splendid  stripling  Siegfried,  will  not  get 
all  the  New  York  flowers. 

San  Francisco  is  perhaps  the  worst  place  this  side  of 
Oklahoma  to  give  an  authoritative  verdict  on  a  Wagnerian 
performance,  but  the   immense,   compelling  character  of 


crown  fr, 

in  to  the  si 


that  Nordica  gu 
»d     A 


A -in 


are    alwl  1    ,,f    vaiio. 

.it    the  Orpheum, 
'   tpltalne'sti  „  and 

are,  beyond  then-  athletic 

excellence,  a  sei  1  -tic  pictun 

■n    i-     the  perl     and    original    1 

Orpheum   has   ever   enguged.     Nc\t    week    there   ■■ 
both  kind-  of  singing  on  the  bill    our  old   friend  Guille,  the 
tenor,     and    Ward    aid    Cumin,     late     of     the     Clippei 

Quartette. 

The  big  Aladdin   production  comes  oil   at  the  Tivoli  to- 
night, and  there  will  be  B  string  of    ticket  -seekers  extend- 
ing from  thi  e  way  round  to  Powell  Btrei  t,  1 
the  actors  come  from.     Extravaganza  is  what  the  Tivoli 

patrons  want  just  now.  and   extravaganza    thev  arc 

in  large,  frolicsome  quantities.     Prom  oil  promises, 

'in  is  going  to  be  the  biggest  feast  of   music  and  mer- 
riment the  Tivolians  have  had  in  seasons     IV-t  has  painted 

new  scenery,  Martens  and  Hirshfeld  have  written  new 
music,  Hartman  has  garnered  new  jokes,  a  some 

of  the  other  kind,  and  R.  C.  White,  of  Sin  fame,  has  given 

d.  fin  de  dech   turn  to  the  story.      There    will  lie  ballets"  and 

songs  and  specialties,  and  the  entire  Tivoli  company  in  the 

cast. 

It  is  some  time  since  we  ha\  •  had  a  real  farce-comedy, 
and  many  persons  wl  1  intric   enough  to  go  to  the 

theatre  to  be  amused  will  be  glad  to  learn  that  Thi  Prod- 
igal Father  (there  is  a  world  of  mirth  in  that  title  alone) 
opens  at  the  Columbia.  Monday  night. 

Thursday  afternoon  the  first  symphony  concert,  under 
the  direction  of  the  new  society,  takes  place  at  the 
Columbia.  Dvorak's  first  symphony  and  Tschaikowsky's 
"Marche  Slave"  are  among  the  orchestral  novelties.  Mrs. 
Katherine  Fleming-Hinrichs  (wife  of  the  conductor)  will  be 
the  vocalist. 


Baldwin    Theatre-  ^ «*«*■**•■ 

Next  week  second  and  last  of 

MODdESKA, 


(Incorporated) 
Proprietors . 


supported  by  Mr  JOSEPH  HAWORTH  and  a  complete  com- 
pany. 

Monday,  Tuesday  and  Saturday  nights  MACBETH 

Wednesday  and  Friday  nights  and  Sat.  mat  MARY  STUART 
Thursday  night  (only  time)  ADRIENNE  LECOl/VR  EUR  E 
Monday,  February  8th,  MR.  LOUIS  JAMES. 


Golumbia  Theatre- 


The"  Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 
Friedlander,  GottlobA  Co.,  Lessees 
and  Managers. 

And  now  comes  the  acme  of  tbem  all.  Great  cast  comedy, 
comedians.  That  ifamously,  uproarously,  funny  farce-comedy, 
THE 

PRODIGAL    FATHER 

Third  annual  review.  All  new  features.  More  or  less  up-to- 
date.  A  company  of  20  people.  Titenia,  Jeannette  Ardelle, 
Mme.  Lorretta,  Mi.ss  Marjorie  Fair,  Mies  Rose  Melville,  Miss 
Carrie  Graham  Lynn  Welcher,  Charles  Boyle,  Mat.  M.  Wills, 
D  J  Haplin,  Fred'k  Walz,  Joseph  Voltes,  George  Nichols. 
The  greatest  mirth  provoking,  farce  comedy  ever  written. 
February  8ih,  "Chimmie  Fadden." 

OL  San  Francisco's  Greatest  Music    Hall.      O'Farrell 

rprieUm.    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powellstreets. 

Week  commencing  Monday,  February  1st      Direct  from  France 

GUILLE, 

The  world's  greatest  tenor;  Ward  &  Curran.  the  clipper  come- 
dians; Capitaine,  "the  perfect  woman";  Bessie  Clayton,  "the 
prettiest,  daintiest,  and  most  bewitching  dancer  that  ever  daz- 
zled an  audience;  Binns  &  Binns;  Wilson  &  Waring;  the  Royal 
Hungarian  Court  Orchestra.  Reserved  seats,  25c  :  balcony, 
10c;  opera  chairs  and  bos  seats.  ftOc.  Matinees  Wednesday, 
Saturday,  and  Sunday.  Matinee  Prices:  Parquet,  any  seat, 
25c. ;  balcony,  any  seat,  lOo. ;  children,  10c. ,  any  part . 


Mrs.  Ernestine  Kreling, 

Proprietor  and  Manager 


Tivoli  Opera  House. 

To-night.    Our  up-to-date  extravaganza, 

ALADDIN, 

or,  The  Wonderful  Lamp.    A  hodge-podge  of  mirth,  music,  bal- 
lets, beauty.    The  n«w  electric  Danse  des  Fleurs.      The  Float- 
ing Palace  in  Mid-Air.     The  Six  Little  Tailors.     The  superb 
Ballet  of  Cleopatras. 
The  New  and  Novel  Specialties. 
Popular  Prices ..-  25cand50o 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


THE  REPULSE  OF  THE  BURGLAR. 


By  James  Charlton  Donald. 

THE  Nicholson  family  was  mortally  afraid  of  burglars. 
Their  house  at  Berkeley  had  never  been  robbed,  but 
its  occupants  were  in  as  constant  terror  of  a  midnight 
raid  as  if  their  home  had  been  pillaged  with  monthly 
regularity.  The  unwritten  annals  of  the  family  were  re- 
plete with  burglary  incidents  in  which  marauders  had  all 
but  accomplished  their  purpose  without  actually  forcing 
an  entrance.  Although  when  exposed  to  the  cold  examin- 
ation of  the  skeptical,  the  groundwork  of  these  exciting 
experiences  had  invariably  proved  to  be  nothing  more 
tangible  than  noises  of  varying  degrees  of  mystery,  no 
member  of  the  extensive  Nicholson  connection  ever  ven- 
tured to  question  either  the  genuineness  of  the  danger  or 
the  providential  character  of  the  deliverance. 
»  According  to  the  Nicholson  belief,  burglars  roamed 
nightly  about  the  premises.  Although  the  desperadoes 
had  never  reached  the  climax  of  removing  valuables  or 
even  of  entering  the  house,  the  members  of  the  family 
were  continually  on  the  alert,  expecting  that  their  vigilance 
would  one  night  circumvent  a  practical  thief  in  the  flesh. 
A  succession  of  false  alarms,  unbroken  by  anything  more 
serious  than  an  inquisitive  cat,  a  stray  dog  or  the  howling 
of  the  wind,  neither  lessened  their  fright  nor' decreased 
their  anticipation  of  robbery. 

It  must  not  be  supposed  that  their  nightly  fear  cast  a 
perpetual  gloom  over  the  lives  of  the  Nicholsons.  On  the 
contrary,  it  was  the  source  of  some  secret  gratification. 
They  diligently  cultivated  their  nerves,  clinging  to  the 
idea  of  midnight  attacks  with  considerable  comfort 
mingled  with  their  timidity.  It  argued  a  measure  of 
enviable  importance,  not  to  say  aristocratic  wealth,  to 
know  that  their  house  was  the  center  towards  which  all 
the  porch-climbers  and  area  thieves  in  the  country  were 
directing  their  covetous  talents. 

Mrs.  Nicholson,  in  her  easy  chair  beside  a  wood  fire,  re- 
flected philosophically  that  sooner  or  later,  the  robbery 
was  bound  to  be  accomplished.  The  burglars,  piqued  by 
a  succession  of  failures,  would  devote  all  their  energies  to 
the  capture  of  her  little  citadel.  Perhaps  they  would 
come  that  very  Christmas  Eve.  It  was  dark  enough, — 
just  the  night  for  a  burglar's  purpose. 

Her  available  defense  force  was  somewhat  weak.  Her 
husband  was  absent  and  the  members  of  the  household 
were  chiefly  women  and  children,  the  nearest  approach  to 
a  man  being  her  nephew  Henry,  who,  although  a  well 
grown  lad  of  18,  was  a  chronic  sufferer  from  moral  and 
physical  cowardice. 

Heury  left  the  house  early  in  the  evening,  returning 
about  nine  in  a  pelting  rain.  The  family  retired  at  the 
usual  time  and  an  hour  or  two  later,  Mrs.  Nicholson,  in 
spite  of  her  quaking  nerves,  felt  a  thrill  that  was  almost 
triumphal  because  of  the  accuracy  of  her  intuition.  She 
heard  the  long  expected  burglar.  She  was  wide  awake 
and  there  was  no  doubt  of  his  presence  this  time.  He  was 
working  with  monotonous  diligence  and  seemed  to  be  filing 
away  at  the  window  fastening,  keeping  time  to  the  drip, 
drip  of  the  rain  from  the  eaves. 

Mrs.  Nicholson  aroused  her  niece  and  the  female  servant 
and  held  a  hurried  consultation  to  decide  the  best  means 
of  thwarting  the  burglar's  plans.  As  a  forlorn  hope  they 
called  Henry,  but  he  was  not  easily  awakened.  When  he 
was  finally  made  to  understand  the  nature  of  the  family 
peril,  he  contributed  some  sage  advice. 

"Hit  him  with  an  Indian  club,"  Henry  bravely  coun- 
selled, and  turning  over,  resumed  his  slumbers. 

Frightened  as  they  were  of  burglars,  the  Nicholsons 
were  more  afraid  of  firearms,  and  no  active  aid  being  ob- 
tainable from  Henry,  the  women  prepared  to  attack  the 
unwelcome  visitor  with  domestic  weapons. 

The  burglar  was  at  a  window  near  the  front  door, 
hidden  by  the  deep  portico.  The  terrified  females  could 
hear  him  distinctly.  Prompt  action  was  necessary,  so  Mrs. 
Nicholson  procured  one  of  her  nephew's  Indian  clubs  and 
from  an  upper  window  hurled  it  in  at  the  open  side  of  the 
porch. 

As  if  recoiling  from  the  blow,  a  big,  black  object  leaped 
from  the  floor  of  the  porch  but  did  not  run  away.     It  ut- 


tered no  sound  when  the  heavy  missle  fell,  so  the  sugges- 
tion that  the  cause  of  alarm  might  be  an  enormous  dog, 
was  scouted. 

"A  dog  would  have  howled,"  said  the  maid,  convincingly. 

The  undaunted  burglar  crouched  down  again  on  the 
floor  of  the  porch,  and  after  an  interval  of  silence  above, 
apparently  thinking  he  would  be  safe  from  further  in- 
terruption, boldly  renewed  his   rasping  work  at  the  door. 

"We  shall  be  murdered  if  he  gets  in,"  Mrs.  Nicholson 
called  as  an  ultimatum  through  the  key  hole  to  Henry. 
"We  must  strike  a  quick  blow  for  our  home  and  our 
lives." 

Stimulated  to  action  by  the  prospect  of  sudden  death, 
Henry  was  finally  persuaded  to  emerge  from  his  retire- 
ment and  assail  the  burglar,  making  the  condition  that 
the  women  should  accompany  him  as  a  body  guard. 
While  Mrs.  Nicholson  remained  at  the  upper  window, 
Henry  with  a  second  Indian  club  in  one  hand  and  a  crib- 
bage  board  in  the  other,  crept  slowly  and  reluctantly 
down  stairs,  followed  by  his  sister,  armed  with  a  manicure 
set  and  a  child's  bow  and  arrow,  while  the  servant  carried 
a  large  kitchen  knife  and  a  potato  masher. 

Quietly  opening  the  front  door  a  few  inches,  Henry 
threw  club  and  cribbage  board  in  the  face  of  the  intruder 
and  bolted  upstairs  and  into  his  room,  upsetting  in  his 
flight  the  trembling  girls  on  the  landing. 

Simultaneously  with  Henry's  discharge,  Mrs.  Nicholson 
from  her  place  of  vantage,  dropped  two  dumb  bells,  a 
slate,  several  boots  and  a  Noah's  ark  with  its  entire 
menagerie,  upon  the  head  of  the  bold  thief. 

This  combined  volley  of  heavy  artillery  knocked  the 
robber  off  the  porch.  In  the  dim  light,  the  defenders  of 
their  home  could  see  him  lying  motionless  on  the  pave- 
ment below. 

Mrs.  Nicholson  was  instantly  smitten  with  remorse. 
The  violent  death  of  a  human  being  was  awful.  She  would 
always  have  it  on  her  conscience,  even  if  he  were  a 
burglar. 

"I  suppose  it  will  be  justifiable  homicide,  but,  oh,  dear! 
it's  just  dreadful,"  she  wailed,  wringing  her  hands,  "and 
he  probably  wasn't  ready  to  die." 

The  watchers  above  saw  the  robber  leap  up  as  if  in  the 
death  agony.     Then  he  lay  rigid. 

In  nervous  apprehension,  tortured  by.  their  consciences 
and  the  fear  of  an  undefined  punishment  by  the  law  the 
women  sorrowfully  waited  for  the  dawn,  too  unnerved  to 
seek  assistance,  Henry,  meanwhile,  lying  trembling  in  his 
bed.  They  were  afraid  even  of  a  dead  burglar  and  re- 
luctantly allowed  the  corpse  to  remain  where  it  lay,  ex- 
posed to  wind  and  rain. 

It  was  a  dreary  watch,  and  at  the  first  glimpse  of  day- 
light, Mrs.  Nicholson,  with  a  sigh  of  relief,  dressed  to  go 
to  the  police  station  and  surrender  herself.  Her  neice  and 
the  maid  prepared  to  accompany  her. 

Henry  declared  he  would  await  his  arrest  at  home. 
He  secretly  argued  that  it  was  uncertain  whether  he  or 
his  aunt  had  delivered  the  fatal  blow.  Since  she  was  so 
ready  to  acknowledge  her  guilt,  he,  by  keeping  in  the 
background,  would  at  least  not  be  arraigned  as  the  chief 
criminal  and  he  might  even  avoid  all  punishment. 

"It  is  more  dignified,"  said  Mrs.  Nicholson  as  she  ad- 
justed her  bonnet  before  a  mirror,  determined  to  look  her 
best  even  in  a  dungeon;  "It  is  much  more  dignified  to  give 
myself  up  voluntarily  to  the  authorities,  than  to  be  dragged 
through  the  streets  branded  as  a  murderess." 

She  was  interrupted  by  a  shout  from  Henry,  who  after 
reconnoitering,  had  rushed  out  and  dragged  indoors  the 
remains  of  the  robber. 

"Why,  it's  only  my  old  umbrella,"  he  said,  in  a  sudden 
outburst  of  contemptuous  bravery.  "The  handle's  broken, 
and  the  cloth's  torn,  so  I  just  dropped  it  outside  the  door 
when  I  came  home  last  night  in  the  rain.  The  wind  has 
turned  it  inside  out." 

All  the  Nicholsons  are  still  at  large,  uncharged  with 
murder  or  any  other  crime.  They  talk  no  more  of  covetous 
thieves,  however,  and  the  next  burglar  who  happens  that 
way  may  carry  off  the  house  without  fear  of  molestation 
from  its  occupants. 


"  Brown's  Bronchial  Troches"  are  a  simple  yet  most  effectual  rem- 
edy for  Coughs,  Hoarseness  and  Bronchial  Troubles-.    Avoid  imitations. 


January  30,  1897. 


PAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS   I.I   1 


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who  have  never  realized  the  meaning  and  extent  of  the 
militia  work  and  the  thorough  devotion  of  militiamen,  l<«< 
Often  called  toy  soldiers,  to  their  work  The  Third  Cav- 
alrymen l:-  opened  the  eyes  of  unaccustomed 
vers  by  their  superb  ridinp,  and  the  cowboy  and 
Indian  of  the  pla  iveleft  an  ineffaceable 
impression.  And  best  of  all,  perhaps,  a  very  large  sum 
has  been  added  to  the  Hospital  Fund  for  invalid  militia 
men.  their  wives  and  children,  which  Mrs  Howard  Carroll 
and  other  interested  and  benevolent  women  are  attempt- 
ing to  collect.  The  purpose  is  to  establish  a  large  ward 
in  the  Hahnemann  Hospital  for  the  State  soldiers  and 
their  families.  The  sum  has  already  gone  beyond  the  ten 
thousand  dollars  at  tirst  deemed  necessary. 

Of  California  faces  1  have  seen  very  few  lately,  perhaps 
because  there  have  been  suggestions  of  blizzards  in  the  air 
when  one's  own  four  walls  are  so  attractive  that  one  does 
not  care  to  tempt  Providence  by  going  out  often.  J.  D. 
Redding  has  been  in  Philadelphia  on  a  business  trip  for  a 
few  days,  and  has  just  returned  to  town.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Jim  Lake  have  also  been  in  the  Quaker  City  for  a  week, 
visiting  Mrs.  James  Elverson,  Jr.  Sir  Bache  and  Lady 
Cunard  are  on  a  visit  to  Lady  Cunard's  mother,  Mrs. 
Tichenor,  and  are  at  the  Holland  House.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  Rutledge  Gibson  (Miss  Belden)gave  a  large  dinner 
last  night  in  honor  of  Charles  Dana  Gibson,  the  artist,  who 
is  a  relative  of  the  host. 

Mrs.  Harry  Gillig  is  once  more  contemplating  a  Europ- 
ean journey.  She  gave  an  interesting  musicale  to  a  few 
friends  on  Tuesday  night,  at  which  Miss  Eugenie  Ferrer 
charmed  every  one  with  her  Spanish  songs.  She  played 
again  last  night  at  the  marriage  of  Miss  Leona  Bush  to 
Claude  de  Lamontte.  Miss  Bush  is  a  niece  of  Dr.  Henna, 
one  of  New  York's  prominent  surgeons. 

By  the  time  this  letter  reaches  you,  Miss  Mollie  Torbert 
will  have  been  transformed  into  Mrs.  Kirkpatrick.  The 
wedding  will  be  celebrated  at  the  Church  of  All  Angels,  in 
West  End  avenue,  and  a  reception  will  follow  at  Sherry's. 
The  bridal  pair  will  go  South  on  their  wedding  journey. 
Miss  Torbert  has  entirely  recovered  from  her  severe  ill- 
ness and  looks  like  herself  again.  Lieutenant  D.  L.  Tate, 
who  came  to  New  York  to  participate  in  the  recent  Mili- 
tary Tournament,  has  returned  to  New  Hampshire  with 
his  regiment.  He  is  still  "Handsome  Danny."  Mrs. 
George  Crocker  gave  a  large  dinner  on  Tuesday  night. 
To-night  Mrs.  De  La  Mar  will  be  hostess  at  a  similar  en- 
tertainment. 

At  the  opera  on  Saturday  afternoon,  I  saw  Mrs.  La 
Montague,  nee  Catherwood,  who  is  more  beautiful  and 
attractive  than  ever.  By  the  way,  the  opera  was  un- 
usually interesting,  as  it  was  Calve's  second  appearance 
as  Marguerite  in  Faust,  and  the  performance  was  a  revel- 
ation. Heretofore  the  role  has  been  sung — and  sung,' 
perhaps,  with  certain  sentiment — but  with  this  incompar- 
able artist  the  character  itself  was  livid  before  one.  There 
are  many  innovations  in  her  acting.  Instead  of  seating 
herself  at  once  when  she  enters  the  garden,  and  after 
comfortably  posing  as  a  tableau  before  beginning  "Le  Roi 
de  Thule,"  she  walks  about — folds  her  little  cape  to  put  it 
aside — pulls  out  the  spinning  wheel  and  chair,  singing  all 
the  while  as  though  to  herself,  and  ends  the  first  verse  be- 
fore taking  her  place  at  the  spinning  wheel.  It  was 
beautifully  natural.  The  jewel  song,  instead  of  being  a 
mere  vocalization,  was  an  exquisite  bit  of  acting  as  well. 
And  the  gradual  surrender  in  the  love  scene  was  marked 
in  the  climax  by  an  embrace  of  such  abandon  that  it 
thrilled  everyone.  Not  an  opportunity  was  neglected 
throughout.  I  have  never  seen  a  Marguerite  before, 
although  I  have  heard  them.  Calve's  voice,  too,  is  in  per- 
fect condition,  but  it  is  needless  for  me  to  write  you  of 
that  perfect  voice.  There  are  carping  ones  who  say  that 
Melba's  determination  to  leave  America  for  a  two  months' 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


A  Book        Many  long  centuries  before  the  invention  of 
of  printing,  one  of  the  wisest  and  shrewdest  of 

the  Week.*  the  sons  of  men  uttered  a  since  almost  uni- 
versally known  and  quoted  phrase,  "Of 
making  books  there  is  no  end."  Though  books  without 
end  still  continue  to  appear,  it  is  a  singular  fact  that  nowa- 
days reading  has  become,  to  the  great  majority  of  men,  an 
impossibility.  It  is  one  of  the  good  things  that  the  multi- 
plication of  journals  misnamed  "  newspapers,"  and  of  pic- 
ture books  miscalled  "magazines,"  has  well-nigh  taken 
away  from  us.  It  is  true  that  the  average  man  sometimes 
fancies  that  his  devotion  to  the  spoiled  sheets  of  whitish 
paper  that  we  dignify  by  the  name,  of  "organs"  may  ulti- 
mately lead  him  to  become  a  reader  of  books;  but,  of 
course,  this  is  an  utter  delusion.  Nothing  can  be  further 
from  the  truth.  The  newspaper-habit,  if  persisted  in,  is 
absolutely  fatal  to  the  formation  of  a  taste  for  reading. 
The  confirmed  newspaper-fiend,  accustomed  to  bis  daily 
drams  of  modern  journalism,  gradually  and  surely  loses 
that  power  of  concentration  necessary  for  the  profitable 
perusal  of  anything  worth  reading.  And,  even,  if  he  does 
now  and  then  make  a  half-hearted  attempt  to  read  some^ 
thing,  wl.at  is  he  likely  to  get  hold  of?  Of  a  book? 
Oh,  no!  With  all  the  multiplication  of  printers,  steam- 
presses,  and  other  apparent  facilities  for  the  manufacture 
of  printed  paper,  books  are  becoming  scarcer.  Our  friend 
most  probably  gets  what  he  calls  a  book  at  a  notion  store, 
whither  he  has  gone  to  buy  "sox,"  or  his  wife  brings  one 
home  as  a  premium  on  a  pair  of  corsets  or  a  pound  of 
candy.  But  are  these  paper-covered  monstrosities  books? 
Far  from  it  :  they  consist  of  a  hundred  or  two  of  pages  of 
cheap,  dirty-looking,  evil-smelling  paper,  covered  with  ill- 
formed  characters,  and  clamped  together  by  metal 
fasteners  that  make  the  gorge  of  every  book  lover  rise 
within  him.  These  things  being  so,  it  is  all  the  more  grati- 
fying to  see  a  book  occasionally.  The  little  volume  re- 
cently put  forth  by  the  Roycroft  Printing  Shop,  and  en- 
titled "An  Essay  on  Art  and  Life,"  is  a  book.  It  is  true 
that  it  contains  only  ninety  pages,  but  these  are  of  hand- 
some paper;  the  typography  is  beautiful  and  accurate,  the 
margins  are  broad  and  adorned  with  quaint  devices  in  red. 
Each  paragraph  begins  with  an  ornamental  letter,  and 
each  chapter  with  a  character  illuminated  by  hand.  The 
whole  production  is  a  delight  and  a  standing  protest 
against  the  cheap  and  nasty  things  that  we  have  always 
with  us.  The  essayist  draws  our  attention  to  the  fact 
that  all  the  highest  pleasures  of  life,  such  as  the  con- 
templation of  the  wondrous  works  of  Nature  and  the  mar- 
vels of  creative  Art,  require  special  aptitude  and  careful 
training  for  their  enjoyment.  It  is  of  little  avail  to  show  to 
a  man  of  untrained  mind  and  heart  a  picture  of  Raffaelle, 
or  a  church  of  Michael  Angelo,  or  to  put  into  his  hands  a 
book  of  Ruskin.  This  is  to  cast  pearls  before  swine.  The 
great  majority  of  people  are  unwilling,  or  positively  unable, 
to  devote  the  attention,  patience,  and  eudurance  that  are 
necessary  to  the  acquisition  of  the  power  to  enjoy  the 
highest  pleasures.  The  poor,  from  the  necessities  of  their 
daily  life,  cannot  do  so,  and  the  rich  generally  render 
themselves  impotent  to  enjoy  any  pleasures  except  those 
coarse  ones  which  can  be  bought  with  money,  and  which 
call  for  no  vigor  of  mind  or  attention,  for  no  exercise  of  soul. 
But  be  who  will  give  good  natural  endowments,  time,  un- 
tiring patience,  and  strenuous  attention,  to  the  acquisi- 
tion of  the  power  to  appreciate  and  enjoy  the  highest 
pleasures,  is  sure  of  his  reward.  His  sense  of  beauty  will 
grow  finer  and  keener  year  by  3'ear,  and  his  soul  will 
gradually  come  to  resemble  a  perfectly  attuned  musical 
instrument.  The  highest  aesthetic  pleasures  surpass  all 
others  in  excellence,  because  they  only  can  be  enjoyed 
without  wastefulness  and  hurt  to  one's  fellow  creatures. 
The  pleasures  of  success  and  of  passion  are  rapturous, 
but  they  always  cost  as  much  as  tbey  are  worth — often 
more. 

*"Artand  Life,"  by  Vernon  Lee.      Published  by  the  Roycroft 
Printing  Shop,  East  Aurora,  N.  Y.    1896. 


After  the  nonsense  one  is  accustomed  to  hear  and  read 
on  the  subject  of  English  society,  it  is  a  pleasure  to  have 
the  subject  treated  of  by  one  who  knows  whereof  he  speaks. 
Hence  our  satisfaction  in  reading  Mr.  G.  W.  Smalley's 
article  in  the  January  issue  of  Harper's  Magazine.  The 
writer  points  out  that  the  qualification  for  admission  to 
London  society  (which  is  probably  the  most  brilliant,  the 
most  splendid,  and  certainly  the  most  varied  to  be  found 
in  the  world),  is  not  wealth  nor  political  position,  nor  even 
rank.  Very  rich  men,  of  course,  are  found  in  it,  men  of 
great  political  distinction,  and  men  of  high  birth  and  rank, 
but  none  of  these  qualifications  is  of  itself  enough  to  secure 
for  its  possessor  free  admission  to  the  charmed  circle. 
Still  less  does  presentation  at  Court  secure  the  desired  re- 
sult, though  not  to  have  been  presented  may  be  a  draw- 
back. The  candidates  for  admission  to  society  must,  to 
put  it  very  simply,  show  that  they  are  worthy  of  admis- 
sion; they  must  be  interesting  and  thoroughly  cm  fait  with 
the  usages.  As  society  has  much  to  offer,  it  fairly  enough 
expects  that  the  applicant  shall  bring  something  also.  As 
to  the  morality  of  high  society,  in  sexual  and  other  matters, 
Mr.  Smalley  wisely  says  it  is  impossible  to  know  whether 
there  are  more  or  fewer  sinners  in  the  smartest  set  than 
there  are  in  other  sets.  There  are  no  available  statistics, 
and,  till  there  are,  we  cannot  say  with  any  degree  of  cer- 
tainty that  the  morals  of  grocers  and  bagmen  are  a  whit 
superior  to  those  of  earls  and  countesses.  Mr.  Smalley 
also  warns  Americans  who  hope  to  win  a  place  in  English 
society  by  the  sweat  of  their  tongues,  that  the  English 
have  a  horror  of  the  silver-tongued  orators  and  profes- 
sional story-tellers,  who  expect  the  company  to  cease  talk- 
ing of  what  interests  them  and  listen  to  their  efforts  to 
win  admiration.  The  most  valuable  qualities  in  modern 
society  at  the  British  metropolis  are  brevity  of  speech 
(the  British  never  could  abide  your  long-winded,  single- 
streak  talkers),  lightness  of  touch,  adaptability,  self-pos- 
session without  obtrusiveness,  and  a  capacity  for  conform- 
ing to  the  prevailing  note. 

In  November  of  last  year,  a  new  candidate  for  the  favor 
of  the  San  Francisco  public  made  its  appearance  under  the 
title  of  The  Family  Journal.  The  first  issue  consisted  of 
twenty-four  pages  of  Harper's  Weekly  size,  with  an  illus- 
trated cover  designed  by  Theodora  Holly,  The  cover  pre- 
sents to  us  a  fair-baired,  thinly-clad  young  woman,  stand- 
ing in  the  moonlight  with  her  back  against  a  tree  trunk. 
Around  her  runs  a  border  of  bunches  of  grapes;  the  moon 
is  far  from  round,  but  we  hope  that  this  is  not  to  be  at- 
tributed to  the  indistinctness  of  the  maiden's  vision.  In- 
side the  covers  are  stories  by  Helen  Campbell,  Sara  Gra- 
ham, Ellen  Coit  Elliott,  William  J.  Neidig,  W.  A.  Curtis, 
and  others;  articles  by  J.  Burtt  Davy,  Dr.  F.  J.  Masters 
(the  Superintendent  of  the  Methodist  Chinese  Missions), 
and  H.  T.  Ardley.  John  F.  Sheehan  has  a  page  entitled 
"Amateur  Sport,"  and  Mae  Eleanor  Gates  conducts  a  page 
on  fashions.  A  department  of  hygiene  is  in  the  charge  of 
Dr.  D.  Maclean.  The  price  of  this  first  issue  was  twenty- 
five  cents,  more  than  can  reasonably  be  asked  for  a  peri- 
odical of  this  size  and  character,  when  we  consider  that 
Harper's  Weekly  and  the  Illustrated  News  of  the  World 
are  sold  for  ten  cents.  The  December  issue,  reduced  to 
ten  cents,  contains  an  illustrated  article  on  "The  Beach- 
masters  of  the  Pribylof,"  by  David  Starr  Jordan,  stories 
by  W.  J.  Neidig,  W.  J.  Piatt,  Mary  Roberts  Smith,  W.  A. 
Curtis,  Sybil  Gray,  and  others.  R.  K.  Culver  writes  of 
"The  Illustrations  of  a  Modern  Newspaper,"  and 
Joaquin  Miller  on  "California's  Corner-Stone. "  F. 
A.  Luechesi  has  an  article  on  musical  topics,  and  Ger- 
trude Zindars  one  on  decorative  Art.  While  we  think  the 
that  the  proprietors  of  The  Family  Journal  have  got  a  hard 
road  to  travel,  we  wish  them  success. 

The  Brooklyn  Daily  Eagle  Almanac  for  1897  contains  468 
pages  of  closely  and  well  printed  information  of  the  world 
in  general,  and  of  Brooklyn  and  Long  Island  in  particular. 
There  are  also  two  or  three  maps  and  several  plans.  It 
is  a  sort  of  "Whitaker's  Almanac"  for  the  City  of 
Churches,  and  certainly  offers  a  great  amount  of  matter 
for  twenty-five  cents. 


A  Sovereign  Remedy. 
DR.  PARKER'S  COUGH  CURB.    One  dose  will  stop  a  cough.    It  never 
,ails.    Try  it.    Price  25c.    George  Dahlbender  &  Co.,  214  Kearny  street. 


January  30,  1897. 


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11 


THE  Fridaj  FortnJgot- 
lie*    arc    to    be 
ated  upon  having  an  ,nl„|, 

so  Tbe  lady  evident!;  had 

•■1  tbe  conclusion  that  to  gain  the  att  requi- 

site to  ensure  a  brilliant  success,  novel  tv   must   In-  the  or- 
der of  the  evenings,  and  so  ne\t    in   One   to   the   military 
cotillion  came  the  mask  and  domino  party,  but  alas  !  lln 
tomemhers  only.     However,  that    was  easily  remedied  by 
I'pinj;  up  to  the  captain's  office,"  and  joining. 
•  *  « 
The  return  of  Miss  Emma  liutler  to  our  swim,  fresh  from 
her  social  triumphs  in  the  East,  has  been  a  source  of 
pleasure  to  her  friends,  the  young  lady   being  unusually 
popular.     Her  return  is  the   more   welcome,    as   society's 
ranks  are  thinning  in  the  marriage  of  so  many  of  its  mem- 
bers, and  the  death  of  Mrs.   Williams  will  cause   the   with- 
drawal of  Miss  Juliette  Williams  therefrom  the  rest  of  the 
season.     Of  the  brides  of  the  future,  still   another  charm- 
ing girl  is  added  to  the  list  in  the  engagement  of  Miss  Min- 
nie Burton,  which  is  the  last  reported,  and  several  are  de- 
clared to  be  an  assured  fact,  and  only  waiting  for  a  special 
function  for  their  announcement. 
»  *  « 
Rumor  has  it  that  Miss  Lily  Lawler  will  add  the  attrac- 
tion of  her  singing  to  the   programme   for   Herr   Schott's 
I  dad  it  a  to  take  place  shortly.  As  the  eminent  tenor 
is  said  to  have  deferred   his   homeward   departure  for  the 
special  purpose  of  training  the  young  lady's  voice,  it  surely 
would  be  nothing  less  than  grateful  for  her  to  sing  at  his 
concert,   and  give  her  numerous  friends  an  opportunity  of 
judging  what  has  been  really  accomplished.      No  doubt   a 
crowded  house  will  be  the  result. 
«  «  « 
"  There  is  one  thing  to  be  said  of  our  society.      Cavilers 
may  dub  us  the  wild  and  woolly  West;  call  us  crude,    fast, 
and  slangy:  but  if  our  women  do  overstep  good  form  occa- 
sionally, do  speak  in  high-pitched  tones,  do  exhibit   a  slap 
dash  familiarity  of  manner  and  speech,  they  at  least  never 
bring  about  the  fearful  scandals  which  now  and   then  rend 
the  social  system  of  aristocracy  in  London  and  New  York." 
Thus  spoke  a  recently  elected  official   at  a   leading  club 
lately,  and  what  he  said  is  manifestly  correct. 

#  *  * 

Each  of  our  pretty  belles  is  devoutly  praying  that  the 
coming  Prince  of  Flanders,  who  is  to  tour  the  United 
States,  may  be  in  San  Francisco  before  the  B'lingham  sea- 
son begins,  "for,"  say  these  pretty  creatures,  "there's 
no  show  for  any  girl  down  there  when  the  matrons  get  in 
their  work."  Needless  to  say,  the  prospect  of  a  possibility 
of  one  day  becoming  Queen  of  Belgium  is  turning  all  the 
girls'  heads.  Princes  are  sometimes  won  by  Yankee  girls, 
'tis  true,  but  Poniatowski  and  Flanders   are  miles  apart. 

#  #  # 

Mrs.  Hager's  much-talked-of,  much-hoped-for  function, 
still  hangs  fire,  and  nothing  of  a  definite  nature  is  known 
regarding  it.  At  a  lunch  party  last  week,  some  one  sug- 
gested giving  the  old  lady  a  hint  that  the  winter  was  pass- 
ing away  and  her  county' not  yet  heard  from. 

*  ft  * 

At  tbe  reception  given  on  the  26th  inst.  by  Mrs.  Stan- 
ford, at  which  800  people  were  present,  Max  Abraham 
was  the  caterer.  The  affair,  it  goes  without  saying,  was 
an  unqualified  success. 

*  *  * 

Sir  William  Booker  and  wife  are  still  with  us,  the  vener- 
able couple  finding  our  climate  far  ahead  of  the  famed 
Riviera,  or  south  of  France. 

*  *  # 

On  dit,  it  is  not  handsome  Harry,  but  brother  Hugh, 
who  is  to  enter  matrimony's  devious  paths  in  the  near 
future. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


The  motive  of  the  advance  in  Giant  Pow- 
The  Deal  in  der  stock  from  $17  to  $30  is  still  open  to 
Giant  Powder,  question,  more  especially  when  it  is 
known  that  the  company  is  loaded 
down  with  an  indebtedness  exceeding  $200,000,  equal  to 
$10  for  every  share  of  its  capital.  The  leverage  employed 
was  unquestionably  an  alleged  proposition  on  foot  to  estab- 
lish a  compact,  but  these  negotiations  seem  throughout  to 
have  been  a  very  one-sided  affair.  They  failed  to  awaken 
any  interest  in  any  of  the  other  powder  companies'  stocks, 
one  or  two  of  which  would  be  chiefly  benefited  by  a  com- 
pact. Still  the  touts  on  the  street  for  Giant  kept  howling 
away  about  the  arrangement  which  every  other  day  was 
"just  about  to  be  completed,"  while  a  manipulating  force  I 
applied  the  financial  jack-screw  on  the  market.  It  is  evi- 
dent from  the  petty  little  game  going  on,  reminiscent  of 
an  operation  in  Phil  Sheridan,  or  Lady  Bryan,  that  some 
self-created  Napoleon  of  finance  must  size  this  up  for  a 
jay  town.  A  play  of  this  kind  can  certainly  not  be  made 
on  the  pockets  of  level-headed  business  men.  The  only 
purses  vulnerable,  one  would  suppose,  would  be  those  of 
wealthy  old  spinsters  or  addle-pated  phantoms  of  the 
gilded  male  persuasion  with  money  to  burn.  Investors  of 
trust  funds  or  the  advisors  of  the  widow  and  orphan  will 
scarcely  hazard  an  investment  of  the  kind  which  bears  the 
marks  of  manipulation  in  such  a  cold-blooded  manner.  It 
is  now  hinted  on  California  street  that  talk  of  a  com- 
promise among  the  water  people  across  the  bay  will  next 
be  used  for  inflation  purposes,  or  a  "deal,"  as  some  people 
might  term  it.  The  fashion  is  evidently  catching.  One 
thing  is  certain,  that  if  this  kind  of  game  is  going  to  con- 
tinue in  local  stocks,  the  competition  will  bear  more 
hardly  on  the  gentlemen  of  the  Pine-street  bourse.  While 
it  may  attract  their  clientele,  it  is  apt  to  force  the  more 
conservative  element  among  investors  into  safer  channels, 
where  the  price  of  industrial  stocks  of  the  kind  is  regu- 
lated entirely  by  their  earnings,  and  not  by  the  manipula- 
tion of  stock  jobbers. 

Not  many  weeks  ago  a  prominent  mining 

Mining  Sales     paper    published    a    statement    showing 

in  1896.         sales  of  California  mining  property  abroad 

during  the  past  year,  aggregating  mil- 
lions. The  statement  was  alluded  to  as  false  and  mislead- 
ing, in  this  column,  and  prejudicial  to  the  interest  of  the 
industry.  Since  then,  scarcely  a  day  passes  without  some 
exaggerated  flare  up  from  the  space  fiend  on  the  press, 
who  seems  to  recognize  in  every  new  arrival  a  financial 
demi-god,  loaded  down  with  millions  for  disbursement 
among  mine  owners.  Mining  properties  are  disposed  of 
in  an  off-hand  fashion,  and  each  repetition  of  the  tale  adds 
thousands  of  dollars  to  the  price.  The  foreign  fakir  with 
a  bond  extracted  from  some  unfortunate  mine  owner, 
laboring  under  the  delirium  of  millions  dancing  before  his 
dazzled  eyes,  is  posed  ati  naturelm  passing  homeward,  and 
possibly  out  of  sight  for  all  time  in  this  part  of  the  world 
as  a  bona-fide  purchaser.  And  =0  it  goes.  Leaving  Prance 
and  the  Continent,  with  a  record  for  the  year  of  a  couple 
of  bonds  on  California  properties,  on  none  of  which  has  a 
dollar  yet  been  realized  outside  of  the  promotors'  elabo- 
rations, published  here  for  effect,  the  official  list  of  opera- 
tions in  Great  Britain  for  1896  is  now  open  for  investiga- 
tion. During  the  year,  857  new  mining  companies  were 
brought  out  there,  with  a  nominal  capital  of  £94,419,194, 
against  961  companies  in  1895,  capitalized  for  £107,387,241. 
California  is  credited  in  the  list  of  companies  that  have  pub- 
lished prospectuses  with  one  solitary  representative,  the 
Mountain  Copper  (old  Iron  Mountain),  capital,  £1,250,000. 
Under  the  list  of  companies  simply  registered,  California 
scores  five  during  the  twelve  months,  viz:  Alabama,  capi- 
tal, £120,000;  Consolidated  Crown  Point  Gold,  carjital, 
£70,000;  Lone  Ridge  Gold  Mine,  capital,  £120,000;  Mor- 
ris Ravine  Gold  Mines,  capital,  £150,000;  and  the  River- 
side Gold  Mines,  capital,  £50,000.  This  is  rather  a  modest 
showing  in  point  of  the  number  of  sales,  although  as  much 
cannot  be  said  of  the  capitalization.  As  this  is  about  all 
it  amounts  to  so  far,   nobody  has  been  very  badly  hurt, 


although,  in  the  majority  of  instances,  the  intentions  of  the 
promoters  have  been  well  meant — for   their  own  pockets. 
It  might  be  added,  in  reference  to 
Experts  Who  these  mining  promotions  that,  out- 

Incline  to  Caution,  side  of  the  Alabama,  of  unhealthy  no- 
toriety sufficient,  it  will  be  hoped, 
to  warn  off  investment,  the  most  of  the  properties  are  un- 
known to  fame,  outside  of  the  old  Crown  Point,  which 
blossoms  out  for  the  second  time  in  public  within  ten  years. 
On  the  previous  occasion  the  capital  asked  was  figured  in 
as  many  pounds  sterling  as  it  is  now  in  dollars.  On  this 
market,  if  offered  at  as  many  dollars  as  it  is  pounds  in 
London,  it  would  go  a-begging  until  a  generation  crops 
up  with  no  eye-teeth  to  cut  in  passing  from  cradle  to  the 
grave.  The  reason  that  the  millions  in  sales  reported 
here  during  the  year  as  the  willing  promoters  hitched  on 
to  properties  of  suggested  merit,  failed  to  materialize,  is 
that  the  class  of  experts  now  operating  here  is  of  a  higher 
order  than  usual.  So  far  the  work  done  by  these  gentle- 
men reflects  to  their  credit.  Quite  a  lot  of  incipient  ras- 
cality has  been  nipped  in  the  bud,  and  the  inflated  ideas  of 
would-be  promoters  have  received  a  set-back  which  will 
prove,  highly  beneficial.  The  Union-Gold,  Ilex,  Josephine, 
and  the  other  swindles  of  the  past,  have  taught  people  a 
lesson  in  caution  which  has  evidently  proved  profitable. 
The  same  stripe  of  operators  are  still  crawling  about  here, 
but  it  is  noticeable  that  while  tolerated,  they  do  not  main- 
tain the  confidence  of  respectable  experts,  who  very 
rightly  consider  it  unsafe  to  have  their  names  linked  in  any 
operation.  It  is  a  recognized  fact  that  the  rascal  who 
would  win  success  in  financial  ventures,  must  score  early 
in  the  game  and  stand  on  velvet  before  the  opprobrium  of 
failure  attracts  attention  to  his  unenviable  personality. 
Prom  the  day  it  does,  his  progress  to  the  gutter  may  be 
slow,  but  it  is  as  certain  as  the  cry  of  "Hands  off"  which 
follows  the  appearance  of  every  scheme  with  which  his 
name  can  be  connected.  So  far  there  have  been  more  re- 
jections of  California  properties  on  examination,  than 
acceptances,  and  in  nearly  every  case  the  cause  has  been 
the  exorbitant  price  asked  by  the  owners,  who  have  been 
educated  up  to  the  belief  that  the  average  expert  for  for- 
eign capital  is  either  a  knave  or  a  fool.  No  matter  how 
much  this  may  have  applied  to  the  past,  it  certainly  does 
not  to  the  men  now  to  the  fore  in  the  business,  a  fact 
which  has  dawned  upon  the  minds  of  one  or  two  property 
owners  during  the  past  thirty  days.  In  the  course  of 
time  we  will  probably  get  business  down  to  a  legitimate 
basis  in  California  mine  promotion,  when  the  surplus 
steam  generated  by  wild-eyed  enthusiasm  has  blown  off. 
The  mines  are  here  all  right,  and  investors  will  come  in  time 
when  the  "hog"  is  not  rampant  in  mining  circles,  as  he  is 
at  present. 

A  sharp  advance  in  the  shares  of  the 
The  Strike  in  Con. -Cal. -Virginia  Company  followed  the 
Con. -Virginia,  official  announcement,  made  early  in  the 
week,  of  a  new  ore  discovery  in  the  old 
California  ground.  While  driftiug  in  the  region  of  what 
is  known  as  the  1550  level,  a  vein  of  very  high-grade  ore 
was  encountered,  assays  averaging,  it  is  said,  $200  per 
ton.  The  find  cannot  be  exploited  from  this  point,  owing 
to  lack  of  facilities  for  handling  the  ore.  An  upraise  will 
have  to  be  made  from  the  1650  level  below.  This  will  take 
some  time.  In  the  meantime,  activity  in  the  market 
should  be  stimulated  by  the  chances  for  an  improvement 
at  any  moment,  as  work  in  this  upraise  progresses. 
Friends  of  the  business  will  hope  that  the  find  will  open 
out  into  ample  proportions,  and  stir  up  a  breeze  of  genu- 
ine old-time  excitement  on  the  street.  As  it  is,  there  was 
a  better  tone  to  the  market  during  the  week,  with  a  live- 
lier run  of  business  among  the  broking  fraternity  than  they 
have  had  for  some  time  past.  An  assessment  of  twenty- 
five  cents  was  levied  on  Best  &  Belcher  on  Tuesday. 

People  who  own  locations  in  Randsburg 
The  Future       continue  to  say  that  they  have  the  big- 
Of  Randsburg.      gest  thing  on  earth.     Men  who  go  there 
with   the   intention  of  investment,  claim 
that  this  is  all  in  their  mind's  eye,  and  that  it  will  be  time 
enough  for  the  locators   to   figure   up   their  profits  in  the 
millions  when  they  open  up  the  ground  and  get  water  with- 
in some  eighty  or  one  hundred  miles.     Only   a  little  differ- 
ence of  opinion,  that  is  all. 


January  30,  1897. 


13 


'Hurtbe  Crier:"   "Wbii  tb«d«Tll  art  Ihoul" 
one  ih»i  wlllolkT  thedcril.  »|r.  wllb  jou." 


W  BAT  oar  British  cousins   will   think  nf  us  when  they 
hear  that  an  e\  Senator   amused    fa 
.1  waiter  romaii 
our  Solons  indulge  in  much  talk  and  vituperation  of  other 

lien  iu   the   hallowed    precincts  ol   the   - 
chamber,  but  that  one  of  their   useless  order  should 
endanger  his  life  as    to  enter   into  combat    with  a  waiter 
(a  live  one,  not  a  dumbonej   is  beyond  our  comprehei 
The  fact  will  most   assuredly   be  commented   upon  1 

gn  of  the  unsettled  times,  in  extenu 
ation  we  can  say  that  Mr  Grady  came  from  Ireland 
originally  and  Fresno  lately. 

WE  are  glad  to  state  that  the   question  of  the  Rei    Mr 
Rader's  orthodoxy  is  settled  for  ever,   and  that  the 
allegations  made  against  him  by  many  up-to-date  members 

of  his  congregation,  accusing  him  of  breadth  in  1 
views,  are  unwarranted  and  uncalled  for.  The 
in  question  delivered  a  few  nights  ago  a  lecture  on  "The 
Book  of  Jonah"  and  clearly  proved  to  his  detractors  that 
his  is  still  the  sweet,  simple  faith  of  the  eighteenth  century 
and  that  he  is  averse  to  all  enlightenment.  Mr.  Rader  has 
apparently  swallowed  his  conscience  as  easily  as  the  whale 
did  its  Jonah. 

THE  last  meeting  of  the  venerable  Pioneers  passed  off 
peacefully  enough  considering  the  combustible  ele- 
ments constituting  that  religious  Order.  Time  was  when 
free  fights  were  in  order,  but  that  was  when  two  or  three 
legitimate  '-liters  were  scattered  among  the  members. 
Now  that  they  are  dead  a  discreet  silence  is  maintained 
by  those  remaining,  lest  their  right  to  membership  be 
questioned.  The  only  Pioneers  we  know  of  are  not  mem- 
bers of  the  Society;  their  self-respect  keeps  them  out  of 
it. 

SAN  FRANCISCANS  should  be  glad  that  the  great 
winds  and  the  fogs  celebrate  high  carnival  in  this 
city  and  that  the  softer  zephyrs  play  about  the  southern 
portion  of  the  State.  All  the  one-lunged  meu  in  the  world 
accumulate  in  Los  Angeles  and  the  neighboring  villages, 
while  here  only  the  hardy  and  the  healthy  can  exist. 
Thank  God  for  the  fog,  ye  Silurians  and  sitters  on  barrels. 
Were  it  not  for  our  climate  the  one-lunged  Easterner 
would  run  ye  out  of  business. 

ONE  Charles  M.  Stebbins,  of  Boston,  is  seeking  noto- 
riety with  a  volume  entitled  "The  New  and  True  Re- 
ligion." Along  with  other  public  benefactors,  Mr.  Steb- 
bins is  apparently  willing  to  foist  his  wretched  views  on 
the  world  for  the  incidental  remuneration  of  six-bits  or  one 
dollar.  The  Town  Crier  holds  that  the  man  who  is  fortu- 
nate enough  to  possess  the  true  religion  should  go  into  the 
wilds  of  Borneo  and  hug  himself.     The  thing  is  precious. 

KISSING,  instead  of  being  a  capital  pleasure,  is  con- 
sidered a  crime  in  Oakland  where  the  stewardess  of 
the  Receiving  Hospital  may  be  fired  for  allegedly  indulg- 
ing in  osculatory  exercise  with  a  gen'lum  fren',  and  also 
committing  other  minor  offenses.  Were  we  a  woman  in- 
stead of  a  divine  man,  we  would  prefer  to  let  the  dead 
bury  their  dead  rather  than  become  a  nurse  if  such  cruel 
regulations  went  with  the  job. 

THE  announcement  is  made  that  the  Greeks  of  this  city 
will  form  a  company  of  volunteers  for  service  iu 
Cuba.  Judging  by  their  names  these  gentlemen,  all  of 
whom  are  in  the  liquor  business,  suffer  from  the  "itch" 
eveu  unto  torture.  Death  might  therefore  be  pleasure 
unto  them.  We  fear,  however,  their  enthusiasm  will  die 
out  after  a  few  parades  up  and  down  Polk  Street. 

ftN  Oakland  lady  of  advanced  views  has  applied  to  our 
police  for  assistance  iu  finding  her  husband.  The 
Town  Crier  suggests  that  the  advanced  one  seek  for  him 
in  her  kitchen. 

WHY  fight  for  cheaper  water  while   the  charges  for 
whiskey  are  still  so  exorbitant? 


«l       >  humor  than 

.  ,|  f,,r 

j*°J  ■  ed  the  ornament  and  tribi 

her  bless,, 1  men  leery  than  not,  was  p  1 

OWtbetl  .  ...,ls  will    no  longer    have.,, 

her  .. 

IT  £  there    is  a    cbdl 

"»'  sewei  being  Bushed  ami  tin, .ugh 

'be  aid  The  Town  Cbii  b  ■■ 

that  as  a  lirsi  1,  ,r,]s  aobtevlng  this  desirol 

suit,  these  genial  geutll  men  he  thrown  down  thl 

all.  Heaven  knows  they  are  capable  of.  cleaning  out  al- 
most anything. 

^N   aged    capitalist     lately    rejoined    his    wife  aft. 
mysteriouf  I  manv    years,    and   all    in 

nient  of  a  dream.  There  must  be 'some  mistake  here.  The 
XOWM  Chif.ii.  who  joined  the  ranks  of  the  capitalists  some 
years  ago,  unfortunately  lost  with  the  elevation  in  his 
social  status  the  ability  to  indulge  in  dreams. 

WE  are  not  hearing  much  about  those  enemies  to  society, 
the  milk-men.  these  days.  Can  it  be  that  they  have 
had  private  mains  introduced  into  their  dairies,  and  can 
thus  acquire  their  necessary  amount  of  Nature's  sweet  re- 
storer without  attracting  public  attention  by  stopping  at 
the  pumps? 

THE  directors  of  the  Ebell  Society  have  decided  to 
maintain  a  dignified  silence  concerning  the  alleged 
blackballing  of  a  lady  aspirant  to  membership.  Seeing 
that  the  directors  are  all  women,  the  Town  Chier  laughs 
up  his  patched  sleeve  at  their  decision. 

SHOULD  the  Swanhilda  and  her  crew  go  down  to  Davy 
Jones's  locker  without  our  knowing  of  it,  the  detec- 
tives and  other  unjailed  criminals  of  the  world  will  come  to 
San  Francisco,  and  die  in  due  time  of  nervousness  brought 
on  by  continual  expectation. 

THINGS  are  getting  decidedly  hot  up   at   Sacramento. 
The  Crieh  recommends  that  Martin  Kelly  be  sent  up  . 
there  with  that  old  fire  engine  of  his,  even  if  the  city  funds 
are  drawn  upon  to  get  him  there.     They  will  be  appropri- 
ated sooner  or  later,  anyhow. 

THE  Chronicle  is  authority  for  the  fact  that  young  Sir 
Robert  Peel  has  written  an  "amazing"  book.  The 
Town  Crier  will  bet  his  little  war  club  that  the  fellow 
will  be  "skinned"  by  the  critics  before  the  down  appears 
on  the  lip  of  1897. 

THE  latest  weather  forecaster  to  venture  into  this  wild 
and  woollv  city  is  a  gentleman  of  the  name  of  Reed. 
It  will  not  be  long  before  he  is  shaken  by  the  wind  of  public 
opinion. 

THE  Park   Commissioners   are   to   be   petitioned  for  a 
bridle   path   in   Golden   Gate   Park.     Seeing   that  a 
Lover's  Walk  is  there,  the  petition  should  be  granted. 

WE  understand  that  Corbett  and  Fitzsimmons  will  fight 
in  Nevada  and  not  in  Mexico.     Since  when,  pray,  has 
the  right  of  free  speech  been  denied  in  that  country? 

ANEW  "coach"  has  been  hired  to  look   after  the  Stan- 
ford youths.     Needless  to  say,  the   fellow's  attention 
will  be  given  their  muscles  and  not  their  minds. 

AN'RaMan  professor  is   said  to   have   discovered  a  cure 
for  consumption.  This  probably  consists  of  the  copious 
use  of  garlic  as  food.     Even  Death  draws  the  line  at  that. 

ONE  seldom   sees   a  Chinaman  intoxicated,    but  Little 
Pete,  with  three  bullets  in  him,  may  properly  be  said 
to  have  been  loaded. 

WHY  all  this  abuse  of  the  chewers  of  gum  1     Since  the 
Crier  lost  his  teeth  he  has  done  it  himself,  and  he  is 
no  slouch,  either. 

ENEATH  this  stone  a  lawyer  sleeps; 
Let's  trust  Death  ployed  with  him  for  keeps. 


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14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


BALLADE    OF    FORGOTTEN    LOVES  —Arthur  grissom. 

SOME  poets  sing  uf  sweethearts  dead, 
Some  sing  of  true  loves  far  away, 
Some  sing  of  ihose  that  others  wed, 
And  some  of  idols  turned  to  clay ; 
I  sing  a  pensive  roundelay 
To  sweethearts  of  a  doubtful  lot, 

The  passions  vanished  in  a  day — 
The  little  loves  that  I've  forgot. 

For,  as  the  happy  years  have  sped, 

And  golden  dreams  have  changed  to  gray, 

How  oft  the  flame  of  love  w>as  fed 

By  glance  or  smile,  from  Maud  or  May, 
When  wayward  Cupid  was  at  play; 

Mere  fancies,  formed  of  who  knows  what? 
But  still  my  debt  I  ne'er  can  pay 

The  little  loves  that  I've  forgot. 

O  joyous  hours  forever  fled ! 

O  sudden  hope  that  would  not  stay  ! 
Held  only  by  the  slender  thread 

Of  memory  that's  all  astray. 

Their  very  names  I  cannot  say, 
Time's  will  is  done;  I  know  them  not; 

But  blessings  on  them  all,  I  pray— 
The  little  loves  that  I've  forgot. 


Sweetheart,  why  foolish  fears  betray? 

Ours  is  the  one  true  lovers'  knot; 
Note  well  the  burden  of  my  lay — 

The  little  loves  that  I've  forgot! 


AT    SUNSET-—  martha  m'culloch-williams,  in  godey's  magazine- 


Send  me  a  song  at  sunset, 
And  fill  each  pulsing  line 

With  the  lilt  the  runnel  sang  in  June 
And  the  sigh  of  the  swaying  pine. 

The  swaying  pine  had  green  young  tips- 
One  soft  caressed  my  cheek; 

Ah  1  happily  the  water  sang 

The  thing  we  dared  not  speak. 

Send  me  a  sigh  at  sunset, 

A  sigh  for  life  and  loss. 
My  heart  shall  hear,  and  whisper  clear 

A  thousand  miles  across, 
1  In  June  the  pine  had  green  young  tips — 

But  ah !  beloved,  remember 
How  clear  the  steadfast  hue  abides 

In  frosts  of  chill  December  1  " 

Send  me  a  thought  at  sunset ; 

Straight  on  the  level  beams 
It  shall  leap  the  earth  and  breast  the  sea 

To  color  all  my  dreams. 
Anew  a  golden  June  shall  burn 

And  pine-tips  kiss  my  cheek, 
What  time  the  lilting  runnel  sings 

The  thing  we  dared  not  speak. 


A    PARABLE.— thomas  bailey  aldrich- 


One  went  East  and  one  went  West 

Across  the  wild  sea-foam, 
And  both  were  on  the  self-same  quest. 
Now  one  there  was  who  cared  for  naught 

So  stayed  a  home: 
Yet  of  the  three  'twas  only  he 
Who  reached  the  goal— by  him  unsought. 


PARTING,—  EMILY  DICKINSON,   IN   SCRIBNER'S. 


My  life  closed  twice  before  its  close; 

It  yet  remains  to  see 
If  Immortality  unveil 

A  third  event  to  me, 

So  huge,  so  hopeless  to  conceive 
As  this  that  twice  befell. 

Parting  is  all  we  know  of  heaven, 
And  all  we  need  of  hell. 


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January  30,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  KEWS   I  ? 


-3?£®:«  v'Ws'   Blanket  Business. 


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DK  \K   EDITH      The  •■•  an  immense 

improvement  on  the  models  worn  last  year,  the  backs 
betas  more  graceful  with  the    'utinps  railing  just  in  the 

middle,  and  the  sleeves— a  larjjo  bishop  before,  now  a  full 

graceful  bell — have   a   prettier   appearance   and   are  be- 

og  to  many  more  figures.    Some  of  the  most  elegant 

re  trimmed  with  a  fur  tigaro  falling  in  poL 
the  fronts  and  going  apart  up  the  back,  where  they  join 
above  at  the  place  where  the  iluted  pleats  begin.  Out 
door  coats  and  capes  have  collars,  revers  and  epaulettes 
of  fur,  two  kinds  of  the  same  color  bein^'  often  taken,  and 
the  fronts  and  edges  are  adorned  with  bands  cither  put  on 
in  the  same  fashion  or  with  fur  buttons  added. 

The  tailors  are  returning  to  that  severity  of  cut 
characteristic  of  their  earliest  achievements  as  women's 
tailor's.  The  coat  and  >kirt  are  now  as  they  used  to  be. 
plain  and  simple,  the  sleeves  reduced  almost  to  the  dimen- 
sions of  the  close-fitting  coat  shapes  of  long  ago.  There 
is  no  redundancy  of  basque.  It  fits  close.  It  is  neither 
very  long  nor  absurdly  short,  its  frilliness  has  quite  dis- 
appeared: the  revers  arc  neatly  shaped.  The  skirts  are 
moderate  in  width,  with  the  fullness  kept  well  to  the  back. 
Concession  to  the  prevailing  craze  for  elaboration  is  ap- 
parent only  in  the  stylish  vests  which  accompany  hand- 
some tailor  gowns. 

The  general  tendency  is  to  discard  all  stiff  interlinings 
on  the  newest  gowns.  This  does  very  well  where  one  can 
afford  a  crisp  taffeta  silk  lining  in  each  new  dress,  but 
when  this  is  not  possible,  not  a  few  women  are  protesting 
against  the  use  of  nothing  but  a  soft  finished  percaline 
lining,  with  no  sort  of  interlining  added  even  as  a  facing. 
They  argue,  and  justly  so,  that  a  skirt  so  finished  has  a 
lank,  unstylish  appearance  (especially  if  of  soft  wool  fab- 
ric) after  the  so  recent  vogue  of  interlined  undulating 
skirts  with  a  crisp  flare  and  a  certain  cachet  wholly  ab- 
sent in  a  soft-lined  model  whose  folds  or  breadths  fall  limp 
around  the  feet  like  those  of  a  Quakeress.  There  are  a 
number  of  fashionable  modistes  who  have  come  to  the 
rescue  in  this  matter.  They  have  made  an  underskirt 
nearly  as  long  as  the  dress  skirt,  employing  crinoline,  hair 
cloth,  moreen,  etc.,  as  may  be  preferred,  for  the  founda- 
tion. This  skirt  can  be  covered  with  silk  of  some  dark 
shades,  and  if  well  cared  for  will  last  a  long  time.  This 
skirt  is  gored  on  the  front  and  sides  with  a  deep  flounce  at 
the  bottom,  and  the  three  or  four  shirred  or  box-pleated 
ruffles  at  the  back  are  run  through  the  inch-wide  hem  at 
their  edges  with  a  single  band  of  featherbone.  Worn 
under  the  dress,  all  the  slightly  flaring  effect  of  an  inter- 
lined skirt  is  given. 

Very  lovely  are  many  of  the  severely  cut  velvet  gowns 
made  ready  for  the  new  year  and  all  its  attendant  festivi- 
ties. They  have  a  regal  magnificence  all  their  own,  and 
with  but  a  little  rare  valuable  lace  and  a  very  few  well- 
selected  jewels  the  effect  of  such  a  gown  can  not  be  sur- 
passed. The  lace  need  not  be  cut  if  very  choice,  for  it  is 
now  permitted  to  drape  it  temporarily  with  a  few  deft- 
hidden  stitches  and  some  rich  jeweled  lace-pins.  If  these 
pins  are  real  gems  suitable  in  color  and  not  aggressive  in 
appearance,  any  number — not  excessive — may  be  em- 
ployed. The  twofold  advantage  of  this  plan,  is  that  it  pre- 
serves the  lace  intact  and  allows  of  a  different  arrange- 
ment from  time  to  time.  This  year,  not  only  are  rich  vel- 
vets in  ruby,  black,  brown  and  green  worn,  but  there  are 
lovely  pink,  pale  turquoise  and  deep  peacock  blues,  mauve, 
heliotrope,  yellow,  gray  and  rose-colored  shades,  the  most 
of  them  made  extremely  simple;  others  are  elaborated 
with  fur,  lace  and  jeweled  passementeries. 

Belinda. 

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The   I  .t   w« 


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«  in. »  ■  1  [  ,  r 

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koU, 7J Inobea  wide,  the  t:  60  blanker      BpMlbl   iMa  •reek 

Per  pair 

'.  lite  lllnnkcla.  same  size  as 
lol  1.  on  sale  at 

Lots— Best  orad..  and  L:irsest  Size  ot  the  Entire  Purchase. 
solid  and  heavy      Per  pair 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


EACH  morning  when  I  leave  my  bed, 
And  clothe  me  for  the  day's  vocation, 
I  wonder  who  is  maimed  or  dead, 

And  what  new,  terrible  sensation 
My  rapt  attention  will  engage. 

My  appetite,  I'm  sure,  would  fail  me 
If,  staring  from  the  printed  page, 

There  were  no  scandal  to  regale  me. 

I  feel  quite  disappointed  when 

I  rind  no  gory  tales  of  killing; 
No  massacre  of  maids  or  men, 

Or  other  dread  disasters  thrilling. 
Between  my  sips  of  coffee,  I  v 

Am  charmed  to  contemplate  the  question 
Of  wholesale  crime  and  butchery— 

'Tis  such  an  aid  to  the  digestion. 

Somehow  it  makes  my  buttered  toast 

Seem  all  the  hotter  when  I'm  reading 
A  fiendish  and  atrocious  roast 

Of  some  poor  victim.    When  I'm  "feeding" 
I  find  that  I  my  lone  repast 

Cannot  enjoy  unless,  to  cheer  me 
With  fakes  at  which  1  gaze  aghast, 

I  have  my  morning  paper  near  me. 

On  tales  of  faithlessness  I  gloat; 

With  ecstacy  I  fairly  revel 
When  some  one  cuts  another's  throat. 

To  get  real  friendly  with  the  Devil 
There  is  no  surer,  quicker  way 

Than  to  remain  at  home  in  quiet, 
Peruse  the  journals  of  the  day 

And  cram  your  mind  with  sin  and  riot. 

What  interest,  profound,  intense, 

What  fond  pursuit  is  mine,  what  pleasure 
When,  in  a  quiver  of  suspense, 

I  open  up  my  printed  treasure! 
My  daily  paper!     Dearer  yet 

Than  all  else  in  this  world  so  fickle  — 
A  morgue  report  and  police  gazette. 

And  scandal-breeder  for  a  nickel ! 


The  gay  and  debonair  gentlemen  comprising  the  mem- 
bership of  the  Produce  Exchange  are  never  so  happy  as 
when  one  member  manages  to  obtain  an  advantage  over 
another,  especially  if  there  is  a  little  joker  concealed  in 
connection  with  the  transaction.  The  Call  Board  men 
are  much  diverted  over  a  twia  case  of  this  character,  at- 
tributed to  the  close  friendship  of  Albert  Gerberding, 
President  of  the  Exchange,  and  William  Berg,  "  the  Ger- 
man traveler."  The  story  goes  that  Berg  strolled  into 
Gerberding's  office,  and,  with  apparent  innocence,  picked 
up  the  cover  of  an  ink  well,  having  a  conical  top.  Berg 
carelessly  spun  it  around  on  the  desk. 

"  Tell  you  what,  Al,"  he  said,  as  if  the  idea  had  just  oc- 
curred to  him;  "I'll  bet  you  five  dollars  that  ink  cover 
turns  the  other  way  before  it  stops  spinning." 

"Done,"  unhesitatingly  replied  Gerberding,  who  is  al- 
ways game  for  a  wager,  but  who  did  not  think  his  friend 
was  serious. 

Of  course  the  impromptu  top,  as  it  ceased  to  spin,  gave 
a  backward  revolution. 

"  That's  a  neat  trick,  Billy.  Learn  it  in  Germany  ?  " 
quizzed  Gerberding. 

Berg  claimed  and  received  the  money,  despite  Gerberd- 
ing's mild  protest  that  it  was  "a  job  and  a  sure  thing 
bet."  As  the  President  of  the  Prodice  Exchange  is  not 
more  fond  of  the  worst  of  a  bargain  than  any  other  man 
on  the  Call  Board,  he  did  some  hard  thinking  about  that 
wager,  which  ended  in  his  laboriously  filing  the  conical 
top  from  the  cover  of  his  ink  well.  The  next  time  Berg 
came  in,  Gerberding  glanced  at  him  in  apparent  abstrac- 
tion. 

"I  had  something  I  wanted  to  as>k  you,  Billy,"  he  said, 
finally.  "Oh,  I  remember  now.  It  was  about  that  trick  of 
yours.  I  can't  do  it,  and  I  don't  believe  you  can  repeat  it." 


Berg  turned  away  to  hide  his  joy,  and  laughed  softly  to 
himself  as  he  reflected  on  what  a  good  thing  his  friend 
was.     He  wished  he  could  share  it  with  the  boys. 

"We  will  make  it  $10  this  time,  if  you  like,  Al,"  he 
said,  and  to  this  proposition  Gerberding  agreed. 

Then  Berg  spun  the  cover  again,  but  with  dire  results. 
The  loss  of  the  pointed  top  cost  him  the  bet.  Now  he  is 
denouncing  Mr.  Gerberding  for  making  him  the  victim  of 
a  conspiracy,  but  he  has  paid  up  the  bet  and  stood  a  good 
luncheon  into  the  bargain.  He  has  concluded  that  Ger- 
berding is  not  such  a  good  thing  as  he  appears,  while  the 
latter  smiles  easily    and  jingles  Berg's  gold   eagle,  but 

says  nothing. 

*  *  * 

"Uncle"  George  Bromley,  James  M.  Hamilton,  who  is 
heir  apparent  to  Uncle  George  at  the  Bohemian  Club,  and 
who  will  be  "  Uncle  Jimmy  "  some  day,  and  Hugo  Toland, 
were  spending  the  evening  at  a  Pacific  Avenue  home,  the 
mistress  of  which  is  noted  for  her  strict  devotion  to  her 
rigid  religious  views.  '  The  three  clubmen  were  regarded 
with  just  a  trifle  of  suspicion  in  that  atmosphere,  and  be- 
ing perfectly  aware  of  the  light  in  which  they  were  re- 
garded, and  fearful  of  infringing  on  the  ethics  of  the  occa- 
sion, they  were  on  their  very  best  behaviour.  By  way  of 
diversion,  the  hostess  produced  a  planchette  board,  which 
is  supposed  to  spell  answers  to  questions,  the  theory  being 
that  the  mechanism  operates  through  hypnotic  influence 
transmitted  by  the  persons  touching  the  board.  A  num- 
ber of  questions  had  been  asked  by  various  guests  and 
answered  with  due  propriety  by  the  planchette  board. 
The  clubmen  were  fearfully  bored,  although  they  were 
careful  to  give  no  indication  to  their  hostess  of  their  long- 
ing for  the  comfortable  "Social  Hall"  of  the  Bohemian 
Club.  As  luck  would  have  it,  according  to  the  affidavits 
of  the  trio,  only  Uncle  George,  Jimmie,  and  Hugo,  had 
their  hands  on  the  board  when  the  lady  of  the  house  in- 
quired if  the  following  day  would  be  fine.  All  present  fixed 
their  eyes  on  the  board,  which   slowly  sDelled  the  letters  : 

"G-o  t-o  h-e " 

Before  the  last  word  was  completed,  the  hostess  in- 
dignantly snatched  up  the  planchette  board,  and  disdain- 
fully turned  her  back  on  the  assembled  worldlings.  In  vain 
they  protested  their  innocence,  in  chorus  and  individually. 
The  hostess  maintained  that  they  had  been  caught  in  fla- 
grante delicto.  Each  of  that  unhappy  trio  is  now  distinctly 
persona  non  grata  in  that  religious  home. 

*  *  # 

The  appearance  of  Thomas  R.  Bacon  of  the  University 
of  California  is  such  that  while  his  pupils  admire  him  as  a 
lecturer  on  history,  they  are  always  careful  to  remain  at  a 
safe  distance  from  their  instructor.  This  feeling  of  con- 
straint is  mutual,  and  it  is  said  that  where  young  women 
students  are  concerned,  the  formidable  professor  is  an 
avowed  coward.  Apropos  of  this  weakness,  the  Univer- 
sity town  is  laughing  over  an  episode  related  by  a  young 
"co-ed. "  who  was  unable,  through  sickness,  to  take  the 
Christmas  examination  in  ancient  history,  and  who  there- 
fore arranged  for  a  supplemental  examination  on  the  re- 
sumption of  class  work  at  the  beginning  of  the  present 
term.  At  the  appointed  hour  she  repaired  to  the  history 
class  room  and  met  Professor  Bacon  on  the  steps,  pre- 
paring to  go  out. 

"Oh,  I  came  for  my  examination  in  ancient  history," 
she  said,  in  answer  to  Bacon's  look  of  inquiry. 

As  she  spoke,  the  Professor  ran  quickly  down  the  steps. 

"Yes,  I  remember,"  he  said,  over  his  shoulder.  "When 
did  the  Pilgrims  land?" 

Without  waiting  for  a  reply,  he  continued  his  flight,  and 
as  he  turned  the  corner  of  the  building  he  shouted  back  : 

"  That's  all  right.     You  pass." 

*  *  * 

Applications  for  rooms  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  are  being 
received  thus  early  by  mine  host  Warfield  from  some  of 
our  swagger  set,  and  present  appearances  indicate  that 
quite  a  fashionable  coterie  will  be  in  residence  at  that 
favorite  place  during  the  Lenten  season  so  rapidly  ap- 
proaching, to  recuperate  from  society  dissipations  and  be 
"  fit  "  for  the  summer  gaieties. 

Great  reductions  in  fashionable  furnishing  goods  at  John  W. 
Carrnany's,  25  Kearny  St. 


Janu;:: 


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what. 

■  ■«,  has  been  bei 

e  town  a  ;■■ 

■'• 
•labor 

rapped  when  he  tried  t.i  pick  up   tii> 

the  delightful  experience  "f   having   the    Boor  sink 

■h  his  feet  when  heattem|  cture, 

Every  one  laughed  except  Hani  ock,  who.  in  spite  of  many 
drinks,  thirsted  for  revenge        When    the    I.   - 
said  he  saw  the  bark.  tpring  which  cat 

carved  post  to  violently  bump  the  back   of   the   Banning 
head,  all  present  assured  him  his   impression    was   duo    to 

•  ohol-heated  imagination.      The  vietim  was  not  at  all 
impressed  by  the  explanation,  but  he  feigned  acquiesi 

•  'em  again,  have  I  ?  "  he  yelled,  in  assumed  terror. 
Then  in  a  pretended  paroxysm,  he  assaulted  the  bar 
keeper  and  his  friends  in  turn,  and  under  cover  of  his 
affected  delirium,  administered  much  deserved  castigation 
to  the  practical  jokers.  Before  Hancock  ''recovered,' 
the  clothing  of  the  entire  party  was  in  a  lamentable  condi- 
tion, and  the  saloon  suggested  the  wreck  of  a  gasoline 
schooner.  But  Banning  is  serenely  conscious  that  he  has, 
by  the  episode,  earned  an  immunity  from  practical  jokes 
in  the  future,  so  he  paid  for  the  broken  glassware 
damaged  decorations  with  a  light  heart,  if  with  a  similarly 
weighted  purse. 

#  #  * 

Apropos  of  the  trial  of  J.  J.  Cooney,  formerly  a  Notary 
Public,  on  the  charge  of  perjury  based  on  the  alleged 
printer's  date  marks  of  a  notarial  certificate,  the  story 
has  been  revived  of  how  the  late  A.  A.  Cohen  secured  his 
start  in  life.  Cohen  was  a  struggling  law  student  in  Eng- 
land and  articled  as  a  clerk  to  a  firm  of  attorneys.  A 
famous  will  trial  was  in  progress  in  London  involving  the 
disposition  of  a  vast  estate.  Everyone  believed  the  will  a 
forgery  but  no  one  had  been  able  to  secure  any  direct 
proof  of  its  lack  of  authenticity.  The  will  had  been 
offered  for  probate  twice  to  the  Court  and  at  the  final 
hearing  of  the  case,  all  possible  points  against  it  had  been 
made,  but  the  objections  were  ineffectual  and  the  spurious 
will  was  about  to  be  accepted.  Young  Cohen's  employers 
were  opposed  to  the  fraudulent  will  and  in  a  moment  of 
abstraction,  the  clerk  held  the  document  up  to  the  light, 
saw  the  date  mark  and  noted  that  it  was  subsequent  to  the 
date  of  the  alleged  will.  There  was  no  difficulty  then  in 
securing  the  rejection  of  the  bogus  document.  For  h's 
lucky  and  accidental  service,  young  Cohen  was  paid  five 
thousand  pounds.  He  came  to  California  and  with  his  re- 
ward laid  the  foundation  of  the  fortune  which  enabled  him 
to  build  railroads,  buy  lands  and  amass  an  estate  of 
several  millions. 


As  everybody  who  has  sojourned  in  the  saintly  city  of 
Sacramento  knows,  there  is  an  ordinance  there  which  pro- 
hibits men  from  expectorating  on  the  sidewalks  or  in  pub- 
lic places.  There  is  also  a  law  which  exempts  Legislators 
from  being  arrested  fifteen  days  prior  to,  during,  or  fif- 
teen days  after  the  sitting  of  Legislature.  A  few  days 
ago,  an  eminent  divine  from  this  city  was  walking  along  one 
of  the  main  streets,  when  he  had  occasion  to  clear  his 
throat  of  some  phlegm  located  there.  This  he  proceeded 
to  do,  but  was  immediately  pounced  upon  by  a  zealous 
policeman.  While  being  yanked  off  to  the  judgment  seat 
he  espied  a  man  literally  cover  a  store  window  with  a 
stream  of  offensive  tobacco  juice. 

''Look  at  that!"  he  cried  to  hiscapturer.  "Why  don't 
you  take  him  too  ?  " 

"Shure,  an  he's  only  an  Assimblyman,  "  answered  the 
policeman.  And  the  clergyman  regrets  now  that  he 
missed  his  vocation. 

Swain's  Bakery  on  Sutter  street  is  the  best  knowD  restaurant  in 
town  and  is  patronized  by  only  the  very  best  people.  Between  the 
hours  of  5  and  8  p.  m.  a  first  class  table  d'hote  dinner  is  served  for 
the  small  sum  of  $1.00.  Swain's  Bakery  also  enjoys  the  reputation 
of  furnishing  the  finest  pastries  and  delicacies  in  the  city. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  '-Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  teetbfng. 


Of  vitality  and  energy,  a  good  appetite,  and  per- 
fect health  are  obtained   and  endure   by  taking 


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on  the  market,  every  package  of  which  bears 
an  affidavit  guaranteeing  it  to  be  absolutely 
PURE  and  over  SIX  YEARS  OLD. 

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The  Famous  Skin  Pood, 


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Importers  Teas,  Mattings  and  Silks. 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants. 

Agents  North  China  Insurance  Company  (Limited), 

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towels  each  week,  $1  per  month;  12  clean  hand  towels  each  week; 
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SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


First  English  Newspaper. — During  the  reign  of 
James  I.,  England's  first  newspaper  was  born,  May,  1622, 
seeing  the  first  issue  of  the  Weekly  News.  Notwithstand- 
ing that  it  was  illy  received,  its  editor,  Nathaniel  Butter, 
lived  by  the  business  for  eighteen  years.  The  venture  was 
the  outgrowth  of  a  custom  among  the  country  gentlemen 
to  pay  some  writer  in  London  for  "news  letters,"  and  Mr. 
Butter's  brave  attempt  wis  merely  the  printing  regularly 
for  the  general  public  that  which  before  had  been  written 
in  a  desultory  manner  for  the  private  individual. 

Copper  Pennies. — There  are  119,000,000  old  copper 
pennies  somewhere.  Nobody  knows  what  has  become  of 
them,  except  once  in  a  while  a  single  specimen  turns  up  in 
change.  A  few  years  ago  4,500, 000-bronze  two-cent  pieces 
were  set  afloat.  Three  millions  of  these  are  still  outstand- 
ing. Three  million  three-cent  nickel  pieces  are  scattered 
over  the  United  States,  but  it  is  very  rarely  that  one  is 
seen. 

Asbestos  and  Porcelain. — A  French  chemist  has  ob- 
tained from  asbestos  a  substance  closely  resembling  porce- 
lain. The  fibers  of  asbestos  are  very  fine  and  that  sub- 
stance may  be  ground  into  au  almost  impalpable  powder. 
This  is  made  into  paste  with  water,  thoroughly  kneaded 
and  molded  into  the  required  form.  It  is  then  heated  in 
crucibles  to  2,500  degrees  Fahrenheit.  The  result  is  a 
ware  with  the  translucency  of  porcelain. 

Sawdust  for  Feed. — Sawdust  is  turned  into  transport 
able  fuel  in  Germany  by  a  very  simple  process.  It  is 
heated  under  high  steam  pressure  until  the  resinous  in- 
gredients become  sticky,  when  it  is  pressed  into  bricks. 
One  man,  with  a  two-horse  power  machine,  can  turn  out 
9,000  bricks  a  day. 

Poison  Ivy. — Poison  ivy  is  said  to  be  antidoted  by  the 
brook  balsam,  spotted  touch-me-not,  or  jewel  weed  (Imjm- 
tiens  fulra),  which  grows  freely  in  this  latitude  along  the 
banks  of  brooks.  Its  leaves  and  stems  are  bruised  and 
applied  as  a    poultice    to    the  inflamed  parts. 

Cork  tor  Pavements. — Some  of  the  pavement  in  use 
on  the  streets  of  Vienna  is  composed  ot  grauulated  cork 
mixed  with  asphalt  and  other  cohesive  substances.  It  is 
compressed  into  blocks  of  convenient  size.  Its  advantages 
are  cleanliness,  durability  and  economy. 

Concerning  Weeks. — The  Greeks  and  Romans  had  no 
weeks  until  they  borrowed  this  division  of  time  from  the 
East.  The  Greeks  divided  the  months  into  three  equal 
periods;  the  Romans  into  three  very  unequal — the 
Kalends,  Ides  and  Nones. 

Sea  Signaling  by  Flags. — The  flags  to  be  hoisted  at 
one  time  in  signaling  at  sea  never  exceed  four.  It  is  an 
interesting  arithmetical  fact  that,  with  eighteen  various 
colored  flags,  and  never  more  than  four  at  a  time,  no  fewer 
than  78,642  signals  can  be  given. 

Longest  Telephone  Communication. — The  longest  com- 
mercial distance  at  which  the  long-distance  telephone  is 
now  operated  is  from  Boston  to  St.  Louis,  a  distance  of 
1,400  miles.  This  line  is  more  than  twice  as  long  as  any 
European  telephone  line. 

Salt  in  the  Sea. — Every  ton  of  Atlantic  water,  when 
evaporated,  yields  81  pounds  of  salt;  a  ton  of  Pacific 
water,  79  pounds;  Arctic  and  Antarctic  waters  yield  85 
pounds   to   the   ton,  and   Dead  Sea  water,  187  pounds. 

The  Original  Languages. — It  is  said  by  philologists 
that  there  are  thirteen  original  languages,  the  Greek, 
Latin,  German,  Slavonic,  Welsh,  Biscayan,  Irish,  Albanian, 
Tartarian,  Illyrian,  Jazygian,  Chaucin  and  Finnic. 

Through   Sleeping   Cars  to  Chicago. 

The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  from  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
phone Main  1531. 


A     SABBATH      EVE. 


\  GOLDEN  glory  lights  the  west— 
The  sun's  farewell; 
One  chime  sounds  clearer  than  the  rest — 
The  daytime's  knell. 

The  eastern  skies  are  crimsoned  now 

And  edged  with  grey ; 
The  beams  that  graced  the  mountain's  brow 

Have  passed  away. 

On  Alcatraz  the  light  is  lit, 

The  Bay  is  still; 
And  soon  the  truant  mists  will  flit 

O'er  dell  and  hill. 

So  still  the  town  this  Sabbath  night, 

So  calm  the  air, 
One  almost  sees  the  angels  light 

Those  stars  up  there! 

Howard  V.  Sutherland: 

AT     THE      RACES. 


THE  finishing  days  of  the  meet  of  the  California  Jockey 
Club,  at  the  track  across  the  bay,  proved  as  exciting 
and  sensational  as  their  predecessors.  Occasionally  you 
will  hear  some  grumbling  at  results;  but  the  trouble  is, 
people  do  not  seem  to  take  into  consideration  the  vast 
difference  between  the  Ingleside  and  Emeryville  courses. 
The  Oakland  course  was  built  for  speed.  It  has  a  hard 
foundation  and  a  hard  dressing,  and  plays  havoc  with  a 
horse  with  suspicious  underpinning.  On  the  other  hand, 
Ingleside  has  a  spongy  foundation,  which  is  continually 
yielding  the  more  the  track  is  in  use.  But  still  with  high- 
class  horses  the  time  will  not  vary  much.  For  instance, 
Chartreuse,  who  has  won  a  mile  in  1.40|  at  Ingleside,  has 
been  beaten  in  1.415  at  Oakland  with  the  same  weights. 
McGregor  has  won  in  1.401  at  Ingleside,  and  has  been 
beaten  in  1.40}  at  Oakland,  so  the  two  do  not  vary  much. 
The  whole  difference  seems  to  be  with  the  nags  with  ail- 
ments. The  public  should  be  very  careful  of  playing 
horses  with  bad  feet  at  Oakland. 

The  opening  days  of  this  week  at  Ingleside  have  been 
unusually  exciting  to  the  talent,  who,  on  Tuesday  last, 
failed  to  cash  on  a  single  favorite,  and  on  Wednesday, 
Greyhurst  and  Mr.  Reel,  the  only  two  out  of  seven,  looked 
lonely  indeed.  But,  withal,  the  sport  was  all  that  could 
be  desired. 

Secretary  Leake  deserves  great  credit  for  the  card 
brought  forth  on  Wednesday.  It  was  no  easy  task  to  fill 
out  seven  races  all  at  a  mile  and  over,  and  the  apprecia- 
tion shown  by  the  vast  throng  that  filled  every  available 
inch  of  the  grand  stand  well  repaid  the  efforts  put  forth 
by  the  Association. 

The  following  well-known  turfmen  are  said  to  be  behind 
the  game:  Riley  Grannan,  $30,000;  Ed.  Purser,  $30,000; 
John  Coleman,  $20,000;  Will  Wallace,  $10,000_;  Charley 
Quinn,  $10,000,  and  lucky  Dave  Gideon,  of  Requital  fame, 
and  the  owner  of  three  Futurity  winners,  is  $5,000  behind. 

California-bred  horses  have  won  seven-tenths  of  the 
money  offered  by  the  two  Associations,  and  California 
owners  have  won,  so  far,  four-fifths  of  the  money  hung  up 
in  purses. 

Willie  Sims,  the  crack  Eastern  jockey,  who  rode  last 
summer  for  Dwyer  at  Gravesend,  will  arrive  here  within 
the  next  ten  days.  He  will  ride  for  Lucky  Baldwin,  who, 
by  the  way,  seems  to  need  a  good,  reliable  trainer  more 
than  anything  else.  Sims  will  be  of  inestimable  value  to 
Lucky  B.,  as  he  can  outride  any  knight  of  the  pigskin  in 
the  United  States,  in  a  race  over  a  distance  of  ground,  and 
Baldwin's  horses  are  nearly  all  bred  for  long  distances. 


PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 

ANOTHER  delightful  residence  locality  is  pictured  in 
our  illustrative  series  this  week.  The  residences  are 
all  modern,  and  are  inhabited  by  some  of  the  wealthiest  of 
our  citizens. 

Paso  Robles. 
Our  new  mud  bath  house  is  finished.  The  arrangement  of  baths, 
dressing  rooms,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  floor.  No  stairs  or  steps  to 
climb.  We  are  now  unquestionably  the  finest  sanitarium  or  health 
resort  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Rest  and  health  seekers  are  Paso  Robles 
seekers,  Kates,  $10,  $12.50,  $15,  and  $17.50  per  week.  Climate  warm. 


January  30,  1S97. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


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THE    GIFT    OF    THE    SEA, 

tVOFAM  t'^iSM.  />  *AM*sc*   «O0«  MliN 

THK.Irad  child  lay  hi  the*hroud. 
And  thr  wulnw  watched  be« 
And  her  mother  slept,  and  the  channel  swept 
The  Kate  in  the  teeth  of  the  U 

But  the  mother  laughed  at  all. 

"  I  hare  lost  my  man  in  the  sea. 

And  the  rhild  i*  dead.     Be  still."  she  said, 

"  What  more  can  ye  do  to  u  ■ 

The  widow  watched  the  .lead, 

And  the  candle  piUtrod  low. 
And  she  triad  to  slog  the  Pooring  Bong 

That  bids  the  poor  soul  go. 

And   *  Marv  take  you  now,"  she  sang. 
**  That  lay  Igitasl  my  !■■■ 
And  -M.-try  smooth  your  crfb  lo-night," 
Bal  she  could  not  say  '  Depart." 

Tbeu  came  a  cry  from  the  sea, 

But  the  M'u-riuie  blinded  the  glass, 
And  "Heard  ye  nothing,  mother    "  the  said. 

ha  child  that  waits,  to  pai 

And  the  nodding  mother  sighed. 
"  Tie  a  lambing  ewe  in  the  whin, 
For  why  should  the  christened  soul  cry  out 
That  never  knew  of  sin'.'" 

"  0  feet  1  have  held  in  my  hand, 
0  hands  at  my  heart  to  catch  ; 
How  should  they  know  the  road  to  go, 
And  how  should  they  lift  the  latch?" 

They  laid  a  sheet  to  the  door, 

With  the  little  quilt  atop, 
That  it  might  not  hurt  from  the  cold  or  the  dirt, 

But  the  crying  would  not  stop. 

The  widow  lifted  the  latch 

And  strained  her  eyes  to  see, 
And  opened  the  door  on  the  bitter  shore 

To  let  the  soul  go  free. 

There  was  neither  glimmer  nor  ghost, 

There  was  neither  spirit  nor  spark, 
And  "Hark  ye  nothing  mother?"  she  said, 
"  Tis  crying  for  me  in  the  dark." 

And  the  nodding  mother  sighed. 
'*  'Tis  sorrow  makes  ye  dull ; 
Have  ye  yet  to  learn  the  cry  of  the  tern, 
Or  the  wail  of  the  wind-blown  gull?" 

"  The  terns  are  blown  inland, 

The  gray  gull  follows  the  plow, 
'Twas  never  a  bird,  the  voice  I  heard ; 
Oh,  mother,  1  hear  it  now." 

"  Lie  still,  dear  lamb,  lie  still; 
The  child  is  passed  from  harm. 
'Tis  the  ache  in  your  breast  that  broke  your  rest, 
And  the  feel  of  an  empty  arm." 

She  put  her  mother  aside, 
"  In  Mary's  name  let  be; 
For  the  peace  of  my  soul  1  must  go,"  she  said. 
And  she  went  to  the  calling  sea. 

In  the  heel  of  the  wind-bit  pier, 

When  the  twisted  weed  was  piled, 
She  came  to  the  life  she  had  missed  by  an  hour, 

For  she  came  to  a  little  child. 

She  laid  it  into  her  breast, 

And  back  to  her  mother  she  came. 

But  it  would  not  feed  and  it  would  not  heed, 
Though  she  gave  it  her  own  child's  name. 

And  the  dead  child  dripped  on  her  breast, 

And  her  own  in  the  shroud  lay  stark ; 
And  "God  forgive  us,  mother,"  she  said, 
"  We  let  it  die  in  the  dark." 


"Our  Society   Blue   Book" 

For  the  season  of  1896-97  is  now  ready  for  delivery.  It  contains 
the  names,  addresses  and  reception  days  of  most  of  the  prominent 
families  ot  this  city  and  other  points  on  the  Coast.  Also  lists  of 
members  of  the  most  prominent  Clubs  with  their  business   addresses. 

San  Francisco  Street  and  Avenue  Guide,  Ladies' Shopping  Guide, 
etc.    Price  Five  Dollars.    C.  C.  Hoag,  Publisher. 

Trade  supplied  by  Hartwell,  Mitchell  &  Willis,  Successors  to 
Bodge  Bros,  225  Post  St.,  and  107  Montgomery  St. 

Kelly's  Corn  Cure  never  falls.    25  cents.    103  Eddy  street. 


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RESTAURANTS. 

Bargez't  Rcitaurant.  Academy  HulldloK,  aa*-xu  Tin.  i  tree  I  Rooms  for 
laolaaua  '  bteeotrasoe     John  Borgcz,  Proprietor. 

Mal»on  Tortoni,  French  Roilsserte,  111  0  I'rlvaie  dlnlna 

rooms  and  banquet  ball.    S.  Oonatantltil,  Proprietor. 

Poodle    Dog    Restaurant.  B  ■  ,i    Hush    at       Private 

dialog  and  banquet  ro-  a   ll    Hi. am.,  a  h    hhpn 

DAIK 

Oakland  Dairy  Depot.  8*1  Fulton  street,  S.  F.  Absolutely  pure  Milk  and 
Cream.    Telephone,  Pine  I6P* 

DENTISTS. 

Dr.  Thomas  L.   HIM. 

OFFICE:  Odd  Fellows'  Building,  south* cut  cor.  Boventb  and  Market 
streets.    Office  hours:  9  a.  m.  loft  P.  m      Consultation  Hours*  -I  to 6 

Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 


MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St..  pear  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  S06  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  In  world.  W.  F.  ORKANY,  827  I)  run  nan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrcll  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.   F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314.  316,  and  318  Main  street 
Iron  work  of  every  description  resigned  and  constructed. 


PRINTING    AND    RUBBER    STAMPS. 
Koch  &  Harney,  (Jas.  H.Harney,  Geo.  T    Koch),  Job  Printers.  648  Sacra- 
mento  St.  Fine  printing  and  embossing,  seals,  rubber  stamps,  stencils,  etc. 

CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  '■;  and  1-lb  boxes.    Roberts".  Polk  and  Bush. 

VEHICLES 
Second-hand  Victoria,  O'Brien  &  Son's  pat.    Spring   Buggy.  Surrey   and 
Top  Buggy,  for  sale  cheap.    500  Golden  Gate  avenue. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Best  &  Belcher  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca 
tlon  of  works— Virginia  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on   the    2fith  day  of  January,  1897.  an  assessment  {No.  61),  of  25  cents 

fier  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at    the  office  of 
the  company,  room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco, 
California. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
2D  DAY  OF  MARCH,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  the  23d  day  of  March,  189?,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

M.  JAFFE,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  33,  Nevada    Block,   309  Montgomery  St.,    San  Francisco 
Cal. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Julia  Consolidated  Mining  Company 

Assessment No.  28 

Amount  per  Share 5  centp 

Levied January  21, 1897 

Delinquent  in  Office February  26,  1897 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock March  10.   1897 

J.  STADTFELDT,  Jr.,  Secretary. 
Office— Room 56,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

Office  of  cne  Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society,  corner  Market,  McAllis 
ter,  and  Jones  streets,  San  Francisco,  Dec.  30,  1896.  At  a  regular  meeting 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  this  Society,  held  this  day,  a  dividend  has  been 
declared  at  the  rate  of  four  (4)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  all  deposits  for  the 
six  months  ending  December  30,  1896,  free  from  all  taxes,  and  payable  on 
and  after  January  2,  1897.  ROBERT  J.  TOBIN,  Secretary. 

Josepn  Glllott's  Steel  Fens, 

Gold  Medals.  Paris  1878-1889.  These  pens  are  "  the  best 
,  In  the  world/'    Sole  agent  for  the  United  States. 

MR.  HENRY  HOE.  91  John  Street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


GASTRONOMY  and  cards  were  the  prominent  features 
of  last  week's  gatherings,  which  may  be  character- 
ized as  one  of  the  dullest  of  the  season;  but  that  is  usually 
said  when  dances  are  few.  At  Mrs.  Jefferson  James's, 
Mrs.  Thomas  Denigan's,  and  Mrs.  J.  P.  Young's  progres- 
sive euchre  parties  some  very  pretty  prizes  were  won  by 
the  ladies  who  took  part  in  the  games.  In  the  luncheon 
line  Mrs.  Krutschnitt  and  Mrs.  Clarence  Mann  were  the 
hostesses.  Among  the  dinners  was  the  handsome  one  of 
Mrs.  Moses  Heller,  whose  twenty-five  guests  were  seated 
at  a  table  most  elaborately  decorated  with  roses;  Miss 
Rose  Neustadter's  dinner  dance  of  thirty  young  people 
was  in  honor  of  Miss  Mattie  Ehrman  and  Albert  Prank. 
The  decorations  were  all  in  white  and  green;  dancing  fol- 
lowed the  dinner,  and  an  elaborate  supper  concluded  the 
festivities;  and  Thos.  McCaleb,  the  young  New  Yorker 
who  is  passing  the  winter  in  San  Francisco,  was  host  to  a 
party  of  young  people  at  a  dinner  given  in  the  red  room  of 
the  Bohemian  Club,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Spreckels  chaperoning  the 
affair.  There  was  an  unusual  lack  of  teas  during  the 
week,  but  the  one  given  by  Miss  Frances  Curry,  which 
was  in  honor  of  Miss  La  Vert  of  New  Orleans,  was,  in 
spite  of  the  unpleasant  state  of  the  atmosphere  last 
Saturday,  a  charming  affair,  which  may  also  be  said  of  the 
meeting  of  the  Saturday  Evening  Dancing  Class  that 
night.  Mr.  Dupern's  theatre  party  at  the  Orpheum  was 
in  compliment  to  the  bride  and  groom-elect,  Miss  Lizzie 
Carroll  and  Will  Whittier,  and  was  followed  by  supper  at 
the  University  Club. 

This  week  opened  with  the  debut  of  Miss  Prances  Jolliffe 
at  the  first  night  of  Mme.  Modjeska's  season  at  the  Bald- 
win, and  theatre  parties  varying  in  size  from  four  to  a 
dozen  or  more,  were  seen  all  over  the  house,  and  of  course 
dainty  little  suppers  followed  the  performance.  Tuesday 
was  a  busy  day.  During  the.  afternoon  came  the  recep- 
tion at  Mrs.  Stanford's,  and  in  the  evening  the  Goodall- 
Keil  wedding,  and  the  reception  of  the  Laurel  Hall  Club  in 
honor  of  Mrs.  Lowenberg.  The  reception  at  Mrs.  Stan- 
ford's was  an  exceedingly  large  one,  and  between  the  hours 
of  four  and  seven  o'clock  the  rooms  were  thronged  with 
guests,  who  came  to  do  honor  to  Bishop  and  Mrs.  New- 
man, who  were  the  guests  of  the  occasion.  Although  the 
beautiful  rooms  scarcely  needed  any  additional  decoration, 
foliage  and  flowers  of  every  hue  were  used  in  lavish  pro- 
fusion throughout  the  entire  house,  though  roses  were  the 
blossoms  chiefly  in  evidence.  Mrs.  Stanford  received  her 
guests  in  the  India  room,  refreshments  were  served  from 
a  buffet  in  the  banquet  hall,  the  orchestra  was  stationed  in 
the  art  gallery,  and  during  the  afternoon  the  University 
Glee  and  Mandolin  Club  gave  a  number  of  selections.  Mrs. 
Stanford,  who  was  assisted  by  a  bevy  of  charming  belles 
in  her  duties  of  hostess,  wore  a  gown  of  heavy  black  satin 
and  diamond  ornaments.  Mrs.  Newman  was  robed  in 
black  velvet  trimmed  with  duchesse  lace. 

Beethoven  Hall,  where  the  Laurel  Hall  Club  reception 
was  held  in  the  evening,  was  very  prettily  dressed  with 
flowers  and  potted  plants,  and  the  entertainment  con- 
sisted of  recitations,  reading  of  essays  and  vocal  music, 
and  last  of  all  an  elaborate  supper,  at  which  many  toasts 
were  offered  and  wittily  responded  to. 

But  it  is  weddings  that  have  been  the  leading  features 
of  the  present  week,  and  there  have  been  several  de- 
partures from  the  now  rather  worn  out  "pink  and  white," 
so  favorite  a  nomenclature  in  society  weddings  for  some 
time  past.  First  came  the  violet  wedding  of  Miss  Serena 
Goodall  and  Hugo  Keil,  which  was  solemnized  at  the  home 
of  the  bride  on  McAllister  street,  on  Tuesday  evening. 
The  bay  window  in  the  large  drawing-room  to  the  left  of 
the  hall  was  the  place  selected  for  the  ceremony.  It  was 
transformed  into  a  violet  bower  of  smilax  and  purple 
violets,  held  in  place  by  broad  bands  of  white  and  lavender 
ribbons,  a  lovely  bell  of  white  violets  was  suspended  from 


the  center  and  beneath  it  the  Rev.  George  Walk  of  Trinity 
Church  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  Smilax,  carnations  and 
beauty  roses  were  used  in  profusion  for  the  adornment  of 
the  other  rooms  in  which  were  assembled  the  relatives  and 
intimate  friends  of  the  contracting  parties.  Promptly  at 
the  hour  named,  Miss  Nellie  Boyd,  who  was  the  maid-of 
honor,  entered  the  room  followed  by  the  bride  and  her 
father,  the  orchestra  in  the  hall  playing  the  Lohengrin 
Chorus,  and  were  met  by  the  groom  and  his  best  man,  his 
brother  Edward,  who  awaited  their  coming.  The  bride 
looked  very  handsome  in  a  robe  of  white  brocaded  satin, 
trimmed  with  Arenetian  point  lace,  a  diamond  cresent,  the 
gift  of  the  groom,  gleamed  in  her  hair  amid  the  folds  of 
her  fleecy  tulle  vail,  and  she  carried  a  boquet  of  white 
violets.  Miss  Boyd's  gown  was  of  white  satin,  trimmed 
with  Brussells  lace,  and  her  bouquet  was  of  purple  violets. 
After  the  couple  had  been  made  one,  congratulations  fol- 
lowed, then  came  an  elaborate  supper,  after  which  there 
was  dancing.  The  presents  were  exceedingly  handsome, 
consisting  of  jewelry,  silverware,  cut  glass  and  bric-a-brac 
in  endless  variety.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Keil  are  passing  their 
honeymoon  at  Coronado  and  upon  their  return  will  reside 
in  Belvedere. 

The  second  change  in  color  was  made  by  Miss  Lizzie 
Carroll,  who  chose  yellow  as  the  hue  for  her  wedding, 
which  took  place  at  the  home  of  her  mother  on  "Van  Ness 
Avenue,  at  noon  on  Wednesday.  The  limited  space  at  the 
disposal  of  the  decorators,  for  the  house  is  a  small  one, 
was  made  the  most  of,  and  an  original  idea,  certainly,  was 
to  have  the  ceremony  performed  beneath  ripe  fruit,  as 
well  as  the  blossoms  which  adorned  the  branches  of  the 
orange  tree  placed  in  the  front  parlor.  Archbishop  Rior- 
dan  was  assisted  by  Father  Mulligan  in  the  service  which 
converted  Miss  Lizzie  Carroll  into  Mrs.  Will  Whittier.  The 
bridal  robe  was  of  white  satin,  trimmed  with  lace  and 
orange  blossoms.  Miss  Gertrude  Carroll,  as  maid-of-honor, 
wore  a  costume  of  white  mousseline  de  soie,  and  the  Misses 
Romie  Wallace  and  Julia  Crocker,  who  officiated  as  brides- 
maids, were  gowned  alike  in  yellow  tulle  over  yellow  satin. 
Milton  Latham  was  the  groom's  best  man.  Following  the 
ceremony  came  congratulations,  and  then  the  dejmtner  was 
served,  during  which  the  orchestra  played  a  selection  of 
appropriate  airs,  and  later  in  the  day,  which  proved  to  be 
the  wettest  of  the  month,  the  bride  and  groom  departed 
to  spend  the  honeymoon  at  the  ranch  of  the  bride's  uncle, 
Pat  Murphy,  near  Santa  Barbara,  and  next  month  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Whittier  will  start  on  a  six  months'  tour  of 
Europe. 

Wednesday  evening's  weddings  were  those  of  Miss  Rose 
Eppinger  and  Dr.  Sharp,  and  of  Miss  Martha  Shainwald 
and  Leopold  Meyers,  and  a  very  handsome  wedding  took 
place  on  Thursday  evening,  when  Miss  Mattie  Ehrman  and 
Albert  Frank  were  married  at  the  San  Francisco  Verein 
Club,  in  the  presence  of  a  large  number  of  guests.  Miss 
Agnes  Brandenstein  was  maid  of  honor,  and  the  Misses 
Olga  Sutro,  Martha  Triest,  Grace  Hecht,  and  Ida  Low 
were  bridesmaids. 

Miss  Sadie  Hyman  and  Wilfred  Mack  will  be  wedded  next 
Wednesday  evening,  the  ceremony  to  take  place  at  the 
San  Francisco  Verein  Club;  the  Bloomingdale-Klein  and 
the  Scott-Castle  weddings  are  also  named  to  take  place 
the  same  date. 

From  Salt  Lake  has  come  the  news  of  the  marriage 
there  this  week  of  Miss  Carrie  Quinan,  who  was  quite  a 
figure  in  San  Francisco  society  three  years  ago,  and  who 
was  recently  divorced,  to  Lieutenant  Clement  Flaglor, 
who  is  also  not  quite  unknown  in  our  social  world. 

Society  has  sustained  a  severe  loss  in  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Mary  Emma  Flood,  widow  of  the  late  capitalist.  A  few 
days  ago  she  contracted  a  severe  cold,  which  finally  de- 
veloped into  pneumonia,  and  which  caused  her  death  on 
Wednesday  night  last.  Her  children  were  at  her  bedside 
when  she  died.  The  deceased  will  long  be  remembered  for 
her  generous  disposition,  and  for  the  numerous  gifts  of 
charity  bestowed  upon  the  needy. 

Maybe  you've  forgotten  how  good  tea  can  be. 
Get  Schilling  'j  Best  of  your  grocer  and  bring 
back  tbe  good  old  times. 


Janua: 


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social  debut.     Another  society  debul  will  take 

Jul  and  Mr>.  .1.  Simpson  will  give 
in  their  handsome  new  home  on  Vallejo  street,  for  t! 
pose  of  introducinjf  their  daughter,  Miss  Agm 

uu'in),'  Clu  sday  evening,  and  the 

Cotillion  Club  on  Friday  evening,  will  have  dames  at  Odd 
Fellow's  Mall  next  week. 

At   the  Baldwin  Theatre.  MacbttA  .Monday,  Tuesday    and 
Saturday  nights;  Ailrienni  Leeouvrewn  Thursday  night,  and 
■i  to-nicht,  Wednesday  and  Friday  nights,  and 
relay   matinee.     Modjeska's    Lady   Macbeth   was  en- 
thusiastically   greeted   the   last    time    she    played    here; 
Howarth's   Macbeth   is   of  national    fame.      Adrienm    has 
tender  memories  for  most  of  our  play-goers,  as  it  was  this 
play  which  introduced  Modjeska    to  the  English-speaking 
and  Marie  Stuart  has  always  been  a  favorite  role. 

The  Stanford  Choral  Association  (one  hundred  and  fifty 
voices),  and  the  Apollo  Choral  Society,  are  planning  to 
unite  in  giving  two  grand  choral  concerts  sometime  in 
April.  One  of  the  concerts  will  be  given  in  this  city  and 
one  at  Stanford  University.  The  Apollo  Society  will  in- 
crease its  membership  to  its  full  limit — one  hundred  and 
fifty  voices.  Singers  who  wish  to  associate  themselves 
with  a  chorus  of  earnest  students  of  the  highest  class  of 
music,  are  invited  to  become  members. 

Miss  Minnie  Burton  has  returned  from  her  visit  to  Fort 
Logan,  where  she  has  been  for  the  last  three  months,  and 
if  rumor  can  be  relied  on,  she  will  return  there  ere  long. 
Though  the  official  "announcement"  has  not  yet  been 
made,  it  no  doubt  will  be  in  the  very  near  future. 

The  Maria-Kip  Orphanage  is  to  be  benefited  by  a 
theatrical  performance  next  month,  when  Caxtr  will  be 
given  at  the  Bush-street  Theatre,  with  Miss  Leila  Burton 
and  Miss  Rose  Hooper  in  the  leading  female  parts.  Frank 
Mathieu  will  also  appear  in  the  comedy. 

.    A     FINE     CANVAS. 

JL  CANVAS  is  at  present  on  exhibition  in  the  studio  of 
Jl  Amadee  Joullin,  which  is  one  of  the  strongest  and 
most  interesting  ever  painted  by  our  local  artists.  The 
canvas  depicts  a  young  Moqui  Indian  brave  bending  over 
the  form  of  a  dying  chief  in  the  interior  of  an  Indian  hut. 
The  light  falls  on  the  two  forms,  the  one  outstretched  upon 
an  Indian  blanket,  the  other  kneeling  at  his  head.  The 
two  figures  almost  seem  to  live.  The  muscles  and  sinews 
of  the  elder  man  show  up  in  strong  contrast  to  the  delicate 
limbs  of  the  younger,  and  on  his  face  can  be  seen  that 
grim  determination  which  will  not  even  be  conquered  by 
death.  The  color  in  the  picture  is  perfect.  There  is  no 
attempt  made  at  false  impressionism.  The  artist  has 
painted  life  and  approaching  death  as  it  is,  not  as  it  might 
be.  To  this  is  probably  due  the  silent  strength  of  the 
picture.  > 

Mr.  Joullin  is  not  a  mere  painter;  he  is  an  artist  in  the 
higher  conception  of  the  word.  We  have  seen  and  studied 
his  work  for  many  years,  and  always  find  something  fresh 
in  it  to  admire.  In  his  dune  pictures  he  suggests  the 
dreariest  and  coldest  desolation,  or  the  terrible  sultriness 
of  a  too  hot  summer;  in  his  pen  and  ink  work  he  is  delicate, 
while  still  being  strong,  and  now  we  feel  sure  that  he  will 
give  us  a  series  of  Indian  pictures,  which  will  not  only 
bring  him  new  laurels,  but  will  also  add  considerably  to 
the  fame  of  San  Francisco.  We  shall  look  forward  with 
expectancy  to  the  next  picture.  The  subject  is  one  of 
home  interest,  and  has  never  been  treated  as  it  should  be. 

To  use  any  other  complexion  beautifier  than  Camelline  is  to  run 
the  risk  of  harming  your  skin.  This  favorite  and  indispensable  ad- 
junct to  a  lady's  toilet  has  been  pronounced  harmless  by  the  most 
eminent  physicians  and  chemists  and  its  success  reflects  much 
credit  upon  its  originators,  Wakelee  &  Co.  It  has  taken  prizes  at 
many  exhibitions  and  is  absolutely  without  a  peer. 

The  Press  Clipping  bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics,  business 
and  personal. 


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FIRST    SYMPHONY    CONCERT. 

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Soloist:  Katharine  Flemminc  Hinkicbs,  contralto. 

Brilliant  programme 

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SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


"Why,  Clara,  dear,  what  has  happened?  It  is  Dot  a 
month  since  your  marriage,  and  I  find  you  in  tears  al- 
ready!" "Ah,  Hilda,  darling  !  George  is  standing  as 
member  for  the  county,  you  know,  and  I've  only  just 
learned  from  the  opposition  papers  what  a  really  dreadful 
man  I  have  married  !  " — Pearson's  Weekly. 

"What  is  an  anarchist,  anyway  ?  "  "An  anarchist  is  one 
who  howls,  who  has  no  regard  for  authority,  and  who  in- 
coherently gabbles  night  and  day."  "Yes;  we  have  one 
at  our  house. "  "What  is  his  name  ?  "  "  Isn't  named  yet. 
He's  our  baby." — New  York  Tribune. 

"I  want  to  see  the  lady  of  the  house,"  said  the  wander- 
ing gentleman.  "I  am  she,"  answered  the  lady.  "In- 
deed? You  look  so  perfectly  happy  and  independent  that 
I  hope  you  will  excuse  me  taking  you  for  the  hired  girl." 
— Indianapolis  Journal. 

"  I've  missed  more  fun  this  summer  than  you  could  shake 
your  tail  at,"  mused  the  bull.  "How  ?  "  asked  the  family 
horse.  "  To-day  for  the  seventh  time  I  let  one  of  these 
new  women  get  almost  across  the  field  before  I  realized 
she  wasn't  a  man." — Pearson's  Weekly. 

"  That  fellow  puzzles  me.  I  can't  make  out  whether  he's 
a  philosopher  or  a  fool."  "That's  easy  to  find  out." 
"How?"  "  Call  him  the  latter.  If  he  makes  a  fuss  he 
isn't  the  former." — Chicago  Journal. 

"What  is  Bexton  hustling  around  so  in  the  interest  of  a 
curfew  ordinance  for  ?  "  "  His  boy  saw  him  coming  out  of 
a  variety  theatre  the  other  night  and  went  home  and  told 
about  it." — Indianapolis  Journal. 

Daisy  Bell — What  a  remarkable  collection  of  curiosities 
your  husband  has.  Was  he  in  the  business  when  he  mar- 
ried you  ?  Mrs.  Sourwein— Oh,  yes.  Daisy  Bell— That's 
what  I  thought. — Exchange. 

He — If  there's  anything  I  detest  its  a  flirty  woman! 
She — Humph  !  Why  not  a  flirty  man?  He — Oh,  well,  a 
man  has  some  excuse.  Women  are  so  attractive,  you 
know. — Odds  and  Ends. 

Poet — Let  me  tell  you,  sir,  that  poem  cost  me  a  week's 
hard  labor.  Editor  (who  has  read  it) — Is  that  all?  If 
I'd  have  had  the  passing  of  the  sentence  you'd  have  got  a 
month.— Tid-Bits. 

Ethel — Oh,  they  have  the  most  exasperating  piano  in  the 
flat  next  door!  Laura — In  what  way  is  it  exasperating? 
Ethel — Oh,  its  alwavs  going,  but  it  never  goes. — New 
York  Herald. 

"Why  do  you  hate  soap  so?"  asked  the  inquisitive  lady. 
"I  don't,"  said  Mr.  Dismal  Dawson.  "  I  simply  ignore  it. 
We  don't  move  in  the  same  set;  that's  all." — Indianapolis 
Journal. 

Wallace — I  notice  that  Hargreaves  isn't  wearing  his 
diamond.  Ferry— No;  he  pawned  it  last  week.  "I 
wonder  what  he  got  on  it  ?  "  "Drunk." — Cincinnati  En- 
quirer. 

_ "  Do  you  know  that  your  confounded  dog  barks  all 
night?"  "Yes,  I  suppose  he  does.  But  don't  worry 
about  him.    He  sleeps  all  right  in  the  daytime." — Tid-Bits. 

Her  Papa — Has  my  daughter  given  you  any  encourage- 
ment, sir?  Mr.  Loveday — Well— er — she  said  you  were 
an  awfully  generous  parent. — Odds  and  Ends. 

Guest  (complainingly)— This  bill  of  fare  is  all  in  French. 
Waiter  (reassuringly)— Niver  you  moind  that,  sur;  the 
cook  is  Oirish. — New  York  Weekly. 

"  Is  this  a  free  translation  ?  "  asked  the  girl  in  the  book- 
store. "No,  miss,"  replied  the  clerk;  "it  costs  fifty 
cents." — Boston  Traveler. 

"He's  a  man  after  my  own  heart,  pa."  "Are  you  sure 
it's  not  my  pocket-book  ?" — Town  Topics. 

Minnie — The  man  I  marry  must  be  a  hero.  Maude — 
Yes,  indeed. — Boston  Globe. 

He — I  always  keep  my  word.  She — Won't  anybody 
take  it? — Town  Topics. 


She — I'm  afraid  you  can  riot  bring  real  love  to  me.  You 
have  been  married  once.  He — Yes;  but  that,  you  kj^ow, 
was  only  a  curtain  raiser.  She — And  this  is  to  be  what — 
a  comedy  or  a  tragedy?  Thanks,  I'd  rather  not  appear 
in  either. — Boston  Transcript. 

"Say,  Mistah  Johnsing,  I's  done  turned  ober  a  new  leaf." 
"No!      Den  pay  me  dat    haf  dollah  you  borrowed  las' 
yeah."     "Sch-h-b!"     I    hain't    de    same    man    I  wuz!" — I 
Harper's  Weekly. 

"It  is  said  that  we  must  all  pass  away  as  a  tale  that  is 
told."  "That  sounds  all  right;  but  tales  that  are  told 
don't  pass  away — they  are  forever  being  told  over  again." 
— Chicago  Record. 

"Say,  Tompkins,  what  did  Brown  die  of?"     "Well,  he  j 
was  fishing,  and  the  ground  gave  way  under  him,  I  think 
— oh,  sort — er — bank  failure,  I   suppose!" — Boston  Globe. 

"I  tell  you  that  a  juror  in  a  murder  case  has  an  awful 
responsibility  on  him."  "Yes,  indeed.  If  he  goes  to 
sleep  he  is  liable   to   be   fined   for  contempt  of  court." — 

"Stop,"  cried  the  old  maid  as  the  burglar  made  for  the 
window.  "Can't,"  replied  the  burglar;  "I'm  a  married 
man." — Town  Topics. 

Madge — How  proud  Mame  is  since  she  ordered  her  bicy-  < 
cle  !    T031 — Well,  you  know   pride  goes  before  a  fall. — 
Yonkers  Statesman. 

Brown — Do  you  think  a  man  ought  to  open  his  wife's  let-  i 
ters?  Jones — Not  if  she  asks  for  money  in  them. — Town  ] 
Topics. 

"When  a  man  asks  for  a  whiskey  he  naturally  wants  the  best,  j 
This  has  loog  been  known  to  be  the  J.  F.  Cutter  brand,  the  purity 
and  strength  of  which  is  unequalled.  The  "Cutter"  has  been  on  this 
market  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  and  E.  Martin  &  Co. ,  the  agents, 
411  Market  St.  state  that  its  popularity  increases  every  year.  Try  it 
once  and  you  will  never  accept  any  other. 

BANKING. 

BANK  OF  BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1863. 

Capital  Paid  Up,  $3,000,00      Reserve  Fund,  $500,000. 

Southeast  Cob.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lombard  Street,  London  ! 

Branches— "Victoria,  Vancouver,  New    Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan  \ 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;   Portland,  Oregon;   Sandon,  B,  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  Na  Eional  Bank; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ibeland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  or 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Tbinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital $3,000,000  00 

Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits  (October  1, 1894) . .  3.158,129  70 

WILLIAM  ALVORD President  |  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP.  .Vice-Pres't  : 

ALLEN  M.  CLAY Secretary    THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Pbentiss  Smith Ass't  Cashier  j  I.  F.  Moulton 2d  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  Yobk— Messrs.  Laidlaw  &  Co.;  the  Bank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  Bank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Pabis— Messrs.  de  Rothschild  Freres;  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand — Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis — Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York,  Boston,  Chioago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Christiania,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy. 


THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 


Capital. 


..$1,000,000 


Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  Sia  Francisco. 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolfe.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W,  Sumner,  Albert  Mil- 
ler Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents  :  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.   Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 


January  30,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   1 .1  ITI-R. 


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THE    NEW    WOMAN  -  mm  »ujo.. 

She  Ulkad  with  (treat  Incenaitj  "f  met  man  » 
b*s*ptopen<ilT.an.l  «|«kr  with  Tolul.il- 
ity  of  woman'?  higher  plane: 

Mir  iiwrii  on  domesticity  wuh  mental  elas- 
ticity. ao<l  raid  Ibat  nob  felinty  was 
really  quite  in  Tain. 

With  gastiiraa    oratorical    anil    phra-. 

aphori.al.     iha     roload      Hie    powers 

numeriral  that  woman  had  untold. 
An.l  ipota  with  MaldramaUeal 

tetuatknl.  an.l    ballot-boxM  ipheiioal, 

votes  not  bought  with  gold. 

She  said  in  each  vicinity  the  doctors  of  divin- 
ity would  oomc  fr.nii  femininity;  in 
bloomers  they  would  be; 

And  matrons  with  rapidity  would  lose  all 
their  timidity,  and  no  more  assiniuily 
in  Congress  would  we  see. 

And  while  with  such  audacity  she  showed  her 
great  capacity,  ami  talked  with  great  di- 
dacity.  her  husband  learned  to  sweep; 

And  while  with  such  agility  she  dwelt  on  ber 
utility  with  such  intense  pugnacity  he 
puts  the  twins  to  sleep. 


TF  there's  anything  I  pride  myself  upon,"  said  the  eap- 
1  tain  of  the  steamship,  as  he  peered  through  the 
and  rang  the  bell  for  more  steam,  "it's  the  accuracy  of 
my  dead  reckoning.  Now,  unless  1  am  greatly  mistaken, 
we  ought  to  make  the  Point  inside  of  rive  minutes."  Just 
then  the  ship  struck.  "Ah.  I  thought  so,"  coolly  observed 
the  navigator.  "My  reckoning  was  right.  But  there 
must  be  something  wrong  with  the  compass  or  the  cur- 
rents." 

THE  interesting  collection  at  the  Golden  Gate  Park 
Museum  has  lately  been  enriched  by  a  donation  consis- 
ting of  sixty  original  water  colors  of' birds  and  animals, 
painted  by  Professor  W.  Harring  by  special  permission  of  the 
authorities  of  the  London  Zoological  Gardens.  Professor 
Harring's  reputation  as  a  painter  of  animals  is  next  to 
that  of  Landseer  and  he  was  once  commissioned  by  the 
Khedive  of  Egypt  to  paiDt  his  horses.  The  gift  in  question 
was  presented  to  the  Museum  by  Mr.  J.  L.  Bardwell. 


OX  Thursday  last,  was  given  the  first  of  a  course  of  lec- 
tures at  Golden  Gate  Hall,  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Mercantile  Library  Auxiliary.  Two  others  are  to  follow 
by  Rev.  Charles  Wendte  and  Professor  Charles  Mills  Gay- 
ley,  on  the  4th  and  11th  of  February  respectively.  The 
last  lecture  was  well  attended,  and  much  interest  is  taken 
in  those  to  come. 

THE  Santa  Clara  Magazine,  published  at  San  Jose,  will 
henceforth  be  issued  as  the  California  Review.  The 
Santa  Clara  was  always  bright,  entertaining,  and  forceful, 
and  Mrs.  Carrie  Stevens- Walter  will  continue  as  editor  of 
the  new  venture. 


M  ANY  of  the  messenger  boys  are  said  to  be  suffering 
1  L  from  the  effects  of  their  run  to  the  Stanford  residence 
last  Wednesday.  Few  of  them  were  in  proper  training 
and  the  constitutions  of  one  and  all  were  undermined  by 
cigarette  smoking  and  a  general  participation  in  all  sorts 
of  vice.     A  dinner  to  the  newsboys  is  now  in  order. 

EXPERIENCE  has  taught  us  that  when  Supervisors 
commence  to  find  fault  with  the  actions  of  their  pre- 
decessors, they  are  only  preparing  to  feather  their  own 
little  nests.  Dr.  Rottanzi's  virtuous  protestation  against 
the  late  Board  causes  us  to  tremble  visibly. 

The  Overland   Limited. 

ONLY  3'A   DAYS  TO  CHICAGO,  i'/i   DAYS  TO  NEW  YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


BANKING. 


MUTUAL   SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

iimt.  anow  Kmakht.  MacnAni.fi  lavriTrrrc  ltrii.timo. 
Guaranteed  Capital.  11  uoo.000.      Paid  Up  Capital.  Mun.ouo. 
01*1 

JAMKS  11  I'HF.i.an.  rmiitent.  IB.  '■    MI'  iii-n  v,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A     II 
Directors— Jatnca   D  Itielan.   I.    P    Ilreilcr,    John    A     Hooper,  C.  O 
Hooker.  Jam"  Momt,  8    ()    Murphy.  Frank  J.  Sullivan.  Robert  MoBlroj, 
and  Joeeph  D.  Grant. 


I«oann  on  approved  Be- 


lt paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Dep..»lu. 

cnl  i>t  pxtal  order.  W.IK    FanroACo  ,  ..rEv 
""'ity  '  aeoouDta  Bend  algnatuie 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

Corner  Cai.i,mknia  and  Wen  it  Street*. 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1805 BMOUB 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus  .... 

ALBERT  MILLKK.  Proaldenl  |  K    II    POND,  Vice-President 
Directors—  Thomas  Magee.G.  W   Bearer,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovoll 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  ami  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells.  tfarRO  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  nrst  deposit.    No  charge  is  made  for 

fiass-booK  or  entrance  fee.    Onice  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  S  p.  m.    Saturday  even- 
ngs,6:30to8. 


CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  op  san  francisco. 

Cor.  Market,  Montgomery,  and  Post  Sts. 

Pald-Up  Capital 11,000,000. 

WM.  H.CROCKER. President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.F.  Crocker,  E.B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Croclter,  Geo.  W.Scott 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 


Capital  authorized 16,000,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000 


F  aid  Up 11,500,000 

Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Sellgman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bill*1  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

anaba"ion'  ffg:%g%r*fL,  }»»■»«" 

WELLS  FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets. 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,250,000 

John  J.  Valentine President  I  Homer  S.King Manager 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier!  F.  L.  Llpman Assistant  Cashier 

BRANCHES. 

N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City.  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine^  Benj,  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 


E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray, 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 


LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sdtter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital 12,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital 12,000,000 

Reserve  Fund $850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM1  VMaMM 
C.  ALTSCHUL  jlvianagers. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  St..  S.  F. 

Capital  actually  paid  up  In  Cash,  $1,000,000.      Reserve  Fund I  715,000 

Deposits,  Dec.  31, 1896, $30,727,586  59.       Guaranteed  Capital.  .«1,200,000 

DIRECTORS. 

B.  A .  BECKE R President 

EDWARD  KRDSE Vice-President 

DANIEL  MEYER      2d  Vice-President 

H.  Horstman,  Ign.  Steinhart,  Nic  Van  Bergen,  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ 
D.  N.  Walter. 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

882  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 
INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.    LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr. 


Wm.  Babcock 
Adam  Grant 


O.  D.  Biildwi 
W.  S.  Jones 


H.  H.  Hewlett 
E  J.  McCutcben 
J.  B.  Lincoln 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


January  30,  1897. 


SOUTHERN     PACIFIC    COMPANY 

(Pacific    System.) 

Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  at 

SAN      FRANCISCO: 


Leave.  | 


From  January  l,  1897 


|  Arrive 


*6:00  A  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  way  stations  8:45  A 

7:00  a  AtlanticExpress.OgdenandEast    8:45  p 

7:00  a  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Rumsey,  Sac- 
ramento, Oroville,  and  Redding, 
via  Davis 6:45  P 

7:30  A  Martinez,   San  Ramon,   Vallejo, 

Napa,  Calistoga,  and  Santa  Rosa    6:15  p 

8:30a  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,    Marysville,   Chico, 

Tehama,  and  Red  Bluff 4 :15  p 

•8 :30  A  Peters  and  Milton *7:15p 

9:00A  New  Orleans  Express,  Raymond 
(for  Yosemite),  Fresno,  Bakers- 
field,  Santa  Barbara,  Los  An- 
geles, Deming,  El  Paso,  New 
Orleans,  and  East 4:45  P 

9 :00  A  Martinez  and  Stockton 4 :45  P 

9:00A  Vallejo 6:15  P 

Niles,  San  Jose  Livermore,  and 

S  Eockton 7 :15  P 

*1:00p  Sacramento  River  steamers *9:0UP 

>  1:00  P  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  Livermore..    8:45  a 
tl:30p  Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations....  -t7:45p 

4:00  p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo, 
Napa,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 
Santa  Rosa 9:15  A 

4:00 p  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Woodland, 
Knight's  Landing,  Marysville, 
Oroville,  and  Sacramento 11:15a 

4:30  p  Lathrop,  Stockton,  Modesto,  Mer- 
ced, and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles, 
returning  via  Martinez 11 :45  A 

5:00p  Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy, 
Fresno,  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los 
Angeles 10 .45  A 

5:00p  Santa Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojave  and  East 10:45A 

6.-00  p  European  mail,  Ogden  and  East. .    9 :45  A 

6:00 p  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose...    7:45a 
J7:00p  Vallejo f7:45p 

7 :00p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento, 
Marysville,  Redding,  Portland, 
Puget  Sound  and  East 11:15  A 

110:00p  *'  Sunset  Limited."    Fresno,  Los 
Angeles,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans, 
and  East gl2:45p 

Santa  Cpjqz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 

8:15  a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  BoulderCreek,  Santa  Cruz 

and  way  s  tatlons 5 :50  p 

*2:15p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boulder 
Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal 
way  stations *11 :20  A 

4:15  p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9:50  a 

tll:45P  Hunters'  Excursion,  San  Jose 

and  way  stations J7 :20  P 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

6:45  A  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New 

Almaden  Wednesdays  only) 1 :30  p 

8 :15  A  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles,  San 
Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe,  Surf  and 

Srincipal  way  stations 7 :00  p 
an  Jose  and  way  stations 5:0U  p 

11 :80  a  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 3 :30  p 

•2 :30  p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose, 
Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey ,  Pacific  Grove  *10 :40  a 

*3:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45  a 

•4 :30  p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8 :05  A 

5:30  p  San    Jose    and    principal    way 

stations *8 :45  a 

6 :30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 :35  a 

tll:45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations t7:45p 


San  Leandro  and  Haywabds  Local. 

i*6:00  Al 
8:00  a 

7:15  A 

«:45  A 

9:00a 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00  a 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

ill  .00  A 

FITCHBDRG, 

12:45  P 

2:00  P 

San  Leandro, 

M:45  p 

3:00  P 

l          and 

4:45  P 

4:00  P 

Haywards. 

5:45  P 

5:00  P 

6:15  P 

5:30  p 

7:45  p 

7:00  P 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

8:45  p 

8:00  P 

t  From  Niles 

9:45  p 

9:00  p 

10:50  p 

tfll:15  P 

lttl2:00  p 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 
From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street 
(Slip  8). 

*7:15,9:00,  and  11:00  a.  m.,  J1:00,  *2:00, 13:00, 
*4 :00,  J5 :00  and  *6 :00  p.  m. 
From  Oakland— Foot  or  Broadway. 

*6:00,8:00,   10:00  A.  M. ;  J12:00,  *1 :00,  12:00, 
*3:00,t4:00  *5  :00  p.m. 

A  for  Morning.  p  for  Aiternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted,  fSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only, 
tt  Monday.  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

IJTuesdays  and  Saturdays. 
^Sundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for 
and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and  residences. 
Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 


A      FISHIN'-—  JAMES   WHITCOMB  RILEY. 

Wnnst  we  went  a-fishin' — me 
An'  my  Pa  an'  Ma,  all  three— 
When  they  was  a  picnic,  'way 
Out  to  Hanch's  wood  one  day. 

An'  they  was  a  crick  out  there, 
Where  the  fishes  is,  an'  where 
Little  boys  'taint  big  an'  strong, 
Better  have  their  folks  along! 

My  pa  he  1st  fished  an'  fished, 
An'  my  Ma  she  said  she  wished 
Me  an'  her  was  home— an'  Pa 
Said  he  wished  so  worse'n  Ma ! 

Pa  said  if  you  talk,  er  say 
Anything,  er  sneeze,  er  play, 
Hain't  no  fish,  alive  or  dead, 
Ever  goin'  to  bite !  he  said. 

Purt'  nigh  dark  in  town  when  we 
Got  back  home;  an'  Ma  says  she 
Now  she'll  have  a  fish  fer  shore— 
An'  she  bayed  one  at  the  store! 

Nen  at  supper,  Pa  he  won't 
Eat  no  fish,  an'  says  he  don't 
Like  'em— an'  he  pounded  me 
When  I  choked— Ma,  didn't  he? 


THE    AMERICAN    SLAVE- 

TOM  HALL,  IN  HOME  AND  COUNTRY. 

His  lordship  if  feeble  and  old,  my  dear, 
What  odds?    All  the  sooner  he'll  die. 

And  he  has  a  sore  need  of   your  gold,  my 
dear; 
See  the  good  you  can  do  if  you  try. 

And  then  a  real  lady  you'll  be,  my  dear, 

Not  only  by  nature  but  name. 
Mama'll  be  so  proud— you  can  see,  my  dear, 

No  one  thinks  it,  as  you  do,  a  shame. 

So  bend  your  proud  head.    Are  you  faint , 
my  dear? 
Keep  the  tears  back ;  be  buoyant  and  brave, 
Keep  that  pose.    Now  a  picture  we'll  paint 
my  dear, 
To  be  called  "The  American  Slave." 

Come,  muster  pleasanter  smile,  my  dear, 
And  put  on  your  prettiest  gown. 

Forget  about  Jack  for  a  while,  my  dear; 
His  lordship  has  just  come  to  town. 

He's  come  here  to  get  him  a  wife,  my  dear, 
And  you  have  been  up  for  sale, 

With  a  marvellous  income  for  life,  my  dear, 
To  balance  your  side  of  the  scale. 


■^—Cyclo  mania  has  attacked  the  govern- 
ment officials  in  London  severely  and  every 
day  six  or  seven  machines  are  stacked  in  the 
hall  of  the  foreign  office,  three  or  four  out- 
side the  local  government  board  and  as 
many  at  the  India  office.  A  dozen  machines 
can  always  be  found  within  the  precints  of 
the  House  of  Commons. 


SOLID   SILVER 

4  cents.  This  is  a  Gentleman's  Scarf  Pin 
or  Ladies'  Stick  Pin,  two  inches  long, 
we  only  show  the  top.  The  double  heart 
is  solid  sterling  silver  warranted  925-1000 
fine  «  Sample  By  mail  Four  Cents  in 
Postage  Stumps.  Address. 
L1SK  &  CO.,  48  Boad  St.,  New  Tork. 


!fHll'jB        S.  S.  "Monowai," 

UralSw    Thursday    February 
nijuiw    4th    at  g  p   M 


©npamf" 


S   S    "Australia",  for 

Honolulu    only,  Tues- 

j_     day,  February  23,  at  2 

Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
SouthAfrica.  J.  D  SPRECKELS  &BROS.CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


me  Grand  Pacific,  S£,BlsE$s£- 

MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month. 
Telephone:  Grant,  507. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH   PACIFIC 
RAILWAY    CO. 

Tibubon  First-  Foot  ot  Market  Street. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00,  11:00  A  M;  12:35,3:30 
5:10,  6:30  P  M.  Thursdays— Extra  trip  at 
11:30  p  m.  Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1:50 
and  11 :30  p  M. 

SUNDAYS— 8:00,  9:30,  11:00  A  M;  1:30.  3:30,  5:00, 
6:20  pm. 

SAN  RAFAEL  TO  SAN  FRANCISCO. 
WEEK.  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  AM;  12:45, 
3 :40,  5 :10  p  M.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :55 
and  6:35  pm. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:10,  11:10  AM;  1:40,3:40,5:00, 
6:25  pm. 
Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park, 
same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S,  F. 

In  Effect 
Oct.  14,  1896 

ARRIVE  IN  S.  F. 

Days. 

Sundays. 

Desti'tion. 

Sundays. 

Days. 

7:30AM 
3:30pm 
5:10  pm 

8:00am 
9:30am 
5:00pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40  am 
6:10  pm 
7:35  pm 

8:40am 
10:25  am 
6:22pm 

Fulton, 

Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

GeyservlUe, 

8:00  am 

7:35pm 

7:30 Am|  8:00AM  |,Pndf iS&J  7:35pm 

6 :22PM 

3::30pm|  8:00am  1  Suerneville|  7:35PM 

10:25AM 
6:22  PM 

7:30  ami  8:00AM  1      Sonoma,      |10:40am 
5:10pm|  5:00pm  |  Glen  Ellen.  I  6:10pm 

8:40am 
6 :22  p  m 

7:30AM|  8:00AM  1  ,Bta,,„ml    110:40am 
3:30pm|  5:00pm  I  Sevastopol.  |  6:10pM 

10:25  AM 
6:22pm 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville for  Skaggs' Springs;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake- 
port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and  Bartlett 
Springs;  atUkiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga 
Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper 
Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  River- 
side, Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights, 
Hullville,  Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Har- 
ris, Scotia,  and  Eureka. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  re- 
duced rates. 

On  Sundays ,  Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points 
beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle 
Building. 


H.C.  WHITING, 
Gen.  Manager. 


R.  X.  RYAN, 
Gen.  Passenger  Agent. 


PACIFIC    COAST    STEAMSHIP    CO. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf,  San  Fran- 
cisco for  ports  in  Alaska,  9  a.m..  Feb.  10,25. 

For  B.  C.  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  Feb.  4,  10, 
15,  20,  25,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay) ,  Steamer  "Pom- 
0Da,"  at  2  p.  M.  Feb.  1,  5,  9,  13,  17,  21.  25,  and 
every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports, 
at  9  A.  m.  ;  Feb  3,  7, 11, 15,  19,  23,  27,  and  every 
fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford 
Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los  Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los 
Angeles)  and  Newport,  Feb.  1, 5,  9, 13, 17,  21,  35, 
and  every  fourth  day  thereafter,  at  11  a.  m. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  del 
Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La  Paz,  Santa  Ros'alia, 
and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10 
a.  m.  ,  25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change, 
without  previous  notice,  steamers,  sailing  dates, 
and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New 
Montgomery  street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents, 
No.  10  Market  street,  San  Francisco 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO 

For  Japan  and  China. 
Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  1  P  M,  for  YOKOHAMA  and 
HONGKONG,  calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Naga- 
saki and  Shanghai,  and  connecting  at  Hong- 
kong with  steamers  for  India,  etc.  No  cargo  re- 
ceived on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  Feb .  2, 1897 

Doric Tuesday,  February  23, 1897 

Belgic  (via  Honolulu),  Saturday,  March  13, 1897 
Coptic  (via Honolulu)... .Thursday,  April  1, 1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 
For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's 
Office,  No.  421  Market  street,  corner  First. 


D.  D.  STUBBS,  Secretary. 


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Price  per  Copy.  10  Cents. 


Annuo:  $4.00. 


Neto&t 

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Vol.LlV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,   FEBRUARY  6.  1897. 


Number  6. 


Printed  and  PutdUkM  nery  Saturday  t,,  the proprietor.  FRKI)  MARRIOTT 
5S  Atarn,  ttreet.  san  rr.mcUco      Untertd  at   San    Franc,. 

OJtCe  at  .\>cond-elo*t   M'i 

The  ofce  of  the  XK»  a  LbTi  KB  •  ■■   M      rort  cvr  m  at  />,„,,;. 
and  al    Chicago,  903   Bonce    Building.  {Frank  K     Mom- 
Rrpretenlalxte).  ichere  information  may  b,  obtained  regarding  lubtcrio- 
tion  and  adrertinng  rate*. 


THE  rivalry  between  Reno  and  Carson,  for  the  big 
prize  fight,  may  not  be  altogether  edifying,  but  it 
has  all  the  charm  of  frankness.  The  Nevadans  are  not 
Saints,  but  on  the  other  hand,  they  are  not  hypocrites. 

THE  proposed  State  Board  of  Arbitration,  for  the  ad- 
justment of  differences  between  employers  and  em- 
ployed, would  be  wholly  useless.  It  would  provide  sine- 
cures for  a  number  of  politicians,  and  that  is  all  it  is  de- 
signed to  accomplish. 


THE  Californians  of  earlier  days  were  noted  for  a  cour- 
age that  triumphed  over  misfortunes  and  disaster. 
In  these  times  reverses  often  lead  to  suicide.  Is  not  this 
degeneracy,  so  far  as  it  goes?  Blowing  out  one's  brains 
is  a  fool's  atonement  for  blowing  in  one's  money. 

THE  great  amount  of  "space"  which  the  Examiner  is 
devoting  to  the  coming  prize  fight  in  Nevada  certain- 
ly indicates  a  decided  interest  in  the  "event."  This  inter- 
est may  be  of  a  purely  sporting  character,  or  it  may  be  of 
a  contingent  or  long-green  sort.  Readers  are  free  to  draw 
their  own  conclusions. 


NO  better  selection  could  be  made  than  that  of  Chauncey 
Depew  as  Ambassador  to  England.  He  is  a  born 
diplomat,  famous  for  all  the  qualities  that  adorn  such  a 
position,  and  withal  a  genuine  American.  Such  a  man  at 
the  Court  of  St.  James  is  more  potent  than  a  treaty  of 
arbitration  to  preserve  the  peace  between  the  two  nations. 

THOSE  who  defend  pugilism,  on  the  ground  that  it  is 
"no  more  brutal  than  foot-ball,"  may  with  equal 
force  aDd  conclusiveness,  justify  assault  and  battery  or 
any  other  form  of  violence.  Physical  suffering  and  injury 
are  but  incidents  or  risks  of  manly  sport ;  in  prize-fighting 
the  sole  object  of  the  combatants  is  to  inflict  disabling 
punishment. 

THE  same  newspapers  that  condemn  as  "atrocities" 
the  burning  of  Cuban  villages  by  Spanish  troops,  have 
no  words  but  those  of  praise  for  the  insurgents  who  do  the 
same  thing  in  the  province  of  Havana.  As  of  old,  it  makes 
a  difference  whose  ox  is  gored.  News  from  Cuba  is  col- 
ored and  distorted  in  the  daily  press  of  this  country,  with 
but  small  exception. 

ASSEMBLYMAN  Melick's  libel  bill  should  become  a  law. 
it  provides  that  unless  the  plaintiff  prove  actual 
malice  or  want  of  good  faith,  or  a  failure  to  retract  after 
a  written  demand,  he  shall  recover  as  damages  only  such 
loss  or  injury  as  he  shall  specially  allege  or  prove.  This 
is  no  more  than  a  reasonable  measure  of  protection  to 
publishers,  and  there  can  be  no  sound  objection  to  it. 

S  NUMBER  of  much  needed  amendments  to  the  Wright 
irrigation  law  have  been  submitted  to  the  Legislature. 
The  principle  of  the  original  measure  is  a  good  one,  in  so 
far  as  it  enables  land  owners,  by  co-operation,  to  develop 
water  for  irrigation  through  organization  and  the  issue  of 
long-term  bonds.  But  numerous  abuses  crept  into  the 
operation  of  the  Wright  Act,  and  these,  it  appears,  are 
now  to  be  remedied. 


SENATOR  Wttbtngton's  bill  to  create  local  m  mop 
of  the  retail  liq  ,KiCr  the  name  of  the 

'Norwegiai  aroely  likely  to  meet  with  much 

favor.  The  bill  provides  thai  all  the  profits  above  four 
per  cent,  shall  be  devoted  to  "objects  of  public  benefit," 
but  in  practice  the  trains  would  be  very  apt  to  stick  to  the 
hands  of  the  Incorporators  under  the  proposed  law. 

THE  efficacy  of  oral  argument  has  been  much  discussed 
of  late,  among  lawyers  and  judges  The  truth  seems 
to  be  that  in  some  cases  such  argument  Is  of  real  value 
and  in  others  not.  There  seems  to  be  no  merit  in  the 
proposed  requirement  of  oral  argument  in  all  cases.  The 
matter  would  better  be  left,  as  it  :s  now,  to  the  discretion 
of  the  parties  most  concerned— the  lawyers  and  the 
judges. 


A  MOVEMENT  is  on  foot  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  to 
reduce  the  course  of  study  in  the  Girls'  High  School. 
Complaint  is  made  that  the  curriculum  overtaxes  the 
strength  of  the  pupils  and  impairs  their  health.  Protests 
of  this  sort  are  occasionally  heard  in  relation  to  the  Girls' 
High  School  in  this  city,  the  tendency  of  American  edu- 
cation is  towards  overstrain,  and  this  cannot  be  too  zeal- 
ously guarded  against. 

SCIENCE  and  common  sense  unite  in  favor  of  a  measure 
to  bring  about  the  extermination  of  dairy  animals  in- 
fected with  tuberculosis.  But  there  is  no  good  reason  why 
the  State  should  compensate  the  owners  for  the  destruc- 
tion of  such  animals.  A  cow  diseased  in  this  way  should 
not  be  regarded  as  of  any  value  whatever.  The  very  best 
safeguard  for  the  public  against  the  spread  of  tuberculosis 
among  dairies  is  that  the  dairymen  take  all  the  risks  of 
loss. 

THE  bill  now  before  the  Legislature  granting  street 
railway  franchises  on  a  percentage  basis,  met  with 
opposition  at  the  meeting  of  city  officials  and  members  of 
the  Legislature,  held  last  Saturday.  The  gentlemen 
rather  favored  outright  sale  of  such  privileges  upon  a  cash 
basis.  We  are  of  opinion  the  percentage  plan  is  the  better 
one,  inasmuch  as,  under  fair  regulations,  it  would  yield  an 
increasing  return  in  proportion  to  a  gain  of  business.  In 
the  East,  the  percentage  basis  of  sale  has  operated  with 
satisfactory  results  in  municipal  Government. 

MILLIONS  of  dollars'  worth  of  tailings  have  been  lost 
by  California  miners  through  ignorance  of  chemical 
methods  of  saving  the  gold.  Professor  Christy,  of  the 
State  University,  recognized  as  an  authority  in  such  mat- 
ters, declares  that  by  the  cyanide  process  tailings  yielding 
no  more  than  fifty  cents  per  ton  may  be  profitably  worked. 
Improved  chemical  and  other  methods  likewise  make 
profitable  the  extraction  and  reduction  of  various  low- 
grade  ore,  which,  in  the  earlier  history  of  the  State,  were 
considered  to  be  too  poor  to  be  worth  mining. 

THE  Rev.  Dr.  Case  condemns  as  "infamous  nonsense" 
the  remarks  of  Prof essor  Jordan  relative  to  "religious 
revivals,"  such  as  those  in  which  men  "lose  their  self-con- 
trol." For  comparing  this  sort  of  emotional  mania  to 
alcoholic  drunkenness,  the  reverend  gentleman  has  called 
for  the  removal  of  "such  an  incompetent  and  dangerous 
personality  from  the  Presidency  of  the  Stanford  Univer- 
sity." In  which  event  we  beg  to  nominate  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Case  for  the  position,  he  being  eminently  qualified  by  his 
piety,  learning,  and  truly  scientific  spirit.  A  less  toler- 
ant man  might  have  suggested  boiling  oil  as  a  fit  punish- 
ment for  the  Professor,  with  hell  fire  to  follow. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  6,  1897. 


THE  WAY   TO    SUPPRESS    THE     EVILS     OF     CHINATOWN. 


THE  way  to  do  a  thing  is  to  do  it.  "  How  not  to  do  it," 
Charles  Dickens  very  vividly  described  long  years  ago, 
and  about  that  time,  it  must  have  been,  our  local  Police 
Department  learnt  the  lesson  most  effectively.  For  more 
years  than  we  care  to  recall,  the  suppression  of  the  evils 
of  Chiuatown  has  been  a  paramount  need  of  this  city.  Yet 
during  all  that  time  those  evils  received  police  protection 
and  notoriously  paid  for  it.  Regular  officers  were  time 
and  again  permitted  to  resign,  and  forthwith  appointed 
specials,  with  beats  in  Chinatown.  We  never  knew  one  of 
those  favored  specials  to  fail  to  grow  rich  in  an  incredibly 
short  space  of  time,  and  yet  they,  of  course,  had  to  divide 
with  somebody.  Now  and  then  a  show  of  activity  has  been 
made,  but  it  has  scarcely  ever  amounted  to  anything  more 
than  the  sham  and  make-believe  it  was  intended  to  be. 
Opium  dens  exist  all  over  Chinatown  to-day;  some  of  them 
are  visited  by  white  girls  of  respectable  parentage,  and 
their  location  is  perfectly  well  known.  The  police  know  of 
facts  in  this  connection  that  are  simply  too  terrible  to 
print.  The  first  real  trouble  between  Little  Pete  and  the 
rival  Tongs  arose  over  the  matter  of  the  importation  of 
what  are  sometimes  called  "slave  women."  He  could  get 
his  importations  landed,  but  his  rivals  in  business  could  not. 
Soon  the  price  of  a  Chinawoman  of  that  class  rose  to  figures 
varying  from  $2000  to  $2500.  It  was  an  enormous  sum  for 
a  Chinaman  to  get  together,  far  transcending  the  value  of 
a  slave  woman,  whether  a  Creole  or  mulatto,  in  the  South 
in  the  halcyon  days  of  slavery.  The  vice  of  the  Chinese, 
and  extreme  lucrativeness  of  the  business,  may  be  realized 
by  these  figures,  which  tell  their  own  tale.  Soon  the  rival 
Tongs  found  a  new,  if  not  a  better,  way  to  circumvent  Lit- 
tle Pete.  By  the  employment  of  Chinese  servants  in  white 
families,  white  women  posing  as  teachers,  and  the  seduc- 
tive influences  of  money,  the  richer  and  more  attractive 
class  of  Chinese  traders  and  merchants  found  importations 
unnecessary.  The  facts  cannot  be  more  than  hinted  at. 
W.  T.  Stead,  in  the  Pall  Mall  Gazette,  shocked  the  civilized 
world  by  his  plain  exposure,  entitled,  "the  maiden's  trib- 
ute," yet  stories  can  be  told  to-day  of  worse  happenings 
in  our  own  Chinatown.  Little  Pete,  in  the  interests  of  his 
own  business,  tried  to  suppress  them,  and  secured  the 
assistance  of  the  Chinese  Consulate  and  of  the  Police  De- 
partment. His  assassination  was  principally  due  to  that 
cause. 

It  may  be  said,  as  it  has  been  said,  that  the  police  would, 
if  they  could,  have  suppressed  the  seductions,  opium,  gam- 
bling, murders,  and  other  crimes  of  Chinatown.  How 
came  it,  then,  that  that  system  of  gongs  from  certain 
police  quarters  to  Chinatown  was  established  ?  How 
came  it  that  when  those  gongs  were  sounded  the  whole  of 
Chinatown  appeared  to  know  what  was  meant,  and  hastily 
closed  all  criminal  business  before  an  apparently  exhausted 
squad  of  policemen  arrived?  These  things  are  no  longer 
secrets.  How  came  it  that  the  celebrated  Buckley-Toohy- 
Burns-Spots  Grand  Jury  was  called  off  and  compelled  to 
reconsider  its  indictments?  Who  was  it  that  then  said 
"  they'll  never  put  up  another  Grand  Jury  against  me," 
and  has  ever  since  kept  his  word?  What  did  those  in- 
dictments charge,  whom  did  they  name,  and  why  were 
they  squelched?  How  in  the  nature  of  things  can  it  be 
compatible  with  police  efficiency  that  the  various  Tongs 
have  been  in  battle  array  scores  of  times;  that  hundreds 
of  murders  have  been  committed  on  the  streets  without 
anybody  being  tried,  convicted  or  hanged?  If  the  loss  of 
their  friend,  Little  Pete,  should  cause  the  law  to  be 
avenged  this  time,  all  right.  But  that  will  lead  to  the 
awkward  inquiry  as  to  why  it  has  not  always  been  simi- 
larly avenged.  There  is  one  very  sure  way  to  deal  with 
Chinatown  at  present.  With  its  vendetta  in  full  blast,  de- 
fying and  defeating  the  civil  authorities,  a  state  of  war 
exists.  Let  martial  law  be  proclaimed  within  a  given 
area,  and  let  every  highbinder  be  hanged  on  the  spot.  The 
way  to  do  a  thing  is  to  do  it.  Let  Governor  Budd  take 
the  hint,  govern  his  action  by  the  obvious  failure  of  the 
ordinary  processes  of  law,  issue  his  proclamation  and  fol- 
low it  up  with  the  action  that  would  then  be  lawful.  Such 
vigorous  action  would  result  in  the  immediate  puriScation 
of  that  plague  spot  in  this  city.  Within  twenty-four  hours 
Chinatown  would  be  camped  in  Cow  Hollow,  if  no  better 
place  could  be  found. 


Use  the  The  effort  now  being  made  to  cut  down 
Pruning  Knife,  the  number  of  teachers  on  the  city  pay 
roll  is  a  step  in  the  direction  of  sound 
economy  and  a  practical  reduction  of  expenditures  in  a 
useless  direction.  There  is  no  right-thinking  tax-payer  in 
this  city  who  objects  to  reasonable  taxation  for  the  sup- 
port of  the  public  school  system;  there  are  none  who  do 
not  believe  that  all  practical  necessities  of  the  department 
be  maintained,  and  their  efficiency  improved.  But  it  is  an 
undeniable  fact  that  the  control  of  the  department  has 
left  the  hands  that  should  hold  it,  and  little  by  little  has 
found  lodgment  in  the  hands  of  the  employees  themselves 
— who  very  naturally  are  not  disposed  to  look  with  meek- 
ness upon  any  attempt  to  curb  their  exalted  ideas  or  cur- 
tail their  impractical  multiplication  of  departments. 

We  are  unable  to  see  why  strict  business  principles 
should  not  apply  in  the  management  of  the  public  schools 
as  in  other  municipal  matters.  But  it  is  noticed  that  the 
protests  are  louder,  angrier,  and  more  persistent,  when 
they  come  from  the  public  instructors,  than  when  they 
proceed  from  any  other  direction.  There  is  resentment  all 
along  the  line  whenever  school  directors  or  other  officials 
talk  of  needed  reforms  in  the  schools;  and  now  a  roar  of 
virtuous  indignation  goes  up  because  the  present  board 
has  under  consideration  the  dropping  of  certain  teachers 
in  departments  that  are  of  questionable  utility,  if  indeed 
they  are  not  utterly  frivolous  and  fruitless.  These  extend- 
ing branches,  which  are  the  natural  result  of  lax  manage- 
ment, and  easy-going,  complaisant  directors,  are  deserving 
of  the  attention  of  the  new  school  board;  and  while  it  must 
ever  be  the  wish  of  the  intelligent  that  all  possible  advan- 
tage be  afforded  the  children  of  San  Francisco  in  their 
struggle  for  education,  it  is  equally  true  that  the  original 
and  proper  practical  scope  of  public  instruction  has  been 
greatly  exceeded.  Let  the  new  board  pursue  its  proposed 
intent.  The  frills,  the  soft  places,  and  the  sinecures,  of 
which  there  are  many,  should  be  cut  off  without  regard  to 
the  outcry  of  the  dismembered. 


Water  The  Courts  have  laid  down  the  rule  upon  which 
Rates,  water  rates  are  to  be  fixed  so  plainly  as  to  leave 
no  occasion  for  heated  discussion  as  to  what  is 
to  happen  in  that  regard.  The  rule  has  been  approved  by 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State,  and,  in  similar  cases,  has 
been  affirmed  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States.  It  is  that  water,  like  railroad  fares  and 
freights,  must  permit  of  the  collection  of  a  sufficient 
sum  with  which  to  pay  for  betterments,  operating 
expenses,  and  interest  on  stock  and  bonds.  Iu 
the  case  of  the  Spring  Valley  Water  Company  it  is  known 
almost  to  a  dime  how  much  will  be  required  to  accomplish 
those  purposes.  The  accounts  of  the  company  for 
the  past  year  have  just  been  published,  and  its 
income  permitted  the  payment  of  6  per  cent  dividends 
to  its  stockholders.  The  Examiner  wants  the  dividends 
for  this  year  cut  down  to  5  per  cent.  Disregarding,  for 
the  moment,  its  bad  motives  and  cinching  ways,  let  us 
consider  what  merit,  if  any,  there  is  in  its  proposition. 
Is  5  per  cent  the  usual  rate  of  interest  in  this  market  for 
local  securities?  We  think  not.  We  know  of  no  Savings 
Banks,  or  other  monetary  institutions,  that  are  making 
loans  on  gilt  edged  securities  at  less  than  six  per  cent. 
Indeed,  the  loaning  of  money  for  less  than  seven  per  cent 
is  rather  the  exception  than  the  rule.  Spring  Valley's 
stock  is  widely  held  in  this  city.  It  is  the  favorite  local 
investment,  because  of  the  regularity  of  its  dividends,  and 
the  confidence  reposed  in  the  company's  management. 
Thousands  of  widows,  and  people  of  moderate  means,  hold 
the  stock  as  their  only  source  of  income.  It  is  not  a  stock 
that  can  be  hurt  without  a  great  outcry  and  without  the 
sure  and  certain  effect  of  scaling  down  the  number  of 
nickels  taken  in  by  the  Examiner.  Besides,  the  Courts 
would  set  aside  rates  based  on  five  per  cent  dividends. 
The  new  rate  being  declared  void,  resort  would  have  to  be 
had  to  the  existing  one.  What  good  would  that  do  any- 
body? It  is  proposed  to  reduce  the  city's  payment  for 
the  water  supplied  to  fire  hydrants  one  half.  We  had 
supposed  that  every  tyro  in  Municipal  lore  understood 
why  the  charge  of  hydrants  was  increased.  Reduce  it, 
and  small  consumers  will  haye  to  make  up  the  difference. 
Keep  it  as  it  is,  pay  it  out  of  the  City's   general  tax  fund, 


February  6,  1897. 


"NN  1  R  ■  M.ws  LETTER. 


•nf  is  caught,  and  made 

rdon  (if  II 

Tl'  Examiner  tends   to  a  vicious  ai 

t  end.     It 
attainmrn'  that  should 

ren.     A  false  public   opinion    would    become'  a  fulcrum   by 
which  dish-  als   would    l>e   able   t 

from  every  corporation  doing  n  San  Krai 

Id  compel  every  eorporation.  as  a  matter  ol 
tion.  to  resort  to  the  corrupt  use  of  money  in  order 
mple  justice,  and  save  us  innocent  shareholders 
from  disaster.  It  would  bear  no  relation  to  the  indl 
rights  or  burdens  of  the  people.  The  parading  of  lengthy 
petitions  proves  nothing.  The  general  public  mind  fs  so 
constituted  that  it  will  sign  almost  anything  without  hesi- 
tation; and  the  lists  of  names  presented  to  the  Supervisors 
are  not  entitled  to  more  weight  than  the  paper  on  which 
are  inscribed.  Similar  sheets  placed  about  tin- 
streets,  demanding  a  cut  of  one-half  in  the  price  of  bread, 
or  boots,  or  overcoats,  would  without  doubt  be  signed  by 
every  thoughtless  passer-by.  Those  who  sigl 
tion  of  which  the  Examiner  roars  so  loudly,  cannot  have 
knowledge  of  the  cost  of  water,  and  are  as  unfamiliar  with 
the  immense  capital  employed  in  conducting  the  business 
of  the  Spring  Valley  Company,  and  the  continued  outlay 
involvedin  making  necessary  improvements,  as  if  thev  were 
inhabitants  of  a  foreign  land.  The  comparisons  in  cost  of 
maintenance  and  operation  of  water  works  here  and  at 
the  East,  are  misleading  and  manifestly  unfair.  Materials 
of  all  kinds  are  higher  in  San  Francisco  than  they  are  in 
many  Eastern  cities.  The  single  item  of  labor  here,  alone 
foots  up  an  annual  expenditure  very  greatly  [in  excess  of 
the  Eastern  rate.  An  army  of  men  are  constantly  em- 
ployed by  the  Spring  Valley  Company,  and  every  man  is 
paid  a  wage  sufficient  to  support  those  dependent  upon 
him  in  reasonable  comfort. 

The  laws  of  the  State  wisely  provide  that  invested  cap- 
ital employed  in  works  of  a  public  character  shall  earn  a 
reasonable  increment.  As  we  have  shown,  and  as  is  gen- 
erally accepted,  six  per  cent,  is  a  reasonable  rate  within 
the  most  conservative  interpretation  of  law.  It  is  far  less 
than  the  millions  of  money  invested  in  mercantile  pursuits 
usually  earn.  The  mature  intent  of  the  statutes  is  plain, 
and  it  is  warranted  by  the  financial  conditions  prevailing 
on  this  Coast.  It  is  clearly  in  the  interest  of  the  whole 
people,  having  a  fixed  and  just  regard  for  the  consumer 
no  less  than  it  has  regard  for  the  capital  invested  in  neces- 
sary municipal  enterprises. 

Remarkable  Restriction  of  undesirable  immigration  to 
Impertinence,  this  country  has  long  been  a  crying  neces- 
sity. The  old  plea  of  making  the  United 
States  a  refuge  for  all  the  stinking  hordes  of  Europe  has 
long  since  been  exploded  by  direct  friction  against  those 
"oppressed  of  all  nations,"  the  means  of  whose  friends  en- 
abled them  to  pay  a  steerage  passage  across  the  Atlantic. 
In  a  thousand  channels  the  hurtful  and  vicious  influence  of 
this  illiteracy,  crime  and  degradation  has  forced  itself 
upon  the  minds  and  into  the  lives  of  law-abiding,  tax-pay- 
ing, and  self-respecting  men.  Of  all  classes,  only  the  pro- 
fessional politician — the  Senators  and  Representatives  of 
the  country — have  been  unconscious  of  this  great  evil. 
Abject  cowardice  has  kept  them  in  safe  oblivion  of  the  ris- 
ing demand  for  legislative  relief,  and  closed  their  eyes  to 
the  fact  that  the  greatest  peril  of  the  country  lay  in  the 
continued  in-pour  of  Europe's  scum.  Up  to  a  certain 
point  assimilation  was  possible,  but  that  period  has  been 
long  past,  as  the  most  careless  observation  of  the  trend  of 
events,  both  political  and  industrial,  ominously  demon- 
strate. 

Legislation  protecting  the  products  of  labor  has  been 
one  of  the  corner  stones  of  the  Republican  party,  but  all 
thought  of  the  laborer  has  been  lost  in  the  fear  of  disturb- 
ing and  antagonizing  the  "  foreign  vote  ;  "  and  all  the 
place-buyers  and  office-hunters  have  dodged  the  question 
and  shifted  the  responsibility  that  seemed  to  endanger 
their  selfish  and  unpatriotic  schemes.  At  last,  however, 
there  seems  to  be  reasonable  hope  that  the  pickets  will  be 
•so  firmly  planted  and  raised  so  high  that  the  object  aimed 
at — the  exclusion  of  the  really  undesirable  and  dangerous 
foreign  elements — will  become  an  accomplished  fact.  That 
this  is  true  finds  strong  corroboration  in  the  actions  of  the 


agon  • 


and  1: 
men  t 

■  la« 


1  "'" 

If  any  furl. 

suggestion  thai 

"defeat  tbem  al  the  tion  "  if  tl  1 

form  a  plain  patriotic  duty,  strikes 

Impei  belief.    And  it  deve 

more  disci  I  for    past    I  ,na|  apathy 

than  that  one  of  moral  cowardice.  Vast  sums  are  In' 
In  Transatlantic  steamship  lines,  and  their  earnings 
been  largely  made  up  of  steerage  traffic  Hitherto 
opposition  to  any  restrictive  measure  has    been    tem] 

by  the  miscarriage  of  such  legislation.     The  present   bill, 
however,  is  sweeping,  and  will  prove  effective,      It    will 

keep  041 1  1  Classes  and  prevent    II 

the  multitudes  that  now  scourge  the  unfortunate  lai 
their  nativity.    This  touching  solicitude  of  the  German 
steamship  agents  for  the  welfare  of  the   Representatives 

irress  is  a  most  beautiful  evidence   of   gratiUnl 
past    favors:  but   there   is   little   hope  that    it    will    avail 
their  coffers  one  single  penny. 

Judge  Ogden's  If  Judge  Ogden,  of  Alameda  County,  the 
Misconception,  other  day  expressed  an  honest  opinion. 
he  proved  himself  too  ignorant  of  the 
ways  of  this  mundane  sphere  to  be  either  an  experienced  or 
safe  Judge.  He  refused  to  believe  a  husband,  and  two 
witnesses,  as  to  acts  of  flirtation  by  the  wife,  on  the  sole 
ground  that  she  came  of  respectable  parentage.  The  hus- 
band was  not  appealing  to  the  Court  for  any  sort  of 
redress;  but  for  very  naturally  expostulating  in  private 
with  his  wife,  she  had  him  there  as  'defendant  in  a  suit  for 
divorce,  his  too  loving  anxiety  on  her  account  being 
judicially  held  to  be  "extreme  cruelty."  Said  the  Judge: 
"Although  it  did  not  appear  in  evidence,  it  is  yet  a  fact 
that  the  plaintiff  comes  of  respectable  parents;  in  fact, 
her  father  is  a  clergyman.  Wantons  do  not  come  from 
such  homes."  In  the  first  place,  the  Court  in  plaintiff's 
interest  went  outside  the  record  for  evidence  not  to  be 
found  within  it,  and  that  evidence  he  appears  to  have  per- 
mitted to  control  his  decision.  In  effect  he  says  the  hus- 
band ought  to  have  known  that  a  clergyman's  daughter 
would  only  flirt  innocently.  Even  if  that  were  so,  he  still 
had  a  right  to  complain  of  it  as  unseemly  in  the  mother  of 
his  children,  and  that  appears  to  have  been  all  he  did. 
But  how  did  Judge  Ogden  gain  his  knowledge  as  to  where 
wantons  do,  or  do  not,  come  from?  It  is  almost  proverbial 
here,  as  it  is  in  older  and  more  staid  countries,  that 
clergymen's  children  are  the  worst  of  children,  and  that, 
in  point  of  fact,  they  are  much  given  to  "going  to  the  bad." 
It  would  be  invidious  to  name  local  instances,  but  Judge 
Ogden's  acquaintances  can  doubtless  enlighten  him  on  the 
point.  There  is,  however,  a  case  so  conspicuous  that 
there  can  be  no  impropriety  in  referring  to  it.  The 
beautiful  but  notorious  Lily  Langtry  is  the  daughter  of 
a  clergyman,  and  was  raised  not  only  in  a  good  home,  but 
amidst  environments  that  all  made  for  propriety  and 
virtue.  Yet  the  world  too  well  knows  what  she  became. 
The  "Jersey  Lily"  has  been  in  search  of  a  divorce  from 
Mr.  Langtry  for  many  years,  but  has  never  yet  found  a 
court  in  which  she  dare  ask  for  a  hearing.  She  has  had 
the  misfortune  all  this  while  to  overlook  Judge  Ogden,  of 
Alameda  County. 

Will  Not  The  London  Times  welcomes  Senator  Wolcott, 
Succeed,  praises  his  capacity  and  integrity,  and  says 
that  President-elect  McKinley  could  not  have 
chosen  a  more  acceptable  envoy — all  of  which  is  very 
sweet  and  nice  on  the  part  of  the  Times,  but  we  soon 
learn  that  its  soft  words  are  to  butter  no  parsnips.  It 
proceeds  very  delicately  to  regret  that  so  distinguished  a 
representative  should  have  come  upon  so  impossible  a 
task.  It  says  that  the  failure  of  his  mission,  in  any  other 
sense  than  as  a  political  move  to  placate  the  silverites  at 
home,  is  certain.  Of  course  it  is.  We  all  well  knew  that 
in  advance.     The  plank   in   the   Republican  platform  was 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


February  6,  1897. 


only  intended  for  buncombe,  and  the  roving  commission 
given  to  the  ablest  silverite  of  them  all,  was  intended, 
first,  as  a  compliment  to  him,  and,  second,  as  an  object 
lesson  to  teach  bis  silver  friends  that  European  finance  is 
not  to  be  captured  by  merely  dropping  a  little  salt  upon 
its  tail.  For  good,  or  for  ill,  the  single  standard  of  value 
for  Europe  is  now  fixed  and  immutable.  All  trade,  com- 
merce, and  values  are  based  upon  it.  Silver  is  used  for 
subsidiary  purposes,  and,  of  course,  the  cheaper  the  com- 
mercial nations  can  buy  the  white  bullion  the  better  for 
them.  As  we  are  the  principal  producers  of  that  metal, 
it  savors  somewhat  of  simplicity  to  ask  them  to  establish 
a  corner  in  silver  for  our  benefit,  but  to  their  own  loss. 
The  proposition  was  from  the  first  a  political  device,  trick, 
and  humbug  that  everybody  ought  to  have  seen  through. 
The  rich  silver  mine  owners  were  never  deceived  by  it  for 
a  single  instant,  but  many  of  their  ignorant  and  deluded 
followers  were,  and  in  drawing  them  away  it  achieved  its 
sole  purpose.  The  truth  is  that  silver  must  hereafter  sell 
for  what  it  is  worth  in  the  markets  of  the  world.  The 
United  States  Government  has  already  passed  the  limits 
of  safety  in  trying,  without  success,  to  uphold  it.  It  is 
said  that  we,  as  a  people,  have  not  enough  gold  with 
which  to  transact  our  business.  Very  well.  Let  us,  then, 
obtain  more  gold,  and  the  way  to  do  that,  is  to  do  as  we 
did  last  year.  We  bought  fewer  goods  abroad,  sold  more 
products,  and,  within  the  first  ten  months  of  the  year,  had 
a  comfortable  balance  of  trade  in  our  favor,  all  in  gold,  be 
it  remembered,  of  $266,086,709.  The  year  upon  which  we 
have  entered  promises  to  do  much  better  than  that,  be- 
cause the  prices  obtained  for  our  products  are  higher. 
The  way  for  the  individual  to  acquire  gold  is  to  earn  more 
and  spend  less.  Precisely  the  same  rule  applies  to  a 
nation  of  individuals. 

The  State  Of  The  State  of  Nevada  has  long  had  an  un- 
Legalized  enviable  reputation  all  over  the  country, 
Brutality.  and  so  far  from  being  abashed  thereby, 
it  is  only  anxious  to  add  to  it.  Known  in 
politics  as  "the  rotten  pocket  borough,"  it  is  about  to  be- 
come notorious  as  the  State  of  legalized  brutality.  That 
it  should,  at  a  time  when  every  State  in  the  Union  had 
driven  prize  fighting  clean  out  of  the  country,  have  re- 
pealed its  own  existing  law,  and,  from  motives  of  gain, 
passed  another  rendering  prize  fighting  legal  within  its 
borders,  is  more  than  we  had  been  prepared  to  believe  of 
Nevada,  shameless  as  we  knew  it  to  be.  The  United 
States  guarantees  a  republican  form  of  government  to 
every  State,  but  in  the  greater  part  of  Nevada  there  is 
practically  no  government  at  all.  It  is  a  go-as-you-please 
arrangement  all  round.  A  man  may  not  even  live  there, 
if  a  stronger  one  does  not  like  him.  Only  a  short  time 
ago  a  highly  respectable  foreman  of  a  mine  was  taken  from 
the  streets  of  Nevada's  principal  city,  marched  across  the 
border,  and  warned  never  to  return.  His  offense  was 
that  of  being  the  employee  of  a  new  set  of  directors.  The 
Governor,  Sheriff,  and  other  officialslooked  on  approvingly 
rather  than  otherwise.  It  has  long  been  believed  that 
anybody  could  be  "put  out  of  the  way"  in  Nevada  for 
money,  and  that  belief  is  only  too  well  sustained  by  proof. 
Familiarity  with  these  things  has  doubtless  done  much  to 
brutalize  Nevada,  to  render  it  callous  to  the  opinion  of  the 
rest  of  the  country,  and  to  constitute  it  the  Hades  of  the 
continent.  All  that  is  decent  in  California  regrets  that 
Nevada  should  be  so  near.  Better  it  were  in  Mexico,  or 
better  still,  dropped  into  the  depths  of  the  ocean,  along 
with  Sharkey,  Long  Green  Lawrence,  and  his  Arizona 
friend.  Umpire  Earp.  It  was  very  noticeable  that  the 
Examiner  gave  the  shameful  measure  all  the  aid  and  com- 
fort it  could.  The  pugs  are  now  asking  for  cheap  fares. 
They  should  be  given  free  rides  upwards  as  high  as 
Mordecais'  gate. 

Regulating     There  is  a  bill  before  the  Legislature  that 

The  Sale      ought  to  pass.    It  makes  the  sale  of  poisons, 

Of  Poisons,    without  a  medical  certificate,  and  without  a 

record  being  kept  of  the  same,  accessible  to 

all  who  may  be  interested,  a  misdemeanor.     It  also  makes 

druggists  responsible  in  pecuniary  damages  to  husbands, 

wives,  or  other  relatives  who  may  suffer  loss  through  the 

infringement  of  the  act.     This  being   a  general  law,  it  will 

be  applicable   to  the  country  districts   where  it  is  very 


badly  needed.  In  San  Francisco  we  have  a  local  ordinance 
which  measureably  fills  the  bill,  but  the  proposed  state 
law  is  better.  In  one  of  the  bay  counties  a  case  recently 
turned  up  in  which  a  young  wife  was  supplied  by  the 
village  Pharmacist,  who  was  also  a  Doctor,  with  an  alarm- 
ing quantity  of  Chloral  Hydrate,  and  when  the  inevitable 
resulted,  and  for  days  she  hovered  between  life  and  death, 
he  sought  exorbitant  fees  for  attending  to  the  life  he  had 
for  gain  endangered.  In  the  first  place  he  had  charged 
for  the  prescription,  then  for  the  drug,  and  finally  for  a 
very  defective  cure.  The  prescription  happened  to  fall  in- 
to the  husband's  hands  and  hence  some  interesting  litiga- 
tion. In  another  instance  no  difficulty  was  found  in  buy- 
ing a  corrosive  poison  to  administer  to  a  man  in  order  to 
obtain  the  amount  of  a  policy  of  insurance  on  his  life.  He 
luckily  escaped,  after  suspecting  the  truth,  and  proving 
it.  No  doubt  scores  of  cases,  more  innocent,  perhaps, 
than  these,  yet  of  serious  consequence,  are  daily  occur- 
ring in  some  part  of  the  State.  The  sale  of  opium,  chloral, 
morphine,  and  kindred  poisons  are  ruining  thousands  of 
families,  and  a  law  to  prevent  it  must  be  passed,  and  its 
enforcement  rendered  certain,  if  it  takes  every  constable 
in  the  State  to  accomplish  that  very  desirable  end. 

Railroad  It  is  difficult  to  get  anybody,  during  these 
Bankruptcies    hard   times,    to  listen   to  the   undoubted 

In  1896.  truth  that  the  railroad  fares  and  freights 
of  the  country,  instead  of  being  much  too 
high,  are  in  most  instances  greatly  too  low.  There  are 
far  larger  proportionate  losses  in  this  business  than  in  any 
other  kind  of  enterprise.  The  number  of  foreclosure  sales 
of  bankrupt  railroad  properties  during  last  year  was  58, 
involving  13,730  miles  of  road,  owing  in  bonds  and  stocks 
$1,150,000,000.  In  the  preceding  year,  1895,  fifty-two 
railroads,  with  12,831  miles  of  roadbed,  and  a  total  in- 
debtedness of  $761,000,000  became  bankrupt.  As  if  this 
were  not  enough,  last  year  34  additional  roads  with  an  in- 
debtedness of  $275,597,000,  and  owning  5,441  miles  of  road- 
bed, had  to  apply  to  the  courts  for  protection  against 
their  creditors  and  go  into  the  hands  of  receivers.  Seventy 
per  cent  of  the  money  invested  in  railroads  by  stockholders 
is  earning  no  dividend,  and  nearly  twenty  per  cent  of  rail- 
road bonds  have  gone  to  default.  It  is  computed,  and  can 
be  demonstrated,  that  if  the  railroads  of  this  country  had 
charged  the  same  average  of  fares  and  freights  as  pre- 
vailed in  England,  their  gross  earnings  of  last  year  would 
have  been  $376,000,000  greater  than  they  were.  Common 
carrying  in  the  United  States  is  the  cheapest  in  the  world. 
Despite  its  cheapness  and  consequent  failures,  the  cry  of 
the  day  is  for  reduced  fares  and  freights: — that  is,  for 
confiscation.  The  power  of  the  courts  alone  saves  rail- 
road property  to-day  from  total  annihilation.  Bryan  and 
Altgeld  are  for  taking  away  that  power. 

A  Few  of  Those  It  is  difficult  to  realize,  until  we  group 
Who  Stumbled,  them,  the  long  list  of  mortality  in  a 
single  year  among  the  men  and  women 
whose  names  are  the  property  of  the  whole  people.  Try 
to  recall  the  names  of  public  and  prominent  persons,  the 
accounts  of  whose  deaths  you  have  seen  in  the  papers  dur- 
ing the  past  year,  and  your  fingers  will  probably  suffice  to 
tally  them.  Without  attempting  anything  like  an  ex- 
haustive list,  let  us  name  a  few  of  the  most  prominent 
among  those  of  our  own  country  alone  as  examples.  From 
among  journalists,  authors,  and  publishers,  there  passed 
away  in  1896  :  Henry  C.  Bowen  of  the  Independent,  H.  C. 
Bunner  of  Puck,  Kate  Field  of  Washington,  J.  W.  Harper 
of  the  Harper  publications,  John  A.  Cockeril,  Mary  Abai- 
gal  Dodge,  Thomas  W.  Knox,  Edgar  W.  Nye,  and  Har- 
riet Beecher  Stowe.  The  list  of  public  men  includes  such 
names  as  Benjamin  H.  Bristow,  Charles  F.  Crisp,  John  R. 
Fellows,  Governor  F.  T.  Greenhalge,  and  William  E.  Rus- 
sel.  The  theatrical  profession  mourns  the  loss  of  Henry 
E.  Abbey,  Italo  Campanini,  James  Lewis,  Frank  Mayo, 
J.  H.  McVicker,  and  Alexander  Salvini,  while  among  mil- 
lionaires and  famous  business  men  were  numbered  Austin 
Corbin,  Hamilton  Disston,  John  H.  Inman,  and  Enoch 
Pratt.  Here  are  twenty-four  names  familiar  to  the  whole, 
country.  Could  you  have  named  ten  of  them  from  memory? 
Yet  the  whole  list  would  comprise  a  hundred  and  fifty 
names,  and,  strangely  enough,  not  a  San  Franciscan  among 
them. 


ruaiy  6,  1897. 

AT    TME 


N    I- RAN, 

CAPITOL. 


February  I.  1- 

CHIKK  Clork  Duckworth  lias   been   Um   !  inner 

of  tho  Legislature  this  week,  and  by  Ma  testimony 
charitably  assumes  the  most  of  the  sina  of  his  confrl 

•ufTed  payroll  crime.     Assemblyman  Emmons  turned 
•arch  light  on  the  witness,  who,  uuder  his   questions, 
made  admissions  that  would  have   been  dama 

'.ijL'rant  violation  of  integrity  than  is  an  admitted 
fact.  While  Duckworth  made  many  of  the  appoint- 
ments under  violent  pressure,  he  no  doubt  was  prodigal  of 
promises  in  order  to  ensure  his  own  election.  From  the 
present  indications,  I  believe  that  the  investigation  will 
will  end  in  a  reprimand.  But  a  scorching  minority  report 
may  be  expected,  fathered  by  Emmons,  who.  by  the  way. 
is  an  honest  and  intelligent  legislator. 

The  attempt  to  take  a  half-million  from  the  Treasury, 
and  divide  it  between  retaining  dam-  for  the  mini" 
a  State  dredger  for  reclamation  of  overflowed  lands, 
called  Speaker  Coombs  from  the  chair  to  denounce  the 
measure  and  inform  the  legislators  that  a  record-making 
crisis  confronted  them.  A  combination  has  been  effected 
between  the  localities  and  constituencies  most  interested, 
and  the  measure  passed  the  House  with  a  whoop,  despite 
the  earnest  and  angry  protests  of  a  very  decided  minority. 
Ds  fate  in  the  Senate  is  more  a  matter  of  doubt,  and  the 
taxpayers  may  be  saved  in  the  Upper  House  and  on  the 
Governor's  desk. 

Los  Angeles  street  contractors  are  here,  interested  in  a 
bill  which,  if  it  should  pass,  would  work  a  great  hardship 
on  the  owners  of  property  contiguous  to  the  streets  on 
which  the  improvements  have  been  made.  At  present 
payment  for  street  work  may  be  made  by  bond  running 
ten  years.  The  new  "cinch"  bill  permits  foreclosure  and 
transfer  of  title  to  the  property  securing  the  bonds,  unless 
paid  upon  one  year's  uotice.  Some  of  the  contractors  in- 
terested in  this  bill  hold  as  high  as  a  quarter  million  in 
these  improvement  bonds. 

At  pretty  nearly  every  session  of  the  Legislature,  tribute 
has  been  levied  among  other  corporations  and  firms,  on 
the  foreign  marine  insurance  companies  by  means  of 
"cinch"  bills.  Without  ascribing  any  improper  motive  to 
Senator  Bert,  who  is  the  father  of  Senate  Bill  No.  11,  the 
measure,  I  feel,  would  be  an  unjust  and  unnecessary  law 
if  passed,  and  the  fact  remains  that  this  bill  is  one  of  the  bi- 
ennial "cinch"  bills,  and  should  be  beaten.  Its  object  is  to 
prevent  any  foreign  insurance  company  from  doing  busi- 
ness in  this  State  unless  there  is  on  deposit  in  some  State 
in  the  United  States  securities  to  the  amount  of  $200,000. 
Inasmuch  as  marine  insurance  companies  are  the  particu- 
lar insurance  companies  the  bill  aims  at,  and  as  there 
is  really  no  good  reason  why  they  should  be  asked  to  have 
securities  on  deposit  as  is  proposed,  there  is,  on  the  other 
hand,  several  reasons  why  the  law  is  ill-advised  and  un- 
necessary. Insurance  Commissioner  Higgins  incorporates 
in  his  late  report  to  the  Governor  some  of  the  arguments 
used  by  those  who  favor  the  measure.  Some  statements 
are  wholly  incorrect,  while  others  are  misleading.  In  one 
place  he  says  "the  companies  foreign  to  the  United  States 
do  not  pay  taxes,"  and  that  only  a  fee  of  $20  for  filing 
their  annual  statement  is  received  from  them.  As  a  mat- 
ter of  fact,  not  only  the  $20  fee,  but  taxes  in  several  forms 
are  paid  by  such  companies.  Every  quarter  taxes  on  the 
amount  of  premiums  recorded  is  collected.  When  over 
$10,000,  the  tax  is  $50;  when  under  that  amount,  $25. 
Then  there  is  an  annual  tax  on  the  money  in  bank  of 
each  company,  and  a  franchise  tax  on  an  estimated 
valuation  of  the  company's  franchise,  which  is  never 
set  at  less  than  $2,1100.  Besides,  these  companies 
employ  clerks,  pay  office  rent  and  add  in  other  ways 
to  the  prosperity  of  the  State.  If  the  people  were 
to  be  benefited,  of  course  no  objection  could  be  made  to  the 
bill,  but  it  seems  to  me  that  by  destroying  competition 
certain  companies  could  boldly  raise  their  rates  to  suit 
themselves,  much  to  the  disadvantage  of  those  the  law 
pretends  to  benefit.  Another  argument  of  the  Insurance 
Commissioner,  so  far  as  marine  companies  are  concerned, 
which  falls  to  the  ground,  is  that  a  law  requiring  deposits 
would  prevent  forced  settlements  with  the  insured,  insinu- 
ating that  such  a  procedure  was   a   common  one.     As  a 


matt. 

1   a  case  \> 

eign  i'   . 

foreign  country      Th. 
bo  utt< 


that   is   really  too 
would  drive  pretty  nearly  every  foreign 
marine  compnu  ■  alifornla. 

raenew  Board  of  Mute  Library  Trustees,  m>  it  is  re- 
i.  will  elect  \V.  \V.  Seaman,  of  Los  Angeles,  to 
ceed  Dr.  Matthews,   who  is  tbe   present  State  Librarian 
and  Mixologist,  with  private  bar  in  Librarian's 

IV.. 


A  Sovereign  Remedy. 
DR.  PARKER'S  COfiill  CUftl  ill  slop  a  cougn.    ll  neror 

,  U4  Kearny  street 


falls.    Try  It.    Prtco  »c.    GconreDali) 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  6,  1897. 


We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 

THINK  that  somewhere  "in  the  dark 
backward  and  abysm  of  time," 
(as  Mr.  Bierce  so  fondly  and  so  fre- 
quently quotes)  a  coarse  ancestor  of  mine 
must  have  stormed  and  bellowed  from 
his  seat  in  the  pit  his  robust  rapture 
for  the  large  uncompromising  play  acting  of  Mrs. 
Siddons.  Something  in  me  wakes  and  stirs  to  Macbeth. 
I  have  long  and  urgently  deplored  what  I  have 
called  by  no  less  title,  if  you  please,  than  The  Art  of  Ob- 
vious Playacting.  I  never  quite  wanted  to  reduce  life  or 
drama  to  the  pianissimo  of  Mr.  Howells's,  who  writes  with 
a  chaperon,  but  I  cherished  a  superior  disdain  of  plays 
and  players  of  the  stage  stagey.  Now  I  find  it  possible  to 
take  my  meed  of  tragedy  in  the  proper  Siddons  spirit.  At 
least  Macbeth  rouses  me  thoroughly,  takes  me  by  the  blood 
and  vertebra?  and  shakes  me  into  strange  excitement. 

Macbeth,  with  all  its  symbols  and  psychology  is  first,  last 
and  all  the  time  drama  of  action  and  incident  and  valorous 
and  bloodthirsty  phrases — in  a  word,  melodrama.  History 
does  not  chronicle  the  actor  who  has  played  a  quiet 
Macbeth  ;  even  ultra-modernity  does  not  ask  for  one  ;  and 
the  pink  dawn  of  Romance,  with  its  attendant  swords, 
daggers  and  feats  of  arms  and  feats  of  lungs  may  even 
bring  about  a  renaissance  of  the  long  lost  "heavy  legiti- 
mate." And  the  heavy  legitimate  demands  heavy  play- 
acting to-day,  just  as  it  did  in  the  palmy  and  pre-palmy 
days  of  old.  Only  there  must  be  one  innovation  :  Shakes- 
peare must  be  well  dressed.  The  days  of  the  shabby- 
genteel  legitimate  are  over.  Henry  Irving,  Augustin 
Daly  and  Richard  Wagner — yes,  "Wagner  and  Beyreuth 
and  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House- -have  spoiled  the 
public  for  masterpieces  in  rags.  The  sleek,  prosperous 
present  will  accept  contemporary  romance  in  hand-me- 
downs,  but  it  wants  all  velvet,  and  a  yard  wide,  for  the 
masterpieces.  This  is  the  reason  why  Irving  and  Daly 
are  the  only  managers  who  can  gracefully  pull  through  a 
New  York  season  with  the  "classics."  This  is  why 
Margaret  Mather's  Cymbeline  has  to  be  advertised  as  a 
"  $25,000  production  ;"  and  the  absence  of  it  is  why  Louis 
James  is  booked,  "the  only  tragedian  on  the  road  this 
season" — for  even  the  provinces  have  become  fastidious. 
It  is  of  course  true  that  the  legitimate  died,  not  for  want 
of  good  clothes  and  brilliant  lights  and  millionaire  scenery, 
but  for  want  of  playactors,  real  playactors,  not  enemic 
imitation  play  actors.  But  the  age  is  luxurious  ;  virtu- 
osity is  out  of  vogue.  It  takes  more  than  one  star  to  make 
a  first  night,  and  two's  not  a  company.  And  so  I  take  it 
that  in  the  face  of  fads  and  cheap  plays  and  cheap  acting 
San  Francisco  has  done  handsomely  by  Modjeska  and 
Haworth,  and  the  slap-gathered  little  band  of  players  who 
support  them. 

Speaking  of  playacting,  it  is  well  for  us  to  realize  that 
in  all  America  the  brightest  representative  of  this  almost 
lost  art  is  Joseph  Haworth.  And  this  simple  statement 
of  truth  is  not  half  the  compliment  Haworth  merits,  be- 
cause practically  he  has  no  competitors.  Mansfield  is  a 
freak,  young  Salvini  is  dead,  Warde  is  worse  than  dead, 
and  James,  though  an  actor  of  conspicuous  talent,  lacks 
the  vital  element  of  distinction.  So  Haworth  is  more  than 
the  peer  of  these.  In  fact,  it  looks  very  much  as  though 
he  and  Nat  Goodwin  were  to  divide  the  more  dignified  re- 
sponsibility of  the  American  stage  for  the  next  decade. 

Haworth's  Macbeth,  being  a  creature  of  broad  vocal 
depths  and  clean,  impressive  reading  and  irreproachably 
developed  crescendo,  is  not  a  new  Macbeth,  beyond  the 
rich  color  quality  Haworth  gives  him  out  of  his  own  per- 
sonality. As  I  said  before,  a  new  Macbeth  would  have  to 
be  a  soft  one,  and  Shakespeare  has  left  enough  soft 
spots  in  him  as  it  is  without  requiring  the  misreading  of 
any  sensation-seeking  actor.  Considering  William  Shake- 
speare's occasional  tendency  to  smother  meaning  in 
sweet  phrases  for  the  music-loving  ear,  and  the  length  of 
Macbeth'spart,  it  is  conspicuously  well  defined.  Of  course, 


no  sane  person,  removed  from  the  evil  prejudices  of  the 
schoolroom,  can  follow  Macbeth  through  the  splendid  blend 
of  despair  and  fury  voiced  in 

I  will  not  yield 

To  kiss  the  ground  before  young  Malcolm's  feet. 

And  to  be  baited  with  the  rabble's  curse ! 

Though  Birnam  wood  be  come  to  Dunsinane, 

And  thou  opposed,  being  of  no  woman  born, 

Yet  will  I  try  tbe  last — 
and  then  see  him  started  to  the  fray  on  this  puny,  Mother 
Goose  couplet, 

Lay  on.  Macduff; 

And  damned  be  he  who  first  cries  "Hold;  enoueh!" 

without  wishing  William  had  enjoyed  the  privilege  of  such 
an  editor,  say,  as  Miss  Gilder  of  The   Critic.      One   might 
as  well  split  gloves  over  the  rhetorical  juiciness  of 
A  horse  !    A  horse!    My  kingdom  for  a  horse! 
when  some  horny-lunged  Thespian  exalts  it  to  the  pivot  of 
a  scene. 

However  it  is  not  my  aim  to  be  "lassed  among  those  am- 
biguous gentlemen,  Shakespearian  scholars.  I  do  not  want 
to  bicker  about  the  temperature  of  the  green  calcium  in 
the  dagger  scene,  or  how  many  little  whiskers  the  first 
witch  should  wear  on  her  chin.  When  you  go  after  the 
Bard  with  a  search  light  and  a  grappling  iron  and  a 
Bocaccio  and  a  Holinshed,  you  lose  sight  of  his  transcen- 
dent scheme — he  w  rote  for  the  playhouse  and  endeavored  to 
be  entertaining.  Haworth  seems  to  take  very  much  the 
same  view.  He  does  not  strive  for  any  deep  mysticism 
that  is  not  on  the  surf  ace  of  the  text.  He  concedes  Macbeth 
a  covetous  rascal  in  his  first  attack  of  the  witches  ;  he  gives 
him  a  broad  brutality  of  his  own,  which,  contrasted  with 
the  fragility  of  Modjeska's  Lady  Macbeth,  keeps  him 
rather  prominently  aloof  from  the  hen-pecked  key.  This 
is  the  only  charge  of  radicalism  that  can  be  laid  against 
him.  His  development  of  the  character  is  unswerving  and 
masterful;  the  ambition,  the  touch  of  humanness,  the  fear, 
the  fatalism,  the  deed  which  is  gilded  with  ambition,  then 
crime  gilded  by  more  crime  and  attended  by  their  ven- 
geances of  superstition  and  hallucination ;  tbe  man  sub- 
merged, the  brute  upheld  until,  iu  the  climax  of  the  combat 
with  Macduff,  he  fights  and  dies  with  the  snarl  and — so 
almost  is  the  illusion — the  very  being  of  an  animal.  And 
this  is  play  acting  ?  obvious,  too  ?  May  I  never  again  grow 
too  young  to  enjoy  it. 

*  *  * 

Modjeska  plays  Lady  Macbeth  very  much  as  Patti 
might  sing  Brunbilde.  And  in  a  cast  made  up  of  vociferous 
traditionallists — who  made  a  Scottish  holiday  of  tbe  rare 
opportunity  to  tear  passion  to  tatters  and  still  not  exceed 
the  bounds  of  art — her  repressed  intensity,  and  candid 
femininity  could  not  be  otherwise  than  at  a  disadvantage. 
Modjeska's  reading  is  beautifully  lucid  and  sincere,  and  in 
the  sleep-walking  scene  she  is  stirringly  convincing, 
but  Nature  never  builded  for  an  actress  to  embody  such  a 
Mary  Stuart  as  Modjeska's,  and  yet  attain  to  the  heroic 
severity  of  Lady  Macbeth. 

The  disaster  which  befell  Mr.  Lonergan,  and  cast  some- 
thing of  a  gloom  over  the  Macbeth-Macduff  fight  in  the 
last  act,  is  not  without  the  solace  of  humor:  Mr.  Loner- 
gan's  voice  forsook  him,  and  he  was  compelled  to  fight  in 
a  hoarse  whisper.  Prior  to  this  misadventure,  Mr.  Lon- 
ergan's  work  was  earnest  and  telling.  Mr.  Osbourne 
played  the  drunken  porter  with  such  rare  unctuousness 
(unctuousness  is  a  word  much  abused  by  dramatic  critics: 
it  really  serves  at  its  best  when  describing  the  utter 
greasiness  of  a  classic  jag)  as  to  almost  redeem  that  ill- 
timed  bit  of  "comic  relief "  with  which  William  Shakespeare 
destroyed  tbe  suspense  of  one  of  the  best  moments  in  his 
play.  The  excellence  of  Landers  Stevens's  performance 
dumbfounded  me.  There  were  address,  and  resolution, 
and  manly  music,  and  a  picture  in  his  Malcolm. 
*  *  * 

Mary  Stuart  and  Modjeska  are  names  inseparably  cher- 
ished in  the  hearts  of  this  generation  of  play-goers.  There 
is  no  other  actress  who  can  give  to  this  old-fashioned 
picture  play  the  fragrance,  the  spirituality,  the  complete 
reality  that  Modjeska  does.  In  it  she  finds  the  epitome  of 
her  temperament.  And  it  seemed  more  than  a  coincidence 
on  Saturday  night,  when  Modjeska  played  this  part,  as 
we  of  San  FraDcisco  have  never  seen  even  her  play  it  be- 


February  6,  1897. 


S.W   FRANCISCO  Nl-ws   : 


that   Haworth   should   have   given    M   ■   Mortimer 
equally  unf  od  think  what  there  is  to  Morli 

le  bit,  the  death  •  Yet  the  eloq 

the  heart-touch,  the  magnetic  thri"  of  that  moment, 
as  near  the  perfection  ol  human  art  as  we  Mr  to 

rind  it.     It  was  not  a  night  for  sympathy  with  ill  -ad 
Mrs.  Edgerton,   who  took    t iii-  -  ■•    •  ike   the 

respe.  siness   of  a  drawing-room   reciter  for  the 

r  skitter  of   real   footlights      Mrs     Edgerton 
bumptious  conception  of  Queen  Elizabeth  which  is  certainly 
novel,  but  far   from   plausible.      I    think   she  mlstaki 
n>d  queen  for  a  female  KalstatT. 

•  *  • 

The  Tivoli  has  always  been  neglected  in  the  matter  of 
fair  criticism,  the  policy  of  the  papers  being  something 
like  this  :  "If  it  is  a  good  show,  pufl  it;  if  it  is  nol  so 
good,  puff  it  anyway  there  is  always  the  money's  worth 
at  the  Tivoli."  Waiving  all  loftier  considerations,  this  has 
somewhat  unjust  to  the  management,  inasmuch  as 
the  critics  have  not  always  considered  it  necessary  to  visit 
the  Tivoli  prior  to  the  puff.  I  have  often  claimed  that  the 
only  unprejudiced  theatrical  reviews  were  those  written 
by  persons  who  never  have  seen  the  perlormance  under 
discussion  or  formed  any  opinions  whatever  on  the  relative 
excellence  of  amusements — because  your  true  critic  being 
by  instinct  and  cultivation  a  man  of  taste,  and  hence  ac- 
quiring a  delicate  appetite  for  what  is  good  and  artistic, 
and  a  vigorous  distaste  for  what  is  neither  of  these,  is,  of 
course,  unfitted  for  impartial  consideration  of  the  average 
performance  in  the  average  playhouse.  In  extenuation  of 
myself.  Aladdin,  at  the  Tivoli,  is  not  an  average  perform- 
ance, not  merely  a  good  show  for  a  cheap  price.  It  is  a 
smashing  spectacular  production  and  ten  times  better  in 
every  partibular  than  either  Jack  and  the  Beanstalk  or 
Babes  in  /I"'  Wood.  It  has  that  which  both  of  those  pieces 
lacked — a  certain  measure  of  unity.  In  Aladdin  there  are 
fun.  color,  glitter,  pageantry,  ballet,  songs,  specialty  and 
alty.all  in  the  happiest  balance.  Ferris  Hartman  does 
not  have  the  entire  performance  on  his  shoulders,  and  con- 
sequently both  Mr.  Hartman  and  the  performance  appear 
to  much  better  advantage.  In  fact  I  have  never  seen 
Hartman  so  genuinely  comical  as  he  is  this  week.  There 
is  also  a  satisfying  surety  in  all  the  electrical  and  mechan- 
ical devices,  and  the  flower  dance  on  the  darkened  stage 
danced  by  five  girls  studded  with  twinkling  incandescents, 
is  an  Edisonian  dream.  The  six  little  tailors  headed  by 
little  Jack  Robertson  (a  clever  little  lad  in  every  particu- 
lar except  that  of  singing  through  his  little  nose)  are 
already  the  talk  of  all  the  children  and  grandparents  in 
town.  Miss  Seabrook  seems  of  a  sudden  to  have  lost  her 
aggressive  Delia  Foxisms  and  her  Aladdin  is  proportion- 
ately that  much  better  than  it  would  have  been  two  weeks 
ago.  All  the  Tivoli  people  are  in  the  production,  not  for- 
getting those  wonderful  chorus  girls  to  whom  the  Tivoli  is 
largely  indebted  for  every  success.  All  in  all,  Aladdin 
to  my  mind  is  the  best  extravaganza  ever  staged  at  the 

Tivoli. 

*  *  # 

They  call  it  The  Prodigal  Father  at  the  Columbia,  but  it 
isn't.  Father  has  not  come  home  yet;  he's  still  out  prodi- 
galling,  and  several  first-class  vaudeville  people,  and  sev- 
eral who  are  not  so  first-class  are  keeping  the  stage  warm 
for  him.  If  you  really  must  have  the  comedy,  The  Prodigal 
Father,  it  is  in  a  footnote  on  the  programme.  I  did  not 
need  it  myself;  there  were  too  many  good  variety  acts 
bouncing  about  the  stage.  May  Irwin's  new  song — the 
successor  to  "The  New  Bully" — "Ob,  Mr.  Johnson!" — is 
sung  in  the  first  act.  It  is  the  most  fraternal  thing  I've 
heard  in  years — you  can't  lose  it.  Titenia's  tittivating 
toes,  Rose  Melville's  "jay  girl  from  Slab  Hollow,"  and  "Oh, 
Mr.  Johnson!"  are  to  the  limit  of  spiciness.     And  spice  is 

the  life  of  variety. 

*  *  * 

After  the  little  Titian  tenor,  Guille,  had  opened  wide  his 
silver  throat,  and  sung  the  rafters  out  of  the  Orpheum, 
and  sung  them  back  again,  and  the  audience  still  clamored 
for  more,  something  happened  which  caused  Phil  Hastings 
to  swoon  outright  in  his  great-coat.  Guille  bounded  down 
to  the  lights,  handed  Rosner  a  piano  score,  and  com- 
menced to  sing  "I  dread  the  day  you'll  forget  me,  Mar- 
gue-rite."    I   waited,    breathless,  my  eyes  rivited  on  the 


gallery,     (iuille 

ton  mi 

.'.   night. 

•   •  • 

Thi  ,■  un. 

propit  oon   at    the  1      it 

rained  inci  thout,  and  a  defective  furnace  smoked 

hard  1  have  oared  hams  within.     Mr.  Hii 

Is  musicians  claim  neither  the   valor    nor  the  Itll 

accomplished  0 1  to  lave  played  as  >.■. 

did  while  choking  with  smoke  and  smell  (Mr.  <  I  reenbaum 
did  not  have  time  to  perfume  the  fire)  is  doubly  to  their 
credit.      Dvorak's  1'  major  symphony  and    Tsi -haiknv. 

"Marche  slave     were   thi  The  symphony  is 

wantonly  melodious,  and  the  orchestration  burns  and  zips 
in  the  Bohemian  composer's  characteristic  spirit.  Amer- 
ican music  has  a  very  nice  step  papa  in  Dr.  Dvorak,  The 
March  teems  with  rhythm  and  color,  and  the  intcrblend- 
ing  of  the  Kussian  Hymn  is  handled  with  tine  craft:  In  fact. 
1  tire  work  is  one  of  strong  character  and  masterly 
instri.11  Mrs.  Hihrichs'   singing  ol   the  air  from 

Thi  Queen  of  Sheba  was  disappointing.  Her  contralto  is 
tremulous  and  not  always  true,  and  her  method  of  singing 
is  labored  and  unmusicianly.  ASHT0N  Stkvks-. 


t'liiiiiini,  Fa,/, I,  >i.  with  the  original  company,  comes  to 
the  Columbia  next  Monday  for  two  weeks,  with  Charles 
Hopper  in  the  title-role.  The  company  is  strong,  and  the 
dramatization  of  the  play  is  said  to  be  of  even  greater  in- 
terest than  the  original  story. 

Louis  James,  a  sterling  actor,  opens  a  two  weeks'  sea- 
son at  the  Baldwin  Monday  night,  in  a  revival  of  Dr.  Bird's 
heroic  play,  Spartacus.  Old  theatre-goers  will  remember 
Forrest  and  McCullough  in  the  gladiatorial  role,  which  now 
is  said  to  fit  Mr.  James  better  than  anything  he  has  ever 
played  before.  Alma  Kruger  and  Guy  Lindsley  are  of  the 
company. 

Next  week  at  the  Orpheum  Guille  will  sing  Gounod's 
"Ave  Maria,"  with  violin  obligate  by  Miss  Nina  de  St. 
Herbert,  a  young  San  Franciscienue.  Ara,  Zebra  and 
Vora,  European  equilibrists,  and  John  and  Bertha  Glea- 
son,  dancers,  are  the  other  new  features. 

M'lle.  Trebelli,  prima  donna  soprano,  (a  daughter  of  the 
famous  contralto  by  that  name),  assisted  by  Hinrichs' 
Symphony  Orchestra,  will  give  a  concert  at  the  California 
on  Tuesday  night,  which  promises  to  be  one  of  the  biggest 
musical  events  of  the  season.  Trebelli  will  sing,  among 
other  numbers,  the  cavatina  from  Semiramide,  the  Salome 
air  from  Massenet's  Iferodiade,  and  Solverg's  Song,  which 
Grieg  composed  for  Ibsen's  Peer  Gynt.  Schubert,  Hum- 
perdink,  Saint-Saens,  and  Delibes  will  be  represented  in 
the  orchestral  selections. 

Aladdin  has  made  a  big  hit  at  the  Tivoli,  and  will  con- 
tinue indefinitely. 


St.  Denis 


Broadway  &  11th  St., 
NEW  YORK. 

Opposite  Grace  Church 
EUROPEAN  PLAN, 

Rooms  $1.50  per  day  and  Upwards. 

In  a  modest  and  unobtrusive  way  there  are  few 
better  conducted  hotels  in  the  metropolis  than  the 
St.  Denis. 

The  great  popularity  it  has  acquired  can  readily 
be  traced  to  its  unique  location,  its  home-like  at- 
mosphere, the  peculiar  excellence  of  its  cuisine  and 
service,  and  its  very  moderate  prices. 

WILLIAH    TAYLOR    &    SON. 

Pacific  Goast  dockey  Club. 

(Ingleside  Track).      The  only  perfect   winter  race   track   in 
America.  Racing  from  January  25th  to  February  6th,  inclusive, 

FIVE    OR    MORE    RAGES    DAILY, 

rain  or  shine.    First  race  at  2  p  m. 

Take  Southern  Pacific  trains  at  Third  and  Townsend  streets 
depot,  leaving  at  1  and  1  :*Oo'clock  p.  m.  Fare  for  round  trip,  in- 
cluding admission  to  grounds.  $1.  Take  Mission  street  eleotric 
line  direct  to  track.  The  Tarpey  Stakes  Saturday,  January  HO. 
The  Hobart  Stakes  Saturday,  February  6. 
A.  B.  Spbsckels,  President.    W.  S.  Lkaka,  Secretary. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  6,  1897. 


CHIEF  Dennis  Sullivan  of  the  Fire  Department  is  a 
practical  joker  past  reformation,  and  his  best  efforts 
in  the  indulgence  of  this  pastime  are  reserved  for  his  most 
intimate  friends.  His  great  crony  is  Johnny  Murphy, 
proprietor  of  the  St.  George  Stables,  and  not  long  ago 
the  pair  went  on  a  little  trip  into  the  country.  The  chief 
started  homewards  in  the  evening,  but  Murphy,  who  had 
met  some  convivial  spirits  remained  behind,  lingered  long 
over  a  bowl  of  wassail  and  concluded  to  retain  his  com- 
fortable quarters  for  the  night.  Before  his  departure, 
Sullivan  told  the  landlord  of  the  village  inn  that  his  friend, 
Johnny  Murphy,  suffered  from  occasional  catalepsy  and 
had  to  be  waked  up  every  hour. 

"He  may  kick  a  little  when  you  rouse  him,"  said 
Sullivan,  "but  don't  you  pay  any  attention  to  that.  You 
wake  him  up  every  sixty  minutes,  sure  now,  or  he 
will  die." 

Much  impressed  by  this  warning,  the  landlord  followed 
the  Chief's  instructions  to  the  letter.  In  vain  Murphy 
roared  in  indignation,  groaned  about  his  head  and  begged 
to  be  allowed  to  sleep  in  peace.  To  be  sure  that  he  was 
awake,  the  landlord,  aided  by  the  barkeeper  and  the 
Chinese  cook,  made  him  get  out  of  bed  and  run  around  the 
room  after  each  hourly  "treatment."  The  Murphy  rage 
was  impotent  and  he  was  forced  to  submit. 

When  Johnny  came  home  he  did  not  say  much  but  he 
waited  patiently  for  a  chance  to  even  up  his  score.  He 
planned  a  blow  at  the  Chief's  dignity  the  other  day  by 
delivering  a  bogus  message. 

"Eddie  Graney  left  word  for  you  here,"  said  Murphy, 
"that  he  wanted  you  to  superintend  the  whitewashing  of 
his  place." 

Parenthetically  it  may  be  observed  that  when  Graney  is 
not  "doing  politics,"  he  conducts  a  large  blacksmith  shop 
in  St.  George's  Alley,  in  convenient  proximity  to  Murphy's 
stable  and  the  Fire  Engine  headquarters. 

The  Chief  was  secretly  affronted  by  the  message  which 
he  believed  was  genuine  and  supposed  was  intended  by 
Graney  to  depreciate  his  importance  in  the  eyes  of  the 
members  of  the  Fire  Department. 

"All  right,  I'll  boss  his  job"  quickly  responded  Sullivan 
no  little  acrimony  mingled  with  his  alacrity,  while  Johnny 
Murphy  satisfied  with  the  movement,  of  the  wheels  he  had 
set  in  motion,  turned  away  in  gladness. 

When  Graney  returned  to  his  establishment  late  that 
afternoon  he  was  filled  with  consuming  wrath.  The  white- 
washing had  not  been  confined  to  the  interior  of  the  shop, 
but  the  entire  front  of  the  place  had  been  covered  with  the 
cheap  mixture,  obliterating  the  expensive  paint  placed 
there  a  few  weeks  earlier.  Worst  of  all  his  immense  horse 
shoe  of  wrought  iron,  Graney's  especial  pride,  had  been 
given  two  coats  of  whitewash. 

"What  bally  idiot  did  this?"  shouted  Graney  in  a  fine 
frenzy.  He  used  much  additional  language  that  was 
really  superfluous  and  unnecessary  to  this  narrative. 

"A  chap  they  call  'Chief  bossed  the  job,"  said  one  of  the 
white  washers.  "He  directed  it  all.  And  say,  Graney, 
as  there  was  so  much  extra  work  done,  the  job  will  cost 
you  five  dollars  more  than  the  price  I  told  you." 

And  then  Graney's  language  was  positively  shocking. 
*  *  # 

Some  little  amusement  has  been  caused  by  Fremont 
Older's  expedition  to  Canton,  undertaken  "because  the 
Major  sent  for  him."  Behind  the  visit  to  the  President- 
elect in  behalf  of  Judge  Waymire's  Cabinet  aspirations  is 
a  little  stor3  of  how  Older  fooled  bis  dearest  friends  re- 
garding his  movements.  At  the  time  of  the  Senatorial 
election,  the  editor  went  to  Sacramento  as  the  adviser  of 
the  Alameda  Assemblyman,  whom  he  suddenly  precipi- 
tated into  the  "fight"  against  Perkins,  in  consequence  of 
which  faux  pas  Waymire  failed  to  secure  endorsement  for 
the  Cabinet  by  the  Republican  legislative  caucus.  After 
it  was  all  over,  Older  came  home  and  went  to  bed  with 
nervous  prostration.     He  was  invisible   to  his  most  inti- 


mate friends,  and  did  not  even  hold  communication  with  the 
editorial  rooms  of  his  paper.  As  days  went  by  and  Older 
failed  to  reappear,  his  associates  grew  anxious,  but  all 
inquiries  regarding  Fremont's  health  were  answered  with 
the  indefinite  gravity  of  a  serious  illness.  After  two  weeks, 
Older's  office  companions  became  genuinely  alarmed  over 
his  condition,  and  the  gravest  results  of  nervous  prostra- 
tion were  suggested.  Just  when  apprehension  was  at  its 
height,  a  dispatch  from  Chicago  was  printed  in  a  morning 
paper  to  the  effect  that  Older  was  en  route  to  Canton  to 
plead  Waymire's  cause.  Then  the  nature  of  his  mysteri- 
ous malady  was  apparent.  It  is  said  that  if  Waymire 
should  be  appointed  to  the  Cabinet,  Older  would  be  the 
Chief  Clerk  of  bis  department — a  contingency  which  will 
hardly  cause  him  to  leave  his  present  position.  The  Presi- 
dent-elect is  said  to  have  suggested  to  Older  that  "per- 
haps Judge  Waymire  is  needed  in  the  California  Legisla- 
ture," so  the  Alameda  statesman  may  never  be  trans- 
ferred to  the  whirl  of  Washington  political  life. 

#  *  # 

No  doubt  many  people  are  haunted  by  the  fear  that  they 
may  be  buried  alive,  and  this  mortal  terror  is  kept  active 
by  periodical  stories  of  uncovered  graves  and  the  discovery 
of  the  terrible  truth  that  those  who  had  been  placed  in 
them  had  awakened  only  to  find  themselves  four  feet  under 
ground  and  no  telephone  handy.  A  striking  illustration 
of  this  fear  occurred  recently  in  this  city.  A  wealthy  man, 
feeling  the  approach  of  the  grisly  monster,  and  fearing 
that  it  might  only  be  a  bluff,  determined  not  to  be  caught 
napping.  He  gave  rigid  instructions  that  the  utmost 
precautions  should  be  employed  to  determine  if  he  had 
really  departed  to  the  pale  realm  of  shade  before  his  body 
should  be  committed  to  mother  earth.  He  ordered  that 
his  executor,  under  pain  of  his  immediate  displeasure, 
should  stay  his  body  for  three  days  in  a  vault,  and  sur- 
round it  by  perpetual  watchers,  who  should  note  the  least 
appearance  of  returning  life. .  After  this  prolonged  vigil, 
a  physician  should  appear,  and  with  the  tools  of  his  trade, 
gently  but  firmly  disturb  the  repose  of  the  remains  by  a 
scientific  examination  to  the  very  seat  of  existence — the 
heart.  If  the  result  disclosed  the  final  fact  of  death,  the 
obsequies  might  proceed.  He  wanted  to  take  no  chances. 
Death  finally  came,  and  after  the  usual  ceremonies  the  re- 
mains were  transferred  to  a  vault  and  the  watch  set  about 
the  body  for  three  days.  Evidently  life  had  fled;  further 
assurance  of  that  fact  was  not  needed.  But  the  executor 
determined  to  meet  the  orders  of  the  deceased,  and  called 
Dr.  H.  Isaac  Jones  to  make  the  final  test.  The  doctor 
made  the  examination  as  required,  although  he  knew  it  to 
be  useless,  and  was  told  thereafter  that  embalming  fluid 
had  been  freely  used  before  the  body  was  placed  in  the 
vault.  Inasmuch  as  the  smallest  quantity  of  this  preserver 
of  the  dead  would  prove  immediately  fatal  to  a  healthy 
bullock,  the  dissecting  knife  was  really  superfluous.  The 
Looker  On  did  not  think  to  ask  whether  the  injection  had 
been  made  at  the  previous  instance  of  the  deceased,  as 
additional  security  against  his  premature  interment;  but 
he  is  prepared  to  believe  it  was. 

There  is  no  doubt,  however,  that  deceased  was  dead. 

*  #  it- 
Some  time   ago,    Grace   Church   organized,    under   the 

direction  of  W.  H.  Holt,  an  able  organist  from  Eugland, 
an  adult  male  choir.  Although  the  change  was  undertaken 
as  an  experiment,  it  has  been  most  successful  from  its  in- 
ception, the  church  evening  praise  services  having  been 
largely  attended.  On  Sunday  evening,  the  nineteenth 
festival  service  will  be  held,  and  an  especially  prepared 
programme,  which  here  follows,  will  be  given  : 

Motet— 88th  Psalm,  (Ernest  Ford) Full  Choir 

Tenor  Solo—"  Babylon,"  (Watson) Frank  Coffin 

Anthem— "  The  Radiant  Morn,"  (Woodward) Full  Choir 

Barytone  Solo— "  Israfel,"  (Oliver  King) S.  Homer  Henley 

Tenor  Solo  and  Chorus—"  From  out  the  Kadiant  Morn," 

Frank  Coffin  and  Choir. 
Offertory— Organ  Solo  "Allegretto,"  (Wely). 

The  following  gentlemen  constitute  the  choir :  Tenors, 
Frank  Coffin,  J.  M.  Shawhan,  P.  L.  Rowe,  J.  E.  Jones, 
G.  H.  J.  Bremner,  Charles  Henning;  Basses,  S.  Homer 
Henley,  W.  McDonald,  George  Batch,  George  H.  Hooke, 
N.  B.  Frisbie,  S.  E.  Tucker,  C.  E.  Holt. 


February  6,  1897. 


SAN'  FRANCISCO  HBWS   LETTER. 


Down  in  the  Board  Room  of  to 
are  having   no  little   diversion 
lion-  and   .1    M.  I 

satisfied  that  ho  "did   the  other  u|       while  t 
'hat  honors  are  aboi 


•Stock    Exehanir 
rer    the  mutual  jubila- 
tOb  broker 

mem 


man.  ami  for  years  he  has  path- 

it  matched  hi.-,  other  gigantic  pi 

whiskers  were  the  chief  joy  and  his  life       I 

ishe<i  his  affection  on  the  capil!.. 

which  made  him  look  like  a  I '.]         •    ,,f    the   middle  of  llie- 

road  breed.     The  other  stock-l"  itTed    Fori.. 

mercifully  about  his  whiskers,  but  Forbes  loyally  stuck    to 

them. 

day  this  week.  Miles  offered  for  sale  three   hundred 
shares  of  Yellow  Jacket  stock. 

"I  will  five  you  thirty-four  for  the  lot,     said  1'.- 
"  You  can  have  it  for  thirty-one,   if  you  will  ^o  down 
stairs  to  the  barbershop  and  shave    those   whiskers.      re- 
plied Miles,  tauntingly. 

To  his  surprise  and  grief,  Forbes  promptly  took  him  up. 
In  twenty  minutes  the  beard  lived  only  in  history.  It  was 
a  thing  of  the  past.  Forbes  then  "claimed  the  Yellow 
Jacket  stock  at  three  points  lower  than  his  own  bid,  and 
Miles  reluctantly  relinquished  it.  It  was  now  Forbes' 
turn  to  guy  Miles;  but  the  tables  were  again  turned,  for 
on  the  following  day  Yellow  Jacket  was  quoted  at  twenty- 
nine,  and  Forbes  admitted,  with  chagrin,  that  he  had  paid 
two  points  higher  than  the  current  quotation  of  the  stock. 
Miles  thinks  the  laugh  is  all  his  way  now,  for  he  bought 
back  all  the  stock  he  wanted  at  twenty-nine.  But  Forbes 
mourns  his  lost  whiskers  and  refuses  to  be  comforted,  be- 
cause they  are  not. 

*  *  # 

Mr.  Harrison,  the  Sausalito  Coal  King,  is  once  more  on 
'Change.  He  went  to  Washington  six  weeks  ago  to  inter- 
view Mr.  McKinley  anent  the  opening  of  the  Coast  road 
through  the  Government  reservation  to  Point  Lobos. 
"William,"  said  Mr.  McKinley,  as  reported  by  Mr.  Harri- 
son, "you  may  have  my  head  for  a  football  if  that  road 
don't  go  through.  I  know  how  Billy  Berg,  the  German 
traveller,  Tom  Watson,  Frank  Cartan,  and  all  the  boys 
want  that  road,  and  they  are  going  to  have  it.  Give  my 
regards  to  Commodore  Harrison,  and  tell  him  we  keep  in- 
formed here  about  the  way  he  is  running  those  water 
works,  and  that  if  he  does  not  come  down  a  bit,  I  will  have 
to  send  a  special  commission  to  Marin  County  to  regulate 
affairs." 

Mr.  Harrison  thus  merrily  discourses  of  the  great  men 
he  has  met  on  his  travels.  The  California  newspaper  boys 
Willie  took  with  him  are  homesick.  Arthur  McEwen 
says  he  would  rather  be  hammering  away  at  the  orthodox 
creeds  in  this  glorious  climate  on  a  cracker  a  week,  than 
living  in  New  York  on  terrapin  and  champagne;  Bob 
Davis  has  run  out  of  his  Western  lies,  and  Charley  Michel- 
son  cries  himself  to  sleep  every  night  from  pure  nostalgia. 

*  *  # 

While  the  rain  was  coming  down  in  torrents,  and  the 
wind  blowing  a  gale  which  made  the  anemometer  whirl  at 
the  rate  of  fifty  miles  an  hour,  a  portly  Montgomery  street 
real  estate  agent  stood  in  the  doorway  of  his  office  talking 
to  a  friend  possessing  fewer  years  and  less  avoirdupois 
and  discretion. 

"Just  look  at  that  woman  crossing  the  street,"  said  the 
younger  man.  "Beef  to  the  heels,  like  a  Mullingar  heifer! 
Great  Scottl  White  stockings,  too!  Doesn't  she  look 
like  a  tad?    Wouldn't  that  jar  you?" 

"It  undoubtedly  would  jar  me,  but  for  one  fact,"  said 
the  real  estate  man,  sweetly.  "You  see,"  he  added, 
"she's  my  wife." 

*  *  * 

Donald  deV.  Graham  took  a  large  quantity  of  sketching 
material  with  him  to  the  Islands.  That  is  the  place  for 
models.  Mr.  Graham  can  catch  the  "altogether"  in  the 
water,  where  they  disport  like  mermaids,  or  on  the  banks 
of  the  Nuuanu  river,  where  they  pose  like  Diana,  fresh 
from  her  bath.  They  are  by  no  means  immodest,  because 
too  familiar  with  nudity  to  perceive  anything  objection- 
able in  it,  and  they  only  entertain  a  dim  idea  of  what 
virtue  which  their  white  sisters  speak  about  actually 
means.  They  are  daughters  of  Nature,  those  Hawaiian 
damsels,  and  obey  all  her  promptings  without  any  self-con- 
sciousness of  evil. 


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BO  simple  thai  ;i  child  might  be  entrusted   with   I 

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The  epicures  ol  the  clubs  declare  thai  the  genuine  New 

York  sheep  hi  ad  baa  found  its  way  to  Our  waters,    and    is 
m  the  market   today.     Major  Ned    Palmer   and    W 
Payne,  members  of  the  Pots  and  Pat  have  made 

affidavit  that  tl.v  ate  a  genuine  sheep  head  on  I  ■ 
and  that  it  was  >weet  as  butter.  Captain  Eon 
invention  of  his  soluble  Welch  rarebit,  has  caused  a  run  on 
the  chafing  dish  stores,  and  never  before  was  the  gum 
tickling  little  animal  so  popular.  Some  of  the  haughty 
swells  of  the  clubs  mix  it  with  champagne,  and  declare  that 
the  foaming  wine  and  the  rarebit  were  made  for  one  an- 
other, while  the  more  conservative  old  bovs  stick  to  ale 
and  porter.  The  House  rarebit  requires  neither,  and  may 
be  eaten  cold,  which  is  a  revelation  in  this  line  of  natural 
history. 

Strictly    up-to-date  and  handsomest  line  of 
goods  at  John  \V.  Carmany's,  •_';->  Kearny  street. 

The  best  of  all  Pills  are  Bm  ham's 


Kent's  furnishing 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  6,  1897. 


a  Book        A  short  time  ago  we  noticed  in  this  column 
of  a  volume  of  criticisms  by   an  English  critic 

the  Week.*  — Mr.  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch;  we  now  wish  to 
draw  attention  to  a  book  by  an  American 
critic — Professor  Brander  Mathews,  of  Columbia  College, 
New  York.  "Ventures  in  Criticism"  consists  of  seven 
essays,  the  most  interesting  of  which  are  those  entitled 
"American  Literature,"  "On  pleasing  the  taste  of  the 
public,"  "Mr.  Andrew  Lang"  and  "Robert  Louis  Steven- 
son." Of  the  English  language  the  Professor  says:  "It 
is  a  heritage  which  we  derived  from  our  forefathers.  We 
hold  it  by  rightof  birth. ...  It  is  an  American  possession,  as 
it  is  a  British  possession,  no  more  and  no  less;  and  we  hold 
it  on  the  same  terms  that  our  cousins  do.  We  have  the 
rights  of  ownership,  and  the  responsibilities  also,  exactly 
as  they  have,  and  to  exactly  the  same  extent."  Now  this 
is,  of  course,  true;  but  it  is  not  the  whole  truth.  Though 
English  is  the  mother- tongue  of  Briton  and  American  alike, 
they  do  not  stand  in  quite  the  same  relations  to  it.  When- 
ever any  question  as  to  what  is  or  is  not  English  arises, 
we  must  refer  to  the  British  usage,  and  not  to  the  Ameri- 
can. As  the  late  Richard  Grant  White  so  clearly  pointed 
out,  in  so  far  as  English-speaking  people,  whether 
Australians,  New  Zealanders,  or  natives  of  North  America 
speak  a  language  differing  from  that  spoken  by  the  best 
speakers  of  Great  Britain,  they  are  not  speaking 
English;  at  any  rate,  not  the  English  of  to-day. 
We  have  an  almost  perfect  analogy  to  this  in 
the  languages  of  ancient  Greece:  while  the  Greek 
colonists  spread  all  along  the  European,  African 
and  Asiatic  coasts  of  the  Mediterranean,  carrying  their 
mother-tongue  with  them,  deriving  it  from  their  fore- 
fathers, holding  it  by  right  of  birth,  and  all  the  rest  of  it, 
yet  Greek  as  spoken  by  the  inhabitants  of  one  single  city 
of  Greece  always  remained  the  highest  form  of  the  lan- 
guage. Classical  scholars  do  not  try  to  write  the  Greek 
of  the  Rhodians,  the  Mityleceans,  or  the  Greek  colonists 
of  Egypt,  but  the  Greek  of  Demosthenes,  Plato,  Aeschylus 
and  Euripides:  while  they  read  and  admire  the  poems  of 
Hesiod  and  Homer,  and  the  histories  of  Herodotus,  they 
carefully  abstain  from  imitating  the  peculiarities  of  the 
Greek  in  which  they  are  written.  The  Greek  of  the  New 
Testament  is  simply,  to  a  scholar,  impossibly  and  unspeak- 
ably bad.  Prose  written  in  it  would  not  get  a  man  a  third 
class  at  Oxford  or  Cambridge.  We  are  inclined  to  suppose 
that  no  educated  American  would  defer  to  Canadian  or 
Australian  usage,  yet  it  is  just  as  authoritative,  "no  more 
and  no  less,"  as  the  English  spoken  in  the  United  States: 
that  is  to  say,  it  is  the  language  of  a  colony,  and  not  of  a 
mother-land.  No  educated  Hollander  cares  a  straw  for 
the  usages  of  Dutch  colonists  in  Java  or  Sumatra,  and  no 
educated  Frenchman  regards  the  French  of  Martinique  or 
Reunion.  Nor  would  they  regard  them  any  more  though 
each  of  those  countries  contained  seventy  millions  of  peo- 
ple. In  speaking  of  Mr.  Andrew  Lang  the  Professor  says 
that  "though  he  dwells  by  the  banks  of  the  Thames,  his 
pages  are  disfigured  by  no  Briticisms."  We  must  point 
out  to  the  Professor,  that,  while  there  are  provincialisms 
in  the  language  of  uneducated  British  people,  there  are  no 
such  things  as  "Briticisms."  If  the  people  of  highest 
education  in  Great  Britain  use  certain  phrases  and  forms 
of  speech,  those  phrases  and  forms  are,  ipso  facto,  good 
English.  If  we  want  to  know  whether  a  phrase  or  word  is 
good  French  or  not,  we  ask  a  highly  educated  Frenchman; 
if  we  wish  to  know  whether  a  phrase  or  word  is  good 
Spanish  or  not,  we  refer  to  an  educated  Spaniard,  not  to 
a  Mexican,  a  Central  or  South  American,  though  those 
regions  are  many  times  larger  than  Old  Spain,  and  con- 
tain man3T  more  millions  of  people.  Similarly,  highly  edu- 
cated Britons  are  the  sole  authorities  on  questions  of  Eng- 
lish usage.  Would  any  honest  person  recommend  an 
Italian  or  German  gentleman  desirous  of  learning  the  best 
English  to  take  up  his  residence  in  Australia,  Canada,  or 
the  United  States?    We  trow  not.     "Aspects  of  fiction" 


comprises  six  essays,  all  of  which,  if  not  particularly  pro- 
found, are  at  any  rate  bright  and  readable.  In  the  essay 
entitled  "The  gift  of  story-telling"  Professor  Mathews  says 
that  all  writers,  and  indeed  all  artists,  may  be  divided  into 
three  classes:  "those  with  the  special  temperament,  those 
with  general  ability,  and  the  scanty  few  who  have  both  the 
general  ability  and  the  special  temperament."  Thus  a 
man  may  possess  the  story-telling  gift  in  a  high  degree, 
and  yet  may  be,  as  Charles  Dickens  was,  a  man  of  very 
moderate  intelligence  and  little  insight.  Such  a  man  will 
always  get  readers,  but  when  he  attempts  to  write  critic- 
isms of  books  or  pictures,  or  to  propound  political  or 
philosophical  ideas,  he  will  exhibit  the  real  poverty  of  his 
mind  and  the  limitations  of  his  culture.  Thus  it  is  that  we 
find  hundreds  of  people  of  slight  attainments  and  moderate 
intelligence  who  can  tell  a  good  story,  but  very  few  com- 
petent essayists.  A  perusal  of  Professor  Mathews' 
volume  shows  that  he  has  little  Latin,  and  less  Greek,  as 
he  himself  confesses,  and  no  intimate  knowledge  of  any 
literatures  except  English  and  French.  His  inferiority  to 
Grant  Allen  (who,  though  a  naturalist  and  a  novelist,  is 
an  excellent  classical  scholar),  to  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch, 
George  Saintsbury,  Frederick  Harrison,  Andrew  Lang, 
and  other  British  critics,  is  thus  apparent.  Indeed,  no 
man  dare  set  up  as  a  literary  critic  in  Great  Britain  who 
was  not  as  familiar  with  Greek  and  Latin  literature  as 
with  that  of  his  own  country,  and  reasonably  at  home  in 
French  and  German  literature  as  well.  Thus  we  feel,  in 
reading  Professor  Mathews'  criticisms,  that,  while  he  has 
natural  intelligence,  he  carries,  as  compared  with  his 
rivals  across  the  Atlantic,  a  light  armament. 

*  Aspects  of  Fiction,  and  other  Ventures  in  Criticism.  By 
Brander  Mathews,  New  York.    Harper  and  Brothers.    1893. 

The  Sierra  Club  Bulletin,  being  number  14  of  the  publi- 
cations of  the  Sierra  Club,  has  recently  been  issued.  It 
consists  of  sixty  well-printed  pages,  with  ten  full-page 
photogravures  of  mountain  scenes.  "On  Mount  Lefroy" 
by  Charles  Sproull  Thompson  gives  an  account  of  the  un- 
timely death  of  Philip  Stanley  Abbot,  which  took  place  on 
the  Canadian  mountain  on  August  3rd  of  last  year.  Mr. 
Bolton  Coit  Brown  narrates  the  wanderings  of  himself  and 
his  wife  in  the  High  Sierra  between  Mount  King  and 
Mount  Williamson.  Though  they  reached  an  altitude  of 
14,448  feet  above  sea  level,  "Lucy"  stood  the  fatigue  and 
exposure  wonderfully  well.  Howard  Longley  gives  some 
advice  to  tyros  in  mountaineering  as  to  what  to  take  with 
them,  and  how  to  take  it;  J.  M.  Stillman  contributes  an 
article  on  the  Tebipite  Valley,  and  Theodore  L.  Solomons, 
the  Overland  Monthly's  "Author-explorer,"  one  on  an 
early  summer  excursion  to  the  Tuolumne  canon  and  Mount 
Lyell."  The  photogravure  of  Tehipite  Dome,  from  a 
negative  by  Walter  A.  Starr,  is  a  very  satisfactory  pic- 
ture, as  also  is  that  of  the  Upper  Tuolumne  Canon  by  T. 
S.  Solomons.  Mr.  John  Muir,  the  discoverer  and  eponymous 
hero  of  the  Muir  Glacier  in  Alaska,  is  President  of  the 
Sierra  Club,  which  also  numbers  Professors  Joseph  Le 
Conte  and  George  Davidson  among  its  Directors.  Any  of 
the  publications  of  the  club  may  be  had,  at  moderate 
prices,  on  application  to  the  Secretary,  Mr.  Elliott  Mc- 
Allister, at  the  Academy  of  Sciences  Building. 

"  The  Show  Lion,  and  Other  Dramatic  Poems,  Readings, 
and  Sketches,"  by  Cora  E.  Chase,  is  for  sale  at  the  book- 
stores of  Messrs.  Whittaker  &  Ray  and  Doxey.  The  title 
piece  is  a  little  poem  of  twenty-four  four-lined  verses,  re- 
counting how  the  old  wild  spirit  and  lust  for  blood  breaks 
out  suddenly  in  a  captive  Indian  lion,  so  that  he  attacks 
and  kills  his  keeper,  and  receives  a  mortal  hurt  himself. 
It  is  a  lively,  brisk,  vigorous  composition,  and  the  versifi- 
cation is  good.  The  rimes  are  unforced  and  correct,  and 
the  lines  run  easily  and  gracefully.  The  little  book  con- 
tains twenty  other  pieces  of  prose  or  verse,  of  which  we 
like  best  "The  Nun's  Rose."  "The  Bull-Fight,"  though 
not  quite  accurate  as  a  description  of  the  sport,  is  still 
bright  and  possessed  of  life  and  movement.  The  typogra- 
phy is,  unfortunately,  decidedly  inaccurate.  But  this  can 
be  corrected  in  a  later  edition.  For  the  present,  the 
errors  do  not  materially  detract  from  the  value  of  the  book 
as  a  collection  of  suitable  bits  for  recitation,  for  which 
purpose  it  may  be  heartily  commended.  Miss  Chase  is  a 
true  Californian  singer;  her  verse  is  healthy  and  will  most 
assuredly  bring  fame  to  her  in  due  time. 


February  6.  1897. 


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Improprieties  in  the  manner  of  some  of  the  Sunday 
in  America.     I  could  show  Pr.   Nicoll   articles  and  letter- 
•  by  the  bushel  in  the  American  Sunday  papers  which 
to   ire  which    would    not    be   admitted    for  a 
moment  in  the  most  liberal-minded  English  house."    S 
body  must  have  been  sending  the  Sunday  Examiner  to  this 
Londoner:  we  sincerely  hope  that  in  future  he  will  keep  it 
at  home  to  light  fires  with. 

The  ninth  annual  edition  of  'Our  Society  Blue  Bo 
published  by  Charles  C.  Hoag,  is  just  out,  and  exce 
attractive  appearance  and  completeness  of  detail  any  pre- 
ceding volume.  Several  new  features  are  observed  in  the 
make-up  and  style  of  the  publication,  which  add  much  to 
the  artistic  appearance  of  this  work,  which  has  become  a 
recognized  and  valued  authority  on  all  matters  of  which  it 
treats.  It  is  for  sale  by  Hartwell.  Mitchell  &  Willis,  226 
Post  street  and  107  Montgomery  street. 

The  latest  monthly  periodical  to  arrive  at  our  table  is 
The  Month,  issued  by  The  Critic  Company,  New  York. 
Persons  desiring  to  keep  abreast  of  current  literature  and 
authors,  cannot  afford  to  overlook  this  highly  entertaining 
magazine,  which  is  issued  at  10  cents  a  copy,  or  $1  per 
annum. 


MR.  A.  H.  Loughborough,  a  prominent  and  successful 
attorney  of  this  city,  and  for  many  years  a  resident 
of  San  Francisco,  died  of  apoplexy  at  his  home  on  O'Far- 
rel  street  early  last  Saturday  morning.  Peath  came 
most  unexpectedly,  as  he  had  retired  on  the  previous 
evening  in  usual  health.  Mr.  Loughborough  enjoyed  a 
large  practice  in  land  and  probate  business,  and  was  at- 
torney for  several  financial  institutions.  He  was  a  man  of 
solid  worth,  and  counted  among  his  friends  many  people  of 
wealth  and  influence.  A  widow  and  four  children  survive 
him. 


SW.  FOSTER,  who  has  for  many  years  been  President 
,  of  the  San  Francisco  &  North  Pacific  Railroad,  has 
been  elected  General  Manager  as  well.  The  admirable 
management  of  this  property  is  largely  due  to  Mr.  Foster's 
energy  and  capacity,  and  the  increased  duties  will  doubt- 
less meet  with  the  same  executive  ability  that  has  char- 
acterized his  entire  connection  with  the  road. 


Brown's  Bronchial  Troches  have  been  on  the  market 
for  more  than  fifty  years,  and  they  are  recognized  as 
an  unfailing  relief  for  hoarseness  and  sore  throat.  They  are 
of  great  value  to  public  speakers  and  singers,  and  are  of 
use  to  all  persons  who  may  be  troubled  with  weakness  of 
vocal  chords,  as  they  strengthen  and  clear  the  voice  by 
their  soothing  and  healing  effect. 


It  is  possible  to  geta  fairly  good  education  on  things  in  Japanese 
an,  by  just  looking  in  on  Geo.  T.  Marsh  at  625  Market  street,  under 
the  Palace  Hotel.  All  the  quaint  works, curios,  rare  tapestries,  etc., 
of  the  quaint  Japanese  people  seem  to  be  collected  in  his  store,  and 
Marsh  is  always  glad  to  show  them  to  you.  Cost?  Tbey  are 
cheaper  than  ever. 

Cne  never  thinks  a  rose  by  any  other  name  would  smell  as  sweet, 
when  passing  Leopold's,  at  39  Post  street.  The  most  beautiful 
flowers— a  veritable  bower  of  roses — there  delight  the  eye.  Nowhere 
else  are  the  prices  so  reasonable  nor  the  flowers  fresher  or  more  fra- 
grant. From  a  single  bud  to  a  banquet  hall,  Leopold  can  suit  your 
taste  and  pocket  alike. 


NEVADA  WAREHOUSE  AND  DOCK  COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  tons.  Regular  warehouse  lor  San  Franolsco 
Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  PaclBc  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  Improvements  tor  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  tor  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  wheat.  " 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  Interest  on  grain  stored  In  warehouses 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  In  Urst-class  companies  or  grain  sold' 
If  desired,  at  current  rates.  ' 

OFFICE-202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bunk. 


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paper-hangers,  printers,  painters,  shoe  factories, 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  6,  1897. 


It  seems  a  rather  late  date  to  take  up 
Chickens  Coming  the  report  of  Mr.  J.  W.  Warburton, 
Home  to  Roost,  the  British  Consul-General  in  this  city, 
issued  by  the  Foreign  Office  in  Sep- 
tember last,  as  it  has  already  been  done  to  death  in  the 
way  of  criticism,  favorable  and  otherwise,  months  ago. 
But  any  allusion  to  its  scorching  condemnation  of  the 
land  frauds  perpetrated  from  time  to  time  in  this  State  is 
apt  to  prove  beneficial.  Mr.  Warburton  is  evidently  the 
right  man  in  the  right  place,  while  no  fairer  or  more  com- 
petent critic  could  be  found  here  than  Surveyor-General 
Green.  Mr.  Green  confirms  every  charge  that  the  War- 
burton report  says  in  the  spirit  of  honesty  which  has 
always  marked  his  career.  He  goe^  further,  and  saddles 
the  blame  in  the  majority  of  instances  on  the  foreign  pro- 
moter, who  frequently  is  himself  a  Briton  striving  for  a 
fortune  by  robbing  his  countrymen.  Mr.  Green  is  right 
there,  again.  The  rascality  in  promotion  of  mines  and 
lands  in  California  has  never  developed  here.  Citizens  of 
this  State  have  been  invariably  the  tools  of  thieving  ad- 
venturers, who  have  involved  them  in  such  a  manner  at 
times  where  escape  has  been  impossible.'  At  the 
earliest  opportunity  the  News  Letter  will  publish  a 
complete  list  of  British  investments  in  mines  since 
the  earliest  days  of  American  occupation,  showing  the  suc- 
cesses and  failures  (unfortunately  in  the  majority)  with 
those  responsible  for  the  promotion  of  the  schemes.  In 
the  meantime,  it  is  a  pleasure  to  know  that  at  last  an 
official  has  been  found  in  the  person  of  Consul-General 
Warburton,  who  is  not  to  be  swayed  by  unfriendly  criticism 
from  his  duty  in  protecting  the  interests  of  his  fellow- 
countrymen  against  the  predatory  raids  of  their  unscru- 
pulous brethren.  He  may  possibly  be  annoyed  from 
time  to  time  by  threats  to  report  him  at  the  Foreign  Office, 
in  the  same  bombastic  style  of  the  individual  who  is  always 
for  "instructing  his  solicitor"  to  demand  relief,  or  address- 
ing the  editor  of  the  Times,  with  the  idea  that  he  has  only  to 
bow-wow  and  shake  the  earth.  It  will  not  be  a  difficult 
matter  for  the  Consul-General  to  offset  any  complaints  of 
the  kind  should  he  deem  them  worthy  of  notice. 

The  Alaska  mining  sale  cropped  up  again 
Progress  of  during- the  week,  the  last  time  on  a  "high 
the  Boom,  authority,"  which  incontinently  knocked 
the  stuffing  out  of  the  price,  which  was 
quoted  at  S255, 000.  This  is  a  little  over  half  of  the  pre- 
vious announcement,  now  a  fortnight  old,  which  in  turn 
was  $150,000  above  the  story  told  by  wire  from  Seattle 
three  weeks  ago,  and  also  in  excess  of  the  previous  reports 
coming  along  in  rotation  during  the  past  six  weeks,  the 
purchasers  represented  working  down  from  the  Rothschilds 
to  Beit  of  African  banking  fame,  and  finally  to  the  Alaska- 
Treadwell  syndicate,  the  natural  buyers.  Another  four 
weeks'  old  sale  item  was  dished  up  again  on  Wednesday 
last,  after  making  the  rounds  of  the  State,  just  in  time  for 
a  split  up  in  the  negotiations,  which  ended  the  deal  in 
smoke.  A  small  affair  where  some  claims,  bonded  twelve 
months  ago  by  Charles  Webb  Howard  and  others,  near 
Grass  Valley,  is  also  reported,  the  price  named  being 
$50,000.  Captain  Thomas  Mein,  who  is  accredited  with  a 
greater  desire  to  buy  than  to  sell  mines  just  now,  is  quoted 
as  an  owner  in  this  last  transaction  of  the  Dodo  and  Or- 
leans, acquired  by  the  Howard  clique.  It  strikes  one  that 
it  must  have  been  a  good  thing,  if  Mein  let  go  so  easily. 
The  same  might  apply  to  the  Alaska  mining  sale,  ihe  old 
owners  of  the  property  being  now  engaged  in  active  min- 
ing operations  themselves,  and  open  to  purchase  anything 
which  strikes  them  favorably. 

Owing  to  a  more  limited  range  of  fluctua- 
The  Pine        tions  for   some   days   past,  dealers   have 
Street  Market,     not  been  able  to  make  so  many  profitable 
turns  as  they  did  the  week  before.     Con. 
Cal.-Virginia  alone  shows   any  material  profits.     The  in- 
creased movement  in  it  was  due  to  the  re-commencement 
of  work  on  the  1550-foot  level,  where  the   new  strike  was 
made  recently.     The  prospects   in   this   direction  are  en- 
couraging enough  to  attract  speculation,  which  is  sharp- 


ened by  the  knowledge  that  the  ground  now  entered  is 
new  in  every  sense  of  the  word,  while  lying  close  to  the 
richest  and  most  prolific  portion  of  the  old  mine.  The  tone 
of  the  other  shares  was  heavy  until  stimulated  by  the  re- 
newed activity  at  the  North  End.  The  news  from  Chollar- 
Brunswick  was  of  the  most  favorable  character,  but  some- 
how it  does  not  help  the  stock  out  in  the  way  one  would 
naturally  expect.  The  failure  to  support  the  shares  from 
the  attack  of  a  bear  clique  some  time  ago  not  only  shook 
a  great  deal  of  friendly  capital  out  of  the  market  for 
good,  but  rendered  other  dealers  timid  of  similar  treat- 
ment in  the  future.  The  mine  certainly  makes  a  remark- 
ably fine  showing  so  far  as  ore  is  concerned,  much  more 
being  extracted  than  any  one  dreamed  of.  In  the  way  of 
business  among  the  brokers,  there  is  still  room  for  much 
improvement,  but  there  is  a  more  sanguine  feeling  evident 
among  them  in  regard  to  the  future,  which  seems  full  of 
possibilities  just  now  that  something  will  at  last  turn  up 
to  help  them  out.  Old  Micawber  has  many  a  prototype 
on  the  San  Francisco  Stock  Exchange  and  on  Pine  street. 
A    quiet   but  determined   effort  is   still 

The  American  being  made  to  advance  the  project  of 
Flat  Project,  draining  American  Flat  by  people  who 
are  directly  interested  in  the  result. 
They  recognize  that  it  would  be  of  great  benefit  to  Nevada, 
and  likewise  to  the  speculative  business  in  this  city. 
The  project  should  receive  the  support  of  every  one  con- 
nected with  the  mining  market.  This  is  doubtful,  how- 
ever. After  the  Brunswick  experience  it  is  difficult  to 
realize  that  help  of  any  kind  can  be  expected  from  the 
Pine  street  contingent  in  any  event,  no  matter  how  im- 
portant its  bearing  on  the  future  of  the  business.  A 
clique  of  individuals  exists  which  makes  its  money  out  of 
opposition  to  any  movement  in  the  interests  of  better 
times.  This  has  had  a  rather  chilling  effect  on  the  friends 
of  a  more  progressive  movement  and  served  to  detract 
from  any  future  efforts  on  their  part  to  build  up  where  so 
many  are  ready  to  tear  down.  Of  late  the  friends  of  the 
business  have  been  in  the  position  of  pulling  chestnuts  out 
of  the  fire  for  other  people  who,  strange  to  say,  have  the 
sympathy  of  the  brokers.  It  is  likely  that  the  attempt 
will  be  made  to  pull  the  American  Flat  scheme  through. 
If  so,  it  will  be  hoped  that  it  will  meet  a  better  fate  than 
the  Brunswick  did.  The  Comstock  Tunnel  Company  should 
naturally  cut  quite  an  important  figure  in  pushing  this 
work  to  a  successful  issue,  but  of  course  it  will  do  nothing 
of  the  kind  under  the  present  management.  A  shake  up 
in  the  executive  branch  of  this  concern  would  not  be  one  of 
the  worst  things  which  could  take  place  in  the  interest  of 
its  shareholders. 

Last  Saturday   was  the  date  fixed  by 
Awaiting  that        rumor  for  the   consummation  of   the 

Powder  Compact,  new  powder  trust.  At  least,  so  it  was 
given  out  by  friends  of  the  Giant  com- 
bination, and  the  stock  got  another  boost,  as  high  as 
$32.50,  on  the  strength  of  a  tip  which  may  have  caught 
some  unwary  investor,  and  it  may  not.  In  any  event,  there 
is  no  doubting  the  intentions  of  the  person  or  persons  re- 
sponsible for  magnifying  a  board  meeting  of  one  company 
into  a  general  and  decisive  meeting  of  all  the  companies  in 
the  business.  The  game  that  has  been  played  in  Giant  on 
the  local  stock  board  is  likely  to  work  more  injury  than 
good  to  that  concern,  before  all  is  said  and  done.  This  is 
not  the  first  time  it  has  been  played  during  the  past  five 
or  ten  years,  and  this  town  is  too  small  for  deals  of  a  kind 
which  go  all  right  in  places  like  New  York  or  London. 
There'is  a  wider  field  to  work  there,  and  the  losses  cannot 
be  located  as  well  as  here,  where  the  regular  line  of  in- 
vestors is  as  well  known  as  the  brokers  who  represent 
them.  The  men  who  get  nipped  are  invariably  heard  from 
in  the  long  run.  They  are  good  squealers,  even  if  they  are 
bad  speculators.  So  far,  in  the  matter  of  past  deals,  when 
the  clean-up  time  came,  the  smooth  wire-pullers  have  al- 
ways been  permitted  to  get  away  with  the  plunder  in 
peace,  smiling  up  their  sleeves  at  the  verdant  innocence 
of  their  victims. 

Can    any    reader    locate,  the  Mammoth 

Please  Locate    Mountain  mines  in   this  State,  which  an 

These  Mines,     attempt  is   being  made  to  float  in  Lon- 
don?    Information   regarding   them  will 
be  received  at  this  office  with  thanks. 


February  6,  1897. 


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TI!K  disgustii  g  ■  ■  -  re  to  doff  tl 
el  on  the  I  . 
lounced  in 
•    prominently     ■  by    the  tr 

Jueen  of  t  i      > 

ihinpton    jus  President 

doub  'gun.  fled  aboard  a  revenue 

ped  down  the  Potomac,  when    he   heard  that  I. 
beaded  toward   the   Whiti  but  there 

her  some  clinging  shreds  and  patches  of  former  greatness, 
mostly   on    the   pages   of  hotel    registers   and  on 
marked  baf  the  culture  of  the  Bast  prostrates 

f  and  worships.     That  as  a  nation  we   think    "a 
are  created  free  and  equal."  is  belied  whenever  a  title,  no 
matter  however  badly  battered,  drifts  across  the  seas  and 
graciously  permits  us  to  lick  the  dust  from  its  royal  boots. 

DR.  E.  H.  WOOLSEY,  of  Oakland,  has  just  discovered 
that  diphtheria  bacilli  and  vaccine  germs  when  acting 
simultaneously  upon  the  human  system  are  a  cure  for  the 
former  dread  disease;  and  Engineer  Schusslcr  learned  in 
Germany  on  his  recent  extended  tour  of  water  works  in- 
vestigation, that  a  certain  sort  of  germ  is  absolutely 
beneficial  to  those  who  unconsciously  swallow  them.  The 
latest  experiment  and  one  of  the  most  important  comes 
from  Pennsylvania  where  an  unfortunate  man  lias  been 
caught  in  an  attempt  to  inocculate  his  mother-in-law  with 
the  diphtheria  bacilli,  for  the  purpose  of  hastening  her 
demise.  Thus  is  the  useful  sphere  of  the  busy  little  germ 
being  gradually  widened  in  the  cause  of  science,  hygiene 
and  tranquility  about  the  fireside. 

GEORGE  BROWN,  a  meat  inspector  for  the  United 
States  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,  was  committed  to 
jail  the  other  day  by  a  Police  Judge  for  rank  perjury  on 
the  witness  stand.  It  is  understood,  however,  as  is  said 
of  clergymen  "under  fire,"  that  Mr.  Brown's  usefulness  as 
a  meat  inspector  is  in  no  way  impaired  by  this  unfortunate 
contretemps.  Public  faith  in  his  tags  may  remain  undimin- 
ished, while  a  firmer  feeling  will  be  manifested  in  the 
tuberculous  meat  industry  from  the  time  that  he  returns 
to  the  post  of  duty. 

THE  alarming  statement  is  made  that  out  of  seventeen 
hundred  cows  examined  by  Veterinary  Surgeon 
O'Rourke,  three  hundred  are  going  off  with  galloping  con- 
sumption. Prof.  Wenzell,  official  chemist  of  the  Health 
Department,  has  analyzed  many  articles  of  food  found  for 
sale  here,  and  his  reports  show  that  this  is  a  wicked  and 
adulterating  generation.  The  Crier  believes  that  the 
purveyors  of  these  fraudulent  articles  should  be  choked 
with  their  own  goods,  and  the  offending  dairymen  strangled 
'on  diseased  milk  without  benefit  of  either  clergy  or  water. 

IT  is  intimated  that  the  United  States  Government  may 
interfere  to  prevent  the  meeting  of  Corbett  and  Fitz- 
simmons  in  Nevada.  As  a  relief  fund  for  the  needy  of  the 
sagebrush  State  will  have  to  be  raised  if  the  mill  is  sup- 
pressed, the  Town  Crier  believes  the  new  industry  justi- 
fiable upon  the  common  grounds  of  self-preservation.  And 
then,  these  sons  of  pestilence  have  so  long  mauled  seventy 
millions  of  freemen  with  their  jaw-whangings,  that  we 
should  have  a  chance  to  get  even. 

NOW  that  the  important  work  of  re-distribution  of  the 
patronage  at  the  disposal  of  the  Board  of  Education 
has  been  accomplished,  the  gentlemen  will  be  able  to  give 
attention  to  the  less  important  duties,  for  which  they  were 
elected.  The  labors  of  the  Board  in  that  patriotic  en- 
deavor were  very  materially  lightened  by  the  disinterested 
suggestions  of  that  excellent  citizen,  Sam  Rainey. 

THE  State  Senate  on  last  Tuesday  adopted  a  resolution 
ordering  the  payment  of  $5.00  per  day  for  water  for 
the  use  of  the  upper  house.  In  view  of  the  excessive 
thirst  of  the  Senators,  and  their  well  advertised  beer 
appetite,  the  expenditure  must  be  considered  a  shameful 
waste  of  the  State's  funds. 


I'nrglar.  i 
pnint. 

Till  •uckworl 

eeuritv  of  thai 
.1  i'f  them  who  1 
plea  of  personal  Incrlmin 

1    mber  of   the  California 

•  r  that  he  is  a  scoundrel,  and  that  the 

truth  ibide  in  him.     Besides,  of  these 

severation  ulre  but  little  weight,  as  knowledge  of 

them  i*  a-  back. 

THERei  Dixon,  -Jr..  of  New   Fork,  declares 

that  a  man  "would  be  a  fool"    to  give  away  a  I 
irity.      This  is    more    worldly    wise    than. 
What  of  the  teaching  to  "sell  all    that    thou  hai 
'"   the    poor?"     There    is    very    little   of    the   Simon-pure 
Christianity  in  these  days,  and  the  preachers  are  as  much 
infected  with  greed  and  worldliness  as  any  other  cla 

MR.  David  Starr  Jordan  has  just  declared  that  n 
ious  excitement  is  a  violent  form  of  intoxication. 
Inasmuch  as  it  has  both  financial  and  physical  advantages 
vastly  superior  to  the  tariff  levied  by  John  Barleycorn, 
the  Town  Crieb  tenderly  commends  his  numerous  friends 
of  the  cocktail  route  to  the  embrace  of  the  Salvation 
lassies — bass  drum  and  all. 

SU'lONG  his  other  afflictions  and  crimes,  the  wife  of 
the  murderer.  Butler,  has  swooped  down  upon  him, 
bearing  means  of  identification  in  the  shape  of  a  three- 
year-old  boy.  By  the  way,  it  is  observed  with  astonish- 
ment that  in  the  exhibit  of  the  man's  belongings — his 
nether  garments  and  wearing  apparel,  that  the  Examiner 
has  overlooked  the  villain's  socks. 

ftN  Oakland  paper  suggests  that  the  State  Capital 
should  be  moved  from  Sacramento  to  San  Francisco. 
Not  so  bad  as  that,  misguided  friend  I  We  already  groan 
beneath  the  daily  effusions  of  that  s-trumpet  of  fame,  the 
Examiner.  To  add  the  Legislature  of  a  thousand  scandals 
would  result  in  an  exodus  or  an  earthquake. 

THE  Town  Crier  notes  that  the  Butte  hirsute  aggre- 
gation thot  was  here  and  played  football  with  the 
Olympic  fellows,  are  still  wailing  over  the  bitter  disap- 
pointments of  New  Year's  Day.  Perhaps  they  don't 
really  mean  it,  and  are  simply  kicking  to  keep  in  practice 
for  their  next  appearance. 

NOW  that  the  Merchants'  Association  has  cleaned  the 
thoroughfares  of  San  Francisco,  it  is  respectfully 
suggested  that  the  Supervisors  give  that  organization  a 
lick  at  the  City  Hall.  The  Town  Crier  will  be  sworn  that 
there  are  parts  of  that  building  now  almost  as  clean  as 
some  of  the  streets. 

THE  sneer  of  the  infidel  and  the  wrath  of  the  ungodly  is 
as  nothing  compared  to  the  ferosity  with  which  the 
saints  of  earth  rend  each  other  upon  the  slightest  differ- 
ence of  doctrine.  The  bowels  of  Jack  Satan  are  as  a  per- 
petual fountain  of  mercy  compared  to  the  guashings  of  the 
elect. 

CLEARING  house  for  titles?  More 's  the  pity  I 
The  kind  we  really  need  beyond  all  doubt, 
Is  one  through  which,  in  tbis  and  every  city, 

We  could  compel  tbeir  owners  to  "  clear  out." 

THE  Crier  hears  that  the  statement  made  by  an  in- 
dignant citizen  to  the  effect  that  the  only  gray  matter 
about  the  editorial  department  of  the  Examiner  was 
located  in  "Andy's"  overcoat,  was  an  error.  They  have 
an  office  cat. 

THE  zeal  of  the  Examiner  for  the  public  good  just  at 
this  time,  is  sufficiently  pronounced  to  make  every 
citizen  of  means  and  ordinary  precaution  put  a  new  pad- 
lock on  his  pocket. 


A 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  6,  1897, 


THE     ART      EPICUREAN. 


(SECOND   PAPER.) 

DO  you  remember  a  certain  Rule  of  HI  that  ised  to 
haunt  your  rest  in  early  youth  like  the  ghost  of  an 
ill-digested  dinner  in  your  later  years?  That  same  old 
rule,  in  different  guise,  bobs  up  serenely  in  every  well- 
regulated  man's  dining  room — know  what  to  eat,  when  to 
eat,  and  how  to  eat.  Therein  lies  open  sesame  to  benign 
after-dinner  tranquility,  and  hoist  by  his  own  petard  is  he 
who  disregards  it. 

Too  many  men  make  a  sad  mistake  in  the  thirdly  of  my 
sermon — how  to  eat.  From  being  gourmets  their  appetites 
sometimes  coyly  lead  them  to  topple  over  the  dividing 
line,  and  great  is  the  fall  thereof,  for  then  they  herd  with 
the  gourmands,  than  whom  nothing  is  more  distasteful  to 
the  epicure. 

But  he  who  observes  these  three  cardinal  principles 
will  naturally  live  to  a  green  old  age — not  the  lean  and 
slippered  pantaloon,  but  the  sleek  and  patent-leathered 
elderly  beau — and  smile  indulgently  at  the  dyspeptic  fairy 
tales  crooned  into  his  ears  by  his  less  wise  brethren. 

A  handsome  gentleman  of  this  city  (I  would  say  "well- 
preserved"  if  the  term  did  not  sometimes  carry  a  negative 
compliment  which  I  am  far  from  intending),  a  wine  con- 
noisseur whose  well-appointed  offices  are  on  Sansome  street 
not  far  from  Pine,  but  whose  modesty  will  not  permit  my 
mentioning  his  name,  has  the  reputation  of  being  able  to 
order  a  dinner  that  cannot  be  surpassed  in  any  point,  and 
he  declares  that  a  mistake  often  made  is  in  burdening  the 
menu  with  a  plethora  of  entrees.  Usually  three  or  four 
are  considered  quite  indispensable,  and  in  such  cases  the 
following  courses  receive  but  scant  recognition  from  the 
sated  diners.  His  idea,  exemplified,  by  the  way,  in  the 
recent  inaugural  dinner  given  to  San  Francisco's  popular 
young  Mayor,  is  that  one  entree,  perfect  of  its  kind,  is 
quite  sufficing  to  the  epicurean  palate,  and  so  he  planned 
the  appended  menu: 

Oysters 

Clear  Soup 

Pompano  en  papier 

Broiled  Mushrooms 

Canvasback 

Carlo  Punch 

Chicken  a  la  Castilian 

Dessert 

The  punch  served  as  an  excuse  for  a  puff  or  two  at  a 
cigarette,  without  which  soothing  balm  I  have  heard  a 
man's  dinner  is  treacherously  incomplete. 

Pompano  en  papier  is  a  delicacy  not  frequent  in  San 
Francisco,  so  a  description  may  not  come  amiss.  The  fish 
is  shaped  something  like  a  barracouta — flat  and  roundish — 
and  appears  in  schools  off  Monterey,  occasionally  coming 
up  to  our  own  bay.  It  is  smaller  and  of  more  delicate 
flavor  than  the  New  Orleans  pompano,  and  lends  itself  ad- 
mirably to  broiling  en  papier.,  a  tiny  bit  of  the  best  olive 
oil  and  the  paper  covering  serving  to  keeD  the  juices  well 
in,  when  released  and  ready  for  the  diner  with  a  dash  of 
lime  juice  or  a  bottled  sauce  added,  it  is  pronounced  a 
triumph  of  culinarv  art 

The  chicken  a  la  Castilian  is  a  saute  with  a  liberal  allow- 
ance of  pepper  entering  into  its  composition,  and  it  is 
probably  so  familiar  to  San  Francisco  bon  vivants  that 
further  description  is  unnecessary.  But  don't  forget  the 
olives  and  truffles  that  crown  the  dish  as  a  Pingat  bat 
crowns  a  Worth  gown. 

In  selecting  mushrooms  for  broiling,  says  my  informant, 
care  must  be  used,  not  necessarily  to  distinguish  them 
from  the  sinister  toadstool — for  every  tyro  knows  that 
their  cooking  receptacle  being  born  with  a  silver  spoon  in 
its  mouth  will  settle  that  difficulty— but  in  the  matter  of 
size.  The  big,  flat  chaps  with  ugly  black  gills  have  a  finer 
flavor  than  the  little  chubby  "buttons,"  especially  for 
broiling. 

At  the  Burlingame  Country  Club  the  members  devote 
considerable  time  to  the  supply  of  the  inner  man,  with  a 
disposition  for  plain  dishes  and  a  leaning  toward  the  grill 
style  for  breakfasts  and  luncheons — breakfast  light, 
luncheon  about  1:30  and  dinner  at  8  o'clock— and  it  may 
be  a  surprise  to  those  who,  in  their  crass  ignorance,  think 
the  "B'ling'umites"  addicted  to  the  flounced  and  frilled 
style  of  menu,  to  know  that,  for  instance,    a  dinner  might 


begin  with  grape  fruit,  as  a  substitute  of  the  almost  too 
frequent  oyster  first  course,  this  appetizer  being  eaten 
much  as  you  would  eat  an  orange,  with  a  little  sugar  and 
a  dash  of  sherry  to  perfect  the  taste.  The  piece de  resist- 
ance in  these  English  dinners  is  often  a  saddle  of  lamb, 
brought  uncarved  to  the  table,  its  own  juice  forming  the 
only  gravy,  and  flanked  by  browned  potatoes.  Currant 
jelly  is  served  with  it,  and  the  secret  of  its  success  lies  in 
the  fact  that  it  is  cooked  for  only  a  small  party  of  diners, 
and  so  greater  care  enters  into  its  preparation. 

Burguudy  and  the  French  red  wine  seems  to  be  taking 
the  place,  to  a  large  degree,  cf  the  effervescent  cham- 
pagne that  used  to  be  considered  the  correct  wine  for 
club  use.  Another  innovation,  and  a  strong  candidate 
(not  used  in  the  olfactory  sense)  for  favor  as  an  after-din- 
ner cheese,  is  the  Sierra  cheese,  of  local  manufacture.  It 
partakes  of  many  of  the  qualities  of  the  imported  Camem- 
bert,  and  epicures  have  told  me,  with  tears  in  their  eyes, 
that  Camembert's  death  knell  was  sounded  when  Sierra 
made  its  appearance  on  club  tables. 

But  it  was  a  famous  salad  that  I  promised  you  last 
week,  and  you  shall  not  be  disappointed,  man  enfants. 
Here  it  is,  just  as  Donald  deV.  Graham,  out  of  the  kind- 
ness of  his  heart  and  the  grey  matter  of  his  memory, 
jotted  it  down  for  me,  and  if  you  do  not  make  a  success  of 
it,  just  charge  it  up  to  your  own  stupidity. 

It  was  in  the  Cafe  de  la  Paix  that  Mr.  Graham  first 
met  his  charmer,  and  it  made  such  an  impression  on  him 
that  then  and  there  he  bade  the  steward — pardon,  gareon 
(I  forgot  I  was  in  France)  bring  forth  the  ingredients,  and 
so  learnt,  by  mixing  it  himself,  the  secret  of  its  success. 
He  calls  it  Romaine  salad  (small  leaves  only.)  For  six 
persons. 

Three  cold  chicken  livers,  mashed  into  a  paste,  chives, 
small  amount  of  chopped  green  unions,  and  a  tiny  . 
bit  of  chopped  parsley.  Dress  to  taste  with  oil  vinegar 
and  a  small  amount  of  French  mustard.  Mix  the  liver 
paste  first  with  the  mustard,  then  add  the  oil  and  vinegar, 
and  mix  the  whole,  lastly  add  a  tablespoonfulof  white  wine, 
and  I  might  add,  mix  again,  and  yet  again.  The  salad 
maker  should  never  be  in  a  hurry — it  is  not  good  form — 
for  the  salad. 

On  the  subject  of  salads,  Mr.  Ed.  M.  Greenway  has  this 
sage  bit  of  advice  to  give — don't  make  your  salad  alone  to 
look  pretty,  but  mix  the  dressing  thoroughly  into  it,  not 
lay  a  mayonnaise  like  a  pall  over  the  top  and  refuse  ac- 
quaintance, until  placed  on  a  dish  with  the  underpinning. 
He  can  tell  you,  too,  of  a  mayonnaise  of  his  father's  con- 
coction that  would  make  you  green  wilh  envy,  but  that  is 
another  story. 

With  terrapin  at  $130  a  dozen — the  diamondbacks  that 
must  measure  exactly  nine  inches,  otherwise  the  market- 
man  loses  tens  of  dollars  for  tenths  of  inches — it  is  not 
everybody  in  this  vale  of  tears  that  can  revel  in  the  luxury 
of  its  acquaintance.  Much  of  the  so-called  terrapin  a  la 
Maryland  that  we  praise  at  the  banqueting  board,  Mr. 
Greenway,  a  Maryland  gentleman  and  therefore  authority 
on  that  as  on  many  other  matters,  declares  is  really  terra- 
pin a  la  Philadelphia,  for  the  Maryland  style  favors  the' 
addition  of  sherry  to  the  tempting  dish,  while  the  staid 
Quaker  style  frowns  upon  it. 

By  the  way,  Mr.  Greenway  makes  a  delicious  little 
edible  by  taking  one-half  sweetbreads  and  one-half  the 
white  meat  of  chicken,  mince  very  fine  then  add  a  pinch  of 
mace  and  cover  delicately  with  egg  and  breadcrumbs. 
Use  a  wire  dip  net  and  immerse  in  boiling  fat.  The  result 
must  be  tasted  to  be  appreciated. 

There  is  a  certain  duck  sauce  that  has  received  honor- 
able mention  from  the  most  critical  epicures  of  this  city  of 
club  men,  and  Colonel  H.  I.  Kowalsky  has  fathered  it,  and 
right  proud  must  he  be  of  the  offspring  of  his  brain,  for  the 
favored  few  who  have  tried  it  say  that  a  duck  without  it, 
even  of  the  most  aristocratic  lineage,  is  only  something 
to  fill  a  vacuum — comparatively  speaking,  of  course.  In 
spite  of  the  fact  that  the  Colonel  is  now  on  the  invalid  list, 
under  the  ban  of  nurse  and  physician,  he  most  kindly 
granted  me  the  privilege  of  hearing  from  his  own  lips  the 
mysterious  process  of  the  making  of  the  sauce.  But  it  shall 
have  a  more  dignified  position  in  these  notes  than  the  tail 
end  of  a  chapter,  so  have  your  duck  ready  for  it  next 
week,  and  if  it  isn't  hot  enough  for  even  these  tabasco  days, 
you  simply  have  no  palate.  Amy  L.  Wells. 


February  6,  1897. 


SAX   PRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER 


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Di:  EDITH     Simplicity  is  by  uo  means  the  order  of 
season,    as  quantities  of   trimming 
>n  everything,  even  the  hitherto  plain  skirts  subsrrib- 
>  this  fashion.     Variety  on  all  lines  is  the  aim   of   the 
-maker  and  »i'.,/,-..i'.,  and  even    the   most  models 

are  accepted,  provided  they  have  been  evolved  by  some  one 
with  a  reputation. 

Deep  borders  of  velvet,  cut  in  fanciful  fashion,  are  - 
the  front  breadth  of  a  skirt,  or  in  the  rase  of  silk  or  satin 
there  is  much  ornamentation  in  sparkling  effects,  such  as 
beads,  spangles,  and  cabochons.  A  gown  of  unmistakable 
eAi'c  had  a  skirt  of  American  Beauty  satin.  Across  the 
front  was  a  band  of  net  thickly  embroidered  in  spangles, 
while  two  serpent-like  ornaments  were  set  on  each  - 

Redfern  is  making  short,  tight-fitting  jackets  with  a 
narrow  roll  of  fur,  and,  perhaps,  a  daring  collar  and  revers 
of  fur.  A  handsome  gown  emanating  from  this  house  is  of 
Russian  green  lady's  cloth,  almost  as  lustrous  as  satin. 
The  foot  of  the  skirt  was  bordered  narrowly  with  ermine, 
and  a  vest  of  the  fur  was  let  into  the  waist,  with  a  collar 
of  the  same.  Ermine  bands  were  at  the  wrists.  This 
fetching  costume  was  not  intended  for  the  street,  but  was 
worn  at  a  wedding. 

Fur  is  seen  on  everything,  thick  and  thin  materials  alike. 
On  the  smooth  broadcloths  it  makes  an  elegant  trimming, 
and  is  equally  handsome  on  evening  bodices  of  chiffon! 
gauze,  or  velvet.  Fluffy  mink-tails  are  set  in  full plisste  of 
chiffon.  They  are  especially  pretty  with  such  light  colors 
as  XL'e  green,  baby  blue,  and  pale  pink. 

Trimmed  skirts  gain  in  favor,  and  the  manner  of  apply- 
ing the  decorations  is  almost  limitless.  Arabesque  braid- 
ing and  straight  rows  and  Vandykes  of  Milan  braid  are 
very  popular.  Stylish  cloth  skirts  are  trimmed  knee  deep, 
with  lines  of  narrow  silk  and  metal  gimp  or  two-inch  bias 
bands  of  velvet  in  a  contrasting  color,  these  bands  set 
about  an  inch  and  a  half  apart.  Other  skirts  are  trimmed 
downward  from  the  belt  to  half  the  length  of  the  skirt,  or 
else  from  the  skirt  edge  up,  as  is  most  becoming.  A 
pretty  effect  is  produced  with  braid  in  two  widths,  the 
wider  in  the  center,  making  three  rows  on  each  skirt 
seam,  with  a  trefoil  at  the  end. 

The  velvet  blouses  that  fashion  affects  cannot  exactly  be 
called  street  wraps,  but  when  becoming  they  are  really  a 
better,  though  a  less  novel  choice,  than  the  bolero  jacket. 
Dark-hued  velvet  blouses  are  still  worn  with  handsome 
cloth  skirts,  with  both  house  and  street  costumes.  Their 
simple,  severe  style  remains  unchanged,  elaboration  being 
exercised  in  the  case  of  blouses  of  brocade,  satin,  or  simi- 
lar light  textiles.  Modified  mutton-leg  sleeves,  costly  but- 
tons, and  a  very  narrow  fur  roll  of  the  flaring  collar  and 
cuffs,  form  the  sole  decoration,  and  frequently  the  showy 
buttons  are  omitted.  On  theatre  blouses  of  Russian  red, 
green,  brown  or  black  velvet,  a  more  ornate  style  is  ob- 
servable. Tudor  or  Queen  Bess  ruffs  are  employed  with 
additions  of  creamy  lace  plaitings  or  ruches  of  mousseline 
de  soie,  some  of  these  having  tiny  clusters  of  perfumed 
violets  in  the  heart  of  each  full  plait. 

Buttons  are  very  large  or  very  omall,  enameled  in 
wrought  metal,  hand-painted  or  jeweled.  Splendid  orna- 
ments are  made  as  bodice  trimmings  in  opal  crystal  beads, 
and  gold,  silver,  and  turquois*,  or  coral,  and  oxidized  sil- 
ver. 

The  newest  boots  are  of  colored  cloths,  with  the  patent 
leather  tops  carried  up  the  front.  Shoes  are  less  ornate, 
and  made  of  brocade  to  match  the  dresses,  or  of  white  or 
colored  kid.  Belinda. 

''What's  in  a  name?"  There  is  a  great  deal  in  a  name  when  it 
applies  to  liquors.  The  popularity  of  "Argonaut"  whiskey  with 
connoisseurs  means  purity,  flavor  and  quality.  Once  tasted  its 
peculiarly  rich  flavor  is  never  forgotten.  E.  Martin  &  Co.,  411 
Market  street,  are  the  Pacific  Coast  Agents. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  6,  1897. 


THE  IDLER 


GEOFFREY  Withers  had  not  written  much,  but  he  had 
written  well,  and  mainly  to  please  himself  and  those 
few,  his  friends,  who,  of  a  like  mind  with  his  own,  admired 
his  works.  He  had  published  three  romantic  dramas  in 
slim  volumes,  printed  on  hand-made  paper;  a  symbolist 
novel  with  three  characters  only,  who  never  met  each 
other,  but  whose  lives  were  lived  out  under  identical  con- 
ditions, with  varying  but  typical  results;  and  his  last  book 
consisted  of  seven  essays  called  respectively,  "The  Lost 
Sense,"  "The  Epigenetic  Theory  of  Passion,"  "Pale  Phan- 
toms of  the  Past,"  "The  Nearer  Way,"  "Nature  the 
Unnatural,"  "The  World's  Youth,"  and  "Eternal  Boy- 
hood." By  these  things  he  had  gained  his  friends,  but  his 
wife  he  had  won  by  his  beauty. 

There  is  a  beauty  which  is  never  old,  a  beauty  whose 
changes  are  as  imperceptible  as  the  changes  of  a  blue  sky 
on  a  still  and  cloudless  day,  and  a  beauty  which  belongs 
not  only  to  the  face,  but  to  the  whole  body,  and  such  was 
the  possession  of  Geoffrey  Withers,  and  had  been  his  for  all 
those  years  which  had  passed  over  his  head  without  alter- 
ing the  color  or  the  texture  of  its  hair.  He  was  not  young 
when  he  met  the  girl  who  became  his  wife,  but  he  seemed 
to  be  youth  embodied;  not  the  robustness  of  youth,  or  its 
mere  strength  and  carelessness,  but  the  soul  of  youtb^  the 
central,  undying  principle  of  youthhood,  and  it  was  irre- 
sistible. He  never  loved  his  wife,  neither  did  he  or  had  he 
loved  any  other  woman,  in  the  manner  in  which  the  love  of 
a  man  for  a  woman  is  generally  understood,  for  his  only 
love  was  for  the  embodiment  within  himself,  of  which  he 
was  perfectly  conscious.  Women  had  loved  him,  and  he 
had  shared  their  passion  and  had  been  happy  in  doing  so, 
and  had  made  them  happy.  The  bond  which  held  him  to 
his  wife  was  such,  and  she  for  her  part  regarded  him  with 
worship  which  was  accepted  by  him  with  apparent  uncon- 
sciousness. 

They  had  met  at  the  house  of  one  of  his  friends  whose 
guests  they  were  :  she  had  been  staying  with  his  friend's 
sister  some  weeks  when  he  arrived,  and  in  that  time  she 
had  read  his  books,  one  of  them  inscribed  to  this  friend,  all 
of  them  presentation  copies.  When  Joyce  Joicey  met 
their  author  she  knew  that  she  would  never  love  any  other 
man.  Joyce  was  an  artist  and  was  very  rich,  and  Withers 
knew  it  to  be  unlikely  he  would  ever  meet  a  woman  less 
calculated  to  disturb  the  faith  he  had  in  the  system  of 
life  which  he  had  created  for  himself,  and  they  were  mar- 
ried. 

The  house  they  found  for  themselves  in  the  wild,  moor- 
land highlands  of  the  southern  part  of  the  Peak  was  built 
early  in  the  sixteenth  century,  and  successive  owners  of 
it  had  time  after  time  added  to  its  beauty.  Geoffrey 
Withers  and  his  wife  made  it  still  more  beautiful  within; 
without  it  was  perfect,  as  was  also  the  park  by  which  it 
was  environed  and  the  woods  which  enclosed  it  from  the 
world.  Geoffrey  had  no  definite  intention  of  ever  again 
publishing  anything  he  might  write  :  his  wife  and  his  friends 
might  read  in  the  manuscript  pages  all  that  he  might 
produce,  and  he  would  be  content  with  so  restricted  a 
public.  For  the  rest  he  lived  in  the  serenity  of  the  pres- 
ent; in  the  beauty  of  his  wife,  in  her  wonderful  mastery 
of  the  more  than  one  musical  instrument  which  were  to  be 
found  in  this  remote  and  quiet  home. 

Time  slowly  and  surely  ran  on,  and  the  life  at  Badles- 
mere  Hall  was  seemingly  unchanged,  save  by  the  occa- 
sional coming  and  going  of  those  friends  cherished  by 
Geoffrey  and  his  wife,  and  by  even  more  than  occasional 
visits  to  these  friends.  The  household  moved  with  a  re- 
flection of  the  serenity  which  characterized  its  head.  The 
servants,  even,  of  whom  there  were  several,  seemed  to 
have  assimilated  the  spirit  of  the  place:  they  had  been 
carefully  chosen.  They  were  not  young,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  one,  whose  position  was  more  than  a  servant,  but 
less  than  an  equal.     She  was  Mrs.  Withers'  companion,  a 


sweet-natured  girl  named  and  called  Marian  in  that  inti- 
macy into  which  she  was  admitted  by  those  two,  who  never 
allowed  her  to  think  of  her  dependency.  She  had  quiet, 
luminous  eyes,  often  filled  with  a  great  affection.  She 
gradually  became  an  essential  portion  of  the  life  at  the 
Hall.  Less  passionate  than  her  mistress,  she  was  even 
more  affectionate  in  her  disposition,  and  while  not  demon- 
strative, easily  conveyed  the  love  which  she  felt.  Geoffrey 
Withers  was  to  her  an  object  to  adore,  and  to  be  near  him 
was  a  paiDful  joy. 

There  came  a  time  for  Marian  when  joy  for  the  most  part 
gave  place  to  pain,  and  in  the  secure  secrecy  of  her  bed- 
room, hidden  away  in  one  corner  of  the  beautiful  old  Hall, 
such  unhappiness  filled  her  heart  that  it  was  sorrowfully 
near  to  breaking.  Her  anguish  became  harder  to  bear 
when  Joyce  Withers,  with  a  holy  smile  of  shame  and  love, 
placed  soft  linen  in  her  hands  and  bade  her  cut  and  sew  as 
she  should  direct.  Then  in  the  long  nights  of  winter,  when 
the  wind  spoke  to  her  from  the  other  side  of  her  curtained 
window,  Marian's  passion  of  weeping  knew  no  cessation, 
and  her  shame  had  no  outlet.  But  Joyce's  eyes  were  too 
full  of  the  light  of  a  greater  happiness  to  notice  that  her 
companion's  were  too  incessantly  bent  over  the  fine  work 
her  fingers  accomplished,  and  Geoffrey  gave  no  sign. 

Soon,  from  the  neighboring  county  came  an  addition  to 
the  housekeeper's  table,  and  garrulous  Mistress  Gut- 
terige  talked  mysteriously  to  Miss  Woodnott  who  kept 
house,  and  who  now  more  than  ever  held  sway  over  the 
Hall.  Then  came  a  day  when  all  was  bustling  within,  and 
harnessing  of  horses  without.  Marian's  work  had  some 
time  been  finished,  and  she  was  alone  with  her  misery,  and 
unoccupied.  Her  grief  no  longer  escaped  her  in  tears, 
but  dry-eyed  she  sat  at  her  window  and  gazed  across  the 
park,  where  the  spirit  of  spring  was  at  work  at  its  annual 
task  of  re-awakening. 

A  tapping  at  the  door  came  as  dusk  stole  over  the  land: 
all  noises  were  hushed  now,  and  a  calm  was  within  the 
Hall.  Marian  started  and  opened  the  door,  and  a  maid 
there  with  a  coy  smile  said: 

"  If  you  please,  Mistress  Gutterige  would  speak  with 
you  in  Madam's  bedroom." 

A  great  trembling  seized  upon  Marian,  and  she  fell  on 
her  knees  by  her  little  white  bed  before  she  left  the  room. 
Silently  then  she  stole  along  the  passages  until  upon  the 
threshold  of  the  chamber  she  had  been  bidden  to,  she 
paused  and  held  her  hand  to  her  heart.  Then  she  gave  a 
still,  small  knock  upon  the  panel,  and  the  door  was  opened 
by  Mistress  Gutterige,  who,  with  a  beaming  countenance, 
invited  her  to  enter  the  room,  where  the  shaded  candles 
gave  but  a  subdued  light. 

"Come  in,  miss,"  said  Mistress  Gutterige,  "I  want  you 
to  help  with  an  ancient  custom  of  my  own  country-side,  and 
Madam  was  kindly  willing,"  turning  towards  the 
great,  black-oak  bed,  where  Marian  saw  her  mistress 
lying  with  a  pale,  beautiful,  and  l.appy  face. 

"In  Yorkshire,  you  know,"  continued  the  nurse,  "we 
always  give  the  baby  into  the  hands  of  a  maid,  ere  ever 
anyone  else  may  touch  it.  Here,  miss,  is  a  bonny  boy,  and 
you  shall  be  the  first  to  hold  it  in  your  arms.  God  bless  it, 
the  gallous  little  rogue." 

Marian  took  the  child,  and  with  a  strength,  the  source 
of  which  she  knew  not,  kissed  its  face  and  then  quietly 
walked  to  the  bed,  and,  placing  it  in  the  arms  of  its  mother, 
kissed  her  too  on  the  forehead,  and  then  turned  and  left 
the  room. 

Outside  the  door  her  fictitious  strength  was  gone:  she 
stumbled  along  the  corridor  and  then  consciousness  de- 
parted, and  she  felt  herself  falling,  always  towards  nothing. 
When  she  opened  her  eyes  she  found  her  master  bending 
over  her,  and  she  felt  the  impact  of  his  kiss  upon  her  lips, 
and  shuddered  and  lay  still,  too  helpless  to  move. 

"Marian,"  said  Geoffrey,  in  his   beautiful  voice,  "what 


February  6,  1897. 


i'MR. 


has  happened   to  you.'  I   was 

waiti>  lo  come   away,   and   was 

time  ' 

"I  >hx.'.  1  ■  tlie   trirl,  in  a  hravo 

and  pitiful   >  is  ex- 

i!  you.  ami  your  son." 

"Well,  dear  girl,  if  you  are  better  I    will,   but 
until  1  return."  and  Geotlrev  Wlthei 

:,'  with  the  pleasure  of  a  somewhat  uo- 
sant  and  danger  and  safeh 

Marian-  -r  from  the   couch   on    which  shi 

been  lying  and  went  to  her  room      Hut  a  little  while  after, 
when  everyone  at    Badlesmere    Hall   was  ooocerned  with 
the  great  news,  the  birth  of  the  heir,  she   stole  forth,  and 
the  moors  knew  her  that   night,    and  by   the   morrow  .-he 
far  away. 
Geoffrey  Withers  and   his   wife   never  ceased  to  regret 
(range  disappearance  of  Marian,  and  had  it  not  been 
for  the  absorption  in  the  baby  which    Mrs.  Withers  felt  at 
the  time,  she  would   have   been   very   unhappy.     Geoffrey 
always  resards  it  as  the  most  unpleasant  of   the  very  few 
unpleasant  features  of  his   singularly   serene  existence. 


INSURANCE. 


THE  genera!  agency  of  the  Sun  Insurance  office  for  the 
iie  Coast  has  just  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  Mr. 
W.  .1.  Callingham.  at  4'JM  California  street.  This  company 
enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  the  oldest,  and  it  is  the 
largest  purely  fire  insurance  company  in  the  world.  It 
was  established  in  1710,  and  its  offices  are  to  be  found  in 
every  part  of  the  civilized  world.  The  transfer  of  the  Coast 
agency  to  Mr.  Callingham  is  an  event  of  much  importance 
in  the  insurance  field.  The  agency  extends  as  far  East  as 
Colorado,  and  takes  in  Alaska  and  the  Hawaiian  Islands. 

Mr.  Callingham  has  been  prominently  and  successfully 
identified  with  insurance  on  this  Coast  for  the  past  twenty- 
eight  years,  and  is  at  present  the  general  agent  of  the 
Orient  of  Hartford.  Under  the  new  management  the 
policy  of  the  Sun  and  Orient  will  be  broad  and  compre- 
hensive, both  as  to  hazards  and  limitations  as  to  lines. 

It  is  rumored  quietly  on  the  street  that  Col.  Macdouald 
intends  to  resign  from  the  State  militia. 

Mr.  Ed.  Niles,  formerly  at  the  head  of  the  Pacific  In- 
surance Union,  but  at  present  connected  with  the  North 
British  and  Mercantile,  has  written  a  very  interesting  sketch 
for  the  Insurance  Standard,  of  Boston.  The  article  is  of 
superior  merit,  and  there  is  no  doubt  that  the  ''Evolution 
of  Johnson"  will  be  widely  copied  by  insurance  papers. 

Mr.  F.  G.  Voss,  the  United  States  manager  of  the 
Thuringia  Insurance  Company,  of  Germany,  with  head- 
quarters in  Chicago,  was  in  the  city  last  week.  He  still 
retains  his  interest  in  the  firm  of  Voss,  Conrad  &  Co.  in 
San  Francisco.  He  is  one  of  the  young  men  in  the  busi- 
ness who  has  very  rapidly  risen. 

The  annual  dinner  of  the  Fire  Underwriters'  Association 
of  the  Pacific  will  be  held  on  the  lb'th  inst.  Many  papers 
of  interest  are  being  prepared  for  that  occasion,  which 
will,  as  usual,  be  followed  by  a  swell  banquet. 

There  appears  to  be  excellent  foundation  for  the  report 
that  there  will  soon  be  a  general  shake  up  and  change  of 
the  prominent  /»  noma  I  in  several  of  the  large  fire  insurance 
companies  in  this  city.  The  changes  may  be  reasonably 
charged  to  the  long-continued  rate  war. 

Is  it  a  remarkable  coincidence,  or  the  result  of  other 
causes,  that  in  the  annual  statements  of  the  insurance  com- 
panies, the  home  institutions  make  a  better  showing  than 
the  Eastern  or  foreign  companies  ? 

From  present  indications  it  does  not  appear  that  there 
will  be  much  legislation  affecting  insurance  enacted  at 
Sacramento  this  year. 

Col.  L.  L.  Bromwell  visited  the  State  Capital  last  week. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  6,  1897. 


1N  view  of  the  number  of  wet  days  we  have  had  this 
week,  it  is  perhaps  fortunate  that  teas  have  been 
rather  shelved  of  late,  for,  as  a  rule,  ladies  do  not  care  to 
risk  the  dampening  of  their  plumes  and  the  ruin  of  their 
silks  and  velvets  by  going  out  in  the  rain  to  even  so  fas- 
cinating an  entertainment  as  a  tea.  Dinners  and  dances 
have  been  the  leading  events  of  the  week,  with  a  wedding 
or  two  thrown  in  to  balance  the  scale.  Both  Army  and 
Navy  have  contributed  their  quota  to  the  festive  doings  of 
the  week — the  Navy  through  the  dinner  given  by  the  offi- 
cers of  the  Perry  on  Monday  evening,  as  a  farewell  to 
their  friends  prior  to  the  departure  of  their  vessel  North, 
and  the  Army  by  means  of  the  delightful  hop  at  the  Pre- 
sidio on  Tuesday  evening,  which  quite  equalled  any  given 
at  that  post  for  a  long  period,  and  that  is  saying  a  good 
deal,  as  the  officers  of  the  departed  Fifth  Artillery  were 
regarded  by  our  belles  as  ideal  hosts.  Mrs.  Henry  Scott's 
dance  was  one  of  the  pleasantest  of  the  season,  and  as  one 
of  the  few  hostesses  who  have  provided  that  kind  of  enter- 
tainment for  her  guests  this  winter,  she  deserves  the 
especial  thanks  of  the  buds. 

Miss  Delia  Davidson  has  been  most  warmly  welcomed 
home  again  by  her  numerous  acquaintances  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  been  a  guest  at  most  of  the  functions  which 
have  taken  place  since  her  return.  She  divided  the  honors 
with  Miss  Kate  Salisbury  at  the  yellow  and  lavender 
luncheon  given  by  Mrs.  Eyre  at  the  University  Club,  was 
the  chief  guest  at  Mrs.  Southard  Hoffman's  tea,  and  was 
the  partner  selected  by  Mr.  Greenway  for  leading  the 
cotillion  of  the  Friday  Night  Club,  which  was  danced  at 
Odd  Fellows'  Hall  last  night. 

The  Clericos'  Club,  composed  of  the  Episcopal  clergy  of 
the  city,  had  their  annual  dinner  at  the  Occidental  on 
Monday  evening;  the  second  of  Mrs.  Moses  Heller's  dinner 
parties  excelled,  if  such  a  thing  were  possible,  in  beauty 
of  decoration  the  first  of  the  series;  on  this  occasion 
thirty-six  guests  were  entertained;  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Steifel,  nee  Schweitzer,  gave  a  theatre  and  elaborate  sup- 
per party  to  the  members  of  their  recerjt  wedding  party. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Steifel  are  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  a  brief 
visit,  prior  to  their  departure  for  New  York,  where  they 
will  in  future  reside. 

The  Simpson  tea  is  the  principal  event  on  the  pro- 
gramme for  to-day.  One  of  the  pleasant  affairs  named  for 
to-night  is  the  Bachelors'  theatre  party  arranged  by 
twenty-five  of  the  young  members  of  the  San  Francisco 
Verein  Club,  and  to  which  a  corresponding  number  of 
young  ladies  are  invited.  The  chaperones  are  Mesdames 
Wm.  and  Marcus  Gerstle  and  Mrs.  W.  Frias,  and  the 
elaborate  supper  which  follows  will  be  served  at  the  club. 

The  last  meeting  of  the  Friday  Fortnightlies  was  a  par- 
ticularly pleasant  affair.  Lieutenant  Bent,  who  led  the 
cotillion,  had  Miss  Ida  Gibbons  for  his  partner,  and  several 
very  pretty  figures  were  danced.  The  fancy  dress  cotil- 
lion of  the  Entre  Nous  Club  the  same  evening,  at  the  Pal- 
ace Hotel,  was  a  brilliant  success;  the  costumes  were 
varied  and  handsome,  among  the  prettiest  worn  by  the 
ladies  being  those  which  represented  Battledore  and  Shut- 
tlecock, Forget-me-not,  Fickle  Fortune,  and  the  California 
Poppy.  The  cotElion  of  the  Saturday  Night  Club  the  fol- 
lowing evening  was  led  by  Howard  Adams,  and  three  new 
figures  were  danced. 

The  ball  given  last  Saturday  night  at  the  Palace  Hotel 
by  Mrs.  Joseph,  for  the  debut  of  her  daughter  Nellie,  was 
a  very  handsome  one.  The  decorations  of  the  reception 
room  were  of  bamboo,  palms,  and  almond  blossoms;  in 
Maple  Hall,  green  and  pink  were  the  dominating  tints, 
ferns,  huckleberry  vines,  and  ribbons  being  used  most 
artistically,  producing  a  charming  result.  Here  took 
place  the  dancing,  which  was  the  chief  pleasure  of  the 
evening,  though  doubtless  by  some  the  magnificent  supper 


which  was  served  at  midnight,  was  so  regarded,  after 
which  dancing  was  again  in  order.  Mrs.  Joseph  wore  a 
gown  of  yellow  brocaded  satin,  combined  with  black  and 
adorned  with  Marechal  Neil  roses.  Miss  Joseph's  lovely 
costume  was  of  white  satin,  trimmed  with  bands  of  white 
velvet,  and  the  floral  adornments  were  lilies  of  the  valley. 
The  toilets  of  all  the  ladies  present  were  remarkably  hand- 
some. 

Our  Jewish  residents  have  rather  monopolized  the  wed- 
dings this  week,  first  on  the  list  coming  the  marriage  of 
Miss  Sady  Hyman  and  Wilfred  Mack,  which  took  place  at 
the  San  Francisco  Verein  Club  on  Wednesday.  Miss  Ag- 
nes Hyman  attended  her  sister  as  maid  of  honor,  and 
Eugene  Korn  supported  the  groom  as  his  best  man.  In 
the  evening,  Miss  Hattie  Bloomfield  and  George  Klein 
were  the  bride  and  groom,  the  ceremony  being  performed 
at  the  home  of  the  bride's  mother  on  Gough  street.  On 
Thursday  evening  Miss  May  Scott  and  N.  H.  Castle  were 
united  in  marriage  by  the  Bev.  E.  J.  Lion,  at  the  Scott 
residence  on  Vallejo  street.  The  bride's  sisters,  the  Misses 
Laura  and  Kittie  Scott,  officiated  as  her  bridesmaids,  and 
Jack  Casserley  as  best  man  to  the  groom. 

Among  the  Easter  weddings  will  be  that  of  Miss  Jessie 
Coleman  and  Harry  Knowles,  both  of  whom  are  almost  as 
well  known  on  this  side  of  the  bay  as  in  Oakland,  which  is 
their  home.  It  promises  to  be  a  brilliant  affair,  and  is 
already  a  muchly-discussed  topic  in  social  circles. 

Golden  and  silver  wedding  anniversary  celebrations  are 
taking  quite  a  prominent  part  in  the '  festivities  of  the 
month.  On  Thursday,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  P.  Spitz  cele- 
brated in  an  elaborate  manner,  at  the  Concordia  Club 
rooms,  their  fifty  years  of  married  life,  and  the  supper 
was  a  veritable  feast.  On  Tuesday,  the  14th,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  A.  Roos,  who  are  renowned  for  the  magnificence  of 
their  entertainments,  will  celebrate  their  silver  wedding 
anniversary  by  giving,  a  dinner  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  to 
which  a  hundred  guests  will  be  bidden,  and  later  in  the 
evening  there  will  be  a  ball,  for  which  a  large  number  of 
invitations  have  been  issued. 

The  "last  dances  of  the  season"  are  being  announced  by 
the  different  clubs  which  have  been  such  factors  in  the 
gaieties  of  the  present  season.  The  Monday  Night  Club 
has  named  Monday  evening,  the  15th,  as  the  date  for  their 
final  meeting  this  season;  the  Friday  Night  Cotillion  Club 
has  its  last  dance  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall  on  the  evening  of 
the  19th;  the  last  Friday  Fortnightly  will  take  place  on  the 
evening  of  the  12th,  but  tbey  will  give  a  ball  after  Lent;  so 
also  will  the  Entre  Nous  Club,  whose  last  ante-Lenten 
dance  will  be  given  on  the  2nd  of  March;  the  Saturday 
Night  Cotillion  Club  ends  its  season  on  the  evening  of  April 
23d.  The  Deux  Temps  Club,  of  Oakland,  will  soon  be  among 
the  things  of  the  past,  the  members  having  decided  to  dis- 
band. So  the  dance  to  be  given  next  Tuesday  week,  the 
16th,  will  be  the  last  one  of  that  once  popular  organiza- 
tion. The  reception  and  ball  to  be  given  at  the  Concordia 
Club  on  the  20th  promises  to  be  a  brilliant  affair.  The 
programme  for  the  earlier  part  of  the  evening  will  consist 
of  a  vaudeville  performance,  in  which  men  only  will  take 
part,  and  later  there  will  be  supper  and  dancing. 

There  have  been  many  pleasant  gatherings  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael,  especially  since  it  has  come  under  the  control  of 
Major  Warfield,  but  it  is  doubtful  if  a  daintier  repast  has 
ever  been  spread  than  was  the  recent  dinner  given  by 
Emerson  Warfield  in  celebration  of  his  natal  day.  The 
pity  of  it  was  that  it  should  have  been  a  stag  affair,  but 
twenty  of  his  young  men  friends  were  delightfully  enter- 
tained on  that  occasion. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Castle  have  returned  from  their 
trip  to  Europe,  and  are  at  the  Richelieu.  They  arrived 
on  Monday  last,  reaching  here  in  time  for  the  wedding  of 
their  nephew,  Neville  Castle,  with  Miss  May  Scott. 

Hadn't  you  better  get  the  best  tea  there  is 
going  ? 

Schilling'1  s  Best — your  grocer  pays  you  back 
your  money  in  full  if  you  don't  like  it. 


February  6 


SAN   PRANC1  fTER. 


r  absent    medicos   are   comiiur   back  to  us.     Dr.  and 
Ivahn.  who   have   been    S]  .    months  m 

oag  the  arrivals  of  the   week,  and  D 

Mr    and   Mrs     M.   II.  de  Young  are 

•JSO'  >e wards  from  Paris  and   Rerlin      Mr   and 

K.    l-inenthal    have  also     arrived     here     this 
The  recently   arrived   U.  S.  A.  Chief  Quartermaster  and 
wife.  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Moore,  ar  |ental. 

special  feature  of  Washington 's   birthday  oelebration 
this  year  will  be  the  banquet  of  ,;  llevolutionarv 

hires.  The  committee  having  the  alTair  in  charge  has 
shown  marked  zeal  and  arranged  for  a  brilliant  demonstra- 
tion. The  members  of  the  Society  of  Sons  will  banquet  at 
the  expense  of  the  Society  and  will  have  the  privUi 
inviting  guests  at  their  own  individual  expense  If  the 
present  idea  is  carried  out  the  banquet  will  probably  be 
the  finest  ever  t-iven  in  this  cityon  Washington's  birthday 
The  banquet  will  be  held  at  the  Occidental. 

On  uext  Wednesday  evening,  the  10th  inst,.  the  Doctor's 
Daughters,  of  Dr.  Mackenzie's  church,  will  give  a  musical 
at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  B.  F.  Norris,  1822  Sacramento 
street.  As  the  entire  membership  of  this  most  excellent 
association  are  taking  an  active  interest  in  the  entertain- 
ment, a  delightful  concert  is  assured.  The  proceeds  will 
be  devoted  to  the  cause  in  which  these  ladies  are  interested 
Tickets  of  admission  may  be  had  of  any  of  the  members 
for  seventy-five  cents,  which  includes  refreshments. 

A  most  enjoyable  presentation  of  Much  Ado  About 
Nothing  was  given  last  evening  at  Linderman's  hall 
Alameda,  in  aid  of  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps,  under  the 
competent  direction  of  Mrs.  Melville-Snyder.  The  various 
characters  were  excellently  sustained  by  those  appearing. 
The  entertainment  was  a  pronounced  success  largely 
attended.  &    J 

Arrangements  are  being  made  for  a  delightful  concert 
to  take  place  on  Thursday  evening,  the  18th,  inst  at  Golden 
Gate  hall,  in  aid  of  the  furnishing  fund  of  St.  Paul's  Epis- 
copal Church.  In  addition  to  the  concert  Gibson's  pictures 
will  be  given,  to  be  followed  by  dancing.  Tickets  are  50 
cents,  to  be  had  at  Sherman  and  Clay's. 

Dr.  B.  Apple  of  this  city  left  for  New  York  last  Tuesday 
evening  on  his  way  to  Heidelburg,  where  he  goes  for  the 
purpose  of  taking  a  post  graduate  course  in  medicine. 

Colonel  J.  G.  C.  Lee,  who  has  been  stationed  here  for 
the  past  three  years,  and  Mrs.  Lee,  left  for  Chicago  on 
Monday  last,  where  Colonel  Lee  has  been  ordered  for  duty. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Van  Bergen  leave  to-day  on  an  ex- 
tended trip  through  Europe. 


GA.  MOORE  and  Edward  Polhemus,  known  by  firm 
■  name  as  E.  L.  G.  Steele  &  Co.,  who  some  time  ago 
obtained  an  award  of  $871.63  against  Lievre,  Pricke  & 
Co.,  for  infringement  of  trade  mark,  on  Wednesday 
brought  suit  to  set  aside  the  judgment,  owing  to  a  very 
strong  suspicion  that  they  had  received  unfair  treatment 
by  the  board  of  arbitration.  Steele  &  Co.  propose  to  very 
thoroughly  investigate  and  review  the  case. 

IT  is  understood  that  Mr.  C.  H.  Morey,  a  prominent 
merchant  of  Stockton,  is  named  in  connection  with  the 
Mayoralty  at  the  approaching  municipal  election.  Mr. 
Morey  is  a  Republican,  a  strong  mail,  and  his  practical 
business  ability  would  prove  a  valuable  aid  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  affairs  of  that  bustling  city. 


An  Eminent  Establishment. 
The  cellars  of  Messrs.  Moet  &  Chandon,  the  largest  champagne 
house  in  the  world,  contain  over  eight  miles  of  walks,  and  about 
twenty-six  million  bottles  champagne.  The  different  sections  of  the 
vast  cellars  are  named  after  the  various  countries  to  which  ship- 
ments are  made.  Russia  ana  England  occupy  the  largest  space, 
special  provision  having  been  made  for  the  requirements  of  the 
Courts.— Hotel  Gazette. 


If  you  wish  your  dinners,  breakfasts  or  banquets  to  be  successes 
place  the  whole  matter  in  the  hands  of  Max  Abraham,  the  Caterer, 
428  Geary  Street.  Mr.  Abraham's  experience  in  such  matters  is  a 
guarantee  of  satisfaction  in  every  detail  and  he  has  charge  of  the 
largest  functions  given  by  society  folk  in  this  city.  His  reputation 
is  national. 


If  you're 


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a  butcher, 


want  Pearline  for 
the  proper  washing  of 
your  frocks  and  aprons, 
!  to  k>-«-|i  the  bem 
blocks,  floors,  shelves,  hooks, 
r  en ..  .is  clean  as  they  ought  to 
be.  I  here's  nothing  that  will  <!<>  this  like  Pearl- 
ine. And  it  takes  so  little  time,  and  trouble  and 
work  that  there's  no  excuse  for  not  doing  it. 
Keep  everything  dainty  and  sweet  and  clean 
with  Pearline. 

SGnd      '    ,i!'".r':  •■""'  some  BMOTpnlouj  proc-crs  will  tell  you 

"'"  i"  or  "the  game  u  Pearline."    IT'S 

it    Dopl.    ]   ILSE— Pearline  is  never  peddled,  and  if  youi 

JJctLK.   grocer  sends  you  something  in  place  of  Pearline 

ne  honest— smd  it  lack.  JAM  us  1'VLE,  New  Yoikl 


Gomen  Oolong. 


Tbe  oldest  and  most  reliable  brand  on  the 
market.  Sold  only  in  1-3  pound  papers  at 
20  cents  per  paper.  All  grocers  keep  it. 


Dr.   F.  G.   PAGUE, 

Dentist. 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  ot  Sciences  Building. 


HI 9  Market  street 


QR.  ARTHUR  T.   REGENSBURGER, 

gg£ Sou^nt^l4!^^ fA;  5"n  Fra°ClS°°- 


Dentist. 


TU6  N6W 

Grown  violet 


The    Latest    and    Finest 
Violet. 


A  Charming  Gift  Perfume. 


Distilled  from,   the  natural  Homers  of  the 
Riri4rti.         No     chemicals     used.         THE 
FINEST  VIOLET  MADE,    and    the  suc- 
cess of  the  day  in  London  and  Paris. 
Price,  in  a  beautiful  cai'ton,  $1.35  per  bottle. 

For  sale  by  Caswell,  Massey&  Co.,  New 
York;  Melvin&  Badger,  or  T  Metcalf 
Co  .Boston;  George  B.  Evans,  Phila  ; 
Wilmot  J  Hall  &  Co.,  Cincinnati;  Ice- 
land Miller,  St.  Louis;  The  Auditor- 
ium Pharmacy  Co  ,  Auditorium  B'ld'g, 
Chicago;  W.  C.  Scupham,  Chicago:  The 
Owl  Drug  Co.,  S.  F.  and  Los  Angeles; 
The  Scholtz  Drug  Co..  Denver,  and  All 
Leading  Dealers  in  Perfumery. 

Ask  your  druggist  for  the  Crown  Violet. 

CROWN    PERFUMERY   CO.,    LONDON. 

Makers  of  the  universal  favorites,  Crab-Apple  Blossoms  and 

kita  Perfumes,  and  the  Crown  Lavender  Salts  asked  for  all 

world. 


Matsu- 
over  the 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  6,  1897. 


ff 


,  T  long  last  the  style  of 
Mrs.  Hager's  prom- 
ised "surprise"  party  is  being  discussed  in  the  swim.  As 
a  general  thing,  this  hospitable  matron  indulges  in  enter- 
tainments that  are  out  of  the  common,  and  usually  the 
event  of  the  gay  season  each  winter.  This  year,  society 
has  been  patiently  waiting  to  know  what  form  her  function 
would  take.  No  one  seems  positive  on  the  subject,  but  it 
is  being  more  than  whispered  it  will  be  a  children's  party, 
modeled  after  the  recent  affair  given  in  New  York,  where 
our  pretty  California  belle,  Miss  Virginia  Fair,  made  a 
great  success  as  "a  little  girl  with  a  curl." 

*  *  * 

At  Golden  Gate  Hall,  on  Friday,  the  29th  ult.,  Mr.  Hugo 
Herold  sang  through  his  recital  of  eleven  songs  and  their 
attendant  encores  in  a  whole  bunch  of  keys,  none  of  which 
was  attuned  to  the  piano  accompaniment  patiently  con- 
tributed by  Miss  Genevieve  Moroney.  Mr.  Roderick  Her- 
old played  the  piano  with  an  unimpassioned  correctness 
of  time  and  touch  in  no  wise  changed  from  the  manner  of 
his  earlier  concert  days,  and  Signor  Minetti,  violinist, 
was  not  heard  at  his  best.  That  the  concert  was  not  a 
success  is  deeply  deplored  by  the  friends  of  Mr.  Herold, 
who  hold  the  young  man  in  high  esteem,  and  respect  the 
good  old  name  he  bears;  but  the  kindest  and  warmest  of 
them  all  admit  that  Mr.  Herold's  barytone  is  false,  his 
method  abominable,  and  his  pretensions  to  the  concert 
stage  the  most  unfortunate  thing  that  could  have  hap- 
pened to  him. 

*  *  * 

The  friends  of  Mrs.  Huntington  are  trying  to  persuade 
her  to  give  a  costume  ball  after  Lent,  as  her  ballroom 
would  afford  such  a  good  opportunity  to  display  elegant 
dress.  Apropos  of  which,  the  guests  of  the  Hotel  Rafael 
are  said  to  be  meditating  a  novel  entertainment  in  the  near 
future.  So  many  of  our  fashionable  set  are  frequent  visi- 
tors to  that  favorite  hostelrie  from  time  to  time  that  any 
affair  of  such  nature  would  be  sure  of  a  swell  attendance 
from  the  city,  as  well  as  the  numerous  house  parties  in  the 
Vallev. 

*  *  * 

One  of  the  weeklies  sometimes  takes  occasion  to  remark 
on  the  tendency  of  our  young  ladies  who  go  abroad  who 
have  forgotten  their  native  English,  and  do  not  speak  cor- 
rectly their  imported  French.  We  would  not  for  a  mo- 
ment suppose  they  referred  to  a  near  relative  of  a  high 
official  on  that  paper,  who  was  abroad  last  summer,  and 
while  in  Paris  went  into  an  establishment  devoted  to 
ladies'  lingerie,  and  in  her  best  French  asked  for  a 
"chemin-de-fer,"  and  was  politely  told  in  English  that 
"they  did  not  keep  railroads." 

*  *  * 

Much  interest  is  manifested  and  curiosity  felt  as  to  the 
coming  amateur  performance  of  Caste,  for  charity.  Miss 
Rose  Hooper's  talent  as  an  actress  is  already  an  estab- 
lished fact;  so  is  that  of  Frank  Mathieu.  Miss  Leila  Bur- 
ton is  known  to  be  an  elocutionist  of  great  promise,  while 
Charley  Diekman  is  sure  to  make  Eccles  a  funny  creation. 
That  society  will  turn  out  in  force'  to  greet  them  is  a  fore- 
gone conclusion. 

*  *  * 

The  girls  are  in  raptures  over  the  idea  of  Lieutenant 
Fred  Sladen's  being  ordered  here  to  report  to  Colonel 
Shafter  for  examination  for  promotion;  for  that  handsome 
young  officer  made  many  a  heart  flutter  during  his  brief 
visit  from  the  north,  when  he  came  to  officiate  as  best  man 
at  the  Lord-Haydon  wedding  a  few  years  back. 

*  *  * 

The  Hoffmans  did  not  have  a  very  propitious  day  for 
their  tea,  but  for  those  who  braved  the  wet  a  very  pleas- 
ant afternoon  was  enjoyed.  Both  the  daughters  of  the 
house  are  accomplished  aids  to  their  mother  in  the  art  of 
entertaining,  and  an  unusual  number  of  gentlemen  were 
present. 

Kelly's  Corn  Cure  never  fails.    25  cents.    102  Eddy  street. 


BOORD     &     SON,     LONDON,  ENQ. 


OLD  TOM  GIN. 

ORANGE  BITTbRS 
Liqueur  Ginger   Brandy 
RUM    SHRUB 
OLD  JAMAICA   RUM  and 

London  Dock  Pale  Sherry 
In  Cases  of  12  Bottles. 


"  Cat  and  Barrel  "  brand 
has  been  in  use  by  Boord 
&  Son  since  1851. 


CHARLES    MEINECKE    &.  CO., 

Sole  Agents.  314  Sacramento  St.,  S.  F. 

Going  out  of 
Business. 

Commencing    Honday,  Jan.  4th 

$125,000 

CLOAKS, 
SUITS,  etc. 

The  entire  stock  to  be  sold  during  next  30 
days  at  a  TREMENDOUS   SACRIFICE. 

ARHAND    CAILLEAU, 

Cor.  Geary  St.  and  Grant  Ave. 

Josepn  Gillott's  Steel  Fens, 

Go'd  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1889.    These  nens   are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
MR.  Henry  Hoe,  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers . 


WAS 


•  TO  ENABLE  CONSUMERS  TO  DISTINGUISH  AT 


W01I6'S_ 

Scniedam 


Aromatic  SclinaDDS. 


Its  extraordinary  medicinal  efficacy  in 

Gravel,  Gout,   Chronic  Rheumatism, 
Incipient  Dropsy,  Flatulence,  Golic  Pains 
in  the  stomach  and  bowels,  whether  in  adults  or  infants,  is  acknowledged 
by  the  whole  medical  faculty,  and  attested  in  their  highest  written  authori- 
ties.   For  sale  by  all  leading  druggists  and  grocers. 

WILLIAM    WOLFF    Z>    GO.,  Agents, 

327-339  Market  St. 


February  6,  1897. 


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FRANCISCO  M  ITER. 


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NOI  H  1    . 
but  t       S  dinner— burlesqued  at 

'lympia  as  the  Silly  dinner— which  in  fact  it  was  and 
nothing  worse.    It  is  popular  just  Don  with  a  . 
of  people  to  denounce  Seeley  and  I,  •  :  |  happen 

to  know  a  man  who  was  at   thi-  I  dinner  and  who 

has  assured  me  that  there  was  absolutely  nocause  for  crit- 
icism—that nothing  was  said  or  done  which  has  nut  been 
frequently  suggested  ou  the  variety  stage.  There  has 
been  one  result  to  the  investigation  and  that  is  the  deter- 
mination of  the  entire  Seeley  family  to  migrate.  Thev 
refuse  to  linger  longer  in  this  miscalled  land  of  the  freeA 
and  they  and  their  millions  will  betake  themselves  to  foreign 
shores  as  soon  as  the  legal  proceedings  are  settled.  Tbey 
have  no  more  use  for  America — and  indeed  in  view  of  the 
facts — a  more  high-handed  and  insolent  proceeding  has 
never  been  known  than  this  same  Chapman  raid— about 
which  historians  do  not  differ. 

Invitations  are  out  for  the  marriage  on  the  third  of  Feb- 
ruary of  Reginald  Foster  and  Miss  Kitty  Hayden,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brace  Hayden.  The  wedding  will  be  cel- 
ebrated at  St.  Thomas'  Church  in  Fifth  avenue,  at  4 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon,,  and  will  be  followed  by  a  small  re- 
ception. Max  Foster,  austerely  known  as  Maximillian, 
will  be  his  brother's  best  man.  The  two  young  Fosters 
have  been  in  journalism  here  for  several  years,  I  under- 
stand. Their  mother  will  be  remembered  as  Miss  Leila 
Love,  a  daughter  of  General  Love  in  San  Francisco. 

Sir  Bache  and  Lady  Cunard  have  been  cordially  enter- 
tained since  their  arrival  in  New  York.  The  lovely  Maud 
Burke  has  not  been  forgotten  by  her  Californian  friends. 
Miss  Furniss,  one  of  the  very  old  set  in  New  York,  gave 
them  a  dinner  on  Thursday.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Roosevelt 
were  their  host  and  hostess  on  the  following  night.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Forbes  Leith  received  them  at  dinner  last  night, 
when  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Adrian  Iselin,  Jr.,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chas. 
Peters,  Mrs.  Martin  and  others  were  among  the  guests. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jimmie  Lake  have  returned  to  New  York 
after  a  visit  to  Philadelphia.  Mrs.  Bradley  is  at  the  Hotel 
Walton  in  Philadelphia,  and  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Wallace, 
is  in  that  city  under  the  care  of  the  celebrated  Dr.  Weir 
Mitchell. 

To-night  Miss  Mollie  Torbert  and  George  Underwood 
Kirkpatrick  were  wed  in  All  Angels  Church.  The  bride 
was  a  vision  of  beauty  in  her  trailing  satin  and  tulle.  There 
were  no  bridesmaids,  Mrs.  Snyder  being  her  sister's 
only  attendant.  A  reception  at  Sherry's  followed  the  cer- 
emony, which  was  performed  by  the  Very  Rev.  Dean  Hoff- 
man. 

Mrs.  Ernest  La  Montague  gave  a  large  opera  party  on 
Wednesday  night,  followed  by  a  supper. 

The  celebrated  Mrs.  Hoffman-Martin,  of  San  Francisco, 
has  again  been  distinguishing  herself,  and  has  the  satisfac- 
tion of  having  interrupted  Miss  Margaret  Mather's  initial 
performance  of  Cymbeline,  by  having  her  leading  man  ar- 
rested. Mrs.  Martin  conceived  some  time  ago  the  plan  of 
giving  a  ball  fit  for  the  suffering  Cubans.  The  occasion 
gave  her  a  long-sought  and  yearned-for  opportunity  of 
starring.  Mr.  Henley  was  engaged  as  leading  man  and 
was  paid  fifty  dollars  as  a  retainer.  He  left  the  combina- 
tion and  there  was  a  delay  in  his  return  of  the  aforesaid 
magnificent  sum,  hence  the  arrest.  Henley  is  bent  upon 
revenge. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Breyfogle  sailed  from  Southampton  to-day 
and  w:ll  go  directly  to  San  Francisco  on  their  arrival. 

Mrs.  Dick  Lounsberry  gave  a  large  tea  yesterday.  Mrs. 
George  Rutledge  Gibson  will  give  a  large  and  formal  dinner 
on  Monday  night.  Passe-Partout. 

Neio  York,  January  28,  1897. 


Through   Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 

The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  from  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
phone Main  1531. 


DELINQUENT    SALE     NOTICE 
Ostrander  Repeating  Gun  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  or 
works  or  laclory — 36  New  street.  East  Boston.  Mass. 

NOTICE--There  are  delinquent  upon  tbe  following  descrlbod  siock  on 
account  or  an  assessment  (No  5),  levied  on  the  Sad  day  ot  August  1898 
the  several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  or  the  respective  sharehold' 
ers,  as  follows: 

Name.  Ce 

W.P.  Ray.  U.S.  N. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Carter 

J.  M.  Helm 


n. 

No. 

ficatc 

Shares 

Am  t 

123 

1.000 

100 

I'.n 

500 

50 

311 

500 

50 

104 

600 

60 

\m 

301 

30  10 

260 

155 

15  50 

204 

1,000 

100 

:m 

50 

5 

179 

1,000 

100 

3U7 

500 

50 

Catherine  S.  Whiteside 
George  H.  Hoover 
Mrs.  Mary  Mearse  Gait 
E.  P.  Cole 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors  made 
onthe22d  day  of  August,  1896,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  or  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  No.  216  Bush  street,  rooms  50  and  51,  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco,  California,  on 

THURSDAY,  THE  22nd  DAY  OF  OCTOBER,  1896, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delinquent  assessment 
thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale, 

M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  216  Bush  street,  Rooms  50  and  51,  SanFrancisco,  Califo  nia. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  post- 
poned until 

FRIDAY,  the  20th  DAY  of  NOVEMBER,  1896, 
at  the  same  time  and  place.  3M .  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 

SanFrancisco,  October 22, 1896. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Direotors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  this  day,  the  sale  of  tne  above  delinquent  stock  was  post- 
poned until  ■ 

FRIDAY,  the  18th  DAY  of  DECEMBER,  1896, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  November  19, 18^6. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  tbe  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  tbe  office  of  the  company  on  the  18th  Inst.,  the  sale  of  the 
above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 

THURSDAY,  the  14th  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26.  216  Bush  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  Dec.  28, 1897. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  oi  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  on  the  6th  inst. ,  the  sale  of  the 
above  delinquent  siock  was  postponed  until 

WEDNESDAY,  the  27th  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  samejtime,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  January  6,  1897. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  on  the  27th  inst.,  the  sale  of 
the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 

WEDNESDAY,  the  17th  DAY  OF  FEBRUARY,  1897, 

at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  2f>,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN    Secretary. 
SanFrancisco,  January  27,  1897. 

Tru  the    SflN   FRflNGlSGO   LAUNDRY, 

Office,  33  Geaxy  street.    Telephone  Main  5125. 
Oakland  Office— 864  Broadway.    Telephone  Main  658. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTI-R. 


February  6,  1897. 


WHEN    ALL    THE    WORLD    IS    YOUNG,     LAD—charles   kingsley. 

When  all  the  world  is  young,  lad, 

And  all  the  trees  are  green ; 
And  every  goose  a  swan,  lad, 

And  every  lass  a  queen  ; 
They  hey  for  boot  and  horse,  lad, 

And  around  the  world  away; 
Young  blood  must  have  its  course,  lad, 

And  every  dog  his  day. 

When  all  the  world  is  old,  lad, 

And  all  the  trees  are  brown ; 
And  all  the  sport  is  stale,  lad, 

And  all  the  wheels  runvdown, 
Creep  home  and  take  your  place  there, 

The  spent  and  maimed  among; 
God  grant  you  find  one  face  there 

You  loved  when  all  was  young. 

IN    BRIGHTER    DAYS—  edward  moyle  cooper, in  pall  /hall  magazine. 

In  brighter  days,  when  came  the  Spring, 

We  loved  to  see  the  sun's  clear  rays, 
To  hear  the  merry  linnets  sing- 
In  brighter  days. 
But  now,  when  childhood's  happy  fays 

Have  vanished  nothing,  save  the  sting 
Of  memory  remains.     Now  ways 

Are  dark  and  drear;  Death's  gloomy  wing 
Is  flapping  close,  and  dumb  my  lays, 

Ah,  well-a-day,  we  had  our  fling 

In  brighter  days! 

SUNBEAMS. 

"  Hold  !  "  whispered  the  heroine.  "Something  tells  me 
we  are  being  followed."  The  hero  laughed  lightly.  "Im- 
possible," he  replied.  But  the  woman's  intuition  was 
right.  Two  men  in  the  second  gallery  were  consulting  the 
libretto.— Truth. 

"Did  I  hear  that  your  mule  was  struck  with  lightning, 
Eph?"  "  Ya-s,  sah,  dar  was  a  powahful  bolt  hit  de  mule 
right  ahind  his  eahs."  "Did  it  kill  him?"  " No,  sah,  but 
it  done  broke  up  de  storm." — Detroit  Free  Press. 

Enthusiast  (looking  at  a  painting) — This  is  rather  a  good 
thing  I  picked  up  the  other  day.  I'm  afraid  it  '11  have  to 
be  restored  though.  Flippant  Friend — Why,  whom  did 
you  sneak  it  from?— London  Punch. 

Cutter — I  suppose  these  choir  fights  are  quite  as  harm- 
less as  the  prize  variety?  Herter— Indeed  not!  I  heard 
Singer  say  that  the  contralto  cut  him  twice  in  one  day. — 
Yonkers  Statesman. 

"My  dear,"  expostulated  his  wife,  "why  will  you  eat 
such  a  hearty  breakfast  on  Sunday  morning?  You  know 
you  are  almost  sure  to  have  a  nightmare  in  church." — De- 
troit Tribune. 

Critic — Your  picture  seems  to  lack  atmosphere.  Artist 
—I  believe  you  are  right.  I'm  thinking  seriously  of  paint- 
ing in  a  modern  ventilating  apparatus.— Detroit  Journal. 

"  Who  performed  the  wedding  ceremony?"  "Ah,  we 
didn't  have  time  for  any  ceremony.  Pap  wasn't  more  'n 
a  mile  behind."— Cleveland  Plain  Dealer. 

Gracie— Papa,  a  monologue  is  when  people  talk  to  them- 
selves, is  it  not?  Papa — Yes;  or  sometimes  when  they 
talk  to  their  husbands. — Puck. 


The  Overland   Limited. 

OHLY  3}4  DATS  TO   CHICAGO.      4%  DAYS  TO  HEW  TOKK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


CITY    INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 
Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  332-334  Pine  street.      Rooms  for 

ladies  and  families,  private  entrance.    John  Bergez,  Proprietor. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotlsserie,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantlni,  Proprietor. 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  St.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  BBTJN. 

DAIRIES. 

Oakland  Dairy  Depot,  320  Fulton  street,  S.  F.  Absolutely  pure  Milk  and 

Cream.    Telephone,  Pine  1692. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval;  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,827Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILERMAKERS. 
P.   F.   Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  "Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

PRINTING    AND    RUBBER    STAMPS. 
Koch  &  Harney,  (Jas.  H.  Harney,  Geo.  T.  Koch),  Job  Printers,  648  Sacra- 
mento St.  Fine  printing  and  embossing,  seals,  rubber  stamps,  stencils,  etc. 

CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  %  and  1-lb  boxes.    Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 

VEHICLES 
Second-hand  Victoria,  O'Brien  &  Son's  pat.   Spring  Buggy,  Surrey  and 
Top  Buggy,  for  sale  cheap.    500  Golden  Gate  avenue. 


BANKING. 


BANK  OF  BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up,  $3,000,00      Reserve  Fund,  8500,000. 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 

head  office 60  lombard  street,  london 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
lamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  National  Bank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  "Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico — London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  or 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  ("West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

CALIFORNIA  SAFE  DEPOSIT  AND  TRUST  CO. 

Corner  California  and  Montgomery  Sts. 
Capital  Fully  Paid $1,000,000 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business  and  allows  interest  on  deposits 
payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity,  "Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  to  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  aDd  valuables  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wicfeersham.  Jacob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.Fortmann,  R.  B.  Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry,  A.  D.  Sharon,  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D.  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams,  Vice-President;  R. 
D.  Fry,  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E.  E.Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY, 

CAPITAL $1,000,000 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  S  in  Francisco. 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  F.   W.  Wolfe,  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil- 
ler Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago — Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.    Paris — Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital 12,500,000  |  Paid  UpCapital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund $850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM1  Man__er_ 
C.  ALTSCHUL  /  Managers. 


February  6,  1897. 


FRANC  LETTER. 


AT      THE     RACES. 

A  emit  Mil  up  in  *  grandstand  chair. 

He  bad  fringr  on  hi?  pant.,  and  hay  in  hi.  h»ir  ; 

■  he  nodded  hi.,  head  with  •  oooMaDl  »ir 
llf  ran  win  in  a  walk,  by  *«. 

(an  be  win  it'     Wliy.  how  .an  be  low*  ! 
He's  out  of  Babe  Uorpb  -  Joe, 

And  a  crarkerjack,  sure;  ju«t  .re  him  go— 
He  can  win  in  a  walk,  by  gee. 

They're  olT  I  JuM  you  watch  DOW  and  see. 

He  leads  at  the  ball;  I  told  you  so. 

What  I  Beat  In  the  itrateo  I  Wall  he's  off  to-day 

Or  he'd  have  won  in  a  walk,  by  pee. 

The  plaint  of  this  do^-erel  is  hoard  on  every  tra<  k  from 

to   California,    and    it   was    never   rehearsed    with 

greater  propriety  or   pith  than  when  old  Senator  Grady 

•eaten  out  by  Monita  at  [ngleside  last  Tuesday. 
Never  were  the  uncertainties  of  the  race  track  more 
clearly  demonstrated  than  when  this  former  great  horse 
was  defeated  by  an  unknown  plus:.  A«re  tells  on  animals 
as  it  does  on  men.  as  was  shown  at  New  Orleans  the  other 
day  when  Ida  Pickwick,  the  daughter  of  imp.  Mr.  Pick- 
wick, and  one  of  the  greatest  mares  of  her  day.  was  out- 
classed in  a  genuine  skate  race. 

That  celebrated  derby  winner,  Oregon  Eclipse,  finally 
fell  into  the  hands  of  John  Robbins,  who  raced  him  in  and 
out  of  season  until  he  dropped  dead.  But  it  is  not  often 
that  such  cases  of  brutality  are  recorded.  Down  at  Palo 
Alto  at  the  Stanford  breeding  farm,  where  old  Palo  Alto 
lies  buried,  over  his  vacant  stall  reads  this  inscription  : 
"Sacred  to  the  memory  of  Palo  Alto,  record  2:08}  ;"  and 
they  never  will  fill  that  stall  again. 

The  Tarpey  Stakes  at  Ingleside  on  Saturday  were  won 
in  race-horse  style  by  Schiller,  who  beat  Colonel  Burns's 
Sweet  Favordale  and  St.  Lee.  In  the  purse  race  on  Tues- 
day, Baldwin's  Argentina  bested  Hobart's  Bright  Phoebus; 
but  Phoebus  could  have  won  with  a  better  boy  up.  The 
three  good  horses— Schiller,  St.  Lee  and  the  Dragon— are 
half  brothers. 

NL  MEROUS  and  sincere  expressions  of  sympathy  are 
heard  in  many  quarters  for  Mr.  Will  E.  Fisher,  whose 
financial  and  domestic  misfortunes  have  recently  been 
brought  to  public  notice.  Mr.  Fisher  has  been  known  in 
this  city  for  a  long  time.  He  is  recognized  as  generous- 
hearted;  an  honest  and  capable  business  man,  of  large 
transactions  and  undeniable  ability.  The  idle  stories  that 
he  had  left  the  city,  fleeing  from  his  creditors,  have  been 
proved  false  by  his  return,  and  the  avowed  determination 
that  he  will  use  every  honorable  effort  to  straighten  out 
his  tangled  affairs  and  be  found  hard  at  work  to  retrieve 
his  fallen  fortunes.  Domestic  troubles  have  been  added  to 
his  burdens,  but  it  is  his  earnest  desire  that  these  differ- 
ences may  be  arranged,  and  complete  happiness  restored 
in  his  family.  In  his  manly  determination  and  efforts  Mr. 
Fisher  has  the  best  wishes,  as  he  still  holds  the  confidence 
of  a  host  of  friends. 


PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  and  its  vicinity  abound  in  unsur- 
passed scenery.  The  long,  swelling  hills,  and  stretches 
of  water  always  afford  a  delight  to  the  eye  that  recog- 
nizes the  beautiful.  The  plate  accompanying  this  issue 
gives  a  view  of  the  bay  as  seen. 

George — I  wonder  if  your  father  would  have  me  for  a  son- 
in-law?  Marie — Very  likely.  Papa  and  I  always  dis- 
agree.— New  York  Journal. 


Paso  Robles. 
Our  new  mud  bath  house  is  finished.  The  arrangement  ot  baths, 
dressing  rooms,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  floor.  No  stairs  or  steps  to 
climb.  We  are  now  unquestionably  the  finest  sanitarium  or  health 
resort  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Rest  and  health  seekers  are  Paso  Robles 
seekers,  Rates,  $10,  $12.50,  $15,  and  $17.50  per  week.  Climate  warm. 


The  Press  Clipping  Bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  P.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics,  business 
and  personal. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use 
children  while  teething . 


Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  (or  your 


BANKING. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


Capital 

Surplu.  ar,,l  1 

WILLIAM  At.VOKH  IV. 

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s  M  Aaa'l  Cashier 


a— Maaars    N    M   RothsrMId  ft 
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IA  and  Saw  Zeai.ako—  Hank  of 
bartered  Hank  of  India,  Ausira- 


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ABencr 

Illinois  T 

New  Zealand.  Cm 

lla  and  Chit  . 

Letten  »;;sMe  In  all  pans  of  the  world. 

Draws  IliHU-r  on  New  V.rk.  Hoslon.  Chicago.  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
oenrer.  Kansas  CHy,  New  Orleans.  IVrllaml.  Or..  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London.  Paris.  Berlin.  Bremen.  Hamburg.  Krankfnrt  on-Main.  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm. Chrlsllanla.  Melbourne.  Sydney.  Auckland.  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, \okohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  In  Italy. 

MUTUAL   SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN   FRANCISCO?" 

."H  Post  Street,  below  Keahnt.  Mechanics'  Institute  Hon. ding. 

Guaranteed  Capital,  11,000,000.      Paid  Up  Capital,  1900,000. 

orricERS 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN,  President.  |  S.  O.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
DiRBCTORs—James  D,  Phclan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John   A.    Hooper,  C.  O. 
Hooker.  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.   Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Orant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.      Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY.  Cashier. 
Deposits  rony  be  sent  by  postal  order.  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co  ,  or  Exchange 
lenlog 


on  City  Banks.    When  opening  accounts  send  signatun 


SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 134,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E    B.  POND,  Vice-President 

Directors— Thomas  Magee.G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  oheck  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.    No  charge  is  made  for 

f -ass-book  or  entrance  fee.    Office  hours— 0.  A.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  even- 
ngs,6:30to8. 

CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OT  SAN  francisco. 

Cor.  Market,  Montgomery,  and  Post  Sts. 

Pald-Up  Capital $1,000,000. 

WM.  H.CROCKER President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 

Capital  authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  Up 11,600,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  f  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Sellgman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bill*  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys   and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART     1 

P.  N.  LILIENTRAL  | 


\  Managers 


WELLS  FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets. 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,260,000 

John  J.  Valentine President  I  Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier  I  F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City.  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eld  ridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crooker,  Dudley  Evans. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  CALIFORNIA  St.,  S.  F. 

Capital  actually  paid  up  in  Cash,  (1,000,000.      ReserveFund t  715,000 

Deposits,  Dec.  31,  1895, 830,787,586  59.        Guaranteed  Capital..  «l,200,000 

DIRECTORS. 

B .  A .  BECKE  R President 

EDWARD  KRUSE Vice-President 

DANIEL  MEYER 2d  Vice-President 

H.  Horstman,  Ign.  Steinhart,  Nic  Van  Bergen,  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ 
D.  N.  Walter. 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 
INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.    LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr. 


Wm.  Babcock 
Adam  Grant 


O.  D.  Baldwin 
W.  S.  Jones 


H.  H.  Hewlett 
E   J.  McCutchen 
J.  B.  Lincoln 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


February  6,  1897. 


SOUTHERN     PACIFIC    COMPANY 

(Pacific    System.) 

Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  at 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Leave.  \ 


From  January  2,  1897 


|  Arrive 


*6:00  A  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  way  stations  8:45A 

7:00a  AtlanticExpress.OgdenandEast    8:45p 

7:00  a  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Rumsey,  Sac- 
ramento, Oroville,  and  Redding, 
via  Davis 6 :45  P 

7:30  A  Martinez,   San  Ramon,   Vallejo, 

Napa,  Calistoga,  and  Santa  Rosa    6:15  p 

8:30A  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,    Marysville,   Chico, 

Tehama,  and  Red  Bluff 4 :15  P 

*8:30A  Peters  and  Milton *7:15P 

9:00A  New  Orleans  Express,  Raymond 
(for  Yosemite),  Fresno,  Bakers- 
field,  Santa  Barbara,  Los  An- 
geles, Deming,  El  Paso,  New 
Orleans,  and  East 4:45  P 

9 :00  A  Martinez  and  Stockton 4 :45  p 

9: 00  A  Vallejo 6 :15  P 

Niles,  San  Jose  Livermore,  and 

Stockton 7 :15  P 

•1:00  p  Sacramento  River  steamers *9:00P 

1:00  p  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  Livermore . .    8:45*a 
fl:30p  Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations....  17:45p 

4:00  p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo, 
Napa,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  ana 
Santa  Rosa 9:15A 

4:00  P  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Woodland, 
Knight's  Landing,  Marysville, 
Oroville,  and  Sacramento 11:15  A 

4:30  p  Lathrop,  Stockton,  Modesto,  Mer- 
ced, and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles, 
returning  via  Martinez 11 :45  A 

5:0Op  Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy, 
Fresno,  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los 
Angeles 10.45A 

5:00p  SantaFe  Route, Atlantic  Express, 

forMojave  and  East 10:45A 

6 :00  p  European  mail,  Ogden  and  East. .    9 :45  A 

6:00p  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose...    7:45A 
I7:00p  Vallejo, . f7:45p 

7:00p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento, 
Marysville,  Redding,  Portland, 
Puget  Sound  and  East 11 :  15  A 

H10:00p  "Sunset  Limited."  Fresno,  Los 
Angeles,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans, 

and  East gl2:45P 

Santa  Crpz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 

8:15  a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  BoulderCreek,  Santa  Cruz 

and  way  stations 5 :50  p 

•3  :15p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boulder 
Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal 

way  stations *11 :20  A 

4 :15  p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9 :50  a 

fll:45p  Hunters'  Excursion,  San  Jose 

and  way  stations 17 :20  p 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

6:45  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New 

Almaden  "Wednesdays  only) 1 :30  p 

8 :15  A  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles,  San 
Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe,  Surf  and 

principal  way  stations 7 :00  p 

10 :40  A  San  Jose  and  way  stations 5 :0U  p 

11 :80  A  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 3 :30  p 

•2:80  p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park,  San  Jose, 
Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas ,  Monterey,  Pacific  Grove  *10 :40  A 

*3:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45  A 

*4 :30  P  San  Jose  and  "Way  Stations *8 :05  A 

5 :30  p  San    Jose    and    principal    way 

stations *8 :45  A 

6:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6:35  a 

tll:45P  San  Jose  and  way  stations f7:45p 


San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local. 

i*6:00  AT 

f      7:15  A 

8:00  a 

£9:45  A 

9:00  a 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00  A 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

£11 .00  A 

Fitchburg, 

12:45  p 

2:00  p 

San  Leandro, 

«:45  p 

3:00  p 

and 
Haywards. 

4:45  P 

4:00  p 

5:45  P 

5:00  p 

6:15  p 

5:30  p 

7:45  p 

7:00  p 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

8:45  P 

8:00  P 

t  From  Niles . 

9:45  p 

9:00  P 

10:50  p 

ttll  :15  P 

lttl2:00p 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

-^om  SAN  Fbancisco— Foot  of  Market  street 
(Slip  8). 

♦7:15,9:00,  and  11:00  A.  m.,  11:00,  *2:00, 13:00, 

•4 :00,  J5 :00  and  *6 :00  p.  m. 
From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway. 

*6:00,8:00,  10:00  A.  m.;  112:00,  *1:00.  12:00 

*3:00,t4:00  *5  :00  p.m.  ' 

A  for  Morning.  P  for  Afternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted.  fSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only. 
ft  Monday.  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays. 
^Sundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for 
and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and  residences. 
Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  Information. 


A    MUS1CALE. 


Tlie  program,  she  informed  me,  was  a  charm- 
ing one,  indeed. 

From  the  splendid  Wagner  overture  (which 
nothing  could  exceed) 

To  the  lovely  little  scherzo  and  the  minuet 
for  strings, 

And  the  latest  bit  of  Dvorak,  which  made 
her  sigh  for  wings. 

Throughout  the  Grieg  concerto  her  emotion 
was  intense: 

It  seemed  to  me  at  times  she  held  her  breath 
in  deep  suspense; 

She  raved  of  Opus  this  and  that,  of  Schu- 
bert, Bach  and  Liszt, 

Beethoven,  Brahms,  Tschaikowski,  and  a 
score  whose  names  I  missed. 

Bat  when  at  last  'twas  over  and  1  led  her 
down  the  stair 

I  noticed  that  beneath  her  breath  she 
hummed  a  little  air. 

It  was  not  upon  the  program,  being  com- 
mon-place and  tuney, 

And  I  wondered  at  the  sudden  drop  from 
Bach  to  "Annie  Rooney." 

— E.  L.  Sylvester,  in  Judge. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH   PACIFIC 
RAILWAY    CO. 

Tiburon  Ferry-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 


GOT  IN  IT  AT  LAST— buffalo  times. 

They  built  a  fine  church  right  by  his  door. 

He  wasn't  in  it. 
They  brought  him  a  scheme  for  relieving 
the  poor. 

He  wasn't  in  it. 

"Let  them  work  for  themselves  as  I  have 
done. 

They  needn't  ask  help  of  any  one 
If  they  hadn't  wasted  each  golden  minute." 

He  wasn't  in  it. 

A  carriage  swept  over  the  street  one  day, 

He  was  in  it. 
The  funeral  procession  made  a  display, 

He  was  in  it. 

St.  Peter  received  him  with  book  and  bell ; 

"My  fiiend,  you've  purchased  a  ticket  to 
— well, 
Your  elevator  goes  down  in  a  minute." 

He  was  in  it. 

——Baron  Ferdinand  Rothschild  possesses 
an  old  "grandfather's"  clock  that  originally 
cost  over  $150,000.  The  mechanism  records 
the  day  of  the  week,  month  of  the  year,  the 
phases  of  the  moon  and  striking  each  hour. 
The  quarters  are  chimed  with  a  different 
bell,  and  (a  rare  thing  with  these  clocks)  it 
has  a  second  hand.  The  case  was  made  by 
"Wertheimer,  and  stands  14  feet  high.  It 
was  originally  the  property  of  Louis  XVI. 


Ask  your  grocer 
for  the  old 
reliable 


Diamond 

"L" 

Tea. 

Imported  by 

E  L.G.Steele 
&Co., 


208  California 
St.,S.  F. 


pm£ 


S.  S.  "Monowai," 
Thursday  February 
4th,  at  2  P.  M. 

S  S  "Australia",  for 
Honolulu  only,  Tues- 
day, February  23,  at  2 
p    m. 

Line  to  Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa.  J.  D  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St.,  San   Francisco. 


Tne  Grand  Pacific.  t£.BJsE5s£- 

MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month. 
Telephone:  Grant,  1507. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00,  11:00  A  M;  12:35,3:30 
5:10,  6:30  p  m.  Thursdays— Extra  trip  at 
11:30  p  m.  Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1:50 
and  11  :30  pm. 

SUNDAYS— S  :00,  9 :30, 11 :00  A  M;  1:30.  3:30,  5:00, 
6:20  PM. 

SAN  RAFAEL  TO  SAN  FRANCISCO. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  AM;  12:45, 

3 :40,  5 :  10  p  m.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :55 

and  6:35  ph. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40,  11:10  AM;  1:40,3:40,5:00, 

6:25  pm. 
Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park, 
same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  s.  F. 

In  Effect 
Oct.  14,  1896 

DESTI'TION. 

ARRIVE  IN  S.  F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays. 

Sundays. 

Week 
Days. 

7:30am 
3:30  pm 
5:10  pm 

8:00AM 
9:30  am 
6:00  pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40  AM 
6:10  pm 
7:35  pm 

8:40am 
10:25am 
6:22pm 

Fulton, 

Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyserville, 

Cloverdale. 

7:30am 

3:30  pm 

8:00AM 

7:35pm 

6:22pm 

7:30 Am|  8:00AM  l^ukgnj  7:35pM 

6:22pm 

3:30pm|  8:00am  I  Guerneville|  7:35pm 

10 :25AM 
6:22  PM 

7:30am   8:00am  I     Sonoma,     110:40am 
5:10pm|  5:00pm  |  Glen  Ellen.  I  6:10pm 

8:40AM 
6:22  pm 

7:30am|  8:00am  |  SehaatonoI   110:40am 
3:30pm|  5:00pm  |  ^bastopol.  |  6.10pM 

10:35AM 

6:23pm 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs'  Springs;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake- 
port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and  Bartlett 
Springs;  atTJkiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga 
Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper 
Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  River- 
side, Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights, 
Hullvllle,  Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs ,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Har- 
ris, Scotia,  ana  Eureka. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  re- 
duced rates. 

On  Sundays,  Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points 
beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle 
Building. 


A.W.FOSTER, 
Pres.  and  Gen.  Manager. 


R.  X.  RYAN, 
Gen.  Pass .  Agent. 


PACIFIC    COAST    STEAMSHIP    CO. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf,  San  Fran- 
cisco for  ports  in  Alaska,  9  A.M..  Feb.  10,25. 

For  B.  C.  and  Puget  Sound  ports ,  Feb.  4,10, 
15,  20,  25,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay) ,  Steamer  "Pom- 
ona," at  2  P.  M.  Feb.  1,5,9,  13,  17,  21,  25,  and 
every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports, 
at  9  a.  M.;Feb  3,7,11,15,  19,  23,  27,  and  every 
fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford 
Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los  Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los 
Angeles)  and  Newport,  Feb.  1, 5,  9, 13, 17,  31,  25, 
and  every  fourth  day  thereafter,  at  11  A.  m. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del 
Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La  Paz,  Santa  Ros'alla, 
and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10 
A.  m.  ,  25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change, 
without  previous  notice,  steamers,  sailing  dates, 
and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New 
Montgomery  street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents, 
No.  10  Market  street,  San  Francisco 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO 

For  Japan  and  China. 
Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  m,  for  YOKOHAMA  and 
HONGKONG,  calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Naga- 
saki and  Shanghai,  and  connecting  at  Hong- 
kong with  steamers  for  India,  etc.  No  cargo  re- 
ceived on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 

Doric Tuesday,  February  23, 1897 

Coptic  (via  Honolulu) . .  ..Thursday,  April  1, 1897 

Gaelic Wednesday,  April  31.  1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  II,  1897 

Round  Trip  tickets  at  reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's 
Office,  No.  421  Market  street,  corner  First. 

D.  D.  STUBBS,  Secretary. 


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T  BE  location  ol  an  ambu  in  at  the   park  fully 

equipped  to  care  for  all  casts  of  Injury,  meets  with 
general  commendation.    Such  a  need  had   been  appi 
for  years,  and  for  thus  intelligently   meeting   it  tbeh 

department  and  Park  Commissioners  have  the   thanks   of 
the  discriminating  public. 

THE  .statement  of  President  Newhall,  of  the  Prei 
and  Ferries  Railroad,  at  Sacramento  last  week,  that 
his  line  had  not  paid  a  dividend  in  six  years,  and  that  last 
year  it  ran  at  an  actual  loss  of  $2,500,  should  give  pause 
to  the  game  of  "cinch"  in  the  shape  of  a  bill  for  t\  cent 
fares  now  before  the  Legislature.  The  clamor  for  this 
sweeping  reduction  is  not  the  result  of  a  healthy  senti- 
ment. President  Newbal!  shows  that  it  would  be  impossi- 
ble to  operate  his  road  at  all  and  make  such  a  ruinous  cut 
in  fares.  Another  thing.  Owing  to  the  extensive  trans- 
fer system  here,  some  of  the  lines  are  now  getting  much 
less  than  21  cents  for  hauling  passengers. 

THE  expected  has  occurred  in  the  case  of  Chief  Clerk- 
Duckworth,  pay-roll  stuffer,  and  political  debt-payer 
to  the  honorable  members  of  the  Legislature.  His  offense 
lay  in  a  too  willing  obedience  in  serving  his  masters. 
Ninety  per  cent,  of  that  fraudulent  pay-roll  was  the  direct 
result  of  their  requests,  entreaties,  and  finally,  demands. 
The  investigation,  had  it  been  searching,  "would  have 
painted  too  mauy  the  Duckworth  hue.  Under  the  circum- 
stances, there  is  room  for  reasonable  doubt  whether  the 
legislators  did  not  pursue  a  more  manly  course  in  standing 
by  him.  Turning  State's  evidence  is  usually  held  a  blacker 
crime  than  the  original  offense. 

THERE  is  pressing  need  of  vigorous  and  rigid  regula- 
tion of  the  army  of  alleged  dermatologists,  face 
doctors,  skin  renewers,  and  physical  renovators  in  San 
Francisco,  who  frequently  defraud  the  female  searchers 
after  beauty  of  their  money,  and  what  is  a  far  more  serious, 
result,  often  inflict  great  injury  upon  the  faces  of  them. 
Rarely  does  a  week  pass  that  some  woman,  who  has  fallen 
foul  of  one  of  these  quacks  masquerading  as  a  beauty 
doctor,  does  not  find  it  necessary  to  seek  a  physician  to 
repair  her  swollen  and  badly  damaged  face.  We  should 
have  laws  compelling  these  purveyors  of  eternal  beauty  of 
the  female  face  divine,  to  meet  certain  requirements  and 
obtain  licenses  to  do  business,  as  a  protection  to  the  beauty- 
seeking  public. 

IF  something  be  not  soon  done,  we  shall  be  unable  to  see 
the  houses  of  San  Francisco  because  of  the  advertising 
boards.  The  average  citizen  has  long  borne  in  silent 
misery  the  defacement  of  dead  walls  and  sides  of  un- 
occupied buildings  by  unsightly  advertisements.  But  now 
that  this  nuisance  threatens  the  lives  of  people,  it  is  time 
to  enter  a  vigorous  protest.  These  bill  boards  are  being 
pushed  up  from  twenty  to  thirty  feet  above  the  sidewalks, 
and  as  they  are  thrown  together  in  the  flimsiest  and 
cheapest  manner  possible,  a  little  gust  of  wind  would  hurl 
them  into  the  street,  to  inflict  serious,  perhaps  fatal,  in- 
juries upon  the  unfortunate  passer-by.  The  limit  of 
safety,  to  say  nothing  of  decency,  has  long  been  passed  in 
this  business,  and  a  general  law  should  cut  down  by  two- 
thirds  the  height  of  these  walls — at  present  a  menace  to 
life  and  limb. 


Tllr-  '"•  prohibiting  the 

■  loing  a  step  further, 

from  ■ 

In  California  thi  and    the   Stab 

t  the  only  opportunity  toi  labor,  nol 

sistenl  with  the  |  fare. 

Til  E  unsavory  rumors  that  have  surrounded  the  .Mission 
street  high  school  contract,  and  which  began  with  the 

purchase  of  the  ground  for  the  building,  reached  an  acute 

phase  last  week  in  the  Iareeny  of  the  plans  and  spe, 
tiocs  for  the  construction  of  the  house.  The  fact  that  the 
s  returned  to  the  <  flicc  of  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board  of  Education  as  mysteriously  as  they  departed,  is 
not  reassuring.  There  must  have  been  an  intent  in  the 
theft,  and  as  there  were  ugly  insinuations  heard  when  the 
contract  was  let,  it  is  altogether  probable  that  the  public, 
as  usual  in  such  cases,  will  find  to  its  cost  later  that  there 
was  some  fraudulent  design  in  this  theft   of   these  papers. 

REPRESENTATIVE  NORTH,  of  Alameda,  gave  a 
very  clear  exhibition  of  the  breadth,  heigbth 
and  depth  of  his  statesmanship  at  Sacramento 
last  Tuesday.  The  House  was  in  committee  of 
the  whole,  having  under  discussion  the  labor  bill. 
The  Alameda  statesman  alluding  to  the  present 
labor  commissioner,  said  that  he  wasa  competent  and  con- 
scientious man,  but  that  he  was  a  Democrat,  which  fact 
was  quite  enough  to  cause  his  removal.  Elevation  of  the 
public  service  in  the  light  of  such  patriotic  inspiration  as 
is  breathed  forth  by  Statesman  North  becomes,  indeed,  a 
simple  proposition. 

SNY  effort  to  impose  useless  burdens  upon  foreign  cor- 
porations doing  business  in  this  State  cannot  be  justi- 
fied upon  economic  grounds.  The  bill  before  the  Legisla- 
ture requiring  foreign  insurance  companies  doing  business 
here  to  have  on  deposit,  in  some  State,  $200,000,  may  be 
regarded  somewhat  in  that  light.  The  protection  of 
policy  holders  is  of  the  highest  importance,  but  a  deposit 
of  $50,000,  when  the  company,  without  respect  to  its  cash 
deposit  in  the  United  States,  is  known  to  be  financially 
sound,  should  cover  all  reasonable  requirements.  That 
sum  maintained  unimpaired  should  be  accepted  as  a  suffi- 
cient guarantee  of  good  faith  and  ability  to  meet  all  the 
usual  exigencies  of  business. 


THERE  is  no  doubt  that  the  single  aged  capitalist 
always  affords  a  shining  mark  to  widows  of  uncertain 
and  impecunious  age;  and  many  a  fat  compromise  has  been 
effected  where  courageous  resistance  would  have  defeated 
the  designs  of  the  dishonest.  In  all  these  cases  of  alleged 
private  contract  marriages,  any  proof,  other  than  that 
instant  and  complete,  is  open  to  much  suspicion.  The  in- 
centive upon  the  part  of  designing  women  to  attack  the 
fortune  of  wealthy  old  men  is  great,  because  it  is  un- 
attended usually  by  punishment  of  any  kind,  and  for  the 
further  reason  that  it  is  comparatively  easy  to  manufac- 
ture corroborative  testimony.  Take  the  Quackenbush 
case.  It  is  possible  that  the  claim  of  Mrs.  Abbott,  who 
says  she  is  the  contract  wife  of  the  aged  capitalist,  may 
be  valid;  but  it  is  easy  to  see  how  such  a  case  might 
be  built  up  and  prepared,  to  spring  after  his  death,  with 
considerable  hope  of  success.  Quackenbush  accidentally 
heard  of  the  existence  of  such  papers,  as  he  asserts,  and 
immediately  gave  battle.  His  vigorous  contest  commends 
him  to  general  public  opinion  as  being  the  victim  of  great 
attempted  wrong. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1897. 


WHY       THE      COURTS       ARE       CONGESTED,       AND      THE 
NEEDED      RELIEF. 

IT  seems  as  if  this  Legislature  is  going  to  meddle  with 
the  law  Courts  only  to  muddle  them.  Of  the  existing 
condition  of  confusion  in  litigation  there  can  be  no  manner 
of  doubt.  That  a  remedy  is  badly  needed  is  equally  cer- 
tain. But  then  it  is  very  possible  to  render  the  existing 
"confusion  worse  confounded,"  and  that  is  what  the  best 
authorities  agree  would  result  from  the  adoption  of  any 
one  of  the  proposals  now  under  consideration  at  Sacra- 
mento. One  of  the  very  worst  of  these,  as,  perhaps, 
might  have  been  expected,  is  that  which  has  emanated 
from  the  Bar  Association  of  this  city.  Lawyers  in  prac- 
tice are  not  calculated  to  make  very  good  law  reformers, 
nor  to  very  ardently  desire  to  reduce  litigation  to  a 
minimum.  Their  interest  naturally  lies  the  other  way. 
At  the  same  time  it  is  only  just  to  the  higher  and  better 
class  of  attorneys  in  our  midst  to  say  that  they  are  not  the 
moving  spirits  of  the  local  Bar  Association.  They  have 
not  the  time  to  attend  to  its  affairs,  and,  as  a  consequence, 
it  is  run  by  men,  worthy  enough  in  their  way,  but  who  are 
in  no  sense  representative  of  their  more  fully  employed, 
experienced,  and  abler  brethren.  That  is  not  a  remedy 
for  existing  ills  which  gives  two  chances  for  appeals  where 
only  one  is  now  possible.  The  principal  evil  to  be  cured  is 
the  overcrowding  of  the  Supreme  Court  Calendar  to  a  de- 
gree that  the  Judges  cannot,  or  at  least,  do  not  cope  with. 
The  Court  is  two  years  behind  its  work,  with  no  apparent 
chance  of  overtaking  it.  To  delay  justice  is  in  many  cases 
to  deny  it.  Defendants  die,  and  so  do  witnesses,  besides, 
losing  parties  are  very  given  to  becoming  bankrupt,  if 
time  enough  be  allowed  them,  and  in  that  case,  of  course, 
the  winning  side,  which  is  presumably  the  right  side,  loses 
its  damages,  as  well  as  its  time  and  costs.  For  every  rea- 
son appeals  ought  to  be  promptly  heard   and  determined. 

The  Bar  Association's  proposed  remedy  is  the  creation 
of  three  new  Courts  of  appeal;  the  State  being  divided  into 
three  judicial  districts,  with  an  appellate  court,  consist- 
ing of  three  Judges,  in  each.  As  these  Courts  are  not  to 
have  final  jurisdiction,  but  may  be. appealed  from  to  the 
existing  Supreme  Court,  it  is  difficult  to  see  where  the  re- 
form comes  in,  or  how  finality  is  to  be  reached  more 
speedily  than  now.  The  probability  would  seem  to  be  that 
the  proceedings  would  be  more  cumbrous,  and  longer 
drawn  out.  They  would  certainly  be  more  costly.  It  is 
not  to  be  supposed  that  litigants,  as  a  rule,  would  rest 
satisfied  with  the  decision  of  the  intermediate  Court,  whilst 
the  one  of  last  resort  remained  to  be  heard  from.  We  are 
a  litigious  people,  and,  when  we  go  to  law,  are  accustomed 
to  fight  to  the  bitter  end.  Moreover,  law,  with  its  uncer- 
tainties, is  in  most  instances  only  a  game  of  chance,  and 
no  good  gambler  ever  quits  whilst  he  still  holds  a  possibly 
winning  card.  Every  possible  case  would  still  be  taken  to 
the  higher  Court,  and  the  congested  condition  of  its  calen- 
dar would  continue.  There  would  be  more  work  for  the 
lawyers,  nine  more  judges,  and  Heaven  only  knows  how 
much  more  expense.  It  is  a  lawyer's  bill  through  and 
through.  It  is  said  that  nothing  else  is  possible  without  a 
constitutional  amendment  for  which  we  shall  have  to  wait 
two  years.  The  present  Supreme  Court,  being  a  creation 
of  the  Constitution,  it  cannot  be  remodelled  or  otherwise 
interfered  with  by  the  Legislature  alone.  The  people 
must  be  consulted  before  anything  can  be  done.  It  is  well 
that  it  should  be  so.  It  would  be  destructive  of  the 
necessary  independence  of  the  highest  Appellate  Court  if 
it  could  be  tampered  with  by  every  chance  majority  in  the 
Legislature.  If  the  working  strength  of  the  Court  must 
be  added  to,  let  an  amendment  be  voted  upon  by  the  peo- 
ple, creating  three  more  judges,  and  constituting  a  third 
department. 

What  is  really  needed,  as  the  News  Letter  has  more 
than  once  pointed  out,  is  not  an  increase  of  judges  and 
courts  of  which  there  are  all  too  many  already,  but  a  de- 
crease in  the  amount  of  litigation.  It  would  seem  at  first 
sight  as  if  that  were  a  matter  the  Legislature  could  not 
control,  but  the  fact  is  otherwise.  By  adopting  the  prac- 
tice of  older  States  and  countries,  litigation  would  soon  be 
so  reduced  in  volume  that  the  existing  Courts  would  be 
enabled  to  dispose  of  it  easily.  The  truth  is  that  the 
lawyers  have  been  permitted  to  build  up  a  system  of  prac- 
tice in  this  State  which  really  offers  a  premium  to  litigation. 


It  is  often  cheaper  to  litigate  an  honest  claim  than  to 
promptly  pay  it.  It  ought  to  be  costly  to  defend  a 
righteous  suit,  and,  where  good  practice  obtains,  it  is.  In 
California  the  winner  pays  nearly  all  his  own  costs,  which 
is  inequitable,  unjust,  and  the  fruitful  cause  of  the  terrible 
amount  of  litigation  that  prevails  in  our  midst.  A  lawyers' 
fee  bill  should  be  given  a  place  on  the  statute  book  and  all 
the  charges  incurred  under  that  should  be  paid  by  the 
loser  to  the  winner  in  every  case.  It  is  monstrous  that 
a  man  should  have  to  resort  to  the  Courts  to  recover  a 
clearly  honest  claim,  but  it  is  still  more  monstrous  that  he 
should  have  not  only  to  lose  his  time,  but  pay  his  law  costs 
as  well.  It  is  only  just  and  right  that  the  fellow  who  re- 
sists the  payment  of  honest  debt  should  pay  all  the  legiti- 
mate expenses  incurred  in  collecting  it.  That  is  the  al- 
most invariable  rule  the  wide  world  over;  and,  if  it  were 
not  for  the  many  lawyers  who  find  their  way  into  our 
Legislature  it  would  be  so  here.  Change  the  law  in 
the  direction  indicated,  and  quickly  litigation  would  be  so 
decreased  that  we  should  hear  no  more  of  congested 
calendars,  or  overworked  courts.  Another  badly  needed 
change  is  one  preventing  lawyers  bargaining  for  fees  con- 
tingent upon  the  result.  It  would  be  possible  to  fill  a 
volume  in  telling  of  the  evils  that  flow  from  this  bad  legal 
practice.  It  is  not  tolerated  in  other  places  we  know.  It 
is  contrary  to  public  policy  that  a  lawyer,  who  is  an. 
officer  of  the  Court,  should  be  pecuniarily  interested  in  its 
decision,  and  it  is  usually  made  a  decisive  cause  for 
disbarment.  If  is  were  made  so  here,  there  would  be 
much  less  subornation  to  commit  perjury,  and 
very  much  less  litigation  than  now  disgrace  our 
State.  The  Legislature  has  full  power  to  effect 
these  reforms.  Two  additional  sections  to  the  codes 
would  be  all  that  would  be  required.  Their  adoption  at 
this  session  would  render  the  present  Legislature  the  most 
popular  California  ever  had. 

More  About  The  It  is  plain  that  the  proposition  for  the 
Pacific  Government  to  take  and  operate  the 

Railroads'  Debts.  Pacific  Railroads  has  not  more  than  a 
Corporal's  guard  of  supporters  in 
Congress.  Even  the  Californians  who  favor  the  idea,  are 
afraid  to  formulate,  and  promulgate  it.  Whilst  nobody 
favors  forcible  foreclosure,  and  Government  operating  is 
frowned  upon  on  all  sides,  two  new  propositions  hold  the 
field,  and  command  the  support  of  many  of  the  opponents 
of  the  original  funding  bill.  It  begins  to  be  clear  that 
Congressmen  want  this  ticklish  subject  disposed  of  by 
somebody  else  than  themselves.  Hence  the  new  proposals 
are  (1).  by  the  committee  having  charge  of  the  matter, 
that  a  commission  of  three  cabinet  officers  be  given 
plenary  power  to  make  such  settlement  as  to  them  may 
seem  best,  and  (2)  that  by  Hubbard  of  Missouri,  calling  for 
a  non-partizan  commission  consisting  of  15  members,  to 
whom  full  powers  to  act,  within  certain  not  very  import- 
ant limitations,  is  given.  Both  commissions  are  to  have 
power  to  compromise,  sell,  or  otherwise  dispose  of  the 
Government's  claim,  but  in  neither  case  is  it  proposed  to 
clothe  them  with  the  power  to  take  and  operate.  One  or 
other  of  these  measures  will  likely  pass,  and  lead  to  a 
settlement  more  or  less  satisfactory.  Whatever  else 
happens,  it  is  obvious  that  the  demagogues  from  this 
State  are  not  going  to  be  listened  to.  The  interests  of  a 
vast  region,  and  a  "public  debt  of  $125,000,000  are  concern- 
ments too  grave  to  be  left  to  the  malice  of  Willie  Hearst 
and  Adolph  Sutro. 

What  Is  A      It  will   be   an  evil  day  for  San  Francisco 
Fair  when  investments  in  its  public  utilities  are 

Water  Rate?  deemed  no  longer  safe,  or  profitable.  The 
present  raid  all  along  the  line  means  that, 
if  it  be  successful.  The  Examiner  coarsely  tells  the  Super- 
visors that  they  will  be  branded  as  thieves,  retired  to  pri- 
vate life,  and  be  ruined  in  this  community,  if  they  dare  to 
disobey  its  behests  in  regard  to  water  rates.  What  is  it 
which  this  wretchedly  unscrupulous  sheet  demands  that 
they  shall  do?  It  proclaims  that  "the  current  rate  of  in- 
terest for  investments,  as  safe  as  Spring  Valley  stock,  is 
from  3  to  4  per  cent,"  and  the  Supervisors  are  required  to 
reduce  its  net  earnings  to  those  figures  on  pain  of  being 
hounded  to  their  ruin.  A  largely  circulated  newspaper, 
though  not  to  be  dreaded  as  it  once  was,  is  yet  not  with- 


February  13, 


SAN    FR  VNC  TER. 


e   witb    the    unthinking    man\  <\  tlio 

Examiner,  wit) 
•ate  ti  intimldatt 

s  are  not  u  such  intimi- 

saiil.  I  public   ui : 

caminer  bo 

.at  it    wants,    and    if  it    .■  t    it.    threatens 

ind  a  majority  o(   the   Supervisors   as  t liii-s . 
Tin'  Kxaminer    is    frequently    1 

■  and  owes  no  responsibility  to  anybody.  It 
many  nickels  in  keeping  the  crowd  In  tbeexclted  belief 
somebody  is  robbing  them,  and.  In-  the  same  pi 
k mailing  corporatioi 
witness  the  Southern  Pacific  payment  of  11,000  a  month. 
The  Supervisors,  in  the  matter  of  fixing  water  rates,  are 
judicial  officers  bound  to  do  justice  and  equity  between  the 
consumers  on  the  one  hand  and  the  water  company  00  the 
other.  If  they  fail  to  allow  the  company  to  earn  the  cur- 
rent rate  of  interest,  their  schedule  of  rates  becomes 
worth  less  than  the  white  paper  it  is  written  dpon.  The 
Courts  have  settled  that  beyond  the  possibility  of  further 
question.  The  Superior  Court,  w ith. fudges  Hoge,  Wallace, 
and  Shafter  sitting  in  bank,  so  decided  and  the  Supreme 
Court  aftirmed  their  decision.  The  Supervisors  therefore 
have  but  a  merely  perfunctory  duty  to  perform.  The 
amount  of  the  operating  expenses  and  of  the  bonded  and 
stock  indebtedness,  are  well  known  and  beyond  question. 
The  only  matter  that  remains  open  is  as  to  what  consti- 
tutes a  fair  and  reasonable  rate  of  interest.  Is  the  Ex- 
aminer right  in  its  contention  that  from  3  to  4  per  cent  is 
enough?  That  is  the  sole  question  now  at  issue.  If  the 
rate  be  once  established  so  that  the  water  company  may 
earn  no  more  than  3)  per  cent,  all  the  other  public  utilities, 
such  as  gas  and  street  railroads,  must  come  under  the 
operations  of  the  same  rule.  Are  investors  likely  to  put 
their  money  at  that  rate  into  enterprises  of  more  or  less 
risk,  when  they  can  lend  it  on  real  estate  at  from  6  to  8 
per  cent?  To  state  the  question  is  to  answer  it.  Then  it 
may  be  safely  taken  for  granted  that  the  Courts  would  be 
appealed  to  and  that  they  would  determine,  upon  the  uni- 
form testimony  of  business  men,  that  not  less  than  6  per 
cent  is  fair  and  reasonable.  That  is  inevitably  what  will 
happen  if  the  Examiner  has  its  way.  The  new  rate  in 
that  case  will  be  declared  void  and  the  existing  one  will  be 
re-established.  The  Supervisors  understand  that  per- 
fectly. It  remains  to  be  seen  who,  and  how  many  of  them, 
are  enough  afraid  of  the  Examiner  to  vote  for  rates  they 
know  to  be  illegal  and  certain  to  be  set  aside.  In  the  end, 
the  censure  of  thinking  men  will  overtake  them  and  abide 
long  after  the  twaddle  of  daily  journalism  is  forgotten. 
This  harassing  of  capital  in  public  uses  is  alarming  legiti- 
mate investors,  and  if  continued,  will  in  the  end  prove  de- 
structive to  the  credit  of  San  Francisco. 

Hawaiian  Those  who  think  they  favor  Hawaiian  an- 
Annexation.  nexation,  whether  citizens  of  this  country 
or  residents  in  the  islands,  are  just  now  on 
tiptoe  in  the  expectation  of  favorable  action  in  that  be- 
half by  the  incoming  administration.  There  is  a  strong 
belief  in  many  quarters  that  the  new  President  will  pre- 
sent a  vivid  contrast  to  Mr.  Cleveland  in  his  attitude  to- 
ward this  question.  To  date,  the  oracle  at  Canton  is 
dumb,  and  speculation  upon  McKinley's  personal  opinions 
would  be  entirely  nugatory.  The  question,  however,  is  an 
important  and  a  living  one,  since  there  is  no  doubt  that 
the  policy  of  annexation  will  be  urged  upon  the  55th  Con- 
gress and  supported  by  a  considerable  following  in  this 
country.  Anything  therefore  bearing  on  the  subject  is 
timely.  The  most  popular  argument  in  favor  of  the  scheme 
is  that  the  islands  are  necessary,  as  a  strategic  point,  to 
our  protection  against  foreign  powers.  The  United 
States  is  now  120  years  of  age,  and  has  never  owned  a 
single  strategic  point  distant  from  our  coasts,  and  has 
never  experienced  the  need  of  any.  If  we  could  thrive  in 
safety  in  earlier  years,  why  do  we  need  them  when  we  are 
strong,  and  the  tendency  is  toward  international  arbitra- 
tion? Granting  that  Hawaiian  sentiment  is  ripe  for  annexa- 
tion, and  that  the  group  would  fall  into  our  hands  without  fir- 
ing a  gun,  what  advantage  would  they  be  to  the  United 
States?      We  should  at  once  have    departed  from   the 


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with  ,(  our 

Ambition  grows  on  what  it  feet 
and  would  grow  until  the  settled   policy  i>f  tin-  oatloi 

-   in   the  excitement   "f  scrambling  witb 

otber  nations  foi  ■■      ft  policy  pregnant  with 

England,    I  er  of   tbe 

world,  is  nut  sin  I,  but  in  spite  of 

them.      She    Wat  atOTH    she   owned    a    colon] 

would  be  great  without  them.  Without  a  colon]  she  would 
have  ten  times  tbe  population  of  the  Netherlands  and  ten 
times  their  area,  a  land  that  it  is  believed  would  be  Cap 
able  of  supporting  from  twice  to  four  times  her  pri 
population  without  importing  grain  or  meat.  We  have 
not  lost  ground  for  lack  of  colonies,  neither  has  Itussia, 
Germany.  Austria  nor  Italy.  England's  scattered 
possessions  are  the  cause  of  her  present  international 
timidity,  and  their  protection  an  enormous  expense.  She 
avoids  war  knowing  she  is  open  to  attack  in  fifty  plat  es  at 
once  unless  she  covers  the  globe  with  Boating  batteries 
and  fortifications.  Do  we  envy  her  her  position?  If  we 
need  Hawaii,  we  need  Cuba,  Bermuda,  and  the  Bahamas 
still  more.  They  are  nearer  to  our  Atlantic.  Coast  than  the 
Sandwich  Islands  are  to  our  Pacific  Coast,  and  the  need 
of  protection  is  vastly  greater  on  the  Eastern  shore. 
When  we  had  gained  the  points  mentioned  we  would 
naturally  covet  the  Maritime  provinces  of  Canada  and  the 
balance  of  the  Antilles  on  the  same  argument  that  each 
recurring  one  was  needed  to  protect  those  already  gained. 
The  fact  is  that  we  are  better  off  without  any  of  them. 


The  Torrens  Land  The  Torrens  Land  Transfer  bill,  now 
Transfer  Bill.  before  the  Legislature,  has  escaped 
defeat  only  by  the  skin  of  its  teeth,  as 
it  were.  It  was  supposed  to  be  dead  at  one  time,  having 
been  refused  passage  by  a  majority  vote,  but  Mr.  Bulla 
of  Los  Angeles  moved  a  reconsideration,  and  made  such  a 
telling  argument  in  its  favor  that  it  was  given  a  new  chance 
for  life.  It  ought  to  live  and  become  a  law.  It  has  worked 
to  a  charm  for  more  than  thirty  years  in  Australia,  and  is 
peculiarly  adapted  to  the  condition  of  land  titles  in  this 
State.  There  have  been  more  disputes,  litigations,  and 
even  killings  in  California  over  land  troubles  than  it  would 
be  possible  or  profitable  to  recall  at  this  time.  Even  up 
to  this  late  day,  land  titles  are  not  all  quieted,  and  the 
practice  of  casting  legal  clouds  upon  men's  homes  is  all 
too  common  still.  Moreover,  our  system  of  searching 
records  and  making  transcripts  is  becoming  frightfully 
expensive,  and  an  intolerable  tax  on  real  estate  transac- 
tions. Under  the  Torrens  plan,  all  that  is  done  away 
with,  and  it  is  made  as  inexpensive  to  transfer  a  lot  of 
land  as  an  interest  in  a  ship.  The  services  of  the  legal 
fraternity  are  dispensed  with,  and  the  Recorder  becomes 
the  sole  land  transferer  of  his  county.  The  property 
owner,  when  once  on  the  register,  may  content  his  soul  in 
peace,  for  in  that  case  no  action  at  law  will  lie  against  him. 
He  has  but  to  prove  the  fact  that  his  name  is  the  last  one 
of  record,  and  the  case  is  at  once  demurred  out  of  court. 
If  by  any  mistake  of  the  Recorder  a  man  is  wrongfully 
done  out  of  his  property,  his  remedy  is  a  money  payment, 
out  of  what  is  called  "  the  insurance  fund,"  amounting  to 
nearly  double  the  value  of  the  land  of  which  he  has  been 
deprived.  That  fund  is  derived  from  the  fee  paid  when 
the  record  is  made.  It  was  predicted  by  the  local  lawyers 
at  the  time  that  the  insurance  fund  would  not  nearly  suffice 
to  pay  the  many  claims  that  would  be  brought  against  it. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  only  one  small  claim  has  been  pre- 
ferred in  more  than  thirty  years,  and  the  fund  now  amounts 
to  about  $12,000,000,  all  of  which  is  safely  invested  in 
Government  bonds.  The  fee  in  each  case  is  rather  less 
than  $2,  and  is  most  cheerfully  paid  because  of  the  safety 
and  comfort  it  insures.  These  results  may  not  be  gainsaid, 
for  they  are  of  world-wide  celebrity.  Our  Legislature  can 
make  no  mistake  in  adopting  a  like  measure. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


February  13,  1897. 


As  to  Some  One  of  the  measures  now  before  the  Legis- 
Salaries.  lature,  which  affects  the  taxpayers  of  this 
city,  is  a  bill  for  increase  of  the  salaries  of 
our  Police  Department,  and  it  is  a  measure  wholly  unjus- 
tifiable and  without  reason.  It  is  perfectly  natural  that 
the  department,  which  has  long  been  recognized  as  a 
means  for  the  payment  of  political  and  personal  obliga- 
tions, quite  as  much  as  a  protector  of  the  lives  and  prop- 
erty of  citizens,  should  desire  a  larger  percentage  of  the 
people's  money,  but  it  is  equally  true  that  in  no  depart- 
ment of  San  Francisco's  Government  has  there  been  larger 
expenditures,  with  less  satisfactory  returns.  It  will  be 
remembered  that  but  a  few  months  ago,  in  response  to  no 
public  requirement,  and  against  sober  and  intelligent  pub- 
lic sentiment,  the  number  of  policemen  was  very  largely 
increased.  At  that  time  it  was  pointed  out  that  there  was 
no  occasion  for  the  increase  existing  outside  of  the  de- 
mands of  the  politicians  and  their  henchmen;  and  so  far  as 
can  be  seen,  the  department  is  no  more  efficient  to-day — 
its  service  no  more  satisfactory,  than  it  was  before  the  in- 
crease was  made.  Now,  we  have  a  demand  for  advance 
of  salaries.  Mayor  Phelan  very  properly  and  succinctly 
voiced  the  truth  when,  at  Sacramento  last  week,  he  de- 
clared that  the  present  was  no  time  to  raise  salaries;  that 
the  men  employed  in  the  department  were  well  paid,  and 
that  the  service  would  gain  nothing  in  efficiency  by  the  pro- 
posed increase.  Policemen  in  San  Francisco  are  well  paid, 
and  there  is  neither  rhyme  nor  reason  in  the  demand  for 
more  money  in  the  department.  As  for  the  desire  to  in- 
crease the  salary  of  Chief  Crowley,  §4000  per  annum  is 
sufficient.  He  has  managed  to  live  quite  comfortably  on 
that  sum  for  many  years,  and  we  see  no  reason  for  increas- 
ing it  just  as  he  is  about  to  retire  to  the  seclusion  and  ease 
of  private  life  on  a  generous  pension.  As  to  increasing 
the  stipend  of  retired  policemen,  it  is  without  the  least 
warrant. 

Quite  a  different  view  should  be  taken,  however,  of  the 
proposed  increase  of  salaries  for  the  Judges  of  the  Superior 
Court.  The  responsibilities  of  the  bench,  the  character  of 
ability  required,  and  the  arduous  duties  before  the  differ- 
ent departments,  justify  the  demand  for  an  increase  to 
$6000  per  annum.  The  work  of  the  Superior  Bench  re- 
quires legal  ability  of  a  high  order,  and  it  is  richly  worth 
S500  per  month.  There  are  few  lawyers,  indeed,  of  suffi- 
cient ability  to  properly  discharge  the  duties  of  a  Superior 
Judge,  who  do  not  earn  more  money  in  private  practice. 
We  think  six  thousand  dollar  justice  better  worth  the 
money  than  such  as  may  be  had  on  a  fifty  per  cent,  dis- 
count. 

Are  Car  Fares  Senator  Braunhart's  specialty  this  session 
Too  H  gh.  is  a  cinch  bill  on  the  street  car  lines. 
During  certain  hours  of  the  morning  and 
afternoon,  when  the  working  classes  most  do  travel,  there 
is  to  be  a  uniform  fare,  with  transfer  privileges,  of  two 
and  a  half  cents.  That  sum,  which,  by  the  way,  is  an  un- 
payable one  in  any  money  current  in  California,  is  to  be 
good  for  a  ride  from  the  Perries  to  the  Cliff,  Ingleside,  and 
other  extremities  of  existing  lines.  It  does  not  amount  in 
many  instances  to  one  third  of  one  cent  a  mile.  In  the  case  of 
the  majority  it  is  about  one-half  of  one  cent  a  mile.  We 
say  without  fear  of  successful  contradiction  that  there  is 
no  street  travelling  done  in  any  of  the  great  cities  of  the 
world  at  those  figures.  It  is  a  minimum  price  that  out- 
does anything  known  among  civilized  men.  With  dear 
coal,  better  wages  to  workmen,  and  the  steep  grades 
that  exist  over  at  least  half  the  city,  there  is  much  rea- 
son why  street  car  fares  should  be  higher,  and  none  why 
they  should  be  lower  that  in  other  cities.  Poorer  working 
classes  exist  elsewhere  than  are  to  be  found  here.  If  the 
working  men  of  the  Mission  cannot  afford  to  pay  for  a 
ride  what  it  is  worth,  and  what  other  people  pay,  then  it 
is  certain  that  no  like  class  in  the  world  can.  Again,  why 
should  a  man  who  works  with  his  hands  get  his  car  rides 
for  less  money  than  one  who  works  with  his  bead?  If  the 
legislature  may  so  legislate,  why  may  it  net  at  the  same 
time  say  that  one  class  shall  perforce  be  supplied  with 
bread,  meat,  sugar,  etc.  at  one  half  the  price  charged 
another  class?  The  car  ride  is  not  in  most  cases,  an  ab- 
solute necessity,  whilst  the  articles  of  diet  named  are. 
This  thing  of  humbugging  the  working  man  into  making 
demands  inconsistent  with   reason,   is  demoralizing  to  him 


and  bis  class,  and  is  demagogic  on  the  part  of  the  cinching 
knaves  of  the  representatives  who  know  that  they  are  ad- 
vocating the  impossible.  It  is  another  case  in  which  the 
Courts  will  always  protect  the  capital  invested  in  a  public 
utility.  It  is  well  that  they  will,  else  we  should  have  no 
car  lines,  gas  works,  water  supplies,  or  other  public  con- 
veniences. Senator  Braunhart  and  the  class  he  affects  to 
represent  may  be  mighty,  but  not  so  mighty  as  the  United 
States  Constitution  as  it  now  reads.  If  Bryan,  Altgeld, 
Tillman  and  their  friends  be  given  the  opportunity  to  re- 
write it,  things  may  be  different. 

The  Governor's     Governor  Budd  has  refused  to  sanction 
Veto.  the  proposed  appropriation  of  $75,000, 

to  make  good  the  deficiency  existing  in 
the  State  Printing  Office,  and  the  public  in  general  will 
commend  his  course.  The  message  accompanying  his  veto 
of  the  appropriation  is  full  of  excellent  reasons  for  his 
action.  From  the  figures  therein  presented,  it  is  appar- 
ent that  the  State  Printing  Office  is  conducted  in  a  scanda- 
lous and  recklessly  extravagant  manner,  and  that,  as  the 
Governor  suggests,  a  great  saving  would  be  effected  if  the 
work  were  let  out  to  the  highest  bidder.  To  literally 
abolish  the  State  Printing  Office  would  be  justified  upon 
every  ground  of  economy.  The  Governor  shows  that  in 
some  instances  the  charge  for  work  performed  at  the  State 
office  is  more  than  twice  as  much  as  the  same  service 
would  cost  elsewhere.  He  shows  from  the  records  fur- 
nished by  Mr.  Johnson,  the  State  Printer,  that  in  a  single 
department — the  press  rooms — there  is  an  approximate 
waste  of  $800  per  week.  The  printing  office  carries  ninety 
girls  here,  and  the  work  turned  out  by  them  can  be  done 
by  seventeen.  What  the  seventy-three  remaining  in  that 
department  do  to  earn  $11  per  week,  or  any  other  sum, 
is  not  known.  The  same  is  equally  true  in  the  bindery — 
in  fact,  no  department  is  free  from  mismanagement,  in- 
competence, not  to  say  downright  fraud.  The  Governor 
has  vainly  called  for  information,  explanation,  and  detailed 
statements  from  the.  State  office,  but  has  not  been  able  to 
obtain  a  lucid  or  satisfactory  response.  In  view  of  these 
facts — the  criminal  waste,  utter  indifference,  and  incompe- 
tent management  glaringly  apparent  in  every  department, 
the  demand  for  an  additional  $75,000  to  encourage  further 
extravagance  and  corruption,  is  an  amazing  exhibition  of 
unmixed  gall,  and  richly  deserves  the  rebuke  it  received. 
Whatever  may  be  the  fate  of  this  bill — whether  it  be  passed 
over  the  Governor's  head  or  die  where  it  lies,  the  Chief 
Executive  has  performed  his  duty  in  exerting  his  preroga- 
tive to  defeat  it,  and  has  performed  a  public  service  in  let- 
ting the  light  in  upon  the  disgraceful  methods  of  doing 
business  in  the  State  Printing  Office. 

The  Loud  The  Loud  postal  bill,  which  bids  fair  to  be- 
Postal  Bill,  come  a  law,  is  not  what  its  enemies  are  rep- 
resenting it  to  be.  It  does  not  strike  at 
legitimate  newspapers,  daily  or  weekly,  but  it  denies  to 
flash  literature  in  serial  form,  to  purely  advertising  sheets, 
and  to  organs  of  patent  medicine  and  other  business  con- 
cerns, the  use  of  the  mails  at  the  cheap  second-class  rate. 
That  rate  was  established  to  encourage  the  circulation  of 
newspapers  and  periodical  literature,  on  the  theory  that 
the  Government  may  well  assist  in  promoting  the  popular 
enlightenment.  That  no  such  benefit  accrues  from  the 
circulation  of  patent  medicine  advertising  and  flash  fic- 
tional reprints,  goes  without  saying.  The  argument  on 
which  the  opponents  of  the  Loud  bill  appear  to  rest  their 
case  is  that  its  passage  would  greatly  curtail  the  use  of 
white  paper.  This  amounts  to  the  preposterous  position 
that  the  Government  should  carry  free  all  matter  that 
comes  to  hand,  in  order  to  encourage  labor  in  the  paper 
mills.  Verily,  this  is  protection  run  mad.  The  postal  ex- 
penditure now  exceeds  the  revenue  by  about  $10,000,000 
per  annum.  It  is  intimated  by  the  experts  that  the  drop- 
ping out  of  this  unworthy  second-class  matter  would  about 
square  the  accounts.  The  increase  of  this  kind  of  mail 
matter  has  been  no  less  than  50,000,000  pounds  within  the 
past  two  years,  and  the  end  is  not  yet.  It  is  the  simple 
purpose  of  the  Loud  bill  to  restore  the  second-class  con- 
cessions of  the  mail  service  to  the  original  intention,  and 
by  so  doing  to  destroy  the  postal  deficit,  and  render  the 
service  almost  self-supporting.  It  is  an  eminently  reason- 
able proposal,  and  ought  to  become  law. 


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SAN    PRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


The  Mmieter*-     Some  one  has  somewhere  said  thai 

Rage.  three  kinds  of    people     men,  w<  man, 

and  ministers.  We  are  forcibly  reminded 
of  this  saying  by  the  attitude  almost  without  exception,  of 

Otb  of  the  city  toward  Dr  1  i.i\  id  Starr  Jordan.  That 
distinguished  gentleman  had  the  amusing  misfortune  to  say 
in  a  recent  lecture  that  certain  aQed   relig- 

ious excitement  were  in  no  wise  different  from  intoxication. 
Whereat  the  brethren  nprOM  as  one  man.  and  fell  upon 
Stanford's  President  with  indescribable  fury.  Theirshrick- 
ings  savored  of  all  things,  excepting  common  sense 
and  reason.  They  mistake  violent  personal  attacks  and  in- 
temperate assertions  for  argument;  and  by  their  immedi- 
ate departure  from  a  calm  and  dispassionate  consideration 
of  the  position  taken  by  Dr.  Jordan,  demonstrate  their  in- 
ability to  discuss  with  dignity  and  intelligence  the  state- 
ments he  has  made.  Their  hot  anger  is  in  marked  con- 
trast to  the  soft  answer  that  turneth  away  wrath,  and  is 
an  amazing  spectacle  of  bad  judgment  and  intolerance, 
where  we  should  look  for  clearness,  candor,  and  reason. 
The  cause  of  religion  gains  nothing  by  such  an  exhibition 
as  the  ministers  have  given  us.  And  their  outburst  pre- 
sents to  the  thoughtful  layman  a  very  pronounced  reason 
for  the  small  attendance  of  men  upon  their  churches,  and 
lagging  zeal  within  the  walls  of  Zion.  The  clergy  should 
broaden  out  until  they  can  oppose  argument  with  argu- 
ment. When  they  can  control  themselves,  only,  can  they 
be  respected.  Their  swelling  chorus  of  vituperation,  driz- 
zled through  newspaper  columns  and  thundered  from  pul- 
pits, overturns  no  opposing  opinion;  it  weakens  their  in- 
fluence, and  brings  their  chosen  faith  into  doubt  and  con- 
tempt. Meantime,  it  is  noted  that  an  estimable  young 
lady  of  Santa  Cruz  has  gone  insane,  because  of  the  relig- 
ious emotions  condemned  by  Dr.  Jordan. 

Our  Navy's  The  fortunate  and  unexpected  escape 
Weakness,  of  the  North  Atlantic  squadron  from  the 
roaring  ocean,  emphasizes  the  fear  every- 
where expressed  that  the  new  navy  is  lacking  in  those  sea- 
going qualities  without  which  ships  are  valueless.  The  re- 
ports of  the  behavior  of  the  war  vessels  in  the  recent 
storm,  which  was  not  particularly  severe,  awaken  the 
gravest  doubt  of  their  ability  to  stay  on  top  of  the  water. 
Not  only  is  it  apparent  that  the  new  navy  is  primarily  far 
less  safe  than  the  merchant' marine;  but  our  warships  be- 
come unsoldered  and  spring  leaks  in  unexpected  and  dan- 
gerous places;  their  turrets  get  out  of  order,  their  guns 
break  loose  and  charge  down  the  decks,  until  the  perils 
that  threaten  aboard  are  little  less  to  be  feared  than  the 
engulfing  waters  without.  We  are  paying  out  millions  to 
build  up  a  navy  that  shall  protect  the  American  flag  on 
every  sea,  and  maintain  the  dignity  of  the  United  States 
among  the  nations  of  the  earth;  and  it  begins  to  look  as  if 
we  were  not  getting  our  money's  worth.  Our  vessels 
should  first  be  able  to  withstand  the  assaults  of  the  ele- 
ments before  they  can  safely  oppose  the  bore  and  batteries 
of  other  powers. 

That  Costly  The  giving  of  a  private  ball,  or  enter- 
New  York  Bail,  tainment,  is  entirely  within  the  right  of 
the  individual  who  gives  it,  and  to  ques- 
tion that  right  is  to  impinge  upon  personal  liberty  and  to 
perpetrate  a  very  gross  impertinence.  That  a  few 
ministers  have  used  their  pulpits  as  a  point  of  advantage 
from  which  to  denounce  the  givers  of  the  Bradley-Martin 
ball,  because  of  its  costliness,  goes  to  prove  that  Christ 
yet  has  followers  only  fitted  to  mend  nets  and  catch  fish. 
That  such  bad  form  in  matter  and  manners  should  exist  at 
this  advanced  stage  of  civilization  and  refinement,  saT's  little 
for  either  the  education,  or  good  manners,  of  the  offending 
preachers.  It  may  be  true  that  $290,000  is  a  large  sum  to 
pay  for  a  single  entertainment,  but  whose  business  is  that? 
And  who  holds  a  guage  with  which  to  measure  its  pro- 
portionate largeness?  To  multi-millionaires  it  may  be  a 
comparative  trifle,  whereas  to  that  large  section  of  would- 
be-somebodies  who  live  beyond  their  means,  the  giving  of 
any  ball  at  all  is  often  a  pleasure  they  must  needs  forego. 
If  the  entertainers  are  rich,  and  accumulating  more  than 
they  can  spend  for  their  personal  wants,  they  are  bene- 
factors when  they  let  loose  their  purse  strings,  and  per- 
mit the  unused  surplus  to  go  flowing  out  among  their 
neighbors.     It  is  said  that  they  should   use  it  only  for  the 


or.     That   is   1  matter   for   the  OWW 

' 
reach  the  poor.     Mai  d  thoughtful  prop],'  i . 

that  giving  something  (or  nothing  i 

perhaps.  t|„.    gjcl(    „,„)    ),,  .     good,    and  that  the 

way  to  reach  the  humble  to  A  is  to 

put  orders  around  among  its  trades-people   whi 

plovers.      Wc  talk  of  the  euls  of   the   rich  growing  richer, 

and  the  poor  poorer,   and  in   the  th  oryoul 

against  toe  equalizing  process  instituted  by  the  Bradley- 
Martins,     Hah' 

Evolution  of  the  The  evolution  of  the  secretary  to  the 
Secretary.  President  of  the  United  states  has  been 
rapid.  When  Cleveland  went  to  the 
White  House,  he  raised  the  office  from  a  par  with  the 
ushers  and  clerks,  to  a  position  of  consequence.  Then  La- 
mont  became  his  adviser  and  the  receiver  and  entertainer 
of  Senators  and  other  State  dignitaries.  Harrison  brought 
Halford  from  the  Indianapolis  Journal  to  his  aid,  and 
Cleveland's  secretary,  Thurber,  has  expanded  the  social 
side  of  the  position.  The  secretary  to  the  President  has 
become  a  person  of  much  importance,  and  it  is  now  said 
that  Mr.  McKinley's  secretary  will  maintain  a  separate 
establishment  and  take  a  prominent  part  in  the  social  life 
of  the  new  administration.  He  will  play  the  part  of  a 
diplomat;  elevated  to  the  level  of  cabinet  officers  and 
other  important  persons,  his  influence  in  the  President's 
family  politically,  and  in  Washington  life  socially,  will 
demonstrate  a  remarkable  evolution  from  the  position  of 
stenographer  and  clerk  to  that  of  confidential  adviser  to 
the  President  and  prominent  factor  in  the  inner  circle  at 
the  national  capital. 

IN  Chicago  the  Aldermen  have  very  charitably  consented 
to  divide  the  proceeds  of  a  street  railroad  franchise 
with  the  city.  This  is  a  surprising  exhibition  of  Alder- 
manic  generosity,  and  should  be  immediately  brought  to 
the  attention  of  San  Francisco's  Board  of  thrifty  Super- 
visors. 


THE  fact  that  Admiral  Bunce's  squadron  rode  out  the 
recent  gales  on  the  Atlantic,    demolished  the   theory 
that  the  new  navy  was  amphibious. 


Sufferers  from  Coughs,  Sore  Throat,  etc.,  should  be  constantly 
supplied  with  "  Brown's  Bronchial  Troches."    Avoid  Imitations. 


Beecham's  Pills  cure  Sick  Headache. 


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Do  You  Want  a  Home? 


I  for  $200  GASH  DOWN  j 


Within  20  minutes  walk  of  the  City  Hall,  Within  10 
minutes  ride  of  the  City  Hall  on  a  cable  car  line? 
Never  has  such  an  opportunity  been  offered  for  a  man 
who  wants  a  home  to  obtain  one  on  conditions  that 
make  the  ownership  no  more  burdensome  than  to  pay 
ren'.  for  a  house  to  live  in  Interest  on  deferred  pay- 
ments at  the  rate  of  SIX  PER  CENT. 

Five  years 
are  given  in  which  to  pay  for  the  ground  which  is  to 
be  your  home.  You  can  pay  your  installments 
monthly.  Every  installment  stops  interest  on  the 
amount  paid 

In  one  of  the  most 
charming  ;i  ,nd 

Wliere  is  to  be  uour  Home?  i  %38ffir%£ 

(<p    out  to  the  corner 
W/3Q®<k<S<^%^<S<&®®3®®®&^&^®<&    of  Castro  ard  20th 

streets;  ride  out 
on  the  Castro-street  cars  to  the  corner  of  Castro  and 
21st  streets,  aud  you  face  it.  Large  signs  showing 
the  size  and  price  of  every  lot  will  be  there 

Only  a  savings  bunk  that  had  acquired  the  prop- 
erty by  foreclosure  cou'd  afford  to  sell  at  the  prices 
and  on  the  terms  offered, 
For  any  furtner  particulars  or  information  call  on 


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B.  P.  OLIVER,    m  Montgomery  Street 

Agent  for  the  Hlbernia  Bank,  owner  of  the  property 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1897. 


'  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 

FOR  a  short  time  Americans  in  general, 
and  Californians    in    particular,   felt 

more  than  passing  pride  for  Ned  Townsend. 

We  looked  upon  him  as  a  sort  of  Kipling  of 
B  the  Bowery  who  was  going  to  purify  the 

tenements,  reform  Richard  Harding  Davis 
and  highly  specialize  a  phase  of  North  American  litera- 
t  jre.  There  were  even  hopes  that  some  day  he  might  be 
caricatured  and  satirized — hopes  suddenly  and  disappoint- 
ingly realized  when  Townsend  took  up  the  Paddeu  stories 
again  and  performed  these  services  for  himself.  Townsend 
always  has  had  what  is  known  reportorially  as  a  rare  nose 
for  news,  and  to-day  that  means  a  nose  which  will  stand 
almost  anything — even  the  body-snatching  of  defunct  fads. 
And  the  Chimmie  fad  is  so  dead  that  I  wouder  a  special 
decomposing  room  has  not  been  fitted  out  in  The  Journal 
building  for  the  linotype  which  sets  the  Townsend  copy. 

I  went  to  the  Columbia,  in  truth,  because  I  was  paid  to 
go.  I  took  no  enthusiasm  with  me  and  expected  to  find 
less  on  the  stage.  I  thought  the  players  would  be  as 
fatigued  of  their  parts  as  I  am  of  the  sketches  which  in- 
spired them.  I  came  away  in  somebody's  debt  for  an  even- 
ing of  easy,  unexacting  entertainment,  and  I  think  my 
gratitude  may  be  safely  divided  between  the  actors  and 
Mr.  Gus  Thomas,  who  together  have  done  as  much  for 
Townsend  as  he  has  done  against  himself.  Thomas  cut  off 
the  perennial  Fadden  in  the  bud  of  his  pre-nuptials,  Nat 
Goodwinized  the  sorrow  and  small  bottled  solace  of  Mr. 
Paul,  and  gave  Mrs.  Bates  the  material  for  an  Irishwoman 
who,  for  life-likeness  and  stage  art  will  compare  with 
Annie  Yeamans'  in  the  palmy  days  of  Harrigan.  There  is 
much  in  the  construction,  the  quiet  play  of  sentiment  and 
the  snug  orchestration  of  the  various  parts  which  shows 
the  distinctive  touch  of  a  graceful  dramatist. 

This  is  not  to  be  construed  as  an  unqualified  eulogy  of 
Chimmie  Fadden,  for  the  play  lacks  much  from  both  the 
technical  and  human  standpoint.  The  burglarizing  epi- 
sode is  treated  with  banal  melodramatics — all  that  goose 
flesh  pizzacatti  from  the  orchestra,  that  sepulchral  thun- 
der from  the  throats  of  the  thieves,  and  the  I-am-Little- 
Dick-the- Avenger  speech  from  Chimmie.  The  detective's 
investigation  is  over-elaborated  on  decayed  farce  lines, 
and  the  uniqueness  of  Chimmie's  alibi  (a  signal  song  sung 
in  the  night)  would  be  better  appreciated  and  the  play 
brought  to  a  more  enthusiastic  close  were  there  less  delay 
in  the  denouement.  Five  minutes  of  bad  drag  could  be  cut 
from  the  last  part  of  the  last  act.  Besides,  all  the  rights 
of  anti-climax  belong  to  Mr.  Townsend  in  New  York. 
Chimmie  is  not  to  be  held  up  as  a  model  for  aspiring 
American  dramatists  withal  it  has  many  neat  virtues, 
and  the  second  act  opens  with  real  atmosphere — that  inde- 
finable individualizing  of  place  and  people  that  of  all  our 
playmakers  Thomas  alone  seems  able  to  make  the  actor 
and  the  audience  feel.  What  I  urge,  is  that  the  play 
is  clever  enough  to  compel  interest  in  characters   who  are 

dead  in  the  books  and  mouldy  in  the  newspapers. 
*  *  * 

Unlike  Mr.  Brodie,  Mr.  Hopper  is  not  to  the  Bowery 
born.  He  is  a  millionaire,  I  am  told;  his  father  is  the 
same  twenty  times  over,  and  the  down-turned  palm  and 
the  expectorant  wot  t'  'ell  are  purely  matters  of  cultiva- 
tion. In  an  age  when  most  millionaires  are  devoting 
their  energies  to  becoming  paupers  through  the  medium  of 
a  yacht,  or  a  harem  or  a  newspaper,  Hopper's  position  as 
the  hardest  working  man  in  his  company  cannot  but  do 
him  credit  in  more  ways  than  one.  There  is  no 
denying  that  he  has  reduced  Chimmie  to  a  fine  point — in 
the  acting,  I  mean;  physically  Chimmie  is  of  most  unstinted 
latitude.  You  may  go  to  the  Columbia  with  your  own 
opinions  about  slim  Chimmies,  but  an  act  of  Hopper's 
abdominous  geniality,  and  you  wonder  how  he  ever  could 
have  been  long  and  lean,  and  worn  anybody's  old  clothes 
who  did  not  measure  a  good  fifty-three  around  the  appe- 
tite. And  his  voice  is  of  that  peculiar,  popular  quality, 
unfinished,   yet   so  agreeably  intimate    that    it   disarms 


serious  criticism — a  voice,  I  have  noticed,  that  by  some 
odd  whim  of  fortune  almost  inevitably  belongs  to  the 
comedian  who  sings  the  songs  of  his  own  composing. 

With  the  exceptions  of  Sydney  Price,  who  seems  inde- 
terminate as  to  whether  "His  Whiskers"  is  a  Fourteenth- 
street  floor-walker  or  a  female  impersonator,  and  Miss 
Bernice  Wheeler,  who  is  too  true  to  Laura  Jean  Libbey's 
real  aristocracy  to  ever  palm  off  for  a  cheap  stage  imita- 
tion, I  can  recall  no  inadequacy  in  the  cast.  Thomas  and 
Townsend  conspired  to  make  Mr.  Paul  a  Nat  Goodwin 
part,  and  many  of  George  Nash's  mannerisms — most  nota- 
bly the  drawl  in  his  speech  and  the  drawl  in  his  legs — 
make  comparisons  inevitable.  And  when  a  man  reminds 
you  of  Nat  Goodwin — as  Nash  certainly  does — and  it 
affects  you  pleasantly — as  it  does  me — and  you  regard 
Goodwin  as  the  best  actor  in  America — as  all  of  us  must 
who  are  awake — well,  then  I  say  Nash  has  received  a  very 
pretty  compliment.     What  do  you  think? 

We  all  prate  more  or  less  realism,  for  the  plays, 
but  there  are  times  when  we  do  not  live  up  to  it. 
For  instance,  we  prefer  an  imitation  Boweryite  by  Hopper 
to  the  real  thing  by  Brodie.  Grace  Parlotta's  French 
maid  in.l  Gaiety  Girl  entertained  me  more  than  any  simi- 
lar character  1  have  ever  seen — and  when  you  come  to  a 
cold  analysis  of  Miss  Parlotta,  she  was  Viennese  pure  and 
simple.  The  Duchess,  as  Miss  Beth  Franklyn  plays  her, 
is  another  example:  she  is  unmistakably  American — her 
accent  is  too  good  to  be  true,  her  alert  gesticular  French- 
isms  are  too  FreDchy  to  be  real,  and  her  gowns  are  too 
surely  poised  to  ever  have  belonged  to  any  one  else.  Still 
she  has  a  charm,  a  delicate  fragrance,  which  you  will  not 
find  in  your  French  maid  at  home.  Miss  Franklyn  plays 
the  maid  out  of  ber  own  personality,  she  substitutes 
imagination  for  nature,  and  she  acts  from  her  agile  eye- 
brows down  to  the  tips  of  her  sleek  patent  leathers. 
"Fools  follow  rules,  wise  men  precede  them" — sometimes 
there  are  wise  women,  too.  Miss  Franklyn  finds  a  new 
way  of  being  French;  moreover,  she  finds  a  burst  of  real, 
spontaneous  acting  in  the  last  act. 

Marie  Bates  was  a  success  before  the  curtain  went  up 
Monday  night,  and  she  was  a  success  when  it  went  down. 
She  was  acknowledged  before  she  was  seen,  and  she  was 
conceded  all  her  reputation's  worth  throughout  the  per- 
formance. From  the  musicians  in  the  orchestra  to  the 
critics  in  the  foyer,  it  was  "Bates!"  What  an  electrifica- 
tion her  first  performance  must  have  been  to  the  authors! 
There  is  little  in  the  writing  of  the  part  that  anticipates 
the  bigger  half  of  all  Ihe  character  acting  in  the  play. 
And  there  is  something  beyond  mere  acting  in  this  work. 
Mrs.  Murphy  is  not  a  central  character  in  either  the  story 
or  action  of  Chimmie  Fadden — she  is  just  a  droll  old  Irish- 
woman, worn,  soiled  and  beery,  who  drops  in  on  the  scenes 
apropos  of  nothing  in  particular,  and  rivets  your  every 
attention  so  long  as  she  is  on  the  stage.  Her's  is  the  true 
comedy  art,  and  it  magnetizes  you.  People  will  go  once  to 
see  Chimmie  Fadden,  and  twice  to  see  Mrs.  Bates. 
*  *  * 

From  the  Bowery  to  the  Arena  is  but  the  breadth  of  a 
street.  At  the  Baldwin,  Louis  James  and  his  company 
are  competing  in  Dr.  Bird's  famous  lung-contest  Spartacus. 
Despite  the  encomiums  of  New  Orleans  and  other  art 
centers,  it  cannot  be  said  in  truth  that  James  finds  his  life 
work  in  this  turbulent  tragedy.  Dr.  Bird's  Romanizing 
may  have  found  glory  iu  San  Francisco  in  the  pre-sandlot 
days,  but  a  softer  generation  asks  for  softer  things.  Dr. 
Bird,  like  most  men  who  shout  at  the  top  of  their  voices, 
has  very  little  to  say,  and  he  says  that  little  long.  I  ad- 
mire Mr.  James's  appearance  as  the  Thracian  warrior, 
and  I  admire  the  brute  bigness,  both  vocal  and  physical, 
which  he  gives  to  the  arena  scene.  The  rest  of  his  work  I 
deplore.  It  releases  all  the  meaningless  rant  which  I  thought 
the  years  had  taught  him  to  subdue.  Guy  Lindsley,  under 
any  circumstances  a  bad  actor,  even  surpasses  his  worst 
previous  record  in  the  part  of  Pharsarius.  The  bogus 
ravings  of  John  McCullough  thundered  from  a  ten  mule- 
power  phonograph  would  be  a  mere  cannon's  roar  com- 
pared with  Lindsley's  pectoriloquial  frenzy.  James  has  in- 
vested a  great  deal  of  good  scenery  in  Spartacus — enough 
in  fact  to  have  a  better  play  fitted  to  it.  The  only  chance 
of  urban  recognition  I  see  for  Spartacus  lies  in  London 
where  they  take  several  years  of  Wilson  Barrett's 
Neronian  nightmare,  The  Sign  of  the  Cross. 


February  13. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   : 


The  (rioture  >  not  supposed  to  count  for  much  in  concert 
<ti  and  awkward  men  !m\. 
a  negative  qualification.    Yet,  when  An  to 
Trebelli  (of  whom.  In  m>   have    bi 

much  and  known  very  litt  ■  that    >!„.    [g 

the  daughter  of  her  mother,  and  that  some 

iuth  Africa 
the  California  stage  Tuesday  night  to  where  the  f.n>t Ujjtits 
should  have  been  lighted,  and  even  in  the  dim  we  saw  thai 
lung,  handsome,  unpo  d  unrouged,  and 

above    all.   unostentatious  I    think,   appeal 

ted  for  a   1  thing    new. 

The    & 
all  this  charm  of  new  ness  and  to  tide  her  01  er  b 

at  means 
by  the  Bami  ruinate   II 

ami  her  triumph  was  easy  and  complete,      Tn 
may  not  be  dramatic,  but  it  is  1  aress 

warm,  with  a  rich  swi  tmatic 

much  a  matter  of  cultivation,  and  with  Ti 
I  think,  it  is  merely  a  matter  ol  more  cultivation.      She  is 
a  and  imaginative,  her  method  is  pure  and  direct,  and 
a   her   the   voice-  il  M  canlo\      She 
moreover,  a  line  taste.      She  sang  A 

with  real  laughter  in  her  voice,  and   responded   as  truth- 
fully to  the  melancholy  of  Solveig's  song  from  Grieg's  Pei  r 
music,  and  met  Bishop's  old  test  Bong,   "Lo!     Here 
the  Gentle  Lark."  with  the  flawless  technique  it  demands 

AsnTON  Stevens. 

Aladdin  is  enjoying  a  bounteous  prosperity  at  the  Tivoli. 
Several  new  features  are  introduced  with  good  effect,  and 
the  public's  patronage  bears  out  last  week's  statement 
that  it  is  the  best  extravaganza  ever  staged  at  the  Tivoli. 

In  addition  to  the  dancing  Gleasons  and  the  acrobatic 
Ara,  Zebra  and  Vara — who  have  been  well  received  this 
week — the  Orpheum  offers  no  less  than  four  new  acts  for 
the  new  bill:  Edmund  Hayes  and  Emily  Lytton  in  their 
twenty-minute  play,  A  French  Marriage,  a  grand  opera 
quartette,  which  includes  Guille,  the  tenor,  Abramoff,  the 
basso,  Julia  Cotte,  soprano,  and  Miss  Dora  Busch,  con- 
tralto; the  Finneys,  who  swim  in  a  tank,  and  the  Renfos, 
who  fly  through  the  air. 

Let  all  who  were  disappointed  in  Spartacus  take  heart. 
Louis  James  will  play  Hamlet  Thursday  and  Othello 
Wednesday  and  Sunday.  We  know  both  of  these  for  ex- 
cellent portrayals.  On  Monday,  Tuesday  and  Friday 
evenings,  and  at  the  matinee,  James  will  give  us  comedy — 
a  new  comedy,  too,  My  Lord  and  Some  Ladies,  from  the 
French  of  Scribe.  The  comedy  deals  with  good  Queen 
Anne,  Bolingbrooke,  Mrs.  John  Churchill,  and  many 
famous  characters  contemporaneous  with  the  birth  of  the 
house   of   Marlborough. 

At  next  Thursday's  symphony  concert  at  the  Columbia, 
Mr.  Marquardt  will  be  concertmaster  in  place  of  Mr. 
Beel,  who  leaves  for  Europe  on  Monday.  Mr.  Marquardt 
has  already  given  us  evidence  of  his  ability  for  the  post, 
and  if  he  cannot  entirely  reconcile  us  to  Mr.  Beel's  ab- 
sence, it  is  not  that  we  love  Marquardt  less,  but  that  we 
love  Beel  more.  And  with  good  reason — Beel  has  done 
more  for  good  music  in  San  Francisco  than  any  man  of  his 
day.  Thursday's  programme  embraces  Goldmark's  Sa- 
kuntala  overture,  Beethoven's  Second  Symphony  (the  D 
Major,)  Krug's  "  Love  Stories,"  (a  suite  for  strings  and 
harp),  and  a  Spanish  rhapsodie  by  Chabrier.  The  last  two 
numbers  are  novelties;  the  symphony  has  been  played  here 
but  once  before. 

The  children  have  the  California  Theatre  next  week — 
the  clever  children  who  make  up  "  Our  Little  Cinderella 
Company,"  and  play  out  the  fairy  tale  in  new  spectacular 
dress.  Rosina  D'Ennery  makes  her  first  professional  bow 
in  the  title  role,  Little  Gus  Levick  is  somewhere  in  the 
story,  together  with  Jimmy  Horn,  Gus  Tait,  Nina  Cook, 
Alice  Condon,  and  the  Sawyer  children  ;  and  Daisy  Gro- 
gan  is  cast  for  the  fairy  Godmother,  who  gives  away  glass 
slippers  and  pumpkin  coaches  to  good  little  girls  who  are 
not  envious  of  haughty  sisters. 

Chimmle  Faddcn  will  bring  crowds  to  the  Columbia  for 
another  week,  after  which  Fanny  Rice. 


Oi  vitality  and  energy,  a  good  appetite,  and  per- 
fect health  arc  obtained    and   endure    by  taking 


Peruvian 
Bitters. 


AL.   H  W.MAN  ft  CO. 


Baldwin     Theatre- 

To-nlght,  bui 

LOUIS   dflMES, 


{Incorporated) 
Proprietors. 


Siippon,  1  : . ,.    ,.,-.  and  a  superior oom- 

Monday,  Tuesday  and  Frlda;  n.i  Saturday 

[me here)  my  LORD  AMD  SOME  LADIES 

-day  and  Sunday,  OTHELLO 

ThursflBj  MAM  LET 

Saturday  SPARTACUS 

Monday,  February  Sid.  .lames  A.  Heme  in  "Shore  Acres." 


C; 


lifornia  Theatre. 

One  week,  beginning  Monday  evening,  February  15th,  "OUR 
LITTLE  " 

CINDERELLA    COMPANY 

Introducing  a  galaxy  of  child  actors  and  actresses— A  series  of 
startling  and  amusing  specialties.     New  and  gorgeous  scenery, 
costumes  and  effects. 
Coming:     SOUSA'S  BAND. 


Columbia  Theatre 


The  "Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 
Friedlander,  Gottlob  &  Co.,  Lessees 
and  Managers. 
Fadden's  the  fad ! 


GHIMMIE 


Charles  Hopper  in 

FADDEN. 


The  one  great  novelty  of  the  season.    As  big  a  hit  In  San  Fran- 
cisco as  they  \v  ere  in  New  York.    Last  times  !    Don't  miss  it 
February  22d,  FANNY  RICE. 

Golumbia  Theatre. — Extra- 

Next  Thursday  afternoon  at  3:30, 

SECOND  SYMPHONY  CONCERT. 

55  musicians.    Gustav  Hinrichs,  conductor. 
Reserved  seats..  50  cents  and  $1 .    Now  on  sale. 

San  Francisco's  Greatest  Music 


0,  San  Francisco's  Greatest  Music    Hall.      O'Farrell 

rpneUm.    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets, 

15th,  a  bill  without  a  paral- 

FINNEYS, 


Week  beginning  Monday,  February  3 
lei.     All  new. 

THE 

champion  swimmers  of  the  world;  the  Renfos,  novelty  aerial 
artists;  the  Pantzer  Trio,  Demon  Twisters;  Hayes,  Lytton  & 
Hayes,  in  "A  French  Marriage";  and  the  Grand  Opera  Quar- 
tette; A.  L.  Guille,  tenor.  Miss  Julia  Cotte,  soprano,  Miss 
Dora  Busch,  contralto,  Signor  Abramoff,  basso,  in  conjunction 
with  many  novelties.  Reserved  seats,  25c  ;  balcony  10c;  opera 
chairs  and  box  seats  50c.  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday.  Matinee  Prices :  Parquet,  any  seat,  25c. ;  balcony,  any 
seat,  luc;  children,  10c,  any  part. 


Southwest  corner 
Larkin  and  Grove. 


Mechanics'   Pavilion. 

Saturday,  February  20,  1897, 

GRAND   PRIZE   MASQUERADE   BALL 

By  UEREIN    EllNTRAGHT 

Admission  $1;  reserved   seats, 60  cts.,at  Goldstein  &  Cohen's 

823  Market  street,  two  weeks  previous  to  the  ball. 

$100   worth  of  prizes  will  be  distributed.     Doors  open  at  7 

o'clock  promenade  concert  8  to  9.    Grand  march  at  9  sharp. 


Tivol 


Mrs. 


Ernestine  Kreling. 
Proprietor  and  Manager 


i  Opera  House 

Every  evening  at  8;  our  up-to-date  extravaganza, 

ALADDIN, 

Or,  The  Wonderful  Lamp. 

The  latest  sensation.    '"La  Danse  des  Fleurs  Electriques ;"  the 
Floating  Palace  in  Mid-Air;  the  Six  Little  Tailors:  the  superb 
Ballet  of  Cleopatras;  the  new  and  novel  Specialties. 
Popular  Prices 25c  and  50c 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1897. 


THE     ART      EPICUREAN. 


(third  papee.) 


"  All  human  history  attests 
That  happiness  for  man,— the  hungry  sinner. — 
Since  Eve  ate  apples,  much  depends  on  dinner." 

WHAT  is  sauce  for  the  goose  is  sauce  for  tbe  gander; 
but  never  in  cook  book  or  club  cuisine  was  found  a 
duck  sauce  equal — nay,  approaching —  unto  that  evolved  by 
the  brain  of  one  of  our  brightest  legal  luminaries,  Colonel 
H.  I.  Kowalsky. 

It  is  certainly  mat  apropos  to  confront  an  invalid  with  a 
request  for  an  interview  on  topics  culinary,  when  the  in- 
terviewee is  limited  to  a  mushy,  gruelly  diet  especially  in- 
vented by  his  satanic  majesty  to  torment  the  keenly  sensi- 
tive palate  of  the  epicure,  but  the  Colonel,  with  his  never- 
failing  courtesy,  gave  the  desired  information,  and  left  the 
scribe  his  debtor  forever. 

The  magic  rites  begin  by  taking  one -and  one-half  ounces 
of  lime  juice;  adding  to  it  one-half  an  ounce  of  Worcester- 
shire sauce  and  a  pretty  strong  seasoning  of  salt,  pepper 
and  red  pepper — don't  forget  that  last;  in  fact,  don't  for- 
get the  fraction  of  a  grain  of  any  ingredient  in  this,  or 
your  cake  is  all  dough.  Add  ten  drops  of  tabasco  and  a 
half-teaspoonf  ul  of .  paprica.  Make  this  all  up  into  a 
melange,  stirring  and  mixing  thoroughly.  Then  put  four 
ounces  of  butter  into  a  pan,  melt  it  and  stir  a  little — only 
a  little — flour  into  it  to  slightly  thicken  it.  Then  add  the 
aforementioned  ingredients,  ready  prepared,  and  keep 
covered,  for  it  must  be  served  hot.  Stir  the  whole  well  to- 
gether, take  it  off  the  fire,  murmur  an  incantation,  and 
take  my  word  for  it  (at  second  hand)  that  a  duck 
smothered  in  such  a  dressing  is  glad  that  it  fell  a  victim 
to  the  deadly  shot-gun — or  the  marketer's  pocketbook. 
When  you  want  to  bring  out  the  hidden  possibilities  of  the 
canvasback  which  you,  Ananias-like  wretch  that  you  are, 
"brought  down  over  on  the  marsh,"  just  decorate  it  with 
the  order  of  Kowalsky,  and  leave  the  rest  to  your  ap- 
preciative palate — and  your  conscience. 

From  duck  sauce  to  salad  is  a  far  cry,  but  the  gay  and 
gallant  hunter  (for  dainty  tid-bits)  doesn't  mind  that;  so, 
speaking  of  hunters  brings  to  mind,  naturally,  a  club  hunt, 
and  a  club  hunt  without  Frank  Carolan  would  be  like  salad 
without  salt,  and  there  you  are.  Salad  comes  right  along 
in  proper  sequence,  anditis  Mr.  Cardan's  salad  that  takes 
tbe  blue  ribbon  for  novelty.  The  foundation  for  this  tower 
of  skill  is  young,  tender  lettuce  leaves,  and  the  other  in- 
dispensable is  alligator  pears.  These  latter  come  from 
the  Islands  or  from  Mexico,  and  why  they  are  called  pears 
passes  my  comprehension,  for  their  only  resemblance  lies 
in  their  shape.  They  have  a  large  pit  instead  of  a  core, 
and  are  used  in  this  salad  in  their  freshly  ripened  state, 
being  divided  and  scraped  from  the  skin.  A  simple  French 
dressing  completes  this  salad,  which  carries  a  sort  of  in- 
describable zest,  and  would  easily  make  one  gush  over  the 
next  course  even  if  the  latter  were  not  a  brilliant  success 
of  itself. 

To  preface  a  little  theatre  supper  with  this  salad  and 
then  have  a  delicate  chafing-dish  course,  would  about 
paint  the  poster,  and  so,  delving  in  the  caverns  of  memory, 
Mr.  Ed.  Greenway's  favorite  dish  comes  nobly  to  time. 
Browned  oysters — doesn't  that  sound  succulent?  Well, 
the  whole  charm  of  the  delicacy  is  to  have  it  succulent,  and 
this  is  the  way  Mr.  Greenway  would  begin  operations  to- 
ward a  successful  finale: 

Two  chafing  dishes  are  required.  And  here,  in  paren- 
thesis, let  me  impress  upon  you  the  advisability  of  having 
a  metal  tray  under  the  chafing  disb,  for,  should  there  be 
alcohol  on  the  outside  of  the  lamp,  there  is  possibility  of 
its  taking  fire  and  communicating  with  the  napery  of  the 
table,  and  being  the  means  of  great  damage.  The  term 
chafing  dish  is  applied  both  to  the  one  and  two-dish  article, 
but  rightly  belongs  only  to  the  latter,  the  former  being  a 
blazer,  the  chafing  dish  being  supplied  with  a  second  pan 
below  the  first  to  contain  the  hot  water,  and  acting  on  the 
principle  of  the  double  boiler.  But  to  return  to  our 
browned  oysters.  Select  the  largest,  juiciest  bivalves 
that  you  can  persuade  your  purvej'or  to  part  with.  Put 
them  into  a  chafing  dish  and  let  them  simmer  and  bubble. 
Watch  closely  and  at  the  instant  they  stop  running,  trans- 
fer them  to  the  other  receptacle  ready  prepared  with 
enough  butter  so  that  they  will  not   be  reluctant  to  part 


company  with  it.  When  the  juice  stops  coming  they  are 
ready  to  serve.  For  large  parties  one  could  utilize  bread 
pans  and  the  range  oven,  but  we  will  not  enter  into  that, 
since  it  is  only  a  very  small  theatre  party  that  we  are 
catering  to  this  time.  Baltimore  oyster  crabs  would  be 
delicious  cooked  in  any  of  the  scores  of  different  ways 
made  possible  by  the  aid  of  the  chafing  dish.  An  indis- 
pensable adjunct  to  the  browned  oysters  is  some  relish 
like  celery  or  salad.  If  there  is  not  time  for  the  salad,  a 
nip  from  a  young,  blanched  celery  stalk  would  be  a  good 
substitute,  although  the  California  celery  has  never  been 
grown  that  can  hold  a  candle  to  the  Kalamazoo  celery. 
It  needs  the  severe  frost  to  crown  its  tender  young  life, 
and  that  California's  "glorious  climate"  refuses  to  supply. 
Why  Kalamazoo,  don't  ask  me;  it  is  probably  a  legendary 
idea  handed  down  from  generation  to  generation,  a  sort  of 
companion  piece  to  the  asseveration  that  no  potatoes  on 
earth  can  be  grown  to  equal  those  about  Salt  Lake. 

In  my  fevered  frenzy  for  information  on  the  subject  of 
high-living,  I  injudiciously  accosted  a  member  of  the  Press 
Club.  In  answer  to  my  meek  query  as  to  his  favorite  dish, 
and  scarcely  stopping  in  his  mad  rush,  he  shouted,  "Coffee 
and  sinkers!"  as  if  he  were  ordering  those  delectable  mor- 
sels at  a  Third-street  chop  house;  then,  without  heeding  my 
look  of  horror,  he  nimbly  doubled  around  a  Mission  street 
car  and  was  lost  to  sight  in  the  six  o'clock  crowd.  Prob- 
ably it  is  one  of  the  requirements  of  that  mysterious  club, 
into  which  no  feminine  eye  should  pry,  (though  one  wo- 
man's cuiiosity  recently  got  the  better  of  her  wisdom — if 
she  ever  had  any),  that  the  literary  mind  is  best 
nourished  by  the  lowly  fare  above  mentioned.  But  that 
would  bring  out  pros  and  cons  for  which  we  have  not  time. 
It  only  serves  to  remind  me  of  a  little  talk  I  had  with 
Attorney  Geo.  A.  Knight  the  other  day. 

When  confronted  with  the  all-important  question,  he 
smiled  indulgently  —he.  has  all  sorts  of  freaks  to  deal  with 
in  his  profession — "What  is  my  favorite  dish,  and  how 
prepared?"  he  said.  "Well,  you  know,  a  man  can't  answer 
anything  so  important  off-hand,"  (just  as  if  a  lawyer  ever 
did  answer  a  question  without  fencing),  "but  I  think  I  can 
say  confidently  and  confidentially  that  when  I  have  time  to 
think  of  eating" — in  the  pauses  of  the  Coon(ey)  hunt  at 
present  engaging  his  attention,  I  suppose  he  means — "a 
yearning  for  doughnuts  and  coffee  'comes  o'er  me,  that  my 
soul  cannot  resist."  And  then  he  went  on  to  relate  how, 
when  he  sees  a  chance  for  a  day  of  rest,  he  wires  his  dear 
old  mother  at  her  home  in  Eureka,  that  she  may  be  pre- 
pared for  a  descent  upon  her — and  incidentally  her  pantry 
— then  that  night  he  takes  the  Pomona  for  the  scenes  of 
his  youth,  arriving  early  next  morning  to  find  the  fatted 
calf  ready  and  waiting  in  the  shape  of  a  huge  pan  of 
"mother's"  doughnuts,  madeunder  her  careful  supervision, 
and  accompanied  by  steaming  Mocha,  perfected  by  un- 
limited Jersey  cream  ordered  post  haste  from  the  family 
milkman  when  the  steamer  is  sighted  crossing  the  bar. 
In  this  sweet  elysium  of  delight,  notarial  tangles  and  un- 
willing wills  are  lost  to  sight,  and  George  A.  basks  to  his 
basket's  repletion,  returning  cityward  to  wisely  consign 
himself  to  the  tender  mercies  of  his  family  physician  for  a 
fortnight. or  so.  Amy  L.  Wells. 


DR.  D.  E.  Dunne,  chiropodist,  formerly  of  the  Olympic 
Club,  is  now  located  at  the  Hammam  Baths,  13  and  15 
Grant  avenue,  where  he  will  be  pleased  to  meet  his  friends. 


MOET  AND  CHANDON  CHOSEN. 


The   Only  Champagne   Used   At    The    Bradley-Martin    Ball. 

At  the  Bradley-Martin  dress  ball,  surpassing  anything  of  the  kind 
before  attempted  in  this  country,  the  cost  of  which  was  not  less  than 
$300,000,  competition  among  the  champagne  importers  was  so  strong 
that  it  was  decided  to  submit  to  the  most  noted  epicures  of  tbe  four 
hundred  unmarked  samples  of  all  the  leading  champagnes,  and  thus 
it  came  about  that  those  who,  by  their  taste  and  experience,  are  the 
qualified  judges  of  that  which  is  best,  selected  the  brand  of  Moe't  & 
Chandon,  which  was  the  only  champagne  served  at  this  event. — 
New  York  despatch. 


The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedakeb,  General  Agent. 


February  13.  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   I.I   ITER. 


>_  TT  used  to  be  the  rule  for 
1  the  women  of  society  to 
rail  against  the  men  who  accepted  every  invitation  and 
never  gave  any  sort  of  return,  not  even  a  posy  or  a  book. 
But  this  year  has  been  prolific  of  social  courtesies  extended 
by  the  beaux  of  the  swim  to  their  lady  friends;  and  not  a 
week  goes  by  without  theatre  parties,  luncheons,  dinners, 
and  suppers,  with  well-known  men  as  hosts.  The  girls 
say  that  to  Mr.  Wiltsee,  the  Eastern  South  African,  be- 
longs the  credit  of  inaugurating  the  fashion  of  sending 
flowers  and  bon-bons  to  them,  a  fashion  so  prevalent  in  the 

larger  Eastern  cities. 

*  *  « 

The  numerous  friends  and  acquaintances  of  the  Younger 
family  will  be  glad  to  know  that  the  youngest  daughter, 
Miss  Alice,  is  rapidly  recovering  from  her  severe  illness, 
thus  enabling  her  step-mother  to  leave  for  her  new  home 
in  Chicago  shortly.  Musical  circles  will  regret  the  de- 
parture of  so  talented  a  pianist  as  Mrs.  Younger,  who  in 
her  line  is  as  talented  as  the  genial  doctor  is  in  his,  and 
many  hopes  are  expressed  that  the  Chicago  home  will  be 
but  a  temporary  one  after  all,  and  San  Francisco  be  again 

their  dwelling  place. 

*  *  • 

San  Rafael  seems  destined  to  be  the  place  for  fashion  to 
select  as  the  summer  abode,  and  Mine  Host  Warfield  is 
daily  filling  his  list  of  applications  for  rooms  at  the  favor- 
ite hostelrie  he  presides  over;  added  to  which  the  numer- 
ous house  owners  in  the  vicinity  have  announced  their  in- 
tention of  taking  up  residence  in  the  little  burgh  for  the 
summer.  The  Louis  Parrotts  will,  their  friends  say,  en- 
tertain a  good  deal  in  a  rural  way,  and  if  Mrs.  de  Young 
spends  the  season  at  Meadowlands,  she  will  add  not  a  little 
to  the  brilliancy  of  the  fashionable  set  in  the  Valley. 

*  *  * 

It  has  been  suggested  by  some  one  that  the  members  of 
our  society  and  community,  wives  and  daughters,  of  Brit- 
ish descent,  should  organize  as  an  auxiliary  to  Consul  War- 
burton's  committee  of  fifty  to  aid  the  Diamond  Jubilee  pro- 
ject. Surely,  with  the  abundant  material  to  be  found  here, 
the  idea  is  a  good  one.  Mrs.  Foreman,  Mrs.  Henry  Scott, 
and  Miss  Warburton  are  energetic  in  their  ways,  and 
should  be  able  to  effect  a  splendid  entertainment,  while 
there  are  scores  of  others  to  follow  in  their  lead. 

*  #  * 

Apparently  we  are  not  to  have  another  Goad  wedding, 
for  a  time  at  least,  the  fair  Aileen  having  departed  East- 
ward with  her  father  and  sister  Genevive;  so  no  doubt 
Charley  will  warble  by  the  light  of  the  moon,  "all  to  his 
self,"  on  his  Sausalito  veranda  till   his  prospective  bride's 

return. 

*  *  * 

Report  goes  that  one  of  the  Ross  Valley  belles  will  have 
a  midsummer  wedding;  Baron  von  Schroeder  is  said  to 
have  promised  the  girls  lots  of  riding  parties,  paper 
chases,  hunts,  etc.,  so  B'lingham  will  have  to  work  hard 
in  the  face  of  all  these  attractions  to  keep  its  end  up. 

*  *  * 

The  traditional  little  bird  that  hovers  round  the  charmed 
circle  of  the  Four  Hundred,  is  twittering  with  the  news 
that  the  second  Miss  Carroll  is  also  to  shuffle  off  the  single 
coil.  Society  can  guess  who  the  happy  man  will  be,  says 
the  twitter,  with  a  sound  like  Peru. 
#  *  * 

Friends  on  this  coast  of  Miss  Anna  Ruger,  the  popular 
daughter  of  our  late  commanding  General,  hear  that  upon 
her  father's  retirement  in  April  next  she  will  accompany 
her  parents  to  Europe  for  a  two  years'  sojourn. 

*  *  » 

On  dit,  that  Wiltsee's  young  New  York  friend  "Thomas" 
is  making  himself  very  popular  in  society  drawing  rooms. 
Bon-bons  and  flowers  are  a  sure  means  to  that  end  in 
feminine  quarters. 


Rumor  has  it  that  Mrs    Will  Croc'h.  „g   a 

novel  entertainment,  to  be  given  at  her   B'ltagham   Villa 

during  the  I 

and  the  details  will  not  be  given   to   the   public   untl 

whole  is  u 

•  •  • 

"Another  army  chap  engi  what    the  buds  are 

saying,  but  as  yet  no  announcement  is  made,  and  11 
young  Lieutenant  in  question  has  been  equally  devoti 
two  girls,  rumor  hesitates  to  say  which  is  the  chosen  one. 

*  «  • 

<h,  dit,  the  brunette  sister  of  a  recent  bride   is   likely  to 
appear  in  a  bridal  robe  herself  ere  long.     Although  only  a 
debutant*,  the  conquest   has   been    rapid   and    much   com- 
mented upon  at  teas  and  club  dances. 
»  #  • 

An  oh  dit  of  interest  to  the  swim  goes  that  Miss  Florence 
Breckenridge  will  return  to  Europe  with  her  mother, 
Mrs.  Fred  Sharon,  upon  the  termination  of  the  Sharons' 
visit  here  in  the  spring. 

A  Sovereign  Remedy. 
DR   PARKER'S  COUGH  CURE.    One  dose  will  slop  a  cough.    It  never 
fails.    Try  It.    Prioe  95o.    George  Dahlbendcr  &  Co.,  ','14  Kearny  street. 

The  old  Greek  Argonauts  who  sailed  the  main  in  search  of  the 
Golden  Fleece,  run  legendary.  There  is.  however,  nothing  legendary 
about  Argonaut  Whiskey,  which  is  a  mellow  and  delicious  drink. 
It  is  in  popular  and  delightful  evidence  wherever  good  judges  of 
liijuors  are  found.  E.  Martin  «fc  Co.,  411  Market  street,  are  the 
Pacific  Coast  Agents. 

To  Physicians  and  the  Public : 


In  Cases  of  1  Dozen  Bottles. 

Of  perfect  and  reliable  purity,  unequaled  for  MEDICINAL  and  TABLE 

use,  and  guaranteed  by  shippers.    This  wine  is  invaluable 

as  a  restorative  for  the  invalid. 


For  sale  by  ah  the  Leading  Dealers  and  Grooers 

CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 
Sole  Agents 


314  Sacramento  St. 


GEORGE    MORROW    &    GO.,     (Established  1854). 

HAY  AND  GRAIN 
Commission   Merchants 

39  Clay  St.  and  28  Commercial  St.,  S.  F. 

Branches  at.  Bay  District,  Ingleside,  and  Third  St.  Hay  Wharf. 

Telephone  No.  38. 


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Patentee   and 
Manufacturer  of 


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Sohilllnger's  Patent  ]  In  all  its  branches 

Side  Walk  and  Garden  Walk  a  specialty.; 

Office:    307  Montgomery  street,  (Nevada  block)  San  Franolscc 


Gomel)  Oolong. 


The  oldest  and  most  reliable  brand  on  the 
market.  Sold  only  in  1-3  pound  papers  at 
20  cents  per  paper.  All  grocers  keep  it. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1897. 


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a  Book        Mr.  Somerset,    who  is   a   son  of  the   well- 
of  known  Lady  Henry  Somerset,  and  who  was 

the  Week.*  one  of  Richard  Harding  Davis's  companions 
in  his  tour  through  Venezuela  and  Central 
Anerica,  has  probably  accomplished  a  greater  amount  of 
hard  and  rough  travel  than  an}'  other  man  of  his  youthful 
years  in  the  world.  His  book  entitled  "The  Land  of  the 
Muskeg  "  is  a  narrative  of  a  trip  through  unexplored  re- 
gions of  Northwestern  Canada,  from  Edmonton  in  Alberta, 
where  the  railroad  ends,  across  the  Rocky  Mountains,  to 
Quesnel  Mouth  on  the  Fraser  River.  But  what  is  a 
"muskeg?"  you  ask.  Well,  it  is  an  area  covered  with 
soft,  vividly  green,  treacherously  yielding  moss,  terribly 
wearisome  and  exhausting  to  traverse,  wet  and  dreary  to 
camp  in.  Like  all  adventurous  young  men  in  a  wild  coun- 
try, Somerset  and  his  companions  hoped  to  shoot  elk,  bear, 
and  other  large  game,  but  they  found  hunting  in  such  re- 
gions difficult  and  well-nigh  impossible,  and  suffered  serious 
privations  from  scarcity  of  food,  besides  meeting  with 
other  mishaps.  They  killed  and  ate  beavers,  marmots, 
and  a  few  ptarmigan,  but  were  entirely  unsuccessful  in 
their  efforts  to  bag  deer  or  grizzlies.  At  last  they  were 
reduced  to  such  straits  that  they  had  to  kill  one  of  the 
least  useful  of  their  pack  horses,  and  on  this  animal's  flesh 
they  eked  out  a  bare  and  unenjoyed  subsistence  until  they 
reached  Fort  McLeod,  where  they  rested  and  made  prepa- 
rations for  a  fresh  start.  The  latter  part  of  their  journey 
was  accomplished  with  less  discomfort  and  suffering  than 
the  former,  and  eventually  they  made  their  way  to  British 
Columbia  and  tasted  afresh  the  sweets  of  civilization.  Mr. 
Somerset  writes  in  a  simple,  pleasant,  unaffected  style, 
telling  of  many  strange  and  amusing  characters  that  he 
encountered.  One  of  the  most  remarkable  of  these  was 
John  Gough  Brick,  the  Anglican  missionary  in  Fort  St. 
John — a  man  with  au  extraordinary  supply  of  blue  stories 
and  an  utter  ignorance  of  the  language  of  the  Indians,  to 
whose  spiritual  wants  he  is  supposed  to  minister.  We 
feel,  after  readiDg  the  book,  that  a  wholesome  love  of 
rOLgh  life  and  dangerous  adventure  must  yet  be  as  strong 
as  ever  it  was  among  the  gentlemen  of  England  when  a 
youDg  man,  scarcely  twenty  years  of  age,  the  grandson  of 
a  duke,  with  all  the  pleasures  of  society  and  the  great 
cities  of  the  world  open  to  him,  chooses  to  journey  for 
weeks  with  a  pack  train  through  unknown  wilds,  eating 
the  coarsest  food,  and  submitting  to  the  hardest  labor 
and  even  to  quite  serious  danger.  So  long  as  there  shall 
be  a  plentiful  supply  of  young  men  of  this  type,  no  one  need 
concern  himself  about  the  early  Decline  and  Fall  of  the 
British  Empire.  These  are  the  men  who,  if  they  lose  one 
empire,  will  gain  another.  The  illustrations  from  photo- 
graphs are  not  particularly  good  as  pictures,  but  serve  to 
give  some  idea  of  the  country  traversed,  and  the  maps  en- 
able the  reader  to  follow  clearly  the  course  pursued  by  the 
party.  The  book  has  an  introduction  by  Mr.  Somerset's 
traveling  companion,  Mr.  A.  H.  Pollen. 

*"  The  Land  of  the  Muskeg."  By  H.  Sotners  Somerset,  with  a 
preface  by  A.  Hungerford  Pollen.  With  a  hundred  and  ten  illustra- 
tions from  sketches  by  A.  H.  Pollen  and  instantaneous  photographs, 
and  four  maps.    London.    Wiliiam  Heinemann.    1895. 

The  February  issue  of  Self  Culture,  published  by  the 
Werner  Company,  contains  a  large  number  of  articles  of 
information  on  very  various  topics,  such  as  Wages  in  the 
United  States,  Japanese  Characteristics,  Herbert  Spen- 
cer's Philosophy,  the  Cuban  Insurrection,  and  the  new 
Congressional  Library.  It  is  edited  by  Mr.  G.  Mercer 
Adam,  who  is  said  to  have  assisted  Professor  Goldwin 
Smith  in  foundiug  the  Canadian  Monthly.  Personally,  we 
are  not  great  believers  in  any  of  these  attempts  to  cover 
the  whole  field  of  knowledge,  and  we  think  that  people  of 
cultivation  are  for  the  most  part  extremely  shy  of  them. 
The  foolish  desire  to  be  encyclopaedic  is  most  commonly 
felt  by  people  who  have  received  little  early  training  and 
have  no  conception  of  the  time,  labor,  and  pains  that  are 
necessary  to  gain  even  a  fair  acquaintance  with  the  litera- 


ture of  one  language  or  the  facts  of  a  single  branch  of 
science.  The  magazine,  however,  contains  its  own  anti- 
dote, if  people  will  but  take  it:  for  it  quotes  a  sentence 
of  Dean  Stanley,  to  this  effect:  "Insist  on  reading  the 
great  books,  on  marking  the  great  events  of  the  world. 
Then  the  little  books  can  take  care  of  themselves,  and  the 
trivial  incidents  of  passing  politics  and  diplomacy  may 
perish  with  the  using."  By  a  strange  irony  of  fate,  this 
sentence,  probably  the  most  pregnant  and  valuable  thing 
in  the  whole  issue,  is  printed  in  small  type,  and  crowded 
in  at  the  bottom  of  a  page,  to  fill  up  a  space  left  vacant 
by  an  article  on  "  Reading  Aloud"  contributed  by  some 
elocutionist.  But,  for  all  this,  we  are  ready  to  admit  that 
the  periodical  is  a  veritable  storehouse  of  cold  facts,  and 
for  people  who  want  this  kind  of  thing,  is  just  the  kind  of 
thing  they  want. 

Mr.  E.  L.  Godkin  has  a  most  suggestive  article  in  the 
February  Atlantic  Monthly,  in  which  he  shows  that  modern 
democracies  disregard  special  fitness  for  the  performance 
of  special  work,  and  are  unwilling  to  acknowledge  that 
there  can  be  anything  special  about  any  man.  Of  course, 
the  grotesque  idea  that  all  men  are  equal  is  responsible 
for  these  notions,  which  are  further  strengthened  by  the 
circumstance  that  modern  democracies,  by  discouraging 
distinction,  tend  to  bring  about  that  dead  level  which  is 
their  ideal.  That  in  public  affairs  one  man  is  as  good  as 
another,  and  equally  fit  for  any  post,  and  that  public  func- 
tions, such  as  patrolling  the  streets,  extinguishing  firos, 
delivering  letters,  and  keeping  City  Hall  corridors  dirty, 
should  be  performed  by  men  of  particular  shades  of  mis- 
information about  public  affairs,  and  particular  kinds  of 
ignorance  about  social  and  political  economy,  instead  of  by 
men  competent  to  perform  them,  are  only  logical  deduc- 
tions from  these  fatally  erroneous  premises.  The  result  is, 
that  the  number  of  men  of  distinction  and  real  competence 
in  public  affairs  steadily  diminishes,  so  that  there  is  good 
reason  to  believe  that  the  happy  day  when  one  man  shall 
be  as  unfit  as  another,  and  when  all  men  shall  be  equally 
inconspicuous  and  undistinguished,  is  already  within 
measurable  distance. 

Without  any  idea  of  supporting  Mr.  Godkin's  views,  Mr. 
Andrew  Lang  has  recently  been  pointing  out  that  there 
are  from  the  earliest  ages  prodigious  differences,  insur- 
mountable and  unalterable,  in  the  natural  capacities  of 
children.  To  prove  this,  it  is  necessary  only  to  point  to 
the  marvelous  musical  capacity  exhibited  by  very  young 
children  before  they  have  received  the  slightest  training, 
and  to- the  hardly  less  remarkable  and  conspicuous  talent 
for  mathematics  apparent  in  some  boys  and  entirely  ab- 
sent in  others  of  much  greater  and  more  versatile  intelli- 
gence. The  almost  diabolical  dexterity  in  all  things  mathe- 
matical possessed  by  some  men  of  very  moderate  intelli- 
gence, and  the  utter  density  of  some  able  men  in  the  same 
matters,  are  striking  facts. 

The  Bookman  has  lately  announced  that  it  will  not  re- 
turn rejected  manuscripts  to  writers,  even  though  postage 
stamps  for  that  purpose  are  enclosed  with  the  contribu- 
tion. May  we  ask  what  The  Bookman  does  with  the 
stamps  ?  Does  it  make  the  writer  lose  them  as  a  kind  of 
forfeit  for  having  omitted  to  read  or  neglected  to  conform 
to  their  rule,  and  convert  them  to  its  own  uses?  To  ap- 
propriate another  man's  property  entrusted  to  you  for  a 
particular  and  entirely  reasonable  purpose,  seems  to  us 
quite  indefensible.  In  fact,  we  have  always  thought  that, 
even  in  case  of  acceptance  of  a  manuscript,  the  stamps 
sent  to  ensure  its  return  in  the  event  of  non-acceptance 
should  be  sent  back  to  the  writer.  But  writers  are  so 
glad  to  have  their  wares  purchased  that  they  wink  at  the 
petty  larceny  which  often  accompanies  acceptance. 

A  tiny  little  magazine  with  pages  of  5$  by  3i  inches  is  is- 
sued by  J.  H.  Lyons  &  Co.  of  Boston,  under  the  title  of  The 
Postage  Stamp.  Its  annual  subscription  is  as  small  as  its 
pages — twenty  cents.  As  its  name  implies,  it  furnishes 
news  and  facts  of  interest  to  "philatelists,"  as  collectors 
of  stamps  are  (we  know  not  for  what  reason)  called.  From 
a  recent  issue  we  learn  that  the  Premier  of  Nova  Scotia, 
acting  on  behalf  of  the  Government  of  that  colony,  recently 
sold  to  a  firm  of  dealers  a  large  number  of  Nova  Scotian 
stamps,  guaranteed  to  be  "remainders."  We  suppose  a 
"remainder"  to  be  a  stamp  actually  printed  for  use,  and 
not  for  sale  to  collectors. 


February  13.  1897. 


SAN    PRANCISCO   NEWS   1.1   I 


SOME      NOTABLE      FANCY      DRESS     BALLS. 

FA  ■  balls  appear  to  be  the  topic  of  the  hour, 

and  main  both  at  home   and   abroad,    have 

tradlej  Martins', 

BDTtblDS    of    the 
kind  .  1  modem  times.  Tin 

of  Mrs.  Aator  and  Mr:..  \anderbilt  are  cited  as  instances 
of  what  money  call  do  In  Rotting  \i  j>  such  an  entertainment. 
and  the  Bradley-Martins  bave exceeded  them  both  in  that 
respect.  While  these  are  all  spoken  of  as  being  something 
>|uite  out  of  the  common,  there  is  still  another  Iml  aututnt 
that  is  surely  worthy  of  remembrance  as  having  been  the 
most  perfect  one  of  its  kind;  in  fact,  the  tirst  given  on  a 
scale  of  magnificence  hitherto  unknown  in  the  United 
States,  and  that  is  the  ball  given  by  the  wife  of  our  Cali- 
fornia Senator,  Dr.  William  M.  Gwin,  in  Washington  City. 
in  April  1868.  And  there  are  still  many,  both  here  and  "in 
Washington,  who  can  recall  the  sensation  it  created— little 
less,  if  any,  than  that  of  the  Bradley-Martins,  and  the 
nevereuding  theme  it  was  for  many  a  year  after.  Mrs. 
Gwin,  as  wife  of  the  Senator  from  California,  was  a  fitting 
representative  of  the  Golden  State.  Her  entertainments 
were  all  on  a  scale  of  lavish  expenditure,  and  the  service 
of  gold  plate  used  at  her  formal  dinners  had  then  never 
seen  its  equal.  At  the  ball  in  question,  Mrs.  Gwin  ap- 
peared in  a  magnificent  costume  as  a  Marquise  of  the 
Court  of  Louis  XVI;  Miss  Gwin  (Mrs.  E.  J.  Coleman)  was 
a  Greek  girl,  and  Miss  Carrie  Gwin  a  Court  Page.  Among 
the  most  noted  characters  were  those  of  Lady  Napier, 
who  wore  a  costume  of  the  Seventeenth  Century;  Mrs. 
Jeff  Davis,  as  Madame  de  Stael;  Mrs.  Senator  Douglas  as 
Aurora;  Mrs.  Dan  Sickles  as  Little  Red  Riding  Hood,  and 
Mrs.  Roderick  Cameron,  who  was  magnificent  as  the 
Duchess  of  Comas;  Mr.  Cameron  (now  Sir  Roderick),  wore 
the  full  costume  of  a  Highland  Chief.  The  Turkish  Ad- 
miral, officers  of  our  army  and  navy,  Lord  Napier,  and 
many  of  the  foreign  diplomatic  corps,  wore  their  uniforms. 
Sir  W.  Gore  Ousley  donned  his  robes  as  Knight  Comman- 
der of  the  Bath.  Lady  Ousley  appeared  as  a  French  Mar- 
quise; the  wife  of  the  Russian  Minister,  Madame  Stoekel, 
as  the  Duchess  de  Nemours.  President  Buchanan  and  his 
Cabinet  officers  were  among  the  guests,  but  were  allowed 
the  privilege  of  appearing  in  citizens'  evening  dress. 

Fancy  dress  balls  are  always  the  most  expensive  enter- 
tainments given,  not  alone  to  the  host  or  hostess,  as  the 
case  may  be,  but  to  the  guests  in  the  matter  of  costume, 
and  therefore  are  they  of  such  rare  occurrence.  But  for 
all  that,  they  are  not  quite  unknown  in  our  own  city  of 
San  Francisco.  The  most  notable,  as  being  the  first  at- 
tempted, was  of  semi-public  character,  having  been  given 
by  a  committee  of  gentlemen  at  the  Cosmopolitan  Hotel  on 
Bush  street,  in  December,  1864.  All  society  was  repre- 
sented. Many  of  the  costumes  were  very  handsome,  and 
the  ball  was  a  huge  success.  Among  the  most  admired 
characters  were  those  of  Mrs.  Frank  Pixley,  as  a  French 
Marquise;  Mrs.  Hall  McAllister,  as  Queen  of  Spades;  Mrs. 
R.  J.  Vandewater,  as  Madame  de  Pompadour;  Mrs. 
Homans,  as  an  Italian  Peasant;  Mrs.  Cutler  McAllister, 
as  Marie  Antoinette;  Mrs.  Senator  Steuart,  as  Rebecca; 
and  Mrs.  Schmieden  as  a  Bride. 

Two  other  bal  costumes  of  note  were  those  of  Mrs.  Hall 
McAllister  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Howard.  Mrs.  McAllis- 
ter's ball  took  place  April  14,  1868,  the  hostess  appearing 
as  Folly.  Mr.  McAllister  and  W.  C.  Ralston  both  wore 
court  costumes.  Miss  Carrie  Gwin  was  a  Greek  maiden; 
Miss  Lizzie  Friedlander  (Mrs.  A.  J.  Bowie),  appeared  as 
Pride;  Tiburcio  was  the  Postilion  of  Longoumeau.  A  cos- 
tume which  attracted  much  attention  and  admiration  was 
"Sport,"  worn  by  Miss  Lily  Hitchcock,  now  Mrs.  Coit.  It 
was  from  Paris,  and  was  perfect  in  all  details — the  jockey 
cap,  whip,  and  the  winning  posts  on  the  skirt  were  all 
represented  to  the  life,  and  the  character  admirably  sus- 
tained. 

Mrs.  Howard's  ball  was  of  such  recent  date  it  can  be 
remembered  by  all.  The  query  now  is,  Who  will  give  the 
next  ? 

Those  who  enjoy  the  sight  of  a  valuable  and  extensive  collection 
of  Japanese  curios,  antiques,  and  all  such  rare  and  quaint  handi- 
work just  now  so  popular,  cannot  art'ord  to  miss  a  visit  to  the  store 
of  George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  at  625  Market  street  under  the  Palace 
hotel. 


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COSTS  LESS  THAN  ONE  CENT  A  CUP , 

Be  sure  that  you  get  the 
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Frightful  Dreams,  and  all  Nervous  and  Trembling  Sensations,  etc.,  when 
these  symptoms  are  caused  by  constipation,  as  most  of  them  are.  THE 
FIRST  DOSE  WILL  GIVE  RELIEF  IN  TWENTY  MINUTES- 
This  is  no  fiction.  Every  sufferer  is  earnestly  invited  to  try  one  Box  of 
these  Pills  and  they  will  be  acknowledged  to  be 

A    WONDERFUL    MEDICINE. 

BEECHAM'S  PILLS,  taken  as  directed,  will  quickly  restore  Females  to 
complete  health.  They  promptly  remove  obstructions  or  irregularities  of 
the  system.    For  a 

Weak   Stomach 

Impaired   Digestion 

Disordered   Liver 

they  act  like  magic— a  few  doses  will  work  wonders  upon  the  Vital  Organs ; 
strengthening  the  muscular  system,  restoring  the  long-lost  complexion, 
bringing  back  the  keen  edge  of  appetite,  and  arousing  with  the  Rosebud 
of  Health  the  whole  physical  energy  of  tbe  human  frame.  These  are 
facts  admitted  by  thousands ,  in  all  classes  of  society,  and  one  of  the  best 
guarantees  to  the  Nervous  and  Debilitated  is  that  Beecham's  Pills  have 
the  Largest  Sale  of  any  Patent  Medicine  in  the  World. 

WITHOUT  A   RIVAL. 

Annual  Sales  more   than  6.000,000   Boxes. 

25c  at  Drugstores,  or  will  be  sent  by  U.  S.  Agents,  B.  F.  ALLEN  CO. 
365  Canal  St.,  New  York,  post  paid,  upon  receipt  of  price.  Book  free  upon 
application. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1897. 


The  discovery  that  such  a  thing  as  land 
Want  a  New  frauds  has  from  time  to  time  disgraced 
Commission,  the  fair  fame  of  the  State  abroad,  has 
awakened  the  Board  of  Trade  to  the 
necessity  for  a  Commission  supervisory  of  matters  of  the 
kind.  It  would  not  be  a  bad  idea,  were  it  not  just  possible 
that  some  other  people  in  the  State  are  very  timid  of 
these  Commissions,  believing  that  they  are  only  calculated 
to  provide  positions  for  political  sharpers,  who  are  always 
on  the  look-out  for  some  plausible  opportunity  of  the  kind 
to  saddle  new  burdens  upon  the  public  in  the  form  of  tax- 
ation for  salaries.  The  cheapest  and  quite  as  effective 
way  to  check  frauds  of  the  kind  would  be  to  leave  their 
eradication  in  the  hands  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  in 
conjunction  with  the  various  Chambers  of  Commerce 
throughout  the  State.  The  mere  stamp  of  disapproval  set 
on  any  scheme  emanating  from  California  by  such  a  repu- 
table body  of  officials  would  nip  it  in  the  bud.  It  will  be 
hoped  that  they  will  view  matters  in  this  light,  and  re- 
frain from  any  endeavor  to  add  to  the  already  long  and 
unnecessary  list  of  office  holders  dependent  upon  the  pub- 
lic purse  for  support.  When  committees  from  these  emi- 
nently respectable  bodies  mentioned  are  detailed,  their 
scope  might  be  widened  to  act  on  mining  as  well  as  land 
frauds,  from  which  as  much,  if  not  more,  danger  is  to  be 
feared.  The  prompt  manner  in  which  the  Alina  scheme 
was  killed  in  London  some  months  ago,  shows  how  easy  it 
is  to  stop  a  promoter's  game  when  taken  in  its  initiatory 
stages  by  exposure  of  its  true  merits  in  the  right  quarter. 
The  mere  announcement  that  these  gentlemen  will  act  in 
the  matter  will  have  the  effect  of  restoring  confidence  at 
once  among  foreign  investors,  much  more  so  than  if  a 
Commission  is  appointed,  engineered  in  the  interests  of 
political  cliques,  and  worth  more  to  them  than  to  any  one 
else. 

With  the  probability  of  a  compact  being 
Will  History  concluded  between  the  local  powder  corn- 
Repeat  Itself,  panies  comes  the  question,  how  long  will 
it  last  before  the  Eastern  competitors 
take  a  hand  in  the  game  for  the  benefit  of  the  consumers 
in  Western  territory  ?  Of  course,  it  will  be  a  grand 
thing,  this  2  cents  a  pound  profit  on  the  manufacture, 
while  it  lasts,  and  the  companies  are  certainly  entitled  to 
fair  returns  on  their  output.  It  is  a  pity,  however,  that 
the  business  on  the  coast  is  always  open  to  attacks  from 
abroad,  which  even  a  combination  of  home  interests  can- 
not hope  to  offset.  The  next  question  which  suggests 
itself  is,  will  the  California  company's  shares  double  -ip  in 
market  value  on  the  consummation  of  the  combine,  .is  the 
Giants  have  already  more  than  done  under  manipulation 
upon  the  mere  contemplation  of  the  proposition?  And  if 
not,  why  not  ?  The  California  is  a  large  and  wealthy  con- 
cern, while  the  Giant  is  bigger  in  its  name  than  in  any 
other  respect,  besides  being  loaded  down  with  an  indebt- 
edness of  over  $200,000.  It  will  take  many  a  dividend  to 
clear  that  off  or  to  reimburse  shareholders  for  the  neces- 
sary assessment,  should  one  be  levied,  and  yet  it  is  possi- 
ble people  can  be  found  ready  to  argue  the  merits  of 
these  shares  as  an  investment  and  defend  an  advance 
in  price,  which  has  already  sent  the  stock  up  from  $17  to 
the  neighborhood  of  $32J.  It  is  only  just  to  presume,  how- 
ever, in  their  behalf,  that  all  fools  are  not  yet  dead  in  the 
world. 

At  the  twenty-first  annual  meeting  of  the 
The  Clearing     San  Francisco  Clearing  House  Associa- 
House  Officers,    tion  Tuesday,  the  following  officers  were 
elected    for    1897 :     President,    Thomas 
Brown;  Vice-president,  H.   Wadsworth;  Secretary,    John 
D.  McKee.     The  following  Clearing  House  Committee  was 
chosen:  Thomas  Brown,  Cashier  Bank   of  California;  Ign. 
Steinhart,  Manager  Anglo-Californian  Bank,    Ltd.;  S.  G. 
Murphy,  President  First  National  Bank  of  San  Francisco; 
H.  M.  J.  McMichael,  Agent  Bank  of  British  North   Amer- 
ica; W.  H.    Crocker,  President  Crocker-Woolworth  Na- 
tional Bank  of  San  Francisco. 


Con. -Cal. -Virginia  holds  up  at  the  ad- 
The  Pine  vanced  prices  and  keeps  the  speculative 
Street  Market,  market  together;  otherwise  there  would 
be  but  little  to  say  in  regard  to  mining 
matters  on  Pine  street.  The  goose  that  laid  the  golden 
egg  has  been  pretty  well  battered  to  death,  and  by  the 
men  who  have  all  along  been  most  highly  benefited.  After 
first  driving  all  the  heavy-weight  mining  managers  from 
the  street,  they  turned  their  attention  to  their  customers, 
with  such  good  results  that  about  one  in  twenty  now  put 
a  dollar  into  the  business.  They  sang  a  song  of  wild  cats 
to  very  good  effect  in  this  manner,  during  the  recent  rise 
in  Chollar,  and  now  they  are  paying  for  the  music  in  good 
style.  If  the  development  in  Con. -Cal. -Virginia  holds  out, 
it  may  tempt  the  big  people  back  into  the  market,  forget- 
ful of  past  grievances  against  the  "new"  broker  in  the 
old  building,  and  this  will  prove  the  salvation  of  the  mar- 
ket, the  decline  in  which  has  hurt  San  Francisco  more  than 
all  other  untoward  influences  combined.  The  merchants 
and  fluffy  moralists  who  worked  and  preached  against 
stock  gambling  in  the  past,  are  now  ready  to  take  a  hand 
in  reanimating  the  moribund  Exchange,  appreciating  fully 
what  its  loss  has  cost  them.  It  will  be  hoped,  for  the 
sake  of  all,  that  their  repentance  is  not  too  late.  Its  re- 
vival would  do  more  to  enliven  local  trade  than  any  other 
panacea  which  might  he  suggested.  A  little  reconstruc- 
tion in  the  personnel  of  the  Exchange  might  also  aid  in 
bringing  it  more  prominently  to  thefront  again  as  a  factor 
in  local  prosperity. 

It  is  pleasant  to  be  in  a  position  to  say 
A  Clearer  that  in  so  far  as  mining  promotion  is  con- 
Atmosphere,  cerned,  California  was  never  healthier 
than  it  is  at  present.  The  thieviDg  pro- 
moter has  not  found  his  game  profitable,  and  the  outlook 
is  not  favorable  that  he  will.  While  starting  off  some 
months  ago,  with  the  best  of  intentions  to  make  a  fortune 
at  one  fell  and  dishonest  swoop,  they  have  been  brought 
up  so  sharply  on  every  turn  that  they  are  forced  to  retire 
from  the  field.  Their  numbers  are  now  few,  and  being 
well  known,  their  every  movement  is  closely  watched, 
with  the  chances  that  when  they  inaugurate  any  new 
scheme  of  robbery  it  will  not  escape  unnoticed.  As  it  is, 
mining  is  active  all  over  the  State,  with  capital  available 
for  all  legitimate  operations.  Investors  are  now,  for- 
tunately for  themselves,  turning  their  attention  to  the  de- 
velopment of  new  and  young  prospects,  instead  of  wasting 
time  in  the  attempt  to  float  old  shells  of  properties  on 
the  strength  of  a  reputation  very  poorly  earned,  if  all  was 
told  in  many  cases.  One  of  the  old"  veterans  is  never 
trotted  to  the  front  without  recalling  the  story  of  a  well- 
known  Wall-street  broker,  who  drawled  out,  in  response 
to  the  tale  of  a  promoter  about  the  millions  a  mine  he  was 

offering  had  produced,  ':  Well,  why   the  d 1  did  you  not 

bring  it  to  me  before  you  took  those  millions  out." 

A  good  story  is  going  the  rounds  of  local 
Wise  in  their  mining  men.  A  few  weeks  ago,  a  new 
Generation.  arrival,  with  "connections  abroad,"  reach- 
ing out  for  a  ready-made  fortune  like  so 
many  others  who  think  all  they  have  to  do  is  to  poke  a  mine 
under  some  other  fellow's  nose,  with  more  money  than 
brains,  and  empty  his  pockets  of  cash,  sent  home  a  most 
elaborate  description  of  a  Calaveras  property  at  the  in- 
stance of  the  man  who  held  the  bond.  Its  location  was 
shown  to  be  excellent,  right  in  touch  with  one  of  the  most 
celebrated  mines  in  the  State,  and  its  record  was  grand. 
Not  a  State  Mineralogist's  report  had  appeared  for  years 
which  did  not  give  considerable  space  to  the  mine,  its  geo- 
logical construction,  etc.,  with  as  much  deference  as  could 
be  shown  had  its  owner  belonged  on  the  inside  of  the  min- 
ing ring  and  a  power  in  the  land.  With  the  caution  now 
existing  in  London,  the  correspondence  in  due  course  found 
its  way  back  to  a  true  and  trusted  correspondent  in  San 
Francisco,  who  in  turn  sent  his  report.  The  answer  came 
at  last  to  the  anxious  youth,  whose  nerves  were  wrought 
up  by  impatience  to  the  highest  tension.  It  was  short, 
but  to  the  point:  "  The  best  thing  you  can  do,  if  you  wish 
to  be  safe,  is  to  put  six  thousand  miles  between  you  and 
this  property."  "  It  might  be  added  that  the  young  gen- 
tleman has  given  up  mining  promotion  as  a  business,  con- 
tent to  amble  along  at  his  profession,  at  which  he  is  more 
at  home. 


February  13,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


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•  Hear  the  Crier:"      What  the  devil  art  thou?" 
•ODethat  wlllolav  1  he  devil  .Mr.  with  vou." 


THE  gentle  da  vada  are  anxious  to  obtain  tbe 

permission  of  public  opinion  to  see  Bob  and  Jim  maul 
one  another  in  the  arena.  And  some  will  doubtless  put  in 
appearance,  and  tell  public  opinion   to  mind   its  own  busi- 

The  curiosity  of  the  sex  is  simply  boundless.  They 
have  penetrated  our  clubs,  until  there  is  no  corner  secure 
from  them;  their  silvery  laughter  roaches  us  from  the  side 
entrance,  when  we  are  sipping  our  grog  at  the  bar  of  our 
favorite  tavern;  they  are  with  us  on  the  race  track  betting 
fast,  and  furiously:  and  now  they  would  invade  the  sanctity 
of  the  prize  ring  which  we  want  to  preserve  for  our  own 
special  brutality.  Possibly,  like  the  Roman  ladies,  they 
would  not  object  to  patting  Bob  ami  Jim  on  their  brawny 
muscles,  even  as  they  wagered  their  sesterces  upon  their 
prowess.  This  of  course  Mrs.  Bob.  and  Mrs.  Jim  would 
not  endure.  No,  we  cannot  have  it.  Let  them  get  up 
their  own  prize  tights,  and  have  Sally  and  Bet  a  slogging 
for  a  sealskin,  or  a  diamond  pin.  We  have  no  use  for  them 
at  our  box  office. 

IF  poor  old  Jonah  could  have  known  the  fuss  those  New 
York  parsons  are  making  about  him,  he  would  have 
seen  that  bleeding  whale  in  Hades  or  Oakland  before  he 
crawled  into  his  belly.  You  actor,  seeking  a  new  gag  or 
a  new  gesture,  you  editor,  scratching  your  bald  pate  for 
the  idea  that  cometh  not,  you  artist,  dozing  over  your 
mall  stick  because  you  can  imagine  nothing  to  paint — 
vacuous  though  ye  be,  are  running  over  with  thought  and 
originality  by  comparison  with  the  intellectual  straits  of 
the  modern  preacher.  Because  congregations  do  not  pay 
salaries  of  thousands  a  year  for  chestnuts.  They  want 
excitement.  Tbey  are  tired  of  being  lugged  along  over 
the  same  old  paths.  Their  gorge  rises  at  text  and  psalm. 
Hence,  the  brain-tickling  problem  which  Parson  Abbott 
has  started,  and  Jonah  and  the  whale  are  once  more  trot- 
ted out  to  mystify  the  Christian  world  with  their  import- 
ance as  a  factor  in  salvation. 

GO  it  Gerty,  prithee,  sweet  Atherton,  hit  thy  gentle 
countrywomen  again,  and  again,  yea  till  their  corsets 
crack.  For  thou  art  indeed  a  most  winsom  scold,  and  thy 
acrid  discourse  is  well  seasoned  with  common  sense.  Not 
that  they  will  take  heed  in  the  least.  True,  they  will  call 
you,  Gerty,  a  "nawsty"  mean  thing,  and  try  to  dig  up 
stories  about  you,  but  His  Grace,  the  Duke,  and  My  Lord 
the  Earl  will  be  as  fondly  worshipped  as  ever.  And  so  it 
will  be  until  Congress  passes  a  bill  for  the  Protection  of 
the  American  Heiress  from  the  European  Nobility,  and 
makes  it  a  penal  offense  for  any  young  American  wage 
earner  to  remain  unmarried  after  thirty-five. 

AT  Dr.  Jordan's  grave  and  learned  pate 
Strange  epithets  from  pulpits  now  are  flying; 
A  score  or  more  of  ministers  irate 
Predict  for  him  a  most  caloric  fate 

In  which  the  man  of  science  will  be  frying 
Upon  the  Devil's  pitebfork,  to  a  turn. 
Methinks  this  mucb  of  trutb  I  can  discern: 
Compared  with  those  who  do  the  vilifying 
This  Palo  Alto  man  has  brains  to  burn. 
"'T^HE  new  woman  will  bring  up  new  virtues,"  says  an 
1     enthusiastic  emancipator   of    feminine   persuasion. 
That's  all  right,  sister.     From  what  has  been  seen  of  some 
of  the  advance  guard,  it  seems  that  she  will  not  have  much 
trouble  protecting  the  new   brands  of  virtues.     What  is 
really  needed  nowadays  is  less  of  the  new   woman  and 
more  of  the  old  virtues. 

THE  United  States  navy  is  having  a  mighty  hard  time 
of  it  on  the  other  side.  Our  great  sea  captains  had 
better  get  through  sinking  ships  at  the  wharves,  running 
on  mud  banks,  and  coming  out  bunged  up  after  a  cap  full 
of  wind,  before  we  decide  upon  chastising  anybody. 

SN  amateur  sleuth,  who  takes  much  pride  in  the  keen- 
ness of  his  scent,  is  now  prepared  to  furnish  evidence 
that  Chief  Clerk  Duckworth  is  the  man  that  stole  the 
'loast  pig  from  Little  Pete's  grave.  And  the  pig  wasn't 
red  hot,  either. 


IMAGINE,    \.    an;  iir  humming,      "To- 

1  morrow  rell  Bsh  the  stream  to 

whistling  to  Herbert  Clark,  bis  valet,  putting  a  dyi 
cartridge  into  one  po     .1    and  a   sandwich  in   the  other, 
and  starting  off  for  port    in  the  Colorado,     For 

such,  it  appears,  was  the  direction  the  Senator's  love  for 

the  angle  t.Hik.      No  Stupid    waiting   on    the  hank  for  him, 
watching  the  Hi. at    that    would    not    down,    or  castil 
leathered  lure       He  was  a    miner,    and    he'd  blast  B  trout 
with  the  same  alacrlt  |   .1-  B  porphrv  horse.    And  then  after 

the  day's  sport  the  ■  would  refresh  himself 

by  a  set-to  with  the  useful  valet,  and  punch  him  all  over 
tin'  room,  Herbert's  private  opinion  of  his  Master  would 
not  place  bim  among  the  heroic. 

GOto.  thou   croaker,    who  complaincst  of  hard  ti s. 
Hard  times,  forsooth]     Come  with  me  to  that  quarter 
where  the  men  of  France  provide  rare  things  to  eat  for  the 

youth  yclept  "ye  blond.''  and  the  fair  woman  who  doth 
with  him  consort.  Hearken  to  the  pop  of  the  foaming 
wine,  and  let  the  incense  of  rich  and  rare  dishes  permeate 
thy  nostrils.  Mark  the  fragrance  of  the  weed  of  Cuba, 
and  ponder  that  its  price  represents  a  meal  for  a  small 
family,  while  the  wine  bill  alone  would  keep  Jack  Hand- 
saw, now  out  of  employment,  and  his  wife  and  bairns  for  a 
week.  And  then  prattle  of  hard  times.  The  world  rolls 
on  as  merrily  as  ever,  and  the  Maccaroni  band  playeth 
"Sweet  Alice  Ben  Bolt"  in  the  hall.  What,  because  thou 
art  dyspeptic,  shall  there  be  no  more  cakes  and  ale? 

THE  Art  Association  people  are  getting  ready  for  their 
annual  masquerade  ball.  May  it  be  a  jolly  one,  with 
plenty  of  ginger.  Ay,  that's  just  what  those  balls  want, 
an  infusion  of  the  French  spirit,  the  happy,  dashing,  risqui 
go,  which  is  the  charm  of  the  masquerade.  It  don't  do, 
young  people,  to  go  creeping  bashfully  about  the  floor, 
feeling  horribly  awkward,  the  girls  inclined  to  resent  the 
badinage  of  the  hour,  and  the  men  grouped  together  in  a 
"don't-want-to-get-snubbed  "  fashion.  Sail  in  for  all  the 
business  is  worth.  Don't  be  too  coldly  respectable.  It 
does  not  go,  and  this  is  the  reason  those  shady  parties  en 
masque  are  so  delightful.  Kick  up  your  heels,  and  let  the 
chaperons  take  care  of  themselves. 

BILL  ENGLISH,  the  eminent  statesman,  is  said  to 
bear  a  close  resemblance  to  the  Earl  De  Courcy  Duff, 
who  passed  through  this  city  recently  on  his  return  from 
India,  where  he  was  Governor  of  a  province  in  the  north. 
General  Clunie,  who  is  something  of  a  wit,  upon  hearing 
this,  remarked  that  Mr.  English  might  be  dubbed  the 
Earl  of  Plum  Duff,  because  he  has  a  neat  knack  of  picking 
the  plums  out  of  the  political  dough.  Well,  he  works  for 
them,  hud  the  laborer  is  worthy  of  his  hire. 

"  QATAN'S  KISS"  was  the  subject  of  the  Reverend 
yj  M.  P.  Boynton's  sermon  last  Sunday  night,  and  the 
speaker  dilated  accordingly  upon  the  mischief  wrought  by 
the  arch  demon  in  his  osculatory  diversions.  For  real 
havoc,  however,  pecuniary  and  otherwise,  Satan's  salute 
isn't  in  it  with  the  confusion  that  two  rosy  lips  can  cause, 
in  testifying  to  the  bestowal  of  kisses  prior  to  the  filing  of 
a  breach-of-promise  suit. 

WILLIE  Hearst,  Willie  Hearst,  bring  your  broom  along, 
And  sweep  the  office  clear,  my  lad,  of  Lawrence,  they  call  Long; 
For  if  you  don't,  the  fact  will  be  too  very  clearly  seen, 
Tb.it  you,  not  Andy  Lawrence,  deserve  the  name  of  Green. 

HOW  merrily  Oakland  and  its  adjuncts  keep  the  cleri- 
cal scandal-pot  a  boiling.  The  lusty  cheeks  of  Jack 
Satan  are  ever  distended  to  bursting,  blowing  on  the  em- 
bers which  heat  this  devil's  broth  to  the  nauseous  pitch. 
It  was  always  thus,  and  the  oldest  inhabitant  in  that 
strange  city  fails  to  remember  a  scandalless  month  in  its 
history. 

BETWEEN  those  admirable  pillars  of  the  law,  Judges 
Campbell  and  Low,  yawns  a  gulf  which  the  soothing 
hand  of  time  can  never  nil.  Since  the  largely  whiskered 
jurist  flattened  out  the  blatant  clerk  O'Brien,  the  hot 
blood  of  his  clan  is  as  easily  stirred  up  as  a  bread  poultice 
when  de  push  whistle  up  "The  Campbells  are  Comin'." 

REMOVE  the  Capital?    Legislators  pray, 
If  you  remove  it,  set  it  far  away ; 
Too  close  already  grind  its  noxious  mills, 
Its  stenchy  scandals  and  its  thieving  bills. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1897. 


ANTONY    TO    CLEOPATRA  —alice  mackay,  in  pall  mall  magazine. 


YALE  Death  awaits  me,  shadow-robed  in  sable, 
Whilst  in  yon  western  blue  the  sunset  burns  I 
Sweet  Love !  awake,  as  thou  alone  art  able, 
To  one  last  thrill  this  dying  heart  that  turns 
Ever  to  thee,— for  thee,  thee  only,  yearns. 

Most  lovely  Love !  my  Queen  divinely  moulded ! 
Come  to  me,  come!    To  be  by  thee  caress'd 
Was  ever  heav'n  to  me;  to  die  enfolded 
Within  thy  perfect  arms  were  to  die  blest; 
Nor  could  Elysium's  self  hold  fairer  rest. 

Sweet  voice !  most  dulcet  music  1  thou  dost  'thrall  me 

As  Orpheus  and  Arion  'thrall'ed  at  will 

The  realms  of  Dis  and  Neptune;  thou  dost  call  me 

From  the  gray  shades  of  death !  thy  tender  thrill 

Lures  back  my  fading  soul — thy  captive  still  1 

Sweet  eyes!  twin  stars  of  my  sole  heav'n,  oh,  never 

May  I  awake  away  from  thee,  to  drink 

New  life  from  lesser  light;  rather  for  ever 

And  ever  let  me  sleep  on  Lethe's  brink ; 

Nor  'neath  Acheron's  waters  dreamless  sink. 

Light  me  but  to  Oblivion,  eyes  most  tender! 

For  since  the  Gods  do  will  that  I  must  lose 

Thy  starry  golden  glow  and  dusky  splendour, 

I  ask  but  to  forget  my  loss ;  I  choose 

Oblivion's  wave  before  Elysian  dews. 

Dear  Love!  so  witching  are  thy  warm  caresses, 

That  Death  stands  back  a  pace,  to  watch  their  wiles ; 

From  thy  soft  breath,  and  loosen'd  dusky  tresses 

Doth  float  a  dreamy  fragrance,  that  beguiles 

Like  musky  zephyrs  from  Hesperian  isles. 

0  flow'r-soft  crimson  lips!  the  sweetest  portals 
To  sweetest  soul  e'er  fashioned !  not  the  wine 
Nectar'd  in  Naxon  by  the  fair  immortals, 
Could  give  my  fainting  pulses  so  divine, 
So  rich  a  transient  life,  as  kiss  of  thine. 

Love!    I  complain  not,  tho'  Death  come  to  take 
To  realms  of  Nothingness  ere  thy  last  kiss 
Hath  tired  upon  my  hps,  for  thou  dost  make  me 
To  fade  so  happily,  dissolved  in  bliss, 
That  sweet  it  seems  to  die,  if  death  be  this ! 


A    VALENTINE-— uzette  woodworth  reese,  in  scribner's- 

Against  this  thorny  Present  shows 

Your  memory  like  the  dew; 
Each  maid  a  wrinkled  Beauty  goes, 

When  I  do  think  of  you. 

Folded  away  in  the  deep  grass, 

What  is  it  can  befall  ? 
Nor  Clouds  that  fade,  nor  Gusts  that  pass, 

Nor  any  Grief  at  all . 

Now  lovers  write  their  verses  brave; 

Now  buds  start  on  the  tree; 
But  Love  went  with  you  to  the  grave, 

The  sere  leaf  bides  with  me. 

I  have  not  any  word  save  this ; 

My  tears  are  all  my  store; 
The  fairer  that  the  weather  is 

I  miss  you  but  the  more. 


TWO    DREAMS.— marie  m.  a.  bulau,  in  the  idler. 

When  violets  in  bushland  hollows  blow, 

When  lints  and  tones  enchant  and  heaven  seems  nigfj. 

We  had  a  dream  in  common,  you  and  I— 

Who  was  the  wiser  dreamer  time  must  show. 

The  happier  dreamer  of  us  did  not  know 

The  lyric  light  and  love  were  all  a  lie, 

That  when  the  blue  grew  greyer  in  the  sky, 

The  other  dreamer  and  the  dream  would  go! 

The  wild  white  violets  iu  flower  will  see 

One  dreamer  lying  where  two  kissed  last  May ; 

The  winds  and  streams  in  undertones  will  play 

The  finish  of  a  fitful  melody. 
Best  for  that  dreamer,  too,  if  he  forget 
The  tender  song  whose  burden  is  regret. 


Good  merchants  find  out 
that  it  pays  to  sell  Macbeth 
lamp-chimneys  because  they 
make  friends. 

But  look  out   for  the  one 
that   is  made  for  your  lamp. 
Let  us  send  you  the  Index. 
Geo  A  Macbeth  Co 

Pittsburgh  Pa 


CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 
Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  332-334 Pine  street.      Rooms  tor 

ladies  and  families,  private  entrance.    John  Bergez,  Proprietor. 
Maison  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B   Blanco  &  B.  Brdn 

DAIRIES. 

Oakland  Dairy  Depot,  330  Fulton  street,  S.  F.  Absolutely  pure  Milk  and 
Cream.    Telephone.  Pine  1693. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St,,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval :  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILERMAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Franciscd  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

PRINTING   AND   RUBBER   STAMPS. 
Koch  &  Harney,  (Jas.  H.  Harney,  Geo.  T.  Koch),  Job  Printers,  648  Sacra- 
mento St.  Fine  printing  and  embossing,  seals,  rubber  stamps,  stencils,  etc. 

CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  %  and  1-lb  boxes.    Roberts1,  Pclk  and  Bush. 

VEHICLES 
Second-hand  Victoria,  O'Brien  &  Son's  pat.    Spring  Buggy,   Surrey  and 
Top  Buggy,  for  sale  cheap.    500  Golden  Gate  avenue. 

NEVADA  WAREHOUSE  AND  DOCK  COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100.000  tons.  Regular  warehouse  for  San  Francisco 
Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  wheat. 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  grain  stored  in  warehouses. 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  first-class  companies,  or  grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

OFFICE— 202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  B^nk. 


COKE— Cheapest  Fuel  I 


REDUCTION  in  Price. 
Wholesale  (50  bbls.  or  more,)  EIGHTY 
Cents  per  bbl.  Retail  (any  quantity 
under  50  bbls.),  NINETY  Cents  per 
bbl.  At  the  works  of  the 


San  Francisco  Gaslight   Co. 

Howard  and  First  Streets. 


Foot  of  Second  Street 


George  B.  Hall, 


Agent  and  Importer  of 


-FOREIGN    WINES. 


MUTUAL  LIFE  BUILDING,  222  Sansome  street. 


Tru  the    SflN   FRANCISCO   LAUNDRY, 

Office,  33  Geaiy  street.    Telephone  Main  5186. 
Oakland  Office— 884  Broadway.    Telephone  Main  658. 


February  13,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO   NBW8   LETTER. 


15 


Q  9»- 


Blanket  Business. 


DEAB  EDITH— You  may  not  kn^.w  that  the  heliotrope 
lining  that  has  become  so  popular  was  first  worn  by 
Mrs.  Bradley  Martin,  who  has  just  given  the  groat  Fancy 
dress  ball  at  the  Waldorf.  It  is  ;i  very  swell  material  and 
is  entitled  to  a  long  popularity. 

I  notice  that  the  finest  of  boleros  are  made  of  exquisite 
black  satin  richly  embroidered  with  -.'old,  and  they  give  an 
air  of  completeness  to  a  toilet  made  up  of  a  black  satin 
skirt  and  blouse.  By  the  way.  this  golden  bolero  was 
created  by  the  Countess  Castellane,  and  all  womankind  are 
indebted  to  her  for  the  garment.  I  recently  saw.  with  a 
black  satin  skirt,  a  pretty  blouse  of  black  chiffon  worn. 
The  lining  was  of  black  satin,  and  the  chiffon  was  put  on 
in  narrow  bias  folds  that  encircled  the  entire  bodice.  At 
the  head  of  each  fold  there  was  a  narrow  beading  of  coral 
passementerie  that  shown  out  conspicuously.  The  high 
coat  sleeves  of  black  satin  were  covered  with  folds  of  the 
chiffon  and  passementerie.  They  were  long  and  pointed, 
with  a  frill  of  black  chiffon  falling  quite  over  the  hand. 
The  high  collar  and  ceinlure  were  of  coral  satin  ribbon. 

Over  this  chiffon  waist  a  black  satin  bolero  was  worn. 
It  was  short,  with  broad  pointed  reveres,  that  were  elabo- 
rately embroidered  in  gold  and  coral,  and  a  narrow  run- 
ning design  of  embroidery  outlined. 

A  very  dress}'  evening  waist  is  of  pale  yellow  mousseline 
de  soie  over  yellow  satin.  The  mousseline  de  soie  is  put  on 
very  full  from  the  shoulder  seams  and  is  drawn  down  into 
a  pointed  girdle  of  turquoise  velvet  that  is  embroidered  in 
stones.  The  yoke  is  composed  of  three  ruffles  of  the 
mousseline  de  soie  that  commence  at  the  shoulder  seams  and 
and  overlap  each  other  slightly  to  form  a  long  yoke  effect. 

A  narrow  edge  of  cream  Valenciennes  outlines  the 
bottom  of  each  ruffle.  Over  the  shoulder  seams  there  are 
broad  epaulettes  of  the  embroidered  turquoise  that  merge 
into  long  stole  ends  at  the  front  of  the  bodice  and  hang 
loose  to  the  girdle.  The  tall  crush  collar  is  of  turquoise 
velvet.  This  waist  is  in  the  trousseau  of  Countess  Czay- 
kowski. 

A  chic  silk  blouse  for  an  afternoon  house  toilet  is  made 
of  a  heavy  quality  of  surah  silk  in  citron  green,  with  a 
thread  check  in  black.  The  ba?k  of  the  blouse  is  seamless, 
with  the  fullness  at  the  waist  line  caught  in  tiny  plaits 
under  a  crush  bias  girdle  of  the  silk.  The  front  has  a 
bolero  effect  of  the  silk,  edged  with  a  frill  of  white 
mousseline  de  soie,  and  from  under  the  bolero  the  silk  falls 
in  two  cascades  divided  by  a  vest  of  white  mousseline  de  soie 
bordered  with  narrow  violet  velvet  ribbon.  These  waists, 
though  having  an  elegant  sound,  are  not  necessarily  ex- 
pensive. If  worn  by  Parisian  women  they  are  sure  to  be 
cheap.  One  old  skirt  will  form  the  body  of  half  a  dozen 
waists,  and  for  waist  trimmings  even  the  ruchings  of  old 
hats  are  utilized,  while  we  would  buy  new  goods.  I  took 
a  snap  shot  of  three  of  them  in  the  afternoon  room  of  the 
Countess  Castellane — the  prankish  kitten  in  their  midst. 

One  of  the  very  latest  black  skirts  is  built  of  glace 
moire.  It  is  round  at  the  bottom,  and  the  godets  start 
back  of  the  hips  and  flare  very  much  as  they  near  the 
bottom  of  the  skirt.  Viewed  from  the  front  the  skirt  is 
straight,  and  would  be  clinging  if  it  were  possible  for 
glace  moire  to  cling. 

The  fashion  for  paste  buttons  is  being  followed  by  a 
craze  for  miniature  buttons.  Exquisitely  tinted  maidens 
look  at  you  in  a  row,  with  eyes  calm,  serene  and  blue. 

Belinda. 

At  Swain's  Bakery  you  can  enjoy  a  splendid  table  d'bote  dinner- 
dainty,  abundant,  appetizing,  complete— any  day  in  the  week— from 
5  to  8  p.  m.  for  $1,  served  in  an  atmosphere  of  quiet  elegance.  Here 
truly  "good  digestion  waits  on  appetite,  and  health  on  both,"  as 
Sbakespere  has  it.  Swain's  enjoys  an  enviable  reputation  for  pastries 
and  confections,  orders  for  which  by  telephone  or  otherwise  will  be 
promptly  filled. 

Correct  styles  in  the  latest  and  most  dressy  gentlemen's  furnish- 
ing goods  are  found  at  John  W.  Carmany's,  25  Kearny  street. 


ulra  ii i  nnaWhlta  iihmk.i-.  ,.i  theSTOCK 

ton  WOOLEN  MILLS     Thru  are  til  htgta-gimde  One  Califoroli 

goods,  beautifully  uouK.    Thr  fool  (hut  we  offer  thrm  ut  abOQl   hnlf  their 
value  shoula  be  appreciated  by  blanket  buyofs.      T1H   reason    Is    thai    r/fl 
bought  them  cheap,  and  as  the  end  of  the  blanket  season  will  be  s...  11 
us,  we  are  determined  t.>  make  a  clean  aweep  of  them. 


Lot  I— Fine  White  Wool  Blanket*,  from  Iho  Stoeklnn  Mills,  GO   CC 

86  inches  wide,  not  many  left.     Per  pnlr «De).t)<D 

Lot  .'—Same  grade  as  lot  I.  but  made  for  extra  large  beds,  £  f*  «#- 

the  W  kind,  over 6  feet  wide.    Per  pair «pe), /9 

Lot  3— A  heavier  grade  than  lot  1,  and  same  size  (for  double  at  3   QC 

beds),  solid  and  durable,  a  15.75  blanket.    Perpair <Bd.Od 

Lot  4— About 300  pairs  Extra  Grade  Fine  Lambs-Wool  Blan- 
kets, 72  inches  wide,  the  17  60  blanket.     Special  this  week.  »  i    *7r 
Perpair d»4. /t) 

Lot  5— Heaviest  Texture  Fine  White  Blankets,  same  size  aB  ffi    ca 

lot  1 ,  on  sale  at «b4 .  DU 

Lot  8— Best  Grade  and  Largest  Size  of  the  Entire  Purchase,  ff  Z  A  A 

solid  and  heavy.    Perpair «D0UU 


MURPHY  BUILDING,  Market  and  Jones^ts.,  San  Francisco. 

203  to  207  N  Spring  St.  bet.  Temple  and  First  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

FINE  FURS 
and 

SEALSKIN 
GARHENTS 

to  order.  Remodeling  and 
repairing  at  prices  far  be- 
low those  of  any  other  fur- 
rier on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
All  work  guaranteed. 

AD.  K060UR, 

FASHIONABLE    FURRIER, 

5%   Kearny  Street  (Up-stairs), 


Opposite  Chronicle, 
don,  New  York. 


Formerly  cutter  with  Revillon  Freres,  Paris,  Lon- 


60  cents  and  $1.00 


EGyPTInN  Wonderful  Beautifler, 

ENAMEL 

MEDlGftTED  The  Famous  Skin  Food, 

rcDnTC  I  50  cents  and  81.00 

(jtlxnlt.  I     Trial  pot  free  for  10  cents  in  stamps. 

Trade  supplied  by  REDINGTON  &  CO   where  I  have  no  Agent, 

MPS.    M.    J.    Dllul6r    San  Francisco,  Cal.,' U.  S.  A. 

Dr.   F.  G.  PAGUE, 

Dentist. 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  of  Sotences  Building,  819  Market  Btrect 


hR.  ARTHUR  T.   REGENSBURGER,       ^     x.  x 
'-'  Dentist, 

Office  and  Residence :  409W  Post  St. ,  San  Francisco, 

Omoe  Hours :  9  to  13  A.  M. ;  1  to  5  p.  M. 

Weak  Hen  and  Women  g@S  JS'frSft,g£SinSS 

edy ;  It  glveB  health  and  strength  to  the  Sexual  Organs.    Depot  a,t  333  Mar 
ket  street,  San  Franclsoo.     (Send  for  oircular.) 


i6 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1897. 


ON  one  of  the  most  stormy  nights  last  week,  Walter 
Hobart  telephoned  to  Henry  J.  Crocker,  asking  him 
to  eome  over  to  the  big  Hobart  house  on  Van  Ness  Avenue. 
His  brother-in-law,  Winthrop  Lester,  was  convalescing 
after  an  attack  of  la  grippe,  and  Hobart  explained  that 
he  wished  to  amuse  the  invalid.  Crocker  responded  with 
cheerfulness,  and  found  that  the  prospective  amusement 
comprised  a  lively  game  of  poker.  Nothing  loth,  he  sat 
down,  and  the  game  progressed  with  satisfactory  results 
to  all  the  players  except  the  host.  Walter  is  reputed  a 
good  loser,  so  he  stood  his  losses  like  a  little  man,  and  as 
the  night  was  wild  and  the  rain  beating  violently  against 
the  windows,' he  solaced  himself  with  many  and  copious 
draughts  of  hot  Irish.  The  game  continued  to  go  very 
badly  for  Hobart.  He  never  held  better  than  a  mod- 
erately good  hand,  and  whenever  his  cards  indicated  a 
possible  winning,  Crocker  or  Lester  would  just  manage  to 
beat  him  with  cards  a  little  better.  Even  Hobart's  affec- 
tion for  his  sick  Santa  Monica  brother-in-law  began  to 
weaken  under  the  strain  of  such  a  continuous  run  of  bad 
luck,  and  his  lugubriousness  was  evident.  As  the  night 
waned,  the  game  was  temporarily  abandoned  for  a  hot  bird 
and  a  cold  bottle.     After  supper,  play  was  resumed. 

"Now,  Walt.,  I  think  your  luck  will  change,"  said 
Crocker,  whose  turn  it  was  to  deal.  "We  have  had  a 
break,  and  now  we  will  take  a  fresh  pack,  and  I  shall  be 
surprised  if  they  do  not  come  your  way." 

He  dealt  the  cards,  and  Hobart  could  hardly  preserve 
his  equanimity  when  he  found  four  jacks  in  his  hand.  The 
others  plainly  had  high  cards,  too,  for  they  proceeded  to 
make  a  pretty  stiff  pot.  Hobart  languidly  discarded  one 
card  and  reluctantly  came  in,  as  if  he  had  two  pair  or 
three  very  small  ones.  He  affected  to  study  his  hand  in- 
tently after  the  draw,  but  really  did  not  glance  at  his  fifth 
card.  After  Lester  and  Crocker  had  raised  each  other 
until  they  were  tired,  Hobart  took  a  hand  and  made  a  big 
bet.  The  others,  believing  him  to  be  bluffing,  promptly 
saw  his  raise,  and  before  the  play  ended,  the  "pot"  was 
quite  the  biggest  of  the  evening.  When  his  play  was  finally 
called,  Hobart  threw  down  his  hand,  and  without  waiting 
for  any  announcements,  gathered  in  the  "pot,"  which 
contained  enough  chips  to  recoup  him  for  all  the  losses  of 
the  evening.     Lester  picked  up  Hobart's  cards. 

"Why,  you  have  the  joker  here,"  he  exclaimed.  "Drop 
that  dough  ! " 

And  so  it  was.  Crocker  had  failed  to  remove  the  joker 
from  the  new  pack  after  supper,  and  Hobart  had  not  ex- 
amined his  fifth  card  after  the  draw.  Of  course,  the  pot 
had  to  be  divided  between  the  three,  but  Walter  swore 
that  Crocker  had  stacked  the  cards,  and  so  the  game 
broke  up. 

*  *  * 

Supper  in  the  Red  Room  after  the  play  is  all  the  go  at 
the  Bohemian  Club  now.  And  certainly  nothing  cau  be 
more  pleasing  and  delightfully  artistic  than  the  subdued 
and  warm  light  of  this  beautiful  room,  which  has  not  its 
parallel  in  any  club  in  the  world— the  pleasant  music  in  the 
corridor  during  the  supper,  and  the  exquisite  taste  in 
which  everything  is  served.  Those  little  .fetes  are  dear  to 
the  female  heart,  and  keep  the  Bohemians  at  the  top 
notch  of  favor. 

*  *  * 

William  Greer  Harrison  is  one  of  the  best-hearted  men 
in  town,  and  he  always  avoids  hurting  the  feelings  of  any- 
one. To  oblige  an  old  acquaintance,  whose  circumstances 
were  not  prosperous,  he  took  in  as  office  boy  the  son  of 
his  old  friend,  and  tried  faithfully  to  give  the  lad  an  insight 
into  the  mysteries  of  insurance  as  practiced  on  California 
street.  It  was  no  use,  however.  The  half-grown  boy  had 
no  thoughts  for  business,  and  although  always  in  his  place, 
took  little  interest  in  his  work,  and  Mr.  Harrison  grew 
very  tired  of  his  protege.  How  to  get  rid  of  him  was  a 
problem.  For  the  sake  of  the  boy's  father  he  did  not  wish 
to  dismiss  him,  but  his  presence  made  Greer  feel  blue.    By 


chance,  he  heard  that  a  warehouse  firm  wished  an  office 
boy,  so  he  lost  no  time  in  advising  the  boy  to  apply  for  the 
place,  as  presenting  greater  possibilities  for  promotion. 
After  a  personal  application  the  boy  returned,  and  said  he 
could  have  the  coveted  place,  provided  he  could  secure  a 
recommendation  from  his  present  employer.  Harrison 
hesitated  at  this  stipulation.  He  could  not  conscientiously 
recommend  a  boy  of  whom  he  was  trying  to  rid  himself. 
Finally,  an  idea  struck  bim,  and  he  wrote  a  certificate  of 
good  character,  concluding  as  follows  : 

"He is  a  very  good  boy,  but  I  cannot  afford  to  wait  un- 
til he  grows." 

On  the  strength  of  this  recommendation  the  boy  secured 
the  place,  and  Harrison  chuckles  over  his  own  emancipation. 
*  *  * 

A  young  Benedict,  prominent  in  insurance  circles,  meet- 
ing an  older  married  man  on  Montgomery  street,  greeted 
him  with  great  effusiveness,  invited  him  to  have  a  drink, 
then  insisted  on  giving  him  an  expensive  cigar,  and  finally 
another  drink.  The  object  of  all  this  hospitality  could  not 
understand  the  unusual  generosity  of  his  host.  After  a 
time,  however,  the  latter  gave  him  an  inkling  that  the 
treating  was  not  entirely  spontaneous. 

"By  the  way,"  he  said,  "I  want  to  buy  a  birthday 
present  for  a  girl.     Will  you  come  and  help  me  choose  it?" 

With  some  reluctance  the  other  consented.  The  pair 
went  to  a  large  jewelry  store,  where  the  young  married 
man  selected  a  handsome  pair  of  diamond  garters. 

"Now,  look  here,"  said  the  family  man  of  experience; 
"  that  is  a  nice  present  for  a  young  husband  to  give  to  a 
girl!     What  if  your  wife  should  come  in  here  now?  " 

"  Why,  my  dear  boy,"  said  the  youugster,  calmly,  "that 
is  just  the  reason  I  brought  you  along.  If  my  wife  should 
come  in,  you  would  be  the  purchaser  of  the  garters,  don't 
you  see?  " 

"  But  my  own  wife "  began  the  other,  in  alarm. 

"Oh,  that's  all  right,"  said  the  young  husband,  reassur- 
ingly. 

*  *  * 

Charles  M.  Shortridge,  publisher  of  the  Call,  has  a  good 
story,  which  he  does  not  hesitate  to  tell  about  himself.  After 
one  of  the  most  objectionable  of  the  Examiner's  cartoons 
in  the  series  of  pictorial  battles  now  being  waged  between 
the  Call  and  the  ex-Monarch,  an  article  was  published  in 
the  Mission-street  journal  bitterly  attacking  Mr.  Short- 
ridge. On  the  afternoon  of  the  same  day,  an  Examiner 
reporter  had  the  effrontery  to  try  to  interview  Mr.  Short- 
ridge regarding  the  article,  hoping  to  secure  a  new  oppor- 
tunity for  misrepresenting  the  Call  editor. 

"Look  here,"  said  Shortridge,  impulsively.  "Here  is 
a  hundred  dollars.  You  take  that  to  the  low-born  wretch 
in  your  office."  Shortridge's  language  was  literally  much 
more  picturesque  than  the  expurgated  quotation.  "When 
I  use  that  expression,"  he  continued,  "I  do  not  simply 
apply  it  as  a  contemptuous  epithet.  I  mean  it  to  include 
his  entire  family  connection.  You  give  that  hundred  dol- 
lars to  the  low-born  wretch  in  your  office  if  he  will  come 
into  a  room  alone  with  me  for  ten  minutes." 

The  reporter  departed  with  the  five  twenties,  and  Mr. 
Shortridge  has  heard  nothing  more  of  the  incident.  He 
has  neither  money  nor  fight,  and  admits  that  he  has  been 
badly  buncoed. 

*  #  * 

Gordon  Ross,  the  young  Scotch  artist,  was  recently  iD- 
vited  to  join  the  Bohemian  Club,  and  in  a  way  they  have 
in  Bohemia,  at  the  first  club  dinner  after  his  election,  he 
was  put  up  on  his  feet  to  show  his  paces.  Ross  endeavored 
to  rise  to  the  occasion,  and  began  telling  a  somewhat  long- 
winded  story  about  an  owl  and  a  freak  of  the  aviary,  which 
he  dubbed  a  hoodoo  bird.  At  the  most  thrilling  part  of  the 
narrative,  when  Gordon  was  reproducing  a  dialogue  be- 
tween the  two  birds  with  even  more  than  the  usual  thick- 
ness to  the  "burr  "  of  his  Highland  accent,  he  asked  dra- 
matically : 

"And  what  did  the  owl  say  ?  " 

Louis  Sloss,  who  was  seated  at  the  foot  of  the  table, 
considered  this  opportunity  too  good  to  be  lost,  so  when 
Ross  asked  what  the  owl  said,  Louis  yelled  in  bis  best 
Scottish  accent:   ■ 

"  Hoot,  hoot,  mon!"  which  brought  down  the  house,  and 
abruptly  terminated  the  story. 


S\N   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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« SSIST ANT  Manager  Brewster  <rf  the  Scottish   Onion 
•;ial.  who  lias  been  in  the   city    tlio  put    ■' 
for  the  pur]  Manager  for  the  com- 

pany, baa  appointed  Mr.  i;  C.  Medcrafl  t<>  that  position, 

Mr.  Metlcraft  has  been  associated  with  Wm.  J.  Landers, 
and  is  a  weU-justitied  choice  for  this  important  post. 

The  New  Zealand  Insurance  Company,  which  has  not 
visibly  increased  its  local  bank  account  during  these 
troublous  times,  has  found  it  necessary,  in  the  interests  of 
economy,  to  move  into  the  offices  of  Smedberg  &  Mitchell. 

The  new  company  recently  organized  by  the  Northwest- 
ern Underwriters'  National,  will  not  at  present  do  busi- 
ness on  the  Coast.  Mr.  George  W.  Turner,  representing 
the  parent  company,  is  of  opinion  that  the  new  organiza- 
tion will  not  enter  this  field  before  1898.  Agencies,  how- 
ever, will  be  established  throughout  the  Eastern  States. 

Notwithstanding  the  hard  times,  several  of  the  com- 
panies have  gotten  out  beautifully  illustrated  and  expen- 
sive calendars,  and  other  advertising  matter,  for  the  pres- 
ent year.  Among  these,  the  Fireman's  Fund  presents  its 
patrons  with  a  sterling  silver  paper  knife;  the  Norwich 
Union  sends  out  a  very  handsome  redwood  calendar; 
the  Pennsylvania,  a  calendar  with  very  beautiful  water 
color  sketches  of  the  Yosemite  Valley,  and  there  are  many 
others. 

A  new  company  soon  to  enter  this  field  is  the  Norwalk 
Fire  Insurance  Company  of  Norwalk,  Conn.,  with  assets 
of  $447,000.  This  company,  in  connection  with  the  London 
A  Lancashire,  of  England,  will  issue  a  joint  policy  under 
the  name  of  the  English  A- American  Underwriters.  The 
combined  assets  of  the  companies  are  $3,176,716.  This  will 
be  an  important  addition  to  the  agency  of  Colonel  Mac- 
donald. 

Judging  from  the  circular  letters  being  addressed  to 
the  members  of  the  San  Francisco  Life  Association  by  its 
new  President,  Clarence  M.  Smith,  there  is  to  be  a  vigor- 
ous effort  made  to  inject  some  spirit  into  that  association. 
To  that  end  he  has  arranged  for  a  series  of  banquets,  the 
first  to  take  place  on  the  12th  of  March,  at  which  two 
parts  of  insurance  lore  to  one  of  banquet,  will  delight  and 
instruct  the  guests. 

If  the  amount  of  industrial  business  done  last  year  by 
the  only  insurance  company  writing  this  line  on  the  Coast 
may  be  taken  as  a  criterion,  it  will  not  be  long  before  this 
rich  field  will  be  invaded  by  numerous  of  the  hungry  indus- 
trial companies  doing  business  in  the  Eastern  States. 

The  talk  heard  so  frequently  some  time  ago  concerning 
the  purchase  of  its  charter  and  the  revival  of  the  old  Cali- 
fornia Fire  Insurance  Company,  has  been  silenced — pre- 
sumably by  the  balance  sheets  turned  up  at  the  end  of  last 
year's  business.  It  may  be  stated,  in  this  connection, 
that  the  opinion  of  many  local  managers  is  that  the  disas- 
trous war  of  the  past  year  will  not  terminate  until  a  great 
deal  more  of  good  money  goes  the  way  of  the  balances 
that  made  weary  the  hearts  of  the  companies  at  the  close 
of  1896. 

It  is  a  fixed  principle  of  the  surety  companies  to  pursue 
defaulters  and  embezzlers  on  whose  bonds  they  appear  to 
the  ends  of  the  earth.  They  never  compromise  a  case, 
even  if  every  dollar  taken  be  made  good.  They  believe 
that  fear  of  bitter  consequences  are  a  powerful  incentive 
to  integrity  upon  the  part  of  the  insured. 

GREAT  singers  are  noted  for  their  refined  gastronomic 
tastes.  Thus  Cavalier  A.  L.  Guille,  the  tenor  now  at 
the  Orpheum,  is  a  pronounced  epicure.  He  likes  nothing 
better  than  good  eating,  and  he  takes  his  meals  regularly 
at  the  Maison  Tortoni,  where  everything  served  is  of  the 
very  best. 

The  Overland  Limited. 

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Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  aod  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
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library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1897- 


THERE  being  tragedy,  farce-comedy,  and  music  to 
choose  from  to  suit  all  tastes,  it  is  not  much  wonder 
that  theatre  parties  have  again  been  in  evidence  this 
week  at  the  different  houses.  Miss  Sachs'  party  at  the 
Baldwin,  on  Monday  evening,  was  one  of  the  largest  of  the 
season,  twenty  guests  being  entertained  by  Spartacvs,  and 
afterwards  at  supper  at  the  Sachs  residence  on  Post 
street.  Mrs.  MeCutcheon's  recent  theatre  party  had 
Miss  Delia  Davidson  as  guest  of  honor,  supper  following  at 
the  University  Club. 

The  last  cotillion  of  the  Friday  Night  Club,  at  Odd  Fel- 
lows' Hall,  was  extremely  pleasant.  Mr.  Green  way  led 
with  Miss  Delia  Davidson,  and  the  advantage  of  having 
the  five  figures  danced,  all  old  favorites,  was  shown  by  the 
smoothness  and  rapidity  with  which  they  were  gone 
through.  The  supper  was  excellent,  as  usual,  and  after- 
wards there  was  general  dancing.  _The  final  meeting  of 
the  club  has  by  general  consent  been  postponed  until  after 
Easter.  On  Saturday  evening  Dona'd  Smith  led  the 
cotillion  of  the  Saturday  Night  Club  at  Lunt's  Hall,  and 
three  pretty  figures  were  danced. 

The  tea  given  by  Consul  and  Mrs.  Simpson  last  Satur- 
da3'  served  the  double  purpose  of  a  house-warming  of  their 
handsome  new  house  on  Vallejo  street,  and  the  introduc- 
tion to  society  of  their  beautiful  daughter,  Miss  Agnes. 
Mrs.  and  Miss  Simpson  received  their  guests  in  the  white 
and  gold  drawing-room  to  the  left  of  the  large  hall,  which 
is  the  feature  of  the  lower  part  of  the  dwelling,  the  guests 
wandering  at  will  through  the  rest  of  the  house,  which 
was  almost  entirely  thrown  open,  and  artistically  decor- 
ated with  smilax  and  roses,  a  number  of  young  ladies  in 
attendance  looking  after  their  creature  comforts  from  the 
lunch  table.  A  stringed  orchestra,  stationed  in  an  alcove 
in  the  hall,  performed  some  pretty  concert  selections  dur- 
ing the  afternoon.  Later,  Mrs.  Simpson  entertained  a 
large  party  at  dinner,  and  in  the  evening  there  was  a 
dance  in  the  ballroom.  The  tea  given  by  Mrs.  Crockett 
the  same  dav  was  charming  from  its  very  informality,  and 
the  belles  enjoyed  the  unusually  large  attendance  of  the 
beaux. 

Mrs.  Henry  Scott  is  being  regarded  as  a  good  fairy  by 
the  buds,  as  the  ball  she  gave  on  Thursday  evening  in 
honor  of  three  debutantes,  the  Misses  Crittenden,  Crockett 
and  Hopkins,  was  another  of  those  delightful  parties  she 
knows  so  well  how  to  give.  Nearly  all  the  young  people 
of  the  swim  were  present,  and  amid  lovely  floral  surround- 
ings they  merrily  danced  the  hours  away,  a  delicious  sup- 
per being  served  at  midnight. 

The  400  Club  had  a  dance  at  Lunt's  Hall,  on  Tuesday 
evening,  and  last  night  the  Friday  Fortnightly  Club  had 
another  meeting',  and  it  goes  without  saying  they  had  a 
very  pleasant  time.  To-day  Mrs.  W.  B.  Carr  gives  a  tea 
at  her  residence  on  Washington  street.  To-morrow  after- 
noon Mrs.  David  Bixler  will  make  her  first  appearance  as 
a  hostess  this  winter.  Last  season  her  Sunday  afternoon 
musicales  were  quite  a  feature,  and  the  one  which  she  has 
arranged  for  to-morrow  bids  fair  to  be  an  extremely 
pleasant  gathering.  It  will  be  in  the  nature  of  a  fare- 
well compliment  to  Sigmund  Beal,  who  is  on  the  eve  of  de- 
parture for  Europe,  whither  he  goes  with  the  intention 
of  spending  a  year  in  musical  studies.  Next  Monday  even- 
ing the  club  of  that  name,  gives  its  final  dance  of  the 
season  at  Golden  Gate  Hall. 

The  Olympic  Club  will  make  a  new  departure  at  their  next 
Ladies'  Night,  which  will  be  on  the  2d  of  March,  inasmuch 
as  for  the  first  time  a  dramatic  performance  will  be  given 
for  the  entertainment  of  their  guests.  The  Webling  sis- 
ters have  been  secured  for  this  purpose,  and  it  is  expected 
they  will  make  as  great  a  sensation  as  they  have  hitherto 
done  both  in  Europe  and  in  other  parts  of  the  United 
States.  Invitations  are  out  for  the  Mardi  Gras  ball  at  the 
Art  Institute  on  Nob  Hill,  and  the  indications  are  that  it 
will  be  a  great  success. 


Miss  Gerstle's  tea  next  Sat«trday  will  be  a  very  elabo- 
rate affair,  as  following  the  afternoon  reception  will  be  a 
dinner  party,  which  in  turn  will  be  succeeded  by  a  dance. 
Miss  Edith  McBean's  recent  tea  was  for  young  people 
only,  and  in  spite  of  the  very  disagreeable  weather  a  large 
number  of  her  friends  responded.  Mrs.  Ehrman's 
luncheon  was  one  of  those  dainty  affairs  for  which  the 
hostess  is  celebrated  among  her  friends.  The  dinner  pre- 
sided over  by  Mrs.  P.  N.  Lilienthal  was  very  elaborate, 
twenty  guests  were  entertained,  including  Baron  Marx, 
in  whose  honor  the  dinner  was  given. 

At  Union  Square  Hall  last  Wednesday  evening,  Miss 
Annie  Harris  and  A.  N.  Jackson  were  united  in  marriage 
by  Rabbi  Levy.  The  hall  was  elaborately  dressed  with 
ferns  and  flowers  and  filled  with  guests  to  witness  the  cer- 
emony, which  took  place  at  half-past  six.  The  bridal  robe 
was  of  rich  white  silk,  trimmed  with  duchess  lace.  Miss 
Minnie  Lasky,  who  was  maid  of  honor,  was  gowned  in 
corn-colored  silk.  The  Misses  Sadie  Jewell,  Gertie  Ber- 
liner, Birdie  Samuels  and  Ray  Cohn,  who  officiated  as  the 
bridesmaids,  wore  white,  yellow  and  blue  gowns.  J. 
Woods  was  best  man.  Following  the  ceremony  the  com- 
pany partook  of  an- elaborate  dinner,  and  later  dancing 
was  indulged  in  for  several  hours.  The  Concordia  club 
rooms  is  the  place  selected  for  the  wedding  of  Miss  Hilda 
Levy  and  Joshua  Eppinger,  which  is  to  take  place  on 
Tuesday  evening,  the  second  of  Mai-ch. 

The  society  wedding  of  next  week  will  be  that  of  Miss 
Martha  Gibbs  and  Walter  J.  Holcomb,  which  will  take 
place  at  the  Gibbs  resident  on  Post  street,  on  Wednesday 
evening.  The  wedding  robe  is  spoken  of  as  a  dream  of 
loveliness,  and  the  wedding  presents  already  received  by 
the  fair  bride-elect  as  "simply  gorgeous." 

Charitable  affairs  are  taking  quite  a  large  slice  out  of 
society's  time  this  month,  the  musicale  at  Mrs.  B.  F.  Nor- 
ris's  on  Sacramento  street,  on  Wednesday  evening,  being 
the  chief  one  this  week.  It  was  given  by  the  Doctor's 
Daughters,  and  included,  besides  vocal  music,  selections  by 
the  guitar  and  mandolin  club  of  Berkeley,  and  delicious  re- 
freshments. 

And  now  comes  the  Bishop  Armitage  Orphanage,  prom- 
ising a  society  amateur  performance  at  the  California 
Theatre,  for  the  benefit  of  that  institution,  about  the  end 
of  this  month,  so  that  we  have  two  theatrical  entertain- 
ments in  prospect,  the  other  being  the  Maria  Kip  Orphan- 
age performance  of  Caste,  which,  from  the  well-known 
talent  of  the  players  in  it,  is  eagerly  anticipated.  Neither 
the  name  of  the  play  nor  the  participants  for  the  Armi- 
tage performance  have  as  yet  been  made  public,  but  it  is 
said  there  will  be  a  surprise   when  they  are  announced. 

With  the  coming  of  the  lovely  spring  days,  which  usually 
fall  to  our  share  during  March,  society  is  anticipating  a 
short  sojourn  in  the  country,  especially  as  Lent,  coming 
just  then,  it  will  be  dull  in  town.  So  rooms  are  already  in 
request  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  for  that  period:  in  fact,  quite 
a  number  are  already  domiciled  at  that  most  pleasant  hos- 
telry, where  all  the  comforts  of  home  can  be  had,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  other  many  charms  it  possesses,  to  say  nothing 
of  the  beauty  of  the  surrounding  country  and  the  soft, 
balmy  air  of  the  Valley. 

Edgar  Mills  and  his  sisters,  the  Misses  Addie  and  Florence, 
and  W.  F.  Goad  and  his  daughters  Aileen  and  Genevive, 
were  among  the  East-bound  departures  last  week.  D.  O. 
Mills  is  with  us  again,  coming  here  for  a  brief  visit  to  look 
after  his  California  property. 

An  entertainment  of  unusual  interest  will  be  given  next 
Thursday  evening,  the  18th  inst.,  at  Golden  Gate  Hall,  in 
aid  of  the  furnishing  fund  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church. 
A  select  musical  programme  will  be  rendered,  and  Gib- 
son's pictures  will  be  presented,  the  whole  to  close  with 
dancing. 

Are  you  willing  to  try  a  new  tea  at  our  ex- 
pense ?  Your  grocer  will  sell  you  a  package  of 
Schilling's  Best,  and  return  your  money  in  full 
if  you  don't  like  it. 

Prices   low,   but   enough. 


February  13.  : 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


On  Tuesday,   February   i  ingtoo  tea 

will  be  held  at  the  residence  <>f   Mrs.    Will  E.  Fisher,  1210 
Sutter  street,  for  the  benefit  of  the   Nathaniel  Gray  Free 
Kindergarten      Tickets  can    be   obtained  from      Mr-    M 
R    Hijrgins,    Presidenl     Mrs     1      S     Wright.    Mrs.  F    I. 
Whitney,  Mr>    11    I.    l  |       \     Kelly,  Mr>. 

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.    Mrs     Calph    Hooper,    and    other    ladies   on    the 
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Hotel,  New  York,  ai  Spring,  George  G 

W  J.  Hotehk  arey,  ana  George  I'almer. 

AT      THE     RACES. 

TH  K  sport  has  been  somewhat  tame  this  week,  owing 
to  the  inclement  weather,  and  the  mudlarks  have  bad 
an  inning:  still  a  very  large  crowd  witnessed  ;i  good  day's 
sport  on  closing  day  at  togleside.  The  attraction  being 
the  Hobart  Stakes  at  a  mile  and  ;i  sixteenth,  which  were 
won  in  a  clever  stvlc  by  Mr.  Dunne's  Damien— the  Favorite 
in  the  betting— from  Sal\  ation,  a  son  of  the  great  Salvator, 
and  that  other  game  race  horse,  Schiller. 

The  re-opening  at  Oakland  has  been  fairly  well  attended, 
although  the  first  two  days'  racing  was  of  the  tame  order, 
with  the  exception  of  the  s  Iro  Stakes,  when  only 

four  horses  started.  The  stake  was  captured  by  Mr. 
Dunne's  Estaoa. 

A  feature  of  the  racing  on  Tuesday  was  the  magnificent 
riding  of  Charley  Thorpe,  who  landed  four  winners. 

Ingleside  re-opens  on  February  22nd,  for  two  weeks,  dur- 
ing which  time  four  stake  races  are  to  be  decided  and 
three  two-year-old  events.  Secretary  Leake  is  arranging 
another  long  distance  programme  for  the  coming  meeting 
at  Ingleside. 

Mr.  Dunne,  the  St.  Louis  turfman,  with  his  very  select 
string  of  horses,  seems  to  be  capturing  all  of  the  big 
purses,  and  he  will  certainly  carry  off  the  stake  honors 
unless  California  turfmen  trot  out  their  best;  and  they  cer- 
tainly will  have  to  bring  out  their  best  ones  to  beat  him — 
for  Mr.  Dunne  tries  to  have  the  best  that  can  be  procured. 
As  he  remarks:  ''It  costs  money  to  ship  horses  across  the 
continent,  and  you  must  have  good  ones  to  get  it  back 
again." 

An  attractive  programme  is  promised  for  Saturday's 
races  at  Oakland,  which  will  include  two  hurdle  races,  a 
two-mile  race  and  three  other  events. 


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THE  fear  of  Japanese  competition  in  American  markets 
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shown  that  since  the  war  with  China  wages  have  risen 
more  than  100  per  cent,  in  nearly  every  department  of 
skilled  labor.  In  addition  to  this,  the  blessings  of  civiliza- 
tion are  observed  there  in  labor  disturbances,  strikes, 
boycotts,  and  the  denial  to  workmen  to  earn  a  living  in 
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THE  probable  suppression  of  Chinatown,  and  the  con- 
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THE  report  comes  from  Sacramento  that  the  Legisla- 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


February  13,  1897. 


1WAS  Professor  Pepper's  only  beir.  Among  his  effects 
found  in  his  laboratory  after  his  untimely  departure 
■was  the  curious  mechanism  he  called  his  "heart  searcher." 
In  appearance  it  resembled  an  ordinary  watch.  Of  its 
internal  mechanism  I  know  nothing.  Professor  Pepper 
regarded  the  instrument  as  the  greatest  invention  of  the 
age,  and  he  always  refused  to  explain  its  principles  of  con- 
struction, as  he  had  an  idea  that  if  the  world  knew  how  it 
was  made  the  market  would  be  flooded  with  imitation 
heart  searchers. 

Fortunately  for  me,  the  Professor's  invention  was  ac- 
companied by  a  card  of  "directions  for  use,"  so  that  I 
had  no  difficulty  in  testing  its  great  value  as  an  aid  in  the 
search  after  truth.  The  instrument  had  a  face  like  an  or- 
dinary watch,  except  that  there  was  only  one  hand  or 
pointer,  and  iu  place  of  the  usual  twelve  figures  there 
were  the  names  of  the  moral  and  immoral  sentiments.  At 
the  top,  opposite  the  stem  or  hands,  was  the  zero  mark, 
and  when  not  in  use  the  pointer  rested  at  the  zero  or  neu- 
tral mark.  From  the  stem  extended  two  insulated  wires 
about  a  yard  long,  and  at  the  end  of  these  wires  was  a 
flat  ivory  disk  that  could  be  easily  hid  in  the  hand. 

My  first  experiment  with  the  Professor's  heart  searcher 
was  calculated  to  inspire  confidence  in  the  invention.  It 
told  the  truth  with  refreshing  exactitude.  I  had  at  the 
time  of  the  Professor's  demise  been  dwelling  in  a  state  of 
rather  distressing  uncertainty  concerning  the  feelings  of 
my  fourth  cousin,  Amy  Clinket,  toward  myself.  My  own 
feelings  were  quite  clear,  at  least  to  myself.  She  seemed 
to  be  all  that  was  most  desirable  in  a  young  woman.  I 
wanted  to  tell  her  how  much  I  loved  her,  and  had  not 
dared,  being  uncertain  of  the  result  of  any  such  declara- 
tion. The  heart  searcher  !  Fortunate  legacy!  It  might 
tell  me  all,  and  then  I  could  cheerfully  propose,  knowing 
in  advance  that  I  would  be  accepted. 

First,  it  might  be  desirable  to  test  the  heart  searcher 
upon  some  minor  subject.  It  was  the  first  experiment 
that  led  me  to  press  boldly  forward  in  the  search  for  the 
pure  truth.  I  placed  the  heart  searcher  in  my  vest  pocket 
and  secured  it  there  with  a  watch  chain,  to  give  the  im- 
pression that  I  had  my  watch  with  me.  The  wires  I  passed 
through  the  sleeve  of  my  coat,  leaving  the  ivory  disk  just 
hid  in  my  cuff.  Thus  armed,  I  set  forth  in  the  quest  of 
the  unknowable.  I  took  the  trolly  car,  intending  to  make 
calls.  In  the  car  I  met  my  young  niece  Diana,  aged  seven. 
Slipping  the  disk  into  my  hand,  I  cordially  shook  her  hand 
and  pressed  the  disk  against  her  active  little  pulse.  Pre- 
tending to  be  absorbed  in  learning  the  time  of  day,  I  asked 
her  sundry  questions,  and  at  once  saw  pictured  on  the  dial 
of  the  heart  searcher  every  passing  change  in  the  dear 
child's  transparent  nature. 

"Are  you  not  glad  to  see  me,  dear  ?" 

The  pointer  swung  slowly  around  to  "delight." 

"What  are  your  views,  my  child,  upon  the  subject  of 
caramels?  " 

The  pointer  on  the  dial  promptly  moved  to  "hope."  This 
was  significant.  Clearly  the  heart  searcher  was  a  most 
important  invention.  , 

The  dear  child  at  once  expressed  herself  as  interested 
in  caramels,  concluding  her  remarks  with  the  information 
that  she  knew  of  a  place  where  they  sold  "two  for  five." 
Manifestly  the  instrument  and  my  young  relative's  words 
did  not  agree.  She  was  evidently  torn  with  conflicting 
emotions,  for  the  pointer  quivered  slightly,  and  moved  to 
"disappointment."  She  did  not  wish  to  plainly  ask  for 
caramels,  and  yet  in  the  deep  recesses  of  her  young  heart 
she  hoped  I  would  give  her  some. 

"I  am  very  sorry,  my  child,  but  I  have  no  caramels 
with  me.  If  I  had  only  known  I  should  meet  you,  I  would 
have  brought  some  with  me." 

The  pointer  was  greatly  agitated  and  vibrated  between 
"disappointment"  and  "doubt." 


I  at  once  offered  the  child  a  dime,  and  to  my  amazement 
the  dial  indicated  "disappointment"  only. 

"Oh,  I  beg  pardon.  Let  me  see.  Was  that  a  quarter? 
Dear  me.  I'm  sorry  I  made  such  a  mistake.  Here's  a 
quarter." 

At  once  the  pointer  swung  swiftly  to  "  delight." 

The  heart  searcher  was  a  triumphant  success.  I 
squeezed  the  dear  child's  hand  once  more.  The  dial 
marked  "gratitude." 

"Good-by,  dear.     I  must  get  off  here." 

She  smiled  sweetly  and  said,  "  They  give  twelve  for  a 
quarter."  This  seemed  to  be  truth  based  upon  experi- 
ence, and  did  not  need  examination  by  the  Professor's 
wonderful  instrument. 

As  I  left  the  car,  I  saw  young  Brown  of  our  office  walk- 
ing quickly  down  the  street,  as  if  in  haste  to  catch  a  train. 
I  grasped  his  hand  fervently.  "My  dear  boy,  I'm  so  glad 
to  meet  you.  How  is  your  mother  and  your  sister-in-law 
and  your  brother,  Theodore  Augustus  ?  You  have  plenty 
of  time."  I  remarked,  as  I  pretended  to  look  at  my  watch. 

He  pulled  his  brawny  hand  away  and  said  in  his  usual 
breezy  manner:  "  Delighted  to  meet  you.  Good-by — train 
— awful  late.     By " 

He  was  gone,  and  I  gazed  upon  the  white  face  of  the 
heart  searcher.  Although  disconnected  with  my  friend's 
pulse,  the  pointer  still  lingered  at  "botheration."  It  was 
more  than  an  hour  before  it  finally  settled  back  to  zero. 
Brown  had  evidently  a  powerful  emotional  nature. 

The  heart  searcher  was  a  remarkable  instrument.  It 
reported  the  exact  emotional  truth  concerning  the  subject. 
It  was  indeed  a  boon  to  bashful  lovers.  They  could,  by  its 
skillful  use,  ascertain  the  exact  state  of  the  beloved  one's 
heart  without  the  distressing  uncertainty  of  a  formal 
proposal.  I  would  at  once  put  it  to  its  greatest  test.  If 
it  proved  successful,  I  could  proceed  to  manufacture  heart 
searchers  upon  a  large  scale,  and  no  doubt  live  in  comfort 
upon  the  resulting  profits. 

Amy  was  at  home  when  I  called,  and  when  I  shook  her 
hand  warmly  I  glanced  hastily  at  the  telltale  dial — "ex- 
pectation." This  was  encouraging.  I  would  proceed  to 
unfold  my  tale  of  love.  I  still  held  her  hand  with  loverlike 
fervor  and  stammered  forth  my  blushing  confession.  At 
intervals  I  glanced  at  the  white  face  of  the  heart  searcher. 
Its  sensitive  pointer,  was  greatly  agitated  and  quivered 
from  "surprise"  to  "anger"  and  from  "anger"  to  "cold 
disdain."     Finally  it  stopped  at  "doubt." 

"But  my  dear,  I — I  love  you." 

The  fatal  words  were  out. 

"I  don't  believe  one  word  you  say.  You  are  looking  at 
your  watch  all  the  time,  just  to  see  how  soon  you  can  go." 

The  heart  searcher  fell  from  my  nerveless  hand  and  was 
dashed  to  a  hundred  pieces. 

No.  I  never  repaired  it.  Amy  has  convinced  me  that 
it  is,  in  the  words  of  the  poet,  "better  not  to  know."  The 
unknowable  is  the  truly  wise. 

Amy?  Oh  pardon  me.  She  married  another  man. — 
Charles  Barnard  in  Home  Magazine. 


Dr.  Fick  has  shown  that  winking  is  more  frequent 

as  the  retina  becomes  more  fatigued,  and  it  has  been 
found  that  in  reading  at  a  distance,  the  number  of  winks 
per  minute  is  1.8  with  electrical  illumination,  2.8  with  gas- 
light, while  with  weak  illumination,  which  barely  permits 
reading,  the  number  is  6.8  per  minute. 

When  the  Siberian  Kailway  is  completed  the  jour- 
ney around  the  world  will  occupy  not  more  than  forty 
days,  and  the  cost  of  transportation  will  not  exceed  $400. 

The  Press  Clipping  bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics ,  business 
■nd  personal. 


Kelly's  Corn  Cure  never  fails.    25  cents.    102  Eddy  street. 


February  13,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


AT    THE    CAPITOL 


Pabruary  11,  1887 

NOT  since  the  time  when  ex  Assemblyman  EUwood  Bun- 
ner  stood  up  before  i  md  made  a  fruitless 

appeal  to  them  to  s;ive  him  from  the  disgrace  of  being 
found  guilty  of  the  charge  of  accepting  a  bribe,  lias  there 
been  such  a  scene  in  either  house  ol  the  Legislature  as  was 
■  lay  last,  when  the  report  of  the  Duck- 
worth Investigating  committee  was  acted  upon  by  the  As 
sembly.  The  Assembly  chamber  was  crowded  with  people, 
and  there  was  only  one  Assemblyman  absent.  There  was 
not  a  single  person  present  but  what  appreciated  the 
gravity  of  the  situation,  and  the  nervous  strain,  even  to 
one  wholly  disinterested,  was  intense.  Iu  the  hands  of 
seventy-nine  men  was  the  political,  and  social,  and  busi- 
ness tuture  of  a  man.  and  1-e  and  his  friends  were  making 
a  desperate,  and  what  at  one  moment  looked  like  a  hope- 
less fight  against  inevitable  ruin.  Finally,  the  roll-call, 
which  would  have  sealed  his  fate,  was  interrupted;  Assem- 
blyman Burnett,  pale  and  trembling,  rose  when  his  name 
was  called,  and  said  he  would  refuse  to  vote  on  such  a  mat- 
ter, when  so  much  was  at  stake,  unless  the  Chief  Clerk  be 
given  an  opportunity  to  be  heard.  To  be  granted  this 
privilege,  it  was  necessary  for  the  Assembly  to  give  unani- 
mous consent.  Two  members  objected;  the  roll-call  was 
about  to  be  resumed,  and  a  scene  of  confusion  followed. 
Members  rushed  about  the  floor,  and  finally  the  objectors 
withdrew  their  opposition,  and  Duckworth,  pale,  trem- 
bling, but  dramatic,  took  the  floor.  He  said  that  the  in- 
vestigation had  been  unfair.  He  was  guilty  only  of  yield- 
ing to  the  demands  of  rapacious  members.  He  had  noth- 
ing to  conceal,  and  would  answer  any  questions.  After 
much  discussion,  the  roll-call  was  re-commenced,  and  Duck- 
worth had  won  the  day  when  Assemblyman  Rubell,  after 
failing  to  get  excused  from  voting,  registered  the  fortieth 
vote  against  the  resolution  to  dismiss  the  Chief  Clerk.  The 
vote  was  44  noes  to  34  ayes,  Malcolm  of  Santa  Clara  going 
into  hiding  to  escape  being  put  on  record.  Nine  Demo- 
crats out  of  the  eleven  in  the  San  Francisco  delegation  and 
the  seven  Republicans  voted  to  save  Duckworth,  Treacy 
aud  Lacy  being  the  only  ones  in  favor  of  the  resolution  to 
dismiss.  Dennery,  Bettman,  and  Jones  made  themselves 
the  Chief  Clerk's  champions,  and  with  Dibble's  clever  lead- 
ership saved  Mr.  Duckworth's  bacon — so  to  speak. 

What  impelled  the  Democrats  to  vote  for  Duckworth 
was  the  fact  that  the  Republicans  refused  to  censure  the 
mileage  committee  and  others  who  requested  appointees 
on  the  temporary  roll,  and  tried  to  put  all  the  blame  on 
the  Chief  Clerk's  shoulders.  Duckworth  is  exonerated, 
but  the  disgrace  of  the  scandal  still  sticks  to  the  skirts  of 
the  Republican  party,  and  is  good,  available  campaign 
material. 

It  was  amusing  during  the  proceedings  in  the  Duck- 
worth matter,  to  hear  all  the  distinguished  law-makers 
who  had  sought  to  have  friends  appointed  by  the  Chief 
Clerk,  explain  their  motives.  Dryden,  of  San  Diego,  who 
is  always  ready  with  a  cutting  remark,  in  commenting  on 
the  majority  voting  a  preacher  $5  for  a  three-minute 
prayer  each  day,  said,  that  after  listening  to  what  mem- 
bers had  said  and  what  they  had  done,  he  thought  a  man 
who  was  brazen  enough  to  ask  the  Lord's  blessing  on  such 
a  gang,  was  entitled  to  all  he  was  paid. 

Senator  Braunhart  is  the  author  of  several  bills  which 
reduce  salaries  and  fees  of  the  several  San  Francisco  pat- 
ronage offices.  As  a  result,  Sheriff  Whelan,  County  Clerk 
Curry,  and  others,  are  here,  instead  of  being  at  home 
attending  to  their  duties.  The  Senator  would  be  of  more 
service  to  the  taxpayers  if  he  would  refrain  from  intro- 
ducing this  sort  of  legislation,  for  he  seems  to  be  in  a 
hopeless  minority. 

The  County  Government  act  was  the  principal  measure 
considered  during  the  week  in  the  Senate.  With  but  few 
amendments,  it  is  similar  to  the  present  law. 

The  Committee  on  Military  Affairs  of  the  Senate  has 
under  consideration  a  bill  organizing  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  the  National  Guard  into  a  Sanitary  Corps,  and 
appropriating  $5,000  for  its  equipment.  The  corps  is  to 
be  modeled  after  the  present  organization  of  the  regular 
army,  and  is  sure  to  greatly  benefit  our  State  Militia. 

Assemblyman  Harry  I.  Mulcrevy  is  a  man  of  few  words. 


illusion  to  the  unpralseworl  the   Repub 

played  In  their  conduct  to« 

made  what  is  theatrically   termed   a ''hit."     He   tbo 
that  after  they  had  pul    Duckworth  in  a  trying  position, 
they  ought  to  help  him  out  ol  his  predicament. 

The  San  Fram  making  a  determined  and, 

it  is  t < >  be  hoped,  a   sui  cessful   Kght   against   the  measure 
proposed  by  Senator  Cleaves,  abolishing  1  01 
age  bo  far  as    American 

responsibilities  and  the  extraordinary  abili  lired  of 

pilots,  and  the  money  they  have  invi 
into  consideration  be 

There  are  many  captains  0  who 

aging  their  vessels   into  harbor,  and 
it  is  due  to  the  experienced  pilots  of  tl  >  very 

few  accidents  am.  vessels  occurin  the  "roughest 

of  "rough  weather."     Coasting  vessels  do  not  now  have  to 

take  a  pilot,  and  compulsory  pilotage  ia  only  enforced  nn 

vessels  coming  from  foreign  ports.  A  pilot  at  the 
best  has  no  sinecure.  His  Ices  arc  only  commensurate 
with  the  work  ami  responsibility  placed  on  him,  and  it  is 
difficult  to  figure  how  the  mere  matter  of  abolishing  fees 
will  increase  the  shipping  business,  if  that  is  what  the 
advocates  of  the  bill  arc  aiming  at. 

Labor  Commissioner  Fitzgerald  is  properly  disgusted 
with  the  treatment  accorded  the  measures  proposed  by 
him  in  the  interest  of  labor.  None  of  them  have  a  chance 
to  pass,  as  the  Republicans  in  the  Senate  feel  that  too 
much  political  power  would  result  to  the  Democrats  by 
their  adoption.  The  labor  element  won't  "do  a  t'ing"  to 
the  shrewd  Republicans  next  election. 

What  was  published  last  week  concerning  the  bill  re- 
quiring a  deposit  by  foreign  marine  insurance  companies 
doing  business  in  the  State,  has  had  a  good  effect.  Many 
members  who  had  rashly  rushed  to  a  favorable  opinion  of 
Senator  Bert's  bill,  have  experienced  a  change  of  mind. 
The  idea  of  creating  what  would  be  a  practical  monopoly 
in  the  maritime  insurance  business  does  not  find  much  fa- 
vor here.  The  more  the  proposition  is  discussed,  the 
smaller  become  the  chances  of  effecting  such  unwise  and 
unnecessary  legislation.  Peg. 

S  MEMBER  of  the  Academy  of  Sciences  has  discovered 
that  there  is  a  whistling  buoy  at  the  entrance  to  the 
harbor.     We  have  discovered  one  in  our  business  office. 


The   Emperor  of    China    is    editor-in-chief   of   the 

Pekin  Gazette,  a  daily  that  has  been  published  for  the  last 
800  years.  His  mother  and  the  Cabinet  are  assistant 
editors,  and  no  court  gossip  ever  gets  into  the  paper. 

Mothers,  besureanduse  ''Mrs.  Wmslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  teething . 


DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

Hutchinson  Sugar  Plantation  Company. 
Dividend  No.  40,  of  25  cents  per  share,  of  the  Hutchinson  Sugar  Planta- 
tion Company,  will  be  payable  at  the  office  of  the  company,  327  Market  St., 
on  and    after  Saturday,  February   20,  1897.    Transfer  booky  will  close  on 
Saturday,  Feb.  13.  1897.  at  12  o'clock  M.        E.  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1897. 


Little  things  illustrate  certain  Englishmen's  knowledge 
of  American  geography  very  picturesquely.  An  English- 
man, who  had  taken  the  Pacific  Express  at  Philadelphia, 
called  out  on  going  to  bed  before  the  train  started: 
"Portah!  portah!"  The  porter  came.  "What  is  it  sir?" 
h_-  said.  "Please  wake  me  up  when  we  get  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, you  know,"  said  the  Englishman. — Pittsburg 
Bulletin. 

Household  Economics. — "I  don't  see,  Ella,  how  you  man- 
age with  your  house  money.  If  I  give  you  a  lot,  you  spend 
a  lot;  but  if  I  don't  give  you  so  much,  you  seem  to  get 
along  with  it."  "Why,  that's  perfectly,  simple,  Rudolph. 
When  you  give  me  a  lot  I  use  it  to  pay  the  debts  I  get  into 
when  you  don't  give  me  so  much!" — Fliegende  Blatter. 

"  Beg  pardon,  sir,"  observed  the  tough-looking  waiter, 
suggestively,  "gentlemen  at  this  table  usually — er — re- 
member me,  sir."  "I  don't  wonder,"  said  the  customer, 
cordially;  "  that  mug  of  yours  would  be  hard  to  forget." 
And  he  picked  up  his  bill  and  strolled  leisurely  in  the 
direction  of  the  cashier. — Tit-Bits. 

Customer  —  Here,  I've  brought  these  glasses  back; 
they're  not  strong  enough.  Optician — Indeed,  sir!  they're 
the  strongest  we  keep.  Customer — Well,  they're  not  the 
slightest  use  to  me.  What  had  I  better  do?  Optician — 
Well,  sir,  if  I  were  you  I  should  advertise  for  a  dog. — Ally 
Sloper. 

On  the  occasion  of  the  Lord  Mayor's  visit  to  North 
London  recently  a  captain  was  heard  to  remark  to  his 
corps:  "Close  up,  boys;  close  up!  If  the  enemy  were  to 
fire  on  you  when  you  are  straggling  along  like  that  they 
wouldn't  kill  a  single  man  of  you.  Close  up!" — London 
Tit-Bits. 

He — As  our  engagement  is  canceled,  of  course  you  will 
return  that  diamond  ring?  She — Mr.  Styles,  you  said  I 
was  a  peach  the  day  when  you  gave  me  this  ring.  Well, 
if  I  am,  I  am  a  peach  of  the  clingstone  variety.  Therefore, 
I'll  keep  the  diamond." — Boston  Transcript. 

"Mrs.  O'Rooney,"  said  Rev.  Father  McMurphy,  "why 
do  I  never  see  Patrick  at  church  now  ?  "  Mrs.  O'Rooney 
shook  her  head  sadly.  "Is  it  anarchism?"  "Warse, 
your  riverence."  "What  is  it,  then?"  "Rheumatism." 
— Pittsburg  Chronicle-Telegraph. 

They  threw  the  broad  mantle  of  charity  over  her.  "This 
is  too  much,"  she  faltered.  There  has  been  great  changes 
in  the  modes  since  the  mantle  of  charity  was  made,  and 
there  was  -indeed  more  of  it  than  was  absolutely  necessary. 
— Detroit  Journal. 

Daughter  (in  tears) — Oh,  papa,  why  did  you  throw  Reggy 
down  the  front  steps?  Father — Why,  you  didn't  think  I 
was  going  to  throw  him  up  the  front  steps  and  into  the 
house  again,  did  you?  You're  as  hard  to  satisfy  as  your 
mother. — Judge. 

Nodd — Bilter  must  be  a  hardened  wretch.  I  don't  sup- 
pose the  sight  of  any  torture  would  make  him  quail. 
Todd — What  makes  you  think  so.  He  tells  me  he  loves 
to  see  his  wife  bathe  the  baby. — Life. 

Each  day  his  roses  as  surprises 

Come.    If  he  knew,  tbe  stupid  thing, 
That  in  two  months  at  present  prices 
He'd  save  euough  to  buy  a  riDg! 
The  Conjurer — Will  some  gentleman  let  me  have  a  silver 
dollar?     Uncle  Josh  (in  disgust) — Oh,    shucks,  he's  going 
to  explain  the  money  question! — Puck. 

He — Don't  you  sing  "The  Maiden's  Prayer?"  She — 
Why,  yes;  that  is  why  we  had  to  move  from  the  other  flat. 
— Fliegende  Blatter. 

Moss — What  do  you  think  would  be  the  greatest  evil 
of  another  civil  war  ?  Foss — The  plays  that  would  come 
after  it. — Life. 

Hewitt — Do  you  believe  in  embracing  the  opportunity? 
Jewitt — Well,  it  depends  on  how  old  she  is. — Town  Topics. 


THE     WINDY     CORNER. 


W1 


J E  met  beneath  a  summer  sky, 
But  Phyllis  coldly  passed  me  by ; 
And  fair  was  she,  and  mute  was  I 

In  love  that  could  not  scorn  her, — 
Not  knowing  we  should  meet  one  day 
Beneath  a  sky  of  black  and  grey 
And  on  a  windy  corner. 

For  dainty  maid  in  dainty  dress. 
When  pride  is  great  and  love  is  less, 
Is  slow  to  pity  man's  distress 

And  leaves  him  long  to  mourn  her; 
But  grace  is  awkward  in  a  squall 
And  even  pride  may  have  a  fall 

Upon  a  windy  corner. 
With  garments  wildly  blown  about, 
Her  silk  umbrella  inside  out, 
My  lady's  pride  was  put  to  rout, 

No  sight  could  be  forlorner. 
And  she  bad  fallen  at  my  feet, 
But  swifter  than  the  tempest  beat 

Upon  that  windy  corner. 

I  flew  to  render  joyous  aid, 

Then  hinted  to  the  troubled  maid 

That  to  my  arms,  through  storm  and  shade, 

A  nappy  fate  had  borne  her; 
And  evermore  I  lead  my  wife 
Round  all  the  varied  turns  of  life 
And  every  windy  corner. 

M.  L.  Neal. 
Alameda,  February  11,  1897. 


BANKING. 


BANK  OF  BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated,  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up,  83,000,00       Reserve  Fund,  8500,000. 

Southeast  Cob.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lombard  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  CreditB  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  York — Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada;  Chicago— First NationalBank; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan- -Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  ot 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demer ar a  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies) — Colonial  Bank. 

CALIFORNIA  SAFE  DEPOSIT  AND  TRUST  CO. 

Corner  California  and  Montgomery  Sts. 
Capital  Fully  Paid ,  $1,000,000 

Transacts  a  general  hanking  business  and  allows  interest  on  deposits 
payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity.  "Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  to  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  and  valuables  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickersham.  Jacob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R.  B.  Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry,  A,  D.  Sharon,  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D.  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams,  Vice-President;  R. 
D.  Fry,  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E,  Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

CAPITAL 81,000,000 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  &  in  Francisco. 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill,  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolfe,  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.Sumner,  Albert  Mil- 
ler Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.   Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital 82,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital 82,000,000 

Reserve  Fund 8850,000 

tttbad  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM1  Mana_.r_ 
C.  ALTSCHUL  j  Managers. 


February  13,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Tl  ruthful  tl . 
do  Gotham  gossip  at  present,  except 
in«  the  talk  about  the  Bradley  .Martin's  coming  ball.    It  is 
ling  almost    a^   much   of  a  bore  as  the   Caste 

although  the  papers  have  not  licked 
the  Bradley-Martin  boots  quite  so  energetically  as  they 
did  the  Foot-gear  of  the  Castellanes  and  Goulds.  Why 
people  should  not  be  permitted  to  spend  their  money 
as  they  ehoosc,  without  being  made  the  topic  of  sensa- 
tional sermons  and  editorials,  is  a  mystery  to  all  save  tin- 
writers  of  these  homilies.  The  matter  makes  one  realize 
why  so  many  Americans  prefer  a  residence  abroad.  In 
England  a  man's  house  is  bis  castle;  in  this  country  it  is  as 
far  as  the  i;reat  American  "people"  can  make  it  so— a 
public  highway. 

Following  closely  upon  the  lal  costume,  the  arrival  of 
Irorv.  the  alleged  dynamiter,  is  the  next  point  of  interest. 
The  Irish  National  Alliance,  with  the  Sixty-ninth  Regiment 
band — the  famous  "fighting 69tb" — went  down  the  bay  to 
meet  this  celebrated  gentlemau.  Many  of  his  friends  ac- 
companied them,  and  so  did  the  family  of  District  Attorney 
Mclntyre.  who  went  over  as  special  counsel  for  the 
Uptown  Saloonkeeper.  No.  1.  the  notorious  Tynan,  who 
arrived  only  three  months  ago,  was  also  on  the  chartered 
steamer  which  sailed  forth  in  welcome,  but  he  attracted 
little  notice—and  was  in  fact,  quite  out  of  it — I  am  told. 
The  enthusiasts  were  obliged  to  spend  the  night  at  quaran- 
tine as  the  Majestic  was  very  late.  Another  gentleman 
of  renown  who  came  over  was  the  great  Budd  Doble. 

May  Irwin,  who  is  a  favorite  in  San  Francisco,  and  every- 
where else,  for  that  matter,  gave  a  novel  entertainment 
yesterday.  She  took  fifteen  of  her  company  to  the  Home 
for  Colored  People  in  First  avenue,  and  sang  for  them  her 
repertoire  of  darkey  songs.  There  were  three  hundred 
inmates,  ranging  from  the  infant  to  the  centenarian,  and 
even  the  babies  were  delighted.  After  the  performance, 
the  darkies  themselves  entertained  Miss  Irwin  by  singing 
for  her.  It  was  a  kind  act  on  Miss  Irwin's  part,  was  it 
not,  to  gratify  those  poor  unfortunates  ?  . 

The  Charity  Ball  was  the  usual  thing — patronized  by  the 
Four  Hundred,  and  attended  by  the  usual  hundreds  on  the 
borders  of  society,  and  the  other  hundreds  who  are  obliged 
to  go  in  order  to  keep  up  its  tone. 

Society  is  in  full  swing,  but  even  private  functions  do  not 
lessen  the  interest  in  the  opera.  I  saw  there  the  other 
night  the  Wilsons  and  Carrolls,  who  have' just  arrived  in 
their  private  car,  and  are  at  the  Waldorf.  Thinking  of 
music,  Mrs.  Ruth  Abbe  was  heard  the  other  day  at  a  musi- 
cale  in  the  Waldorf,  and  made  a  succes  d'estime.  Miss  Vida- 
ver,  daughter  of  Rabbi  Vidaver  of  San  Francisco,  is,  I  am 
told,  a  singer  of  brilliant  promise.  Her  voice  is  said  to  be 
superb.  She  is  studying  with  Mrs.  Bella  Thomas  Nichols, 
who,  by  the  way,  has  been  confined  to  the  house  almost 
constantly  since  November,  suffering  from  acute  rheuma- 
tism. 

New  York,  February  6,  1S97.  Passe-Partout. 

FRANK  G.  HUME  died  at  his  home  near  Los  Gatos, 
of  meningitis,  last  Monday  morning.  Deceased  was  a 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo.  W.  Hume,  of  Piedmont,  and  en- 
joyed the  esteem  of  many  people  in  this  part  of  the  State. 
Mr.  Hume  was  but  25  years  old.  He  leaves  a  widow, 
and  a  mother,  father,  brothers  and  sisters,  and  one  child, 
to  whom  the  sympathy  of  many  friends  is  extended. 

Ethel — You  may  ask  papa,  Mr.  Van  Ishe.  Van  Ishe — 
My  darling.  I'll  never  be  able  to  find  him.  He  owes  me 
$25.— Truth. 


He — My  head  troubles  me  a  good  deal, 
sort  of  aching  void. — Town  Topics. 


She — I  see;  a 


Paso  Robles. 
Our  new  mud  bath  house  is  finished.  The  arrangement  ot  baths, 
dressing  rooms,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  fioor.  No  stairs  or  steps  to 
climb.  We  are  now  unquestionably  the  finest  sanitarium  or  health 
resort  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Rest  and  health  seekers  are  Paso  Robles 
seekers,  Rates,  $10,  $12.50,  $15,  and  $17.50  per  week.  Climate  warm. 


BANKING. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital  •     oi,000  00 

Surplus  and  Undivided  Profit*  (October  1,  18W1.    8,10,199  10 

WILLIAM   ALVORD  ■   Prea't 

ALLEN  M.CLAY  i  \u  'Mas  BROWN  t'aHtilor 

s  Phkntiss  Smith.  .  Ass  I    I  -.'d  Abs'i  Cashier 

CORRESPONDS!*  P8 
New    York  —  M«M1  ,v    On  ;  lb6    Hnnkof   Now    York,  N.  B.  A. 

Boston— Tremont  National    Hank;  London— Messrs.    N.   M.  Rothschild  & 

Sods;    Paris— Messrs.  de  Prsrsa;    yihoinia  City 

ARoncypfTho  Bunk  of  California:  Chicago— Union  National  Hank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Hunk;  Australia  and  New  Zealand—  Hank  of 
New  Zealand;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Dank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  LOUIS— Boatman*!  Hunk. 

Loiters  of  Credit  Issued  uvullublo  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London.  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Maln,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm, Christlanla,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokobama,  Genoa,  and  all  cltlea  In  Italy. 


MUTUAL   SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN   FRANCISCO. 

33  Post  Stkeet,  below  Kearny,  Mechanics'  Institute  Building. 
Guaranteed  Capital,  11,000,000.      Pald-Up  Capital,  1300,000. 

OFFICERS 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN,  President.  I  S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,   John   A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.   G.   Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Granc. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  ami  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY.  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    When  opening  accounts  send  signatuie. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits,  Dec.  31,  1895 $24,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 1 ,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 

Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W-  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  oheck  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.    No  charge  is  made  for 

fiass-book  or  entrance  fee.    Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  M.    Saturday  even- 
ngs,6:30to8. 

CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  °F  SAN  francisco. 

Cor.  Market,  Montgomery,  and  Post  Sts. 

Pald-Up  Capital 11,000,000. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  P.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 

Capital  authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  Up $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exohange 

WELLS   FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets. 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus $6,250,000 

John  J.  Valentine President  I  Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier  I  F.  L.  Llpman Assistant  Cashier 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City.  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  St..  S.  P. 

Capital  actually  paid  up  In  Cash,  11,000,000.      ReserveFund t  715,000 

Deposits, Dec.  31,1895 130,727,588  59.       Guaranteed  Capital..  $1,200,000 

.DIRECTORS. 

B .  A .  BECKE  R President 

EDWARD  KRUSE Vice-President 

DANIEL  MEYER 2d  Vice-President 

H.  Horstman,  Ign.  Steinhart,  Nic  Van  Bergen,  Emil  Route,  H.  B.  Rusa. 
D.  N.  Walter. 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 
INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.    LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 


Wm.  Babcoek 
Adam  Grant 


O.  D.  Baldwin 
W.  S.  Jones 


E   J.  McCutcben 
J.  B.  Lincoln 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  13,  1897. 


SOUTHERN     PACIFIC    COMPANY 

(Pacific    System.) 

Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  at 

SAN      FRANCISCO: 


Leave. 


From.  January  1,  iW7. 


|  Arrive 


*6:00A  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  way  stations  8:45  A 
7:00a  Atlantic  Express,  Ogden  and  East    8:45p 
7:00  a  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Rumsey,  Sac- 
ramento, Oroville,  and  Redding, 

via  Davis 6 :45  P 

7:30  A  Martinez,    San  Ramon,    Vallejo, 

Napa,  Calistoga,  and  Santa  Rosa    6:15  P 
8:30A  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,    Marysvllle,    Chico, 

Tehama,  and  Red  Bluff 4:15  P 

•8:30  a  Peters  and  Milton *7:15p 

9:00a  New  Orleans  Express,  Raymond 
(for  Yosemite),  Fresno,  Bakers- 
field,  Santa  Barbara,  Los  An- 
geles,  Deming,    El    Paso,    New 

Orleans,  aDd  East 4:45p 

9 :00  a  Martinez  and  Stockton 4 :4a  P 

9:00A  Vallejo 6:15p 

Niles,  San  Jose  Livermore,  and 

Stockton 7 :15  P 

♦1:00  P  Sacramento  River  steamers, *9:00P 

1:00  P  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  Livermore..    8:45  A 
tl :30 P  Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations....  f7:45p 
4:00  P  Martinez,    San   Ramon,    Vallejo, 
Napa,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa 9:15  A 

4  :00p  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Woodland, 
Knight's    Landing,    Marysvllle, 

Oroville,  and  Sacramento 11:15  A 

4 :30  p  Lathrop,  Stockton,  Modesto,  Mer- 
ced, and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles, 

returning  via  Martinez 11:45  A 

5:00p  Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy, 
Fresno,  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los 

Angeles 10.45  a 

5:00p  SantaFe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojave  and  East 10:45a 

6:00  p  European  mail,  Ogden and  East. .    9:45  A 
6:00p  Haywsrds,  Niles  and  San  Jose...    7:45A 

J7:00p  Vallejo f7:45p 

7:00p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento, 
Marysville,   Redding,    Portland, 

Puget  Sound  and  East 11:15  A 

K10:00p  "Sunset  Limited."  Fresno,  Los 
Angeles,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans, 
and  East g  12:45  P 

Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 

8:15  A  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  BoulderCreek,  Santa  Cruz 

and  way  stations 5:50  p 

•2:15  P  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boulder 
Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal 

way  stations *11 :20  A 

4:15  p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9:50  a 

fll:45p  Hunters'  Excursion,  San  Jose 

and  way  stations J7:20p 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

6:45  A  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New 

Almaden  Wednesdays  only) 1 :30  p 

8:15  a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles,  San 
Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe,  Surf  and 

principal  way  stations 7 :00  p 

10 :40  A  San  Jose  and  way  stations 5 :0U  P 

11:30  a  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 3:30  P 

*2:30p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose, 
Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  Pacific  Grove  *10:40  A 

*3 :30  P  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9 :45  a 

*4 :30  p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8 :05  A 

5:30pSan    Jose    and    principal    way 

stations *8 :45  A 

6:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6:35  a 

tll:45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations f7:45p 


San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local. 

t«6-00  ai 

7:15  A 

8:00  a 

»:45  A 

9:00  a 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00  a 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

til  .00  A 

Fitchburg, 

13:45  P 

2:00  p 

San  Leandro, 

M:45  P 

3:00  P 

,           and 

4:45  P 

4:00  P 

Haywards. 

5:45  p 

5:00  P 

6:15  p 

5:30  p 

7:45  P 

7:00  P 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

8:45  P 

8:00  P 

i  From  Niles 

9:45  P 

9:00  p 

10:50  p 

Lttl3:00  P 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 
From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street 
(Slip  8). 

♦7:15,9:00,  and  11:00  A.  M.,  J1:00,  *2:00, 13:00, 
*4 :00,  J5 :00  and  *6 :00  P.  M. 
From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway. 

*6:00,  8:00,   10:00  A.  M.;  112:00,  *1:00,  12:00. 
*3:0Q,  14:00  *5:00p.  m.  !____! 

A  for  Morning.  p  for  Afternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted.  tSaturdays  only. 

tSundays  only . 
tt  Monday.  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays. 

gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for 
and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and  residences. 
Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  Information. 


TO    MOLLIE. 

Sweet  maid,  your  name  I  dream  of   incess- 
antly. 
For,  like  your  voice,  it  sounds    very    pleas- 
antly. 
Molli  et  conora  voce  dulcis 
Nomine  dulcis  es  usque  molli. 

It  has  a  charming,  old-fashioned  smack  to  it. 
Beau   Bru  mm  ell's  age— it  carries   one  back 
to  it, 
Powder  and  patch,  and  rustic  maiden 
Name  with  the  scent  of  the  hayfields 
laden. 

Then  English    maid    was    sweet   as  a  maid 

may  be, 
This  age  has  changed  her,  made  her  less 
staid,  may  be 
'Mongst  other  follies  now  it's  taught  her 
How  to  become  a  "revolting  daughter." 

"Poor,  blind,  revolting  daughter!  I  pity  her — 
You're  just  as  clever,  probably  prettier, 

In  sweet  content  maid's  sphere  adorning 
Yellow-Asterical  problems  scorniDg. 

May  these  be  "fandi  mollia  tempora," 
Your  smile   can    make    me   proud    as    an 
emperor, 
But  swift  my  cares,  should  you  be  frown- 
ing. 
I'll  in    deep    waters    (and    strong)    te 
drowning. 

Accept  my  ode!  Don't  "think  it  too  odious." 
Sweet  maid  in  name  and  vo  ce  so  melodious, 
Molli  et  canora  voce  dulcis 
Nomine  dulcis  es  usque  molli. 


SINCERELY      YOURS. 


Her  little  note  is  folded  neat 

'.Rough  linen  is  a  dainty  sheet) 
And  ere  she  signed  her  name,  she  wrote 
Sincerely  Yours. 

I  know  that  you  will  tritely  say 

She  signs  her  letters  every  day, 
To  friends  and  aunts  (my  rivals  too), 
Sincerely  Yours. 

I  know  you'll  say  the  phrase  is  old, 

Not  loving— no,  but  rather  cold; 
And  yet  I  think  she  really  meant 

Sincerely  Yours. 

And  it  has  given  courage  to  me 

To  ask  if  she'll  consent  to  be. 

During  our  brief  terrestrial  trip, 

Sincerely    Mine! 


imong   the    costliest    books    in    the 

world  may  be  mentioned  the  first  folio  edi- 
tion of  Shakespeare's  play,  a  good  copy  of 
which  is  worth  $6,000  when  it  can  be  had. 
Baroness  Burdett-Ooutts  gave  $8,000  for 
hers.  The  Mainz  Book  of  Psalms  is  another 
precious  tome,  which  was  worth  12,000 
francs  in  the  days  of  Louis  XVI II.  A 
London  bookseller  has  a  copy  of  the  second 
edition  of  1459  for  which  he  asks  $25  000. 


BUSWELL  60., 

Bookbinder,  Paper-Ruler,  Printer 
and  Blank  Book  Manufacturer. 
516  Commercial  St..  S.  F. 


PHIS 


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S  S  "Australia",  for 
Honolulu  only,  Tues- 
day, February  23,  at  2 
p    m. 

S.  S.  "Alameda," 
Thursday  ,March  4th, 
at  2  p.  m. 

Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa.  J.  D  SPRECKELS  &  BROS. CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St.,  San   Francisco. 


The  Grand  Pacific,  ssfssssasv 

MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  trie  day,  week,  or  month. 
Telephone:  Grant,  507. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH    PACIFIC 
RAILWAY    CO. 

Tibcron  Pbert-  Foot  or  Market  Street. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00,  11:00  A  M;  12:36,3:30 
5:10,  6:30  p  M.  Thursdays— Extra  trip  at 
11:30  p  M.  Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1:50 
and  11:30  P  M. 

SUNDAYS— 8:00,  9:30,  11:00  A  M;  1:30,  3:30,  5:00, 
6:20  PM. 

SAN  RAFAEL  TO  SAN  FRANCISCO. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  AM;  12:45, 

3 :40, 5 :10  p  M.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :55 

and  6 :35  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40,  11:10  AM;  1:40,3:40,5:00, 

6:25  pm. 
Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park, 
same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  F. 

In  Effect 
Oct.  14,  1896 

Arrive  in  S.  P. 

Days. 

Sundays. 

DBSTI'TION. 

Sundays. 

Days. 

7:30am 
3:30pm 
5:10  pm 

8:00  am 
9:30am 
5:00pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40  AM 
6:10PM 
7:35  pm 

8:40am 
10:25AM 
6  :22pm 

Fulton, 

Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyserville, 

8:00  AM 

7:35pm 

7:30 am|  8:00AM  |S^?aph.|  7:35pm 

6 :22PM 

3-3upm|  8:00am  I  Guernevillel  7:35pm 

10  25am 
6:22  PM 

7:30  ami  8:00AM  1     Sonoma,     110:40AM 
5:10pm|  5:00pm  1  Glen  Ellen.  I  6:10pm 

8:40AH 
6 :22  p  M 

7:30am|  8:00am  1  Sebaat0B0l  110:40AM 
3:30pm]  5:00pm  |  sebastopol.  |  6:i0pM 

10:25AM 
6:22PM 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs1  Springs;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake- 
port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and  Bartlett 
Springs;  atUkiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga 
Springs.  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper 
Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  River- 
side. Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights, 
Hullville,  Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Har- 
ris, Scotia,  and  Eureka. 

Saturday- to- Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  re- 
duced rates. 

On  Sundays, Round  TrlpTickets  to  all  points 
beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Marbet  St.,  Chronicle 
Building. 

A.W.  FOSTER,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Pres.  and  Gen.  Manager.       Gen,  Pass .  Agent. 

PACIFIC    COAST    STEAMSHIP    CO. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Fran- 
cisco for  ports  in  Alaska.  9  a.m..  Feb.  10,25. 

For  B.  C.  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  Feb.  4,  10, 
15,  20,  25,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  {Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pom- 
ona," at  2  P.  M.Feb.  1,5,9,  13,  17,  21,  25,  and 
every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports, 
at  9  a.m.;  Feb  3,7,11,15,  19,  23,  27,  and  every 
fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford 
Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los  Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los 
Angeles)  and  Newport,  Feb.  1.5,9,  13,  17,21,  25, 
and  every  fourth  day  thereafter,  at  11  a.  m. 

ForEnsenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  del 
Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La  Paz,  Santa  Rosalia, 
and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10 
a.   m  ,  25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change, 
without  previous  notice,  steamers,  sailing  dates, 
and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New 
Montgomery  street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents, 
No.  10  Market  street,  San  Francisco 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.   CO 

For  Japan  and  China. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  atlPM,  for  YOKOHAMA  and 
HONGKONG,  calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo).  Naga- 
saki and  Shanghai,  and  connecting  at  Hong- 
kong with  steamers  for  India,  etc.  No  cargo  re- 
ceived on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 

Dortc Tuesday,  February  23, 1897 

Coptic  (via Honolulu) .  ...Thursday,  April  1,  1897 

Gaelic Wednesday,  April  31.  1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  11,  1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's 
Office,  No.  421  Market  street,  corner  First. 

D.  D.  STUBBS.Secretary. 


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Vol.LlV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,   FEBRUARY  20,  1897. 


Number  8. 


Printed  and  PublWt.a  nery  Saturday  by  IS,  proprietor,  KKKll  MAHKIOT1 
&S  Kearny  itreet.  .s,in  FraneUco.  Knttrtd  at  San  Franeitco  Pott- 
oftce  a*  Second-etat*  Matter. 

Tkt  office  of  the  .VAH.V  LKTTKR  in  X,  ,  York  City  it  at  Temple  Court; 
and  at  C/licago.  »»J  Boyce  It-iilJing.  {Frank  S  llorriton.  Kattern 
Sepretentatire).  tchere  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  tubecrip. 
tion  and  adrertietng  rater. 

Til  E  office  of  Recorder  of  San  Francisco  is  not  a  paying 
institution.  The  salary  list  is  too  great  for  the  re- 
ceipts. Under  the  old  order  of  things  the  office  was  more 
than  self-sustaining,  but  the  swelling  pay-roll  is  a  good 
$12,000  per  year  ahead  of  its  receipts,  when  formerly  it 
saved  to  the  tax-payers  twice  that  amount 

THE  recommendation  by  a  committee  of  the  Board  of 
Education  that  the  contract  for  certain  portions  of 
the  work  on  the  new  Mission  High  School  be  revoked,  is 
abundantly  justified.  As  we  noted  last  week,  there  has 
been  no  end  of  scandal  concerning  that  unfortunate  ven- 
ture; and  it  is  time  that  a  thorough  investigation  be  made 
throughout. 

THE  unemployed  of  the  city  are  for  the  first  time  in 
their  history  endeavoring  to  solve  their  present  needs 
in  a  practical  way.  They  are  willing  to  raise  vegetables, 
or  undertake  any  other  work  that  will  yield  a  living.  Mayor 
Phelan  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  their  troubles,  and 
bis  efforts  should  find  prompt  indorsement.  When  the  un- 
employed, who  are  not  professional  jaw-workers  and  agi- 
tators, want  honest  work,  it  is  the  first  duty  of  the  city  to 
find  something  for  them  to  do. 


IT  would  be  interesting  to  know  how  much  time  ex-Super- 
visor Wagner  spends  as  "Inspector  of  Dependent 
Poor?"  It  would  be  interesting  also  to  know  by  whose 
authority  and  upon  what  warrant  he  draws  $100  per  month 
from  the  taxpayers  for  that  reputed  service?  Are  there 
not  already  enough  incompetent,  lazy,  bumming  hangers- 
on  about  the  City  Hall?  And  is  it  necessary  to  pay  Wag- 
ner $100  per  month  to  sign  a  voucher  for  services  he  never 
performs?  Great  heavens,  is  it  come  to  pass  that  when 
a  Supervisor's  official  life  is  out,  he  cannot  be  officially 
killed  !  

THE  Supervisors  are  asked  by  the  State  Board  of  Trade 
for  a  contribution  of  $2,500,  to  be  expended  in  making 
a  creditable  exhibition  of  California  products  at  the  Ham- 
burg and  Guatemala  Expositions.  Just  at  this  time,  when 
California  fruits  are  attracting  the  attention  of  German 
consumers,  it  is  particularly  desirable  that  an  exhibit  be 
made  at  Hamburg;  and  the  extension  of  trade  in  Guatemala 
is  equally  desirable.  The  Expositions  named  will  afford  a 
rare  opportunity  for  advertising  in  a  practical  manner  the 
superior  products  of  this  State  among  the  Guatemalans 
and  in  Germany.  The  expenditure  is  justified  by  the  pro- 
bable results. 

THE  Republican  policy  of  reciprocity  has  never  been  of 
material  benefit  to  American  trade,  and  in  some  in- 
stances, if  put  in  operation,  would  result  in  direct  and 
great  injury.  We  have  a  case  in  point  in  the  proposed 
reciprocal  arrangement  permitting  the  introduction  of 
French  wines  into  California  upon  this  basis.  It  is  mani- 
festly to  the  interest  of  our  viticulturists  that  no  such  law 
be  put  into  effect.  The  wine  industry  of  California,  until 
recently,  at  least,  has  been  rather  unfortunate.  Now 
that  organized  effort  among  the  growers  has  placed  it  on 
a  paying  basis,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  nothing  will  be  done 
to  cripple  the  industry.  California  wants  nothing  of  reci- 
procity in  wines  with  Prance. 


Tile  effort  that  is  being  made  at  Sacramento  to  estab- 
lish a  free  market  on  the  water  front  in  this  city  ia 
commendable,  as  the  conditions  existing  here  at  present 
favor  the  successful  operation  of  such  a  system  of  distribu- 
tion. 

THE  State  Printer  has  closed  up  the  print  shop  to 
everything  but  legislative  work.  No  doubt,  it  is  ex- 
pected in  this  way  to  compel  the  Governor  to  capitulate. 
From  the  very  clear  showing  made  by  Governor  Budd  in 
his  veto  of  the  printing  bill  last  week,  he  was  entirely  jus- 
tified in  refusing  to  pour  more  money  into  that  rat  hole. 
The  State  printing  establishment  has  been  conducted  in  a 
recklessly  extravagant  manner,  and  in  calling  an  abrupt 
halt  the  Governor  has  performed  a  plain  duty. 

1M  RS.  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford  has  just  added  another  to 
I  1  the  already  long  list  of  fragrant  reasons  that  entitle 
her  to  the  affectionate  remembrance  of  all  true  men  and 
women,  by  the  giving  of  her  beautiful  house  on  California 
street,  in  this  city,  to  the  cause  of  education.  This  noble 
woman,  by  her  splendid  benefactions,  points  the  primrose 
path  for  wealthy  age.  It  is  only  great  wealth  that  can 
bring  about  the  mighty  works  with  which  the  names  of 
Governor  and  Mrs.  Stanford  must  always  be  lovingly  asso- 
ciated, and  which  must  lend  hope  and  inspiration  to  every 
impulse  for  bettering  and  elevating  mankind. 

IT  is  not  likely  that  ex-Supervisor  King,  who  is  just  now 
telling  the  Grand  Jury  what  he  doesn't  know  about  the 
frittering  away  of  $10,000  of  the  people's  money  for  re- 
pairs on  the  City  and  County  Hospital  during  his  term  of 
office,  will  recollect  anything  worthy  of  the  attention  of 
that  body.  King  has  been  in  business  for  himself  too  long 
to  have  any  troublesome  remembrance  as  to  the  manner 
in  which  those  thousands  of  dollars  were  generously 
apportioned  among  his  friends,  the  contractors,  who  did 
the  hospital  work  without  the  annoying  interference  of 
open  or  any  other  sort  of  honest  competition. 


WE  note  that  Stockton's  Council  has  made  a  heavy  cut 
in  water  rates  in  that  city,  refusing  to  consider 
$500,000  bonds  which  the  company  desired  to  include  in 
the  appraisement  of  its  property,  and  making  the  reduc- 
tion as  if  no  such  debt  existed.  Of  course  interest  on  those 
bonds  must  be  met,  or  if  default  be  made  the  water  com- 
pany may  find  itself  in  a  serious  predicament.  If  the 
money  represented  by  those  half-million  of  bonds  has  been 
used  to  make  needed  improvements,  or  increase  the 
capacity  of  the  Stockton  Water  Works  Company,  it  looks 
as  if  their  rejection  was  most  unjust.  We  shall  be  sur- 
prised if  the  courts  are  not  called  upon  to  set  the  Stockton 
Council  right. 

THE  action  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  this  State  last 
week  in  ordering  a  litigant  to  pay  damages  in  the 
sum  of  $100  to  a  defendant  because  the  action  was  vexa- 
tious and  frivolous,  comes  as  a  rude  shock  to  long  es- 
tablished precedent,  and  a  violent  surprise  to  the  average 
layman.  This  is  the  first  record  we  recall  of  any  action 
upon  the  part  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  California  calculated 
to  discourage  the  use  of  its  sacred  precincts  as  a  refuge  for 
the  strong  who  find  in  a  maze  of  vague  and  shadowy 
technicalities  not  only  a  means  of  grievous  inflictions  upon 
the  innocent,  but  sometimes  an  ultimate  defeat  of  right. 
If  such  just  rebuke  were  administered  to  all  those  who  de- 
serve it  in  important  cases  as  well  as  little  ones,  it  would 
rob  the  Courts  of  half  their  terrors,  and  give  homely 
justice  a  better  chance  to  thrive. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  20,  1897. 


BRAVO,      LITTLE     GREECE  ! 

ftLIJ  honor  to  the  brave,  interesting,  but  little  Kingdom 
of  Greece  for  cutting   the  Gordion   knot,    known  as 
"the  European  concert,"    and   commanding   the  unspeak- 
able Turk  to  take  his  hands  from  the  throats  of  the  Greek 
and  Armenian  Christians  on  the  historically  famous  island 
of  Crete.     Ties  of  blood   and  religion,    to  say  nothing  of 
those  of  humanity  at  large,  fully  justify  this  action  on  the 
part  of  the  Greek  people;  for  it  is  their  action.  "Weeks  ago 
King  George  notified  the  powers  that  be  would  not  be  able 
to  restrain  his  subjectsfrom  joining  with  the  Cretans,  and, 
at  the  same  time,  retain  his   throne.     Things  grew  worse 
on  the   Island,    the  native  population   armed,  fought  the 
Turkish  soldiery  like  demons,  they  battled  for  more  than 
liberty  in  government:  the  lives  of  their  wives  and  children 
were  at  stake,  all   Greece  was   aflame  with  passion,  and 
now  the  too  long  delayed  war  with  Turkey  is  fairly  on.     It 
could  not  have  broken  out  at  a  better  time,  at  a  more  ad- 
vantageous point,   for  more  substantial   reasons,  or  with 
a  combatant  on  the  right  side  with  more  powerful  friends. 
King  George  of  Greece  is  the  Czar  of  Russia's  uncle,  and 
brother  of  the  Princess  of  Wales.     Prince  George,  who  is 
in  charge  of  the  expedition   to  Crete,   is  the  bosom  friend 
and  was  the  travelling  companion  of  Prince  Nicholas,  now 
the  Czar,  in  a  trip  around  the  world,  and  bravely  saved  his 
life  while  in  Japan.     The  Dowager  Empress  of  Russia,  the 
Czar's  mother,  is  the  daughter  of   the   King  of  Denmark, 
and  brother  of  King  George,  whilst  the  present  Czarina  is 
the  granddaughter  of  Queen  Victoria,  whose  second  son  is 
married  to  an  aunt  of  Czar  Nicholas.     It  will  thus  be  seen 
that  the  three  royal  houses  of  Russia,  England,  and  Den- 
mark are  so  identified   with  the  man   whom  the  Greeks, 
more  than  20  years  ago,   elected  their  King,  that  he  can- 
not be  driven  to  the  wall,   and  least  of  all  by  "the  sick 
man"  of  Europe.     Blood,  even  though  it  be  royal  blood,  is 
thicker  than  water.     If  the  killing  barbarously,  treacher- 
ously, of  men,  women,  and  children  of  the  Greek  race  be 
not  cause  for  their  brethren   to   rush   to  their  assistance, 
then  there  can  remain  nothing  to  justify  armed  combat  in 
this  world.     The  Turk  in  the  almost  impassable  fastnesses 
of  Armenia  or  behind  the  forts  of  the  Dardanelles  is  well 
nigh  impregnable,  whereas  in  the  Mediterranean  Isle,  he 
is  in  about  as  tight  a  place  as  his  enemies  would  like  to  have 
him.     He   knows   this,   however,    and  proposes  to  attack 
Greece  on  her  Northern  boundary,  but  even  that  is  some- 
thing easier  said  than  done.  To  reach  Thessaly,  Macedonia 
has  to  be  crossed,  than  which  no  section  of  Turkish  terri- 
tory contains  so  many  well    armed,   and  war-prepared 
Greek  Christians,  anxious  to  strike  the  final  blow  for  free- 
dom.    Greece  could  hold  her  own  there.     It  is  now  early 
spring  in  that  region;  the  very  best  period  of  the  year  for 
warlike  operations.     We  do  not  believe,   however,  that 
these  many  advantages  have  resulted  from  mere  accident. 
There  is  design  somewhere. 

European  politics  are  like  a  game  of  chess  with  the  men 
moved  by  unseen  hands.  For  weeks  the  London  press 
hinted  pretty  clearly  as  to  what  was  coming.  It  was  seen 
that  Europe  would  not  agree  upon  action.  Fears  and 
jealousies  of  each  other  kept  the  Great  Powers  apart. 
They  advised  the  Turk  to  reform,  but  would  not  strike  a 
blow.  They  might  as  well  have  been  whistling  a  jig  to 
milestone.  In  this  condition  of  affairs,  the  English  press 
first,  then  the  French,  and  lastly  the  German,  began  to 
agitate  the  idea  of  the  lesser  powers  most  interested,  tak- 
ing hold  of  that  which  the  greater  ones  had  feared  to 
touch.  A  month  ago  the  London  Court  Journal  said: — 
"there  is  a  most  formidable  army  within  his  (the  Turk's) 
own  territory  ready  to  swoop  down  upon  him — an  army  of 
Greeks,  Macedonians,  Armenians  and  even  of  Mussulmen  of 
many  tribes,  who  are  demanding  liberty  and  willing  to 
sacrifice  all  to  secure  it.  Whilst  the  diplomats  may  dis- 
like the  oncoming  of  such  a  crisis  in  Turkish  affairs,  the 
statesmen  of  various  countries  would  welcome  it  as  the 
best  thing  that  could  happen  in  the  interests  of  civilization. 
The  Czar  has  said  that  he  will  not  strike  a  blosv  against 
Turkey,  but  he  has  never  said  he  will  strike  a  blow  for 
that  country.  He  may  soon  have  to  choose  between  that 
and  a  most  serious  alternative."  That,  as  we  read  it,  was 
a  plain  indication  of  what  was  coming.  It  was  a  pretty 
accurate  foretelling  of  the  card  that  is  now  being  played. 
What  is  to  be  the  result?     Either  the  long   expected  and 


much  feared  war,  or  the  protection  of  Asiatic  barbarity 
and  slaughter  by  European  civilization.  War  may  be 
staved  off  for  a  time,  but  the  latter  alternative  can  never 
endure.  The  world  cannot  be  made  to  turn  backward. 
Greece  may  only  get  Crete  and  Macedonia  now,  but  she 
will  blaze  the  way  the  Turk  will  have  to  go— out  of  Europe. 

The  Nicaragua  The  men  in  charge  of  the  Nicaragua  Canal 
Bill  Is  Dead.  scheme  are  responsible  for  its  death. 
It  had  merit,  but  their  bill  had  none.  It 
turned  out  in  debate  that  no  actual  survey  of  the  whole 
route  had  ever  been  made,  that  the  estimate  of  cost  was 
ridiculously  below  what  the  actual  expense  of  construction 
would  be,  that  the  charter  to  the  canal  company  had 
lapsed,  and  that  if  it  had  not,  it  provided  that  "no  trans- 
fer to  any  Government  should  ever  be  made."  Minister 
Rodriguez  of  Nicaragua  had  notified  our  Government  of 
these  two  sections  of  the  franchise,  and  of  the  intention 
of  his  Government  to  insist  upon  them.  There  remains, 
therefore,  nothing  to  be  done  about  building  the  canal  un- 
til we  can  negotiate  an  undisputed  title.  It  may  be  taken 
for  granted  that  the  United  States,  will  not,  at  present  at 
any  rate,  take  possession  by  force.  The  Monroe  Doctrine 
puts  an  estoppel  on  European  powers  acquiring  further 
territory  on  this  continent,  but  it  confers  no  right  upon  us 
to  seize  what  is  not  our  own.  Then  the  treaty  we  have 
with  England,  known  as  the  Clayton-Bulwer  treaty,  stands 
in  the  way  of  either  of  the  high  contracting  parties  con- 
structing the  Canal  alone,  should  the  other  desire  to  join 
in  the  enterprise.  Before  beginning  so  costly  an  under- 
taking, we  must  be  sure  that  we  are  right,  and  then  we 
may  well  go  ahead.  It  is  clear  that  the  diplomats  have 
got  to  get  to  work  over  this  question  again,  before  any- 
thing can  come  of  it.  Senator  Sherman,  the  coming 
Secretary  of  State,  realized  this  when  he  said  in  debate 
that  "the  whole  matter  would  have  to  be  begun  de  novo." 
He  suggested  that  it  be  "dropped  until  further  negotia- 
tions should  enable  them  to  see  where  they  stood."  His 
suggestion  was  acted  upo",  and  the  bill,  for  the  present, 
is  dead.  But  sooner  or  later  the  Canal  will  be  built.  The 
commerce  of  the  world  has  need  of  it.  It  would  greatly 
benefit  California,  and  bring  the  Eastern  and  Western 
shores  of  our  vast  country  closer  together. 

Sixty  Years  The  British  residents  of  San  Francisco 
A  Queen.  propose  to  follow  the  example  of  their 
fellow  countrymen  all  over  the  world,  by 
celebrating  Queen  Victoria's  sixtieth  year  of  reign  with 
all  possible  eclat.  Many  loyal  and  patriotic  Americans 
will  join  them,  for  we  all  have  a  soft  side  for  the  good  wo- 
man and  mother  who  in  all  the  duties  of  life,  and  in  all  her 
relations  towards  her  people  has  set  so  noble  an  example. 
Americans  will  not  forget,  and  history  will  not  fail  to  re- 
cord, that  in  the  darkest  hour  of  our  country's  peril,  it 
was  this  good  Queen,  in  association  with  her  estimable 
consort,  who  stretched  the  constitution  of  her  country  to 
the  end  that  that  of  ours  might  be  in  less  danger  of  being 
rent  in  twain.  When  her  combative  First  Minister,  Lord 
John  Russell,  arrived  late  and  in  haste  at  the  Royal  Castle, 
he  carried  with  him  the  draft  of  a  despatch  to  Secretary 
Seward,  respecting  the  Trent  affair,  which  involved  our 
acceptance  of  either  a  deep  humiliation,  or  the  gage  of 
battle.  Had  Victoria  followed  the  usual  constitutional 
practice,  nothing  would  have  remained  for  her  to  do  but 
accept  the  advice  of  her  constitutional  minister  and  ap- 
prove the  proposed  despatch.  One  of  the  many  causes  of 
her  popularity  with  her  people  is  her  rigid  compliance 
with  that  rule.  To  all  ministries  supported  by  the 
majority  of  the  House  of  Commons  she  was  alike  given  her 
confidence,  and  accepted  their  responsible  advice.  But 
for  once  she  cast  precedent  to  the  winds  and  followed  the 
promptings  of  her  own  heart.  With  the  issue  of  peace  or 
war  between  her  people  and  ours  hanging  in  the  balance, 
she  was  unhesitatingly  for  peace.  All  night  loug  she  and 
Prince  Albert  worked  at  the  despatch  couched  in  accept- 
able terms  and  which  subsequently  led  to  the  graceful  and 
amicable  adjustment  that  was  reached.  Thurlow  Weed, 
some  years  later  published  the  facts  in  his  auto-biography, 
and  no  living  reader  of  his  story  will  fail  to  recall  them  at 
this  time.  For  this  act  alone,  if  for  no  other,  Americans 
respect  the  British  Queen  and  will  gladly  join  their 
cousins  from  across  the  sea,  in  rejoicing  over  her  long  use- 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


ful  ar  She    has    now    boon  on  the  throne 

for  a  longer  period  than   anv  "f   her  many  pri 
and,  perl.,,  ^rher   trii 

!*•  paid  than  that  which  n  they 

90  ardently  desire  thai   she  may   be  spared   to  them  for 
many   years  lb-day    almost    all    the 

mooarchs    of    Euro]  |    to'  her    l>v     tl 

blood    and    kinship.     Her  little    kingdom   with  a   popu- 
lation of  less  that  30,000,000,  has    grown  into  an  enormous 

Empire,  on  which  the  sua  never  -.-ts,   and  containing  not 
fewer   than  320,000,1 ol   people,   or    nearly  one   third 

of  the  inhabitants  of  the  e.itire  globe.  Civilization 
advanced  as  it  never  did  before.  One  mile 
a  minute  steam  carriers,  I  Venn  greyhounds,  news 
flashed  around  the  world  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eve, 
the  marvels  of  electricity,  and  the  transferrence  Of  the 
burdens  of  toil  from  man  to  the  steam  engine,  are  but  a 
few  of  the  many  strange  and  wondrous  things  that  have 
come  to  us  since  that  day.  The  Victorian  era  will  consti- 
tute the  brightest  of  history's  pages.  All  honor  to  tin- 
good  woman  who  gives  her  name  to  it. 

McKenna's  The  acceptance  by  Judge  McKenna  of  a 
Successor.  Cabinet  portfolio  in  President-elect  McKin 
ley's  official  household  at  Washington,  will 
make  a  vacancy  on  the  bench  of  the  United  States  Circuit 
Court  of  California.  Already  wires  are  being  pulled,  and 
both  surface  and  underground  influences  being  brought  to 
bear  by  aspirants  for  the  robe  McKenna  will  doff  after 
March  4th.  There  is  no  reasonable  doubt  that  he  will  re- 
tain his  seat  on  the  bench  until  after  the  inauguration  of 
Mr.  McKiniey,  inasmuch  as  a  Democratic  successor  would 
result  if  the  appointment  were  to  devolve  upon  President 
Cleveland.  The  position  is  in  that  sense  a  political  one, 
and  has  for  time  out  of  mind  been  so  regarded.  We  are 
always  pleased  to  say  that  the  Judiciary,  at  least,  should 
be  above  politics;  but  here  is  an  illustration  of  the  error 
of  that  theory.  However,  the  News  Letter's  purpose  in 
reviewing  this  appointment  is  not  for  the  purpose  of  pro- 
testing against  this  semi-political  appointment,  but  to  ex- 
press the  hope  that  the  President-elect  will  make  a  selec- 
tion from  among  those  already  trained  in  the  practice  and 
procedure  of  the  United  States  Courts,  as  against  those 
who  are  mo;  e  familiar  with  practice  in  the  State  Courts. 
To  apply  a  sort  of  civil  service  rule,  the  seat  vacated  by 
Judge  McKenna  should  be  filled  by  a  Judge  from  the 
United  States  District  Court.  It  will  not  be  denied  for  a 
moment  that  an  appointment  of  this  character  would  prove 
more  satisfactory  than  if  the  appointee  were  made  from 
the  State  Courts,  or  should  fall  to  the  political  attorney 
who  might  happen  to  have  a  pull  at  Canton  or  Washing- 
ton. Let  the  appointment  fall  upon  the  shoulders  of  a 
lawyer  or  a  Judge  who  is  known  to  be  learned  and  at  home 
in  the  practice  of  the  United  States  Courts.  Pilgrims 
with  one  eye  on  Judge  McKenna  and  the  other  on  McKin- 
iey are  already  headed  Eastward.  For  the  ability  and 
strength  of  our  Circuit  Court,  we  hope  that  the  successor 
of  Judge  McKenna  may  be  chosen  for  his  legal  attainments 
and  acquaintance  with  the  laws  he  will  be  called  upon  to 
interpret. 

Inviting  Southern  California  possesses  in  a  very 
Immigration,  great  degree  that  prompt  energy  neces- 
sary to  the  accomplishment  of  any  object 
of  public  utility  that  may  be  undertaken.  The  people  be- 
yond the  notched  Tehachapi  oelieve  in  their  resources, 
and  they  have  a  sublime  faith  in  advertising  what  they 
have  got,  to  the  world.  Southern  California  has  grown  be- 
cause of  the  incessant  and  sleepless  energy  of  those  boom- 
ers, coupled  with  native  resources  that  largely  justify 
their  enthusiastic  endorsement.  First,  they  hailed  the 
unfortunate  citizen  of  the  East,  who  was  blessed  with  but 
a  single  lung.  As  a  sanitarium  for  all  the  afflicted  was 
Southern  California  first  advertised  ;  and  the  land  was 
filled  with  invalids  and  overrun  with  funerals.  But  the 
day  of  irrigation  came,  and  with  it  the  realization  of  what 
the  true  development  of  Southern  California  would  mean. 
The  widespread  bubble  of  1885,  whose  bursting  brought 
havoc  to  thousands,  also  brought  sober  and  practical  sense 
with  fiuancial  convalescence.  People  no  longer  sought  to 
sell  town  lots,  but  they  went  diligently  at  work  cutting  up 
their  lands,  so  that  they  might  be  attractive  to  the  actual 


I         advertised  their 
throughout  -  metimes  they  overshot  the 

mark,  but  they  approvi  i  of  the  theory  thai  it  is  better  to 
tell  a  little  too  much  than  to  toll  nothing.  Ifying 

apparent 
Last  week,  a  meet  eld  at    the  San    Frai 

Board  of  Trade  for  tl  rpose  of  stlmulatini 

'alifornia.      And  . 

tinent  them  friends  will  say  impertinent    compli- 

ment was   paid   them  In   the  determination   ti 

bureau  of  information,  to  be  kep  mths, 

in  Los  Angeles,  where   the  Immigrant,   who  escapi 

pursuit  of  the  real  estate  agent,  may  learn  of  the  desira- 
bility of  a  home  in  this  part  of  the  country.  There  exists 
misinformation  in  the  East  as  to  the  temperature 
and  products  of  ('mitral  and  Northern  California  which  is 
cot  rem. im.I  when  the  traveler  reaches  the  southern  part 
ol  the  State.  It  is  not  generally  known  that  among 
earliest  oranges  shipped  East  from  the  Coast  are  those 
grown  north  of  the  Tehachapi  mountains.  It  seems  that 
facts  of  this  sort  are  overlooked  by  the  residents  of  South- 
ern California,  in  their  missionary  efforts,  or  adroitly  ex- 
changed for  icicles  in  January  and  droughts  in  June.  In 
fact,  General  Warfield,  at  the  Board  of  Trade  meeting, 
declared  that  he  had  seen  in  Los  Angeles,  with  his  own  un- 
aided vision,  numerous  photographs  of  a  Santa  Rosa 
hotel,  from  whose  eaves  were  depending  icicles  ten  feet  in 
length  and  as  large  as  an  elephant's  trunk.  These  unique 
results  of  the  painter's  pallette  and  photographer's  art, 
were  printed  by  the  thousands  and  sent  broadcast  through- 
out the  land.  It  is  to  overcome  the  icicle  crop  and  similar 
exuberance  peculiar  to  our  buoyant  Southern  neighbors, 
and  for  other  reasons,  that  the  movement  is  taking  shape. 
A  bureau  of  information,  to  keep  prominently  before  the 
arrivals  at  Los  Angeles  the  fact  that  not  all  the  orange, 
and  lemon,  and  lime-growing  lands  are  confined  to  the 
country  south,  but  that  these  and  kindred  fruits  are  grown 
in  abundance  in  Central  and  even  Northern  California, 
would  be  productive  of  good  results.  The  entire  area 
open  for  agricultural  and  horticultural  pursuits  in  this 
part  of  the  State,  should  be  classified  as  to  price,  locality, 
terms  of  payments,  and  special  adaptability,  and  pre- 
sented in  simple  and  distinct  manner.  A  bureau  rightly 
conducted,  embodying  these  features,  even  in  Los  Angeles, 
would  be  of  value,  for  there  is  no  doubt  that  many  people 
reach  Southern  California  without  passing  within  our 
gates  who,  once  placed  in  possession  of  reliable  informa- 
tion of  the  opportunities  awaiting  them  here,  would  be  in- 
duced to  visit  this  part  of  the  State  and  build  their  homes 
in  this  section.  Let  us  be  generous ;  let  us  make  haste  to 
divide  the  approaching  tenderfoot  with  our  brethren  of 
the  south  land. 

Nevada's  The  Virginia  City  Enterprise  takes  deep 
Disgrace,  offense  at  the  strictures  made  by  the  News 
Letter  upon  the  licensing  of  finish  glove  con- 
tests in  the  State  of  Nevada.  It  says  that  San  Francisco 
stands  in  equal  guilt,  and  that  certain  of  the  Police  De- 
partment of  this  city  were  notoriously  in  the  pay  of  Little 
Pete.  The  deplorable  effects  of  the  prize-ring  are  even 
already  painfully  apparent  in  the  extravagant  language 
of  the  Enterprise,  which  ends  its  attack  with  the  following 
direful  flourish  :  "As  to  striking  Nevada  from  the  roll  of 
this  glorious  union,  there  will  be  excellent  skating  in  Hades 
when  it  is  accomplished."  The  Enterprise  seeks  to  justify 
this  direct  sale  of  the  State's  honor  by  claiming  that  the 
moral  conditions  here  are  as  bad  as  they  are  in  Nevada. 
The  News  Letter  is  not  defending  San  Francisco's  fistic 
dishonors.  We  do  maintain,  however,  that  Nevada  is  the 
only  State  in  the  Union  that  is  willing  to  make  special 
legislation  for  the  protection  of  these  brutal  exhibitions 
for  pay:  that  Nevada's  Governor  is  the  first  and  only  chief 
executive  who  has  so  far  forgotten  himself  as  to  meet  and 
welcome  a  slugger  at  the  train,  bid  him  welcome  entrance 
to  his  borders,  with  evident  pride  review  the  training 
quarters  of  a  bruiser,  and  joyously  accept  the  notorious 
honor  of  bis  patronizing  acquaintance.  It  will  be  in  logical 
and  graceful  sequence  for  Governor  Sadler  to  open  the 
exercises  on  the  17th  of  March,  and  introduce  the  return 
of  Nevada's  protected  industry  in  a  neat  and  happy  ad- 
dress. Sadler  is  a  man  of  distinction  now — in  Nevada,  and 
of  notoriety  elsewhere:  his  is  the  hand  that  shook  Corbett's. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


February  20,  1897. 


Quack  Face  Since  the  days  when  Eve  sauntered  through 
Doctors.  the  Garden  of  Eden,  gowned  in  fig  leaves, 
all  womankind  have  vainly  sought  for  some 
magician's  wand  to  wave  off  the  crowding  years,  and  shield 
their  cheeks  from  Time's  tell-tale  calendar.  Everything 
that  ingenuity  and  trained  skill  could  do  to  keep  away  the 
evil  days  of  old  age — to  preserve  the  freshness  and  bloom 
of  youth,  has  been  done,  and  we  have  reached  a  period 
when  art  so  cunningly  counterfeits  nature  that  the  faces  of 
the  aged  spinster  and  the  withered  dame  may  for  a  time, 
at  least,  mock  the  passing  years.  But  to  become  so  skilled 
that  this  may  be  safely  done,  requires  a  proficiency  and 
a  Knowledge  of  dermatology  that  is  exceedingly  rare  and 
valuable. 

In  answer  to  so  general  a  demand,  and  without  the  least 
knowledge  of  the  business,  there  have  risen  hordes  of 
alleged  face  doctors,  dermatologists,  beauty  renewers,  and 
kind  Heaven  knows  what  not.  These  quacks  are  for  the 
most  part  densely  ignorant,  not  only  of  -their  advertised 
business,  but  of  all  other  things,  earthly;  and  they  are  as 
unscrupulous  as  they  are  ignorant.  Their  cards  may  be 
seen  in  fifty  places  about  this  city,  and  they  ply  their  dan- 
gerous trade  with  impunity.  They  should  be  shunned  by 
every  woman  who  desires  to  escape  serious  despoilment,  to 
say  nothing  of  the  preservation  of  whatever  personal 
charms  she  may  possess. 

Several  cases  have  just  occurred,  wherein  women  who 
have  gone  to  these  female  charlatans,  for  the  purpose  of 
having  the  skin  on  their  faces  renewed,  have  received  such 
savage  treatment  as  sent  them  post-haste  and  danger- 
ously injured  to  their  family  physicians  for  relief.  In  one 
recent  particular  case,  the  patient's  face  wore  a  mon- 
strously grotesque  appearance  after  an  encounter  with 
one  of  these  beautifiers.  Every  feature  was  badly  swollen, 
the  cheeks,  lips,  forehead,  and  nose  looked  as  if  they  had 
been  literally  broiled;  and  the  eyesight  was  temporarily 
destroyed.  This  resulted  from  an  effort  to  remove  the  old 
cuticle  and  produce  a  new  and  baby-like  growth.  Many 
times  the  cosmetics,  nostrums,  and  lotions  used,  as  in  the 
above  case,  are  of  the  most  powerful  character,  and  their 
application  inflicts  great  pain  and  lasting  injury,  if  not 
actual  disfigurement. 

Since  woman,  lovely  woman,  is  bound  to  be  beautiful — 
and  who  shall  say  her  nay? — it  is  just,  and  certainly  it  is 
necessary,  that  she  be  protected  in  her  search  and  its 
achievement.  We  compel  physicians,  and  surgeons,  and 
druggists,  to  meet  certain  requirements;  to  know,  prac- 
tically, certain  things,  before  they  are  allowed  to  do  busi- 
ness. Why  shall  the  beauty  doctor,  the  wrinkle-destroyer, 
the  cuticle  remover  and  renewer — the  whole  gamut  of  face 
tinkerers  and  tricksters — not  be  compelled  to  qualify  them- 
selves for  their  work?  Allow  them  to  practice  only  upon 
a  diploma,  which  must  be  displayed  in  their  reception 
rooms  and  offices.  There  should  be  a  law  compelling  a 
thorough  qualification  for  their  business,  and  a  heavy  pen- 
alty for  its  violation.  Such  a  provision  would  afford  at 
least  some  degree  of  protection  to  those  who  feel  that  na- 
ture has  not  been  lavish  in  bestowal  of  personal  charms 
upon  them,  and  who,  by  this  doubtful  path,  desire  to  make 
up  the  measure  of  their  ideals. 

Walter  Besant  Walter  Besant,  who  was  but  lately 
On  the  Slavery  knighted  by  Queen  Victoria  for  his  ser- 
Of  Husbands.  vices  to  literature,  has  recently  been 
addressing,  in  a  most  kind  and  feeling 
spirit,  certain  very  searching  considerations  to  the  woman 
of  the  period.  He  had  just  been  reading  a  woman's  book 
advocating  increased  facilities  for  divorce.  It  is  a  subject 
in  regard  to  which  he  naively  says  he  "has  no  views,  be- 
cause as  it  is  never  likely  to  concern  him,  or  his,  or  anybody 
worthy  of  his  notice,  he  takes  no  interest  in  it,"  but  he 
seriously  objects  to  leading  wives  to  believe  that  they 
alone  are  slaves,  or  that  their  lives  are  necessarily  harder 
than  those  of  husbands.  The  masses  of  both  men  and 
women  are  born  without  silver  spoons  in  their  mouths,  as 
it  were,  and  they  both  alike  are  necessitated  to  work. 
Marriage  offers  to  most  girls  the  kind  of  work  that  is 
most  pleasing  to  them,  and  far  more  to  their  choice  than 
domestic  service,  teaching,  room  renting,  or  even  the 
higher  occupations  for  which  only  a  small  percentage  of 
women  are  fitted.  Ask  the  first  candid  girl  you  meet, 
says  Sir  Walter  Besant,  whether  she  would  rather  marry, 


and  become  the  helpmeet,  the  confidant,  the  administrator 
of,  perhaps,  her  own  little  fortune  and  of  her  husband's 
earnings,  or  whether  she  would  prefer  the  comparatively 
exalted  position  of  teacher,  or  postoffice  clerk,  or  journal- 
ist, or  typewriter.  You  know  perfectly  well — you  who 
talk  so  glibly  about  the  wife  being  a  slave — what  her 
answer  will  be.  If  you  insist  in  calling  her  choice  "slavery" 
you  may,  but  good  wives  do  not  talk  that  way.  They 
bear,  and  forbear,  and,  when  they  talk  at  all  upon  the 
subject,  it  is  with  hearts  overflowing  with  affection  for 
the  man  who  honored  them  with  the  name  of  wife.  If  she 
is  a  slave,  so  is  her  husband.  He  goeth  forth  to  his 
slavery  daily,  and  often  with  unstrung  nerves  and  weary 
brain,  fights,  struggles,  and  not  seldom  loses  in  the  battle 
of  life.  Even  though  very  successful  Walter  Besant  says  of 
himself:  "I  actually,  slave  as  I  am,  sit  down  every  morn- 
ing, without  any  resentment  or  repining,  to  my  slavery. 
I  must  work,  else  who  will  pay  the  baker  and  the  grocer? 
I  must  work,  and  so  besotted  am  I  (from  the  woman-of-the 
period's  point  of  view)  that  I  really  work  as  if  I  enjoyed 
it,  and  I  do,  but  mostly  because  of  the  little  woman  at 
home."  In  all  conditions  of  life  there  are  troubles  to  bear. 
They  are  not  lessened,  but  rather  increased  a  thousand 
fold  by  easy  divorce.  Marriage  may  not  be  made  in 
heaven,  but,  if  lived  up  to,  it  is  sanctified  there.  Nature 
and  Nature's  God  have  alike  constituted  it  the  highest 
form  of  human  happiness,  and  only  vile  hearts  and  bad 
laws  are  rendering  it  otherwise. 

Our  Suggestions  The  other  day  Chief  Justice  Beatty, 
Approved.  and  other  legal  lights,  appeared  before 
the  judiciary  committees  of  the  Legis- 
lature, and  adopted  the  suggestions  heretofore  made  by 
the  News  Letter  for  enlarging  the  capacity  of  the 
Supreme  Court  for  dealing  with  its  calendar.  The  plan 
was  approved  and  will  likely  be  submitted  to  popular  vote 
as  an  amendment  to  the  constitution.  It  involves  nothing 
more  than  adding  three  more  judges  to  the  Bench,  and  the 
creation  of  a  third  department.  This  would  increase  the 
working  power  of  the  Court  one  third,  and  about  keep 
pace  with  the  number  of  cases  that  at  present  go  up  on 
appeal.  As  this  change  cannot  be  effected  for  two  years, 
it  was  of  course  necessary  to  continue  the  Court  Com- 
missioners in  office  for  that  period.  This  plan  is  simple, 
easily  effected,  and  the  only  practicable  one  yet  suggested. 
The  Examiner  keeps  on  demanding,  as  a  reform,  the  crea- 
tion of  three  intermediate  Courts  of  appeal,  but  the  why 
of  the'  proposal  is  understood,  and  meets  only  with  con- 
tempt. It  is  easier  to  delude  the  crowd  than  a  judiciary 
committee.  The  next  thing  to  do  is  to  reduce  litigation  to 
a  minimum  in  the  safe,  just  and  equitable  way  the  News 
Letter  has  heretofore  pointed  out.  Two  rules  of  practice 
(1)  the  loser  to  pay  the  winner's  costs  in  full,  and  (2)  no 
lawyer's  fees  contingent  on  the  result,  would  soon  curtail 
the  present  terrible  volume  of  litigation,  cure  the  conges- 
tion of  the  Courts,  and  leave  us  a  happier  and  better 
people. 

The  Board  Of      The  gentlemen  who  at  present  consti- 
Election  tute   the  Board  of    Election  Commis- 

Commissioners.  sioners  have  had  the  good  taste  to  ask 
to  be  relieved  of  offices  which  they  think, 
and  rightly  so,  ought  never  to  have  been  committed  to 
their  care.  The  Mayor,  Auditor,  tax  collector,  and  sur- 
veyor are  ex-officio  the  Commissioners  whose  duty  it  is  to 
give  us  honest  registration;  faithful  election  officers,  and 
true  counts.  For  many  good  and  substantial  reasons  that 
have  been  only  too  amply  demonstrated  by  experience,  it 
has  long  been  clear  that  no  such  duties  ought  to  be  im- 
posed upon  the  officials  named.  If  they  give  four  or  five 
months  close  attention  to  the  onerous  work  of  preparing 
for  and  conducting  an  election,  they  must  necessarily  dur- 
ing that  time  neglect  their  other  duties.  Again,  as  they 
are  frequently  candidates  for  re-election,  the  unseemly 
sight  is  presented  of  men  in  office  being  interested  in  go- 
ing wrong  in  their  own  behalf.  The  system  has  been  only 
too  fully  condemned  by  its  own  bad  results.  The  arrange- 
ments have  been  defective,  many  of  the  election  officers  in- 
efficient, if  not  worse,  and  the  counts  have  proven  again 
and  again  strangely  mixed  and  erroneous.  Elections 
should  be  conducted  in  a  manner  above  reproach,  and  the 
sooner  means  are  employed  to  that  end  the  better. 


ruaiy  20,  1897. 


FRANCISCO   NEWS   I.I-TTKU. 


THE      ART      EPICUREAN. 

1  KTM    I'M) 

A  'urn  to  Ixml  Lytton  to  help  point  a  D 

ami  adorn  a  tale — 

"  It'.u  it. oui  of  humor.  »n<l  hungry,  alone, 
A  man  should  sit  down  to  a  dinner,  each  one 
01  the  dishes  of  which  r'  1  spot] 

With  a  hornble  mixture  of  garlic  and  oil. 
The  chances  are  ten  again?!  one.  I  must  own, 
lie  gets  up  as  ill-tampered  as  when  he  sat  down." 
And  how  man  does  love  his  interior  decoration!  Where  is 
his  soul  compared  to  his  Stomach?  But  that's  the  man  of 
it,  1  suppose.  He  prefers  a  tangible  present  to  an  in- 
tangible future.  He  is  a  very  prosaic  creature,  and  if 
"out  of  humor,  and  hungry,  alone" — look  out  for  a  squall, 
for  nothing  will  suit;  which  leads  up  to  the  remark,  did  you 
ever  see  Frank — oh,  well,  identity  is  of  no  consequence — a 
certain  mercantile  gentleman  whose  offices  are  on  Cali- 
fornia street,  on  his  way  to  luncheon?.  It  was  my  fortune 
to  meet  him  the  other  day.  with  polka-dot  De  Joinville 
three  sheets  to  the  wind,  rounding  the  corner,  just  as  I 
was  on  my  way  to  beard  the  Douglas  in  his  halls.  Now, 
had  he  been  on  his  way  from  luncheon  this  tale  might  have 
had  a  more  blissful  ending,  that  is,  if  he  is  the  average 
man.  and  I  don't  know  of  any  reason  why  he  should  be 
called  under  the  average — do  you?  As  it  was,  I  felt  so 
crushed  at  his  breezy  refusal  to  divulge  those  ideas  gusta- 
tory, a  wealth  of  which  are  supposed  to  lurk  under  his 
blonde  pate,  that  I  almost  dropped  into  the  apologetic, 
but  saved  myself,  and  covered  my  retreat  from  the  enemy's 
field  by  murmuring,  totto  voa 

11  Oh,  Mistah  Johnsing.  don't  be  rude— 
Oh.  Mistah  Johnsing.  I'll  be  good." 
And  I  vow  that  the  frisky  Ferris,  "'way  up  dar  in  de 
Diggah  heaveD,"  didn't  have  the  ghost  of  incentive  that  I 
had  for  rendering  it  con  expressione.  By  the  way,  Hart- 
man  might  well  plead  guilty  to  the  soft  impeachment, 
these  days,  of  being  called  a  man  of  the  world — don't  you 
think?  Or  don't  you  think?  Some  save  wear  and  tear  by 
not  thinking.  For  instance,  the  imaginative  writer  on 
one  of  the  Sunday  supplement  papers  saves  lots  of  brain 
tissue  when  he  appends  the  idea,  extremely  original  it 
must  be  confessed,  to  a  quick-service  write  up,  that  costly 
dinners,  at  five  dollars  per  capita  (he  would  say  "ahead") 
are  a  possibility  in  the  near  future  by  means  of  the  nickel- 
in-the-slot  machine  upon  which  he  dilates. 

Can't  you  imagine  a  man  with  the  tastes  necessary  to 
the  enjoyment  of  a  five-dollar  dinner,  poking  his  dollars 
and  halves  and  quarters  into  numerous  labeled  apertures, 
and  grasping  with  both  eager  hands  the  edibles  sheved 
down,  or  up,  or  out  to  him — it's  a  mystery  from  which  di- 
rection they  do  come.  When  a  man  sits  down  to  a  sump- 
tuous dinner  he  isn't  looking  at  his  watch  with  one  hand 
while  he  daintily  carves  crescents  out  of  a  piece  of  pie  held 
in  the  other.  He  considers  list-slippered  waiters,  shaded 
lights,  glittering  silver  and  crystal,  satiny  damask,  al- 
most as  indispensable  as  the  viands  themselves. 

A  clever  man  recently  said  that  San  Francisco's  coat-of- 
arms  ought  to  be  a  knife  and  fork  and  spoon,  and  the 
motto  on  her  seal,  "Three  for  a  quarter."  That  speaks 
volumes.  We  are  a  city  of  poor  restaurant  victims,  and 
it  seems  to  the  casual  observer  that  the  populace  are  al- 
ways and  forever  dining — not  in  cosy  homes,  but  in  "three 
for  a  quarter  restaurants." 

But  this  isn't  telling  you  about  a  delightfully  old-fashioned 
dish  served  to  an  octet  of  friends,  members  of  the  Old 
Union  Club  in  years  agone,  before  the  Pacific  and  Union 
joined  forces.  But  first  a  word  about  the  eight  old  friends 
who  invariably  dined  together  years  and  years  ago,  their 
ranks  now  sadly  depleted  by  the  unstaying  hand  of  Death. 
There  were  Cutler  McAllister,  brother  of  Hall  McAllis- 
ter; Eugene  Dewey,  whom  all  old  Sau  Franciscans  remember 
— he  died  some  time  ago  in  New  York;  his  brother  William 
P.  Dewey;  Harry  H.  Veuve,  the  life  of  the  party,  who 
still  resides  in  this  city  and  is  about  the  only  one  left  of  the 
merry  eight,  William  Murray,  Ben  Smith,  Alfred  Godde- 
froy — does  not  his  name  bring  up  reminiscences? — and 
Tom  Edmundson,  him  yclept  the  "Irish  lord"  because  of 
that  air  of  gentlemanly  munificence  and  bland  assurance 
that  never  deserted  him  even  when  his  exchequer  con- 
tained nothing  but  its  lining — a  case  of  "nothing  in  it  but 


the  i'ii. <iu  g  ,  y   i,„i,,  .. 

diners  would  )■  1  proper  dignity  to  thecc 

tion  of  their  pai 

down  east    dish.     Kueli  one  Dad  some  ingi 
to  prepare.      One  shredded   the  tish,   a  seeoi • 
potatoes  Into  a  mountain  of  snow;  a   third  eul  thai 
boiled  eggs  in  artistic  forms  for  gracing  the  com] 
pita  ,/,  resitto.net.      A  fourth  had  the  savorv  duly  of  adding 

the  boiled  onions,  and  the  fifth  cut  the  boiled"  beets  into 
tiny  cubes  Others  assisted  at  the  sacred  rites  of  dress- 
ing tli.  on  with  a  salad  dressing  of  oil,  vinegar, 
pepper,  salt  and  mustard.  Then  the  melange  was  borne 
with  due  pomp  and  ceremony  to  the  kitchen,  there  to  be 
warmed  and  have  crisp  pork  "crackles"  and  green  peppers 
put  the  finishing  touch  to  the  Balmagundi.  That  it  was 
eaten  with  a  gusto  is  a  foregone  conclusion,  for  more  than 
one  reason.  You  see,,  everybody  having  a  "finger  in  the 
pie,"  of  course  it  behooved  every  one  to  praise  it  and  pay 
it  the  compliment  of  speedy  demolishment;  but  it  must 
have  had  some  sterling  qualities  to  have  been  their  Fri- 
day dinner  for  so  long  a  time.  The  fertile  brain  of  man 
could  easily  have  invented  some  excuse  for  varying  the 
menu  on  some  pretext  or  other,  had  it  not  been  a  success. 

Poor  Tom  Edmundson,  the  Irish  loid,  is  pretty  nearly 
on  his  uppers  now,  I  hear,  living  in  New  York  city,  one  of 
the  mammoth  army  of  penniless  "has  beens."  They  say 
his  princely  airs  are  as  evident  to-day  as  when  he  was  a 
member  of  the  ultra-select  Union  Club. 

Speaking  of  clubs,  that  is  quite  an  idea  lately  to  have 
little  suppers,  given  by  members  after  the  theatre  to  their 
lady  guests.  One  fortunate  woman  confided  to  me  that 
she  never  in  her  life  tasted  anything  to  begin  to  compare 
with  the  Welsh  rarebit  she  had  one  night  at  the  Bohemian 
Club.  She  said  the  only  thing  that  marred  her  perfect  en- 
joyment of  it  was  her  consuming  desire  to  go  into  the 
kitchen  and  find  out  exactly  how  it  was  made.  But  what 
would  have  been  the  use?  A  Welsh  rarebit  does  not  come 
at  beck  and  call,  and  I  very  much  doubt  if  my  lady,  just  by 
wishing,  could  have  made  one  like  unto  the  Bohemian 
dainty,  even  with  forty  "receipts." 

Did  you  hear  about  that  breakfast  that  was  given  to 
James  J.  Corbett  the  other  morning?  But  you  didn't,  be- 
cause, wonder  of  wonders,  none  of  the  daily  papers 
breathed  a  word  about  it.  With  such  a  dearth  of  news  in 
town,  it  passes  my  puny  comprehension  how  the  thing  was 
kept  from  the  sleuths  of  the  press.  Aha!  Perhaps  they  were 
invited  to  be  "among  those  present,"  and  in  return  for 
hospitality  had  the  grace  to  accede  to  their  host's  wishes 
that  it  should  not  become  public. 

There  was  one  particular  article  on  the  menu  which  I 
had  the  good  luck  to  gather  into  my  budget  of  recipes,  one 
which  Corbett  particularly  relished,  so  if  you  wish  to  be 
Corbettesque  try  these  stuffed  eggs,  only  be  warned  in 
time  that  they  are  not  for  a  thin  pocket-book,  as  the  deli- 
cacies entering  into  their  composition  are  all  expensive. 

Served  hot,  these  are  suitable  for  a  luncheon  or  break- 
fast, but  not  for  a  dinner  unless  used  as  a  cold  salad  with 
lettuce.  Of  course  the  foundation  is  hard-boiled  eggs,  the 
yolk  carefully  removed  and  chopped  very  fine.  Combine 
with  this  pate  de  foie  gras.  Make  a  roux  (browned  flour 
and  butter),  lay  in  this  a  plentiful  quota  of  Eastern  oysters, 
and  their  simmering  will  make  enough  juice  to  thin  the 
sauce  sufficiently,  with  the  addition  of  half  a  pint  of  cream 
added  just  before  serving.  Dip  the  filled  whites  of  the 
eggs  into  raw  egg,  roll  in  bread  crumbs,  and  fry  quickly. 
Add  seasoning  to  the  roux  in  making  the  oyster  sauce,  of 
green  onions  and  chopped  herbs — just  a  pinch.  A  gener- 
ous tablespoonful  of  the  best  butter  goes  in  next,  and  then 
the  oysters  are  put  in  and  allowed  to  simmer  and  bubble. 
The  sauce  must  be  poured  over  the  eggs  hot,  and  the  dish 
served  immediately. 

A  correspondent  signing  himself  "A  Ci-Devant  Bon 
Vivant,"  asks  for  a  detailed  recipe  for  the  chicken  a  la 
Castilian  mentioned  in  the  menu  of  the  Phelan  inaugural 
dinner,  and  in  my  next  paper  I  shall  take  pleasure  in 
granting  the  request,  not  yet  having  all  the  data  needed, 
which  will  be  obtained  from  a  certain  Spanish  cook  who 
makes  the  dish  to  perfection.  A  Southern  delicacy  is  also 
on  the  list  for  next  time —something  out  of  the  ordinary, 
that  is  vouched  for  by  Richard  Porter  Ashe  and  Hugo 
Toland,  so  beside  these  authorities  what  more  could  I  say? 

Amy  L.  Wells. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  20,  1897. 


18  '  ;u    Lg  1/  T>~* 


We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


[T  would  take  the  picked  players  of  a 
company  such  as  Augustin  Daly  once 
presided  over  to  keep  an  audience  patient 
on  plush  until  the  fifth  act  of  My  Lord  and 
So->ie  Ladies.  This  fifth  act  is  so  good  that 
^  even  the  concerted  efforts  of  Louis  James 
and  four  assistants  cannot  conceal  its  excellence.  If  there 
is  any  merit  in  the  preceding  four,  it  was  indiscernible  at 
Monday's  performance.  Tbe  night  was  a  long  one.  An 
extravagant  old  party  seated  in  a  box  pelted  about  sixty 
bunches  of  California  violets  at  the  red  wig  of  the  Duchess 
of  Marlborough,  and  furnished  some  distraction  that  was 
not  on  the  bill.  But  his  aim  was  hopelessly  bad;  he  was 
continually  hitting  Mr.  James  on  the  legs,  which  was  no 
great  feat,  since  Mr.  James  wore  his  prancing  comedy 
legs,  and  they  were  in  all  places  at  all  times. 

My  Lord  and  Some  Ladies,  beyond  the  misadventures  of 
Mr.  James's  production,  is  a  conspicuously  bare  comedy. 
It  was  intended,  no  doubt,  to  be  graceful  tableaux — it 
achieves  nothing  more  than  slow  anecdote  in  costume.  I 
can  find  much  better  fun  in  the  musty  volumes  of  George 
W.  Reynolds,  the  Mister  Laura  Jean  of  historical  romance. 
This  play  gives  us  Queen  Anne,  and  Bolingbrooke,  and 
Sarah  Jennings,  together  with  a  virtuous  maid  (who  is  a 
poor  and  obscure  relation  of  Sarah's  and  therefore  heroi- 
cally despised  by  that  wily  duchess)  and  a  virtuous  young 
officer  (quite  as  pure,  and  very  like  unto  Fielding's 
Joseph  Andrews).  This  chaste  officer  is  really  the  hero  of 
the  play.  Of  course,  Bolingbrooke  has  large  intervals  of 
the  center  of  the  stage,  and  he  duels  with  the  Duchess  and 
hypnotizes  the  easy  Queen,  and  upholds  the  dignity  of  the 
press  of  that  period,  and  says  several  things  that  are  fa- 
mous and  many  more  that  are  not,  but  the  other  is  t  e 
man.  His  name  is  Farror — Sir  George  Farror — and  it  is 
inferred  that  he  has  great  attractions  for  the  sex.  It 
seems  unbelievable,  but  it  is  true,  nevertheless.  Sarah's 
little  relative  loves  him  with  the  worst  kind  of  gum-drop 
adoration;  the  queen  yearns  for  him  in  that  warm,  indo- 
lent way  that  queens  have;  and  Sarah  is  after  him  with  a 
passion  that  is  simply  scandalous — it  transcends  the  fury 
of  her  rich  red  hair  and  reputation.  But,  pah  !  what  does 
he  care  for  a  mushy  queen  or  a  lascivious  duchess!  He 
does  not  even  know  that  they  burn  and  fret  for  his  pale 
young  soul,  he  is  so  busy  with  his  own  little  love  for  the 
poor  but  virtuous  relation.  So  the  worst  does  not  happen. 
The  last  curtain  goes  down  on  the  queen  outwitted,  Sarah 
snubbed,  Bolingbrooke  triumphant,  and  Arthur  as  pure 
and  uusullied  as  the  editor  of  The  Ladies'  Home  Journal. 
Young  men  need  not  blush  to  take  their  fathers  to  see  this 
play. 

*  *  * 

It  is  true  that  I  have  not  told  all  that  happens  in  the 
five  acts — and  I  expect  to  be  thanked  accordingly.  I  see 
little  possibility  of  being  entertaining  myself  when  the 
author  and  actors  have  each  had  such  a  hapless  time.  If 
I  am  not  badly  mistaken  My  Lord  and  Some  Ladies  was 
adapted  by  no  less  person  than  Theodore  Kraemer, 
whom  you  may  remember  as  the  erotic  author-actor-man- 
ager, who,  at  the  Bush-street  Theatre  some  years  ago,  re- 
duced Suderman's  Magda  to  cheap  obscenity  under  title  of 
The  Church  and  the  Stage.  Mr.  Kraemer  has  kept  well 
within  the  law  this  time,  but  doubtless  he  had  ideas  of  his 
own  as  to  how  a  French  comedy  of  manners  should  be  done 
into  English,  just  as  Mr.  James  and  his  co-actors  have 
ideas  of  their  own  about  comedy  in  general  and  court 
etiquette  in  particular.  It  is  not  narrated  of  good  Queen 
Anne  that  she  was  a  stickler  for  ceremony  and  fine  man- 
ners. She  did  not  go  to  the  Royal  Bed  with  her  crown  on, 
but  if  that  noble  jollier,  Bolingbrooke,  had  entered  her 
apartments  with  any  of  the  several  manners  that  dis- 
tinguished Mr.  James  at  the  Baldwin  Theatre  Monday 
night,  she  would  have  made  allowances  for  the  personal 
esteem  in  which  she  held  him,  and  then  demanded  his  head 
upon  the  spot.  You  will  say  it  is  irreverent  and  unworthy 
of  me — but  all  the  time  Mr.  James  was  on  the  stage  I  was 


comparing  him  with  Swinnerton's  impertinent  caricatures 
of  the  Honorable  Samuel  M.  Shortridge.  And  I  thought 
how  much  worse  Swinnerton  might  have  been.  Mr.  James 
is  an  excellent  Othello,  his  Hamlet  commands  anybody's 
respect,  and  he  is  a  good  actor  generally,  but  his  Boling- 
brooke is  a  crusher  for  a  critic's  dignity.  The  man  who 
can  write  a  serious  criticism  of  it  is  not  of  this  earth — or 
at  least  he  should  not  be. 

Speaking  of  things  which  are  not  of  this  earth,  there  is 
Mr.  Lindsley,  the  young  man  who  plays  Arthur  with  the 
voice  of  mighty  waters  and  the  heart  of  ten  women.  There 
are  some  things  which  exceed  this  poor  shape  of  mortal 
clay,  and  of  theji  Lindsley  is  the  largest.  If  life  were  built 
up  to  the  size  of  Lindsley's  acting,  noses  would  be  as  big  as 
the  Call  building.  There  was  no  character,  or  even  plaus- 
ibility in  any  of  the  acting.  Miss  Kruger,  a  clever  young 
actress,  who  promised  great  things  a  year  ago,  played 
Queen  Aune  a  la  boarding  school  theatrical  orgie;  Miss 
Everett's  Duchess  of  Marlborough  was  possibly  worse  on  the 
same  lines.  Miss  Aphie  Hendricks,  as  the  relation,  was 
the  best  of  the  three — but  it  was  a  plain,  unbrilliant  best. 

*  *  * 

"They  shouted,  'sit  down  in  front!'" — said  Charles 
Wayne  during  his  recent  engagement  at  the  Orpheum,  and 
with  a  fleet  touch  of  pantomime  he  suggested  what  hap- 
pened when  he  tried.  The  three  contorting  Pantzers 
make  no  bones  of  the  feat  at  all  [joke].  I  find  that  a 
Pantzer  can  set  its  brow  towards  any  given  mark  and  sit 
to  the  east,  west,  north  or  south  with  equal  facility,  and  at 
the  same  time  make  a  necklace  of  its  legs  and — well  I  for- 
get what  becomes  of  its  arms,  I  suppose  they  go  where  the 
legs  ought  to  be.  I  see  but  one  objection  to  this  act:  it  is 
when  the  male  Pantzer  finds  the  expression  of  his  humor 
in  wiggling  an  anatomical  feature  which  usually  remains 
ioactive  in  polite  society. 

The  Pantzers'  act  is  only  one  out  of  five  new  ones  at  the 
Orpheum.  For  me  the  singing  is  the  best  of  all.  Guille's 
and  Abramoff's  solo  work  is  in  every  way  superior  to  that 
of  the  men  who  assisted  Nordica  in  her  concerts  at  the 
Baldwin,  and  the  Rigoletto  quartette  is  sung  with  a  surety 
and  enthusiasm  which  no  one  can  accuse  the  Nordica  singers 
of  having  voiced  in  the  same  selection.  Hayes,  Lytton  and 
Hayes  make  a  very  poor  showing  in  their  comedy  skit.  A 
French  Marriage  is  an  American  brutalization  of  a  famous 
little  French  comedy  out  of  which  the  players  make  a 
soggy,  vulgar  performance.  The  Renfos  do  some  risky 
work  on  apparatus  suspended  from  the  roof,  but  the 
picture  effect  is  marred  by  the  substitution  of  sailor  cos- 
tume for  silk  tights.  I  did  not  time  Mr.  Finney's  record- 
breaking  autobiographical  address,  but  my  watch  marked 
three  minutes,  to  the  second,  for  his  longest  stay  under 
water. 

*  *  * 

I  cannot  understand  why  the  children's  Cinderella  spec- 
tacle at  the  California  Theatre  has  been  so  badly  slighted. 
I  looked  in  Tuesday  night,  expecting  to  find  a  big  house, 
as  that  was  the  Chronicle's  charity  performance.  There 
were  not  thirty  people  down  stairs,  including  the  orchestra. 
Which  reminds  me  that  the  children  shone  like  stars,  and 
sounded  like  seraphim  beside  the  adult  execrableness  of 
this  same  orchestra.  Little  Miss  Daisy  Grogan  simpered 
a  dainty  little  ditty,  which  ran  something  like  this: 

Sweet  little  Kosey  Posey, 

All  in  your  Sunday  closey, 

Goodness  only  knowsey 
I  love  you  1 

And  still  littler  Miss  Ruth  Rowland  (she  can't  be  more 
than  four)  sang  "What  Could  the  Poor  Girl  Do?"  in  a 
most  worldly  and  meaningful  way.  If  the  show  lives  its 
five  acts  up  to  the  first,  it  is  too  good  to  miss. 

*  #  # 

Thursday  afternoon  Gustav  Hinrichs  sounded  the  metal 
of  his  musicians.  The  symphony  orchestra  is  splendidly 
banded,  and  the  second  symphony  concert  is  a  credit  to 
the  town.  The  programme  was  a  masterpiece  of  tact. 
There  was  Krug's  love  story  suite,  a  perfect  cameo  of 
sentiment,  which  the  strings  brought  out  with  dainty  lyric 
tenderness;  and  Chabrier's  Spanish  Rhapsodie,  a  dinky 
little  Spanish  waltz,  twisted  and  flowered  and  fire- 
crackered  and  tin-canned  into  an  absolute  carnival  of 
dissipated  French  fun — these  were  for  everybody,  short 


February  20,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   I.I    1 


hair  and  lonjr.     Then  there  iraa  Goldmark's  big  Sakuntala 
overture,  a  tonal  poem  in  a  modr-t  way,  which  the  or 

i  with  huj;e  color  and    spring.      And  there  w.i^ 

mpbooy-  1      To  my   thinking, 

Hinri.  nine  modern  and  an  imitation  olassicallst. 

not  twld  enough  to  carry    the   Innovating  hand  into 

"f    ancier.l  en    a  good 

thine;  and  always  a  safe  thing.     So  Hinrichsdid  not  lift  the 

••  1  above  its  usual  tediousness — he   took  it  in  chaste. 

metronomic  tempo,  without  a  t ineje   of   color  or  any  other 

folly  which  an  enterprising  and  very  young  director  might 

infuse  into  the  movement  and  Startle  an   audience  in t 

thusiasm.      No  one   can   cavil   at    the   other  movements: 

they  do  not   suffer   for    virtuosity,    and    Hinrichs    handled 

them  with  admirable  conservativeness. 

A8HTON    Sin  kns. 

Besides  his  record  as  the  most  popular  march  composer 
and  bandmaster  in  America.  John  Philip  Sousa  come-  to 
us  this  season  with  the  additional  distinction  of  having 
written  a  successful  comic  opera — El  Capitan.  Sousa  and 
his  men  and  his  medals  appeal-  at  the  California  Theatre 
on  Thursday.  Friday.  Saturday  and  Sunday  next.  The 
band  is  said  to  have  attained  even  greater  perfection  than 
before,  and  the  repertory  bubbles  with  good  things,  new 
and  old. 

There  will  be  a  big  double  bill  at  the  Tivoli  next  week — 
Gilbert  &  Sullivan's  famous  satire  on  testhetieism,  Patience, 
and  Von  Suppe's  mythological  one-act  operetta,  The  Lovely 
Oalatea.  Hartman.  West,  Raffael,  Thomas,  the  Misses 
Seabrooke,  Holmes,  Schnabel,  Mnlle — in  fact,  all  the  trusty 
Tivoli  company  will  be  displayed  in  the  two  casts.  A  pro- 
duction of  The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor  is  in  preparation. 

There  is  room  for  but  one  new  act  on  next  week's 
Orpheum  bill,  and  that  will  be  Barney  Fagin  and  Henrietta 
Byron  in  a  one-act  comedietta.  Fagin  is  the  author  of 
many  popular  coon  songs — among  others,  "My  Girl's  a 
High-Born  Lady."  Edmund  Hayes  and  Emily  Lytton 
have  forsworn  .4  French  Marriage,  and  will  continue  their 
new  burlesque,  Camillc  Up  to  Date. 

Fanny  Rice  is  always  a  favorite  in  San  Francisco,  and 
from  all  the  accounts  of  her  new  operatic  farce,  At  the 
French  Ball,  the  Columbia  will  have  another  prosperous 
fortnight.  George  Broderick,  Charles  Drew,  John  S. 
Terry,  Alice  and  Frances  Gaillard,  Beckie  Haight,  and 
Kate  Micbelena,  are  of  the  company. 

On  Monday  night  we  will  know  all  about  Shore  Acres, 
This  is  the  play  that  William  Dean  Howells  applauded  to  the 
length  of  columns  in  Harper's  Weekly.  Both  the  play  and 
the  actor  (James  A.  Heme)  have  won  a  big  reputation  in 
the  East.  The  story  deals  with  village  life  on  the  coast  of 
Maine. 

The  Verein  Eintracht  will  give  a  grand  prize  masquerade 
ball  this  Saturday  evening  at  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion. 
Everything  possible  has  been  done  to  make  this  ball  a 
great  success,  and  it  is  expected  that  more  than  three 
hundred  and  fifty  costumed  people  will  appear  in  the  grand 
march. 

On  Saturday,  February  27th,  Miss  Fannie  Rice  will  auc- 
tion the  boxes  at  the  California  Theatre  at  11  a.  m.  for  the 
play  of  Caste,  to  be  produced  at  that  theatre  on  Monday 
evening,  March  1st,  for  the  benefit  of  Children's  Hospital 
and  Armitage  Orphanage. 

Manager  Gottlob  returned  from  New  Orleans  on  Thurs- 
day, buoyant  with  the  prospects  of  the  opera  season  at 
the  California. 

Our  Little  Cinderella  continues  at  the  California  until 
Wednesday  night,  with  an  extra  matinee  on  Washington's 
Birthday, 

AN  amateur  benefit  performance  in  aid  of  Armitage  Or- 
phanage and  Children's  Hospital,  will  be  given  at  the 
California  Theatre  on  the  evening  of  Monday,  March  1st, 
at  which  time  Caste  will  be  presented.  The  orphanage 
and  hospital  are  most  worthy  of  aid,  and  the  California 
should  be  crowded  with  their  friends  on  that  occasion. 
Tickets  will  be  $1 — to  be  had  at  the  box-office  of  the  thea- 
tre February  26th,  27th,  and  on  March  1st. 

Don't  fail  to  attend  the  20  per  cent,  reduction  sale  now  going  on 
at  S.  &  G.  Gamp's,  113  Geary  street.  It  will  last  only  a  short  time 
longer. 


«N    important   case   has  led    bj   J 

llth  of    the    Su]  i  I    at    Santa    Cni«       The 

action  r  uve  against  the  \v. 

Sugar  I  0 damages,  resulting,  I 

From  the  dumping  of  ar  beet    pulp  on  his 

land.  The  court  the  plaintiff  every  possible  lati- 
tude in  the  mat  ter    of  witnesses,  and    the    introduce 

testimony,  for  the  principles  Involved  were  of  much  Im- 
portance to  the  beet  sugar  Industry  and  the  State.  The 
defense  was  conducted  by  Mr.  S.  .M.  short  ridge,  who  made 
a  brilliant  .summing  up  >:  the  evidence.  His  presentation 
of  the  facts,  and  his  convincing  logic,  won  for  the  Western 
Sugar  Company  a  verdict,  the  c  '  tag  a  non-suit  in 

the  case. 

Tours  In  the  Rocky  Mountains. 
n.r  "  Scenic  Line  of  the  World,"  the  Denver  4  Rio  Orande  Kail- 
road,  otters  to  tourists  In  Colorado,  Utah,  and  New  Mexico  the 
i  resorts,  and  to  the  transcontinental  traveler  the  grandest 
scenery.  The  direct  line  to  i  ripple  Creek,  the  greatest  gold  camp  on 
earth.  Double  daily  train  service,  Willi  through  Pullman  sleepers 
and  tourists' cars  between  Denver  and  San  Francisco  and  Los  An- 
geles. Write  S.  K.  Hooper,  G.  P,  ,t  T.  A.,  Denver,  Colorado,  or  W. 
J.  Shotwell,  General  Agent,  :U4  California  street,  for  illustrated  de- 
scriptive pamphlets. 

The  Press  Clippino  Boreao.  610  Montgomery  street,  S.  P.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Paclflo  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  toplos ,  business 
and  personal. 

G,-J,.™k!-,    TL„,1 The"  Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 
OIUmDia       I   neat.re-    Frledlander,  Gottlob&Co.,  Lessees 
and  Managers. 

Commencing  Monday,  February  22d,  matinee  Saturday  only, 
America's  Greater:  Comedienne,  dainty  FANNY  RICE  in  the 
new  version  of  her  latest  and  greatest  laughing  success. 

AT    THE    FRENCH     BALL 

Assisted  by  a  perfect  comedy  company. 
Twenty  new  specialties. 

G-J!-F^-«!-.     Tk/s-.i^      Alj-  Hayman&  Co.  (incorporated) 
alitornia    I  neatre.  proprietors 

Thursday,  Friday,  Saturday  evenings.  February  25,  26,  27. 
Matinees,  Friday,  Saturday  and  Sunday,  February  26,  27,  28. 

SOUSA,    and    his    famous    band. 

21,000 miles;    January  to  July;    ocean  to  ocean;   gulf  to  gulf. 
Elizabeth  Northrop,  prima  donna  soprano:  Martina  Johnstone, 
viuliniste;  Arthur  Pryor,  trombone;  Franz  Hell,  fluegelborn. 
Prices— 25c,  50c  ,  75c,  $1,  $1  50.    Sale  opens  Monday,  Feb.  22. 

Baldwin    Theatre-  AI" HATMAN * Co"  "pSS 

Next  week,  Monday.  February  2-.',  the  eminent  actor,  JAMES 
A.  HERN  JO,  in  his  own  beautiful  comedy-drama, 

SHORE    ACRES 

Entire  new  scenery  employed.    An  acting  company  of  twenty- 
five  member.    Direction  of  Henry  C.  Miner. 
The  play  s  record:    314  nights  in  New  York,  175  nights  in  Bos- 
ton, no  nights  inChioago. 

You  cannot  afford  to  miss  It. 


Tivoli  Opera  House. 


Mrs.  Ernestine  Kreling, 

Proprietor  and  Manager 
Commencing  Monday,  February  22d;  one  week  only:  grand 
doubl3  bill.    Gilbert  and  Sullivan's  aesthetic  two-act  opera, 

PATIENCE, 

or,  Bunthorne's  BniDE;  preceded  by  Von  Suppe's  operetta,  the 
lovely  GALATEA. 

Great  casts*;  correct  costumes;  appropriate  accessories. 
In  Preparation— The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor. 
Popular  Prices 25c  and  50o 

0        1  San  Francisco's  Greatest  Musio    Hall.      O'Farrell 

r  P  llGU  rn .    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 

Week  commencing  Monday.  February  22d.  Special  matinee 
Washington's  Birthday.  The  eminent  comedian,  author,  and 
dancer, 

BARNER  FAGAN  X  HENRIETTA  BYRON 

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February  20,  1897. 


FOR  twenty  years  Jean  Vignol  had  written  special 
stories  for  popular  papers;  romances  in  which  assas- 
sinations and  exchanged  infants  figured  conspicuously. 
He  was  really  the  equal  of  any  of  his  competitors  in  this 
specialty.  If  you  ever  have  a  dangerous  illness — from 
which  God  preserve  you — and  if  you  do  not  know  how  to 
fill  the  hours  of  a  tedious  convalescence,  read  "The 
Mysteries  of  Menilmontant,"  which  has  not  less  than 
twenty  thousand  lines.  You  will  find  in  it  all  the  usual  in- 
gredients from  this  literary  cuisine. 

The  opening  is  striking,  especially  when  the  rascally 
Duke  de  Vieux-Donjon,  at  the  close  of  the  Opera,  descends 
into  the  sewer  where  he  has  an  appointment  with  an  es- 
caped convict,  who  is  to  deliver  to  him  papers  capable  of 
ruining  the  beautiful  Marquise  des  Deux-Poivrieres,  who, 
having  been  exchanged  in  infancy,  is  not  the  daughter  of  a 
Spanish  Grandee  as  is  supposed  in  the  Faubourg  Saint- 
Germain,  but  in  reality  that  of  a  cabinet-maker  condemned 
to  death  by  a  legal  error,  and  guillotined  in  place  of  the 
convict  with  whom  the  Duke  is  keeping  his  subterranean 
appointment. 

You  see  from  this  single  example  that  Jean  Vignol  knew 
his  trade  perfectly. 

Still  the  poor  scribbler  had  only  moderate  success;  he 
was  not  able  to  place  his  "copy"  very  readily,  and  he 
earned  a  very  scanty  living  indeed.  In  the  first  place  he 
lacked  opportunity;  and  he  was  too .  modest  to  elbow  his 
way  after  the  fashion  of  Americans. 

He  had  not  made  his  debut  in  the  literary  world  by  writ- 
ing serials.  He  preserved  in  the  bottom  of  a  drawer, 
without  hope  of  ever  having  them  anywhere  else,  his  two 
youthful  efforts,  composed  in  the  years  when  bis  locks  were 
thick,  and  when  he  was  full  of  faith  in  his  art. 

One  was  a  volume  of  elegies,  "Fleurs  de  Poison,"  in 
which  the  author  bemoans  the  infidelity  of  a  young  person 
whom  he  designates  by  the  name  of  Fragoletta,  and  com- 
pares to  all  the  celebrated  heroines  of  love  tales  from  the 
most  ancient  times  down  to  the  present,  while  in  reality 
the  inconstant  damsel,  who  was  a  florist's  errand-girl,  was 
named  Agatha.  The  other  work,  more  voluminous,  was  a 
horrible  drama  of  the  time  of  the  Middle  Ages,  bearing  the 
gory  title  "Les  Ecorcheurs,"  whose  characters  were 
eternally  slashing  each  other  with  swords,  or  else  deliver 
ing  endless  tirades. 

Unfortunately  dramas  are  not  edible,  and  the  "Fleurs 
de  Poison"  could  not  be  used  to  season  salads.  Their 
author  was  compelled  to  live  at  Belleville  in  small  rooms 
on  the  fifth  floor,  vith  his  mother,  who  was  crippled  with 
rheumatism  and  who  complained  from  morning  until  night. 
To  earn  some  money,  the  poet  became  a  novelist,  just  as 
an  unsuccessful  painter  becomes  a  photographer.  He  ac- 
cepted his  vocation  with  calm  resignation  and  put  forth  all 
his  efforts;  still  as  we  have  said,  his  success  was  slight. 
This  was  but  right  after  all,  for  his  works  lacked  sincerity. 
One  felt  that  he  did  not  believe  in  his  marquises  whose 
fathers  were  guillotined  cabinet-makers,  and  in  his  dukes 
who  walked  about  in  the  sewers  in  fur  overcoats  and  white 
neckties. 

The  manager  of  the  "Petit  Proletaire,"  in  which  Jean 
Vignol  published  his  productions,  said  to  him  bluntly: 

"My  dear  fellow,  your  readers  feel  that  you  are  not  sin- 
cere is  what  you  write,"  so  be  paid  him  only  two  sous  per 
line. 

The  poor  man  who  felt  that  he  was  superior  to  his  work, 
often  drew  a  long  sigh.  But  what  could  he  do?  It  was 
his  fate,  so  to  keep  his  pot-au-feu  boiling,  he  used  his  wits 
to  invent  more  and  more  extravagant  adventures. 

Once,  for  example,  not  having  paid  his  rent  for  two 
months,  he  would  certainly  have  been  evicted  if  he  had  not 
been  able  at  the  last  moment,  to  obtain  an  advance  pay- 
ment from  his  publisher,  who  was  seduced  by  the  title  of  a 


romance  of  which  these  were  the  opening  lines:  "A 
musician  who  unbeknown  to  himself  was  the  natural  son  of 
an  English  peer,  returning  home  one  night  after  the  play, 
found  a  corpse  in  his  'cello  case,"  "To  be  continued  in  our 
next,"  followed. 

While  his  mother  was  alive,  Jean,  being  the  model  of 
filial  piety,  found  life  endurable.  But  for  two  years  he 
had  been  alone  in  the  world,  with  no  kindred,  no  friends, 
and  the  habits  of  a  recluse.  He  felt  really  desolate  in  his 
fifth  story  room  at  Belleville.  At  the  time  of  our  narra- 
tive he  was  an  undersized  man  of  forty-seven,  with  a  ten- 
dency to  stoutness,  a  long  black  beard,  a  Socratic  nose, 
and  eyes  like  a  kind  dog.  Having  indifferent  health  and  a 
stomach  of  the  second  class,  he  had  been  obliged  to  re- 
nounce the  consolations  of  tobacco,  except  in  moderation. 

"What  a  nuisance,"  he  said  to  himself  one  winter  even- 
ing, as  he  ascended  his  five  flights,  for  he  was  growing 
asthmatic.  "The  Journal  finds  that  my  last  story,  'Mazas 
&  Co.,'  lacks  bloodshed.  I  shall  have  to  resuscitate 
Bovffe-Toujours,  my  convict,  whom  I  precipitated  from  the 
Eiffel  tower  a  short  time  ago,  and  to  furnish  him  yictims. 
And  even  after  that,  I  know  they  will  refuse  me  twenty 
centimes  a  line.     What  a  dog's  life!" 

On  entering  his  apartment  he  made  several  disagree- 
able discoveries.  After  a  melancholy  glance  at  his  rack 
of  pipes,  he  found  that  his  coke  fire  which  he  had  covered 
with  ashes  before  leaving  was  entirely  out.  He  would 
have  to  smut  his  hands  to  rekindle  it.  Then  his  lamp  had 
been  badly  trimmed  in  the  morning;  he  was  obliged  to 
change  the  wick;  then  he  noticed  that  there  were  just  two 
matches  in  the  box. 

"Tonnerre  de  brindezingue!"  he  exclaimed,  that  being  his 
favorite  oath.  "I  have  to  pass  the  night  resurrecting 
that  convict!  And  five  flights  to  go  down  and  up  again 
just  for  a  few  matches.  Ah,  but  no:  I  will  borrow  from  my 
neighbor." 

The  neighbor  was  Mere  Mathieu,  a  poor  old  woman 
whose  daughter,  abandoned  by  her  husband,  had  died  in 
childbirth  in  the  month  of  July.  The  baby  was  now  six 
months  old,  and  the  grandmother  was  bringing  it  up. 
There  was  enough  poverty  there,  too.  The  novelist, 
prompted  by  a  kind  heart  often  went 'in  and  left  money, 
when  he  had  not  enough  for  himself. 

"Good  evening,  Mere  Mathieu;  will  you  lend  me  a  few 
matches?" 

Then  he  stopped  in  astonishment  on  the  threshold.  The 
old  woman  was  kneeling  on  the  floor  and  tying  up  her  only 
mattress  by  the  light  of  a  piece  of  candle.  The  babe  was 
asleep  in  a  willow  cradle,  and  on  the  cheap  redwood  bed 
there  was  nothing  but  a  straw  tick. 

"What  are  you  doing  there,  Mere  Mathieu?" 

"You  can  see,  Monsieur  Vignol,"  replied  the  old  woman, 
ready  to  cry.  "I'm  going  to  carry  this  to  the  pawnshop, 
and  I  must  hurry  for  it  shuts  up  at  eight.  They  ought  to 
give  me  ten  francs  for  it;  it  is  good  wool." 

"What!  your  only  mattress?" 

"I  must  do  it.  My  youngest  sister,  a  widow  like  myself, 
has  just  been  taken  to  her  bed,  and  they  don't  want  her  at 
the  hospital  because  her  disease  is  chronic.  I  must  help 
her  a  little,  she  has  been  so  good  to  me.  I  shall  sleep  on 
the  straw  only  a  little  while.  It  won't  kill  me.  I  hope  to 
redeem  my  mattress  when  I  get  pay  for  my  sewing. 
What  bothers  me  now  is  the  young  one.  It  will  take  me 
at  least  an  hour  to  go  to  the  shop  and  to  my  sister's. 
Generally  I  leave  it  with  the  concierge,  who  is  a  good  wo- 
man, but  to-night  they  are  to  have  a  family  gathering  in 
the  lodge.     What  shall  I  do  with  the  baby?" 

Long  live  the  poor.     Jean  Vignol  had  tears  in  his  eyes. 

"Not  that,  Mere  Mathieu.  Leave  your  bed.  I  have 
fifteen  francs.  Here  are  ten  of  them.  Run  to  your  sister's. 
As  for  the  babe,  well,  you  may  carry  it  into  my  room.     It 


l897- 


PAN*  FRANCISCO  NBWS  LETTER. 


l  won't  keep  me  from  working.     And  if  it 
t  lie  any  trout)  letblog 

my  j;ood.  kind  Monsieur  Vignol'''  said  the  old  wo- 
man .  •  the  cradle  beside  the  novelist's  table. 
Here  Mathieu  went  away  murmuring  benedictions.  When 
alone  with  the  babe,  the  writer  laughed  behind  his  great 
beard 

hero  I  am.  in  the  capacity  of  dry  nurse!'' 
Stimulated  ty  his  kind  act,  he  sat  down  by  his  lamp  and 
took  his  pen.     For  he  must  have  his  pages  at  the  oil 
morning.     The  romance  would  be  entirely  changed  bv  the 
resurrection  of  Bouff,  Hut  this  evening  our  ro- 

mancer was  in  condition  to  do  it.  His  convict,  hurled  from 
the  second  platform  of  the  Eiffel  tower  by  an  elegant 
scamp,  a  Viscount  descended  from  the  crusades  and  a 
member  of  the  Jockey  Club,  caught  an  iron  bar  in  his  fall 
and  sprung  to  the  quay  with  the  agility  of  an  orangoutang. 
The  next  day  he  would  poniard  two  or  three  policemen. 
The  subscribers  would  have  their  full  of  emotion  now. 

Suddenly  the  little  one  began  to  fret.  Amused  by  his 
new  functions,  Jean  took  the  nursing- bottle  and  gave  it  to 
the  child;  not  very  awkwardly  either  for  a  beginner.  Then 
he  rocked  it  to  sleep  again. 

The  romancer  did  not  return  to  his  table.  He  sat  by 
the  cradle,  and  pensively  looked  at  the  little  being  lying 
on  the  pillow,  with  its  tender  fists  clinched  on  its  breast. 

Cradles!  Babies!  Jean  had  indeed  made  free  use  of 
them  in  his  absurd  romances.  But  how  stupid  seemed  all 
the  improbable  stories  of  stolen  and  exchanged  infants. 
A  child!  Here  was  one;  a  real  one,  an  orphan,  a  child  of 
misery.  What  wou'.d  become  of  it?  Its  grandmother  was 
old,  and  broken  down  by  labor  and  privations.  She  would 
not  last  long.  Then  it  would  be  one  of  those  little  unfor- 
tunates which  the  public  institutions  bring  up  by  thousands, 
and  which  nearly  always  turn  out  badly.  It  is  from  their 
ranks  that  thieves  and  convicts  are  recruited,  real  ones, 
this  time.  This  poor  little  waif!  What  would  life  hold  for 
it?  Life?  A  mysterious  romance,  which  becomes  more 
incomprehensible  at  each  page,  and  whose  monotonous  de- 
nouement explains  nothing! 

Jean  Vignol  fell  into  a  dolorous  reverie.  The  poet  he 
had  dreamt  of  being  when  he  was  young,  was  not  all  dead 
within  him.  Here  was  a  child  physically  and  morally 
abandoned,  a  child  dedicated  by  a  sort  of  social  fatality  to 
vice  and  crime;  that  should  be  the  central  figure  of  a  book, 
in  which  be  would  express  all  the  charity,  all  the  tender- 
ness, all  the  indignation  of  his  heart.  That  was  the  ro- 
mance which  Jean  Vignol  ought  to  write.  .  .  .  But 
what  was  he  thinking  of?  Jean  Vignol  had  no  talent, 
never  had  any,  and  he  knew  it  well.  If  tears  stifled  him 
at  this  moment,  he  wept  over  both  the  misfortune  of  this 
poor  child  and  his  own  impuissance. 

The  door  opened.  It  was  Mere  Mathieu  who  had  re- 
turned out  of  breath. 

How  tired  she  looked,  and  what  a  melancholy  visage 
was  framed  by  the  old  black  hood. 

The  sight  caused  the  good  man  to  yield  to  the  desire 
which  had  just  found  expression  in  his  mind. 

"L:sten,  Mere  Mathieu;  I  have  been  thinking  while  you 
were  away.  Since  my  mother  is  dead,  I  have  enough  for 
you  two.  So  I  will  keep  you  with  me  if  you  are  willing. 
You  can  tike  care  of  the  house,  and  I  will  help  you  bring 
up  the  child. 

The  poor  woman  uttered  a  cry;  sank  down  into  a  chair 
and  covered  her  face  with  her  hands;  as  the  noise  awakened 
the  child,  Jean  took  it  from  the  cradle,  looked  at  it  intent- 
ly, and  dropped  on  its  soft,  tender  cheek  a  kiss  that  was 
almost  paternal. 

But  this  was  not  all.  The  generous  conduct  of  Jean 
Vignol  was  advantageous  to  him.  To  be  sure,  he  kept  on 
serving  his  special  public  with  his  sensational  romances, 
but  in  his  last  work,  "L'Orphelin  de  Belleville,"  there  was 
a  something  that  had  been  lacking  before,  and  that  moved 
the  grisettes  to  tears.  The  circulation  of  the  Petit 
Proletaire  increased,  and  he  was  paid  four  sous  a  line. 

The  story  was  even  copied  in  several  provincial  papers; 
and  when,  the  other  day,  Jean  went  to  the  office  of  the 
treasurer  of  the  Society  of  Literary  Men  for  his  pay,  he 
had  the  one  joy  of  his  literary  career. 

The  most  illustrious,  the  first  of  modern  novelists, 
touched  him  on  the  shoulder  and  said; 


"say.  Monsieur  \        I,  I  have  read   your  later  wi 
and  1  hav,-  found   in 
touching  thin.,'?,  i  .  ,  i  ■  , 

The  poor  m  p  i,,  1, 

"Many  thanks,     he   replied,   beaming  with  joy,     "Bui 
you  see  -that  is  because    now— when  I  write  about  b 
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February  20,  1897. 


"A  Book  of  Cruntry  Clouds  and  Sunshine."  .  Text  and  illustra- 
tions by  Clifton  Johnson.  Published  by  Lee  &  Shepard.  Boston. 
1897.     Price,  $2.50. 

a  Book        The  author  and  illustrator  of  this  volume 
of  sperjt  his  boyhood  on  a  New  England  farm, 

the  Week.  aud  most  of  his  life  has  been  lived  in  a  little 
country  town  on  the  Connecticut  River.  At 
fifteen  years  of  age  he  left  school,  and  for  five  years  was 
an  assistant  in  a  book  shop.  Then  he  began  to  sketch  and 
write,  and  gradually  his  contributions  were  accepted  by 
the  periodicals.  For  several  years  he  studied  during  the 
winter  in  the  art  schools  in  New  York,  and  to  aid  him  in 
his  work,  he  began  to  take  photographs.  His  first  book, 
"The  New  England  Country,"  was  illustrated  from  his 
own  pictures,  and  he  has  since  published  "The  Country 
School,"  "The  Farmer's  Boy,"  and  an  illustrated  edition 
of  White's  "Selborne."  He  is  thoroughly  familiar  with  the 
farm  life  of  his  native  land,  and  writes  of  its  pleasures,  its 
trials,  and  its  hardships,  with  full  knowledge  and  sympa- 
thy. "Country  Clouds  and  Sunshine"  is  a  complete  de- 
scription of  the  life  on  a  New  England  farm  in  spring, 
summer,  autumn,  and  winter:  of  the  talks  round  the  great 
stove  in  the  grocer}',  of  the  schools,  the  parson  and  his 
preaching,  the  election  of  town  officers,  the  tilling  of  the 
fields,  and  the  harvesting  of  the  crops.  It  is  a  hard,  nar- 
row provincial  life,  of  course,  but  it  trains  strong,  self-re- 
liant characters,  and  when  the  inhabitants  of  these  out-of- 
the-way  regions  have  any  love  for  the  beauties  of  nature 
and  any  taste  for  the  daiuties  that  are  bred  in  books,  they 
often  become  much  more  genuinely  cultivated  than  towns- 
people. Of  the  superficial  smartness  of  the  city-reared 
man  or  woman  they  possess  little,  and  are  none  the  worse 
for  that;  of  a  homely,  clear-headed  common  sense  tbey 
often  have  a  considerable  fund.  Mr.  Johnson's  photographs 
display  much  taste:  they  have  little  or  none  of  that  appall- 
ing sharpness  and  hideous  distinctness  which  constitute 
the  ideal  of  the  commercial  photographer,  but  show  a  true 
subordination  of  the  unimportant  details  to  the  central 
motif  of  the  picture.  Being  ourselves  enthusiastic  pho- 
tographers, Mr.  Johnson's  book  has  afforded  us  much 
pleasure:  it  is  full  of  suggestions.  The  picture  of  a  ferry- 
man, on  page  49,  gives  a  good  idea  of  Mr.  Johnson's  photo- 
graphic style:  the  distance  is  indicated,  but  is  not  obtru- 
sive; the  interest  is  centered  on  the  ferryman  and  his 
boat.  Many  a  commercial  or  so-called  "professional"  pho- 
tographer would  have  given  us  a  background  in  which  every 
detail  was  sharp  and  distinct,  and  so  distracted  our  eyes 
from  the  real  object  of  attention — the  boatman.  Not  so 
the  photographer  who  is  also  an  artist.  "  His  Own  House- 
keeper," on  page  86,  an  old  fellow  sitting  near  a  stove  and 
paring  potatoes  into  a  pan,  is  also  an  excellent  picture. 
The  volume  is  of  crown  quarto  size,  printed  upon  excellent 
paper,  and  attractively  bound. 

"  Mannie  Brown,  that  School-girl,  and  Edward  Kennedy,  that 
College  Boy."  By  Mudred  Rutherford,  Athens,  Ga  Published 
by  the  Peter  Paul  Book  Company,  420  Main  street,  Buffjlo,  New 
York.    Price,  %l. 

The  author  of  these  two  stories,  Miss  Mildred  Ruther- 
ford, is  the  daughter  of  a  gentleman  who  was  for  more 
than  thirty  years  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Georgia,  and  has  herself  been  for  fifteen  years 
Principal  of  the  Lucy  Cobb  Institute  at  Athens  in  that 
State.  She  has  written  books  entitled  "Bible  Questions," 
"American  Authors,"  and  "  English  Authors."  "Man- 
nie Brown"  is  a  tale  of  a  wild  harum-scarum  school-girl, 
always  teasing  servants,  cats  and  dogs,  whodevelops  later 
into  a  charming,  good-hearted  woman.  "Edward  Ken- 
nedy" is  the  story  of  a  boy  of  similar  character,  who,  after 
various  escapades,  falls  in  love  with  a  nice  girl,  and  be- 
comes an  entirely  respectable  person.  Miss  Rutherford 
tells  us  that  the  stories  were  written  "in  the  hope  of  cor- 
recting certain  habits  of  speech  and  manner  which  she  had 
failed  to  reach  by  ordinary  means."     As  to  the   value  of 


the  book  as  a  guide  to  correct  speech  we  do  not  feel  en- 
tirely satisfied,  but  as  the  author  tells  us  that  it  served 
its  mission  well,  we  must  not  be  hypercritical.  The  most 
amusing  chapter  is  that  which  tells  of  Mannie  Brown's 
practical  joke.  Mannie  makes  up  as  an  old  woman  bring- 
ing her  daughter  Maria  to  school,  and  in  "cracker  Eng- 
lish "  tells  the  proprietress  of  the  school  that  she  does  rot 
want  her  child  taught  "grammar,  with  a  I  luce,  and  a  you 
love,  and  a  he  love."  She  goes  on:  "I  says  to  Maria,  says 
I,  '  If  you  do  come  home  with  any  such  foolishness,  I'll  be 
enclined  to  decline  you,  and  I'll  mighty  soon  parse  you  out 
to  the  wood-pile,  whar  you  kin  parse  me  a  stick  of  wood, 
and  I'll  parse  it  over  your  head  mighty  soon, — you  under- 
stand, don't  you?  I  wants  you  to  parse  your  teachers  re- 
spectively, to  parse  fellows  without  a-winkin'  at  'em,  and 
to  parse  your  zaminations — and  that  is  all  the  grammar 
what  I  cares  anything  about.'  "  There  is  much  sounder 
sense  in  this  than  the  old  woman,  or  perhaps  even  than 
the  author,  dreamed  of.  The  book  is  satisfactorily  printed, 
though  the  punctuation  does  strike  us  as  odd  at  times. 
The  Peter  Paul  Book  Company  has  in  press  a  volume  of 
poems  by  Irving  Browne,  for  many  years  editor  of  the  Al- 
bany Law  Journal.  Three  hundred  copies  will  be  printed, 
and  the  volume  will  contain  both  grave  and  humorous 
verse. 

The  January  issue  of  Pearson's  Magazine  (London)  prints 
a  striking  article  by  J.  Holt  Schooling,  in  which  he  shows 
by  the  careful  presentation  of  a  large  number  of  data  that 
a  considerable  majority  of  the  able  men  of  Great  Britain 
are  born  south  of  a  line  drawn  from  the  Wash  in  Lincoln- 
shire to  the  River  Severn.  Sixty  per  cent,  of  the  inven- 
tors, sixty-two  per  cent,  of  the  distinguished  soldiers, 
sailors,  lawyers  and  churchmen,  sixty-seven  per  cent,  of 
the  statesmen,  seventy-one  per  cent,  of  the  authors,  sev- 
enty-five per  cent,  of  the  artists,  aud  no  fewer  than  eighty 
per  cent,  of  the  poets,  first  see  the  light  of  day  to  the 
south  of  this  dividing  line.  More  than  this,  the  counties 
of  Cumberland,  Westmoreland,  Yorkshire,  Lincolnshire, 
Cambridge,  and  Essex,  produce  fewer  eminent  men  than 
any  other  counties,  and  may  all  be  traversed  by  a  curved 
line,  which  is  called  "the  curve  of  least  talent."  The  high 
value  of  an  intellectual  atmosphere  in  producing  and  stimu- 
lating talent  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  Middlesex,  small  in 
area  though  it  is,  produces  far  more  able  men  than  any 
other  county  of  the  United  Kingdom.  Mr.  Francis  Galton, 
a  very  able  investigator  and  man  of  science,  arrived  at  the 
same  conclusion  as  Mr.  Schooling  as  to  the  high  intellec- 
tuality of  London.  England  and  Wales,  taken  together, 
produce  more  than  the  proportionate  number  of  clever 
men  to  be  expected  from  their  area  and  population,  while 
Ireland  (mother  of  the  political  rulers  of  the  United  States) 
produces  far  fewer  men  of  high  intellectual  power  than 
would  be  expected  of  its  area  and  population.  To  express 
the  fact  diagrammatically — Ireland  ought  to  produce  a 
number  of  clever  men  represented  by  a  block  nearly  nine- 
sixteenths  of  an  inch  square,  whereas  it  does  produce  only 
enough  clever  men  to  fill  a  block  six-sixteenths  of  an  inch 
square;  that  is,  it  produces  only  two-thirds  as  many  clever 
men  as  it  should  produce.  (This  little  calculation  is  recom- 
mended to  the  Bookman's  mathematical  man  with  our  re- 
spects). The  Irish  professional  patriots,  who  think  that  they 
ought  to  rule  not  only  the  British  Empire,  but  the  United 
States  of  America  as  well,  are  requested  to  note  their 
natural  inferiority  to  the  population  of  the  rest  of  the 
United  Kingdom;  or,  as  the  vulgar  not  inexpressively  say, 
to  put  these  facts  in  their  pipes  and  smoke  them.  It  is 
pretty  strong  tobacco,  but  is  genuine  leaf  all  through. 

A  nicely  gotten  up  and  useful  little  book  for  tourists  is 
that  issued  by  The  Traveler,  entitled  "Outings  in  Califor- 
nia." It  furnishes  information  with  reference  to  San 
Francisco  and  vicinity,  Mt.  Shasta,  Yosemite  Valley, 
Stanford  University,  the  Missions  of  California,  and  many 
other  places  that  a  tourist  will  be  likely  to  wish  to  visit. 
Scattered  liberally  through  the  pages  are  photogravures 
of  some  of  the  well-known  scenes  in  San  Francisco  and 
California.  The  principal  hotels  throughout  the  State  are 
noted,  and  the  rates  of  accommodation  quoted.  A  copy 
of  this  useful  handbook  may  be  obtained  from  the  office  of 
The  Traveler  for  the  moderate  price  of  ten  cents. 

Edgar  Fawcett,  in  his  department  entitled  "Men, 
Manners  and  Moods"  in  Collier's  Weekly  for  February  4th, 


February  20,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   1.1   ; 


ngp  a  criterion  of  literary  merit  t 
cannot  help  commenting  3  mlay'a 

■   that  they  "wi 
at  by  Matthew  Arnold,  tl  en  the 

r    and    delight    ol  |  But    then   .Martin 

Tuppt  jhl"  to  thousands:  the 

ette,  tin-  Now  York  Francisco 

Examiner,  are  the  delight  of  thousands,  and  cause  thou- 
saodsmore  to  "wonder  why  in  the  work!  they  are  per- 
mitted to  esist.  Mr.  Fawcett's  new  literary  criterion 
will  cause  "wonder"  in  the  minds  of  as  many  intelligent 
peop'.  if  it,     Of  course,  we  do  not  mean 

.  that  Macaulay's  Lays  are  not  very  proper  sources 
of  delight,  but  *  1    to  having   toe   "wonder  and 

delight"  of  thousands  set  up  as  a  Knal  test  of  literary  ex 
cellence. 

The  English  edition  of  Dr.  Hansen's  book,"  says  the 
London  Daily  Chronicle.  "is  nearly  all  in  type,  and 
he  has  only  to  conclude  his  revision  of  the  proofs.  Two 
shorthand  writers  have  been  with  the  explorer  almost 
since  he  arrived  at  his  home  near  Cliristiania.  He  has 
practically  dictated  the  book  to  them,  and  has  absolutely 
declined  to  permit  of  the  task  being  interrupted  by  any 
other  claims  upon  him.  The  work  will  be  in  two  large  vol- 
umes, with  a  fine  etched  portrait  of  Nansen.  The  history 
of  this  portrait  is  interesting,  not  to  say  romantic.  It  was 
taken  on  the  day  before  Nansen  left  the  Fram,  and,  more- 
over, he  was  his  own  photographer.  The  picture  shows 
him  in  the  cabin  of  his  stout;  little  ship.  The  artist  who 
prepared  the  etching;  has  had  the  advantage  of  recent  sit- 
tings from  its  subject.  Another  feature  of  the  book  will 
be  a  series  of  reproductions  of  sketches  in  color,  made  by 
Nansen.  These  give  a  vivid  idea  of  Arctic  scenery,  and 
are  quite  remarkable." 

In  the  February  issue  of  The  Arena,  Dr.  W.  T.  Harris, 
the  D.  S.  Commissioner  of  Education,  discusses  the  New 
Education,  Annie  N.  Meyer  the  Problem  of  the  Novel, 
Professor  Frank  Parsons  the  Telegraph  Monopoly,  and 
Lucy  L.  Crandall  holds  forth  on  something  she  calls 
Pneumatology,  which  she  defines  as  the  "  science  of 
spirit."  We  have  sometimes  heard  of  the  scientific  spirit, 
but  never  before  of  the  "science  of  spirit."  Had  not  an 
explanation  of  the  word  been  given,  we  should  have  gone 
away  supposing  "Pneumatology"  to  be  the  science  of  wind, 
just  as  Meteorology  is  the  science  of  the  weather,  and 
Biology  the  science  of  life,  and  we  should  probably  have 
thought  that  the  article  was  intended  to  be  of  service  to 
budding  politicians.  Whatever  Lucy's  new  matology  may 
be,  we  sincerely  hope  that  the  clumsy  word  may  not  find  a 
permanent  place  in  our  dictionaries,  which  are  already 
swollen  to  absolutely  indelicate  proportions  by  the  mon- 
strosities spawned  by  men  of  science,  devoid  of  taste  and 
of  an  elementary  knowledge  of  language. 


TX  VERY  important  case  is  now  before  Superior  Judge 
l\  Smith,  of  Santa  Cruz.  The  action  was  brought  by  one 
Struve  against  the  Western  Sugar  Company,  for  $20,000 
damages  alleged  to  have  been  caused  by  the  dumping  of 
quantities  of  sugar  beet  pulp  on  his  lands.  The  case  is  an 
important  one,  as  having  a  bearing  upon  this  great  indus- 
try of  California.  Mr.  Samuel  M.  Shortridge  is  ably  de- 
fending the  case,  with  every  prospect  of  securing  a  verdict. 

ONE  of  the  most  satisfactory  acquaintances  it  is  possi- 
ble for  a  lover  of  the  pipe  to  make  is  "Yale  Mixture," 
manufactured  by  the  American  Tobacco  Company.  Y'ale 
Mixture  finds  a  warm  spot  in  the  heart  of  the  discrimina- 
ting smoker  the  moment  he  samples  it. 

Cf  the  making  of  many  kinds  of  whiskey  there  is  no  end,  but  one 
of  the  best — the  one  wh  )se  meri.s  keep  it  on  every  well-conducted 
bar — a  popular,  prime  drink  good  fur  all  weather  and  everywhere,  is 
Cutter  Whiskey,  of  which  excellent  goods  E.  Martin  &  Co.,  at  411 
Market  street,  are  sole  Pacific  Coast  agents. 


Wide  awake  visitors  would  be  as  likely  to  miss  seeing  seal  rocks 
and  Golden  Gate  Park,  as  tbey  would  to  neglect  a  call  on  Geo.  T. 
Marsh  &  Co.,  at  1125  Mirket  street,  under  the  Palace.  The  finest 
Japanese  art  goods,  curios  and  tapestries,  kept  by  Marsh  are  worth 
a  long  trip  to  see. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  '-Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  teething. 


THE    IMPRESSION    SHE    MADE  -«.  >    ..     < 

N. 
AH  :  ■  ha»e.  ni  ■  rule. 

It  it  really  ■::        . ■  1 1 v  impreeaed  me 
Aa  a  ;  green  mile. 

Shi- i-oul, I  :      ..      (.,r  we  ilnni  i  ,1.  I  remember. 

And  lrip|  founded  II 

While  w  i  tho  urhl  "i  her  only 

As  on  armful  of  very  green  tulle. 

Then  she  ate,  I  ir  I  took  her  to  supper- 
All  she  wanted  was  "something  that's  cool ;" 

Bo  I  brought  pislacbeloe,  meanwhile  thinking, 
J IHI  the  iliiiif;  for  a  bit  of  green  tulle. 

I  was  wiih  her  the  whole  Of  the  evening, 

And  I  Hirted  unci  talked  like  a  fool ; 
Now  my  only  remembrance  of  her, 

Is  of  something  in  very  green  tulle. 

Should  we  meet  in  the  streets  on  the  morrow, 
I  should  pass  her,  I  know,  like  a  mule; 

I  sha'n't  know  her  again  till  1  meet  her 
Arrayed  in  that  very  green  tulle. 

A     SUCCESSFUL     HOME      INDUSTRY. 

THE  success  that  has  attended  the  Siebe  Shoe  Company, 
manufacturer  of  ladies  fine  footwear,  demonstrates 
that  it  is  not  necessary  for  an  article  to  be  imported  in  or- 
der to  find  ready  sale,  ouce  that  its  merits  are  known. 
This  company,  whose  large  three-story  factory  is  at  25  to 
31  Jessie  street,  this  city,  is  at  present  running  on  full 
time,  and  turning  out  from  four  hundred  to  five  hundred 
pairs  of  ladies'  fine  shoes  every  day  of  ten  hours.  The 
factory  employs  about  one  hundred  hands— all  white  la- 
bor, and  ships  shoes  to  all  points  on  the  Coast  and  to  the 
countries  beyond  the  Pacific.  The  capacity  of  the  Siebe 
Shoe  Company  was  materially  increased  last  fall  by  the 
introduction  of  the  very  latest  machinery,  but  it  is  found 
difficult  to  keep  up  with  the  growing  business.  The  goods 
turned  out  are  of  the  finest  grade,  and  they  are  not  only 
made  of  the  very  best  materials  that  can  be  bought,  put 
together  by  skilled  labor,  under  expert  supervision;  but 
they  are  the  latest  shapes  and  most  graceful,  stylish  fin- 
ish. Mr.  A.  D.  Tourtilotte  is  the  general  manager  and 
treasurer,  and  the  gratifying  success  of  the  company  is 
largely  due  to  his  energy  and  excellent  business  judgment. 

PICTURESQUE      SAN      FRANCISCO. 

TL  BEAUTIFUL  picture  of  the  interior  of  the  conserva- 
i\  tcry  in  Golden  Gate  Park  appears  with  this  number 
of  the  News  Letter.  It  will  make  a  most  desirable  addi- 
tion to  the  portfolio  of  views  that  are  being  issued  with 
this  paper. 

All  flowers  may  be  beautiful— but  some  are  more  beautiful  than 
others;  and  it  is  this  kind  that  one  always  gets  at  Leopold's,  at  30 
Post  street.  The  choicest,  daintiest  buds  and  most  fragrant  bou- 
quets are  found  at  his  place;  and  his  prices  are  very  reasonable. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  20,  i8c,7. 


Were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  an  ability  to 
The  Comstock  raise  prices  of  the  leading  shares  of  Corn- 
Mining  Market,  stock  companies  is  demonstrated  from 
time  to  time,  the  habitual  lethargic  condi- 
tion of  the  market  would  suggest  a  decline  of  vitality  and 
the  rapid  shortening  of  a  very  brief  span  of  existence. 
The  situation  is  certainly  anything  but  attractive  for 
persons  speculatively  inclined.  The  fluctuations,  when 
there  are  any,  are  so  narrow  that  the  margins  of  profit 
rarely  cover  the  ordinary  commissioos  for  brokerage. 
Con.  Cal.  Virginia  has  propped  prices  up  for  some  time 
past  all  along  the  line,  but  the  withdrawal  of  support  in 
that  quarter  for  a  time  during  the  week -was  quickly  fol- 
lowed by  a  decline  in  all  directions.  It  is  hoped  that  a  con- 
test for  control  of  Hale&Noreross  will  put  another  breath 
of  life  iuto  the  business,  by  bringing  in  some  money  from 
the  cliques  which  are  after  the  loaves  and  fishes  in  the 
way  of  salaries.  Unfortunately  these  are  too  often  secured 
now  on  the  cheap  and  even  dancing  is  barred  to  the  people 
who  must  eventually  be  assessed  to  pay  the  piper.  The 
method  of  keepiug  the  faithful  up  to  the  rack  now  with 
wind  seems  to  reci  mmend  itself  to  the  new  manipulator  as  an 
exponent  of  the  up- to  date  theory  of  making  money  without 
risking  a  dollar,  literally  squeezing  blood  out  of  a  turnip. 
It  must  surprise  many  of  these  smooth  individuals  them- 
selves at  times  to  note  the  success  of  a  game  which  can 
onlv  be  played  on  a  mind  blinded  by  the  inordinate  cupidity 
of  "a  desperate  gambler.  A  stock  market  would  prove  a 
boon  to  this  city  by  putting  much  hoarded  capital  into  cir- 
culation, but  it  begins  to  look  doubtful  if  such  a  happy 
result  will  ever  be  attained  dependent  upon  the  efforts  of 
any  of  the  cliques  which  now  control  the  mines.  Their 
sole  efforts  seem  to  be  directed  to  squeezing  the  orange  as 
dry  as  possible  by  scientific  means,  little  calculated  to  en- 
gender the  favorable  opinion  of  outside  operators  in  the 
market.  To  say  the  policy  is  shortsighted  would  but 
feebly  express  it. 

A  representative  of  a  syndicate  operat- 
To  Develop  ing  the  Alabama  mine,  of  Tuolumne 
The  Alabama.  County,  says  that  there  is  no  intention  of 
floating  the  property  in  London  in  its 
present  condition,  and  that  the  amount  of  $600,000  men- 
tioned in  the  incorporation  of  the  company  in  that  city, 
simply  represents  the  total  capital  stock,  which  no  effort 
is  being  made  to  sell.  According  to  the  statement  of  this 
gentleman,  all  that  was  paid  for  the  mine  originally  was 
$40,000,  or  $5,000  less  than  the  figures  quoted  in  the  News 
Letter  as  the  purchasing  price  paid  to  the  Bell  estate. 
The  syndicate  is  composed  of  six  men  of  means,  who  are 
now  spending  $2,000  monthly  in  sinking  the  shaft  and 
opening  up  the  mine,  which  it  is  hoped  will  repay  the  in- 
vestment. Should  it  develop  into  a  paying  property,  then 
the  London  company  will  take  hold,  and  if  not,  the  whole 
business  will  be  dropped,  and  the  expenses  charged  to 
profit  and  loss  account.  This  is  a  fair  enough  proposition, 
and  one  which  should  recommend  itself  to  other  promoters 
who  are  but  too  ready  to  dump  their  wares  on  the  market, 
regardless  of  how  their  properties  turn  out.  There  is  no 
reason  why  the  Alabama  should  not  develop  into  a  high- 
priced  property.  It  is  in  a  good  location  on  the  mother 
lode,  and  like  manj'  other  mines  on  the  famous  mineralized 
belt,  it  may  have  a  great  future.  People  who  are  well 
disposed  to  the  development  of  the  mining  industry  in 
California  can  but  wish  for  the  success  of  any  venture  of 
the  kind  conducted  upon  the  common-sense  and  practical 
lines  adopted  by  the  syndicate  in  control  of  this  property. 
Another  event  of  the  week  has  been  the  pass- 
The  Same  ing  of  the  Gold  Mining  Exchange  of  San  Fran- 
Oid  Story,  cisco.  The  names  of  all  the  leading  mining 
men  of  the  northern  portion  of  the  State  are 
on  the  roll  of  membership,  but  among  them  all  only  some 
half  a  dozen  figured  at  the  end  on  the  list  of  paying  sub- 
scribers. The  collapse  is  a  disgrace  to  the  city,  and  a  direct 
reflection  upon  the  much  vaunted  liberality  of  our  mining 
men.  The  Los  Angeles  Exchange  still  exists,  however,  to 
maintain  the  dignity  of  the  industry  in  California. 


To  our  London  friends  interested  in  the 
The  Truth  Holcomb  Vallev  Co.,  Limited,  we  corn- 
Leaking  Out.     mend  the  following  excerpt  from  the  latest 

report  of  the  State  Mineralogist,  confirm- 
atory of  the  facts  which  for  nearly  ten  years  past  we  have 
been  trying  to  drill  into  their  thick  pates.  After  speak- 
ing of  the  large  amount  of  money  expended  in  property, 
machinery,  experiments,  etc.,  the  report  says:  "A  dredg- 
ing machine  (steam  shovel)  has  been  employed  for  three 
years  past,  but  it  has  been  found  that  the  quantity  of  gold 
in  tlic  gravel  is  too  small  to  make  such  extensive  operations  re- 
munerative. *  *  *  Water  for  sluicing  has  to  be  pumped 
from  wells,  the  amount  of  stripping  required  is  usually  (?) 
large,  and  the  grade  of  the  valley  insufficient  to  make 
mining  on  a  large  scale  possible."  The  report  then  goes 
on  to  say  that  the  proposition  of  tunneling  through 
the  mountains  on  the  north  rim  of  the  basin  for  draining 
the  valley  and  for  an  outlet  for  tailings,  etc.,  does  not  seem 
feasible.  This  is  the  old  Valley  Gold  launched  in  London 
with  such  a  flourish  of  trumpets  about  the  same  time  as 
the  Union  Gold  infamy  was  perpetrated.  Since  then  two 
condemnatory  reports  have  been  filed  with  the  manage- 
ment, one  by  John  Williams,  a  practical  miner,  employed 
at  the  instance  of  one  Lloyd,  a  shareholder,  and  the  other 
by  John  Hays  Hammond.  Neither  of  these  reports  have 
even  yet  seen  daylight,  so  far  as  the  British  public  is  con- 
cerned. Yet  the  milking  process  has  gone  on.  An  inves- 
tigation of  this  transaction  from  beginning  to  end  should 
be  made  by  the  proper  authorities  in  Great  Britain. 

The   sale   of  a  one-sixth  interest  in  the 

A  Big  Mariposa  grant  reported  this  week,  is  an 

Mining  Sale,     event  of  more  than  ordinary  importance, 

considering  that  it  makes  the  first  break 
in  a  combination  which  has  kept  one  of  the  most  extensive 
and  promising  mineral  tracts  in  the  world  idle  for  years 
past.  Mr.  Hayward  disposed  of  a  one-sixth  interest  to  H. 
Bratnober,  representing  the  London  Exploration  Com- 
pany, for  $166,6665,  at  the  rate  of  $1,000,000  for  the  whole 
tract.  It  was  upon  this  grant  that  the  old  Agua  Fria 
Company  of  London  started  up  work  in  1851.  Several 
promising  mines  were  developed  later,  notably  the 
Josephine  and  Pine  Tree,  but  litigation  and  other  troubles 
have  kept  them  closed  down  over  twenty  years.  The 
Mariposa  grant  was  originally  owned  by  General  Fremont, 
and  subsequently  by  Eugene  Kelly  &  Co.,  of  New  York. 
The  present  owners  of  the  remaining  interests  in  the 
property  are  John  W.  Mackay,  Senator  J.  P.  Jones,  and 
the  Hobart  estate. 

People  who  are  interested  in  the  Giant 
The  Gambling  Powder  deal  to  the  extent  of  speculating 
Powder  Men.  when  the  trap  will  be  sprung  upon  the 
victims,  who  are  expected  to  meet  the 
assessment  necessary  to  cover  the  heavy  outstanding  in- 
debtedness of  the  company,  favor  the  belief  that  the  levy 
will  not  be  made  until  the  compact  now  contemplated  with 
the  other  companies  is  signed  and  sealed.  This  will  enable 
the  manipulators  of  shares  which  are  getting  to  be  notori- 
ously speculative,  to  work  the  last  dollar  out  of  the  deal  on 
the  street  rumors  of  a  consummated  combine,  which  has 
all  along  been  used  to  bait  the  trap  set  for  credulous 
money  seekers  on  California  street.  The  business  prin- 
ciple which  adds  to  the  sterling  value  of  industrial  shares 
as  an  investment,  is  based  upon  manufactured  products 
and  ready  markets,  and  not  on  stock  jobbing  facilities.  A 
comparison  between  the  California  and  Giant  Companies 
stocks,  as  they  appear  on  the  list  of  the  Exchange,  is  the 
best  illustration  of  this.  The  one  firmly  held  at  high  prices, 
representing  a  wealthy  solid  concern  ;  the  other  bobbing 
up  and  down  like  a  jack-in-the-box  at  the  will  of  the 
manipulators.  It  is  a  matter  of  record,  to  which  the  Califor- 
nia people  can  point  with  pride,  showing  how  closely  held 
their  stock  is  by  old  and  wealthy  local  families,  that  dur- 
ing the  past  sixteen  years  the  transfers  have  not  exceeded 
five  hundred  shares.  Prices  are  quoted  for  the  stock,  but 
no  sales  are  ever  made  in  the  Board  to-day.  None  can  be 
bad.  This  will  strike  some  people  as  strange,  when  they 
come  to  think  of  it,  after  watching  the  way  the  stock  of 
other  industrials  in  this  line  are  battered  about  from  pillar 
to  post. 


February  20.  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETT]  R 


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"He»r  toe  Crier:"     -Wh»t  the  derll  art  thou?" 
"One that  will o1»t  the  derll.  ilr.  with  joo." 

THERE  is  something  very  mysteriously  funny  about  the 
Abbott  Quackenhush  case,  now  on  trial  before  Judge 
SeawelL  It  looks  funny,  deucedly  funny,  my  masters,  that 
the  conscientious  dailies  should  admit  only  one  side  of  the 
testimony,  and  that  all  in  favor  of  old  Quack  himself.  A 
man  who  appears  on  the  record  as  Expert  T.  Kytaka, 
who  looks  as  if  he  had  not  taken  a  bath  for  a  month,  and 
who  carries  soil  enough  under  his  nails  to  grow  artichokes 
and  green  pease,  testified  that  the  marriage  acknowledg- 
ment was  a  palpable  forgery.  Now,  it  matters  not  a 
tinker's  oath  to  the  T.  C.  whether  or  not  old  Quack  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Abbott,  but  it  does  matter  that  a  fellow  who 
does  not  know  the  a.  b.  c.  of  chemistry  should  be  paid  for 
exposing  his  ignorance.  Dr.  Harry  West  Miller,  a  gradu- 
ate of  Strasburg.  with  the  Diploma  of  Doctor  of  Natural 
Sciences  was  called,  and  testified  in  the  case,  but  not  a  line 
regarding  his  testimony  has  appeared.  If  this  is  not  giv- 
ing the  poor  old  public  another  clip  on  its  all  too  credulous 
snout,  ye  may  slate  Duckworth  for  dispensor  of  free  soap 
to  the  unemployed  masses. 

MIKE  BRANNIGAN  is  in  town.  Mike  the  doughty, 
J  1  Mike  who  the  Vigilantes  in  the  spring  of  '50  chased 
across  the  border  because  they  esteemed  the  descendant 
of  the  great  O'Brannigans  anything  but  an  ornament  to 
the  society  of  the  period.  Mr.  O'Brannigan  used  to  be  a 
hackman  in  those  early  days,  and  the  flyest  lad  that  ever 
sat  on  the  box.  Now  he  wears  diamonds,  and  salutes  the 
very  men  who  chased  him  with  a  slap  on  the  back,  and  an 
imitation  to  drink.  But  the  O'Brannigan  is  sadly  sur- 
prised at  the  demoralization  of  the  times.  "Why,"  says 
that  genial  fellow,  "if  dose  boys  did  dose  tings  in  my  time, 
dere  would  be  scores  of  us  a  Hying  wid  the  Vigilantes  at 
our  heels. "  True  for  thee,  gentle  Mike,  true  as  gospel; 
but  you  know  they  say  that  if  a  skinned  eel  is  put  back  in 
the  water  again,  he  will  gradually  get  used  to  skinning. 
We  could  hardly  get  along  now  without  our  municipal 
thieves.     We  should  feel  awfully  lonesome. 

BLESS  us,  how  shocked  the  dailies  are  at  this  Vander- 
bilt  scandal,  and  how  they  are  trying  to  hush  it  up  by 
devoting  several  columns  every  morning  on  speculating 
who  the  monster  that  assailed  the  lady's  fair  fame  could 
be,  and  what  he  actually  did  say  about  her.  What  a 
ghoulish  dance  those  journals  are  enjoying  opposite  the 
door  of  that  closet  where  the  skeleton  lies,  weighted  down 
with  a  flat  iron.  How  they  long  to  peek  in  through  the 
keyho'e,  and  catch  just  one  glimpse  of  his  ugliness.  With 
exultation  they'd  lug  him  forth  if  they  could  get  a  single 
finger  on  bim.  And  all  the  time  they  are  condoling  with 
the  persecuted  young  couple.  By  the  snake  in  the  garden, 
there  never  was  hypocrisy  that  could  equal  this! 

JAMES  HAMILTON,  the  Thespians'  pillar,  has  im- 
ported a  waistcoat  from  Scotland,  which  is  a  dream 
of  the  bonny  blue  heather.  Likewise  two  claymores  for 
his  celebrated  sword  dance  to  be  given  on  Washington's 
Birthday  for  the  benefit  of  the  Associated  Charities. 
Likewise  a  mull  filled  with  Scotch  snuff.  Mr.  Hamilton  is 
a  member  of  that  grand  clan  which  blessed  His  Grace  of 
Argyle  when  he  put  up  the  milestones  in  Argyleshire, 
which  they  found  so  convenient  for  scratching  posts. 

ANTONY  HELLMAN  is  to  be  the  Prince  of  the 
Carnival  at  the  Art  Association  hnl  masque  Sweet 
of  voice  and  light  of  foot  is  Tony,  who  won  his  laurels 
years  ago  at  many  a  hard  fought  Bohemian  low  jinks. 
But  a  rumor  is  current  in  the  life  class  of  the  Art  School, 
that  Mr.  Herman's  cast,  the  Apollo  Belvedere  of  the  Latin 
Quarter,  has  run  to  corns. 

IS  that  while-winged  old  philanthropist,  ex-horse  Sutro, 
going  to  return  those  fees  which  he  and  his  clerk 
illegally  pocketed?  Mayor  Phelan  has  taken  the  correct 
view  of  the  matter,  and  turned  his  into  the  city  treasury. 
Pungle,  thou  old  mole,  pungle,  give  unto  Cajsar  the  things 
that  are  Caesar's. 


ONE  Mr.  Hinckley,  wandering  along  the  City   Front, 
and  bathii  hes  fi  the  deep,   dark   liquids 

which  the  water-side  tavern  keeper  dispenses,  casl  1 
on  the  tower  of  i  |„,t.  Mr.  Hinckley,  or  Biinckfy, 

at  once  made  the  remarkable  discovery  that  il  was  out  ,,f 
plumb,  or  perch,  01  a   atever  the  scientific  slang  as 

rooked  structure.  He  kept  on  blinking,  until  he 
imagined  the  world  should  know  all  about  it,  and  he  told 
the  world  the  result  ,,f  his  blinking,  also  casting  a  stone  at 
Howard  C.  Holmes,  the  official  engineer  of  the  Harbor 
Commissioners.      Now,  as  .Mi'.   Holmes   has  for  the  last  few 

years  constructed  all  the  important  improvements  along 

the  harbor  front,  and  as  his  ability  as  not.  alone  a  brilliant, 
but  a  most  careful  and  painstaking  engineer,  is  unques- 
tioned, he  very  properly  declined  to  be  drawn  into  a  con- 
troversy with  Mr.  Illinekly.  So  the  merry  world  wags.  If 
notoriety  does  not  come  naturally  to  some  mortals,  by  the 
thigh  bone  of  Pactolus,  they  will  stoop  into  the  sewer  to 
grasp  it. 

SN  admirable  and  marvelous  example  of  the  power  of  a 
lawyer's  jaw  was  that  incident  where  Mr.  Lezinsky,  a 
member  of  the  bar,  was  struck  in  the  head  and  knocked 
insensible  by  a  flying  quail.  What  a  vast  field  of  specula- 
tion this  opens  to  the  inquiring  mind.  If  a  single  quail, 
landing  on  a  Stockton  lawyer's  chin,  will  bowl  him  over, 
what  size  or  manner  of  bird  would  it  require  to  prostrate 
Reuben  Lloyd,  or  Colonel  Kowalsky?  Would  the  condor, 
the  monarch  of  the  Andes,  have  any  effect  upon  the 
Kowalsky  jaw,  or  would  not  rather  the  noble  bird  drop  to 
the  earth  from  the  force  of  the  impact,  while  the  Colonel 
would  inquire  what  sort  of  mosquito  was  that  which 
brushed  his  leonine  headpiece?  A  winged  emu  banging 
against  Mr.  Lloyd's  chin  would  have  reason  to  repent  its 
rashness,  and  would  go  on  crutches  for  a  month  as  a  result 
of  the  adventure. 

THERE  can  be  no  better  way  to  get  a  good  dose  of 
dyspepsia  than  to  ponder  over  one  of  the  Saturday 
Bulletin's  menus  for  a  Sunday  dinner.  Stomach  of  the 
Puritans!  what  an  ecstasy  of  pie.  Stick-jaw,  stick-jaw 
everywhere,  ar.d  not  a  bite  to  eat.  And  the  art  with 
which  it  is  strung  out.  Why,  an  honest  Hibernian  potato 
would  fail  to  recognize  itself  under  the  mass  of  French 
aliases  poured  on  its  devoted  head  by  the  Bulletin  epicure. 
Upon  no  such  baby  food  doth  the  stalwart  Colonel  Crotbers 
feed.  Steaks  and  strong  ale  are  the  brickwork  upon 
which  that  great  structure  stands.  But  he  is  shockingly 
reckless  of  the  health  of  his  subscribers. 

SUPERVISOR  Delany  is  acknowledged  on  all  sides  to 
be  a  fine  figure  of  a  man.  The  boys  like  to  poke  fun 
at  the  Major,  and  one  asked  him  a  few  days  ago  for  his  in- 
fluence to  obtain  a  janitorship.  "Arra,  they're  all  gone," 
said  the  city  father.  "Well,  thin,  give  me  that  place 
about  the  polis.  Shure  I  woted  for  you,"  persisted  the 
constituent.  "What  place?"  asked  the  Major,  pricking 
up  his  ears.  "Why,  polishing  the  buttons  on  the  officers' 
uniforms,"  said  the  patriot.  "Not  by  a  d d  sight,"  re- 
joined the  Majori  who  had  never  heard  before°of  that 
lucrative  position,  "that's  reserved."  And  be  passed  on 
with  that  martial  air  which  so  well  becomes  him. 

WILLIS  POLK,  the  gay,  the  debonnaire, 
"With  Irish  has  locked  horns, 
Stirred  up  again  a  nasly  smell, 
And  trod  on  John  P.'s  corns. 

John  P..  John  P.,  pray  cautious  be, 

And  keep  within  your  camp, 
Nor  agitate  the  odors  vile, 

Of  that  postoffice  swamp, 

LOUIS  JAMES  attributes  the  failure  of  Spartacus  to 
those  frightful  prints  of  the  gladiator,  which  were 
hung  upon  the  outer  walls  of  this  city.  Mr.  James  is  rep- 
resented as  a  man  whose  face  is  contorted  from  the  effects 
of  a  pot  of  Boston  beans,  hastily  swallowed  without  the 
necessary  mastication. 

IT  would  be  the  funniest  thing  in  the  world  if  Butler,  the 
demon  of  the  Blue  Mountains,  should  prove  to  be  a 
reputable  citizen,  quite  innocent  of  blood  shedding.  Ob, 
ye  sweet  girls  of  the  newspapers,  who  discovered  all  the 
damning  lines  in  Butler's  mug,  what  would  become  of  ve 
then? 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  20,  1897. 


r 


VHE  supremacy  of  the 
"bud"  element  is  set- 
tled— the  older  girls  can't  hold  their  own  against  the  dibu- 
tantis.  This  fact  is  demonstrated  by  the  decadence  of  the 
old-time  "Cotillion  Club,"  and  the  success  of  the  Friday 
Fortnightlies,  which  this  season  is  more  marked  than  usual. 
Some  people  assert  that  because  the  latter  organization  is 
cheaper  it  has  drawn  better;  but  that  is  nonsense.  Men 
go  where  the  girls  are  new,  and  the  sans  gene  breeziness  of 
just  out"  pervades,  in  preference  to  the  four  or  five 
seasons'  belles  who  are  thoroughly  "up"  in  worldly  wisdom; 
and  where  the  men  go  women  are  sure  to-follow;  hence  the 
large  attendance  at  the  younger  set  of  cotillion  dances. 

*  *  * 

"  Nothing  succeeds  like  success"  is  an  old  axiom,  and, 
like  most  old  axioms,  true.  Can  anything  illustrate  this 
better  than  the  social  attentions  being  showered  upon  the 
wife  of  Sir  Bache  Cunard,  in  Gotham's  fashionable  set,  by 
people  who  would  have  quietly  let  her  pass  in  silence,  when 
as  little  Maude  Burke  she  left  San  Francisco  and 
achieved  her  first  step  as  Fred  Tichenor's  step-daughter. 
That  she  was  a  bright,  agreeable  girl  was  acknowledged  by 
all,  but  the  conquest  of  a  wealthy  British  Baronet  has 
cast  a  halo  around  her  head  that  has  captured  Anglo- 
mania Gothamites  as  immense  wealth  does  on  the  Pacific 

Slope. 

*  *  * 

Much  speculation  is  rife  in  the  swim  as  to  who  will  have 
the  enviable  position  of  chatelaine  in  the  Howard  mansion 
recently  purchased  by  Colonel  Fred  Crocker.  Rumor  says 
the  Franklin  street  brunette  stands  the  best  chance.  An- 
other says  the  Jurist's  clever  daughter  holds  the  winning 
card;  but  an  inside  authority  declares  ambition,  not  senti- 
ment, will  guide  the  gallant  Colonel  in  his  choice  when 
number  two  is  in  order,  and  that  "she"  will  not  come  from 

California  at  all. 

*  *  # 

Now  that  Mrs.  George  Pope  has  opened  her  doors  a 
"weeny  bit,"  as  children  say,  her  girl  friends  are  besieging 
her  with  clamors  for  a  dance.  Big  house — lots  of  money — 
why  not?  Apropos  of  Mrs.  Pope's  recent  luncheon,  there 
was  a  most  unusual  commingling  of  the  older  and  younger 
set  of  girls  among  the  guests,  Miss  Daisy  Casserley,  Miss 
Friedlander,  and  Miss  McKinstry  representing  the  one, 
and  some  of  the  season's  buds  the  other. 

*  *  * 

It  behooves  our  millionaire  class  who  love  New  York  and 
New  York  ways,  to  note  the  simple,  unostentatious  man- 
ners of  young  Whitney  and  his  wife,  the  style  of  their  get- 
ting to  the  Palace  Hotel  from  the  steamer  which  brought 
them  from  Japan: — riding  on  a  Market-street  car  in  prefer- 
ence to  Schwerine's  coach,    was   a   refreshing  rebuke   to 

snobbish  display. 

*  *  * 

Society  is  bewailing  the  fact  that  the  approaching  sea- 
son of  French  opera  will  be  held  in  Lent,  for,  of  course, 
the  ultra-fashionable  folk  will  not  go.  However,  the  Jew- 
ish element,  the  foreign  ditto,  and  the  Romanists,  will 
make  a  large  enough  contingent  to  ensure  a  satisfactory 
financial  result,  even  if  the  fashionable  set  do  not  attend. 

*  *  * 

It  is  getting  to  be  quite  the  thing  now  for  a  lady  to 
drive  up  to  a  club,  resign  the  reins  to  her  groom,  and  drop 
in  to  luncheon  accompanied  by  a  friend,  as  cool  and  calm 
as  any  man.     Who  says  we  are  not  a  progressive  people? 

*  *  * 

Whenever  one  hears  of  colonial  dames,  one  insensibly 
wonders  why  the  colonial  squires  are  not  in  evidence  as 
well,  or  was  it  by  chance  that  men  folk  did  not  amount  to 

much  in  colonial  days  1 

*  *  * 

Miss  Kate  Thornton  Salisbury  is  the  most  extensively 
entertained  young  lady  in  society,  and  is  indebted  to  her 
merry  personality  for  her  popularity. 


The  interest  in  the  amateur  rendition  of  Caste,  in  aid  of 
charity,  is  growing  daily,  and  those  who  have  been  lucky 
enough  to  witness  the  rehearsals  say  the  different  charac- 
ters will  be  admirably  sustained,  Miss  Burton,  Miss  Hooper, 
and  Charley  Dickman  having   parts   especially   suited   to 

them. 

*  *  * 

"What  a  shame  it  is  to  air  Walter  Dean's  poker  losses 
in  public  print,"  said  a  well-known  society  girl  yesterday. 
"  How  much  better  to  let  the  impression  prevail  that 
pique  at  a  certain  young  lady's  switching  off  on  another 
track  caused  his  e'eparture  from  town." 

*  *  * 

There  is  some  talk  of  a  skating  rink  club  to  be  organized 
among  our  swagger  set  as  a  pastime  for  the  dreary  Len- 
ten period.  As  that  sport  is  entirely  independent  of  wind 
or  weather,  hilly  roads  or  bad  streets,  our  pretty  belles 
will  be  all  agog  for  the  rollers,  no  doubt. 

*  *  # 

When  Wiltsee  and  Cowles  go  to  housekeeping,  the  girls 
say  they  are  going  to  have  a  parrot  and  monkey  time, 
candy  pullings,  blind  man's  buff,  and  sicli,  being  on  the 
programme  when  society  visits  the  bachelors  in  the  old 
Rutherford  Bush-street  house. 

*  *  * 

Gossip  says  the  paradox  of  the  period  will  be  achieved 
when  a  lately  married  society  girl  becomes  the  daughter- 
in-law  of  her  own  mother. 


The  best  dressed  men  in  the  city  get  their  furnishing  goods  at 
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and  cleanliness. 

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February  jo,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   III 


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DKAK  KHITII  :  The  dress  materials  to  be  worn  this 
season  are  so  many  and  varied  that  every  typo  of 
woman  will  be  able  to  adorn  herself  in  the  special  color  and 
texture  which  sets  off  to  the  greatest  advantage  her  per- 
sonal charms. 

Some  very  dainty  gowns  are  to  be  made  of  Scotch  Fr 
in  mixed  colorings,  such  as  navy  blue  dotted  in  light  blue, 
wine  color  and  gold,  laurel  brown  speckled  in  may-flower 
pink,  olive  and  wood  violet,  pussy  willow  green  liued  and 
1  in  buttercup,  lily  white  and  silver.  The  camel's 
hair  fabrics  for  early  spring  are  to  become  quite  popular, 
too,  especially  for  very  young  women,  who  are  slender  and 
girlish  in  tigure.  They  will  be  made  up  with  bright  vel- 
vets and  considerable  passementerie  and  embroidery.  One 
new  feature  in  these  frocks  will  be  the  whole  velvet  sleeves, 
which  are  now  appearing  in  the  latest  London   examples. 

Empress,  Venetian,  Oxford  suitings  and  the  smooth 
diagonal  cloths  help  to  make  up  a  large  assortment  of  fab- 
rics for  the  early  spring. 

The  newest  colors  are  along  the  wine,  plum,  red  purple, 
plumetis,  and  Napoleon  blue  lines.  How  long  these  will 
last,  how  soon  they  will  be  supplanted,  how  they  will  ap- 
peal to  womankind,  are  all  a  conjecture. 

The  incoming  of  the  Princess  gown  is  one  of  the  most 
important  moves  made  by  the  dressmakers. 

Their  minds  have  been  much  taken  up  with  the  new 
trimmed  skirt,  and,  as  a  rule,  they  have  not  altogether 
subscribed  to  it,  and  it-is  thought  that  the  introducing  of 
the  Princess  gown  as  a  foil  is  a  sop  to  their  wounded  taste. 

For  some  seasons  now  the  modistes  have  been  devoting 
their  time  almost  exclusively  to  skirt  shaping.  They  have 
had  special  instruction  from  artists  in  the  work.  To  get 
the  lines  as  graceful  as  possible,  they  have  experimented, 
and  they  have  toiled  early  and  late  to  produce  the  elegant 
plain  skirts  of  to-day.  The  greatest  minds  in  the  dress 
world  have  been  brought  to  bear  upon  the  matter,  and 
stiffening,  cambrics,  crinoline,  and  all  manner  of  material 
has  been  rearranged,  invented,  and  put  together  to  make 
the  design  wide  in  one  direction,  narrow  and  sloping  in  an- 
other, rounding  and  circular  in  a  third,  and,  above  all,  to 
make  this  model  garment  crackle  and  rustle,  swish  and 
swirl  until  everything  and  everybody  should  know  of  its 
existence.  And  now  the  few  Paris  designers,  who  are 
monarchs  of  fashion,  order  it  away,  and  speak  of  a  trimmed 
skirt  which  can  be  of  any  shape,  size,  or  condition.  So 
long  as  it  is  well  covered  up  with  trimmings,  the  modistes 
will  not  stand  it;  hence  the  Princess  frock,  which  has  a 
plain  underpart,  and  can  be  treated  in  the  same  manner 
as  the  old  plain  skirt.  A  very  fashionable  New  Yorker, 
whose  sagacity  in  these  matters  is  always  accepted  as 
gospel,  recently  gave  an  order  to  a  Twenty-third  street 
establishment  for  a  Princess  gown  in  chestnut  brown  diago- 
nal cloth.  It  will  be  a  very  graceful  and  useful  gown.  The 
long  lines  and  curves  which  are  essential  to  the  Princess 
gown  will  give  a  grace  and  artistic  charm  to  the  wearer's 
figure,  and  the  simplicity  and  plainness  of  trimming  will 
only  add  to  this. 

The  sleeves  are  of  velvet,  anj  tiny  velvet  lines  mark  each 
long  seam  and  curve.  A  wide  band  of  velvet  makes  a 
splendid  foot  trimming.  In  the  upper  half  of  the  bust, 
bands  of  velvet  cross  from  one  shoulder  to  the  other,  drap- 
ing to  the  waist,  where  they  are  caught  by  an  old  Flemish 
buckle. 

There  is  even  a  larger  variety  of  materials  shown  for 
house  wear  and  social  functions  than  for  street  wear.  Of 
these  there  are  the  satin  cloths,  zibelines,  brocaded  silks, 
satins,  Japanese  crepes,  plumetis  satin  drop  d'te  and 
braided  cloths.  Belinda. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  20,  1897. 


A    MISSED    SPRING-— via  the  year  hound. 

SPRING  flowers?    Beloved,  lay  them  here, 
And  let  roe  clasp  with  pressure  dear 

The  hand  that  pulled  for  me 
These  bonny  blossoms— snowdrops  white, 
Blue  violets,  yellow  aconite, 
And  frail  anemone. 

Spring  flowers !    Ah !  loyal  heart  and  true, 
.  Spring  flowers  for  me.  who  nf  ver  knew 

The  gladness  of  life's  spring; 
Who  never  felt  the  sunshine  warm, 
Whose  youth  was  wrapped  in  cloud  and  storm, 

The  darkest  fate  could  bring. 

Unmeet  for  me.    Yet  lay  them  here, 
Close  to  my  hand  and  draw  a-near 

With  your  grave,  tender  smile; 
Nay.  closer  yet,  that  I  may  trace 
Each  feature  of  the  well-known  face, 

Although  I  sigh  the  while. 

Time-worn,  but  resolute.  I  see 

The  face  that  makes  earth  heaven  to  me 

Through  these  my  shortening  days. 
Grief-worn,  but  patient,  it  has  cheered 
My  heart  that  dnnbted.  shrank,  and  feared 

In  life's  bewildering  maze. 

It  might  have  made  my  summer  bliss— 
Ah,  dearest!  t«ke  it  not  amiss, 

That  I  am  sad  to-day. 
We  met  too  late— dull  autumn's  time 
Had  touched  our  lives  with  chilling  rime, 

Our  skies  were  bleak  and  gray.  - 

We  met  too  late— for  us  no  spring 
Might  lead  to  summer  blossoming. 

And  yet  it  might  have  been  1 
If  I  had  known  you  when  the  flowers 
Were  budding  in  life's  early  hours. 

And  all  hope's  leaves  were  green  I 

It  might  have  been !    But  ah  !  not  now, 
Too  late,  too  late,  for  lover's  vow, 

Too  late  for  wifely  kiss, 
Too  late  for  dreams  of  love  and  home, 
"  The  time  of  singing  birds  is  come," 

Sweet  music  I  must  miss. 

Tno  late !    But  see !    I  take  from  you 
The  snowdrop  white,  the  violet  blue, 

The  pale  anemone. 
And.  dear.  1  think  that  otherwhere, 
A  spring  eternal,  new  and  fair, 

Doth  wait  for  you  and  me. 

SONG—  ROBERT  KELLY   WEEKS 

Like  a  fettered  boat  that  pants  and  pulls, 

And  struggles  to  be  free, 
When  the  wind  is  up,  and  the  whirling  gulls 

Are  wild  with  ecstasy — 

Is  my  heart  apart  from  thee! 

Like  a  boat  that  leans,  that  leaps,  that  fliea, 

That  sings  along  tbe  sea, 
With  a  sunny  shower  of  drops  that  rise 

And  fall  melodiously — 
Is  my  heart,  sweetheart,  is  my  heart, 

Is  my  heart  approaching  thee  ! 

EARTH'S    IMMORTALITIES.-ffoefffr  browning. 


FAME. 

See,  as  the  prettiest  graves  will  do  in  time, 
Our  poet  wants  tbe  freshness  of  its  prime; 
Spite  of  the  sexton's  browsing  horse,  the  sods 
Have  struggled  through  its  binding  osier  rods; 
Headstone  and  half-sunk  footstone  lean  awry, 
Wanting  the  brickwork  promised  by  and  by; 
How  the  minute  gray  lichens,  plate  o'er  plate, 
Have  softened  down  the  dispart  name  and  date  I 


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Paid-up  Capital $3,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,032,016 

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CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000,000 

Assets ;  .3.192.001  69 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,506,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

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February  ;••.  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   I.KTTKR. 


IIS3URAN0E, 

Til  K  ."i  -;  annual  banquet  of  the  Fire  Underwriters  of  the 
Pacific,  took  place  at  the  I  ohe  on   Wednea- 

day  evening  for  eighty-five  mem- 

bers and  their  guests.  The  President  of  the  Underwriters, 
Herbert  Folger,  did  the  honors  of  the  banquet  gracefully. 
One  of  the  most  pleasant  Incidents  of  the  dinner  was  not 
down  on  the  programme,  and  came  in  the  form  of  a  tele- 
gram from  J.  \V.  (J.  Cofran,  formerly  of  this  City,  but  non- 
manager  of  theold  Hartford,  with  headquarters  to  Chicago, 
bearing  his  congratulations  and  requesting  that  a  couple 
of  cases  of  wine  be  sent  up  at  lii*  expense.  The  toasts  that 
followed  were  to  the  absent  underwriter,  and  were  drank 
standing  to  the  refrain,  "For  He's  a  Jolly  Good  Fellow." 
The  banquet  was  an  unqualified  success. 

\V.  G.  Taffender  has  been  made  general  manager  and 
secretary  of  the  American  Protective  Accident  Associa- 
tion. The  association  has  been  operated  from  Redlands 
in  the  southern  part  of  the  State  hitherto,  but  head- 
quarters will  be  at  once  established  here. 

G.  C.  Pratt,  wbo  has  been  for  some  time  California 
manager  of  the  Provident  Savings  Life  Insurance  Society, 
has  resigned  in  favor  of  Geo.  L.  North,  who  some  years 
ago  represented  tbe  Equitable  Life  Assurance  Society  in 
a  similar  capacity.  The  position  carries  the  field  in  Cali- 
fornia and  Nevada. 

S.  Purcell,  United  States  Manager  of  the  Sun  Insurance 
Office,  who  came  West  some  weeks  ago  to  transfer  the 
agency  to  W.  J.  -Callingham,  has  returned   to  New  York. 

It  is  understood  that  a  new  Accident  and  Sick  Benefit 
Society  is  to  be  soon  organized  in  Los  Angeles,  to  be 
operated  on  tbe  assessment  plan,  and  will  shortly  make 
the  necessary  deposit  with  the  Insurance  Commissioner. 
It  will  make  tbe  fifth  home  company  of  this  character 
operating  on  tbe  Pacific  Coast. 

The  proceedings  of  the  Underwriters'  Convention, 
which  was  held  this  week,  will  soon  be  issued  in  book  form 
for  general  distribution.  The  pamphlet  will  cod  tain  sev- 
eral valuable  papers  pertinent  to  the  business  on  this 
Coast. 

W.  L.  Gazzam,  a  well-known  Seattle  insurance  man,  is 
in  the  city. 

Thos.  S.  Chard,  manager  of  the  Fireman's  Fund  for 
the  Western  States,  with  headquarters  in  Chicago,  has 
been  in  the  city  for  the  past  week. 

Assistant  General  Manager  Brewster,  of  the  Scottish 
Union  and  National,  is  still  in  San  Francisco. 

AT      THE     RACES. 


RACING  closes  at  Oakland  this  week,  and Ingleside  re- 
opens Monday,  with  a  very  attractive  two  weeks  pro- 
gramme. The  racing  at  Oakland  has  been  stale  and  very 
commonplace — the  principal  features  being  the  disgrace- 
ful performance  of  Installator,  who  ran  unplaced  in  a 
race,  where  he  should  have  been  the  contending  horse  at 
the  finish;  and  the  performance  of  J.  O.  C,  who  also  ran 
unplaced,  in  a  race  he  should  have  won. 

One  of  tbe  innovations  at  the  Oakland  track  has  been 
the  recall  flag — to  call  the  horses  back  after  a  false  start. 
That  the  public  would  be  protected  with  a  recall  flag  is 
what  the  advocates  of  the  recall  flag  promised;  and  Mon- 
day at  Oakland  witnessed  some  of  this  protection.  It  was 
the  second  race  on  the  card  and  had  only  five  starters. 
As  the  barrier  was  raised,  Suisun,  the  favorite  in  the 
betting,  went  to  the  front;  the  starter  shook  his  recall  flag, 
and  the  others  pulled  up;  he  then  ordered  them  to  go 
again,  thus  giving  the  heavily  backed  Suisun  the  race. 
Applause,  the  second  choice,  set  sail  after  Suisun,  and 
nearly  caught  him  under  the  wire.  With  an  even  break, 
Applause  could  not  have  lost.  These  are  the  kind  of  races 
that  furnish  scandal  for  the  race  track  gossips,  and  it  will 
be  many  a  day  before  the  echoes  of  this  one  die  out.  One 
old-timer  remarked,  after  witnessing  the  race,  that  it  was 
the  best  way  he  had  yet  seen  of  making  a  favorite  win  a 
race.  Guttenberg,  in  its  day,  was  enterprising — but — he 
remarked,  (There  are  others  and  I'll  give  you  a  piece  of 
good  advice,  my  boy.  When  you're  at  Ingleside,  play  the 
horses  on  form,  and  when  you're  at  Gutten) — or  I  mean 
Oakland — play  them  on  information  and  take  your 
chances." 


That  terrible 


wash  tul> !    This  is  the  way- 
it  looks  to  the  women  who 
do  tlxir  washing  in  the  old- 
i  fashioned  way.  They  dread 
11     and    no   wonder.       All 
because    they    won't    use 
Pearline.     Use  Pearline — 
it  just  as  directed—  soak, 
boil  and   rinse   the  clothes — 
and  the  wash-tub  won't  be  a  bug- 
bear.     No  hard  work — no  inhal- 
ing of   fetid  steam — no  wearing 
rubbing — no  torn  clothes— nothing  but  economy. 

Senfl      ''ll,,"L',s  and  gome  unscrupulous  grocers  will  tell  you 

U      "  tllis  'S  »«  E 1  U  "  or  "  Ihe  same  as  Pearline."     IT'S 

it    Dootr    FALSE — Pearline  is  never  peddled,  and  if  your 

J-*«,l^K.    yr.iccr  sends  vou  something  in  place  of  Pearline 

be  honest— send  it  lack.  610  JAMES  PYLB,  New  York! 

DELINQUENT    SALE     NOTICE. 
Ostrander  Repeating  Gun  Company- 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works  or  factory — 36  New  street.  East  Boston,  Mass. 

NOTICE— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  an  assessment  (No  5),  levied  on  the  22d  day  of  August,  1896, 
the  several  amounts  set  oppos'te  the  names  of  the  respective  sharehold 
ers,  as  follows : 

No.  No. 

Name.  Certificate    Shares    Am  t 

W.  P.  Ray.  U.S.  N.  123         1,000         100 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Carter         194  500  50 

311  500  50 

J.  M.  Helm  164  600  60 

258  301  30  10 

260  155  15  50 

Catherine  S.  Whiteside     204         1,000        100 
George  H    Hoover  389  50  5 

Mrs.  Mary  Mearse  Gait      179         1.000        100 
fi.  P.  Cole  397  500  50 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
onthe22d  day  of  August,  1896,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  suoh 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  No.  216  Bush  street,  rooms  50  and  51,  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco,  California,  on 

THURSDAY,  the  22nd  DAY  OF  OCTOBER,  1896, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delinquent  assessment 
thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale, 

M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Seoretary. 
Office— No.  216  Bush  street,  Rooms  50  and  51,  SanFrancisco,  Califo  nia. 

POSTPONE  WENT . 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  post- 
poned  until 

FRIDAY,  the  20th  DAY  of  NOVEMBER,  1896, 
at  the  same  time  and  place.  M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Seoretary. 

SanFrancisco,  October 22, 1896. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Direotors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  post- 
poned until 

FRIDAY,  the  18th  DAY  of  DECEMBER,  1896, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  November  19,  1896. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  the  office  of  the  company  on  the  18th  inst.,  the  sale  of  the 
above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 

THURSDAY,  the  14th  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  Dec.  28, 1897. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  tbe  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  the  office  of  the  company, on  the6th  inst.,  the  sale  o  the 
above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 

WEDNESDAY,  the  27th  DAY  OF  JANUARY,  1897, 
at  the  same  lime,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  January  6,  1897. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  ou  the  27th  inst.  the  sale  of 
the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 

WEDNESDAY,  the  17th  DAY  OF  FEBRUARY,  1E97, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN.  Secretary. 
SanFrancisco,  January  27,  1897. 

POSTPONEMENT. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ostrander  Repeating  Gun 
Company,  held  at  the  offlee  of  ihe  Company,  on  the  16th  inst  ,  the  sale  of 
the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 

SATURDAY,  the  13th  DAY  OF  MARCH,  1897, 
at  the  same  time,  at  rooms  25  and  26,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  WATERS  KIRWAN,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  February  16,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  20,  1897- 


THE  Salvation  Army  has  few  more  ardent  admirers 
than  "W.  W.  Foote,  who  openly  proclaims  his  approval 
of  the  order  as  the  best  of  all  religious  organizations.  He 
never  neglects  an  opportunity  to  purchase  a  copy  of  the 
War  Cry,  and  all  the  Army  lassies  who  peddle  papers  have 
come  to  know  Foote,  and  to  understand  that  the  success- 
ful criminal  lawyer  can  always  be  depended  on  to  relieve 
them  of  unsold  editions  of  their  official  organ.  They  press 
this  advantage  to  the  limit  sometimes,  but,  to  use  their 
own  words,  "Billy  Foote  never  kicks." 

Foote  has  been  espousing  the  candidacy  of  Rudolph 
Herold  for  the  place  on  the  Board  of  Harbor  Commis- 
sioners for  San  Francisco,  soon  to  be  vacated  by  "Uncle" 
Dan  Cole,  whose  term  is  about  to  expire.  In  the  interests 
of  the  insurance  agent's  candidature,  Foote,  Herold,  and 
Barney  Murphy,  of  San  Jose,  after  a  combined  appeal  to 
the  Governor,  were  dining  together  in  the  Grill  Room. 
The  little  party  was  no  sooner  seated  than  a  blue-gowned 
figure  demurely  poked  a  War  Cry  beneath  Foote's  nose. 
With  an  air  of  gratitude  for  so  valuable  a  suggestion, 
Foote  immediately  bought  three  copies,  handing  one  each 
to  Barney  and  Rudy.  They  were  soon  joined  by  Charles 
M.  Shortridge,  and  the  editor  had  not  finished  shaking 
hands  all  around  until  another  poke  bonnet  loomed  up,  and 
four  more  War  Crys  were  added  to  the  dinner  delicacies. 
Then  Samuel  M.  Shortridge  sauntered  in,  and  before  the 
tall  attorney  had  adjusted  his  glasses  to  scan  the  menu 
card,  a  third  Salvation  Army  girl  was  at  Foote's  side. 
The  other  diners,  unappreciative  of  Foote's  little  gifts, 
began  to  guy  him  as  "a  good  thing"  and  "an  easy  mark." 
Without  a  murmur  Billy  paid  for  five  additional  copies, 
and  as  the  Hallelujah  lassie  was  leaving,  he  called  her 
back. 

"By  the  way,  my  girl,"  he  said,  with  a  bland  smile, 
modulating  his  usually  stentorian  tones,  "If  there  are  any 
more  soldiers  of  your  regiment  about,  send  them  in  to  us. 
These  gentlemen,"  pointing  to  the  quartette  at  his  table, 
each  with  a  pile  of  War  Crys  at  his  plate,  and  all  looking 
rather  silly,  "these  gentlemen  need  all  the  innocent  read- 
ing matter  procurable." 


When  young  Gus  Costigan  so  far  forgot  himself  as  to  sit 
in  the  Cosmos  Club  with  one  boot  gracefully  extended  along 
the  sill  of  an  open  window,  his  fellow  members  considered 
it  a  just  retribution  that  misfortune  should  overtake  him 
in  the  shape  of  a  suddenly  descending  window  sash,  which 
inflicted  painful  injuries  on  the  Costigan  foot.  It  was  even 
whispered  that  a  member  of  the  committee  on  conduct  of 
members,  shocked  at  the  display  of  such  bad  form  in  the 
boot  which  filled  the  window,  had  purposely  pulled  a 
string,  causing  the  sash  to  fall.  However,  that  was  never 
proven.  "Cuss  Costigan,"  as  he  is  called  at  the  Cosmos, 
nursed  his  wrath  and  his  injured  foot,  and  for  the  greater 
comfort  of  the  damaged  member  slit  open  the  side  of  an 
old  patent  leather  boot,  on  which  the  patent  had  nearly 
expired.  As  he  hobbled  around  on  'Change,  the  aperture 
in  his  shoe  yawned  until  it  became  a  distinct  offense  to  its 
owner.  To  hide  the  growing  canyon  in  the  boot,  "Cuss" 
plastered  the  edges  of  the  rent  with  black  ink,  which  had 
the  happy  effect  of  restoring  much  of  its  lost  respectabil- 
ity to  the  leather.  Among  the  Call  Board  men  Costigan 
has  the  reputation  of  being  a  little  "near,"  as  the  Scotch 
say,  but  he  had  never  been  considered  parsimonious  hither- 
to regarding  his  personal  expenditures.  It  was  with  in- 
tense surprise,  therefore,  that  his  fellow  brokers  noticed 
a  small  section  of  the  Costigan  personality  protruding 
from  his  boot.  Beneath  the  severed  leather,  the  black 
stocking  had  also  parted,  and  through  the  torn  cotton 
peeped  one  of  Gus's  little  pink  toes.  Great  excitement 
prevailed  among  the  bulls  and  bears,  until  Costigan  re- 
tired to  a  secluded  corner  of  the  Board  room,  and  with  the 
pen  of  a  ready  writer,  carefully  inked  his  toe  beneath  the 
double  hole,  until  his  foot  was  restored  to  its  usual  condi- 
tion of  uniform  and  shining  blackness. 


Since  Lord  and  Lady  Sholto  Douglas,  nee  Mooney,  de- 
parted for  Vancouver,  British  Columbia,  a  few  months 
ago,  in  order  that  the  possible  heir  to  the  Marquisate  of 
Queensbury  might  be  born  on  British  soil,  the  movements 
of  this  scion  of  a  noble  bouse,  and  of  the  ex-concert  hall 
favorite,  have  been  kept  so  quiet  that  nothing  concerning 
them  has  crept  into  print.  That  Lord  Sholto  has  not 
changed  his  spots,  however,  since  be  fell  in  love  with  the 
song  and  dance  artist  at  Fresno,  has  been  established  to 
the  satisfaction  of  his  friends.  He  arrived  in  British 
Columbia  heralded  in  a  manner  which  placed  him  in  rather 
a  ludicrous  light,  the  booking  clerk  of  the  steamer  having 
thus  described  his  little  family: 

"Lady  Sholto  Douglas,  maid  and  husband." 

Sholto  has  elicited  commendation  in  the  Canadian  town 
by  his  public  devotion  to  his  wife,  with  whom  he  daily 
parades  the  streets,  and  by  the  regularity  of  his  attendance 
at  Christ  Church,  the  fashionable  temple  of  Vancouver. 
When  hidden  from  the  public  eye,  he  is  reported  to  have 
still  further  endeared  himself  to  his  compatriots  by  the 
generous  expenditure  of  his  munificent  allowance  of  fifteen 
hundred  dollars  per  year.  The  story  goes  that  in  the 
English  colony  at  Vancouver  a  plot  was  concocted  to  give 
Lord  Sholto  a  night's  entertainment,  which  should  so 
thoroughly  muddle  his  brain  as  to  render  him  incapable  of 
motion.  The  jollification,  as  planned,  was  duly  observed, 
but  before  the  night  was  over,  all  Lord  Sholto's  enter- 
tainers were  under  the  table,  while  Queensbury's  son  went 
home  with  a  clear  head  and  steady  legs.  Since  this  episode, 
the  younger  son  of  the  sporting  Marquis  has  been  allowed 
to  maintain  the  even  tenor  of  his  temperance  way,  and  it 
is  unlikely  that  the  attack  upon  his  sobriety  will  be  re- 
sumed. 

As,  conspicuous  by  his  innocuous  expression  and  lack  of 

chin,  Lord  Sholto  parades  the  streets  in  a  long,  flapping 

mackintosh  of  pale  yellow,  of  a  corresponding  shade  to  his 

hair,  eyes  and  face,  the  patient  droop  to  his  shoulders  and 

his  inturned  toes,  comprise  such  a  picture  that  it  is  said  a 

lady  "in  a  state  of  expectancy,"  after  one  hasty  glance  in 

his  direction,  was  afraid  to  look  again  for  fear  of  marking 

the  baby. 

*  #  * 

Montgomery  street  was  black  with  people  for  two 
blocks.  Hundreds  were  jammed  in  between  the  buildings 
on  opposite  sides  of  the  street.  The  crowd  became  so 
great  that  the  thoroughfare  was  absolutely  impassable, 
and  even  the  horse  cars  were  unable  to  proceed.  As  the 
crowd  grew  and  became  a  multitude,  some  one  on  the  outer 
edge  of  the  assemblage  tried  to  ascertain  the  reason  for 
the  spontaneous  mass  meeting.  All  sorts  of  disquieting 
rumors  went  flying  back  and  forth. 

"The  Mills  Building  is  on  fire,"  suggested  one. 

"Ambrose  Bierce  has  been  shot,"  hazarded  another. 

"  Butler  has  broke  loose,"  ventured  a  third,  unmindful 
of  the  grammar  of  his  youth. 

Finally  an  appeal  for  information  was  made  to  the  man 
who  is  always  posted,  and  whose  information  can  invari- 
ably be  relied  upon  as  authentic. 

"What's  the  matter  ?"  the  man  of  knowledge  repeated, 
with  great  disdain.  "  Matter  enough,"  he  continued,  ex- 
citedly, jerking  his  words  out  in  gasping  sentences.  "  Jim 
Corbett — champ'n  o'  th'  world — takin'  drink  !" 


Simon  Newman,  the  graiD  dealer,  no  longer  yearns  for  a 
bucolic  existence,  a  recent  experience  duriDg  an  at- 
tempted sale  of  mules  having  robbed  country  life  of  its 
charm  and  the  unfortunate  Simon  of  the  use  of  one  of  his 
arms.  It  seems  that  Newman  had  a  number  of  the  long- 
eared  tribe  that  he  was  desirous  of  selling.  One  day  a  man 
came  along  who  wanted  mules,  but  wanted  them  gentle. 
"Gentle,"  said  the  guileless  Simon,  "why  they're  regular 
kittens."  He  undertook  to  illustrate  the  truth  of  his  story 
by  slapping  one  of  the  animals  on  the  rump  with  rash 
familiarity 

When  he  subsequently  returned  to  consciousness  he 
asked  in  a  voice  broken  by  emotion  and  mule,  "Was  it 
an  earthquake?     Where  am  I?" 

The  buyer  had  fled;  the  mules  are  still  unsold,  and  the 
doctor  says  that  Simon's  arm  will  soon  be  well. 

Beecham's  Pills  will  dispel  the  "  blues." 


Pebruai  | 


SAN  IK wcisco  m:\vs  letter. 


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AT    THE    CAPITOL. 


MattheiD  Canavan. 


February  18,  1-H7 

THK  most  imi>ortant  matters  o(  the  week  have  been  the 
desultory  tiring  of  guns  in  the  departing  Duckworth 

scandal,  the  Yountville  Home  bill,  and  the  State  printing 
ite  Printer  defends  himself  as  best  he  may 
by  declaring   that   he   had   no   alternative,  and   was  com 
pelled  to  refuse  work   because   there  was  no   money  with 
which  to  pay  the  printers.     The  work  for  the  Legislature 
and  the  Supreme  Court  has  to  l>e  done,  otherwise  he  would 
have   cut   down   his   force  still   further.     There   is,    how 
ever,  a  very  general  belief  thai   the  conduct  of  the  office 
has  been  wasteful,  and  that  the  Governor  was  justili 
his  veto.     What  the  Board  of  Examiners  will  do  with  the 
matter  remains  to  be  seen. 

.Matthew  Canavan,  the 
Representative  of  the 
Twenty-third  District, 
Marin  County,  is  one  of  the 
most  influential  members 
of  the  Assembly.  Mr. 
Canavan  does  not  pose  as 
an  orator,  but  as  occasion 
demands,  knowing  what  he 
wants  to  say,  he  says  it  in 
a  manner  that  commands 
attention  and  respect. 
Mr.  Canavan  lives  in  San 
Rafael  and  be  was  elected 
to  represent  his  district 
by  the  largest  majority 
ever  given  a  candidate. 
He  is  particularly  active 
in  trying  to  secure  the 
reimbursement  of  Marin 
County  by  the  State,  of  such  moneys  expended  on  ac- 
count of  the  trials,  etc.,  of  convicts  imprisoned  at  San 
Quentin.  The  dairying  interests  are  also  being  looked 
after  by  Mr.  Canavan,  as  is  a  measure  for  the  relief  of  the 
Volunteer  Firemen.  Mr.  Canavan  has  introduced  a  re- 
solution asking  our  Representatives  in  Congress  to  favor 
the  Annexation  of  Hawaii,  and  he  feels  confident  that  it 
will  pass.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  important  Committee 
on  States  Prisons  and  Reformatory  Institutions,  and  a 
member  of  the  Committees  on  Commerce  and  Navigation; 
Labor  and  Capital;  and  Public  works;  State  Capitol  and 
Parks.  A  hard-working,  capable  and  pains-taking  legis- 
lator Mr.  Canavan  is  worthy  of  the  confidences  imposed  in 
him  by  the  people. 

Alden  Anderson,  the  Representative  of  the  Nineteenth 
Assembly  District,  is  one  of  the  bright  young  men  who 
have  influence  and  ability,  and  are  the  recognized  leaders 
in  the  lower  house.  Mr. 
Anderson  is  a  fruit  grower 
and  shipper,  whose  place  of 
business  and  home  are  at 
Suisun,  Solano  County.  This 
is  the  first  time  he  has  ever 
held  public  office,  but  it  is 
to  be  hoped  his  constituents 
will  not  let  it  be  the  last 
time.  Men  like  Mr.  Ander- 
son not  only  do  credit  to  the 
particular  district  they  rep- 
resent, but  are  an  honor  to 
the  State  as  well.  To  be 
elected,  Mr.  Anderson,  who, 
by  the  way,  is  a  staunch 
Republican,  had  to  over- 
come   an    apparent    fusion 

majority  of  nearly  five  hun-  -"''"'  -1'"'"'™"- 

dred.     That  be  did  this,  is 

a  strong  indication  of  his  personal  popularity.  Ever  alert 
in  the  interests  of  the  people,  Mr.  Anderson  is  paying  par- 
ticular attention  to  the  salaries  of  officers,  as  proscribed 
in  the  County  Government  act,  and  believes  in  reducing 
them,  in  keeping  with  the  times.  He  is  in  favor  of  a  State 
system  of  roads,  and  is  a  strong  advocate  of  such  bills 
looking  to  that  end  now  before  the  Assembly.  As  an  op- 
ponent of  extravagance  in  public  office,  he  has  strenuously 


fought  unne  tmente  and  useless  junketings  on 

the  part  of  mem  g  body  Of   which  I  nbcr. 

Mr.  Andersen  is  Chairman  of  the  CommitV 
interests,  and  a  n  ember  of  the  Coma 
and  Township   Governments;  Pish    and  Garni 
sions.  Retrenchment,  and  Public  Expenditures,  and  i. 
and  Highways. 

delegation   In   the  Senate  has  determined  to 
a  bill   for   the  establishment  <>f  a  ti 
on  the  water-front   at   San   Francisco.    This  p 
kicked  up  quite  a  ro«  ty  some  time  ago.  when  ad- 

vanced by  the  Merchants'  Association,  .lust  what  will  be 
done  with  it  is  uncertain,  as  the  two  houses  are  unable  to 
agree  on  the  proposition, 

IN      AID      OF      THE      CALIFORNIA      WOMAN'S      HOSPITAL. 

THK  California  Woman's  Hospital  has  long  been  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  most  practical  and  useful  institutions 
San  Francisco,  anil  its  whole  history  has  been  an  honor  to 
those  connected  with  it  and  a  monument  to  the  wisdom 
and  generosity  of  its  supporters.  It  has  been  a  veritable 
blessing,  as  thousands  of  the  afflicted  can  attest.  As  its 
sphere  of  usefulness  widened,  the  demands  on  the  hospital 
became  so  pressing  that  some  eighteen  months  ago  an 
annex  was  found  absolutely  necessary.  This  addition  has 
just  been  completed  at  a  cost  of  $18,500,  and  an  entire  cost 
including  the  lot,  grading,  etc.,  of  $30,000.  It  is  fitted  up 
with  all  the  medical  appliances  and  conveniences,  gives 
increased  room  for  patients,  and  is  in  all  respects  admira- 
bly adapted  to  the  uses  for  which  it  was  intended.  More 
than  half  of  the  large  sum  expended  in  erecting  this  neces- 
sary annex  was  given  Ly  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Crocker,  and  the 
Mary  A.  Crocker  trust  and  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers 
verj  gracefully  decided  by  a  regularly  adopted  resolution 
to  designate  the  surgical  and  operating  rooms  as  the 
"surgery  erected  by  the  generous  donations  of  the  Mary 
A.  Crocker  trust." 

In  aid  of  this  most  beneficent  institution  the  managers 
will  give  a  grand  tea  on  the  27th  inst.,  from  3  to  7  p.  m., 
at  which  refreshments  will  be  served,  and  musical  selec- 
tions, both  orchestral  and  vocal,  under  the  direction  of 
Mrs.  James  Tucker,  will  be  rendered.  The  tea  will  be 
given  at  the  Crocker  mansion,  on  California  street,  which 
has  been  generously  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  ladies  for 
the  occasion.  A  more  admirable  place  could  not  be  found 
for  this  purpose.  There  are  thousands  of  friends  of  the 
Woman's  hospital  in  the  city  who  will  be  more  than  pleased 
to  accept  this  opportunity  to  aid  a  most  worthy  object, 
Aside  from  the  music,  the  splendid  paintings  and  the  re- 
freshmsnts  are  richly  worth  the  price  of  the  tickets, 
which  is  one  dollar.  From  the  28th  annual  report  of  the 
hospital  many  interesting  facts  of  its  history  are  obtained, 
and  from  it  are  taken  the  names  of  the  board  of  lady  man- 
agers here  appended :  Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker,  President;  Mrs. 
C.  B.  Alexander,  First  Vice-President;  Mrs.  J.  H.  Hatch, 
Second  Vice-President;  Mrs.  E.  R.  Dimond,  Third  Vice- 
President;  Mrs.  Samuel  W.  Backus,  Recording  Secretary; 
Mrs.  F.  P.  McLennan,  Financial  Secretary;  Mrs.  Charles 
E.  Bancroft,  Treasurer;  Mrs.  A.  N.  Towne.  Mrs.  J.  T. 
Hoyt,  Miss  K.  R.  Stone,  Mrs.  F.  D.  Stadtmuller,  Mrs. 
Samuel  D.  Mayer,  Mrs.  Wm.  P.  Reddington,  Mrs.  E.  B. 
Stone,  Mrs.  Albert  Gallatin,  Mrs.  H.  E.  Wise,  Mrs.  H.  M. 
J.  McMichael,  Mrs.  G.  E.  Butler,  Mrs.  A.  Cheesebrough, 
Mrs.  G.  F.  Ashton,  Mrs.  James  Otis. 


Of  vitality  and  energy,  a  good  appetite,  and  per- 
fect health  are  obtained  and  endure   by  taking 


Peruvian 

Biwers. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  20,  1897. 


THERE  were  two  pleasant  affairs  on  Monday  evening, 
the  musicale  at  Mrs.  E.  B.  Ponds,  at  which  Frank 
Lincoln  also  assisted  with  some  of  his  clever  recitations; 
and  the  last  dance  of  the  Monday  evening  dancing  class 
which  drew  together  the  largest  number  of  guests  present 
at  any  of  their  meetings  this  season.  The  dancing  was  also 
kept  up  long  after  supper,  which  was  served  at  midnight, 
the  hour  at  which  "goodnights"  were  usually  said.  Mrs. 
W.  P.  Morgan's  dinner  on  Tuesday  evening  was  in  honor 
of  Captain  and  Mrs.  Oscar  Long.  The  decorations  of  the 
festive  board  were  decidedly  novel, consisting  of  miniature 
cannons,  stacks  of  arms,  drums  and  cannon  balls,  the  tint 
of  red  prevailing. 

One  of  the  events  of  "Wednesday  evening  was  the  per- 
formance of  a  burlesque  of  the  Mikado  by  members  of  the 
Olympic  Club,  for  the  amusement  of  their  lady  friends.  It 
was  produced  on  a  stage  erected  in  the  gymnasium  and 
preceded  by  a  Japanese  glove  contest;  vocal  music  by  the 
Moore  brothers;  banjo  solos;  athletic  feats,  etc.  The 
whole  affair  was  a  huge  success  and  most  enthusiastically 
applauded  by  the  large  throng  of  guests  who  were 
present. 

Last  evening  the  Saturday  Night  Dancing  Club  gave 
their  final  cotillion  of  the  season  at  Lunt's  Hall.  Miss 
Gerstle's  tea  is  .he  most  important  event  on  the  pro- 
gramme for  to-day.  It  will  be  a  very  elaborate  affair, 
concluding  with  a  dinner  and  dance  afterwards.  To-night 
the  long  and  eagerly- expected  entertainment  and  ball  at 
the  Concordia  Club  will  be  an  accomplished  fact,  and  every- 
thing indicates  tnat  it  will  be  among  the  best  ever  given 
by  that  very  popular  organization. 

Brides,  as  a  rule,  prefer  sunshine  to  showers  for  their 
marriage  day,  and  therefore  are  those  of  recent  date  to  be 
commiserated  for  having  had  such  atrocious  weather  on 
the,  to  them  at  least,  auspicious  date.  Nearly  all  of  Feb- 
ruary's brides  have  been  especially  unfortunate  in  this  re- 
spect, even  those  of  this  week  most  prominent  in  social 
life  being  little  better  off.  The  parental  abode  on  Bush 
street  was  selected  by  Miss  Louise  Moulder  as  the  locale 
for  her  marriage  to  Mr.  J.  H.  Covode.  Archbishop  Rior- 
dan  was  the  officiating  priest,  and  owing  to  recent  family 
affliction,  the  ceremony  was  witnessed  by  relatives  and  a 
few  friends  only,  and  was  followed  by  supper.  Miss  Char- 
lotte Moulder  officiated  as  her  sister's  maid-of-honor,  and 
the  groom's  brother,  John  Covode,  supported  him  as  best 
man. 

Tuesday  evening's  wedding  was  a  church  one,  being 
solemnized  at  St.  Matthew's  Lutheran  church  on  Eddy 
street,  where  Miss  Virginia  Duisenberg  became  Mrs.  Alex- 
ander Isenberg.  It  was  a  green  and  pink  wedding,  the 
huge  palm  leaves,  beneath  which  the  ceremony  took  place, 
coming  all  the  way  from  the  future  home  of  the  young 
couple — the  Sandwich  Islands.  The  sacred  edifice  was 
crowded  with  guests  when  the  bridal  party  entered,  the 
ushers,  Messrs.  Duisenberg,  Ryland,  Cook,  Davies,  and 
Dr.  Barry  leading  the  procession  up  the  aisle.  They  were 
followed  by  the  Misses  Elsa  Frank,  Augusta  Duisenberg, 
Clara  Isenberg,  Louise  Sussman,  Amy  Cellarius,  and  Irma 
Schaefer,  who  were  gowned  alike  in  white  organdie  over 
Nile  green  silk,  and  carried  bouquets  of  dark  red  roses. 
Finally  the  bride  and  groom,  arm  in  arm,  the  Reverend 
Dr.  Fuenderling  awaiting  the  party  at  the  chancel,  where 
the  nuptial  knot  was  tied.  The  bride,  who  looked  charm- 
ingly pretty  and  happy,  was  robed  in  white  moire  trimmed 
with  chiffon  and  point  lace;  her  tulle  vail  was  confined  to 
her  coiffure  by  a  wreath  of  myrtle,  and  her  bouquet  was 
of  bridal  roses  and  lilies  of  the  valley.  Following  the 
church  service,  a  very  large  reception  was  held  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  mother  on  Jackson  street.  The  pres- 
ents received  have  been  large  in  number,  varied  in  char- 
acter, besides  being  handsome  and  valuable,  including 
jewels,  silverware,  cut  glass,  bric-a-brac,  etc. 

M;\  and  Mrs.  A.  Lewis  announce  the  engagement  of  their 
sister,  Miss  Frances  Ries,  and  Abe  Harshall.  Will  re- 
ceive Monday,  February  22nd,  from  3  to  5  o'clock  p.  m.  at 
2917  Clay  street. 


The  ceremony  which  united  Miss  Mattie  Gibbs  and 
Walter  Holcombe  was  performed  by  the  Rev.  George 
Walk  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents,  on  Post 
street,  on  Wednesday  evening,  in  the  presence  of  relatives 
and  intimate  friends.  The  floral  effects  were  beauti- 
ful, the  various  rooms  were  decorated  with  different 
colored  blossoms,  calla  lilies,  yellow,  pink  and  red  roses. 
In  the  evening  a  general  reception  was  held,  and  the  home 
was  filled  with  friends  who  came  to  tender  their  congratu- 
lations. The  bridal  robe  was  a  very  handsome  creation  of 
rich  white  satin  elaborately  trimmed  with  duchesse  lace. 
White  violets  and  lilies  of  the  valley  composed  the  bridal 
bouquet,  and  orange  blossoms  and  a  diamond  pin  held  the 
fleecy  vail  in  place.  Miss  Harriet  Gibbs,  the  maid  of  honor, 
was  attired  in  white  tulle  over  pink  silk,  and  carried  a 
cluster  of  bridesmaid's  roses.  Charles  Beatty,  of  Sacra- 
mento, was  the  groom's  best  man.  The  presents  were 
handsome  and  costly. 

The  wedding  of  Mr.  JosuaEppinger  and  Miss  Hilda  Levy 
will  take  place  at  the  Concordia  Club  on  Tuesday  evening, 
March  second,  at  half  past  eight  o'clock. 

Mr.  George  E.  Tourtillotte  and  Miss  Kleta  Shackleford 
were  married  on  the  1st  inst. ,  by  the  Rev.  C.  B.  Reddick, 
pastor  of  Centenary  M.  E.  Church,  South.  The  ceremony 
was  very  quiet,  being  attended  only  by  immediate  rela- 
tives, owiDg  to  recent  bereavements  in  the  bride's  family. 

Among  recently  announced  engagements  are  those  of 
Miss  Helen  Curtis  and  William  McGee  ;  Miss  Harriet  Op- 
penheimer  and  Hugo  J.  Lyons;  aDd  Miss  Grace  Sabine  and 
Dr.  R.  W.  M.  Payne. 

The  most  elaborate  affair  of  the  month  was,  beyond 
question,  the  silver  wedding  anniversary  celebration  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  Roos,  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  on  the  even- 
ing of  the  14tb.  It  was  in  the  form  of  a  dinner  to  one 
hundred  guests,  who  were  seated  at  five  round  tables  laid 
in  the  center  room  of  the  drawing-room  suite  on  the  first 
floor.  Each  of  these  tables  accommodated  twenty  guests, 
and  were  adorned  with  different  floral  decorations,  No.  1 
being  Bermuda  lilies;  2,  yellow  daffodils;  3,  American 
beauty  roses;  4,  carnations;  and  5,  bridesmaid's  roses. 
Mrs.  Roos,  who  wore  a  magnificent  robe  of  pink  and  silver 
brocaded  satin  and  a  multitude  of  diamonds,  received  her 
guests  in  the  north  room,  which  was  prettily  dressed  with 
almond,  apple  and  peach  blossoms  and  many  tasteful  de- 
vices, and  during  the  discussion  of  the  delicious  menu  Bal- 
lenberg's  orchestra  discoursed  delightful  melody.  The 
favors  for  the  ladies  were  tiny  silver  bells  engraved  with 
the  date.  After  dinner  Mdlle.  Trebelli  favored  the  guests 
with  several  selections.  The  sketch  artists,  Silver  and 
Wyatt,  and  the  Fletcher  trio  gave  some  of  their  specialties, 
and  later  there  was  dancing.  Mrs.  Roos  was  the  recipient 
of  an  immense  number  of  handsome  gifts  appropriate  to 
the  occasion  from  friends  at  home  and  abroad. 

On  Thursday  evening  a  very  charming  entertainment  of 
living  pictures,  music,  etc.,  was  given  at  Golden  Gate 
Hall  in  aid  of  the  furnishing  fund  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
Church. 

Mrs.  Carr's  tea  last  Saturday  was  a  very  pleasant  one, 
which  can  be  said  also  of  the  tea  given  by  Mrs.  Barclay 
Henley  for  the  debut  of  her  eldest  daughter.  The  rooms 
were  prettily  decorated  with  violets  and  ferns,  and  a  bevy 
of  very  pretty  girls  assisted  the  hostesses  in  looking  after 
the  large  number  of  guests  who  called.  In  the  evening  the 
Oercle  Francois  gave  a  ball  in  their  club  rooms  in  Union 
Square  Hall,  and  after  a  handsome  supper,  dancing  was 
resumed,  and  kept  up  with  spirit  until  a  late  hour. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young  have  returned  from  their 
trip  to  Europe. 

Are  you  willing  to  try  a  new  tea  at  our  ex- 
pense ? 

Your  grocer  will  sell  you  a  package  of  Schil- 
ling''s  Best,  and  return  your  money  in  full  if 
you  don't  like  it. 

Prices  low,  but  enough. 

A  Schilling  &  Company 
San  Francisco. 


Pebruarj 


SAX   PRANCISCO  NI-WS   LETTER. 


It  week,  which  will  bo  the   la-' 
filled  with  engagements  already,  society  will  have  ■  surfeit 
of  good  toll  ,•  time   it  Vmong   the  many 

iray  .,  place  may  be  crentloned   the  dinner 

with  which  Mr.  and  Mrs  1.  W  Hellman  will  celebrate  the 
natal  day  of  the  Father  of  his  Country  on  Monday,  to 
which   six<  .»re  bidden.     On   Tuesday   aft. 

there  will  be  the  Lady  Washington  tea  at  Mrs.  Vr  K 
Fisher  >.  on  Sutter  street,  and  in  the  evening  the  dance  of 
the  Winter  Cotillion  Club  at  Beethoven  Hall.  Friday,  the 
26th,  is  the  date  set  for  the  tea  which  Mrs.  Alexander 
Waroe*  will  give  at  her  residence  on  Franklin  street,  as 
well  as  for  the  second  of  the  musical  soirees  for  the  benefit 
of  the  French  Christian  Onion  of  California,  at  the  Brst  of 
which,  last  evening.  Miss  Alice  Ames,  the  violinist,  made 
her  first  appearance  since  her  return  from  Europe.  I  In 
Saturday,  the  27th.  the  Crocker  mansion,  on  California 
street,  will  be  thrown  open  once  more,  and  a  tea  i,'iven  for 
the  benefit  of  the  State  Woman  s  Hospital.  ( in  Saturday 
evening  the  San  Francisco  Verein  Club  will  <;ive  an  elab- 
orate entertainment.  Mr.  Green  way  has  his  hands  full 
preparini:  for  the  many  affairs  which  are  to  mark  the  close 
of  the  ante-Lenten  season.  The  arrangements  for  the  ball 
which  the  Friday  Fortnightly  Club  will  give  next  Friday 
evening  have  been  placed  entirely  under  his  control,  and 
that  it  will  be  a  charming  success  there  can  be  no  manner 
of  doubt.  The  Mardi  Gras  l„,l  masque  of  the  Art  Institute 
will  be  on  a  grand  scale;  the  reception  committee  include 
some  of  the  best-known  people  in  our  swim,  and  it  is  a  fore- 
gone conclusion  that  all  who  attend  will  have  a  gloriously 
good  time. 

On  the  twenty-seventh  of  the  month  the  Concordia  Club 
promises  its  members  a  rare  treat.  A  ball,  preceded  by 
a  brand  new  burlesque  is  what  they  have  on  the  "tapis." 
The  "Prisoner  of  Zenda"  has  been  prepared  and  no  pains 
have  been  spared  to  bring  it  up  to  the  members'  require- 
ments. All  the  music  is  original  and  much  new  talent  has 
been  recruited  from  the  Club's  membership,  as  well  as  out- 
side friends.  Rehearsals  have  been  going  on  for  some 
weeks  past. 

Among  recent  affairs  may  be  mentioned  the  musical  re- 
ception given  by  Miss  Ardella  Mills;  Mrs.  George  Pope's 
young  ladies'  luncheon;  the  Ehrman  bud  dinner;  Miss 
Baldwin's  luncheon;  Mrs.  Joe  Donohoe's  luncheon  for  mar- 
ried ladies;  Mrs.  W.  Magee's  dinner  of  a  dozen  guests; 
Miss  Katherine  Dillon's  tea  in  honor  of  Miss  Alice  Jordan 
of  Santa  Clara;  the  Misses  Stubbs'  euchre  party,  which 
was  followed  by  dancing. 

Mrs.  F.  L.  Whitney  will  give  the  first  of  her  euchre 
parties  this  afternoon;  the  second  will  take  place  next 
Saturday.  Mrs.  W.  H.  Brown's  euchre  party  will  be 
given  on  Wednesday  evening  next  at  the  Occidental 
Hotel. 

_  Manager  Burns,  of  the  Hotel  El  Paso  de  Robles,  gave 
his  Eastern  guests  an  unusual  treat  on  the  14th  inst.,  in 
the  shape  of  a  delightfully  served  barbecue.  Eighty  covers 
were  laid,  and  the,  to  the  Eastern  folks,  unusual  experi- 
ence of  a  dinner  out-of-doors  in  mid-winter  was  an  occasion 
of  much  enjoyment. 

The  Misses  Lewis,  at  their  home  corner  Post  and  Laguna 
streets,  entertained  a  few  friends  on  Friday  evening,  in  a 
novel  manner.  Progressive  hearts  was  played,  much  to 
the  enjoyment  of  those  present.  The  game  as  played 
varied  slightly  from  the  scientific  version. 

The  tea  held  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  E.  K.  Stevenot,  at 
1518  Taylor  street,  was  both  a  social  and  financial  success. 
The  entertainment  was  largely  attended,  and  the  antique 
room,  tilled  with  many  rare  articles,  was  especially  inter- 
esting. 

On  the  23d  inst..  at  8  o'clock  p.  M.,  an  interesting  exhi- 
bition in  fencing  will  be  given  at  the  gymnasium  of  the  San 
Francisco  Riding  Club,  1615  Pacific  avenue,  under  the 
immediate  direction  of  Professor  Tronchet,  the  fencing 
master  of  the  club. 

Judge  McKenna  is  being  feted  and  banqueted  exten- 
sively prior  to  his  departure  for  Washington  City;  but 
greatly  to  the  pleasure  of  their  friends,  Mrs.  aud  Miss 
McKenna  will  delay  their  going  Eastward  for  some  months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  F.  Tay  left  on  last  Tuesday  for  a 
visit  to  Los  Angeles  and  San  Diego.  At  the  latter  place 
they  will  attend  the  annual  water  carnival. 


■    ■    (I 
turim  ,iV  evening  for  I 

'"  attend  the  Hardware  and  Metal  A 

Won,  •■  goes  Bast  in  the  Intei  • 

the  company.      Mr    A.    L.    Walker,  of  the  same  Brm, 

has  just  returned  from  the  Northwest. 

In   the  recent  life  class  competition    at    the    Mont    Par- 
nasse  Art  School,  Pai      Bliss  Carrie  Callahan,  formi 
pupil  of  the  Hopkins'  Institute,  and  also  a  member  of   the 
Sketch  Club,  obtained  the  second  prise, 

Notwithstanding  the  very  disagreeable  weather  of  the 
preparations  an'  going  forward  at  the  Motel  i 

for  the  early  descent    upon    that    eXCI 
large  number  of  the  elili  of  the  city. 

On  Sunday  evening  the  Calliopean  Club  celebrate  their 
thirteenth  anniversary  by  tending  the  members  a  banquet 
at  the  Club  House,  1(12(1  California  street.  A  novel  pro- 
gramme is  promised. 

Miss  Minnie  Louise  Schwabacher  gave  the  second  of  a 
series  of  dinners  on  Sunday  last.  Pink  prevailed  in  the 
table  decorations  which  were  very  artistic.  Covers  were 
laid  for  twenty. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whitelaw  Reid,  who  are  expected  to  ar- 
rive here  iu  about  ten  days,  will  pass  the  month  of  March 
at  Milbrae  as  guests  of  D.  O.  Mills,  who  arrived  last 
Sunday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  S.  Bachman  and  Miss  Bachman  will 
give  a  dinner  party  on  the  twenty-fifth  inst.,  at  their 
home. 

Mrs.  Gerstle  will  entertain  her  friends  at  tea  this  af- 
ternoon from  four  to  se"en. 


More  than  half  the  worry  and  trouble  of  entertaining  is  in  pre- 
paring banquets,  dinners,  for  private  parties  and  small  functions. 
Max  Abraham,  the  Caterer,  428  Geary  street,  will  take  all  such  cares 
off  your  hands,  and  attend  to  every  such  detail.  His  wide  experience 
guarantees  perfect  satisfaction. 

Grown  Lavender  Pogm  Salts 

Charming  Novelty 

Tti6~ 

Grown 

Prtmery 

Go., 

Of  London  call  at- 
tention to  odo  of 
tbeir  most  charm- 
ing novelties. 


The  Grown 
Lavender 
Pocket  Salts. 

BOTTLES  AS  SHOW  NOR 

Which  can  he  carried 

Made  by  them  for 
land,  but  now  fjr  the 
into  this  coun  try,  miide 

CROWN  LAVENDER 
GRflB-ftPPLE 

BLOSSOMS 
WHITE  LILAC 
V10LETTE 

THESE  POIKET   SALTS 


The  Grown 
Peri  urned 
Pocket  Salts. 

IN  DAINTY  KID  PURSES, 

in  the  pocket  with 

perfect  safety. 

many  years  in  Eng- 
flrst  time  Introduced 
in  the  following  odors: 

YLflNG-yLflNG 

VERBENA 

MftTSUKITfl 
And  all 
other  odors. 

ARE  PERFECT   GEMS. 


Deliciously  perfumed  with  the  Crown  Perfumes  and  identical  in  quality 
with  the  world  renowned  C'Own  Lavender  Salts  and  various  Perfumed  Sails, 
the  oretuloo  of  the  Crown  Perfumsry  Co..  so  long  and  favorably  known  to 
their  London  and  Paris  clientele. 

PRICES:    standard  Size,  BO  cts.    In  Ki  1  Purses,  75  cts. 
Sma'ler  Size.  40  cis.    Smaller    Size.    60  cts. 
SOLD     EVERYWHERE.      BEWARE    OF     WORTHLESS    IMITATIONS. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  20,  1897. 


■,  acd  there  were 


bombs,  and  the  cranks  did  not  gain  admission.  It  was  a 
supreme  success,  and  hundreds  of  invited  guests  are  to- 
day reveling  in  the  thoughts  of  how  more  than  usually 
stunning  they  were  last  night.  A  photographic  studio  in 
the  neighborhood  of  the  Waldorf  was  kept  open  all  night, 
and  at  least  five  hundred  of  the  guests  were  photographed. 
This  adds  another  to  the  list  of  those  who  benefited  by  last 
night's  lavish  expenditures.  The  hotel,  butchers,  bakers, 
cabbies,  florists,  costumers,  seamstresses,  hair-dressers, 
decorators,  confectioners,  messengers,  extra  maids  and 
footmen,  and  finally  the  photographer  afpresaid,  and  his 
assistants.  It  means  something  better,  does  it  not,  than 
pauperizing  by  indiscriminate  charity?  Mr.  Hermann 
Oelrichs,  as  a  Dutch  Burgomaster  of  the  Sixteenth  Cen- 
tury, was  superb.  Mrs.  Oelrichs'  statuesque  beauty  was 
pronounced,  in  a  court  dress  of  the  time  of  Louis  XV. ,  a 
favorite  epoch  with  many  of  the  guests,  by  the  way;  Miss 
Fair  was  lovely  in  a  Directoire  gown.  Dick  Tobin  was 
another  Californian  present,  and  Lady  Cunard  (Maude 
Burke)  still  another. 

By  the  way  —  Mrs.  Alexander  was  another  Cali- 
fornian at  the  ball  in  the  costume  of  a  Venetian  Court 
Lady  of  the  Sixteenth  Century,  with  her  superb  hair  done 
in  the  style  of  centuries  agone.  Her  husband  wore  an 
Oxford  student's  garb  of  the  same  period. 

I  wonder  if  anything  will  develop  from  the  attachment 
of  Dick  Tobin  and  Miss  Fair.  He  used  to  be  known  as 
"Dickie "  and  she  as  "Birdie "  in  the  long  ago,  and  judg- 
ing from  their  attitude  at  the  last  Sunday  night's  concert 
in  the  Metropolitan,  they  might  still  be  inclined  to  their 
more  youthful  names.  But  it  is  charming  to  meet  old 
friends. 

Her  cousin,  Mrs.  Gillig,  is  leaving  for  England  early  in 
March,  to  be  absent  for  six  or  seven  weeks.  She  gives  a 
farewell  luncheon  at  the  "Waldorf  on  the  fifteenth. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young  are  at  that  famous  hotel, 
having  arrived  only  a  few  days  ago.  "Billy"  Barton  has 
been  in  town  for  a  few  days  and  has  gone  back  to  Philadel- 
phia. 

I  hear  that  Mrs.  George  Law  is  a  guest  of  her  sister-in- 
law  in  Florence,  and  that  if  she  wishes  to  change  her  name 
and  rank  she  will  have  no  difficulty  in  doing  so.  I  have 
also  heard  only  to-day  of  "Tony"  Navarro  and  his  wife, 
who  are  living  at  Broadway  in  Somersetshire,  near  their 
intimate  friends,  the  Alma  Tachmas.  They  are  happy  in 
the  possession  of  a  five-months  old  son. 

Passe-Partout. 

New  York,  February  11,  1897, 


THE  exhibit  of  pen  and  ink  sketches  of  newspaper  work 
that  is  being  very  generously  arranged  by  the  Chron- 
i-jie  for  the  benefit  of  its  relief  fund,  and  which  will  open 
at  the  Partington  School,  424  Pine  street,  on  next 
Wednesday,  the  24th  inst.,  continuing  the  remainder  of 
the  week,  promises  to  be  an  immense  success.  The  collec- 
tion of  pen  and  ink  sketches  is  quite  a  fad,  and  the  exhi- 
bition now  being  prepared  with  the  greatest  care  by  the 
Chronicle  will  afford  an  opportunity  to  obtain  excellent 
work  of  this  character,  and  at  the  same  time  aid  a  most 
worthy  charity.  Admission  to  the  exhibition  will  be  only 
25  cents.  It  will  be  a  chance  to  enjoy  one's  self,  get  an 
idea  of  the  character  of  work  that  can  be  done,  and  help 
the  poor. 

The  Overland  Limited. 

ONLY  3X  DATS  TO  CHICAGO.  i%   DAYS  TO  NEW  YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  dally.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


^FREE  exhibition  of  advertising,  sketch,  and  poster 
work,  including  originals  in  black  and  white,  and  also 
reproductions,  representing  the  work  of  Wilder  &  Co.,  will 
be  given  in  room  27,  Easterbrook  Building,  20  to  24  Geary 
street,  on  Friday  and  Saturday,  February  19th  and  20th, 
between  the  hours  of  10  A.  m.  and  5  p.  M.,  and  from  7:30  to 
10  p.  M. 

THE  famous  painting,  "  Washington  Crossing  the  Dela- 
ware," belonging  to  the  Roberts  collection,  has  just 
been  presented  to  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  having 
been  bought  for  that  purpose  by  Mr.  John  S.  Kenuedv, 
who  paid  $16,100  for  it. 

The  best  lamp-chimney 
word  in  the  world  is  "  Mac- 
beth," whether  English  or 
French  or  Flemish  or  Dutch. 

But  get  the  shape  that  is 
made  for  your  lamp,  "pearl 
top"  or  "pearl  glass."  Let 
us  send  you  the  Index. 

Geo  A  Macbeth  Co 

Pittsburgh  Pa 

BANKING. 

BANK  OF  BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1863. 

Capital  Paid  Up,  83,000,00      Reserve  Fund,  $500,000. 

Southeast  Cob.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lombabd  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B,  C: 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  Yobk— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  National  Bank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America — London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America ;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  or 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

CALIFORNIA  SAFE  DEPOSIT  AND  TRUST  CO. 

Corner  California  and  Montgomery  Sts. 
Capital  Fully  Paid $1,000,000 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business  and  allows  interest  on  deposits 
payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity.  Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  to  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  arnum up- 
ward according  to  size,  and  valuables  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickersham.  Jacob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Tread  well,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R  B.Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry.  A.  D.  Sharon  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D.  Fry,  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.  Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits,  Dec.  31,  1895 $24,^02,337 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 

Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  A.  m.  to  3  p.m.  Saturday  even- 
ings, 6:30  to  8. 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  "W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital 82,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital »2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund J850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  or  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM1  „„„„„„„ 
C.  ALTSCHUL  }  Managers. 


February  -  ""■  ,897- 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


BANKING. 


I  ■(. 


"Said  a  Beardalej  boy  to  a  Kradley  girl 

Whom  he  -tor  blue; 

'  1  haven't  nu  Mm  who  I  am, 
An.l  wln> the  dea« 
1  the  Bndlay  Rirl  to  the  HeanHry  boy: 
'  I'll  tell  you  what  I  Hiuik  ; 
I  oatne  Into  being  one  nigbt  last  week 
When  a  cat  kipped  over  the  ink.'  " 

—The  Clack  Book. 

"Going  skalin'  fore  long?"  asked  little  Jimmie  of  his 
sister's  beau,  who  was  waiting  in  the  parlor.  "I  don't 
skate,  my  boy.  Why.'''  "]  heard  Jennie  say  if  you 
wanted  her  you  better  be  gettin'  your  skates  on,  'cause 
they  was  others." — Detroit  Free  Press. 

O'Hara — She  was  a  good  wife  tome,  poor  woman.  Many's 
the  word  of  good  advice  she  gave  me.  McGooGAN — Thrue 
foryez,  an' many's  the  time  Oi've  heard  her  advisin' j-ez 
whe^  Oi  lived  in  the  house  beyant,  a  mile  up  the  road. — 
London  Figaro. 

Domestic  Cruelty — I  saw  Mrs.  Higby  standing  at  the 
window  weeping.  "I  don't  blame  her;  Mr.  Higby  was 
cleaning  the  pavement  with  that  hand-painted  snow  shovel 
she  gave  him  Christmas." — Chicago  Record. 

"I'm  afraid,  doctor,"  said  the  fair  patient,  "that  I  am 
not  good  enough  to  go  to  church."  "But,  my  dear 
madam,  it  isn't  your  goodness,  its  your  desire."  "But  I'm 
not  good  enough  to  have  any  desire." — Life. 

"How  do  you  account  for  this  plague  of  freak  maga- 
zines?" "Oh,  they  appeared  in  response  to  an  urgent 
demand."  "From  whom?"  "The  people  who  write  the 
stuff." — Chicago  Journal. 

She — It  seems  almost  impossible  that  you  should  love 
me.  He — That's  what  my  mother  says.  How  nicely  you 
and  she  will  get  along  if  you  always  agree  like  that. — 
Harlem  Life. 

She  was  a  peach,  so  he  declared — 

He  was  the  apple  of  her  eye; 
Soon  by  the  parson  they  were  pared, 
And  wedding  bells  then  peeled  on  high. 

—Puck. 

Judge — Guilty  or  not  guilty?  Prisoner — Not  guilty, 
boss.  Judge — Ever  arrested  before?  Prisoner— No 
boss.  An'  I  nevah  done  stole  nuffin  before,  needer. — 
Harper's  Weekly. 

Willie — It's  always  in  damp  places  where  mushrooms 
grow,  isn't  it,  papa?  Papa — Yes,  my  boy.  "Is  that  the 
reason  they  look  like  umbrellas,  papa?" — Yonkers  States- 
man. 

"Is  the  sail  the  only  thing  that  guides  a  ship?"  asked  the 
green  passenger.  "No,"  said  the  mate,  "there  are  rud- 
ders."— Indianapolis  Journal. 

She — Everybody  in  the  choir  detests  the  organist.  He 
— Yes;  I  understand  that  he  is  despised  as  a  non-combat- 
ant.— Puck. 

"I'm  afraid  of  our  new  cashier."  "Why?"  "He  has  be 
gun  to  write  a  running  hand." — Chicago  Record. 


World's  Wine  Production. — The  American  Consul  at 
Zurich,  Switzerland,  reports  to  the  State  Department 
that  the  wine  production  of  the  world  is  3,671,963,000 
gallons.     The  United  States  stands  twelfth  on  the  list. 

Paso  Robles. 
Our  new  mud  bath  house  is  finished.  The  arrangement  of  baths, 
dressing  rooms,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  floor.  No  stairs  or  steps  to 
climb.  We  are  now  unquestionably  the  finest  sanitarium  or  health 
resort  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Rest  and  health  seekers  are  Paso  Robles 
seekers,  Rates,  $10,  $12.80,  $15,  and  $17.50  per  week.  Climate  warm. 


The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedaker,  General  Agent. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital  13,000,000  00 

Surplus  mill  I  la   oelol    rl.im       S.IM,UB10 

WILLIAM  ALVORD  it  I  CHARLES  R  BISHOP    Vlee-Pme't 

ALLEN  M  CLAY  rHOMAS  I1ROWN 

B.  Puemss  Smito  m  aea'l  Cannier 

i'i  INDENTS 
New   Yohk  —  Messrs.   Laldlaw  &  Co.;  Hie   llankot  Now   York.  N.  n.  A. 
■■  -Tromont  Nation,,  LOHDOII— Moaere.  N.  M    Rothschild  & 

Sona;    I'aiiis  Freros:    VutoiNlA  i'itv    (Nov.)— 

AgoncyotThe  Hunk  o  >  rnlon  National   Hank,  and 

Illinois  Trust  end  Savings  B  11    rRAXJAend  N»:w  /.f.ai.ani>—  Hankof 

New  Zealand;  Cbika,  Japan,  and  [RD1A— Chartered  Hankof  India,  Austra- 
Ilk  and  China:  St  1...1-1-    11, him. mi's  Hunk. 

II  parts  of  the  world. 
Draws  Direct  on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lako 
Denver,  Kansas  City.  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London.  Paris.  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg.  Frankfort-on-Maln.  Coponhagen, 
Stockholm. Christlania.  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  In  Italy. 


MUTUAL   SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN   FRANCISCO. 

33  Post  Stheet,  below  Kkakny,  Mechanics*  Institute  building. 

Guaranteed  Capital,  $1,000,000.      Paid-Up  Capital,  1300,000. 

OFFICKKS 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN,  President.  I  S.  Q.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John   A.    Hooper,  C.  Q. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Prank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  MoElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY.  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co  ,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    When  opening  accounts  send  stgnatute. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital 11,000,000 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  T  in  Franclsoo. 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolee.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Brugulere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil- 
ler Wm.P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  ol  tbe 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.   Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  St.,  S.  F. 

Guarantee  capital  and  surplus $2,040,201  66 

Capitat  actually  paid  up  in  cash.     ..  1.000  000  00 

Deposits  December  31,  1896 27,7i0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B  A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt,; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary,  George  Toiirny ;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Mullen  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann,  Ign.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt. 

CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  of  san  francisco. 

Cor.  Market,  Montgomery,  and  Post  Sts. 

Paid-Up  Capital $1,000,000. 

WM.  H.CROCKER President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Cbas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 

Capital  authorized $6,000,000 1  Paid  Up $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  f  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world     Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

anabulU0D-  g%:ISgSg%gL  Imagers 

WELLS  FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK, 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets. 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,250,000 

John  J.  Valentine President  I  Homer  S.King Manager 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier  1  F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

BRANCHES. 
N  Y  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Ben],  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans.  

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

822  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.    LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS. 

William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O.  D.  Baldwin  E  J.  McCutchen 

Adam  Grant  W.S.Jones  J.  B.  Lincoln 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  20,  1897. 


SOUTHERN     PACIFIC    COMPANY 

(Pacific    System.) 

Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  at 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Leave.  | 


From  January  1,  189'. 


I  Arrive 


6:45p 


4:45p 


•6:00  A  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  way  stations  8:45a 

7:00a  Atlantic  Express,  Ogden  and  East    8:45p 

7:00  a  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Rumsey,  Sac- 
ramento, Oroville,  and  Redding, 
via  Davis 

7:30  A  Martinez,   San  Ramon,  Vallejo, 

Napa,  Calistoga,  and  Santa  Rosa    6:15  P 

8:30  a  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,    Marys ville,   Cbico, 

Tehama,  and  Red  Bluff 4 :15  P 

•8:30  A  Peters  and  Milton *7:15p 

9:C0A  New  Orleans  Express,  Raymond 
(for  Yosemite),  Fresno,  Bakers- 
field,  Santa  Barbara,  Los  An- 
geles, Deming,  El  Paso,  New 
Orleans,  and  East 

9 :00  a  Martinez  and  Stockton 4 :45  p 

9:00a  Vallejo 6:15p 

Niles,  San  Jose  Livermore,  and 

Stockton 7 :15  P 

*1:00p  Sacramento  River  steamers *9:0OP 

1:00  P  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  Livermore..    8:45  A 
tl:30p  Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations....  f?:45P 

4:00  p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo, 
Napa,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 
Santa  Rosa 9:15a 

4:00  p  Benicia,  Vacaville,  Woodland, 
Knight's  Landing,  Marysville, 
Oroville,  and  Sacramento 11:15a 

4:30  P  Lathrop,  Stockton,  Modesto,  Mer- 
ced, and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles, 
returning  via  Martinez 11 :45  A 

5:00p  Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy, 
Fresno,  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los 
Angeles 10 .45  A 

5 :00  p  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojave  and  East 10:45 A 

6:00  P  European  mall,  Ogden  and  East..    9:45  A 

6:00  p  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose...    7:45a 
J7:00p  Vallejo 17:45p 

7:0Op  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento, 
Marysville,  Redding,  Portland, 
Puget  Sound  and  East 11:15  A 

Hl0:00p  "Sunset  Limited."  Fresno,  Los 
Angeles,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans, 
and  East §13  :45p 


Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 

8:15  a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  HoulderCreek,  Santa  Cruz 

and  way  stations 5 :50  P 

•2:15  p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boulder 
Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal 

way  stations *11:20A 

4:15  P  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9:50  a 

til  :45p  Hunters'  Excursion,   San  Jose 

and  way  stations J7 :20  p 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

6:45  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New 

Almaden  Wednesdays  only) 1 :30  p 

8:15A  San  Jose,  TresPInos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles,  San 
Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and 

principal  way  stations 7:00  p 

10:40  A  San  Jose  and  way  stations 5:00  p 

11 :30  A  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 3 :30  p 

*S:80p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose, 
Gilroy.  Tres  Pinos.  Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey.  Pacific  Grove  *10 :40  a 

*3:30  P  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9-45  a 

*4 :30  p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8 :05  A 

5:30  p  San    Jose    and    principal    way 

stations *8 :45  A 

6 :30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 :35  a 

tll:45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations f7:45P 


San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local. 

e*6-oo  ai 

7:15  A 

8:00  a 

«9:45  A 

9:00  a 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00  a 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  a 

til  .00  A 

FITCHBURG, 

12:45  p 

2:00  P 

San  Leandro, 

M:45  p 

3:00  P 

and 
Haywards. 

4:45  p 

4:00  P 

5:45  p 

5:00  p 

6:15  p 

5:30  p 

7:45  P 

7:00  p 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

8:45  P 

8:00  p 

t  From  Niles 

9:45  P 

9:00  p 

10:50  p 

++11:15  p 

[++12:00  p 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 
From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street 
(Slip  8). 

*7:15.  9:00,  and  11:00  a.  m.,  Jl  :00,  *2:00, 13:00, 
*4:Q0,  J5:00  and  *6:00p.  m. 
From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway 

*6:00,8:00,    10:00  A.  M.;  112:00,  *1 :00,  12:00, 
♦3:00,14:00  *5:0Qp.  m. 

a  for  Morning.  p  for  Atternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted.  tSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only 
tt  Monday.  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

HTuesdays  and  Saturdays. 
gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The.PAciPic  Transfer  Company  will  call  for 
and  cheek  baggage  from  hotels  and  residences. 
Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 


THIS  TRAMP   HAD    READ   THE  BIBLE. 

At  one  of  the  recent  revival  services  held 
at  noon  in  Old  Epiphany  Church  a  ragged, 
unkempt  tramp  walked  in,  apparently  sup- 
posing it  to  be  a  charitable  soup  establish- 
ment. When  he  saw  his  mistake  he  started 
to  go  out,  but  was  stayed  by  one  of  the  evan- 
gelical workers. 

"Stop  with  us,"  he  said. 

But  the  tramp  persisted  in  going  out,  say- 
ing, "I'm  in  de  wrong  place." 

"No,  you're  not,"  responded  the  evange- 
list; "we  are  glad  to  see  you." 

"But,"  said  the  tramp;  "youse  are  all 
strangers  ter  me." 

"That  may  be,"  replied  the  other,  "but 
we  are  all  servants  of  the  Lord,  and  the 
Lord,  you  know,  went  among  strajigers." 

"Yaas,"  sententiously  added  the  tramp, 
"and  they  didn't  do  a  thing  ter  him." 
»  Dumfounded  by  the  display  of  Biblical 
learning,  the  gentleman  allowed  the  tramp 
to  pass,  and  when  outside  the  door  he  was 
observed  to  sigh  deeply  and  walk  rapidly 
away  with  the  air  of  a  man  who  had  just 
escaped  with  his  life.— Phila.  Record. 


WANTED     TO     TRADE. 

I'd  lise  to  make  exchange  at  once, 

On  terms  extremely  low, 
One  dancing  girl  of  queeuly  grace, 

.For  one  who'll  swim  and  row. 

I  also  have  in  stock  a  maid 
Who  knows  the  trump  in  whist; 

I'll  trade  her  for  a  hammock  girl 
Who  wouldn't  scream  if  kissed. 

—  Philadelphia  Bulletin. 


SHE'S     ALL     RIGHT     NOW. 

No  doubt  some  little  claim  belongs 

To  all  these  wild  emotions 
About  redressing  woman's  wrongs, 

Aud  other  modern  notions; 
And  yet  it  might  be   well,  I've  thought, 

And  scarcely  more  inhuman, 
To  let  her  wrongs  all  go  to  pot 

And  just  re-dress  the  woman. 

—Detroit  Free  Press. 


An    English     explorer,     Edward    A. 

Fitzgerald,  has  set  out  with  an  elaborately 
equipped  party  to  climb  Aconcagua,  on  the 
borders  of  Chili  and  the  Argentine  Republic. 
This  mountain  is  22,000  feet  high,  the  high- 
est peak  outside  of  the  Himalayas,  and  if 
Mr.  Fitzgerald  succeeds  he  will  have  climbed 
the  highest  mountain  yet  ascended. 


Have  you  seen  the  SMOKER'S  TIP  ? 

It  will  prevent  the  poisonous  irritation 
of  The  tobacco  upon  the  mouth  and  lip. 
This    constant    irritation  nas    caused 
many  a  cancer.     "The  kiss   you  would 
impart  the  sweeter  woula  be,  for  nico- 
tine on  the  lip  far  less  there  will  be." 
Mailed  on  receipt  of  three  two-cent 
stamps  by  the   ELASTIC  TIP  CO.,  patentees 
and  manufacturers  of  kcbber  specialties, 
Boston;  Coicago;  735  Market  St.,  San  Francisco 


S   S    "Australia",  for 

Honolulu    only,  Tuee- 

February  23,  at  2 


(gpUi 


ll[/w  S.  S.  "Alameda,1 

Thursday  .March  4th, 
at  2  P.  M. 

Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
SouthAfrica.  J.  D  SPRECKELS  &BROS  CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
MarketSt.,  San   Francisco. 


The  Grand  Pacific,  f£$£s&\ 

MRS.  ELLA  OORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month. 
Telephone:  Grant,  507. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND   NORTH   PACIFIC 
RAILWAY    CO. 

tiburon  Ferry-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00,  11:00  A  M;  12:35,3:30 
5:10,  6:30  p  m.  Thursdays— Extra  trip  at 
11:30  p  m.  Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1:50 
and  11 :30  p  M. 

SUNDAYS— 8:00,  9:30, 11:00  A  M;  1:30,  3:30,  5:00, 
6:20  PM. 

SAN  RAFAEL  TO  SAN  FRANCISCO. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  AM;  12:45, 

3 :40, 5 :10  p  M.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :55 

and  6:35  PM. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40,  11:10  AM;  1:40,3:40,5:00, 

6:25  pm. 
Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park, 
same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  s.  f. 

In  Effect 
Oct.  14,1896 

Desti'tion. 

Arrive  in  S.  F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays. 

Sundays. 

Week 
Days. 

7:30AM 
3:30  PM 
5:10  pm 

8:00am 
9:30am 
5:00pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40  am 
6:10  pm 
7:35  pm 

8:40AM 
10:2oAM 
6  :22pm 

Fulton, 

Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyservllle, 

7:30  AM 

10:25AM 

8:66  am 

7:35pm 

7:30  am|  8:00AM  ^IfukSnJ  »« 

6:22pm 

3-30pm|  8:00am  I  GuernevMel  7:35  pm 

10  25AM 
6 :22  P  M 

7:30am   8:00am  l     Sonoma,     110:40am 
5:10pm|  5:00pm  I  Glen  Ellen.  |  6:10pm 

8:40AM 
6:22  pm 

7:30AM|  8:00am  1  =0ha.,™0l  |10:40am 
3:30pm|  5:00pm  |  Sebastopol.  |  6:10pM 

10:25am 
6:22pm 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville for  Skaggs' Springs;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake- 
port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and  Bartlett 
Springs;  at  Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga 
Springs.  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper 
Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  River- 
side. Lierley's,  Buckneirs  Sashedoin  Heights, 
Hullville,  Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City.  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal,  Willttts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Har- 
ris, Scotia,  and  Eureka. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  re- 
duced rates. 

On  Sundays, Round  TripTickets  to  all  points 
beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle 
Building. 

A.W.  FOSTER,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Pres.  and  Gen.  Manager.      Gen.  Pass  .  Agent. 

PACIFIC    COAST    STEAMSHIP    CO. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Fran- 
cisco for  ports  in  Alaska.  9  a.m.,  Feb.  10,25. 

For  B.  C  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  Feb.  4, 10, 
15.  20,  25,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pom- 
ona," at  2  P.  M.Feb  1,5,9,  13,  17,  21.  25,  and 
every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports, 
at  9  a.  M.;Feb  3,7,11,15,  19,  23,  27,  ana  every 
fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego.s  topping  only  at  Port  Harford 
Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los  Angeles ,  Redondo,  (Los 
Angeles)  and  Newport,  Feb  1.5,9,13,17,21,25, 
and  every  fourth  day  thereafter,  at  11  a.  m. 

ForEnsenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del 
Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La  Paz,  Santa  Rosalia, 
and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10 
a.   m.  ,  25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  tbe  right  to  change, 
without  previous  notice,  steamers,  sailing  dates, 
and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New 
Montgomery  street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents, 
No.  10  Mar  ket  street,  San  Francisco 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.   CO 

For  Japan  and  China. 
Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  1  P  M,  for  YOKOHAMA  and 
HONGKONG,  calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Naga- 
saki and  Shanghai,  and  connecting  at  Hong- 
kong with  steamers  for  India,  etc  No  cargo  re- 
ceived on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 

Doric Tuesday,  February  23, 1897 

Coptic  (via  Honolulu) . .  ..Thursday,  April  1, 1897 

Gaelic Wednesday,  April  31.  1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  11,  1897 

Round  TRrp  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's 
Office,  No.  421  Market  street,  corner  First. 


D.  D.  STUBBS, Secretary. 


PANORAMIC  SERIES.  PLATE  51. 


WITH  S.  F.  NEWS  LETTER.  FEBRUARY  27, 1897. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO,   FEBRUARY  27.  1897. 


Number  9. 


FrisUed  and  Published  nerf  Saturday  by  f he  proprietor.  FRED  MABB10T1 
5H  Eearny  street.  San  Francisco.  Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post- 
ofice  as  Second-class  Matter. 

Theofice  0/  the  SEWS  LETTBB  in  Htm  Tort  City  is  at  Temple  Court; 
and  at  Chit-ago.  90S  Boyee  Building.  (Front:  E.  Morrison.  Eastern 
Representative),  where  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  subscrip- 
tion and  advertising  rates. 

GIVE   the  unemployed   picks   and   shovels  as   well  as 
knives  and  forks.     He  who  wields  the  one  has  earned 
the  right  to  use  the  other. 


THE  fact  that  American  steel  rails  are  selling  in  Eng- 
land below  the  possibility  of  competition  there,  is  a 
compliment  to  the  superior  skill  of  American  workmen 
and  American  machinery,  as  it  is  an  unanswerable  argu- 
ment in  favor  of  the  principles  of  free  trade. 

THE  Examiner  and  the  police  do  not  like  William  M. 
Nielson  for  reasons  perfectly  well  understood.  Having 
failed  in  everything  else,  they  are  taking  advantage  of 
personal  troubles  that  are  liable  to  occur  to  anybody,  and 
are  falsifying  in  every  instance,  as  will  appear  when  his 
side  is  heard.        

THE  real  estate  brokers  of  San  Francisco  are  practi- 
cally a  unit  in  favor  of  the  Torrens  land  transfer  bill 
that  is  dow  before  the  Legislature.  The  bill  should  be 
made  law  in  California  without  delay.  It  simplifies  and 
guarantees  titles  as  no  other  system  devised  has  ever 
been  able  to  do.  It  is  absolute  and  complete.  Failure  to 
eEact  it  would  be  a  nublic  misfortune. 


FOR  years  Eastern  fruit  packers  have  been  defrauding 
California  canners  of  their  rights  and  swindling  their 
own  customers  by  representing  that  they  are  buying  Cali- 
fornia goods,  which  in  reality  were  grown  and  put  up  in 
Maryland.  Every  effort  to  stop  this  traffic — fraudulent  in 
a  double  sense — has  always  failed.  San  Francisco  fruit 
men  have  just  secured  the  conviction  of  four  of  the  most 
flagrant  violators  at  Baltimore.  This  will  have  a  very  dis- 
couraging effect  upon  all  the  Eastern  swindling  gang  who 
injure  the  reputation  of  California  goods  by  packing  infer- 
ior fruit  under  California  labels. 


THE  talk  of  good  roads  in  California  comes  better  late 
than  never.  Millions  of  money  are  annually  wasted 
because  of  bad  highways  throughout  the  State.  What 
good  roads  can  accomplish  may  be  learned  from  the  expe- 
rience of  Eastern  States,  where  whole  districts  that  were 
deserted,  and  valueless,  have  been  made  productive,  popu- 
lous and  prosperous  through  the  building  of  permanent 
highways.  A  concerted,  comprehensive  system,  careful!}' 
planned  and  intelligently  worked  out,  would  be  of  measure- 
less value  to  both  city  and  country.  Good  roads  are  little 
less  than  the  foundation  of  general  prosperity. 

THE  Grand  Jury  is  doing  good  work.  Among  other 
discoveries,  it  has  found  out  that  there  was  corrupt 
collusion  between  certain  members  of  the  late  Board  of 
Supervisors  and  certain  officers  of  the  City  and  County 
Hospital  and  divers  contractors.  As  usual,  it  is  shown  that 
the  people  were  robbed  to  the  tune  of  several  thousand  dol- 
lars by  some  of  these  industrious  public  pick-pockets.  The 
flagrant  frauds  that  have  been  thinly  covered  up  until  this 
time  are  stalking  abroad,  and  point  their  fingers  toward 
certain  well-known  men.  The  investigation  should  pro- 
ceed vigorously,  until  the  takers  of  bribes  and  the  robbers 
of  the  people  are  in  person  brought  to  bar.  The  money 
stolen  is  gone,  but  the  men  who  took  it  remain,  and  they 
should  pay,  on  prison  fare,  for  their  crimes. 


PEOPLE  who  have  watched  the  proceedings  in  the  case 
of  Mrs.  Nancy  A.  Abbott  against  Thus.  Quackenbush 
will  not  be  surprised  that  Mrs.  Abbott  was  defeated.  Her 
Fate  should  be  a  warning  to  elderly  ladies  who  desire  to 
acquire  a  competence  by  annexing  the  fortunes  of  wealthy 
old  gentlemen  by  the  private  contract  marriage  route. 
Quackenbush  made  a  fair,  square  tight,  and  won  it.  That 
Mrs.  Abbot  got  justice  few  will  doubt. 

THE  contractors  who  are  accustomed  to  do  work  on 
the  State  wharves  should  be  more  careful  of  their  lig- 
uring,  and  reach  a  better  understanding  before  submitting 
their  bids.  A  difference  of  $8(i2  for  a  job  on  which  the 
highest  offer  was  but  $1,360.  clearly  shows  that  the  boys 
made  a  serious  blunder  in  letting  the  public  know  just 
what  a  really  good  thing  is.  The  old  theory  of  addition, 
division  and  silence  works  quite  as  smoothly  among  pile- 
drivers  as  politicians,  and  it  shouldn't  be  disturbed. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  does  not  want  any  sociologist  in  the 
course  of  instruction  here.  There  are  too  many  rich 
sinecures  in  our  public  schools  now  to  be  paid  for  by  the 
people.  A  little  less  so-called  education,  and  more  com- 
mon horse-sense  is  what  taxpayers  of  this  city  want.  In- 
stead of  adding  to  the  long  list  of  tax-eaters  that  have 
been  fastening  from  time  to  time  on  our  public  school  sys- 
tem, with  all  the  folderol  uselessness  of  them,  we  want 
the  pruning  knife,  not  the  lengthening  pay-roll.  The  bill 
against  which  a  prompt  protest  has  gone  to  Sacramento, 
means  $4,000  per  annum  added  to  the  tax  roll  without  an 
additional  advantage  amounting  to  four  cents  a  year.  San 
Francisco  wants  none  of  it. 


THE  ordinance  that  was  adopted  on  Tuesday  by  the 
Supervisors,  imposing  a  penalty  of  $25  or  ten  days' 
imprisonment  for  spitting  on  the  sidewalks,  in  public  con- 
veyances, or  within  buildings,  will  be  hailed  with  joy  by  all 
ladies  and  gentlemen.  Should  the  Board  of  Health,  which 
recommended  the  passage  of  this  act,  do  nothing  further 
during  its  term  of  office  worthy  of  commendation,  the 
members  by  this  deed  alone  will  have  earned  their  salaries 
and  the  gratitude  of  the  city.  The  ordinance  will  hard 
pinch  the  bummers — the  foul-smelling  gangs  that  hang 
about  the  City  Hall  and  make  one  vast  cuspidor  of  its 
corridors.  It  will  also  catch  the  Market-street  statuary. 
We  hope  the  police  will  strictly  enforce  the  provisions  of 
this  ordinance,  showing  no  mercy  to  the  offenders  against 
health  and  decency.  Cleanliness  is  next  to  godliness,  and 
in  this  respect  San  Francisco  is  a  long  way  from  a  state 
of  piety.  

THE  officers  of  the  Horse  Show  Association  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  have  sent  out  a  circular  to  all  horse 
breeders,  and  others  interested,  plainly  indicating  that 
there  is  required  a  more  general  and  hearty  interest  in 
the  work  of  the  Association.  The  gentlemen  whose  names 
have  been  prominently  identified  with  the  horse  show  have 
not  only  given  their  time,  but  their  money  as  well,  toward 
its  success,  and  they  feel  that  more  practical  approval  of 
the  Association  and  its  objects  is  necessary  upon  the  part 
of  breeders  and  exhibitors.  California  produces  the  best 
horses  in  the  world,  as  the  track  records  of  the  country 
show,  and  it  is  here  that  the  strongest  inducements  should 
be  found  and  the  most  successfully-conducted  horse  shows 
given.  The  officers  have  been  untiring  in  their  efforts  to 
make  the  Association  of  practical  value  to  all  classes  in- 
terested. It  is  time  that  breeders  throughout  the  Coast 
should  be  heard  from.  Assurances  of  their  hearty  co- 
operation are  due  to  these  gentlemen. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1897. 


THE      POLICE      IN      CHINATOWN. 


THE  police  gathered  in  some  three  hundred  Chinamen 
the  other  night  for  playing  the  comparatively  inno- 
cent game  of  fan  tan.  There  is  a  city  ordinance  against  it, 
which  renders  the  players  liable  to  a  small  fine.  It  is  a 
fair  and  square  game  of  chance,  but,  being  gambling,  it  is 
properly  under  the  ban  of  the  law.  Yet  it  is  played  year 
in  and  year  out  in  Chinatown,  without  the  slightest  moles- 
tation from  any  quarter.  It  is  said  the  gambling  houses  pay 
from  $10  to  $25  a  week  for  police  protection  and  usually  get 
it.  Why  then  was  that  raid  made  the  other  night?  In  the 
first  place,  people  have  been  talking  rather  freely  about 
police  inactivity  in  Chinatown  since  the  death  of  Little 
Pete,  and  it  had  become  necessary  to  make  a  showing. 
In  the  next  place,  quite  a  number  of  the  gambling  houses 
have  for  some  time,  on  the  plea  of  hard  times,  been  escap- 
ing, wholly  or  in  part,  the  payment  of  the  customary  dues. 
It  was  deemed  a  good  time  to  give  them  ^the  shaking  up 
they  got.  Thus  two  birds  were  killed  with  one  stone. 
Clever  Police!  Immaculate  defenders  of  the  law!  There 
will  be  almost  as  many  fan  tan  games  played  in  Chinatown 
to-night  as  ever,  but  there  will  be  no  arrests  made.  The 
opium  joints,  attended  by  white  girls,  have  not  been  dis- 
turbed, nor  have  the  houses  of  shame  visited  by  the  same 
class.  It  is  possible  to  do  a  mighty  lot  of  thinking  on  these 
points. 

Since  the  foregoing  was  put  in  type  two  singularly  signifi- 
cant events  have  occurred  in  Chinatown  that  verify  to  the 
fullest  extent  the  statements  of  the  News  Letter  in  regard 
to  the  traffic  in  white  women  being  the  real  bone  of  con- 
tention between  the  late  Little  Pete's  faction  and  the  See 
Yups.  Little  Pete  in  some  way  had  the  monopoly  of  im- 
porting Chinese  women,  often  selling  them  at  from  $2,500 
to  $3,000.  At  that  figure  they  were,  of  course,  valuable 
chattel  property.  The  income  they  brought  their  owners 
may  be  estimated  from  their  capital  value.  This  monopoly 
Little  Pete  held  on  to  the  last,  and  it  never  seemed  more 
firmly  established  or  more  profitable  than  at  the  time  of 
his  death.  By  some  occult  arrangements  with  the  Customs 
Department  he  had  little  difficulty  in  getting  in  his  own, 
and  shutting  out  those  of  his  opponents.  It  was  a  mono- 
poly as  lucrative  as  it  was  unspeakable.  That  it  could  ex- 
ist in  this  civilized  community  has  been  alike  disgraceful 
to  the  Municipal  and  Federal  Governments.  Certain 
Missionary  homes  have,  in  this  connection,  sown  where 
they  have  not  listed,  and  have  corralled  white  wives,  and 
worse,  for  Chinese  merchants.  The  so-called  "house  to 
house  visitations"  have  converted  girl  missionary  teachers 
to  opium  fiends,  decoy  ducks,  and  we  hesitate  to  say  what 
else.  This  matter  is  almost  too  painful  for  investigation, 
but  the  bottom  facts  will  have  come  out  all  the  same. 
"We  now  learn  how  great  a  figure  the  See  Yups  make  of 
their  white  slaves  against  those  of  the  Little  Pete  Tong.  No 
fewer  than  five  leading  lawyers  have  been  employed  to 
keep  the  Little  Pete's  from  getting  in  and  competing  with 
women  of  our  own  race.     Shame  upon  our  authorities! 

How  accustomed  the  See  Yups  have  become  to 
familiarity  with  white  women  has  just  been  demonstrated 
in  the  persistence  with  which  a  Chinaman  has  been  way- 
laying an  estimable  American  lady  and  attempting  to  kiss 
her.  He  was  very  properly  arrested,  and  if  he  had  lived 
down  South  he  would  be  lynched.  If  this  thing  comes  close 
to  our  homes  and  hearths,  we  shall  probably  have  greater 
toleration  for  Southern  lynching.  It  is  a  bad  business 
anywhere,  but  that  is  a  worse  business  that  renders  it 
possible,  and  eveD  tolerable  in  the  eyes  of  the  freest  people 
on  Earth.  There  are  certain  portions  of  Chinatown  known 
to  the  police  that  are  crowded  every  day  with  white 
visitors  to  opium  joints,  and  to  dens  of  debauchery  worse 
than  the  Chinese  women  occupy.  It  is  now  a  question  as 
to  which  of  the  two  classes  of  women  shall  win  the  Chinese 
men.  It  is  a  condition  that  should  make  the  very  blood  of 
our  race  boil.  It  is  a  depth  of  degradation  from  which 
every  impulse  of  humanity  recoils  in  utter  horror.  Heads 
of  respectalbe  families  little  dream  of  the  places  in  which  this 
evil  has  taken  root.  It  is  terrible  that  these  things  exist, 
but  the  evidence  is  clear  and  the  necessity  for  action  obvious. 
The  Police  could  stamp  it  out  if  they  would.  Public 
opinion,  which  is  the  ultimate  Court,  after  all  is  said  and 
done,  should  be  aroused,  and  these  monstrous  evils 
strangled  to  their  final  death. 


"As  to  Boycotting  The  Examiner  is  the  authority — not 
The  Examiner."  a  very  good  one,  however — for  the 
statement  that  it  is  being  boycotted 
by  people  who  do  not  like  it,  and  it  thinks  that  among 
those  people  are  to  be  found  stockholders  in  street  car 
companies,  the  gas  company,  Spring  Valley,  and  the  rail- 
roads. Well,  it  is  a  bad  rule  that  does  not  work  both 
ways.  We  have  seen  no  outward  and  visible  signs  of  boy- 
cotting our  shameless  contemporary,  except  among  heads 
of  families  who  are  beginning  to  realize  the  harmful  nature 
of  many  of  its  unspeakable  ways,  but  we  have  failed  to 
learn  of  any  systematic  boycotting  on  the  part  of  the 
stockholders  in  the  various  public  utilities  that  have  lately 
been  the  objects  of  the  Examiner's  bitter  warfare.  Of 
these  things  we  are  certain:  (1)  That  retaliation  upon  the 
Examiner  has  long  been  deserved;  (2)  that  it  would  prove 
a  very  effective  weapon  against  a  newspaper  that  bids  its 
soul  in  exchange  for  the  nickels  of  the  crowd,  (3)  that  ren- 
dering material  support  to  one's  enemy  is  about  like  turn- 
ing the  other  cheek  to  be  smitten.  If  a  newspaper  does 
its  level  best  to  destroy  invested  capital,  that  capital  cer- 
tainly has  the  right  to  protect  itself  by  destroying  its 
enemy,  if  it  can.  Self-protection  is  the  first  law  of  nature. 
If  invested  capital  ceases  to  deal  with  the  Examiner,  or 
with  anybody  who  does,  it  would  soon  find  a  safer  way  of 
tickling  its  mob.  It  knows  the  boycott  would  be  effective, 
hence  its  cr3'ing  out  before  it  is  hurt.  It  is  likely  to  be 
taken  at  its  word,  and  the  hint  passed  around. 

The  latest  trick  of  our  contemporary  to  catch  nickels  is 
to  establish  a  monopoly  of  prize-ring  news.  Money  has 
been  paid  for  the  exclusive  publication  of  all  that  the 
principals,  seconds,  and  hangers-on  may  choose  to  give 
out,  and  they,  in  turn,  are  bound  to  give  nothing  out,  ex- 
cept to  the  Examiner.  This  is  what  we  are  told  is  ''the 
new  journalism."  It  appears  to  be  part  of  the  contract 
that  the  fight  is  to  be  "boomed"  to  the  exclusion  of  legiti- 
mate news.  Of  course,  the  pugs  pay  for  all  they  are 
entitled  to  get  it,  but  what  are  those  to  do  who  like  not 
prize-fighting,  or  any  of  its  ways?  If  they  subscribe  for 
the  Examiner  they  are  directly  subsidizing  brutality  and 
those  who  engage  in  it.  It  is  in  the  air  that  this  tight  is 
fixed,  and  that  Corbett  is  to  win.  We  have  no  evidence 
that  Fitzsimmons  is  a  party  to  such  an  arrangement,  but 
when  he  fraternizes  with  the  people  of  the  Examiner  who 
were  responsible  for  Umpire  Earp,  and  the  fizzle  that  re- 
sulted, be  does  about  the  best  he  can  for  betting — that  is 
to  kill  it.  No  man,  not  a  fool,  will  wager  a  dime  on  his 
winning.  If  his  fellow  Cornishmen  of  Gold  Hill  and  Vir- 
ginia City  are  crazy  enough  to  bet  on  a  certain  loser  be- 
cause of  bis  nativity,  they  deserve  to  be  bled,  as  they 
will  be.  The  Examiner  is  now  a  monopolist  itself.  It  has, 
or  thinks  it  has,  a  corner  on  the  news  of  the  coming  prize- 
fight. The  encounter  is  against  the  law  of  this  State,  and 
the  popularizing  of  it  ought  to  be  made  so  also.  A  self- 
respecting  man  would  view  the  intent  of  the  law  and  gov- 
ern himself  accordingly.  Fancy  the  boasted  palladium  of 
our  liberties,  and  censor  of  public  morals,  crowing  at  hav- 
ing become  the  copyrighted  monopolist  of  prize-ring  news! 
Fathers  and  mothers  will  boycott  it  anyhow. 

Cuba  and  There  appears  no  reason  why  the  United 
Spain.  States  should  accept  any  other  than  the 
position  of  mediator  between  Spain  and 
Cuba,  notwithstanding  the  general  clamor  from  noisy 
statesmen  and  unthinking  citizens.  The  stories  of  Spain's 
atrocities  in  the  island  are  one-sided,  unfair,  and  false. 
In  this  we  may  thank  a  sensational  and  unreliable  press, 
which  stamps  all  information  coming  from  Spanish  sources 
as  lies,  and  all  rebel  reports  as  truths.  The  fact  that 
naturalized  citizens  of  the  republic  should  engage  in  any 
transaction  whereby  the  country's  peace  should  be  seri-  ' 
ously  disturbed,  is  treasonable,  and  justly  brings  such  vio- 
lator within  the  range  of  Spanish  punishment. 

There  are  two  causes  for  the  rabid  jingo  attacks  in  the 
United  States  Congress.  Primarily,  the  situation  has 
been  forced  upon  the  blatant  Senators  by  financial  circles 
having  interests  or  mortgages  in  Cuba,  and  upon  its  plan- 
tations. Secondly,  many  of  the  jingoites  have  trumpeted 
the  Cuban  cause,  with  a  desire  to  show  their  spleen  against 
President  Cleveland  and  his  Cabinet.  Not  oue  of  the 
charges  made  against  Spain  or  against  Mr.  Cleveland  in 
the  premises  can  be  substantiated.     No  Government  in  a 


February  27,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Republican  sense  exists  on  tbe  I  uba.  True,  there 

is  a  sort  of  administration,  hut  thai  this  power  ran  show 
the  requWI  ;Tord  it  due  recognition  has   not 

yet  been  proved  Even  if  the  re volation and  its  adherents 
win  their  cause,  it  is  very  doubtful  if  any  assimilation  of 
racial  features  could  be  a  fact.  White  and  mulatto  resi- 
dents of  Cuba  do  not  love  the  black  race.  They  are  fight- 
ing the  battles  of  the  revolution,  and  if  victorious  would 
demand  recognition,  but  it  is  doubtful  if  they  would  receive 
that  demand.  It  has  long  been  known  to  the  be»1  friends 
aba  Libre"  that  difference  of  opinion  exists  between 
tbe  black  contingent  and  the  whites  of  Spanish  and  foreign 
origin,  as  to  the  settlement  of  mutters.  The  present  mili- 
tary chief.  Maximo  Gomes,  is  not  a  Cuban,  and  is  just  as 
likely  now  to  pursue  the  course  that  he  did  during  a  pre- 
vious revolt — namely,  to  treat  with  Spain  for  a  monetary 
consideration.     Indeed,  he  is  even  now  fighting  for  money. 

Humanity  is  a  great  power  to  invoke  in  this  contest, 
but  Europe  so  far  has  not  betrayed  this  virtue  in  the 
Cuban  cause,  for  the  reason  that  Spain's  victory  means 
security  for  payment  of  interest  iMi  Cuban  bonds,  and  so 
long  as  the  war  continues  Germany  can  dump  beet  root 
sugar  into  this  and  other  countries  hitherto  supplied  by 
Cuba  with  the  sweet  material. 

So  far  as  Cuba  ever  becoming  a  State  or  territory  of 
this  Republic,  it  is  but  a  dream.  Her  people,  in  then- 
racial  peculiarities,  their  born  prejudice  against  the  An- 
glo-Saxon race,  their  customs  and  manners,  are  foreign  to 
us  and  our  ideas.  There  are  hundreds  of  Cubans,  well  edu- 
cated and  outwardly  desirous  of  union,  but  deep  down  in 
their  hearts  and  natures  lies  that  feeling  that  every  mem- 
ber of  the  Latin  race  bears  towards  the  Anglo-Saxon. 
They  know  they  cannot  get  along  without  the  help  of  that 
race,  and  therefore  are  polished  and  courteous  when  it 
suits  their  purpose,  but  once  give  them  the  opportunity, 
and  all  the  racial  prejudice  appears. 

Let  the  United  States  intervene  by  offering  mediation 
in  the  matter,  but  to  fight  Spain  upon  the  strength  of  ex- 
aggerated newspaper  stories  and  fanciful,  untruthful  state- 
ments relative  to  cruel  practices  is  utterly  out  of  the  ques- 
tion. Mr.  M.  H.  de  Young,  in  a  recently  published  inter- 
view, stated  concisely  "that  there  was  enough  matters  of 
importance  affecting  United  States  interests  to  be  consid- 
ered by  Congress  and  the  Executive,  to  occupy  attention 
before  going  into  the  Cuban  matter."  This  is  a  true  state- 
ment of  the  question,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  some  of  our 
citizens  will  give  heed  to  this  enunciation,  and  not  be  be- 
guiled into  devoting  their  time  and  attention  to  matters  of 
which  they  have  but  one-sided  information. 

Hawaiian  The  Bulletin  takes  exception  to  our  asser- 
Annexation.  tion  of  last  week  in  these  columns,  that  the 
fact  that  the  United  States  has  flourished 
without  distant  naval  outposts,  is  an  argument  that  we 
do  not  need  them  now.  Our  evening  contemporary's  illus- 
tration of  the  "boy  in  knickers"  is  amusing,  but  not  "con- 
clusive." We  might  reply  that  the  boy  may  not  feel  the 
need  of  whiskey,  but  if  he  grows  up  among  certain  associa- 
tions, he  is  very  liable  to  feel  it,  and  yet  not  have  an  es- 
pecially desirable  sensation.  The  value  of  strategic  out- 
posts and  numerous  coaling  stations  is  cheerfully  admitted 
in  the  case  of  a  nation  bent  on  colonization  or  conquest, 
but  we  were  arguing  from  the  premise  that  it  is  desirable 
for  the  United  States  to  continue  the  policy  of  neutrality 
and  defense.  Again,  the  question  of  "control"  of  the  is- 
lands which  the  Bulletin  advances,  may  have  some  value. 
We  were  not  speaking  of  control,  but  of  annexation.  It  is 
entirely  possible  to  enjoy  the  former  without  burdening 
ourselves  with  the  latter.  Indeed,  we  have  a  fair  measure 
of  control  now.  It  gave  us  coaling  rights  at  Pearl  Harbor 
which  we  believe  have  been  neglected  or  allowed  to  lapse. 
But  suppose  we  have  a  coal  station  in  the  islands,  what 
security  would  it  be  against  a  power  like  Great  Britain 
driving  us  "north  or  south  for  coal  supply?"  And  how 
would  the  fact  prevent  the  same  power  from  shelling  San 
Francisco  from  the  three  mile  limit?  While  we  have  our 
haud  in,  let  us  point  out  a  few  more  reasons  why  annexa- 
tion would  be  folly.  If  the  islands  should  come  into 
the  possession  of  the  United  States  what  would  be  their 
destiny?  The  spirit  of  American  institutions  and  our 
traditions  answer  that  they  must  be  given  statehood  and 
endowed  with  self-government  of  a  republican  form.    That 


would  add  to  our  galaxy  a  new  State,  which  according  to 

the  island  census  just  completed,    would    comprise  a  popu- 
lation   of     109,020.      About      10,000    of     this     number     are 

Kanakas  from    tbe    various    Pacific    islands,   about  1; 111 

are  made    up    of    Japanese.    Chinese   and  Portuguese;  and 
about    7,000    are    divided     between     Americans,     English, 

Germans  and  French.    The  American  colony  is  less  than 

one  half  of  the  while  population,  and  is  less  thai 
fifteenth  of  the  whole  Is  not  that  a  vivid  picture  of  the 
very  poorest  material  from  which  to  form  an  American 
State?  We  are  still  withholding  statehood  from  Arizona, 
Hi  times  as  many  native  Americans, 
and  from  New  Mexico,  which  has  fifty  times  as  m 
Why  should  we  concede  the  precious  boon  to  foreigners — 
and  such  foreigners?  lis  consummation  would  invite  one 
of  two  eq.ially  unfortunate  conditions.  Either  the  erec- 
tion of  another  American  State,  governed  by  the  ultra 
Foreign  notions  of  a  people  just  emerging  from  barbarism, 
or  a  State  ruled  by  a  minority  which  from  its  very  nature 
would  be  split  by  factional  strife.  In  name  the  islands  are 
now  republican,  but  they  admit  themselves  it  cannot  last. 
Less  than  one-fifteenth  of  the  population  have  the  in- 
stinct of  free  government.  Hon.  John  W.  Poster  whose 
opportunities  of  knowing  are  numerous  and  extensive,  says 
they  cannot  govern  themselves  for  any  length  of  time  ow- 
ing to  the  clash  of  discordant  elements  classified  as  re- 
publicans, royalists,  natives  and  foreigners.  The  climate 
is  a  foe  to  the  Anglo-Saxon  and  will  prevent  a  great  in- 
crease of  their  numbers.  Commercial  advantages  will  not 
be  increased  except  in  the  iuterest  of  a  few  planters.  The 
situation  of  the  islands  makes  their  trade  naturally  tribu- 
tary to  the  United  States.  Nature  and  not  the  form  of 
government  will  control  that.  To  put  the  question  of  an- 
nexation to  a  popular  vote  in  the  islauds  would  undoubted- 
ly defeat  it.  To  annex  them  without  consent,  would  be  in 
the  nature  of  a  conquest  inimical  to  the  traditions  of  the 
Republic — a  conquest  without  advantage,  and  a  constant 
source  of  weakness. 

The  truth  is,  that  the  little  clique  of  expatriated  Ameri- 
cans have  undertaken  a  contract  too  great  for  their 
capital,  and  are  anxious  to  shift  the  burden  to  the  broad 
shoulders  of  Uncle  Samuel,  while  they  stand  ready  to  gather 
the  plums  of  business  and  retain  the  emoluments  of  office. 

Is  It  A  New  The  aged  chief  of  the  detective  branch  of 
Departure  ?  the  Police  Department  of  this  city  said  in  a 
published  interview  the  other  day  that  there 
was  nothing  new,  or  out  of  the  way,  in  his  appearance  and 
activity  in  the  Cooney  case.  That,  no  doubt,  is  true. 
The  prosecution  is  ricb,  and  able  to  pay  well  for  good  ser- 
vices. But  the  Captain  went  on  to  say  that  "he  was  no 
respecter  of  persons  and  that  the  humblest  and  poorest 
would  just  as  readily  secure  his  services.  It  was  his  duty 
to  ferret  out  crime  whenever  due  complaint  is  made  to 
him."  That  is  a  correct  definition  of  his  duty  as  a  public 
officer,  and  if  he  is  now  living  up  to  it,  a  knowledge  of  the 
fact  will  bring  him  such  a  host  of  friends  as  every  man 
likes  to  have  in  his  old  age.  When  the  police  force  is  a 
protection  to  innocent  men,  and  a  terror  to  evil  doers,  be 
they  rich  or  poor,  that  force  is  sure  to  be  respected  by 
good  and  law-abiding  citizens.  On  the  other  hand,  when 
it  is  made  a  machine  for  oppression  by  those  who  can  pay 
for  it,  it  becomes  the  most  dangerous  and  hated  instru- 
mentality a  city  can  be  cursed  with. 

Will  The  Powers  The  Turks,  may,  by  grace  of  the 
Stop  Greece?  Great  Powers,  who  prefer  the  whole- 
sale massacre  of  men,  women,  and 
children  of  their  own  race  and  religion,  rather  than  risk  a 
war  that  civilized  men  everywhere  would  welcome,  yet  it 
will  cost  those  Powers  dearly  not  to  help  Greece,  or  their 
people.  England,  Italy,  France,  and  even  Germany  are 
treading  upon  dangerous  ground  when  they  run  counter 
to  the  passionate  and  well  settled  opinion  of  their  people. 
Englishmen  simply  will  not  tolerate  their  ships  being  used 
to  blockade  Greece  for  the  benefit  of  Turkey.  Italy  is  al- 
most frantic  on  the  subject.  France  declines  to  follow  her 
ministers,  and  even  the  German  people,  cautious  as  they 
are,  are  firm  in  letting  Emperor  William  understand  the 
situation  and  in  declaring  that  not  a  German  gun  shall  be 
fired  with  the  purpose  of  returning  Crete  to  Turkey. 
That  island  long  looked  to  Greece  as  the  Mother  Country, 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


February  27,  1897. 


her  independence  has  been  won,  and  her  annexation  is  an 
accomplished  fact.  The  concert  of  European  nations  may 
be  great,  but  the  concert  of  European  opinion  is  greater. 
The  people  have  willed  that  Crete  shall  be  free,  and  their 
decree  will  prove  final.  The  opinion  in  regard  to  the  ulti- 
mate fate  of  Macedonia  is  strong,  but  it  may  possibly 
moderate  for  a  time,  for  the  difficulties  of  the  hour  are 
formidable.  Yet  in  the  end  Macedonia  will  become  one  of 
the  most  valued  and  loyal  of  Greek  provinces. 

Meanwhile,  the  Powers  want  to  keep  Greece  back,  but 
the  brave  people  and  noble  King  seem  to  have  cast  fear  to 
the  wind  and  determined  to  fight  and  take  the  conse- 
quences, whatever  they  may  be.  Things  wonderfully  clear 
away  before  firmness.  The  Powers  are  impotent  simply 
because  they  are  not  firm.  They  Shill — I — Shall — I  with 
almost  all  questions  and  succeed  in  settling  none.  To-day 
they  will,  and  to-morrow  they  will  not.  Every  thing  by 
turns,  but  nothing  long,  they  are  afraid  of  each  other,  and 
are  in  earnest  about  nothing,  except  a  dislike  of  fighting. 
But  the  destined  changes  in  the  map  of  Europe  will  go  on 
all  the  same.  Turkey  will  be  pushed  out  of  Europe,  where 
she  has  long  been  out  of  place,  and  find  a  more  congenial 
home  in  Asia.  The  Mahammedans  are  still  all  her  own,  and 
they  are  numerous  throughout  her  possessions  in  Asiatic 
Turkey.  Greece,  under  King  George,  has  made  a  degree 
of  progress  that  is  bound  to  grow  and  expand.  Finally 
the  popular  royal  family  will  govern  the  whole  of  ancient 
Greece.  Her  present  strength  lies  in  the  force  of 
European  public  opinion. 

Help  for  the  The  movement  of  prominent  citizens  in  aid  of 
Deserving.  the  unemployed,  must  commend  itself  to 
all  classes  of  people,  and  the  action  of  those 
who  are  in  need  of  aid  in  thus  eagerly  accepting  the  oppor- 
tunity for  earning  a  living,  shows  that  they  are  worthy  of 
prompt  and  adequate  aid.  San  Francisco  has  been  the 
scene  of  so  many  labor  agitations,  so  many  wild  and  im- 
practicable demands  upon  the  part  of  the  jaw-laboring  un- 
employed that  it  is  refreshing  to  find  those  who  are  in 
need  of  aid  willing  to  back  up  their  demands  by  the  sweat 
of  their  faces.  San  Francisco  is  a  city  of  abundant  wealth 
and  generous  impulses.  There  surely  will  be  found  no  dis- 
position upon  the  part  of  substantial  citizens  to  withhold 
their  aid  to  this  movement  for  practical  help  of  the  deserv- 
ing, who  only  ask  the  opportunity  to  help  themselves. 

The  expenditure  of  money  upon  a  boulevard  oceanward, 
and  along  the  beach  from  the  Park,  will  result  in  a  perma- 
nent improvement  of  value.  A  public  improvement  that 
will  be  enjoyed  by  all  classes,  and  worthy  of  the  economi- 
cal outlay  necessary  to  its  completion,  entirely  aside  from 
the  primary  object  of  its  accomplishment — the  relief  of 
distress  among  the  honest  unemployed.  For  these  two 
objects — either  one  of  which  should  be  sufficient  to  com- 
mand respectful  consideration — there  should  be  no  difficulty 
in  rolling  up  a  sum  sufficient  to  feed  the  one  and  perma- 
nently build  the  other.  As  the  matter  has  been  taken  hold 
of  by  practical  businessmen,  its  accomplishment  is  assured. 

Chinatown  With  this  issue  of  the  News  Letter  appears 
Views.  the  first  of  a  series  of  interesting  views  of 
Chinatown.  There  has  been  a  very  general 
request  for  these  pictures,  which  in  themselves  will  give  a 
history  of  this  most  remarkable  part  of  our  city's  life.  The 
fame  of  Chinatown  is  almost  as  wide  as  that  of  San  Fran- 
cisco itself;  for  no  stranger  ever  comes  here  without  visit- 
ing this  city  within  a  city — a  little  Chinese  world  within  an 
American  metropolis.  Here,  all  the  habits,  customs,  and 
peculiarities  of  the  Chinaman  are  seen  as  they  have  been 
kept  and  observed  by  the  children  of  Confucius  for  thou- 
sands of  years.  In  himself,  a  Chinaman  is  always  a  China- 
man, without  regard  to  climate,  conditions,  or  countries. 
In  San  Francisco,  the  conditions  have  been  favorable  to 
the  establishment  of  homes,  and  observance  of  rites  dear 
to  the  hearts  of  all  Chinese.  Nowhere,  outside  of  their 
native  land,  can  be  found  such  a  colony  as  exists  in  the 
Chinatown  of  this  city.  These  pictures  will  embrace  a  wide 
range  of  views,  both  interior  and  exterior,  and  will  in  them- 
selves give  an  excellent  idea  of  this  noted  part  of  the 
Pacific's  chief  business  center.  When  completed,  the  views 
will  form  a  valuable  collection — more  especially  as  the 
Chinatown  of  to-day  fortunately  bids  fair  to  disappear 
from  the  map  of  San  Francisco  within  a  few  years. 


The  Legislature  Every  successive  Legislature  seems 
of  doomed    to   be  branded   with  its  own 

Many  Attaches,  special  infamy,  but  the  sin  common  to 
them  all  is  that  of  stealing.  We  have 
had  the  Legislatures  of  "  a  thousand  drinks,"  of  "a  thou- 
sand scandals,"  of  "the  combine,"  of  "the robber's  roost," 
and  now  we  have  one  of  many  attaches.  To  open  the  ses- 
sion, preparatory  to  organization  in  the  Assembly,  alone 
required  over  one  hundred  and  twenty  attaches,  or  two  to 
every  member.  The  Clerk  was  required  to  appoint  whom- 
soever members  dictated,  and  it  resulted  that  persons 
were  put  on  the  pay-roll  who  never  visited  the  Capitol  at 
all,  yet  members  with  powers  of  attorney  in  their  pockets 
signed  for  their  pay,  which  went  where  the  powers  of 
attorney  were.  No  wonder  that  members  voted  to 
exonerate  the  Clerk:  some  of  them  had  had  "a  part  of 
the  pig."  Some  twelve  hundred  proposed  measures  have 
been  introduced  this  session,  two-thirds  of  which  are 
obviously  "cinch  bills."  It  is  wonderful  what  discoveries 
members  make  about  session  time.  They  find  that  almost 
every  interest  that  has  money  in  it  needs  to  be  "regu- 
lated." If  the  daily  press  displayed,  in  this  connection, 
the  enterprise  it  vaunts  itself  so  much  over,  this  bad  busi- 
ness could  be  rendered  too  odious  for  general  practice. 
The  News  Letter  alone,  some  years  ago,  discovered  and 
named  "the  robber's  roost,"  toid  of  its  purposes,  its  wine, 
women,  and  faro,  and  for  a  time  actually  brought  legisla- 
tive proceedings  to  a  standstill.  The  Examiner  this  ses- 
sion is  denouncing  certain  bills,  and  favoring  others,  that 
may  well  cause  its  readers  to  yearn  for  the  bottom  facts. 
Rumor  is  at  fault,  or  certain  of  those  facts  will  be  got  at 
yet. 

More  Tariff       The  Government  statistics  for  December 
for  last  show  that  the  receipts  exceeded  the 

More  Revenue,  expenditures  by  $2,044,449,  so  that  the 
prediction  of  President  Cleveland  that 
the  Wilson  tariff  would  in  a  short  time  produce  all  the 
revenue  required,  seems  in  course  of  being  fulfilled.  It 
would  have  done  that  anyhow,  but  for  the  unexpected 
knocking  out  of  the  income  tax  by  the  Supreme  Court. 
To  wipe  out  the  deficit  on  the  whole  year  by  reducing  ex- 
penditures is  both  impossible  and  undesirable,  says  Chair- 
man Dingley.  The  cry  is  for  both  more  tariff  and  more 
revenue.  But  every  proposition  made  during  the  hearings 
had  before  the  House  Committee  tended  to  reduce  or 
prohibit  importations,  and  hence  to  reduce  customs  rev- 
enue, and  to  increase  the  deficit.  It  will  be  interesting  to 
know  when  the  subject  of  more  revenue  is  to  be  considered, 
especially  as  the  new  tariff  is  to  be  cut  and  dried,  and 
ready  for  acceptance  at  the  extra  session.  If  the  present 
Congress  were  to  add  a  dollar  a  barrel  to  the  beer  tax,  the 
price  to  the  consumer  would  not  be  enhanced,  the  neces- 
sary revenue  would  be  raised,  and  an  extra  session 
avoided.  But  then  political  debts  must  needs  be  paid. 
The  protected  industries  put  up  an  enormous  campaign 
fund,  as  Mark  Hanna  has  good  reason  to  know,  and,  of 
course,  whatever  was  nominated  in  the  bond  must  be  ful- 
filled. Hence  the  President-elect  must  begin  his  term 
with  "Congress  on  his  hands,"  and  with  it,  and  the  new 
batch  of  Senators,  his  ways  may  not  all  be  rendered 
pleasant,  nor  his  paths  made  peaceful.  The  desire  of  the 
country  undoubtedly  is  for  rest  and  quiet. 

It  is  none  too  early  for  the  work  begun  last  fall 
For  the  for  a  week's  carnival  in  this  city  to  be  taken  up 
Carnival,  again  and  vigorously  pushed  forward.  It  is  un- 
fortunate that  the  burden  of  the  unemployed  is 
upon  the  city,  and  that  the  demands  of  charity  have  been 
so  heavy  at  a  time  of  business  depression;  but  the  carnival, 
viewed  from  a  strictly  mercantilestandpoint,  should  be  re- 
garded as  a  most  promising  business  investment.  It  is 
bound  to  bring  a  large  number  of  people  here,  will  add 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  to  local  circulation  which 
will  be  felt  in  every  business  channel,  besides  proving  of 
great  benefit  as  an  advertisement  of  San  Francisco  and 
the  whole  State.  Thousands  of  strangers  from  all  over  the 
Coast,  and  the  East  as  well,  will  visit  the  city  upon  that 
occasion,  and  they  will  be  the  most  desirable  class  of  people 
— people  of  means  and  intelligence.  Vigorous  and  united 
effort  will  be  necessary  to  produce  results  at  once  credit- 
able and  profitable. 


:S97- 


SAN    PRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


AT    THE    CAPITOL. 

February  !'.">.  1897. 

THK  Legislate  i  speak,  but  in- 

stead of  adjourning  March    Mh,  which   would    be   the 
sixtieth  day  of  t;  ■■"nahly  Ik-  tlie  l.'lth  be- 

fore the  session  adjoui  i  -  With  this  Legislature, 

as  with  all  past  ones,  the  pei  i  e  of  the  State  will  join  in 
grateful  thanks  at  Iti  n  ending. 

The  strike  in  the  S  ting  Office  really  availed 

nothing.  If  the  State  Printer  and  his  misguided  advisers 
had  done  as  suggested  by  the  Governor  some  weeks  ago. 
the  deficiency  bill  would  have  passed,  been  signed,  and 
there  would  have  been  no  strike.  Now  the  Republican 
majority  have  acceded  to  the  Governor's  demands,  and 
the  strikers  have  all  gone  back  to  work.  An  appropria- 
tion of  $4ii. nun  will  be  made  for  legislative  printing,  For 
the  rest  of  the  fiscal  year  the  State  Printer  will  have  to 
•ret  along  as  best  he  can,  unless  the  bill  appropriating 
00  more  passes. 
The  bill  now  before  the  Legislature  compelling  foreign 
insurance  companies    to  de  (200,000   in   the   United 

States  before  they  can  do  business  in  California,  is  op- 
posed on  the  following  grounds,  although  it  has  passed 
the  Senate:  For  instance,  there  are  forty-seven  com- 
panies in  San  Francisco  who  wrote  $1,237,157  of  marine  in- 
surance in  ism;.  Of  these  the  twenty-eight  companies 
that  would  be  affected  by  this  bill  wrote  SliHi.lilT.  They 
have  paid  losses  of  $366,558.  Not  one  of  them  has  evaded 
or  defaulted  payment  of  claims,  but  they  had  up  no  de- 
posit. The  fact  that  these  companies  wrote  almost  half 
the  business  shows  that  they  have  the  confidence  of  the 
people,  and  that  they  paid  all  claims  shows  that  they 
deserve  this  confidence.  If  they  were  unworthy  and  unre- 
liable, the  fact  would  have  been  shown  long  ago.  To  drive 
them  out  would  result  in  a  practical  monopoly  of  marine 
insurance  in  the  hands  of  those  remaining.  Thus  it  is  seen 
that  the  proposed  legislation  would  afford  no  greater  pro- 
tection than  is  now  enjoyed,  but  on  the  contrary,  would 
create  a  monopoly  that  would  react  directly  upon  the 
people  whom  this  proposed  act  affects  to  protect.  It  cuts 
against  the  insured  both  ways. 

An  able  orator,  a  bright,  understanding  and  genial  gen- 
tleman is  Senator  John  J.  Boyce,  who  represents  the 
counties  of  Ventura  and  Santa  Barbara,   which  comprise 

the  Thirty-fifth  Senatorial 
District.  For  one  term 
Senator  Boyce  was  City 
Attorney  of  Santa  Barbara 
City,  and  filled  the  position 
so  acceptably  that  he  was 
chosen  by  the  people  Dis- 
trict Attorney  of  the 
county  in  1882.  With  an 
apparent  fusion  majority  of 
750  or  more  votes  against 
him,  Mr.  Boyce  was,  be- 
cause of  his  great  personal 
popularity,  elected  Senator 
last  November  by  a  major- 
ity of  nearly  200.  His  own 
county  gave  him  300  major- 
ity, 150  more  than  that  of 
the  electoral  ticket.  Nomis- 
Jolm  J.  nonce.  tajje  wag  macje  jn  the  e]ec. 

tion  of  Senator  Boyce,  and  no  more  capable,  honest,  and 
hardworking  representative  is  in  the  Senate.  His  per- 
sonal popularity  at  home  is  echoed  here  at  Sacramento, 
for  one  can't  help  liking  and  admiring  the  man  if  you  but 
know  him.  Mr.  Boyce  is  particularly  anxious  to  make 
the  kindergartens  part  of  the  Public  School  system,  and 
has  introduced  bills  which  he  is  vigorously  urging,  the 
passage  of  which  have  this  idea  for  their  purpose.  He  is 
chairman  of  the  very  important  Committee  on  Education 
and  Public  Morals,  and  a  member  of  the  Committees  on 
Counties  and  County  Boundaries;  Judiciary;  Labor  and 
Capital;  Mines,  Drainage  and  Mining  Debris,  and  State 
Prisons  and  Prison  Buildings.  Although  Senator  Boyce 
has  hardly  been  well  a  day  since  the  present  session  be- 
gan, he  is  seeming  tireless  in  his  labor,  and  worthy  of  the 
greatest  amount  of  praise  for  the  faithful  work  he  has 
done. 


Assemblyman  Mc Lauren  has   been  unseated,  and   the 

Democratic  minority  Is  one  less.  .1.  I>.  h'elsiy  is  the  suc- 
cessful Contestant.  The  minority  made  a  hard'  but  unsuc- 
cessful light  for  Mi  I..; 

With  the  defeat  ol    his  "2J  or  :t  cent"  car-fare  bill,  Sen 
ator  Sammy  Braui  hart  has  retired  from  public'  notice,    it 
is  galling  to  Sammy,  relished   by  bis  numerous 

acquaintances.  Sammy's  Congressional  aspirations  have 
been  horribly  rebuffed, 

Now  thai  the  State  Mineralogist  has  been  appointed, 
the  politicians  are  anxiously  awaiting  the  Governor's  ex- 
pression of  a  choice  the  successor  of  Harbor 
Commissioner  Cole  There  are  plenty  of  aspirants,  but  it 
looks  as  if  a  dark  horse  will  get  the  prize.  Pio, 

THE     CHRONICLE'S     RELIEF     FUND      EXHIBIT. 

THE  exhibition  of  daily  newspaper  pictorial  art  given 
by  the  Chronicle  in  aid  of  its  relief  fund,  at  424  Pine 
street,  during  the  last  four  days  of  the  present  week,  and 
which  closes  to-night,  is  being  well  attended.  The  exhibi- 
tion in  itself  is  a  most  interesting  and  instructive  illustra- 
tion of  black  and  white  work  by  the  cleverest  newspaper 
artists  in  the  United  States.  Representatives  from  the 
great  Eastern  dailies,  notably  the  New  York  Herald, 
Press,  and  World,  Philadelphia  Ledger,  Chicago  Tribune, 
Journal,  and  News,  Denver,  St.  Louis,  and  other  papers, 
and  lastly,  but  equal  to  the  best,  the  San  Francisco  Chron- 
icle papers.  The  sketches  are  the  originals  from  which 
the  pictures  that  have  appeared  in  those  papers  from  time 
to  time  were  made.  As  the  daily  paper  is  a  history  of  con- 
temporaneous doings,  so  these  sketches  are  interesting 
features  of  the  great  events  of  the  past  year  or  so,  done 
in  black  and  white — many  of  them  most  artistic.  The  col- 
lection embraces  every  subject,  and  even  a  partial  account 
of  its  wide  variety  would  be  out  of  the  question.  To  pick 
out  the  best,  where  all  are  so  meritorious,  would  be  a  diffi- 
cult task,  but  it  is  a  matter  of  local  pride  to  truthfully  say 
that  the  work  shown  by  the  Chronicle  is  quite  as  good  as 
the  best.  Altogether  it  is  unique,  and  is  a  tribute  to 
the  skill  of  the  newspaper  artists  of  the  country.  The 
sketches  of  the  different  papers  were  donated  to  the  exhi- 
bition, and  will  be  sold  for  the  benefit  of  San  Francisco's 
poor.  The  exhibit  comprises  more  than  one  thousand 
of  these  pen  and  ink  sketches,  with  an  occasional  wash 
drawing,  and  affords  an  instructive  illustration  of  what 
may  be  done  in  black  and  white.  It  is  a  credit  to  the 
Chronicle  in  particular,  as  its  substantial  results  will  be  a 
blessing  to  the  needy  in  this  city. 

Sale  Closes  flarch  6,  1897 

Second    ■     ■    ■ 

Great   and   Genuine    .    .    . 
Clearance  Sale    of    .     .     .  . 


/}rt  Qoods 


<35^^p7_-rfS> 


S.  &  G.  GUMP, 

113   Geary  Street. 

Pictures,   Mirrors,    Vases,  Ornaments,    Bric-a- 
Brac,  Clocks,   Brass    Tables,  Lamps, 

Crockery  and  Glassware, 

Paintings,  Bronze 
and  Marble  Statuary,  Pedestals, 
French  and    Dresden    Furniture. 

IN  FACT,  EVERY   ARTICLE  IN   OUR  ESTABLISHMENT 

At  a  Discount  of 

20  PER  CENT 

From  Our  Regular  Prices 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1897. 


We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


TREMENDOUS  pecuniary  significance 
_  is  attached  to  Mr.  Heme  and  his  play 
-both  appeal  to  that  joy  and  sole  support 
of  the  theatre  manager,  the  average  play- 
goer. At  the  same  time,  this  prosperity 
fe"  and  popularity  are  of  such  quaint  unob- 
trusiveness  that  even  professional  play-makers  and  dil- 
letante  dramatists,  and  public  journalists  and  private  litter- 
ateurs, and  all  shades  of  dramatic  critics  and  other  superior 
persons,  will  find  little  to  sneeze  at  with  the  scornful  nose. 
Shore  Acres  is  the  most  simple  and  usual  of  stage  stories, 
shorn  of  complications,  abbreviated  in  the  hero  and  the 
heroine,  and  enlarged  upon  in  the  side-light  character — 
Mr.  Heme's  part  of  Nathaniel  Berry.  It  is  set  down  in 
the  dull,  distinctive  local  colors  of  a  life  real  to  one-half  of 
the  nation  by  personal  participation  and  observation,  and 
almost  as  real  to  the  other  half  through  dialect  magazines. 
And  yet  it  seems  to  be  an  absolute  novelty  on  the  Amer- 
ican stage.  And  why?  Ask  the  nearest  man,  and  he  will 
answer,  "Realism!  Here  we  get  Nature  on  the  stage — 
no  superfluous  dramatics,  no  strain  for  what  the  critics 
call  'construction,'  nothing  but  Nature  in  Nature's  natural 
way."  At  least  that  is  the  gist  of  what  several  men  and 
two  women  said  to  me.  I  tried  to  explain  that  they  were 
doing  Mr.  Heme  injustice,  that  he  was  an  accomplished 
theatricalist,  that  his  play  was  artful  play-making,  aimed 
broadside  at  the  vulnerable  point  of  the  audience,  that  he 
furnished  the  apparatus  and  they  supplied  the  illusion— 
but  somehow  I  never  got  a  chance  to  finish.  No  one 
wanted  to  find  out  that  Heme  is  clever,  and  that  he  is 
just  as  theatrical  in  writing  a  play  which,  by  all  the  canons 
of  play-making  is  not  a  play,  as  is  William  Gillette  in  act- 
ing a  part  in  a  manner  which,  by  all  the  guns,  swords  and 
pistols  of  criticism,  is  not  play-acting  at  all.  It  is  a  sen- 
sational imitation  of  the  common,  or  garden  variety,  of 
humanity,  a"d  the  success  of  it  lies  in  its  well-arranged 
exaggeration  of  the  commonplace.  Mr.  Howells  has  tried 
the  same  thing  himself  many  times,  but  his  common- 
place was  not  common  enough,  and  his  realism 
lacked  the  sunny  alloy  of  idealism,  and  he  was  not  always 
quite  clever  enough  in  submerging  his  own  cleverness. 
Heme  obliterates  the  stigma  of  authorship :  he  insists  on 
your  disremembering  that  he  or  any  one  else  wrote  the  play 
— that  it  is  a  play — that  it  is  on  a  stage — that  is  played 
by  plain,  live  actors.  And  nearly  everybody  believes  him. 
As  for  myself,  I  was  aghast  during  the  first  two  acts. 
There  were  my  old  friends,  the  villager  hero  and  lover,  the 
coerced  heroine,  her  cruel  father  with  his  sordid  money 
scheme,  and  the  villain  suitor  he  would  force  his  daughter 
to  wed,  and  the  heroiue's  large,  flabby,  amiable  mother, 
and  the  good,  quaint,  character  uncle,  and  the  funny  old 
character  man,  and  the  whole  family  of  them,  children  and 
all  And  they  were  all  disguised  to  the  point  of  living, 
breathing  people.  Oh,  the  detail  of  them!  The  dialect! 
the  exquisite  arrangement  of  everything,  from  the  children 
who  did  not  make  speeches  about  God  and  the  angels,  to 
dark-browed  poppa,  who  really  carved  the  real  turkey. 
And  there  was  a  mortgage  aud  a  false  accusation  of  crime, 
and  the  indignant  heroine  eloping  with  the  heroic  accused. 
But  how  changed!  how  different!  how  repressed!  how  art- 
ful! At  the  end  of  the  second  act,  I  would  have  sworn  that 
the  crafty  hand  of  Heme  could  lend  probability  to  a  Henry 
Arthur  Jones  melodrama.  At  the  end  of  the  third.  I 
thought  Jones  had  better  remain  as  Jonesful  as  he  is.  Shore 
Acres  is  lamentable  only  when  it  is  in  warm  action.  It  is 
too  staid,  too  pacific,  too  venerable  for  that  sprint  in  the 
third  act.  It  falters,  and  hobbles,  and  loses  respectabil- 
ity and  dignity  in  the  lighthouse  episode.  Heme  lacks  the 
vital  vulgarity  for  obvious  heroics,  just  as  he  lacks  the  psy- 
chological expert's  touch  when  he  tries  to  get  beneath  the 
skin  of  things.  Witness  the  good  brother  telling  the  bad 
brother  of  how  he,  too,  loved  the  bad  brother's  wife,  years 
ago,  before  she  was  wedded,  but  turned  away,  as  a  good 
brother  should,  and  sacrificed  himself.  It  takes  an  Ibsen 
or  a  Grundy  to  handle  such  high  explosive  as  this.  Heme's 


craft  is  photographic :  he  finds  his  own  in  the  quiet  ex- 
pression of  externals.  The  sudden  lurch  into  nineteenth 
century  melodrama  in  the  third  act  merely  proves  that 
while  Mr.  Heme  may  be  the  parent  of  Nature,  it  is  a  wise 
father  who  knoweth  his  own  grandchild. 
*  *  * 

Heme  does  not  try  to  be  active  and  imaginative  in  the 
concluding  act.  He  goes  back  to  the  suggestive  tableau 
and  the  cadenced  dialect,  and  the  dramatist's  trusty  friend, 
the  period  of  time  "elapsed."  I  think  it  is  fifteen  months 
that  "elapse"  between  the  third  and  fourth  acts,  and  it 
takes  all  that  time  and  a  portion  of  the  fourth  act  to  get 
the  erring  brother  back  into  focus.  It  is  done,  very  neatly, 
and  with  all  the  simplicity  of  Christopher  Columbus's  up- 
turned egg.  The  roof  is  sagging  under  its  weight  of  mort- 
gage, the  good  brother  and  the  bad  brother  do  not  speak 
as  they  pass  by,  hard  times  are  come,  the  boom  has  failed 
to  strike  the  town-lots  on  Shore  Acres  farm — even  the 
choice  site  containing  mother's  grave  remains  unpur- 
chased. It  snows  without;  withiu  it  is  Christmas  eve. 
Uncle  Nat  beams  with  expectancy.  All  the  time  incom- 
parable detail  is  taking  place.  Then  Uncle  Nat  peers  out 
into  the  night.  You  know  what  he  sees,  everybody  this 
side  of  the  lights  knows,  everybody  on  the  stage  is  told, 
everybody  except  dreary,  pre-repentant  brother.  Uncle 
Nat  goes  out  quietly,  and  comes  back  to  the  kitchen  with 
something  long  and  soft  and  white  held  preciously  in  his 
arms.  It  is  a  baby,  come  all  the  way  from  Chicago  with 
its  poppa  and  momma  (the  hero  who  did  not  believe  in  hell 
outside  of  New  England,  and  the  heroine,  who  learned  the 
same  opinions).  Momma  and  poppa  do  not  wear  rich 
clothes;  poppa's  are  shiny  in  the  seams  and  baggy  at  the 
knees,  and  momma's  are  neat,  but  not  modish.  Invention 
pales  before  such  camera  art  as  this.  And  he  who  was  a 
bad  brother  and  a  cruel  father  is  welcomed  by  the  prodi- 
gals and  allowed  to  repent.  The  hero  and  heroine  do  not 
lift  the  mortgage.  Uncle  Nat's  back  pension  money  ar- 
rives at  the  fatal  moment.  And  when  all  else  have  gone 
to  their  beds,  Uncle  Nat  sits  alone  in  the  big  kitchen, 
dreaming  drowsily,  and  saying  never  a  word — yet  you  hear 
it  all  clearer  than  words.  And  when  he  fastens  the 
doors  and  pats  the  children's  presents,  winds  the  clock,  then 
climbs  the  creaking  stair,  and  passes  out,  leaving  a  full 
thirty  seconds  of  empty  stage  before  the  curtain  falls, 
I  feel  a  something  of  the  same  admiration  for  James 
A.  Heme's  stage  technic  that  I  feel  for  Henry  Irving's  in 
that  wonderful  moment   when  Shylock   leaves   the  court 


Oh  !  I  forgot  another  great  point :  the   villain-suitor   is 
not  a  real  villain.    He  behaves  very  handsomely  in  the  last 
act.     In  fact,  he  kisses  the  heroine's  baby. 
*  *  * 

The  acting  calls  for  no  criticism  that  I  can  see.  With 
the  exception  of  that  of  the  heroine,  acted  by  a  young 
woman  of  large  and  unpleasant  elocutionary  resources,  it 
belongs  to  the  plav. 

*  *  # 

Shore  Acres  is  inevitable.  Possibly  you  did  not  see  the 
opening,  maybe  you  will  not  go  to-night,  and  you  may  have 
other  things  on  hand  for  to-morrow — but  you  will  be  there 
sooner  or  later.  This  is  your  foredoom.  The  play  has  the 
long,  strong,  popular  pull.  Personally,  I  cannot  remember 
how  it  feels  not  to  have  seen  Shore  Acres.  It  came  to  the 
Baldwin  Monday  night,  and  already  it  wears  the  belated  re- 
liability of  a  classic.  Some  things  (young  critics,  for  instance) 
acquire  age,  some  get  it  gratuitously,  others  are  born  aged. 
So  was  Shore  Acres.  History  is  fairy  fabrication  beside  the 
staunch  New  England  authenticity  of  this  five-year-old 
play;  and  Uncle  Josh,  once  honored,  beloved,  and  ever 
pledged,  is  now  a  bewhiskered  fad,  out-Whitcombed  at 
every  turn.  Primeval  American  pie,  pristine  turkey 
(stuffed)  and  the  archaic  laughter  and  tears  of  virgin 
Nature  are  in  Mr.  Heme's  homely  but  heartful  play.  As 
Mr.  Howells  recently  said  of  Mr.  Gillette — because  he  did 
not  think  of  it  in  time  for  Mr.  Heme — "In  any  case  he  has 
given  us  a  drama  which  tingles  with  Americanism,  and 
which  we  cannot  see  without  fancying  ourselves  a  nation, 
if  not  a  race."  But  then,  remember  Mr.  Howells  is  a  very 
young  dramatic  critic,  and  he  has  always  been  an  invet- 
erate author  of  things  himself.  Modest  persons  like  our- 
selves would  never  stop  this  side  of  a  race  in  dealing  with 


February 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LEI 


praise  to  Heme  and  America.  I  see  not  only  a  race,  but 
all  the  diffusing  and  Infusion  vitality  of  tribal  dialects  in  a 
people  who  can  prod;  Such  things  were 

never  literary  realities-  before,  they  were  but  shadowed 
prophecies,  whitoomb  Riley,  of  the  Booster  Harmony,  and 
Ambrose  Bierce  of  the  Little  Johltneologism,  arc  <iim  and 
spurious  dialecticians  beside  James  A.  Heme  and  his  ooast 
Of  Maine  vocabulary.  Heme  is  no  kin  to  his  harbingers. 
Like  Sardou's  Napoleon,  he  is  not  a  descendant,  be  is  an 
ancestor. 

*  »  • 

Tireless  Fanny  Rice  is  again  at  the  Columbia  with  her 
moralistic  little  skit  -If  T/i-  /'.■/,, A  A'.///.  Miss  Mice's  voice 
seems  to  have  lost  much  of  its  tierce  power;  her  aoting  is 
as  copious  and  enduring  as  ever.  Charley  l>  e\v  h;is  .sev- 
eral  minutes  of  genuine  cleverness,  but  a  Mr.  Uaillard  (the 
rest  of  his  name  is  not  on  the  programme)  in  the  part  of 
a  French  roue,  scoops  in  all  the  glory  of  the  ball  scene.  Do 
not  be  diverted  from  Gaillard  by  the  rattle  and  bang  of  the 
rest  of  the  farce.  There  are  real  character  and  art  in  his 
work. 

*  *  » 

The  band  played  and  Sousa  acted,  and  everyone  was 
pleased  at  the  California  Thursday  night.  There  was  new 
music  and  old,  old  gestures  and  new,  and  I  even  thought 
I  detected  a  new  medal  or  two  on  John  Philip's  plethoric 
bosom  and  some  new  strands  in  his  dusky  ^Eolian  whisker. 
He  is  a  great  bandmaster,  our  sumptuous  Sousa — even  if 
he  does  play  the  Lohengrin  prelude  in  rythmic  martial 
measure.  Of  course  the  classics  are  not  always  to  be 
joked  with,  and  the  long-haired  devotees  of  the  beautiful, 
the  wondrous  and  the  pure  naturally  regard  Sousa  as  a 
musical  infidel.  But  there  is  a  coarse  vaudeville  streak 
somewhere  in  me  that  answers  to  his  humor.  I  think  his 
phrasing  is  often  the  summit  of  wit,  and  in  his  own  works 
the  instrumentation  runs  in  epigrams.  I  admire  Sousa  as 
an  actor,  and  I  admire  him  as  a  musician,  and,  as  I  have 
said  before,  and  say  again  for  the  lack  of  better  expres- 
sion, those  brave  marches  of  his  make  soldiers  of  us  all. 
Ashton  Stevens. 

It  is  to  the  Tivoli  that  most  of  us  owe  our  acquaintance 
with  the  inimitable  satires  of  Gilbert  and  Sullivan.  And 
unless  the  grosser  comicality  of  farce  and  burlesque  has 
spoiled  the  public  taste  for  such  exquisite  expression  of 
wit  and  melody,  there  will  be  prosperity  and  entertain- 
ment all  round  in  this  revival  of  Gilbert  and  Sullivan 
operas.  Patience  opened  the  season  this  week,  and  many 
of  the  parts  are  excellently  taken,  and  the  orchestra  and 
chorus  are  exceptionally  satisfying.  Next  week  The 
Mikado  will  be  staged  to  the  full  extent  of  the  Tivoli's  re- 
sources. 

Only  one  new  turn  at  the  Orpheum  this  week,  and  the 
best  part  of  that  is  Barney  Fagan's  singing  of  "O  Those 
Colored  Ladies;"  Fagan  gets  the  real  swing  of  the  fancy 
nigger  into  his  song.  Here  is  the  brilliant  outlook  for  next 
week:  The  Waterbury  Brothers  and  Tenny,  said  to  be  the 
funniest  musical  comedians  in  the  business,  and  Dudley 
Prescott,  "the  human  brass  band,"  alleged  to  imitate 
everything  that  ever  made  a  noise. 

It  will  not  do  to  miss  Thursday's  symphony  concert  at 
the  Columbia.  Listen  to  what  is  announced  for  the  pro- 
gramme: Brahm's  symphony,  No.  4,  in  E  minor  (first  time 
in  San  Francisco);  the  Roman  Carnival  overture,  by 
Berlioz;  the  Hansel  and  Gretel  fantasia,  which  made  such 
an  impression  when  Hinrichs  brought  it  out  at  the  Tivoli, 
and — Trebelli  will  sing.  The  chance  to  hear  a  first-class 
orchestra  and  a  first-class  soloist  at  the  same  concert  is 
too  rare  to  overlook. 

Two  other  musical  events  to  be  anticipated  pleasurably 
are  Trebelli's  song  recitals,  which  take  place  at  Golden 
Gate  Hall  on  next  Saturday  afternoon  and  the  evening  of 
Tuesday  following.  Trebelli  is  an  artist  with  a  brilliant 
present  and  a  scintillating  future.  Her  first  concert  at 
the  California  captured  the  critics  and  the  audience,  and 
doubtless  her  singing  at  the  Columbia,  Thursday  after- 
noon, will  be  the  means  of  drawing  the  entire  symphony 
contingent  to  her  recitals. 

Shore  Acres  has  two  weeks  more  at  the  Baldwin. 

Fanny  Rice  has  one  more  at  the  Columbia. 

Matinee  and  evening  performances  to-day  and  to-morrow 
by  Sousa's  band  at  the  California. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1897. 


THE     JEWS     AND     THE     BIBLE. 

[In  Two   Papers. — Part  First.] 

BY  DK.    G.    A.    DANZIGER. 

THERE  are,  running  wild  in  this  world  of  ours,  a  few 
mistaken  ideas  about  the  Jews,  which  to  set  aright  is 
a  duty.  The  Jews  have  had  a  sufficiency  of  laudation  and 
damnation,  neither  of  which  was  really  deserved.  The 
fact  that  they  are  liberal  patrons  of  Col.  Ingersoll's  trite 
lectures  gave  rise  to  the  idea  that  all  Jews  are  infidels.  It 
was  reasoned  thus :  Disinclined  to  believe  the  myths  of  the 
Old  Testament,  and  unwilling  to  accept  the  New,  they  hail 
infidelity  with  delight.  While  the  cogency  is  adequate, 
the  reason  lacks  the  elements  of  perfect  truth.  He  Jew 
needs  neither  myths  nor  dubious  history  to  give  his  religion 
vitality,  flexibility  and  durability.  Not  being  commanded 
to  believe  but  to  do  he  is  a  subjective  religious  factor  and 
not  an  objective  one.  Peccable  in  the  ways  of  the  world, 
he  is  impeccable  in  his  relation  to  his  God — the  Jew  is  one 
with  his  religion;  he  is  not  an  infidel. 

Another  class  of  people  reasons  differently.  The  Jews 
must  of  necessity  believe  every  statement  of  the  Old 
Testament,  for  they  even  now  persistently  reject  Christ, 
expecting  the  coming  of  a  Messiah  as  promised  by  the 
Prophets.  But  if  they  do  not  believe  in  the  old  dispensa- 
tion, why  not  accept  the  new?  If  they  do  not  care  for  the 
angry  Jehovah,  why  not  embrace  the  love  of  Christ?  If 
they  fail  to  do  as  reason  and  logic  demand  of  them,  then 
forsooth,  they  are  Jews  still,  believing  as  their  fathers  be- 
lieved, hoping  for  the  fulfillment  of  the  ancient  prophecies, 
and  praying  as  did  they  of  old,  for  a  Redeemer  to  lead 
them  to  the  "Land  that  floweth  milk  and  honey." 

Wrong  again.     The  modern  Jews  believe  nothing  of  that. 

And  yet,  were  you  to  ask  any  ordinary  Jew  what  he  be- 
lieves, I  doubt  if  the  answer  would  come  forth  as  glibly 
and  trippingly  as  you  would  expect.  He  might  tell  you 
he  believes  in  Judaism;  but  if  you  inquire:  "What  is 
Judaism?"  the  answer  will  be  owing.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
there  are  few  people,  including  Rabbis,  who  could  give  a 
ready  answer  to  this  question.  But  this  is  quite  a  differ- 
ent story.  I  would  say,  parenthetically,  that  the  Jews 
are  not  the  exclusively  afflicted  in  that  respect.  Pew 
professed  Christians  could  readily  answer  the  question, 
What  is  Christianity?  These  are  puzzling  questions;  often 
asked  and  seldom  answered.  For  does  it  not  seem  that 
"right  doing"  does  not  depend  on  the  profession  of  church- 
ism?  The  infidel,  too,  has  a  faith,  which  he  expounds  with 
much  particularity  and  a  raking  in  of  coin,  that  would  de- 
light the  shrivelled  soul  of  a  Shylock.  What  need  is  there 
of  a  Church,  a  Bible  or  a  Sacrament,  when  you  can  be  as 
good  a  citizen,  husband,  father  and  friend  without?  There 
is  force  in  that;  nay,  more;  there  is  even  a  good  quality  of 
logic  in  it.  For  after  all,  Moses,  Christ,  Mohammed  and 
Buddah  have  concentrated  their  essential  doctrines  upon 
these  very  points.  This  is  very  nice,  only  the  infidel  has 
left  out  of  consideration  one  serious  point,  "The  Human 
Heart.  The  human  heart,  with  its  strange  forces  and 
feelings,  its  reverence  and  clinging  regard  for  those  things 
which  were  sown  in  tears,  harvested  in  sorrow,  and  eaten 
in  drear  moments  of  utter  desolation. 

It  is  strange  that  we  have  such  fancies;  that  we  do  not 
cast  our  dead  into  the  sea,  or  leave  them  a  prey  to  vul- 
tures and  jackals.  It  is  strange  that  we  bury  those  we 
love  in  the  safest  recesses  of  our  seared  hearts  and  yearn- 
ing souls,  to  be  called  forth  with  memories,  sweet,  tender 
and  holy.  It  is  strange,  also,  that  we  keep  mementos  of 
those  whose  lives  were  intertwined  with  ours,  and  guard 
them  as  precious.  Is  it  not  enough  to  think  now  and  then 
of  those  that  have  passed  away  and  thenlive  for  the  living? 
No,  it  is  not !  And  as  long  as  this  is  so,  the  human  family 
will  need  some  tangible  form  to  guide  it  safely,  to  link  its 
present  with  the  past;  to  make  it  look  straight  ahead  in 
time  of  danger,  but  be  retrospective  in  moments  of  peace 
and  quiet  joy.  And  for  this  retrospectiveness,  for  the 
linking  of  the  present  with  the  past,  some  strong  chain  is 
necessary;  this  chain  with  the  Jews  is  the  Bible.  He — 
the  average  Jew — loves  it,  not  so  much  for  what  it  con- 
tains as  for  the  associations  it  recalls.  A  few  years  ago 
the  Jews  of  Italy  offered  the  Pope  $300,000  in  gold 
for  an  old  manuscript  Bible,  simply  because  its  birth 
happened  at  a  time  when  Israel's   wound  was  yet  fresh. 


The  learned  Jew  loves  the  Bible  for  another,  one  might 
say,  nobler  reason;  for,  the  most  beautiful  in  literary  form 
— that  which  by  its  power,  cadence  and  rythm,  inspires 
the  soul  regardless  of  its  historical  dubiety,  must  of  neces- 
sity rank  much  higher  than  any  other  expression;  higher 
in  fact,  than  the  very  laws  that  gave  it  being,  since  it  can 
rise  superior  to  them  in  its  capacity  in  revealing  the  weal 
and  woe  of  a  human  soul.  Who  asks,  who  cares  for  the 
origin  of  the  beautiful?  It  is  there;  that  is  enough.  The 
learned  Jew  thus  luxuriates  in  the  beauties  of  the  Bible. 
There  is  something  infinitely  touching  in  the  love  he  bears 
the  lore  of  his  people.  How  he  dwells  upon  every  expres- 
sion, every  shade  of  meaning  underlying  each  word;  how 
he  turns  and  rolls  it  upon  his  tongue  like  a  sweet  morsel. 
To  him  every  word  is  pregnant  with  power  and  possibili- 
ties. Take,  for  example,  the  word  Jehovah.  He  knows 
that  Yah  (as  in  the  Phoenician  language)  means  "Being 
and  Becoming."  the  "Sein  wad  Werden''  of  the  German 
philosophers,  the  "Is"  of  the  world.  To  the  learned  Jew 
the  word  Jehovah  or  Ya — ha — veh,  has  a  treble  significance: 
Ya,  God  is;  Hoveh,  God  was,  and  Jeheveh — (by  grammat- 
ical adjustment)  means  God  will  be!  Thus  he  goes  through 
the  mazes  of  this  cosmic  volume  and  luxuriates  in  an  Eden 
to  which  the  uninitiated  have  no  admittance.  For,  to 
properly  appreciate  the  Bible,  one  must  read  it  in  the 
hebrew  language.  To  grow  conscious  of  its  beauties, 
grasp  the  great  truths  it  contains,  you  must  be  a  Jew,  a 
learned  Jew,  or  know  the  tongue  in  which  David  sang, 
Jeremiah  wept,  and  Isaiah  measured  his  strength  with  the 
angels  in  heaven.  The  Jew  reads  the  Bible  in  Hebrew;  he 
feels  the  weight  and  volume  of  every  measure;  he  becomes 
an  actor  in  the  dramas  written  and  acted  by  his  poets  and 
seers.  This  is  as  it  should  be.  One  who  reads  and  under- 
stands the  original  language  of  any  literary  work  does  not 
care  to  read  it  in  translation,  however  excellent  such  may 
be.  The  best  rendition  of  Homer's  works  in  a  foreign 
tongue  does  not  interest  the  scholar  who  can  read  the  re- 
sonant and  swinging  lines  of  Hellas'  immortal  bard. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


":=*-^5^^^i-rrNHE  men  say  the  army 
1  chaps  are  getting  ail 
the  innings  now  in  society.  But  whose  fault  is  it,  anyway.' 
Soldiers  are  proverbially  brave,  and  if  a  second  Lieutenant 
is  willing  to  face  matrimonial  life  on  his  pay,  surely  a  clerk 
in  grain,  insurance,  or  bank  offices  has  an  equal  chance  to 
go  in  and  win  the  sir!  of  his  choice.  But  if  selfish  considera- 
tions and  fear  of  curtailment  of  personal  enjoyment  weighs 
with  the  civilian,  why,  then,  no  wonder  that  none  but  the 
brave  deserve  the  fair. 

*  »  » 

Surely,  '96-7  will  be  known  as  the  season  of  weddings. 
Engagement  "announcements  "  are  made  daily,  and  one 
by  one  our  loveliest  belles  are  carried  off  from  the  ranks 
of  girlhood  and  make  our  list  of  charming  young  matrons 
(already  a  long  one)  still  more  enlarged.  The  latest 
brides-elect  who  have  each  chosen  military  chaps — Miss 
Burton  and  Miss  Ethel  Cohen — have  always  been  among 
the  most  popular  of  our  social  belles.  Apropos  of  Miss 
Cohen,  a  girl  friend  remarked  at  the  engagement  tea, 
"I'm  sure  it's  been  a  plain  fact  to  any  one  who  had  eyes 
that  Ethel's  thoughts  were  all  in  one  direction  bent  "for 
weeks  past,"  and  a  man  near  by,  wishing  to  go  one  better, 
added:  '  Ya-as:  and  when  the  deah  girl  said  Lv-man,  of 
course  he  fell  down.     Who  wouldn't,  ye  know?" 

*  *  # 

If  anything  could  serve  to  accentuate  the  taint  of  Anglo- 
phobia which  is  current  in  our  "best  society,"  it  would  be 
the  fact  that  several  of  the  swagger  set  arranged  an  out- 
ing at  a  fashionable  country  settlement  "to  get  away  from 
the  nuisance  and  fuss  of  Washington's  birthday,  don't  ye 
know."  Where,  oh  where,  is  the  spirit  of  '76  that  our 
forefathers  bled  for?  Why  don't  the  colonial  dames,  in- 
stead of  reading  papers  on  a  lot  of  stuff,  get  their  men 
folk  imbued  with  a  feeling  of  patriotism  and  pride  in  the 
America  of  to-day,  as  well  as  of  the  past? 

*  *  * 

As  Lent  approaches,  the  fun  increases;  that  is,  teas  and 
cotillions  multiply,  but  card  clubs  are  already  being  organ- 
ized to  play  during  the  Lenten  period.  To  an  outsider,  it 
has  a  comical  side,  when  one  sees  a  woman  rushing  daily 
to  church  for  morning  service,  and  in  the  afternoon  or 
evening,  as  the  case  may  be,  playing  whist,  euchre,  or 
poker,  for  that  the  latter  game  is  patronized  by  the 
women  is  attested  by  the  coterie  who  assemble  under  the 
wing  of  a  prominent  society  matron,  who  is  a  member  of 
the  Romish  church. 

*  *  * 

Apropos  of  this  Lenten  diversion,  it  is  related  that  a  lady 
who  was  rebuked  by  her  minister  for  playing  cards  in  Lent, 
offered  to  temporize  by  saying  that  a  club  of  ladies  had 
agreed  to  give  the  jack-pot  winnings  to  his  church,  when 
to  her   amazement    the    clergyman    replied:   "My  dear 

Mrs.  ,  I  would  not  touch   a  cent  of  such  money,   nor 

would  I  allow  it  to  be  used  for  church  purposes.    Don't  for 
a  moment  think  absolution  can  be  bought  thus." 

*  *  * 

The  rainy  weather  of  the  past  fortnight  has  not  alarmed 
the  guests  of  the  Hotel  Rafael.  On  the  contrary,  num- 
bers of  fashionable  people  have  flocked  there  to  avoid  the 
dullness  of  a  storm-swept  city,  and  congregate  around  the 
fireside  of  the  long  parlor,  play  cards,  sing  or  chat,  as  in- 
clined. The  list  of  arrivals  daily  goes  on  increasing,  and 
the  indications  are  that  this  favorite  place  will  be  the 
Mecca  for  fashionables  during  the  coming  season. 

*  *  * 

News  comes  from  New  York  that  our  California  girls, 
the  Misses  Ethel  Keeney  and  Leontine  Blakeman,  are  en- 
joying hugely   the   many  attractions  of  that  fascinating 

metropolis. 

*  *  * 

The  last  dance  of  the  Friday  Fortnightlies  evidenced  that 
Eastertide  will  in  all  probability  usher  in  another  society 
engagement. 


Young  Pierson  I  .•nera!  Fred  Pierson,  will  shortly 

tbe  Paclflc  Con        He  is  a  clever  young  businessman, 
popular  as  a  clubman  and   a  sportsman,    and  one  or   the 
heirs  to  a  large  fortune,     I  trust  the  California  dtbv 
will  not  let  such  a  prize  escape  them. 

*  ft  m 

■v.  that  our  1  :ont<  mporary's  army  writer  has  shown 
up  the  methods  employed  by  the  officers'  wives  to  secure 
husbands  for  maiden  sisters,"  the  girls  will  be  chary  of  go- 
ing on  visits  to  their  -inters  at  armv  posts,  lest  they  be 
accused  of  following  it  up. 

*  •  # 

Rumor  is  again  rife  with  coupling  another  young  Board- 
man  and  a  society  blonde.  The  military  brother-in-law  is 
also  spoken  of  as  a  possible  successful  suitor.  Which  shall 
it  be  ?  says  the  swim. 

ft  ft  « 

It  is  predicted  that  Miss  Leila  Burton  will  make  a  hit  in 
aste  on  Monday  night,  and  'tis  said  that  manager  Bouvier 

is  enthusiastically  hoping  for  a  bright  star  to  arise  in  his 

firmament  theatrical. 

♦  #  # 

Mrs.  Ernest  C.  La  Montague  has  taken  a  cottage  at 
Cedarhurst  for  next  summer  overlooking  the  new  golf  links 
of  the  Rockaway  Hunt  Club. 

*  *  # 

On  dit,  a  name  that  sounds  very  like  that  of  the  Presi- 
dent-elect, will  soon  be  joined  to  that  of  a  distinguished 
citizen. 

The  possibilities  of  one  dollar  are  taslefully  and  artistically  de- 
monstrated at  Swain's  Bakery  213  Sutter  street  where  a  splendid 
table  d'hote  dinner  is  served  for  that  sum  every  day  between  the 
hours  of  5  and  8  p.m.  The  service  is  elegant  and  refined  and  the 
viands  of  the  choicest.  Orders  for  paslries  and  confections  also  of 
the  finest  quality,  promptly  rilled  by  telephone  or  olberwise. 

The  art  of  every  people  is  peculiar  to  itself.  The  best  of  Japan- 
ese art  is  to  be  seen  atGeo.  T.  Marsh  &  Co. 's  625  Marketstreet,  under 
the  Pdlace  Hotel,  show  admirably  tbe  wonderful  skill  of  those  little 
brown  men.  A  delightful  hour  can  be  spent  there  looking  through 
bis  choice  collection. 


Deutz  &  Geldermann's 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1897. 


The  Western  Avernus,  or  Toil  and  Travel  in  Further  North 
America,  By  Morley  Roberts.  New  Edition,  illustrated  by  A.  D. 
McCormick,  and  from  photographs.  Westminster.  Archibald 
Constable  and  Co.    1896. 

a  Book        This  book  was  originally  published  in  1887, 
of  — not  in  1896,  as  The  Bookman  erroneously 

the  Week.  supposes — but  its  author,  having  since  that 
date  made  a  reputation  as  a  writer  of 
stories,  has  lately  re-issued  it  in  an  improved  form.  It  is 
a  record  of  varied  experiences  in  the  United  States  and 
Canada,  such  as  many  Britishers  have  gone  through,  but 
few  have  related.  It  is,  as  its  author  says,  commonly 
spoken  of  as  a  book  of  travel,  but  is  really  an  autobio- 
graphy, inasmuch  as  it  contains  an  account  not  merely  of 
the  literal  journeyings,  but  also  of  the  spiritual  experience 
of  the  writer.  Mr.  Roberts,  after  wandering  in  Australia, 
and  serving  for  some  time  on  board  ship  as  a  sailor,  found 
himself  in  London  in  broken  health.  Having  a  brother  in 
Texas,  he  decided  to  go  to  that  State,  where  he  herded 
sheep,  and  lived  a  rough  healthy  life.  From  Texas  he 
went  to  Chicago  in  charge  of  cattle  on  a  train;  thence  in- 
to Iowa  and  Minnesota.  Several  times  he  was  "dead 
broke,"  and  at  his  wits'  end  to  procure  the  barest  necessar- 
ies of  life.  Seeing  a  notice  to  the  effect  that  laborers  were 
wanted  on  the  Canadian  Pacific  Railway,  he  paid  out  his 
last  few  dollars  for  1600  miles'  transportation  for  himself 
and  a  friend  through  Canada  to  the  Rocky  Mountains. 
He  and  a  large  number  of  other  men,  of  various  nationali- 
ties, went  to  work  in  the  Kicking  Horse  Pass.  The  life 
was  rough  and  hard,  but  the  food  was  plentiful,  and  his 
companions,  if  coarse,  were  sometimes  jovial  and  good- 
humored,  and,  in  rare  instances,  not  altogether  insensible 
to  the  charms  of  music  and  higher  things.  Thence  across 
the  Selkirks  to  the  Golden  Range  and  the  Shush  wap  Lakes, 
and  so  on  to  British  Columbia,  where  he  worked  on  farms 
and  in  a  saw-mill.  Eventually,  after  much  wandering  and 
long  tramping,  he  reached  Crescent  City,  whence  he  paid 
his  fare  by  steamer  to  San  Francisco,  landing  here  with 
just  "two  bits"  in  his  pocket.  Happening  to  alight  in  this 
city  during  a  hard  winter  when  it  was  estimated  that  there 
were  twenty  thousand  men  out  of  work,  he  often  went 
without  food  for  a  whole  day,  and  was  constrained  to  catch 
a  broken  rest  upon  bare  boards.  To  use  the  writer's  own 
words:  "For  three  months  San  Francisco  was  a  city  of 
sorrow  and  despair  to  me,  of  laborious  occupation  or 
worse,  of  none  at  all,  of  poverty,  of  starvation,  of  discom- 
fort— the  uneasy  sleep,  and  the  dreams  of  better  things, 
and  the  awakening  to  misery  and  starvation — it  was 
bitter."  In  the  middle  of  the  month  of  April  Mr.  Roberts 
received  an  offer  of  work  on  a  "ranche"  in  Lake  County, 
but,  as  it  was  necessary  that  be  should  engage  himself  for 
a  year,  refused  it.  After  trying  for  a  few  weeks  to  make 
a  living  as  a  book  agent,  he  came  to  the  conclusion  that 
Nature  had  not  gifted  him  with  the  necessary  "gall,"  sold 
the  sample  atlas  which  he  had  wearily  dragged  about  for 
some  weeks,  and  once  more  was  without  employment. 
But  a  stroke  of  luck  came  in  the  shape  of  an  engagement  to 
work  on  a  vineyard  in  Sonoma  County  at  twenty  dollars  a 
month.  He  stayed  there  long  enough  to  save  sufficient 
money  to  carry  him  back  to  England,  and,  joyfully  bidding 
farewell  to  bis  Italian  fellow-workers,  journeyed  rapidly 
acoss  the  continent  to  the  Atlantic,  crossed  it  and 
stepped  again  upon  his  native  soil.  The  book  throughout 
is  most  interesting,  and  though  we  have  read  scarcely 
anything  else  written  by  Mr.  Roberts,  we  are  half-dis- 
posed to  agree  with  the  critics  who  have  said  that  the 
writer  will  never  do  better  work  than  this.  In  a  certain 
sense  the  criticism  is  doubtless  true,  for  it  is  a  simple 
straightforward  account  of  actual  physical  toils  and 
mental  sufferings,  and  conveys  to  the  reader's  mind  a  sense 
of  reality  that  can  scarcely  be  produced  by  the  feigned 
adventures  of  imaginary  characters.  So  many  Europeans, 
and  Britishers  in  particular,  have  done  so  very  much  the 
same  thiugs  in  North  America  as  Mr.  Roberts  that  this 
graphic  record  cannot  fail  to  interest  a  large  number  of 
readers. 


The  February  issue  of  Harper's  Magazine  contains 
Richard  Harding  Davis's  account  of  the  coronation  of  the 
Czar  of  Russia,  with  six  illustrations  by  R.  Caton  Wood- 
ville;  Poultney  Bigelow's  account  of  the  President  of  the 
Orange  Free  State;  stories  by  Sara  Beaumont  Kennedy, 
Octave  Thanet,  and  Margaret  Sutton  Briscoe.  The  first 
of  Mr.  Charles  F.  Lummis's  articles  on  Mexico  appears 
under  the  title  of  "The  Awakening  of  a  Nation."  Mr. 
Lummis  is  familiar  with  Mexico  and  the  Spanish  language, 
and  has  recently  traversed  the  country  from  end  to  end, 
conversing  with  men  of  every  grade  from  President  to 
peon.  He  is  strongly  impressed  with  the  great  work  that 
has  been  accomplished  by  Diaz,  who,  since  1876  has  been 
undisputed  master  of  Mexico,  and  during  all  that  time  has 
saved  it  from  the  revolutions  that  chronically  afflict  all 
other  Spanish-American  communities.  He  has  freed  his 
country  from  the  curse  of  brigandage,  provided  it  with 
railroads,  telegraphs,  electric  lights,  and  an  excellent 
system  of  public  education.  Under  his  firm  control  life, 
property,  and  civic  rights  have  been  made  positively  more 
secure  in  the  United  States  of  Mexico  than  in  the  United 
States  of  North  America.  The  Federal  and  State 
governments  have  been  cleared  of  the  corrupt  and  incom- 
petent men  who  formerly  infested  all  the  public  offices, 
and,  despite  the  President's  boundless  opportunities  for 
enriching  himself  in  ways  commonly  considered  entirely 
legitimate  by  Spanish- American  public  men,  he  has  re- 
mained an  only  moderately  wealthy  man.  Mr.  Lummis's 
article  is  illustrated  with  excellent  pictures,  which  are  ap- 
parently the  result  of  combining  the  work  of  the  sketcher 
with  that  of  the  photographer,  somewhat  after  the  man- 
ner in  which  Mr.  Clifton  Johnson's  pictures  are  made. 
In  the  literary  notes  are  some  complimentary  remarks  on 
Mr.  E.  F.  Benson's  recently  issued  novel  "Limitations." 
Mr.  Lawrence  Hutton  shows  his  appreciation  of  Mr. 
Benson's  intelligence  and"  cleverness,  which  the  criticasters 
of  the  daily  press  have  sometimes  affected  to  doubt.  But 
it  is  really  surprising  (or  perhaps  it  isn't  after  all)  how 
much  more  appreciative  of  other  men's  intelligence  a 
■clever  man  is  than  a  dull  one.  A  dull  man,  not  content 
with  being  fat-witted  himself,  believes  everybody  else  to 
be  dense  also.  The  Bseotians,  no  doubt,  entirely  failed  to 
perceive  the  Athenians'  superiority  to  themselves. 

It  is  really  quite  a  task  nowadays  to  keep  oneself  in- 
formed upon  the  chances  and  changes  of  periodical  litera- 
ture. In  June  1895  we  sent  an  article  to  a  magazine  en- 
titled "The  Monthly  Illustrator,"  the  price  of  which  was 
thirty  cents:  it  was  accepted  conditionally  by  Mr.  Harry 
C.  Jones,  who  then  owned  the  Magazine.  Soon  the 
Monthly  Illustrator  was  purchased  by  Mr.  J.  W.  Kay,  who 
incorporated  with  it  Home  and  Country,  then  selling  at 
fifteen  cents.  The  magazine  was  now  known  under  the 
cumbrous  title  of  the  two  periodicals  of  which  it  was  made 
up,  and  was  sold  for  twenty  cents.  During  1896  the  price 
was  reduced  to  five  cents,  and  continued  so  for  several 
months.  The  article  accepted  by  a  thirty-cent  magazine 
in  1895  was  ultimately  published  in  January  1897  by  a  five- 
cent  one.  But  we  are  pleased  to  record  the  fact  that  the 
compensation  paid  to  the  writer  was  that  originally 
agreed  upon  by  the  proprietor  of  the  thirty-cent  periodical. 
Now  in  February  the  magazine  has  increased  its  size, 
raised  its  price  to  ten  cents,  and  dropped  the  first  part  of 
its  name,  being  simply  known  as  "Home  and  Country." 
We  wish  it  success. 

The  Railway  Magazine,  published  in  New  York  by  Mr. 
G.  H.  Baker,  who  was  formerly  Fuel  expert  for  the 
Southern  Pacific  company,  is  a  handsome  periodical.  It 
is  devoted  entirely  to  matters  of  interest  to  railroad  men, 
and  certainly  should  have  considerable  value  to  them. 
The  January  issue,  which  reached  us  somewhat  late,  con- 
tains an  installment  of  Dr.  Seward  Webb's  account  of  bis 
trip  to  the  Pacific  Coast  and  Alaska,  and  a  long  and  fully 
illustrated  article  on  the  Mexican  Central  Railway,  by 
Arthur  Inkersley,  besides  other  contributions  by  experts 
in  railroad  matters. 

The  March  issue  of  the  Traveler  will  contain  an  article 
on  President  Diaz  of  Mexico,  with  some  estimate  of  the 
work  he  has  accomplished  in  tranquillizing  and  modern- 
izing that  old  and  picturesque  country.  It  will  be  illus- 
trated with  the  excellent  photogravures  for  which  The 
Traveler  is  noted. 


February  27,  1897. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LET 


11 


DEAR  KDITU  :  It  will  be  a  long  time  before  Paris  loses 
entirely  its  supremacy  in  the  art  of  woman's  dressing. 
At  times,  the  great  modisb  9  ol  New  York  and  London 
surpass  their  French  rivals  and  originate  styles  which  run 
around  the  world,  and  then,  just  when  it  seems  as  if  the 
scepter  were  to  pass  from  the  French  metropolis  to  an 
Anglo-Saxon  one,  there  conies  an  outburst  of  beautiful 
-  aDd  exquisite  designs  which  cannot  be  surpassed,  if 
even  equaled.  Of  late,  there  has  been  such  a  series  of  sur- 
prises in  the  French  dress  world  !  Some  of  the  new  de- 
signs are  monuments  of  artistic  completeness.  One  dress, 
an  evening  gown,  which  has  just  arrived  in  this  country, 
was  a  Princess  robe  in  uranium  green  satin,  half-veiled 
with  black  Chantilly  lace.  It  had  any  number  of  ruches 
and  half  ruches  at  the  neck.  The  skirt  was  very  slightly 
gored  to  form  a  graceful  apron  front,  of  which  one  side 
seemed  to  be  held  by  a  magnificent  bow  in  black  satin, 
wbuse  ends,  falling  within  a  quarter  of  a  yard  from  the 
floor,  were  tipped  with  gold  and  black  aiguillettes.  The 
black  ruching  of  the  corsage  changed  into  heavy  black 
satin  straps  around  the  armholes  and  a  mass  of  bows  and 
ribbons  upon  the  shoulders.  Here  and  there  along  the 
bottom  of  the  skirt,  as  if  flowing  from  the  ruching  beneath, 
were  black  velvet  roses  with  jeweled  centers.  There  were 
two  of  these  upon  the  shoulder. 

Most  ingenious  of  all  was  a  provision  whereby  this  superb 
toilet  could  be  converted  into  a  tea  gown.  This  was 
effected  by  a  necklet  or  collarette  made  of  black  satin  rib- 
bon, jetwork,  gold  gems,  held  in  place  by  satin  bows,  and 
reinforced  by  two  heavy  black  satin  ribbons  which  started 
in  the  middle  of  the  collar  at  its  lower  edge  and  thence 
ran  like  shoulder  braces  around  under  the  arm  and  meet- 
ing in  front.  The  necklet  was  just  open  enough  to  disclose 
the  pink  flesh  of  the  back  and  chest,  but  sufficiently  solid 
to  make  the  general  appearance  that  of  a  very  richly 
decorated  and  magnificent  house  gown. 

There  is  another  c  ic  style  of  dress  which,  it  is  said,  has 
been  ordered  by  one  of  the  great  stars  of  the  Comedie 
Francais.  This  evening  gown  is  tightly  fitting  and  sug- 
gests some  of  the  styles  of  the  last  century.  The  skirt  is 
gored  «nd  gathered  so  to  hang  comparatively  smooth  one- 
third  of  the  way  down,  so  that  it  meets  a  graceful  band  of 
lisse  frills,  fur,  and  lace.  It  runs  another  third  with  a 
smooth  surface,  and  is  again  limited  by  a  similar  decora- 
tion. From  here  it  falls  in  narrow,  irregular  pleats  to  the 
ground,  and  at  the  bottom  is  edged  with  fur.  The  bodice- 
waist  is  tight-fitting,  the  shoulder  piece  is  a  mere  cuff, 
and  the  sleeves  are  almost  as  tight  as  if  the  arms  had 
been  wound  with  the  material.  Instead  of  being  smooth, 
they  are  marked  by  the  Bernhardt  wrinkle.  The  upper 
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February  27,  1897. 


The  little  spurts  which  take  place  in  the  spec- 
Business  on  ulative  market  on  Pine  street  on  news  of  the 
Pine  Street,     slightest  improvement  in  the  mines,  tend  to 

show  the  possibilities  which  exist  for  creating 
an  old  time  excitement.  What  is  lacking  is  a  leader,  some 
one  with  brains  and  money  to  back  them,  who  could  re- 
store and  maintain  the  confidence  of  the  investing  public. 
The  representatives  of  the  several  cliques  in  control  of  the 
mines  have  done  well  in  holding  the  market  together  as  it 
is,  but  the  burden  has  been  a  heavy  one.  In  talking  of 
high  salaries  being  paid  to  many  officials,  people  overlook 
or  are  ignorant  of  the  fact  that  the  bulk  of  the  money  thus 
expended  by  the  companies  finds  its  way  back  into  the 
market  sooner  or  later  in  support  of  the  stocks  they  repre- 
sent. Nearly  all  of  these  men  belong  to  the  old  school  of 
speculators,  ever  ready  to  back  an  improvement  in  the 
mines  under  their  control  with  the  last  dollar  they  have  in 
their  pockets.  There  is  not  a  rich  man  on  the  list  of  these 
officials.  They  alone  have  stood  behind  the  market  for 
months  past  unassisted  to  any  great  extent  by  the 
wealthy  inside  operators  who  have  held  aloof  for  reasons 
well  known  to  any  one  acquainted  with  the  business. 
There  is  a  chance  now  for  an  improvement  in  the  market 
if  the  development  on  Con.  Virginia  opens  out  as  it  now 
promises  to  do.  TheChollar-Brunswiek  ground  is  turning 
out  even  better  than  its  friends  predicted,  but  this  seems 
to  be  lost  sight  of  owing  to  existing  jealousies  which  would  be 
swept  out  of  existence  with  the  advent  of  a  wealthy  class 
of  speculators.  Neither  the  men  in  control  nor  the  mine 
itself  have  had  a  fair  deal,  but  this  could  hardly  be  ex- 
pected as  things  are  now  on  Pine  street.  The  new  work 
contemplated  at  the  south  end  by  the  Crown  Point,  Jacket 
and  Keotuck  companies  may  open  up  a  new  and  brighter 
future  for  these  shares  before  long,  should  the  ore  come  in 
again  in  Kentuck  that  the  late  Governor  Stoneman  found 
on  the  levels  above,  which  made  him  rich. 

The  methods  adopted  by  the  London  pro- 

The  Garfield    moter  to  keep  an  old  game  alive  are  fairly 

Dies  Hard,      exemplified  in  the  case  of  the  Hampton 

Plains  Exploration  Company.  When  Mr. 
Hooper  left  the  Garfield  mine  of  Nevada,  it  was  on  its  last 
legs.  It  had  done  well  under  his  management  up  to  this 
point,  and  had  the  prospects  held  out,  it  is  not  likely  he 
would  have  abandoned  it.  In  merging  it,  the  Lepanto 
and  Pittsburg,  with  a  Westralian  mine,  when  that  locality 
began  to  boom,  the  management  accomplished  two  ends, 
in  securiog  a  ready-made  list  of  shareholders  for  the  new 
toy,  letting  themselves  down  easy  on  the  Nevada  proposi- 
tions. The  latest  report  of  this  clique  of  promoters  is  a 
gem  in  its  way.  The  Garfield,  Pittsburg,  and  Lepanto  are 
still  held,  although  it  is  admitted  they  are  not  workable 
with  success,  for  the  reason  that  "as  long  as  we  can  retain 
these  properties  at  a  small  cost,  it  is  in  the  interest  of 
the  shareholders  that  we  should  not  part  with  them."  The 
trouble  more  likely  is,  that  they  are  like  a  lot  of  old  family 
heirlooms — only  fit  to  hang  in  a  garret,  for  nobody  else 
wants  them.  Why  not  admit  the  mines  are  played  out, 
and  have  done  with  it,  so  far  as  the  Garfield  and  Lepanto 
are  concerned,  at  any  rate. 

If  rumor  is  not  at  fault,  as   it  so  often  is, 
Ten  Million      a  transaction  will  soon   be   concluded   in 
Mining  Deal.     London  that  will  put  the  Mariposa  grant 
proposition  in  the  shade,  not   to  speak  of 
the  airy  fabrications  of  the  professional  promoter  of  Monte 
Cristo  schemes  in  California.  The  property  about  to  change 
hands  is  located  in  the  western  section  of  this   continent, 
and  tbe  company,  when  it  appears,  will  be  capitalized  for 
$10,000,000,  with  every  chance  that  the  shares  will  not  go 
a-begging  at  this  figure.     It  has  been  passed  upon  by  ex- 
perts, who  have  won  name  and  fame  for  reliability,  and  the 
vendor  himself  is  a  power  in  the  mining  world.      This  sale, 
when  closed,  will  turn  the  tide  of  foreign  capital  westward 
again,  which  has  set  for  a  time  so  strongly  in  the  direction 
of  South  Africa  and  Westralia. 


The  initiatory  steps  have  been  taken  in 
Draining  the  the  new  enterprise  looking  toward  tbe 
American  Flat,  drainage  of  the  American  Flat,  by  the 
incorporation  of  a  company  in  Nevada. 
At  the  head  of  the  company  are  H.  M.  Yerrington,  W.  E. 
Sharon,  E.  D.  Boyle,  and  other  prominent  mining  men  of 
the  Silver  State.  The  mines  of  this  district  have  been 
prospected  down  to  a  depth  of  between  500  and  600  feet, 
when  the  influx  of  water  was  so  heavy  that  the  companies, 
handicapped  by  a  shortage  of  funds,  were  unable  to  handle 
it.  There  are  probably  forty  mines  in  this  district,  the 
most  important  being  the  Rock  Island,  Baltimore  and 
Knickerbocker,  which  proved  very  rich  down  to  the  water 
level.  It  has  been  found  that  drainage  is  possible  to  an 
additional  depth  of  600  feet  all  over  the  Flat  below  the 
water  level,  which  will  leave  an  immense  area  of  ground 
open  for  development.  The  advantages  of  this  enterprise 
in  restoring  activity  to  the  market  on  Pine  street,  and  life 
to  Virginia  City,  must  be  patent  to  every  one  acquainted 
with  the  situation,  both  here  and  in  Nevada.  No  difficulty 
should,  therefore,  be  experienced  in  putting  it  into  practi- 
cal operation  so  far  as  the  necessary  money  is  concerned. 
The  names  of  some  prominent  capitalists  are  already  men- 
tioned in  connection  with  the  project  as  jiossible  subscribers  . 
for  stock,  and  should  they  do  so,  their  example  will  be  fol- 
lowed by  many  others  who  only  await  some  guarantee  of 
the  kind  as  to  the  merits  of  the  investment. 

The  many  old  friends  of  Mr.  Henry  C.  Cal- 
A  Californian  lahan,  who  left  California  some  years  ago 
in  Australia,  under  engagement  with  an  Australian  min- 
ing company,  will  be  pleased  to  hear  that 
the  property  under  his  management  has  proved  a  grand 
success.  The  Western  Argus,  of  Kalgoorlie,  in  referring 
to  it  in  a  recent  issue  says  :  "The  Lake  View  Consols  is 
opening  up  so  splendidly  that  from  present  appearances  it 
promises  to  startle  tbe  world.  It  is  only  a  few  months 
since  it  was  taken  over  by  the  English  company,  and 
already  the  property  presents  a  wonderfully  altered  ap- 
pearance. With  Mr.  H.  C.  Callahan  as  mining  engineer  in 
charge,  and  Mr.  Banks  as  mine  manager,  the  View  has 
been  opened  up  in  a  manner  which  will  in  the  near  future 
enable  the  thousands  of  tons  of  ore  in  sight  to  be  easily  and 
economically  extracted."  There  is  one  thing  that  can  be 
said  of  English  companies,  they  are  never  backward  in  be- 
stowing credit  where  it  belongs,  nor  in  pushing  men  to  the 
front  when  they  are  found  worthy  of  merit.  There  is  no 
stinginess  either  in  the  matter  of  salaries. 

The  Consolidated  Gold  Fields  of  Mex- 
Some  Mexican  ico,  Limited,  is  the  name  of  a  $1,500,000 
Mine  Flotations,  incorporation  launched  in  London,  to 
pay  $500,000  for  some  17,000  acres  of 
land  in  Sonora,  Mexico,  with  a  60-stamp  mill  and  mine 
known  as  the  Santa  Elena  and  its  extension.  George  D. 
Roberts  is  accredited  with  having  a  hand  in  this  deal. 
Some  nice  things  are  said  about  the  mine  by  experts,  in- 
cluding a  Mr.  Wuensch,  which  would  lead  the  ordinary 
man  to  imagine  it  a  bonanza.  The  other  blossomed  out  in 
New  York  under  the  auspices  of  two  gentlemen  of  fashion, 
now  figuring  in  society  circles  in  this  town.  It  is  known 
as  the  California-Mexico  Gold  Mining  and  Development 
Company,  with  a  capital  of  $1,000,000.  The  prospectus 
alludes  to  the  ownership  of  a  fine  gold  property  in  California 
under  process  of  development,  but  we  fail  to  connect  the 
nsmes  mentioned  with  any  operation  of  the  kind.  They 
are  more  familiar  in  matters  of  life  insurance. 

On  March  1st,  A.  S.  Cooper,  C.  E.,  will 
The  South        take  up  the  duties  of  State  Mineralogist, 
is  Recognized,     having  been  appointed  by  the  Governor. 
The    gentleman    comes    highly     recom- 
mended by  his  neighbors   in  Southern  California,  and  his 
record  certainly  shows  an  experience  in  the  field  of  many 
years.     With  new  men  around  him  as  subordinates,    there 
is    an    opportunity    for    good    in   the   institution,    which 
could  be  utilized  to  much  better  advantage  than   the  past 
has    to    offer    in    the    way    of    practical  demonstration. 
It  will  be  hoped  that  Mr.  Cooper  will  rise  above  the  politi- 
cal environment  of   the  situation,    while  keeping  himself 
free  from  the  entanglements  of  outside  enterprises,  which 
do  not  tend  to  elevate  the  reputation  of  the  Bureau  either 
at  home  or  abroad. 


February  27,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   ill 


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'  Hear  the  Crier:"   "Whit  (bedevil  en  thou!" 
•One  mat  wtllolaT  tbederll. air.  with  job." 


SITTING  in  solemn  conclave  within  these  unrighteous 
city  limits  one  clay  this  week,  the  representative  gos- 
pel dispensers  gravely  discussed  the  subject  of  pulpit  dress. 
One  or  two  giddily  inclined  to  knee  breeches  and  be-furbe- 
lowed  waistcoats,  but  their  vain  desires  were  promptly 
frowned  down  by  such  exponents  of  virtue  as  the  Rever- 
ends F.  D.  Bovard  and  Edwards  Davis,  who  inveighed 
against  such  frivolities  with  all  the  pugilistic  strength  of 
jaw  for  which  they  are  distinguished.  The  matter  of  fancy 
dress  at  the  fount  of  grace  should  be  dismissed  summarily. 
The  churches  have  enough  expense  to  stagger  under  with- 
out incurring  a  wardrobe  fund.  Besides,  not  one  preacher 
in  a  thousand  has  nether  extremities  that  would  warrant 
display  in  high-water  pants  of  ye  colonial  days,  and  pipe- 
stems  are  ever  unbeautiful,  whether  exhibited  in  a  pulpit 
or  at  a  l>nl  mjunpu . 

Nay,  olher  potent  reasons  are  there  yet 

To  cause  a  congregation  sore  distress; 
Oo  salaries  that  these  divines  now  get 

They  cannot  garb  themselves  in  fancy  dress 
And  please  tbe  eyes  of  critics  fair — unless 
Their  salaries  are  raised  at  least  one-half 

The  reason  why?    Why,  surely  you  can  guess. 
He  must  live  high  who'd  own  a  fatted  calf. 

FIFTY  barrels  of  pork,  beans,  and  molasses  have  been 
stowed  away  in  the  hold  of  the  Percy  Edwards,  as 
part  of  the  cargo  to  be  conveyed  to  the  South  Sea  Islands 
by  the  adventurers  who  sail  thither  in  search  of  wives  and 
happiness  on  a  colonized  plan.  Well,  maybe  the  gastro- 
nomic tastes  of  the  dusky  maidens  down  there  are  as  sim- 
ple as  their  notions  of  dress,  but  the  Town  Crier  wouldn't 
give  a  tigleaf  for  domestic  bliss  in  those  idyllic  regions 
should  Satan  smuggle  in  a  copy  of  that  mild  yet  pernicious 
publication,  Tropical  Toilettes,  or  temptation  is  imported 
in  the  form  of  an  icecream  soda  fountain,  or  somebody 
starts  a  French  restaurant.  Go,  brethren,  and  God  bless 
you,  but  keep  civilization  at  bay,  or  your  heaven  will  be  a 
hades  on  your  hands. 

M  ERELY  because  a  venturesome  tailor,  out  for  ozone 
]  I  the  other  day  in  Oakland,  lost  control  of  his  wheel, 
and  tbe  machine  ran  away  with  him,  the  papers  across 
the  bay  were  thrown  into  paroxysms  of  excitement.  Why, 
San  Francisco  is  swarming  with  people,  including  an  ex- 
Mayor  and  many  others,  who  have  not  only  lost  con- 
trol of  every  wheel  in  their  heads,  but  slipped  their  trol- 
leys, too.  Some  of  these  suburban  towns  never  do  know 
when  they  are  well  off. 

PRETTY,  little  Mrs.  Holmes  has  been  kissed  repeatedly 
at  dawn  by  a  horrid  Chinaman,  and  has  vigorously 
complained  to  the  police.  The  lady's  analysis  ot  the  Chi- 
nese kiss  is  naive.  She  says  it  has  not  the  low,  suctional 
gurgle  of  a  Christian  kiss,  but,  on  the  contrary,  "a  low, 
disagreeable  chuckle  like  the  cackle  of  a  hen."  May  that 
heathen  be  smote  hip  and  thigh  if  he  would  dare  osculate 
like  a  hen  on  Mrs.  Holmes'  ruby  lips. 

SHE  was  sitting  right  before  me,  and  she  wore  a  lofty  hat, 
I  did  not  cast  upon  her  a  hot  reproach  for  that; 
I  did  not  whisper,  "Female,  if  you're  a  lady,  please 
Off  hat,  and  let  your  escort  support  it  on  his  knees." 
But  I  blest  her  for  that  mat  of  plumes  wbich  vailed  me  from  a  curse, 
For  the  play  was  dull  and  rotten,  and  the  actors  somewhat  worse. 
Ye  railers  at  the  fashions,  think  there  may  come  a  time 
When  the  high  hat  is  a  blessing,  and  not  a  social  crime. 

THE  Irish  societies  object  to  a  prize  fight  taking  place 
on  St.  Patrick's  day.  This  will  never  do.  The  race 
has  ever  been  distinguished  for  its  gallantry  in  the  field,  its 
love  of  fighting,  and  great  ability  to  spring  a  "rookawn" 
at  the  shortest  notice.  Why  of  all  days  in  the  calendar 
that  of  the  good  Saint  is  the  most  appropriate  for  a  little 
bit  of  fun  among  the  "gossoons." 

"  T-TOMEN  who  wear  short  hair,"  says  a  Chinese  super- 
|/V  stition,  "  will  be  transformed  into  men  in  the  next 
world."  Faith,  nay  !  the  Mongolian  theory  is  only  half 
way  right.  They  are  rapidly  becoming  men  on  this  side  of 
the  River  Styx. 


1        symposium  of  opinions  expressed  by  several  solid 
oil;  .  lorn  wi.low,  with  kindergarten 

Incumbrances,  can     1  a  Bve-thousand-dollar  Lohert- 

d  BS  advising  her  to  marry 
again.    Dili  i,!ev  toy-  with  the  subject  in  the 

fnvnlous  manner  peculiar  to  old  boys  of  eighty,  and   A   S, 

Baldwin  ventun  _'estion  that  the  mythical    relict 

of  John  Doc  raisi  to  eke  out  an  lie, 

gentlemen,  as  if  eai  1  one  of  you  did  not  know  that  a  flve- 
tbousand  dollar  widow  will  not  stay  single  long  enough  in 
these  hard  times  for  you  or  anybody  else  to  give  her  advice  I 

THE  gypsies   have   been  ejected   from  Sausalito,    and 
the  tortuni  1  loglish  colony  will  no  more  be  told 

by  those  brown  descendants  of  the  Pharoahs.  No  more 
shall  the  anxious  wife,  whose  husband  missed  the  last  boat 
from  town,  be  able  to  discover  for  a  quarter  of  a  dollar  in 
the  haud  of  tbe  seeress,  whether  he  was  working  at  the 
office,  or  the  electric  bell  at  Marchands,  writing  figures, 
or  squeezing  figures,  opening  new  accounts  or  small 
"bots."  They  did  quite  a  profitable  business  in  this  line, 
for  the  Sausalito  matrons  are  stern  and  exacting,  and  the 
Sausalito  men  enjoy  the  perils,  and  wickedness  of  a  great 
city. 

THE  Board  of  Health  has  decreed  that  the  surgeons  at 
the  Receiving  Hospital  shall  wearthe  undress  uniform 
of  naval  officers.  Now,  what  the  connection  can  be  be- 
tween a  naval  officer  and  a  surgeon,  only  that  sapient  body 
may  understand.  The  regalia  of  a  Knight  of  the  Gold 
Plated  Hod  would  be  less  expensive  and  more  showy,  but 
if  the  Board  wishes  its  surgeons  to  have  a  nautical  leaning 
in  their  garments,  why  not  attire  them  in  the  full  dress 
uniform  of  a  royal  horse  marine? 

PRESIDENT  Horace  Piatt,  in  regard  to  the  Mardi 
Gras  ball,  remarks:  "All  ladies  who  are  admitted  to 
the  floor  must  wear  masks.  It  is  not  essential  that  they 
should  wear  costumes,  though  it  is  very  desirable  that 
they  should  do  so."  Desirable,  indeed  I  Well,  we  should 
think  so.  It  would  be  simply  awful  to  see  a  room  full  of 
ladies  with  nothing  on  but  masks.  Why,  the  modest  Mr. 
Piatt  himself  would  never  survive  the  spectacle. 
|OES  Corbett's  wardrobe,  pray,  include 

Pajamas,  or  a  robe  de  mtitf 
Why  such  an  item  should  elude 

The  lynx-eyed  press,  I  fail  to  see. 
I'm  told  concerning  socks  and  trousers, 
Such  details  as  the  law  allows,  sirs, 
Then  pray  inform  me  quickly  how,  sirs, 
You've  nerve  to  ask  subscription  fee 
And  thus  withhold  the  news  from  me? 
"    AA  ANGLED  in  the  dance  "  was  the  startling  way  in 
I'l  which  a  local  daily  referred  to  the  manner  of  en- 
joyment adopted  by  guests  at  a  notable  society  function 
this  week.     It  was,  of  course  a  typographical  error,  that 
substituted  "mangled"  for  "mingled,"  but  any  one   who 
has  endeavored  to  trip  the  light  fantastic  at  a  fashionable 
crush  will  certify  that  the  linotype  knew  what  it  was  about. 

RICHARD  A-SHE,  or  Butler,  has  been  singing  sweetly 
for  his  sympathetic  lady  visitors,  and  has  a  pretty 
knack  of  turning  verses  not  his  own.  A  murderer's  con- 
cert would  not  be  a  bad  idea.  Dur'-ant  is  musical,  Ashe 
has  talent,  and  beyond  doubt  there  are  enough  in  the  City 
Jail  to  make  up  the  chorus.  The  funds  might  be  used  to 
buy  a  diamond  shirt-pin  for  Judge  Campbell. 

SNO^ER  move  has  been  made  in  the  Cooney  case. 
Now,  if  some  of  the  cases  in  wbich  a  few  of  our  pet 
murderers  are  concerned  would  only  get  a  move  on — it 
matters  not  in  what  direction,  so  long  as  a  scaffold  is  the 
objective  point — sad-eyed  Justice  could  then  come  forth 
from  her  San  Francisco  corner  and  look  Honesty  in  the  face. 

IF  we  could  have  one  week  of  quiet, 
Without  a  murder  or  a  riot, 
We'd  tbink  that  the  millenium, 
Of  which  we've  heard  so  much,  had  come. 
But  ob ,  these  crimes !    'Tis  hard  to  shake  'em 
While  Willie's  minions  live  to  fake  'em. 

THE  Senate  and  Assembly  have  been  considering  the 
new  game  bill  this  week,  but  no  amount  of  new  jjame 
bills  can  divert  the  attention  of  the  gentlemen  at  Sacra- 
mento from  the  old  ones.  The  kind  of  game  they  are  out 
for  is  always  safely  bagged,  too.  In  fact,  it  is  carried  in 
a  sack. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1897. 


ST:  -T^HERE  is  no  gossip — really  except  that 
X  Calve  has  a  crank  admirer  who  threat- 
ens to  slay  her,  and  who  has  so  terrified  her  that  she  dares 
not  go  to  the  opera  house  without  a  strong  and  imposing 
body  guard.  The  gentleman  demands  an  interview  or 
suggests  death,  which  is  surely  trying.  Detectives  have 
solar  failed  to  capture  him,  and  the  prima  donna's  life  is 
apparently  unsafe.  With  the  prospect  of  Melba's  return, 
things  are  beginning  to  look  a  bit  brighter  for  the  opera 
company.  That  beautiful  voiced,  unemotional  piece  of 
vocal  statuary,  Madame  Eames,  is  recovering  from  her  re- 
cent illness,  and  will  be  able  to  sing  by  the  end  of  next 
week.  Without  Calve  it  is  hard  to  know  what  would  have 
become  of  the  opera  during  the  last  weeks. 

St.  Valentine's  eve  was  celebrated  as  this  day  usually  is 
by  the  kettledrumof  the  Samaritan  Home.  Mrs.  Hermann 
Oelrichs  assisted  in  making  it  a  success,  and  her  sister 
was  one  of  the  prettiest  girls  in  the  room. 

Mrs.  George  Harding  has  been  in  town  for  a  few  days  on 
a  visit  from  her  Philadelphia  home.  Philadelphia  seems 
to  be  the  successful  home  of  Californians.  Mrs.  Harding 
(Lillie  Jones),  Mrs.  Spreckels  (Miss  Dore),  Mrs.  Robinson 
(Aileen  Ivers)  are  among  the  San  Franciscans  who  have 
made  their  homes  in  the  Quaker  City.  Mrs.  Elkins  (Kate 
Felton)  is  another,  by  the  way,  and  they  are  all  quite  in 
the  swim  in  exclusive  Philadelphia. 

"Dick"  Tobin  is  still  here  at  the  Waldorf,  where  he  has 
been  mistaken  for  an  Englishman,  and  I  can  imagine  no 
greater  joy  for  the  man  whose  father  was  a  loyal  Irish- 
man and  the  host  of  Michael  Davitt. 

James  Brett  Stokes  is  the  most  stunning  thing  on  the 
Avenue.  He  is  very  devoted  to  General  Whittier's 
younger  daughter.  The  elder  married  a  Russian  Prince 
two  years  ago. 

Mrs.  Gillig  will  sail  early  in  March  for  the  other  side, 
probably  taking  the  Genoa  route  in  one  of  the  Hamburg- 
American  boats,  and  will  be  absent  for  two  or  three 
months.   » 

The  cable  to-day  announces  at  last  the  decree  of  divorce 
in  the  Thornburgh-Cropper  affair,  which  has  hung  fire  for 
so  long.  It  has  all  through,  it  is  said,  been  more  or  less  a 
burlesque.  I  recall  a  story  that  was  told  when  Captain 
Cropper  went  out  to  the  Zulu  war,  and  when  his  mamma- 
in-law  and  "darling  Minnie"  were  supposed  to  be  breath- 
ing freer.  He  came  back  laden  with  medals  for  heroism. 
I  suppose  many  Californians  remember  bis  bravery  in 
leaping  overboard  in  the  Golden  Gate  Straits  to  rescue  a 
drowning  sailor,  because  of  which  act  he  was  again  decor- 
ated. He  is  one  of  the  most  popular  men  in  London,  be- 
cause of  his  bravery,  his  cleverness  and  his  truly  charm- 
ing character.  Passb-Partout. 

New  York,  February  1J,,  1897. 

ATTENTION  is  called  to  the  announcement  of  the  In- 
ternational Special  Agency  appearing  on  the  first 
page  of  this  paper.  The  agency  is  conducted  by  men 
thoroughly  experienced,  and  who  will  give  especial  atten- 
tion to  the  business  of  large  corporations  and  companies. 
The  agency  is  entirely  responsible,  and  is  prepared  to  give 
prompt  and  efficient  service  to  its  patrons. 


The  Overland   Limited. 


OKLT  Zyi   DATS  TO   CHICAGO.      4>£  DAYS  TO  NEW  YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibaled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  "W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 

The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedakee,  General  Agent. 


CITY    INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 
Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  333-334  Pine  street.     Rooms  Tor 

ladies  and  families,  private  entrance.    John  Bergez,  Proprietor. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111   O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle    Dog    Restaurant,  S.   E.  cor.    Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel,  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Brun. 

DAIRIES 
Oakland  Dairy  Depot,  320  Fulton  street,  S.  F.  Absolutely  pure  Milk  and 
Cream.    Telephone.  Pine  169  i. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILERMAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  ',4  and  1-lb  boxes.    Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 

VEHICLES 
Second-hand  Victoria.  O'Brien  &  Son's  pat.   Spring   Buggy,  Surrey   and 
Top  Buggy,  for  sale  cheap.    500  Golden  Gate  aven  ue 


BANKING. 


BANK  OF  BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up,  $3,000,00      Reserve  Fund,  8500,000. 

Southeast  Cob.  Bush  and  Sa-nsome  Sts. 

head  office 60  lombard  street,  london 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Colombia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C. ; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  Na  tional  Bank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland — British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico ; 
Sottth  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  oi 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

CALIFORNIA  SAFE  DEPOSIT  AND  TRUST  CO. 

Corner  California  and  Montgomery  Sts. 
Capital  Fully  Paid *LGOO,000 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business  and  allows  interest  on  deposits 
payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity.  Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  laken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  'o  rent  at  prires  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  ana  valuables  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickertham.  Jacob  C. 
Juhnson,  James  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Benry  F.  Fortmann,  R  B  Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry.  A.  D.  Sharon  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry,  President:  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry,  Second  Vice-President:  J.  Dalzell  Brown.  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.  Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Boo:h  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 824,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 

Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Walt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  Is  made  Tor 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.m.  Saturday  even- 
ings.6:30to8. __^___„ 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  W.  Cob.  Sansome  and  Sotter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital 12,600,000  I  Paid  UpCapital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund 1850,000 

Head  Obtice 58  OiB  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  prinoipal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBATJM1  ManftMrn 
C.  ALTSCHUL  J  Managers. 


February  27,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER 


THE    UNHAPPY    THREE. 

THERE  were  three  of  them— the  girl,   the  ohaperon, 
aod  the  tianct- ;  the  count,   merely   an  appemhi^e  for 

I'll. 
d  they  were  all  happy   for  it  wn>  I  verj  spell  affair. 
"  You'll  excuse  me.  I  hop,-.     -.ml  the  girl, 
the  arm  of  the  count.      "I'm  engaged   for  this— and  this — 
and  these."  showing  a  well-filled  card. 

"Certainly."  assured  the  i'uuhv,  with  a  lender  pressure 
of  the  hand,  "  but  for  the  time  being  only.  The  count  must 
return  you  soon  " 

He  bowed  as  he  spoke,  and  the  girl  smiled  over  her 
shoulder  as  they  whirled  away. 

•  •  •  •  * 

"It  is  good  of  you  to  be  so  generous,"  said  the  chap- 
eron, as  the  fiance  dutifully  brought  her  an  ice. 

"  Very."  he  answered,  smiling  down  into  her  eyes. 

"Now,  if  I  were  you" — demurely,  and  speaking  as  a 
chaperon  should — "  I  would  insist  on  my  rights,  and  not 
let  the  charming  girl  out  of  my  sight." 

A  moment's  attention  to  the  frozen  sweet.  "  He  might 
be  making  love  to  her,  you  know,"  suggestively.  "It 
would  be  dreadful,  but  I  have  heard  of  such  things." 

She  looked  at  him  innocently. 

"It  might  be  so,"  in  alarm.  "Suppose  we  go  search 
for  them.  In  the  conservatory,  perhaps  ?  They  might  be 
there." 

"Possibly!"    The  chaperon  arose  hastily.     "  I  want  to 
do  my  duty.     Yes,  I  really  think  we  ought  to  go." 
***** 

" These  chaperons  are  very  convenient,"  laughed  the 
count,  as  he  led  her  into  the  fragrant  conservatory.  "We 
haven't  seen  her  in  an  hour,  and  I'm  sure  we've  looked 
everywhere.     It  isn't  our  fault,  now  is  it?  " 

"Certainly  not,"  said  the  girl,  as  she  sank  back  into  a 
seat.  "But  poor  Charlie,  I  hope  he  won't  be  too  hard  on 
you  when  he  does  find  us."    She  smiled  archly. 

"Why,  there  they ,"  began  the  count,  but  his  voice 

died  in  a  whisper. 

"Of  course  you  understand  it  is  because  I  can't  find 
her,"  the  fiance  was  saying,  as  he  leaned  over  the  chap- 
eron and  kissed  her. 

"Of  course!"  she  murmured,  and  blushed — and  her  eyes 
fell  on  the  girl. 

Then  she  conveniently  fainted. 

The  girl  rode  home  in  the  carriage  alone. 

The  fiance — fiance  no  longer — swore  inwardly  as  he 
watched  her  roll  away. 

The  count  was  all  smiles. 

There  were  three  of  them. 

Unhappy  three  ! — Life. 

TRUE     CRITICISM      DEFINED. 


15 


BANKING. 


TRUE  criticism  differs  from  defamation  in  the  following 
particulars  :  First,  criticism  deals  only  with  such 
things  as  invite  public  attention  or  call  for  public  com- 
ment. It  does  not  follow  a  public  man  into  his  private 
life  or  pry  into  his  domestic  concerns.  Second,  criticism 
never  attacks  the  individual,  but  only  his  work.  Such 
work  may  be  either  the  policy  of  the  Government,  the 
action  of  a  member  of  Parliament,  a  public  entertainment, 
a  book  published,  or  a  picture  exhibited.  In  every  case, 
the  attack  is  on  a  man's  acts,  or  on  some  thing,  and  not 
upon  the  man  himself.  A  true  critic  never  indulges  in 
personalities,  but  confines  himself  to  the  merits  of  the  sub- 
ject matter.  Third,  true  criticism  never  imputes  or  in- 
sinuates dishonorable  motives  unless  justice  absolutely  re- 
quires it,  and  then  only  on  the  clearest  proofs.  Fourth, 
the  critic  never  takes  advantage  of  the  occasion  to  gratify 
private  malice  or  attain  any  other  object  beyond  the  fair 
discussion  of  matters  of  public  interest  and  the  judicious 
guidance  of  the  public  taste. 

Nothing  takes  the  edge  off  a  rough  experience  of  life,  or  adds  a 
greater  charm  to  its  success  than  a  convenient  case  of  Argonaut 
whiskey.  It  is  just  the  thing  for  all  sorts  of  weather— pure,  mellow, 
and  invigorating.  E.  Martin  &  Co.,  at  411  Market  street,  are  sole 
Pacific  Coast  Agents. 

To  buy  your  gentlemen's  furnishing  goods  at  John  W.  Carmany's, 
25  Kearny  street,  is  to  be  dressed  in  faultless  fashion. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital .13,000,000  00 

Surplus  and  Un.l  a  1.IHSH)..  3.ISX.I80  70 

WJ-KM!  ALVORD  I CHARLES  R.  BISHOP    Vice  1'rcs't 

ALLEN  M   n.AY So,  rotary  I  THOMAS  BROWN 

S.  Prentiss  Smith       Aaa'l  Casnler  |LF.  MoOl/ros 2d  Asa't  Cashier 

NTS. 

NIW  \okk— Messrs.  Laid  law  4  Co.;  loo  Hank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
BOSTON— Tromont  National  Hunk;  LONDON— Messrs.  N.  M  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  RothJOolM  Froros;  Virginia  City  (Nov.)— 
Agency  of  The.  Bank  of  California:  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Saving's  lijink;  Australia  and  New  Zealand— Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China.  Japan,  and  India— Chartored  Bankof  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Lodis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  Issued  mailable  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York.  Boston.  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  N<  «  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremon,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Maln,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm, Chrlstlanin,  Melixurne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy. 

MUTUAL   SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN   FRANCISCO. 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny,  Mechanics'  Institute  Bdildino. 
Guaranteed  Capital,  81,000,000.     Pald-Up  Capital,  1300,000. 

OFFICERS 
JAMES  D.  PHELAN,  President.  |  S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vioe-Presldent. 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,   John   A.    Hooper,  C.  Q. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Prank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY.  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co  ,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    When  opeulng  accounts  send  signatuie. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital 11,000,000 

Successor  to  Sather&  Co.,  Established  1851,  ?  in  Francisco. 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  P.   W-  Wolfe,  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  V7m.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents  :  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.   Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  St.,  S.  F. 

Guarantee  capital  and  surplus $2.040  201  66 

Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash.   ...   1.000  000  00 

Deposils  Djcemb-r3l,  1806 27,7.0  247  45 

OFFICERS:  Pres'deat,  B  A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Presideo',  H.  Horstmaa;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Henmann;  Secretary.  George  Tourny ;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Mullen  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OP  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann.  Ign.  Steiohart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  43.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohiandt 

CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  of  san  prancisco. 

Cor.  Market,  Montgomery,  and  Post  Sts. 

Pald-Up  Capital 11,000,000. 

WM.  H.CROCKER President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  P.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  LIMITED. 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 

Capital  authorized 86,000,000  I  Paid  Up $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  f  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bill.« 'or  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

andbulllon- ggiSSgg^i. }»»»«" 

WELLS   FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets. 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus «e,260.000 

John  J.  Valentine President  |  Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier  I  P.  L.  Llpman Assistant  Cashier 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldrldge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington.  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

3122  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 
INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS.    LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S   L.  Abbott.  Jr. 


Wm.  Babcock 
Adam  Grant 


O    D.  Baldwin 
W.  S.  Jones 


H.  H    Hewlett 
E  J.  McCutcoen 
J.  B.  Lincoln 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1897. 


THE    MESSENGER    OF    DEATH.— Herman  medivale,  in  poems. 


M 


ISCALL  me  not !  men  have  miscalled  me  much, 
Have  given  hard  names  and  harsher  thoughts  to  me, 
Reviled  and  evilly  entreated  me, 
Built  me  strange  temples  as  an  unknown  god, 
Then  called  me  idol,  devil,  unclean  thing. 
And  to  rude  insult  bowed  my  godhead  down. 
Miscall  me  not!  for  men  have  marred  my  form, 
And  in  the  earthborn  grossness  of  their  thoughts 
Have  coldly  modeled  me  in  their  own  clay, 
Then  fear  to  look  on  that  themselves  have  made. 
Miscall  me  not!  ye  know  not  what  I  am, 
Bnt  ye  shall  see  me  face  to  face,  and  know. 
I  take  all  sorrows  from  the  sorrowful, 
And  teach  the  joyful  what  it  is  to  joy ; 
I  gather  in  my  landlocked  harbor's  clasp 
The  shattered  vessels  of  a  vexed  world, 
And  even  the  tiniest  ripple  upon  life 
Is,  to  that  calm  sublime,  as  tropic  storm. 
When  other  leechcraft  fails  the  breaking  brain, 
I,  only,  own  the  anodyne  to  still 
Its  eddies  into  visionless  repose. 
The  face  distoried  with  life's  latest  pang, 
I  smooth,  in  passing,  with  an  angel's  wing, 
And  from  beneath  the  quiet  eyelids  steal 
The  hidden  story  of  the  eyes,  to  give 
A  new  and  nobler  beauty  to  the  vest. 
Belie  me  not!  the  plagues  that  walk  the  earth, 
The  wasting  pain,  the  sudden  agony, 
Famine  and  war  and  pestilence,  and  all 
The  terrors  that  have  darkened  round  my  name. 
These  are  the  works  of  life,  they  are  not  mine; 
Vex  when  I  tarry,  vanish  when  I  come, 
Instantly  melting  into  perfect  peace, 
As  at  His  word,  whose  master  spirit  I  am, 
The  troubled  waters  slept  on  Galilee. 
Tender  I  am ,  not  cruel ;  when  I  take 
The  shade  most  hard  to  human  eyes,  and  pluck 
The  little  baby  blossom  yet  unblown, 
Tis  but  to  graft  it  on  a  kindlier  stem, 
Andleaping  o'er  the  perilous  years  of  growth, 
Unwept  of  sorrow,  and  unscathed  of  wrong, 
Clothe  it  at  once  with  rich  maturity. 
'Tis  I  that  gave  a  soul  to  memory; 
For  round  the  follies  of  the  bad  I  throw 
The  mantle  of  a  kind  forgetf ulness ; 
But  canonized  in  dear  love's  calendar, 
I  sanctify  the  good  for  evermore. 
Miscall  me  not!  my  generous  fullness  lends 
Home  to  the  homeless,  to  the  friendless,  friends; 

To  the  starved  babe  the  mother's  tender  breast, 
Wealth  to  the  poor,  and  to  the  restless— rest ! 

FORGET.— RICHARD   HODGSON,    IN  SCRIBNER'S 

Crowning  a  grave  with  but  one  word— fobget, 

Gray  in  the  shade  the  granite  boulder  lies. 

Child's,  man's,  or  woman's?    Whose  the  saddest  eyes 

That  gazed  this  thought  upon  the  granite  set* 

Speak  the  dead  here?  Or  did  the  living  fret 

In  wastes  of  gloomy  memory's  wailing  cries, 

Cursing  this  little  life  that  lives  and  dies 

Because  its  fulness  was  not  golden  yet? 

Forget  the  living  or  forget  the  dead? 

Forget  the  turmoil  or  the  tenderness? 

Forget  the  bitterest  sorrow  never  said? 

Forget  the  last  ineffable  caress? 

Dear  Soul !  what  matter  now  those  faded  embers ! 

How  dost  thou  smile  to  know  that  God  remembers. 


FORGIVE  -THE  ACADEMY. 


Wait  not  to-morrow, but  forgive  me  now; 

Who  knows  whatfate  to-morrow's  dawn  may  bring? 
Let  us  not  part  with  shadow  on  thy  brow, 

With  my  heart  hungering. 
Wait  not  the  morrow,  but  entwine  thy  hand 

In  mine,  with  sweet  forgiveness  full  and  free, 
Of  all  life's  joys  I  only  understand 

This  joy  of  loving  thee. 
Perhaps  some  day  I  may  redeem  the  wrong, 
Repair  the  fault— I  know  not  when  or  how, 
0,  dearest,  do  not  wait — it  may  be  long — 
Only  forgive  me  now. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 
309 and  311   Sansome  St.  '•  San   Francisco,  Ca 

COERESPONDENTS : 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  46  Threadneedle  St., London 

SIMPSON,  MACKIRDY  &  CO 29  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 

INSURANCE. 

FIRE,   MARINE,    AND   INLAND  INSURANCE. 

Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),  OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  laton,  Manager,  439  California  St.,  S.F. 
Fire  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Company    of  Nortn   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  FENN. 

Paid-up  Capital t3,000,000 

Surplus  to  Polioy  Holders 5,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000,000 

Assets 3,192.001 .69 

Surplus  to  Polioy  Holders 1,506,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD   &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON   >"«-» 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON   NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  1799 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 


BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO., 

LIMITED, 

OF   LIVERPOOL. 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents, 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  P 

nR  R I PO  R  !">'<?  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu" 
urv  m\s\JT\U  O  ine_A  specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality.  Physical 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
J.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisoo. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED— Box  of  50  pills,  SI  25;  of  100  pills,  J2;  Of200 pills, 
$3  50;  of  400  pills,  86;  Preparatory  Pills  (2.    Send  for  circular. 


Pacific  Towel  6ompany 


No.  9 


Lick  Place 


Furnishes  clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates:  Clean  hand 
towels  each  week,  SI  per  month;  12  olean  hand  towels  each  week; 
$1  50  per  month;  4  clean  roller  towels  each  week,  $1,  6  months 
6  clean  roller  towels  each  week,  81  35  per  month. 


February  17,  1897. 


FRANCISCO   Nl-WS   l.KTTER. 


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NSURANCE. 


THE  Oerman  Alliance  Insurance  Association  of  Ni« 
York  was  admitted  this  week  to  do  business  in  this 
State.  The  company  will  be  represented  by  George  II 
Tyson,  who  has  been  given  the  peneral  agency  for  the 
Pacific  Coast  States  and  territories,  and  the  Sandwich 
Islands.  This  company  is  an  offshoot  of  the  (Jtrman- 
Ameriean  Insurance  Company  and  its  policies  will  be 
guaranteed  by  that  company. 

The  newly-elected  officers  of  the  Underwriters'  Associa- 
tion of  the  Pacific  are:  President.  Russell  Ogden,  Super- 
intendent agents  of  the  Pennsylvania  Fire;  Vice  Presi- 
dent, Louis  Weinmann,  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Fire- 
man's Fund;  Secretary,  Calvert  Meade,  independent  ad- 
juster: Executive  Committee.  Edward  Niles,  R.  P.  Fabj 
and  F.  G.  Argall. 

March  12th  has  been  selected  as  the  date  of  the  next 
dinner  to  be  given  by  the  San  Francisco  Life  Under- 
writers' Association.  These  dinners  are  very  popular, 
and  greatly  tend  to  develop  the  social  side  of  the  insur- 
ance world  in  the  city.  There  is  some  talk  of  the  perpetra- 
tion of  a  daring  innovation  at  the  next  dinner,  but  it  is 
such  a  departure  from  the  orthodox  insurance  banquet, 
that  it  is  just  a  murmur  as  yet.  Insurance  men  are  pro- 
verbially gallant,  and  it  has  been  whispered  that  it  might 
not  be  a  bad  idea  to  give  a  double  grace  to  the  dinner  in 
March  by  having  ladies  present. 

John  T.  Fogarty  has  been  made  superintendent  of 
agencies  of  the  Pacific  Department  of  the  Royal  and 
Queen  Insurance  Companies,  by  Manager  Rolla  V.  Watt. 

The  solicitors  for  the  different  companies  here  claim  that 
rebating  is  being  carried  on  notwithstanding  the  efforts 
that  are  being  made  to  suppress  it.  By  the  way,  speak- 
ing of  rebating,  it  is  pertinent  to  ask  Thomas  B.  Reed, 
Congressman  from  Maine  and  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Representatives,  if  he  thinks  it  just  the  proper  thing  for 
him  to  accept  a  salary  of  $5,0(10  per  year  as  Referee,  when 
he  himself  has  declared  that  he  did  nothing  to  earn  that 
fat  fee?  To  say  nothing  of  the  possibility  of  being  called 
upon  to  rule  on  matters  of  importance  to  insurance  com- 
panies that  might  come  before  the  House  while  he  is  in 
their  pay? 

Cadman  &  Haigh  have  been  made  State  agents  of  the 
Standard  Life  and  Accident  Insurance  Company  of  Detroit, 
succeeding  Cadman  &  Kittle,  the  latter  gentleman  with- 
drawing to  enter  the  general  brokerage  business. 

R.  C.  Medcraft,  the  recently-appointed  manager  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  department  of  the  Scottish  Union  and 
National,  has  moved  into  offices  at  319  California  street. 

The  newly-elected  officers  of  the  Firemans  Fund  are: 
D.  J.  Staples,  President;  Wm,  J.  Dutton,  Vice  President; 
Bernard  Faymonville,  Secretary;  Louis  "Weinmann,  As- 
sistant Secretary;  J.  B.  Levison,  Marine  Secretary; 
Stephen  D.  Ives,  General  Agent. 

All  local  agents  in  Berkeley,  Alameda  and  Brooklyn, 
with  the  exception  of  R.  H.  Magill  &  Son,  have  entered 
the  Alameda  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters,  just  organized 
for  the  purpose  of  sustaining  rates. 

The  local  agents  at  Fresno  have  organized  [for  the  pur- 
pose of  restoring  rates  to  the  scale  in  operation  under  the 
old  P.  I.  U.  If  they  succeed,  San  Francisco  should  sit  at 
their  feet  and  learn  a  thing  or  two. 

James  U.  Taintor,  Secretary  of  the  Orient  Insurance 
Company,  is  in  town.  The  Orient's  policy  has  always  been 
rather  opposed  to  combining  agencies,  and  as  the  Sun 
Office  has  recently  passed  into  the  hands  of  Manager  Cal- 
lingham,  (now  the  Coast  agent  for  the  Orient),  it  is  not  im- 
probable that  the  presence  of  Mr.  Taintor  may  be  at- 
tributed to  this  fact. 

George  N.  North,  who  has  just  succeeded  G.  C.  Pratt  as 
California  Manager  of  the  Provident  Life,  took  over  the 
office  last  Thursday,  E.  O.  Parker,  Superintendent  of 
agents  for  the  company,  directing  the  transfer. 

Through  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 

The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  from  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
phone Main  1531. 


A    Wonderful  Medicine 

PWcs 

For  Bilious  ami  Nervous  disorder*,  mob  ss  Wind  and  Pain  In  the  Stom- 
ach. Sick  Headache.  I  ulUOSI  and  Swelling  after  meals,  Dizzi- 
ness and  Drowstn.s--  ,  Flashings  of  Heat,  Loss  of  Appetite, 
Shortness  of  Breath.  <  3lo1  bes  on  the  Skin,  Disturbed  Sleep, 
Frightful  Dreams,  snd  all  Nervous  end  Trembling  Senssttons,  eto.,  when 
these  symptom!  Dstlps>tlon<  ft*  mosi  of  them  sn  THE 
FIRST  DOSE  WILL  GIVE  RELIEF  IN  TWENTY  MINUTES. 
This  Is  do  Helton.  Ever;  sufferer  Is  earnestly  Invited  to  try  one  IJox  of 
those  Fills  and  they  will  be  acknowledged  to  be 

A    WONDERFUL   MEDICINE. 

BEECHAM'S  PILLS,  tulten  as  directed,  will  quickly  restore  Females  to 
complete  health.  They  promptly  remove  obstructions  or  Irregularities  of 
the  system.    For  a' 

Weak   Stomach 

Impaired    Digestion 

Disordered    Liver 

they  act  like  magic— a  few  doseswill  work  wondersupon  the  Vital  Organs; 
strengthening  the  muscular  system,  restoring  the  long-lost  complexion, 
bringing  back  the  keen  edge  of  appetite,  and  arousing  with  the  Rosebud 
of  Health  the  whole  physical  energy  of  the  human  frame.  These  are 
facts  admitted  by  thousands,  in  all  classes  of  society,  and  one  of  the  best 
guarantees  to  the  Nervous  and  Debllitatedis  that  Beecham's  Pills  have 
the  Largest  Sale  of  any  Patent  Medicine  In  the  World. 

WITHOUT  A  RIVAL. 

Annual  Sales  more   than  6,000,000   Boxes. 

25c.  at  Drug  Stores,  or  will  be  sent  by  U.  S.  Agents,  B.  F.  ALLEN  CO. 
365  Canal  St.,  New  York,  post  paid,  upon  receipt  of  price.  Book  free  upon 
application. 

ANNUAL    MEETING 

Potosl  Mining  Company. 
I  The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Potosi  Mining 
Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  79,  Nevada  Block, 
309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

WEDNESDAY,  the  10th  DAY  OF  MARCH,  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  l  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  election  of  a  Board  of  Directors  to 
serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as 
may  come  before  the  meeting.     Transfer  books  will  close  on  Monday, 
March  8.  1897,  at  1  o'clock  p.  m. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office:  Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 
Occidental  Con.  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  26 

Amount  per  Share 10  cents 

Levied February  10,  1897 

Delinquent  in  Office March  16, 1897 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock April  6, 1897 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  69.  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

San  Francisco  Gas  and    Electric  Co. 
A  dividend  of  one  dollar  ($1)  per  share  upon  the  paid-up  capital  stock  of 
this  company  has  been  declared  this  day,  payable  March  1, 1897.   Transfer 
boobs  will  remain  closed  from  February  17th  to  February  27th,  inclusive. 

WM.  G    BARRETT,  Secretary. 
Office :  First  and  Natoma  streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
San  Francisco   February  17,  1897. 

Baggage  Notice. 

Baggage  called  for  and  delivered 
at  trains,  steamers,  etc.  Trunks 
35  cents.  Baggage  called  for, 
weighed  and  checked  at  your 
Hotel  or  residence.  Trunks  50c. 
PACIFIC  TRANSFER  CO..  20  Sutter  St. 

DR.    BYRON    W.    HAINES 


Dentist 


14    Grant    Avenue 
Rooms  16-17-18-19 


over  '    Gity  of  Paris  ' 


Dr.   F.  C.  PAGUE, 

Dentist. 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building, 


819  Market  street 


QR.  ARTHUR  T.   REGENSBURGER, 


Office  and  Residence:  4D914  Post  St..  San  Francisco. 
Office  Hours :  9  to  12  a.  m.  ;  1  to  5  p.  M. 


Dentist. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1897. 


IT  is  a  source  of  no  little  pride  to  Colonel  John  P.  Irish, 
Naval  Officer  at  this  port,  that  he  is  the  only  Federal 
officer  who  participated  actively  in  the  late  presidential 
campaign  without  reproof.  A  month  or  two  before  the 
election  Irish  applied  for  leave  of  absence  in  accordance 
with  the  requirements  of  the  service,  and  in  due  course 
obtained  permission  to  take  the  desired  furlough.  Then  he 
wrote  to  the  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  saying 
that  be  proposed,  during  his  vacation,  taking  the  stump 
against  Mr.  Bryan.  He  added  that  he  would  leave  on  the 
following  morning  on  a  trip  through  several  Eastern  States, 
and  concluded  with  the  request  that  if  the  department 
bad  any  objection  to  his  political  tour  he  should  be  so  ad- 
vised. Colonel  Irish  then  blithely  departed  on  his  scalping 
excursion.  A  month  or  two  after  the  election  was  over, 
he  visited  Washington  and,  of  course,  paid  his  respects  to 
the  officers  of  his  department.  The  Assistant  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury  icily  called  his  attention  to  the  number  of 
officials  who  had  been  dismissed  for  offensive  partizanship 
during  the  campaign,  and  asked  the  Colonel  what  explana- 
tion he  had  to  offer  to  avoid  similar  discipline. 

"But,"  said  Irish,  with  simulated  surprise,  ''I  told  you 
I  was  going  on  a  stumping  trip  and  I  gave  you  a  chance  to 
object." 

"Now,  look  here,  Irish,"  replied  the  Assistant  Secre- 
tary, wrathfully,  "How  in  the  devil  could  we  get  word  to 
San  Francisco  in  time,  when  you  mailed  your  letter  to  the 
department  only  the  night  before  your  departure?" 

"My  dear  sir,"  answered  the  Colonel,  in  his  blandest 
tones,  "I  am  attached  only  to  the  Treasury  Department, 
and  I  must  decline  to  be  held  responsible  for  any  defects 
in  the  postal  service  of  the  Government." 

The  Assistant  Secretary  gasped,  speechless  at  the 
audacity  of  his  subordinate.  But  the  question  of  dis- 
ciplining Irish  was  dropped  then  and  there. 

*  *  * 

Shrewd  young  merchant  though  he  is,  Sim  Erlanger  oc- 
casionally overreaches  his  capacity,  as  he  frankly  acknowl- 
edges. His  suburban  home  is  equipped  with  many  com- 
forts, but  it  has  always  caused  him  regret  that  his  bath 
tub  was  of  tin  instead  of  porcelain.  Hearing  that  it  could 
be  painted  to  resemble  the  more  expensive  material,  Sim 
consulted  a  painter  who  offered  to  do  the  job  artistically 
for  eleven  dollars.  As  this  price  seemed  exorbitant, 
Erlanger  concluded  to  do  a  little  painting  himself  and  went 
home  much  pleased  that  he  had  procured  a  small  can  of 
"porcelain  paint"  for  twenty  cents.  His  joy  was  short 
lived,  however,  for  the  paint  covered  only  about  one 
square  foot  of  the  tin  surface.  After^he  bad  expended 
about  three  dollars  for  paint,  Sim  was  dismayed  to  find 
that  all  his  paint  bad  run  down  to  the  bottom  of  the  tub. 
He  consulted  an  expert  and  learned  that  he  should  first 
have  applied  a  coat  of  common  paint  to  the  tin,  following 
that  with  the  porcelain  mixture,  and  that  to  remove  the 
clotted  paint  from  the  bottom  of  the  tub,  he  must  soak  it 
in  turpentine.  With  considerable  abatement  of  his  artistic 
enthusiasm,  Erlanger  poured  two  gallons  of  turpentine  in- 
to the  tub.  Upon  his  return  from  the  theatre  that  night, 
he  found  his  little  dog,  who  had  been  having  an  unauthor- 
ized bath,  spattering  turpentine  and  white  paint  on  the 
handsome  Turkish  rug  in  his  drawning  room.  At  the  ur- 
gent request  of  his  family  Sim  will  henceforth  devote  all 
his  talents  to  buying  and  selling  wheat. 

*  *  * 

Although  an  enthusiastic  advocate  of  boxing,  an  expon- 
ent of  the  manly  art  and  a  defender  of  prize  fights, 
William  Greer  Harrison  was  hardly  prepared  to  sanction 
pugilism  when  practised  down  on  California  street.  He 
noticed  one  day  that  his  office  boy  was  wearing  rather  a 
damaged  countenance,  one  eye  being  almost  closed  and 
several  contusions  being  visible  on  either  cheek.  When 
Harrison  enquired  the  cause,  the  boy  demurely  explained 
that  he  had  taken  a  header  while  coming  on  his  bicycle 
down  the  Market  street  cable  slot.     The  explanation  was 


accepted  without  question,  and  the  insurance  manager, 
author,  playright,  poet  and  lecturer  thought  no  more 
about  his  injured  clerk  until  the  following  morning  when, 
entering  bis  office  an  hour  earlier  than  usual,  he  found 
desks  and  stools  arranged  in  a  semi-circle  within  which  his 
boy  and  a  lad  in  the  uniform  of  a  district  messenger  were 
pummelling  away  at  each  other,  surrounded  by  a  dozen  of 
their  admiring  friends.  It  was  the  continuation  of  a  battle 
commenced  on  the  previous  morning.  Harrison  was  so  in- 
terested in  the  result, — his  boy  was  getting  the  worst  of 
it, — that  he  quite  forgot  the  necessity  for  censure. 

"There  you  are,  Charlie,"  he  shouted.  "Now,  there's 
an  opening!    Oh,  you've  made  a  mull  of  it." 

The  victorious  messenger  said  it  was  because  he  had  the 
insurance  clerk  just  about  finished  that  the  latter's  em- 
ployer interfered  and  ordered  a  cessation  of  hostilities. 
However  that  may  have  been,  it  is  now  the  subject  of  com- 
ment in  insurance  circles  that  Greer  Harrison's  latest 
protege  is  receiving  daily  boxing  lessons  at  the  St.  George's 

Club. 

*  *  # 

"Brick"  Morse,  leader  of  cotillions,  athlete,  football 
coach,  banjo  and  guitar  soloist,  vocalist  and  humorist,  is 
another  Admirable  Crichton  in  a  small  way,  and  it  is  said 
in  the  Univerity  Club  that  he  can  say  more  funny  things 
in  fifteen  minutes  than  any  other  member, — but  he  runs  to 
seed  at  the  expiration  of  the  time  limit.  Although  after  a 
prolonged  struggle,  he  graduated  two  years  ago,  he  still 
accompanies  the  University  of  California  Glee  Club  on  its 
semi-annual  concert  tours.  At  these  entertainments 
"Brick"  always  does  a  character  sketch  in  broken  Dutch, 
which  is  counted  on  to  arouse  the  risibilities  of  the  audience. 
When  he  was  at  Marysville  with  the  Glee  Club  recently  he 
told  bis  usual  Dutch  story,  but  instead  of  being  interrupted 
with  the  expected  shouts  of  laughter,  his  sallies  were  re- 
ceived in  sadness  and  silence.  "Brick"  was  much 
chagrined,  and  his  mortification  was  so  apparent  that  one 
of  the  other  college  musicians  laughed  unfeelingly,  the 
first  evidence  of  amusement  in  the  audienee.  That  laugh 
caused  an  audible  murmur  of  reproval. 

"What  a  shame  to  laugh  at  him,  "indignantly  commented 
a  Marysville  girl.  "Poor  fellow,  he  is  doing  the  best  he 
can!" 

Since  that  experience  "Brick"  has  dropped  character 
sketches  from  his  repertoire.  He  feared  that  bis  imper- 
sonations were  becoming  too  realistic. 

*  *  * 

The  members  of  the  San  Francisco  Colony  at  Carson  com- 
prising newspapermen,  artists,  and  sports  of  all  kinds  and 
degrees  are  having  a  hard  time  of  it  with  three  feet  of 
snow  on  the  ground,  the  thermometer  fifteen  below  and 
the  accommodations  even  lower  in  the  scale  of  comfort,  but 
with  prices  of  exceedingly  ambitious  tendencies.  When 
the  advance  guard  of  fight  visitors  first  made  their  ap- 
pearance in  Carson,  rubber  overshoes  had  a  slack  sale  at 
fifty  cents  a  pair.  Owing  to  the  snow,  rubbers  became  a 
necessity  to  the  Calif ornians  and  they  soon  advanced  in 
price  to  seventy-five  cents,  then  to  a  dollar  and  finally 
reached  a  dollar  and  a-quarter  for  two  rubbers,  not  mates, 
at  that,  all  the  stock  in  town  being  "lefts."  After  being 
pillaged  by  shopkeepers  and  hotelmen,  the  correspondents 
at  the  capital  of  the  Battleborn  State  all  donned  sweaters, 
no  other  garment  being  sufficiently  elastic  to  stand  the 
strain  of  their  disgust. 

*  *  * 

Joe  Tobin  is  a  stalwart  athlete  and  is  not  unmindful  of 
his  successes  on  the  field,  but  he  has  concluded  that  there 
are  limits  even  to  the  glories  of  the  gladiator.  Entering 
the  Baldwin  Theatre  at  a  first  night  performance,  arrayed 
in  irreproachable  evening  dress,  he  found  that  his  seats 
were  directly  in  front  of  one  of  those  citizens  who  pride 
themselves  on  knowing  everyone  who  is  prominent  and  who 
audibly  proclaim  their  knowledge. 

"Why,  there  is  Fitzsimmons,"  said  the  high  pitched 
voice,  as  Joe  pushed  his  top  hat  into  the  wire  frame  be- 
neath his  seat.  "I  did  not  know  Bob  was  in  town.  Must 
have  come  down  from  Carson  to  see  this  show." 

Everyone  turned  and  stared  admiringly  at  Tobin,  who 
blushed  and  fidgeted,  and  when  he  could  not  stand  the  glare 
of  popularity  any  longer  announced  to  the  members  of  his 
party  that  he  "would  have  to  go  outside  and  change  his 
face." 


February  ay,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


»9 


While  In  the  management  of  the  Anglo-Californlu  Hank, 
Philip  N.  Lilieothal  never  permits  sentiment  to  Interfere 
with  b  his   private  rapacity  he  i>  widely  known 

as  possessing  a  kind  heart  and  an  exceedingly  generous 
Always  at  the  front  in  every  philanthropic 
movement,  his  reputation  for  charitableness  has  become 
somewhat  irksome  to  him.  He  was  continually  being  im- 
portuned for  financial  aid,  and  his  generosity  has  doubtless 
frequently  been  made  the  subject  of  Imposition.  After  a 
if  many  applications  for  assistance  and  private  loans, 
which  bad  made  a  good-sized  hole  in  his  purse,  Mr. 
Lilienthal  decided  that  he  had  reached  the  limit  of  indis- 
criminate donations,  and  concluded  that  no  ordinary  ap- 
peal to  him  would  thereafter  be  effectual.  As  he  was 
strolling  along  on  recreation  bent,  he  was  stopped  by  a 
jaunty  looking  individual  with  a  hard-luck  story. 

"I  say.  Phil,"  he  began,  for  these  gentry  never  lack  an 
easy  familiarity,  "I  haven't  got  a  bean. " 

The  banker's  eyes  snapped  dangerously,  but  the  appli- 
cant did  not  notice  that  he  had  touched  the  wrong  key. 

"You  haven"t  a  bean?"  slowly  repeated  Lilienthal. 
"That's  too  bad.  Er — allow  me  to  supply  the  deficiency." 
And  he  whisked  from  his  pocket  a  small  white  bean  pro- 
cured for  just  such  an  emergency,  dropped  it  into  the  ex- 
pectant hand  of  the  man  who  was  broke,  and  disappeared 
around  a  corner  before  the  fellow  had  recovered  from  his 
astonishment. 


The  greatest  event  in  the  social  life  of  the  State  Uni- 
versity is  the  annual  University  Cotillion.  This  year's 
ball,  which  was  held  on  Tuesday  evening  of  this  week,  was 
attended  by  society  personages  from  all  the  bay  cities  and 
was  an  unusually  smart  affair.  The  members  of  the 
Greek  Letter  Fraternities  who  managed  the  cotillion 
spared  neither  trouble  nor  expense  in  the  perfection  of 
their  arrangements  and  the  piece  tie  resistance  of  the  even- 
ing's entertainment  was  an  elaborately  concocted  cham- 
pagne punch  served  as  soon  as  dancing  began.  So  per- 
sistent were  the  attacks  on  this  delicious  beverage  that  by 
eleveD  o'clock  the  punch  bowls,  although  they  had  many 
times  been  replenished,  were  finally  drained  dry.  The 
thirsty  dancers  begged  for  more,  and  the  committee,  in 
dire  dilemma,  voiced  the  general  protest  to  the  caterer. 

"Mon  Dieu!"  exclaimed  that  functionary,  with  uplifted 
hands.  "You  gentleman?  ask  for  more  of  ze  punch!  Why 
you  haz  been  drinking  eet  at  ze   rate  of  fifty  gallons  in  ze 

hour." 

*  #  # 

Laurie  Bunten,  the  tall  old  Scotchman  whose  inches 
make  him  almost  a  giant,  but  who  is  nevertheless  known 
within  the  Bohemian  Club  as  "Baby  Bunting,"  is  the 
author  of  a  bon  mat  much  quoted  within  club  circles.  A 
canvasser  for  the  Examiner  urged  Mr.  Bunten  to  sub- 
scribe for  the  Monarch  of  the  Fakers,  but  found  his  in- 
tended victim  obdurate. 

"Do  you  take  any  daily  paper?"  asked  the  solicitor. 

"Oh,  yes,  I  get  the  Glasgow  Herald,"  replied  the  gen- 
tleman from  the  land  o'  cakes. 

"But  that  is  fourteen  days  old  when  you  receive  it. 
Now,  the  Examiner  will  give  you  the  news  right  up  to 
date." 

"Ah,  yes.  That  may  be,"  said  Mr.  Bunten,  senten- 
tiously.  "But,  you  see,"  he  added  with  marked  emphasis, 
"The  Glasgow  paper  is  reliable." 


The  precise  mission  of  the  Young  People's  Society  of 
Christian  Endeavor  has  never  been  accurately  defined  in 
ecclesiastical  circles.  Over  in  Alameda  County  it  has 
dabbled  in  politics,  and  in  many  churches  it  has  overridden 
old-fashioned  usages.  It  remained  for  the  branch  of  the 
society  in  connection  with  Plymouth  Congregational 
Church  of  this  city  to  achieve  that  social  element  of 
Christianity  about  which  so  much  is  now  heard.  At  a  re- 
cent meeting  of  the  Christian  Endeavor  Society  in  that 
church,  the  devotions  were  temporarily  interrupted  while 
a  paper  was  handed  to  the  young  lady  presiding.  The 
document  was  signed  by  a  boy  and  a  girl,  both  in  their 
teens.     It  contained  these  words: 

"We  beg  to  announce  our  engagement,  which  occurred  on 
the  evening  of  St.  Valentine's  Day." 


AT      THE      RACES. 

INGLESIDE  0  Washington's   Birthday  with  a 

very  attractive  programme,  which  waa  thoroughly  en- 
i'.v  the  tin  people  who  filled  every  available 

inch  of  the  grand   stand.     The    racing    was    of   the    clean 
order,  and  the  finishes  exciting.    The  event  of  the  da 
the  \\  bite  Seal  Btal  es  for  two-year-olds,  which  were  cap- 
tured by  the  Burns  and   Waterhouse  entry,   Napamax. 
Mr.  Dunne's  stable  captured  the  handicap,  and  Keddington 

captured  the  hurdle  rare. 

There  are  four  stake  events  down  for  a  decision  at  Ingle- 
side,  including  the  four-mile  and  a  couple  of  two-year-old 
events. 

Ladies'  day  (Wednesday)  was  another  gala  occasion  at 
Ingleside,  the  event  bring  the  mile  handicap,  which 
was  won  by  Mr.  Hobart'a  crack.  Ferrier.  W.  O.  B. 
Macdonough's  Santa  Bella  bested  Mr.  Dunne's  Preston  in 
the  six  furlong  spin,  and  Three  Forks  captured  the  hurdle 
race. 

THE  exhibit  of  advertising  sketches  held  by  Wilder  & 
Co.  in  the  Easterbrook  building,  20-24  Geary  street, 
Friday  and  Saturday  of  last  week,  was  very  successful, 
and  elicited  warm  commendations  from  the  several  thou- 
sands of  people  who  viewed  it.  The  whole  exhibit  showed 
much  originality,  and  was  a  happy  blending  of  artistic  at- 
tainment and  advertising  effectiveness. 


New  York. 

HOTEL, 
BARTfiOLDI 

EUROPEAN  PLAN. 


Madison  Square,  Broadway  and  23d 
Street. 

Under  new  management.  Rooms  single  or 
en  suite.  Resiaurant  unsurpassed  Ele- 
gant in  all  appointments  at  moderate 
prices. 

Reed  &  Roblee,  Props. 

New  York 


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MIL    I1WILL    The  principal  and  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

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Two  modern,  exquisite,  home-like  first-class  hotels, 
both  under  personal  supervision  of  Gen.  Warfleld. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1897. 


ON  Tuesday  evening  there  was  a  Lady  Washington  tea 
at  Mrs.  W.  E.  Fishers  in  aid  of  charity,  and  among 
other  pretty  features  the  minuet  was  danced  by  eight  young 
ladies  garbed  in  Colonial  attire;  and  at  several  of  the 
churches  there  have  been  Martha  Washington  teas,  din- 
ners and  luncheons — other  events  of  the  week  include  the 
dance  of  the  Winter  Cotillion  Club  at  Beethoven  Hall  on 
Tuesday  evening;  Mrs.  Alexander  Warner's  luncheon  yes- 
terday; the  ball  of  the  Friday  Fortnightly  Club  last  night 
and  the  exhibition  of  the  Sketch  Club,  etc. 

Weddings  have  not  been  quite  so  numerous  this  week  as 
last,  but  a  very  pretty  one  took  place  at  the  new  Lutheran 
Church,  on  Eddy  street,  on  Tuesday  evening,  when  Miss 
Minnie  Schilling  and  Henry  H.  Paulsen  were  united  in 
marriage  by  the  Rev.  J.  M.  Buehler.  The  church,  which 
was  crowded  with  guests,  was  very  prettily  dressed  with 
palms,  ferns  and  jonquils — in  fact  it  might  have  been  called 
a  yellow  and  white  wedding,  from  the  color  of  the  chief 
flower  used  in  decoration,  and  the  gowns  of  the  brides- 
maids, Miss  Rose  Bauman  and  Miss  Emily  Paulsen,  which 
were  of  white  mousseline  de  soie  over  yellow  silk,  and  their 
bouquets  were  of  yellow  daffodils.  The  bride  looked  charm- 
ingly in  a  robe  of  moire,  and  long  tulle  vail.  She  wore 
orange  blossoms  in  her  hair  and  carried  a  bouquet  of  lilies 
of  the  valley.  Fred  Paulsen  was  his  brother's  best  man. 
After  the  church  ceremony  there  was  a  dancing  reception 
at  the  Schilling  residence,  on  Steiner  street,  and  a  hand- 
some supper  was  served  at  midnight. 

The  engagement  of  Miss  Minnie  Burton  and  Lieutenant 
Pierce,  U.  S.  A.,  which  was  first  alluded  to  in  these  col- 
umns several  weeks  ago,  has  at  last  been  "officially" 
announced.  So  another  military  wedding  is  on 
the  cards  for  the  swim  who  delight  to  assist  at 
all  button  affairs  of  every  description.  In  fact,  there 
are  two  army  weddings  to  occur  in  our  fashionable 
circles  in  the  near  future,  as  Miss  Ethel  Cohen  gave  a  tea 
at  Mrs.  Henry  Gibbons',  where  she  has  been  passing  the 
winter,  for  the  purpose  of  announcing  her  engagement  to 
Lieutenant  Bent,  U.  S.  A.,  who  in  his  turn  gave  a  dinner 
at  the  Presidio  the  same  evening,  at  which  he  made  the 
fact  known  to  a  party  of  his  stag  friends.  Another  recently 
announced  engagement  is  that  of  Miss  Maybelle  Gerst  and 
Sam  Napthaly,  whose  marriage  will  be  the  first  event  on 
the  programme  for  the  week  after  next.  It  will  be  cele- 
brated at  the  California  Hotel  on  the  evening  of  the  7th  of 
March. 

A  very  pretty  marriage  took  place  at  the  home  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Kerr,  at  1738  Golden  Gate  avenue,  last 
Wednesday  evening,  at  which  time  and  place  Miss  Grace 
Kerr  and  Mr.  Charles  A.  Hulme  were  united  by  President 
Martin  Kellogg,  of  the  State  University.  The  bride  was 
handsomely  gowned  in  white  organdie  over  white  silk,  the 
skirt  trimmed  in  narrow  lace  edged  frills,  the  waist  being 
made  entirely  of  narrow  bands  of  organdie  and  Valen- 
ciennes insertion.  Miss  Sadie  Cooper  was  bridesmaid,  es- 
corted by  Geo.  P.  Taylor,  groomsman.  Mr.  Hulme  is  a 
well-known  down-town  commission  merchant.  The  resi- 
dence was  beautifully  decorated  for  the  occasion. 

The  Prisoner  of  Zenda,  in  a  burlesque  form,  will  make  his 
bow  at  the  Concordia  Club  to-night,  and  from  those  who 
have  been  present  at  the  rehearsals,  the  promise  is  given 
that  it  will  be  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  entertainments 
possible.  The  male  sex  only  will  be  performers,  and  those 
taking  the  part  of  the  ladies  in  the  cast  are  said  to  be 
duly  impressed  with  the  importance  of  the  roles,  and  are 
letter  perfect  in  the  matter  of  managing  the  skirts  which 
they  are  to  don  for  "this  occasion  only."  The  pleasures  of 
the  evening  will  conclude  with  supper  and  dancing.  Caste 
on  Monday  night,  and  the  Mardi  Gras  ball  at  the  Art  In- 
stitute, are  the  two  events  of  next  week  to  which  society 
is  looking  forward  with  the  most  pleasurable  anticipations. 

At  no  time  has  the  delightful  superiority  of  Hotel  Rafael 
been  more  in  evidence  than  during  the  past  week,  and 
mine  host  Warfield  has  been  busy  taking  care  of  the  many 
arrivals  from  the  city  who  find  every  want  anticipated  by 
the  thoughtful  General. 


Reading  clubs,  dancing  clubs,  whist  and  euchre  clubs, 
and  the  like,  are  so  common  that  they  are  scarcely  re- 
marked when  they  are  arranged,  but  it  is  not  often  that 
one  hears  of  dinner  clubs  being  formed,  though  it  must  be 
acknowledged  by  those  who  appreciate  a  good  menu  a 
more  delightful  kind  of  club  could  not  possibly  be  got  up. 
Oakland  has  come  to  the  front  in  this  line,  as  that  pretty 
little  city  has  in  many  others,  in  giving  charming  hints  to 
society  on  this  side  of  the  bay,  and  in  organizing  a  dinner 
club;  such  hostesses  as  are  well  "up"  in  the  art  of  giving 
gastronomic  feasts  being  of  course  a  sine  qua  non.  The  re- 
cent one  which  has  been  formed  in  Oakland  has  been  very 
fortunate  in  this  respect.  The  initial  dinner  took  place 
last  week. 

Luncheons  at  the  University  Club  were  in  great  favor 
last  week.  At  one  of  them  Miss  Delia  Davidson  was  guest 
of  honor,  Mrs.  Landers  being  her  hostess  and  sixteen 
young  ladies  asked  to  meet  her.  The  giver  of  another  of 
these  dainty  feasts  was  Mrs.  W.  I.  Kip,  who  thereat  en- 
tertained a  number  of  the  young  lady  friends  of  her 
daughters,  the  Misses  Mary  and  Clementina.  Mrs. 
Schwerine,  Mrs.  Wilson  and  Mrs.  Center  were  among  the 
dinner  hostesses  of  the  week. 

The  new  Devisadero  Hall  was  the  place  selected  for  the 
debut  party  of  Miss  Beatrix  Lyons  of  Haight  street, 
which  was  given  last  Thursday  evening.  The  decorations 
were  extremely  pretty,  violets  being  the  chief  flower  used 
for  the  purpose,  combined  with  roses  and  smilax.  The 
toilettes  of  the  ladies  were  remarkable  for  their  elegance, 
the  fair  young  debutante  wearing  pale  pink  satin,  Mrs. 
Lyons  appearing  in  black  brocaded  satin  combined  with 
moire,  and  Mrs.  N.  Fritz,  who  assisted  these  ladies  in  re- 
ceiving their  guests,  wore  a  gown  of  black  satin  trimmed 
with  chiffon  and  jet.  Dancing,  which  was  of  course  the 
order  of  the  evening,  took  place  in  the  ballroom,  and  at 
midnight  supper  was  served  in  the  lodge  room,  after 
which  dancing  was  resumed  and  kept  up  until  well  on  to- 
wards morning. 

Miss  Sarah  Dean's  daffodil  tea  at  the  Bella  Vista  last 
Friday  had  as  guests  of  honor  the  Misses  Lakeman  of 
Grass  Valley,  and  a  number  of  our  loveliest  maidens 
assisted  the  young  hostess  in  her  duties  to  her  guests. 
Last  Saturday's  tea  at  the  Gerstles,  when  the  charming 
daughter  of  the  house  acted  as  hostess,  was  a  very  delight- 
ful one.  Beautiful  flowers,  sweet  musical  strains,  delicious 
refreshments,  served  by  lovely  maidens  in  pretty  costumes, 
combined  to  make  it  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  affairs  of 
the  season.  The  receiving  party  was  augmented  at  din- 
ner by  a  number  of  the  sterner  sex,  at  which  time  there 
was  dancing. 

The  last  ante-Lenten  cotillion  of  the  Saturday  Night 
Club,  which  was  danced  at  Lunt's  Hall  on  Saturday  even- 
ing, was  very  largely  attended,  as  have  been  all  the  club 
dances  this  month.  Howard  Adams,  who  led  with  Miss 
Edna  Boyd,  introduced  four  figures,  and  after  they  had 
been  gone  through  there  was  general  dancing.  April  23d 
is  the  date  set  for  the  final  dance  of  the  club  this  season, 
which  will  be  given  at  Native  Sons'  Hall. 

Miss  Alice  Boggs  will  soon  be  with  us  again,  returning 
from  the  East,  where  she  has  passed  the  winter  months. 
In  anticipation  of  her  coming,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Boggs  have 
taken  the  residence  1404  Sutter  street,  where  Mrs.  Boggs 
will  receive  on  Friday  instead  of  Monday,  which  was  her 
"day"  while  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

"A  company  of  ladies  and  gentlemen"  will  present  Tom 
Robertson's  Caste  at  the  California  on  Monday  night.  The 
proceeds  of  the  performance  to  be  divided  between  the 
Children's  Hospital  and  the  Armitage  Orphanage. 

The  best  way  to  buy  anything  is  to  borrow 
it   first. 

Get  a  package  of  Schilling' 's  Best  tea  of  your 
grocer.  He  pays  you  your  money  back  if  you 
don't  like  it. 

That's  our  way  of  lending. 

A  Schilling  &  Company 
San  Francisco. 


Pebraarj  17,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


The  H oilman   dinner  par'  Washington's  Birthday 

was  one  of  the  finest  affairs  of  the  season.  Their  magnifi- 
cent mansion  is  so  well  adapted  for  functions  of  this  kind 
that  little  was  left  for  the  do  in  the  way  of  decor- 

ating Some  sixty  young  folks  -at  down  to  dinner  at  the 
large  tables,  eaeh  of  which  was  presided  over  by  a 
married  couple  Supper  partners  wen'  assigned  to  the 
gentlemen  on  their  arrival:  but  .it  a  given  signal,  viz.:  a 
bugle  call,  the  ladies  at  each  table,  headed  by  the  chap- 
eron, left  their  seats  and  inarched  to  one  of  the  other 
tables  and  seated  themselves  as  they  liked.  This  occurred 
three  times  during  the  dinner,  thus  giving  each  lady  a 
chance  to  visit  every  table,  and  finally  return  to  her  own 
partner.  The  innovation  proved  extremely  enjoyable. 
Souvenirs  in  the  shape  of  a  piece  of  bark  from  a  cherry 
tree,  with  a  hatchet  and  silk  Dag  attached,  were  neatly 
ribboned  to  the  mom,  on  which  was  painted  the  name  of 
each  guest.  Music  and  dancing  followed.  Miss  Clara 
Hellman,  who  assisted  her  mother  as  hostess,  was  charm- 
ing. She  is  one  of  the  season  s  dtbutantet  and  extremely 
popular. 

It  has  seemed  that  of  late  almost  every  day  there  has 
been  chronicled  the  passing  away  of  some  old  resident 
whose  name  was  at  one  time  almost  a  household  word 
with  our  older  set.  One  of  the  most  recent  who  has  crossed 
the  silent  river  is  Mrs.  E.  M.  Stevenson,  widow  of  the  late 
Colonel  J.  D.  Stevenson,  who  was  well  known  in  the  social 
world  of  San  Francisco  since  its  earliestdays.  Mrs.  Steven- 
son was  a  lady  of  gracious  and  most  cordial  manner,  and 
hospitable  to  a  marked  degree,  her  home  in  past  years  be- 
ing the  center  of  all  that  was  gav  and  pleasant  in  social 
life. 

A  grand  benefit  concert  by  the  Clara  Schumann  quar- 
tette will  be  given  on  next  Tuesday  evening,  March  2nd,  at 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hall,  corner  Mason  and  Ellis  streets,  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Plymouth  Christian  Endeavor  Society, 
the  proceeds  to  be  donated  to  the  convention  funds. 
Tickets  50  cents  ,  to  be  had  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s., 
Benjamin  Curtaz,  and  of  members  of  the  society. 

The  banquet  at  the  Calliopean  Club  on  Sunday  evening 
last,  commemorating  its  thirteenth  anniversary,  was  in- 
deed a  success.  Well  nigh  the  entire  membership  re- 
spended  to  the  club's  invitation.  The  table  was  set  in  a 
square  and  very  artistically  arranged,  and  the  post- 
prandial efforts  brought  forward  were  truly  astounding. 

Mr.  Donald  deV.  Graham  wishes  to  inform  his  pupils  and 
friends  that  he  has  been  forced  to  lengthen  his  stay  in 
Honolulu,  owing  to  an  accident  to  the  Belgic,  which  will 
prevent  her  stopping  at  the  Island  on  her  return  trip. 
Mr.  Graham  will  return  on  the  11th  prox.,  instead  of  the 
26th  inst.,  as  heretofore  announced. 

The  Mardi  Gras  entertainment  and  hal  masque  to  be 
given  by  the  San  Francisco  Art  Association  on  next  Tues- 
day night,  at  the  Art  Institute,  promises  to  be  unusually 
delightful.  Most  elaborate  preparations  are  making  for 
this  occasion,  and  the  numerous  guests  of  the  association 
are  anticipating  an  evening  of  unalloyed  pleasure. 

Mrs.  L.  S.  Bachman  and  Miss  Alice  Bachman  gave  a  de- 
lightful dinner  party  on  Thursday  evening,  the  25th  inst., 
at  their  home  on  Jackson  and  Devisadero  streets.  Miss 
Bachman,  who  is  one  of  the  season's  debutantes,  made  a 
most  admirable  hostess. 

Miss  Irma  Rothchild  entertained  quite  a  number  of  her 
friends  at  dinner  on  Tuesday  evening.  The  guests  of  the 
evening  were  Mr.  Joshua  Eppinger  and  Miss  Hilda  Levy, 
in  whose  honor  the  fete  was  given. 

Miss  Wangenheim  entertained  her  friends  at  an  in- 
formal dinner  on  Wednesday  evening.  Miss  Neustadter's 
rendition  of  several  choice  "morceaux"  added  greatly  to 
the  evening's  entertainment. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Colin  M.  Boyd  are  spending  a  few  days  at 
Invercaple,  the  country  residence  of  Captain  and  Mrs. 
Duncan  Mackinlay,  Santa  Clara  County. 

Stanford  Parlor,  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West,  suc- 
cessfully gave  its  eleventh  anniversary  party  at  Native 
Sons'  Hall  on  Friday  evening. 

This  evening  the  Concordia  Club  gives  its  grand  ball  and 
entertainment.  The  demand  for  invitations  is  unprece- 
dented. 


The  attractions  offered  by  the  managers  of  the  State 
Woman's  Hospital  for  the  tea  which  will  be  given  at  the 
Croaker  mansion  on  California  street  to-day,  are  quite 
varied.  In  addition  to  the  many  beauties  of  the  house 
itself,  there  will  be  vocal  and  Instrumental  music,  rel 
inents,  etc..  and  it  promises  to  be  one  of  the  BUOOesses  Of 
the  season. 

Mrs.  Luke  Robinson  gave  a  delightful  luncheon  last  week 
in  honor  of  Mrs.   E.   K.   Moore,   wife   of   Lieutenant  Com 
mander  Moore,  of  the  Patterson.  Covers  were  laid  for  six 
teen,  and  the  table  exquisitely  decorated   in    violets   and 
daffodils. 

There  is  every  promise  of  a  big  season  for  the  French 
grand  opera  company  which  comes  to  the  Ualdwin  on 
Wednesday,  March  Kith.  The  subscription  sale  of  scats 
commences  next  Wednesday. 

ART      JOTTINGS. 

THERE  is  more  activity  amongthe  artists  now  .han  for 
some  montns  past,  and  canvas  is  suffering  by  the 
square  yard. 

Joseph  D.  Strong's  portraits  in  pastel  have  become  ex- 
ceedingly popular,  and  justly  so,  because  they  are  excel- 
lently done,  and  the  likenesses  are  phenomenal.  At  the 
Century  Club's  exhibition  on  Wednesday  night,  Mr.  Strong 
exhibited  some  of  his  pastels,  which  were  highly  com- 
mended. 

Marion  Wells  has  completed  a  bust  of  Uncle  George 
Bromley,  life  size,  for  the  Bohemian  Club,  and  it  now  oc- 
cupies a  place  in  the  social  room.  Both  bust  and  pedestal 
are  exquisitely  executeu.  Some  are  of  the  opinion  that  the 
expression  of  the  humorist's  face  is  too  severe,  but  Uncle 
George's  features  in  repose  are  naturally  stern.  There  is 
quite  a  demand  among  his  friends  for  replicas  of  the  work. 
The  design  on  the  pedestal  represents  Uncle  George  per- 
forming his  functions  as  High  Priest  of  the  club. 

Charles  Rollo  Peters  is  working  most  industriously  in 
Monterey,  and  is  principally  devoting  himself  to  the  ex- 
pression of  moonlights.  All  of  his  work  shows  a  marked 
improvement  and  careful  study.  Mr.  Peters  chases  the 
pale  out  of  the  night  in  all  her  phases,  and  his  effects  are 
full  of  sentiment  and  harmony. 

Joseph, A.  Harrington  has  completed  a  picture  of  the 
Divine  Savior  for  St.  Rose's  Church  which  is  a  master- 
piece. Although  Mr.  Harrington's  pictures  of  scriptural 
subjects  have  all  been  meritorious,  he  has  excelled  his  pre- 
vious efforts  in  this  work.  The  features  are  earnest,  kind 
and  noble,  the  pose  is  Godlike,  and  the  coloring  rich,  but 
well  balanced.  It  is  a  valuable  addition  to  the  high  art  of 
this  city,  strong  and  imposing,  yet  full  of  humanity.  The 
congregation  of  St.  Rose  have  secured  an  art  treasure. 

Bloomer  is  working  hard  on  the  scenery  of  Marin 
county. 

Experience  is  the  best  teacher,  after  all.  To  those  who  are  getting 
up  dinners,  parties,  banquets,  or  any  similiar  sort  of  function,  the 
great  experience  of  Mr.  Max  Abraham  will  prove  that  he  knows 
exactly  how  to  cater  to  the  most  refined  and  exclusive  taste.  All  the 
swell  set  employ  him,  and  he  always  gives  satisfaction. 


Miss  Ray  Fromberg  and  Mrs.  Kay  Levin  have  opened  a  milli- 
nery store  at  104  Stockton  street.  The  young  ladies  are  proficient  in 
their  art,  and  have  many  friends  who  will  be  pleased  to  hear  of  their 
success.  

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Wiuslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  (or  your 
ohlldren  while  teething  ■ ^^^ 

Macbeth  lamp-chimneys  are 
perfect,  besides  being  made 
of  tough  glass. 

But  you  want  the  one  that 
is  made  for  your  lamp.  Let 
us  send  you  the  Index  ;  free. 
Geo  A  Macbeth  Co 

Pittsborgh  Pa  


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1897. 


MAM    AND   A   TliEORY. 


"  T  HAVE  a  theory,"  said  Hawkins. 

1  We  all  moved  our  chairs  closer.  Hawkins'  beer  was 
poor,  his  tobacco  bad,  and  his  studio  old.  But  Hawkins 
himself  was  sometimes  seriously  amusing.  We  had  been 
conversing  on  love. 

"I  think,"  he  continued,  "that  love  is  mutual  respect, 
expanded  to  the  utmost.  Marriage  is  the  public  declara- 
tion of  love.  And  how  could  a  man  wish  to  wed  a  woman 
he  did  not  respect!  And  how  could  a  man  respect  a  wo- 
man who  did  not  conduct  herself  with  propriety!" 

Kay  and  I  exchanged  smiles.  Hawkins  had  changed 
since  his  Latin  Quarter  days.  And  was  it  hard  to  guess 
now  that  his  remarks  were  allusive  to  the  daughter  of 
Gen.  Waldgrave,  the  wealthy  connoisseur,  where  Hawkins 
often  called  when  his  dress  suit  was  not  represented  by  a 
ticket? 

No  one  attempted  to  demolish  or  sustain  Hawkins' 
hypothesis.  But  de  Gure,  the  violinist,  who  never  was 
known  to  keep  on  one  subject  ten  minutes,  inquired: 

"Where's  your  picture  for  the  Art  Club's  mid- winter  ex- 
hibition?" 

"There,"  answered  Hawkins,  pointing  to  a  canvas  on  an 
easel,  covered  with  a  piece  of  green  baize. 

"May  we  see  it?" 

"Certainly,"  and  Hawkins  stepped  over  and  removed 
the  cloth. 

"What's  it  called?"  asked  Jones. 

"Why,  'The  Will  o'  the  Wisp,'  "  replied  Hawkins,  with 
a  bit  of  petulance. 

"New  way  of  treating  the  subject,"  Kay  remarked. 

And  so  it  was.  A  slender  girl,  clothed  in  a  piece  of 
gauze  and  a  wreath,  was  tempting  a  moony  youth  into  an 
inky-looking  swamp.  The  light  in  the  picture  all  came 
from  the  girl's  gorgeous  red  hair. 

"Wait  till  Roberts,  the  critic,  gets  hold  of  that."  said 
Jones  encouragingly. 

"Well,"  said  Hawkins,  "I  hope  he'll  give  me  a  few  good 
words.  If  it's  a  go.  I  know  where  I  can  unload  it.  And 
I  am  financially  at  low-water  mark." 

"Who's  the  model?"  I  asked  of  Kay,  as  Hawkins 
covered  his  work. 

"Annie  McCarthy,"  he  answered.  "Isn't  she  a  star?" 
Then  to  Hawkins,  "Say,  Hawk,  I  haven't  seen  Annie  for 
a  long  time.     How  long  has  she  been  posing  for  you?" 

"Four — five  months." 

"What!" 

"You  see,"  Hawkins  explained,  "I  wish  to  do  my  very 
best  work — and — and — well,  you  see — " 

"I  see,"  said  Kay.     "Got  a  match  ?  " 

*  *  *  *  * 

It  was  raining  hard  the  night  of  the  private  view  of  the 
midwinter  exhibition  of  the  Art  Club.  I  only  went  round 
to  see  how  Hawkins'  picture  had  been  placed.  Jones  had 
told  him  that  the  club  roof  had  been  raised  three  feet  to 
accommodate  odd  stuff,  and  the  poor  little  fellow  was  in  a 
very  nervous  state. 

I  ran  round  the  gallery  until  I  came  to  "The  Will  o'  the 
Wisp."  It  wasn't  exactly  skied,  but  most  emphatically  it 
wasn't  on  the  line.  I  stopped  short,  for  there  was  Rob- 
erts looking  up  at  it. 

Of  all  the  old  cranks  that  ever  used  a  pen,  Roberts  was 
the  peer.  His  thin  set  lips  and  frowning  brow  boded  no 
good  to  Hawkins'  work.  In  fact,  I  was  sufficiently  near 
to  hear  him  mutter  a  decided  "Rotten!"  Just  then  there 
passed  me  quickly  a  tall,  slight  girl,  with  a  mass  of  red 
hair.     She  went  directly  to  Roberts  and  touched  his  arm. 

"Annie  McCarthy,"  he  exclaimed;  "you  here  !" 

"Yes,  I  came  round  just  to  see  Mr.  Hawkins'  picture. 
Isn't  it  lovelyf" 

"H'm — er — yes,  yes;  very  good." 

"I'm  so  glad  you  think  so,  for  you'll  surely  say  something 
nice  about  it  in  the  papers." 

"Er — er — yes,  yes,  of  course." 

"Well,  I  must  go  now.  But  I'm  very  glad  that  J.  saw 
you,  I  know  you  always  mean  what  you  say,"  and  she 
dropped  her  eyes. 

"May  I  escort  you  to  the  door  ?  "  The  gallantry  of  his 
younger  days  was  returning. 

"If  you  wish,"  without  raising  her  eyes. 


They  went  down  the  broad  stairway  into  the  front  hall. 
I  followed  them  only  for  a  lark.  Downstairs  the  gas  had 
not  been  lighted.  I  suppose  it  was  necessary  for  him  to 
lean  over  her  to  hear  in  the  darkness.  Anyway,  it  must 
have  been  very  nice,  for  I  heard  her  giggle. 

"May  I  see  you  home?"  he  requested. 

"Oh,  my  brother's  outside  waiting  for  me.  Good-night, 
Mr.  Roberts!  I'll  be  sure  to  read  all  the  papers  to- 
morrow." 

"Yes,  yes.     Good-night." 

And  she  went  out  into  the  street,  where  a  big  Irishman 
took  charge  of  her. 

Roberts  stood  gazing  out  into  the  night  for  a  few  mo- 
ments, and  then  returned  slowly  to  the  gallery.  The  stairs 
hid  me.  At  the  same  time,  I  heard  a  profane  ejaculation 
behind  me,  and  I  turned  to  see  Hawkins  dash  into  the 
coat-room. 


Roberts  didn't  strain  himself  much  in  the  next  morn- 
ing's Herald.  There  was  something  about  "new  ideas," 
"good  technique,"  and  "brilliant  future,"  but  nothing  that 
burned.  I  was  strolling  down  the  avenue  that  afternoon, 
when  I  met  Hawkins. 

"Good  luck,"  I  said,  holdiDg  up  the  paper. 

"Yes,"  he  puffed,  "sold  the  picture — Waldgrave — my 
own  price.  Great  hurry;  see  you  later,"  and  he  rushed 
away. 

I  went  up  to  Kay's  studio  in  the  evening  for  a  quiet  pipe. 

"Funny  thing,"  Kay  remarked. 

"What?" 

"This  afternoon  Hawkins  announced  his  engagement 
to  Miss  Annie  McCarthy." — Dan  Gibbs  in  the  Quartier 
Latin. 

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For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  p.  m.  Feb.  I,  5, 
9,   13,   17,  21.  25,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  A.  m.  ;  Feb-  3,  7, 11, 15, 
19.  23.  27,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  Feb.  1.  5,9,  13,17,21,  35, 
and  every  fourth  day  thereafter,  at  11  A.  M. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  A.  M., 
25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notioe, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents,       10  Market  st.S.F. 

Thn    CwniX     Parifin     306   Stockton    St.  San    Francisco. 
1  lit)    UI  dllll     raOlMbf        MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress.. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month.      Telephone :  Grant,  507. 


Fcbrunry  17,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LBTTBR. 


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SOUTHERN     PACIFIC    COMPANY     (PACIFIC   STrraM.) 


Tralna  Leave  and  are  Due 


Krttm  , 


«l  SAN     FRANCISCO: 


I  ArrtM 


A  Certain  farmer,  who  is  by  no  means  noted  for  his  re- 
semblan.  r  tn  Apollo,  has  a  son  of  seven  who  possessed 
more  wit  than  pedigree.  One  day  a  stranger  came  to  the 
farm,  and,  seeing  the  lad.  asked:  "Sonny.  Where's  your 
father?"  "In  the  pigpen,"  was  the  reply.  "In  the  pig 
pen?  Thanks!"  And.  as  the  man  moved  in  the  dire.  1  Ion 
indicated,  the  boy  shouted:  I  -..\  You'll  know  him, 
'cause  he's  got  a  hat  on!" — Tid  I 

"Old  Sniiark  says  he  is  the  man  who  started  you  on  the 
road  to  fortune. "  "The  old  villain  tells  the  truth.  All  I 
had  when  I  was  a  young  man  was  a  fifty  -aire  farm  and  he 
cheated  me  out  of  that.  Then  I  had  to  come  to  town  to 
get  something  to  do.  and  got  into  business  and  got  rich." 
— Indianapolis  Journal. 

Bertha  -Mrs.  Gower  is  regarded  as  ultra  fashionable,  is 
she  not ?  EDITH-  I  believe  so.  Uf.htiia — Uncle  John  says 
she  was  at  the  social  last  night  and  that  she  had  her  nose 
curled  up  the  whole  evening.  We  must  have  our  noses 
curled  immediately,  Edith. — Boston  Transcript. 

"Were  your  theatrical  entertainments  for  charity  a  suc- 
cess?" asked  one  girl.  "Yes,  indeed!  We  got  $107.25." 
"Indeed!  You  must  have  had  a  large  audience."  "No. 
We  took  in  *7.2.">  at  the  ticket  oflice,  and  father  gave  us 
$100  never  to  do  it  again." — Washington  Star. 
Talk  of  your  chair  of  history. 

Logic  and  language,  too. 
There's  nothing  the  wide  world  over 
Compares  with  a  chair  for  two. 

—Brooklyn  Life. 

"I  don't  know  what  to  do,"  said  a  woman  whose  nature 
is  distrustful.  "I  hate  to  be  imposed  upon.  How  am  I  to 
know  that  you  are  really  hungry?"  "That's  easy,  ma'am," 
replied  the  mendicant.  "I  kin  prove  it  by  lettin'  ye  watch 
me  eat." — Washington  Star. 

First  sport — I  see  it  stated  that  the  air  is  so  clear  in  the 
Arctic  regions  that  conversation  can  be  carried  on  easily 
by  persons  two  miles  apart.  Second  Sport — Why  doesn't 
some  one  tell  Corbett  and  Fitzsimmons  about  that? — 
Yonkers  Statesman. 

With  wars  and  women  bards  have  dealt 

In  manner  most  extensive; 
But  only  groaning  husbands  know 
Which  proves  the  most  expensive. 

— Chicago  Journal. 

CHARLES  GR AEF  &  CO. ,  the  well-known  United  States 
agents  for  the  famous  Pommery  Sec,  Appolinaris 
Water,  etc.,  have  opened  a  Pacific  Coast  branch  at  21 
Sutter  street,  under  the  management  of  Mr.  John  Caffrey. 
This  branch  will  keep  fresh  arrivals  of  Pommery  and  the 
other  specialties  of  this  noted  firm.  Pommery  Sec  is  so 
well  known  and  so  popular  amongst  connoisseurs  that 
praise  is  needless.  It  was  used  at  the  recent  banquet  to 
Judge  McKenna,  and  is  a  favorite  wine  at  all  banquets  and 
society  dinners.  Its  richness  and  pungency  of  flavor  ap- 
peals at  once  to  the  refined  and  critical  taste,  as  may  be 
judged  from  the  fact  that  it  is  the  favorite  wine  of  the  no- 
bility, the  clubman,  at  the  banquet,  and,  certainly,  of  fash- 
ionable society,  both  in  the  United  States  and  Europe. 

THE  first  number  of  the  first  Japanese  monthly  maga- 
zine to  be  printed  in  America  is  published  by  K.  Sano 
in  San  Francisco.  It  is  a  twelve-page  paper,  and  contains 
besides  interesting  matter,  several  illustrations.  It  is 
called  "Japanese-American  Voice.'.' 

Paso  Robles. 
Our  new  mud  bath  house  is  finished.  The  arrangement  ot  baths, 
dressing  rooms,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  tioor.  No  stairs  or  steps  to 
climb.  We  are  now  unquestionably  the  finest  sanitarium  or  health 
resort  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Rest  and  health  seekers  are  Paso  Robles 
seekers,  Rates,  $10,  $12.50,  $15,  and  $17.50  per  week.  Climate  warm. 


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Dcnlcla.   Vacavlllo.    Kumsey,   Sacramento,   Orovlllo,   and 
Redding,  via  Davis  ........ 

Martinez.  San  Ramon,  Vallcjo.  Napa.  Calistoga,  Santa  Rosa 
Nlles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone,  Sacramento,  Maryavlllo, 

Chieo.  Tehama,  ami    Red    HlufI 

Peters  and  Milton  

New  Orleans  Express.  Raymond  (for  Yoscmlle),  Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara.)  Los  Angeles,  Doming,  El  Paso, 
Now  Orleans,  and  Kusi 

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9:00  a  Vallojo 

Nlles.  San  Jose  Llrermore,  and  Stockton.  

•I  :00  p  Sacramento  River  steamera 

1 :00  v  xiies,  sun  Joee,  and  Livarmora 

tl:3u  p  Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations 

4:00p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallcjo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 
and  Santa  Rosa 

4 :00  P  Bonlcla,   Vacavllle.  Woodland,  Knight's    Landing,  Marys 

vllle.  Orovllle.  and  Sacramento 11:1&A 

4:30p  Lalhrop.  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  and  Fresno,  going  via 

Nlles,  returning  via  Martinez 11:45a 

5:0OP  Los  Angeles    Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,  Santa  Barbara,  and 

Los  Angeles '  -. . .     ■  •  10.45  A 

5:00  p  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East —  10:45  A 

8:00  p  European  mall,  Ogden  and  East 9:46  A 

8:00  p  Haywards,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7:45A 

J7:00p  Vallejo t7:45P 

7:00  p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  MarysvlUe,   Redding,  Port- 
land. Puget  Sound  and  East    11:15A 

H10:00p  "Sunset  Limited."    Fresno,  Los  Angeles,  El  Paso,  New 

Orleans,  and  East jj!2:45p 

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8:15a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz   and  way  stations 5:50 P 

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der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:20a 

4  ;  15  p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Garos 9:50a 

til :45p  Hunters'  Excursion,  San  Jose  and  way  stations I7:20p 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

6 :45  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1 :30  P 
8:15a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos  .Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Roblep. 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principalway  stations    7 

10:40  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  6 

11:30  A  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 3 

*2:30p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose,  Gllroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa 

Cruz,  Salinas.  Monterey.  PaciflcGrove *10: 

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CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  or  Market  street  (Slip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  A.M.,  11:00,  *2:U0. 13:00.  »4:00, 15:00  and  *6:00P.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway—  "6:00,8:00,  10:00  A.  M.;  112:00,  *1:00, 
12:00,  »3:00, 14:00  *5:00  P.  M. 

A  for  Morning.     P  for  Afternoon.     "Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays.  gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  transfer  company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  M.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG. 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting  at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  el<u.    No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Coptic  (via  Honolulu) Thursday,  April  1, 1897 

Gaelic Wednesday,  April  21.  If97 

Duric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  11,  1897 

Belgic  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29, 1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office,  No.  421  Market  street, 
oorner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS.  Secretary. 

S.  S.  "Alameda,"  Thursday,  March  4th, at  2  p.m. 
S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu  only,  Tuesday, 
March  23,  at  2  p    m. 

Line  to  Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &RROS.  CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


February  27,  1897. 


THE     ART     EPICUREAN. 


(fifth  papeb.) 

TUESDAY  afternoon  I  penetrated  to  the  holy  of  holies 
"between  decks"  at  the  Palace  hotel  when  the  Mc- 
Kenoa  banquet  committee,  headed  by  ex-Surveyor- 
General  Theodore  Reichert  turned  down  a  candidate  or 
graciously  accorded  him  the  happy  privilege,  for  his  shin- 
ing silver,  to  sup  with  the  mighty.  The  suggestive-look- 
ing tin  box  at  the  General's  side  was  fairly  bulging  with 
the  good  store  within — perhaps  a  premonition  of  the  state 
of  the  donors  later  on.  The  head  of  the  invitation  committee 
had  his  wits  about  him,  and  the  checking  up  process  went 
merrily  on,  with  the  aid  of  United  States  Marshal  Barry 
Baldwin,  present,  perchance,  to  see  the  awful  tragedy 
safely  through;  and  although  Richard  Chretien  tried  some 
of  his  winning  ways  on  the  strong  box,  the  Marshal's 
double-barreled  vision,  supplemented  by  the  General's 
pince-nez  was  too  much  for  even  his  temerity. 

Attorney  T.  J.  Crowley  peeped  in  for  "a  moment,  soon 
followed  by  his  friend  and  office  chum,  Colonel  Kowalsky; 
and,  in  an  aside,  it  has  been  whispered  that  when  these 
two  cronies  get  away  into  the  woods  camping,  they  give 
reins  to  their  culinary  ambitions,  and  such  dishes  as  re- 
sult would  put  Delmonico's  chef  to  blush.  But  Mr.  Crow- 
ley modestly  tells  me,  "Oh,  yes,  the  Colonel  and  I  share 
the  honors;  he  does  the  cooking  and  I  wash  the  dishes." 
I  fancy  there  is  another  side  to  that  pretty  little  tale,  and 
the  next  time  the  two  take  to  the  woods  a  spy  should  be 
appointed  from  among  the  fraternity  to  see  what  wood 
sprite  weaves  a  spell  over  their  bacon  and  hard  tack  that 
makes  it  into  such  delicious  dainties  as  report  saith. 

Soon  the  candidates  began  to  flock  in  in  such  numbers 
that  room  was  at  a  premium,  and  so  I  sought  out  Mana- 
ger Warren,  who  paused  in  his  busy  bustling  long  enough 
to  graciously  describe  to  me  the  arrangement  of  the  tables 
set  for  the  banquet  in  the  main  dining  room — the  eighty- 
foot  one  at  which  Chairman  Colonel  Jackson  presided,  and 
the  eight  smaller  ones  at  right  angles  to  it — and  then  ac- 
corded me  a  peep  at  the  menu,  which  looked  vastly  appe- 
tizing, even  just  after  the  luncheon  hour,  and  included  : 

Eastern  Oysters  on  the  half-shell 

Windsor  Clear  Soup 

Olives,  Celery,  Salted  Almonds,  Caviar 

Grenadin  of  Salmon  Trout,  Sauce  Mirabeau 

Potatoes  Chatelaine 

Filet  of  Beef,  larded,  a  la  lntendante 

Croustade  of  Sweetbreads,  Garnishe  Metternich 

Champagne  Punch 

Roast  Chicken 

Komaiue  Tomato  Salad 

New  Peas 

Biscuit  Glace 

Cafe  Koir 

White  and  red  California  wines  and  Moet  &  Chandon, 
Pommery,  and  Mumm  were  served  at  the  banquet.  In 
glancing  over  the  array,  a  happy  thought  came  to  me. 
Could  I  prevail  upon  Manager  Warren  to  let  me  see  his 
chef?  I  could.  That  croustade  of  sweetbreads  I  simply 
must  have,  and  if  I  could  induce  chef  Morgenthaler  to  list 
to  my  pleadings,  the  day  was  mine.  Handed  over  to  the 
tender  mercies  of  an  attendant,  after  devious  windings  and 
bravely  opening  of  grim  "no  admittance"  doors,  the  heart 
of  the  hostelry — the  kitchen — was  reached,  and  there, 
calmly  supervising  the  operations  of  a  brigade  of  white- 
capped  assistants,  the  portly  chef  reigned  supreme. 

I  meekly  presented  my  petition — my  thirst  for  knowl- 
edge. He  smiled  benignly,  and  in  broken  French,  with  in- 
finite patience,  penetrated  my  density  with  the  following 
recipe  for  croustade  of  sweetbreads  : 

Make  the  croustade  with  a  pancake  batter,  using  the 
metal  dies  in  any  preferred  form — he  has  hearts,  clover- 
leafs^  diamonds,  etc.,  in  his  fully-equipped  kitchen.  The 
garniture  Matternich  is  made  with  kernels  of  lamb-sweet- 
breads, truffles,  mushrooms,  chicken  livers,  combs,  and 
kidneys  of  capons,  all  mixed  in  chicken  supreme  white  sauce. 

For  this,  chef  Morgenthaler,  we  thank  you.  As  I  listened 
to  his  description,  out  of  the  corner  of  my  eye  I  saw  two 
of  his  underlings  skewering  larded  chicken  livers.  I  wanted 
to  take  the  second  degree  on  that,  but  with  the  thermome- 
ter_  at  ninety,  even  the  delight  of  wresting  toothsome 
recipes  is  apt  to  wilt.     But  in  passing,    a  few   words  of 


more  detailed  description  of  the  croustade  might  be  well. 
This  crust  is  made  so  delicately  thin  as  to  be  almost  wafer- 
like, and  baked  to  a  golden  brown  with  the  die  to  give  it 
form.  The  garnish  must  be  mixed  very  thoroughly  and 
each  separate  ingredient  chopped  fine. 

It  has  been  said  that  the  ladies  of  to-day  are  far  too  apt 
to  relegate  all  the  worry  and  responsibility  of  the  table  to 
their  servants,  and  that  few  in  this  city  care  enough  about 
cooking  to  enter  into  the  preparation  of  any  dish  with 
half  the  zest  of  their  spouses.  Several  ladies  have  assured 
me  that  they  leave  everything  to  their  cooks,  and  do  not 
even  dare  to  ask  the  kitchen  divinity  how  she  makes  a  cer- 
tain dish,  for  they  are  quite  confident  that  she  will  diplo- 
matically evade  the  point,  and  in  the  end  give  no  informa- 
tion. Such  ladies  are  not  the  mistress  of  their  homes.  The 
royal  personage  in  the  kitchen  should  have  that  title. 

Yet  there  are  several  society  ladies  who  take  an  inter- 
est in  the  making  of  some  little  dish,  and  among  them 
might  be  mentioned  one  of  the  belles  of  the  city,  Miss 
Laura  McKinstry,  whose  wise  mother  has  always  held  the 
belief  that  California  women  are  far  too  dependent  upon 
thegoddess  of  the  kitchen,  and  therefore  allow  many  de- 
relections  of  duty  because  they  are  really  in  a  state  of  de- 
pendence upon  her  coming  or  going.  Mrs.  McKinstry 
strongly  advocates  a  knowledge  of  cookery  and  house 
supervision  generally,  for  only  by  such  a  course  can  a 
mistress  properly  care  for  her  home  and  family  and  be  in- 
dependent. The  Judge's  wife  and  daughter  are  both 
makers  of  delightful  salads,  and  a  Welsh  rarebit  from  the 
fair  hands  of  Miss  Laura  has  a  relish  that  could  never  be 
given  it  by  one  of  the  sterner  sex. 

It  has  always  seemed  that  a  woman's  hands  never 
appear  to  better  advantage  than  when  preparing  some 
chafing-dish  dainty;  and  usually  the  clever  woman  knows 
it.  It  makes  a  man  long  to  pop  the  question  then  and 
there,  and  as  a  vehicle  toward  matrimony  can  be  recom- 
mended as  far  in  advance  of  piano  playing  or  even  em- 
broidery, for  it  does  have  such  a  housewifely  air,  and  what 
living  man  could  resist  the  suggestions  that  come  surging 
up  in  his  mind  at  the  pretty  picture.  And  when  he  tastes 
the  dainty  his  fate  is  sealed,  for  it  is  sure  to  be  a  success; 
fair  woman  is  too  wary  to  attempt  anything  for  man's 
digestion  that  would  be  apt  to  wreak  ruin  upon  it.  She 
knows  its  value  to  the  owner. 

Speaking  of  a  Welsh  rarebit,  Mrs.  Will  E.  Fisher  can 
prepare  one  to  a  nicety,  and  the  other  day,  just  before  the 
guests  began  to  arrive  for  the  Martha  Washington  tea  for 
which  she  had  thrown  open  her  lovely  home,  she  kindly 
gave  me  the  modus  operandi,  which  is  : 

First  grate  the  cheese  very  fine,  putting  a  tablespoon- 
ful  of  butter  into  a  chafing  dish,  and,  when  hot,  sprinkling 
in  the  cheese,  a  small  portion  at  a  time,  and  adding  the 
beer  (Mrs.  Fisher  prefers  the  Schlitz  brand)  a  tablespoon- 
ful  at  a  time,  stirring  it  all  the  time,  and  adding  paprica 
for  seasoning.  Her  preference  is  to  let  it  come  to  a  boil, 
and  then  spread  it  upon  buttered  toast  instead  of  cracker — 
the  usual  way.  Chocolate  is  an  appetizing  accompani- 
ment to  the  rarebit,  and  just  the  thing  for  a  nightcap 
after  the  theatre. 

Captain  and  Mrs.  Burns,  whose  beautiful  home  at  the 

corner  of  Washington  and  Hyde  streets  is  the  scene  of 

I   some  delightful  entertainments,  are  both  fond  of  preparing 

some  little  dish  when  the  mood  suggests,  and  the  Captain 

rather  prides  himself  upon  his  culinary  achievements. 

The  family  five  o'clock  tea  is  a  pretty  English  custom, 
where  a  visitor  chancing  to  call  may  find  a  cup  of  tea  over 
whose  aroma  a  social  chat  might  be  enjoyed,  and  under 
whose  benign  influence  the  fatigue  of  an  afternoon's  calls 
might  be  partially  overcome.  But  this  mode  of  entertaining 
does  not  prevail  to  any  extent  in  this  city,  for  we  have  not 
(or  think  we  have  not)  the  leisure  for  it;  and  husbands  and 
brothers  whose  presence  would  tend  to  enliven  the  hour 
are  usually  in  their  offices  at  that  time  in  the  mercantile 
world.  Some  day,  when  the  mad  rush  for  wealth  has  sub- 
sided, and  we  are  willing  to  sit  down  and  enjoy  our  thou- 
sands without  still  martyrizing  ourselves  for  the  yellow 
god,  these  little  daytime  social  features  may  be  introduced, 
and  once  launched,  continue  to  float  upon  the  wave  of 
society,  but  if  I  were  you  I  should  not  select  my  five 
o'clock  tea-table  furnishings  just  yet,  for  fashions  might 
change  before  that  blissful  time  arrives. 

Amy  L.  Wells. 


PANORAMIC  SERIES,  PLATE  52. 


WITH  S.  F.  NEWS  LETTER,  MARCH  6. 1897. 


PICTURESQUE    SAN    FRANGISGO. 

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Vol.  L1V. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,   MARCH  6,  1897. 


Number  10. 


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tion  and  adrerlinng  rate*. 

TI1K  allowance  of  125.00  per  day  for  each  of  the  ex- 
perts, who  are  going  over  the  accounts  of  the  State 
Printing  Office  is  entirely  disproportionate  to  the  service 
being  performed  as  the  ability  of  the  experts  to  earn  it. 
It  is  extremely  doubtful  if  any  of  them  ever  made  more 
than  that  much  per  week,  before  this  lucky  windfall. 

THE  Rev.  Dr.  Fraser  declared  at  the  ministers'  meet- 
ing last  Monday  that  it  made  his  "blood  boil  to  sit 
here  and  hear  Professor  Howison  express  his  views  on  re- 
ligion.'' Certainly;  to  be  sure  !  No  doubt  Brother  Fraser 
would  like  to  see  every  man  drawn  and  quartered  who 
would  refuse  to  endorse  his  lamb-like  and  charitable  brand 
of  soul-saver.  What  a  striking  illustration  of  Christly 
toleration  aud  kindness  is  this  same  Brother  Fraser. 


PRESIDENT  McKinley  announced  in  his  inaugural 
address  on  Thursday  that  he  would  convene  Congress 
in  extra  session  on  the  15th  inst.  Inasmuch  as  we  are  to 
have  more  tariff  tinkering,  the  earlier  the  disturbance 
commences  the  more  quickly  will  the  country  recover  from 
its  alarming  effects.  This  is  one  of  the  inevitable  conse- 
quences of  Republican  success,  and  must  be  borne  with 
whatever  patience  the  people  may  possess. 

THE  comparative  table  of  mortality  accompanying  the 
recent  report  of  the  Board  of  Health,  is  rather  start- 
ling. The  table  includes  thirty-five  cities,  ranging  in  pop- 
ulation from  Raleigh,  N.  C,  with  13, 000,  to  St.  Louis,  with 
570,000.  The  highest  death  rate  is  credited  to  Memphis, 
at  26.39,  the  lowest,  San  Diego,  atb'.6.  San  Francisco 
stands  third  from  the  top  with  21.92,  If  these  figures  are 
correct  it  is  time  that  attention  were  given  to  the  san- 
itary condition  of  this  city.  No  stronger  argument  for  a 
thorough  system  of  sewerage  can  be  made  than  a  death 
rate  of  21.92. 

M  AYOR  PHELAN  voiced  public  opinion  when  he  re- 
±  \  marked,  at  the  meeting  of  the  Supervisors  on  Mon- 
day, that  there  is  at  present  no  occasion  for  paying  $250 
per  month  for  an  assistant  District-Attorney.  During  the 
Durrant  trial  there  was  need  of  such  an  officer,  for  the 
office  was  cumbered  with  work.  There  is  at  this  time  no 
such  condition.  The  office  can  take  care  of  current  busi- 
ness without  an  ass;stant,  whose  chief  labor  would  end  with 
the  drawing  of  his  salary.  There  is  far  too  much  of  this 
sort  of  game  going  on  at  the  City  Hall  now  on  the  part  of 
these  worthy  laborers  for  their  own  pockets. 

THE  petition  of  the  Merchants'  Association  that  First 
avenue — a  proposed  boulevard  connecting  the  Park 
and  Presidio,  and  which  is  to  be  soon  bituminized — should 
be  widened  by  adding  to  the  roadway  ten  feet,  to  be  taken 
from  the  sidewalks,  should  be  granted  by  the  Supervisors. 
Golden  Gate  avenue  is  a  very  fair  illustration  of  wide  walks 
and  narrow  roadways.  The  avenue  is  frequently  gorged 
with  vehicles,  while  there  remains  much  useless  space  on 
the  walks  on  either  side.  Public  utility  really  demands 
such  a  change  of  the  main  artery  from  the  city  to  the 
Park,  as  is  proposed  further  away.  The  chief  service  of 
First  avenue  will  be  for  vehicles  and  wheelmen,  while  the 
sidewalks  will  be  comparatively  neglected. 


SrjPERVISOB  ROTTANZI  introduced  and  had  unani- 
v  passed  b  B    resolution    asking 

the  Legislature  to  provide  a  way  for  the  payment  of  just 
claims,  long  overdue  t"  many  merchants  for  supplies  fur- 
nished to  this  city  and  used  by  it.  That  these  tradespeople 

have  been  kept  out  of  their  money  for  years  is  a  great  in- 
justice. It  is  shameful.  If  any  man  in  business  were  to 
treat  his  creditors  half  so  badly,  he  would  be  ostracised. 

THE  Supreme  Court  has  affirmed  the  decision  of  the 
Lower  Court  in  the  case  of  Theodore  Durrant,  and  it 
is  reasonably  certain  that  he  will  at  last  be  hanged  for  the 
terrible  crime  of  which  he  was  charged.  That  the  judg- 
ment is  a  righteous  one  the  evidence,  although  entirely 
circumstantial,  clearly  established.  Now  that  the  way 
has  been  broken  we  may  hope  that  the  other  malefactors 
whose  necks  are  but  little  less  worthy  of  the  halter  than 
his  may  speedily  follow  him  to  the  gibbet. 

IT  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  Sundry  Civil  bill  carries  an 
amendment  restoring  to  the  public  domain  eleven  of  the 
thirteen  forest  reservations  recently  withdrawn  by  Presi- 
dent Cleveland.  The  withdrawals  covered  more  than 
20,000,000  acres  of  forest  areas.  The  President's  action 
was  wise,  and  more  than  justified  by  the  history  of  forests 
in  other  lands.  Except  some  stringent  measures  be  em- 
ployed to  preserve  the  trees  of  America,  in  a  compara- 
tively short  time  we  shall  have  no  timber  to  care  for.  Few 
people  have  knowledge  of  the  rapid  denudation  of  lands 
in  this  country.     President  Cleveland's  act  should  stand. 

THE  Carnival  Committee  expects  to  be  able  to  give 
work  to  a  considerable  body  of  the  city's  unem- 
ployed at  an  early  day.  A  large  number  of  floats  must  be 
built,  and  there  will  be  other  work  for  those  who  need  it. 
The  money  subscribed  for  that  week's  grand  holiday  will 
in  a  hundred  ways  prove  to  be  a  benefit;  it  will  serve  a 
double  purpose,  and  those  who  contribute  to  the  success- 
ful accomplishment  of  the  carnival  may  feel  sure  that  they 
are  making  a  paying  investment.  The  carnival  will  bring 
thousands  to  the  city,  will  advertise,  the  attractions  of  San 
Francisco  in  a  lasting  manner,  and  will  directly  benefit 
every  line  of  business. 

COMPLETION  of  the  Alameda  and  San  Joaquin  Rail- 
road and  its  opening  to  traffic  is  an  important  event 
in  the  history  of  manufacturing  in  San  Francisco.  The 
line  will  connect  the  Corral  Hollow  coal  mine  with  this  city 
by  way  of  Stockton,  and  should  result  in  the  introduction 
of  cheap  fuel  for  steam  making.  The  question  of  coal  for 
manufacturing  purposes  in  San  Francisco  is  a  most  im- 
portant one.  The  Corral  Hollow  mine  being  near  by,  and 
its  output  capable  of  great  expansion,  it  will  exert  an  im- 
portant iufluence  on  the  cost  of  that  article.  The  Southern 
Pacific  has  given  the  company  a  rate  of  one  cent  per 
ton  per  mile  on  its  product  to  all  points  in  California. 

CALIFORNIA  could  do  much  worse  with  $50,000  than 
to  appropriate  that  sum  toward  a  proper  display  of 
the  State's  resources  at  the  Trans-Mississippi  Interna- 
tional Exposition,  which  takes  place  at  Omaha  four  months 
hence.  The  Nebraska  capital  is  the  center  of  a  populous 
region,  and  the  Exposition  will  doubtless  be  visited  by  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  from  the  middle  Western  States.  Con- 
gress has  granted  $200,000  in  aid  of  the  Omaha  venture,  and 
there  is  a  bill  pending  at  Sacramento  carrying  $50,000  for 
providing  a  fair  representation  of  California  products 
there.  The  middle  West  is  near  by,  and  this  State  should 
be  able  to  turn  the  faces  of  many  immigrants  westward 
by  an  exhibition  of  native  resources. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  6,  1897. 


THE      INAUGURATION      OF     THE     PRESIDENT. 

ON  Thursday  Major  William  McKinley  drove  down 
Pennsylvania  avenue,  lined  on  each  side  by  as  brilliant 
a  display  of  handsome  men,  beautiful  women,  and  gorgeous 
attires,  as  ever  the  American  continent  witnessed.  Ar- 
rived at  the  capitol  he  took  the  simple  form  of  oath  pro- 
vided for  such  occasions,  and  forthwith  Cleveland  was  out, 
and  McKinley  was  in.  It  is  not  worth  while  to  say  more 
of  the  pageantry  that  accompanied  the  event,  except, 
perhaps,  to  remark  the  wide  departure  from  simplicity 
and  good  taste  the  country  has  witnessed  since  the  Presi- 
dent rode  down  unaccompanied  to  the  capitol,  hitched  his 
horse  to  a  post,  stepped  into  the  building,  took  the  neces- 
sary oath,  and  returned  as  unostentatiously  as  he  came. 
That  represented  republican  simplicity;  what  the  display 
of  last  Thursday,  to  see  which  as  much  as  $4,000  for  a 
window  on  the  line  of  march  was  paid,  represented,  it  is 
hard  to  say  in  that  spirit  of  kindness  Che  would  like  to 
apply  to  everything  pertaining  to  the  inauguration  of  our 
new  President. 

It  fortunately  happens  that  the  pageant  was  but  the 
outward  show  that  had  little  to  do  with  the  inwaid  thing. 
The  scepter  of  power  had  passed  from  one  to  another, 
without  the  slightest  hitch,  difficulty,  or  doubt  and  all  be- 
cause the  people  had  so  willed.  The  highest  act  of  popu- 
lar sovereignty  was  performed;  one  administration  had, 
with  the  calmness  of  a  judicial  act,  succeeded  another,  and 
affairs  of  State  went  on  as  before.  What  a  difference  be- 
tween this  easy  and  regular  transference  of  power  and 
that  which  in  England  led  to  the  long  war  of  the  Roses  !  It 
has  been  said  that  the  American  people  will  not  always 
conduct  their  Presidential  successions  with  peace  and  cer- 
tainty. But  they  have  passed  through  a  severe  test  on 
that  point.  They  could  hardly  have  a  more  trying  exper- 
ience than  they  had  in  1876,  when  the  man  whom  it  is  now 
generally  agreed  was  not  elected,  was  given  the  office. 
Mr.  Hayes  was  as  peaceably  inaugurated  as  if  he  bad  been 
unquestionably  elected.  His  opponent,  Samuel  J.  Tilden, 
was  among  the  first  to  acquiesce  in  the  decision  of  a  tri- 
bunal that  was  clearly  partisan.  It  was  held  to  be  better, 
far  better,  to  concur  in  the  seating  of  the  wrong  man, 
than  to  engage  in  a  civil  war.  It  is  sometimes  said  to  be 
a  mistake  not  to  inaugurate  a  President  immediately  after 
his  election.  But  there  is  another  side  to  that  question. 
The  contest  excites  much  feeling  on  both  sides,  and  it 
is  well  that  this  should  be  permitted  to  cool  off  before 
any  decided  action  becomes  necessary.  It  is  hardly 
possible  that  Hayes  could  have  been  inaugurated  at  any 
time  within  a  month  after  election  day.  Time  being  given 
to  discuss  matters  over  calmly,  and  to  cool  down,  he  was 
inaugurated  as  quietly  as  any  President  ever  has  been. 
The  sober  second  thought  by  that  time  prevailed  over  con- 
ditions as  serious  as  can  well  be  imagined,  and  a  settled 
belief  has  grown  up  that  the  same  kind  of  thought  would 
prevail  everytime  and  always. 

McKinley  inaugurated — what  next?  His  cabinet  hav- 
ing been  named,  the  only  curiosity  that  exists  on  that 
score  is  to  see  them  at  work.  Safe,  and  not  brilliant,  they 
have  excited  no  undue  expectations,  and,  therefore,  there 
will  be  none  to  disappoint.  Sherman  will  pretty  certainly 
be  the  first  member  of  the  administration  to  become  dis- 
tinctly unpopular,  and  that  we  say  although  we  recognize 
in  him  that  experience,  ability  and  force  which  must  con- 
stitute him  the  real  leader  of  the  administration.  But  he 
cannot,  in  the  office  he  holds,  satisfy  existing  popular 
opinion,  and  can  take  no  new  departure  from  the  course 
Cleveland  has  pursued.  Already  he  is  under  a  cloud,  and 
the  sun  of  what  popularity  he  has,  will  sink  to  rise  no  more 
until  he  is  dead.  We  think  nothing  the  worse  of  him  for 
that,  because  only  "jingoes"  are  popular,  as  times  go, 
and  we  want  no  jingoes.  Nor  do  we  expect  to  think  his 
unpopularity  will  be  objectionable,  seeing  that  the  mob  is 
likely  to  be  about  as  bad  as  it  could  be.  The  almost  un- 
known Chicago  man  who  has  become  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  holds  what,  at  this  time,  is  the  second  most  im- 
portant office  in  the  Cabinet.  If  we  are  to  believe  the 
friends  who  worked  to  get  him  there,  he  is  a  wonder,  and 
will  by  himself  alone  redeem  the  reputation  of  the  adminis- 
tration. It  is  most  sincerely  to  be  hoped  that  this  may 
prove  to  be  true.  Our  highest  policy  at  this  moment  is 
to  leave  foreign  entanglements  alone,  and  straighten  out 


our  finances.  Judge  McKenna,  as  Attorney-General, 
will  have  to  settle  the  difficulties  between  the  Government 
and  the  railroads,  and  uo  man  is  more  likely  to  succeed 
than  he.  What  of  the  President  himself?  An  affable,  non- 
committal, kindly  disposed  man,  he  may  get  through  bis 
term  with  less  of  friction  and  harassment  than  a  more  able 
man. 

Yet  he  has  already  piled  up  troubles  for  himself  that  are 
formidable.  He  will  presently  have  "Congress  on  his 
hands"  with  a  tariff  that  out  Herods-Herod,  and  fairly 
distances  McKinleyism.  It  is  the  almost  open  and  acknowl- 
edged payment  of  the  protected  trusts  that  raised  the 
campaign  fund.  He  has  antagonized  Speaker  Reed,  who 
is  not  a  high  tariff  man,  and  is  bent  on  mischief.  At  heart 
a  Silverite,  with  many  speeches  to  his  credit,  McKinley 
yet  was  elected  on  a  gold  platform  and  no  compromise. 
With  the  silver  men  in  the  Senate  holding  the  balance  of 
power,  it  requires  no  stretch  of  imagination  to  conjure  up 
tribulations  beyond  endurance. 

On  last  Thursday  Grover  Cleveland  became 
Grover        for  the  second  time   in  his   greatest  public 
Cleveland,      career   a  private  citizen;  and  there  is  very 
little  doubt  that  he  doffed  the  robes  of  State 
with   a  feeling  of  profound  relief.     He   retires   from   the 
cares  of  office  fortified  in   the  conviction  that  he  has  ful- 
filled his  whole  duty,  and  that  he  has  met  and  discharged 
every  responsibility  with  the  breadth  of  mind  and  intuitive 
grasp  of  a  statesman.     That  he  has  unshaken  confidence 
in  himself  permits  of  no  doubt.     He  has,  through  his  long 
public  career,  shown   a   degree  of  resolution  and  a  disre- 
gard for  quick  public  opinion  that  can  only  accompany  a 
mature  element  of  greatness,  and  which,  given  the  oppor- 
tunity, makes  and  leaves  a  lasting  impression  upon  the  his- 
tory of  the  times. 

Speaking  for  the  moment,  Cleveland  goes  into  retire- 
ment the  best  and  most  generally  disliked  ex-President  of 
those  who  have  left  the  Capitol  for  many  a  day.  Eight 
years  ago  the  same  statement,  only  in  less  degree,  might 
have  been  made  of  him.  But  there  existed  a  wide  and 
vital  difference  between  the  conditions  surrounding  his  de- 
parture from  Washington  at  that  time,  and  his  political 
environments  of  1897.  Then  at  his  back  stood  a  united 
democracy,  beaten  on  the  broad  issue  of  the  tariff  ;  and 
Cleveland  went  down  as  the  leader  of  that  party,  and  the 
undeniable  champion  of  that  cause  and  as  its  logical  can- 
didate of  four  years  later.  Intervening  events  did  not  dis- 
turb his  prominence  nor  shake  his  hold  upon  the  hearts  of 
his  followers;  and  on  the  4th  of  March,  1893,  he  again  rode 
to  the  Capitol,  by  the  side  of  his  vanquished  opponent,  and 
assumed  the  reins  of  government. 

Causes  with  which  President  Cleveland  had  nothing  to 
do,  but  whose  workings  were  feebly  felt  at  the  general 
election  that  returned  him  to  the  head  of  affairs,  ac- 
centuated and  aggravated  by  the  grinding  financial  depres- 
sion, spread  in  every  direction.  False  ideas  and  dangerous 
political  teachings,  cleverly  veiled  by  eloquent  sophistry 
misled  millions  of  honest  men  of  both  great  national 
parties.  The  free  silver  heresy,  nominally  accepted  by 
the  Democratic  party,  but  in  reality  bitterly  opposed  by 
its  brains  and  influence,  won  the  day,  and  through  the  fidel- 
ity to  true  democratic  principles,  which  of  two  evils,  chose 
the  lesser  one,  a  Republican  President  was  elected.  To 
this  political  sacrifice  President  Cleveland  gave  his  moral 
support,  and  contributed  materially  to  the  overthrow  of 
threatened  financial  dishonor  and  the  rescue  of  the  country 
from  the  curse  of  a  debased  currency. 

The  great  service  performed  by  President  Cleveland  in 
refusing  to  be  influenced  by  the  war  dance  of  the  jingoes 
and  their  constant  endeavors  to  embroil  this  country  with 
other  nations,  will  perhaps  never  be  appreciated  by  the 
masses  of  the  people.  He  firmly  resisted  the  greatest 
popular  pressure  for  the  extension  of  public  domain,  be- 
lieving with  the  founders  of  the  republic,  that  the  duty  and 
safety  of  the  Government  lay  in  the  development  and  ex- 
pansion of  trade  rather  than  in  the  acquisition  of  foreign 
territory.  His  refusal  to  recognize  the  struggle  of  the 
Cubans  has  subjected  him  to  severe  criticism  by  the  irre- 
sponsible and  sensational  press  of  the  country,  both  Dem- 
ocratic and  Republican,  and  has  added  materially  to  his 
immediate  unpopularity.  But  dispassionate  and  intelligent 
opinion  must  justify  his  determination   to  avoid  a  rupture 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


with  Spain,  until  cans.  g  belligerent  rights  to 

th^n  tn  the  ian    Islands    as 

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rded     -  the  attitude  of  a 
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The  part  that  Cleveland  In  the  future  political 

and  material  history  of  tl..  Is  problematical 

— made  doubly  so  In-  reason  of  the  anomalous  alignment  of 
parties  within  tl  ir.      But  it  may  bo  safely  said  of 

him  that  his  great  influence  will  lie  felt  and  his  voice  heard 
in  the  councils  of  the  old  Democratic  organisation.  When 
the  future  historian  writes  the  record  of  the  last  quarter 
of  the  present  century,    tl  harai  ter.  the  > 

integrity  and  forceful  personality  of  Orover  Cleveland  will 
be  accorded  an  honorable  and  conspicuous  place  among  the 
patriots  and  statesmen  of  the  republic. 

The  Powers  Of  The  people  of  these  United  States 
The  Speaker      rather  like  the   exercise  of  authority,  if 

And  President,  they  but  have  confidence  in  the  man  who 
wields  it.  They  were  so  enamored  of 
the  successful  audacity  of  Speaker  Reed  a  few  years  ago, 
that  they  were  almost  ready  to  intrust  him  with  any 
power  to  rule  the  House  and  its  business,  and  for  a  time 
it  looked  as  if  he  were  to  be  the  candidate  of  his  party  for 
President.  The  way  in  which  be  counted  in  quorums, 
made  light  of  traditions,  and  overthrew  rules  was  some- 
thing wonderful  to  behold,  but  that  mattered  little  to 
Reed.  Outside  opinion  acquiesced,  if  it  did  not  positively 
approve,  because  it  enabled  a  very  small  majority  to 
hasten  on  the  accomplishment  of  its  will,  and  to  really  do 
something.  Among  other  things,  it  enabled  the  so-called 
McKinley  tariff  to  be  passed  almost  without  debate.  The 
Congress  with  the  smallest  party  majority  of  modern 
times,  got  through  with  more  work  than  any  of  them,  and 
as  "the  billion  dollar  CoDgress"  gained  notoriety,  as  Mr. 
Reed  himself  said,  for  discovering  the  fact  that  "this  is  a 
billion  dollar  country."  McKinley  was  made  chairman  of 
the  Ways  and  Means  committee,  which  became  the  right 
of  way,  as  it  were,  to  the  Presidency,  by  this  self  same 
Speaker  Reed.  But  a  great  many  things  have  happened 
since  then.  McKinley  is  now  the  President  who  can  be 
harassed,  and  be  put  into  all  sorts  of  inconvenient  posi- 
tions, but  Reed  is  again  Speaker,  and  entrenched  in  power 
as  never  before.  He  is  King  of  the  principal  law  making 
House,  whilst  McKinley  is  but  its  chief  executive  officer. 
Between  the  two  men  there  is  now  no  love  lost.  Reed  is 
the  abler  of  the  two,  and  far  the  safer  man  to  rely  upon  in 
a  fight.  He  is  clearly  bent  on  digging  pit  holes  for  his 
opponent,  and  means  mischief.  There  will  probably  soon 
be  a  contest  for  the  reorganization  of  the  Rules  Committee. 
If  the  Speaker  holds  his  own  "he  will  be  a  bigger  man 
than  the  President." 

The  Russian  An  interesting  question  is  that  one  solving 
Enigma.  itself  in  Russia.  We  say  solving  it- 
self, advisedly,  for  Russian  purposes  and 
diplomacy  are  not  permitted,  wittingly,  to  be  solved  by 
any  one  but  Russia.  So  far  as  the  character  of  the  present 
ruler  is  developed,  it  is  evident  that  Nicholas  II.  is  no  ex- 
ception to  the  rule.  Before  his  coronation  we  were 
treated  in  public  prints  with  elaborate  statements  of  his 
peculiarities.  His  disagreement  with  the  traditional 
tyranny  of  Russian  rule;  the  despair  of  his  father  because 
of  his  liberal  tendencies;  that  he  was  a  pale  and  studious 
young  man  who  held  in  his  heart  as  well  as  in  his  hand  the 
enfranchisement  of  the  peasantry,  and  predictions  of  rapid 
and  radical  changes  from  autocracy  to  constitutionalism 
in  bis  government.  Since  he  placed  the  diadem  of  all  the 
Russias  upon  his  own  brow,  we  have  heard  many  rumors 
of  his  personal  weaknesses.  His  subjection  to  the  whims 
of  his  wife  and  mother:  his  physical  and  mental  deteriora- 
tion; his  abject  fear  of  nihilists;  his  nerveless  collapse 
from  the  tragedy  on  Hodynsky  plain,  and  pictu?-es  of  him 
closely  guarded  in  bis  palace  of  Gatschina  or  trembling  at 
every  sound  in  Tsarskor-selo.  How  much  of  all  this  is 
true' and  how  much  false,  is  a  difficult  question  in  these 
days  of  journalistic  "enterprise."  Outside  of  the  prattle 
with  which  the  papers  fill  space  there  are  some  signifi- 
cant facts  worthy  of  notice.  Someone  is  pushing  the 
most  stupendous  railway  project  of  the  age  across  Siberia 


to  tin'  Pacific.  hto«8 

china,    and    ha  ted   conventions    which   enables 

..us  to  build  Chini  Be  I  visibly  tighten 

ing  tni  Korea  and  the  Manchurian  pro 

ng  a  firm  Muscovite  hold  on  the 
Turkish  sit  .  h  the  whole  .■:  jealous  Europe  dares 

not  loosen.  Italy  looked  toSt.  Petersburg  for  count! 
in  her  disastrous  Abyssinian  enterprise,  Prance  exp 

with  jo  east  show  of  Russian  favor,  while  the  war- 

lord  of  Germany  is  almost  abject  in  his  obsequiousni 
ar.  The  pair  young  man  has  visited  all  the  ii 
tant  capitals  of  Europe  and  does  not  seem  to  ha\ 
prestige  with  the  trained  diplomacy  of  his  hosts.  Ilecent 
dispatches  indicate  a  decided  tendency  toward  a  liberal 
policy  for  the  Russian  press  and  people.  Inspired  organs 
of  the  empire,  once  bitter  against  the  Catholics  of  Poland, 
arc  now  talking  of  conciliation.  The  Czar  has  lately  de- 
clined lo  sentence  unruly  students  of  Moscow,  whom  his 
august  father  would  have  quickly  dispatched  in  chains  to 
Siberia.  If  all  these  things  are  not  directly  attributable 
to  the  emperor,  it  is  hard  to  say  who  is  their  responsible 
cause,  especially  when  we  notice  that  the  Czar  seems  to 
prefer  to  rule  without  a  chancellor.  A  constitution  would 
be  the  natural  result  of  advancing  civilization,  and  Russia 
is  surely  advancing.  Nicholas  II.  has  the  splendid  op- 
portunity to  give  political  freedom  to  130  millions  of  sub- 
jects. To  do  so  he  will  need  to  be  strong,  for  he  will  en- 
counter the  bitter  opposition  of  a  most  conservative 
nobility.  To  complete  the  marvelous  developments  of 
Asia,  and  to  be  in  fact,  as  in  name,  the  "little  father"  of 
his  people,  will  be  to  make  the  pale  young  man  the  peer  of 
all  his  illustrious  progenitors.  Has  be  the  strength? 
There  are  indications  that  he  has,  and  there  are  rumors 
that  he  has  not.     That  is  the  Russian  enigma. 


Making  Specific  During  the  war,  California  had  what 
Contract  Laws.  ultimately  became  very  familiar  as 
''  the  specific  contract  law."  It  was 
intended  to  meet  the  legal  tender  quality  of  the  greenback. 
It  specifically  provided  that  all  contracts  should  be  paid 
in  the  kind  of  money  agreed  upon  between  the  parties. 
Thus  it  came  that  all  our  checks,  notes,  drafts,  etc.,  were 
made  to  read  "payable  in  United  States  gold  coin."  The 
United  States  Constitution  then  and  now  provided  that 
"  no  State  should  ever  pass  any  law  to  invalidate  con- 
tracts." An  appeal  was  taken  to  the  United  States  Su- 
preme Court,  and  the  Constitution  was,  of  course,  sus- 
tained. Now  come  some  seven  or  eight  of  the  recently 
admitted  States,  with  enactments  providing  that  all  con- 
tracts, no  matter  what  they  specify,  shall  be  paid  in  sil- 
ver. That  will  be  all  right  in  cases  where  payment  in  sil- 
ver is  nominated  in  the  bond,  and  is  so  understood  by  both 
parties,  but  who  will  be  foolish  enough  to  make  silver  con- 
tracts at  gold  prices?  Those  of  the  people  in  the  silver 
States  who  are  careful  to  make  gold  contracts  will  have  to 
be  paid  in  gold,  and  no  law  of  the  State  can  abrogate  that 
right.  Moreover,  until  there  be  free  and  unlimited  coin- 
age of  the  white  metal  at  a  ratio  of  sixteen  to  one,  no  con- 
tracts to  pay  in  the  silver  coinage  of  the  United  States 
would  benefit  the  debtor.  There  is  nothing  to  be  made  by 
such  contracts  so  long  as  the  Government  maintains  its 
white  and  yellow  coins  at  a  parity,  which  President 
McKinley  and  his  party  are  pledged  to  do. 

The  Concert  What  a  miserable  combination  that 
Of  Europe.  wretched  "concert  of  Europe"  is,  to  be 
sure!  Undertaken  from  good  motives,  its 
policy  has  proven  despicable,  and  its  course  that  of  a  pro- 
tector of  the  worst  of  tyrannies.  Its  avowed  purpose  is 
to  maintain  the  statu  </«»,  or  things  as  they  are,  in  Europe. 
The  guarantee  for  which  is  that  the  six  great  powers  of 
Europe  are  bound  by  solemn  treaty  to  unite  in  preventing 
by  war,  if  necessary,  any  dismemberment  of  any  European 
country  as  it  now  exists.  The  Armenians  may  not  clear 
their  country  of  their  slaughtering  enemies,  nor  the 
Cretans  hold  possession  of  the  land  they  have  redeemed 
from  the  enthrallmeut  of  their  old-time  persecutors.  The 
barbaritv  and  wholesale  slaughter  of  the  Christian  bv  the 
Turk  must  continue,  because  the  six  great  Christian 
powers  desire  for  a  time,  at  least,  to  preserve  peace  all 
round.     It  is  a  most  tyrannous  arrangement  that  shocks 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


March  6,  1897. 


humanity,  and  causes  a  great  many  good  men  and  women 
to  marvel  at  what  can  be  done  in  the  name  of  Christianity 
in  these  latter  days.  History  records  nothing  more  inhu- 
man than  the  recent  slaughterings  by  the  Turk,  yet  they 
would  cease  at  once,  if  the  "concert  of  Europe"  but  said 
they  must.  Yet  by  the  terms  of  the  unholy  alliance  in 
which  Europe  is  bound,  it  cannot  say  that  word,  but 
must  say  the  opposite.  Cruel,  blood-stained  wrong  must 
be  protected,  and  every  God-given  right  be  suppressed, 
because  it  suits  the  present  convenience  of  certain  out- 
siders to  have  it  so.  That  people  of  England,  of  Prance, 
of  Italy  and  probably  of  Germany  would  quickly  break  up 
this  wicked  "concert"  in  which  their  rulers  have  involved 
them,  if  they  could.  And  it  is  not  unlikely  that  they  will, 
anyhow.  Englishmen  are  ashamed  of  the  attitude  of  their 
Government,  and  if  a  leader  of  the  opposition,  like  Glad- 
stone, were  but  to  give  the  word,  the  tight  little  Island 
would  be  an  armed  camp  within  a  week.  The  people  of 
France,  as  well  as  those  of  Italy,  are  even  more  heated 
over  the  use  their  Governments  are  being  put  to  than  the 
English.  Emperor  William  is  hearing  some  very  ugly 
grumblings  among  his  people,  and,  like  King  George  of 
Greece,  may  yet  find  it  necessary  to  follow  his  subjects, 
or  lose  his  throne.  He  has  an  abscess  in  his  ear,  whilst 
Nicholas  has  one  on  his  brain.  That  the  "concert"  of 
Europe  cannot  long  be  maintained  by  such  incurables  goes 
without  saying.  Without  the  people,  war  cannot  last  long. 
Christianized,  civilized  Europe  will  never  fight  to  the  end 
to  put  Greece,  Crete,  Macedonia,  Armenia,  Kurdistand, 
etc.  under  the  heel  of  the  unspeakable  Turk.  The  day  of 
their  emancipation  is  at  hand,  and  it  will  either  directly, 
or  indirectly,  result  from  the  breaking  away  of  the 
nationalities  indicated  from  the  so-called  "concert."  The 
press  despatches  make  it  appear  that  King  George  will 
fight,  and  only  surrender  to  the  actual  force  of  arms,  as 
demonstrated  on  the  field.  More  power  to  him!  He  has 
but  to  stick  to  that  course  and  the  "concert"  of  Europe 
will  be  his. 

Pure  Food  There  has  been  a  rather  noticeable  reluc- 
Laws.  tance  upon  the  part  of  the  authorities  to 
prosecute  the  dealers  who  were  arrested 
some  time  ago  for  having  sold  impure  food  in  this  city.  It 
is  difficult  to  understand  upon  fair  grounds  why  there 
should  be  the  least  hesitancy  in  bringing  these  cases  to 
immediate  trial,  for  the  public  health  is  endangered  by  the 
lax  administration  of  the  laws.  The  Board  of  Health  has 
shown  commendable  vigor  in  ferreting,  out  the  dealers  of 
impure  food  products,  and  should  be  backed  up  promptly 
by  the  courts,  as  it  is  by  public  opinion.  The  man  who  sells 
any  article  of  diet,  knowing  it  to  be  impure  or  anything 
other  than  as  it  is  represented,  is  more  a  criminal  than  he 
who  issues  counterfeit  coins.  In  the  latter  case  only 
financial  loss  is  suffered  by  the  victims,  while  in  the  former 
case  health  and  life  are  placed  in  jeopardy,  and  honest 
goods  discounted.  Thus  it  is  a  fraud  and  a  swindle  in  a 
double  sense.  The  proposition  is  so  plain — the  evils  so 
apparent,  that  to  argue  upon  it  is  a  waste  of  words.  By 
consent  of  the  prosecutors  and  the  Judges,  the  cases  now 
booked  for  trial  have  been  assigned  to  Judge  Campbell's 
court.  The  people  will  watch  with  interest  the  progress 
of  these  cases,  and  they  expect  that  every  effort  con- 
sistent with  justice  will  'be  made  to  punish  the  guilty  to 
the  law's  fullest  extent.  If  those  arraigned  are  innocent, 
the  fact  should  be  known;  if  not,  then  they  should  be 
branded  as  dishonored  and  dishonest  tradesmen. 


The  White  Women  The  News  Letter  would  not  know- 
Of  Chinatown.  ingly  do  anybody  an  injustice,  and 
certainly  it  would  not  say  a  word 
calculated  to  wound  women  of  good  intentions.  Last  week 
we  referred  to  the  evil  that  had  crept  into  Chinatown 
through  the  employment  there  of  house  to  house  visitors 
and  teachers  of  our  own  race.  These  women  roamed  all 
over  Chinatown  in  the  guise  of  teachers  sent  out  by  one  or 
other  of  the  local  missionary  societies.  It  is  certain  that 
they  soon  became  scholars  rather  than  teachers.  They 
became  adepts  in  the  ways  that  are  dark  and  tricks  that 
are  vain  of  the  heathen  Chinese.  We  had  always  under- 
stood, until  this  last  week,  that  they  were  duly  accredited 
agents  of  some  more  or  less  responsible  society.     But  we 


are  now  assured  that  this  class  of  women  lacked  any  sort 
of  creditable  credentials,  were  acting  solely  on  their  own 
account,  and  had  for  some  time  been  under  suspicion  by 
more  than  one  of  the  regular  societies.  Of  course,  if  the 
women  we  have  in  mind  had  no  employment,  and  no  status 
under  any  of  the  well-known  and  duly  constituted  societies, 
that,  of  course,  exonerates  them,  but  that  statement  we 
know  to  be  not  altogether  true.  If  is  nearer  true  than  it 
was,  but  is  not  altogether  true  yet.  There  are  young 
women,  supposed  to  be  under  the  sheltering  wings  of  cer- 
tain missionary  societies,  who  are  in  some  manner  licensed 
to  go  around  among  the  young  Chinese  merchants,  and 
who  teach  them  a  new  way  to  defeat  Little  Pete's  and 
Big  Jim's  monopoly.  We  say  that  this  desperate  evil  of 
white  women  traffic  in  Chinatown  began  some  sixteen 
years  ago,  through  the  agency  of  women  who  certainly 
did  have  some  sort  of  recognition  from  societies  beyond  re- 
proach. Whilst  recent  happenings  have  focussed  atten- 
tion once  again  upon  that  black  spot  in  our  midst,  the  in- 
iquities of  which  are  not  yet  half  known,  there  must  be, 
and  there  shall  be,  a  more  thorough  disinfection  and  fumi- 
gation of  Chinatown  than  it  has  ever  yet  received.  To 
the  missions  we  say  withdraw  all  your  wandering  minstrels 
right  away.  The  dark  ways  of  Chinatown  are  not  fit 
avenues  for  them.  Said  one  of  the  oldest  Presbyterian 
ministers  to  us  the  other  day:  "It  is  not  a  place  in  which 
I  should  like  a  sister  or  daughter  of  mine  to  be  employed." 
Why,  then,  should  he  and  his  associates  like  to  have  "the 
sisters  and  daughters"  of  other  men  there?  Can  he,  and 
they,  ever  compensate  them  for  the  contumely  that  is 
morally  sure  to  follow  them  all  their  days? 

Strike  at  Congress  is  usually  very  ticklish  about 
The  Examiner,  how  it  handles  the  press.  In  times  past 
it  has-  known  that  it  generally  has  re- 
ceived pains  for  its  gains.  When,  however,  it  without  fear 
seizes  the  nettle  danger  without  the  slightest  fear  of  the 
consequence,  its  old-time  sting  must  surely  be  gone.  The 
House  the  other  day,  on  the  motion  of  Aldrich,  of  Illinois, 
promptly  passed  a  bill  directed  at  the  Journal  and  Exam- 
iner, constituting  it  a  misdemeanor  to  publish  an  account 
of  a  prize-fight,  or  of  any  proceedings  had  in  connection 
therewith.  It  will  get  through  the  Senate,  if  there  be 
time,  which  is  hardly  likely.  But  the  fact  will  remain  that 
the  popular  branch  of  the  National  Legislature  has  de- 
clared the  Examiner's  contract  with  the  pugilists  a  crime 
that  ought  to  be  suppressed  b3r  law.  The  News  Letter 
last  week  took  the  ground  that  as  California  had  sup- 
pressed prize-fighting  within  its  territory,  it  was  in  spirit, 
if  not  in  essence,  a  violation  of  law  to  encourage  its  exist- 
ence just  over  the  border,  and  spread  all  its  details,  both 
by  picture  and  letter  press,  within  the  prohibited  State. 
Of  course  the  intent,  purpose,  and  effect  cut  no  figure  in 
Mr.  Hearst's  mind.  The  winning  of  the  nickels  of  the 
mob  are  the  means  which  sanctify  all  his  ends.  But  the 
nickels  will  not  endure  as  long  as  that  slur  by  the  House 
of  Representatives.  Moreover,  society  is  improving,  and 
the  day  is  at  hand  when  the  promoter  of  pugilism  will  have 
to  go  herd  with  the  pugs.  The  page  which  the  Examiner 
daily  devotes  to  the  ring  at  Carson,  and  to  its  attach- 
ments, is  the  deepest  disgrace  that  has  yet  attached  to 
journalism.  Meanwhile,  the  quiet  boycott  by  heads  of 
families  and  other  decent  folk  is  on. 

It  is  also  noted  that  the  boycott  is  not  confined  to  this 
State,  but  the  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library  at  Portland 
have  decided  that  the  Examiner  is  unfit  for  general  circu- 
lation, and  have  struck  it  from  the  files  of  that  institu- 
tion. By  this  act  Portland  has  shown  a  discrimination 
that  might  be  followed,  with  profit  by  every  other  public 
library  in  the  country.  The  immoral  influence  of  that 
paper  is  sufficient  to  contaminate  any  circle  in  which  it 
circulates,  and  its  whole  policy  and  direction  pander  to 
the  lowest  instincts  of  humanity.  Not  only  is  it  vicious  in 
its  sensational  features,  but  its  deeper  motives  are  always 
insincere  and  usually  dishonorable.  It  often  employs  a 
thin  veil  of  public  good  to  hide  its  malevolence  and  cover 
its  revenge;  but  its  venal  character  is  so  well  known  that 
its  power  for  evil  in  this  particular  direction  is  not  to  be 
feared.  Evidently  the  methods  of  the  disreputable  new 
journalism,  withits  sensations,  its  bribe-takings,  itsfakings, 
are  finding  their  true  level  and  estimation  on  the  Pacific 
Coast. 


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sax  PRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THE      ART      EPICUREAN. 
U    lUTR.) 

"  \lf^*^  lovely  wooqbd  stoops  to  folly."   ami   puckers 
W    her  pretty  brows  over  the  literature  df  Julie!  ■ 

I  hristine    Terhune    Herrick.    or    some 
other  of  tl  iromen  who  thoroughly  un- 

derstand the  art  of  cookei  lually  time  for  the  head 

of  the  .lrop  into  the  family   physician's   office   on 

his  way  down  town,  ami  suggest  to  him    to   become  jmrii- 

nminu  next   day   by    "happening"   out  to   n 
friendly  call. 

•  there  isn't  a  man.  with  a  fondness  for  the  womanly 
woman,  who  does  not  adore  his  pretty  wife  all  the  more 
when  she  appears  before  his  astonished  vision  in  a  mas 
querading  costume  of  big  apron,  sleeves  rolled  up  above 
her  pink  elbows,  and  a  tiny  smudge  of  flour  on  the  tip  of 
her  little  tip-tilted  nose — that  last  is  always  essential  — 
and  announces  that  she  is  going  to  make  a  dessert  for  din- 
ner to-day  with  her  own  hands.  But  oh,  the  aftermath  1 
He  dare  not  decline  a  second  service  of  the  delicacy  that 
his  sweet  wife  has  been  at  such  pains  to  prepare,  and  yet 
the  most  awful  visions  of  future  agony  confront  liim  as  he 
perjures  his  immortal  soul  by  blithely  announcing  that,  he 
would  like  to  prevail  upon  her  to  help  him  to  just  a  trille 
more  of  that  delicious  dessert. 

Which,  I  fear  is  not  a  very  auspicious  preamble  for  a 
recipe  for  a  dessert  that  is  a  gem  and  a  rarity,  and  which 
is  made  by  the  most  charming  woman  in  San  Francisco, 
who  has  the  reputation  for  delicious  surprises  for  the  last 
course  of  her  equally  charming  menus.  By  the  way,  have 
you  ever  noticed  that  a  man  seldom  tries  his  hand  at  any- 
thing in  the  sweets  line,  and  rarety  chooses  a  dessert  dish 
as  a  favorite,  yet  nevertheless  he  seldom  declines  it  at  the 
table? 

But  let  us  to  this  recipe  for  blackberry  cream  that 
doubtless  some  of  the  News  Letter's  readers  have  tasted 
and  recognize  as  having  been  served  in  all  its  perfection  at 
this  fair  chatelaine's  table.  One  reason  for  its  rarity  is 
because  the  blackberries  must  be  fresh  wild  ones — the  cul- 
tivated berry  lacks  the  tartness  and  indescribable  flavor 
that  is  found  in  the  wild  berry. 

Take  one  quart  of  the  wild  blackberries,  mash  them,  and 
sweeten  with  one-half  a  pint  of  sugar.  Beat  the  whites  of 
four  eggs  to  a  froth;  then  stir  the  berries  and  eggs  to- 
gether and  set  in  the  oven  until  nicely  browned.  When 
finished,  place  in  the  refrigerator  until  perfectly  cold. 
Then  whip  a  pint  of  rich  cream  until  thick,  and  spread 
over  the  pudding  just  before  serving.  For  those  who  like 
the  flavor,  a  little  Burgundy  will  make  a  pleasant  addition. 
The  success  of  this  dessert  is  enhanced  by  the  fact  that  it 
can  be  taken  by  the  most  delicate  digestion,  and  is  very 
nutritious  as  well. 

As  the  Hebrew  writes — the  reverse  from  the  usual  way 
—  so  we  take  our  menu;  and  after  dessert  a  delicious  soup 
comes  to  mind.  Have  you  ever  heard  of  that  charming 
bachelors'  hall  out  on  Bush  street,  where  the  best  cook  in 
San  Francisco  presides  over  the  gastronomic  destinies  of 
three  young  men  who  are  an  fait  in  everything  pertaining 
to  the  art  epicurean — Hugo  Toland,  P.  Porter  Ashe,  and 
Ed  Mizner?  Those  bachelor  quarters  are  sybaritic  in  their 
luxurious  furnishings,  and  the  own  particular  "den"  of 
each  member  of  the  trio  has  an  individuality  that  is  a  sure 
index — if  one  wished  to  observe  and  deduct.  In  one  room, 
for  instance,  is  a  grill  over  the  folding  doors  that  is  a  study 
in  the  picturesque  arrangement  of  Indian  weapons,  pad- 
dles, snow-shoes,  wampum — all  in  the  sombre  coloring  that 
somehow  suggests  the  personality  of  the  stoics  of  this  new 
country.  Another  corner  is  a  glimpse  of  Japan,  and  the 
inlaid  tables,  wrought  metal  lamps,  and  embroidered 
screens  make  one  involuntarily  peer  about  for  the  almond- 
eyed  daughter  of  the  almond-tree  land,  who  ought  to  com- 
plete the  picture.     And,  speaking  of  pictures,    there  is  a 

work  of  art But  there;  it  was  soup  we  were  looking 

for,  was  it  not?     You  shall  have  it. 

The  caterer  to  the  digestive  delight  of  this  household  is 
from  the  southland,  and  having  been  an  accomplished  cook 
since  she  was  eleven  years  old,  is  past  mistress  in  the  art. 
Some  of  her  recipes  she  would  not  reveal  for  love  or 
money — a  certain  Roman  punch  is  one  (and  who  can  blame 
her) — but  she  was  good  enough  to  give  me  in  detail  the 
recipe  for  a,  filet  quinbo  that  has  not  a  duplicate  in  the  city. 


but    Miss  Stew 
art  gets  hers  direct    from    New  Orleans.      Th. 
ground  herb,  you  know,  like  sassiif, 

The  stock  for  this  soup  can  DA  made  by  taking  a  chicken 
(not  necessarily  a  young  one  this  time),  unjointlng  it,  and 
frying  In  a  rot/x  of  browned  flour  ami  butter— or  home- 
made lard  (she  prefers  the  lard  that  she   tries  out  herself, 

to  which  a  little  onion  has  been  added,     Saute  the  fowl  in 
Take  plenty  of   time  in  the  preparation  of  this 
-  in  disaster.     Add  to  this  three  quarts  of 
r,  and  let  it  cook  down  gradually  to  two  quarts,  | 
simmering.     By  the  time  it  is  so  reduced,  the  chicken  will 
sufficiently  cooked.    This  will  be  an   adequate 
tity  for  twelve  persons,  as  the  soup  Isviry  rich.  One- 
b  cooked  crab,  not  picked 
from  the  shell  fine,  but  the  meat,  kept,  as  far  as  possible  in- 
tact, thus  better  retaining  the  juice.     Then   add   a    green 
onion  and  a  bit  of  minced  parsley.      At   the   last  moment 
crown  it  with  a  heaping  tablesp'oonful  of  filet.      This  must 
never  be  allowed  to  boil,  or  the  dish   will   be  spoiled,    and 
the  soup  must  be  served  immediately  after  adding  it.    The 
Southern  style  is  to  serve  it  with   rice  dry  cooked,  so  that 
the  kernels  are  separate;  the  rice,  of  course,  being  placed 
upon  a  separate  dish. 

Okra  is  sometimes  used  instead  of  the  filet  to  give  the 
thickening  quality,  but  only  when  it  can  be  procured  fresh 
in  the  summertime  is  it  a  success;  the  dry  herb  is  not  satis- 
factory. 

Now,  if  that  bird  is  ready  to  walk  up  to  the  guillotine, 
we  can  discuss  the  chicken  a  la  Castilian,  to  which  refer- 
ence was  made  in  a  former  paper.  For  this,  a  young 
spring  chicken  is  necessary— pei-baps  a  grandchild  to  the 
one  who  met  her  fate  in  the  soup.  Unjoint  and  mute  it 
much  as  you  would  the  before-mentioned  fowl,  only  this 
time  the  operation  must  be  a  quick  one,  over  a  hot  fire — 
fifteen  minutes  ought  to  suffice.  The  sauce  must  be  of 
mushrooms,  cooked  in  about  two-thirds  of  a  cupful  of  white 
wine,  using  green  Chili  peppers— and  plenty  of  them— and 
strained  tomato  sauce.  A  little  chopped  green  onion  is 
also  added.  If  the  peppers  are  not  at  hand,  capsicum,  the 
genuine  cayenne  pepper,  will  do  for  a  substitute.  Put  in 
your  truffles  last.  The  flavor  permeates  the  dish  and  gives 
the  crowning  touch.  In  parenthesis,  do  not  allow  the 
chicken  to  be  plunged  into  boiling  water  to  facilitate  pluck- 
ing the  feathers— dry  picking,  as  it  is  called,  is  the  only 
right  way. 

While  we  are  on  fowl  murder  bent,  perhaps  another  way 
of  preparing  the  barnyard  beauty  will  not  be  amiss — 
chicken  Milanaise.  This  time  the  chicken  is  boiled.  After 
this  detail,  take  the  liquid  remaining  and  cook  rice  in  it, 
adding  a  bit  of  saffron,  tomato,  onion,  and  green  or  red 
peppers.     Serve  the  chicken  on  a  snowy  pillow  of  rice. 

I  cannot  refrain  from  giving  a  favorite  recipe  from  Mau- 
rice Barrymore,  the  actor,  who  is  a  favorite  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, but  perhaps  is  not  so  well  known  as  a  gourmet. 
Oeufs  Commodore  is  the  delicacy  that  is  measured  to  tickle 
the  Barrymore  palate.  It  is  a  combination  of  Sauce  Ber- 
naise,  poached  egg  and  truffle,  the  Sauce  Bernaise  being 
hot  and  placed  in  an  individual  egg  dish,  with  the  poached 
egg  topping  it,  and  crowning  the  egg  a  slice  of  stewed 
truffle.  The  egg  must  be  poached  in  the  liquor  in  which  the 
truffle  has  been  cooked:  therein  is  the  secret  of  the  dainty. 

One  more  word,  and  then  we  must  take  off  our  caps  and 
aprons.  You  know  what  a  lad  Will  Ashe  is  when  it  comes 
to  dining.  He  likes  to  potter  among  the  pots  and  pans  a 
bit  himself  on  the  quiet,  and  it  is  whispered  that  he  has 
such  a  fondness  for  a  certain  dish  of  his  own  preparation 
that  when  he  wants  to  swear  a  great,  round  oath,  and  all 
common  forms  seem  meaningless,  he  ejaculates  reverently, 
"  By  the  sacred  mystery  of  my  kidney  stew." 

Amy  L.  Wells. 

If  you  want  your  tea  the  same  all  the  year 
round,  get  Schilling  'j  Best  of  your  grocer. 

If  you  don't  like  it,  get  your  money  back — 
of  your  grocer. 

A  Schilling  &  Company 
San  Francisco. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  6,  1897. 


We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 


'•HAT  was  a  resolute,  sensible  argument 

for  a  San  Francisco  opera  house  which 

Peter  Robertson  printed  in  last  Sunday's 

Chronicle.     I  hope  it  will  accomplish   some 

:'M  good  for  the  cause,  but  I  doubt  it.     Mr. 

3851  Robertson's  plea  was  directed  toward  the 
gentlemen  who  breed  dollars — money  fanciers — and  his 
hopeful,  yet  conservative,  estimate  of  the  what  per  centum 
the  investment  may  be  made  to  yield  is  not  of  the  sort  to 
strike  deep  in  the  pockets  of  men  who  ask  nothing  less  of 
their  stock  than  the  nimble  fecundity  of  the-  rabbit. 

Moreover,  Mr.  Robertson  is  an  avowed  critic  of  music 
and  the  drama,  and  his  pen  is  necessarily  unconvincing  to 
the  financier.  Far  and  beyond  any  personal  discomfort,  it 
has  always  been  a  sad  fact  to  me  that  critics  are  invaria- 
bly poor.  I  wonder  by  what  means,  and  when,  and  where 
they  part  from  their  incomes!  Actors  and  singers  are  fre- 
quently found  wealthy,  dramatists  live  who  reek  with 
riches,  composers  make  wills,  the  bosom  of  a  manager's 
family  is  often  ablaze  with  diamonds — but  who  ever  heard 
of  a  rich  critic?  It  is  all  very  well  to  say  that  the  critic, 
so  soon  as  his  pockets  are  comfortably  filled,  turns  his 
talents  into  some  more  respectable  trade,  but  even  grant- 
ing plausibility  to  this  irreverence,  I  ask  you,  did  you  ever 
see  one  of  us  rich — even  though  reformed?  Have  you  ever 
discovered  a  critic  in  the  act  of  owning  real  property,  or 
in  any  other  way  identifying  himself  with  the  solid  men  of 

his  community? 

*  #  # 

The  critic's  poverty  shows  either  stalwart  honesty  or  a 
stupendous  lack  of  thrift,  or  both.  It  presents  the  tri- 
angular paradox:  to  be  honest  is  a  virtue,  to  be  poor  is  a 
crime,  to  be  both  is  stupid.  Still,  this  is  altogether  too 
generous  a  way  of  accounting  for  the  average  stupidity 
of  the  average  critic — no  such  leniency  is  shown  the  average 
actor,  singer,  or  playwright. 

*  #  * 

It  is  a  dangerous  thing  to  have  nothing  in  particular  to 
write  about.  I  have  wandered  far  from  Peter  Robertson 
and  that  new  opera  house.  I  meant  to  swing  easily  into 
what  appears  to  be  the  best  thing  that  could  possibly  hap- 
pen to  us  short  of  au  opera  house  and  the  singers  from  the 
Metropolitan — the  season  of  opera  which  commences  at 
the  California  Wednesday  night.  Thirty  gentlemen  of 
wealth,  enterprise,  and  fashion,  have  each  subscribed 
$1500,  making  a  total  of  $30,000,  to  be  used  as  a  guarantee 
fund.  Mr.  Bouvier  represents  the  guarantors,  the  Al. 
Hayman  &  Co.,  and  himself;  Messrs.  Friedlander,  Gottlob 
&  Marx  also  have  a  hand  in  the  management,  so  it  is  a 
very  pretty  burst  of  spirited  citizenship  all  round,  almost 
certain  to  result  in  glory  to  the  thirty  angels,  profit  to  the 
management,  and  a  season  of  holidays  for  the  town.  The 
newspapers  are  lending  enthusiastic  columns  to  keep  the 
good  work  moving,  and  it  is  rumored  that  the  critics  all 
will  be  equipped  with  evening  clothes,  thus  avoiding  ocular 
discord  at  the  festivities.  I  am  not  informed  to  what  ex- 
tent the  women  of  the  audiences  will  dress — not  very  high, 
let  us  hope.  Big  hats  will  be  worn  at  the  owners'  risk. 
Wagner  is  not  to  be  discussed  on  the  premises.  Patti 
comparisons  will  not  be  considered  elegant,  or  tactful. 
Tnere  will  be  no  diagram  of  the  boxes  printed  on  the  pro- 
grammes a  la  Metropolitan  Opera  House;  and  even  should 
there  be,  it  will  not  be  considered  the  fit  thing  to  para- 
phrase the  old  puzzle  and  say — "  Find  Herr  Bosworth." 

*  *  * 

Of  the  company  I  know  as  little  as  anyone  else  this  side 
of  France  beyond  that  it  numbers  over  140  singers,  danc- 
ers, musicians  and  directors,  and  has  just  completed  a 
twelve-weeks  season  of  continuous  triumph  in  New  Or- 
leans. 

The  reportory  includes  a  score  and  more  of  works  run- 
ning all  the  way  from  the  naughty  comedy  of  '28  Days  of 
Clairette  to  the  heavy  tragedy  of  the  Huguenots.  And  out 
of  these  many  operas  G.  Verdi's  serio-comic  world-beater, 


the  Trovatore,  has  been  chosen  for  the  opening  night.  I 
know  what  you  are  saying;  I  said  it  myself  to  Mr.  Bouvier. 
I  asked  him,  "Why  Trovatore  f" 

"Well,  I'll  be  blessed!"  he  answered.  "You  wouldn't 
have  a  new  opera  and  new  singers  and  an  opening  all  on  the 
same  night,  would  you  '!  You  want  to  hear  these  people 
sing — how  are  you  going  to  do  it  if  your  eyes  and  ears  are 
straining  over  the  color  and  the  sound  of  the  subsidized 
sevenths  and  delinquent  thirds  of  a  new  opera?" 

I  tried  to  say  that  there  were  Aida  and  Rigoletto  if  we 
absolutely  clamored  for  Verdi  and  singing,  or  that  even 
Faust  would  not  attract  too  much  attention  from  the 
singers,  if  the  orchestra  were  toned  down.  But  Bouvier 
was  unmoved.  Trovatore,  it  seems,  has  found  a  second 
youth  at  the  hands  of  these  daring  French.  And  they  do 
not  stop  with  the  singing — there  is  to  be  a  big  ballet  intro- 
duced into  Wednesday's  performance  which  it  is  said 
to  have  dimmed  the  splendorof  New  Orleans's  Mardi  Gras. 
And  with  the  ballet  and  the  audience — and  the  singing — I 
dare  say  we  can  make  out  a  brilliant  first  night. 

*  *  * 

Friday  night  we  are  to  have  L'Africaine,  which  is  almost 
a  novelty  in  San  Francisco;  at  the  Saturday  matinee  Faust 
with  the  ballet  and  all  the  company's  premieres.  Miss 
Uelyett  for  Saturday  night. 

*  *  * 

The  prices  scale  from  three  dollars  down.  The  seats  are 
now  worrying  the  management  more  than  the  dollars — it 
is  a  question  if  there  will   be  enough  in  the   California   to 

go  round. 

*  *  * 

There  is  good  value  in  the  musical  act  of  the  Waterbury 
Brothers  and  Tenny  at  the  Orpheum.  Tenny  is  a  real 
clown.  He  does  nothing  in  particular  except  play  the 
Czarina  Mazurka  on  the  clarionette  with  irresistible  carica- 
ture, and  clown  foolishly  during  the  instrumental  feats  of 
his  colleagues — but  if  you  are  amenable  to  the  laws  of  un- 
gravity  you  will  laugh  to  tears.  The  Waterburys  are 
clever,  too,  in  a  quite  legitimate  way.  Their  music  co- 
incides with  the  orchestra's — which  is  rare  in  a  vaudeville 
act — and  the  harmony  and  tone  they  rub  from  common 
table  tumblers  is  a  revelation  in  a  musical  way.  Dudley 
Prescott,  "the  human  brass  band,"  who  accomplishes 
with  his  lips  any  noise  that  was  ever  made,  was  here  sev- 
eral seasons  ago.  His  imitations  are  admirable,  but  his 
comedy  monologue  is  deadly.  Here  is  a  man  who  has  been 
in  the  variety  business  for  years,  doing  the  same  turn  and 
drawing  a  handsome  salary,  and  all  that  time  his  comedy 
remarks  have  been  blights  and  blots  on  the  cleverness  of 
his  actual  work.  There  are  hundreds  like  him.  And 
eight  dollars  given  to  some  poor  devil  of  a  writer  would 
buy  a  skit  of  incidental  conversation  that  would  at  least 
prevent  the  performer  from  appearing  at  anything  like 
his  natural  disadvantages. 

Mr.  Hastings  of  the  Orpheum  sends  me  this.  It  is  col- 
loquial, but  it  is  sincere  : 

We  have  a  corker  of  a  bill  nest  week  1  If  you  don't  believe  it,  read 
the  ad.  Tbe  Jordans  are  on  their  way  to  Australia — live  of  'era. 
John  Burke  was  with  Henderson's  Aladdin—  he  took  Eddy  Foy's 
place,  and  is  very  funny.  The  Olifans  are  just  from  across  the 
water,  and  their  act  has  turned  New  York  upside  down.  It  is  said 
to  be  indescribably  funny.  The  sextette  from  Lucia  will  be  given. 
Virginia  Aragon  was  here  last  year,  and  the  is  a  beautiful  wire 
walker.  Dudley  Prescott,  the  Waterbury  Brothers  and  Tenny,  and 
Barney  Fagan  and  Henrietta  Byron  all  have  new  stuff. 

*  *  * 

This  is  the  first  time  I  ever  caught  the  Columbia  Thea- 
tre's press  agent  in  an  act  of  glaring  modesty.  "There 
are  few  better  actors  in  America,"  he  writes,  "than 
Joseph  Haworth,  and  there  is  no  reason  why  Mr.  Haworth 
should  not  wear  the  mantle  of  the  late  Alexander  Salvini." 
There  are  indeed  few  better  actors  in  America  than 
Haworth,  so  few  in  the  legitimate  line  that  they  do  not 
live;  and  if  it  comes  to  a  question  of  dead  men's  old  clothes, 
I  think  Haworth  will  find  Salvini's  somewhat  small  for 
him.  Salvini  promised  great  things;  Haworth  has  accom- 
plished a  few.  I  do  not  know  what  Haworth  will  do  with 
Ruy  Bias,  in  fact  I  know  nothing  of  his  mettle  in  the 
romantic  beyond  what  his  Mortimer  in  Mary  Stuart  sug- 
gested. If  he  lives  up  to  that  performance  we  can  ask 
nothing  greater. 

The  Haworth  engagement  at  the   Columbia  opens  Mon- 


h  6. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER 


.nd  lasts  only  a  wook.     Hawortb  will   play  the  Edwin 
Booth  version  a(  rearranged    hy  Wil- 

liam Winter,  Several  men.  and  Fraw 

mpanies  will  be  in  tl  .  d  Hiss  Margaret 

ven  will  re-appear  again  as  leading  woman.    The  romance 
to  to  be  preceded  by  G  us  Thorn  a  ;  Ma* 

qf  ih.    World,  which  Barrymore  played  at  tins  same  thea- 
tre two  seasons  ago. 

The  Gilbert   A   Sullivan  «s  merrily  on  at  the 

Tivoli.  and  once  again  I  hav,'  to  applaud  the  choru 
orchestra— this  time  for  their  alert  work  in  The  Mikado. 
Not  that  there  are  not  other  good  points  to  the  perform- 
ance, but  because  the  chorus  and  musicians  are  so  con- 
spicuously excellent.  The  only  fault  to  be  found  with  the 
chorus  is  in  its  articulation— though,  for  the  matter  of 
that,  articulation  is  not  the  Tivoli  company's  strong  held. 
Hartman  is  the  only  member  to  be  alwaj's  depended  upon 
for  a  faultless  enunciation  of  the  text.  A  sparkling  re- 
vival of  Pinafore  is  promised  for  next  week. 

*  *  « 

Fanny  Rice  and  her  company  opened  in  a  new  bill 
Thursday  night.  Tin  Flower  Girl  of  Paris,  which  will  be 
continued  during  the  two  days  remaining  of  her  engage- 
ment at  the  Columbia. 

*  *  » 

Short  Acret  has  another  week  to  run  at  the  Baldwin.  It 
is  too  good  a  play  to  miss;  it  marks  an  epoch  in  the  drama 
of  externals  and  the  utilization  of  stage  children. 

*  *  * 

I  was  grieved  to  learn  Thursday  afternoon  that  the 
permanency  of  the  Symphony  concerts  now  depends  on  the 
general  public  of  San  Francisco,  and  the  towns  around 
the  bay.  Messrs.  Lilienthal,  Lesser  and  Carrigan  have 
issued  a  circular  in  which  it  is  stated  that  if  about  six  or 
seven  hundred  subscribers  can  be  secured  who  will  pay  an- 
nual dues  of  from  six  to  twelve  dollars  (according  to  loca- 
tion of  seats)  it  will  be  possible  to  maintain  twelve  con- 
certs a  year,  divided  into  two  seasons.  I  hope  the  sub- 
scribers will  be  soon  and  plentiful.  The  circular  closes 
with  this  dread  alternative  : — "If  we  should  oot  meet  with 
sufficient  encouragement,  we  propose  to  abandon  the  at- 
tempt of  establishing  a  Symphony  Society  in  San  Fran- 
cisco." 

Trebelli's  concerts  this  afternoon  and  Tuesday  evening, 
at  Golden  Gate  Hall,  will  be  the  only  important  musical 
events  before  the  opera  opens.  She  will  sing  a  number  of 
new  songs  at  each  concert.  Miss  Schocht,  violiniste  (a 
pupil  of  Joachim's),  and  Mr.  Sauvlet  will  assist  at  the  first 
concert,  Miss  van  der  Naillen,  Mrs.  Hush  and  Mr.  Sauvlet 
at  the  second. 

*  *  * 

There  was  almost  a  crowd  in  the  Columbia  Thursday 
afternoon,  and  everybody  got  one  of  the  circulars.  I  am 
sorry  the  .symphony  was  not  a  stronger  appeal  to  the  laic 
music-lovers.  The  Brahms  Symphony  (No.  4  in  E  minor) 
does  not  seem  to  be  a  work  to  stir  the  pulse  at  a  first 
hearing,  and  Hinrichs  and  the  musicians  (quite  like  the 
rest  of  us)  did  not  approach  it  with  any  notable  intimacy. 
However,  Brahms  never  has  been  famous  for  cordiality 
and  warmth,  and  I  suppose  Hinrichs  gave  what  is  known 
to  the  vague  gentlemen  of  the  press  as  a  "scholarly  read- 
ing." He  brought  big  splashes  of  color  out  of  Bizet's 
Roman  Carnival  overture,  and  the  Hansel  and  Gretel  fan- 
tasia was  played  with  splendid  enthusiasm.  Trebelli  ap- 
peared unhappy.  She  sang  the  J>on  Giovanni  aria  because 
Hinrichs  wanted  it,  to  keep  up  the  classic  tone  of  his  pro- 
gramme. And  she  sang  it  as  though  she  would  rather  it 
had  been  anything  else  in  the  world.     I  wish  it  had  been. 

Ashton  Stevens. 

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"  Brown's  Bronchial  Troches"  give  relief  in  all  Bronchial  Affections. 
A  simple  and  safe  remedy.    Avoid  imitations. 


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i>.-itcr  oonduoled  botoll  In  tho  metropolis  than  ttao 
St   Denis. 

The  K'tvu!  popularity  It  has  acquired  can  readily 
bo  traced  to  Us  unique  location.  Its   home-like  at- 
mosphere, thi  toeUuoeot  its  cuisine  and 
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Matinee  Saturday  ooly. 

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Supported  by  Miss  Maroaret  Craven  and  a  powerful  compuny. 
lnagp'ai  double  bill,  Victor  Hugo's  masterpiece, 

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effects.    Next  Attraction— Cissy  Fitkckkald. 

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via  New   Orleans,  where  they  have  just  completed  a  brilliant 

subscription  season  of  twelve  weeks. 

Wednesday,  March  10th,  TROVATORE. 

Friday  (first  time  in  years),  L'AFRIGAINE. 

Saturday  matinee,  FAUST. 

Saturday  evening,  MISS  HELYETT. 

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home  life, 

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Remember!    There  are  but  seveuinore  performances. 
Monday,  March  loth:  FANNY  DAVENPORT  in    "Gismonda." 

T'    .     I '     r\  f—i  Mrs.  Ernestine  Kreling, 

IVOll     Upera     riOUSe.  Proprietor  and  Manager 

The  Gilbert  &  Sullivan  season.  Last  nights  of  THE  MIKADO. 
Next  week  the  most  popular  satire,  H.  M.  S. 

PINAFORE. 

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duction in  every  detail. 

Next  Opera—"  The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor." 
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VJrpneUm  .    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 

Week  commencing  Monday,  March  8.     A  bill  beyond  compare. 

THE    FLYING    cJORDAN  VAUDEVILLES 

headed  by  the  great  flying  Jordans;  Mario  &  Mario,  horizontal 
bar  performers;  Virginia  Aragon,  high  wire  artiste;  John 
Burke  and  Grace  Forest,  comedians;  The  Oliphans,  three- 
headed  nondescript;  Grand  Opera  Stars,  in  the  sextette  from 
"Lucia:"  Waterbury  Brothers  and  Tenny;  Barney  Fagan  and 
Henrietta  'Byron;  and  Dudley  Prescott,  the  "Human  Brass 
Band.1'  Prices:  Reserved  seats,  25c  ;balcony  10c;  opera  chairs 
and  bos  seats  50c.  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sun 
day.  Matinee  Prices:  Parquet,  any  seat,  25c;  balcony,  any 
seat,  10c;  children.  10c,  any  part. 


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Next  Tuesday,  March  9th,  at  8:15  p.  m.    MLLE. 

TREBELLI, 

Farewell  song  recital,  assisted  by  Misses  Jean  and  Florence 
Hush  (violin  and  piano),  Miss  Van  der  Naillen.  and  Messrs. 
G.  Sauvlet,  A  Rodeman.  J  Maxrion.  Mile.  Trebelli  will  sing 
Bizet's  Chanson  Arabe,  "Lohere  the  gentle  lark,"  with  flute 
obligato.  Arioso  by  Delebes,  etc 
Box  office  open  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s.    $1  and  50  cents. 


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Dervtist. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  6,  1897. 


THE     JEWS     AND     THE     BIBLE. 
[In   Two   Papers. — Part  Second.] 


BY   DR.    G.    A.    DANZIGER. 

IN  viewing  the  Bible  from  a  religious  point,  the  Jew 
differs  vastly  from  the  Christian.  He  looks  at  it  as  a 
book  as  subtle  in  expression  as  the  tints  of  the  rose;  vari- 
formed  as  the  flora  of  a  garden;  heterogeneous  elements 
made  homogeneous  by  the  love  of  a  patriot  for  his  country 
and  by  the  trend  of  thought  he  is  privileged  to  follow.  To 
hirr  it  is  the  most  remarkable  book  that  has  ever  been 
written;  not  inspired  but  inspiring;  not  the  truth,  but  the 
repository  of  great  truths;  a  casket  of  the  most  exquisite 
workmanship,  containing  jewels  of  priceless  value,  and  al- 
so some  dull,  lackluster  baubles.  It  is  the  basis  of  literary 
conception,  and  artistic  expression,  and  because  of  its 
various  and  interesting  pictures,  scenes,  dramas,  narra- 
tives and  proverbs,  constitutes  the  guide  of  literary  taste. 
Some  of  its  fictions  are  lovable  because  of  the  rhythm  and 
resonance,  beauty  and  fire  of  their  expressions.  As  one 
in  his  senses  would  not  willfully  destroy  an  object  of 
great  beauty,  so  would  not  a  true  scholar  denude  these 
fictions  of  their  inherent  grandeur.  No  one  thinks  of  tak- 
ing these  grand  forms  of  the  Genesis  as  facts;  any  more 
than  a  student  of  mythology  would  think  of  taking  the 
Olympian  battles  as  historical  facts  whereon  to  build  an 
ethical  system.  But  that  by  no  means  deteriorates  the 
actual  value  of  the  Bible  as  a  book  that  is  vastly  conducive 
to  human  happiness.  What  is  human  happiness  made  of, 
but  of  a  few  truths  and  many  fictions?  In  this  respect  no 
literature  can  show  anything  that  might  adequately  rank 
with  the  Bible.  Shakespeare's  most  beautiful  monologue 
on  the  philosphy  of  life  cannot  compare  with  the  depths  of 
Job.  Milton's  strongest  cantos  in  "Paradise  Lost"  are 
far  behind  some  psalms  or  some  chapters  of  the  "Great 
Unknown" — Isaiah.  The  simple  narrative  form  of  Joshuah, 
Judges,  Samuel,  Kings  and  Nehemiah  far  surpasses 
Herodotus  and  Macaulay.  The  "Song  of  Songs"  is  a 
poetical  work  of  transcendent  perfection;  "Ecclesiastes" 
breathes  the  phylosophy  of  every  age  and  of  all  time,  and 
"Ruth"  surpasses  all  poems,  in  prose  or  verse,  ancient  or 
modern.  Take,  for  example,  the  works  of  Homer,  Virgil, 
Livy,  Tasso,  Ariosto,  Walter  Scott,  Tennyson  and  our  own 
Lew  Wallace  which  present  artistic  elaboration  of  a  high 
degree  in  the  descriptions  of  battles,  duels  and  races; 
however  fine  their  style,  however  concise  their  delineatiou, 
they  pale  by  the  side  of  that  simple  story  which  tells  of  the 
duel  between  David  and  Goliath.  Dramatic  force  is  ex- 
hausted in  the  life  and  adventures  of  Joseph;  the  exodus  of 
the  Hebrews  from  Egypt;  the  fall  of  Jericho,  the  death 
scene  of  Elijah;  the  song  of  Deborah;  David's  lamentations 
over  Saul;  the  lives  and  adventures  of  Jonathan  and 
Absolom,  and  last  but  not  least,  those  grand,  wonderously 
penetrating  strains,  those  sobs  and  heartrending  wailings 
of  Jeremiah  as  he  sat  upon  the  ruins  of  Jerusalem. 

There  is  another,  grander,  idea  in  the  Jew's  love  for  the 
Bible,  (and  by  that  I  mean  the  learned  Jew,  for  it  is  he 
and  he  alone  of  all  his  people,  who  thinks  and  reasons  in- 
telligently about  these  subjects)  and  that  is  the  Mono- 
theistic Doctrine,  which  runs  through  the  books  like  a  red 
thread  in  a  blue  web.  However  diversified  the  subjects, 
however  different  the  form  and  style  of  each  book,  how- 
ever long  the  periods  between  the  composition  of  the 
works,  one  thought  permeates  the  whole — the  belief  in  one 
ever-living,  ever-present,  omnipotent  Creator  and  Ruler  of 
the  Universe — that  very  doctrine  for  which  heathen  Borne 
and  Greece  despised  the  Hebrew.  It  is  as  if  some  malev- 
olent spirit  and  not  the  awakened  consciousness  of  the 
oneness,  the*  harmony  the  homogeneity  of  the  universe, 
had  inspired  and  burdened  a  people  with  this  doctrine. 
Begotten  in  an  age  of  idolatry,  this  one  idea  has  withstood 
the  onslaughts  of  human  antagonism,  has  caused  its  ad- 
herents untold  agony,  and  seems  to  be  destined  to  unite 
all  mankind  under  the  benign  influence  of  its  wisdom  and 
rationality.  The  speeches  delivered  by  the  prophets 
against  the  oft-occurring  weakness  of  the  Jews  for  wor- 
shipping the  idols  of  their  neighbors — by  the  way,  a 
species  of  national  suicide — constitute  the  chief  beauty  of 
the  Bible. 

The  Jews,  it  is  well  known,  are  optimists;  they  are  not 
so  rash  nor  so  ready  to  destroy  themselves  or  their  fellow 
beings  as  other  people.     This  optimism  has  often  been  re- 


marked upon  by  those  whose  imperfect  knowledge  of  the 
Jews  made  them  the  readier  to  judge.  Some  called  it 
cowardice;  others  were  pleased  to  excuse  this  trait  by  the 
insinuation  that  the  Jews  counting  their  shekels,  could  ill 
afford  time  for  genteel  sport.  (How  cutting  one  another's 
throats  could  possibly  be  genteel,  or  anything  .worth 
practicing,  ordinary  understanding  fails  to  grasp).  That 
the  Jew  was  a  fighter,  when  fighting  counted  for  domestic 
bliss,  patriotism,  the  love  of  God  and  law,  history  gives 
incontrovertible  testimony.  But  the  Jews,  who  are  said 
to  have  rejected  Christ,  actually  lived  and  acted  in  the 
spirit  of  His  teachings.  They  bore  their  burdens  with 
meekness,  satisfied  with  God's  sunshine,  the  law,  and  ce- 
mented the  union  so  characteristic  of  the  Jew.  Christ 
preached  his  sermons  from  the  Old  Testament,  and  the 
Jews  lived  their  lives,  bore  their  sorrows,  buoyed  up  by 
the  same  spirit;  hoping  for  and  believing  in  the  golden 
dawn  of  a  lasting  joy.  This  optimistic  inspiration,  which 
endows  a  Christ  with  patience  and  fortitude  to  bear  His 
cross  to  Calvary,  which  gives  the  Jew  courage  to  suffer 
twenty  centuries  of  martyrdom,  whence  is  it  taken  but 
from  the  Bible?  And  though  it  took  a  thousand  years  to 
accomplish  the  entire  work,  this  splendid  idea  was  never 
lost  sight  of. 

It  is  a  pathetic  story  worth  relating  how  the  early  frag- 
ments of  the  Bible,  those  fragments  known  as  the  "Five 
Books,"  were savedfromutterdestructionshortly before  the 
devastation  of  the  first  temple  in  Jerusalem  (586  B.  C.) 
When  the  hollow  eyes  of  death  stared  the  Jews  in  the  face, 
they  bethought  them  of  the  fragments  of  the  "Five  Books" 
and  other  manuscripts,  which  had  lain  in  the  "book 
chamber"  forgotten,  unread  and  uncared  for.  It  was  a 
blessed  impulse  that  prompted  the  man  or  men — who 
knows?  one  man  often  saves  a  nation — to  remove  the 
manuscripts  from  their'  mouldy  repository  and  to  secrete 
them  where  the  ruthless  hand  of  the  heathen  could  not 
touch  them.  Who  were  the  men,  who  moved  by  a  venera- 
tion for  these  old  fragments  or  by  an  awakened  conscious- 
ness of  their  national  value,  saved  them,  carried  them  into 
Babylonian  captivity,  and  sent  them  back  to  the  mother- 
land, when  the  light  of  redemption  illumined  the  path  of 
their  descendants?  Who  were  they?  Who  knows?  Who 
cares?  They  are  not  inglorious.  What  they  have  ac- 
complished in  moments  of  dire  distress,  has  shed  a  waneless 
glory  upon  the  race.  Emulating  this  heroic  example  of 
true  devotion  to  the  religio-literary  treasures  of  the  nation, 
the  later  Jews,  the  "Men  of  the  Great  Synod,"  edited  and 
enlarged  these  fragments,  creating  this  wondrous  book, 
the  Bible.  Thanks  to  these  pioneers  in  the  literary  do- 
main of  the  Jews,  the  three  most  rational  religions — 
Judaism,  Christianity  and  Mohammedanism — came  into 
existence.  As  it  is,  who  can  tell  how  much  has  been  lost? 
how  much  poorer  we  are  to-day  in  humanity,  brotherly 
love  and  general  mental  enjoyment?  According  to  the 
book  of  Kings,  Solomou  was  the  author  of  three  thousand 
proverbs  and  one  thousand  and  five  songs.  Of  the  former 
but  few  are  extant,  and  of  the  latter  we  have  the  "Song 
of  Songs,"  the  idyllic  charm  of  which  magnifies  our  regret 
for  the  loss  of  the  others.  The  Bible  is  the  Jew's  patent 
of  cosmic  citizenship.  By  means  of  this  he  preached  to 
the  world  the  doctrine  of  liberty,  equality  and  fraternity. 
What  the  world  gained  in  art,  in  philosophy,  aye,  even  in 
science,  is  largely  due  to  the  Bible.  God-graced  poets 
transplanted  Sharon's  lilies'  and  Jericho's  roses  in  the 
gardens  of  the  Occident.  Racine,  Shakespeare,  Byron, 
Milton,  Lessing,  Heine,  Herder,  Kloppstock,  Goethe  and 
Schiller,  all  drank  at  the  Biblical  fountain;  from  the  winged 
words  of  the  ancient  seers,  from  the  grand  yet  simple 
rhythm  of  their  speeches,  the  great  of  the  latter-day  poets 
borrowed  the  fine  and  charming  simplicity  of  their  art, 
hence  it  may  be  said  with  a  full  degree  of  justice,  that  all 
modern  poetry  and  the  sacred  in  particular  is  a  continuous, 
perpetuating  commentary  of  the  ancient  writings.  But 
greater  than  the  poets,  more  lasting  than  literature  itself 
is  the  Jew  as  a  conservator  of  the  Bible,  which  he  read 
amidst  joy  and  sorrow,  domestic  opulence  or  ceaseless, 
homeless  wanderings,  treasuring  its  teachings,  adhering 
to  its  plain  and  simple  standard  of  ethical,  social  and  re- 
ligious principles;  and  for  that  the  world  owes  the  Jew  a 
debt,  it  can  repay  only  by  a  truer  appreciation  of  his 
character,  a  better  regard  for  his  virtues,  and  a  fuller  de- 
sire to  understand  his  mission  in  the  world. 


March  6.  1897. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THK    startling    news 
that  thi  society  leader 
of  cotillions  and  sich,  Ed.  1  is  about   to  rest  on 

his  laurels  and  "jrive  some  other  fellow  a  chance,"  has 
produced  more  than  a  ripple  in  the  swim.  Dowagers  have 
Rrown  so  sure  of  what  the  genial  gentleman  directs  or  ad- 
they  shake  their  dear  old  heads  in  despair  at  facing 
future  functions  without  his  invaluable  aid  as  to  list  of 
guests  and  list  of  dishes  alike.  Then  the  sweet  buds,  who 
have  such  reverence  for  Green  way  that  he  is  the  one  thing 
they  do  reverence — "  who.  say  they,  "  is  to  tell  us  which 
man  to  dance  with,  and  low  to  discriminate  as  to  'favors,' 
etc."  The  men  take  it  more  philosophically,  and  one  or 
two.  with  more  money  than  employment,  are  going  to  de- 
vote the  Lenten  period  to  getting  tips  from  the  tired  Ed., 
and  to  studying  deeply  the  figures  of  the  german.  So 
things  might  be  worse,  after  all. 
«  #  » 

A  novel  scheme  to  keep  one's  name  before  a  friend  has 
found  its  home  in  the  brain  of  one  of  our  society  young 
ladies.  On  the  occasion  of  an  anniversary  or  return  home 
of  a  friend — when  flowers  have  ceased  to  arrive,  our  young 
lady  lets  a  few  days  pass  on,  and  then  she  deftly  sends  on 
her  donation,  cleverly  figuring  out  that  with  the  "masse" 
her  little  gift  is  liable  to  be  overlooked.  In  this  way,  the 
welcome  home  or  birthday  have  been  followed  by  a  few  in- 
timates, and  the  floral  celebrations  begin  to  last  close  on 
to  a  fortnight. 

*  #  * 

Gossip  says  the  old  boys  of  the  Cosmos  Club  are  medi- 
tating an  elaborate  Easter  housewarming  in  their  new 
quarters,  the  defunct  Lake  school,  and  their  lady  friends 
will  surely  never  let  the  idea  die  out  for  want  of  fuel.  It 
is  also  reported  that  the  club  will  inaugurate  a  ladies'  grill 
room,  where  luncheons  may  be  served  of  so  dainty  a  type 
that  the  University  Club  menu  will  not  be  "  in  it." 

*  *  * 

The  girls  are  bewailing  the  departure  of  the  popular 
beau,  Sam  Boardman,  for  Honolulu,  but  as  he  is  booked 
for  the  Easter  cotillions,  his  absence  will  not  be  a  pro- 
longed one.  The  only  fear  is  that  the  sea  voyage  may  have 
"possibilities"  in  fellow  travelers  that  will  catch  the  young 
man's  fancy,  away  from  the  girls  he  left  behind  him. 

*  *  * 

Now  that  the  success  of  the  society  play  is  an  assured 
fact,  society  may  look  for  more  amateur  undertakings  in 
the  theatrical  line.  'Tis  said  that  some  excellent  material 
for  the  drama  can  be  found  among  the  newly  arrived  Third 
Artillery  at  the  Presidio,  and  the  young  ladies  of  the  regi- 
ment are  declared  to  be  especially  gifted. 

*  *  * 

Already  the  swagger  set  is  making  up  parties  for  coun- 
try pastimes,  arranging  to  go  together  to  different  locales, 
as  tastes  dictate.  San  Rafael  seems  to  be  the  chief  favor- 
ite, so  far,  to  judge  by  the  long  list  of  fashionable  people 
who  have  written  for  rooms  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  to  genial 
host  Warfield. 

»  #  # 

An  on  d!t  from  the  Islands  goes  that  Donald  de  V.  Gra- 
ham's success  in  Honolulu  has  been  phenomenal,  but  that 
if  the  breakage  of  any  more  vessel's  gear  necessitates  a 
further  stay  in  that  festive  spot,  our  own  Donald  de  V. 
runs  in  danger  of  being  kept  there  altogether. 

*  *  * 

Society  is  wonderiug  as  to  who  will  be  the  fortunate  one 
selected  to  assist  Mrs.  Claus  Spreckels  in  dispensing  the 
hospitalities  of  the  Van  Ness  avenue  palace.  Some  say  a 
niece;  others,  that  the  eldest  son  and  his  amiable  wife  will 
be  domiciled  with  the  old  folks. 
»  «  ft 

Rumor  asserts  that  Mrs.  R.  P.  Schwerine  will  entertain 
card  club  parties  during  Lent.  The  guests  who  played  at 
the  party  given  by  Mrs.  Hopkins,  wife  of  the  oculist,  say 
it  was  a  most  delightful  affair  in  every  way. 


1'  "■•  a  to  note  the  different  gli 

the  Crocker  ten    that  it   the   tea  at  tbeCrocki 

last  Saturday.  ring  glances  tiny  coat  on  then- 

-  everj  time  passed   a   mirror  at  .-.  • 

'  tla   h rsof  the  palatial  abode!     Him 

a  secret  si»>fi  ami  wish  f,.r  the  reality  went  up  from  youth- 
ful hearts  that  day ' 

•  «  » 

Mrs.  Maria  Norris's  many  Mends  are  delighted  to  wel- 
come her  back  from  her  long  visit  to  Japan,  but  fear  her 
stay  lure  will  only  be  a  temporary  one,  if  gossip  speaks 
by  the  raid. 

«  *  « 

"  .Miss  liomie  Wallace  and  Miss  Bernie  Drown  are  said  to 
resemble  each  other  greatly,  but  in  height  alone  can  I  see 
it.  was  the  remark  of  a  young  clubman  at  the  last  Fort- 
nightly.   

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March  6,  1897. 


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"  Fontenay.  the  Swordsman."     A  military  novel  by  Fortune  du 
Boisgobey.    Translated  by  H.  L.  Williams.   Published  by  Rand, 
McNally  &  Co.,  Chicago  and  New  York. 
a  Book        This  is  a  well-told  story  of  the  Napoleonic 
of  wars  in  Spain,  the  chief  interest  of  which 

the  Week.  centers  round  a  young  West  Indian  named 
Fontenay,  a  favorite  and  protege  of  the  Em- 
press Josephine.  Fontenay  is  in  love  with  the  Empress's 
reading-woman,  Marguerite  de  Gavre,  who  has  some  rela- 
tives and  a  fortune  in  Spain.  The  story  opens  with  a  dra- 
matic duel  between  Fontenay  and  a  blustering,  bullying 
military  officer  named  Carenac  :  the  duel  is  interrupted  by 
the  unexpected  appearance  of  the  Empress,  and  the  con- 
testants part  to  renew  the  quarrel  on  another  occasion. 
Long  afterwards,  in  Spain,  the  two  officers  meet  on  a  bat- 
tlefield, and  agree  to  march  up  to  the  enemy's  guns  side 
by  side,  and  let  Fate  settle  the  dispute.  By  strange  luck, 
both  the  men  escape,  and  become  fast  friends.  Fontenay 
is  accompanied  throughout  the  war  by  Tournesol,  a  tall 
and  humorous  Gascon,  whose  unfailing  good  temper  and 
practical  knowledge  of  soldiership  are  invaluable  to  his 
superior  officer.  Fontenay  has  many  exciting  adventures 
and  hair's-breadth  escapes,  but,  of  course,  comes  safely  out 
of  them  all  and  marries  his  lady-love,  who,  having  lost  her 
Spanish  fortune  through  the  machinations  of  a  wicked  uncle, 
is  generously  dowered  by  the  Empress.  The  story  moves 
briskly  all  through,  and  the  translation  is  satisfactory,  ex- 
cept for  a  tendency  on  the  part  gf  the  translator  to  misuse 
his  "  wills "  and  "sballs,"  as,  for  instance:  "In  a  week 
we  will  be  in  Paris;"  "I  will  be  charmed  to  perform  my 
novitiate  under  your  direction;"  "It  is  probable  that  we 
will  assault  the  large  hospital  before  long."  The  worst  of 
these  misuses  of  the  signs  of  the  future  tense  is  the  follow- 
ing :  "  We  will  not  be  shown  mercy;  we'll  be  massacred." 
This  is  surpassed  only  by  the  famous  ejaculations  of  the 
Irishman  who,  having  fallen  into  a  river,  exclaimed:  "I 
will  be  drowned,  and  no  one  shall  help  me."  Nor  do  we 
much  like  the  following  sentences:  "A  soldier  must  not 
thank  a  Marshal  of  France  like  a  citizen  may  a  State 
official  who  grants  him  a  favor;"  "  He  has  left  orders  con- 
cerning you  at  the  war  ministry's;"  "This  so  quickly  in- 
terrupted appeal  of  the  bronze  annunciator."  The  last  is 
a  pretentiously  offensive  manner  of  telling  of  the  sudden 
cessation  of  the  ringing  of  a  bell.  But,  notwithstanding 
these  blemishes,  the  tale  is  eminently  readable,  and  will 
prove  pleasant  to  any  one  fond  of  lively  incident  and  dan- 
gerous adventure,  not  unmingled  with  humor  and  the  sen- 
timent of  love. 

"The  Month  in  Literature,  Art  and  Life:  A  Journal  of 
Cultivation,"  is  a  monthly  edition  of  The  Critic,  edited  by 
Joseph  B.  Gilder  and  Jeannette  Gilder,  the  latter  of  whom 
is  responsible  for  the  department  entitled  "The  Lounger." 
The  first,  or  January  issue,  contained  one  hundred  and 
six  pages  of  magazine  size,  filled  with  interesting  literary 
matter,  illustrated  by  portraits  of  Rudyard  Kipling,  Wal- 
ter Pater,  Lord  Tennyson,  Bishop  Creighton  of  London, 
Dr.  John  Maclaren  Watson,  Dr.  Birkbeck  Hill,  and  many 
other  celebrities.  From  it  I  learn  that  Sir  Edward  John 
Poynter,  the  new  President  of  the  Royal  Academy,  is  an 
uncle  of  Rudyard  Kipling,  that  young  Anglo-Indian  whom 
the  gods  have  gifted  with  the  faculty  of  story-telling  in  a 
higher  degree  than  any  of  his  contemporaries,  and  who 
goes  very  near  being  the  greatest  poet  of  his  day  to  boot. 
The  President  of  the  Royal  Academy  receives  $5000  per 
annum,  and  Sir  Edward  receives  an  additional  $5000  as  Di- 
rector of  the  National  Gallery.  We  are  surprised  to  find 
"The  Lounger "  writing  "What  would  we  say  if,"  etc.; 
but  then,  the  very  air  breathes  corruption  in  the  use  of 
"will"  and  "shall,"  "would"  and  "should."  Apropos  of 
a  statement  lately  made  by  The  Argonaut  to  the  effect 
that  American  writers  do  not  "get  a  fair  show"  in  Ameri- 
can magazines.  "The  Lounger  "  points  out  that  Poultney 
Bigelow,  W.  D.  Howells,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Alexander,  Laurence 
Hutton,  Brander  Matthews,  C.  D.  Warner,  J.  K.    Bangs, 


and  a  host  of  other  Americans,  are  writing  as  hard  as 
they  can  for  Harper's  Magazine,  and  that  American 
writers  figure  very  largely  in  The  Bazar  and  The  Weekly. 
The  Century,  too,  is,  with  the  exception  of  Mrs.  Hum- 
phry Ward's  story,  full  of  the  work  of  American  pensters, 
as  are  also  St.  Nicholas  and  Scribner's  ?  Why  should 
American  periodicals  bar  out  all  but  American  writers? 
Certainly,  British  periodicals  accept  good  work  from 
whichever  side  of  the  Atlantic  it  comes,  without  troubling 
themselves  about  the  nativity  of  the  writer.  "The 
Lounger  "  places  us  under  obligation  by  rescuing  the  fol- 
lowing gem  from  the  New  York  Evening  Post:  "Wild  dogs 
as  dangerous  as  wolves  have  lately  been  abundant  in  those 
parts  of  Japan  that  were  destroyed  by  the  tidal  wave  of 
January  15th.  They  killed  several  country  postmen,  until 
these  officials  were  supplied  with  trumpets,  of  which  these 
animals  are  afraid."  Thus  in  certain  parts,  now  non-exis- 
tent, of  Japan,  postmen,  though  "killed,"  come  to  life 
again,  and  deliver  letters  as  if  nothing  had  happened,  if 
they  are  "supplied  with  trumpets,"  of  which  (or  the  noise 
produced  by  blowing  upon  which?)  the  dogs  are  afraid. 
One  would  have  supposed  that  the  only  trumpet  that 
would  avail  to  awaken  a  dead  mail-carrier  would  be  the 
trump  of  the  Archangel  announcing  the  Day  of  Judgment. 
Please  observe  the  "woulds  "  in  the  last  sentence. 

We  are  sorry  to  see  an  esteemed  contemporary  falling 
into  the  error,  much  beloved  of  the  daily  newspapers,  of 
speaking  of  a  recent  bride  as  "Mrs.  H.  A.  Isenberg,  nee 
Virginia  Duisenberg."  Supposing  that  "  nee  "  stands  for 
nee,  surely  the  present  Mrs.  Isenberg  was  not  "born  Vir- 
ginia ";  she  was  born  a  naked  infant,  to  whom,  after  much 
cudgelling  of  their  brains,  the  worthy  Duisenberg  pair 
(pere  and  mere)  gave  the  name  "Virginia."  That  the 
error  is  not  accidental  is  shown  by  the  fact  that,  on  the 
same  page,  another  young  woman  is  spoken  of  as  "nee 
Louise." 

From  the  January  issue  of  The  Book  and  News  Dealer  we 
learn  that  many  newsdealers  have  torn  out  from  the  copies 
of  Munsey's  for  sale  on  their  stands  all  advertising  pages 
containing  announcements  of  subscription-agents  offering 
to  supply  two  or  more  periodicals  at  reduced  rates.  Thus 
the  advertisers  whose  advertisements  are  so  unlucky  as  to 
be  printed  on  the  same  pases  or  on  the  opposite  side  of 
those  pages,  lose  the  benefit  of  their  advertisements. 
Here  is  fresh  proof  of  the  fact  that  people  eager  to  hurt 
those  whom  they  do  not  like  are  quite  ready  to  injure  en- 
tirely innocent  people  as  well.  The  Delineator,  McClure's, 
Godey's,  and  other  magazines  and  their  advertisers,  have 
also  suffered  in  the  same  way  as  Munsey's.  The  Book  and 
News  Dealer  tells  us  that  some  periodicals,  anxious  to  in- 
crease their  circulation  at  any  sacrifice  of  dignity  and  self- 
respect,  have  adopted  the  plan  of  giving  subscriptions  free 
to  purchasers  of  a  well-known  and  much-advertised  break- 
fast food.  Thus  the  day  is  not  far  distant  when  people 
shall  buy  their  books  from  their  grocers  and  get  their  liter- 
ature from  their  butcher. 

New  Occasions,  defined  as  "a  magazine  of  social  pro- 
gress," is  published  by  Charles  H.  Kerr  and  Company,  of 
Chicago.  The  January  issue  opens  with  a  bitter  attack 
on  Grover  Cleveland,  and  continues  with  a  description  of 
Chicago,  which  is  branded  as  "A  City  Without  Shame." 
William  H.  Van  Ornum  contributes  an  essay  entitled 
"Socialism  or  Individualism."  The  rest  of  the  issue  is 
taken  up  with  a  story,  "to  be  continued  in  our  next,"  en- 
titled "News  from  Nowhere,  or  an  epoch  of  rest." 

In  the  February  issue  of  The  National  Magazine  (Boston) 
Mrs.  Marion  Hill  of  San  Francisco  has  a  short  story  en- 
titled: "  At  McNally's  Bend:  a  tale  of  the  Sierras."  "it  is 
a  sketch  of  a  rough  rancher  who  falls  hopelessly  in  love 
with  an  educated  woman  temporarily  a  guest  at  his  farm, 
and,  though  the  idea  is  not  elaborated,  the  sketch  is  daintily 
and  effectively  done. 

Merit  always  wins.  This  is  strikingly  shown  in  the  great  popular- 
ity of  J.  F.  Cutter  Whiskey.  Go  where  you  may  you  will  And  that 
Cutter  stands  at  the  head.  It  has  been  tried  often,  but  never  found 
wanting.  E.  Martin  &  Co.,  411  Market  street,  are  sole  Coast 
agents  for  this  fine  liquor. 

The  neatest  and  most  pleasing  effects  in  gentlemen's  furnishing 
goods  are  found  at  John  W.  Carmany's  25  Kearny  street. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  Ni:\VS  LETTER. 


ii 


DEAR  KHITII  :  I  notice  il  at  the  latest  ball  frowns  are 
principally  remarkable  for  their  simplicity,  but  this 
approach  to  old  days  is  at  once  apologized  for  by  the  strik- 
ing combination  of  colors  and  the  very  rich  quality  of  tbeir 
composition.  Of  course,  there  are  exceptions  to  this  Paris 
costume.  Take,  by  way  of  illustration,  the  Princess  ball 
gown.  It  is  extremely  elegant  and  dutingut;  indeed  it  may 
be  called  the  essence  of  good  taste  and  style,  but  as  it  can 
only  be  made  by  the  skillful  fingers  of  tirst-rate  eoutwrierti, 
whose  prices  are  too  long  for  moderate  dress  allowances, 
it  remains  the  property  of  the  wealthy.  Most  lovely  prin- 
cess gowns  are  made  of  satin  in  pale  colors  ornamented 
with  garlands  of  jewel  embroidery  and  black  silk  muslin. 
The  bodice  of  one  of  these  charming  robes  of  pale  pink- 
satin  has  the  front  draped  slightly  to  avoid  breast  seams 
that  never  look  well  in  satin,  and  the  back  is  fitted  to  the 
figure  as  far  as  the  waist,  where  the  skirt  breadths  are 
sloped  out  to  fall  in  flowing  flutes  and  give  a  slight  train. 
The  skirts  of  the  simpler  gowns  claim  most  of  the  trim- 
ming, and  it  is  put  on  in  more  ways  than  one  ever  dreamed 
of.  Spanish  flounces  are  popular,  and  when  the  material 
used  is  of  gauzy  texture,  the  effect  of  a  Spanish  flounce  is 
wrought  by  placing  the  material  in  tiny  plaits  at  the  hips 
and  allowing  it  to  flare  about  six  inches  from  the  waist- 
band. 

Narrow  rose  ruches  of  mousseline  de  soie  or  chiffon  are 
used  a  great  deal  in  trimming  the  skirts  of  evening  gowns. 
They  are  often  put  on  over  the  seams  of  a  skirt,  or  they 
describe  all  sorts  and  kinds  of  scallops  around  the  edge  of 
a  skirt. 

No  dress  skirt,  however  fine  in  construction  or  the  make, 
can  fit  well  over  a  carelessly  made  underskirt.  The  grand 
monde  and  those  who  can  afford  it  have  long  discarded  the 
white  starched  skirt.  The  favorite  material  is  now  silk — 
white  or  colored — and  happy  the  woman  whose  purse  per- 
mits of  several  of  these  dainty  feminine  requisites;  yet, 
even  to  her  whose  purse  is  not  overflowing,  a  silk  under- 
skirt or  two  need  not  be  beyond  reach,  if  an  exact  and  art- 
istic eye  guide  the  hand  which  understands  wielding  the 
needle.  Almost  every  woman  who  attends  social  functions 
at  all,  needs  an  especial  underskirt  to  add  to  the  stylish 
appearance  of  her  evening  gown.  A  new  model  and  one 
that  is  very  practicable  and  easily  imitated  is  of  white  taf- 
feta of  a  good  and  rather  stiff  quality.  The  skirt  has  five 
gores  with  two  darts  in  the  front  gore,  and  one  in  each  side 
gore,  adjusting  it  snugly  to  the  figure.  It  is  unlined,  but 
has  at  the  bottom  a  facing  twelve  inches  in  width  of  white 
satin,  interlined  with  a  narrow  strip  of  white  linen  canvas. 
The  back  breadths  are  gathered  in  the  belt,  and  have,  thir- 
teen inches  down  from  the  waist  line  on  the  inside  of  the 
skirt,  a  strip  of  silk  sewn  horizontally  across,  into  which  is 
inserted  a  reed  or  pliable  steel  thirteen  inches  long,  a  white 
elastic  holding  the  ends  together  and  bending  the  reed  into 
a  semi-circle.  This  lends  to  the  dress  skirt  a  particularly 
pleasing  flare,  beside  holding  up  and  easing  the  weight  of 
the  garment.  Three  silk  ruffles  of  graduated  widths,  the 
narrowest  above,  the  widest  below,  are  trimmed  with  rows 
of  narrow  white  satin  ribbon  and  edged  with  white  lace. 
At  the  back  of  the  underskirt,  which  is  two  inches  shorter 
than  the  dress  skirt,  is  buttoned  on  a  gathered  and  gored 
breadth  of  white  silk  three-quarters  of  a  yard  wide  at  the 
top,  and  two  yards  wide  at  the  bottom,  falling  over  the 
reed,  and  forming  a  short  round  train  trimmed  with  rows 
of  ruffles.  This  extra  back  breadth  is  detachable,  and 
can  be  buttoned  to  the  underskirt  when  it  is  worn  with  the 
short  trained  evening  skirt  again  to  be  in  vogje. 

A  black  satin  or  changeable  taffeta  skirt  can  be  simi- 
larly made  for  street  wear,  the  trained  breadth  then  being 
omitted  and  the  ruffles  corded  and  tucked  instead  of  lace 
edged.  ■    Belinda. 

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more  apparent  than  when  one  drops  into  Leopold's,  at  39  Post 
street,  for  the  daintiest,  sweetest  buas  and  bouquets  to  be  bad  in  all 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  6,  1897. 


Business  has  been  duller  than  ever  on 
The  Market  for  Pine  street,  and  the  Micawbers  of  the 
Comstock  Shares.  Exchange  are  still  waiting  for  somebody 
to  turn  up  and  make  the  business  pros- 
perous for  them  again.  It  never  seems  to  strike  any  of 
them  that  it  would  be  a  good  idea  to  try  and  shake  matters 
up  a  little  themselves  and  be  independent.  Harvesting 
the  new  crop  of  tenderfoot  investors  does  not  pay  now 
that  cultivation  has  died  out  since  a  head  to  the  business 
has  been  lost.  It  is  becoming  more  apparent  daily  that  if 
self  preservation  counts  for  anything  the  few  progressive 
men  in  the  board  will  have  to  break  .away  from  the  Old 
Men  of  the  Sea  with  whom  they  are  now  associated  and 
form  the  nucleus  of  another  Exchange  which  can  offer  at- 
tractions to  speculators.  Even  granted  that  a  new  dis- 
covery is  made  in  the  Comstock,  what  does  it  amount  to 
unless  it  can  be  taken  advantage  of  on  the  floor  instead  of 
letting  it  fall  flat  through  bad  management.  There  have 
been  several  good  opportunities  spoiled  of  late  to  make  a 
market  by  the  inordinate  haste  of  every  man  in  the  busi- 
ness, to  clean  up  a  few  dollars  on  the  first  advance.  A 
hungrier  crew  never  existed  than  this  Pine  street 
outfit.  A  few  cents  profit  in  a  stock  is  a  sign  for  a  gen- 
eral scramble,  in  which  the  speculative  broker  mixes  it 
with  the  client  of  the  commission  man.  The  manipula- 
tor who  is  working  to  make  his  line  of  stocks  attractive, 
soon  gets  sick  of  the  game  when  he  finds  himself  pitted 
against  sellers  who  tumble  in  fifty  shares  on  him  for  every 
one  purchased.  This  is  at  the  bottom  of  the  trouble  in  the 
market,  and  with  a  good  development  in  hand,  any  one 
going  in  to  handle  a  stock  must  be  prepared  to  stand  off 
the  poverty  stricken  mob  before  he  could  possibly  expect 
to  reach  the  old  time  outside  dealers  who  have  retired 
from  the  street  in  disgust.  The  mines  are  in  good  shape 
for  a  renewal  of  active  trading,  if  only  a  leader  could  be 
found  for  the  market.  The  necessity  for  a  new  levy  of 
assessments  has  served  to  lower  prices  for  the  week,  but 
the  break  in  many  cases  has  been  heavy  enough  to 
warrant  the  expectation  of  a  reaction. 

An  attempt  has  been  made  by  some 
Where  Great  modern  reformer  in  Utah  to  have  a  law 
Minds  Differ,  passed  similar  to  the  ore  engineered 
through  Our  own  Legislature  some  years 
ago,  compelling  every  corporation,  by  its  President  and 
Secretary,  to  file  for  the  inspection  of  all  stockholders  on 
the  first  Monday  of  each  month  a  sworn  statement  of 
every  item  of  receipt  and  expenditure,  and  also  a  sworn 
statement  from  the  Superintendent  of  every  detail  of  all 
work  in  the  mine,  size  of  ore  bodies,  amount  of  ore  ex- 
tracted, men  employed,  as  well  as  all  new  discoveries. 
Another  clause  of  the  bill  provides  that  the  owners  of  even 
a  single  share  in  a  mine  has  the  right  to  take  an  expert 
with  him  and  make  a  full  and  complete  examination  of  the 
mine,  the  Superintendent  to  afford  him  every  aid  at  the 
same  time.  The  bill  is  being  fought  tooth  and  nail  by  the 
mining  companies,  who  claim  that  its  provisions  are  of 
absolutely  no  value  if  complied  with,  and  are  an  unlawful 
and  unwarranted  interference  in  private  business.  Share- 
holders have  all  these  rights  in  this  State,  but  they  have 
never  borne  very  heavily  on  the  officials  outside  of  an  occa- 
sional attempt  to  collect  the  SI, 000  penalty  from  a  Secre- 
tary and  President  now  and  then  for  some  alleged  tech- 
nical breach  of  the  law,  which  has  never  yet  proved  suc- 
cessful. To  check  the  natural  inclination  of  some  people 
to  reach  out  for  money  on  every  opening  of  the  kind,  the 
present  Legislature  of  this  State  has  knocked  out  the 
penal  clause  in  the  law  by  providing  the  stockholder  with 
other  equitable  relief,  barring  the  class  alone  with 
"itching  palms."  The  cases  where  shareholders  will  go  to 
the  expense  of  experticg  a  mine  are  few  and  far  between. 

IT  is  gratifying  to  learn  that  the  Thistle  Mining  Company 
of  Plumas  County  expects  to  start  up  again  within  a 
few  days.  This  can  be  accepted  as  satisfactory  evidence 
that  the  property  has  not  been  so  badly  damaged  by  the 
flood  of  water   as  was   at  first   anticipated. 


A  report  was  current  (during  the  week 
The  Movement  that  the  Utica  had  been  sold,  and  the 
In  Gold  Mines,  absurdly  high  figure  of  $15,000,000  has 
been  quoted  as  the  price  paid.  This  in 
itself  would  be  enough  to  stamp  the  story  a  canard,  inde- 
pendent of  the  denial  made  by  the  owners  or  their  repre- 
sentatives. Sales  in  California  have  not  been  nearly  so 
numerous  as  people  might  suppose  from  the  stories  pub- 
lished from  time  to  time.  Nearly  all  the  big  mines  have 
had  their  inning  with  this  expert  or  the  other,  but  the  own- 
ers still  have  their  property  on  hand  awaiting  the  advent 
of  some  ignoramus  with  more  money  than  brains.  These  ex- 
perts do  not  apparently  look  through  glasses  of  the  same 
magnifying  powers  as  the  owners  do,  and  their  cuts  in 
values  have  been  mild  when  not  exceeding  one-half  of  the 
asking  price.  Within  the  week  a  one  million  dollar 
prospect  was  inspected  by  an  expert,  who  finally  re- 
ported that  if  the  owners  would  knock  off  $700,000 
from  their  price,  he  might  recommend  the  mine  for  still 
further  investigation.  They  tumbled  there  and  then.  The 
owners  of  another  million  and  a  half  layout  are  gradually 
recovering  from  a  shock  to  their  feelings,  caused  by  the 
report  of  an  expert,  which  awakened  them  to  the  fact  that 
their  figures  were  nearly  a  million  too  high,  while  another 
Nevada  County  crowd  are  still  in  the  sulks  over  an  eye- 
opener  of  a  similar  character.  This  is  what  comes  from 
extravagant  statements  and  inflated  ideas,  which  have 
been  carried,  in  many  cases  to  which  we  could  point,  be- 
yond the  bounds  of  absurdity.  So  far,  the  danger  to  for- 
eign investors  has  been  reduced  to  a  minimum  by  the 
action  of  the  mine  proprietor,  who  has  put  himself  very 
effectually  out  of  any  position  to  do  harm  by  a  display  of 
overweaning  greed  and  mendacity,  which  has  only  served 
to  make  him  ridiculous  outside  of  his  own  particular  clique 
of  admirers  and  sympathizers. 

Unless  some  concessions  are  made  on 
Proposes  to  Run  both  sides,  the  big  De  La  Mar  mine  of 
His  Own  Mines.  Nevada  will  be  closed  down  for  some 
time  to  come,  notwithstanding  the 
large  monthly  yield  in  bullion.  The  fact  that  the  camp 
had  been  developed  from  a  few  tumble-down  cabins  to  its 
present  importance,  and  was  growing  in  importance,  suf- 
ficed to  briog  the  labor  agitator,  accompanied  by  the 
usual  train  of  evils.  A  Miners'  Union  has  been  formed, 
and  all  the  machinery  put  in  place  to  create  trouble  be- 
tween the  employers  and  the  employed.  It  is  the  same 
old  story  of  Leadville  and  many  another  promising  West- 
ern mining  camp.  At  the  De  La  Mar  the  men  have  been 
getting  $3  per  day;  they  are  well  treated,  and  up  to  date 
have  formed  a  contented  and  progressive  community. 
Now,  since  the  seed  of  discord  has  been  sown  by  one  of 
these  so-called  labor  organizers,  a  strike  is  talked  of,  and 
the  mine  manager  in  disgust  has  announced  his  intention 
of  shutting  down  work  at  the  mine  and  mill  for  an  indefi- 
nite period.  Mr.  De  La  Mar  has  already  issued  orders  to 
this  effect,  and  proposes  to  run  his  mines  independent  of 
outside  dictation.  Either  the  agitator  leaves  the  camp 
or  he  will;  that  is  the  dictum,  and  from  all  that  can  be 
learned,  the  employer  in  this  case  has  right  on  his  side. 
The  men  have  been  well  treated  in  every  respect,  and  paid 
higher  wages  than  they  could  get  anywhere  else  outside 
of  the  Comstock,  where  the  managers  are  forced  to  pay 
$4.  But  that  is  no  criterion  to  go  by,  for  sundry  reasons, 
which  could  be  given  in  explanation.  Candelaria  is  a  fair 
example,  on  the  other  hand,  of  what  the  labor  agitator  can 
do  in  the  way  of  closing  down  mines  and  depopulating  a 
mining  district. 

The   report  of  the  Directors  of  this 
Bank  of  bank  for  the  half  year  ended  Decem- 

British  Columbia,  ber  31,  1896,  submitted  to  the  general 
meeting  held  at  Cannon-street  Hotel 
on  February  17th,  states  that  after  paying  all  charges 
and  deducting  rebate  of  interest  on  bills  not  due,  the  bal- 
ance at  the  credit  of  profit  and  loss  account  was  £14,922, 
which  they  propose  to  appropriate  as  follows,  namely: 
£12,000  in  payment  of  a  dividend  at  the  rate  of  4  per  cent, 
per  annum  free  of  income  tax,  leaving  £2,922  to  be  carried 
forward.  During  the  past  half-year  they  have  closed  the 
branches  at  Seattle  and  Tacoma,  State  of  Washington,  but 
new  branches  have  been  opened  at  Sandon  and  Kaslo,  in 
the  Kootenay  district  of  British  Columbia. 


March  6,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


>3 


■•Hc»rthe  Crier:"   "What  me  devil  art  thout" 
"One that  will pl»T  the <lev ll.ilr, «lth  joa." 


ABK&BOBD  goat  (roiii  l:,rn«l  Heights, 
Willi  human  ladness  In  his  eye, 
Strayed  to  the  City  Hospital, 

And,  groaning.  laid  him  down  to  die. 
So  strange  the  symptoms  he  display***]. 

That  in  the  interest  ol  science 
The  surgeons  present  kindly  made 

A  brief  post-mortem.    No  appliance, 
Bald  they,  on  searching  with  the  knife. 
Could  e'er  have  saved  poor  Billy's  life. 
No  wonder  that  the  <-uadruped( 
His  frightful  struggles  o'er,  lay  dead— 
They  found  in  bis  interior 
A  Sabbath-day  Examiner. 

THE  number  of  deaths  that  occurred  in  this  city  last 
Monday  was  away  and  above  the  usual  proportion, 
and  has  elicited  universal  comment.  It  is  more  than 
probable  that  Mr.  Bierce's  "Prattle"- in  that  day's  issue 
of  our  refined  family  journal,  the  Examiner,  had  some- 
thing to  do  with  these  extra  demises.  Mr.  Bierce  has  so 
long  considered  himself  on  a  par  with  the  Deity,  and  has 
therefore  confined  his  exuberant  utterance  to  the  Sabbath, 
that  when  he  delivered  himself  of  himself  on  a  weekday 
the  shock  proved  too  much  for  his  readers.  Too  much  of 
Mr.  B'.erce  is  as  fatal  as  sewer  gas. 

ONE  thousand  dollars'  worth  of  "hellos"  have  monthly 
been  sent  echoing  adown  the  corridors  of  time  by  the 
city  of  San  Francisco.  Supervisor  Rottanzi,  rising  to  the 
occasion  on  a  high  wave  of  economy,  has  secured  a  reduc- 
tion of  rates  amounting  to  two  thousand  dollars  per  year. 
So  far  so  good,  but  will  that  two  thousand  revert  to  the 
city  treasury,  or  will  a  new  office  be  created  to  consume 
it?  The  Town  Crier  himself  would  be  satisfied  with  that 
modest  sum  annually,  as  Minister  Plenipotentiary  and 
Envoy  Extraordinary  to  the  Farallones. 

PRATE  not  to  me  of  Paradise 
And  all  its  boasted  bliss: 
No  doubt  the  other  world  is  nice ; 

It  can't,  though,  equal  this. 
For  what  to  me  its  fond  delights 

When  on  the  golden  streets, 
No  placards  tell  of  sloggers'  lights 

And  what  each  hero  eats. 
Why  drag  me  up  the  golden  stair 
With  Corbett  nor  Fitzsimmons  there? 

SOME  malicious  person  has  set  afloat  the  rumor  that 
ex-Mayor  Sutro,  whose  desires  to  enter  society's 
giddy  whiri  have  caused  his  friends  considerable  uneasi- 
ness since  his  retirement  from  office,  appeared  at  the  bal 
masque  Tuesday  night  disguised  as  a  wolf  in  sheep's  cloth- 
ing. The  statement  is  absurd  on  the  face  of  it.  To  begin 
with,  the  ex-Mayor  has  no  friends,  and,  secondly,  there  is 
not  a  hand-me-down  shop  in  town  that  keeps  sheep's 
clothing  in  stock.     Adolph's  alibi  is  easily  proven. 

SN  innocent  infant,  who  was  interviewed  the  other  day 
by  a  representative  of  the  Mission-street  news  scav- 
enger, asked  if  the  Examiner  was  a  "school."  The  re- 
porter was  struck  dumb  with  amazement  at  such  an  evi- 
dence of  juvenile  depravity,  and  so  could  not  answer  the 
question.  Such  an  easy  one,  too!  Yes,  my  child,  it  is  a 
school — for  scandal. 

THE  lesson  taught  by  the  demise  of  Mr.  Quackenbush 
of  Oakland  is  that  aged  millionaires  may  ward  off  the 
attacks  of  designing  boardinghouse  keepers,  but  that  they 
are  not  in  it  when  it  comes  to  a  tussle  with  Death.  And 
yet,  there  are  those  who  will  not  deny  that  the  aged 
capitalist  chose  wisely  between  marriage  and  the  grim 
monster. 

THE  baseball  fiend  doth  break  his  arm, 
Which  crippleth  his  right  paw ; 
The  pugilist  is  free  from  harm — 
He  worketh  with  his  jaw. 

THE  Chinese  vegetable  growers  are  wishing  that  St. 
David's  Day  came  every  month.     It  would  materially 
help  the  sale  of  leeks. 


Til  1KTY  families  0  are  been  unloaded  on  Ber- 

keley by  t!  derate  municipality.    San  Fran- 

having  m ,.  ire  than   sin-  knows   what   to  do 

with,  in  desperation  has  diverted  the  overflow  into  the 
University  town.  Well,  at  all  events,  it  won't  disturb 
Berkeley's  peace  half  as  much  to  have  a  flock  of  unwashed 
seers  turned  loose  in  her  Elysian  fields  as  it  does  our  civic 
serenity  when  a  hand  of  her  college  desperadoes  bring 
themselves  and  their  ungodly  yell  over  here.  We  must 
even  up  things,  somehow. 

Til  I".  Citmt  notes  without  surprise  that  a  diamond  pin 
was  deftly  absorbed  from  a  saloon-keeper's  shirt  front 
by  a  pick-pocket  in  Judge  Joachimsen's  Court  onSaturdiy 
last,  and  that  a  lady  was  relieved  of  her  purse  in  the  same 
manner  while  she  was  in  Judge  Campbell's  courtroom; 
for  these  are  not  the  lirst  instances  wherein  Justice  has 
been  dispensed  with  in  the  precincts  of  the  blind  goddess 
about  the  City  Hall. 

"  OTEPS  will  now  be  taken  to  have  work  commenced  on 
vJ  the  new  Postofhce  building." — Morning  paper. 
Such  statements  beguile 

But  they  do  not  deceive  me. 
With  skeptical  smile 
I  ponder  the  while 
On  its  structural  style, 

For  the  joke  does  not  grieve  me — 
Such  statements  beguile 

But  they  do  not  deceive  me. 

THE  discovery  of  an  inexpensive  substitute  for  india- 
rubber  by  a  Santa  Rosa  newspaper  man,  will  not 
be  hailed  with  delight  by  any  save  the  keepers  of  fashion- 
able boarding-houses.  The  india-rubber  duck,  like  the  in- 
dia-rubber steak  and  the  gutta-percha  chop,  reduces  the 
profits  in  this  unholy  business  to  a  very  small  margin. 
With  this  inexpensive  substitute,  on  the  other  hand,  it  will 
prove  fairly  lucrative  again.  We  are  born  to  sorrow,  any- 
way. 

THE  Socialists  are  at  it  again.  They  have  commenced 
a  three-months'  course  of  lectures,  to  which  the  dear 
public  is  cordially  invited  free  of  charge.  One  of  the  shin- 
ing lights  of  the  rostrum  is  to  speak  on  "The  World  as  I 
Would  Have  It."  Evidently  our  be- whiskered  and  pop- 
eyed  brethren  of  Socialistic  faith  are  as  covetous  as  the 
rest  of  us.     They,  too,  want  the  earth. 

SEEING  that  the  Legislature  increased  the  wages  of 
officials  of  the  San  Francisco  Fire  Department,  an  in- 
vestigation into  the  mystery  of  Martin  Kelly  and  that  fire- 
engine  would  not  have  been  amiss.  The  matter  is  now 
looked  upon  as  ancient  history,  but  for  the  sake  of  future 
students  it  should  be  properly  sifted. 

THE  ghost  of  Quackenbush,  I  fancy, 
Will  never  hover  o'er  his  Nancy. 
You  see,  her  claim  to  be  his  wife, 
In  such  hot  water  steeped  bis  life 
That  even  should  he  flee  below, 
(Where  millionaires  are  apt  to  go), 
The  chances  are  that  he  would  say, 
On  bidding  hades'  host  good-day, 
"  Just  keep  that  door  shut,  Satan,  please — 
This  place  is  cold  enough  to  freeze!  " 

«  PATHETIC  picture  appeared  in  the  Call  a  few  days 
ago,  showing  Mr.  Cleveland  and  his  family  packing 
their  solitary  trunk  and  preparing  to  "go  West."  If 
things  are  really  as  bad  as  the  artist  depicts,  let  us 
start  a  contribution  and  forward  the  proceeds  to  our  late 
President. 

THE  seven  internes  at  the  City  and  County  Hospital, 
who  removed  the  mustache  and  a  part  of  the  upper 
lip  of  their  fellow  student  Blum,  have  been  given  a  month's 
vacation.  Had  the  hazers  taken  off  his  head  it  is  probable 
that  they  would  have  been  given  a  whole  year's  freedom. 

THE  procuring  of  pure  food  for  the  city  is,  of  course, 
highly  commendable,  but  it  only  solves  half  the  prob- 
lem that  vexes  inner  humanity.  For  what  doth  it  avail 
us  to  have  good  food  in  a  city  full  of  bad  cooks? 

THE  Town  Crier  respectfully  suggests  that  the  young 
man  who  was  married  while  under  arrest  for  bur- 
glary be  granted  his  liberty.  Matrimony  is  sufficient  ex- 
piation for  any  past  offense. 

PRAISE  be  to  God  that  they  are  over— 
Those  eight  unlucky  years  with  Grover. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  6,  1897. 


"  XTO,   I  can  never  marry   a  man   who   smokes.     The 

1 X.  smell  is  so  horrid,  and.  besides,  I  must  be  the  first 
in  my  husband's  affections.  I  must  have  no  rivals  in  the 
shape  of  dirty  old  pipes  and  ragged  tobacco  pouches." 

"You  shall  have  no  rivals,  Miss  Fortescue.  You  can 
have  none.  You  are  more  perfect  than  .any  pipe.  Not 
even  the  little  one  I  bought  last  year  is  for  a  moment  to  be 
compared " 

"No,  I  suppose  not,"  she  broke  in,  laughing  mischiev- 
ously, "at  least  j'ou  say  so  now.  But  old  sweethearts  are 
dangerous,  and  men  have  returned  to  their  old  loves  be- 
fore now,"  and  the  blue  eyes  glanced  merrily,  and  the 
little  feet  tapped  the  floor. 

I  grew  desperate.  "I  will  sacrifice  anything  you  wish. 
I  will  indeed.  I  will  never  smoke  again.  I  will  burn  every- 
thing." 

"Even  the  little  pipe  you  bought  last  year?"  she  said 
with  a  provoking  smile.  I  could  have  kissed  or  killed  her 
at  that  moment. 

"Even  the  little  pipe  I  bought  last  year,"  I  echoed  sadly, 
and  I  think  there  must  have  been  a  tear  in  my  eye.  "I 
will  place  myself  beyond  the  reach  of  all  temptation.  And 
then?" 

"Then  we  will  begin  to  think  about  it,"  she  retorted, 
jumping  up,  and  moving  towards  the  door. 

"Think  about  it?"  I  said.  "Do  you  realize  what  I  am 
going  to  sacrifice?     Can  you  promise  no  more?" 

"I  am  afraid  not.  You  see  I  must  prove  you  first.  The 
spirit  is  often  willing,  but  the  flesh  is  weak." 

"I  will  be  strong,"  I  cried,  "and  I  may  hope?" 

"AH  men  ma}'  hope.  But  you  will  be  well  watched,  and 
one  cigarette  will  shatter  all  your  hopes.  The  house  will 
now  adjourn  until  the  end  of  March,  when  we  will  reopen 
the  debate.  Good-bye.  Don't  forget  the  little  pipe,"  and 
she  danced  out  of  the  room,  turning  round  at  the  door  to 
give  me  a  mocking  little  bow,  and  a  smile  that  left  me  a 
raving  lunatic. 

Slowly  and  sadly  I  went  home,  and  climbed  up  the  stairs 
to  my  sanctum.  I  sat  down  in  a  comfortable  chair  and 
thought.  There  was  a  pipe  on  the  table  by  my  side;  it 
was  the  little  one  she  was  jealous  of.  The  firelight  fell  on 
its  glowing  bowl,  and  I  believe  it  winked  at  me.  I  took  it 
up  tenderly  and  stroked  it.  My  eye  wandered  to  the 
tobacco  jar.  I  reached  out  my  hand  and  took  the  lid  off. 
I  filled  the  pipe,  looking  like  a  guilty  thing.  Then  I  went 
to  the  door  and  locked  it,  and  drew  the  curtains  close  over 
every  window.  I  took  a  match  and  struck  it,  but  I  hesi- 
tated and  the  match  burnt  my  fingers  and  fell  on  the  floor. 
I  lit  another,  but  again  the  voice  of  conscience  whispered 
to  me,  and  again  I  burnt  my  fingers.  Then  I  swore  loudly 
and  hurled  the  pipe  into  a  corner  and  sent  the  match  box 
and  tobacco  jar  after  it. 

;  My  heart  swelled  with  pride.  I  had  conquered.  A  vast 
range  of  possibilities  opened  up  before  me.  What  might 
I  not  do  in  the  future  with  such  a  will  of  iron.  I  grew 
reckless,  and  began  to  revel  in  my  new  strength.  I  rose 
and  took  a  newspaper  which  I  spread  out  on  the  table. 
Then  I  laid  a  box  of  cigars  on  it,  and  two  boxes  of  cigar- 
ettes, on  the  top  of  these  one  or  two  cigarette  holders, 
and  a  dozen  pipes  of  different  sorts  and  sizes.  After  that 
I  fetched  the  pipe  from  the  corner  and  laid  it  reverently 
on  the  summit  of  the  heap,  "a  sorrow's  crown  of  sorrow;" 
over  them  all  I  softly  poured  the  fragrant  tobacco  from 
my  jar,  and  began  to  collect  my  pouches.  "They  will 
smell  — -"  I  murmured  to  myself,  "but  the  sacrifice  must 
be  made  complete." 

..  Then  I  unlocked  the  door,  and  drew  back  all  the  curtains, 
and  pulled  up  all  the  blinds.  I  was  not  going  to  hide  my 
light  under  a  bushel.  I  put  myself  in  the  direction  of  the 
fireplace,  laid  hold  of  the  paper  by  its  four  corners  and 


shut  my  eyes.  In  a  minute  all  would  be  over.  I  meovd 
towards  the  fireplace,  but  as  I  did  so  a  thought  struck 
me,  and  I  hesitated.  "Am  I  doing  right?  It  will  be  a  sin- 
ful waste.  I  will  give  all  away  to  the  poor.  And  then 
ought  I  not  keep  some  of  the  things?  That  pouch  my  aunt 
worked  for  me?  That  pipe  my  brother  gave  me?  The 
presents  from  various  members  of  the  familv?  No,  it 
would  hardly  be  quite  right."     I   hesitated,    and  was  lost. 

There  came  a  knock  at  the  door,  and  Willoughby  entered. 

Willoughby  is  a  great  friend  of  mine — so  far  as  any  non- 
smoker  can  be  a  smoker's  friend.  I  would  not  let  him  be 
a  witness  of  my  defeat.  I  put  the  newspaper  and  its  con- 
tents hastily  down  on  the  table. 

"What  on  earth  are  you  doing,  Johnson?"  he -cried. 

"Oh,  I  just — just  clearing  up,"  I  said  with  an  attempt 
at  a  smile.  "The  room  gets  in  such  an  awful  muddle  you 
know." 

"Your  tobacco  looks  as  if  you  kept  it  on  the  floor,"  he 
said,  flinging  himself  into  a  chair.  "But  I  have  something 
to  talk  to  you  about.  We  have  always  been  great  friends, 
but  hitherto  there  has  been  one  bar  to  the  perfect  com- 
munion of  our  souls.  You  smoke;  I  do  not.  At  last  that 
bar  is  going  to  be  removed." 

A  cold  sweat  gathered  on  my  forehead.  He  had  guessed 
my  intentions,  or  had  Eil  told  him.  She  could  not  have 
been  so  mean  as  to  publicly  crow  over  her  conquest.     I 

BANKING. 


BANK  OF 

BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 


Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1863. 


Capital  Paid  Up 83,000,00 

Reserve  Fund $  500,000 

Southeast  Cob.  Bush  and  Sansohe  Sts. 
HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lombard  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  "Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
lamo.'and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B,  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  Its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  York— Merchants' Bank  of  Canada;  Chicago— First  NationalBank; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  "Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan — Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  of 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

^AN     FRANPI^rf)  Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

o  Awuinn       i  imiam  Deposits,  Dec.  31,  1895 S24,£>2,327 

oAV I N  UO      UNION.  Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus. . . .    1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.    No  charge  is  made  for 

ftass-book  or  entrance  fee.    Office  hours— 9.  A.  u.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  even- 
ngs,6:30to8 

TUC  PFRMAN  ^AVINP^  No*  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco 

a  i\m     iniM    nnnirTw      Guarantee  capital  and  surplus — $2040,30166 

AND    LUAN    oUUItlY.    Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash..  1,000  000  00 

Deposits  December  31,  1896 27 ,7^0,347  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B  A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary,  George  Tourny ;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A..  H.  Mullen  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS :  B  A.Becker,  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann,  Ign.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt. 

U/ri  I  Q      CADPn  N.  E.  CORNER  SANSOME  &  SUTTER  STREETS 

WCLLO     rttnUU  j0nn  J.  Valentine President 

p    nn  10    DAMi/  H*   Wadsworth...., Cashier 

&   IJU,  O    BANK.  HomerS.King Manager 

F.  L.  Llpman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 


SECURITY 
SAVINGS  BANK. 


William  Alvora 
Win.  BabcocL: 
Adam  Grant 


222  MONTGOMEHY   Si.,  MILLS  BUIIJ5ING. 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 
LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS. 

S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

O.D.Baldwin  E  J.  McCutohen 

W.  S.  Jones  J.  B.  Lincoln 


March  6,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


15 


feebly  answered    "Yes,     with  a   mixture  of  assent  and  in- 
terrogation in  my  tone. 

9,  old  man.''  he  said.  rising  and  grasping  my  hand, 
"there  is  now  nothing  between  us.  I  am  goin£  to— to 
smoke." 

I  looked  at  him  in  silent  astonishment. 

"Yes,  old  man.  smoke.     W        oyou  look  so  concen 
It  is  not  very  bad,  is  it?  I  mean,    t he   beginning?"     I  saw 
his  enthusiasm  die  away  as  the  reality  rose  before  him. 

"Oh,  no,"  I  replied  in  a  tone  liiat  suggested  a  few  sur- 
vivors of  the  ordeal. 

"You  don't  seem  very  glad,"  he  said.  "But  1  am  going 
to  let  you  teach  me.  What  shall  I  start  on?  Quick,  tell 
me.  My  courage  is  screwed  up  to  the  point.  I  can't 
wait  a  moment. 

The  fiend  of  malice  entered  my  soul.  If  I  was  to  suffer 
by  seeing  bim  smoke,  and  knowing  that  I  must  deny  myself 
even  a  cigarette,  he  should  suffer  too.  I  have  some 
peculiarly  rank  cigars  that  I  keep  for  my  enemies.  I  gave 
him  one. 

He  lit  it.  and  pulled  at  it  vigorously,  talking  the  while 
to  keep  his  courage  up.  "Why  don't  you  smoke,  old 
man?"  he  said,  jovially.  "I  thought  you  could  never  re- 
sist the  smell.     Come,  light  up." 

"I  am  going  to  give  it  up  for  a  time.  Lent,  you  know. 
Must  give  up  something.  Doctor's  orders,  too.  Bad  for 
the  heart.  Waste  of  money.  Think  of  so  many  poor  peo- 
ple who  want  for  bread." 

"What?"  he  cried,  and  he  began  to  jeer  at  my  infidelity. 
I  cursed  him  under  my  breath,  but  as  he  grew  paler,  and 
ceased  to  chatter,  I  felt  I  was  revenged,  and  even  began 
to  pity  him. 

At  last  he  let  the  cigar  out,  and  grew  very  thoughtful. 
I  poured  him  out  something  to  drink,  and  we  both  imbibed 
steadily  for  two  hours,  I  to  drown  my  sorrow  and  regret, 
he  to  keep  himself  alive. 

Then  we  both  grew  more  cheery  and  communicative. 
He  told  me  he  thought  he  would  never  repeat  such  an  ex- 
perience, but  did  not  see  how  to  avoid  it.  Fact  was,  he 
said,  he  had  promised  some  one — had  promised  a  lady — to 
smoke.  She  had  said  she  would  not  marry  a  man  unless 
he  smoked.     Besides,  smoking  destroyed  germs. 

Confidence  begets  confidence,  and  I  told  him  my  story 
with  tears  in  my  eyes.  "I  cannot  do  it,"  I  cried.  "I 
don't  think  I  can,  either,"  he  moaned.  "But  I  must,  or 
she  will  not  marry  me.  How  I  wish  we  could  exchange. 
You  are  in  luck.  What  an  excellent  wife  yours  will  make 
you.  So  considerate  of  your  health,  so  thoughtful  for  the 
poor." 

"jTbitare  in  luck,  indeed.  She  must  be  a  sweet  girl. 
So  sensible.  She's  quite  right  about  germs.  Exchange 
is  no  robbery.  Let's  exchange.  We  will  introduce  each 
other.     The  rest  will  be  only  a  question  of  time." 

''It's  a  bargain!" 

"I  have  perfect  faith  in  your  taste,  but  who  is  she?" 

"I  think  you  have  met  her:  Lillian  Fortescue.  What  on 
earth's  the  matter?"  I  had  sworn  a  loud  oath  at  the 
mention  of  the  name,  and  crushed  a  cigarette  box  to 
pieces  with  my  fist. 

"What's  the  matter?"  I  cried.  "Why,  you  fool,  there's 
no  need  for  any  exchange.  We  have  both  been  fooled  by 
the  same  girl." 

For  a  few  minutes  neither  of  us  spoke,  but  Willoughby 
hurled  a  fresh  cigar  I  had  given  him  into  the  grate,  and 
my  hand  slowly  stole  towards  the  little  pipe  I  bought  last 
year.  It  was  still  filled.  I  lit  it,  and  after  a  few  puffs, 
burst  into  laughter. 

"Little  devil!"  I  cried.  She  said  the  smell  was  so 
horrid,  and  she  would  have  no  rival  in  a  dirty  old  pipe." 

"She  said  it  was  so  good  for  a  man,"  he  continued, 
"kept  him  quiet  and  out  of  mischief,  and  always  made  him 
sociable." 

"I  suppose  she  wanted  neither  of  us  and  set  us  impossi- 
ble tasks  to  win  her." 

"Next  morning  we  concocted  the  following  note,  and 
sent  it  round  to  her: 

"Dear  Miss  Fortescue :— We,    the    undersigned,    finding   it  im- 
possible to  fulfill  the  tasks  you  have  set  us,  have  agreed  to  under- 
take one  another's  hardens,  and  so  accomplish  all  that  you  desire. 
Your  obedient  slaves 

John  Willoughby. 

William  Johnson." 

—J.  B.  Harris  Burland,  in  The  Peterson  Magazine. 


BANKING. 


BANK    OF   CALIFORNIA,        °»pl"1 u,ooo.ooo  00 

SAN      FRANCISCO.  PronU  (October",  18M)..    S.IH.IS0  TO 

WILLIAM  AXVORD  lr.  sklent  I  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP.. Vloe-Pres't 

ALLKN  M.CLAY.  PHOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Printiss  SyiTii.  ...Asa't  I  aniiier  1 1.  F.  Moulton ad  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

Niw  YORK— Messrs.  Latillaw  A  Co.;  Ibe  Bank  ot  Now  York,  N.  B.  A. 
BOSTON— Tremont  National  Hank;  LONDON— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  dc  Rothschild  Frorcs;  Virginia  Citt  (Nev.)— 
Agenoy  of  The  Bank  ot  California;  Cbicaoo— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Hunk ;  Australia  and  New  Zbaland— Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China.  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  Issued  available-  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York.  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Matn,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Christiania,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auokland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  In  Italy. 

CALIFORNIA    SAFE    DEPOSIT   °°r'  Cal"orall""'d  Montgomery  Sts. 

AND  TRUST   COMPANY.        Cap"ttl Pu"y  Pald $1'000'000 

Transacts  a  general  backing  business 
and  allows  interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity.  Wills  are  drawn  by  the  oompany's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  to  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  and  valuables  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickersham.  Jacob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R.  B.  Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry,  A.  D.  Sharon,  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D.  Fry,  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.  Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

MUI  UAL     SAVINGS    BANK         mechanics'  Institute  Building.  ' 

OF    SAN     FRANCISCO.  Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000 

Patd-Up  Capital I  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN   A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John  A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 

Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  MoElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks,    When  opening  accounts  send  signatuie. 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  NW-  C0R-  SAHSOME  *  SDTTER  STS' 

•  •.rninui    nun!/     1  iMiTrn       Subscribed  Capital $2,500,000 

AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED,   paid  uP capital 12,000.000 

ReserveFund €    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freree 
&  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Poissonlere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

gIGALGTRSEcl^BAUM}ManagerB. 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN     gSfiffibS!!^^:::;:::::::1i^ 

DAMI/         I  lUITm  Pald    Up 1,500,000 

BANK,      LIMITED.  Reserve    Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  sansome  Sts. 
Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

an<i  bulllon'  pGN:  S^SS^Sl  }M"a*- 

CROCKER-WOOLWORTH         Sd^^Ss"0"100"11"' 
NATIONAL  BANK  OF  S,  F.     paid-up  capital $1,000,000 

WM.  H.  CROCKER. , , President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  P.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 


Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 
Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 


Capital 11,000,000 


THE  SATHER 
BANKING  COMPANY. 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  CowGiLL,  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolfe,  Secretary. 

Direotors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents  :  New  York— J.  P-  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank,.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 


i6 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  6,  1897. 


UNGUARDED    GATES.— Thomas  bailey  aldhich. 

THE  first  world-souDd  tbat  fell  upon  my  ear 
Was  that  of  the  great  winds  along  the  coast, 
Crushing  the  deep  sea  beryl  on  the  rocks— 
The  distant  breakers'  sullen  cannonade. 
Against  the  spires  and  gables  of  the  town 
The  white  fog  drifted,  catching  here  and  there 
At  over-leaning  cornice  or  peaked  roof, 
And  hung — weird  gonfalons.    The  garden  walks 
Were  choked  with  leaves,  and  on  their  ragged  biers 
Lay  dead  the  sweets  of  summer — damask  rose, 
Olove-pink,  old-fashioned,  loved  New  England  flowers. 
Only  keen  salt  odors  filled  the  air. 
Sea-sounds,  sea-odors— these  were  all  my  world. 
Hence  is  it  that  life  languishes  with  me 
Inland ;  the  valleys  stifle  me  with  gloom 
And  pent-up  prospect ;  iu  their  narrow  bound 
Imagination  flutters  futile  wings. 
Vainly  I  seek  the  sloping  pearl-white  sand 
And  the  mirage's  phantom  citadels 
Miraculous,  a  moment  seen,  then  gone. 
Among  the  mountains  1  am  ill  at  ease, 
Missing  the  stretched  horizon's  level  line 
And  the  illimitable  restless  blue. 
The  crag-torn  sky  is  not  the  sky  I  love, 
But  one  unbroken  sapphire  spanning  all ; 
And  nobler  than  the  branches  of  a  pine 
Aslant  upon  the  precipice's  edge 
Are  the  strained  spars  of  some  great  battleship 
Plowing  across  the  sunset.    No  bird's  lilt 
So  takes  me  as  the  whistling  of  the  gale 
Among  the  shrouds.    My  cradle  song  was  this, 
Strange  inarticulate  sorrows  of  the  sea, 
Blythe  rhythms  upgathered  from  the  Sirens'  caves. 
Perchance  of  earthly  voices  the  last  voice 
That  shall  an  instant  my  freed  spirit  stay 
On  this  world's  verge,  will  be  some  message  blown 
Over  the  dim  salt  lands  that  fringe  the  coast, 
At  dusk,  or  when  the  tranced  midnight  droops 
With  weight  of  stars,  or  haply  jnst  as  dawn, 
Illumining  the  sullen  purple  wave, 
Turns  the  gray  pools  and  willow  stems  to  gold. 


THE   VIOLETS—  pall  mall  gazette. 


At  first  I  kissed  the  violets 

Because  they  came  from  thee, 

And,  then,  because  no  storm-wind  frets 
Where  they  were  plucked  for  me ; 

But  in  a  garden  green  and  fair, 

Beyond  the  bitter  snow, 
Where  nightingales  at  eve  repair, 

To  music  they  did  grow. 

But,  though  they  breathe  of  sun  and  song, 

And  rivulets  that  dance 
Adown  enchanted  slopes,  where  throng 

Sweet  ghosts  of  old  romance ; 

Though  fragrant  with  such  dew  as  wets 

The  dales  of  Arcady, 
At  first  I  kissed  the  violets 

Because  they  came  from  thee. 


PEACE.— EDITH  M.   THOMAS,  IU  SOBIBNER'S  MAGAZINE. 

Much  I  did  desire  when  Youth  did  fire  my  veins, 
To  join  fair  combat  with  some  foe  august ; 
And  more  I  dreaded  sloth  and  creeping  rust 

Than  any  meed  of  martyr  scorns  and  pains. 

How  would  my  heart  beat  quick  at  clarion  strains ; 
All  to  the  God  of  battle  would  I  trust- 
As  one  who,  midst  the  hissing  barbs  and  dust, 

From  some  swift  Argive  chariot  flung  the  reins ! 

But  now  my  pulse  is  slowed,  my  veins  are  cold, 
O  Spirit  of  the  leafage  silver-green — 
Now  let  thy  cool  sweet  shadow  intervene, 

That  1  no  more  the  strenuous  day  behold ; 

So  fold  me,  as  the  flocks  that  rest  in  fold, 

While  Hesper  makes  the  darkening  sky  serene. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and   Marine  Insurance  Agents, 
309  and  311  Sansome  St.  -        San  Francisco,  Cal 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

FlNDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  46  Threadneedle  St.,  London 

SIMPSON,  MACKIRDY  &  CO 29  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 

INSURANCE. 

FIRE,   MARINE,   AND  INLAND  INSURANCE. 

Firemans   Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000- 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited),  OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00    RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager,  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fibs  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Gompanu    of  Nortn   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,   PENN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000.000 

Assets 3,192.001.69 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,606,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  S01  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD   &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  Established  n 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON   NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  m 

BUTLER  St,  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF   LIVERPOOL. 

Capital 16,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents, 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

nR  RinORn'Q  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu- 
UTl.  mownu  O  ine— A  speoijlo  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physical 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Mediolne,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
J.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mall  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED— Box  of  50  pills,  »1  25;  of  100  pills.  »2;  of  200pllls, 
$350;  of400pills,86;  Preparatory  Pills  $2.    Send  for  circular. 

Joseph  Giliott's  Steel  Pens, 

Gold  Medals.  Paris,  1878-1889.    These  pens  are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mb.  Henbt  Hoe,  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers. 


March  6.  1897. 


s\x   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'7 


INSURANCE. 

IT  has  come    to    the    notice    of    Insurance    Commissioner 
Biggins  tha>1  the  BCi  1  ritii  s  of  a  number  of   the   a- 
ment  feci  policyholders,  axe 

not   bankable    collateral,    and   :t    is  likely   thai  there  will 
harp  and  early   demand   upon   the   delinquents   for 
further  ilr]x'sits  to  make  good  their  yawning  deficits. 

BTDOr  Budd  has  appointed  Attorney  Andrew  .1. 
Clur.ie  Commissioner  of  Insurance,  the  appointment  to 
take  effect  two  years  when  Higgles'  term  is  out. 

Strangely  enough  the  Governor,  l>y  this  appointment  of 
Clunie.  admits  that  the  present  Commissioner's  appoint- 
ment was  regular.  It  will  be  remembered  that  Governor 
Budd  attempted  to  oust  Comn  issioner  Biggins,  who  was 
appointed  by  Markham  in  precisely  the  same  manner  as 
he  has  chosen  Clunie.  and  which  act  he  has  held  did  not 
conform  to  law. 

President  John  A.  McCall,  of  the  Xew  York  Life,  is  now 
on  his  way  to  the  Coast,  and  is  calling  on  the  company  s 
important  agencies  •»  route.  Mr.  McCall  will  make  his 
first  stop  out  here  at  Los  Angeles,  and  may  be  expected 
to  visit  San  Francisco  about  the  first  of  April.  This  will 
be  his  first  visit  to  California.  McCall  is  one  of  the  most 
prominent  men  in  the  field  of  insurance  to-day,  and  may 
be  called  a  national  character. 

Last  week  it  was  intimated  that  possibly  the  Orient 
might  find  other  quarters  than  those  now  occupied  by  it 
in  the  Sun  Office.  There  is.  however,  no  intimation  of  any 
change  in  the  management  of  the  Orient.  It  will  continue 
to  dwell  in  harmony  with  the  Sun  under  the  satisfactory 
eye  of  Manager  Callingham. 

There  are  nine  bills  affecting  insurance,  more  or  less, 
before  the  Legislature.  The  two  most  important  are  that 
compelling  foreign  companies  to  make  a  deposit  of  $200,000 
in  some  State  before  doing  business,  and  that  one  provid- 
ing for  a  standard  form  for  tire  policies.  Both  these  bills 
wul  become  laws. 

P.  B.  Armstrong,  at  present  a  prominent  orchardist  of 
this  State,  and  the  man  who  founded  the  Mutual  Fire  In- 
surance Company  of  New  York,  is  now  in  that  city  pro- 
moting the  organization  of  another  fire  company.  He  re- 
cently attempted  to  secure  the  presidency  of  the  Mutual 
Fire,  but  failed. 

The  current  issue  of  the  Adjuster,  published  by  James 
A.  Carey,  is  a  paper  of  exceptional  interest  to  insurance 
everywhere.  In  matter  and  make-up  the  Adjuster  is 
easily  in  the  front  rank.  It  is  one  of  the  few  first-rate  in- 
surance journals  in  the  United  States. 

The  Sun  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Canada  has  entered 
the  United  States  for  business  by  way  of  Pennsylvania.  It 
is  the  only  British  company  writing  life  policies  in  this 
country. 

The  State  law  requiring  $5,000  deposit  with  the  Insur- 
ance Department  by  all  assessment  companies,  for  the 
protection  of  the  policy  holders,  has  been  evaded  by  the 
Pacific  States  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  a  sick  benefit 
concern  operated  by  L.  M.  McKenney.  The  securities 
offered  by  these  companies  consisted  of  a  local  realty 
syndicate  which  have  no  marketable  quotation. 


The  Overland   Limited. 

ONLY  Z\i  DAYS  TO  CHICAGO.     4%   DAYS  TO   NEW   YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedakkr,  General  Agent. 

Thb  Press  Clipping  bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  P.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  PaolflcCoast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics, business 
and  personal.  


Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copper-plate  engraving 
Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


Cooper  &  Co.,  746 


What    lamp-chimney    is    it 
that  l.i^is  lik<-  a  teacup  and 
the  best   light  a   lamp   is 
capable 

Mai  Dili's  ;  but  you  wani 
the  Number  made  for  your 
lamp.  Let  us  send  you  the 
Index. 

Geo  A  Macbeth  Co 

Pittsburgh    1'  i 


ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 
Alpha  Consolidated  Mill  and  Mining  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— Ran  Francisco,  California.  Loca 
tlon ol workB— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada, 

Notice  is  hereby  ru  ■  ISgof  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 

on   the    second  day  of  March,  1881  -ment  (No.  18),  of  5  cents 

fier  share  was  levied  upon   the  capital  sloe  If  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  t,">ld  coin  to   the  Secretary,  at   the  office  of 
the  company,  room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco, 
California. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
5th  DAY  OF  APRIL,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  the  27th  day  of  April,  1897,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,   Nevada    Block,   309  Montgomery  St.,    San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 
Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Virginia  M  inmg  District,  Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Dlreotors,  held 
on  the  second  day  of  March,  1897,  an  assessment.  No.  112,  of  Twenty 
{•20)  cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  ihe  corporation, 
payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  room  14,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
6th  DAY  OF  APRIL,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on   MONDAY,  the  26th  day  of  April, 
1897,    to   pay   the  delinquent    assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  ad- 
vertising and  expenses  of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

E.  L.PARKER,  Secretary. 

Office;  Room  14,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Alta  Sliver  Mining  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.     Location 
works— Gold  Hill,  Gold  Hill  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  held  on 
the  4th  day  of  March,  1897,  an  assessment,  No.  55,  of  Five  cents  (5c.)  per 
share,  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diate!; in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  33,  Nevada  Block,  3  9  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Any  stock  on  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
8th  DAY  OF  APRIL,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  29th  day  of 
April.  1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs 
of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.      By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.   E    JACOBUS,  Secretary 
Office :  Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St  ,  San  Froncisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Mexican  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works— Virginia,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  3d  day  of  March,  1897,  an  assessment  (No.  56)  of  Twenty  (2tfc)  Cents 

fier  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  room  70,  Nevada  Block,  309   Montgomery   street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

7TH  DAY  OF  APRIL.  1897, 
wiL  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public   auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  Thursday,  the  29th  day   of  April, 
1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  togetherwith  the  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E    ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office;  Room  7i).  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal, 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

San  Francisco  Gas  and    Electric  Co. 
A  dividend  of  one  dollar  ($1)  per  share  upon  the  paid-up  capital  stock  of 
this  company  has  been  declared  this  day,  payable  March  1, 1897.   Transfer 
books  will  remain  closed  from  February  17th  to  February  27th,  inclusive. 

WM.  G     BARRETT,  Secretary. 
Office:  First  and  Natoma  streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
San  Francisco   February  17,  1897. 

J   D.  SULLIVAN, 

ATTO  R  N  E  Y-AT-L  A  W 

Rooms  34-38,  3d  Floor  Chronicle  Building,  San  Francisco. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  6,  1897- 


ONE  of  the  redeeming  features  of  the  Board  of  Regents 
of  the  University  of  California  is  J.  B.  Reinstein,  the 
sharp  little  attorney,  whose  brain  is  in  inverse  ratio  to 
his  inches,  and  whose  wit  often  causes  Horace  Piatt  to 
look  to  his  laurels.  He  redeems  the  board  from  much  dull- 
ness, and  has  been  quite  successful  in  his  endeavors  to 
keep  some  of  its  somnolent  members  awake.  He  is  intol- 
erant of  stupidity,  and  one  of  his  favorite  sayings  is  that 
he  can  stand  any  animal  except  a  boar.  Reinstein's  work 
this  winter  for  the  development  of  the  University  brought 
him  into  close  contact  with  the  legislators,  who  have  taxed 
the  State  an  extra  cent  for  the  benefit  of  Berkeley's 
aggregation  of  colleges,  and  among  other  eminent  states- 
men he  met  Assemblyman  Howard  Wright,  the  former 
business  associate  of  Le  Roy  Harvey,  and  who  serves  his 
country  by  representing  Lorin  at  Sacramento.  Mr. 
Wright  is  an  ardent  and  enthusiastic  admirer  of  Mr. 
Wright.  At  the  jubilate  legis  of  the  friends  of  the  Uni- 
versity on  the  campus  last  Saturday,  young  Wright  de- 
livered an  oration  highly  eulogistic  of  himself.  His  fre- 
quent repetition  of  "I,"  "I,"  "I"  became  exceedingly 
wearisome  to  all  his  auditors,  and  was  absolutely  intoler- 
able to  Reinstein. 

"Too  bad  about  Wright,"  said  the  little  Regent  sym- 
pathetically. 'Anyone  who  has  so  much  trouble  with  his 
I's  should  consult  an  oculist." 

*  *  * 

When,  in  referring  to  Frank  Powers,  someone  asked 
Judge  Coffey  if  he  were  not  a  lawyer,  that  satirical  jurist 
corrected  his  questioner  with  quiet  emphasis. 

"I  hardlj  think  that  Powers  is  a  lawyer,"  said  Coffey, 
doubtfully.  "But,"  he  added,  "I  believe  he  calls  himself 
an  attorney." 

In  addition  to  his  legal  efforts  Frank  tried  politics  but, 
after  much  labor  he  only  attained  the  modest  dignity  of  an 
Assemblyman.  He  also  essayed  literature,  and  once 
wrote  a  book  which,  however,  nobody  read.  Fame  having 
eluded  him  when  pursued  along  all  these  different  paths, 
he  now  cultivates  art,  haunts  the  studios,  wears  his  hair 
long  and  regardless  of  the  season,  in  heat  and  cold,  always 
appears  in  a  long  overcoat  with  an  immense  collar  turned 
up  over  his  ears.  At  noon  on  a  warm  and  bright  day  re- 
cently he  walked  along  Montgomery  street  thus  arrayed, 
glorying  in  his  unique  costume. 

."What's  the  matter,  Frank?"  asked  Garrett  Mclnerney. 
"Got  a  chill?" 

"No,  and  I  don't  want  a  drink  nor  some  warmer  clothes 
and  you  can't  ring  in  any  guy  about  my  needing  a  'brief.'  " 

"But  why  do  you  want  to  be  the  only  man  in  town  on 
this  warm  day,  wearing  such  a  horse  blanket  over  your 
head?"  expostulated  the  attorney. 

"Copyrighted,"  replied  Powers,  laconically. 

*  *  # 

The  lights  of  Bohemia  burst  forth  at  the  Mardi  Gras 
ball  on  Tuesday  night  in  all  the  effulgence  of  their  glory, 
but  so  much  splendor  was  not  attained  without  much 
thought  and  planning.  For  the  preceding  week  the  Social 
Hall  of  the  Bohemian  Club  looked  like  the  room  of  a 
fashionable  costumer,  and  every  topic  of  other  than  fancy 
dress  was  strictly  tabooed.  Stalwart  Amadee  Joullin  with 
his  seventy-three  inches  and  his  two  hundred  pounds  of 
avoirdupois  had  revealed  to  a  group  of  his  friends  the  de- 
tails of  the  raiment  with  which  he  intended  to  dazzle  the 
other  guests  at  the  ball.  Louis  Sloss  Jr.  sat  silently 
smoking  a  cigarette  at  the  outer  edge  of  the  group. 

"Why  are  you  looking  so  disconsolate,  Louis?"  asked 
Jimmie  Hamilton.  "Are  you  not  going  to  the  Mardi 
Gras?" 

"No,  I'm  not  going,"  said  the  wit  ot  Bohemia,  sadly, 
"but  my  clothes  are.  You  see,"  he  added,  in  response  to 
a  chorus  of  demands  for  an  explanation,  "Amadee  is  going 
to  wear  my  frilled  shirt  and  satin  waistcoat." 

And  the  point  of  the  joke  is  that  Louis  is  exactly  ten 
inches  shorter  than  the  strapping  Amadee. 


"No  one  has  more  friends  on  "the  street,"  by  which,  of 
course  is  meant  California  below  Montgomery,  than  Joshua 
Eppinger,  the  bright  young  grain  merchant,  whose 
marriage  at  the  Concordia  Club  to  Miss  Hilda  Levy  was 
one  of  the  fashionable  events  of  the  week.  He  is  spending 
bis  honeymoon  at  Coronado,  and  while  en  route  to  Southern 
California  on  the  Los  Angeles  train,  he  went  into  the 
smoking-  compartment  of  the  Pullman,  where  he  encoun- 
tered an  old  acquaintance  who  resides  in  Portland,  Or. 
The  latter  hailed  Eppinger,  and  soon  showed  by  his  con- 
versation that  he  was  unaware  that  he  was  addressing  a 
bridegroom. 

"Travelling  alone?"  asked  the  Oregonian. 

"No,  my  wife  is  in  the  drawing-room,"  responded 
Eppinger  with  imperturbable  gravity,  determined,  after 
the  custom  of  newly  married  men,  not  to  give  himself 
away. 

"Do  you  often  take  your  wife  on  business  trips?"  pur- 
sued the  Portland  man.     "I  never  do." 

"Oh,  well,  you  know,",  said  Joshua  easily.  "I  often  com- 
bine business  with  pleasure  when  I  go  out  of  town,"  re- 
solved to  conceal  the  honeymoon  part  of  it  at  all  hazards. 

"That's  all  very  well  if  you  have  no  family.  Got  any 
children?"  demanded  the  Webfoot. 

"No,"  replied  the  husband  of  eighteen  hours,  without 
turning  a  hair.     "Have  you?" 

*  *  # 

Charles  Webb  Howard  does  not  like  to  be  caught  nap- 
ping and  for  that  very  reason  his  intimate  friends  lie  in 
wait  for  him  with  every  conceivable  trap.  In  the  Pacific 
Union  club  last  Monday,  a  little  coterie  was  discussing  the 
movements  of  President  McKinley  who  that  evening  had 
started  for  the  capitol. 

"lam  sorry  for  McKinley,"  said  General  Barnes,  in 
tones  of  infinite  pity.     "He  will  never  see  Washington." 

Mr.  Howard  looked  startled.  His  first  thought  was 
that  "the  Major  had  had  another  attack  of  la  grippe." 
Then  he  looked  at  Barnes  apprehensively,  as  if  he  thought 
that  the  Chauncey  Depew  of  the  Pacific  Coast  had  con- 
cocted a  plot  to  blow  up  the  Presidential  train  with 
dynamite. 

"Why  will  he  never  see  Washington?"  finally  asked  the 
President  of  the  Spring  Valley  Water  Company,  in  an 
awed  voice,  forgetting  his  usual  suspicion  of  the  General. 

"Washington  is  dead,"  replied  Barnes,  in  affected  sur- 
prise at  his  friend's  ignorance  of  an  historical  fact. 

And  then  Charles  Webb  Howard  signed  a  card  for  a 
magnum. 

*  *  * 

A  perceptible  decrease  in  the  general  gaiety  on  'Change 
has  been  remarked  since  the  departure  for  Paris  a  fort- 
night ago  of  William  Berg,  "the  German  Traveller." 
Berg  is  the  greatest  practical  joker  on  the  floor  and  con- 
trary to  the  usual  peculiarity  of  those  who  make  merry 
at  the  expense  of  others,  he  laughs  as  heartily  when  the 
point  is  turned  against  him  as  when  some  other  man  is  the 
butt.  As  Monday  last  was  a  holiday  in  France,  no  quo- 
tations from  the  Bourse  were  received  on  that  day  by  the 
San  Francisco  Produce  Exchange.  Noting  their  absence 
from  their  usual  place  among  the  bulletins  of  the  Call 
Board,  there  was  much  speculation  among  the  bulls  and 
bears  as  to  the  cause.  No  one  was  able  to  advance  any 
good  reason  why  business  should  be  suspended  throughout 
the  French  Republic  until  Billy  Behr  solved  the  problem 
and  wrote  his  "official"  explanation  on  the  bulletin  board, 
as  follows: 

"The  Bourse  is  closed  to-day  on  account  of  the  arrival 
in  Paris  of  William  Berg,  the  German  traveller." 

*  *  * 

An  odd  fad  is  that  cultivated  by  Attorney  Donahue  who 
always  carries  two  watches.  One,  although  encased  in 
inexpensive  nickel,  is  a  time-keeper  of  marvelous  accuracy, 
its  owner  boastiug  that  it  does  not  vary  a  second  a  week 
from  the  sun.  The  other  watch  is  a  handsome  gold  affair, 
but  it  is  never  right,  straying  away  from  ten  minutes  to 
three  hours  from  the  correct  time.  When  asked  to  ex- 
plain why  he  carries  two  timepieces  of  such  contradictory 
tendencies,  Donahue  always  has  an  innocent  explanation 
ready. 

"One  watch  is  to  tell  what  time  it  is,  you  know,"  he 
says,  "and  the  other  what  time  it  isn't." 


• 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Herman  I  I  unexpectedly  from  New  York 

to  attend  to  »  it  ip  a  lion  li 

10  with    t;  lw,    the  late 

air.   Early  on  Wednesday  morning  found  Oelrichs 

unaur  the  stalk  al  the  California   market,  selecting  fruit 

and  vegetables,  meat  and  game,   for  the  table  of  thi 

•  mansion,  for  Herman  is  an  epicure  and  personally 
chooses  his  edib  After  making  a 

poultry    purchase,    he    was    particularly   disappointed  at 
learning  he  could  procure  no  wild  ducks,  the  season  being 

Then  lie  expatiated  to  the  proprietor  of  thi 
on  the  superiority  of  California  game  over  that  to  be  had 
in  New  York,  although  he  mentioned   that   eanvnskicks  in 
tlotham  cost  six  dollars  and  mallards  four. 

"Well,  them  is  Fair  prices.     .  oramented  the  poulterer, 
with  a  grin. 
He  had  recognized  his  customer. 
»  *  » 

Several  batches  of  husky  rope  pullers  and  Police  Judge 
Campbell  with  the  wonderful  capillary  growth  on  his  chin, 
as  their  referee,  constituted  a  double  attraction  during 
the  tug  of  war  tournament  that  was  simply  irresistible. 
The  criminal  jurist  did  not  make  even  the  shadow  of  a  pre- 
tense at  impartiality  but  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Irish 
team  with  heartiness  and  avidity.  He  evinced  great  per- 
turbation when  he  thought  they  might  be  worsted. 

"Why  I  can  get  more  pull  at  the  City  Hall  in  five 
minutes  than  I  can  find  here  in  an  hour,"  remarked  the 
friend  of  "de  push,"  disgustedly,  as  he  witnessed  the  Irish 
team  lose  two  cleats. 

Then  he  proceeded  to  announce  in  heraldic  tones  the 
honors  and  emoluments  which  would  be  bestowed  upon  the 
winning  team. 

"And  what  do  we  get  if  we  lose?"  inquired  one  of  the 
Hibernian  patriots. 

"Sixty  days."  roared  the  Police  Court  autocrat. 


<9 


To  appropriate  as  souvenirs  small  bits  of  bric-a-brac 
and  articles  of  silverware  while  a  guest  at  a  house  is  a 
cheerful  habit  which  is  becoming  so  unpleasantly  prevalent 
in  this  city  that  a  hostess  now  has  to  use  her  eyes  as 
diligently  as  it  was  formerly  considered  incumbent  to  ex- 
tend a  listening  ear  whenever  any  guest  made  a  remark. 
A  young  woman  prominently  connected  through  her  father 
with  the  San  Francisco  Police  Department  was  at  dinner 
one  night  and  after  using  a  dainty  silver  spoon  of  unique 
design,  carefully  cleansed  it  and  calmly  carried  it  off, 
graciously  remarking  that  it  would  be  a  welcome  and  valu- 
able addition  to  her  souvenir  collection.  All  efforts  of  the 
hostess  to  guard  her  property  being  futile,  and  requests 
for  its  restoration  being  pleasantly  ignored,  she  was 
obliged  to  invoke  the  aid  of  her  husband  who,  after  re- 
peated efforts  stole  the  spoon  back  again.  Now  the  ac- 
quisitive young  woman  wonders  why  she  is  so  obviously 
persona  non  grata  at  the  home  of  her  former  friend. 
*  *  * 

(Copy  of  telegram  from  T.  T.  Williams,  Carson,  Nev. ,  to 
W.  R.  Hearst,  New  York). 

March  2,  1897. 

Examiner-Journal  men  own  this  town,  including  Stuart.  Fitz- 
simmons  wears  a  padlock  on  his  lips.  Everything  copyrighted  in 
our  interests. 

(Copy  of  telegram  from  W.  R.  Hearst,  New  York  to  T. 
T.  Williams,  Carson,  Nev.) 

March  3,  1N97. 
Not  necessary  for  you  to  copyright  all  the  saloons. 

WITH  this  issue  is  presented  the  second  picture  of  the 
scries  descriptive  of  Chinatown.  From  it  may  be  ob- 
tained an  excellent  idea  of  the  character  and  extent  of  the 
Chinese  provision  market. 

Paso  Robles. 
Our  new  mud  bath  house  is  finished.  The  arrangement  ot  baths, 
dressing  rooms,  etc.,  are  on  the  same  floor.  No  stairs  or  steps  to 
climb.  We  are  now  unquestionably  the  finest  sanitarium  or  health 
resort  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Rest  and  health  seekers  are  Paso  Robles 
seekers,  Rates,  $10,  $12.50,  $15,  and  $17.50  per  week.  Climate  warm. 


Wise  people  seeking  advice  on  important  matters  consult  the  best 
authorities.  Thos  Cook  &  Son  are  the  best  authorities  on  travel  in  all 
civilized  countries,  and  freely  give  intending  travelers  the  benefit  of  their 
fifty-six  years'  experience.  San  Francisco  Office:  621  Market  street  {under 
Palace  Hotel), 


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Monday  and  Tuesday, 


March  15  and  16,  1897. 


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Flowers,  Malines,  RibI  ^ns,  etc. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  6,  1897. 


TO-MORROW    night, 
Square    Assembly 


in  the  Madison 
rooms,  will  take 
place  the  event  for  which  society  has  been  preparing  itself 
ever  since  the  Bradley-Martin  ball — the  great  tableaux 
vivants.  You  may  fancy  what  they  will  be  when  M.  M. 
Chai  tran  and  Madrayo  are  to  pose  the  characters  and  at- 
tend to  the  manipulation  of  the  lights.  They  themselves 
will  pose  in  the  last  tableau,  "Cing  Mars,"  M.  Chartran  as 
Richelieu.  The  tableaux  will  be  after  paintings  by  David 
NealCompte,  Percy  Moran,  and  other  distinguished  artists. 
The  ball  reminds  me  of  Mrs.  Charles  Alexander,  who 
was  regally  magnificent  there  as  a  Venetian  lady,  and  that 
once  more  reminds  me  that  General  McCdok,  newly  art- 
pointed  to  the  Cabinet,  is  that  lady's  brother-in-law.  This 
will  mean,  I  suppose,  that  the  Alexanders  will  spend  much 
time  in  Washington. 

Mrs.  Edward  Foulkes,  the  daughter-in-law  of  Doctor 
Foulkes  of  Oakland,  gave  a  large  luncheon  on  Tuesday. 
Her  husband  appeared  during  the  afternoon  with  one  or 
two  of  his  club  friends,  and  I  have  yet  to  see  the  ladies' 
luncheon  where  the  advent  of  man  was  not  welcome. 

Mrs.  Wright,  the  daughter  of  G.  Frank  Smith,  the  law- 
yer who  identified  himself  and  his  fortunes  with  the  cele- 
brated Colton  case,  has  been  here  for  a  few  days.  She 
lives  in  one  of  the  most  attractive  houses  in  Rittenhouse 
Square,  which  is  the  "Mayfair"  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  one 
of  the  leaders  in  Philadelphia  society  among  the  young 
matrons. 

Mrs.  George  Harding  was  expected  here  this  week,  but 
was  unable  to  leave  home. 

Mrs.  Harry  Gillig  will  sail  in  a  few  days  for  the  other 
side  for  a  three  months'  absence,  returning  in  time  to  open 
her  lovely  country  house  at  Larchmont — La  Hacienda. 
She  will  go  to  Nice,  Cannes,  Paris,  and  to  London,  for  the 
season.  Mrs.  Gillig  has  been  confined  to  the  house  for 
several  days  with  violent  neuralgia.  Her  little  daughter 
Gladys  has  been  visitiDg  her  for  a  week. 

The  romantic  episode  of  the  re-marriage  of  Charley  Ban- 
doine  and  his  wife  (formerly  Mrs.  Casper  Warrington  Whit- 
ney) has  been  the  theme  of  conversation  to-day.  Mr. 
Whitney  was  an  old  St.  Matthew's  boy,  at  San  Mateo,  and 
distinguished  himself  early  in  life  as  an  adept  in  athletic 
sports.  He  became  the  editor  of  the  little  sporting  paper 
owned,  I  believe,  by  James  Waterbury  of  cordage  fame,  a 
few  years  ago,  and  made  a  success  of  it.  He  later  under- 
took the  management  of  the  Sports  column  in  Harper's 
Weekly,  and  going  abroad  wrote  a  clever  set  of  magazine 
articles  about  sports  in  England.  His  latest  exploit,  a 
journey  on  snow  shoes  to  the  Barren  Lands  within  the 
Arctic  Circle,  shows  him  possessed  of  wonderful  courage 
and  endurance.  His  wife,  the  present  Mrs.  Bandoine,  is 
very  beautiful.  She  divorced  him  in  Oklahoma  two  years 
ago  or  thereabouts.  Bandoine's  wife  secured  a  divorce 
from  him  a  few  weeks  earlier.  She  was  Miss  Ruyter, 
daughter  of  a  former  President  of  the  New  York  Central 
Railway.  Six  months  after  these  conjugal  ruptures,  Mr. 
Bandoine  and  Mrs.  Whitney  drove  to  Hoboken  on  the  for- 
mer's coach  and  were  married.  The  lovely  bride  occupied 
the  box  seat,  and  was  gorgeous  in  white  satin  with  orange 
flowers  in  her  hat.  Mr.  Whitney,  questioning  the  validity 
of  the  Western  divorce,  brought  a  suit  in  Westchester 
County  for  absolute  divorce,  and  was  given  a  verdict  day 
before  yesterday,  whereupon  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bandoine  were 
re-married  at  once.  The  Oklahoma  question  remains  un- 
settled at  the  present  writing.  Another  re-marriage,  I 
dare  say,  the  telegraph  has  recounted  to  you.  This 
is  the  one  which  re-united  de  Trafford  Blackstone  of  Nor- 
wich, Conn.,  and  his  former  wife.  Since  they  separated, 
many  years  ago,  each  has  re-married,  he  to  lose  his  wife 
by  death,  and  she  her  husband  by  divorce.  The  name 
Sadie  Blackstone  has  been  before  the  public  for  many 
years,  both  during  and  since  her  stage  career. 
New  York,  February  25,  1897.  Passe-Partout. 


S.  Strozynski.  24  Geary  street.  Expert  European  hairdressers  and 
cutters  employed;  no  apprentices;  prices  equal  toothers.  Artistic  hair 
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The  Inauguration. 


Buchanan 

Lincoln 

Johnson 

Grant 

Hayes 


Garfield 

Arthur 

Cleveland 

Harrison 

Cleveland 


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nessed the  world-wide  supremacy  of 


the  leading  dentifrice  of  America,  and 
the  only  one  of  international  reputation. 

SOZODONT— not  at  your  drug- 

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price  in   stores; 
orSozodont  and 
Sozoderma  Soap  (for  the  complexion),  $1.00 
Sample  of  both  for  three  cents  in  stamps. 
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March  4. 


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SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER 


TH  I  usually  so  well 

Oiled  with  gay  doing?  rgt  and  small,  the  ad- 

vent of  Ash  W,  ..  the  herald  of  a  de- 

lightful rest  from  the  society  treadmill  which  those  who 
belong  to  the  swim  are  obliged  to  keep  at  until  Mardi  Gnu 
calls  a  halt  for  fortv  -t      while  the  past  season 

can  hardly  be  called  a  brilliant  one,  there  has  been  enough 
going  on  to  prevent  its  being  termed  dull,  and  its  last  ten 
especially  had  so  much  on  the  programme  there  could 
be  no  cause  for  complaint  except  upon  the  score  of  fatigue 
— and  the  weather. 

It  is  rather  an  old  story  to  say  the  Presidio  hops  are 
charming,  but  it  must  be  confessed  that  there  has  seldom 
been  a  more  delightful  gathering  at  that  popular  post  than 
the  dance  which  took  place  there  on  Thursday  evening  of 
last  week,  the  thought  that  it  was  to  be  the  final  one  until 
after  Easter  probably  adding  zest  to  the  enjoyment  of  all 
who  participated.  The  Friday  Fortnightlies  gave  their 
last  dance  the  following  evening,  and  it  also  was  voted  de- 
lightful. A  few  figures  of  the  cotillion  were  danced  late  in 
the  evening.  Mr.  Greenway  leading  with  his  usual  ability. 
Saturday  was  largely  given  over  by  society  to  the  tea  at 
the  Crocker  mansion  on  Xob  Hill,  which  was  even  a  greater 
success  than  had  been  anticipated.  The  world  and  his  wife 
were  there  in  goodly  numbers;  the  beautiful  rooms  were 
crowded  as  they  have  not  been  for  many  a  season  past, 
and  the  universal  sentiment  was,  alas!  that  closed  doors 
should  there  be  the  rule  instead  of  the  exception. 

Society  was  divided  in  its  allegiance  on  Monday  night, 
the  3'ounger  portion  selecting  the  dance  of  the  Saturday 
Night  Class,  which  had  its  final  gathering  at  Lunt's  Hall 
on  Monday  evening,  while  others  were  seen  in  large  num- 
bers at  the  California  Theatre,  where  the  play  of  Caste  was 
performed  by  a  number  of  well-known  amateurs,  where 
each  did  so  well  it  would  be  almost  invidious  to  particular- 
ize, but  it  was  admitted  by  all  that  Miss  Leila  Burton 
carried  off  the  honors  of  the  evening;  the  characters  taken 
by  her  and  Miss  Rose  Hooper  fitted  each  to  a  charm,  and 
they  were  fairly  overwhelmed  with  the  floral  tributes 
offered  at  their  shrine. 


On  Tuesday  evening  the  Entre  Nous  Cotillion  Club  had 
their  last  dance  in  Maple  Hall,  under  the  leadership  of  Mr. 
Sanford  Lewald;  but  the  great  event  of  Tuesday  night 
was  the  Mardi  Unix  bed  Masque,  at  the  Hopkins  Institute, 
for  which  preparations  have  been  going  on  at  that  temple 
of  art  for  nearly  a  month  past,  and  the  result  was  a  scene 
of  dazzling  beauty  when  the  doors  were  thrown  open  to 
the  crowd  which  filled  the  rooms  and  made  the  ball  one 
long  to  be  remembered  by  all  who  took  part. 

Our  worshipful  Mayor  was  just  himself — a  simple,  un- 
pretentious gentleman  from  top  to  toe,  and  let  me  tell  you 
that  is  the  hardest  r6le  of  all  to  carry,  to  judge  by  the 
fearful  failutes  in  society.  Harsh?  Yes,  but  so  awfully 
true.  Another  capital  exemplification  of  nature  was  the 
false-face  worn  openly  by  some  women  who  have  been  noted 
for  them  in  private  life  for  years.  Mrs.  McLane-Martin's 
bicycle  fall  did  not  seem  to  interfere  with  her  getting 
around  pretty  lively.  She  buzzed  some  of  the  old  chaps 
until  they  were  wild  to  find  out  who  she  was. 

One  of  the  cutest  costumes  was  a  bit  of  old  delft, 
and  Mrs.  Tom  Magee  Jr.  was  beautifully  got  up  as  the 
stars  and  stripes.  Mrs.  Van  Stowe  was  elegance  itself  in 
a  white  Arabian  costume,  but  the  "yashmak"  round  her 
face  must  have  been  frightfully  hot.  Howard  Taylor 
played  the  mystif3'ing  dodge  by  changing  his  costume  three 
times,  one  the  devil  himself. 

The  Maynard  girls  played  the  baby  act  sweetly,  and  the 
dolls  they  carried  were  enough  to  make  any  child  want 
them.  Laura  McKinstry  was  a  walking  "Why?"  and 
the  gallant  Colonel  Crocker  made  a  dashing  attempt  to 
solve  the  interrogation  in  an  English  hunting  suit  that  was 
so  dead  letter  perfect  it  made  the  B'linghamites  pale  with 


ure  made  i 
though   her   gloriou 
Mine  Ziska   was   magnifli 
•I  in  pink  .■  .1  court  costume  of   I 

reel!  with  superb 
funny  to  sec  the  blue,  pink,  and  white  I 
around  General  George   Marye  was  am 

mark  for  the  feminine-,  whi 

i»  I1"  Emma  Butler  was  in  di 

bo  was  Marjorie  \  oun    .  Edith   Pindley,    thi  girls 

(redivivus),   Francis  Moor,    Helen  Wagner,  Mr 
Eoward,  and  Julia  Crocker.      Mary   McNutt  had    I 
dress, 

Archibald,  as  a  "big"  Chinaman,  was  immense.  Douglas 
Tilden  was  excellent  as  Miles  Standish.  There 
many  in  domino  who  wore  lovely  -owns  underneath,  it,  was 
more  than  confusing  to  guess  "  who  was  who."  A  girl 
from  Wisconsin  was  dressed  as  a  moth  and  Mrs.  Adams  as 
a  goldfinch,  the  wings  of  each  being  a  noticeable  feature  of 
their  costumes.  Alice  Hager  was  a  "lilac  branch,"  and 
several  men  looked  as  though  they  would  like  to  carry  it  off. 

Although  much  was  expected  by  those  who  attended  the 
Concordia  Club  on  Saturday  evening  last  none  of  the  five 
hundred  present  were  disappointed. 

The  "Mystery  of  a  Misfit  Monarch"  was  the  programme 
announcement— "Subtracted  from  The  Prisoner  of  Zenda." 
The  stage  picture  was  a  very  pretty  one  and  the  acting 
and  singing  far  above  the  average. 

Milton  S.  Bremer,  who  took  the  leading  female  role  of 
Antwinette,  carried  off  the  honors  of  the  evening.  His 
graceful  carriage  and  the  careful  manipulation  of  his 
skirts  caused  many  a  young  lady  to  blush  with  envy,  and 
his  songs  were  weil  received.  The  other  characters  were 
well  sustained. 

A  splendid  souvenir  programme  was  gotten  up  for  the 
occasion — containing  pictures  of  the  players — nooks  and 
corners  of  the  handsome  club  house  and  some  of  the 
musical  selections  from  the  burlesque.  It  made  quite  a 
hit. 

After  the  fall  of  the  curtain — a  dance  and  supper  followed. 
Handsome  toilettes  and  brilliant  jewels  were  the  order  of 
the  evening.  Particularly  noticeable  were  Mrs.  Maurice 
Rothschild  in  yellow  silk  en  traine,  Mrs.  Chas.  W.  Rosen- 
baum  in  white,  Mrs.  S.  W.  Heller  in  a  new  creation  of 
pink  silk,  and  Mrs.  Emanuel  Heller  in  a  white  flowered 
silk  trimmed  with  pale  green. 

It  would  really  be  difficult  to  pick  out  from  such  a  set 
of  pretty  girls  as  have  come  out  this  winter  who  was  the 
belle.  The  debutantes,  some  twelve  in  number,  have  run 
society  with  a  queenly  hand.  Miss  Rosie  Neustadter  in 
pink  silk,  Miss  Norma  Bachman,  white  tulle  trimmed  with 
cherries,  Miss  Rose  Sachs  in  a  pale  green  silk  with  black 
pipings;  Miss  Mildred  Lewis  called  forth  more  than  usual 
attention. 

Who  would  not  be  an  engaged  girl?  That  is,  if  they 
possess  so  many  friends  as  does  Miss  Ethel  Cohen,  who, 
since  the  announcement  of  her  engagement  to  Lieutenant 
Bent  was  made  public,  has  been  feted  at  dinner,  luncheon 
and  tea  by  those  who  claim  that  title.  Possibly  the  pret- 
tiest of  all  these  affairs  was  the  tea  given  by  Miss  Woods 
on  Tuesday,  at  which  Miss  Cohen  and  three  other  "en- 
gaged" girls,  the  Misses  Burton,  Whittier  and  Coleman,  as- 
sisted the  hostess  in  receiving.  Another  charming  gath- 
ering was  the  luncheon  given  in  her  honor  at  the  Univer- 
sity Club  by  Miss  Emma  Butler.  Mrs.  Gerstle,  Miss  Ida 
Gibbons,  Mrs.  Moulder,  etc..  have  also  entertained  Miss 
Coben  and  Lieutenant  Bent. 

Other  engagement  entertainments  include  the  dinner 
given  by  Miss  Irma  Rothschild,  in  honor  of  Hilda  Levy  and 
Josh  Eppinger,  who  were  married  on  Tuesday,  and  the 
dinner  in  honor  of  Miss  Maybelle  Gerst  and  Sam  Naph- 
thaly,  at  which  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Simon  Anspacher  were  host 
and  hostess  to  twenty-two  guests;  and  among  engage- 
ment announcements  of  recent  date  is  that  of  Miss  Amice 
Cellarius  to  Dr.  Ernest  Barry. 

The  Concordia  Club  rooms  were  called  into  requisition  on 
Tuesday  evening,  when  Miss  Hilda  Levy  and  Joshua 
Eppinger  were  united  in  marriage  by  Rabbi  Voorsanger 
beneath  a  silken  canopy  placed  on  the  north  side  of  the 
hall.     The  decorations  were  both  elaborate  and   beautiful, 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  6,  1897. 


palms,  ferns,  smilax,  orange  blossoms,  roses  and  violets 
beiDg  used  with  a  lavish  hand  to  produce  a  charming  re- 
sult. Messrs.  Martin  Triest,  Sam  Cook,  Arthur  Silver- 
bcrg  and  Ben  Rosenberg,  who  officiated  as  ushers,  led  the 
bridal  procession  as  it  entered  the  hall,  at  half-past  eight, 
to  the  strains  of  the  Lohengrin  Chorus,  played  by  the 
orchestra  seated  upon  the  stage.  Then  followed  the 
bridesmaids,  the  Misses  Birdie  Hershman,  Alice  Bach- 
man,  Daisy  Schweitzer  and  Rica  Triest,  who  were  cos- 
tumed alike  in  white  satin  and  tulle,  with  hand  bouquets 
of  bride's  roses.  Miss  Julia  Eppinger,  as  maid-of-honor, 
came  next,  her  gown  of  white  lace  over  white  satin;  and 
then  came  the  bride,  escorted  by  her  brother,  Charles 
Le?y.  Her  robe  was  an  exquisite  one  of  white  satin  e?i 
traine,  trimmed  with  point  lace  and  orchids.  She  wore  a 
wreath  of  orange  blossoms,  and  a  diamond  sunburst,  the 
gift  of  the  groom,  held  her  tulle  vail  in  place,  and  she  car- 
ried a  bouquet  of  orchids  and  lilies  of  the  valley.  George 
Laverson  was  the  groom's  best  man.  Dancing  followed 
the  ceremony,  then  a  sumptuous  supper  which  was  served 
in  the  banquet  hall,  and  then  there  was  more  dancing. 
Coronado  is  where  the  happy  couple  are  spending  their 
honeymoon,  and  upon  their  return  they  will  reside  for  a 
time  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

The  engagement  of  Mr.  Albert  L.  Ehrman  to  Miss 
Rosalie  Neustadter,  which  was  announced  on  Saturday  last, 
has  caused  no  end  of  talk  on  account  of  the  high  standing 
of  both  parties,  the  splendid  match  and  good  fortune  of 
the  young  man.  Miss  Neustadter  is  an  extremely  hand- 
some young  girl  of  eighteen  summers,  and  of  the  brunette 
type,  she  has  coal  black  eyes  and  very  refined  features. 
Mr.  Ehrman  is  blonde.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  University 
of  California,  and  was  popularly  known  by  his  club  friends 
as  "King  of  Bohemia. "  To  them  the  engagement  comes 
as  a  complete  surprise.  On  Thursday  evening  Mrs.  Feucht- 
wanger  entertained  the  newly  engaged-couple,  Mr.  Albert 
Ehrman  and  Miss  Rose  Neustadter,  at  dinner.  Only  a  few 
intimate  friends  were  present.  The  decorations  were 
quite  unique. 

Particulars  have  just  been  received  here  of  the  wedding 
of  Miss  Bessie  Crabbe  and  Lieutenant  Gately,  both  of 
whom  are  well  known  in  our  swim.  The  ceremony  took 
place  at  St.  John's  Chapel,  Fort  Hamilton,  on  the  11th  of 
February.  The  bridal  robe  was  of  white  satin,  lace  and 
chiffon,  and  the  hand  bouquet  of  white  roses  and  lilies  of 
the  valley.  Miss  Lillian  Brechemin,  who  officiated  as 
maid-of-honor,  was  gowned  in  pink  organdie  over  white 
silk,  and  she  wore  a  white  lace  hat.  Lieutenant  Winston, 
recently  of  the  Presidio,  was  the  groom's  best  man. 

On  Tuesday  afternoon  a  club  jinks  was  given  to  the 
Pianists'  Club,  at  the  studio  on  Bush  street,  by  Mrs.  Wm. 
A.  Deane,  President  of  the  club.  The  studio  was  lavishly 
decorated  for  the  occasion,  and  the  spread  was  a  bountiful 
one.  Every  member  was  present,  and  each  contributed 
her  share  to  an  entertainment  of  which,  for  genuine  wit, 
humor,  and  originality,  the  male  clubbist  might  have  been 
more  than  proud.  In  the  evening,  the  ladies  assisted  Mrs. 
Deane  in  receiving  a  number  of  invited  guests,  mostly 
musicians.  A  fine  musical  programme  was  rendered,  in- 
cluding piano  solos  by  Mr.  Samuel  Fleishman,  director  of 
the  club;  vocal  selections  by  the  brilliant  soprano,  Madame 
Billoni-Zifferer;  violin  solos  by  Nathan  Landsberger,  and 
original  songs  by  Mr.  Locher.  The  audience,  though 
small,  was  extremely  appreciative,  and  the  applause  which 
followed  each  number  was  a  genuine  tribute  to  the  per- 
former. Refreshments  and  dancing  followed,  and  as  the 
members  of  the  club  separated,  after  singing  their  original 
club  songs,  they  unanimously  voted  the  afternoon  and 
evening  the  most  brilliant  in  the  annals  of  the  Pianists' 
Club. 

Mr.  Paul  F.  Mohr,  who  is  well-known  in  financial  and 
railroad  circles,  has  been  in  the  city  for  the  past  week  on 
business.  Mr.  Mohr  was  formerly  with  the  Northern 
Pacific,  and  was  one  of  its  builders.  He  is  now  building  the 
railroad  around  the  Dalles,  in  Oregon,  besides  being  inter- 
ested in  other  equally  extensive  enterprises. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed  Schmieden  are  once  more  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, after  having  taken  a  tour  round  the  world  and 
making  a  stay  in  Paris,  en  route  homewards,  of  several 
months  duration.  They  arrived  last  week,  and  are  for  the 
present  domiciled  at  the  Palace. 


Miss  Alice  Bachman's  pink  dinner  to  twenty-two  of  her 
young  friends  was  one  of  the  charming  affairs  of  last  week. 
Another  one  was  the  tea  given  by  Mrs.  W.  V.  Bryan, 
which  was  followed  in  the  evening  by  a  game  of  progressive 
euchre;  and  yet  a  third,  the  children's  party  at  Mrs.  P. 
N.  Lilientbal's.  On  Tuesday  last  Mrs.  Van  Bergin's 
violet  and  daffodil  luncheon  was  a  very  pretty  and  enjoy- 
able affair. 

The  California  Theatre  will,  of  course,  blossom  like  a 
rose  next  Wednesday  night  when  the  eagerly  anticipated 
French  Opera  Company  will  make  their  first  appearance 
in  San  Francisco.  A  number  of  opera  parties  have  been 
arranged  for  not  only  that  evening,  but  for  others  during 
the  week,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  for  those  who  do  not 
regard  the  opera  in  the  same  light  as  the  theatre  during 
the  Lenten  period,  it  will  be  the  one  bright  oasis  in  the 
desert  of  penitential  darkness  during  the  coming  weeks. 

Recent  San  Francisco  arrivals  at  St.  Denis  Hotel,  New 
York,  are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  S.  Spear,  Mrs.  M.  F.  Howe, 
and  A.  W.  Grant. 

Mr.  Herman  Oelrichs  arrived  from  New  York  last 
Tuesday,  and  will  remain  in  San  Francisco  for  some  time. 

Practice  makes  perfect.  That  is  "why  Max  Abraham,  428  Geary 
street,  is  such  a  decided  success  at  preparing  banquets,  dinners,  and 
luncheons.  He  takes  complete  control,  provides  everything  and 
guarantees  perfect  satisfaction.  He  is  strictly  up  to  date  in  every 
department  of  bis  business. 

SOUND  ABROAD  THE  FAME  OF  THE  UNIVERSAL  FAVORITE, 

GraD-ftpple  Blossom  PeriomG 


AND  THE  WORLD  RENOWAED 

Grown  Lavender  Salts. 

"Chief  among  the  fashionable  scents  is  'Crab-Apple  Blossoms.'  a 
delicate  perfume  of  the  highest  quality;  one  of  the  choicest,  ever  produced." 
—Court  Journal. 

"It  wouldnot  be  possible  to  conceive  of  a  more  delicate  and  delightful 
perfume  than  the  Crab-Apple  Blossoms,  which  is  put  up  by  the  Crown 
Perfumery  Company,  of  London.  It  nas  the  aroma  of  Spring  in  it,  and  one 
could  use  it  for  a  lifetime  and  never  tire  of  it  "— -New  York  Observer. 

No  articles  of  the  toilet  have  ever  been  produced  which  have  been  re- 
ceived with  the  enthusiasm  which  has  greeted  the  Crab-Apple  Blos- 
som Perfume  and  The  Crown  Lavender  Salts.  'J'hey  are  literally 
the  delight  of  two  worlds,  and  are  as  eagerly  sought  in  London  and  Paris, 
as  in  New  York.  They  are  daily  bringing  pleasure  comfort,  health  and  re- 
freshment to  thousands  of  homes,  and  are  sold  by  all  dealers  in  perfumery. 

Annual  Sales, 
More  than  Half  a  Million  Bottles. 
Exclusive  Productions  of  the 

Crown  Perfumery  Co. 

177  New  Bond  St,,  London. 

Beware  of  fraudulent  imitations,  which 

only    disappoint   the   purchaser.      Sold 

only  in  the  bottles  of  the  company,  with 

the    well-known     Crown    Stopper.      No 

others  are  genuine. 

DR.     BYRON    W.    HAINES 


14    Grant    Avenue 
Rooms  16-17-18-19 


Dentist 


over  "  Gity  of  Paris  ' 


Dr.    F.  G.  PAGUE, 

Dentist. 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building, 


819  Market  street 


!i  6.  1897 


SAX    FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


ART     JOTTINGS. 

ALAN  1  timer,  was  liunn  in  the 

mian  Club  room-  ely  mere  re 

■  ij^h t  betw  oaming  and  the  dark. 

The  1  oder   ami   full  of  sentiment,  and  the 

picture  will  rank  amonu  Latimer  9  Ivst  work. 

The  Century  Club's  ezhil  otinues  to  draw  well. 

Vctive   picture   by    Elizabeth  Strong,  the  beach  at 

Monterey,  looking  south  from   tbe  lighthouse,  is  strongly 

i>f   Alick    Harrisoi  's   >tvle.     There   is   a  liaz'v 

purple  in  the  air.  and  the  picture  is"  fine  in  color  and  light 

in  tone. 

Joseph   I).   Strong's  portraits   in  pastel  continue   tbe 
fashion      Mrs.  Dr.  Winslow   Anderson,    Mr.    H.  Clift,  Mr. 
H   .1.  Stewart  and  Theodore  Payne  are  amonjc  the  latest 
teli  cif  this  clever  painter. 

Gordon  Boss  is   making   some   pood   studies  of  ba\  1 

ocean  subjects.  To  Mr.  Koss  belongs  the  credit  of  de- 
signing the  very  striking  costume  worn  at  the  Mardi  Qraa 
ball  by  Tony  Hellman.  His  own.  as  a  herald,  was  no  less 
artistic.  On  the  robe  were  three  champagne  corks  in 
gold,  against  a  black  ground,  and  on  the  other  side  the 
hoodoo  bird.  When  the  question  of  what  character  Mr. 
Horace  Piatt  should  take  at  that  function  arose,  Mr.  Ross 
suggested  that  Mr.  Piatt  should  go  as  the  "Famine  in 
India."  This  hint  Colonel  Buntin  improved  upon  bv  offer- 
ing as  a  substitute  that  Mr.  Piatt  appear  as  the '"Valet 
of  the  Shadow  of  Death."  Those  well-meant  counsels  the 
President  of  the  Art  Association  indignantly  rejected,  aud 
made  his  bow  to  the  admiring  crowd  as  a  humble  student 
of  most  anything. 

Charles  Rollo  Peters  arrived  from  Monterey  this  week, 
where  he  has  been  making  a  number  of  studies  of  moon- 
light effects,  one  of  which  is  on  exhibition  at  the  Century 
Club.  When  Mr.  Peters  has  the  desired  number  of  these 
sketches  worked  up,  he  will  exhibit  in  New  York. 

THE      OPENING      OF      THE      PABST      CAFE. 
The   New   Enterprise  of  the  Royal  Eagle  Distilleries  Company. 

THE  Pabst  Cafe,  located  at  the  northwest  corner  of 
Powell  and  Ellis  streets,  and  one  of  the  most  elabo- 
rately-decorated and  complete  establishments  ou  the> 
Pacitic  Coast,  was  thrown  open  for  business  by  its  propri- 
etors, Messrs.  Herbert,  Sonderleiter  &  Rossum,  last 
Wednesday.  It  is  literally  true  that  no  expense  has  been 
spared  in  making  this  beautiful  cafe  a  model  of  its  kind;  a 
place  where  the  most  wholesome  food  and  all  the  delicacies 
of  the  season,  prepared  by  skilled  hands,  may  be  enjoyed, 
surrounded  by  every  elegance.  It  is  the  intention  of  the 
proprietors,  all  of  whom  are  experienced  men,  to  make 
Pabst  Cafe  a  favorite  resort  of  the  families  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  especial  effort  will  be  made  to  cater  to  refined 
family  business,  every  arrangement  being  made  in  view  of 
this  intention.  Private  dining-rooms  and  a  splendid  Ger- 
man banquet  hall,  wite  appropriate  emblems  and  terse 
quotations  from  attractions  of  the  earth,  afford  opportu- 
nity for  gratifying  the  most  exclusive  taste  for  the  largest 
parties.  Especial  attention  is  called  to  the  elegant  paint- 
ings which  decorate  the  walls  of  the  gents  and  ladies'  cafe, 
having  copies  from  some  of  the  most  famous  masters  of  the 
old  world,  appropriate  to  this  establishment. 

The  Pabst  Brewing  Company  is  recognized  as  the 
largest  in  the  world,  and  mad;  famous  by  its  special  brew 
of  line  beer.  It  is  represented  by  the  Royal  Eagle  Distil- 
leries Company  as  their  agents  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 


AT      THE      RACES. 


THE  racing  at  Ingleside  this  week  has  been  of  the  sen- 
sational order.  Owing  to  the  condition  of  the  weather 
and  the  changing  from  a  fast  to  a  muddy  track,  mudlarks 
have  had  their  innings  for  the  last  few  days,  some  of  them 
winning  at  the  tempting  odds  of  100  to  1.  Magnet,  one  of 
the  crack  sprinters  of  the  West,  has  again  made  his  ap- 
pearance in  California,  and,  as  usual,  captured  his  first 
two  starts — the  last  race  being  one  of  the  most  exciting 
yet  witnessed  at  Ingleside,  when  Magnet  defeated  Buckwa. 
The  Schreiber  Stakes,  for  two-year-olds,  was  captured  by 
J.  Naglee  Burke's  Estro,  who  was  cleverly  ridden  by 
Sloan,  and  was  as  good  as  ten  to  one  in  the  betting. 


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7:00  A  Atlantic  Express,  <V'l'nand  East 

7:00  A  Bcntcla,    VaoavlUo     Itumsey,    Sacramento,    Orovllle.    and 
Keddlng.  rfa    1 

7  .11  a  Martinet.  San  Ran  Napa.  Caltsloga,  Santa  Rosa 

8:30A  Nlles,  San  Jose,  Stockton.  lone,  Sacramento,  Marysvtlle, 



•8:30a  Petcra  and  Milton  

9:00a  New  Orleans    Kxpn'sv   Raymond  (for    Yoscmlto).    I 

Bftkerafteld,  Santa  Barbtim,  Los  Angeles,  Doming,  El  Paso, 

New  Orleans,  ami  Ka  

Martinez  and  Stockton 

Vallejo 

Nlles,  San  Jose  IJvrrmore,  and  Stockton 

Sacramento  River  steamers 

Nlles    r-.;in  .losr.    ami    Livermoro 

Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa 

Benlcla,   Vacavllle.  Woodland,  Knight's   Landing,  Marys- 

vllle.  Orovllle.  and  Sacramento 

Lathrop.  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  and  Fresno,  going  via 

Niles,  returning  via  Martinez 

Los  Angeles   Express,  Tiaiv,  Fresno,  Santa  Barbara,  and 

Los  Angeles ' 

Santa  Pe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East  — 

European  mall,  Ogden  and  East 

Haywards,  Nlles   and  San  Jose 

Vallejo. 

Oregon   Express,  Sacramento,  Marysville,    Redding,   Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East 

"  Sunset  Limited."    Fresno,  Los  Angeles,  El  Paso,  New 
Orleans,  and  East 


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Cruz   and  way  stations  5:50p 

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der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:20A 

4:15  P  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9:50A 

+11 :45p  Hunters1  Excursion,  San  Jose  and  way  stations. . 17:20  p 

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8 :45  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1 :30  p 
8:15a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Roblep. 

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Cruz,  Salinas. Monterey. PacifloGrove    *10 

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•4 :30  p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations  ...  *8 

5 :30  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations  *8 

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CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  ifctllp  8).— ^r^,  9:00,  and 
ll:UU  a.  m.,I1:U0.  *2:uo.  13 :0t).*4:00, 15:00  and  *6:00p.  m. 

From  Oakland— Footof  Broadway.  — *6:00,8:00,  10:00  a.  m.;  112:00,  *1:00, 
J3 :0U,  *3 :00, 14 :00  *5 :00  P.  M. 

A  for  Morning,     p  for  Afternoon.      *Sundays  exoepted.      tSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays.  ^Sundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  oheok  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  Information. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  m.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting  at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etv.     No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

dayof  sailing. 

Coptic   (via  Honolulu) Thursday,  April  1, 1897 

Gaelic Wednesday,  April  21.  IS97 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  11,  1897 

Beixi  re  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29, 1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS,  Secretary. 

S.  S.  "Alameda,"  Thursday,  March  4th, at  2  P.M. 
S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu   only,  Tuesday, 
March 23,  at  2  p    m. 
Line   to   Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 

QjTMSllIp1^  '    J.  D.  SPRECKELS&BROS.CO., 

fnmFWP/J-      Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.    Freight  office,  327 
lUllUUUILCr      Market  St.,  San   Francisco. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  6,  1897. 


Son — I  simply  can't  get  this  lesson.  Father — Don't 
give  it  up,  Thomas.  Remember  that  General  Grant's 
great  successes  were  largely  due  to  the  fact  that  he  never 
knew  when  he  was  licked.  Son — Then  he  must  have  worn 
a  board  in  the  seat  of  his  trousers,  same  as  Billy  Brown 
does. — Leslie's  Weekly. 

Fuddy — I  consider  it  cowardly  to  send  a  man  an  anony- 
mous letter!  Buddy — My  sentiments  exactly.  Last  week 
I  received  no  less  than  a  dozen  anonymous  bills.  Fuddy — 
Anonymous  bills?  Buddy — Yes;  there  wasn't  a  signature 
at  the  bottom  of  any  of  them. — Boston  Transcript. 

"Horatius,"  said  the  professor's  wife,  "I  don't  believe 
you've  heard  a  word  that  I've  said,  and  here  I've  been 
talking  for  half  .an  hour."  "Well,"  said  the  pondering 
professor,  "who  would  believe  it?  You  seem  just  as  fresh 
as  when  you  started." — Cleveland  Leader. 

"Is  it  true  that  Goldy's  son  eloped  with  the  old  gentle- 
man's typewriter?"  "Yes;  they  skipped  out  two  weeks 
ago."  "I  presume  Goldy  is  just  pawing  the  air." 
"Naturally.  He  was  engaged  to  the  girl  himself."— 
Betroit  Free  Press. 

I  fain  would  write  a  sonnet  on  her  brow, 

Or  a  lyric  on  her  figure  most  select, 
But  I'm  puzzled  very  greatly  to  know  how 

To  write  'em  there,  because  she  may  object. 

—New  York  World. 

"I  see,"  remarked  Mr.  Snaggs,  as  he  laid  down  his  news- 
paper, "that  Melba's  throat  is  very  sore,  and  therefore 
her  voice  can't — "  "Her  voice  can't  what?"  asked  Mrs. 
Snaggs.     "Soar." — Pittsburg  Chronicle  Telegraph. 

He — They  say  there  is  more  warmth  in  the  right  arm 
than  there  is  in  the  left.  She — That's  why  a  girl  always 
wants  to  keep  on  the  right  side  of  a  man  who  has  a  bank 
account,  I  suppose. — Yonkers  Statesman. 

Storekeeper  (criticising  his  new  sign,  to  painter) — The 
sign  is  nicely  painted,  but — er— can't  you  make  it  a  trine 
more  decorative?  Sign  Painter  (reassuringly) — My  dear 
sir,  wait  till  you  see  the  punctuation! — Ex. 

Briggs — Well,  old  fellow,  I  am  a  happy  man!  Wilson — 
How  so?  Briggs — I  have  just  succeeded  in  borrowing 
enough  to  pay  every  cent  I  owe  to  the  world. — Tit-Bits. 

"Did  you  know  that  Henry  Irving  had  sprained  one  of 
his  knees?"  "Yes;  now  he  will  have  to  make  gestures 
with  his  arms." — Chicago  Record. 

Boston  Teacher — Name  the  products  of  Kansas.  Pupil 
(who  reads  the  papers) — Cyclones,  cactus,  bootleggers, 
hell,  whiskers,  and  hair. — Life. 

Dingley — I  can  tell  how  it  feels  to  be  a  foreigner. 
Hastings— How  is  that?  "Had  some  business  at  the  City 
Hall  yesterday." — Life. 

"Dick  got  even  with  that  girl  who  crowded  him  out  of 
his  position."  "How  did  he  do  it?"  "Married  her."— 
Chicago  Record. 

She — Was  the  piece  well  done?  He — Oh,  yes;  the  critics 
roasted  it. — Yonkers  Statesman. 


THE  measure  now  before  the  Legislature,  compelling 
foreign  marine  insurance  companies  to  deDOsit 
$200,000  in  the  United  States  for  the  protection  of  their 
policy  holders,  is  a  belated  effort  to  monopolize  the  busi- 
ness by  companies  not  foreign.  The  history  of  marine  in- 
surance in  this  State  shows  that  the  people  have  never  yet 
lost  a  cent  by  foreign  marine  insurance,  every  claim  being 
promptly  paid.  These  companies,  too,  have  done  their 
full  share  of  the  business,  and  have  the  confidence  of  the 
public  without  any  such  deposit. 

A  Sovereign  Remedy. 
DR.  PARKER'S  COUGH  CURE.    One  dose  will  stop  a  cough.    It  never 
ails.    Tryit.    Price  25c.    George  Dahlbender  &  Co.,  214  Kearny  street. 


Beecham's  Pills— No  equal  for  Constipation. 


Between  the  two 

-soap  and  poor  washing  pow- 
ders —  the  women  who 
don't  use  Pearline  have 
a  troublesome  time.  If 
they  want  to  make  sure  of 
perfect  safety,  they  have 
to  take  the  hard  work ;  if 
they  try  to  make  the  work 
easier,  then  they  have  to 
take  the  risk  of  harm. 
Now,  how  much  better  it  is  to  get  rid  of  the  hard 
work  and  the  risk,  both  together,  by  the  use  of 
Pearline !  Every  question  as  to  the  safety,  the 
effectiveness,  or  the  economy  of  Pearline  has 
been  settled  by  millions.  512 


BRUSHES 


For  barbers,  bakers,  bootblacks,  bath-houses,  bil- 
liard tables,  brewers,  book-binders,  candy-makers, 
canners,  dyers,  flour-mills,  foundries,  laundries, 
paper-hangers,  printers,  painters,  shoe  factories, 
stablemen,  tar-roofers,  tanners  tailors,  etc. 

BUCHANAN   BROS., 

BRUSH   MANUFACTURERS,  609  Sacramento  St.  ,S.   F        Tel.  5610. 
SAN     FRANCISCO    AND     NORTH     PACIFIC    RAILWAY    CO. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    TlBDRON  FERRY- Foot  ol  Market  Street. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00,  11:00  A  m;  12:35,  3:80  5:10,  6:30  P  M.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trip  at  11:30  p  m.    Saturdays — Extra  trips  at  1 :50  and  11 :30  P  M. 
SUNDAYS— «:00,  9:30,  11:00  A  M;  1:30.  3:30,  5:00,6:20PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO   SAN   FRANCISCO, 
WEEK.  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  AM;  12:45,  3:40,5:10pm.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at  1:55  and  6:35  pm. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10.  9:40,  11:10  AM;  1:40,3:40,5:00,6:25PM. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  F. 

In  Effect  Oct.  14,  1896 

Arrive  in  S.  F. 

Week  Days. 

Sundays. 

Destination. 

Sundays 

10:40  am 
6:10  pm 
7:35  pm 

|  Week  Days 

7:30AM- 
3:30  PM 

5:10  pm 

8:00am 
9:30  am 
5:00pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

I     8 :40  a  m 

10:25  am 

[      6:22  PM 

8:00  am 

8:00  AM 
8:00AM 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Healdsourg, 

Geyservllle,  Cloverdale 

Pieta,  Hopland,  Ukiah 

1    10:25  A  M 

7:30AM 
3:30pm 
7:30  am 

7:35pm 

7:35pm 

1     6:22  P  M 
I     6:22  P  M 

7:30am 
3:30pm 

Guerneville. 

7:35pm 

I    10:25  A  M 
|      6:22  P  M 

7:30  AM 
5:10pm 

8 :00A  M 
5:00PM 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40  am 
6:10pm 

1       8:40  A  M 

6:22  p  M 

3AM 
3p  m 


8:00  am 
5 :00  P  M 


Sebastopol. 


10:40AM 
6:10  pm 


10:35  A  M 
6:22  P  M 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs'  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  Highland 
Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake  port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport 
and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs, 
Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John 
Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville, 
Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot  Springs ,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg.West- 
port,  Usal,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Harris,  Scotia,  Eureka. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  W.  FOSTE  R,  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass  .  Agent. 

PACIFIC    COAST    STEAMSHIP    CO. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf,  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
6     A.M..  March  12,  17.  22,27 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  March  2,  7,  12,17,23,27, 
and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  p.  m.  Mar.  1,  5, 
9,  13,  17,  21,  25,  29,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  A.  M.;  Mar  3,  7, 11, 15, 
19,  23.  27,  31.  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  Mar.  1,  5,  9, 13, 17,  21,  25, 
29,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter,  at  11  A.  M. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz,  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  A.  m., 
25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents,       10  Market  st,  S.  F. 

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Number  11. 


Printed  and  PuttlUAta  firry  Saturday  by  the  proprietor.  Fit  KB  HARRIOT! 

6Vt  Kearny  ttreet.  San  Francisco.     Kntcred  at   San   Francitco  /'..«(• 

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and  at    Chicago.  90S   Boyce    Building.  {Frank  E     MorrUon.  Kaetern 

Representative),  irhere  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  subscrip- 

tion  and  advertising  rate*. 

IF  our  friends,  the  Greeks,  desire  to  return  to  their  na- 
tive land,  in  response  to  King  George's  call  to  arms, 
they  should  be  stimulated  in  their  patriotic  impulses.  We 
do  not  need  the  Greeks  so  badly  as  does  their  sovereign. 
By  all  means,  let  them  hasten  to  the  banner  of  their 
country. 

JUDGING  by  the  great  horde  of  hungry  pap-seekers 
and  suckers  now  bearing  down  upon  President  McKin- 
ley,  the  most  uncompromising  free  trader  should  condone 
his  cry  for  protection.  The  great  need  of  it  must  bear  a 
new  and  terrible  significance  to  the  nation's  beleaguered 
Chief  Executive. 

THERE  is  a  constitutional  amendment  now  before  the 
Legislature  permitting  this  city  to  make  payment  for 
goods  furnished  by  local  merchants.  The  amendment 
should  be  adopted.  San  Francisco  is  able  to  pay  all  just 
claims,  and  the  constitutional  inability  should  be  removed 
at  the  earliest  moment. 


THE  actioD  of  the  Legislature  in  finding  Andy  Lawrence 
guilty  of  contempt  and  ordering  him  to  jail,  was  just 
and  righteous.  The  unbridled  license  and  brutal  methods 
of  the  Examiner  have  become  intolerable,  and  it  is  time 
that  it  receive  a  substantial  rebuke.  It  is  a  disgrace  to 
San  Francisco;  an  indecent  publication,  and  its  suppres- 
sion would  be  a  distinct  moral  gain  to  this  community. 

THE  cause  of  temperance  has  been  defeated  in  Oakland, 
say  its  defenders.  The  saloons  will  not  be  closed. 
The  advocates  of  total  abstinence  will  never  learn  a  lesson 
from  experience.  It  has  been  demonstrated  time  out  of 
mind  that  prohibition  does  not  prohibit.  Freedom  from 
the  drink  habit  comes  from  moral  suasion,  not  from 
sumptuary  enactments;  from  voluntarily  accepted  beliefs 
of  physical  and  mental  betterment,  not  from  cast  iron 
laws.  No  local  statute  is  stronger  than  a  majority  of  that 
community  to  whom  it  applies. 

GOVERNOR  BUDD  has  signed  the  bill  giving  San 
Francisco  a  fully  paid  fire  department.  No  one  will 
object  to  this  measure,  which  is  in  the  line  of  greater  effi- 
ciency and  less  politics.  Lack  of  funds  will  prevent  the 
immediate  operation  of  the  law;  but  within  a  year  the  re- 
organization of  the  department  on  this  basis  will  doubtless 
be  accomplished.  Not  the  least  of  good  things  to  follow 
this  new  idea  will  be  the  suppression  of  the  beastly  alarm 
whistles,  whose  barbaric  bellowings  are  almost  as  much 
to  be  dreaded  as  the  fires  they  signal. 


THE  addition  of  something  more  than  $12,000  to  San 
Francisco's  yearly  police  bill,  does  not  call  out  spon- 
taneous exclamations  of  delight  outside  of  the  immediate 
circle  of  the  beneficiaries.  Mayor  Phelan  truly  repre- 
sented the  taxpayers  of  this  city  when  he  informed  the 
Legislators  that  the  people  of  San  Francisco  were  opposed 
to  an  increase  of  salaries  in  the  police  department;  that 
this  was  a  poor  time  for  increasing  burdens.  But  it  seems 
that  those  most  concerned — that  is,  the  people  who  pay 
the  bills,  are  not  to  be  considered.  Their  reasonable  pro- 
tests are  no  match  for  the  organized  assaults  upon  their 
pockets  by  worthless  politicians,  City  Hall  rings,  and 
overpaid  officials. 


WORE  on  the    boulevard   will   commence  next  .Monday 
morning,  and  the  laborers  will  be  paid  one  dollar  per 

day.  This  is  a  small  mhii,  but  it  will  serve  to  keep  hunger 
from  the  door  as  long  as  it  lasts.  With  the  coming  of 
Bpring,  opportUE  mployment  will  increase  through- 

out the  interior,  and  the  needy  be  better  able  to  care  for 
themselves.  Meantime  contributions  to  the  boulevard 
fund  should  be  freely  made,  for  every  dollar  will  be  wisely 
expended. 

THE  position  of  United  States  Attorney  Jones  of 
Nevada,  who,  while  in  the  pay  of  the  Government, 
drafted  a  bill  and  avoided  the  legal  difficulties  which  pre- 
vented prize-fighting  in  that  State,  and  who  was  com- 
pelled to  threaten  the  undoing  of  his  work  before  he  could 
get  his  fee  from  Promoter  Stuart,  is  not  to  be  envied, 
either  from  a  professional  or  moral  standpoint.  Stuart,  it 
seems,  unconsciously  paid  Jones  an  undeserved  compliment 
when  he  presumed  that  the  attorney  would  rather  lose  the 
money  than  disclose  his  hand  in  the  transaction.  Jones 
clearly  belongs  to  Nevada. 

IT  will  be  well  for  captious  and  unreasonable  critics  to  re- 
member that  the  rights  of  way  for  the  proposed  boule- 
vard from  the  Park  to  the  Ocean  represents  a  money 
value  of  from  $50,000  to  $75,000,  and  that  the  Spring  Val- 
ley Company,  which  gives  a  great  part  of  it,  has  no  prop- 
erty to  sell  along  the  highway,  and  will  not  be  benefited  by 
the  completion  of  the  work.  The  gift  of  the  hundred  foot 
strip  by  the  company  is  a  generous  and  praiseworthy  act. 
In  the  neighborhood  of  $10,000  are  now  in  hand,  and  the 
work  on  this  improvement  will  be  commenced  within  a  few 
days. 

OFFICERS  of  the  Southern  California  Christian  En- 
deavor Union  some  time  ago  sent  a  carload  of  oranges 
to  be  sold  at  auction  in  New  York,  the  proceeds  to  be  ap- 
plied to  suffering  Armenians.  The  oranges  netted  $923. 
This  money  will  be  devoted  to  the  support  of  an  orphanage 
at  Harport,  Turkey.  Of  course,  it  is  all  very  well  to  aid 
Armenians,  but  one  cannot  refrain  from  thinking  that 
there  are  a  great  many  people  nearer  home  who  know 
what  the  bitterness  of  cold  and  the  gnawings  of  hunger 
are.  Ninety  per  cent,  of  the  so-called  missionary  contri- 
butions are  valueless.  The  money  cojld  be  far  better 
spent.  The  glory  of  God  and  the  pocket  of  the  missionary 
are  often  held  to  be  entirely  synonymous. 

■pJ-VERY  lover  of  honest  racing  will  regret  to  hear  that 
Is  President  A.  B.  Spreckels  and  Director  Henry  J. 
Crocker  have  resigned  from  the  Pacific  Coast  Jockey 
Club,  and  that  they  will  be  followed  by  Directors  Andrews 
and  Tarpey.  The  action  of  these  leading  exponents  of  fair 
racing  on  the  Pacific  Coast  is  a  great  surprise,  as  the 
club  was  well  patronized,  and  owing  to  the  high  standing 
of  its  chief  promoters,  possessed  the  entire  confidence  of 
the  whole  public.  They  redeemed  horse  racing  in  Cali- 
fornia from  a  very  low  level,  and  placed  it  among  the 
honorable  sports  of  the  day.  Aud  this  was  no  small 
task.  The  generous  purses  given,  and  the  character  of 
the  sport  attracted  horsemen  from  all  over  the  country. 
It  is  unfortunate  for  racing  that  Mr.  Spreckels  and  his 
fellow  officers  of  the  club  have  determined  to  retire  from 
its  management.  It  is  to  be  hoped,  however,  that  those 
who  succeed  them  will  maintain  the  standard  they  rigidly 
adhered  to.  It  is  said  that  Police  Commissioner  Gunst  is 
likely  to  take  a  prominent  place  in  the  future  management 
of  Ingleside.  His  reputation  as  a  fair,  square  sportsmau 
is  recognized  everywhere,  which  would  mean  much  to  the 
new  organization. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  13,  1897. 


"THE     NEW     JOURNALISM." 

IF  we  are  to  judge  of  "the  Dew  journalism"  by  its  per- 
formances it  is  a  fake.  It  is  gotten  up  to  delude  and 
humbug  the  unthinking  part  of  humanity  and  will  scruple 
at  nothing  that  either  attracts  attention  or  nickels.  Any- 
thing for  a  sensation  is  its  rule,  and  it  matters  not  whether 
it  be  true  or  false,  moral  or  immoral,  erotic  or  virtuous, 
blasphemous  or  religious,  un-Godly,  or  Godlike,  veneer  for 
soundrelism,  and  sarcasm  for  everything  that  is  true  and 
of  good  repute.  The  New  York  World  pioneered  its  way 
to  financial  success  on  these  lines  and  now  Hearst's  two 
papers  are  trying  to  outdo  their  progenitor.  The  story 
went  the  rounds  about  three  years  ago  that  Mr.  Pulitzer 
(the  proprietor  of  the  World)  gave  one  of  the  brightest  of 
his  men  a  week  off  with  explicit  instructions  to  go  around 
and  find  out  what  the  business  men  and  leading  citizens 
thought  of  the  World.  At  the  end  of  the  week  the  bright 
man  went  about  his  usual  duties  without  reporting  to  the 
proprietor.  For  which  he  was  promptly  called  to  ac- 
count. "Oh,"  said  he,  "you  don't  want  to  hear  that 
stuff,  it  is  all  stuff,  and  disagreeable  stuff  at  that."  "Well, 
.  that  is  what  I  expected,"  said  Pulitzer,  "and  that's  why 
I  sent  you  to  find  out  just  what  it  amounted  to."  Pulitzer 
persisting,  the  reporter  had  to  say  "he  could  not  find  a 
prominent  citizen  who  spoke  well  of  the  World;  that  peo- 
ple never  believed  what  it  said,  unless  they  read  it  in  some 
other  paper,  that  its  drawings  were  nearly  all  mere 
imaginings  and  dirty  ones  at  that,  and  that  a  majority  of 
its  sensations  were  fakes."  Mr.  Pulitzer  smiling  said 
"that  is  just  the  way  I  want  to  have  things.  Whilst  the 
snobs,  very  few  in  number,  are  talking  that  way  I  can  be 
pretty  certain  how  all  the  others  are  talking.  The  lovers 
of  sensations  make  the  World  yield  $800,000  a  year,  whilst 
the  other  sort  of  people  allowed  it  to  starve.  The  poor 
devil  with  a  nickel  which  he  wants  to  exchange  for  a 
"World"  is  more  to  me  than  Vanderbilt  who  declines  to 
buy  one  at  all.  I  am  for  the  many  as  customers,  and  in- 
tend to  supply  the  kind  of  goods  they  require."  That  is 
the  New  Journalism.  That  is  the  kind  that  young  Hearst 
boasts  of  at  the  clubs,  and  in  the  other  places  that  may 
not  be  so  much  as  named.  It  seems  to  be  one  of  the 
peculiarities  of  the  New  Journalism  that  it  exercises  its 
censorship  of  public  morals  from  unspeakable  places.  It 
yells  its  loudest  for  people  it  intends  to  delude,  succeeds 
in  fooling  them  nearly  every  time,  and  always  takes  their 
money. 

Yet  this  new  journalism  does  not  everywhere  and  always 
succeed.  The  Examiner  started  in  to  run  the  Legislature, 
but  egregiously  failed,  because  it  never  made  out  a  case 
that  thinking  men  trusted.  The  Clerk  of  the  House  and 
the  Government  Printer  pulled  through  solely  because  of 
the  sympathy  created  by  the  Examiner's  exaggerated  and 
brutal  attacks.  The  Legislation  it  favored,  met  as  a  rule 
with  disfavor.  Only  a  few  of  the  least  harmful  of  its 
working-men's  bills  got  through,  and  those  it  passed  will 
remain  as  so  many  dead  letters  on  the  statute  books. 
Braunhart's  25  cent  car  fare  was  its  pet  measure,  but  in 
the  end  it  was  easily  defeated,  being  opposed  by  the  very 
class  it  was  supposed  to  be  in  the  most  favor  with.  The 
Torrens  land  transfer  act  was  going  through  swimmingly, 
until  the  Examiner  came  out  in  its  favor,  when  it  struck 
a  snag,  and  its  fate  became  uncertain.  Its  sensational 
pretence,  during  the  dying  hours  of  the  Legislature,  that 
wholesale  bribery  was  being  resorted  to  in  order  to  kill  a 
bill  favoring  changes  of  venue  in  certain  cases  was  con- 
ceived in  the  country  and  was  particularly  applicable  to 
the  many  counties  with  only  one  Superior  Judge.  Its 
authors  had  not  so  much  as  thought  of  its  possible  bearing 
on  the  Hale  and  Norcross  Case.  And  there  is  one  man, 
who,  if  he  will  do  himself  justice,  will  bear  testimony  that 
he  and  certain  clients  of  his  thought  such  a  law  necessary 
long  before  the  Hale  and  Norcross  case  was  tried.  At- 
torney Baggett  admits  having  been  lobbying  at  Sacramento 
for  the  bill  and  Lawrence  of  the  Examiner  swears  that  he 
obtained  about  all  be  knew  about  the  bribery  of  members 
to  vote  for  it  from  Mr.  Baggett. 

An  explanation  is  needed  from  both  of  these  gentlemen. 
The  one  is  attorney  for  Hale  &  Norcross,  and  a  practical 
politician  of  some  experience.  The  other  it  is  needless  to 
describe,  further  than  to  say  that  he  is  a  pronounced  sam- 
pleofthe  "new  journalist."     In   San  Francisco,  he  wrote 


the  sensational  bribery  charges  in  order  to  scare  Gov- 
ernor Budd,  timid  mortal  that  he  is,  into  vetoing  a  bill 
which  he  has  heretofore  favored,  and  lawyer  Baggett  was 
the  inspiring  cause  of  those  articles,  as  he  has  been  of  much 
else.  It  is  worthy  of  notice  that  the  accounts  of  all  these 
things  in  "the  new  journal"  are  as  alike  the  accounts  in  all 
the  other  journals  as  coal  is  like  snow.  Made  out  of 
whole  cloth,  to  scare  a  man  whom  it  is  easy  to 
frighten,  intended  to  serve  a  selfish,  personal  end,  the 
charges  of  bribery  appear  in  this  case  to  be  about  as  false 
as  those  against  the  Examiner  in  the  Southern  Pacific 
case  were  true.  It  is  a  false  alarm,  just  as  was  the  pre- 
tense of  the  Examiner  that  it  was  being  boycotted  by  the 
corporations.  Heads  of  families,  who  do  not  care  to  sup- 
port a  pugilist's  organ,  are  abandoning  it  on  all  sides. 
Public  libraries  are  finding  it  necessary  to  put  it  out  of 
sight.  And  the  stockholders  and  wage-earners  are  con- 
templating dealing  only  with  their  friends.  That  is  about 
the  best  antidote  for  the  "new  journalism"  we  know  of. 
In  New  York,  they  have  just  "caught  on"  to  what 
Hearst's  "Journal"  means,  and  are  taking  a  sure,  but 
perhaps  not  the  best,  way  of  taking  the  sting  out  of  it. 
Not  to  patronize  it  is  to  kill  it  off-hand.  To  appoint  a  cen- 
sor to  cut  out  all  that  is  indecent  in  it,  would  render  it 
unmarketable  among  the  class  of  readers  it  appeals  to, 
and  slow  death  would  overtake  it  in  that  way.  The  bill 
introduced  at  Albany  provides  that  the  Governor  shall 
appoint  a  censor  for  every  county  of  the  State  having  a 
population  of  10,000  or  more,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
eliminate  all  libelous  matters,  and  all  matters  deemed  by 
him  to  be  inimical  to  the  interest  of  the  State,  or  known 
to  him  to  be  untrue."  That  is  certainly  a  pretty  pass  to 
which  to  bring  the  American  press.  Yet,  all  the  reputable 
journals  are  approving  of  it.  It  is  either  this  rascally 
"new  journalism"  or  a  censorship.  Where  the  press  will 
not  hold  itself  in  check,  and  act  as  its  own  censor,  it  is  not 
surprising  that  decent  people  are  thinking  of  supplying  it 
with  one.  The  Examiner,  alone  of  all  our  daily  papers, 
suppressed  the  dispatches  as  to  this  bill.  It  is  really 
astounding  that  our  time-honored  freedom  of  the  press  is  in 
real  danger  from  its  own  license,  faithlessness,  evil-speaking, 
lying,  slandering,  and  jobbery  generally.  A  free  and 
honorable  press  is  the  paladium  of  our  liberties,  but  a  false 
and  mendacious  one  is  an  irritant  upon  the  body  politic, 
and  a  menace  to  everything  that  is  true  and  of  good  re- 
pute. That  is  the  "new  journalism."  That  is  the  Examiner. 

The  Law  As  You  may  question  a  juror  as  to  bias,  and  if 
To  Change  he  be  not  very  clear  that  he  has  none,  he 
Of  Venue.  is  at  once  dismissed  from  further  considera- 
tion of  the  case  at  bar.  A  Superior  Judge 
is  the  sole  authority  as  to  his  own  prejudices,  and  that  is 
something  no  man  is  competent  to  be.  All  minds  are  pre- 
judiced on  some  subjects,  and  none  are  at  all  times  com- 
pletely under  the  sway  of  exact  reason.  Legal  minds  are 
peculiarly  apt  to  go  wrong  as  the  statistics  of  our  lunatic 
asylums  show.  Campbell's  great  work,  the  lives  of  the 
Lord  Chancellors,  abounds  in  idiosyncracies  and  eccentric- 
ities, which  afflicted  almost  every  Chancellor  that  ever  sat 
on  the  Woolsack.  In  England  and  in  several  States  of  our 
own  Union  changes  of  venue  are  at  once  made  upon  affidavit 
of  either  party,  charging  bias,  and  the  same  law  exists  in 
California,  oniy  it  leaves  the  judge  the  sole  authority  of 
his  own  bias.  You  may  prove  an  extraordinary  state  of 
facts  against  him,  but  if  he  says  they  are  not  true,  he  is 
the  supreme  authority  as  to  that,  as  the  Supreme  Court 
has  recently  decided.  Surely  it  is  absurd  for  any  man  to 
be  sole  judge  of  a  case,  or  point,  to  which  he  is  practically 
the  sole  party.  Justice  and  right,  as  well  as  good  taste, 
require  that  when  the  venue  is  set,  the  case  shall  be  tried 
before  a  judge  without  fear  and  above  reproach,  which  he 
cannot  be  if  affidavits  have  been  filed  making  out  a  case  of 
bias.  Indeed,  the  details  as  to  the  cause  of  bias  are 
seldom  considered  necessary,  if  the  objection  to  the  judge 
is  taken  at  the  beginning  of  a  trial,  or  at  the  beginning  of 
a  new  one  granted  for  cause  by  the  Supreme  Court.  The 
very  overruling  of  the  Court  below  in  a  complicated  case, 
creates  the  presumption  that  either  there  was  bias  or 
inefficiency  in  the  trial  judge.  Some  one  judge  has  got  to 
try  the  case  over  again,  in  any  event,  and  it  can  but  add 
to  the  respect  paid  to  the  final  result  that  either  two 
judges  concurred  in  it,  or  that  the  errors  of  the  first  were 


.  13,  i897- 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


clearly  pointed  out  by   the  second,    and  that  upon  review 
-  jpreme  Court   found    the   second   had   correctly  laid 
dow'  the  case. 

In  San  Francisco,  where  there  an  twelve  departments 

of  the  same   Court,    these   matters   are   usually  arranged 
amicably   among  the  jud 

party  to  ,i  f   objection,  a   reassignment  by 

the  presiding  judge.  made,   and   the   practice 

finds  favor  all  round.  It  is  in  the  country,  where  the 
necessity  for  a  change  Is  really  great  and  pressing.  Make 
yourself  distasteful  to  the  members  at  the  Court  House 
ring  of  your  county— a  very  easy  tiling  to  do— and  there 
after  you  have  no  more  chance  of  obtaining  justice  in  that 
county  than  you  have  of  procuring  the  gold  bricks  that 
pave  the  entrance  to  Heaven.  A  column  giving  facts 
known  to  us,  would  be  really  amusing,  but  we  should, 
under  the  law  as  it  exists,  be  liable  to  be  called  before  the 
very  judge  involved,  and  we  could  not  prevent  his  being 
counsel,  judce,  and  executioner.  We  know  of  a  case  in 
one  of  the  bay  counties  that  happened  not  Ion y  ago,  in 
which  a  judge  tried  a  case  against  a  man,  after  a  stipula- 
tion was  agreed  to  in  open  court  that  it  should  not  be 
tried,  scoured  the  county  for  evidence,  which  he  imported 
into  a  written  opinion  intended  to  destroy  the  character 
of  the  man  he  disliked,  gave  judgment  against  him,  and 
assisted  in  getting  that  biased  and  false  opinion  circulated 
around  the  county.  The  luckless  defendant  jokingly  re- 
marks, although  it  is  no  joke,  that  if  he  were  arraigned 
before  that  judge  for  killing  a  man  who  never  lived,  he 
believes  he  would  be  hanged  on  general  principles.  It  is, 
perhaps,  needless  to  say  that  in  nothing  that  constitutes 
good  citizenship  does  that  violent  and  prejudiced  judge 
equal  the  man  he  hates.  Will  any  just  and  decent  man 
say  that  a  change  of  venue  ought  not  to  be  had  in  such  a 
case?  We  know  in  another  bay  county  a  Superior  Judge 
who  rendered  a  decision  in  these  words:  "The  act  of  the 
Legislature  is  hereby  amended  and  made  to  read  as 
follows:" — The  act  alluded  to  was  the  county  government 
law  which  put  the  county  in  a  lower  classification  than  the 
ring  thought  right.  The  officials  raised  a  question,  took 
it  before  the  judge  of  the  county,  and  to-day  are  receiving 
from  40  to  50  per  cent  higher  salaries  than  they  otherwise 
would.  It  is  a  monstrous  thing  for  a  man  living  in  any 
county  that  has  but  one  judge  to  be  at  the  mercy  of  that 
judge  and  of  his  friends.  In  many  of  the  cow  counties 
there  should  either  be  travelling  Judges,  or  easy  changes 
of  venue.  Governor  Buddhas  been  known  long  ago  to  ex- 
press this  opinion. 

Ths  Finishing       These  are  the  days  when  the  prepara- 
Days  of  tions    for    the    final    "clean   up"    are 

The  Legislature,  usually  made,  and  accordingly  the 
closing  days  of  the  Legislature  are 
generally  deemed  the  most  dangerous.  But  it  is  only  due 
to  the  present  session  to  say  that  it  is  sticking  fairly  well 
to  good  and  useful  working,  and  avoiding  scandals  that 
are  not  fakes.  It  could  do  no  less,  but  might  have  done 
more  in  the  matter  of  the  faked  one  the  Examiner  got  up; 
but  the  exposure  of  Lawrence  upon  the  stand  was  about 
the  worst  punishment  that  could  befall  him.  In  very  pity 
we  say  no  more  of  him.  The  appropriations  have  hardly 
been  kept  down  to  the  point  which  these  hard  times 
called  for,  and  the  Governor  will  again  have  to  call  his 
pruning  knife  into  requisition.  We  hope  he  will  cut  deep, 
and  spare  nothing  that  can  be  lopped  off.  The  cost  of 
running  the  State  affairs  of  California  is  out  of  all  propor- 
tion to  the  appropriations  of  many  much  more  populous 
States.  We  have  got  to  learn  the  ways  of  economy,  and 
can  never  begin  at  a  better  period  than  the  present.  The 
Legislature  has  dealt  with  unusual  care  with  a  greater 
number  of  leading  questions  than  has  been  the  rule.  We 
can  recall  several  of  first-class  importance,  and  many  that 
call  for  no  serious  objection.  Should  any  bad  bills  have 
crept  through,  the  Governor's  veto  remains  as  effective  as 
ever.  We  fear  that  the  rearrangement  of  the  Supreme 
Court's  business  is  not  likely  to  go  through  in  a  satis- 
factory shape.  Too  many  cooks  are  spoiling  the  broth, 
and  some  of  them  are  spoiling  it  for  a  purpose.  The 
Torrens  Land  Transfer  Act  is  nearly  through,  and  should 
not  be  forgotten  in  the  closing  day  of  the  session.  It  will 
be  something  to  say  in  the  near  future,  that  the  last  was 
not  the  worst  Legislature  California  ever  had. 


Schemes  th.t  slates   were  admit'. 

h»v«  the  i     ton,  it  »as  said  by  the  Repub 

Gone  Awry,  the  Senate  would  thereby  be  given  to  their 
part,  tor  a  generation  to  come.  Now  that 
the  new  Senatorial  seats  are  nearly  all  filled,  they  do  not 
secure  a  single  one.  The  Rocky  Mountain  States  al 
either  a  Democrat  or  a  Populist.  Think  of  that,  ye 
schemers  and  politicians  !  The  Republicans  will  not  con- 
trol the  Senate  in  the  very  first  Congress  immediately  fol- 
lowing the  greatest  victory  but  one  that  party  has  ever 

gained  at  the  polls.      And  the  future  of  those    States,  who 
shall  guess  it?    The  assertions  of  bribery  have  been  many 
>ml,  and   where  there  has  been  so  much  smoke    there 
certainly  ha  me  lire.     The  prices   have    been    dis- 

gustingly low.  l-'roni  >HHi  to  slatl  have,  it  appears,  suf- 
ficed to  buy  ;i  legislative  vote.  At  those  figures,  it  would 
be  possible  for  one  millionaire  to  buy  enough  votes  to  give 
him  perpetual  control  of  the  treaty,  and  patronage-con- 
firming body,  which,  at  the  same  time,  is  a  co-ordinate 
branch  of  the  Legislature  of  the  nation.  A  consideration 
of  these  facts  render  the  situation  an  alarming  one.  Even 
now,  it  is  impossible  to  tell  what  destiny  will  Shape  the 
ends  of  legislation  during  the  next  four  years.  It  is  going 
to  be  a  ticklish  period.  Yet  the  Populists  undoubtedly 
hold  the  balance  of  power.  It  is,  no  doubt,  a  weakness  in 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  that  it  allots  as  much 
Senatorial  power  to  States  like  Idaho  and  Wyoming  as  to 
those  of  New  York  and  Pennsylvania.  Great  as  the  dis- 
parity is  to-day,  it  will  grow  greater.  Based  upon  no 
principle  of  equal  representation,  it  is  foreign  to  justice, 
equity,  and  all  that  is  distinctively  American.  The  Senate 
promises  to  be  fruitful  of  trouble  for  some  time  to  come. 

Official  Interference  Our  esteemed  contemporary  "the 
In  Private  Litigation.  Call"  has  with  much  force  been  say- 
ing a  great  deal  that  is  true  about 
police  interference  in  private  litigation.  There  no  doubt 
have  been  times  when  that  interference  was  spite  work, 
or  intended  solely  for  gain,  or  to  oppress  a  disliked  liti- 
gant. These  are  grave  allegations,  but  at  one  time  they 
were  too  notoriously  true  to  permit  of  any  serious  attempt 
at  denial.  The  "Call"  demonstrates  that  the  bad  old 
practice  has  been  revived  and  is  doing  what  it  can  to  ren- 
der it  odious.  Yet  there  are  times  when  the  police  may 
properly  interfere  in  litigation.  The  chief  of  the  detective 
department,  in  the  course  of  a  published  interview, 
pointed  out  the  undoubtedly  correct  position  for  the  police 
to  take  in  such  matters.  "Whenever  evidence  of  crime  is 
present  in  a  case,  the  police  are  in  the  line  of  duty  in 
ferreting  it  out,  to  the  end  that  the  truth  may  appear, 
and  crime  be  punished.  At  the  same  time  these  services 
are  rendered  the  poor  as  well  as  the  rich,  for  the  police 
are  not  respecters  of  persons."  He  might  have  added 
that  in  both  cases  no  pay  is  exacted,  otherwise  the  police 
becomes  a  power  that  only  the  rich  may  use.  But,  as  far 
as  he  went,  the  aged  Captain  laid  down  rules  that  will 
bring  him  honor  long  after  his  advancing  years  have  done 
their  worst;  if  those  rules  are  but  lived  up  to.  We  have 
never  known  but  two  cases  in  which  this  rule  bad  weight, 
but  are  very  willing  to  believe  that  hoary  heads  may  be- 
come crowns  of  righteousness. 

Advertising  The  dispatches  a  few  days  ago  informed  us 
Central        that  a  party  of  three  hundred  tourists  had 

California,  left  New  Orleans  for  California — presumably 
Los  Angeles;  and  these  tourists  are  now 
doubtless  enjoying  themselves  amidst  the  orange  groves 
and  real  estate  dealers  south  of  the  Tehachapi  mountains. 
There  is  nothing  unusual  about  these  visiting  Easterners; 
they  are  but  hundreds  of  the  many  thousands  who  annually 
journey  to  Southern  California  for  health,  recreation,  and 
investments.  No  section  of  the  country  of  which  we  have 
knowledge  owes  more  to  "birds  of  passage"  than  our 
Southern  neighbors.  They  have  grown  rich  and  opulent 
through  a  just  appreciation  of  their  surroundings  and  a  wise 
intelligence  of  the  advantages  of  advertising  native  re- 
sources to  the  world.  In  the  past  fifteen  years  Southern 
California  has  been  casting  this  sort  of  bread  on  the 
waters,  and  it  is  being  returned  to  them  in  accessions  of 
valuable  immigration,  permanent  investments  and  material 
development. 

The  results  of  a  few  years'  intelligent  effort  in  that  part 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


March  13,  1897. 


of  the  State  demonstrate  the  certain  effect  of  judicious  ad- 
vertising, and  give  to  the  northern  and  central  part  of 
California  an  object  lesson  worthy  of  imitation.  It  is  high 
time  that  the  different  organizations  in  San  Francisco 
should  take  the  initiative,  and  crystallize  the  many  theories 
of  which  this  city  is  most  prolific  into  practical  action. 
The  fact  is  that  the  Eastern  and  middle-western  States 
know  very  little  of  the  capabilities,  the  climate,  and  the 
opportunities  of  Central  and  Northern  California.  There 
should  be  established  in  some  central  point  beyond  the 
Rockies  a  bureau  of  information,  where  reliable  and  exact 
information  touching  these  prevailing  conditions  could  be 
obtained.  These  statistics  might  be  furnished  by  the 
various  county  officials,  and  should  be  classified  as  to  soil, 
price  and  methods  of  payment,  adaptability,  cost  of  reach- 
ing the  different  sections,  average  yield  and  approximate 
profits  per  acre,  on  different  products,  and  the  time  that 
would  elapse  before  the  immigrant  could  ^reasonably  ex- 
pect his  venture  to  become  self-supporting.  To  collect 
and  put  into  clear  and  convincing  form  all  these  vital  facts 
would  require  time,  patience  and  a  little  money;  but  to 
the  immigrant  such  information  would  be  the  strongest 
argument  possible,  and  to  the  parts  of  the  State  repre- 
sented worth  their  cost  a  thousand  fold.  The  work  to  be 
effective  would  have  to  be  methodical;  but  once  the  facts 
were  obtained  their  compilation  would  be  simple.  Spas- 
modic and  hasty  action  would  avail  little.  Better  to  begin 
right,  although  it  take  a  longer  time.  Probably  six 
months  would  be  required  to  obtain  the  necessary  statistics 
at  the  very  least;  but  better  wait  a  year  rather  than 
undertake  such  a  campaign  without  reliable,  exact,  and 
abundant  material.  The  entire  cost  of  compilation,  print- 
ing, and  maintenance  of  Eastern  offices,  could  be  justly 
taxed  against  the  different  counties  represented — much  as 
the  Board  of  Trade  exhibit  is  at  present  sustained  in  this 
city. 

It  will  be  remembered  in  this  connection,  that  the  South- 
ern Pacific  Railroad  may  be  depended  upon  to  aid  in  every 
way  any  intelligent  effort  to  induce  immigration.  C.  P. 
Huntington  stated  when  he  was  last  in  San  Francisco  that 
the  road  would  do  everything  possible  in  aid  of  such  a  con- 
certed movement.  The  company  has  a  vital  interest  in 
the  proposition,  and  will  be  found  anxious  to  support  it  on 
any  reasonable  basis.  The  State  Development  Committee, 
the  Merchants'  Association,  and  other  organizations  now 
considering  the  advertising  of  Central  and  Northern  Cali- 
fornia in  the  East,  should  begin  their  labors  at  once.  We 
have  no  doubt  that  they  will  find  every  county  north 
of  the  dividing  range  willing  and  anxious  to  join 
them. 


As  to  The  action  of  the  Supervisors  in  providing 

Street  Paving,  for  a  complete  test  of  the  merits  of  differ- 
ent kinds  of  street  paving  at  a  recent 
meeting,  puts  that  important  matter  in  a  fairway  toward 
intelligent  future  action.  The  resolution  applied  more  par- 
ticularly to  trials  for  brick,  wood,  and  asphalt,  inasmuch 
as  bitumen  has  long  been  accepted  as  the  standard  for 
street  paving  here.  It  has  been  claimed  that  heretofore 
no  other  material  could  get  a  chance  to  demonstrate  its 
worth,  owing  to  the  inside  influence  of  the  bitumen  com- 
panies. The  desirability  of  bituminous  pavements  on 
streets  that  are  not  subjected  to  the  heaviest  traffic,  has 
long  been  admitted;  and  where  the  work  has  been  honestly 
done,  it  seems  to  meet  the  requirements  of  durability, 
noiselessness,  and  cleanliness.  Whatever  influences  may 
have  heretofore  kept  out  all  competition  as  to  the  different 
kinds  of  paving  material,  the  action  of  the  Board  in  pro- 
viding for  practical  working  tests  of  the  three  new  mater- 
ials— wood,  asphalt,  and  artificial  brick,  opens  the  way  for 
a  demonstration  of  quality  that  will  be  valuable  in  the 
future.  The  Merchants'  Association  has  asked  the  Super- 
visors to  insert  in  all  contracts  for  paving  a  provision  re- 
quiring the  contractors  to  keep  in  repair,  free  of  charge, 
all  street  work  done  by  them,  for  a  period  of  five  years 
after  its  completion.  There  could  be  no  more  direct  or  cer- 
tain war  of  securing  honest  street  work.  The  contractor 
who  is  under  a  valid  bond  to  keep  his  paving  in  repair 
for  five  years,  must,  in  order  to  protect  himself,  use  good 
material  and  exercise  care  in  executing  his  obligations. 
In  the  past,  San   Francisco  has  been   robbed   by  careless 


work  on  the  streets,  and  there  has  been  little  effort  made 
to  compel  a  reformation  or  bring  the  guilty  contractors  to 
justice.  It  does  not  appear  on  the  records  of  the  Board 
that  the  request  of  the  Association  was  accepted  as  to  all 
future  work;  but  was  applied  in  the  contract  soon  to  be 
let  for  paving  Geary  from  Powell  to  Kearny  street.  It 
should  be  adopted  and  made  a  part  of  every  foot  of  work 
hereafter  done  in  San  Francisco. 


When  Are         A  great  deal  is  being  said  just  now  as 
Communications     to   what   constitutes   privileged   com- 
Privileged.  munications.     It  is   of   the  utmost  im- 

portance that  men  in  their  respective 
walks  of  life  should  know  exactly  what  the  law  demands  of 
them  in  this  connection.  It  requires  of  every  sane  per- 
son "the  truth,  the  whole  truth,  and  nothing  but  the 
truth,"  about  any  matter  that  is  the  subject  of  testimony. 
There  are,  however,  a  very  few  exceptions  to  this  general 
rule.  Husbands  and  wives  cannot  be  compelled  to  testify 
against  each  other,  religious,  legal  and  medical  confessions 
are  also  privileged,  and  a  man  may  not,  if  he  so  elects, 
give  testimony  against  himself.  All  else  in  this  world  that 
can  be  realized  by  any  one  of  the  seven  senses,  may  be 
made  subjects  of  competent  testimony  and  must  be  re- 
vealed at  the  instance  of  any  court  of  competent  jurisdic- 
tion. The  time  has  not  long  passed  when  journalists  were 
required  to  have  these  very  elementary  principles  regard- 
ing privileged  communications  at  their  finger  ends.  Under 
the  New  Journalism,  however,  every  vile  slander  is 
privileged  which  the  manager  may  chose  to  say  was  told 
him  in  confidence.  Upon  that  slender  basis,  no  charges 
can  be  refuted  and  no  man's  character  is  safe.  Let  the 
fact  be  understood  once  for  all,  that  no  statement  made  to 
a  newspaper  attaches,  by  his  employer,  or  by  anybody 
else,  is,  or  can  be  the  subject  of  privilege.  The  Judge  who 
would  rule  that  a  false  charge  given  to  a  newspaper  man 
for  publication  was  privileged,  would  rule  that  decent 
society  could  not  exist,  and  that  the  vendetta  had  better 
come  again.  As  to  telegrams,  a  mere  drag  net  cast  at 
them  for  the  purposes  of  mischief  alone,  cannot  fetch  them. 
The  "investigator  must  know  something  about  them, 
must  have  seen  them,  or  be  able  wholly  or  in  part  to  state 
their  contents.  If  this  were  not  so,  no  business  man  would 
be  safe,  the  telegraph  would  fall  into  disuse,  and  the  only 
man  the  law  would  permit  the  indulgence  of  privileged 
communications  would  be  "the  new  journalist." 


The  circumstances  attendant  upon  the 
Unwarranted  death  of  millionaire  Oakley  at  the  Palace 
Interference.  Hotel,  in  this  city,  last  week,  are  well 
known.  It  will  be  remembered  that  a 
physician  had  ea'led  some  time  previous  to  his  death,  and 
that  he  had  all  the  medical  attention  possible.  That  im- 
mediately after  he  died,  the  physician  who  had  attended 
him  was  called,  and  with  a  full  knowledge  of  the  case, 
issued  a  certificate  showing  the  cause  of  his  demise.  There 
was  no  attempt  made  to  cover  up  anything  vital  to  this 
matter  upon  the  part  of  the  management.  The  cause  of 
death  was  perfectly  clear  and  was  legally  established.  The 
Coroner,  however,  urged  on  by  the  criminally  sensational 
newspaper  accounts,  insisted  upon  making  a  second  exam- 
ination, and  demanded  that  the  body  and  the  effects  of 
Oakley  should  be  placed  in  his  possession.  Manager  Kirk- 
patrick  promptly  refused  to  entertain  the  unnecessary, 
unreasonable  and  impertinent  demand  of  Coroner  Hawkins, 
and  in  response  to  the  instructions  of  the  relatives  of  de- 
ceased shipped  the  body  home.  By  the  courtesy  of  the 
manager  the  coroner  was  permitted  to  make  a  quasi-official 
examination  of  the  effects  of  the  dead  man.  A  great  noise 
has  been  made  about  the  obstruction  of  the  coroner  by  the 
hotel  people.  As  a  matter  of  fact  there  was  nothing  to 
investigate.  The  causes  of  death  were  fully  established, 
and  Coroner  Hawkins  interested  himself  entirely  beyond 
his  official  scope  when  he  noised  and  fumed  about  the 
Palace  Hotel.  Manager  Kirkpatrick  was  justified  by  all 
the  facts,  in  vigorously  turning  the  meddlesome  official 
down.  If  there  had  been  occasion  for  the  services  of  the 
coroner  the  Palace  management  would  have  been  the  first 
to  notify  that  official.  As  "his  presence  was  unnecessary  he 
was  very  naturally  disregarded.  The  coroner  should  not 
take  his  cue  from  the  daily  newspapers. 


March  13,  1897. 


>.\N    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


THE      ART      EPICUREAN. 


I-APER.) 

IN  this,  the  "seventh"  nf  my   sermon,    it   tardily' 
to  mind  that  the  title  to  these    papers  should  not  have 
bo  limited;  there  is  Buch   a   temptation  to  take  little 
excursions  into    foreign   territory!   to  enlarge  upon  little 

side  issues  that  erop  up.  It  should  have  been 
"Things,"  and  then  I  should  not  have  felt  guilty  at  drifting 
from  the  subject  ever  and  anon  and  pulling  up  with  a 
round  turn  in  consequence.  For  instance.  I  saw  such  a 
pretty  picture  to-day  that  it  simply  must  go  down  here, 
yet  you  who  are  readme  for  recipes  will  have  si  ant 
patience  at  this  stretching  of  canvas  and  setting  of 
"palate"  just  for  the  result  of  painting  a  little  picture  in 
monochrome — even  the  high  lights  must  be  supplied  by 
your  own  imagination.  And  even  though  only  hinted  at, 
it  might  not  be  forgiven  by  the  unwitting  models.  How- 
ever. "I'll  take  a  bond  of  fate,"  for  it  was  my  good  for- 
tune the  other  nay  to  stumble  upon  the  prettiest  domestic 
idyl  you  could  imagine;  and  in  this  fin  </<  Steele  page  in  the 
history  of  our  days,  the  refreshing  picture  was  so  pleasant 
that  1  am  sure  Mrs.  Arthur  T.  Regensburger  will  forgive 
me  for  telling  about  a  little  side  issue  that  came  under  my 
observation  nhile  her  husband  was  telling  me  about  a  new 
way  of  cooking  oysters,  one  rainy  morning.  He  was  deep 
in  the  mysteries  of  this  dish,  the  apple  of  his  eye,  when  a 
sweet  feminine  voice  called.  ''Arthur."  (It  must  have 
been  from  the  apple  of  his  other  eye!) 

It  came  from  the  mysterious  regions  in  the  annex  or 
wherever  the  culinary  department  is  situated,  and  I 
pricked  up  my  ears,  for  i'.  seemed  to  open  a  way  through 
a  wall  that  had  confronted  me  for  some  time — that  the 
San  Francisco  housewife,  is  not,  as  a  general  thing,  the 
hausfrau  that  the  term  implies. 

"That  is  my  wife,"  the  doctor  explained.  "She  is  mak- 
ing marmalade  and  it  is  the  first  time  that  she  has  tried 
it,  so  she  wants  me  to  superintend  it." 

Now  doesn't  that  bring  up  a  pretty  picture?  I  wouldn't 
have  missed  it  for  the  world.  It  has  restored  my  faith  in 
woman.  And  then  just  fancy  what  a  stroke  of  genius  it 
was  on  her  part  to  go  to  hubby  for  instructions.  The  dear 
man  won't  dare  to  laugh  at  her  if  the  oranges  fail  to 
marmalade,  or  whatever  they  call  it.  But  that  is  beyond 
the  bounds  of  possibility  if  the  doctor  engineers  the  per- 
formance, and  there  is  little  in  the  culinary  line  that  he 
has  not  mastered.  After  that  pathetic  little  appeal  for 
help  I  took  a  swift  departure,  not  wishing  to  hinder  by  a 
second  the  success  of  that  marmalade,  and  I  only  hope  it 
turned  out  as  sweet  as  the  voice  of  the  unseen  mama-lady. 

The  doctor  is  a  man  of  many  parts;  besides  being  a 
successful  D.  D.  S.,  a  'celloist  whose  music  speaks  to  the 
heart,  a  fancier  of  thoroughbred  dogs,  he  is  an  adept  in 
the  art  of  concocting  dainty  dishes  that  would  tempt  the 
palate  of  a  confirmed  dyspeptic.  Have  you  heard  of 
oysters  «  la  Regensburger?  Something  between  an  oyster 
stew  and  oysters  a  lapoulette.  He  starts  it  like  a  pouhtte, 
but  makes  it  a  trifle  thicker  with  flour.  He  takes  the 
oyster  juice  and  milk,  about  half  and  half — perhaps  a 
little  more  milk — and  lets  it  come  to  a  boil.  Then  he  sea- 
sons this  with  tomato  ketchup,  anchovy  sauce,  Worcester- 
shire sauce,  and  lime  juice,  putting  in  butter  about  the 
size  of  a  walnut;  salt  and  pepper,  but  not  much  salt,  as 
the  anchovy  sauce  furnishes  that  quality.  When  this  has 
come  to  a  boil,  stirring  it  all  the  time,  add  California 
oysters  and  leave  on  the  fire  only  long  enough  to  thorough- 
ly heat  them.     Cooked  they  become  tough. 

The  doctor  has  had  to  give  up  his  dogs  since  moving 
down  town,  and  perhaps  the  death  of  his  beauty  prize- 
winner "Reglov,"  a  while  ago,  caused  him  to  lose  interest 
in  his  canine  pets.  The  handsome  St.  Bernard  was 
strangled  by  his  own  chain  one  day,  where  the  doctor  had 
him  with  five  other  of  his  canine  pets  "boarding  out." 
He  was  almost  as  much  attached  to  him  as  he  would  have 
been  to  a  child,  as  he  had  owned  him  ever  since  the  dog 
was  nine  months  old,  having  imported  him  from  the  east. 
Reglov  was  named  for  his  former  owner,  reversed — Volger. 
His  bench  show  valuation  was  $5,000,  but  the  money  has 
not  been  coined  that  would  have  purchased  him.  All  the 
doctor  has  now  by  which  to  remember  him  is  a  life-size  oil 
portrait. 


Bat  again,  this  is  not  keeping  strictly  to  my  text,  ami  I 
am  brought  back  to  .1  realization  of  delinquency  by  the 
memory  of  a  recipe  for  a  Welsh  rarebit  that  cannot  be 
duplicated  by  any  (onnoisseur  in  San  Francisco.  Mr. 
James  Gibb,  Importer,  forty  years  ago  obtained  the  rec 
■  Hiis  iron,  re  watklns  of  the  Paclfii 

.my.     Mr.  Gibb  assures  that    the  ree 

well  liked  is  on  ;,  is  simplicity.    There  is  In 

highly  seasoned  ingredient  thai  would  destroy 
taste.     Be  says  thai  Hairel  O'Connell  can  make  a  rarebit 
that  is  something  to  dream  o\or—  and  he  doesi 

mare,  lie  assured     hut    Daniel   trill  use   garlio  m  its 
composition,  and  that,  Mr  Gibb  thinks,   is  fatal.    So  this 

is  the  way  he  does  it : 

Take  good  American  cheese  (preferred  to  the  English 

for  this  purpose)  and  chop  very  line  four  pounds  of  it. 
The  seasoning  is  one  tablespoonful  of  good  English  dry 
mustard,  one-quarter  teaspoonful  Crosse  &  Blackwell 
cayenne  pepper,  one  teaspoonful  Worcestershire,  one 
quarter  teaspoonful  salt,  one  wine  glassful  porter.  Put 
the  condiments  into  a  teacup  and  then  add  the  porter. 
Work  it  well  into  a  cream  with  a  spoon.  Now  as  to  the 
cooking.  Have  a  sharp,  clear,  quick  tire.  Putthe  frying 
pan  on  the  fire  and  let  it  get  "piping"  hot.  Put  into  it  of 
the  best  butter  obtainable  about  the  size  of  a  walnut,  and 
run  it  around  the  pan  to  moisten  every  part  of  it.  Then 
put  the  finely  chopped  cheese  into  the  pan  and  spread 
with  a  fork.  Note  the  utensil;  spread  in  evenly  over  the 
pan  with  the  tines  moving  flat  along  the  bottom  of  the 
receptacle  to  avoid  the  dire  possibility  of  the  cheese  burn- 
ing on.  Then  throw  in  the  contents  of  the  teacup,,  stirring 
with  the  fork  held  flat  all  the  time.  Watch  it  with  an 
eagle  eye,  and  in  about  three  minutes  it  will  be  melted  and 
begin  to  bubble.  Have  at  hand  a  hot  platter  covered  with 
thin  slices  of  quickly  toasted  bread  with  crusts  cut  away, 
and  at  the  appointed  time — if  you  hesitate  you  are  lost — 
pour  the  rarebit  over  the  toast  and  serve  immediately. 
Don't  think  you  can  improve  this  by  letting  it  cook  a  wee 
bit  longer;  it  will  ruin  it.  Brisk,  hot  fire,  everything 
ready  at  the  right  moment — then  you  will  make  a  success 
of  Mr.  Gibb's  Welsh  rarebit. 

Amy  L.  Wells. 

PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 


S  PARTICULARLY  interesting  illustration  is  pre- 
sented with  this  issue  of  the  News  Letter — the  in- 
terior of  a  Chinese  theatre,  showing  the  stage,  the  boxes, 
and  rows  of  semi-circular  seats.  There  is  a  noticeable 
absence  of  comfort  in  the  picture,  which  demonstrates 
clearly  that  the  Chinaman  takes  his  theatrical  amusements 
very  seriously.  It  was  this  theatre  that  was  visited  last 
year  by  Paderewski,  who  delared  himself  charmed  by  the 
music  that  is  the  doleful  and  continuous  accompaniment  of 
all  Chinese  plays. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  ' 
children  while  teething . 


Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  13,  1897. 


We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


ft1 


.T  a  few  minutes  after  eight  o'clock 
somebody  made  a  speech  in  which 
travel,  tribulation  and  forgive  the  mise-en- 
scene  were  mentioned.  Then  the  band 
sounded  the  prelude  and  Giacomo  Meyer- 
3Ss£  beer's  hundred-ton  tragic-romance  L'Afri- 
caine  was  under  way  and  the  season  of  opera  at  the  Cali- 
fornia commenced.  Prevost's  silver  top-notes  and  Mile  de 
Consoli's  steel  tip-toes  had  missed  the  from-New-Orleans- 
to-San-Francisco-special- train  that  carried  the  rest  of  the 
company — and  without  a  tenor  top  or  a_  ballet  bottom 
there  could  be  no  TrovatorefOT  the  opening.  So  L'Africaine 
met  the  first  nighters  in  all  but  one  scene  of  its  ponderous 
entirety.  At  half  after  twelve  o'clock  Selika  died  under 
the  mancanilla  tree.  And  those  who  did  not  have  car- 
riages walked. 

A  full  potion  of  Meyerbeer's  mancanilla  induces  slumber, 
and  it  also  induces  hunger  and  thirst:  most  of  us  waked  to 
the  grosser  thought  of  food  and  drink.  The  morning  sun 
is  paling  the  gas  as  I  write,  and  I  am  introspecting  to  dis- 
cover how  much  I  enjoyed  it  at  all.  It  is  sometimes  a 
pleasure  to  find  people  on  the  stage  who  are  not  great. 
This  French  opera  boasts  no  greatness.  Nobody  claimed 
greatness  for  it  in  advance,  and  nobody  proclaims  it  now. 
At  least  not  I,  who  heard  L'Africaine  all,  from  commence- 
ment to  close — bar  the  little  winks  between. 
But  Henri  Albers  was  on  the  verge.  There  are 
surge,  spring  and  a  cello's  breadth  in  his  big, 
burning  barytone  and  the  true  dramatic  glow  in  his  acting. 
He  gave  us  poor  Nelusko's  heart — all  its  tender  throbs 
and  jealous  leaps  and  noble  pride,  sacrifice  and  despair. 
One  could  not  ask  for  an  opera  character  more  vivid.  And 
it  missed  perfection  by  a  petty  and  usual  accident  of  vocal- 
ism:  Albers'  notes  sagged  below  the  pitch  when  they 
were  softest,  and  blared  above  it  when  they  were  most 
vehement.  Still  this  was  only  a  speck  on  the  sun,  and 
Albers  was  the  surprise  of  the  night.  No  one  looked  for 
virtuosity.  We  were  promised  ensemble,  and  we 
forgot  to  miss  it  while  Albers  was  in  the  scene.  I  can  look 
back  unenthusiastically  and  remember  that  the  choruses  did 
not  sing  as  one,  or  even  two  persons,  and  that  the  orchestra, 
even  recognizing  the  facts  that  its  musicians  were  not  all 
made  in  France,  and  the  hours  had  been  few  for  rehearsals, 
was  oftener  than  not  an  impediment  to  the  singing.  All  of 
which  does  not  discourage  me  in  the  least.  The  company 
came  on  the  jump  and  had  to  grapple  with  the  heaviest, 
darkest  opera  in  tbe  repertory.  Massart  proved  that  he 
is  a  good  tenor,  Fedore  that  she  is  a  good  soprano, 
Berthet  that  among  the  lesser  singers  there  is  a  clean, 
true,  serviceable  soprano,  and  Atb.es  that  he  is  an  easy 
and  legitimate,  if  a  light-weight  basso.  And  there  are 
willing  voices  in  the  chorus  that  await  better  discipline. 
L Africaine  is  not  a  repertory's  ]oy  under  the  best  of  cir- 
cumstances; it  demands  hard  work  from  the  singers  and 
hard  attention  from  the  audience;  it  is  protracted  and 
ponderous,  and  unlit  by  a  single  gleam  of  humor.  Even 
the  parade  and  ballet  music  is  glum  and  uncheerful.  I 
wonder  it  did  not  sober  up  the  leader  of  the  Amazons  on 
the  spot.  There  were  breaks  and  waits  and  uncertainty 
in  the  first  performance,  but  so  far  as  the  dullness  of  it 
went,  Meyerbeer  must  carry  his  full  share.  And  do  not 
forget  that  the  famous  septette  was  famously  sung. 


Vasco  di  Gama  comes  nearer  to  having  a  real  lyric  time 
of  it  than  any  other  character  in  the  opera,  and  the  music 
found  a  suave,  fluent  voice  and  good  vigor  in  Massart.  It 
took  all  of  the  first  act  and  part  of  the  second  to  melt  Mas- 
sart's  plump  throat  and  encourage  him  to  a  tenor's  valor. 
Then  he  was  brave  indeed,  and  tactful,  too,  with  a  delicate 
caress  in  his  mezza  voce  that,  I  think,  we  will  find  his  most 
lasting  charm.  "O  Paradiso"  was  sung  well  enough  to 
have  been  heard  again  had  the  opera  been  given  the  other 
end  first. 

Foedor's  voice  has  the  mellow  mezzo  quality  that  implies 


dramatic  feeling  whether  the  singer  has  it  or  not.  I  think 
Foedor  has — though  she  had  some  very  wooden  momenta 
Wednesday  night  and  showed  little  of  the  enterprise  one 
expects  from  tbe  French.  I  prefer  to  find  out  how  much 
I  admire  her  when  she  is  less  obviously  fatigued  and  not  so 
much  the  butt  of  a  scrambling  orchestra.  Poor  Selika!  she 
got  tbe  very  worst  of  that  Wednesday  night's  orchestra — 
aud  it  ruined  her  death  scene.  Still  Nicosias  (who  di- 
rected) deserves  a  small  flower;  if  he  could  not  keep  his 
musicians  together  he  did  the  next  best  thing:  he  gave 
them  the  pianissimo  cue  whenever  there  was  the  smallest 

chance  for  it. 

*  *  * 

After  all  the  happy  flukes  of  Modjeska's  season  at  tbe 
Baldwin  Theatre,  I  knew  that  it  would  be  pressing  fortune 
too  hard  to  ask  as  much,  or  anything  like  as  much,  of 
Haworth's  week  at  the  Columbia.  So  I  did  not  expect  to 
see  an  all-round  performance  of  Rmj  Bias  Monday  night. 
I  knew  the  players  had  been  quickly  culled  from  the  avail- 
able unemployed,  and  I  went  armed  for  a  slip-shod  first 
night,  a  tangled  ensemble  and  the  utter  absence  of  char- 
acter or  distinction  in  every  part  but  Haworth's.  I  even 
anticipated  Mr.  Friedlander's  friendly  reminder  that  it  all 
had  been  done  in  three  days,  and  on  the  way  out  I  won- 
dered why  he  had  not  said  three  hours — it  would  have  been 
more  plausible,  and  it  would  have  taken  nothing  from  the 
glory  of  the  enterprise.  So,  haviog  compromised  with 
myself  in  advance,  I  shall  say  nothing  about  the  lusty 
chorus  of  Spanish  Grandees,  nothing  about  the  strenuous 
Don  Salluste  of  Mr.  Carl  Smith,  nothing  about  the  comic- 
operose  duenna  of  Miss  Madge  Carr  Cook,  and  not  a  word 
concerning  the  role  of  Marianne  of  Neuborg,  which  Miss 
Margaret  Craven  treated  as  an  ice-cream  soda,  and  swal- 
lowed with  bubbles  and  cold  lumps,  and  ohs  and  ahs  and 
yums  and  cramp.  I  would  rather  discuss  Haworth's  feat 
of  acting  Buy  Bias,  which  was  accomplished  in  spite  of  the 
accompaniment  of  these  vaiious  ladies  and  gentlemen,  and 
a  Chopin  nocturne  (one  in  E  flat,  I  believe)  done  into  popu- 
lar, desponcent  orchestration,  aod  wailed  by  the  strings 
with  a  deathless  insistence  that  survived  the  last  curtain. 
Haworth  played  the  part,  and  more  than  justified  bis  pre- 
tensions to  "the  romantic;"  but  his  lot  was  not  altogether 
a  happy  one.  In  the  first  place  he  played  for  a  curtain- 
raiser,  A  Man  of  the  World,  the  little  sketch  that  Gus 
Thomas  drew  around  Barrymore's  suave  swagger  and 
lissome  tailoring  and  other  personal  scenery  and  effects; 
and  no  matter  what  Haworth's  opinion  of  himself  in  the 
part  may  have  been  prior  to  Monday  night's  performance, 
or  what  were  the  circumstances  of  his  playing  it,  or  what 
impression  his  diamond-studded  shirt  bosom  and  mouse- 
colored  plush  dressing-gown  may  have  made  on  a  Colum- 
bia audience,  I  think  his  dearest  enemy  (if  you  can  imag- 
ine Haworth  with  an  enemy)  will  not  ask  so  much  as  to  see 
him  twice  in  the  part.  I  could  stand  Barrymore  as 
Macbeth,  John  Drew  as  King  Lear,  or  May  Irwin  as 
Camille,  and  never  spill  a  tear — but  Haworth  as  a  man  of 
tbe  world!  oh!  it  is  too  much.  If  you  can  imagine  Edwin 
Booth,  returned  to  earth  in  diamond  studs  and  a  William 
H.  Crane  household  robe,  lending  his  mystic  presence  to 
such  a  part  as  Barrymore's  in  this  piece,  or  Drew's  in  A 
Squire  of  Dames,  you  can  appreciate  something  of  what  I 
suffered   through  going  early   to   the   Columbia   Monday 

night. 

*  *  # 

It  seems  I  am  one  of  the  few  persons  in  the  town  who 
never  saw  Booth  in  Ruy  Bias;  and  while  I  do  not  hold  com- 
parison the  most  vital  feature  of  dramatic  criticism,  I  re- 
gret my  inability  to  compare  the  two  actors  in  tbe  play- 
ing of  the  role.  It  seems  almost  futile  to  bring  up  Salvini, 
whom  we  all  saw  play  Ruy  Bias  several  years  ago.  Sal- 
vini had  the  romantic  temperament,  if  ever  man  had — the 
fever,  the  color,  the  Latin  grace — but  he  had  not  acquired 
(at  least  he  had  not  when  we  saw  him  last  in  San  Fran- 
cisco) the  fine  pose  and  discrimination  of  the  actor  who  is 
grounded  in  the  technique  of  his  craft.  Haworth,  besides 
his  inherent  gifts  of  ardor,  poetry  and  old-worldness,  is  an 
adept  in  the  business  and  values  of  the  stage.  In  his 
mind  the  stage  and  the  audience  are  surely  placed;  he  is  not 
satisfied  with  feeling  the  part  himself,  he  knows  the  dis- 
tance, the  degree  of  magnification,  the  illusion  which  must 
be  surmounted  before  the  external  picture  and  the  in- 
ternal   feeling    are    adjusted    to    the    audience.     Where 


Match  i.v  1897. 


SAN    PRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


Sahini  held   us   by   magneti-m   and   nn   01  four  rfe 

and  the  realization  of  what   a  splendid  fellow  Sahini 

was,  Haworth  takes  a  slower,  j'er  grip   on  our 

ind  makes  -  as  be  himself 

im;  and  while  be  has  the  same  disdain  that   Sahini 

had  for  the  tailor  -made  naturalism  and  other  forms  of 
ultra-modernity  which  are  indispensable  to  the  acting  of  a 
-ay  by  1'inero,  his  Bbadiog  is  so  subtle,  his  heroism 
eorbingty  human,  his  play-acting  so  candid,  yet  so 
artful,  that  they  bring  a  measure  of  exactness  and  convic- 
tion to  U8  tired  prosaic  people  of  the  audience,  which 
makes  pink  romance  and  red  swords  and  sacrifice  and 
seem  almost  as  true  and  a  thousandfold  more 
beautiful  than  the  Seventh  Commandment  anxieties  of  New 
Century  dramatists.  It  is  not  in  even  William  Winter's 
version  of  Ruy  Blat  (the  one  Haworth  plays)  to  make  one 
hold  it  up  as  a  model  for  the  art  of  dramatic  action,  and  it 
surely  is  not  in  the  company  at  the  Columbia  to  give  us 
the  atmosphere  or  the  mere  semblance  of  manners  of 
early  Spain  or  early  anything  else,  and  it  is  hard  to  esti- 
mate just  how  much  more  Haworth  might  have  done  under 
more  favorable  circumstances.  As  it  is,  I  can  think  of  no 
other  American  actor  who.  driven  every  advantage  of  en- 
vironment that  was  denied  Haworth  Monday  night,  could 
do  more  with  the  part,  either  in  the  figure  of  the  man, 
or  the  manner  of  voicing,  or  in  its  psychologic  lucidity,  I 
remember  but  one  bad  feature  of  Haworth's  work:  that 
was  the  rather  monotonously  musical  way  in  which  he  in- 
toned some  of  the  less  intense  passages. 

Asiiton  Stevens. 

Out  of  the  five  new  acts  at  the  Orpheum,  five  are  huge 
successes.  Walter  never  brought  out  a  better  cargo: 
The  Flying  Jordans,  the  horizontal  barristers,  Mario  and 
Mario,  the  multi-headed  Olifans,  Virginia  Aragon  the 
pearl  of  high-wire  premieres,  and  John  Burke  are  all  top- 
notch  exponents  of  their  separate  lines  of  variety  craft. 
Burke  is  simply  immense.  He  is  no  longer  the  quaint, 
suggestive,  extra-dry  Burke  of  Aladdin,  but  an  out-and- 
out  variety  star,  with  gags  neither  too  high  nor  too  low, 
but,  just  in  the  right  between  for  a  variety  audience.  And 
his  songs  are  any  man's  mirth — the  crowd  clamors  for  not 
less  than  ten  of  them  every  night.  See  Burke,  observe 
his  success,  and  never  again  believe  that  a  vaudeville 
comedian  cannot  be  funny  without  being  vulgar. 

Two  dancing  acts  will  be  added  to  the  Orpheum's  bill 
next  week — the  Four  Cohans,  who  style  themselves 
"automatons  and  doll  dancers,"  and  Keating  and  Walker, 
comedy  dancers. 

This  afternoon  at  the  California  the  French  Opera  Com- 
pany will  sing  Faust;  to-night  the  new  comedy  opera,  Miss 
Helyett,  introducing  the  comedy  stars  of  the  company.  Two 
of  the  four  works  to  be  given  next  week  are  new — Noces  dc 
Jeannette  and  Sigurd.  A  special  interest  will  be  felt  in  the 
performance  of  Reyer's  Sigurd,  which  will  give  us  a 
French  composer's  treatment  of  the  favorite  myths  of 
Wagner.  Holvey's  La  .Juice,  an  opera  we  have  not  heard 
in  years,  is  the  bill  for  Saturday  afternoon.  Now  that  the 
rush  of  the  first  night  is  over  we  may  look  for  the  brilliant 
ensemble,  good  staging  and  sumptuous  ballet  work  that 
won  the  company  such  esteem  in  New  Orleans. 

The  old  musical  comedy  of  Pinafore  is  doing  so  well  at 
the  Tivoli  that  the  management  announce  its  continuance 
for  another  week.  It  is  doubtful  if  the  Tivoli  has  ever 
given  the  good  ship  Pinafore  as  elaborate  a  mounting  as 
the  present  one.  She  is  an  iron-clad  this  time,  with  all 
the  improvements  known  to  naval  experts.  The  company 
gives  new  life  to  the  music,  mirth  and  satire.  Several 
new  songs  and  some  excellent  dancing  are  introduced. 
The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor  follows. 

Cissy  Fitzgerald,  the  young  woman  who  has  winked  her- 
self into  world-wide  repute,  comes  to  the  Columbia  Monday 
night  in  The  Foundling,  a  farce-comedy  that  ran  200 
nights  in  New  York.  The  press  agent  says:  "Cissy  is  a 
blonde  sunburst  whose  heavenward  pointed  toe,  golden 
curls  and  sparkling  eyes  enthrall  the  world. "  Chums,  a 
one-act  farce,  will  raise  the  curtain. 

Two  soloists  at  Thursday's  symphony  concert — Mrs. 
Gertrude  Auld-Thomas,  vocalist,  and  Hugo  Mansfield, 
pianist.  Mr.  Mansfield  will  play  the  Raff  concerto,  a  work 
demanding  tremendous  execution.     Hinrichs  has  selected 


tbeovertui  .   Bvendsen'a   "Nor 

wegiai  and   Massenet  a  famous  suite 

"Lea  Krinnyes "  for  1  e  orchestral  numbers, 

There  being  no  Opi  r.i  Monthly  Bight    many  first-nighters 

will  go  to  the  Baldwin   t<>  s    Davenport  in  her 

latest  Sardou  play.   Ginmonda,   which   is  described 

drama  StrOI  vigorous  and    telling.      This  is    Miss 

Davenport's  last  Sardou  season,  and  the  only  perforo 

of  Fkdora  will   be  given  Saturday  night,     Mell 'ne  Mc 

Dowell  heads  the  supporting  company, 

"  UfOMANKIND."    published    at    Springfield,    Ohio, 
VV   offers  $1000  in  prizes  to  the  best  guessers  of  the 

greatest  Women  that    America    has    produced.       Sen. I    for 

full  particulars  to  Womankind,  Springfield,  <  )hio. 

Baldwin    Theatre-  AL HAYMAN & Co"  "SEWS! 

Two  weeks  only,  oomm«-n> llog  DezI  Monday,  March  15th,  mat- 
inee Saturday, 

FANNY     D/WENPORT 

supported  by  Melbourne  MacUuwell.  I'irsi  presentation  in 
s.ni  Francisco  or 

GISMONDA 

By  Victorien  Sardou. 
Saturday  night,  March  SO— FEDORA. 

Davenport- Sardou  silver  Souvenir  Saturday  night  to  every  lady 
on  the  lower  floor  as  a  mark  of  remembrance  of  Miss  Daven- 
port's farewell  appearances  in  this  city  in  Sardou  plays, 

G*«lsiMU:_     Tk/^i-.*       The  "Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 
OlUmDia       I   neatre-    Frledlander.  Gottlob&Co.,  Lessees 
and  Managers 
Week  commencing   March  15th.  New  York's  greatest  laughing 
success !    Management  Charles  Fronman, 

THE    FOUNDLING. 

By  Wm  Lestoeq  (Author  of  "Jane")  and  E  M    Robson. 
Presented  here  tbe  same  as  seen  forSOn  nights  at  Hoyt's  thea- 
tre, New  York;  with  the  famous  English  beauty,  tbe  great  and 
only  CISSY   FITZGERALD,  In  her  famous   and  Inimitable 
dances     See  Cissy  wink !    A  genuine  furore  everywhere  1 
March  2A-FOR  FAIR  VIRGINIA. 

Golumbia  Theatre. — Extra- 

Next  Thursday  afternoon,  M  irch  18th,  at  3 :30  sharp, 

FOURTH  SYMPHONY  CONCERT. 

Gustav  Hinrichs.  Director,  Soloists— Gertrude  Auld-Thomas, 
Soprano;  Hugo  Mansfeldt,  Pianist 

Schumann's  Genoveva  Overture,  Raff  s  Piano  Concerto.  Svend- 
Ben's  NorvreRian  Carnival,  and  Massenet's  Suite  "  Les  Erin- 
nyes  "  Box  office  now  open     81  and  50  cents 

\*r  ■        TL         J.  Al   Hayman  &  Co.  (Incorporated) 

litornia    I  neatre.  proprietors 

GRAND    OPERA    SEASON 

of  the  famous  French  operatic  organization. 

To-night  (Saiurday).  Miss  Helyett 

Next  Tue-day.  March  Itth,  grand  novelty.  Sigurd. 

Thursday  (double  bill),  Noces  de  jeannette  atd  Cavalleria 

RUSTIfANA 

Saiurday  matinee.  La  Joive 

Saturday  night    Voyage  of  -^uzette. 

Tuesday,  March  23d,  Les  huguenots. 

To  be  followed  by  Dragons  de  Villars,   La  Navarraise, 

Aida,  etc. 

T'         I '     r\  i—l  Mrs.  Ernestine  Krelinq. 

I V  0 1 1     \J  Per  3     l\  O  U  Se .  Proprietor  and  Manager 

Every  evening,  the  great  success,  the  scenic  and  picturesque 
revival  of  the  nautical  opera.  H.  M.  S. 

PINAFORE. 

New  ship  scene;    novel  specialties:   great  cast  and  superb 

ensembles. 

Monday  evening,  March  ^2d:  Nicolai's  celebrated  comic  opera, 

THE     MERRY    WIVES    OF    WINDSOR. 
Re-appearance  of  Miss  Laura  Millard. 
Look  out  for  Don  Juan  ad  lib. 
Popular  Prices 25c  and50o 

Oi  San  Francisco's  Greatest  Musio    Hall.      O'Farrell 

rpneum.    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 

Week  beginning  Monday,  Maich  15th.    First  time  here  of  the 

FOUR    COHANS, 

Automatons  and  Dancing  Dolls.  aDd  KEATING  &  WALKER, 
Dancing  Comedians.  Last  week  of  the  Flying  Jordans,  Vir- 
ginia Aragon,  Mario  &  Mario,  3  olifans,  John  Burke  A  Grace  For- 
est. Waterbury  Bros  &  Tenny,  Barney  Fagan  &  Henrietta  Byron, 
and  Dudley  Prescott.  the  Human  Brass  Band  Matinee  St  Pat- 
rick's Day.  *3"Seats  should  be  ordered  at  least  two  days  in  ad- 
vance. Prices:  Reserved  seats.  35c  ;  balcony  10c;  opera  chairs 
and  box  seats  50c.  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sun 
day.  Matinee  Prices:  Parquet,  any  seat,  25c;  balcony,  any 
seat,  10c;  children.  10c,  any  part. 

Weak  rien  and  Women  S^«J!r,£VS^i,52: 

edy ;  It  gives  health  and  strength  to  the  Sexual  Organs.    Depot  at  333  Mar- 
k  et  street,  San  Francisco.     (Send  for  circular.) 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  13,  1897. 


T 


*>HE  gay  season  wore  itself  out  on  Mon- 
day night  with  the  Patriarch's  ball, 
and  on  Tuesday  with  the  dance  of  the  "Howling  Swells," 
as  they  are  vulgarly  designated  at  Sherry's.  The  after- 
noon of,  Tuesday  was  devoted  to  the  entertainment  at  the 
Walc'orf  for  the  Lisa  Day  Nursery,  of  which  Mrs.  George 
Crocker  was  one  of  the  leading  promoters.  It  was  totally 
different  from  the  usual  charity  entertainment,  which 
rarely  goes  outside  the  line  of  strictly  sentimental  or  even 
melancholy  diversion  (except,  of  course,  for  the  great 
ball,  which  is  perhaps  the  saddest  thing  ever  given  in  New 
York),  and  took  up  vaudeville.  Josephine  Hall  in  "Sister 
Mary  Jane's  Top  Note,"  Press  Eldridge  frbm  the  Music 
Hails,  Deys  the  dancer,  and  artists  of  their  calibre,  were 
responsible  for  the  amusement  of  the  immense  audience 
(at  two  dollars  and  a  half  a  head).  May  Irwin  was  ex- 
pected to  sing  "Crappy  Dan"  and  "I  Want  Yer,  Ma 
Honey,"  but  a  sore  throat  prevented  her  appearance. 

Strangely  enough,  with  the  beginning  of  Lent  the  thea- 
tres in  New  York  suddenly  awoke  from  their  lethargy  and 
burst  upon  the  community  with  an  explosion  of  new  plays 
and  adaptations.  La  Falote,  at  the  Casino,  has  charming 
music,  but  Mr.  Cheever  Goodwin  has  tried  so  nobly  to 
make  a  libretto  "funny  without  being  vulgar"  out  of  a  very 
naughty  French  book,  that  he  has  produced  something  too 
dispiriting  for  words,  and  many  of  the  audience  on  Mon- 
day night  stole  softly  and  sadly  away  at  the  end  of  the 
first  act.  I  am  told  that  those  who  struggled  against  des- 
pair were  rewarded  by  the  gayety  of  the  last  act,  which 
was  contagious.  But  there  were  not  many  to  enjoy  it.  It 
is  painful  to  begin  longing  for  home  and  mother  in  the  first 
hour  of  a  play. 

Mrs.  Minnie  Maddern  Fiske,  on  Tuesday  night,  sup- 
ported by  that  fine  artist,  Charles  Coghlan,  and  an  admir- 
able and  even  cast,  produced  Stoddard's  dramatization 
of  Tess  of  the  a"  Urbervilles.  No  one  who  has  read  Hardy's 
novel  can  fail  to  realize  its  dramatic  possibilities,  and  the 
playwright  may  congratulate  himself  upon  his  splendid 
work.  The  last  act  alone  is  open  to  criticism.  It  is  too 
long.  Tess  is  not  executed  as  in  the  book,  but  dies  at  the 
altar  of  the  Sun  in  the  arms  of  Angel  Clare.  It  is  inter- 
esting to  notice  that  on  each  re-appearance  of  Mrs.  Fiske 
critics  discover  her.  In  point  of  fact,  she  has  long  been 
recognized  as  the  most  thoroughly  artistic  woman  on  the 
American  stage,  and  some  of  her  work  shows  positive 
genius.  Her  long  retirement  from  the  stage  was  a  dis- 
tinct loss  to  the  dramatic  history  of  this  country. 

At  Piney  Ridge  is  another  new  play  which  has  captured 
New  York.  It  is  melo-drama  in  its  best  sense.  Frobman 
will  bring  out  Never  Again,  a  French  adaptation,  on  Mon- 
day night.  And  so,  no  more  of  the  theatre.  Damrosch 
opens  at  tbe  Metropolitan  on  Monday;  Nordica,  whose 
quarrel  with  de  Eeszke  (perhaps  "difference"  sounds 
more  polite  than  quarrel),  has  never  yet  been  settled;  and 
Lilli  Lehmann,  with  Kalisch  and  Fischer,  should  ensure 
him  a  success.  London  has  sent  over  a  young  'cellist,  Leo 
Stern,  whose  sister,  by  the  way,  is  married  to  John  Hare's 
son.     He  is  said  to  be  very  clever. 

The  Inauguration  is  the  sole  topic  of  conversation.  San 
Francisco  shares  somewhat  in  its  glory,  since  three  San 
Franciscans  are  in  the  Presidential  party.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  Alexander  have  gone  over  to  "Washington.  Ulys- 
ses Grant  is  there.  Also  Senator  Jones,  although  he  will 
not,  perhaps,  be  so  enthusiastic  as  others.  Leonidas 
Scooffy  and  his  very  pretty  bride  will  be  there,  I  am  told, 
and  the  recent  bride,  Mrs.  Kirkpatrick  (Mollie  Torbert) 
and  her  husband. 

Mrs.  Oelrichs  has  again  organized  her  Lenten  sewing 
class — a  very  generous  charity,  by  the  way,  for  it  is  not 
amusing  to  sew  ginghams  and  flannels.  Its  recompense 
is  in  itself,  this  work! 

Caspar  Warrington  Whitney  is,  I  hear,  about  to  re-en- 
ter the  marriage  state.  The  prospective  bride  is  very 
young  and  very  pretty.  I  wrote  you  last  week  of  his  for- 
mer wife's  marriage. 

New  York,  March  ,£,  1896.  Passe-Partotjt. 


THE     CALIFORNIAN     CHIPPY      BIRD. 


0 


H,  haven't  you  heard 
Of  that  wonderful  bird 

Indigenous  chiefly  to  'Frisco? 
It  is  female  by  sex 
And  it  hungrily  pecks 
At  the  wads  in  the  pockets  of  dissolute  wrecks — 

Yes,  the  bird  is  decidedly  brisk,  ohl 

Every  town  has  its  freak , 
But  a  bird  that  can  speak 

And  is  given  to  dancing  and  drinking, 
Is  a  thing  to  cause  pride 
In  our  breasts  to  abide, 
And,  more  than  all  this,  it  will  not  be  denied 

It  must  set  all  the  savants  a-tbinking. 

This  wonder  is  ours 
And  by  all  the  powers, 

The  marvels  of  old  are  not  in  it; 
It  is  always  on  tap 
And  we  don't  fear  a  rap 
That  we  every  shall  lose  it  by  any  mishap— 

The  bird  can  be  seen  every  minute. 

'Tis  the  chippy  bird,  sir, 
And  it  makes  quite  a  stir 

In  the  districts  the  chappies  inhabit; 
It  will  willingly  eat 
Either  fish,  fowl  or  meat 
Or  the  dish  that  is  famous  as  pickled  pigs'  feet. 

And  it  isn't  opposed  to  Welsh  rare-bit. 

In  the  cheerful  saloon 
It  will  chatter  and  spoon 

And  endulge  in  the  breeziest  diction; 
It  will  order  the  drinks 
While  the  chappie  just  blinks. 
"  What  manner  of  bird  is  this  chippy?"  he  thinks, 

And  his  brain  is  the  home  of  confliction. 
It  will  also  be  found 
In  the  dives  underground 

Where  it  hops  to  the  squeaks  of  the  fiddle. 
Where  the  sailor  blows  in 
His  superfluous  tin 
The  chippy  will  hover  with  smirk  and  with  grin 

And  will  do  him  up  clean  to  his  middle. 

And  the  soldier  boy,  too, 
Very  often  must  rue 

The  greed  of  this  featherless  charmer, 
To  whom,  so  they  say, 
Every  man  is  fair  prey, 
Especially  he  who  just  blooms  for  a  day— 

The  festive  and  frivolous  farmer. 

On  the  Barbary  Coast 
There  is  quite  a  large'  host 

Of  chips  that  make  very  fair  wages ; 
They  revel  in  paint 
And  they're  all  very  quaint 
Though  none  could  be  classed  as  an  out-and-out  saint, 

And  all  are  at  home  in  the  cages. 

Of  course  you  will  say 
It  is  merely  their  way 

And  only  the  stranger  should  wonder; 
But  I  do  uphold 
That  few  birds  are  sold 
in  the  marts  of  the  world,  sir,  for  silver  or  gold 

That  will  equal  our  chippies,  by  thunder  1 
In  England,  my  Mend, 
Such  a  marvel  would  end 

In  naught  but  the  nation's  uprising; 
While  here  one  just  sits 
By  the  cbippy,  whose  wits 
Are  wracked  how  to  stick  us  another  two-bits 

For  the  drinks  that  are  worse  than  surprising. 

But  the  police  have  a  trick, 
And  they  think  it  quite  slick, 

Of  placing— O  ancient  invention! — 
Some  salt  on  the  tail 
Of  each  cbippy  bird  frail 

Which,  sooner  or  later,  will  land  them  in  jail — 
An  unpopular  place  of  detention. 
San  Francisco ,  March  10,  1897.  Howard  V.  Sutherland. 


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March  13,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


&&r-\ 


VHE  aftermath  of  the 
Mardi  Gras  ball  has 
not  left  a  very  charming  flavor,  so  many  things  arose  to 
tintfp  the  festive  night  with  bitterness.  Some  say  the 
•  attendance  of  the  Bwagger  set  will  meet  its  repri- 
sals at  the-  hands  of  individual  members  of  the  Association, 
who  each  thought  (naturally  enough)  that  his  own  presence 
at  the  ball  would  be  sufficient  attraction  for  the  fashion- 
able he  or  she.  as  the  case  might  be:  and  the  faithful  few  who 
braved  alike  the  weather  and  the  swim  and  went  to  the 
ball,  will  have  a  snug  corner  in  the  remembrance  of  the 
Colonel  and  the  Major,  at  least.  Some  of  the  society  women 
are  wondering  if  they  made  a  faux  pas  after  all.  (French 
sounds  so  much  better  than  mis-lick.) 
»  *  * 

In  choosing  a  resort  for  the  summer  campaign  it  is  some- 
what amusing  to  note  the  various  motive^  influencing  the 
selection  of  father,  mother,  and  child,  of  fashionable  cir- 
cles. Pater  famiiicu  says  :  "  Whj'  do  you  want  to  go  away 
from  a  comfortable  home  to  swelter  at  an  inn  ?  "  Mater, 
with  an  eye  to  profit  as  well  as  pleasure,  weighs  the 
chances  of  her  girls  meeting  possible  rich  husbands  in 
Eastern  tourists,  vide  Jennie  Catherwood,  and  says  Coro- 
nado  or  Del  Monte.  The  girls  themselves  sigh  for  B'ling- 
ham  jollities,  and  suggest  San  Mateo.  The  children  de- 
light in  the  woods  near  Castle  Crags.  But  one  and  all 
unite  on  San  Rafael,  where  easy  access  to  the  city  satisfies 
father,  cosy  card  parties  of  an  afternoon  charms  mother, 
rides,  drives,  paper  chases,  tennis,  dances,  and  lots  of  city 
beaux,  with  urbane  Major  Warfield  catering  for  the  pleas- 
ure of  every  one,  content  the  girls,  and  the  men  are  ready 
for  any  place  where  so  many  attractions  abound.  Hence, 
no  wonder  the  Hotel  Rafael  is  going  to  be  the  choice  of  so 
many  fashionable  people  this  summer. 

*  *  # 

French  lessons,  conversation  classes,  etc.,  are  now  tak- 
ing the  time  of  our  swells.  Maids  and  matrons,  beaux  and 
belles,  alike  are  studying  the  ''Parley  vous"  in  order  to  be 
up  to  the  requirements  of  French  opera.  So  far  as  com- 
prehending the  words  the  singers  sing,  however,  they 
might  leave  it  alone.  It  takes  a  pretty  good  scholar  to 
follow  intelligibly  a  foreign  language  on  the  stage,  espec- 
ially when  vocally  given. 

*  *  * 

The  old  boys  of  society  are  fairly  trembling  in  their  boots 
— and  out  of  them,  too,  no  doubt — for  fear  some  cruel  she 
will  take  the  line  adopted  by  Emily  Soldene  with  the  Eng- 
lish swells,  and  publish  a  list  of  the  wealthy  admirers  of 
actresses,  Midway  Plaisance  attractions,  and  sich.  What 
a  sensation  it  would  create!  almost  equal  to  the  long- 
talked-of  memoirs  written  by  a  pioneer  physician's  wife. 

*  *  * 

There  is  much  mourning  among  the  girls  over  the  prob- 
able loss  of  Lieutenant  Winn,  whose  term  of  connection 
with  the  University  will  soon  be  at  an  end.  It  does  not 
follow,  however,  that  the  popular  officer  will  necessarily 
be  lost  to  San  Francisco.  Every  one  who  has  a  pull  with 
the  new  Secretary  of  War  is  being  thought  of  by  the  buds 
as  means  to  an  end. 

*  *  # 

Gossip  says  that  Carson  will  be  the  next  chap  to  eschew 
single  blessedness  and  offer  himself  at  Hymen's  shrine, 
but  who  the  fair  one  is  that  is  to  share  in  the  "announce- 
ment" is  not  yet  definitely  known,  although  many  sur- 
mises are  indulged  in  by  his  friends. 

*  *  * 

Said  a  matron  to  a  Colonial  dame  last  week,  "What's 
this  fuss  about,  anyway?  There's  nothing  revolutionary 
in  it,  is  there?"  Replied  the  other,  "Why,  it's  sorrow, 
sis,  over  the  leave-taking  of  Mrs.  Dr.  Younger.     See!" 

*  #  * 

Handsome,  popular,  genial  Raphael  Weil  will  be  here  in 
time  to  take  in  the  opera,  and  will  be  warmly  welcomed 
by  hosts  of  friends  after  his  long  visit  abroad. 


Poor  Prince  Carnival,  hasn't  he  been   catching   it   from 
the  women  scribes  Bnent  his  appearance  ami  da 
the  Mardi  Gras  bal       'Tony  declares.  Bay  his  friends,  thai 

an  ungrateful  public   -hall  behold  him  in  s;it in  arrayed 
never  more,  but  he  will  hie  him  to  his  rural  home  and  n 
tation. 

«  »  » 

Riding  parties  by  day,  and  card  parlies  by  night,    are 
serving  to  carry  the  buds  pleasantly  along  the  stream  of 
time  during  the  dark  season  of  Lent. 
*  #  # 

There  is  a  universally  expressed  hope  among  society 
people  that  the  excellent  rendition  of  Uattt  by  amateurs 
on  March  1st,  may  be  repeated  some  time  during  the 
Easter  season. 

Good  eating  is  conducive  to  good  health,  and  the  table  d'hote  for 
$1  between  5  and  8  every  evening  at  Swain's  Bakery,  218  Butter 
street,  is  a  triumph  of  the  chef's  art  Everything  served  in  elegant 
style  and  taste.  Also  finest  pastries  and  confections  promptly  sup- 
plied by  telephone  or  otherwise. 

Next  to  a  trip  to  Japan  itself  is  a  trip  to  the  store  of  Geo.  T. 
Marsh  &  Co.,  at  025  Market  street,  under  the  Palace.  Everything 
fashioned  by  the  skillful  natives  of  that  country,  in  art  goods,  curios 
and  tapestries  are  to  be  had  at  Marsh's,  at  prices  to  suit  the  times. 

It'  you  want  to  know  what  pure  goods  mean,  buy  a  case  of  Argo- 
naut whiskey  from  E.  Martin  &  Co.,  411  Market  street,  who  are  sole 
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March  13,  1897. 


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Bound  in  Shallows,  a  novel  by  Eva  Wilder  Brodhead.    Illustrated. 
Published  by  Harper  and  Brothers.    New  York.    1897. 

a  Book        A  young  man  named  Dillon,   who  has  been 
of  guilty  of  some  serious  defalcations  in  a  posi- 

the  Week,  tion  of  trust,  is  sent  to  a  little  Kentucky 
town  in  the  hope  that  the  quiet  and  peace 
of  tne  place  may  tone  up  his  physical  and  moral  energies. 
Being  a  young  man  who  always  takes  whatever  offers  it- 
self in  the  way  of  diversion,  he  makes  love  to  a  nice  girl 
living  in  the  place,  telling  her  in  a  general  way  that  he 
has  lived  a  gay  life,  and  has  committed  various  errors  for 
which  he  is  sincerely  penitent,  but  giving  her  no  idea  that 
his  misdeeds  qualify  him  for  residence  in  the  State  peniten- 
tiary. The  girl  believes  it  to  be  her  duty  to  accept  his 
attentions,  and  to  try  to  play  the  part — generally  a  very 
thankless  one — of  guardian  angel  to  him.  How  this  gentle 
impulse  on  her  part  is  rewarded  we  will  leave  the  reader 
to  find  out  from  a  perusal  of  the  story.  Running  through 
the  tale  is  a  narrative  of  the  courtship  of  a  second  pair  of 
lovers  in  humbler  life,  who  also  have  a  hard  time  of  it. 
The  mother  of  Alexa  Bohun,  the  village  girl,  supplies  the 
humorous  element.  The  story  is  fairly  written,  though  it 
is,  to  our  thinking  at  least,  somewhat  overladen  with  des- 
criptions of  scenery  and  natural  phenomena,  which  some- 
how or  other,  unless  scientifically  treated,  always  rather 
weary  us.  At  the  very  best,  they  break  the  thread  of  the 
story,  and  shed  little  or  no  light  on  the  motives  of  the 
characters.  Tbey  are,  in  fact,  of  an  epenthetic  nature. 
The  following  description  of  the  irresponsible  flitting  hither 
and  thither  of  a  butterfly  on  a  summer's  day  strikes  us  as 
queer:  "Lucy  laughed  to  herself  over  the  profligate  inti- 
mations of  the  little  creature  wastefullv  winnowing  its 
flowery  wings  in  the  June  herbage."  We,  too,  laughed  to 
ourselves  as  we  read.  Nor  are  we  certain  that  we  fully 
appreciate  the  state  of  miud  of  the  hero,  at  the  moment 
when  "the  sky  seemed  to  him  to  be  full  of  atoms,  frothing 
and  whirling  in  a  rush  of  blue,  ceaselessly  active,  as  if  life, 
vibrating  in  the  atmosphere,  were  endowed  in  its  least 
point  with  all  the  barren  restlessness  of  the  soul  of  human- 
ity." This  seems  to  us,  with  apologies  to  the  writer  of  it 
for  our  lack  of  understanding,  to  be  sound  and  fury,  signi- 
fying nothing.  Had  the  atoms  been  green  or  red,  we 
should  have  thought  it  an  attempt  to  describe  the  sensa- 
tions of  trembling  delirium.  The  volume  is  nicely  printed, 
and  is  further  provided  with  a  pretty  cover  and  some 
illustrations. 

An  American  Nobleman;  a  story  ot  the  Canaan  wilderness,  by 
William  Armstrong.  Published  by  Rand,  McNally  &  Company, 
Chicago  and  New  York.     1896. 

Abel  Long,  the  American  nobleman  of  the  story,  has  for 
years  been  head  over  ears  in  love  with  Josephine,  who, 
though  she  appreciates  his  devotion  and  avails  herself  of 
it  without  scruple  whenever  it  suits  her  convenience  to  do 
so,  heaps  all  the  wealth  of  her  affection  upon  a  worthless 
fellow  named  Carrico,  who,  by  his  airs  of  affected  superior- 
ity to  the  ordinary  country  folk,  tickles  her  woman's  vanity. 
Carrico,  cloyed  with  domestic  bliss,  deserts  her,  and  the 
fair  Josephine,  as  woman  will,  falls  back  for  assistance  up- 
on her  devoted  but  unrewarded  lover.  After  a  long  inter- 
val, during  the  whole  of  which  Josephine  sighs  and  watches 
incessantly  for  the  good-for-nothing  fellow  who  holds  her 
fluttering  heart  in  the  hollow  of  his  hand,  Abel  Long,  in 
deference  to  the  wishes  of  his  mother,  marries,  choosing  a 
woman  whose  previous  life  had  not  been  all  that  it  should 
have  been.  At  first,  soothed  by  the  kindness  of  her  hus- 
band, and  by  the  comfort  of  an  assured  maintenance,  she 
conducts  herself  discreetly  enough,  but  in  an  evil  moment 
meets  one  of  her  former  admirers,  and,  unable  to  resist  his 
advances,  ere  long  runs  away  with  him.  The  story, 
though  on  the  whole  somewhat  painful,  is  interesting,  and 
contains  one  amusing  chapter,  headed  "Gold-findin'  on 
Sas'fras  Mountain" — a  humorous  account  of  the  wild  ex-, 
citement  caused  by  the  discovery  in  a  garden  of  a  small' 
bit  of  gold,  which  afterwards  turns  out  to  be  the  filling  of 


a  decayed  tooth.  Though  we  do  not  know  that  Abel 
Long  does  anything  especially  characteristic  of  a  noble- 
man, or  achieves  anything  that  might  reasonably  be  re- 
warded with  ennoblement,  yet  he  is  a  worthy  fellow,  who 
does  his  duty  under  very  trying  circumstances. 

Literary  log-rolling  is  all  very  well  in  its  way,  and  we 
all  do  it  now  and  then:  but  it  certainly  does  seem  to  us 
that  Collier's  Weekly  does  more  of  it  in  less  time,  and  in  a 
more  bare-faced  and  unblushing  manner,  than  most  of  us 
would  care  to  do.  This  weekly  paper  is  almost  wholly 
written  by  Messrs.  Edgar  Saltus,  Edgar  Pawcett,  and 
Julian  Hawthorne — all  very  estimable  men,  but  each  pos- 
sessed of  so  strong  a  sense  of  the  estimableness  of  his  for- 
tunate collaborators  as  to  be  rather  trying  to  outsiders. 
A  story  by  Julien  Gordon  (Mrs.  van  Rennsselaer  Cruger) 
is  running  through  the  columns  of  the  Weekly.  Now, 
let  us  see  how  the  log-rolling  is  done.  In  his  department 
entitled  "Our  Note-Book,"  Mr.  Edgar  Saltus  says  apropos 
of  Mrs.  Cruger's  story:  "I  am  much  honored  and  compli- 
mented to  note  the  appearance  of  Mrs.  van  Rennsselaer 
Cruger.  Under  the  name  of  Julien  Gordon,  she  has  given 
the  world  assortments  of  samples  of  the  very  best  art. 
Here  or  in  England  I  know  of  no  living  woman,  very  few 
living  men,  whose  prose  has  seemed  to  me  as  excellent. 
There  is  a  quality  in  it  to  be  envied  and  admired."  Then 
Mr.  Saltus  goes  on  to  say  of  the  Weekly  that  has  the 
honor  of  printing  Mrs.  Cruger's  prose:  "This  Weekly  is 
unique.     It  combiues  and  conveysin  each  issue  information 

on  every"  (the  italics  are  ours)  "important   topic 

it  provides  entertainment,  instruction,  and  art.  As  Mr. 
Tree  said,  It  is  unique,  and  were  there  a  superlative  for 
that  word,  I  would  say  that  Mrs.  Cruger's  presence"  (or 
her  prose?)  "will  make  it  more  so."  Next  comes  Mr.  Ed- 
gar Pawcett,  who,  in  his  department  entitled  "Men,  Man- 
ners, and  Moods,"  says  of  his  collaborator,  Mr.  Julian 
Hawthorne:  "  Here  in  the  Weekly  he  has  recently  given 
us  a  handful  of  incomparable  essays  ....  He  does  his 
work  with  a  vitality  and  gentle  splendor  all  his  own.  He 
mixes  landscape  with  character,  humor  with  melancholy, 
grace  with  robustness,  precision  with  spontaneity,  and 
the  whole  commingling  could  not  well  be  more  felicitous." 
We  have  not  read  the  incomparable  Julien  Gordon's  story, 
but  she  can  hardly  do  less  than  work  in  some  complimen- 
tary allusions  to  her  distinguished  friend  and  fellow-work- 
man, Mr.  Edgar  Saltus.  Of  course,  this  sort  of  thing  in- 
dicates a  charming  willingness  to  appreciate  each  other's 
talents  and  the  remarkable  merit  of  the  unique  weekly 
which  is  honored  by  "the  presence"  of  these  literary  folk, 
but  is  there  not  a  little  too  much  of  it  for  one  issue,  and 
that  a  weekly  one?  Est  modus  in  rebus — there  is  a  limit  in 
all  things — is  an  old  rule  and  a  good  one:  have  Dot  these 
literary  friends  of  ours  forgotten  it?  In  our  opinion,  they 
are  not  only  "up  to  the  limit,"  but  "away  beyond  it." 
Nor  can  we  repress  a  feeling  of  wonder  as  to  whether,  if 
the  peerless  Mrs.  van  Rennsselaer  Cruger  were  a  poor 
country  postmistress  or  school-ma'am,  instead  of  being 
the  wealthy  descendant  of  a  Dutch  green-grocer,  and  the 
owner  of  a  fine  mansion  with  well-stocked  larder  and  cel- 
lars, Mr.  Edgar  Saltus  would  be  quite  so  gushing  as  he  is. 

The  Pebruary-April  issue  of  The  Hesperian,  which  de- 
scribes itself  as  "a  Western  quarterly  magazine,"  opens 
with  a  criticism  of  Mrs.  Thomas  Humphry  Ward's  literary 
work.  It  is  quite  readable,  but  to  a  lover  of  accuracy  is 
marred  by  the  fact  that  "Humphry"  is  throughout  the 
entire  article  written  "Humphrey."  It  strikes  us  as 
strauge  that  a  writer  should  not  care  sufficiently  about  the 
accurate  spelling  of  a  well-known  name  to  deem  it  worth 
while  to  consult  some  book  of  reference.  Inaccuracy  in 
easily  ascertainable  details  makes  the  reader  mistrust  the 
writer  in  other  more  important  ones.  And  we  know 
whereof  we  speak,  for  we  attended  many  lectures  of  the 
accomplished  Mr.  Thomas  Humphry  Ward,  when  he  was 
an  Oxford  don.  Lady  Cook  contributes  a  pleasant  little 
essay  entitled  "Should  the  poor  marry?"  being  evidently 
of  opinion  that  they  should.  A  review  of  the  life  and  work 
of  William  Morris,  and  of  Mrs.  Fields'  "Authors  and 
Friends,"  with  literary  notes  by  Carrie  Shaw  Rice,  com- 
plete an  interesting  issue.  We  cannot,  however,  quite  agree 
with  Mrs.  Rice's  estimate  of  "Ouida,"  who,  though  a  very 
vain  woman,  with  a  faulty  English  style,  yet  undoubtedly 
possesses  literary  ability.      Nor,  though  Mrs.  Rice  does 


March  13,  1897. 


SAN  PRANCISCO  NEWS  i.i:  1 


say  that  Marion  Crawford  is  "the  best  modern  instance 
e  literary  ability  it  requires  to  become 
namby-pamby  are   we 

.  ri  in  our  belief  that  the  author  of  "  Mr,  Isaacs"  does 
possess  the  sloryteliinj;  (.'ift.  :\iul  writes  in   a  manner   by 
•  .ins  unpleasin^r   or    unskillful.       NY    fear    that    Mrs 
a  endeavoring  to  be  sharp  without  having  any  liter- 
ary standard  by  which  to  judge  the  objects  of  her  oriti- 
:e  fails  foul  of  the  use  of  the  term  "Brit- 
which,  though  an  ugly,   i>  at  any  rate  a  convenient 
term  to  denote   a   native  .if   the    British    Isles,    when   we 
either  do    not   know,    or   do   not    wish  to   lay   stress  on. 
the  particular  section  of   the    United    Kingdom   of   Great 
Britain  and  Ireland  in  which  he  was  born.     If   we   do  not 
use  "Britisher."  we  must  fall  back   on  "  Englishman  "  or 
"Briton,"  and  "Englishman     means  a  native  of  England, 
excluding    Welshmen.    Scotchmen,    and   Irishmen:    while 
"Briton"  is  generally  used  in  a  rather  jingoistic  sense.     I 
fear  that  we  must  now  and  then  use  "Britisher"  till  a  bet- 
ter substitute  is  found.     And  will  Mrs.    Rice  kindly  tell  us 
what  a  "savorsome  female 

The  March  issue  of  The  Overland  Monthly  contains  a 
well-illustrated  account  of  Sir  James  Brooke,  the  remark- 
able Englishman  whose  career  in  Borneo  is  more  surpris- 
ing than  a  romance.  The  article  is  contributed  by  Mr. 
Rounsevelle  Wildman,  who  has  visited  the  present  Rajah  of 
Sarawak,  Sir  Charles  Brooke.  Another  copiously  illus- 
trated article  is  the  second  installment  of  Messrs.  Bolton 
and  Laing's  account  of  their  exploring  trip  last  year  in 
Vancouver  Island.  It  is  entitled  "The.  Central  Crags  of 
Vancouver,"  and  brings  the  narrative  down  to  August 
10th,  the  day  on  which  the  explorers  reached  Great  Cen- 
tral Lake.  Other  weightier  articles  deal  with  "The 
Society  of  Pioneers  of  California,"  "The  Municipal  Mis- 
Government  of  San  Francisco,"  and  a  trip  made  by  the 
signal  corps  of  the  Second  Brigade  of  the  National  Guard. 
Stories  and  book-reviews  fill  out  the  issue. 


REGINALD      H.      WEBSTER. 


Reginald  11 
tern  of  public  instruction. 


REGINALD  H.  WEBSTER,  who  has  just  been  de- 
clared to  be  the  regularly  elected  Superintendent  of 
Schools  of  this  city,  and  who  took  his  office  on  the  8th 
inst.,  graduated  from  the  State 
university  in  1877  with  the  de- 
grees of  A.  B.,  A.  M.,  and  soon 
thereafter  became  a  teacher  in 
the  schools  of  San  Francisco, 
and  has  been  continuously  so  en- 
gaged since  January,  1878. 

Professor  Webster  is,  above 
all  things,  a  practical  man.  He 
believes  in  meeting  all  the 
requirements  of  the  public 
schools  in  the  most  direct  and 
business-like  manner.  He  is  not 
a  stickler  for  stilted  forms,  but 
believes  in  simplification  rather 
than  the  elaboration  of  the  sys- 
The  Professor  having  been  for 
a  long  time  employed  in  the  schools,  has  invaluable  knowl- 
edge of  their  requirements.  His  belief  that  there  should 
be  concentration,  and  the  more  complete  teaching  of  the 
primary  and  grammar  depai  cmeut  studies,  for  the  reason 
that  a  great  majority  of  scholars  do  not  get  beyond  these 
grades  is  sound.  The  education  necessary  to  ordinary 
pursuits — the  school  requirements  that  fit  the  average 
person  for  the  intelligent  duties  of  citizenship,  are  ob- 
tained in  these  departments.  If  they  be  thoroughlj  in- 
culcated, Protessor  Webster  holds,  the  public  school  sys- 
tem has  discharged  its  duty. 

The  professor  holds  that  the  training  of  the  body  after 
the  German  system  should  accompany  the  training  of  the 
mind,  and  regards  physical  culture  as  important.  He 
thinks  that  the  school  buildings  are  imperfect  and  inade- 
quate, and  favors  issuing  bonds  to  build  new  ones,  or  else 
making  a  sufficient  appropriation  to  rebuild  the  five 
schools  now  occupied,  in  six  or  eight  years.  He  believes 
in  good  salaries  for  good  service,  and  the  maintenance  of  a 
high  degree  of  efficiency .  in  all  departments  of  the  public 
schools  of  San  Francisco. 


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March  13,  1897. 


Affairs   on 
Pine   Street. 


By  the  time  the  members  on  the  reform 
and  anti-reform  benches  in  the  Pine-street 
institution  get  through  with  their  intermin- 
able discussion,  the  speculating  public  will 
not  e^en  be  looking  on  from  afar — they  will  have  their 
backs  turned  forever  upon  the  wrangling  factions  and  their 
game.  The  result  of  the  recent  entanglements  over  the 
Norcross  and  Curry  elections  will  set  many  people  think- 
ing that  the  whole  job  is  put  up  in  the  interests  of  a  set  of 
officials  who  want  to  hold  positions  for  life.  If  you  cannot 
get  new  ones  in  by  the  tweedle-dee  and  tweedle-dum  of 
law  as  it  comes  down  from  the  local  bench*  it  naturally 
goes  without  saying  that  the  other  fellows  stay  in  until 
Death  takes  a  hand  in  the  business.  It  also  would  indi- 
cate that  there  never  yet  has  been  a  legal  mining  election 
held  in  the  State,  a  pretty  fine  condition  of  affairs.  The 
tangle  in  ^pinions  and  actions  of  not  only  mining  corpora- 
tions, but  all  others,  will  soon  be  such  as  to  tie  up  the 
hands  of  the  Directors  and  leave  them  powerless  to  act  in 
any  matter.  Everyone  connected  with  the  Comstock 
mining  business  knows  that  without  the  vote  of  proxies 
there  could  have  been  no  election  held,  and  there  never  can 
be.  The  stocks  of  the  different  companies  are  so  widely 
scattered  that  it  would  be  absolutely  impossible  to  get  a 
quorum.  It  seems  sensible  enough  and  only  right  that 
stock  should  supercede  a  proxy  when  available,  but  when 
that  is  unavailable,  what  is  to  be  done  if  the  law  steps  in 
and  says  a  proxy  cannot  be  voted?  In  the  meantime, 
while  the  courts  here  are  putting  more  kinks  in  the  tangle 
by  straightening  matters  out  in  the  legal  fashion  for  which 
California  is  rapidly  becoming  famous,  the  market  will  be 
at  the  mercy  of  the  four  winds,  while  shareholders  verging 
on  senility  will  have  to  foot  the  bills  of  the  litigants.  It  is 
all  very  well  for  the  Norcross  Directors  to  go  to  law.  The 
longer  they  hold  office  the  more  salary  they  draw.  How 
about  the  people  who  are  assessed  to  pay  the  lawyers,  an 
additional  and  expensive  tax  upon  the  body  corporate. 
The  mines  may  evidently  soon  be  eliminated  out  of  the 
game  entirely.  The  gamble  will  be  upon  the  favorable  or 
unfavorable  judgment  of  the  law  courts. 

In  view  of  the  untoward  condition  of 
affairs  in  the  speculative  mining  market, 
and  the  sheerimpossibility  of  mining  con- 
ditions influencing  it  one  way  or  the 
other  just  now,  a  person  may  perhaps  be  permitted  to  say 
a  favorable  word  about  the  Brunswick  lode  without  being 
accused  of  an  attempt  to  bull  stock  for  the  purpose  of  job- 
bery. When  Chollar-BruDswick  was  quoted  at  over  $2  per 
share,  and  the  stock  was  largely  held  by  a  highly  respect- 
able class  of  the  public,  its  value  was  gradually  under- 
mined, and  the  confidence  of  investors  shaken  by  state- 
ments that  the  only  ore  found  consisted  of  a  few  "streaks 
and  bunches,"  and  that  there  was  no  possibility  of  a  de- 
velopment of  importance.  Mining  has  continued,  notwith- 
standing the  efforts  made  to  shut  down  work  on  this 
ground,  with  the  result  that  the  company  is  to-day  in  a 
positiou  to  turn  out  more  ore  and  of  a  higher  grade  than 
any  other  property  listed  on  the  board.  Eleven  thousand 
dollars  materialized  last  week  from  these  "streaks  and 
bunches,"  and  the  work  was  handicapped  by  severe 
weather.  Had  the  management  possessed  any  of  the  old- 
time  grit  which  protected  stocks  from  raids,  the  wreckers 
in  this  case  would  not  have  had  the  chance  to  work  an  in- 
jury to  the  shareholders  by  mendacious  and  infamous  re- 
ports. 

Colonel  W.  J.  Sutherland,  President  of 
the  Holmes  mine  of  Candelaria,  Ne- 
vada, arrived  in  town  during  the  week, 
looking  as  if  the  trip  across  the  Atlan- 
tic had  benefited  him  considerably.  He  will  remain  here 
for  some  time,  and  inaugurate  a  process  known  as  the 
"Bailey,"  for  working  the  tons  of  tailings  which  have  been 
lying  at  the  Belleville  mills  for  years  past.  As  these  tail- 
ings run  high  in  the  precious  metals,  the  enterprise  ought 
to  benefit  the  Holmes  shareholders  financially. 


Outlook  on 
the  Brunswick. 


To  Work  the 
Holmes   Tailings. 


In  reply  to  an  esteemed  contemporary, 
A  Mining  Deal  the  Evening  Telegraph  of  Grass  Valley, 
Which  Fizzled,  regarding  a  proposed  transaction  in 
Nevada  county,  the  mine  was  not  named 
for  the  reason  that  the  deal  did  not  culminate.  It  does  not 
follow  that  because  some  people  believe  their  property 
worth  more  money  than  an  expert  thinks  it  is  upon 
investigation  that  the  same  property  is  valueless.  It  might, 
however,  appear  so  to  others,  and  the  refusal  to  close 
negotiations  at  a  certain  figure  being  regarded  in  the  light 
of  condemnation.  In  other  words,  the  property,  possibly  a 
very  good  one,  would  get  a  black  eye  and  everybody 
knows  what  that  means  in  the  mining  market.  The  News 
Letter,  while  free  enough  to  criticise  a  mine  on  its  merits 
when  it  comes  down  to  an  arranged  deal,  does  not  propose 
to  injure  any  person's  property  upon  the  mere  ipse  dixit  of 
an  individual  expert  on  a  mere  question  of  values,  who 
may  be  right  or  may  be  wrong,  as  the  case  may  be.  There 
is  a  difference  of  opinion  on  the  subject,  that  is  all.  This 
is  the  reason,  and  a  fair  one,  we  believe,  why  properties 
not  named  from  time  to  time,  in  mentioning  instances  of  le- 
gitimate negotiations  which  flattened  out  and  came  to 
naught.  It  would  be  very  wrong  to  do  so,  in  the  interest 
of  the  mine  owner,  working  him  perhaps  an  irreparable 
injury,  and  we  believe  the  Telegraph  will  look  at  the 
matter  in  the  same  light  when  it  comes  to  think  of  it.  The 
property  referred  to  was  not,  however,  located  directly  in 
the  neighborhood  of  Grass  Valley,  although  it  unquestion- 
ably is  in  Nevada  county. 

It  is  not  so  long  ago  since  a  furore  was 
White  Hills  created  by  the  alleged  mineral  discoveries 
Mines  Again,  at  White  Hills,  north  of  Kingman,  A.  T., 
and  not. far  from  the  Colorado  river.  A 
prospector  named  Shafer  made  the  strike,  and  money 
afterwards,  by  a  sale  to  Colorado  people,  who  thought  they 
had  the  world  by  the  ears.  Shafer  turned  his  steps  Cali- 
forniaward,  and  Arizona  has  seen  him  no  more.  He  took 
a  fall  out  of  a  mine  in  El  Dorado  County  for  a  while,  or  it 
took  a  fall  out  of  him,  one  of  the  two.  In  any  event  he  is 
now  in  other  business  than  mining,  somewhere  about  Los 
Angeles.  From  latest  accounts,  the  Colorado  men  who 
stepped  into  his  old  shoes  at  the  White  Hills  are  now 
anxious  to  unload  their  holdings  on  some  one  else,  and 
British  capitalists  are  mentioned  in  connection  with  the 
proposed  deal.  Without  knowing  anything  about  these 
mines,  good,  bad,  or  indifferent,  but  appreciating  at  the 
same  time  the  ability  and  pluck  of  the  average  Colorado 
mining  man,  itis  safe  to  conclude  that  any  cast-off  in  this 
quarter  is  not  a  safe  pick-up  for  any  one,  let  alone  a 
foreign  corporation.      Verb,  sap.,  etc. 

The  typical  modesty  of  the  daisy  is 
Another  Mining  thrown  completely  in  the  shade  by  that 
Mystery  Abroad,  new  corporation  which  has  just  blos- 
somed in  London,  calling  itself  the 
Michell  Mine  Syndicate,  Ltd.  All  it  asks  for  is  $125,000, 
which  it  is  willing  to  put  into  "gold  and  silver  mines,  min- 
ing rights  and  auriferous  land"  in  Californiaor — elsewhere. 
Dear  me!  possibly  if  this  half  dead  and  alive  drone  were 
exploited,  we  would  find  this  "elsewhere"  right  under  foot 
somewhere  in  the  vicinity,  and  nowhere  else  outside  of  Cal- 
ifornia. What  can  be  expected  from  a  company  so  modest 
that  it  cannot  bear  to  mention  mine  or  district,  for  fear, 
perhaps,  that  the  small  size  of  the  capital  might  shock 
some  one.  Some  North  of  England  people  figure  as  the 
promoters  of  this  "elsewhere"  proposition  which  looks 
small  enough  to  be  located  anywhere  for  that  matter. 
Can  an  obliging  reader  unravel  the  mystery  by  locating 
this  property? 

The    fact    that     someone    named     Rathbun 
What's  in     brought  suit   against  one  McNear  for  some 
A  Name  ?     small  sum  in   connection   with  the  sale  of  a 
quick  silver  property  in  Colusa,  has  afforded 
some   people    an    opportunity  to   condole   with   the  well- 
known  and  highly  popular  clubmau,  Major  J.  L.  Rathbone. 
who  happens  to  own  some   highly  productive  property  of 
this  class  in  the   same   locality.     A  mistake  of  this  kind, 
which   could,   of  course,  only   be  made  by  some    casual 
acquaintance,  is  the   source  of  much  quiet  amusement  to 
the  Major  and  his  more  intimate  friends. 


b  13,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER 


«3 


1  Hear  the  Crier:"   -Whit  the  devil  art  ihout" 
'One  thai  wtllDlsc  the  derll. «lr.  with  Too." 


IMI  feel  ih  it  lb*  camera't  ical, 
And  the  an  1  -kill. 

As  well  as  each  pen  0!  those  'arson  men. 

Are  insufficient.     Still 
For  the  new?  I  thirst.     Which  foot  goes  first 

When  Bob  sprints  out  of  doors? 
You  scribes  are  slow  '.    Shall  I  never  know 

If  champion  Corbett  snores? 
I'ray  take  more  pains,  oh,  men  of  brains. 

Your  items  to  disclose — 
Wire  us  the  hairs  that  Jim's  head  wears. 

And  tbe  freckles  on  Fitz's  nose! 

IT  is  not  often  that  a  versifier  is  indiscreet  enough  to 
print  his  "pomes"  without  having  first  obtained  per- 
mission so  to  do  from  the  head  of  our  local  Vigilance  Com- 
mittee. Poet  W.  V.  Bryan,  hewever,  has  been  rash 
enough  to  rush  into  publicity,  and  tell  in  broad  daylight 
the  little  things  God  whispered  to  him  in  the  night.  Mr. 
Bryan's  thoughts  flow  from  him  as  easily  as  water  from  a 
choked  drain,  and  his  metre  kicks  as  naturally  as  an 
Arizona  mule.  None  of  these  virtues,  however,  should 
save  him  from  the  hangman. 

AS  an  extenuation  of  their  crime,  the  dairymen  who  fur- 
nished the  City  and  County  Hospital  with  adulterated 
milk,  urge  the  point  that  clean  water  only  was  used,  as 
well  as  the  finest  of  sand.  Their  next  move,  doubtless, 
will  be  to  argue  that  they  are  humanitarians  in  disguise, 
since  they  might  have  used  stagnant  water,  and  cobble- 
stones instead  of  sand.  The  investigation  may  terminate 
in  resolutions  thanking  the  gentlemen  for  their  kindly  con- 
sideration of  the  city's  patients. 

SISTER  Oakland  appears  to  have  a  plethora  of  minis- 
terial Lotharios.  The  latest  to  attain  notoriety  is 
William  M.  Lane,  who  in  his  unholy  yearnings  for  the 
world,  the  flesh,  and  the  devil,  sought  to  shake  religion, 
wife,  and  children  at  one  and  the  same  time.  It  is  discour- 
aging to  learn  that  this  pastoral  person  intends  to  live 
hereafter  in  San  Francisco.  A  tip  to  the  brethren  of  the 
pulpits  hereabouts:  Why  not  convert  each  other  before 
taking  ordinary  sinners  in  hand? 

ONE  Quigg  has  been  sued  for  the  embezzlement  of  a  leg. 
This  is  not  the  outgrowth  of  an  election  feud,  as  might 
be  imagined.  Quigg  does  not  pull  legs  for  a  living.  He 
manufactures  them,  and  failed  to  deliver  one  of  these 
patent  extremities  to  a  customer  who  had  ordered  it, 
whereupon  he  has  been  sued  in  the  sum  of  $58.  Doubtless, 
many  a  politician  is  sighing  with  envy  that  Quigg  should 
get  off  so  cheaply. 

A  LOCOMOTIVE  toppled  off  its  track  in  the  lower  part 
of  the  city  of  Stockton  tbe  other  evening,  and  the 
whistle-valve  being  open,  it  tooted  away  until  there  was  no 
more  steam  in  the  boiler.  Whereat,  the  people  of  Stock- 
ton, not  knowing  the  real  reason  of  the  prolonged  whistling, 
and  being  desirous  of  attributing  it  to  the  occurrence  of 
some  great  event,  passed  the  proud  rumor  swiftly  from 
mouth  to  mouth:  "Jim  Budd's  'Panzy'  has  got  pups!" 

SCIENTIFIC  Eating,  or  the  Proper  Use  of  the  Knife 
and  Fork,  is  to  be  taught  at  that  progressive  insti- 
tution, the  State  University.  The  Crier  is  acquainted 
with  certain  professors  of  that  college,  and  can  testify 
that  a  good  field  exists  among  them  for  further  proficiency 
in  that  useful  acquisition. 

IF  the  late  Asa  Fisk  is  permitted  to  stray  as  far  north 
as  Heaven,  he  will  have  all  he  can  do  to  take  up  the 
angels'  notes.  Such  business  prospects  may  not,  however, 
brighten  Asa's  astral  vision.  It  is  generally  believed  that 
Satan  has  a  mortgage  on  the  money-lender's  soul  and  is 
already  taking  steps  to  foreclose  it. 

S  CERTAIN  Baumann  is  seeking  damages  for  cows 
killed  by  order  of  the  Board  of  Health.  The  fellow 
should  be  glad  that  he  was  not  sentenced  to  death  by 
drinking  his  own  diseased  milk. 

BENEATH  this  stone  doth  lie  "Long  Green," 
Who,  hid  from  view,  is  not  obscene. 


Til  !■'.  gent  ee  in  the  proud  distinc- 

tion of  beiug  thi      iter  half  of  Jim  Corbett,  coi 
tbe  position  her  pies  Immeasurably  greater 

than  tbe  lowly  calling  of  an  "effeminate  dry-goods  clerk" 
per   week      (in   hide   thy  head  in   a   punching  bag, 
madam!     The  dr.  lark    is  a  num.  while  the  lighter 

is  lower  than  the  brute,  seeing  th.it  lie  is  given  the  intelli- 
gence to  rise  to  greater  station.  Honest  folk  will  associate 
with  the  former  but  not  with  the  latter.  Get  thee  to  a 
nunnery  before  it  rail 

SIX  school  teachers  have  been  unfeelingly  debarred  from 
drawing  double  salaries.  The  startling  innovation  of 
preventing  the  Industriously  idle  of  the  city  from  helping 
themselves  to  the  treasury  should  be  cultivated  until  it 
reaches  the  departments  where  greater  cause  for  its 
exercise  prevails.  Our  bosses  have  so  long  taken  our 
money  for  their  gains  that  any  sortof  protest  against  them 
should  be  encouraged. 

DR.  CORNWALL'S  suggestion  that  all  physicians 
should  study  the  art  of  actiug  and  endeavor  by  their 
posture  and  facial  expression  to  influence  their  patients  is 
a  good  one.  Even  if  they  do  not  influence  they  may  amuse, 
and  that  will  be  giving  us  something  for  our  money.  "Dr." 
Cook,  for  instance,  might  go  through  the  motions  of  using 
his  jaws;  and  "Dr. "  Sweany  with  his  luxuriant  whiskers 
might  impersonate  the  wild  man  of  Borneo. 

AKOYAL  nuisance,  it  appears, 
Is  Liliuokalani;  that 
With  half  a  century  of  years 
At  Uncle  Sara  she  fondly  leers. 
And  coolly  to  the  White  House  steers. 

A  plague  upon  this  lump  of  fat! 
This  "dusky  queen"  with  beefy  arms, 
And  sundry  hula-hula  charms ! 
If  she  should  chance  again  this  way, 
Let's  take  her  sailing  on  the  bay, 
Then  suddenly,  with  one  accord, 
Just  shove  her  gently  overboard. 

FOR  sentencing  one  Ah  Jim  to  six  months  for  kissing 
Mrs.  Holmes,  Justice  Oroezinger  should  be  severely 
censured  by  press  and  pulpit  and  his  decision  reversed  by 
the  Supreme  Court  of  this  enlightened  land  of  freedom. 
The  Chinese  have  long  been  derided  for  their  heathenish 
tastes,  and  now  that  one  of  them  shows  signs  of  a  superior 
intelligence  he  is  thrown  into  a  dungeon  and  his  expansion 
is  nipped  in  the  bud! 

THE  shoes  that  Corbett  will  wear  in  the  fight  have  been 
exported  hitherward  from  St.  Louis.  The  box  con- 
taining the  precious  freight  was  handled  tenderly  en  route, 
with  all  the  deference  due  such  sacred  objects  of  worship. 
St.  Louis  has  done  itself  proud.  But  no  city  has  been 
found  having  a  hat  big  enough  to  fit  the  head  of  the  winner 
iu  the  coming  mill. 

IT  is  announced  by  a  morning  paper  as  a  piece  of  extra- 
ordinary news  that  the  doctors  of  the  city  have  agreed 
on  a  business  proposition.  The  fact  is,  that  whatever  may 
be  their  various-  "schools,"  the  medicos  invariably  pre- 
serve a  brotherly  equanimity  beautiful  to  see  when  things 
get  down  to  a  business  basis. 

One  point  there  is  on  which  they  all  agree— 
The  length,  and  breadth,  and  thickness  of  a  fee. 

ENQUIRING  CORRESPONDENT:  No,  the  "wild 
man  of  Berkeley"  who  has  been  terrorizing  the  in- 
habitants of  the  college  town  by  his  mysterious  actions  is 
not  the  person  you  suspect,  although  in  point  of  whiskers 
the  resemblance  is  striking.  Judge  Campbell  resides  on 
this  side  of  the  bay. 

'  'TIS  said  that  virtue  hath  its  own  reward. 
1         Well,  maybe  this  is  true  in  other  lands, 
But  here  vice,  trampling  o'er  the  grassy  sward, 
With  gun  and  bludgeon,  threatening  stands, 
Bids  trembling  virtue  halt,  throw  up  its  hands. 
Alas,  poor  saint,  a  prey  to  coarsest  wit, 
(Well  may  the  angels  weep  at  sight  of  it) 
In  San  Francisco  thy  reward  is— nit! 

WE  shall  soon  be   rid  of  Butler,  but  need  not   feel  em- 
barrassed and  lonely  because  of  that.     Durrant  still 
blossoms  in  the  midst  of  us. 

THE   Niggers'   Convention  will   be   held   next  July   at 
Fresnorthat  place  being  half  way  between  Hades  and 
Africa. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  13,  1897. 


a(}J    Q9»- 


DEAR  EDITH  :  I  notice  that  there  are  still  quite  a 
number  of  Empire  coats  on  the  market,  and  one  or 
two  new  designs  which  add  to  the  strict  Empire  style 
medieval  features  in  tops  and  trimmings.  These  new 
coats  are  made  of  faced  cloth,  gray,  dark  fawn,  or  some 
other  mild  spring  color.  The  collar  is  inlaid  with  velvet,  or 
with  some  of  the  new  black  brocades.  A  similar  inset  is 
noticeable  around  the  wrist  of  the  sleeves.  Machine  stitch- 
ing is  very  much  in  evidence,  being  applied*  in  double  lines 
around  the  edges  of  the  garment  and  also  in  a  second  line 
parallel  with  the  first.  The  length  of  the  new  coats  is 
medium,  the  shortest  coming  down  and  just  covering  the 
hips  and  the  longer  ones  extending  about  six  inches  below. 
There  is  very  little  tailor  work  in  the  shaping,  most  of  the 
fitting  being  around  the  neck  and  shoulders.  From  the 
shoulder  seam  and  the  armholes  the  garment  falls  in 
slightly  diverging  lines  to  its  lower  edge.  There  is  a  hand- 
some box  pleat  in  the  back,  and  also  one  in  front.  The 
fastening  at  the  neck  is  secured  by  a  tab  piped  in  velvet, 
and  down  the  front  run  a  series  of  larger  tabs  twice  as 
wide  as  the  one  at  the  neck,  finished  in  three-pointed 
curves  and  decorated  by  beautiful  jeweled  pearl  buttons. 
These  increase  in  size  to  the  bottom  of  the  jacket.  The 
sleeves  fit  smoothly,  but  not  tightly,  from  the  wrist  almost 
to  the  shoulder;  from  here  upward  they  are  puffed,  and 
then  are  gathered  so  as  to  throw  the  fullness  upon  the 
upper  part  of  the  armhole.  The  collar  is  of  the  stock  de- 
sign, an  inch  and  a  half  high,  and  then  breaks  into  six  tur- 
rets piped  with  velvet.  It  is  also  machine  stitched,  and 
within  the  stitching  inset  with  velvet  or  brocade. 

Some  of  the  new  spring  coats  shown  in  the  East  are  very 
chic.  The  ornamentation  is  very  simple,  consisting  of 
straight  stitching  along  the  edges  and  a  second  line  par- 
allel with  the  first,  an  inch  distant,  and  also  a  small  amount 
of  velvet  applied  upon  the  cuffs,  the  two  pockets  and  the 
collar.  It  is  double-breasted,  the  outer  lapel  fastening 
far  over  upon  the  lower  part  of  the  left  shoulder.  There 
are  two  jeweled  buttons  up  at  the  lapel  and  one  down  near 
the  pockets.  The  real  buttons  and  buttonholes  are  made 
in  a  fly  beneath  the  ornamental  buttons.  The  collar  is 
stiff  and  stand-up,  fitting  the  neck  snugly,  and  thence 
breaking  into  five  turrets  that  flare  outward.  The  sleeves 
still  bear  a  resemblance  to  the  old  balloons,  being  moder- 
ately puffed  at  the  end  of  the  shoulder  and  gracefully 
gathered  around  the  armholes.  The  coat  is  cut  away 
moderately,  so  as  to  curve  in  at  the  waist,  but  it  is  left 
loose  enough  there  to  fall  gracefully  to  the  hip.  The  cuffs 
are  of  moderate  depth  and  slightly  curved  upon  the  upper 
edge. 

The  latest  thing  in  hats  is  the  Cissy  Fitzgerald.  'Twas 
the  fair  Cissy  who  brought  over  with  her  fresh  from  Lon- 
don  town  the  pretty  Dutch  bonnet  that  captured  the 
feminine  portion  of  New  York.  It's  wide,  flaring  bows 
and  nodding  flowers,  falling  softly  on  each  side  of  the  face 
making  it  becoming  to  most  everyone,  and  now,  the  new 
Fitzgerald  hat,  worn  by  that  saucy,  jolly  little  woman  for 
the  first  time,  sits  back  on  the  head  in  a  similar  fashion. 
It  was  made  of  fine  black  chiffon,  the  front  of  the  bonnet 
turned  back  in  several  point  like  leaves  of  a  tulip.  From 
either  side  come  full  plaited  buds  of  chiffon,  giving  a  very 
chic  appearance  to  the  hat  and  wearer  as  well.  The  front 
is  filled  full  with  soft  pink  velvet  roses,  and  the  back  has  a 
jet  piece  snugly  on  the  hair.  It  is  by  far  the  quaintest 
and  most  striking  hat,  to  be  a  modest  one,  seen  so  far  this 
season. 

Modistes  say  that  the  bolero  jacket  will  flourish  this 
year  as  the  balloon  sleeves  did  a  year  ago.  The  balloons, 
by  the  way,  are  not  out  of  style.  They  were  so  becoming 
that  women  still  wear  them,  and  dresses  a  season  old  can 
be  worn  as  though  fashioned  this  year — if  they  have  a 
bolero.  The  newest  balloons  are  quite  modified,  and  all 
the  fullness  is  at  the  top. 

Belinda. 


FINE  FURS 
and 

SEALSKIN 
QARriENTS 

to  order.  Remodeling  and 
repairing  at  prices  far  be- 
low those  of  any  other  fur- 
rier on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
All  work  guaranteed. 

AD.  K060UR, 


FASHIONABLE  FURRIER, 
'5%   Kearny  Street  (Up-stairs), 


Opposite  Chronicle, 
don.  New  York. 


Formerly  cutter  with  Revillon  Freres,  Paris,  Lon- 


THOS.  PRICE  &  SON, 


Thos.  Price.    Arthur  F.  Price 


ASSAY  OFFICE,    GM  E  M  IGAL  LABORATORY 
BULLION   ROOMS  and  ORE  FLOORS. 
5S-J  Sacramento  St.,  S.F. 


BANKING. 


BANK  OF 

BRITISH  COLUMBIA. 


Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 


Capital  Paid  Up $3,000,00 

Reserve  Fund $  500,000 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 
HEAD  OFFICE ' 60  Lombard  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B,  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security,  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants' Bank  of  Canada;  Chicago— FirstNational Bank; 
Liverpool — North  and  South.  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico ; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  ot 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

QAN     FRAMPI9P0  Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets 

nmiMnn      iitnnM  Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 824,^02,327 

SAVllMGS      UNION.  Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus. . . .     1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E    B   POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin,  W.   C.  B.   De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert   Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  (or 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  A.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday  even- 
ings,6:30  to  8 

TUp  PPRMAM  ^AVINP^   No'  526  Galifornia  Street.  San  Francisco 

»mr»     initi     nnmi-rv/      Guarantee  capital  and  surplus  —  $2  040.20166 

AND    LOAN    bUl/lbl  Y.    Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash..  I  0U0  000  00 

Deposits  December  31,  1 896 27,7.0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B  A.  Bicker;  First  Vics-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Presidem,  H.  Horstman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary.  George  Tourny ;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Mulleri  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann,  Ign.  Steiohart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt. 

\A/L"I  I  Q     CADPA  N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 

WlLLO     rttnUU  John  J.Valentine President 

o    nnm    nun/  H-    Wadsworth Cashier 

&    CU.O    BANK.  HomerS.King Manager 

F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus J6,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 


SECURITY 
SAVINGS  BANK. 


William  Alvord 
Wm.  Babcock 
Adam  Grant 


222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST  PAID   ON  DEPOSITS. 

LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS. 
S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

O   D.  Baldwin  E   J.  McCutchen 

W.  S.  Jones  J.  B.  Lincoln 


March  13.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NBWS  I.I-TTER 


'5 


"I  don't  like  to  ride  my  bicycle  now,  said  the  fair  young 
jfirl,  "because  of  the  wind."  The  young  man  blushed 
slightly.   "Cocouldn't  you  use  strips  of  lead  or  something?" 

unmered.  "Strips  of  lead  for  what?'  The  VOUDg 
man  blushed  agaiu.  The  room  seemed  painfully  hot.  "Why. 
in  the  hemof  your  sk-skirts."  In' stammered.  "My  skirts'.'" 
echoed  the  tall  beauty.  iin  not  talking  of  mv  skirts. 
It's  my  curls  that  the  wind  blows  out.  -Odds  and  Ends. 
"Miss  Quicken  was  speaking  to  me  of  you  last  .night." 
"And  what  did  the  dear  creature  have  to  say."  inquired 
.  Smoothsleeve.  as  he  languidly  brushed  back  a  fleet- 
ing ringlet.  'She  said  that  you  reminded  her  of  a  page 
from  a  new  novel."  "Because  of  my  witty  sayings,  I  pre- 
sume'.'" "Well — not  exactly.  She  said  she  had  to  turn 
you  down  so  often  to  keep  you  in  your  place  " — New  York 
Journal. 

Dudley  Canesucker  (who  is  not  as  big  a  fool  as  he  looks) — 
Did  vol  give   my   cawd  to   Mith    Hondclipper?     Servant 
— Yes,  sir.     Dttdely — What  did  she  say?    Skkvant— She 
told  me  to  tell  you,  sir,  that  she  wassorry  she  was   not  in. 
Dudblt — Ah,  indeed!     Please   tell  your  misthress  that  I 
thaid  I  wath  glad  I  didn't  call. — Tammany  Times. 
There  was  a  young  lady  of  Crewe 
Who  wanted  to  catch  the  2:02; 
Said  the  porter,  "Don't hurry,  • 

Or  scurry,  or  flurry; 
It's  a  minute  or  2  2  2:02." 

-Tid-Bits. 
Proprietor  Tonsorial  Parlors — See  here,  when  that  Mr. 
Norox  comes  here  again  to  get  shaved,  before  you  com- 
mence on  him  just  mention  to  him  that  we  have  gone  over 
to  the  cash  system.  Subordinate  Artist — Gracious!  I 
did  the  last  time  he  was  here  and  his  face  got  so  long  that 
I  didn't  get  through  by  closing  time. — Truth. 

"I  liked  you  very  much  in  the  character  of  the  young 
woman,"  said  the  amateur  critic.  "Ob,  thank  you!" 
gushed  the  ancient  leading  lady.  "Yes,  you  were  so 
natural  and  realistic.  Oh,  it  was  a  triumph  of  art." — Phila- 
delphia North  American. 

Old  Gotrox — So  you  are  going  to  take  my  daughter  from 
me  without  any  warning.  Mr.  Stayleight — Oh,  not  at 
all,  sir.  If  there  is  anything  about  her  that  you  want  to 
warn  me  of,  I  am  perfectly  willing  to  listen. — Globe  Demo- 
crat. 

Wiggs — The  doctor  told  Brown's  wife  to  give  him  whiskey 
if  he  had  another  attack  of  fever  and  ague.  Waogs— Has 
he  had  a  relapse?  Wiggs — Well,  he's  been  shaking  for  the 
drinks  all  the  afternoon.  -Evening  Journal. 

"I  love  thee!"  cries  the  ardent  youth, 

"Oh,  aay  'I  will  be  thine!'  " 
"Not  on  your  life!"  is  her  reply, 
"But,  dear,  you  may  be  mine!" 

— Globe  Democrat. 
"Yes,"  said  the  evangelist  to   the  young  sport  who  had 
just  come  under  conviction,  "you  are  plucked  as  a  brand 
from  the  burning."     "Well,  I   suppose   I   was   pretty  hot 
stuff,"  responded  the  youth. — Chicago  Journal. 

Mrs.  Pinchers  (at  a  five  o'clock  tea,  indignantly). — Why 
are  you  moving  those  umbrellas?  Do  you  think  the  guests 
would  steal  them?  Mr.  Pinchers — No.  But  they  might 
recognize  them. — N.  Y.  Mail. 

Teacher — Tommy,  if  you  gave  your  little  brother  nine 
sticks  of  candy  and  then  took  away  seven,  what  would  that 
make?     Tommy — It  would  him  yeil. — Harper's  Bazar. 

Through  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 

The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  from  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
phone Main  1531. 

The  Spring  fashions  in  gentlemen's  neckties  at  Carmany's, 
25  Kearny  street,  are  the  choicest  in  the  city. 


BANKING. 


BANK    OF    CALIFORNIA,        c""'»' 13.000,000  oo 

SAN      FRANCISCO.  Prollls  (October  I.  I8WI..    3.I(>8,1»  TO 

WILLIAM  ALVOUI)  In  sldont  I  CHARLES  R.  HISHOP.  .  Vlco-Proa't 

ALI.KN  M.CLAY.  ■  ,rv    THOMAS  HHOWN Caahlor 

S.  PHKNTiaa  Shitii       Asst  (ashler  1 1.  P.  Mooi.ton 2d  Asa't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

N«w  YOBK— tCasara.  Laid  law  &  Co.;  tno  Bankol  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  nnok;  Loudon— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sods;  PARIS— Hasan,  de  Rothsohlld  Frerca:  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— 
Agency  of  Tbo  Bank  of  California:  Chicago— union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  HiinU;  Australia  and  New  Zealand— Bank  of 
New  Zealand:  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India.  Austra. 
11a  and  China;  St.  Lodis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  Issued  available  In  all  purls  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York.  Boston,  Cbloago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Maln,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm, Chrlstianla,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  In  Italy. 


CALIFORNIA    SAFE    DEPOSIT   C°r'  CallrorDla  aDd  Montgomery  Sts. 

AND  TRUST   COMPANY,        <»*«•>  ™»  ™ «.«».«> 

Transacts  ft  general  banking  business 
and  allows  Interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity.  Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  10  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  ami  valuables  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wicken-bam.  J«cob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R  B.Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry.  A.  D.  Sharon  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry,  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.Shotwell,  Assistuat  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

MUTUAL     SAVINGS     BANK         mechanics*  institute0 Building* ' 

OF    SAN     FRANCISCO.  Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000 

Pald-Up  Capital *  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.       S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President 

JOHN   A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,   John   A.   Hooper,  C.  G- 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    Wbenopeuing  accounts  send  signatuie. 

LONDON   PARIS  AND  NW'  CoR'  SANSOME  &  Sutteb  Sts- 

*  Mimin  a  m    n  a  hi/     ■  mirrn       Subscribed  Capital 12,500,000 

AMERICAN  BANK,  LIMITED,   paw  uP capttSt utmum 

Reserve  Fund t    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS — New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Polssonlere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

gIGALGTRS^lBAUM}M»nagers. 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN     gaSaj£!~:::::::::.^^ 

n  1 111s  mm  .-rr  r»  Paid     Up 1.5UU.UU0 

BANK,      LIMITED.  Reserve    Fund 700.000 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  sansome  Sts. 
Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bilba  tnr  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

ana  bum<m-  pGS:  SEi^tIIl  }  »«««• 

CROCKER-WOOLWORTH         ^0ls?Is?REEisMoNIOOMBBY' 
NATIONAL  BANK  OFS.  F.      paid-up  capital «i,ooo,ooo 

WM.H.  CROCKER President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 


THE  SATHER 
BANKING  COMPANY. 


Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 
Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 


Capital M  ,000,000 


Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 
F.  W.  Wolfe.  Secretary. 


James  K.  Wilson  President. 
L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier. 

Direotors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents  •  New  York— J.  P .  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chloago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  13,  1897. 


^?J^J^^Ieh 


DOUBT-— SOPHIE  II.  ALMON-HENSLEY  ■ 

1DO  not  know  if  all  the  fault  be  mine, 
Or  why  I  may  not  think  of  thee  and  be 
At  peace  with  mine  own  heart.    Unceasingly 

Grim  doubts  beset  me,  bygone  words  of  thine 
Take  subtle  meaning,  and  f  cannot  rest 
Till  all  my  fears  and  follies  are  confessed. 

Perhaps  the  wild  wind's  questioning  has  brought 
My  heart  its  melancholy,  for,  alone 
In  the  night  stiilness,  I  can  hear  him  moan 

In  sobbing  gusts,  as  though  he  vainly  sought 
Some  bygone  bliss.    Against  the  dripping  pane 
In  storm-blown  torrents  beats  the  driving  rain. 

Nay,  1  will  tell  thee  all,  I  will  not  hide 
One  thought  from  thee,  and  if  I  do  thee  wrong, 
So  much  the  more  must  I  be  brave  and  strong 

To  show  my  fault.    And  if  thou  then  shouldst  chide 
I  will  accept  reproof  most  willingly 
So  it  but  bringeth  peace  to  thee  and  me. 

I  dread  thy  past.     Phantoms  of  other  days 
Pursue  my  vision.    There  are  other  hands 
Which  thou  hast  held,  perchance  some  sleuder  bands 

That  draw  ihee  still  to  other  woodland  ways 
Than  those  which  we  have  known,  some  blissful  hours 
I  do  not  share,  of  love,  and  June,  and  flowers. 

I  dread  her  most,  that  woman  whom  thou  knewest 
Those  years  ago,— I  cannot  bear  to  think 
That  she  can  say:  "My  lover  praised  the  pink 

Of  palm,  or  ear,"  "The  violets  were  bluest 
In  that  dear  copse,"  and  dream  of  some  fair  day 
When  thou  didst  while  her  summer  hours  away. 

I  dread  them,  too,  those  light  loves  and  desires 
That  lie  in  the  dim  shadow  of  the  years ; 
I  fain  would  cheat  myself  of  all  my  fears 

And,  as  a  child  watching  warm  winter  fires, 
Dream  not  of  yesterday's  black  embers,  nor 
To-morrow's  ashes  that  may  strew  the  floor. 

I  did  not  dream  of  this  while  thou  wert  near, 
But  now  the  thought  that  haunts  me  day  by  day 
Cs  that  the  things  I  love,  the  tender  way 

Of  mastery,  the  kisses  that  are  dear 
As  Heaven's  best  gifts,  to  other  lips  and  arm  s 
Owe  half  their  blessedness  and  all  their  charms. 

Tell  me  that  I  am  wrong,  0  Man  of  men. 
Surely  it  is  not  hard  to  comfort  me, 
Laugh  at  my  fears  with  dear  persistency. 

Nay,  if  thou  must,  lie  to  me !    There,  again, 
I  hear  the  rain,  and  the  wind's  wailing  cry 
Stirs  with  wild  life  the  night's  monotony. 


DREAM-HEAVEN—  collier's  weekly. 

Sweet,  I  have  seen  those  eyes  of  yours  in  dreams 
Lit  faintly  with  my  love's  reflected  gleams, 
And,  dreaming,  1  have  held  your  dream-soft  hand 
And  tender-twined  fingers  (that  no  band 
Of  jealous  gold  encircled)  in  my  own ; 
Yea,  and  your  very  lips'  culled  sweetness  known, 
Fair,  perfect  petals  of  that  flower  of  bliss 
Your  mouth ,  most  like  a  radiant  rose  to  kiss : 
And  held  you,  heart  to  heart,  within  my  arms, 
There  sheltered  from  a  loveless  world's  alarms, 
And  whispered  in  your  half-averted  ear, 
'  Heart  of  my  heart,  what  has  our  love  to  fear?" 
And  heard  that  sweet  low  voice  I  love  so  well 
Full  tenderly  its  gentle  story  tell — 
Bellissima,  my  best-loved  Isabel! 

All  this  in  dreams:  but  then  I  woke  to  see 
Those  dearest  eyes  laugh  merry  scorn  at  me; 
Those  fingers  I  had  joyed  in  dreams  to  hold 
Withheld  now  by  encircling  bands  of  gold ; 
Those  lips  I  kissed  that  one  sweet  dreamy  while 
Curved  distant  now  in  a  contemptuous  smile: 
That  heart,  that  once  had  fluttered  next  my  own, 
Now  silent — all  its  lava  turned  to  stone — 
An,  then  I  learned  Love's  secret  stairway  well 
Whose  sad  steps  lead,  my  best-loved  Isabel 
Bellissima,  but  from  Dream-Heaven  to  Hell! 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 
309and  311  Sansome  St.  -         San   Francisco,  Cal 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  46  Threadneedle  St.,  London 

SIMPSON,  MACKIRDY  &  CO 29  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 


INSURANCE. 


FIRE,   MARINE,    AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),  OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  .  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager,  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fire  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Company    of  North   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,    PENN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,033,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up $1,000,000 

Assets 3,192.001.89 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,606,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD   &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON   ««»-» 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON   NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  uh 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF   LIVERPOOL. 

Capital 16,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents, 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

nR  RlPDRn'Q  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu- 
Ul\.  nn/unu  O  ine— Aspeoiflo  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physioal 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
J.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED— Box  o[  50  pills,  $1  25;  of  100  pills,  »2;  of  200  pills, 
J350;  of400pills, $6;  Preparatory  Pills  12.    Send  lor  oircular. 

Joseph  Glllott's  Steel  Pens, 

Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1889.    These  pens   are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mr.  Henry  Hoe,  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers . 


March  13,  1897. 


s.\N   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'7 


INSURANCE. 

THE  Kiretnnns  Fund,  which  has  earned   <|iiite   a   name 
for  re-Insurance  -  irbed   the  Macon  Fire 

Insurance  Company   of    Macon,    <..i.      This   deal   at  once 
the  Firemana  Fund  a  desirable  lino  in  the  Southern 

There  is  a  persistent  rumor  on  the  Street  thai  there 
wilt  soon  be  a  change  in  tin-  management  of  the  Alias  in 
this  city. 

After  the  regular  meeting  of  the  San  Francisco  Life 
Association  last  night,  the  members  and  their  guestc 
adjourned  to  the  Occidental  Hotel,  where  a  banquet  was 
■-i'd  with  much  enthusiasm. 

A  determined  effort  is  being  made  by  the  brokers  of  this 
city  to  restore  rates  to  within  twenty-five  or  thirty  per 
cent,  of  the  old  P.  I.  U.  schedule.  The  movement  is  headed 
by  H.  M.  Grant,  and  is  made  necessary,  as  the  business  of 
the  agencies  has  been  very  seriously  injured  by  the  insur- 
ance war  that  has  been  an  unfortunate  part  of  insurance 
history  on  this  coast  for  the  past  two  years. 

The  different  accident  and  liabilities  companies  doing 
business  on  the  Pacific  Coast  continue  to  adhere  to  the 
rates  established  by  the  compact  several  months  ago.  The 
Frankfort  is  the  only  exception  to  the  rule,  aud  is  indulg- 
ing in  the  unremunerative  joys  of  cutting  rates.  This  lat- 
ter company  has  recently  withdrawn  its  $50,000  deposit 
from  Oregon,  and  placed  #200,000  with  Massachusetts  for 
the  protection  of  policy  holders. 

Manager  Voss,  since  going  to  Chicago,  has  been  a  thorn 
in  the  side  of  plate  glass  companies — refusing  to  fraternize 
with  them;  but  at  the  meeting  just  held  there,  he  sur- 
prised the  officers  by  appearing  at  their  conference,  and 
will  doubtless  "get  in  out  of  the  wet." 

The  movement  agitated  a  short  time  ago  in  Denver  for 
the  organization  of  a  National  Association  of  local  agents, 
is  meeting  with  every  encouragement,  and  it  is  probable 
that  within  the  next  six  months  it  will  have  on  its  rolls 
practically  every  local  agent  in  the  United  States.  This 
is  a  movement  which  may  be  credited  or  charged  to  the 
jealousies  and  opposition  toward  each  other  found  in  the 
companies  and  their  managers,  and  which  has  sadly  de- 
moralized the  insurance  business  on  this  coast  and  through- 
out the  country. 

The  Guardian  of  London,  which  withdrew  from  the 
United  States  some  years  ago,  has  just  issued  a  circular 
letter,  in  which  it  bitterly  attacks  and  denounces  the 
American  insurance  companies,  both  fire  and  life.  This 
comes  with  a  particularly  bad  grace  from  an  English  or 
any  other  foreign  company,  as  it  is  a  notorious  fact  that  in 
this  country  there  exists  no  discrimination  against  foreign 
companies,  which  cannot  be  truthfully  said  of  the  treat- 
ment accorded  American  companies  in  England.  There 
are  to-day  but  two  or  three  companies  from  this  side  doing 
business  in  England,  while  millions  upon  millions  are  paid 
annually  for  British  insurance  here. 

A  good  joke  is  traveling  around  insurance  circles,  in 
which  two  gentlemen,  Messrs.  Macrate  and  Coryell,  call- 
ing themselves  executive  special  agents  for  the  Mutual  Re- 
serve Fund  Life  Association  of  New  York,  were  done  up 
beautifully  by  E.  R.  Ellis,  agent  Graff  of  the  Provident 
Life,  and  actuary  Evans.  The  latter  gentlemen  knew  that 
the  silk-hatted  Eastern  executive  specials  were  out  for  big 
game,  and  learning  that  the;-  were  going  to  make  an 
attack  on  a  victim,  managed  to  drop  in  just  as  the  tender- 
feet  were  getting  in  their  work.  Evans,  Graff,  and  Ellis 
— old,  hardened  sinners  in  the  insurance  business — per- 
sonated a  miner,  a  speculator,  and  retired  capitalist.  They 
wanted  insurance,  and  gave  Macrate  and  Coryell  a  long- 
distance jolly,  which  resulted  in  any  number  of  good  cigars, 
any  quantity  of  insurance  literature,  blank  applications, 
and  a  fine  dinner.  The  Mutual  Reserve  executive  specials 
never  suspected  that  they  were  "up  against  it"  at  any 
stage  of  the  game,  and  are  no  doubt  wondering  why  the 
innocent-looking  miner,  the  solid-looking  capitalist,  anci 
the  shrew  speculator  failed  to  cultivate  their  agreeable 
acquaintance. 

The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedaker,  General  Agent. 


A  ton-cent  lamp  with  the 
right  chimney  gives  more  light 
and  less  smell  than  a  $100 
lamp  with  a  wrong  chimney. 

\\  hat  is  the  right  chimney? 

What  lamp  have  you  got? 

We'll  send  you  an  Index; 
free.  i 

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GEORGE  MORROW  &  Go.. 


(Established  1854.) 

HAY  AND  GRAIN 
Commission   Merchants 


39  Clay  St.  and  28  Commercial  St.,  S.  P. 

Branches  at  Bay  District,  Inglcsidc,  and  Third  St.  Hay  Wharf. 

Telephone  No.  38. 


GEORGE   GOODMAN 


Patentee   and 
Manufacturer  of 


Artificial  Stone 


SchlUtnger's  Patent  ] 

Side  Walk  and  Garden  Walk  a  specialty.; 


In  all  Its  branches 
Office:    307  Montgomery  street,  (Nevada  block)  San  Francisco 

Barjrjarje  Notice. 

Baggage  called  for  and  delivered 
at  tiains,  steamers,  etc.  Trunks 
35  cents.  Baggage  called  for, 
weighed  and  checked  at  your 
Hotel  or  residence.  Trunks  50c. 
PflGIFIG  TRANSFER  CO.,  20  Sutter  St. 

ST.  LAWRENCE 

LIVERY  AND 

BALES  STABLE. 

W.  E.  BRIDGE,  Proprietor. 

423  Post  St.,  between  Powell  and 
Mason,  San  Francisco. 
Telephone  No.  1323. 

Tomkinson's  Livery  Stable  f^*1"""""1 

J.  TOMPKINSON,  Proprietor. 

Nos.  57,  59,  and  61  Minna  St..  between  First  and  Second. 

Through  to  Natoma  street,  Nos.  64,  66,  and  68.    One  block  from  the  Palaoe 

Hotel,  also  carriages  and  coupes  at  Paolflo  Union  Club,  corner  Post  and 

Stcokton  streets,  San  Francisco.    Telephone  No.  153. 

Fine  turnouts  kept  especially  for  calling.    Also  rockaways,  buggies,  and 
vehicles  of  every  description  at  reduced  rates. 

CUNNINGHAM,    CURTISS    &   WELCH, 

Wholesale 
Stationers  and 
Booksellers. 

327,  329,  331  Sansome  St.  San  Francisco 


COKE—Cheapest  Fuel! 


REDUCTION  in  Price. 
Wholesale  (50  bbls.  or  more,)  EIGHTY 
Cents  per  bbl.  Retail  (any  quantity 
under  50  bbls.),  NINETY  Cents  per 
bbl.  At  the  works  of  the 


San  Francisco  Gaslight  Co. 

Howard  and  First  Streets. 


Foot  of  Second  Street. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  13,  1897. 


THE  fashionable  Saturday  Evening  Dancing  class  has 
no  more  enthusiastic  member  than  Eddie  Shaw,  who 
comes  over  from  Alameda,  where  he  is  known  as  the  "Ned 
Greenway  of  the  Estuary,"  to  attend  each  fortnightly 
assembly.  Like  many  other  gilded  ornaments  of  San 
Francisco  society,  his  purse  does  not  always  keep  pace 
with  his  social  ambitions  and,  according  to  his  own  con- 
fession, through  a  misplaced  pocket-book,  he  started  for 
one  of  the  dances  with  just  forty  cents  in  his  pocket.  Half 
of  that  modest  sum  was  expended  in  purchasing  a  return 
ferry  ticket,  and  five  cents  more  for  car  fare  to  the  scene 
of  the  festivity.  After  the  cotillion  was  over  he  jumped 
on  a  car  bound  for  the  ferry,  and  meeting  two  friends 
Eddie  insisted,  with  the  air  of  a  Monte  Cristo,  on  paying 
their  fares  with  the  last  dime  in  the  bottom  of  his  pocket. 
They  parted  from  him  up  town,  and  without  a  penny  in  his 
pocket,  this  lah-de-dah  young  man  arrived  at  the  ferry 
just  in  time  to  miss  the  last  boat.  Eddie  was  in  a  quandary, 
not  knowing  whither  to  go,  having  no  acquaintances  with- 
in reach,  and  without  a  nickel  to  go  to  them,  even  if  friends 
were  attainable.  After  much  deep  and  sorrowful  reflec- 
tion, he  concluded  that  his  only  alternative  was  to  watch 
for  the  dawn  in  his  office  at  the  Safe  Deposit  Building. 
He  walked  sadly  thither,  and  with  his  feet  on  the  mantel, 
to  keep  them  from  freezing,  he  patiently  awaited  the 
break  of  day.  Eddie  attended  to  business  on  the  day 
after  the  ball,  attired  in  evening  dress,  his  office  jacket 
buttoned  to  his  chin  imperfectly  concealing  the  now 
rumpled  splendor  of  his  ballroom  attire.  He  says  he  will 
never  go  to  another  cotillion  with  less  than  fifty  cents. 

*  *  * 

The  Baron  W.  E.  J.  Van  Balveren  is  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Amsterdam  studied  law  at  Harvard  and  civil 
engineering  at  the  University  of  California,  but  he  has 
failed  to  grasp  the  intricacies  of  the  English  language. 
Like  many  foreigners,  he  is  supremely  unconscious  of  his 
idiomatic  defects,  believes  he  speaks  our  language  like  a 
native  and  his  confidence  even  leads  him  to  trifle  with  that 
to  him,  linquistic  buzz-saw,  American  slang.  The  Baron 
intends  no  impropriety,  but  on  the  contrary  is  so  careful 
about  small  matters  that  he  is  often  considered  a  prude. 
Apropos  of  this,  an  anecdote  is  going  the  rounds  of  the 
Burlingame  Club  to  the  effect  that  a  lady  Van  Balveren 
knows  has  a  fine  Spitz  dog,  for  which  she  has  no  other 
name  than  "Little  Spitz."  This  so  shocks  the  Baron's 
modesty  that  he  gravely  refers  to  the  canine  as  "Little 
Saliva,"  with  the  accent  on  the  first  syllable,  to  the  great 
edification  of  his  friends.  But  that  is  another  story.  At. 
the  latest  meet  of  the  San  Bafael  Hunt  Club,  the  Baron 
had  arranged  to  ride  with  a  young  matron,  and  just  as  the 
signal  to  start  was  given,  all  the  Dianas  and  Nimrods  of 
the  fashionable  set  were  shocked  to  hear  the  Baron  call 
pleasantly  from  the  veranda  of  the  hotel,  to  the  lady 
whom  he  was  to  accompany: 

"Go  chase  yourself  around  the  block,  madam,  while  I  go 
upstairs  and  change  me  ridin'  breeches." 

The  Baron  would  now  like  to  know  how  such  an  innocent 
remark  could  possibly  give  offence  to  a  reasonable  woman. 

*  *  # 

It  not  infrequently  happens  that  Mr.  Hearst,  of  San 
Francisco  and  New  York,  issues  the  mandate  to  "do 
somebody  up,"  but  to  be  hoist  with  his  own  petard  is 
not  a  happy  experience  for  Willie.  Perhaps  for  that  very 
reason,  those  familiar  with  the  circumstances  derive  much 
diversion  from  the  Examiner-Journal's  unconscious  but 
successful  attempt  to  do  themselves  up.  The  efforts  of 
Mr.  Hearst  to  copyright  the  chaste  and  elegant  utter- 
ances of  the  Carson  pugilists  have  made  the  managers  of 
other  papers  specially  desirous  of  securing  exclusive  de- 
tails concerning  the  fighters.  In  desperation,  the  New 
York  World  a  week  ago  telegraphed  to  W.  C.  Bunner,  its 
San  Francisco  correspondent,  ordering  an  interview  about 
anything  at  all  with  Mrs.  Pugilist  Corbett,  who  was  then 
sojourning  here.     Bunner's   written  request   to  the  lady 


for  an  interview  was  met  with  a  cold  refusal,  Mrs.  Corbett 
being  fearful  that  her  utterances  might  vitiate  her  hus- 
band's contract  with  Mr.  Hearst.  Then  Bunner  achieved 
a  master  stroke  of  diplomacy,  writing  on  his  card  a  curt 
intimation  that  anything  Mrs.  Corbett  desired  to  say  re- 
garding Pompadour  Jim's  alleged  mistreatment  of  her 
would  be  published  in  the  World.  Her  woman's  pride 
could  not  withstand  this  insinuation,  and  in  a  long  tete-a 
tete  Bunner  was  given  many  assurances  that  Corbett  is 
everything  he  ought  to  be.  This  gratifying  information 
he  repeated  to  the  World  to  the  extent  of  a  couple  of 
columns. 

Meanwhile,  Mrs.  Corbett's  fear  that  she  had  been  indis- 
creet induced  her  to  wire  Jim  at  Carson,  and  the  fighter 
retailed  the  communication  to  his  friend,  Mr.  Hearst. 
Last  Saturday  the  New  York  Journal  published  in  large 
type  on  its  front  page,  a  warning  to  its  readers  not  to  be- 
lieve the  unauthorized  statement  which  would  be  published 
simultaneously  in  the  World,  as  it  was  false  in  every  par- 
ticular. Of  course  the  intelligent  reader  promptly  turned 
to  the  World  to  peruse  the  fearful  scandal,  and  read  in 
extenso  the  malignant  statement  that  Corbett  is  a  model 
husband!  Mr.  Corbett  has  demanded  an  anology  from 
Mr.  Hearst. 

*  *  * 

Apropos  of  the  accident  at  Casa  Grande,  which  delayed 
the  arrival  of  the  French  company  who  opened  the  Grand 
Opera  season  at  the  California  Theatre  on  Wednesday 
evening,  a  good  story  is  told  at  the  expense  of  Nestor  Mas- 
sart,  the  tenor.  When  the  spreading  rails  brought  the 
train,  with  many  a  bump  and  jar,  to  a  sudden  stop  on  the 
Arizona  desert  last  Sunday  night,  many  of  the  ladies 
thought  that  a  serious  accident  had  befallen  them,  and 
that  they  were  on  the  verge  of  death,  or  at  least  of  an 
awful  catastrophe.  Massart,  however,  who  had  been  for 
weeks  posting  himself  on  the  West  by  reading  wild  stories 
of  Arizona  life,  believed  that  the  train  had  been  attacked 
by  Apache  Indians,  whom  he  supposed  roamed  over  the 
territory  in  all  their  aboriginal  ferocity.  He  warned  all 
his  fair  friends  to  keep  behind  their  curtains  while  he  recon- 
noitered.  Just  as  he  cautiously  poked  his  head  out  from 
his  berth,  the  Pullman  porter  entered  the  car  to  allay  the 
fears  of  the  singers.  In  the  dim  light,  Massart  mistook 
the  dark  visage  of  the  porter  for  that  of  an  Apache  chief. 
Wrapping  himself  in  many  bed-clotbes  to  form  a  shield 
against  the  anticipated  arrows  of  the  redmen,  he  leaped 
from  his  berth  to  the  center  of  the  car,  and  hurled  his  boot 
at  the  porter. 

"  You  sail  kill  me  before  you  molest  zese  ladies.  I  gif 
my  heart  blood  for  dem,"  he  shouted,  with  tragic  heroism, 
in  bis  best  English,  not  knowing  that  Arizona  Indians  un- 
derstood French. 

Then  Massart  fell  forward,  half  dead  with  fright,  the 
bed-clothes  carefully  pulled  over  his  head.  It  required 
repeated  assurances  to  convince  the  opera  singer  that  be 
had  not  been  slain.  A  day  later,  at  Banning,  he  saw  a 
real  Arizona  Indian  by  daylight.  Since  then,  it  has  not 
been  safe  to  refer  to  the  episode  in  Massart's  presence. 

*  *  * 

Bohemia  has  blessed  the  mining  schemes  which  brought 
back  to  San  Francisco  a  few  days  ago  that  L011  vivant, 
clubman,  musician,  artist,  composer,  amateur  actor  and 
attorne3*,  Joe  Redding,  having  in  his  wake  a  string  of 
Englishmen  on  gilt-edged  investments  bent.  A  day  or 
two  after  their  arrival,  Joe  gave  a  dinner  at  the  Bohemian 
Club  to  Sir  Bache  Cunard  and  the  other  wealthy  Britishers 
who  comprised  the  party.  Redding's  many  theatrical  ex- 
periences have  taught  him  how  to  work  up  to  one  of  his 
bon  mots,  so  he  deftly  steered  the  dinner  talk  through  the 
depths  and  shallows  of  the  Greco-Turkish  situation. 

"By  the  way,  Sir  Bache,"  said  Joe,  when  the  conver- 
sation had,  under  his  management,  reached  the  proper 
point  for  the  climax,  "As  you  did  not  bring  your  valet 
with  you,  you  will  have  the  unpleasant  job  of  shining  your 
own  shoes  while  you  are  in  San  Francisco." 

"Bless  my  soul!"  commented  Sir  Bache  in  consternation, 
adding  just  as  Redding  intended  that  he  should:  "Have 
they  no  bootblacks  in  this  town?" 

"Well, — they  had,"  replied  Joe.  "But  they  have  all 
responded  to  their  country's  call.  All  the  shiners  are  on 
their  way  to  Greece." 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


the  sobriquet  bestowed  by  his  friends 

on  T  Carey  rViedlander,  set  retary  of  the  S;m  Francisco 

Produce  Exchange,  since  I  am  of  the  turf  turfy. 

a  few  dan  ii^'o.  brought  only 

four  horx-s  to  the  ]x< li  •  shot,  Yankee  Do  idle,  was 

quoted  by  ihe  bookmaker!  hundred  to  one.  but 

nothing  in  the  pt    the  fa 

Imp.  Ivy.  on  which  the  bookmakers  cautiously  quoted  only 
i  three.    Nothing  da  being  obliged  to  give 

id  of  to  take  odds,    "Pawing   Horse'   played  Ivy  to 

win.  for  place  and  for  show.  He  eould  hardly  believe  his 
and    ears    when    the    lonjf   shot  won.    while    Ivy.    the 

favorite,  passed  under  the  wire,  a  bad  fourth.  Carey  had 
'  of  his  three  bets.      He  said    he   felt  unsteady  on  his 

"Water'    Water' "  I  I  tragically  and  when,  while 

Dan  Murphy  supported  him,  Bob  Woodward  brought  a 
ol  water  to  the  unlucky  Carey,  he  sniffed  the 
beverage  disdainfully. 

"I  would  not  have  thought  it  of  you.  'Weary,'"  he  said 
reproachfully  to  Woodward,  with  recovered  animation. 

And  now  the  race  track  barkeepers  always  oiler  "Paw- 
ins  Horse"  a  glass  of  water   before  instead  of  after  each 

little  drink. 

*  #  # 

A  little  story  is  current  within  club  circles  that  the 
Society  of  Arts  and  Crafts  is  trying  to  worry  along  with- 
out Willis  Polk,  who  was  its  organizer  and  during  the  years 
of  its  infancy  its  moving  spirit.  Willis  has  a  little  way  of 
running  foul  of  the  management  of  every  club  he  joins  and 
with  each  social  organization  his  connection  in  time  be- 
comes merely  that  of  an  ex-member.  The  Arts  aQd  Crafts, 
being  a  modest  institution,  maintained  no  permanent 
quarters,  and  it  charged  its  members  as  dues  only  Hfty 
cents  a  month.  Such  a  sum  was  so  trivial  that  of  course 
Willis  ignored  it.  After  he  had  been  a  member  for  three 
years  and  his  unpaid  dues  aggregated  eighteen  dollars, 
the  directorate  became  restive  and  pressed  Willis  for  pay- 
ment of  his  congested  club  account.  In  response  Willis 
sent  a  characteristic  letter  requesting  that  his  "resigna- 
tion be  accepted  for  non-payment  of  dues."  The  reply  of 
the  management  was  indirect  and  Polk  considers  it  harsh. 
The  founder  of  the  organization  was  unceremoniously 
dropped  from  its  roll  and   now  Willis   is  an  ex-member  of 

another  club. 

*  *  * 

That  affability  is  no  part  of  an  attorney's  equipment  has 
long  been  the  contention  of  James  L.  Robison,  once  man- 
aging editor  of  the  defunct  Alta,  now  chief  clerk  of  the  law 
firm  of  Rodgers  and  Paterson.  Robison  has  carefully  cul- 
tivated brusque  and  unlovely  manners,  and  is  far  from 
being  the  most  agreeable  man  in  the  world.  In  fact,  not 
to  place  too  fine  a  point  upon  it,  lawyers  who  are  brought 
into  frequent  contact  with  him,  have  noted  him  the  most 
crabbed  individual  they  know.  No  phase  of  Robison's 
idiosyncracies  has  escaped  the  notice  of  Judge  Van 
Rensselaer  Paterson,  whose  dry  humor  is  very  much  ap- 
preciated in  the  Pacific  Union  Club.  His  chief  clerk  was 
under  discussion. 

"Robison  is  the  most  even-tempered  man  I  know,"  de- 
clared Paterson  with  positiveness,  his  statement  being 
greeted  with  deprecatory  shrugs,  until  he  completed  his 
comment. 

"Yes,"  he  added,   "he  is  very  even  tempered.     He  is 

always  mad." 

*  *  * 

At  a  recent  social  function  one  of  the  dowagers  who 
had  just  acquired  a  new  niece,  through  engagement  of  her 
nephew,  was  the  centre  of  attraction  in  the  ball-room. 
While  being  the  recipient  of  congratulations  Mr.  M.  Kabn, 
a  gentleman  familiarily  known  to  his  friends  as  the 
essence  of  politeness,  overhearing  the  word  niece,  ap- 
proached, and  in  his  most  polished  manner  inquired  after 
the  condition  of  the  mother.  As  niece  number  two  only  put 
in  an  appearance  four  or  five  days  later,  his  friends  as 
well  as  le  monde  are  having  a  good  laugh  at  his  expense. 
This  time  it  is  a  case  of  "politesse  oblige." 

*  *  * 

"Why  does  not  the  Western  Union  produce  those  in- 
criminating telegrams  and  end  this  prolonged  agony?" 
was  asked  of  Prank   Jaynes,    Superintendent  of  the  Tele- 


graph Compairj  Legislative  investigation  of  the 

Examiner  dragged  01  i  its  tedious  ezlsteni 

"Well,  we    would,       'a-    the    naive    reply,    "but.   neither 

the  Legislature  ■  amioer  wa 

patch 

And  the  long  suit.!.,  ;.  constituent  wonders  if  il   is  a  case 
of  horse  and  horse. 


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ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 
Con. -Cal. -Virginia  Mining  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business—San  Francisco.  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  afra  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
the  8th  dayof  March,  1897,  an  assessment  (No.  *).  of  25  cts.  per  share,  was 
levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  company,  309 
Montgomery  Street,  room  47,  San  Francisco,  California. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
13th  DAY  OF  APRIL,    1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment   is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  3d  day  of  May, 
1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  W.  HAVENS,  Spcretary. 
Office:    Room,  47,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  FraDCisoo, 
California. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Potosi   Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Virginia,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Tenth  (10th)  day  of  March,  1897,  an  assessment,  No.  47.  of  Twenty 
Cents  (20  cents)  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the 
corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Sec- 
retary, at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Mont- 
gomery street,  San   Francisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
14TH  DAY  OF  APRIL.  1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  Wednesday,  the  5ih  day  of  May, 
1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHaS.  E    ELLIOT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Belcher  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  and  day  of  March,  1897,  an  assessment  (No.  54)  of  25  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  rooms  37  and  38,  third  floo.*,  Mills  building,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

6th  DAY  OF  APRIL,  1897, 
of  said  day,  will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction, 
and  unless  payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  27th 
day  of  April,  1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs 
of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.   By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

C    L.  PERKINS,  Secretary. 
Office— Rooms  37  and  38,  third  floor,  Mills   Building,  N.   E.  corner  Bush 
an<?  Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  13,  1897. 


THE  first  event  of  the  Lenten  season  was  the  reception 
given  by  Mrs.  E.  W.  McKinstry,  on  Thursday  last, 
to  the  Colonial  Dames,  which  was  one  of  the  pleasantest 
yet  held.  Several  interesting  papers  were  read,  and  some 
de'icious  refreshments  discussed  with  the  more  stirring 
topics  of  the  day,  and  the  afternoon  was  one  of  great  en- 
joyment. Next  came  the  tea  which  Sorosis  gave  on  Sat- 
urday, the  motif  being  the  departure  of  Mrs.  W.  J. 
Younger,  who  left  this  week  to  join  her  husband  in  Chi- 
cago, and  nearly  all  the  members  were  present  to  bid  her 
adieu.  The  club  rooms  were  ornamented  with  baskets  of 
flowers  and  garlands  of  foliage,  the  President,  Mrs.  W.  B. 
Carr,  receiving  the  guests  as  they  arrived,  assisted  by  a 
number  of  other  ladies.  There  was  music  and  refresh- 
ments, and  the  afternoon,  despite  the  dreadful  weather 
outside,  was  very  pleasantly  passed.  During  the  Lenten 
period  the  club  has  arranged  for  a  series  of  lectures  on 
Wagner  and  his  compositions,  which  will  be  delivered 
every  Tuesday  afternoon  by  Henri  Pairweather  and  his 
talented  wife,  which  will  without  doubt  be  both  interesting 
and  very  enjoyable. 

Mrs.  Younger  was  guest  of  honor  at  the  red  and  yellow 
luncheon  given  by  Mrs.  James  Goewey  last  Monday,  when 
she  entertained  a  dozen  ladies  very  charmingly.  Luncheons 
are  likely  to  be  quite  a  feature  in  social  circles  the  coming 
few  weeks,  though  cards  will  probably  be  the  more  popu- 
lar way  of  entertaining  one's  friends.  Numerous  clubs 
have  already  been  formed,  and  several  more  are  being  ar- 
ranged for  both  afternoon  and  evening,  those  of  the  after- 
noon being  composed  exclusively  of  ladies,  while  the  sterner 
sex  will  not  be  excluded  in  the  evening. 

The  great  event  of  the  present  week  was  the  inaugura- 
tion of  the  season  of  French  opera  at  the  California 
Theatre  on  Wednesday  night,  when  L'Africaine  was  sung 
to  an  audience  composed  of  our  fashion,  youth  and  beauty. 
Opera  parties  will  now  of  course  be  the  correct  thing  in 
our  swim,  and  a  more  delightful  way  of  passing  an  evening 
it  would  be  difficult  to  find. 

In  these  days  of  "tinted"  weddings  it  is  absolutely  le- 
freshing  to  note  one  of  pure  white,  the  hue  which  our 
grandmothers  tell  us  was  in  their  day  considered  the  only 
suitable  one  for  bridals.  The  one  alluded  to  was  that  of 
Miss  Maybelle  Gerst  and  Sam  Napthaly.  which  was  cele- 
brated at  the  California  Hotel  last  Sunday  evening.  The 
decorations  of  the  dance-room,  in  which  the  ceremony  was 
performed,  were  of  white  roses,  fruit  blossoms,  lilies  and 
green  foliage;  at  one  end  a  canopy  of  the  Stars  and  Stripes 
was  placed,  from  which  was  suspended  a  pure  white 
wedding  bell,  underneath  which  the  bridal  party  stood 
while  the  Rev.  Dr.  Voorsanger  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  The 
biide's  costume  was  of  white  satin,  a  tulle  vail  and  wreath 
of  orange  blossoms.  She  was  unattended  except  by  two 
little  flower  bearers,  Annie  Seller  and  Amy  Schmidt.  An 
elaborate  supper  was  served  after  the  ceremony  and  then 
there  was  dancing.  The  presents  were  many  and  of  much 
value,  including  jewels,  silverware,  cut  glass,  etc.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Napthaly  are  spending  their  honeymoon  at  Cor- 
onado. 

Another  wedding  of  Sunday  last  was  a  home  ceremony, 
performed  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents  on  Eddy 
street,  when  Miss  Jessie  Kutner  and  Alfred  Kutner  were 
pronounced  man  and  wife  by  the  Rev.  Jacob  Nieto,  under- 
neath a  canopy  of  red  and  white  roses.  The  bride  wore  a 
robe  of  white  satin  trimmed  with  point  lace,  a  tulle  vail 
and  wreath  of  orange  blossoms  and  carried  a  bouquet  of 
bride's  roses.  Miss  Grace  Richmond,  who  was  maid  of 
honor,  was  charmingly  gowned  in  white  mousseline  de  soie 
over  Nile  green  silk,  and  carried  a  bouquet  of  violets.  Miss 
Carrie  Kutner,  in  pink  satin  and  white  mousseline  de  soie, 
and  Miss  Tillie  Korn  in  blue  satin  and  chiffon,  officiated  as 
bridesmaids.  Louis  Kutner  was  the  groom's  best  man. 
The  ball-room  made  a  beautiful  supper-room,  the  decora- 


tions being  roses,  'ilies  and  ferns,  and  later  there  was 
dancing.  The  presents,  which  were  exceedingly  hand- 
some, were  in  view  in  one  of  the  upper  rooms. 

The  Duprey-Baldwin  wedding  will  take  place  at  the 
First  Unitarian  Church,  on  Franklin  street,  on  next 
Tuesday  afternoon. 

Recently  announced  engagements  are  of  much  interest 
in  society  circles,  especially  that  of  one  of  its  favorite 
beaux,  Jack  Casserly,  who  has  selected  an  Eastern  girl, 
Miss  Cecilia  Cudahy,  for  his  bride,  and  the  wedding  will 
probably  be  one  of  those  to  take  place  after  Easter.  Miss 
Helen  Sutro  made  public  her  engagement  to  Samuel 
Schwartz  last  Saturday,  though  to  intimate  friends  the 
fact  has  been  known  for  some  time  past.  Another  en- 
gagement of  interest  to  the  swim  is  that  of  Miss  Minnie 
Bradbury,  of  Los  Angeles,  to  Col.  Isaac  H.  Polk,  of 
Guaymas,  Mexico;  for  though  both  the  parties  are  not 
permanent  residents  of  this  city,  they  are  by  no  means 
unknown  to  social  San  Francisco,  and  here  the  wedding  is 
likely  to  take  place  during  the  Easter  season. 

Among  the  gatherings  of  the  close  of  the  ante-Lenten 
season,  were  the  informal  tea  of  the  Misses  Smith  at  their 
home  on  Broadway;  the  pink  dinner  of  Mrs.  R.  P. 
Schwerine,  and  the  yellow  dinner  of  Mrs.  Louis  Parrott, 
which  were  both  on  an  elaborate  scale,  and  also  one  given 
by  Mrs.  Bixler;  the  violet  luncheon  of  Mrs.  Van  Bergen 
and  the  cotillion  given  by  Mrs.  Fortman  of  Eddy  street,  at 
which  her  daughter,  Miss  Emma  Fortman,  made  her 
debut  in  society.  La  France  roses  were  exclusively  used 
for  decorative  purposes,  in  combination  with  smilax,  and 
palms  were  arranged  in  the  ballroom  with  excellent  effect. 
Miss  Emma  wore  a  gown  of  white  mousseline  de  soie  over 
white  silk,  and  Miss  Edith  Marion,  another  debutante,  ap- 
peared in  blue  mousseline  de  soie  over  silk  of  the  same  hue. 
There  were  several  very  pretty  figures  danced  in  the 
german,  and  a  handsome  supper  was  served   at  midnight. 

On  Sunday  last  Miss  Rosalie  Neustadter  and  Mr.  Albert 
Ehrman,  the  newly-engaged  couple,  received  their  friends 
at  the  Neustadter  home,  on  Van  Ness  avenue.  They  were 
assisted  by  Miss  Norma  Bachman,  Miss  Minnie  Louise 
Schwabacher  and  Miss  Estelle  Wangenheim.  The  long  list 
of  callers  testified  to  the  great  popularity  of  the  pair.  In 
the  evening  a  dinuer  was  given,  to  which  about  thirty  sat 
down.  The  table  was  most  beautifully  decorated  with  vari- 
egated blossoms  and  ferns.  At  midnight  the  party  broke 
up  after  spending  an  extremely  pleasant  evening.  To- 
night Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Ehrman  give  a  large  affair  in 
their  honor. 

Miss  Leila  Ellis,  formerly  of  this  city,  and  who  has  a 
great  many  friends  in  San  Francisco,  wil'  soon  give  an 
interesting  course  of  Southern  readings  in  New  York 
City.  The  first  reading  will  be  given  at  the  Hotel  Waldorf 
on  the  evening  of  March  18th.  Miss  Ellis  has  decided 
talent,  and  her  appearance  at  the  Waldorf  will  no  doubt 
give  pleasant  emphasis  to  that  fact. 

Joe  Redding  has  been  warmly  welcomed  by  his  San 
Francisco  friends  since  his  arrival  last  week  on  a  brief 
visit  to  his  old  home.  Mrs.  E.  B.  Crocker  is  also  among 
recent  arrivals  from  Gotham,  which  is  now  her  home. 

The  many  friends  of  Mrs.  W.  M.  Gwin,  Sr. ,  will  regret 
to  hear  of  her  very  serious  illness. 


Just  remember  when  you  desire  to  give  a  dinner  to  your  friends 
or  get  up  a  banquet  for  a  society  that  Max  Abraham  at  428  Geary  is 
the  caterer  for  excellence.  He  is  past  master  in  his  art,  and  relieves 
you  of  every  anxietv  on  the  score  of  what  to  eat,  and  how  to  prepare 
it. 

Schilling' 's  Best  tea  is  in  packages,  sealed 
air-tight  to  keep,  full  weight,  and  right.  It  is 
cheap    besides. 

If  you  don't  like  it,  your  grocer  returns 
your  money  in  full — we  pay  him  to  do  it. 

A  Schilling  &  Company 
San  Francisco. 


March  13,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER 


ART     JOTTINGS. 

J       LI. IN  has  certainly   painted,  not  alone   the 
work  he  has  ever  attempted,  but  what  may  deservedly 

be  termed  the  picture  o(  the  year.  He  has  been  gradually 
drifting  from  Chinese  studies,  with  their  opportunities  of 

exuberant   color,    to  the  I  ire  romantic,  ;m<l  with 

no  le--  Hut  in  this,  his 

ire,  he  has   kepi  everything  in  tone  with  the 

c  nature  of  the  composition.     It   is  entitled  "Gone," 

and  presents  a  young  Indian    kneeling   by    the  body  of  his 

father,  an  old  bravo  who  has  been  stricken  down  in  battle, 
with  the  blood  still  Mowing  from  his  green  wounds.  The 
faee  of  the  mourner  is  completely  bidden  by  the  masses  of 
bair  which  hangover  it  in  his  attitude  of  utter  and  most 
touching  dejection.  The  old  chief's  features  arc  set  in  the 
rigidity  of  death,  and  the  muscles  of  his  massive  arms  con- 
trast with  the  slim  development  of  the  mourning  son.  The 
composition  is  admirable,  and  there  is  nothing  of  exagger- 
ation or  strain  at  a  too  positive  intensity  in  the  treatment. 
The  color  is  rich  and  harmonious,  but  not  garish,  and  there 
i«  no  crowding  of  accessories  to  distract  the  attention 
from  the  main  interest  of  the  picture.  Joullin  will  exhibit 
it  in  New  York  at  the  spring  exhibition  of  the  Association 
of  American  Artists,  where  it  is  certain  to  meet  with  a 
warm  reception. 

Latimer  has  finished  another  picture  in  pastel,  a  wood- 
land scene,  pleasing  and  full  of  sentiment.  But.  as  it 
hangs  alongside  the  lonely  mere,  his  previous  work,  one 
can  see  how  far  short  it  falls  of  the  latter.  Possibly  in 
technique  and  execution  it  may  be  equal,  but  then  artists 
are  not  inspired  every  day. 

Charles  Rollo  Peters  has  placed  on  exhibition  for  the 
first  time  one  of  those  moonlight  pictures,  to  which  he  has 
exclusively  devoted  himself.  Both  are  strongly  original, 
and  bear  the  unmistakable  character  of  being  the  result 
of  out-of-door  study.  In  one  the  white  light  falls  on  the 
walls  of  a  cabin,  with  that  intensity  which,  unless  one  has 
observed  those  effects,  seems  unnatural.  A  weird  cypress 
tree,  with  its  gaunt  branches  outlined  against  the  sky, 
emphasizes  the  effect  of  the  strong  reflection.  The  other 
presents  Mr.  Peters'  studio  by  moonlight,  and  is  also  ten- 
der and  original  in  treatment. 

Fred  Yates  has  completed  a  very  strong  portrait  in  oil 
of  William  Greer  Harrison.  The  artist  has  succeeded  not 
alone  in  making  an  admirable  likeness  of  Mr.  Harrison, 
but  has  caught  his  expression  with  a  fidelity  seldom  seen 
in  oil  portraits. 

John  A.  Stanton  is  working  hard,  but  with  closed  doors. 
It  is  rumored  in  the  artistic  world  that  Stanton  is  just 
throwing  himself  on  "a  calker,"  and  that  he  avoids  all  dis- 
traction. 

Julian  Rix,  in  New  York,  keeps  climbing  up  the  ladder, 
and  swelling  his  bank  account.  The  demand  for  his  land- 
scapes is  undiminished.  Emil  Carlsen  is  doing  some  still- 
life  work,  and  is  likely  to  visit  San  Francisco  this  spring. 

Marion  Wells  is  making  replicas  of  his  bust  of  Uncle 
George  Bromley,  and  the  massive  figure  of  Pan,  which 
was  made  for  the  Midsummer  High  Jinks  in  the  redwoods. 

Bloomer  is  at  work  in  his  studio  in  Sausalito,  and  may 
shortly  exhibit  some  of  his  pictures. 

Henry  Raschen  is  illustrating  a  book  on  American  fishes, 
which  is  being  prepared  by  order  of  the  Smithsonian  Insti- 
tute. Mr.  Raschen's  work  is  very  fine,  and  more  than 
compares  favorably  with  thoie  who  are  engaged  on  the 
Eastern  end  of  the  book. 


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THE  RED  DOMINO— Jove,  what  a  pretty  costume! 
And  how  well  she  carries  it.  The  trouble  with  these 
bal  masques  is  that  the  women  are  so  commonplace — they 
will  not  or  they  cannot  act.  They  are  simply  wooden  Miss 
Smith  or  Miss  Jones  dressed  as  Mary  Stuart  or  La  Tosca; 
but  this  one  has  blood  in  her  veins.  I'll  bet  the  costume 
tells  something  of  a  romantic  nature's  revolt  against  con- 
ventionalism. 

Ah,  pretty  Carmen,  my  color,  at  least,  matches  your's, 
even  if  the  ugly  shapelessness  of  the  domino  sins  against 
every  canon  of  the  beautiful.     Will  you  walk  with  me? 

Carmen — (Why,  it's  Fred  !)  Surely.  Never  mind  the 
domino.     1  prefer  you  as  you  are. 

He  (bowing  low) — Thanks.     (As  I  live,  it's  Edith!) 

She  (laughing) — What  I  intended  to  say  is  that  I've 
never  seen  the  nineteenth  century  man,  off  the  stage,  who 
didn't  cover  himself  with  ridicule  the  moment  he  accepted 
any  substitute  for  man's  best  friend — his  trowsers.  Look 
at  that  Henry  the  Eighth,  and  look,  oh  look  at  Romeo's 
legs.  Don't  look  long,  or  you'll  become  cross-eyed.  Either 
the  modern  man  's  an  awful  degenerate  in  the  matter 
of  legs,  or  how  in  the  world  do  you  account  for  the  girls' 
taste  in  ye  olden  days?  Now,  I  happen  to  know  who  Romeo 
is 

He — Do  tell  me. 

She — He's  not  a  bad- looking  creature  in  his  tweeds. 
You'd  hardly  believe  it,  though,  would  you?  It's  Fred — 
Fred  Kirkham. 

He — Indeed!  (She  doesn't  know  me.)  I've  always 
heard  Kirkham  spoken  of  as  a  downright  handsome  fellow. 

She — (The  coxcomb!)  No,  have  you?  Why,  even  the 
girl  he's  engaged  to  never  thought  that. 

He — Ah!    Who  is  the  Juliet  of  this  unattractive  Romeo? 

She — Why,  it's  Edith  Berry.  Haven't  you — that  is, 
don't  you  know  her? 

He — No;  can't  say  I  do.     Pretty? 

She  (laughing  confusedly) — He — he  thinks  so. 

He — How  blind  love  is ! 

She  (indignantly) — Why,  how  do  you  know  if  you've 
never  seen  her?     (He  doesn't  recognize  me.) 

He — I've  heard  her  spoken  of. 

She  (curiously) — Oh,  have  you?    How — in  what  way? 

He  (deliberately) — They  say  she's  unattractive,  a  flirt, 
and  that  she  really  doesn't  care  for  Kirkham. 

She  (maliciously) — Do  you  know.  I  believe  there's  some 
truth  in  that. 

He — Oh,  you  do! 

She — Yes,  and  he,  poor  fellow,  is  desperately  in  love 
with  her,  and  can't  see  what  is  apparent  to  all  the  world 
— Pardon,  did  you  speak?  But  a  man  who'll  wear  tights 
with  such  legs  is  capable  of  anything  ridiculous.  The  mod- 
ern man  had  better  keep  to  dominos,  and  leave  to  women 
the  vanities  of  dress  even  at  masquerades. 

He  (warmly) — If  all  women  could  be  transformed  into  be- 
witching apparitions  like  you,  Carmen 

She — Do  you  know,  I  may  be  mistaken,  and  Romeo  may 
not  be  Fred  Kirkham. 

He — Never  mind,  they're  uninteresting  people.  Tell 
me,  why  did  you  choose  Carmen? 

She — Why?  Oh,  because  it  typifies  everything  I  am 
not  supposed  to  be,  and — this  is  a  secret;  I  wouldn't  tell 
you  if  you  knew  me — no,  I  wouldn't  tell  you.  But  I  some- 
times wonder  if  it's  wise  to  show  a  caged  bird  the  joy  and 
freedom  of  the  wild  bird's  life. 

He — (Who'd  have  thought  it  of  Edith!)  There  is  some- 
thing charming  about  Carmen.  The  very  name  speaks  of 
full,  glowing  life  and  love.     (Presses  her  hand). 

She — (The  wretch!     Returns  the  pressure.) 

He — (Oh,  the  minx!  It's  lucky  that  I'm  myself,  but  I 
might  be  any  man  for  all  she  knows.) 

She — Life  is  so  prosaic,  so  dull,  and  the  most  prosaic 
thing  on  earth  is  woman's  lot.      You  men  have  some  hope, 


some  chance  of  adventure;  when  we  yearn  for  anything  out 
of  the  ordinary,  we — go  to  a  masked  ball. 

He  (slyly) — And  do  you  find  your  adventure  there? 

She — Sometimes.  Oh,  there's  Romeo  making  straight  for 
me.  Do  save  me;  I  don't  want  to  dance  with  legs  like  those. 

He — (And  you  shall  not,  my  lady,  nor  with  straighter 
ones,  if  I  can  manage  it.  I'll  keep  an  eye  on  you  to-night. 
A  man  doesn't  admire  Carmen  so  much  when  his  fiancee 
impersonates  her.)  Come  out  into  the  conservatory.  Now, 
we're  alone.     What  Will  you  have — an  ice,  some  wine? 

She  (wickedly) — Champagne,  if  you  please,  and  we'll 
drink  together  cosily,  just  you  and  I.  Isn't  it  a  beautiful 
wine?  Now,  I'll  forget  the  man  I'm  engaged  to  and  drink 
to  you.     And  you? 

He— (Fickle  flirt!)  Oh,  I'll  drink  to  the  sweetest  Car- 
men that  ever  bewitched  a  man  out  of  his  senses. 

She  (emptying  her  glass) — A  vous,  monsieur. 

He — (Phew!  The  pace  is  fast,  but  if  I  don't  take  it  with 
her  some  other  fellow  may.)  A  toi,  ma  belle.  Another 
glass,  do. 

She  (drinking) — A  toi,  mon  ami. 

He — A  toi,  cherie. 

(She  holds  her  empty  glass  towards  him.  He  kisses  her 
wrist). 

He — (If  she  permits  that,  I'll  not  leave  her  an  instant 
till  she's  safe  at  home.) 

She — (Oh,  the  Don  Juan  !  I've  half  a  mind  to  unmask 
now  and  see  how  he  explains  such  conduct.)  I  think,  per- 
haps, you'd  better  not  do  that  again.  The  man  I  forgot 
when  I  drank  to  you,  might  happen  to  see  us. 

He  (tenderly) — Would  you  care  ? 

She — He  might  object. 

He — Is  he  jealous? 

She — A  perfect  fiend  !  Funny,  isn't  it,  that  I  should 
tell  you  so  much  about  myself  when  I  don't  know  you,  or 
worse — when  I  don't  even  know  that  I  don't  know  you,  or 
that  you  don't  know  me.  But  confiding  in  a  stranger  is 
such  a  natural  thing. 

He — I  shall  not  be  a  stranger  to  you  hereafter.  I'm 
sure  I'll  know  you. 

She — How  can  you  tell? 

He — Do  you  suppose  I  intend  to  lose  sight  of  one  who 
has  interested  me  so  deeply — the  only  woman  to  whom  I 
have  spoken  to-night? 

She  (coquettishly) — You  are  interested? 

He — Carmen,  I  love  you! 

She — (How  dare  he!  How  dare  he  !  And  suppose  I 
wasn't  myself?)  Come,  let's  go.  It's  getting  late;  nearly 
twelve  and  time  to  unmask.     The  game's  played  out. 

He — But  won't  you  listen 

She  (hurrying  on,  her  hands  to  her  ears) — No,  I'm  tired 
of  playing.  I  want  to  be  myself  now,  and  you  know,  my 
real  self  doesn't  know  you. 

He  (hurrying  after) — Will  you  dance  the  first  dance 
after  unmasking  with  me,  then?  I'll  see  to  it  that  I'm 
properly  introduced. 

She — (It  would  serve  him  right  if  I  were  not  I,  and  would 
say  yes.  What  explanation  would  he  give  to  me — the  real 
me,  I  wonder?     Oh,  I  almost  hate  him!) 

He  (whispering) — Will  you?    Will  you? 

She — Yes. 

He — (I  wonder  how  far  she'll  go?  How  the  deuce  she 
proposes  to  manage  it,  I  don't  know.)  And  you'll  meet 
me  here?  Honest,  now,  if  I  let  you  go,  you'll  not  play  Cin- 
derella and  leave  me  lamenting? 

She — I'll  meet  you  here. 

(She  slips  into  a  dressing  room.  The  gong  sounds  and 
all  unmask.  He  hands  his  domino  to  an  attendant,  and 
stands  waiting") 

She  (returning  unmasked,  her  Carmen  costume  con- 
cealed beneath  a  flowing  domino) — (He's  waiting  for  Car- 
men.) 


!i   13,  I897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   \K\VS  LETTER. 


23 


ll>     (She  s  looking  for  the  ml  domino). 

I,  where  have  you  been  all  even- 
ing'.'    Weren't  you  nti 

lit  I  wore  a  domino.  Hut  1  shouldn't  have  dreamed 
of  looking  for  you  in  one.     I  thought 

Sai  (hurriedly)— Oh,  I  .1  .:■  a  domino.      A   cos- 

tume is  si  theatrical. 

Ih:  (thoughtfully) — > 

Sin  mind  not  waiting  for  the  dance?     1  hate  a 

masked  ball. 

Hi: — So  do  I;  but  don't  you 

Sue  (8earchingly)— Then  you'll  take  me  home  right 
away?     You're  sure  you  don't  care  for  this  dame.' 

Hi  (puzzled) — You're  sure  you  don't? 

(They  get  into  the  carriage  and  sit  silent  and  thoughtful.) 

Siik  (soliloquizing) — I  don't  understand  him.  Why 
doesn't  he  wait  for  her— 1  mean  for  me.  Suppose  I  hadn't 
been  Carmen,  she'd  be  expecting  him  now.  VVould  he  be 
going  home  with  me,  or  would  lie  stay  to  dance  with  her? 
If  I  were  he,  I'd  insist  upon  staving.  But  if  he  were  to 
insist,  I'd  never  forgive  him.  That's  sure.  Didn't  he  care 
for  her?  He  seemed  very  much  in  earnest.  I'd  give  some- 
thing to  know  just  what  he's  thinking. 

TIk  (to  himself) — I  can't  make  her  out.  Why  doesn't 
she  wait  for  the  red  domino  to  claim  her  for  that  first 
dance.  Did  she  intend  not  to  keep  the  promise  when  she 
made  it,  the  witch!  Or  is  she  piqued  because  the  Red 
Domino  didn't  come  for  her?  No;  how  could  he  be  ex- 
pected to  know  that  underneath  that  domino  is  Carmeu's 
dress?  Her  putting  on  that  domino  spoiled  all  my  plans. 
Would  she  have  revealed  herself  to  him — supposing  him  not 
to  be  myself — had  he  appeared  in  red  domino?  I  wish  I 
knew. 

STATE      MINERALOGIST. 

IN  the  appointment  of  A.  S.  Cooper,  of  Santa  Barbara, 
to  the  position  of  State  Mineralogist,  Governor  Budd 
has  exercised  excellent  judgment.  Mr.  Cooper  is  well 
known  in  California,  and  has  held  several  offices  in  Santa 
Barbara  County.  He  is  largely  identified  with  the  oil  and 
aspbaltum  interests  of  the  State,  and  is  one  of  the  best- 
posted  men  on  these  and  kindred  topics  on  the  Coast,  his 
library  being  the  most  complete  on  these  subjects  to  be 
found  anywhere.  No  doubt  he  will  direct  special  attention 
to  the  development  of  these  minerals.  Mr.  Cooper  is  an 
old  Californiau,  having  arrived  here  in  1852.  He  has  spent 
a  good  many  years  in  the  mines  of  California  and  Nevada, 
and  is  by  training  and  inclination  especially  equipped  for 
the  duties  placed  upon  him  by  Governor  Budd.  Under 
his  management,  the  office  of  Mineralogist  will  be  made  an 
important  branch  of  State  service.  The  position  is  worth 
$3000  per  year,  and  controls  several   good  appointments. 

A     NOTED     VISITOR. 

S  NOTABLE  scion  of  nobility,  in  the  person  of  Sir  Ed- 
ward Stewart-Richard,  whose  estates  are  in  Perth- 
shire, Scotland,  is  at  present  in  this  city.  He  is  the  eldest 
son  of  a  family  whose  title  goes  back  to  the  sixteenth 
century.  Sir  Richard  is  here  for  the  purpose  of  investi- 
gating the  mines  of  California.  This  is  his  first  visit  to  the 
coast.  He  came  out  by  way  of  the  Canadian  Pacific,  and 
took  a  look  at  the  Rossland,  B.  C,  mines  en  route.  He 
ranks  as  Lieutenant  in  that  swell  organization,  the  3d 
Black  Watch  Royal  Highlanders  of  the  famous  42d  Regi- 
ment, which  has  an  honored  place  in  the  history  of  nearly 
all  the  famous  battles  of  modern  England.  Sir  Richard, 
who  is  but  twenty-four  years  old,  is  accompanied  by  W.  A. 
Somerset,  nephew  of  the  Duke  of  Beaufort,  a  young  gentle- 
man who  is  making  the  last  of  several  visits  to  the  coast. 

The  Overland  Limited. 

ONLY  Z%   DAYS  TO   CHICAGO.     i}4   DAYS  TO  NEW  YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 


SOUTHERN      PACIFIC     COMPANY      (PAOiriO    STSTtU  ) 
Train.  Leave  and  are  Dufi  lo  »m»  al  SAN     FRANCISCO: 


•«JIIA 

71UA 

7S)A 
«:3UA 

•»   SI  A 
9  OUA 


Liver  Complaints  cured  by  Bekcham's  Pills. 


v  /.  18*7. 


I  ArrlM 


X:45a 
S:45p 


0:45  P 

«:I5  p 


4:16  p 
•7:15P 


wiiv  stations  

Atlantic  Expi  ,  ml  East 

Bcnlola,    Vocavtlle,    Kuinsey,    Sacramento,    Oroville,    and 

Redding,   via  Darts 

Martinez.  San  Ramon    Vallejo.  Napa.  Cahsloga.  Santa  Rosa 
Nllca,  San  Joho.  Stockton,  lono,  Sacramento,  Marysvllle, 

Rod    Hlufl 

Peters  and  Milton 

New   Orleans    Kiprexv   Raymond  (lor    Yoscmltcl,    Fresno, 
liara,  Los  Angeles.  Doming,  El  Paso, 

Now  Orleuns,  una  Bast.... >.»<     4:45P 

Martina?  and  Stook 4:45p 

Vallcjo 8.ISP 

Mies.  Ban  Jose  Llvermore,  and  Stockton 7:16P 

Sacramento  River  steamers *9:0up 

Nlles.8an  Jose,  and  Livermore s:I5a 

Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations t7:4BP 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallcjo.  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa  9:15  a 

Benlcla.    Vacavllle   Woodland,  Knight's   Landing,  Marys- 
vllle. Oroville.  and  Sacramento 11:15A 

Lathrop.  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  and  Fresno,  going  via 

Niles.  returning  via   Marlines 11:45A 

Los  Angeles   Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,  Santa  Barbara,  and 

Los  Angeles 10.45A 

Santa  Fe  Route, Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East —  10:45a 

European  mall,  Ogden  and  East 9:45  A 

Havwards,  Niles  and  San  Jose 7:45A 

Vallejo.     ,.     f:45P 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysvllle,   Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East  . ..   11:15A 

"Sunset  Limited."    Fresno,  Los  Angeles,  El  Paso,  New 
Orleans,  and  East g!3:45P 

Santa  Cruz  Division  {Narrow  Gauge).     

8:15  A  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Moulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations ...    5:50 P 

•2:15 p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  prinoipal  way  stations *11:20A 

4:15  p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9:50a 

+11  :45p  Hunters'  Excursion,  San  Jose  and  way  stations J7:20p 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 


9:00  a 
9:00  a 

•1:00  P 
1:00  1' 

tl:80P 
4:00P 

lllir 


5:00  P 

5:0(1  p 
6:00  P 
6:00  p 
17:00  p 
7:00  p 

1I0:00p 


6:45  a 
8:15  a 


10  :40  a 
11:30  a 


San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    I 
SanJose.Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Roblee 
San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principalway  stations    7 

San  Jose  and  way  stations  6 

Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 3 

San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park,  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa 

Cruz,  Salinas. Monterey. PaciflcGrove *10 

*3 :30  P  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9 

•4 :30  p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations  *8 

5 :30  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations *8 

6:30P  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 

t!l:45pSan  Jose  and  way  stations t7 


:00p 
:0OP 


40a 
45A 
:05  A 
:45A 
:35  A 
45  P 


San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local. 


t«6-00  Al 

1 

8:00  A 

9:00  A 

Melrose, 

10:00  A 

Seminary  Park, 

ill. 00  A 

Fitchburg, 

2:00  p 

San  Leandro, 

3:00  p 

and 

4:00  p 

HAYWARDS. 

5:00  p 

5:30  p 

7:00  p 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

8:00  p 

t  From  Niles . 

9:00  p 

ftll:15  P 

L 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  Sam  Francisco— Foot  ot  Market  street  (Slip  8).- 
11:00  A.  M.,X1:00.  »2:u0.  I3:0U.  «4:00,  (5:00  and  *6:00P.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  ot  Broadway .— *6:00,  8:00, 10:00  A. 
J2 :00,  «3 :00, 14 :00  »5 :00  P.  M. 


7:15  A 
«9:45  A 
10:45  A 
11:45  A 
12:45  P 
11:45  P 
4:45  P 
5:45  P 
6:15  P 
7:45  P 
8:45  P 
9:45  P 
10:50  P 
fH2:00  P 


-♦7:15,  9:00,  and 
M.;  J12:00,  »1:00, 


A  for  Morning,     p  lor  Alternoon.     *Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays.  gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  Information. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR    1APAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  P  M.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting  at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc.    No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Coptic  (via  Honolulu) Thursday,  April  1, 1897 

Gaelic Wednesday,  April  21.  1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  11, 1897 

Belgic  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29,  1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office,  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS.  Secretary. 

S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu    only,  Tuesday, 

March  23,  at  2  p    m. 

S.  S.  "Mariposa,"  Thursday,  April  1st,  at  2  p.  m. 

Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 

South  Africa. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO., 
mmirltU/M-  Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
UJIIIIOIIIter      Market  St..  San  Francisco. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  13,  1897. 


ON      THE     WING. 

Washington,  D.  Q,  March  5,  1897. 

DEAR  NEWS  LETTER:  Although  the  journey  East 
has  been  often  described  and  is  familiar  to  all,  it  is 
never  taken  without  developing  features  of  interest  and 
instruction,  and  so,  to  fulfill  my  promise,  I  send  these  pass- 
ing impressions. 

Our  first  halt  was  at  Salt  Lake,  where  we  had  a  delight- 
ful drive  with  Robert  Walker,  bis  wife,  and  little  child 
Margaret.  You  remember  his  wife,  of  course.  She  was 
Maggie  Jones,  niece  of  W.  W.  Belvin,  well  known  on  the 
Pacific  Coast.  Walker  is  interested  in  pretty  nearly  every 
enterprise  about  Salt  Lake,  including  Walker  Bros.'  Bank, 
the  Walker  House,  several  big  mines — in  fact,  so  large  are 
his  investments  that  I  cannot  recollect  half  of  them.  The 
city  has  greatly  changed  for  the  better  since  I  was  there 
during  the  boom — the  same  boom  we  had  in  San  Jose.  The 
residences  are  much  more  substantial,  owing  to  the  very 
general  use  of  brick  and  stone.  The  manufacture  of  brisk 
is  quite  a  factor  there,  the  price  for  the  pressed  article  in 
any  color  being  from  $5  to  $12  per  thousand.  I  cannot  for 
the  life  of  me  understand  why  this  excellent  material  should 
cost  more  at  San  Francisco. 

Everything  has  been  covered  with  snow  since  we  left 
California.  The  ride  over  the  Denver  and  Rio  Grande  was 
indeed  delightful,  and  the  Royal  Gorge  and  the  Rocky 
Mountains  were  grand.  Our  train  was  a  heavy  one,  and 
made  Colorado  Springs  an  hour  late,  so  we  stopped  off  at 
that  beautifully  laid  out  town.  Its  avenues  are  one  hun- 
dred feet  wide,  with  rows  of  trees  down  the  center.  The 
trees  are  bare  now,  but  one  can  imagine  the  effect  when 
they  luxuriate  in  their  wealth  of  spring  and  summer  foliage. 
The  day  was  so  warm  and  pleasant  you  would  have  thought 
it  Menlo  rather  than  Colorado. 

We  drove  to  Manitou,  and  through  the  Garden  of  the 
Gods — which  is  a  private  park,  where  Nature  has  placed 
monuments,  pedestals,  and  pictures  in  magnificent  pro- 
fusion— time,  tempest,  and  flood  having  done  the  carving 
and  decoration  in  splendid  grandeur.  We  left  the  Antlers 
with  regret.  It  is  said  to  be  the  best  hotel  in  Colorado 
Springs;  but  that  must  refer  to  the  table,  which  is  cer- 
tainly excellent.     The  rooms,  however  are  not  up  to  date. 

At  Denver  we  had  a  few  hours  only,  but  were  quite  in  love 
with  their  main  street.  We  were  there  Saturday  night  and 
the  stores  loomed  up  beautifully.  We  had  dinner  at  Brown's 
Palace,  of  course.  One  goes  there  as  he  does  to  our  own 
dear  Palace;  he  pays  the  same,  too,  but  he  don't  get  the 
service  by  long  odds.  We  left  Denver  by  the  C.  B.  &  Q. 
The  cars,  the  service,  the  table  in  the  dining  car,  every- 
thing was  all  that  could  be  desired.  It  was  in  fact,  as 
near  perfection,  traveling,  as  possible.  In  Chicago  we 
stopped  at  the  Palmer  House.  I  hadn't  been  there  since 
1886,  yet  it  is  as  popular  now  as  it  was  then.  To  keep  up 
with  the  times  new  plumbing  and  furnishing  have  been  done 
throughout,  so  that  it  has  all  the  comforts  of  a  modern 
hotel,  and  the  quality  that  age  alone  can  give. 

We  took  the  B.  &  O.  for  Washington.  This  is  the  road 
that  evidently  originated  the  expression,  "Get  onto  its 
curves."  The  train  was  a  special  for  the  Governor  of 
Wisconsin  and  his  staff,  to  which  our  car  was  attached. 
Snow  fell  as  we  sped  along,  making  a  very  beautiful  picture, 
and  the  journey  was  pleasantly  ended.  In  the  evening  we 
went  to  the  Columbia  Theatre.  It  was  the  opening  night 
of  the  Bostonians  in  The  Serenade,  a  comic  opera  by 
Herbert  and  Smith.  In  plot,  very  much  after  Nanon. 
Cowles  has  a  song  in  the  beginning  of  each  act  evidently 
written  for  him,  which  brings  back  memories  of  his  singing 
of  '  'The  Old  Cross  Bow. "  Alice  Neilson  is  still  with  them, 
and  has  been  given  a  part  of  as  much  importance  as  that 
of  Jessie  Bartlett  Davis.  She  hasn't  limbered  up  a  bit  yet, 
but  her  singiDg  has  improved  wonderfully. 

Speaking  of  the  beautiful  snow,  we  have  had  a  great  deal 
of  comfort  out  of  it.  You  know  when  we  started,  William 
Wolff  sent  me  a  case  of  Moet  &  Chandon;  I  placed  a 
few  bottles  in  the  grip.  The  cars  were  very  warm,  and 
when  our  throats  were  parched,  I  would  fill  a  paper  bag 
with  snow  and  pack  a  small  bottle  therein,  and  it  was  soon 
frappe  and  delicious.  Then  a  glass  of  snow  with  a  little 
Crime  de  Menthe  makes  a  good  pous.se  cafe. 

This  is  Friday— after  the  ball— after  the  inauguration- 
after  the  procession — after  the  fireworks;  and  they  were 


all  so  complete,  so  perfect,  so  magnificent,  that  nothing 
but  rest  and  seclusion  for  a  few  hours  will  satisfy  my 
whirling  brain.  At  least  500,000  people  watched  the 
parade,  which  was  five  miles  loDg  and  had  25,000  inline, 
made  up  of  soldiers  and  political  clubs  from  all  over  the 
country,  excepting  only  California.  Even  Oregon  was  rep- 
resented, rather  painfully  and  lamely,  it  is  true,  but  still 
represented;  for  while  all  the  other  States  had  from  50  to 
500  in  line  Oregon  was  conspicuous  by  having  only  a 
banner  with  the  name  emblazened  on  it,  and  that  banner 
carried  by  Max  Pracht.  I  think  he  is  the  same  Max  who 
was  with  Neville  &  Co. ,  some  years  ago.  As  I  drive  around 
Washington  I  can't  help  thinking  that  if  we  could  take  up 
a  subscription  and  use  it  to  send  a  train  load  of  politicians, 
supervisors,  stump-speakers  and  Silurians  here  and  turn 
them  loose  for  a  week  or  so,  enough  enthusiasm  might  be 
generated  so  that  on  their  return  home  they  would  work 
up  San  Francisco  into  imitating  a  city.  The  comfort  of 
good  streets  and  police  discipline  is  only  appreciated  when 
you  can  have  the  contrast  to  our  own. 


AT     THE     RACES. 


THE  Ingleside  meeting  closed  on  Saturday  and  Oak- 
land began  its  two  weeks'  meeting  on  Monday  last. 
There  has  not  been  much  class  to  the  racing  of  late, 
owing  to  the  bad  weather,  the  best  horses  waiting  for 
better  conditions  and  a  better  track.  The  Crocker  stakes 
at  Ingleside  were  won  by  Burns  and  Waterhouse  entry, 
Miss  Rowena.  Out  of  670  races  run,  up  to  date,  the  favorites 
have  captured  321;  second  choices,  168;  and  outsiders  181. 
California  owners  have  won  seven-tenths  of  the  money 
offered  in  purses  and  stakes  by  the  two  associations. 

SAN    FRANCISCO    AND    NORTH     PACIFIC    RAILWAY    CO. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    Tibdbon  FEBBY-  Foot  ol  Market  Street. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00, 11:00  AH;  12:35,3:30  5:10,6:30  pm.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trip  at  11:30  p  M.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1:50  and  11:30  PM. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00,9:30. 11:00  A  M;  1:30,  3:30,  5:00,  6:20 PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO  SAN    FRANCISCO, 
WEEK  DAYS— «:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  AM;  12:45,  3:40,5:10pm.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at  1  -.55  and  6 :35  p  m. 
SUNDAYS-S:10,  9:40.  11:10  am;  1:40,3:40,5:00,6:25pm. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  f. 

In  Elect  Oct.  14,  1896 

ARRIVE  IN  S.  F. 

Week  Days. 

Sundays. 

Destination. 

Sundays 

10:40  AH 
6:10  PH 

7:35  PM 

Week  Days 

7:30am 
3:30  PM 
5:10  pm 

8:00AM 
9:30am 
5:00pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

8:40  AM 
10:25  a  M 
6:22  ph 

8:00  ah 
8:00  ah 

Fulton,   Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyservllle,  Cloverdale 

Pleta,  Hopland,  TJklah 

7:30am 
3:30  PM 
7:30  AH 

7:35PH 
7:35PH 

6:22  p  H 
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Vol.LlV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO.   MARCH  20.  1897. 


Number  12. 


Prtnltd  and  Pubtunta  ittry  Saturday  Of  I A<  proprulor,  HitH  it  A  Klili.Tl 
&H  AVtirny  «fr#W.  San  /Van<ri*«>.  Enlrrtd  at  San  FrancUco  I'ort. 
ojfUt  a*  n*cond-eta*t  Matter. 

Tht  OJUr  of  till  NEWS  LETTER  (n  Mm  York  City  U  at  Trmplt  Court; 
and  at  Chicago,  903  Boyc*  Building,  (Frank  K  itorriton,  Eastern 
Rfprrtentatirr),  irhert  information  maybt  obtain. <I  rtgarding  tubscrlp. 
tion  and  adrrrtittng  ralrt. 

THE  Carpeuters'  Irion  has  induced  the  Supervisors  to 
prevent  policeme"  in  future  from  doing  any  carpenter 
work  on  city  buildings  or  repairs.  The  carpenters  are  to 
be  congratulated,  but  what  arc  the  police  to  do  for  ex- 
ercise r 

THE  catching  of  two  solicitors  for  private  street  pav- 
ing jobs,  who  bad  been  making  unfair  representations 
in  order  to  secure  contracts,  ,-hould  eo  far  toward  break- 
ing up  a  very  pernicious  method  of  doing  this  sort  of  work. 
There  is  opportunity  for  substantial  reforms  in  these  con- 
tracts, and  the  Board  should  squeeze  all  the  light  out  of 
the  Eureka  street  discovery  that  is  possible. 


LOS  ANGELES  orange  growers  are  awaking  to  the 
fact  that  the  alert  Eastern  trade  i«  reaping  where 
it  hath  not  sown — in  other  words,  is  labeling  Valencia  and 
other  foreign  oranges  "California."  They  should  follow 
the  example  of  the  San  Francisco  Fruit  Exchange,  and 
vigorously  prosecute  the  offenders.  A  few  convictions 
would  act  as  a  wonderful  moral  stimulant  upon  the  filchers 
of  California  thunder  and  coin. 


THE  Merchants'  Association  and  Manufacturers  and 
Producers'  Association  are  discussing  means  of  effec- 
tually stopping  the  sale  of  impure  food  in  San  Francisco. 
The  road  is  plain:  Simply  continue  sampling  goods  offered 
for  sale,  and  follow  the  analysis  by  the  widest  publication 
of  the  brands  aod  their  manufacturers,  and  the  firms  who 
handle  the  impure  articles.  That  will  stop  it.  Publicity 
gentlemen;  publicity  is  your  cure.  Discovery  means  death. 

HJ.  BUCKLEY,  who  lives  near  Gridley,  this  State, 
,  has  sold  his  first  carload  of  California  hemp  to  Bar- 
bour Bros.,  of  Patterson,  N.  J.  The  price  obtained  was 
five  cents  per  pound,  which  netted  the  grower  $60  per 
ton.  He  will  this  year  cultivate  six  hundred  acres  of  hemp, 
and  his  profits  will  be  large.  This  is  an  infant  industry  in 
California,  and  like  the  production  of  beet  sugar,  is  capable 
of  great  expansion,  and  should  become  a  source  of  wealth. 

PRESIDENT  McKinley  has  determined  to  send  repre- 
sentatives to  Europe  to  work  for  an  international 
monetary  conference.  This  is  to  be  done  under  a  recently 
passed  law  giving  the  President  the  power  to  appoint 
three  or  more  commissioners  to  visit  European  countries 
and  open  negotiations  and  pave  the  way  for  concerted 
movement  favoring  tie  ris'oratnn  of  the  white  metal. 
Only  by  a  concert  of  this  kind  can  the  hope  of  the  silverites 
in  this  country  ever  be  realized. 

REV.  DR.  MUNHALL,  at  a  ministers'  meeting  last 
Monday,  declared  that  San  Francisco  was  the  "most 
wicked  city  I  was  ever  in."  "This  city,"  proceeded  the 
eminent  divine,  "is  reeking  with  sin."  Possibly  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Munhall  is  unacquainted  with  the  reeking  condition  of 
some  of  the  brethren  recently  here  and  still  remaining.  We 
have  no  record  of  such  "reeking  sin"  as  was  exposed 
scarce  one  year  ago  upon  the  part  of  a  clergyman;  and 
many  of  the  ministers  and  deacons  without  hesitation  en- 
dorsed their  fellow  laborer  and  his  moral  leprosy.  Rev. 
Munhall  should  refresh  his  memory  or  shut  his  mouth. 


SENATOR    FRYE,  of  Maim',  is  lighting  the  civil  service 
law,  and  believes  in   curtailing   its    operations.      I'rye 
belongs  to  that    nosl   ol   Republican  stalwarts  who  think 

that  civil  service  rules  arc  of  value  only  when  the  appoint- 
ments under  them  can  be  made  by  a  Republican  adminis- 
tration. That  President  Cleveland  should  have  rescued 
thousands  of  positions  from  the  demoralizing  uncertainty 
of  the  spoilsman  and  placed  them  upon  a  healthy  civil  ser- 
vice basis,  is  wormwood  to  the  hungry  successors  of  his 
party  in  national  otliee.  Hence  this  virtuous  outburst  of 
the  Senator  from  Maine. 


THE  rest  of  the  State  is  being  pitted  as  usual  against 
San  Francisco,  and  the  old  game  of  taxing  the  people 
of  this  city  for  the  benefit  of  the  interior  is  being  played 
for  all  it  is  worth.  The  latest  illustration  of  this  piratical 
custom  is  found  in  bill  902,  providing  for  a  commission 
which  shall  have  power  to  expend  $300,000'  per  annum  on 
the  construction  of  State  roads.  All  roads  in  California 
lead  to  San  Francisco,  and  San  Francisco  is  quite  willing 
to  help  pay  for  their  building,  but  seriously  objects  to  the 
payment  of  two-thirds  their  cost,  while  being  as  far  as 
possible  deprived  of  their  benefits. 


SHOT  fight  is  being  made  against  H.  G.  Otis,  proprie- 
tor of  the  Los  Angeles  Times,  who  is  pressing  his 
claims  for  Assistant  Secretary  of  War.  Otis  publishes  a 
paper  with  opinions,  has  long  been  noted  for  his  bitter  and 
sometimes  unjust  pen,  and  being  a  man  of  rather  crabbed, 
unloveable  personality,  has  raised  up  legions  of  enemies. 
As  it  is  the  California  rule  for  the  candidate  for  any  office 
within  the  gift  of  the  President  to  become  the  target  for 
every  other  man  in  the  State  the  moment  there  appears 
the  ghost  of  a  show  for  his  getting  it,  Otis  should  be  neither 
dismayed  nor  surprised,  fie  is  a  man  of  ability — positive 
on  every  proposition,  public  or  private,  and  a  good  fighter. 


M  ORE  than  fifteen  hundred  men  are  registered  for  em- 
11  ployment  on  the  boulevard.  It  is  noted  without  sur- 
prise that  the  union  of  the  unemployed  has  adopted  reso- 
lutions denouncing  thegenerous  promoters  of  the  boulevard 
plan  for  helping  the  needy.  The  union  is  indignant  because 
the  men  are  not  to  be  paid  more  than  oue  dollar  per  day. 
It  is  such  stupidity'  as  this  that  does  great  harm  to  the 
deserving  destitute.  The  mere  fact  that  the  funds  raised 
are  for  the  especial  purpose  of  saving  honest  men  and  their 
families  from  actual  want,  and  that  business  of  all  kinds  is 
very  dull  do  not  penetrate  the  dull  brains  of  the  agitators. 
A  man  who  declines  to  work  for  the  wage  offered  will  be 
very  likely  to  tickle  -lis  backbone  with  his  belly  before  he 
finds  better  pickings. 

MARIN  County  is  employing  the  convicts  of  San  Quen- 
tin  in  building  a  system  of  boulevards  about  that  side 
of  the  bay.  The  cost  to  the  county  is  confined  to  the  pay- 
ing of  the  guards.  There  is  in  this  work  a  very  practical 
hint  for  other  counties  throughout  California.  There  are 
prisoners  confined  in  all  the  jails  who  are  a  great  bill  of 
expense  to  the  tax-payers.  These  felons  are  passing  their 
days  in  agreeable  idleness;  they  care  little  for  imprison- 
ment, but  dread  work  more  than  death.  They  should  be 
employed  in. building  county  roads.  If  a  general  system 
were  once  mapped  out,  their  work  would  in  a  short  time 
make  a  material  improvement  in  country  highways.  The 
taxpayers  would  get  partial  returns,  at  least,  on  their 
money,  and  the  prisoners  would  receive  the  most  com- 
plete punishment  possible  for  their  crimes.  Employed 
in  this  way,  convict  and  prison  labor  would  not  interfere 
with  private  enterprise  nor  displace  unskilled  labor. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


THE     MOST     NEEDED     CANAL   AND    WHAT    IT  WOULD  DO. 


THE  Nicaragua  Canal  would  be  a  good  thing,  and  es- 
pecially so  to  California.  But  the  proposed  Canal  to 
give  a  deep  water  way  from  the  great  lakes  to  the  At- 
lantic, would  immediately  gi^e  the  greater  good  to  the 
greater  number.  We  have  before  us  the  very  interesting 
report  of  the  United  States  Deep  Waterways  Commissiou 
very  recently  filed  at  Washington.  This  is  the  commission 
of  which  Judge  Cooley  of  Illinois,  James  B.  Angel  of 
Michigan  and  John  E.  Russell  of  Massachusetts  were 
members,  and  who  were  authorized  to  meet  alike  Canadian 
Commission,  to  investigate  the  whole  subject  matter.  The 
report  contains  a  prodigious  amount  of  information,  yet  is 
clear,  terse  and  convincing  as  to  a  canal  system  connecting 
the  great  Lakes  and  the  ocean  which  it  favors.  The 
navigable  lakes  have  Coast  lines  of  3,075  miles  within 
U.  S.  Territory',  they  border  upon  nine  of  our  States, 
which  have  one  third  of  our  total  population,  and  upon 
their  harbors  are  six  cities  having  an  aggregate  popula- 
tion of  3,000,000.  The  inland  commerce  of  the  United 
States  on  the  Lakes  has  already  been  marvelously  de- 
veloped. The  amount  of  tonnage  passing  through  the  St. 
Mary's  Palls  Canal  increased  from  1.035,937  tons  in  1885 
to  17,000,000  in  1896.  In  1894  the  Suez  Canal  passed  a 
total  tonnage  of  only  8,000.  In  1889,  seven  years  ago,  the 
traffic  passing  through  the  Detroit  River  was  three- times 
greater  than  the  foreign  trade  of  New  York;  it  exceeded 
by  10,000,000  tons  the  aggregate  foreign  trade  of  all  the 
Seaports  of  the  United  States,  and  was  3,000  tons  more 
than  the  foreign  and  coastwise  trade  of  London  and 
Liverpool.  That  this  truly  vast  and  rapidly  increasing 
trade  is  more  than  justification  for  the  necessary  Canal 
to  get  to  tide  water,  goes  without  saying.  The  great 
difficulty  is  that  this  vast  inland  commerce  is  now  bottled 
up.     It  cannot  get  to  sea. 

A  cargo  of  wheat,  of  flour,  or  of  iron,  after  reaching 
Buffalo  by  the  water  route,  must  reach  the  seaboard  either 
by  the  railroad,  or  by  the  Erie  canal.  The  increase  of 
freights  thus  becomes  a  serious  handicap  to  the  American 
export  trade  and  to  America's  power  to  enter  foreign 
marts  upon  such  terms  as  to  insure  her  supremacy.  It 
costs  twice  as  much  to  carry  a  bag  of  flour  from  Duluth 
to  New  York  as  from  New  York  to  Europe,  but  open  up 
deep  water  ways,  and  the  steamer  could  load  up  at  Duluth 
and  steam  to  Europe  without  a  stop.  The  vexed  question 
of  freights  would  at  once  be  solved,  and  the  Northwest 
would  at  one  stroke  become  really  great.  An  exceeding 
strong  point  is  made  by  the  report  in  the  matter  of  iron. 
The  great  discoveries  of  iron  ore  of  a  very  high  grade  in 
the  Lake  Superior  region,  opens  up  au  immense  field  of  in- 
dustry and  of  economical  changes.  It  is  now  known  that 
the  Spanish  deposits  of  iron  which  alone  compare  with 
those  in  the  North  West,  and  which  are  now  depended  up- 
on mainly  by  England,  for  her  iron  and  steel  industries, 
will  last  scarcely  more  than  ten  years  more,  and  there  are 
none  accessible  in  Europe  to  take  their  place.  This  con- 
dition points  to  a  wonderful  opportunity  for  the  United 
States.  With  deep  water  to  the  Ocean,  American  ores 
could  not  only  control  absolutely  the  trade  on  the  Atlantic 
coast  against  any  possible  competition,  but  could  irresisti- 
bly invade  the  markets  of  Europe.  As  goes  the  iron  trade 
so  goes  the  trade  of  the  world.  The  imagination  sees 
great  possibilities  in  the  transference  of  the  iron  and  steel 
trade  to  this  country.  It  is  bound  to  come.  Even  at  this 
present  time  we  are  selling  steel  rails  and  iron  bars  in 
England  cheaper  than  are  the  local  producers.  We  are 
also  fairly  well  competing  in  the  matter  of  tin.  A  high 
tariff  at  this  epoch  will  enhance  prices,  and  may  not  now 
prove  of  benefit.  The  best  protection  would  be  a  sailing 
path  all  the  way  from  the  point  of  production  to  the  point 
of  consumption.  In  good  time  this  will  come  and  then  we 
shall  marvel  that  we  ever  passed  through  such  hard  times 
as  the  recent  past  have  been.  Of  course,  California  has 
special  uses  for  the  Nicaragua  Canal.  It  will  give  us  a 
much  shorter  sea  route  to  the  East  and  Europe,  and  that 
will  be  an  incalculable  advantage;  at  the  same  time  it 
should  be  born  in  mind  that  it  would  give  Europe  and  the 
East  a  nearer  way  to  Australia,  China,  Japan,  and  the 
Hawaiian  Islands,  and  to  that  extent  injure  California. 
The  Lake  Canal  is  of  the  first  importance.  It  would  open 
up  a  sea-carrying  trade  to  the  heart  of  our  continent. 


The  President's  first  message  is  brief, 
The  President's  as  it  could  well  afford  to  be,  seeing  that 
First  Message,      it  is  addressed  to  a  single  point.     The 

tariff,  the  whole  tariff  and  nothing  but 
the  tariff,  fashioned  on  the  McKinley  model,  is  to  be  the 
one  cry  of  Congress  for  this  session.  The  measure  is  all 
cut  and  dried  in  the  House  of  Representatives,  and,  as  a 
dicker  is  understood  to  have  been  made  with  the  Silver  Re- 
publicans in  the  Senate  to  vote  for  it,  the  time  needed  to 
pass  it  into  law  should  be  exceptionally  short.  A  return 
to  McKinleyism,  with  higher  taxes  upon  most  everything 
we  use  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave,  is  the  outcome  of  the 
last  election,  and  the  result  of  the  Democratic  party  being 
captured  by  the  Bryans,  Altgelds,  and  Tillmans  of  bad 
and  sad  political  fame.  It  was  either  McKinley  or  a  fifty- 
cent  dollar  and  the  scaling  down  of  all  existing  values. 
Both  were  evils,  tut  the  former  was  so  much  the  lesser  of 
the  two  that  thinking  men  had  practically  no  alternative 
but  to  accept  it.  That  is  how  we  are  driven  to  the  re- 
enactment  of  the  McKinley  tariff  over  again.  The  country 
could  not  have  been  carried  on  that  twice  con- 
demned issue,  had  it  not  have  become  necessary  to  accept 
it  in  order  to  save  the  country's  honor  and  safety.  The  cap- 
turing of  the  Chicago  convention  by  the  Southern  a^d  a 
few  Western  Populists,  divided  the  Democratic  party, 
and  gave  us  McKinley  as  a  necessity,  and  with  him  there 
very  naturally  comes  all  his  name  stands  for,  and  that  is 
not  much.  It  is  all  told  in  his  first  brief  message  to  Con- 
gress. The  McKinley  tariff  over  again  and  nothing 
else;  not  even  so  much  as  the  promise  of  an  appetizer  with 
which  to  wash  it  down,  is  about  the  sole  change  to  result 
from  the  new  administration.  Clevelandism  will  still  make 
itself  felt,  and  will  go  far  to  dominate  the  White  House. 
The  arbitration  treaty  will  be  ratified,  Cuba  will  be  given 
her  way,  and  the  United  States  will  guarantee  and  ulti- 
mately pay  the  price  of  her  liberty;  Hawaii  will  change 
base,  and  with  the  new  tariff  on  sugar,  will  no  longer  care 
for  annexation,  the  United  States  troops  will  again  be 
used,  if  any  attempt  in  force  be  made  to  impede  inter- 
State  commerce,  gold  will  continue  to  be  the  sole  money  of 
ultimate  redemption,  but  under  no  conceivable  circum- 
stances will  John  Sherman  give  us  a  Venezuelan  f  ulmina- 
tion,  and  that,  perhaps,  is  well;  for  the  country's  para- 
mount need  is  peace  abroad,  as  well  as  at  home.  In  all, 
save  the  tariff,  we  have  an  administration  that  will  en- 
deavor to  say  "ditto  to  Mr.  Cleveland,"  and  for  the  rest  will 
let  things  follow  their  own  course.  It  is  the  certainty  that 
this  will  be  the  future  trend  of  political  action,  that  en- 
ables the  prediction  to  be  made  that  ex-President  Cleve- 
land will  soon  regain  his  popularity.  The  people  will  see 
that  his  precedents  are  being  followed,  and  will,  in  conse- 
quence, declare  that  "he  was  right  after  all!"  and  will  do 
him  justice.  No  section  of  our  people,  except  the  silver 
miners,  desire  political  agitation  at  this  time.  They  are 
weary  of  it.  Else  the  new  McKinley  tariff  would  be 
wiped  off  the  statute  book  two  years  hence.  A  great  many 
things  in  the  industrial  and  financial  world  have  happened 
within  the  past  four  years.  In  the  very  important  matters 
of  iron  and  steel  we  are  now  underselling  the  English  in 
their  home  markets.  Under  the  Wilson  tariff,  the  things 
we  wear  have  undoubtedly  been  cheapened,  the  cost  of 
living  lessened,  and  the  production  of  metals  benefited  in 
a  corresponding  degree.  The  new  taxes  on  raw  material 
will  not  help  our  remarkably  enlarged  export  trade. 
Hence  the  last  of  McKinleyism  will  not  have  been  heard  of 
at  this  extra  session. 

The  Coming  President  McKinley,  in  his  inaugural,  made 
Reciprocity,  much  of  the  intention  of  the  administration 
to  return  to  the  Harrison  policy  of  reci- 
procity. To  that  there  is  but  one  answer,  yet  it  has  the 
merit  of  being  a  very  effective  one  :  the  thing  simply  can- 
not be  done  !  The  arrangements  of  the  last  Republican 
administration,  in  this  connection,  cannot  be  repeated, 
simply  because  there  is  nothing  left  to  trade  with.  There 
is  no  longer  a  surplus,  and  no  present  possibility  of  pro- 
ducing one.  The  Harrison  Administration,  being  engaged 
in  reducing  the  revenue,  could  find  plenty  of  trading 
material,  and  took  sugar  as  the  chiefest  and  best  article 
for  that  purpose.  The  duties  were  removed  from  raw 
sugar  coming  from  countries  which  desired  to  make  equiva- 
lent tariff  concessions  to  the  United  States.     This  brought 


I  jo,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


..  and  a  f>  .111  count rii 

the  reciprocity  arrangement.  without,  it  should  (»•  .. 
benefiting'  us  to  any  verj    ..; 
duties  on  sugar  rani' 

-  •  (nestle 

cane  and  tx  would 

arouse  Louisiana,  and  even  ri  rnia  mad.     These 

interests  were  before  put  off  with  a  bounty.      The; 
to  be  disposed  of  in  that  «  md  could  not  be  if  they 

were  willing.  The  treasury  has  00  money  to  pay  out  on 
bounties,  and  the  Republ  •  has  had    too  mucfa  re 

cent  experience  with  bounties  to  try  them  again  right 
away.  The  temper  of  the  sugar  interests  was  well  indi- 
cated in  the  recent  comiu  1  i.rs.  The  beet  men 
were  tremendously  in  earnest  In  having  things  fixed  the 
way  they  have  been.  Louisiana  was  out  in  full  force,  and 
Hawaii  was  there  with  all  tie  accustomed  diplomacy  of 
her  planters,  and  together  they  had  no  difficulty  in  bring- 
ing about  a  fixed  duty  of  a  cent  a  pound,  that  will  assuredly 
not  be  given  away  to  any  foreigner  reciprocally  inclined. 
Where,  then,  is  the  reciprocity  to  come  from'.'  Something 
must  be  had  to  trade  with.  Wool  cannot  be  used,  because 
the  duties  upon  it  are  being  restored  for  protection  pur- 
poses. Something  might  be  made  out  of  a  fair  arrange- 
ment with  Canada,  but  it  is  needless  to  say  that  we  are 
not  that  way  inclined  in  her  case.  It  is  clear  that  the 
proposed  reciprocity  has  nothing  in  it. 

The  Carson    The  prize  fight  between  Fitzsimmons  and 
Disgrace       Corbett  is  over,  and  about  this  time  even 
Over,  the  "sports."  or  most  of  them,  are  willing 

to  concede  that  it  had  been  better  if  it  had 
never  been  begun.  It  was  all  right  as  long  as  they  won 
their  money,. and  among  a  great  many  Californians  there 
was  little  fault  to  be  found  with  it  so  long  as  a  California 
boy  was  thought  sure  of  whipping  the  other  fellow.  What 
honor  or  glory  comes  either  to  the  State,  or  to  its  boys, 
from  either  winning  or  losing  prize  fights,  surpasses  com- 
prehension. The  whole  business  is  conducted  iu  fraud  and 
ended  in  a  degree  of  brutality  that  even  the  strongest 
cannot  always  withstand.  Corbett,  a  perfect  specimen  of 
physical  manhood  as  he  is,  received  a  blow  from  the  effects 
of  which  he  will  never  whoily  recover,  and  whilst  his  op- 
ponent tared  somewhat  better,  he  will  never  again  present 
the  little  wife,  who  so  cheered  him  in  the  midst  of  the 
battle,  with  an  osculatory  salute  with  other  than  a  split 
lip  and  a  broken  nose.  It  is  hard  to  believe  that  any  wo- 
man would  care  for  that  sort  of  thing,  but  then  there  is  no 
telling  what  taste  may  be  acquired  by  the  association  of 
even  the  "gentle"  sex  with  the  brutality  of  prize  fighting. 
Mrs.  Fitzsimmons  witnessed  the  fight,  used  slang  at  the 
ring  side  like  the  rest,  and  finally  kissed  the  victor,  and 
covered  her  face  and  garments  with  the  gore,  the  loss  of 
which  will  render  him  more  like  a  monkey  than  a  man  for 
the  rest  of  his  life.  We  can  well  believe  that  there  was  a 
time,  since  she  became  a  woman,  when  Mrs.  Fitzsimmons 
would  have  scouted  the  idea  that  she  could  possibly  be  a 
willing  party  to  such  a  scene.  But  now,  as  ever,  evil  com- 
munications corrupt  good  manners.  It  has  changed  Cor- 
bett's.  He  will  no  longer  be  entitled  to  the  honorable 
cognomen  of  "Gentleman  Jim."  He  forfeited  that  when 
he  broke  through  even  the  rough  rules  of  the  prize  ring 
and  began  a  rough  and  tumble  assault  upon  the  person 
who  had  just  beaten  him  in  fair  fight.  An  institution  that 
invariably  changes  men  and  women  into  such  specimens  of 
humanity  as  James  J.  Corbett  and  Mrs.  Fitzsimmons  are 
to-day,  is  an  outrage,  that  the  law  should  not  permit,  and 
that  society  should  frown  out  of  existence.  We  shall  ob- 
serve with  some  interest  the  course  society  leaders  will 
take  in  regard  to  the  visit  of  several  of  their  set  to  the 
Carson  prize  ring.  Will  they  let  their  children  hear  ac- 
counts of  the  fight  from  those  friends?  If  not,  then  it  is 
apparent  that  their  homes  need  a  better  environment. 
Mr.  Herman  Oelrichs,  who  in  his  early  days  liked  a  friend- 
ly bout  at  his  Club,  said  the  right  thing  the  other  day  that 
"he  could  neither  bet  nor  visit  the  encounter  because  of 
his  obligations  to  society."  That  is  how  every  gentleman 
ought  to  feel,  whether  he  be  influenced  by  New  York,  or 
by  San  Francisco.  Corbett  now  claims  that  he  was 
"knocked  out"  by  achance  blow,  thatis,  by  a  blow  against 
which  he   had  not  guarded.      Pshaw!      What  silly   talk 


■  ige  hi    St  want  Into  the  ring 

to  gi-.  in    when    he    eonld,  and  to  take 

them  when  be  must.      He  was  supposed    I  .iinlly 

vaunted  himself  champion  expert   "f  the  world 

■    points       We    dislike    PltsslmmOns 

his  brutal  prof 04  have   no    desire    to  make  a  hero 

out  of  him,  but,  if  fair  play,  we  cannot  help  feel- 

ing a  certain  amount  of    satisfaction    that    lie    at    last  has 
by  his  Own.      Bounded    DJ    his    own    fraternity,    the 

sports,  lied  about  by  a  large  section  of  the  pre»s, 

out  or  everything  lie  could  be  jobbed  out  of.  »ii 
snatched  from  him  by  such  fellows  as  the  Examiner  mail 
had  selected  for  that  purpose,  he  has  beaten  them  all. 
He  has  now  won  some  money,  but  not  nearly  as  much  as 
the  public  suppose.  Lei  him  hold  on  toit,  and  Stick  to  his 
decision  never  to  appear  in  the  prize  ring  again.  The 
is,  the  cunningest  set  of  them  all  arc  now  at  his 
ami  are  after  his  coin.  Unless  he  promptly  puts  him- 
self, and  it,  beyond  their  reach,  the  press  will  soon  be  re- 
cording the  fact  that  "Hob  Fitzsimmons  is  dead  broke." 
That  is  the  end  that  pugilism  invariably  leads  to. 

The  Animal  After  a  careful  study  of  the  remarkable 
In  Man.  scenes  that  transpired  on  Market  street  last 
Wednesday  from  11a.  m.  until  1  p.  x.  any- 
where between  the  Phelan  Building  and  the  Palace  Hotel, 
one  is  afresh  forced  to  admit  that  there  is  in  the  human 
heart  a  clearly  developed  brutal  instinct  which  delights  in 
blood,  and  which  can  be  whetted  into  startling  activity 
whenever  occasion  may  call  it  up.  Between  the  two  points 
named  the  street  was  literally  packed  with  men  from  every 
walk  of  life,  who  intently  gazed  on  the  bulletin  boards 
which  announced  the  progress  of  the  battle  between 
Corbett  and  Fitzsimmons  for  the  championship  of  the 
world  and  a  large  purse.  Had  the  individual  fortune  of 
each  one  of  the  vast  crowd,  numbering  tens  of  thousands, 
been  trembling  in  the  balance,  there  could  have  been 
evinced  no  more  consuming  interest  in  the  result.  The 
number  of  those  who  had  risked  money  on  the  fight  did  not 
form  a  single  drop  in  the  bucket.  The  vast  concourse  of 
men,  and  a  very  considerable  sprinkling  of  women,  were 
there  for  no  reasen  that  could  benefit  them  either  directly 
or  otherwise.  The  Presidential  returns  failed  to  bring  out 
more  than  one-fourth  the  number  of  people  who  stood 
patiently  for  hours  in  the  sun  waiting  to  learn  which  one 
of  two  men  several  hundred  miles  away  would  yield  to  the 
superior  skill  of  his  antagonist.  The  crowd  was  not  com- 
posed of  rough  characters.  For  average  appearance  and 
manners  it  was  quite  as  respectable  and  intelligent  as  an 
equal  number  of  persons  likely  to  be  found  at  a  theatre,  a 
lecture,  or  a  political  meeting.  Not  an  element  of  hood- 
lumism  was  to  be  seen;  more  orderly  people  never  as- 
sembled in  this  city  out  of  doors;  and  when  the  result  was 
finally  announced,  the  cheering  was  as  frantic  as  if  a  great 
event  had  taken  place. 

Yet  the  whole  history  of  the  prize-ring  is  unworthy,  and 
its  followers  to  a  man  are  unfit  associates  for  true  women  or 
men.  Its  whole  trend  and  tenor  is  downward  below  the 
level  of  unthinking  animals.  It  does  not  promote  desirable 
physical  culture,  nor  stimulate  by  so  much  as  a  hair's 
breadth  wholesome  manhood  or  healthy  morals.  From  top 
to  bottom  it  is  utterly  bad.  Not  one  redeeming  feature, 
not  a  single  practical  virtue,  springs  from  the  prize-ring 
or  its  environments.  All  these  facts  are  known  and  doubt- 
less acquiesced  in  by  ninety  per  cent,  of  the  entire  popu- 
lation of  San  Francisco.  Yet  in  the  face  of  this  knowledge 
and  its  practical  individual  acceptance,  all  classes  were 
absorbed  in  the  "manly"  exhibition.  It  seems  that  this 
sort  of  temptation  is  hardest  to  resist.  It  is  quickly 
aroused,  and  fattens  by  what  it  feeds  upon,  like  rank 
weeds  in  rich  soil,  or  wolves  upon  a  stricken  deer.  The 
struggle  of  life  itself,  the  frequent  injustice  of  existence, 
the  survival  of  the  fittest  through  the  generations  have  no 
doubt  kept  alive  a  disproportionate  element  of  original 
savagery  which,  as  we  have  seen,  has  not  yielded  to  the 
humane  and  kindly  influences  of  civilization.  The  atmos- 
phere of  the  prize-ring  is  penetrating.  A  great  majority 
of  people  seem  to  be  peculiarly  susceptible  to  its  degrad- 
ing influences.  San  Francisco  has  had  too  much  of  it;  and 
we  hope  that  the  Supervisors  will  strongly  set  their 
faces  against  granting  licenses  in  this  city,  for  the  sparring 
exhibitions,  which  are  prize-fights  without  disguise. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


The  Grand  jury    They  are  greatly   agitated    over    the 
System.  Grand  Jury  system  in  Massachusetts, 

and  not  because  of  a  decision  in  their 
own  commonwealth.  The  popular  interest  has  been  aroused 
by  a  scathing  arraignment  of  a  Grand  Jury  by  Judge  Wer- 
ner of  Geneseo,  N.  Y.,  because  of  its  failure  to  indict  a  de- 
faulting ex-treasurer  of  that  county.  In  discharging  that 
Jury,  the  court  said  that  "  he  was  called  upon  in  the  name 
of  the  honest,  law-abiding  people  of  this  fair  county,  to  de- 
nounce and  condemn  a  most  flagrant  prostitution  of  official 
power  perpetrated  within  the  very  walls  of  this  edifice, 
which  for  more  than  half  a  century  had  been  dedicated  to 
the  administration  of  justice,"  and  the  judge  went  on  to 
say  that  the  evidence  against  the  official  in  question  was 
such  that  in  failing  to  indict  him  the  jury  had  "wantonly 
violated  the  dictates  of  conscience  and  the  laws  of  this 
commonwealth."  There  is  no  evidence  that  this  particular 
jury  was  bribed;  the  general  belief  is  that  the  treasurer's 
personal  popularity  brought  about  his  actjuittal.  Never- 
theless, public  opinion  is  so  strong  that  it  seems  certain 
that  the  jury  which  has  been  so  false  to  its  trust  may  be 
indicted  as  a  whole  by  the  next  similar  body  summoned. 
Massachusetts  has  taken  the  matter  up  as  earnestly  as  if 
the  evil  action  had  taken  place  within  her  own  domain,  and 
her  Legislature  is  wrestling  with  the  problem  as  to  how 
best  reform  the  Grand  Jury  system.  It  is  a  hard  nut  to 
crack,  which  many  have  attempted,  and  in  which  most 
have  failed.  In  San  Francisco  the  system  has  been  work- 
ing better  during  the  last  two  or  three  years  than  for  a 
long  time  previously.  The  time  was,  when  it  was  hardly 
possible  to  say  one  good  thing  of  it.  It  was  usually  "put 
up  "  to  influence  partisan  purposes,  or  to  let  a  rascal  with 
money  have  a  chance  to  go  free.  But  of  late  years  there 
has  been  an  appearance  of  sincerity  about  our  Grand 
Juries  that  had  long  been  lacking.  Righteous  ends  have 
been  accomplished,  and  good  work  has  undoubtedly  been 
done.  The  trouble  with  all  Grand  Juries  is,  that  witnesses 
will  not  go  before  them  and  tell  all  they  know.  There  has 
been  too  much  inertness  in  disclosing  crime,  and  too  much 
sympathy  with  it  when  found  bedecked  in  purple  and  fine 
linen  or  in  official  robes.  Grand  Juries  are  very  much 
■what  District  Attorneys  enable  them  to  be,  and  in  this 
respect  there  has  been  a  decided  improvement  of  late. 
Buckley,  Toohy,  and  Stonehill  no  longer,  thank  God!  con- 
trol the  Grand  Jury  of  this  city  and  county.  That  was  an 
awful  period,  the  like  of  which  it  is  to  be  devoutly  prayed 
may  never  again  visit  this  region. 

Some  of  the  mothers  of  San  Francisco 
Child  Study  held  a  meeting  last  week  at  which  they 
In  the  Home,     effected  a  permanent  organization  for  the 

intelligent  study  of  children  in  the  home, 
and  for  the  further  purpose  of  bringing  them  into  closer 
acquaintance  psychologically  and  physiologically.  At 
first  blush  this  is  certainly  a  novel  project,  and  carries 
with  it  an  implied  neglect  of  maternal  duties.  It  is,  if  jus- 
tified, a  most  serious  arraignment  of  the  mothers  of  this 
city;  but  in  many  cases  we  are  inclined  to  think  the  neces- 
sity of  some  invention  for  the  purpose  clearly  exists.  As 
society  is  constituted  the  study  of  the  children  at  home  is 
becoming  an  unknown  quantity.  In  the  residences  of  the 
wealthy  the  immediate  care  of  little  ones  is  frequently  del- 
egated to  second  hands.  Social  duties  and  exactions 
crowd  out  immediate  and  continuous  contact  between 
parents  and  children,  and  destroy,  or  rather  prevent,  the 
mutual  understanding,  warm  sympathy  and  keeD  insight 
into  the  mental  temperament  of  little  ones,  without  which 
they  cannot  receive  the  best  impulse  to  symmetrical  de- 
velopment. The  study  of  children  has  given  place,  in 
great  measure,  to  the  study  of  fashions  and  functions;  and 
the  momentary  amusement  of  parents  has  absorbed  the 
time  that  should  be  devoted  to  the  right  understanding  and 
interpretation  of  child  life.  This  applies  to  the  wealthy 
everywhere.  It  is  found  in  another  and  more  objection- 
able form  in  the  great  majorityof  women  who  refuse  to  ac- 
cept the  highest  duty  of  the  conjugal  relation.  Many 
children  in  the  homes  of  wealth  are  the  exception,  and  bear 
out  the  fact  that  babies  are  not  wanted. 

In  the  case  of  poor  people  the  care  and  study  of  children 
are  left  to  the  public  school  teachers — often  to  their  credit 
be  it  said — through  the  stern  decree  of  poverty  and  not 
from  choice.     In  one  case  inclination,  and  in  the  other  ab- 


sence of  ability,  deprive  the  children  of  the  careful  train- 
ing to  which  they  are  entitled.  The  Dew  woman,  while  she 
is  as  distant  from  her  sister  of  wealth  and  elegance  as  are 
the  poles  apart,  throws  her  strident  tone  and  assertive  per- 
sonality into  the  same  balance.  She  seeks  toiattain  conquest 
by  the  destruction  of  the  sweetness  and  fragrance  of  home 
life;  by  speech-making,  wearing  trousers,  and  short  hair. 
In  her  discordant  clamor  for  recognition,  her  disdain  for 
the  sanctity  of  the  true  home,  and  her  intolerable  yearn- 
ings for  new  and  impossible  political,  moral  and  domestic 
relations,  she  has  no  time  to  fritter  away  on  her  suffering 
and  neglected  offspring.  Happily  for  the  most  part,  she 
is  "full  of  sound  and  fury,  signifying  nothing." 

The  organization  of  mothers  for  studying  child  life  in  the 
home,  was  not  heralded  by  banners  and  bands;  but  it  has  a 
mission  before  it  worthy  of  the  respectful  attention  and 
the  sympathetic  co-operation  of  every  woman  who  knows 
what  the  love  and  presence  of  children  are.  It  claims  a 
field  that  will  repay  every  effort,  in  better  men  and  bet- 
ter women,  in  more  perfect  life  and  greater  usefulness. 

The  first  conviction  in  the  struggle  for  pure 
Pure  Food     food  in  San  Francisco  has  been  secured.  The 
Crusade.      whole  case  was  held   down  to  two  points — 
proofs  that  the  article  sold  was  impure;  and 
that  the  grocer  charged  with  having  sold  it,  had  done  so. 
The  facts  of  his  knowledge  of  the  character  of  the  article, 
and  his  belief  that  it  was  as  represented,    were  not  per- 
mitted to  be  developed. 

It  is  hard  on  merchants  who  honestly  think  they  are 
selling  pure  food  to  suffer  for  their  ignorance;  but  it  looks 
as  if  the  public  can  be  protected  in  no  other  way.  It 
would  be  impossible  to  reach  the  Eastern  manufacturer, 
and  manifestly  absurd  to  permit  the  introduction  of  testi- 
mony showing  that  the  dealer  was  innocent  of  knowledge 
of  the  quality  of  his  goods.  Any  man  who  would  knowingly 
sell  impure  food  as  a  genuine  article,  would,  without  hesi- 
tation, swear  that  he  thought  it  was  pure;  so  that  there 
could  be  neither  possibility  of  separating  the  guilty  from 
the  innocent,  nor  hope  of  securing  a  conviction  or  protect- 
ing the  public,  if  that  question  were  to  be  raised.  As  it 
now  stands  the  retailer  must  look  to  the  jobber,  and  he  to 
the  manufacturer  for  protection  or  redress.  That  is  a 
matter  with  which  the  consumer  should  have  nothing  to 
do.  If  the  law  is  to  be  made  effective,  it  will  be  necessary 
to  adhere  rigidly  to  the  rule  laid  down  by  Judge  Campbell. 
Confine  the  case  to  the  two  points  of  quality,  and  identity 
of  the  seller,  and  it  will  be  an  easy  matter  to  secure  a  ver- 
dict. Men  who  are  honest,  and  who  have  been  deceived  by 
the  manufacturer,  will  take  care  that  they  be  not  caught 
napping  a  second  time;  and  in  order  to  sell  his  goods  the 
manufacturer  will  be  compelled  to  be  square.  The  crusade, 
now  that  it  is  begun,  should  be  pushed  vigorously  and  with 
fairress  toward  both  the  merchants  and  the  public. 

Ex-Senator  Expressions  of  surprise  are  heard  that  John 
Ingalls.  James  iDgalls  would  permit  himself  to  be- 
come the  special  correspondent  of  the  new 
journalism,  accepting  a  detail  to  report  a  prize-fight  in 
Nevada.  John  James  Ingalls,  ex-Senator,  "statesman," 
and  political  recalcitrant,  repudiated  by  the  people  of  his 
State,  sees  no  more  impropriety  in  becoming  a  reporter 
and  interviewing  prize-fighters  for  a  few  dollars,  than  he 
did  several  years  ago  in  becoming  a  traitor  to  the  party 
to  which  he  owed  everything,  the  moment  he  thought  there 
was  anything  in  it  for  himself.  Ingalls  showed  the  quality 
of  his  mental  fibre  when  he  joined  the  Populists,  and  tried 
to  crawl  into  power  again  through  the  aid  of  those  he  spat 
upon  but  a  short  time  before.  He  is  quite  at  home  inter- 
viewing Corbett  and  Fitzsimmons,  and  is  as  unconscious  of 
the  personal  contempt  felt  for  him  and  his  acts,  as  if  he 
were  a  simple-minded  Piute.  Concentrated  selfishness 
and  consuming  vanity  are  the  chief  characteristics  of 
Ingalls,  and  he  would  gladly  referee  a  dog-fight  if  the 
animals  were  of  sufficient  pedigree  to  arouse  general 
attention.  An  ex-United  States  Senator,  a  man  who  has 
posed  as  a  statesman,  becoming  a  prize-ring  reporter  is 
something  of  an  innovation  in  a  country  of  surprises. 
Ingalls  has  set  a  new  mark  for  all  broken-down  politicians 
who  are  without  influence  or  position  at  home,  who  have 
neither  respect  for  former  associations  nor  hopes  of  future 
honorable  elevation. 


March  20,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Th«  Daring  every  winter,  for  years  past,  ibere 

Unemployed.  10I  unemployed  in 

tins  city.  They  are  a  difficult  set  to  deal 
with.  Some  of  them  would  rather  undergo  hardships  in 
the  city  than  live  on  tin-  fat  of  the  lamb  in  the  country. 
If  they  cannot  immediately  get  work  in  the  city,  they  will 
wait  and  live  on  their  wits  until  they  can.  All  this,  whilst 
there  are  farmers  and  orchardists  willing  to  supply  work 
at  remunerative  rates,  to  more  men  than  our  benevolent 
committees  are  feeding.  We  know  of  an  orchardist  who 
three  years  ago  visited  San  Francisco,  nnd  was  pained  at 
the  sight  of  so  many  men  seeking  soup  tickets.  He  agreed 
to  take  two  of  them  home  with  him  at  a  monthly  wage  of 
$20  and  board.  Their  month  was  up  the  day  before 
Christmas,  when  they  went  to  the  orchardist,  demanded 
their  month's  pay  on  the  spot,  and  ^ave  as  a  reason  that 
they  desired  to  go  to  San  Francisco  to  spend  the  holidays. 
They  had  a  permanent  job  and  were  not  bossed,  yet  they 
must  needs  return  to  city  bumdom,  and  become  members 
of  the  unemployed.  It  is  not  to  be  wondered  that  their 
places  were  gladly  filled  by  Japanese  who  are  reliable  in 
every  way.  and  who  will  not  leave  your  cow  and  buggy 
horses  to  roam  at  large  because  their  keepers  want  to  go 
on  the  rampage.  We,  however,  subscribe  to  the  doctrine 
that  "a  man  who  wants  to  do  a  dollar's  wcrth  of  work  for 
a  dollar,  ought  to  find  it" — not  necessarily  in  the  city,  but 
wherever  labor  will  do  the  most  good.  San  Francisco  has 
not  heretofore  received  value  in  labor  for  the  money  it  has 
distributed  among  the  needy.  Anything  for  the  indus- 
trious, but  nothing  but  an  opportunity  for  the  idle. 

The  Collapse  Xow  that  A.  P.  A. ism  is  in  a  condition 
Of  A.  P.  A. ism.  of  utter  collapse,  it  is  due  to  the  truth 
of  history  to  say  that  the  News  Letter 
was  exposing  its  purposes  and  its  men  a  full  year  before 
Father  Yorke  undertook  the  work  for  which  he  proved  so 
well  equipped.  From  the  very  beginning  this  paper  said 
that  if  it  approved  of  the  purposes  of  the  A.  P. 
A.,  which  it  never  did,  it  would  still  be  opposed 
to  any  political  organization,  ruled  by  such  non- 
descripts and  rascals  as  then  constituted  the  inner 
circle  of  that  diabolical  institution.  We  cared  very 
little  about  A.  P.  A. ism,  but  did  not  believe  it  necessary  in 
this  country,  and  felt  satisfied  that  it  would  disturb  and 
anger  a  strangely  mixed  population  that,  at  the  time,  was 
at  peace  within  itself.  But  we  did  care  about  even  re- 
ligious bigots  being  deluded,  for  money  making  purposes, 
by  a  worthless  set  of  banditti.  We  marvelled  that  such 
worthless  fellows  could  come  to  the  front  in  any  American 
organization,  and  said  so  in  our  usual  forcible  way.  In  the 
fullness  of  time  the  Monitor  took  the  movement  in  hand, 
killed  it,  and  is  now  belaboring  its  dead  carcass  as  assidu- 
ously as  when  it  was  a  live  lion.  At  one  time  it  threatened 
to  become  a  political  power.  A.  P.  A. ism  is  dead,  and  will 
know  no  resurrection  if  the  Monitor  will  let  it  stay  dead. 
It  is  just  possible  to  write  it  into  life  again. 

,  A  Brave  Whatever  may  be  the  fate  of  his  measure, 
Supervisor.  Supervisor  Rottanzi  is  entitled  to  the  admir- 
ing and  enthusiastic  thanks  of  all  men  who 
attend  places  of  amusement  in  this  city.  Rottanzi  is  a 
bold  man,  and  a  friend  of  his  brother  sufferers.  He  has 
introduced  a  resolution  in  the  Board  of  Supervisors  declar- 
ing that  women  who  wear  hats  at  the  theatres  shall  un- 
cover during  the  performances,  under  pain  of  arrest  and 
fine,  or  imprisonment;  and  that  the  proprietors  of  the 
theatres  shall  suffer  by  fine  or  imprisonment,  or  both,  if 
they  permit  any  women  to  wear  hats  during  the  plav.  The 
vast  array  of  martyrs  who  have  often  and  with  deliberate 
cruelty  been  effaced  by  the  opera  or  theatre  hat,  will  offer 
up  fervent  prayer  for  Rottanzi  and  his  resolution.  Not  one 
of  the  Supervisor's  constituents  lives  who  has  not  suffered 
absolute  eclipse  by  the  deadly  high  hat  of  the  lady  just  in 
front  of  him  at  the  theatre.  This  high  hat  has  much  to 
answer  for.  To  its  gloomy  and  dejecting  obscuration  may 
be  attributed  the  frequent  retreat  of  men  between  the 
acts.  They  require  artificial  reinforcements  for  the  har- 
rowing struggle  of  the  evening;  and  it  is  a  naked  truth 
and  solemn  duty  to  charge  the  theatre  hat  with  drunkards' 
graves,  as  well  as  withered  pocket  books.  The  rear  view 
of  a  forest  of  waving  plumes,  extended  wings,  and  air- 
spearing  aigrettes,  frilled  with  twinkling  nobs — make  up 


a  Mirt  of  fantastic  feminine  nightmare  more  terrible  than 

delirium  tremens.    Supervisor  Rottanzi's  painful   expert- 

this  week,   where  lie  Buffered 

total  eclipse  for  three  mortal  hours,  resulted  in  this  Bght 
for  freedom.  The  high  hat  gored  the  wrong  ox  for  ■ 
Now.  if  other  Supervisors  will  do  their  duty  and  set  their 
fares  as  flint  against  the  pathetic  protests  of  their  female 
friends  and  relatives,  the  high,  the  broad,  and  the  deep 
hat  will  go.  On  the  street  it  is  a  vision  of  loveliness,  a 
thing  of  joy,  a  poem  of  color  combination;  at  the  opera  it 
is  a  fruitful  source  of  profanity,  a  friend  of  the  bar.  an  in- 
strument of  torture.  Long  live  Rottanzi:  may  his  resolu- 
tion be  made  law. 


S.  STn07.VNsKt.JI  Qear;  street.  Expert  European  hairdressers  and 
cutters  employed;  no  Bppreo  i<-<-,.  prices  equal  toothers.  Artistic  hair 
worU  and  shampooing  by  a  modern  process.    Telephone  Main  5607. 


Columbia  Theatre- 


The  "Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 

Frledlandcr.  Gottlot)  &  Co.,  Lessees 

nnd  Managers. 

Second  and  last  week  See  the  famous  hoop  skirt  dance. 
Hear  the  new  song. '-My  Race  Track  Winner."  New  York's 
jolllest  success, 

THE    FOUNDLING. 

Manapement,  Charles  Frohmao,  the  great  and 
only    CISSY     FITZGKRALD,  In  her  famous   and  Inimitable 
dances.    See   Cissy  wink  I    A  genuine  furore  everywhere! 
March  SO — FOR  FAIR  VIRGINIA. 

G_.  I  !  4T_  _  _  '         TL.,1„       AL.  HAYMAN&  Co.  (Incorporated) 
aliTornia    I  neatre.  proprietors 

GRAND    OPERA    SEASON 

of  the  famous  French  operatic  organization. 

P.Charley.  impres;u\ 

To-night,  March  20th— A  special  event,  the  voyage  op  suzetth 

A  beautiful  aDd  brilliant  spectacular  light  opera. 

Tuesday.  March  23— les  huguenots 

Thursday,  March  25th— A  great  double  bill,  dragon  de  villars 

(romantic  opera)  and  Massenet's  lyric  gem,  la  navarraise. 

Saturday  matinee,  March  27 — micnon,  to  be  followed  by 

"  Aida,"  "  Chalet,"  and  "Pagliacci,1'  etc. 


Baldwin     Theatre- 


al.  Hayman  &  Co.,  (Incorporated) 
Proprietors. 

Beginning  next  Monday,  March  22d,  second  aDd  last  week 

FANNY    DAVENPORT 
supported  by  Melbourne  MacDowell.     Sardou's 

GISMONDA 

Saturday  night,  March  27— Only  time,  "LA    TOSCA  "—Grand 
souvenir  event. 

Monday,  March  29th— OTIS  SKINNER,  presenting'1  A  Soldier 
of  Fortune"  etc. 


Tivoli  Opera  House, 


Mrs.  Ernestine  Kreling. 

Proprietor  and  Manager 

Commencing  Monday.  March  22d.  Every  evening.  Elaborate 
production  of  Nicolai's  celebrated  comic  opera,  The 

MERRY    WIVES    OF    WINDSOR. 

Reappearance  of  Laura  Millard,  the  favorite  prima  donna.  Ex- 
cellent cast;  scenery,  costumes,  accessories,  from  new  and 
elaborate  drawings. 

Next— The  spec  acular  burlesque,  Don  Juan  ad  lib. 
Popular  Prices 25c  and50o 

0        1  San  Francisco's  Greatest  Music    Hall.      O'Farrell 

rpneU  fT\ .    stree-t,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 

Week  beginning  Monday.  Maich  22d.  Another  stupendous  bill. 
A  brilliant  artistic  novelty, 


HENRY    LEE, 


In  "Great  Men— Past  and  Present."  The  inimitable  comedian, 
Johnny  Ray.  assisted  by  Emma  Ray;  3  Vilona  bisters,  musical 
artistes;  Weruer  &  Rieder,  Tyrolean  Warblers;  Dick  and  Alice 
McAvoy.  the '"■  Hogan  Alley  Kids'1;  3  Richards,  greatest  acro- 
bats on  earth;  threat  hit  of  the  four  Cohans,  doll  dancers,  and  a 
host  of  novelties.  Reserved  seats,  25c  :  balcony  10c;  opera  chairs 
and  box  seats  5Uc  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sun- 
day. Matinee  Prices:  Parquet,  any  seat,  25c;  balcony,  any 
seat,  10c;  children.  10c,  any  part- 


Golden  Gate   fial 


Monday  evening,  March  83th.. 
urday  matinee,  April  3d, 


Friday  evening,,  April  2d.    Sat- 


CAMILLA    URSO, 

the  great  violin  virtuose,  with  ber  own  company. 
Miss  M   Metlint,   soprano;  Ea.   H.  Douglas,   tenor;  George  H. 
Wesley,  pianist.       Sale  of  seats  at    Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s 
Thursday.  March  25ih.    $1.50.  $1.  and  50  cents. 


Golden  Gate  Hall. 


Entire  change  of  programme. 

Last  two  concerts. 

This  afternoon  at  S;15,    To-morrow  (Sunday)  night  at8:15. 


50  cents  and  $1. 


TREBELLI. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


'  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


[T  does  not  require  a  Reyer  Society  or  any 
organization  of  music  pushers  to  work 
the  average  public  up  to  a  decent  ap- 
preciation of  Sigurd — if  I  may  so  judge 
from  the  average  public  which  met  this 
opera  for  the  first  time  at  the  Califoi  Dia 
Theatre  Tuesday  night.  It  took  a  society  nine  thousand 
strong,  I  believe,  to  start  Wagner  on  his  innovating 
career  in  New  York.  Sigurd  was  accomplished  Tuesday 
night  by  the  sole  efforts  of  a  press  agent  .and  a  perform- 
ance. We  were  told  that  the  opera  was  "Reyer's  master- 
piece," and  that  it  had  rent  New  Orleans  into  tatters  of 
joy.  I  have  my  own  opinion  about  New  Orleans  as  an  art 
center;  it  is  the  place  where  Louis  James  secures  brilliant 
premieres  for  his  new  plays.  Marmion,  Spartacus,  My  Lord 
and  Some  Ladies  and  Mr.  James  were  all  roof-high  suc- 
cesses in  New  Orleans.  And  opera  is  not  such  a  big  jump 
from  the  drama.  So  I  read  my  libretto  calmly  early  Ln  the 
day,  and  bar  the  advantage  of  sitting  near  a  gentleman  of 
France  who  had  heard  Sigurd  several  times  abroad  and 
once  in  New  Orleans,  and  who  assured  me  often  that  it  was 
"great!  amazingly  great!"  I  came  as  near  to  being  an  im- 
partial auditor  as  man  can.  I  found  not  the  slightest  diffi- 
culty in  appreciating  three  out  of  the  four  acts  of  Reyer's 
romantic  music-drama,  and  I  doubtless  would  have  had  a 
good  time  during  the  act  I  could  not  follow  (the  first)  if 
half  the  audience  had  lingered  less  over  its  dinner. 

It  is  possible  that  the  long-haired  worshippers  of  the 
divine  and  mystic  Richard  will  find  Sigurd  too  easy  a  game 
— if  the  opera  ever  should  be  honored  by  a  New  York  pro- 
duction. But  we  of  the  belated  West,  whose  ears  are  still 
attuned  to  the  lesser  harmony  of  Beethoven,  Bach,  Sousa 
and  Italian  opera,  get  color,  scope  and  refreshment  from 
this  musicianly  feast — even  though  our  wrapt-eyed  friends 
tell  us  we  are  merely  taking  a  soft  solution  of  Wagner  in 
French  capsules.  I  have  never  seen  the  score  of  Sigurd, 
and  it  is  impossible  for  me  to  write  of  the  motives  of 
''Sigurd  the  Fearless,"  or  "Sigurd  the  Impetuous,"  or 
"Brunehild  the  Passionate,"  or  "Hilda  the  Jealous,"  or 
"Gunther  the  Craven"  without  publishing  myself  a  hypocrite 
and  imposter.  There  are  moving  motives  in  the  opera — 
my  trusty  ears  marked  most  of  their  introductions  and 
repetitions;  but  I  have  nothing  except  the  memory  of  my 
ravished  auditory  nerves  to  measure  them  by.  The  incan- 
tation of  the  High  Priest  to  Freia,  the  Goddess  of  Love, 
haunts  me  still  with  its  vast  awesome  grandeur;  my 
glad  astonishment  is  still  glad  over  the  eight  bars 
(I  think  it  is  eight  bars,  but  I  will  not  swear)  of 
ripping  waltz  that  leaps  into  Sigurd's  vow  to  keep  his 
vizor  and  passions  down  when  he  delivers  Brunehild;  the 
superb  sway  of  Guuther's  song  when  he  first  sees  the 
sleeping  Bruuehild,  and  the  lyric  fervor  of  their  duo  at  the 
close  of  this  same  scene  are  to  me  a  revelation  of  the 
musical  goods  that  have  been  made  in  France;  and  the 
united  song  of  Brunehild  and  Sigurd  in  the  last  act,  as 
Sigurd  goes  to  seek  the  treacherous  Gunther,  is  a  burst 
of  melodic  sensationalism  that  is  simply  fabulous.  If  you 
were  with  us  Tuesday  night  you  will  know  what  I  mean 
and  realize  how  much  I  have  left  unsaid;  if  you  were  not, 
lend  your  ears  to  the  next  performance — Sigurd  will 
be  repeated  later  in  the  season,  I  understand — and  see 
how  small  are  my  adjectives  and  eulogy. 

No;  Reyer  is  not  a  Wagner — there  is  but  one  Wagner 
(just  as  there  is  but  one  Shakespeare)  who  would  have 
dared  to  crowd  his  genius  so  hard — Reyer  is  a  Wagner- 
ette.  He  recalls  those  thoughtless  moments  of  the  Great 
German  wherein  he  wrote  such  untangled  verse  as  Tann- 
hauser,  Lohengrin  and  The  Flying  Dutchman.  Withal  he 
never  stoops  to  the  old  scheme  of  aria,  duo,  trio  and 
quartette,  with  encore  space  between  (as  in  opera  as 
she  once  was  wrote)  he  takes  no  chances  with  the  "endless 
theme."  It  is  a  wise  composer  who  knows  how  little  he 
is,  and  Reyer  has  made  Sigurd  quite  detachable  and  melo- 
romantic  and  even  popular  in  the  blend  of  German 
dramaisms    and    French    tact.     He  knows   the   pomp  of 


brass,  and  be  knows  the  seduction  of  reeds  and  strings. 
I  cannot  imagine  a  less  painful  way  of  becoming  a  Wagner- 
ite  than  to  have  the  rocky  road  to  Beyreuth  paved  with 
such  delicious  Wagnerisms  as  there  are  in  Sigurd.  It  is 
like  taking  a  course  of  Pinero  before  grappling  with  Ibsen. 

*  *  * 

It  would  cost  several  thousand  dollars  to  stage  Sigurd 
up  to  the  composer's  dream.  The  amount  expended  at 
the  California  would  about  pay  the  interest  on  such  a  sum. 
However,  I  am  not  going  to  cavil  at  the  mise-en-scene.  It 
was  flimsy  and  cheap,  and,  in  spots,  ludicrous;  and  the 
ring-a-round-a-rosey  antics  of  the  young  women  who  asked 
us  to  believe  they  were  Valkyries  and  Kobolds  and  Elves 
were — but  still  I  am  not  going  to  cavil.  The  singing  and 
the  orchestra  were  good,  when  one  considers  the  character 
of  the  opera  and  the  character  of  the  company.  Massart 
did  some  plucky  work  in  the  stupendous  role  of  Sigurd; 
his  tone  was  congested  at  times,  but  he  came  out  nobly 
in  the  exacting  music  of  the  last  scenes.  Alber's  Gunther 
was  as  nearly  perfect  as  I  can  imagine  the  part.  Foedor 
is  of  course  not  a  Nordica;  she  has  neither  the  vocal  nor 
the  physical  bigness  that  one  learns  to  associate  with  the 
demi-Goddesses  of  Norse  lore — but  she  gave  us  a  good  idea 
of  the  possibilities  of  the  part.  Athes  seems  to  have  more 
appreciation  than  voice-volume  ;  his  Hagen  struck  me 
as  an  excellent  performance  smothered  by  a  mute.  Ber- 
Berthet,  as  Hilda,  was  weak;  in  fact,  impossible.  Nico- 
sias  led,  and  the  orchestra  was  reasonably  sure.  But  I 
wish  somebody  would  steal  that  piano — it  seems  never  to 
stop  sounding  and  never  to  be  in  key  with  the  other  in- 
struments. 

*  *  * 

We  were  not  wrong  in  expecting  more  of  this  French 
company  than  it  gave  us  on  the  opening  night.  Friday's 
performance  of  Trovatore  was  finished  and  spirited,  and  it 
demanded  respect  for  the  singers,  no  matter  how  one  re- 
gards the  old  accordion  music  in  these  advanced  days. 
Prevost  was  there  with  Maurico's  top-note,  a  virile,  fiery 
C,  which  he  delivered  with  beautiful  patness.  Otherwise 
be  has  a  small,  assertive,  but  not  sensational  tenor. 
Mme.  Fremeau-Benati  sang  a  strong,  deep  Azucena,  and 
Foedor  awakened  to  inspired  agility  and  power  as  Leonore. 
Albers  was  the  Count,  and  the  glory  of  the  night.  He  is 
unquestionably  the  star  of  the  company.  He  seems  to  be 
able  to  sing  anything  with  that  great,  warm,  lithe  bari- 
tone of  his.     And  he  acts. 

The  Faust  matinee  Saturday  marked  the  best  all-round 
work  of  the  season,  up  to  the  time  I  write.  It  was  an 
even,  steady  performance.  Berthet's  Marguerite  was 
light,  but  very  graceful  and  girlish,  both  in  the  acting  and 
singing.  Massart  made  no  special  splurges,  but  he  sang 
throughout  with  a  fine  purity  and  legitimacy.  Javid,  who 
seems  to  be  more  of  a  baritone  than  a  basso,  gave  us  a 
fascinating  French  Devil,  full  of  buoyant  humor.  The 
ballet  was  a  real  diversion  in  the  Walpurgis  night  scene. 
And  Albers  sang  Valentine   as   I  have  never  heard  him 

sing  before. 

*  *  # 

"There  stood  your  champagne,  but  you  tasted  it  not!" 
— that  famous  Ibsen  line  which  has  made  many  a  London 
matinee  girl  clasp  her  mother  by  the  wrist  and  lead  her 
blushing  from  tne  theatre,  is  outdone  by  Victorien  Sardou. 
"Go!"  cries  Gismonda  to  the  lowly  bird  tamer,  her  large, 
warm  arms  necklacing  his  throat.  "My  God,  I  love  you! 
Go!  go!  but — leave  your  door  unlatched!"  We  had  no  time 
to  iook  to  our  morals;  this  ended  the  third  act;  the  curtain 
was  down;  and  everybody  in  the  Baldwin  Theatre  was 
storming  to  get  it  up  again.  This  was  melodrama,  pas- 
sion, exalted  animalism — the  sort  to  dream  about.  This 
was  Sardou,  the  ouly  Sardou.  And  in  my  mind  there 
flashed  a  picture  of  Henry  Arthur  Jones  trying  to  Sardou 
it  all  over  again  with  a  top  hat  and  a  frock  coat  and  a 
Salvation  Army  glow,  and  renunciation  and  retribution 
and  repentance  in  the  last  act.  I  even  went  lower  than 
Jones:  I  thought  of  the  inglorious  Adelphi  Browns  and 
Morosco  Smiths,  who,  confronted  by  the  old-time  plot  that 
Sardou  used,  would  have  garlanded  it  with  such  posies  of 
speech  as  Sir-r-r!  Stand  aside  and  let  me  pass!  Oh 
Heavings!  a  ter-r-r-rible  kr-ime  has  been  kurmitted! 
Officer,  arrest  that  man!  And  I  thought  of  clever, 
naughty  little  Frenchmen  who  smoke  the  lean  cigarette  and 
drink    the    long    opalescent    absinthe,    and    write     Gis- 


:i  20,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


ry  day — only  they   give  her  a  live,  flabby  hus- 
band instead  of  romantic  widowhood,   and  a  brain-sick  ad- 
out-and-out 

.of  Sardoi;  .'.here   Gismonda 

irate  mv  child  to  the  wild  beast  I  give  you  to  hell!" 
might  and  passion   and  blood   take  a  strong 
man    I  them.     I    am    not    sorry    that    Sardou's 

5  ■  -»i  has  been  an  international  Failure.  Qe  1ms  no 
business  playing  with  small  psychologic  toys— there  are 
too  many  littler  men  more  export  at  the  game.  And  a 
few  big 

This  is  Fanny  Davenport's  last  season  of  Sardou  plays. 
She  has  done  her  mite  toward  keeping  the  wolf  from  the 
good  Academician's  door.  Sardou  is  now  rich  enough  to 
write  his  masterpiece,  and  Miss  Davenport  is  going  to 
turn  patriot  and  lift  some  American  playmakor  above  the 
temptations  to  crime  and  dramatic  criticism.  I  envy  the 
man  whose  play  she  accepts— not  solely  on  account  of  Miss 
Davenport's  and  Mr.  MacDowell's  histrionic  genius,  or  the 
mere  pecuniary  picturesqueness  it  will  give  to  the  author's 
condition.  In  fact,  I  envy  the  lucky  fellow  more  on  account 
of  the  staging— the  sumptuous  paraphernalia  of  scenery, 
properties,  lights  and  costumes — his  play  will  get,  than 
anything  else.  Miss  Davenport  burns  her  money  in  the 
most  regal  blaze  of  scenic  art  of  any  manager-star  on 
the  American  stage.  There  are  others  who  run  to  plain 
star-acting,  others  who  run  to  companies,  others  who  run 
to  a  little  of  each  of  these — but  for  the  grand  climax  of 
what  the  press  agent  is  pleased  to  term  scenic  environ- 
ment and  stage  vesture,  Fanny  Davenport  is  the  empress 
supreme.  Incidentally,  she  can  act;  incidentally  again, 
she  buys  as  good  plays  as  money  can  buy,  and  if  anyone 
should  ask  me:  "Where,  for  the  general  purposes  of  an 
evening's  diversion  of  an  intense  but  not  too  brainy  kind, 
may  I  most  safely  invest  a  dollar  and  a  half?"  I  should 
answer:  "Give  it  to  Fanny  Davenport,  she  is  lots  of 
things,  and  there  are  lots  of  things  she  is  not— but  she  is 
infallibly  reliable." 

This  reliability  was  never  better  proved  than  in  the  act- 
ing of  Gismonda.  Miss  Davenport  is  not  a  young  woman 
— she  looks  five  years  older  than  she  did  ten  years  ago, 
and  she  attests  to  closer  analogy  than  alliteration  between 
prosperity  and  plumpness.  She  is  still  as  theatrical  as 
Bernhardt,  without  having  the  all-powerful  sweep  of  mag- 
netism to  make  one  forget  it;  and  her  reading  of  the 
heavier  lines  is  often  marred  by  stout  aspiration.  But  she 
is  reliable,  zealous,  strong,  and  she  brings  conviction  and 
circumstance  to  the  role.  No  one  can  dispute  the  real  fire 
in  her  work  in  the  third  act,  or  the  sovereign  humility  of 
her  confession  in  the  church  scene,  even  though  she  does 
bend  more  to  the  audience  than  to  the  altar.  There  are 
all  the  old  virtues  and  no  new  faults  in  Mr.  MacDowell's 
acting.  He  poses,  and  he  hurries  and  tangles  what  lead- 
ing men  are  prone  to  regard  as  the  least  important  of 
their  lines;  but  he  is  very  dramatic  as  Almerio  without 
being  bombastic,  and  there  is  a  genuine  ring  in  his  big 
heroic  speeches. 

The  company  is  a  fairly  good  one. 

For  me  there  is  only  one  jarring  note  in  the  play. 
Waiving  all  question  of  the  chivalry  or  caddishness  of  the 
thing,  and  taking  it  from  a  point  of  art  alone,  I  cannot 
understand  why  Sardou  should  have  made  Almerio  so  ever- 
lastingly insistent  in  telling  Gismonda  that  be   had  saved 

her  child's  life. 

*  *  u 

I  do  not  agree  with  my  colleagues  that  Miss  Helyett,  on 
Saturday  night,  was  a  dreary  fizzle  mainly  because  the 
majority  of  the  audience  did  not  parley  French.  I  do  not 
even  blame  the  comedy  itself,  which  is  as  feasible  for  us 
as  an  American  farce-comedy  would  be  for  Paris.  I  cheer- 
fully distribute  my  disesteem  among  the  comedy  people  of 
the  French  company.  With  the  exception  of  Manrick,  who 
played  the  embryonic  bull-fighter,  all  of  these  comedy 
singers  can  be  enlightened  in  their  business  by  spending 
their  off  nights  at  the  Tivoli.     And  it  will  only  cost  them 

fifty  cents  a  lesson. 

*  *  * 

As  I  did  not  see  The  Foundling  at  the  Columbia  in  any- 
thing like  its  entirety,  I  am  not  in  a  position  to  agree  with 
the  various  persons  who  tell  me  it  is  all  dull  and  rank.  I 
saw  for  myself  that  Thomas  Burns  is  a  clever  farce-come- 
dian, and  that  the  rest  of   the  company  lagged  miles  be- 


hind him.     As  for  Cissy,  her  nincyardsaround  skirts  and 

her  kick  and  her  wink  are  nice,    old-fashioned  Gaiety  Girl 

iplishments.     But  they  come  too  late  to  seduce  the 

town. 

»  •  • 

It  was  soloists'  afternoon  Thursday  at  the  Columbia,  and 
the  orchestra  played  easy,  entertaining  music  before  and 
between  and  after,  and  everybody  was  pleased.  Gertrude 
Auld— who  has  prefixed  Mrs.  and  added  a  hyphen  and  a 
Thomas  to  her  name  since  I  heard  her  sing  several  years 
ago  at  Golden  Gate  Hall  and  Hugo  Mansfield  were  the 
soloists.  In  a  light,  delicate  way  they  both  were  very 
successful.  Mrs.  Thomas's  art  has  not  suffered  percepti- 
bly at  the  hands  of  matrimony.  She  sang  the  Dinorah 
"Shadow  Dance"  with  tripping  spirit,  and  those  white, 
silver  top-notes  were  just  as  pure  and  fragile  and  facile  as 
they  were  when  she  ti  r> t  came  back  from  Paris  under  the 
ambiguous  halo  of  "Marchesi's  favorite  pupil."  Fickle 
Marchesi!  she  has  had  at  least  a  thousand  favorite  pupils 
that  I  know  of.  However,  Gertrude  Aula-Thomas  can 
sing,  and,  now  that  the  ice  is  broken  again,  1  hope  we  will 
hear  more  uf  her  sweet,  slim  notes.  Mansfield  is  not  a 
passionate  pianist,  but  he  is  earnestly  articulate  and  mod- 
erately poetic.  Often  it  is  a  relief  to  hear  a  player  who 
does  not  win  by  sheer  brute  force,  and  while  Mansfield  did 
not  realize  the  melodramatic  possibilities  of  Liszt's  10th 
Rhapsody,  he  played  the  Raff  Concerto  with  fine  intelli- 
gence and  no  little  style.  I  have  never  heard  the  orchestra 
play  with  more  piquancy,  swing  and  imagination  than  in 
the  Massenet  suite,  "Les  Erynnes."  Hinrichs  is  never 
happier  than  when  his  bcton  is  pulsing  over  a  modern  score. 
Ashton  Stevens. 

To-night,  at  the  California,  the  French  singers  will  pre- 
sent the  spectacular  light  opera,  Voyage  of  Suzette,  which 
never  has  been  heard  in  this  country  outside  of  New 
Orleans.  Brilliant  staging  is  promised,  and  the  panto- 
mime work  in  one  of  the  scenes  (a  butcher  shop)  is  said  to 
be  indescribable.  For  Tuesday  night,  The  Huguenots;  for 
Thursday  a  grand  double  bill,  consisting  of  Dragons  de 
Villars  and  Massenet's  La  Navarraise,  both  new  operas  to 
us.  Mignon  is  the  popular  bill  for  next  Saturday  after- 
noon. 

With  new  scenery,  costumes  and  an  enlarged  orchestra, 
Nicolai's  famous  comic  opera  The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor 
will  be  given  at  the  Tivoli  next  week.  It  will  be  the  first 
time  in  years  we  have  had  an  opportunity  of  hearing  this 
famous  work  complete,  though  the  overture  and  ballet 
music  have  been  frequently  heard  at  orchestra  concerts. 
West  will  be  the  Falstaff.  Laura  Millard  and  all  the 
Tivolians  are  in  the  cast. 

The  Four  Cohans  have  made  a  big  hit  at  the  Orpheum 
with  their  automatic  doll  dance.  All  these  new  people  for 
next  week:  Henry  Lee,  impersonating  "the  great  men  of 
the  past  and  present;"  Johnny  Ray,  heralded  as  "the  fun- 
niest stage  Irishman  in  the  business;"  Dick  and  Alice 
McAvoy,  as  "the  Hogan  Alley  Kids;"  a  violin  trio  by  the 
Vilona  sisters;  acrobatics  by  the  three  Richards,  and 
Tyrolean  warbling  by  Werner  and  Rieder. 

Trebelli's  last  two  concerts  will  take  place  this  after- 
noon and  to-morrow  night  at  Golden  Gate  Hall.  Varied 
and  interesting  programmes  have  been  prepared  for  each 
concert,  and  now  that  music  is  in  the  air  it  is  well  not  to 
forget  so  modest  and  charming  an  artist  as  Trebelli. 

Camilla  Urso  will  give  three  violin  recitals  at  Golden 
Gate  Hall  on  Monday,  March  29th,  Friday,  April  2d,  and 
Saturday  afternoon,  April  3d,  under  the  direction  of  Mr. 
Greenbaum.  Madame  Urso  brings  with  her  two  vocalists 
and  a  pianist. 

Fanny  Davenport  will  play  Fedora  to-night  and  Gismonda 
all  next  week,  with  the  exception  of  Saturday  night,  when 
La  Tosca  will  be  given,  with  Davenport-Sardou  souvenirs 
for  the  ladies  on  the  lower  floor. 

The  Foundling  continues  another  week  at  the  Columbia. 
Monday  night  Cissy  Fitzgerald  will  introduce  her  new 
"  hoop  skirt  dance  "  and  a  new  song  written  for  her,  "My 
Race  Track  Winner." 

The  Great  Northwest,  a,  melodrama  that  made  a  big  hit 
at  the  American  Theatre  in  New  York  last  season,  will  be 
put  on  at  the  Grand  next  week,  to  the  fullest  extent  of 
Morosco's  resources. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


THE     ART      EPICUREAN. 


(eighth  paper.) 

WHILE  gathering  material  for  a  certain  sauce  to  put 
in  my  eighthly,  a  new  invention  or  table  accessory 
was  brought  to  mind.  As  hot  sauces  and  gravies  must  be 
first,  last,  and  all  the  time  served  hot  as  when  they  came 
from  the  tire,  and  at  a  large  table  party  the  serving  may 
take  some  time  (when  done  at  the  table,  English  fashion), 
a  gravy  or  sauce  boat,  fitted  with  a  cover  and  poised  over 
an  alcohol  lamp,  is  an  admirable  improvement  and  insures 
the  desired  end.  Besides  being  such  an  advantage  from  a 
culinary  point  of  view,  this  pretty  silver  table-piece  is  an 
ornament  to  any  dining  room,  and  will  divide  honors  with 
the  breakfast  equipage  for  the  coffee  tankard,  or  the  dainty 
five  o'clock  tea  utensils  that  seem  fashioned  especially  for 
milady's  delicate  hands. 

Have  I  time  for  a  delightful  salad  from  Delmonico's  chef, 
Charles  Ranhofer  ?  He  calls  it  Macedoine  salad,  and  thus 
describes  it :  Have  four  ounces  of  artichoke  bottoms,  four 
ounces  of  celery  knob,  four  ounces  of  beet  root,  four  ounces 
of  turnips  (sounds  like  a  "b'iled  dinner"),  all  cut  in  quarter 
inch  squares;  four  ounces  string  beans,  cut  lozenge  shaped, 
four  ounces  of  asparagus  tops,  and  four  ounces  green  peas 
(better  buy  out  your  green  grocer  entire),  all  cooked  sep- 
arately in  salted  water.  Then  refresh,  except  the  beet  roots, 
which  must  be  cooked  whole  and  cut  into  dice  afterwards. 
Season,  with  salt,  pepper,  oil  and  vinegar,  and  mix  with  a 
fine  herb  mayonnaise,  which  is  made  as  follows:  Pick  and 
wash  a  handful  of  chervil,  tarragon,  chives,  burnet,  and 
garden  watercress;  blanch  them  in  salted  boiling  water 
for  five  minutes.  Then  drain,  refresh,  and  press  well  to 
extract  the  water.  Pound  thoroughly,  adding  the  juice  of 
one  lemon  and  some  ground  mustard.  Mix  this  ravigote 
into  a  pint  of  Mayonnaise  sauce  and  color  it  a  fine  pistacio 
green  with  some  spinach  green. 

One  would  never  suppose — I  dare  say  that  even  his 
nearest  friends  do  not  guess  the  sad  truth — that  the 
bane  of  Mr.  Charles  Cole's  existence  is  what  to  order  three 
times  per  diem  for  the  inner  man.  He  swears  it  is  making 
his  hair  gray,  for  he  has  no  preference  for  any  flesh,  fish 
or  fowl.  But  amphibia  don't  count,  and  the  secret  is  out 
that  when  "Tony,"  of  the  Poodle  Dog  up  on  Bush  street, 
puts  before  Mr.  Cole  a  saute  sec  of  frogs'  legs  as  only  Tony 
can  prepare  them,  that  gentleman's  merriness  of  soul  is 
only  equaled  by  that  of  the  nursery-rhyme  personage  of 
royal  title.  Then,  and  only  then,  is  the  vexed  question 
satisfactorily  solved. 

Bulls  and  bears  are  supposed  to  have  carnivorous 
appetites,  so  it  is  not  strange  that  Mr.  Carey  Priedlander, 
after  a  day  "on  change,"  pleads  guilty  to  thinking  a 
broiled  porterhouse  about  the  correct  thing  for  gustatory 
enjoyment;  and  it  must  be  accompanied  by  a  baked  potato 
to  exactly  satisfy  the  Friedlander  palate. 

"Coffee  with  it?"  I  queried  innocently. 

"No" — most  emphatically — (the  little  ruse  was  a  suc- 
cess). "It  needs  ale  or  beer."  There's  modesty  for  you 
in  gustatory  bliss;  and  so  easily  prepared,  too.  But  there 
is  something  that  he  likes  equally  well — at  least  so  a  friend 
of  his  confided  to  me — and  that  is,  one  of  Charles  J. 
Foster's  dishes  of  fried  tripe  with  Tilden  sauce.  Thereby 
hangs  a  tale: 

Joe  Tilden,  in  years  agone,  used  to  be  the  epicure  of 
San  Francisco.  Poor  fellow!  He  died  in  Honolulu  some 
time  ago,  but  not  before  he  originated  what  the  chosen 
spirits  laughingly  christened  a  "drunkard's  breakfast." 
The  first  course  was  onion  soup;  the  second  was  this  tripe 
dish:  and  there  wasn't  any  third,  because  these  two  made 
quantum  suf  for  the  rather  over-worked  digestion  of  the 
average  devotee  of  Bacchus.  When  Joe  Tilden  died  his 
cronies  thought  that  the  recipe  for  that  famous  tripe 
sauce  had  died  with  him,  for  although  they  had  often  seen 
him  make  it,  they  hadn't  it  in  detail.  Mr.  Foster  tried 
for  two  or  three  years  without  success  to  duplicate  it,  but 
perseverance  conquers  all  things,  even  tripe  sauce,  and 
one  day  he  was  lucky  enough  to  hit  upon  the  right  ingre- 
dients, and  success  perched.  The  kindred  souls  call  it  the 
Tilden  sauce  in  honor  of  poor  Joe.  It  has  very  hot  things 
about  it — but  that  has  no  bearing  on  Joseph,  nor  does  it 
cast  any  sinister  reflection.     This  is  the  way  it  is  done: 

The  finest  kind  of  honeycombed  tripe  must  be  obtained 


for  the  foundation,  and  fried  to  a  turn.  Have  a  very  hot 
soup  plate,  and  fill  it  with  butter — soon  melted.  Every- 
thing must  be  piping  hot.  Mix  in  the  melted  butter 
French  or  English  prepared  mustard.  Worcestershire 
and  Harvey  sauce,  and  le  bon  gout,  and  lastly  a  half  tea- 
spoonful  of  tabasco.  No,  that  is  not  a  mistake.  It  sounds 
sultry,  and  it  is.  When  these  are  stirred  thoroughly  into 
a  cream,  smooth  and  oily,  squeeze  into  the  dish  the  juice 
of  a  lime  to  cut  the  oil.  Have  on  the  table  a  dish  nicely 
arranged  with  very  finely  chopped  green  peppers,  ditto  of 
onions,  ditto  of  small  pickles,  and  also  the  tops  of  green 
onions  chopped.  They  are  milder  than  the  onion  itself  for 
those  who  do  not  fancy  quite  so  much  of  a  muchness. 
Keep  all  these  "trimmin's"  separate  on  the  dish,  and 
those  at  the  board  can  choose  their  own  seasonings.  Let 
these  be  sprinkled  over  the  tripe  before  the  sauce  is 
poured  over  it.  The  plates  must  be  hot.  The  tripe  must 
be  done  at  the  mcment  that  the  sauce  is  finished.  The 
guests  must  have  their  appetites  whetted  to  match,  and 
all  will  go  merry  as  the  marriage  bell.  You  say,  from 
your  wider  experience,  that  a  man  hasn't  much  appetite 
after  a  night  of  revelry?  Conceded.  But  this  is  a  sort  of 
stimulant;  taken  when  you  need  toning  up.  It  fills  a  long- 
felt  want  when  anything  else  would  be  unpalatable.  Its 
votaries  call  it  a  "Sunday  breakfast."    I  wonder  why. 

Georgie  Cay  van,  the  pretty  actress,  is  said  to  be  very 
fond  of  apples,  and  has  them  always  within  reach.  So  alas, 
was  her  prototype,  but  it  was  on  account  of  their  being 
nearly  out  of  reach  upset  the  domestic  economy  of  Mr. 
Adam's  household — or  garden  party — and  made  lovely  wo- 
man extravagant  in  the  matter  of  dress  ever  since.  And 
heartless  wretch  that  she  was,  she  didn't  give  a  fig  for  all 
Adam's  expostulation — just  as  "leaf"  as  not,  so  to  speak; 
after  which  index  of  feeble-mindedness  it  behooves  the 
writer  to  retire  into  oblivion. 

Amy  L.  Wells. 


Wise  people  seeking  advice  on  important  matters  consult  tbe  best 
authorities.  Tbos  Cook  &  Son  are  tbe  best  authorities  on  travel  in  all 
civilized  countries,  and  freely  give  intending  travelers  the  benefit  of  their 
fifty-six  years'  experience.  San  Francisco  Office:  621  Market  street  (under 
Palace  Hotel), 

Throat  Diseases  eor/mence  with  a  Cough,  Cold  or  sore  Throat. 
"  Brown's  Bronchial   Troches  "  give  immediate  and  sure  relief 


ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Confidence  Silver  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Diiectors,  held 
on  the  12th  day  of  March  1897,  an  assessment.  No.  28,  of  Thirty  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  each  and  every  share  of  the  capital  stock  of 
tbe  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the 
Secretary,  at  the  office  of  tbe  company,  No.  414  California  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

16TH  DAY  OF  APRIL,  1897, 

will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  ind  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  FRIDAY,  the  7th  day  of  May, 
1897.  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  S.  OROTH,  Seoretary. 
Office — No.  414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


March  20,  1897. 


SAX  FRAXCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


RECENT  arrival  from 

New  York    asked    a 
leadit  woman  the  lj  why  our  swim  does 

not  make  Van  Ness  avenue  the  parade  ground  for  Sunday 
afternoon,  as  the  beau  moneti  does  Fifth  avenue  in  New 
York.  It  seems  a  good  idea.  Why  do  not  the  girls  and 
young  matrons  take  it  up  ?  Especially  now,  before  the 
summer  winds  begin  and  society  is  in  a  state  of  enforced 
quietude.  Man;  of  the  fashionable  set  of  girls  have  taken 
recently  to  going  out  to  the  Presidio  of  au  afternoon, 
where  there  are  always  a  lot  of  young  officers  only  too  glad 
to  join  the  walk,  play  tennis,  or  offer  a  cup  of  tea  at  quar- 

*  *  » 

A  whisper  is  afloat  that  the  women  have  been  seriously 
considering  the  presentation  of  a  testimonial  to  Ed.  Green- 
way  at  the  final  dance  of  the  Cotillion  Club,  of  which  or- 
ganization he  has  been  the  acknowledged  leader  for  years 
past,  to  take  place  shortly  after  Easter.  Much  discussion 
is  said  to  have  been  held  as  to  the  form  of  said  testimonial, 
some  going  in  for  a  loving  cup:  others  for  jeweled  suspen- 
der buckles,  and  some  one  is  said  to  have  affirmed  that 
the  "genial"  would  not  be  averse  to  coin.  However,  gos- 
sip is  always  a  dangerous  thing  to  place  credence  in,  and 
so  it  may  all  end  in  the  proverbial  smoke,  not  but  what 
the  gentleman  is  entitled  to  a  souvenir  from  his  society  ad- 
mirers, and  the  society  millionaires  of  to-day  do  not  give 
jeweled  scarf  pins  or  watches  as  favors  to  the  cotillion 
leaders,  more's  the  pity. 

*  *  * 

It  is  decidedly  amusing  to  old  settlers  to  read  the 
memoirs  of  John  Bonner  in  a  Sunday  paper.  If  this  writer's 
previous  articles  on  past  greatness  of  foreign  notabilities 
were  not  more  accurate  than  the  local  resume,  we  fear 
they  are  not  very  reliable.  Fancy  for  one  item  being  told 
that  in  Vigilante  days  Stockton  street,  between  California 
and  Clay,  was  the  fashionable  residence  quarter,  where 
the  French  banker,  Pioche,  dispensed  elaborate  hospi- 
.  at  his  handsome  mansion  thereabouts.  This  was  in 
1856.  The  Pioche  house  was  not  built  until  the  close  of  the 
sixties.     Why  will  people  write  of  what  they  only  know  by 

hearsay. 

*  *  * 

Gossip  from  the  East,  told  in  letters,  asserts  that  the 
popular  erstwhile  beau  of  San  Francisco,  Wilcox  of  the 
army,  who  was  supposed  by  society  to  be  in  a  state  of 
mental  collapse  over  Miss  Julia  Crocker's  engagement  to 
Buckbee,  is  spoken  of  as  about  to  be  engaged  himself — not 
in  military  tactics,  but  in  Cupid's  wiles,  the  fair  lady  of 
his  choice  being  one  of  two  cousins,  native  daughters  of 
the  Golden  State,  at  present  in  the  East. 

*  #  * 

The  presence  of  a  British  Baronet  and  the  nephew  of  a 
Duke  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  although  duly  chronicled  by 
the  daily  press,  has  apparently  not  made  much  stir  in  our 
social  world.  Our  girls  are  beginning  to  value  a  rich 
American  more  than  a  fortune-hunting  foreigner. 

#  #  # 

"  Why  don't  Jim  Phelan  marry  ?  "  was  the  remark  made 
by  a  prominent  matron,  recently,  to  a  well-known  club 
man.  "For  a  variety  of  reasons,  my  dear  madam,"  was 
the  response.  "  First,  because  he  don't  want  to.  When 
that  disappears  those  following  may  be  discussed." 

*  *  * 

One  of  the  most  interesting  sights  at  Inspector  General 
Burton's  review  of  troops  at  the  Presidio  last  Saturday, 
was  the  enthusiasm  displayed  by  the  buds  when  their 
special  favorite  officer  came  into  view.  Even  the  young 
matrons  were  imbued  with  the  feeling. 

*  #  * 

The  Louis  Parrotts  are  going  to  keep  open  house  this 
summer  at  their  San  Rafael  abode.  So  say  their  friends, 
and  as  the  eldest  Miss  Parrott  is  fast  becoming  a  "bud," 
no  doubt  the  rumor  is  correct, 


The   opera   ba  the   fashion,    and   each   night 

parties  of  the  swim  ar    to  be  seen  al    the  California.      A 
recent  one  was  1  of   the  women 

ami  the  laiut  r  alt<    manners  of  the  men,  and  they  were  all 
of  the  swagger  - 

•  »  » 

The  Sunday  afternoons  at  the  Eagers'Gougfa  street  resi- 
dence bave  .pular  affairs,  whore  one  is  sure 

t cot  charming  women  and  agreeable  men,   neither  bud 

nor  brownie  being  greatly  in  evidence   on  these  occasions. 

11  #  # 

"/,  ,/;/.  one  of  our  local  multi-millionaires  is  considering 
the  project  of  a  private  Bleating  rink,  after  those  so 
much  in  vogue  io  London  this  year.  What  a  chance  for 
real,  old-fashioned  fun  such  a  thing  would  be. 

#  #  * 

Among  the  most  constant  patrons  of  the  French  opera 
at  present  singing  in  our  city  is  the  Swiss  Consul  and  fam- 
ily, who  take  evident  delight  in  the  performances,  the 
young  ladies  being  accomplished  musicians. 

No  man  can  tell  the  great  difference  between  a  fair  average  quality 
of  liquor  and  the  best,  until  he  has  tried  J.  P.  Cutter  Whiskey.  Then 
he  rinds  out  J.  F.  Cutter  is  a  superb  drink,  and  easily  take,  the  front 
rank  among  all  whiskeys.  E.  Martinet  Co.,  411  Market  street,  are 
Coast  Ageuts. 


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Market  street,  under  the  Palace  hotel,  have  a  splendid  line  of  these 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


"Beauty   and    Hygiene.' 
Brothers.    1897. 


New  York.     Published  by   Harper  & 


a  Book        We  are  constantly  told  by  people  who,  be- 
of  ing  incapable  of   learning,    have   taken   to 

the  Week,  teaching,  that  Knowledge  is  Power:  and 
though  this  is  in  a  sense  true,  it  is  yet  sur- 
prising how  few  of  the  world's  great  prizes  fall  to  the  men 
who  know  most.  But  no  one  can  for  a  moment  deny  that 
Beauty  is  Power — for  women.  The  handsome  men  of  the 
world  do  not,  merely  because  they  are  handsome,  achieve  any 
special  greatness.  It  is  true  that  John  Churchill,  who  was 
known  all  over  the  continent  of  Europe  as  "  the  handsome 
Englishman,  became  one  of  Britain's  greatest  military 
heroes  and  the  first  Duke  of  Marlborough,  but  these  re- 
sults were  only  very  indirectly  secured  by  h'S  personal 
beauty.  Of  course,  his  fine  looks  helped  him  into  the  good 
graces  of  women,  and  were  a  valuable  aid  to  his  ambi- 
tion, but  they  could  hardly  be  said  to  have  been  the  real 
foundation  of  bis  magnificent  career.  The  great  work'  of 
the  world  is  done,  and  its  master  positions  are  held  by  men 
with  few  or  no  pretensions  to  be  considered  handsome.  A 
clever  man,  notorious  for  his  extreme  plainness,  was  ac- 
customed to  say  that,  even  with  women,  he  was  only  a 
quarter-of-an-hour  behind  the  handsomest  man  in  London. 
But  in  the  case  of  women  all  this  is  different.  Beauty  is 
the  source  of  their  Power,  and  the  most  efficient  cause  of 
their  eminence.  When  a  lovely  girl  of  eighteen,  after  a  few 
weeks  of  smiling  and  coquetry,  becomes  (let  us  say)  an 
English  Duchess,  she  attains  at  a  bound  rank,  honors, 
houses,  heirlooms,  jewels,  and  historic  associations,  that 
are  the  accumulation  of  centuries  of  honorable  work  and 
high  achievement.  Can  we  wonder,  when  such  dazzlingly 
brilliant  chances  are  always  dangling  before  their  eyes, 
that  women  are  tempted  to  do  and  dare  almost  anything 
to  gain,  if  haply  they  may,  Beauty.  There  is  always  a 
possibility  of  their  achieving  at  a  stroke,  and  by  the  mere 
pleasurable  exercise  of  charms  that  are  the  gift  of  kindly 
Nature,  supplemented  by  a  little  worldly  knowledge,  all 
the  best  things  that  Life  has  to  offer.  Hence  the  unfail- 
ing interest  that  women  feel  in  all  books  that  profess  to 
teach  them  how  to  enhance  and  preserve  their  physical 
charms.  The  little  volume  before  us,  recently  issued  by 
Messrs.  Harper  &  Brothers,  awards  the  palm  of  beauty 
and  womanly  grace  to  the  ladies  of  Spain,  and  attributes 
the  permanence  of  their  charms  to  the  careful  attention 
which  they  bestow  upon  their  health  and  upon  the  preser- 
vation of  their  teeth,  nails,  hair,  and  complexion,  by  sim- 
ple, natural,  and  hygienic  means.  The  little  treatise  gives 
many  recipes  for  complexion-pastes,  hair-washes,  tooth- 
powders,  and  other  adjuncts  of  the  toilet,  most  of  which 
may  be  prepared  at  home,  though  some  few  require  to  be 
compounded  by  a  skilled  pharmacist.  Prom  a  perusal  of 
the  book,  which  is  quite  readable,  one  rises  with  the  con- 
viction that,  though  perhaps  the  French  proverb,  11  faut 
souffrir pour  etre  belle,  is  somewhat  hyperbolic,  the  acquisi- 
tion, enhancement,  and  preservation  of  feminine  beauty 
are  tasks  demanding  much  time,  great  pains,  almost  inces- 
sant attention,  and  the  resources  of  a  very  well-appointed 
home. 

To  the  last  issue  that  we  have  received  of  Harper's 
Round  Table,  Mr.  Edmund  Gosse  contributes  an  article, 
which,  though  certainly  above  the  heads  of  his  presum- 
ably youthful  readers,  is  eminently  agreeable  to  their 
elders.  It  is  entitled  "Standards  in  Modern  Literature." 
From  it  we  cull  a  few  pregnant  and  forceful  sentences: 
"  Under  the  strictest  rules  that  ever  were  enacted,  and  a 
rigime  the  most  academic  conceivable,  there  will  never  be 
anything  like  unanimity  regarding  the  excellence  of  a  lit- 
erary product.  All  we  can  hope  to  reach  is  a  general 
agreement  of  the  best-trained  minds,  recurrent  for  so 
many  generations  as  to  become  practically  durable." 
Again:  "Nothing  else"  (but  technical  excellence)  "has 
preserved  the  principal  writers  of  antiquity  in  esteem. 


Mr.  Lowell  called  style  '  the  great  antiseptic; '  good  writ- 
ing, in  other  words,  is  the  only  chemical  product  which  can 
prevent  literature  from  corrupting  and  fading  away." 
This,  too,  is  valuable  :  "On  questions  of  the  literary  stand- 
ard, it  is  the  majority  which  is  always  wrong.  The  major- 
ity likes  a  warm,  easy  book,  without  pretension,  unambi- 
tiously  written,  on  a  level  with  the  experience  of  the  vast 
semi-educated  classes  of  our  society."  Hence  the  great 
success  of  books  by  such  people  as  Archibald  Clavering 
Gunter,  Rosa  Nouchette  Carey,  and  "the  Duchess." 
"  'One  man,  one  vote,'  extended  to  the  domain  of  literary 
taste,  would  mean  the  absolute  and  final  extinction  of  all 
distinguished  masterpieces.  .  .  .  Outside  the  small  class 
of  experts,  there  is  a  large  body  of  the  public  which  recog- 
nizes its  authority  and  is  docile  to  its  directions.  Again, 
outside  is  the  vast  concourse  of  persons  competent  to  read 
and  write,  but  no  more  capable  of  forming  an  opinion  than 
is  the  dog  that  barks  at  their  shadow,  or  the  discreeter 
cat  that  curls  at  their  fireside  and  says  nothing."  Now, 
excellent  and  true  as  all  this  is,  we  can  hardly  believe  that 
any  children  of  fifteen  or  sixteen  are  capable  of  appre- 
ciating it:  indeed,  the  vast  majority  of  people  reach  their 
graves  without  attaining  such  a  condition  of  mind  as  would 
render  these  truths  intelligible.  We  think  that  Messrs. 
Harper  must  have  accepted  Mr.  Gosse's  article  on  the 
strength  of  its  writer's  literary  reputation,  and  not  on  ac- 
count of  its  suitability  to  the  Round  Table.  However  this 
may  be,  Mr.  Gosse  sets  forth  his  views  in  a  clear  and  for- 
cible manner. 

The  utter  futility  of  public  discussion  of  important  or 
lofty  subjects  was  well  illustrated  at  San  Jose  recently. 
After  a  lecture  on  the  civilization  of  Greece  and  Rome  at 
the  Normal  Hall  in  that  enlightened  burg,  where  even  the 
Man  in  the  Street  (as  we  have  recently  been  told)  is  intelli- 
gent and  honest,  Professor  Earl  Barnes  volunteered,  like 
a  fortune- telling  crone  at  a  village  fair,  or  a  candidate  for 
office  at  a  political  meeting,  to  answer  any  questions  that 
foolish  people  might  wish  to  ask  him:  i.  e.,  to  answer  those 
questions  to  which  he  knew  the  answers,  and  to  evade 
those  to  which  his  memory  or  his  invention  suggested  no 
convenient  reply.  Some  inquiring  donkey  asked  him  the 
question,  "  Is  the  soul  destructible  ?  "  to  which  the  Pro- 
fessor (who,  we  sincerely  hope,  does  not  profess  the  Eng- 
lish language  at  the  Palo  Alto  High  School)  replied  in  the 
following  elegant  words:  "I  can  chase  a  thing  out  of  the 
universe  as  far  as  possible,  and  I  might  chase  it  a  little 
farther.  High  forms  of  force  cannot  pass  into  grosser 
forms,  and  the  highest  form  of  force  is  the  soul."  Now, 
what  human  creature  could  be  enlightened  or  bettered  an 
iota  by  this  utterance,  couched  as  it  is  in  the  language  of 
the  curbstone?  Then  another  ass  brayed  interrogatively: 
"Does  it  not  mean  the  destruction  of  the  personality?" 
To  this  the  Professor  (who  is  perhaps  not  so  big  a  fool  as 
he  seems)  discreetly  answered,  "I  do  not  wish"  (that  is 
to  say,  I  could  if  I  would,  but  I  do  not  wish)  "  to  answer 
that:  it  comes  back  into  theology."  The  Professor  did, 
however,  make  a  sensible  remark  when  he  said,_  "Men  are 
born  unequal.  It  is  the  most  patent  fact  in  "the  whole 
world."  It  is  just  these  patent  facts,  however,  that  peo- 
ple are  commonly  most  slow  to  perceive  or  most  unwilling 
to  admit, 

Women  of  the  so-called  "advanced  type"  are  strange 
creatures.  Last  month  a  congress  of  mothers  was  held  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  to  discuss  the  relation  of  mother  and 
child,  the  influence  of  heredity,  the  management  of  nur- 
series, and  other  matters  peculiarly  within  the  province  of 
fruitful  wives.  The  Brooklyn  Times  tells  us  that  a  large 
percentage  of  the  delegates  to  the  congress  was  composed 
of  unmarried  women,  among  whom  were  Miss  Frances  Wil- 
lard,  the  irrepressible  Parson  Anna  Shaw,  and  that  old 
war-horse,  Susan  B.  Anthony.  Though  presumably  vir- 
gines  intactce,  these  amiable  creatures  were  quite  ready  to 
teach  old  married  women  how  to  suckle  infants.  After 
this,  what  will  lovely  Woman  not  attempt  ? 

The  Roycroft  Printing  Shop,  of  East  Aurora,  N.  Y.,  is 
about  to  issue  a  series  of  short  outdoor  essays  entitled 
"Upland  Pastures,"  by  Adeline  Knapp.  Five  hundred 
copies  are  to  be  printed  on  rough  English  paper,  at  two 
dollars  each,  and  forty  copies  on  Japan  vellum,  illuminated 
by  hand  by  Bertha  C.  Hubbard,  at  five  dollars  each. 


b  so,  1897. 


S\X  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LBTTKR. 


DKAI:  KniTII  A  very  swell  gown,  just  made  for  a 
.;  society  lady,  lias  two  Imxplaits  on  each  side  of 
irt.  one  toward  the  front  and  one  toward  the  back, 
and  the  blouse  is  in  clusters  of  line  tucks  running  up  and 
down,  and  is  open  over  a  front  of  gray  tulle  spangled  with 
steel.  The  blouse  droops  a  little  all  round  over  a  four- 
inch  wide  belt,  mi  that  it  has  a  little  the  effect  of  a  bolero. 
The  belt  is  of  white,  striped  with  lines  of  steel  braid,  and 
is  fastened  with  a  bow  of  velvet.  Spangled  tulle  is  in  the 
neck  and  wrists.  A  heart-shaped  piece  of  white  lace,  with 
steel,  is  appliqued  on  the  front  of  the  neckband,  and  falls 
slightly  down  over  the  tulle.  The  sleeve  is  cut  in  one  piece, 
with  a  puff  at  the  top.  and  the  lower  part  of  the  puff  is  in 
tucks  running  round.  The  skirt  is  finished  separate  from 
the  lining  and  is  slightly  gathered  on  the  sides,  the  plaits 
being  included  in  the  gathers.  Openwork  steel  passemen- 
terie is  appliqued  on  the  sleeves  and  down  the  skirt,  but  is 
not  necessary  to  the  effect.  This  gown  embodies  the  latest 
ideas  in  all  its  details. 

Skirts,  so  long  stationary,  arc  now  the  least  stable  part 
of  dress,  and  every  day  sees  a  new  design.  The  other  day 
it  was  a  narrow  skirt,  covered  with  flounces;  now  it  is 
countless  plaits  or  innumerable  godets,  that  fall  over  an 
underskirt,  not  of  silk,  but  of  flannel,  and  so  drag  and 
cling  with  siren  grace.  These  novelties  need  not  trouble 
the  dressmakers  much  until  after  Easter,  as  they  are  in- 
tended for  thin  materials;  nevertheless,  here  is  a  model.     • 

But  perhaps  the  greatest  marvel  the  times  have  per- 
fected is  the  loose  jacket  that  in  the  beginning  was  flowing 
and  wide,  and  is  now  metamorphosed  by  the  chic  tailors 
into  an  effect  of  slimness  and  length.  This  jacket  is  the 
principal  element  in  the  serge  gowns  and  the  bicycle  dress 
for  spring.  It  is  drawn  as  close  to  the  figure  as  keeping 
it  straight  will  allow,  for  it  must  not  curve  in  anywhere, 
an  apparent  contradiction  that  gives  rise  to  an  entirely 
new  effect. 

The  blouses  worn  with  serge  costumes  are  of  Scotch 
plaid  silk,  or  else  they  are  of  plain  silk  with  a  white  linen 
turn-over  collar  and  a  Scotch  plaid  tie.  The  tie  is  like  a 
man's  four-in-hand,  but  wider,  is  long  enough  to  go  round 
the  neck,  cross  behind,  knot  in  front  and  run  down  to  the 
belt.     This  is  the  latest  chic. 

Just  at  present  the  sleeve  question  is  one  of  absorbing 
interest  to  all  womankind,  and  to  the  home  dressmaker  it 
is  more  or  less  of  a  difficulty,  unless  she  is  properly  en- 
lightened. 

Of  course,  everybody  recognizes  the  fact  that  the  large 
sleeve  is  a  thing  of  the  past,  and  that  a  gown  is  no  longer 
really  stylish  that  is  encumbered  with  them.  It  is  an  easy 
matter,  however,  to  cut  them  over,  if  one  only  understands 
how,  and  a  pattern  is  not  needed  in  many  cases. 

Any  of  the  large,  old-style  leg-o'-mutton  or  balloon 
sleeves  will  easily  furnish  ample  material  for  the  small 
sleeves  of  present  fashion,  and  worn  places  may  be  avoided, 
only  the  best  of  the  goods  being  put  into  the  new  sleeves. 
The  large  outer  part  of  the  sleeve  is  cut  across  the  top, 
and  is  made  to  form  the  puff  of  the  new  sleeve.  The  lower 
part  of  the  outer  large  leg-o'-mutton  is  cut  to  fit  the  inner 
lining  to  which  it  and  the  top  puff  are  sewn.  This  is  one 
of  the  most  popular  sleeves  in  vogue  at  present  and  is  the 
easiest  to  make.  It  may  be  left  perfectly  plain,  or  dressed 
up  as  much  as  one  likes,  for  a  great  deal  of  trimming  on 
sleeves  is  very  fashionable.  If  the  sleeve  is  of  wool  goods, 
little  puffs  of  bias  silk  may  be  set  on  an  inch  apart,  cov- 
ering gracefully  any  worn  or  stained  places.  Another 
fancy  is  to  have  many  rows  of  velvet  ribbon  set  an  inch 
apart,  or  little  frills  of  narrow  lace.  All  sleeves  are  made 
long  over  the  hands,  either  the  bottom  of  the  sleeve  itself 
being  long,  or  made  to  appear  so  by  a  frill  of  silk,  lace, 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


For  at  least  the  fourth  time  in  as  many 
Holoomb  Valley  years  the  reconstruction  process  is  to 
Reconstruction,  be  put  iuto  effect  by  the  managers  of 
the  Hoicomb  Valley  mines  in  San 
Bernardino  County.  As  there  seems  to  be  no  power  in 
Great  Britain  to  stop  this  systematic  robbery,  or  to  bring 
the  perpetrators  to  justice,  all  that  is  left  is  to  once  more 
protest  against  the  outrage  and  caution  people  against 
having  anything  to  do  with  the  scheme.  The  company 
seems  on  the  last  occasion  to  have  had  a  very  decent  and 
honest  manager  in  a  Mr.  Thame.  This  gentleman  re- 
signed his  position  and  went  to  England  with  a  report  giv- 
ing his  reason  for  discontinuing  operations  that  "the  gravel 
was  too  poor"  to  justify  the  continuance  of  work.  Of 
course  it  is  only  natural  to  learn  that  the  precious  set  at 
the  head  of  this  concern  "are  bound  to  say  that  they  did 
not  agree  with  the  conclusions  arrived  at  by  Mr.  Thame  in 
that  report."  Of  course  not.  The  conclusions  of  Messrs. 
Williams,  John  Hays  Hammond,  and  William  Irelan,  Jr., 
did  not  suit  their  ideas  either.  They  always  can  find  rea- 
sons in  Loudon  for  disapproval  of  anything  unfavorable 
which  may  be  said  for  the  apology  for  a  mine  in  California 
which  gives  them  an  excuse  for  existence.  They  are 
themselves  working  the  mine  proper  in  emptying  the 
pockets  of  any  investor  foolish  enough  to  throw  ha'pennies 
into  the  hat  when  it  makes  its  annual  passage.  The 
State  Mineralogist's  report,  just  issued,  it  might  be  men- 
tioned incidentally,  confirms  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Thame, 
stating  that  it  has  been  found  that  "the  quantity  of  gold 
in  the  gravel  is  too  small  to  make  extensive  operations 
remunerative."  That  water  for  sluicing  has  to  be  pumped 
from  wells,  according  to  the  same  report,  is  enough  in 
itself  to  condemn  a  property  of  its  class  as  a  feasible  en- 
terprise in  hydraulic  or  placer  mining  with  people  who 
know  anything  at  all  about  operations  of  the  kind.  This 
official  report,  however,  like  all  others  which  have  pre- 
ceded it,  undoubtedly  will  suggest  some  reason  to  this 
precious  management  sufficient  to  bind  them  "not  to  agree 
with  its  conclusions." 

With  the  report  of  such  a  man  as 
A  Scandalous  Hammond  before  them,  not  to  speak 
Waste  of  Money,  of  the  other  prominent  experts  who 
have  condemned  this  property  for  the 
purposes  outlined  by  the  company  in  control,  it  seems  scarce- 
ly credible  that  more  good  money,  to  the  extent  of  $50,000, 
had  been  thrown  after  bad  during  the  past  two  years.  On 
top  of  this  it  is  now  proposed  to  raise  more  money  to  as- 
certain what  there  is  "in  the  gravel  on  granite,"  and 
what  could  be  made  of  the  water  supply.  Another  expert 
examination  by  eminent  engineers  is  suggested,  but  in  the 
light  of  the  past  we  know  what  that  means.  So  far  the 
reports  have  only  been  obtained  for  the  purpose  of  pigeon- 
holing. This  would  be  the  preliminary  to  drawing  upon 
the  new  capital  suggested  of  $250,000,  and  enable  the  com- 
pany to  run  along  for  a  while  longer  before  the  next 
scheme  at  reconstruction.  By  cutting  and  selling  timber, 
some  90,000  feet,  for  which  they  claim  to  have  received  $16 
per  thousand,  some  profits  have  accrued  to  the  company, 
and  this  is  looked  to  in  the  future  as  a  source  of  revenue. 
Without  water  sufficient  for  practical  mining,  reference  is 
made  by  the  chairman  in  his  reconstructed  reports  of  the 
probabilities  existing  for  an  irrigation  plant,  furnishing 
additional  sugar  coating  for  the  pill  investers  are  now 
asked  to  swallow.  We  would  like  to  see  one  of  those 
"eminent  engineers"  who  are  acknowledged  by  this  gentle- 
man to  exist  in  California  called  into  this  case  and  have 
their  opinion  for  publication.  This,  however,  is  only  likely 
to  eventuate  when  some  outraged  shareholder  arises  to  his 
wrath  and  takes  the  suppression  of  the  schemers  in  his  own 
hands. 

Work  at  Oroville  will  go  on   at  the 

Reconstructing  the     river  mines  located   there  for  some 

Golden  Feather.       time    to    come,    if  "reconstruction" 

has  the  power  to  stimulate  tlie  cow 

when  it  is  milked  again  for  the  golden  guineas.      With  the 

old  company  in  liquidation,  a  new  one  arises  like  the  Phoenix 


from  its  ashes,  with  a  capital  small  for  the  work,  and  yet 
big  enough  in  its  way  when  it  comes  down  to  the  investors 
pungling  up.  An  immense  sum  has  already  been  spent  on 
this  claim  and  the  one  above  it,  which  had  been  "recon- 
structed" some  time  ago,  and  in  comparison,  the  amount 
to  be  raised  now,  some  $960,000,  seems  trivial.  Besides 
playing  against  the  chances  of  mining  in  the  matter  of 
gold  discoveries,  the  shareholders  in  this  concern  have  the 
elements  to  centend  with,  and  storms  are  apt  to  sweep 
away  the  profits  of  a  season  in  short  order.  It  is  a  great 
enterprise,  truly,  and  an  alluring  one,  which  is  likely  to 
perpetuate  itself  for  ages  to  come  with  succeeding  genera- 
tions of  managers.  Prehistoric,  as  well  as  historic  forces, 
are  at  work  here  on  human  cupidity,  with  wide-range  of  pos- 
sibilities for  discussion  on  both  sides.  Mr.  Pechey  in  these 
river  mines  will  find  a  boundless  field  for  research  and  ad- 
venture while  money  can  be  found  to  back  his  endeavors. 

The  Bramhall  Company  of  many  pro- 
A  British  moters,  while  a  local  concern,  is  essen- 

Mining  Combine,  tially  British  in  its  personnel  make-up. 
Its  membership  includes  the  following 
well-known  names:  W.  M.  Bramhall,  P.  George  Gow,  C.  J. 
Okell,  H.  A.  Trevelyn,  A.  C.  Donnell,  C.  F.  Burnham  and 
J.  J.  E.  Peel.  It  is  intended  to  establish  a  branch  office  in 
London.  As  most  of  the  gentlemen  connected  with  this 
company  are  acquainted  with  mining  in  California  it  will  be 
hoped  that  their  influence  will  make  itself  felt  in  checking 
rascality  on  the  other  side  when  it  makes  its  appearance 
from  time  to  time.  In  this  way  they  will  benefit  both 
countries,  which  would  otherwise  be  sufferers  by  enter- 
prises of  an  unsavory  character. 

Messrs.  Roelker  and  Rolston,  the  former 
The  Mines  an  expert  for  the  London  financial  syndi- 
Wiii  Survive,  cate,  and  the  latter  for  some  company 
of  a  similar  character,  have  been  recalled 
•to  London.  It  is  beginning  to  dawn  upon  mine  owners  of 
California  that  these  syndicates  will  have  to  look  some- 
where else  for  the  ready-made  outfit  they  desire  for  stock 
jobbing  operations  on  the  Exchange.  A  "going  Exchange" 
now  means  a  producing  mine  which  can  be  had  for  one- 
third  of  its  owner's  valuation,  with  life  enough  in  it  to 
carry  the  London  company  over  enough  dividends  to  en- 
able the  flotation  of  its  shares  at  the  rate  of  a  few  millions. 
Nearly  every  big  mine  in  California  has  had  a  hack  in 
price  from  representative  men  of  the  foreign  syndicate, 
but  many  of  them  will  survive  the  condemnation  to  the 
profit  of  their  owners. 

After  a  series  of  "  now  you- see  it  and  now 
The  Powder  you  don't"  exhibitions  by  the  manipulators 
Combine.  of  the  Giant  Powder  deal,  the  trump  card 
has  finally  dropped  from  the  sleeve  in  the 
form  of  a  compact  between  the  three  companies,  the  Cali- 
fornia, Judson,  and  the  speculative  Jack-in-the-box.  An 
advance  has  been  effected  in  the  price  of  manufactured 
stuff,  which  will  put  the  California  at  least  on  a  fairly 
profitable  basis.  The  revenue  secured  will  help  the  Giant 
to  pay  up  its  heavy  indebtedness  and  cheer  up  the  hearts 
of  the  Judson  shareholders.  The  rise  in  powder  is  not 
large  enough  to  attract  competition,  thanks  to  the  counsel 
of  the  more  level-headed  members  of  the  combine,  who 
have  fought  for  weeks  past  an  attempt  to  put  prices  at  a 
point  which  would  have  ended  in  disruption  just  as  soon  as 
competition  began  from  outside  makes  which  could  be 
counted  on  from  the  start. 

No  business  worth  mentioning  has  been 

The  Pine  Street    transacted  on   Pine   street   during  the 

Market.  week.     Chollar  continues  to  loom  up  in 

good  shape,  but  the  hobos   who  chase 

shadows  are  not  zealous  in  the   matter  of  an   investment 

possessed  of  actual  merit.      It  would   come   unnatural   to 

those  for  whom  the  frisky  wild-cat   has  more   attraction. 

The  Norcross  difficulty  is  still  unsettled.      It  is   likely   to 

remain  so  for  a  time  to  come. 

The  regular  statement  of  the  local  sav- 

The  Local         ings  banks  have  appeared  again   up  to 

Savings  Banks,     the  end  of  February  at  the   instance  of 

the  Bank   Commission.     The   assets  of 

the  active   concerns   aggregate  in  round  numbers  $110,- 

343,677,  with  deposits  of  $100,049,095.     The  loans  on   real 

estate  amount  to  $77,945,660.  with  loans  on  stocks  and 

bonds  of  something  over  $25,000,000. 


h  20,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETT! 


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"Hear  1  he  Crier:"   "Wbn  the  devil  art  thou?" 
"One  that  wllipl»T  the  JetU.nlr.  with  jou." 


WILLIAM  CLINK,  the  urocer  convicted  under  the 
pure  food  law  of  bavins  sold  adulterated  raspberry 
syrup,  was  yesterday  tint  '.dice  Judge  Campbell. 

-  Morning  Contemporary 

Go  down  into  your  pockets,  Cline, 

And  punglc  up  your  little  fine. 

'Tis  strati*:?  von  should  have  tempted  fate 

I'.y  stooping  to  adulterate. 

Siu-h  wicked  conduct  yoti  must  know,  8ir, 

Is  unbecoming  any  grocer. 

stern  punishment  a  man   deserves 

Par  thus  retailing  fake  preserves. 

No  wonder  Whiskers,  in  his  wrath 

At  outraged  justice,  blocks  your  path  ; 

oh,  how  that  righteous  man  must  grieve 

To  see  another  so  deceive! 

Of  course,  it  naturally  must 

Seem  to  your  friends  a  bit  unjust 

That  you  should  have  so  little  EC  >pe 

And  others  such  a  length  of  rope. 

For  instance,  no  one  does  a  thing 

When  faking  journals  foul  "news'*  fiing, 

Thus  poisoning,  for  ghoulish  greed, 

The  hapless  minds  of  those  who  read. 

You  merely  cheat  the  palate.    They 

Destroy  the  morals,  day  by  day. 

Your  gill  of  syrup,  every  lime, 

Is  evidence  of  greater  crime 

Than  all  the  rank  and  slimy  stuff 

The  papers  print.  I  know  it's  lough- 
Yet  you're  a  culprit,  William  Cline! 

Step  up  and  pay  your  little  fine! 

IT  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  dimpled  damsels  and  doughy 
dames  of  San  Francisco  will  go  in  a  bunch  to  hear  Suzy 
Tracy  lecture  on  cooking.  It  might  even  pay  us  to  hire 
this  estimable  young  lady,  and  make  her  a  Committee  of 
One  to  investigate  and  report  on  the  kitchens  of  our  lead- 
ing family  hotels  and  boarding  houses.  The  time  will  come 
when  laws  will  be  passed  forcing  all  women  to  learn  how 
to  cook  before  they  may  enter  upon  the  "higher  educa- 
tion." Miss  Suzy  Tracy,  the  Town  Crier  herewith  makes 
you  an  honorable  proposal  of  marriage  I 

THE  mother-in-law  will  never  be  a  popular  quantity. 
Now  comethoneand  taketh  a  pot  shot  at  Julian  Pinto, 
who  lives  by  expounding  the  law,  the  grace  of  God,  and 
that  peculiar  forbearance  for  which  as  a  people  we  are 
famous.  The  Town  Crier  believes  in  a  woman  receiving 
her  just  deserts  ;  in  this  case,  however,  and  considering 
that  only  a  lawyer's  life  is  in  question,  be  recommends  the 
lady  to  the  mercy  of  the  Court  and  the  good  will  of  the 
community. 

J  TIS  not  so  much  repugnance  for  a  jail 
1    Tbat  makes  a  convict  now  turn  faint  and  pale, 
And  trembling  on  a  dungeon  threshold  quail. 

Ah,  no.    It  is  tbe  fear  that  there,  for  mate, 
With  one  of  Willie's  staff  (a  dreadful  fate) 
He  may  be  driven  to  associate. 

INSTEAD  of  prosecuting  the  men  who  stole  the  diamonds 
from  the  teeth  of  a  lady  in  this  city,  the  fellows  should 
be  publicly  thanked,  and  requested  to  persevere  in  their 
good  work.  When  a  woman  proves  herself  to  be  such  an 
irresponsible  idiot  as  this  one  seems  to  be,  she  is  placed 
outside  of  the  pale  of  the  law,  and  is  no  longer  to  be  con- 
sidered as  one  of  us. 

REVEREND  DR.  BOVARD  of  Alameda  is  again  heard 
from.  He  opines  that  the  Anti-Saloon  bill,  which  he 
has  been  actively  endorsing,  should  be  allowed  to  rest. 
Now  if  the  Doctor  himself  could  only  be  persuaded  to  take 
that  same  cure! 

I  E  swallowed  (lam  stating  facts) 
A  dozen  cocktails  'twixt  the  acts. 
Now,  was  it  thirst  or  Cissy's  wink 
That  drove  that  big,  strong  ruau  to  drink? 

THERE  is  a  solace,  after  all,  in  poverty.    The  man  who 
dies  broke  positively    knows    that  his  will  can't  be 
broken. 


H1 


THE  good  ladles    .f    the    Woman's    Board  of  Missions 
« I:"--  roes   tbe  Beae   « itb  tl;t-  un- 

speakable Turk,  tin  native  of  India,  suffering 

Armenian,  benighted  African  and  others  whose  souls  and 
stomachs  need  attention,  should  not  lose  Bight  of  the  fait 
that  at  their  vei  ;,  cases  of  dire  destitution,  and 

that  muffled  erics    of    misery    are    going   up    in  this  city's 
midst  from  tin'  throats  of  unfortunate  women  and  thi 
unfortunate  1  our  intentions  are  of   the   best,  oh 

Bisters,  but  the  Crier  admonishes  you  thai  true  charity 
begins  at  home. 

SOMEBODY  has  -tinted  a  discussion  as  to  the  pre- 
dominance of  soprano  over  alto  voices  In  San  Fran- 
.  the  former  outnumbering  the  latter  by  a  vast 
majority.  The  Town  Cam's  opinion  is  that  when  fair 
woman  essays  to  sing,  he  whose  tympanum  is  within  hear- 
ing distance  while  she  practises,  cares  not  a  button  whether 
hers  is  a  soprano  or  an  alto.  What  fell,  when  he  suffers 
just  the  same  from  cither  affliction? 

SANITARY  reform  has  at  last  reached  the  odorous 
limits  of  Butchertown,  and  the  members  of  the  Board 
of  Health  are  at  war  with  the  denizens  of  that  long-neg- 
lected locality,  whose  slaughter  houses  are,  it  appears, 
highly  offensive  to  the  city's  official  noses.  It  is  but 
natural,  though,  that  there  should  be  bad  blood  between 
the  butchers  and  the  health  officers. 

"pJ-RENCH  Must  Explain,"  says  a  morning  daily  in  one 
X  of  its  headlines.  This  is  reversing  the  usual  order 
of  things.  To  explain  French  is  difficult  enough.  Now 
French  himself  is  called  upon  to  interpret  the  reason  why 
Governor  Budd  decapitated  him  this  week  as  trustee  of 
the  State  Normal  School. 

Pray  tell  us  why,  oh  Henry  French,  if  you  so  kindly  will, 

You  wired  State  Printer   Johnston  to  blockade  that  Senate  bill? 

We  scent  another  scandal  of  a  legislative  brand, 

And  if  it's  told  in  language  that  we  cannot  understand 

We'll  relish  it  ten  times  as  much.    Our  hunger,  then,  appease. 

Be  just  as  French  and  naughty,  Mr.  Henry,  as  you  please  1 

ATTORNEY  W.  D.  Grady,  accused  of  mayhem,  for 
masticating  a  waiter's  ear,  has  succeeded  in  securing 
another  continuance  of  his  case.  He  is  probably  delaying 
matters  in  order  that  his  victim  may  grow  another  ear, 
when  the  charges  against  him  will  be  dismissed. 

SLADY  has  applied  to  the  Superior  Court  for  per- 
mission to  declare  herself  a  "sole  trader."  Were  she 
not  the  mother  of  six  healthy  children,  the  Town  Crier 
would  put  her  down  as  a  New  Woman  applying  for  a  title 
as  a  dealer  in  shoe  leather. 

SINGER  SANKEY  has  arrived  in  town.  Goodness 
knows  we  need  him  badly  enough,  but  we  are  not 
wholly  selfish.  We  are  in  a  fearful  way,  it  is  true,  but 
there  are  others.  Let  him  be  shipped  to  Sacramento  or 
Carson  at  once. 

SINCE  danger  and  disease  now  dwell 
Within  a  microbe-laden  kiss, 
Pray,  how  can  sentiment  its  spell 

Weave  round  the  dear,  forbidden  bliss  ? 
Alas,  romance,  thy  days  are  done. 
These  scientists  have  spoiled  our  fun. 

AT  a  church  entertainment  the  other  night,  somebody 
suggested  that  "A  Dream  of  Fair  Women"  be  placed 
as  a  program  attraction.  And  all  the  sisters  blushed  with 
virtuous  indignation  at  the  very  idea. 

NOW  that  Jim  Smith,  the  gallant  Colonel  of  the  First 
Regiment  (militia)  has  spent  a  night  in  prison,  he  will 
know  where  to  hide  in  case  war  should  ever  break  out  be- 
tween this  country  and  Oakland. 

"OTJTLER  is  at  the  end  of  his  string,"  says  a  sage  of 
O  the  daily  press.     So  far,    so  good.     By  the  time  he 
reaches  Australia  may  the  string  have  grown  big  enough 
to  sustain  his  weight. 

IT  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  zeal  of  the  Board  of  Health  may 
not  be  carried  so  far  as  to  involve  analyzation  of  sau- 
sage meat.  There  are  some  mysteries  which  we  do  not 
care  to  have  solved. 

HY  sentence  Lawrence  toajail? 

No  fellow  there  but  might  corrupted  be. 
Better  by  far  to  lash  him  to  a  rail 

And  drop  him,  howling,  in  the  deep  blue  sea. 


W1 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


■  Torturer— What's  the  difference  between  twice  twenty- 
five  and  twice  five  and  twenty?  Interval  of  three  months, 
during  which  victim  uses  up  nineteen  pencils  and  seven 
q  lures'  of  paper  iD  "working  it  out."  Victim— There's  no 
difference  at  all.  Torturer— Isn't  there?  Twice  twenty- 
five's  fifty.  (Victim  nods.)  Twice  five's  ten,  and  twenty's 
tbirty.     Fine  day,  isn't  it?— Tit-Bits. 

"And  how  much  will  the  postage  on  these  papers  be?" 
asked  the  lady  editor  of  the  woman's  edition,  thoughtfully. 
"Well,"  said  the  post  office  man,  "the  regular  rates  on 
second  class  matter  are—"  "I  don't  care  what  the  rates 
on  second  class  matter  are,"  interposed  the  lady  editor, 
imperiously.  "This  paper  will  go  as  first  class  matter  or 
not  at  all." — Washington  Times. 

Belie — I'm  so  glad  Jack  has  got  a  bicycle;  it  has  helped 
his  disposition  wonderfully.  Nan— His  disposition?  Why, 
how  could  it?  Belle— Oh,  when  he  gets  up  to  give  baby 
a  drink  and  steps  on  a  tack,  he  is  so  glad  that  it  is  in  his 
foot  instead  of  his  pneumatic  tire,  that  he  doesn't  say  any- 
thing.—  Pearson's  Weekly. 

No  Lenten  gray  my  lady  wears, 
No  penitence  does  she  profess; 
In  truth  she's  merry  as  before 
In  both  her  conduct  and  her  dress. 

Yet  few  there  are  who  practice  more 

Of  self-denial  than  does  she, 
I  know,  because  she's  vowed  to  pass 

Tbe  season  sans  a  call  from  me. 

—  Chicago  Journal. 

"And  you  have  the  impudence  to  say  that  the  jimmy 
found  on  you  was  not  intended  to  be  used  in  breaking  into 
houses?"  said  the  Judge.  "Of  course  it  ain't,"  said  the 
wanderer.  "It's  for  breakin'  out  o'  freight  cars. — Indian- 
apolis Journal. 

"Don't  let  this  occur  again,"  said  the  photographer  who 
prides  himself  on  being  enterprising.  "What  do  you 
mean?"  asked  the  assistant.  "You've  made  the  portrait 
more  prominent  than  my  signature." — Washington  Star. 

Lady — Why  don't  you  go  to  work?  Sandy  Sifter — 
There  ain't  notbin'  doin'  at  my  trade  now.  Labt — What 
is  your  trade?  Sandy  Sifter — Pickin'  flowers  of'n  cen- 
tury plants. — Ex. 

She  tried  to  kill  him  with  a  look — 

That  was  the  plan — 
But  she  was  cross-eyed,  and  it  took 
Another  man.  —Chicago  Record. 

"They  say  the  Rev.  Dr.  Fourthly  has  been  leading  a 
double  life?"  "Yes,  he  confessed  to  the  trustees  that  he 
reads  the  Sunday  papers  before  going  to  service." — Chicago 
Journal. 

"If  you  had  half  the  nerve  this  tooth  has,"  said  the  den- 
tist to  the  quivering  wretch  in  the  chair,  "you  could 
have  this  all  over  in  about  five  seconds." — Pearson's 
Weekly. 

The  train  boy  was  caught  smokingoneof  his  own  cigars, 
wasn't  he?  What  did  the  company  do  about  it?"  "Nothing. 
He  died  before  he  could  be  prosecuted. "—Life. 

"Thmgs  are  looking  up."  "How  so?"  "Some  fellow 
has  invented  a  cash  register  for  married  men's  trousers 
pockets." — Indianapolis  Journal. 

She — When  you  married  me  you  said  j'ou  were  well  off. 
He — I  was,  but  I  didn't  know  it. — Tit-Bits. 

Through  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  from  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
phone Main  1531. 

California  is  a  land  of  flowers,  but  all  tbe  same  some  are  sweeter 
than  others.  If  you  want  the  most  beautiful  and  richest  cut  roses 
or  the  freshest  violets,  go  to  Leopold's  at  39  Post  street.  So  cheap 
too. 


A     VISION      OF      MY      MOTHER. 


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HEN  tbe  work  of  day  is  done, 
In  tbe  dusk,  a  vision  clear, 
Rises  on  my  sight,  of  one — 
Ever  loved  and  ever  dear. 
She,  my  queenly  mother,  stands. 
Gazing  at  the  empty  space 
That  had  been  my  resting  place 
When  a  child,  and  wrings  her  hands. 

Watch  the  gathering  moisture  rise — 
Grow  to  tears  within  her  eyes 
—  Glist'ning  stars  in  moonless  skies — 
Which  in  falling  crystallize — 
Thus  are  they  borne  hence  to  God, 
By  an  angel,  sweet  and  fair 
And  are  laid  before  the  Throne 
This  subliiuest  "Mother's  Pray'r." 

Oft  her  dear  voice,  rich  and  deep, 
Sang  my  childish  heart  to  sleep; 
Even  now  I  hear  her  voice- 
Woe  is  me,  I  see  her  weep, 
Thus  I  see  'bee,  saintly  one, 
Ever  loved  and  ever  dear; 
Daily,  when  my  work  is  done, 
And  my  speech  is  but  — a  tear. 
San  Francisco,  March  20,  1897. 


G.  A.  Dakziger. 


BANKING. 


RANK    (IF  Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

oniTion     nni  iimdia  Capital  Paid  Up 83.000,00 

BRITISH     COLUMBIA.         ReserveFund *  500.UU0 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 
headoffice 60  lombard  street,  london 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B,  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— Firs  t  Na  tionalBank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mesdco; 
South  America — London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America ;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  oi 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

SAM     FRANPISPf)  Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

niwiMnn      immiu  Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 124,^02,327 

6AV 1 IV  UO      U  N I U  N .  Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus. . . .    1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  A.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday  even- 
ings,6:30to8 

TUp  PPRMAW  9AVINPS   No  526  c-ALrFO:BNIA  Street,  San  Francisco 

*Kin     i  nui    nnmr- ru      Guarantee  capital  and  surplus — $2,040,201  66 

ANU     LUAN    bUl/lbll.     Capital  actuallv  paid  up  in  cash..   1,00000000 

Deposi'.s  December  31,  1896 27,7^0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B  A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstmau;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary.  George  Tourny;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Muller:  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann,  Ign.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  H.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt. 

\KIC\  I  O     CA  DPH  N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 

WtLLO     TAnuU  John  J.  Valentine President 

p    nnio    dami/  H-    Wadsworth Cashier 

&    CU.  0    BANK,  HomerS.King Manager 

F.  L.  Llpman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 86,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Ben].  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

9FPIIRITY  222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

OMfiftinn    rami/  INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 

SAVINGS  BANK.  loans  made. 

DIRECTORS. 

William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O   D.  Baldwin  E   J.  McCutchen 

Adam  Grant  W.  S.  Jones  J.  B.  Lincoln 


March  20,  1897. 


SAN    PRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTKR. 


ART     JOTTINGS. 

D1  M.t.i:  I  ocked 

out  in  clay  in  bia  street,  which,  with   ;\ 

little  more  work,  will  be  r  g.      Tlio    .. 

the  poet  and  the  Sphinx  irbiob  certainly  should 

ed.     There  ro  ami  passion  in    the 

tiirur'  and    an  originality  in 

and  treatment  whir!  «n  being  cast  lato  the 

gulf  of  non-completion. 

Fisher  exhibits  I  work  in   Morris  gallery,     lie 

has  a  pleasant  and  agreeably  painted  landscape,  a  good, 
harmonious  picture,  which  hi  are  the  marks  of  careful 
study  and  Iini-.li.      It  is  coi  -  -   in  every  detail,  with- 

out a  particle  of  the  Impressionist's  school  about  it.  A 
liver  in  the  Redwoods.  !>y  the  same  artist,  shows  a  decided 
improvement  in  his  treatment  of  large  foregrounds  and 
forest  effects. 

Bloomer  exhibits  a  view  on  the  San  Rafael  road,  which 
is  one  of  the  best  painted  by  this  artist  since  his  return 
from  France.  It  is  rich  and  strong  in  color,  a  meaty  sort 
of  picture,  well  balanced  and  strong  in  tone.  There  is 
much  similarity  between  the  methods  of  Theodore  Welch 
and  Bloomer  in  the  treatment  of  tliose  subjects.  Bloomer 
is  more  solid,  and  Welch  more  transparent,  iu  color.  The 
latter  artist  exhibits  a  study  of  high  rocks  at  Bolinas,  a 
deliriously  breezy  marine.  The  foreground  is  large  and 
strong,  and  precise  iu  detail,  without  any  stiffness.  The 
sky  is  flecked  with  clouds  and  quite  unconventional.  The 
composition  is  also  odd,  but  so  faithful  is  the  ensemble  that 
one  can  almost  smell  the  salt  spray,  lookingon  the  reckless 
breakers  that  hurl  themselves  against  the  iron  rocks. 

Cadenasso,  since  he  strayed  from  portrait  painting  to 
landscape,  clamors  at  the  threshold  of  high  heaven  for 
startling  effects.  He  has  got  one  now  in  "Solitude,"  a 
mass  of  trees,  clouds,  and  upheavals  that  look  as  if  a 
thunderbolt  had  struck  it.  The  trees  are  tumbling  down, 
and  there  is  a  patch  of  sky  in  the  distance,  which  is  sug- 
gestive of  cholera  morbus.  It  is  well  named  solitude,  be- 
cause nothing  that  lives  would  lose  a  moment  iu  getting 
away  from  it. 

J.  A.  Harrington  is  working  up  a  number  of  sketches 
made  in  Africa  when  he  was  on  the  London  News  staff. 
They  are  most  interesting,  and  embrace  a  variety  of  sub- 
jects. 

PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 


IS 


BANKING. 


Capital 


»■ flOO  (il 


Surplus    and    Undivided 

Proms  (October  I,  l«M)..    3.158,129  70 


BANK   OF   CALIFORNIA, 
SAN   FRANCISCO. 

Wlt.I.IAM  AI.VOHli  i  ri  ildanl  IGHARLE8  R   niSHOP.Vlcc  I'r.-st 

ALLEN  M.CLAY...  secretary    THOMAS  BROWN   Cashier 

S.  Phkntiss  Smith       Ass'i  Cashier  1 1.  F.  Modi/ton Sil  Ass't  Cashier 

i  <  >lt RESPONDENTS. 

Niw  York- Messrs.  Laldlaw  &  Co.:  Ihe  Bankof  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
BOSTON-Tremont  Null. .mil  Hank;  London— Messrs  N.  M  Rothschild  & 
Sona;  Paris— Messrs  i  Kuthschlld  Freros;  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— 
Aitoncy  or  The  Bank  or  California;  CnicADO— union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Hank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand— Hank  of 
New  Zealand  ;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Loms—  Meatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  Issued  available  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin.  Bremon,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm. Christlania.  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  In  Italy. 


THE  severe  simplicity  of  the  smoking  room  of  a  Chinese 
restaurant,  which  appears  in  this  week's  News  Let- 
ter, shows  a  striking  contrast  between  the  Celestials' 
ideas  of  comfort  and  the  customs  of  civilization.  The 
character  of  the  furnishings  do  not  suggest  ease  and  lux- 
ury, but  rather  a  council  chamber  or  a  place   of  business. 

AGITATION  for  a  pure  food  congress,  to  be  held  in  this 
city  at  an  early  day,  should  result  successfully.  The 
arousing  of  a  strong,  healthy  interest  in  this  outrageous 
practice  of  selling  adulterated  food  as  pure  goods,  and  the 
vigorous  prosecution  of  those  who  engage  in  it,  will  result 
in  ridding  the  people  of  this  double  fraud.  As  to  the  prose- 
cutions, they  should  not  stop  with  the  often  ignorant  and 
innocent  retailer,  but  should  reach  the  jobber  and  manu- 
facturer wherever  possible. 

The  Overland  Limited, 

ONLY  3}£   DAYS  TO   CHICAGO.     4%  DAY8  TO   NEW   YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  oars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedaker,  General  Agent. 

Ten  Press  Clipping  Bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topios,  business 
and  personal. 


CALIFORNIA    SAFE    DEPOSIT   C°r  Cal,fornla  aDd  Montgomery  Sts. 

AND  TRUST   COMPANY.        c""»"Fu"*  Paid *'°«ITO0 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity,  Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  takeD  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  'o  rent  at  prires  from  $5  per  anrum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  anu  valuab'es  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  J.  G.  Wickersham.  J  fob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  P.  Fortmann,  R  13  Wal- 
lace R.  D.  Fry.  A.  D.  Sharon   and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams  Vice-President;  R 
D  Fry.  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.Shotwell,  Ass. stant  Secretary ;  Gunnison,  Tooih  &  Bannett, 
Attorneys. 

MUTUAL   SAVINGS  BANK      2^„S^^SoSTl 

OF    SAN     FRANCISCO.  Guaranteed  Capital Jl.000,000 

Pald-Up  Capital i  300,IXX) 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John  A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Prank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    Whenopeuing  accounts  send  signatuie. 

LONDON    PARIS  AND  n.w.  cor.  sansome  &  sotter  sts. 

AMERICAN  bank,  limited.  B«Stf^.::::::::::ffiBffi 

ReserveFund f    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

g.IGALGTRSEclrS!,BAUM}Managers. 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN     g&M!?^.\\\""\\"1M 

nAMi/         1  1  mi itt n  Paid    rip 1,5UU,UUU 

BANK,      LIMITED.  Reserve   Fund 700:000 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 
Head  Office—  18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART     lMana„pra 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL  f  Mana8«™ 

CROCKER-WOOLWORTH         SdposMs?rIetSMontgomert' 
NATIONAL  BANK  OFS,  F.      paid-up  capital $1,000,000 

WM.  H.CROCKER.,   President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

TUC     OATUCD  Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 

HIE    OAinCn  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

BANKING  COMPANY,     caktal 11,000,000 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowqill.  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolfe.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents  :  New  York— J.  P-  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &Co 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


AN    ESTRANGEMENT-w.  w.  swar 


H 


OW  is  it?    It  seems  sostraDge; 

Only  a  month  ago 
We  were  such  friends;  now  there's  a  change; 

Why,  I  scarcely  know. 
I  thought  we  were  friends  enough  to  say 
1  We  differ  in  this  or  the  other  way, 

What  matter?"    It  was  not  so. 

1  know  not  the  how  or  why, 

I  only  feel  the  fact; 
Something  has  happened  to  set  us  awry, 

Something  is  sadly  lacKed— 
Something  that  used  to  be  before— 
It  seems  to  be  nothing ;  I  feel  it  the  more ; 

Our  vase  is  not  broken,  but  cracked. 
Friends?    Oh,  yes,  we  are  friends; 

The  words  we  say  are  the  same, 
But  there  is  not  the  something  that  lends 

The  grace,  though  it  has  no  name; 
When  others  are  with  us  we  feel  it  less ; 
When  alone  there  is  a  sort  of  irksomeness— 

And  nobody  to  blarae. 

I  wish  I  could  say,  "  Dear  friend, 

Tell  me,  what  have  I  done? 
Forgive  me ;  let  it  now  be  at  an  end. " 

But  ah !  we  scarcely  own 
That  aught  has  happened— or  something  so  slight 
'Tis  ghost-like,  it  would  not  bear  the  light — 

'Tis  only  a  change  of  tone. 

Suppose  I  should  venture  to  say : 

"Something— oh,  tell  me  what— 
Troubles  the  heart's  free  play 

That  once  existed  not." 
All  would  be  worse;  we  must  turn  our  back; 
Pretend  not  to  see  that  there  is  a  crack 

In  our  vase,  on  our  love  a  blot. 

Once  were  it  openly  said 

It  would  strike  us  more  apart, 
Each,  alas!  would  know  that  there  laid 

A  stone  at  the  other's  heart. 
But  now  we  carry  it  each  alone 
So  we  must  hope  to  live  it  down, 

Each  one  playing  his  part. 

It  is  not  that  I  express 

Less,  but  a  little  more, 
A  little  more  accent,  a  little  more  stress, 

Which  was  not  needed  before. 
Ah!  would  I  could  feel  entirely  sure 
That  it  was  not  so — I  should  be  truer 

If  you  were  just  as  of  yore. 

But  I  cannot  give  you  up. 

Ah  !  no  I  am  all  to  blame; 
You  were  so  kind,  you  filled  my  cup 

With  love— and  mine  is  the  shame ; 
'Twas  some  stupid,  foolish  word  I  said 
Unwittingly,  I  know,  that  must  have  bred 

This  something  without  a  name. 

Was  it  not  all  a  mistake? 

Ohl  porcelain  friendship  so  thin, 
It  is  so  apt,  so  apt  to  break 

And  let  out  the  wine  from  within; 
But  once  it  is  injured  the  least,  alack! 
What  hand  so  skillful  to  mend  the  crack, 

And  make  it  all  whole  again? 


THE   WATCHERS.— Henrietta  christian  wright,  in  scribner's. 

Oh,  ye  whose  unrewarded  eyes 

Forever  watch  the  ocean's  rim, 
Your  ships  perchance  'neath  friendlier  skies 

Best  far  beyond  your  vision  dim. 

Perhaps  in  some  sweet  bay  they  wait. 
Where  bides  the  primal,  perfect  day; 

Where  airs  from  springtime  linger  late 
Or  never  perish  quite  away. 

In  some  far-off,  diviner  land, 

Where  never  garnered  wealth  grows  old, 
Safe  harbored  they  may  wait  your  hand, 

To  strike  their  sails  and  yield  their  gold. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO, 


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Fire  and    Marine   Insurance  Agents, 
309  and  311  Sansome  St.  -         San   Francisco,  Ca! 

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SIMPSON,  MACKIRDY  &  CO 89  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 

INSURANCE. 

FIRE,   MARINE,   AND   INLAND  INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited),   OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager.  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fiee  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Gompanu    of  Nortn   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  PHNN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,033,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 1 1,000,000 

Assets 3,198.001,69 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,506,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD   &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  Established  ml 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON   NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  1799 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF   LIVERPOOL. 

Capital 16,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents, 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

DR  RinORD'R  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu- 
i^n.  inwiiu  o  lne— A  specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physloal 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States- 
J.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palaoe  Hotel),  San  Francisoo. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

prices  reduced-box  of  50  pills,  ji  25;  of  100  pins,  83;  of200piiis, 

83  50;  of  400  pills,  S6;  Preparatory  Pills  J8.    Send  for  circular. 

Joseph  Gillott's  Steel  Pens, 

Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1S89.    These  pens  are  "  the 
best  In  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mb.  Henry  Hob,  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers. 


March  20,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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INSURANCE. 

THK  managers  of  tip  clitlcrent  life  insurance  com- 
panies in  this  city  will  tender  a  complimentary  ban- 
quet to  John  A.  McCall,  Pres  it  of  the  New  York  Life, 
in  the  red  room  of  the  Bohemian  Club  in  a  short  time. 
Mr   McCall  will  reach  Sun  Fram  iscoon  next  Thursday. 

Stephen  P.  Ives.  Becretary  ol  the  Home  Mutual,  has  re- 
turned from  a  two  weeks  vacation  in  the  southern  part  of 
the  State      Mr.  lvr>  is  a  ■  rker.  and  his  journey 

South  was  for  the  purpose  of  a  much  needed  rest. 

Y.  Stevens.  President  of  the  New  England  Life, of  Mass., 
has  been  in  the  city  for  the  pas)  two  weeks.  Mr.  Stevens 
holds  the  record  for  length  <>f  service.  He  has  been  con 
tinuously  in  an  official  position  with  that  company  for  the 
past  fifty  years.  On  his  return  to  Boston  he  will  be  the 
recipient  of  a  fitting  memorial  of  his  lonj.'  and  faithful 
stewardship  by  the  agents  of  the  Now  England  Life. 

E.  O.  Parker,  of  the  Provident  Savings,  has  returned 
East,  after  having  placed  the  Coast  agency  in  the  hands 
of  George  L.  North,  formerly  of  the  Equitable,  and  who  in 
that  company  made  a  first-class  record.  He  will  doubtless 
add  to  his  reputation  at  the  head  of  the  Provident. 

T.  J.  A.  Tiedemann  and  Fred  R.  Stover  have  gone  with 
the  Scottish  Union  and  National  as  special  agents.  Tiede- 
mann was  formerly  with  Brown,  Craig  &  Co.,  and  Stover 
with  the  P.  I.  U. 

It  is  generally  understood  that  the  Equitable  Life  will 
make  the  loan  for  the  erection  of  the  building  to  go  up  at 
the  corner  of  Market,  Geary  and  Kearny  streets,  of  which 
there  has  been  some  talk  recently. 

Allen  &  Lewis  have  been  appointed  city  agents  of  the 
Atlas  of  London. 

Manheim.  Dibbern  tt  Co.,  have  been  appointed  exclusive 
agents  for  the  Scottish  Union  and  National. 

The  local  Board  of  Underwriters,  for  the  maintenance  of 
rates,  has  been  organized,  with  J.  D.  Richards,  President; 
L.  Everett.  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and  H.  M.  Grant, 
Manager.  It  is  proposed  to  fix  rates  in  this  city  on  the 
basis  of  20  per  cent,  below  old  P.  I.  U.  schedule. 

Assembly  bill  816,  to  place  the  management  of  the  Fire 
Department  with  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  is   now  a  law. 

The  new  National  Surety  Company,  of  New  York,  begins 
business  this  week  with  a  paid  up  capital  of  $500,000  and 
$500,000  surplus.  The  company  has  absorbed  the  National 
Insurance  Company  of  Kansas  City,  taking  over  its  assets 
and  business. 

John  Landers,  of  the  Manhattan  Life,  made  a  flying 
visit  to  Carson  on  the  17th — purely  a  business  trip. 

T.  W.  Aisbitt,  Pacific  Coast  manager  of  the  Nationa 
Life  of  Hartford,  with  headquarters  at  Los  Angeles,  is  in 
the  city. 

AT     THE      RACES. 

THE  racing  at  the  Oakland  track  has  been  very  clean — 
and  away  above  the  average,  probably  owing  to  the  im- 
proved condition  of  the  weather.  The  racing  stakes  were 
captured  by  Free  Lady;  the  Oakland  handicap,  by  Howard 
S.,  and  the  Golden  Gate  handicap,  by  Candelsria. 

Ingleside  will  open  its  doors  to  the  public  next  week,  and 
a  very  attractive  programme  is  presented.  The  following 
dates  have  been  set  for  stakes  at .  ngleside:  Androus  stake, 
March  22nd;  Welman  stakes,  March  27th;  California 
Derby,  April  3d;  Corrigan  stakes,  April  l!Hh;  Spreckels' 
Cup,  April  24th j  California  nuidle  stakes,  April  28tb,  and 
the  Ingleside  stakes,  of  four  miles,  May  1st. 

Out  of  <>30  races  run  in  California,  to  date,  favorites 
have  captured  20fi,  second  choices  154,  and  outsiders  or 
long-shots  in  the  betting,  180. 

The  percentage  for  winning  mounts,  shows  Sloan  and 
Willie  Martin  in  the  lead,  Eddie  Jones  Thorpe  and  H. 
Martin,  close  for  second  honors,  and  Freeman  and 
Slaughter  next,  and  the  others  way  off. 

$5000 
will  purchase  half  interest  in  United  States  Patent  controlling  one 
of  the  most  attractive  and  profitable  advertising  devices  ever  placed 
upon  the  market.    Over  $4000  has  already  been  realized  from  the 
sale  of  three  counties  in  California  alone. 

The  enterprise  is  well  worth  the  consideration  of  the  most  cautious 
investor.    Serious  illness  necessitates  sale.    Address 

R.  A.  L.,  care  of  the  News  Letter. 


"lY;irl  top"  is  nothing. 

"  Pearl  glass  "  is  nothing. 

"Index  to  Chimneys"  is 
nothing. 

"  Macbeth  "  with  the  shape 
we  make  lor  your  lamp  is  all. 

We'll  end  you  the  Index  ; 
look  out  for  the  rest  yourself. 
Geo  A  Macbeth  Co 

Pittsburgh   Ta 


CUNNINGHAM,    CURTISS    &   WELCH. 

Wholesale 

Stationers  and 

Booksellers. 

327,  329,  331  Sansome  St.  San  Francisco 

For  barbers,  bakers,  bootblacks,  bath-houses,  bil- 
liard tables,  brewers,  book-binders,  candy-makers, 
cauners,  dyers,  flour-mills,  foundries,  laundries, 
paper-hangers,  printers,  painters,  shoe  factories, 
stablemen,  tar-roofers,  tanners  tailors,  etc 


BRUSHES 


BUCHANAN   BROS., 

BRUSH   MANUFACTURERS,  609  Sacramento  St.  ,S.   F        Tel.  5610. 

Tomkinson's  Livery  Stable  {gt»Mtib* 

J.  TOMPKINSON,  Proprietor. 

Nos.  57,  50,  and  61  Minna  St.,  between  First  and  Second. 

Through  to  Natoma  street,  Nos.  64,  66,  and  68.    One  block  from  the  Palaoe 

Hotel,  also  oarrlages  and  coupes  at  Pacific  Union  Club,  corner  Post  and 

Stc  okton  streets,  San  Francisco.    Telephone  No.  153. 

Fine  turnouts  kept  especially  for  calling.    Also  rookaways,  buggies,  and 
vehicles  of  every  description  at  reduced  rates. 

ST.  LAWRENCE 

LIVERY  AND 

SALES  STABLE. 

W.  E.  BRIDGE,  Proprietor. 

423  Post  St.,  between  Powell  and 
Mason,  San  Francisco. 
Telephone  No.  1323. 

CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 
Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  332-334  Pine  street,      Rooms  for 

ladies  and  families,  private  entrance.    John  Bergez,  Proprietor. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Brdn. 

DAIRIES. 
Oakland  Dairy  Depot,  380  Fulton  street,  S.  F.  Absolutely  pure  Milk  and 

Cream.    Telephone.  Pine  1693. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutiar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 

Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St..  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.   F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  J£  and  1-lb  boxes.    Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 

VEHICLES 
Second-hand  Victoria,  O'Brien  &  Son's  pat.    Spring   Buggy,  Surrey   and 
Top  Buggy,  for  sale  cheap.    500  Golden  Gate  avenue. 

LADIES'     HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze    (known    as    Hermann    at  Strozynski's)  has  opened 
Ladies' Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  225  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main  5820 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897- 


FOR  many  weeks  Daniel  M.  Hanlon  had  cherished  a 
very  vigorous  desire  to  witness  the  championship 
fight  at  Carson,  but  a  mild  suggestion  of  his  intentions  in 
this  respect  was  received  with  a  multitude  of  frowns  in  his 
family  circle.  Notwithstanding  the  discouragement  he 
received,  Hanlon  secretly  determined  to  witness  the  mill 
at  all  hazards,  but  not  having  the  courage  of  his  convic- 
tions, instead  of  boldly  adhering  to  his  original  announce- 
ment, he  clandestinely  purchased  a  forty  dollar  ticket  for 
the  scrap,  and  then  secured  a  domestic  furlough  on  the 
plea  that  cattle  business  called  him  to  the  southern  part 
of  the  State  for  a  few  days.  But  for  fear  his  presence  at 
the  ringside  should  be  noted  and  his  name  mentioned  in  the 
subsequent  newspaper  accounts  of  the  fight  as  "among 
those  present,"  thus  exposing  his  ruse,  Hanlon  made  the 
round  of  the  editorial  rooms  with  the  urgent  request  that 
his  name  be.  omitted  from  the  list  of  spectators.  Reas- 
sured on  this  point,  he  went  blithely  to  the  scene  of  the 
fray  with  no  misgivings  concerning  embarrassing  revela- 
tions in  his  home  circle,  and  with  no  fear  of  detection  in 
what  he  flattered  himself  was  a  clever  bit  of  duplicity. 

Hanlon's  pleasure  was  somewhat  marred  when  he  dis- 
covered, later,  that  a  conscienceless  Jenkins  had  published 
the  following  significant  paragraph  in  the  society  column 
of  his  paper: 

"Mr.  "Daniel  M.  Hanlon  left  for  Carson  City  on  Sunday, 
and  will  return  next  Thursday." 

*  *  * 

As  general  agent  for  two  insurance  companies,  Rolla  V. 
Watt  is  brought  into  frequent  contact  on  the  street  with 
men  whose  ways  seem  somewhat  sintul  and  whose  acts 
Mr.  Watt,  as  chairman  of  the  Christian  Endeavor  Conven- 
tion Committee,  frowmngiy  condemns.  He  is  even  ob- 
liged to  forego  many  innocent  diversions  which  he  could 
otherwise  enjoy.  At  lunch  in  the  Merchants'  Club  on  the 
eve  of  the  battle,  William  Greer  Harrison  was  enthusiasti- 
cally discussing  the  respective  merits  of  the  gladiators. 
Watt's  muscular  Christianity,  without  knowledge  of  his 
personal  opinions,  might  fittingly  suggest  similar  tastes 
on  his  part.  In  affected  innocence,  but  really  by  way  of 
guyiug  him,  the  other  insurance  men  deferentially  solicited 
his  opinion  of  the  fight  outlook.  When  his  judgment  was 
given,  the  expression  surprised  the  coterie  of  ring  patrons 
somewhat. 

"I  hope  that  Fitzsimmons  will  lick  Corbett,"  said  Rolla 
slowly.  "Then  I  want  to  hear  that  Peter  Jackson  has 
whipped  Fitz,  and  after  that  a  Chinaman  thump  the 
nigger  and  a  dog  bite  the  Chinaman.  Then, — well,  one  of 
you  gentlemen  might  like  to  kick  the  dog." 

*  *  * 

In  the  days  before  John  M.  Beck  became  general  agent 
of  the  Fire  Association  of  Philadelphia,  be  was  a  local 
agent  for  several  companies  at  Pasadena  and  by  diligence 
aud  the  aid  of  a  wide  acquaintance,  secured  a  good  line  of 
business  for  his  principals  and  some  corpulent  commissions 
for  himself.  He  never  hesitated  about  mixing  his  social 
life  with  his  business  affairs,  and  one  night  he  determined 
on  a  coup  d'etat.  A  ball  was  to  be  given  at  the  Hotel 
Raymond  and  he  was  aware  that  the  guests  would  include 
a  girl  whom  he  knew,  and  whose  father  was  then  building 
the  finest  residence  in  the  town.  Beck  resolved  to  seek 
this  girl's  assistance  for  his  commercial  aggrandizement. 
After  paying  her  assiduous  attention  during  the  dance,  he 
besought  her  good  offices  in  inducing  her  father  to  place 
part  of  his  insurance  in  the  Beck  agency.  The  young  lady, 
after  a  little  demur,  gave  the  desired  promise  and  the 
thrifty  Beck  was  overjoyed  when,  on  the  following  day,  he 
received  a  note  from  the  girl  informing  him  that  not  only 
a  share,  but  all  of  the  insurance  on  the  house  would  be 
placed  through  him,  and  enclosing  a  formal  authorization 
to  that  effect  from  her  father. 

"Have  just  secured  the  best  residence  risk  in  the  county. 
Top  rates,  and  gilt  edged,"  joyfully  wired  Beck  to  his  com- 


panies, and  with  a  light  heart  issued  the  policies  protect- 
ing the  house  with  $20,000  insurance. 

For  the  next  few  days  he  did  nothing  but  pat  himself  on 
the  shoulder  for  his  diplomacy  and  acumen,  and  complacent- 
ly acknowledged  the  written  congratulations  of  his  super- 
iors. The  day  the  house  was  completed,  Beck  thought  it 
about  time  to  collect  his  fat  premium,  but  that  very  night 
the  mansion  was  burned  to  the  ground  and  Beck's  com- 
panies had  a  total  loss  on  their  "gilt-edged  risk."  He 
brokejthe  news  as  gentle  as  possible  to  his  principals  and 
went  off  to  the  seaside  to  recuperate. 

Sometime  afterwards,  Beck  met  the  general  agent  of 
that  company  which  was  the  heaviest  loser  by  the  fire, 
and  received  some  ironical  praise  on  the  result  of  having  a 
young  lady  transact  his  insurance  business  for  him  in  a 
ballroom. 

"Oh,  well,  I  got  even,  if  your  old  company  did  lose  a 
trifle,"  answered  Beck,  coolly. 

"How  did  you  get  even?"  demanded  the  general  agent. 

"Oh,  I  married  the  girl,"  was  Beck's  blithe  and  ingenu- 
ous replv. 

*  *  * 

Without  receding  from  his  position  condemning  the 
effects  of  religious  revivals,  President  David  Starr  Jordan 
is  now  content  to  answer  his  critics  by  simply  recounting 
some  of  the  humors  of  his  experiences,  and  leaving  the 
moral  for  others  to  apply.  He  discussed  the  topic  in  this 
vein  while  a  guest  at  a  suburban  home,  where  there  are 
several  young  men  of  similar  scientific  tastes  to  those  of 
the  distinguished  President  of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior 
University.  One  of  these  boys  became  convinced,  some 
months  ago,  that  the  world  was  about  to  come  to  an  end, 
and  concluding  that  all  things  material  would  soon  be 
valueless,  he  suddenly  dropped  his  researches  into  natural 
history,  and  devoted  his  entire  attention  to  the  evangel- 
ization of  that  portion  of  the  world  nearest  bim,  making 
religious  addresses  day  and  night,  whenever  he  could  se- 
cure an  audience.  Dr.  Jordan  was  ignorant  of  this  new 
departure,  and  when  his  host  casually  remarked  that  his 
brother  had  just  come  in  from  the  hills,  supposed  the  latter 
had  been  pursuing  his  favorite  study  of  the  birds  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

"Been  out  hunting,  I  understand?"  said  Dr.  Jordan 
pleasantly,  as  the  tardy  youth  entered. 

"Yes — man  hunting,"  was  the  sepulchral  response  of 
the  amateur  evangelist,  who  had  really  been  holding  an 
evening  meeting  at  Colma. 

Dr.  Jordan  was  shocked,  understanding  that  his  friend 
had  so  far  forgotten  his  social  obligations  as  to  attach 
himself  to  a  sheriff's  posse  in  pursuit  of  a  criminal.  He 
concealed  his  disapprobation,  however,  and  inquired: 

"Did  you  catch  him?" 

"Yes,"  replied  the  revivalist,  dropping  into  scriptural 
metaphor,  "snatched  the  brand  from  the  burning." 

"Oh,  committed  arson,  did  he?  Glad  you  caught  the 
scoundrel,"  said  the  college  president,  heartily. 

And  it  was  not  until  after  his  departure  that  Dr.  Jordan 
learned  the  nature  of  his  friend's  "hunt,"  and  understood 
the  latter's  offense  at  his  unconscious  flippancy. 


Dr.  Martin  Regensburger  has  a  young  son,  six  years 
old,  who  has  aspirations  in  the  same  direction  as  his  imme- 
diate paternal  ancestor.  The  boy  has  a  little  office  and 
consultation  room  in  the  corner  of  his  nursery,  with  a  col- 
lection of  pill  boxes,  and  several  rusty  files,  which  he 
calls  his  instruments.  He  keeps  his  stock  of  drugs  in  an 
empty  cigar  box,  the  label  on  which  interested  him  so 
much  that  he  appealed  to  his  father  for  enlightenment. 

"That  is  Mose  Gunst,"  and  the  doctor  slowly  spelled  the 
letters  of  the  name  for  his  heir. 

A  few  days  later,  the  boy  was  observed  attentively 
studying  a  framed  portrait  of  Mozart,  who,  his  father  had 
often  told  him,  was  a  great  master  of  music. 

"  I  know  the  name  of  your  music  master,  papa,"  he 
volunteered. 

"What  is  it,  then?"  obligingly  asked  Dr.  Regensbur- 
ger, who  has  not  run  up  the  scale  for  many  a  long  year. 

"  Mose  Gunst,"  artlessly  replied  the  kid,  misled  by  the 
similarity  of  the  names  of  two  famous  men,  as  he  pro- 
nounced them. 


h  20,  1S97. 


SAN   IRANCISCO  NHWS   LETTER. 


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The  search  for  n  reason  for  the  habitually  unornvuted 
condition  of  John  I*.  Irish,  nava  'ho  port  of   San 

FrmncUco,  baa  g  to  much  speculation,  ami   fur. 

1  ho  material  for  UUi  lOlery.     He  is  the  anti- 

Eyre,  the  sp  ei  dor  and  variety  of  whi 
port*1  ivy  among  the  Brownies.     Some 

one  in  en  the  sun  move,  but  no  human  being  ever 

saw  the  throat  of  the  naval  officer  encircled  with  a  necktie 
■  Irish  alleges  as  an  osl  MOD  for  the  omission 

that  he  has  throat  trouble,  which  requires  freedom  of  action 
for  his  Adam's  apple. 

'■  When  I  »as  a  young  man.  I  could  not  even  wear  a  ml- 
lar,"  he  explained  to  an  impertinent  questioner,  "  hut 
after  I  was  married,  1  found  1  had  to  wear  the  matrimonial 
collar  anyway,  and  so  I  concluded  that  a  strip  of  linen 
would  not  be  much  of  an  extra  load  to  carry,  but  I  drew 
the  line  at  a  necktie. " 

During  a  rainstorm  a  few  days  ago,  while  the  wind  was 
blowing  a  furious  gale,  Colonel  Irish  walked  into  the  Post- 
office  without  an  umbrella.  A  clerk  glanced  at  him  and 
solemnly  passed  out  a  piece  of  string,  without  com- 
ment. 

"  What's  that  for?"  demanded  the  orator  and  journalist. 

"  We  thought  it  might  do  for  a  muffler,"  explained  the 
postal  employee. 

The  naval  officer  carefully  surveyed  the  dripping  skies 
and  then  waved  a  declining  hand. 

"  No,  it  isn't  raining  hard  enough  yet  for  a  necktie,"  he 
finally  concluded. 


A  new  record  has  been  established  for  the  meanest  man 
who  lives  in  Oakland  and  crosses  the  bay  occasionally  by 
the  Broad  Guage  Ferry.  After  the  string  orchestra  has 
played  its  choicest  selections  and  the  exiled  Italian  Count 
passes  the  plate,  suggestively  rattling  a  few  nickels,  the 
meanest  man  glances  significantly  at  the  Roman  and  then 
begins  to  fish  in  his  pocket,  while  the  musicians'  treasurer 
waits  w^th  an  expectant  smile,  but  he  finally  produces  only 
a  pencil  with  which  he  draws  representations  of  a  harp  on 
the  edge  of  his  newspaper,  while  the  disappointed  Count 
moves  on  in  sadness.  After  several  similar  experiences, 
as  the  musician  was  commencing  to  recognize  and  avoid 
him,  the  meanest  man  has  lately  found  it  necessary  to  de- 
vise a  new  form  of  baseness.  On  his  latest  ferry  trip  he 
produced,  instead  of  the  pencil,  a  dollar. 

"Just  break  this  piece,"  he  said,  with  a  marked  glance 
toward  the  contribution  plate. 

Congratulating  himself  upon  such  a  gratifying  change 
of  heart,  the  victim,  with  eager  eyes,  handed  out  the 
change,  and  then  the  meanest  man,  after  slowly  counting 
the  twenty  nickels,  deliberately  returned  them  all,  piece 
by  piece  to  his  own  pocket. 

#  #  * 

Much  interest  was  aroused  last  Monday  on  the  streets 
and  in  the  clubs  when  the  wire  announced  the  figures  in 
the  election  of  a  Speaker  of  the  House,  showing  that 
Francis  G.  Newlands  of  this  city,  and  the  sole  representa- 
tive of  Nevada  in  the  lower  branch  of  Congress,  had  re- 
ceived just  one  vote  for  the  Speakership. 

"  Frank  would  undoubtedly  have  beaten  Tom  Beed  out 
of  his  boots,  but  for  one  little  difficulty,"  remarked  D.  M. 
Delmas,  musingly,  as  he  sat  in  the  hall  of  the  Bohemian 
Club. 

"What  was  his  trouble?"  queried  genial  Walter  Turn- 
bull,  who  never  fails  to  snap  at  a  bait. 

"Why,  you  see,  Newlands  could  vote  only  once,"  was 
the  incisive  explanation  of  the  sarcastic  attorney. 

#  *  * 

The  shiogle  of  Dr.  John  Morrison  is  not  yet  sufficiently 
weatherbeaten  to  indicate  a  very  long  professional  ex- 
perience. He  is  frank  in  admitting  that  the  tide  in  his 
direction  has  not  yet  risen  to  any  alarming  height,  and  ex- 
plains that  the  frock  coat  he  wears  is  cut  especially  long 
to  hide  the  weak  points  in  the  balance  of  his  armor. 
Medical  men  consider  him  a  master  hand  at  the  gentle  art 
of  "Oriental"  repartee. 

"How  about  your  practice,  Jack?"  inquired  an  inter- 
ested professional  brother. 

'"Oh,"  replied  Morrison,  jauntily,  "I  am  practicing 
patience  while  waiting  for  patients  for  my  practice." 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


IN  the  present  dearth  of  social  affairs,  the  French  opera 
has  proved  a  veritable  bonheur.  Opera  parties  are 
quite  the  correct  thing,  and  even  for  those  who  go  simply 
to  enjoy  the  music,  the  assemblage  of  pretty  women  in 
beautiful  gowns  and  fine  looking  men  in  full  evening  attire 
is  a  joy  in  itself  to  contemplate.  The  Baldwin  made  a 
fine  appearance  also  on  Monday  evening,  most  of  the  usual 
first-nighters  doing  honor  to  the  first  production  of  Gis- 
monda  by  Fanny  Davenport,  theatre  parties  being  present 
in  good  numbers.  In  fact,  these  were  not  confined  to 
Monday  night,  but  many  were  given  during  the  entire 
week,  and  the  dainty  suppers  which  followed  the  perform- 
ance were  all  the  more  enjoyed  from  the  probable  (?)  fast- 
ing indulged  in  during  the  day. 

The  First  Unitarian  Church,  on  Franklin  street,  was 
the  scene  of  the  society  wedding  of  the  week,  when  on 
Tuesday  last  Miss  Anna  Deuprey  and  Orville  Ray-uond 
Baldwin  were  united  in  marriage  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Steb- 
bins.  The  church,  which  was  very  prettily  dressed  with 
ferns,  palms  and  Bermuda  lilies,  was  more  than  well  filled 
with  the  friends  of  the  young  couple,  the  strains  of  the 
Lohengrin  Chorus  giving  notice  of  the  arrival  of  the  bridal 
party  promptly  on  time.  The  ushers,  Messrs.  Percy  Mills 
and  Douglas  McBryde,  who  had  been  indefatigable  in  their 
efforts  to  seat  the  guests  to  their  satisfaction,  led  the 
cortege  as  it  entered,  and  proceeded  up  the  aisle,  and  fol- 
lowing them  came  two  pretty  young  misses,  the  bride's 
sister,  Claire  Deuprey,  and  Lucille  Tuttle,  who  were 
dressed  in  white  mousseline  de  sole  over  pink  silk,  and  car- 
ried clusters  of  Cecil  Bruner  roses.  The  bride,  who  came 
next  escorted  by  her  father,  wore  an  exquisite  gown  of 
white  dotted  Swiss  over  white  silk,  the  customary  tulle 
vail,  with  natural  orange  blossoms  in  her  hair,  and  in  her 
hand  bouquet.  The  groom  and  his  best  man,  Hillyer 
Deuprey,  awaited  them  in  the  chancel  where  the  ceremony 
was  performed.  Relatives  and  a  few  intimate  friends  of 
the  family  were  present  at  the  wedding  dejeuner  at  the 
Deuprey  mansion  on  Clay  street,  and  by  the  afternoon 
train  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Baldwin  departed  on  their  honeymoon 
trip  South.  The  presents  were  numerous  and  valuable, 
many  of  them  being  articles  most  useful  for  the  house- 
keepirg  they  will  enter  upon  when  they  return  to  town. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Ehrman's  dinner,  on  Saturday 
evening  last,  in  honor  of  Mr.  Albert  Ehrman  and  Miss 
Rose  Neustadter,  proved  to  be  very  enjoyable.  The  nov- 
elties in  the  way  of  dress  reforms  and  tableaux  produced 
more  than  expected  laughter,  especially  as  portion  of  the 
programme  was  entirely  impromptu.  The  hostess,  we  are 
assured,  will  hereafter  investigate  her  "surprise"  party 
programme  beforehand. 

Thursday  was  a  gala  day  at  the  Union  Iron  Works,  a 
large  crowd  assembling  to  witness  the  launch  of  the  two 
gun  boats  Wheeling  and  Marietta.  The  christening  of  the 
Wheeling  was  performed  by  Miss  Lucile  Brown,  of  Wheel- 
ing, Va.,  who  had  been  selected  by  her  townspeople  for 
that  service;  and  they  will  in  due  course  of  time  present 
the  vessel  with  china,  glass  and  a  silver  punch-bowl. 

Mrs.  Francis  Edgerton  will  this  evening  make  her  first 
appearance  as  President  of  the  Mercantile  Library  auxil- 
iary, when  that  body  of  ladies  will  give  a  reception  at  the 
Library,  the  chief  feature  to  be  the  reading  of  Emelie 
Melville,  who  will  recite  scenes  from  Shakespeare  and 
Schiller;  the  sweet  voices  of  Alfred  Wilkie  and  Miss 
Dorothy  Goodsell  will  also  be  heard  in  illustration  of  old 
English  ballads  and  parte-songs. 

Mrs.  Adams'  monthly  reception  last  week  was  a  very 
pleasant  one,  music,  both  vocal  and  instrumental,  alter- 
nating with  dancing  and  games  until  a  late  hour,  a  hand- 
some supper  proving  a  most  delightful  finale  to  the  even- 
ing's enjoyment. 


Card  parties  are  quite  numerous  at  present,  and  the 
number  who  give  them  are  increasing  wonderfully  as  Lent 
goes  on.  One  of  the  most  elaborate  of  these  affairs  was 
given  by  Mrs.  Hardesty  in  her  rooms  at  the  Hotel  Stewart, 
the  prizes  provided  for  the  ladies  who  competed  for  them 
being  extremely  handsome.  Mrs.  Frank  Whitney,  Mrs.  R. 
P.  Schwerine,  Mrs.  Hopkins,  Mrs.  Wilson,  have  also  been 
progressive  euchre  hostesses,  their  parties  ranging  from 
small  to  very  large,  but  all  of  them  were  very  pleasant 
affairs. 

A  delightful  evening  was  passed  on  Friday  night  at  the 
Stern  mansion,  corner  of  Post  and  Leavenworth  streets. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jacob  Stern,  who  recently  returned  from  a 
prolonged  tour  of  Europe  and  the  East,  entertained  their 
friends  at  a  roulette  party.  The  game  was  conducted  on 
a  magnificent  scale,  and  much  profit  as  well  as  credit 
must  be  placed  to  the  efforts  of  "Banker  Heller."  A 
sumptuous  repast  was  served,  and  early  in  the  morning 
the  party  broke  up. 

San  Rafael  is  already  becoming  the  Mecca  towards  which 
the  eyes  of  society  are  turning  for  their  summer  quarters, 
and  present  indications  are  that  it  will  be  the  fashionable 
resort  of  the  season.  At  the  Hotel  Rafael  rooms  are 
already  in  request,  and  many  have  been  taken  for  the 
entire  summer.  The  Gerstles  and  Slosses  will  return  to 
San  Rafael  again  this  year,  as  their  sojourn  there  last  sea- 
son proved  remarkably  pleasant.  The  Wordens,  Townes, 
A.  P.  Reddings,  H.  S.  Crockers,  etc.,  are  among  those 
who  have  been  recent  guests  at  the  hotel,  and  the  cry  is, 
"still  they  come." 

Mme.  Ziska  inaugurated  her  usual  series  of  spring  re- 
ceptions last  Friday  evening,  Professor  Saleberger  being 
the  "talker,"  and  his  theme  "French  Wit  and  Humor," 
which  was  greatly  enjoyed.  Among  recent  diuner  hostesses 
may  be  named  Mrs.  Hermann  Schussler,  whose  party  was 
in  celebration  of  the  twenty-eighth  anniversary  of  her 
marriage. 

On  Wednesday  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jacob  Mayer,  of  Portland, 
Or.,  celebrated  their  golden  weddiDg  at  Alameda.  The 
entire  family,  from  all  parts  of  the  United  States,  as- 
sembled for  the  event.  Mr.  Sol  Hirsch,  ex-Minister  to 
Turkey,  is  a  son-in-law  of  the  Mayer's. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dick  Pease  are  enjoying  the  varieties  of 
Gotham's  climate  and  taking  in  all  the  pleasures  to  be 
found  in  that  charming  village.  Miss  Eva  McAllister  is 
spending  the  winter  in  Washington  City  with  her  sister, 
Mrs.  Frank  Newlands. 

Colonel  and  Mrs.  Charles  P.  Eagan  have  returned  from 
their  trip  to  Europe — Colonel  Eagan  with  added  dignity  of 
rank,  having  received  promotion  in  his  profession  during 
his  absence  abroad. 

That  fortunate  young  couple,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter 
Hobart,  have  been  receiving  congratulations  this  week 
from  far  and  near  over  the  arrival  of  a  baby  daughter. 

Miss  Grace  Hecht,  the  "telegraphic"  debutante  of  the 
season,  gives  an  elaborate  dinner  on  the  30th  instant.  A 
large  number  of  invitations  have  been  sent  out. 

On  Friday  night  Miss  May  Slessinger  informally  enter- 
tained a  few  friends  at  dinner  at  her  home.  Later  the 
party  adjourned  to  the  theatre. 

Mrs.  S.  Fenchtranger's  dinner  was  in  honor  of  the  bride 
and  groom-elect,  Miss  Rosalie  Neustadter  and  Albert 
Ehrman. 

Mrs.  Lily  Coit's  friends,  whose  name  is  legion,  have  been 
greatly  concerned  to  hear  of  her  serious  illness. 

Your  grocer  will  sell  you  Schilling'' s  Best 
tea,  and  return  your  money  in  full  if  you  don't 
like  it. 

He  is  our  agent  to  this  extent  ;  and  we  want 
no   better   business. 


A  Schilling  &  Company 
San  Francisco. 


SAX   PRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


THE     GENUS      TOURIST. 

"  UKKi  ad  H""c  tomorrow,"  pipes  "Buttcr- 

1  f  cup"  In  "P  Thai  typifies  the  recent 

land  touri>t  party  that  BH  mi  up  hi  vis  :i   few  days 

ago  over  a  hundred  strong.     They  are  a  people  who  mean 
well,  but   they   are   like   children  out  for  a   holiday,  and 
to  the  detriment  of  the  comfort  of  Other  p< 
much  like  Ill-behaved  children.    In  people  of  mature 
-  we  learn  to  look  for  something  different.     Of  course 
then  ;ive  harm  In  it,   but  we  don't  like  our  Cali- 

fornia languor  to  be  disturbed,    and   we  don't  take  kindly 
to  lessons  in  culture  of  that  sorl 

On  the  ferries  they  Bock;  they  are  gregarious.  They 
board  a  train  and  the  average  insignificant  commuter  has 
to  shrink  up  within  the  smallest  possible  compass,  and  put 
his  head  out  of  the  window  to  avoid  the  fusillade  of  interro- 
gation points.  Have  you  seen  a  Mock  of  blackbirds,  in  the 
gentle  springtime,  alighting  on  the  branches  of  a  tree, 
and  settling  down  to  tell,  in  shrill  acceuts,  all  about  their 
little,  dinky  times?  Then  you  know  what  the  tourist 
party  is  like.  The  gladsome  chattering  back  and  forth, 
and  around  corners,  and  across  people  who  are  rash 
enough  to  have  taken  seats  within  the  line  of  firing.  The 
dungeon-like  ladies' cabin  of  the  Ukian  was  alive  with  them 
the  other  morning.  Everywhere  tourists  and  touristes. 
(Why  not,  if  we  persist  in  using  somewhat  ridiculously  the 
word  'artistes?")  At  Angel  Island  all  flocked  to  the  port 
side  and  threatened  to  capsize  our  cockle-shell  craft. 
Nothing  less  than  a  stranded  whale  the  every-day  com- 
muter put  it  up,  and  he  flocked  too,  all  by  himself,  only  to 
return  immediately  and  disgustedly  to  his  seat.  It  was 
but  the  tourists  going  through  their  drill — getting  all  the 
scenery  that  was  down  in  their  itinerary,  and  who  can 
blame  them  for  admiring  our  beautiful  military  post,  so 
romantically  situated? 

But  they  are  harmless,  though  laughable.  For  instance, 
when  there  was  a  great  hue  and  cry  because  Mrs.  Some- 
body had  lost  "Henry,"  everybody  in  the  party  was  tell- 
ing everybody  else  to  go  and  help  Mrs.  Somebody  find 
Henry.  The  pleasures  of  the  chase  began.  This  is  no 
breach  of  confidence,  for  they  evidently  thought  Henry's 
defection  and  following  detection  interested  all  the 
passengers.  At  last  Henry  was  located,  enjoying  a  sur- 
reptitious weed,  far  from  the  din  in  the  gentlemen's 
dungeon.  Until  then,  we  of  the  laity  thought  Henry  was 
a  seven-year-old  who  had  eluded  mamma's  vigilance.  He 
turned  out  to  be  a  three  hundred  and  fifty  pound  man  of 
mature  vears  and  obviously  solid  standing  in  the  commun- 
ity. 

In  the  street  car  the  chirping  continued,  much  to  the 
delight  of  the  city-bred  passengers,  who  are  accustomed 
to  the  repose  of  the  Vere  de  Vere  in  this  wild  and  wooly 
country  as  compared  with  what  they  were  called  upon  to 
notice,  willy,  nilly.  When  the  car  reached  Montgomery 
street,  one  bright  young  lady  arose  and  called  in  stentorian 
tones  to  those  on  the  dummy,  "There's  the  Palace,"  in  a 
voice  that  would  make  her  fortune  in  the  passenger  trans- 
ferring department  of  that  hostelry,  and  after  the  marvel- 
ous patience  of  the  conductor  had  been  sorely  tried  by 
long-drawn-out  farewells  to  those  they  were  leaving  in  the 
car,  a  half-dozen  or  more  chatelaine-bagged  feminines 
dropped  off,  on  the  wrong  side,  squeezing  through  the 
wrong  part  of  the  car,  and  were  lost  to  sight  in  the  en- 
veloping rain. 

But  they  bobbed  us  serenely  again  on  the  5  o'clock  trip 
across  the  bay,  and  judging  from  scraps  of  conversation 
caught  en  passant  they  had  been  doing  Chinatown  and  hav- 
ing a  royal  time.  Said  one  blithe  damsel  to  a  young 
.stripling  of  about  forty  summers,  who  looked  as  if  he 
wished  she  were  not  quite  so  self-evident  (as  indeed  seemed 
to  be  the  thought  of  most  of  the  nicely  behaved  little  men 
of  the  party.  "Give  me  some  gum.  Let's  go  up  and  chew 
in  front  of  Miss  Ottinger."  Oh  Acme  of  bliss!  Oh  inno- 
cent joyousness  of  the  cultured  daughter  of  the  East! 

Pince  Nez. 

It  is  everything  to  have  your  private  dinners,  luncheons,  or  ban- 
quets prepared  and  superintended  by  a  competent  caterer.  Max 
Abraham  at  428  Geary  street  is  that  caterer.  His  skill  has  been 
demonstrated  at  nearly  every  swell  private  function  in  the  city. 

•Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use 
children  while  teething . 


MORE  LIGHT 


The  lamp  of  learning  has  shown 
us  why  the  teeth  need  daily  care, 
and  revealed  the  usefulness  of 
Sozodont  for  nearly  forty  years. 


HALL  &  RUCKEL 

NEW  YORK  Proprietors  LONDON 

A  sample  of  Sozodont  and  Sozoderma  Soap 

for  ins  postage,  three  cents. 


GEORGE  MORROW  &  Go., 


(Established  1831.) 

HAY  AND  GRAIN 
Commission   Merchants 


39  Clay  St.  and  28  Commercial  St.,  S.  P. 

Branches  at  Bay  District,  Ingleslde,  and  Third  St.  Hay  Wharf. 

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Side  Walk  and  Garden  Walk  a  specialty 


In  all  Its  branches 
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Special  Rates  Made.    Depot:  428-130  Turk  St.,  S.  F 
Telephone  East  942 

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ket street.  San  Francisco       (Send  for  circular. ) 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


THE  Hungarian  band  was  playing  a  waltz;  very  few 
of  the  people  dining  in  the  Waldorf  palm  garden  were 
aware  of  it;  it  was  simply  one  more  of  the  subtle  ingred- 
ients, like  a  dash  of  maraschino  in  a  sauce,  that  go  to 
make  dining  something  more  than  the  satisfying  of  ap- 
petite. 

The  waltz  was  a  familiar  one,  yet  a  nameless  thing  to 
hundreds  of  people  who  had  danced  to  it,  whistled  it, 
hummed  it  but  knew  not  whence  it  came  or  even  how  to 
designate  it,  though  it  had  become  a  part  of  their  being  in 
the  impressions  it  had  wrought  upon  them. 

Mrs.  Wilfred  James,  dining  at  one  table  with  Cary  King 
and  her  aunt  and  cousins,  the  Duncans,  with  whom  she 
was  stopping  at  the  hotel,  was  wofully  conscious  of  it. 
Mr.  Wilfred  James,  dining  several  tables  away,  half  shut 
from  view  by  a  big  palm,  was  entirely  oblivious  to  it,  and 
yet  these  two  people  had  been  as  radiantly  happy  some 
three  years  before,  floating  about  to  its  bewitching  music 
as  it  is  given  to  mortals  to  be.  They  had  been  separated 
now  for  six  months.  It  had  been  a  case  of  great  beauty 
and  love  of  admiration  on  one  side,  and  of  unreasoning 
jealousy  on  the  other,  with  a  large  admixture  of  family  in- 
terference to  keep  things  seething. 

She  had  not  yet  grown  quite  used  to  meeting  him  about; 
her  heart  still  had  an  uncomfortable  way  of  flunking  an 
instant  when  she  would  first  catch  sight  of  him.  To-night 
she  had  seen  him  the  moment  she  had  entered  the  dining 
room,  and  at  a  glance  had  taken  in  who  the  two  men  were 
with  him.  Since  that  moment  she  had  devoted  herself  to 
being  as  entertaining  as  she  knew  how  to  be  to  her  own 
little  party,  and  had  not  looked  over  in  his  direction  until 
they  began  the  waltz.  It  was  exquisitely  played  and  it 
saddened  her;  how  could  it  fail  to  do  so?  She  remembered 
quite  well  how  often  they  had  danced  together  to  it  before 
she  even  knew  that  he  cared,  and  afterwards  when  she 
was  perfectly  happy.  *  *  *  The  waiter  at  the  other 
table  had  been  refilling  the  glasses  with  Burgundy.  Now 
Burgundy  was  absolutely  forbidden  to  Mr.  Wilfred  James 
on  account  of  his  gouty  tendencies;  but  at  the  moment  his 
wife  had  glanced  ia  his  direction  she  had  seen  him  de- 
liberately waiting  for  his  glass  to  be  filled,  and  a  second 
look  had  found  him  calmly  sioping  it,  she  well  knew  with 
what  satisfaction.  She  also  knew  in  what  torture  he 
would  regret  it.  Only  thirty,  he  had  inherited  this  pain- 
ful legacy  from  his  grandfather,  who  had  also  bestowed  on 
him  his  fortune,  and,  in  return  for  both,  Wilfred's  feelings 
toward  that  relative  were  not  of  unmixed  gratitude. 

During  the  three  years  of  their  married  life  his  gout  had 
been  almost  banished  by  the  simple  outdoor  life  he  had  led, 
and  which  she,  sharing  his  love  of  sports,  had  enjoyed 
with  him.  Port  and  Burgundy,  entrees  and  pates,  were 
"not  dreamed  of  in  their  philosophy"  and  now — her  eyes 
suddenly  filled  with  tears  and  her  hand  shook  a  little  as 
she  tried  to  chip  off  a  bit  of  the  misty  pink  ice  on  her 
plate,  while  she  thought  how  actually  foolhardy  he  had  be- 
come without  her. 

After  dinner  they  lingered  awhile  in  the  Turkish  room; 
the  aunt  and  cousins  commenting  on  the  people  wandering 
up  and  down  the  corridor  and  through  the  rooms;  while 
Cary  talked  commonplaces  to  her  with  his  tongue  and  un- 
utterable things  with  his  eyes.  She  wearied  of  this  after  a 
while  and  went  over  to  one  of  the  little  carved  desks  to 
write  a  note  that  she  wished  to  send  that  evening.  When 
she  had  finished  she  sat  with  it  still  before  her,  leaning 
her  head  on  her  hand  in  thought.  Wilfred  had  just  come 
into  the  hall.  As  she  caught  sight  of  him  she  impulsively 
drew  another  sheet  of  paper  from  the  desk,  tore  it  in  half, 
wrote  three  lines  and  folded  the  half  into  a  narrow  slip; 


then  she  went  back  to  the  others,  taking  a  seat  beside  her 
aunt  on  a  red  canopied  divan  near  the  corridor. 

"Don't  you  want  to  take  in  an  act  or  two  of  the  play?" 
Cary  asked,  leaning  over  her.  Wilfred  was  standing  in 
the  doorway  talking  with  some  friends.  For  a  moment 
she  caught  his  eyes  upon  her,  then  she  looked  smilingly  up 
at  Cary.  "I  should  love  to,"  she  answered,  "if  Aunt 
Mary  likes."  Aunt  Mary  liked  and  so  they  all  rose  to  go. 
Wilfred  was  still  standing  in  the  doorway,  and  Mrs.  Dun- 
can, having  become  aware  of  it,  majestically  led  their  exit 
through  the  opposite  one;  Mrs.  Wilfred,  before  following, 
however,  cast  one  more  guilty  look  in  his  direction  and 
thrust  the  bit  of  paper  she  still  held,  between  the  up- 
holstered arm  and  seat  of  the  divan. 

A  cold  shiver  undulated  down  Wilfred's  spine  as  he 
watched  the  departure — the  Duncans  in  front,  and  Cary 
once  again  beside  his  wife,  who  had  waited  while  he  went 
back  to  pick  up  her  gloves,  which  she  bad  dropped  beside 
the  divan. 

Wilfred  rubbed  his  hand  confusedly  across  his  brow.  He 
could  not  take  in  what  was  being  said  to  him.  Anger, 
jealousy,  a  sense  of  humiliation,  even  pity,  surged  through 
him.  Pity  that  she  had  so  degenerated  in  the  short  time 
they  had  been  apart,  as  to  stoop  to  what  he  believed  he 
had  seen  with  his  own  eyes,  and  the  cad  had  not  even  had 
the  sense  to  find  the  note  she  had  left  there. 

He  excused  himself,  pleading  illness,  and  went  out  into 
the  night. 

As  he  grew  calmer  the  thcught  recurred  to  him  that  the 
note  was  still  in  the  room  where  she  had  left  it.  What  if 
some  one  discovered  it?  He  turned,  hurried  along  and 
re-entered  the  hotel.  The  Turkish  room  was  almost  de- 
serted. He  sank  down  on  the  divan  as  if  waiting  for  some- 
one, then  he  leaned  wearily  back  and  slipped  his  hand 
beneath  the  upholstered  cushion.  He  was  shaking  with 
nervous  tension  and  his  fingers  trembled  weakly  as  they 
found  the  folded  bit  of  paper  they  were  seeking. 

He  pushed  it  forward,  then  his  palm  crushed  over  it  and 
his  heart  contracted  as  at  last  he  drew  it  out  in  his 
clenched  hand.  The  room  for  a  moment  swam  dizzily  be- 
fore him  and  there  seemed  something  fiendish  in  the  red 
glow  that  pervaded  it. 

His  first  impulse  was  to  tear  the  paper  into  bits.  He 
had  not  come  for  it  to  spy  upon  her,  only  to  save  her  from 
herself.  What  folly  had  she  written?  Perhaps  none, 
perhaps  it  was  merely  a  bit  of  paper  with  some  message 
upon  it  that  had  been  handed  to  her.  He  despised  him- 
self for  his  sophistry;  was  he  trying  to  fool  himself  into  be- 
lief that  he  had  a  right  to  look  at  it?  He  had  seen  her  at 
the  desk,  seen  her  smile  at  Cary  a  moment  before  she  had 
slipped  it  into  the  divan  and  afterwards  cast  a  frightened 
look  in  his  direction.  But  what  if  it  were  nothing,  and  he 
was  suffering  all  this  torture  unnecessarily?  She  was  still 
his  wife,  he  bad  a  right  to  know — he  must  know  if  he  were 
doing  her  an  injustice.      He  opened  the  paper  and  looked: 

"Dear  Billie:—1  saw  you  drinking  Burgundy  to-night.  Have  you 
gone  mad?    Please  don't  do  it  again." 

He  could  have  laughed  for  joy  but  he  did  not,  and  in- 
stead two  great  tears  blurred  the  little  paper  in  his  hand. 
She  was  tender  and  good  as  she  had  always  been;  always, 
even  when  jealousy  had  made  a  devil  of  him  and  her 
family's  interference  had  converted  him  into  a  fiend. 

He  gazed  triumphantly  around.  Never  before  had  the 
room  appeared  so  exquisitely  beautiful.  Its  soft  red  glow 
warmed  his  heart  with  hope,  the  delicate  arabesques  upon 
the  walls  were  like  the  tender  verdure  of  the  spring,  hold- 
ing a  promise  of  joy.  He  read  the  note  again.  It  was 
just  like  her.  She  always  called  him  Billie  when  she  was 
trying  to  persuade  him  into  anything.  He  folded  it  ten- 
derly and  put  it  in  his  breast  pocket.  Should  he  write  her 
a  letter?  No,  the  Duncans  might  see  it,  and  then  there 
would  be  more  comment  and  interference.  A  bright  idea 
struck  him.  She  would  surely  come  and  look  to  see  if  he 
had  found  the  note;  he  would  put  another  in  its  place. 

'  'Bear  Ethel : — I  will  give  up  Burgundy  if  you  will  write  me  another 
line." 

She  found  it  the  next  morning.  She  laughed  a  little  and 
put  it  in  her  glove.  She  was  going  out  but  she  stopped  a 
moment  to  write  an  answer. 

"Dear  BiUie:—Qi  course,  I  cannot  be  indifferent  to  your  taking 
care  of  yourself,  so  please  do  for  the  sake  of  Auld  Lang  Syne." 


March  ro,  189; 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


*3 


Ho  found  it  that  night  in  the  divan  but  had  no  glimpse 
of  her. 

What  Is  lh<   dm  ■■'.    taking  care  ol  one's  self  with 
nothing  in  life  worth  looking  forward 

It  frightened  her  a  little  when  -lie  found  this  note.  She 
did  not  know  quite  wh.rr  •  lriftini:   now  afier  all 

the  desperate  misery  befoi  m  log  their  separation, 

but  there  was  something  deliriously  absurd  In  the  whole 
affair  at  present — this  surreptitious  writing  to  her  own 
husband  with  a  divan  for  a  letter  box  and  her  aunt  and 
cousins  for  dragons,  such  deadly  dull  dragons  to  be  tied  to 
as  she  found  them. 

She  did  not  answer  this  last  note  but  when  she  wandered 
into  the  Turkish  room  the  next  morning  she  found  another 
awaiting  her. 

••/>'.ir  Stad:— Thla  will  be  a  p<>..»l  bye,  I  cannot  stand  it  any 
longer.    I  am  going  to  sail  f..r  the  Booth  of  France  on  Saturday." 

She  had  taken  the  note  into  her  own  room  to  read  after 
drawing  it  from  its  hiding  place  and  she  slipped  down 
quite  weak  into  a  chair  and  tried  to  steady  herself  and 
think  just  what  it  meant  to  her. 

Billie  in  the  south  of  France  and  she  dragging  dismally 
around  with  her  aunt;  in  a  false  position,  every  act  criti- 
cised and  nothing  better  to  hope  for  in  the  future.  Billie 
thousands  of  miles  away,  perhaps  ill  and  she  would  not 
know  it;  perhaps  falling  in  love  with — she  sprang  up;  she 
could  not  stand  it.  Oh!  if  he  would  only  ask  her  to  go 
with  him,  if  she  were  only  sure  he  wanted  her.  So  she 
wrote: 

"Drar  Riltie: — I  want  to  say  good-bye  to  you.  1  cannot  have  you 
go  away  without  that." 

It  was  Thursday.  She  found  his  answer  that  same 
night. 

"Dear  Ethe! :—  Try  me  once  more  and  come  with  me." 

She  sent  the  following  to  his  club,  she  was  so  afraid  to 
trust  it  to  the  divan. 

"Dear  BiUie-.—l  will  come,  but  I  shall  have  to  run  away  from 
Aunt  Mary.  I  don't  dare  to  face  her.  Tell  me  how  I  can  come  to 
you." 

He  sent  his  answer  by  a  messenger  from  the  club. 

"Dear  Ethel: — Take  your  relatives,  all  of  them,  to  the  theatre  this 
evening;  have  your  maid  pack  your  trunks,  and  I  will  see  that  they 
go  aboard  to-night.  Tbe  steamer  sails  at  ten,  but  if  you  will  not 
mind  an  early  breakfast,  I  will  be  at  the  hotel  in  the  Turkish  room 
at  seven.  Oh,  Ethel,  my  darling,  we  will  start  all  new  again,  and  I 
shall  try  to  make  up  for  all  the  misery  of  the  past.    Your  husband, 

Wilfred. 

She  did  not  know  until  she  received  this  letter  how  home- 
sick she  had  been. 

"When  she  found  him  waiting  for  her  at  seven  he  was  the 
only  one  in  the  room.  He  was  looking  out  of  one  of  the 
windows  but  he  heard  her  step  and  turned  quickly  to 
meet  her. 

She  put  out  her  hand  but  he  only  took  it  to  draw  her 
near  and  kiss  her.     "Are  you  all  ready?" 

She  nodded;  she  could  not  speak;  her  lips  quivered  a 
little,  and  yet  she  laughed  as  he  hurried  her  into  his  cab 
at  the  door. 

"I  feel  as  if  I  were  doing  something  dreadful,"  she  said 
at  last.  "I  have  written  to  Aunt  explaining  as  best  I 
could  but  I  am  afraid  she  will  not  understand." 

"She  won't  have  to,"  he  answered  gaily.  They  were 
rattling  down  the  avenue  by  this  time.  "I  understand 
though — I  know  what  an  everlasting  fool  I  have  been.  I 
understand  what  I  came  very  near  losing."  He  kissed 
her  again.  "O  Ethel,  Ethel,  I  am  only  thankful  that  I 
understood  in  time." — Mary  D.  Hatch  in  The  Peterson 
Magazine. 

THE  election  of  Henry  J.  Crocker  to  the  Presidency  of 
the  Pacific  Coast  Jockey  Club  was  an  excellent  selec- 
tion. Mr.  Crocker  has  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  club, 
is  a  great  horseman,  and  will  maintain  the  reputation 
established  for  it  by  Mr.  Spreckels.  The  places  of  all  the 
gentlemen  who  resigned  have  been  wisely  filled,  so  that  the 
club  will  doubtless  preserve  its  high  position  as  the  ex- 
ponent of  square  racing,  enjoying  the  full  confidence  of  the 
public,  and  fully  deserving  it. 


SOUTHERN     PACIFIC     COMPANY     (PACIFIC    STRU.) 
Tr»lni  ban  ud  in  Dm  to  Arrive  »l  SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copperplate  engraving. 
Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


Cooper  &  Co.,  746 


Drowsiness  is  dispelled  by  Beecham's  pills. 


A  rem  January  I,  l&V". 


I  Arrir* 


Uar,   | 

••ADA  Nile*.  Sao  Jose,  ana  way   Rim  Ions  8:45  A 

vtlantlc  Express,  i  v-i.  nantl  K»st —    8:45P 

?  00  a  Benicla.    Vacau:le.    Kumscy,    Sacramento,    Orovillo,    and 

Redding,  via  Da  6:46  P 

V'allejo,  Napa.  Callstoga,  Santa  Rosa    6:1b  P 
8:SJa  Nilca.  San  Jos  ,  lone,  Sacramento,  Marysvlllc, 

Tehnmii    Liiiil    Red    Hlutt 4:16P 

•B:J0a  Peters  and  Mllum «7:I6P 

8:00a  New  Orleans    Express,   Raymond  (tor    Yosemlte),    Fresno, 
BakeraOeld,  Banta  Itarnar*,  Loa  Angeles,  Dcming,  El  Paso, 

New  Orleans,  and  K;..; 4:45  p 

9:00  A  Martinez  and  Stockton     1:45p 

9:00A  Vallcjo 6:16P 

Nllea,  9an  Jose  I.lvermore,  and  Stockton 7:16P 

•l:00p  Sacramento  River  stranicrs *9:00P 

ItOOF  Niles. Sun  .lose,    and    I.lvermore K:45A 

tl:30p  Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations r7:45P 

4:00p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Calls  toga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa       . ...  0:15 A 

4:00  p  Benicla,    Vacuvllle.  Woodland,   Knight's    Landing,  Marys- 

ville.  Orovlllc.  and  Sacramento 11:15a 

4:30  p  Lathrop.  Stockton,  Modesto,  Merced,  and  Fresno,  going  via 

Niles,  returning  via   Martinez 11:45  A 

5:0Op  Los  Angeles   Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,  Santa  Barbara,  and 

Los  Angeles 10.45A 

5:00p  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East 10:45a 

6:U0  p  European  mall,  Ogden  and  East 9:45  A 

6:00  p  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose 7:45a 

17:00  p  Vallejo.  r7:45p 

7  :00p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysvllle,   Redding,  Port- 
land. Puget  Sound  and  East 11:15  A 

H10:00p  "Sunset  Limited."    Fresno,  Los  Angeles,  El  Paso,  New 

Orleans,  and  East gt2:45p 

Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 

8:15  a  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations    5:50  P 

•3:16  P  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:20a 

4:15  p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gates 9:50  a 

til  :45p  Hunters'  Excursion,  Sao  Jose  and  way  stations J7:20P 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 


6:45a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    t 
8:15a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  princlpalway  stations    7 

10:40  A  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 

11:80  A  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations  3 

*2:30p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose.  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa 

Cruz,  Salinas.  Monterey.  Pacific  Grove *10 

*3:30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9 

«4:30P  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8 

6 :30  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations *8 

6 :30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6: 

tll:45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations        t7 


:00P 
:0UP 


:40A 
:45  A 
05  A 
:45A 
35  A 
:45p 


San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local. 


t«6-00  Al 
8:00  A 

[      7:15  A 

(9:45  A 

9:00a 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10  :00  a 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

ill. 00  A 

Fitchburg, 

12:45  P 

2:00  P 

San  Leandro, 

H:45  p 

3:00  P 

and 

4:45  P 

4:00  P 

Haywards. 

5:45  P 

5:00  P 

6:15  P 

5:30  p 

7:45  P 

7:00  P 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

8:45  P 

8:00  P 

<  From  Niles 

9:45  P 

9:00  P 

10:50  P 

ttll:is  p 

lttl2:00  p 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  ot  Market  street  cslip  8) .— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  a.  M.,  11:00.  »2:00. 13:00.  »4:00,  t5:00  and  »6 :00  P.M. 

From  Oakland— Footot  Broadway.  — «6:00,8:00,  10:00  A.  M. ;  {12 :00,  *1 :00, 
12:00,  »3:00,J4:00  »5:00p.  M. 

A  for  Morning,     p  tor  Alternoon.     *Sundays  excepted.     (-Saturdays  only. 

{Sundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays.  I  Sundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  AND  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  P  M.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting  at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  et«c.    No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Coptic  (via  Honolulu) Thursday,  April  1, 1897 

Gaelic Wediesday,  April  21. 1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  11,  1897 

Belgic  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29, 1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office,  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS,  Seoretarv. 

iMBMlfl  S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu   only,  Tuesday, 

■jlfiRiL  March23,  at  2  p    m 

fc  S.  S.  "Mariposa,"  Thursday,  April  1st,  at  2  P.  M. 

I   ^^77~^\  Line   to  Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 

SlEuOlSlliP^  °U  '""■  '  J,  d.  SPRECKELS  4  BROS.  CO., 
iWmPldP/i-  Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
tyilipilCCr     Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


24 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


March  20,  1897. 


THE     TAVERN      ON      THE     FRONT. 

DOWN  on  the  water  front,  empty,  forsaken, 
Stands  an  old  tavern,  dust-covered  and  grey; 
Daily  and  nightly  its  timbers  are  shaken 

By  the  rough  breezes  that  sport  on  the  bay. 
Barred  are  its  windows  with  meaningless  shutters, 

Locked  is  the  portal  that  never  knew  key ; 
Filled  are  the  halls  with  the  ominous  mutters 

Of  winds  that,  imprisoned,  make  moan  for  the  sea. 
Many  long  years  the  old  tavern  has  carried 

The  sign  that  is  sad  and  too  common :  ''To  Let;" 
Few  people  saw  it  and  none  of  them  tarried, 

None  of  them  viewed  the  old  inn  with  regret. 
Brave  were  the  men  who  attempted  to  run  it, 

Loafers  will  pass  it  nor  give  it  a  glance; 
Even  the  venturesome  little  ones  shun  it, 

Policemen,  when  passing,  will  eye  it  askance. 
Yet  it  is  said  in  the  days  long  departed. 

Came  to  this  tavern  from  countries  afar 
Men  that  were  mighty  of  limb,  lion  hearted- 
Men  who  had  braved  tribulation  and  war. 
Some  of  them  came  seeking  fabulous  treasure, 

Some  of  them  came  seeking  freedom  or  rest. 
We  of  to-day  may  not  venture  to  measure 

The  hopes  of  the  men  that  first  came  to  the  West. 

Here  came  the  miners  and  squandered  their  wages, 

Bought  the  red  wine  with  a  ruddier  gold  ; 
Wrote  in  red  letters  the  earliest  pages 

Of  doings  long  famous  and  ever  re-told. 
Till  the  young  sun  with  its  golden-tipped  finger 

Woke  the  great  mountains  with  bosoms  dew-pearled, 
Here  in  the  tavern  the  heroes  would  linger. 

Telling  the  tales  that  awakened  a  world ! 
Once  the  rooms  echoed  the  sound  of  men's  laughter, 

Heard,  as  they  drank,  the  clear  clink  of  the  glass; 
Heard  the  brave  singing  that  followed  right  after, 

Songs  of  the  home,  or  the  mine,  or  the  lass. 
Now  the  strong  singers  are  silent  and  sleeping, 

Drear  are  the  chambers  they  sang  in,  and  cold; 
Death  and  forgetfulness  have  in  their  keeping 

Those  who  once  drank  in  the  days  that  are  old. 

Empty  the  house  is,  rat-ridden  and  rotten, 

Only  the  sunbeams  caress  its  poor  face; 
There  it  is  standing,  despised  and  forgotten, 

Left  far  behind  in  the  city's  mad  race. 
Only  at  night-time,  when  slumbers  the  city, 

When  the  white  mist  covers  hillside  and  street, 
Come  the  old  spirits  who  love  it  and  pity 

The  place  that  once  shook  'neath  the  tread  of  their  feet. 
San  Francisco,  March  20,  1897.  Howard  V.  Sutherland. 


BICYCLING     NOTES. 


THE  bicycle  races,  which  open  at  the  Mechanics'  Pavil- 
ion to-night,  will  be  the  greatest  indoor  races  ever 
seen  in  this  country  without  any  exceptions.  The  greatest 
aggregation  of  cracks  which  ever  assembled  at  a  race 
meet  in  this  country  are  entered  for  the  events  which  have 
been  so  arranged  that  every  class  of  rider,  from  the  short 
sprinter  to  the  long-distance  men  will  have  opportunities 
to  display  their  prowess. 

One  of  the  best  events  of  to-night's  programme  will  be 
the  first  heat  of  the  five-mile  race  for  the  Club  Cup  Race. 
This  event  will  be  paced  by  tandems,  and  an  endeavor  will 
be  made  to  pull  the  riders  out  under  the  amateur  record 
for  Eve  miles. 

There  are  sixteen  entries  for  the  professional  scratch 
race,  the  distance  being  one  mile.  The  entry  includes  Jay 
Eaton,  the  champion  indoor  rider  of  the  world,  Charley 
Wells,  the  hero  of  last  year's  indoor  meet,  W.  E.  Becker, 
the  Minneapolis  man  who  has  been  doing  such  good  work 
on  large  gears  recently,  Prad  Loughead,  the  champion  of 
Canada,  George  Bovee,  the  Texas  champion,  Floyd  Mac- 
farland,  the  San  Jose  wonder,  the  Terrills  and  Allan  Jones 
of  this  city,  and  others. 

Mayor  Phelan  has  consented  to  start  the  first  race,  and 
he  will  be  the  first  Mayor  of  this  or  any  other  city  to  start 
a  bicycle  race.  The  Honorable  Mayor  takes  a  great  deal 
of  interest  in  cycling,  and  the  management  of  the  tourna- 
ment knowing  this,  invited  him  to  do  the  starting  to-night 
in  the  first  race.  Society  will  be  there  in  large  numbers, 
as  the  entertainment  is  a  first-class  one,  having  none  of 
the  disagreeable  features  of  many  other  sports.  The 
music  will  be  the  best,  Blanchar's  Military  Band  having 
been  engaged  for  the  entire  season  of  three  weeks. 


Old  age 

comes  early  to  the  clothes  that  are 
dragged  up  and  down  over  the 
wash-board.  It's  ruinous.  Nothing 
else  uses  them  up  so  thoroughly 
and  so  quickly.  This  wear  and 
tear,  that  tells  so  on  your  pocket, 

ought  to  be  stopped.  Get  some 
Pearline — use  it  just  as  directed 

—  no  soap  with  it — and  see  how 
much  longer  the  clothes  last,  and 

how  much  easier  and  quicker 
the  work  is.     Pearline  saves  the 

rubbing. 

Teddlers  and  some  unscrupulous  grocers  will  tell  you 
"  this  is  as  good  as"  or  "  the  same  as  Pearline."     IT'S 
.,     yj  «       FALSE — Pearline  is  never  peddled,  and  if  your 

*t     rS^j  f*  K     crrocer  sends  vou  something  in  place  of  Pearline, 
be  honest-W  it  lick.  513  JAMES  PVLE,  New  York. 


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bbl.  At  the  works  of  the 


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SAN     FRANCISCO    AND     NORTH     PACIFIC    RAILWAY    CO. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    TlBUBON  FERRY-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00,  11:00am;  12:35,3:30  5:10,6:30pm.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trip  at  ll:30p  m.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :50  and  11 :30  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00,9:30.  11:00a  m;  1:30.  3:30,  5:0U,6:20PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO  SAN   FSANCISC0, 
WEEK  DAYS— «:15,  7:50,  9:80,  11:10  AM;  12:45,  3:40,5:10PM.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at  1:55  and  6:35  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40.  11:10  AM;  1 :40,  3 :40, 5 :00,  6 :25  P  M. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Scbuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  F. 


Week  Days. |  Sundays. 


7:30am 
3:30pm 
5:10  PM 


8:00  am 
9:30am 
5:00pm 


7:30am 
3:30  pm 


In  Efleot  Oct.  14,  : 


ARRIVE  IN  S.  F. 


Destination.  Sundays  I  Week  Days 

Novato,  10:40  AM  I     8:40  AM 

Petaluma,  6:10pm         10:25  AM 

Santa  Rosa.  7:35  PM  I      6:22  pm 


Fulton,    Windsor 

Healdsburg, 

Geyserville.  Cloverdale 


7:30  AM 

I   8:00  AM 

I  Pieta 

,  Hopland,  Ukiah  | 

7:35PM 

I     6:22  p  M 

7:30A  M 
3:30PM 

1    8:00AM 

1 

Guerneville. 

7:35pm 

1    10:25  A  M 
6:22  p  M 

7:30am 

5:  10  pm 

1    8:0iam 
|    5:00  PM 

1 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40AM 
6:10PM 

8:40  A  M 

6:2->  p  M 

7:30am 
3:30pm 

I    8 :00  A  M 
1    5:00  PM 

| 

Sevastopol. 

10:40  am 
6:10pm 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs' Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  Highland 
Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake  port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport 
and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs, 
Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake.  Upper  Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John 
Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's.  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  HullvilJe, 
Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot  Springs,  Mendocino  City.  Ft.  Bragg.West- 
port,  Usal,  "Willitts,  Canto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Harris,  Scotia,  Eureka. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  atreduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  an  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.W.  FOSTER  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agent. 

PACIFIC    COAST    STEAMSHIP    CO. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf,  San  Francisco  for  ports  In  Alaska, 
6     A.M..  March  12,  17.  22,  27 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports ,  March  2,  7,  12,17,22,27, 
and  every  5th  dav  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  p.  m.  Mar.  1,  5, 
9,  13,  17,  21.  25.  29,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  A,  M. ;  Mar  3,  7, 11, 15, 
19,  23.  27,  31  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  Mar.  1.  5,  9,  13, 17,  21,  25, 
29,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter,  at  11  A.  m. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  a.  m., 
25th  of  each  month 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  GenU  Agents,       10  Market  st,  S.  F. 

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Vol.  L IV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO.   MARCH  27.  1897. 


Number  13. 


Printed  and  /'-MiM.a  wry  nalmrda,  t,,  in,  proprutor,  rRKD  MARB/OT7 
5S  Kearny  ilreet.  San  Franaeco  Kntered  at  San  francuco  l'oit- 
ofice  a*  Second-das*  Mat 

TAe  office  ot    !'■    t/MWa  LM1  t\rt  CUyUal  Temple  Court; 

and  at  Chicago.  ««  Boyce  Mldtaf,  {Fran*  B  MorriAon.  Kutttrn 
Repretentatire),  where  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  tubecrip- 
lion  and  ad>  •  • 

REPUBLICAN  Senators  are  still  berating  the  Civil 
Service  sy.-tem.  It  is  rather  hard  for  the  victors  to 
find  that  they  have  been  deprived  of  the  spoils;  but  the 
country  generally  believes  in  the  system  of  permanency  in 
office  and  promotion  on  merit. 

L( 'S  ANGELES  is  just  now  engaged  in  rejecting  sev- 
eral miles  of  asphalt  pavement,  involving  an  expendi- 
ture of  more  than  $100,000.  This  is  rather  more  than  San 
Francisco  has  ever  tackled  at  one  time;  but  there  is  no 
doubt  that  a  great  many  times  $100,000  have  been  paid  for 
work  in  this  city  that  should  have  been  condemned. 

THE  scandalous  Clerk  Duckworth  was  given  a  cane  by 
his  legislative  associates  last  Saturday  night,  as  a 
token  of  their  regard  for  bim  for  taking  care  of  their 
friends  on  the  stuffed  pay-roll  at  the  opening  of  the  session. 
The  cane  would  be  more  honorably  worn  out  upon  the 
shoulders  of  this  object  of  general  disesteem,  than  in  sup- 
porting the  carcass  of  him.  A  hundred  canes  could  not 
prop  up  his  battered  reputation. 

LARGE  numbers  of  Japanese  are  going  into  Mexico, 
where  they  will  colonize  and  cultivate  a  big  tract  of 
land.  The  indolent  natives  of  Mexico  will  find  that  they 
are  no  match  for  the  industrious  Jap;  and  they  will  be 
given  lessons  of  thrift  and  commercial  enterprise  calcu- 
lated to  rouse  their  hostility  to  the  further  introduction  of 
Japanese.  These  progressive  people  are  no  more  formid- 
able when  they  are  carrying  a  rifle  than  when  armed  with 
a  spade. 

THE  Blythe  case  goes  to  the  Supreme  court,  and  the 
fair  young  widow  is  not  yet  through  with  the  law's 
delays.  However,  compared  with  other  celebrated  cases, 
she  has  no  great  cause  for  complaint  as  to  time  or  cost. 
The  value  of  the  estate  is  large,  and  unusual  progress  was 
made  in  reaching  an  ending,  when  all  the  conflicting  inter- 
ests are  considered.  This  appeal  may  prevent  final  settle- 
ment for  several  years,  but  is  not  likely  to  finally  disturb 
the  result. 

THE  inquisitive  nose  of  Max  Popper,  political  reformer 
and  purchaser  of  Supervisorial  favors,  has  been  in- 
serted into  the  city's  affairs  once  more.  Max  desired  the 
Auditor  to  refuse  payment  of  the  increased  salaries  of 
police  officers  recently  authorized  by  the  Legislature. 
Broderick  referred  the  exponent  of  pure  politics  in 
municipal  management  to  the  courts.  Popper  evidently 
has  no  sense  of  the  humorous.  He  has  no  idea  what  a 
good  joke  he  really  is. 

DURRANT  has  made  his  final  appeal  to  the  Supreme 
Court  for  a  rehearing  of  his  case,  which  will  no  doubt 
be  denied,  as  his  chief  argument  for  another  chance  of 
escape  is  found  in  the  alleged  prejudice  of  the  public  mind, 
owing  to  the  newspapers.  There  is  nothing  in  this  con- 
tention, which  was  fully  considered  in  the  Supreme  Court 
opinion  affirming  his  conviction  in  the  lower  court.  Over- 
ruled a  second  time,  the  murderer  will  appeal  to  Governor 
Budd  for  pardon.  We  shall  have  no  objection  to  the  Gov- 
ernor's pardoning  Durrant  —  only  let  the  document  be 
signed  twenty-four  hours  after  his  execution. 


T1IK  removal   of   old   and  unused  cur  tracks  about  the 
city,  whose  abandonment  has  been  authorized    by  the 
street  railroad  By  Stem,  will  very  materially  aid  the  work 

of  bettering  the  pavings,    Now  that  the  spirit  of  improve- 
ment is  awakened  it  should  be  encouraged  in  every  way. 

IT  has  been  discovered  that  the  contractors  on  the  Affil- 
iated Colleges  are  mixing  too  much  whiskey  with  their 
sand,  and  not  enough  Portland  cement.  The  company 
saloon  is  playing  an  important  part  in  the  foundation  of 
the  structure.  The  combination  should  be  broken  by  for- 
feiture of  the  contract,  and  a  suit  for  damages  against  the 
conspirators,  whose  dishonest  greed  would  shame  an  aver- 
age legislator. 

IT  is  a  matter  worthy  of  congratulation  that  Blanther, 
the  man  who  murdered  Mrs.  Langfeldt  in  this  city, 
chose  to  take  his  own  life  rather  than  return  and  stand 
trial  for  his  crime.  But  his  judgment  was  decidedly  bad. 
Had  he  known  the  history  of  murder  trials  in  this  State, 
he  would  have  felt  little  fear  from  arrest.  In  California, 
for  murder,  we  rarely  make  the  punishment  fit  the  crime; 
and  Blanther,  had  he  a  little  money,  might  have  counted 
upon  dying  of  old  age  decently  on  his  prison  cot,  rather 
than  at  the  end  of  a  rope. 

THE  fight  for  pure  food  continues,  and  the  authorities 
are  still  swearing  out  warrants  for  the  arrest  of  al- 
leged violators.  It  is  amazing  that  reputable  firms  will 
undertake  to  defend  the  sale  of  impure  food.  After  having 
the  character  of  the  goods  clearly  established,  there 
should  be  no  effort  to  continue  their  sale.  It  is  to  the  in- 
terest of  the  dealer  to  sell  only  pure  food,  and  the 
merchants  who  fight  the  rigid  enforcement  of  the  law  pro- 
tecting the  public  from  this  sort  of  fraud  are  making  a 
great  mistake.  Meantime  the  officers  should  push  the 
crusade  with  vigor.  Men  who  sell  impure  goods  know- 
ingly should  be  made  to  suffer  for  their  dishonesty. 

THE  heavy  snows  in  Chicago,  the  cyclones  and  the  ter- 
rible floods  further  East,  should  recall  to  the 
grumblers  of  California  that  they  hardly  know  when  they 
are  well  off.  Simple  existence  here  brings  more  solid  com- 
fort than  the  accumulation  of  wealth  in  less  favorable 
climes.  Then  the  immediate  future  is  bright.  Crops  of  all 
kinds  look  well,  and  prices  promise  to  be  good.  Hard  as 
times  have  been,  California's  experience  has  been  far  more 
agreeable  than  that  of  the  Eastern  States.  Notwithstand- 
ing the  fact  that  the  Republican  advance  agent  of  Pros- 
perity is  rather  lagging,  we  may  be  able  to  get  along 
without  him.  Industry  and  the  resources  of  California 
make  a  combination  that  cannot  be  beaten,  with  protec- 
tion or  without  it. 

ONE  of  the  nuisances  from  which  the  people  of  San 
Francisco  suffer  is  the  carts  of  the  scavengers.  Their 
wagons  are  not  provided  with  covers,  and  as  they  are  filled 
to  overflowing  with  all  manner  of  rubbish  before  being 
taken  to  the  dumping  grounds,  their  contents  are  scattered 
broadcast  as  they  jolt  along  the  streets.  An  ordinance 
compelling  these  energetic  and  odorous  gentlemen  of  the 
swill-cart  to  have  their  wagon-boxes  water  tight  as  to  bot- 
tom, and  to  provide  their  wagons  with  complete  covers, 
would  materially  reduce  the  enormity  of  their  filthy 
offenses.  There  are  laws  enough  now  to  partially  correct 
the  evil;  but  they  are  not  obeyed.  It  would  be  well  to 
make  them  more  comprehensive,  and  then  instruct  the 
police  to  rigidly  enforce  them.  A  few  arrests  and  heavy 
fines  would  do  the  business.  This  aromatic  subject  is  worth 
the  Mayor's  attention. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  27,  1897. 


THE     COMING      MONETARY      CONFERENCE. 

THE  House  by  a  majority  of  282  votes  passed  the 
Senate  Bill,  authorizing  the  President  to  call  a  con- 
ference of  foreign  authorities,  to  unite  with  the  United 
States,  in  establishing  an  international  ratio  in  the  pro- 
portional prices  between  gold  and  silver.  The  St.  Louis 
platform  is  to  be  given  a  chance.  Consistency  is  to  remain 
a  jewel.  Meanwhile  Senator  Wolcott  has  returned  from 
his  delightful  trip.  He  was  "treated  like  a  Prince"  in 
England,  was  "received  with  open  arms  by  the  economists 
of  Germany,"  and  actually  assured  that  "if  he  could  win 
over  England,  Germany  would  then  be  glad  to  take  the 
subject  up  again."  In  other  words,  he  was  diplomatically 
received,  but  that  is  about  all.  His  tail  was  tickled  and 
plentifully  sprinkled  with  salt,  but  nothing  was  accom- 
plished at  any  point  of  the  compass,  but  yet  the  high 
spirited  Senator  returns  home  full  of  hope  that  he  has 
surely  sown  the  seed  of  an  international  agreement.  Mr. 
McKinley  takes  office  charged  with  the  duty  of  bringing 
about  an  international  agreement  on  the  silver  question, 
and  he  has  got  to  do  it,  or  become,  politically,  a  very  sick 
man. 

In  entering  upon  this  forlorn  enterprise,  it  is  interest- 
ing to  note  the  absurd  inconsistency  of  the  party  of  the 
ins  on  the  subject.  Not  an  organ  of  that  party,  and  not  a 
stump  speaker  from  McKinley  down,  in  the  last  campaign, 
failed  to  prosecute  the  canvass  on  the  line  of  ridiculing 
every  principle  of  the  bi-metallic  doctrine,  and  denouncing 
its  whole  purpose  as  repudiative  and  dishonest.  It  was 
warmly  denied  that  government  had  any  power  to  change 
the  relative  value  of  the  precious  metals,  or  that  it  would 
be  honest  to  exercise  that  power  did  the  Government 
possess  it.  One  and  all  joined  in  ascribing  to  the  Bryan- 
ites  the  exclusive  possession  of  such  wild,  fantastic,  dis- 
honest aud  revolutionary  notions.  But  now  the  party's 
representatives  in  Congress  have  pretty  unanimously  set 
the  seal  of  their  approval  to  a  measure  designed  to  pro- 
mote a  policy  of  government  differing  in  no  respect,  save 
from  the  policy  of  government  advocated  by  the  Bryanites. 
For  if  one  Government  cannot  materially  alter  the  relative 
values  of  gold  and  silver,  then  a  dozen  Governments 
cannot,  even  if  they  were  inclined  that  way,  which 
they  are  not.  An  international  agreement  would 
introduce  silver  monometallism  no  less  certainly 
than  independent  action  by  the  United  States  alone. 
With  silver  at  50  cents  on  the  dollar,  there  is  no  nation  or 
combination  of  nations  that  can  long  maintain  it  at  par. 
Strong  as  they  may  be,  the  different  Governments  are 
debtors,  and  own  very  little  of  the  world's  money.  With 
the  silver  strain  upon  them  all,  save  England,  they  cannot 
an}'  more  raise  silver  to  a  parity  with  gold  than  they  can 
lift  the  bed  of  the  ocean  to  a  level  with  the  Himalayas. 

Again,  if  government  can  so  change  the  values  of  gold 
and  silver,  then  an  international  agreement  to  restore 
silver  to  an  equality  with  gold,  would  no  less  certainly 
cheapen  gold  and  the  dollar  of  the  contract,  and  result  in 
the  loud  voiced  and  much  dreaded  repudiation.  The  only 
difference  between  the  two  schemes  is  that  the  repudia- 
tion in  one  case  would  be  less  extensive  and  less  disturb- 
ing than  in  the  other.  We  do  not  believe  in  fooling  the 
people  any  part  of  the  time.  We  detest  indirection,  and 
believe  in  the  people  being  told  the  whole  truth.  The  fact 
is  that  there  is  not  a  man  prominent  in  public  life  to-day 
who  believes  that  international-bimetallism  is  practicable 
or  of  possible  realization.  It  was  adopted  at  St.  Louis  as 
a  mere  gilded  device,  intended  to  cover  a  temporary  pur- 
pose. There  had  to  be  a  show  of  doing  "something  for 
silver,"  or  votes  would  be  lost  by  the  thousand.  The  In- 
ternational Conference  idea  was  the  tub  that  was  thrown 
to  the  whale.  It  served  to  amuse  the  crowd  that  existed 
at  the  last  election,  but  there  its  usefulness  ended.  Gold 
is  the  dearest  money,  and  therefore  is,  and  must  continue 
to  be,  the  money  of  ultimate  redemption.  The  demagogues 
of  the  time  and  place  may  preach  the  virtues  of  the  cheap 
dollar,  but  it  will  be  without  avail.  There  can  be  no  more 
cheap  dollar  than  there  can  be  an  18  inch  yard  stick .  Russia 
refuses  to  even  consider  the  silver  question,  Chili  has  gone 
to  the  gold  basis,  Japan  is  making  preparations  to  do  the 
same  thing.  The  United  States,  or  rather  a  portion  of 
them,  are  alone  for  silver-monometallism,  and  at  the  same 
time,  strange  to  say,  we  are  making  strenuous   efforts  to 


take  a  leading  part  in   the  commerce  of  the  world.     To 

build  up  a  foreign  trade  we  must   work   with  the  tools  of 

trade,  and  no    tool    is    more    essential    than  a  safe  and 
generally  adopted  means  of  exchange. 

The  Laws  Forty-five  States  furnish  us  with  an  esti- 
We  Pass,  mated  supply  of  10,000  laws  a  year.  Our 
own  Legislature  tried,  but  failed  to  get  over 
1200  bills  through.  Most  of  them,  of  course, 
are  not  general  laws,  but  represent  jobs,  interferences 
with  corporations  likely  to  bleed,  or  with  the  affairs  of 
Cities,  Towns,  or  Counties  that  there  is  money  in.  Yet  it 
is  but  fair  to  say  that  we  have  had  many  worse  and  few- 
better  Legislatures  than  this  last  one,  which  is  not  saying 
very  much.  That  there  has  been  bribery  to  a  limited  de- 
gree there  is  unfortunately  very  little  uoubt.  But  this  is 
a  common  occurrence  with  each  recurring  Legislature, 
and  is  only  what  the  News  Letter  predicted  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  session.  .It  does  not  often  or  necessarily 
follow  that  a  bill  is  bad  because  its  passage  has  to  be  paid 
for.  Some  of  the  best  laws  now  on  the  statute  book  have 
required  money  to  pass  them.  It  is  a  way  that  many  of 
the  impecunious  members  have  of  making  an  adequate 
salary  and  of  paying  their  election  expenses.  It  is  a  prac- 
tice that  has  come  to  be  looked  upon  with  a  degree  of 
toleration  that  is  simply  shameful.  The  "combine" 
slipped  through  the  courts  four  years  ago,  as  easily  as  if 
bribing  law-makers  was  good  public  policy.  A  bill  has 
been  introduced  into  the  Kansas  Legislature,  and,  it  is 
said,  will  probably  pass,  making  violations  of  the  Ten  Com- 
mandments criminal  offenses,  punishing  "having  any  other 
God,"  with  a  fine  of  SI, 000,  and  making  theft,  perjury  and 
covetousness  punishable  with  fine  and  imprisonment,  at 
the  discretion  of  the  court.  This  is  attributed  to 
"Populism;"  it  will  certainly  not  be  credited  to  California- 
ism,  but  think  what  a  rabble  must  have  got  into  the  State 
House  when  such  a  bill  can  be  introduced  and  seriously 
discussed.  On  the  same  day  the  Kansas  Senate  was 
thrown  into  a  great  excitement  by  two  members  who  said 
they  had  been  offered  $1,000  for  their  votes;  there  was 
much  feeling,  but  nothing  came  of  it.  Bribery  is  the  only 
natural  means  of  getting  laws  passed  and  good  and  bad 
alike  go  that  way.  The  evil  done  has  often  been  shown  up 
by  the  News  Letter,  but  it  will  take  a  cyclone  of  public 
opinion  to  stop  it. 

The  History  Of    The  Examiner  says  it  cannot  get  at  the 
"The  news,  or   expose  crooked  ways  unless 

Robbers' Roost."  it  breaks  into  men's  despatch  boxes,' 
read  their  private  letters,  and  whines 
because  it  must  be  held  responsible  for  the  lies  of  any 
scoundrel  it  may  pick  up  to  tell  stories  it  wants  to  hear. 
Good  journalists  do  not  get  their  news  in  that  way,  nor 
deal  with  it  in  such  slip-shod  fashion.  No  greater  res- 
ponsibility exists  on  earth  than  that  of  getting  at  the 
secret  of  public  affairs,  with  a  view  to  publication.  The 
man  who  says  that  he  is  not  responsible  for  what  he  has 
published,  and  is  privileged  to  keep  the  names  of  his 
authorities  secret,  does  not  know  the  law,  or  what  con- 
stitutes public  policy,  and  ought  to  be  kicked  out  of  a  news- 
paper office  as  a  numbskull  and  a  fool.  The  expose  of  the 
"Robbers'  Roost"  by  the  News  Letter  some  l(i  years  ago, 
and  which  is  now  almost  daily  quoted  by  the  Examiner, 
was  not  made  upon  any  such  weak  and  cowardly  principles. 
We  stated  what  we  knew,  challenged  investigation,  and 
stood  ready  with  our  well  garnered  proofs  and  adequate 
corroboration.  But  we  should  have  been  under  no  ob- 
ligation to  name  who  had  put  us  on  and  kept  us  on  the 
track.  We  had  done  our  work  too  well  to  render  any  such 
betrayal  of  trust  necessary.  If  the  stories  told  us  were 
true,  it  was  easy  to  make  an  independent  verification  of 
them.  Any  journalist  who  could  not  do  that  may  be  "a 
new  journalist"  but  he  is  not  fit  for  the  position  he  holds. 
Long  Green  Lawrence  says  he  cannot  do  it  that  way,  but 
then  he  is  not  a  journalist.  It  is  a  way  as  well  known  to 
the  capable  journalist  as  the  road  to  market.  No  trained 
newspaper  man  ever  "gives  away"  his  original  authority,, 
because  it  is  bad  policy  and  worse  practice  to  do  so.  He 
is  not  trusted  again,  gets  a  bad  reputation  and  mouths 
are  closed  when  he  appears.  When  a  story  is  true  it  can 
always  be  run  down  and  verified.  In  the  case  of  "the 
robbers'  roost,"  a  three  story  building   just  opposite  the 


Man  : 


SAN   PRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


capital   was     taken   and   iikh  a    that 

created  a  sensation    at    the    period,    and    for    ten 
caused  the  house  of  evil  nam,-  •  .t  a  tenant.    T<> 

this  hour  it  has  never  been    known   1  I  our  infor- 

mation, nor  has  tlie   information   we   published   ever  been 

ed.      We  say  it   most   unqual 
and  in  the  ;  that  no  competent 

reporter  has  need  to  ll  informant,  hi 

.it  tor  and  never  usea 
upon   the  "privileged 
communication"  fake,  lie  eitl  ei  or  knows  he  can- 

not afford  to  produce  his  wretched  informant. 

A  Practical  The  Salvation  Army  inflicts  much  anguish 
Problem.  upon  the  ears  of  inoffensive  and  peacefully- 
disposed  citizens  by  its  most  unheavi 
music,  but  at  the  same  time  the  organization  is  not  with- 
out the  grace  of  practical  value  as  a  filler  of  aching  stom- 
achs and  an  aid  of  the  needy.  Commander  Booth-Tucker 
stood  up  the  somnolent  Chamber  of  Commerce  one  day  this 
week,  and  poured  a  great  deal  of  practical  information 
into  the  ears  of  the  assembly  there  present.  The  Com- 
mander desires  to  plant  members  of  the  unemployed  and 
destitute,  now  congesting  the  city,  in  the  fresh  atmosphere 
of  the  country,  where  they  may  become  self-supporting, 
and  in  time  add  something  to  their  own  worth  and  the 
wealth  of  the  State.  His  scheme  is  similar  to  the  plan 
successfully  worked  out  by  General  Booth  iu  England,  and 
like  nearly  all  the  efforts  of  the  ucmelodious  army,  has  a 
practical  turn  that  commends  it  to  hard-headed  business 
men.  The  plan  of  General  Booth  was  to  buy  large  tracts 
near  London,  reclaim  and  cultivate  them,  and  in  this  way 
make  the  occupants  independent.  Tucker's  plan  begins  in 
the  city  where  lots,  blocks,  and  other  tracts  in  the  muni- 
cipal limits  may  be  cultivated  as  truck  patches,  on  the 
Pingree  plan. 

There  is  an  element  of  leaven  in  Tucker's  idea  that  should 
at  once  enlist  the  attention  of  practical  men,  even  though 
its  soundness  had  never  been  demonstrated;  but  inasmuch 
as  the  results  have  already  shown  its  great  value,  the  only 
question  before  the  army  here  is  the  problem  of  money. 
At  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  meeting  quite  a  number  of 
prominent  citizens  were  present,  and  at  the  conclusion  of 
his  remarks  Tucker  was  thanked,  and  an  aid  committee  of 
fifteen,  to  be  hereafter  named,  was  resolved  upon.  The 
question  of  helpfully  caring  for  the  helpless  in  American 
cities  is  a  growing  one,  and  it  cries  aloud  for  solution.  The 
plans  of  the  Salvation  Army  offer  by  far  the  most  hopeful 
field  for  the  poor  who  are  always  with  us.  The  Salvation 
Army  has  the  perfected  organization  for  making  such  a 
movement  general  throughout  the  country.  Added  to  the 
intense  earnestness  and  practical  methods  of  dealing  with 
dirt,  death,  sin,  and  salvation,  for  which  the  tambourine 
and  bass  drum  hosts  are  righteously  famed,  they  are  re- 
corded as  being  honest.  So  far  as  we  remember,  there 
have  been  no  thieves  among  the  Salvationists.  Their  officers 
of  trust  do  not  default  and  run  away,  as  is  frequently 
the  case  with  the  clean-linened  elect.  Business  men  may 
feel  safe  in  joining  Booth-Tucker  in  his  praiseworthy  effort 
to  lift  the  yoke  of  grinding  want  from  the  shoulders  of  the 
destitute  in  the  midst  of  us. 

The  Eastern  What  shall  be  done  with  the  empire  of  the 
Question.  unspeakable  Turk?  is  one  that  can  be  an- 
swered very  easily  and  to  the  general  sat- 
isfaction of  European  powers.  Put  to  a  vote  they  would 
unanimously  agree  to  a  partition  of  the  whole  Ottoman 
territory.  There  is  no  sentiment  which  would  prevent  it, 
and  no  innate  love  for  the  Sultan  or  his  subjects.  The  sub- 
ject has  been  so  long  considered  that  they  know  just  how 
they  would  go  about  it,  too.  Germany  is  not  an  active 
candidate  for  a  portion  of  the  spoils.  Italy  would  be  con- 
tent to  see  the  boundaries  of  the  buffer  State  of  Monte- 
negro enlarged.  Austria  could  be  bought  off  with  a  con- 
cession in  European  Turkey  which  would  give  her  an  out- 
let on  the  Mediterranean  at  Salonica.  France  would  like 
a  foothold  in  Syria.  England,  besides  some  small  scraps 
that  would  fall  to  her  share,  would  profit  by  a  confirma- 
tion of  her  hold  on  Egypt  which  Russia  would  not  deny  and 
Prance  could  not.  Russia  would  take  the  balance,  giving 
her  full  control  of  the  Dardanelles  and  the  Black  Sea,  a 
Mediterranean  naval  station  in   the   island  of  Crete,  and 


bly  a  port  on  the  Adriatic     Why  has   it  not  been  an 
accomplished  fai  agof    simply   tx 

war.      l"hta    would    DOl    deter    the    allied    powers,    bul  the 
leash    which    holds    the    modern    dogs    of    war    is    held    by 

bankers,  not  by  princes     The  powers  behind  the  Powers 
are  the  bondholders.    The  Rothschilds  of  Paris  and  Lon- 
don, their  clients  and  associates  are  the  great  creditors  of 
the  Osmanli.    With  Turkey  intact  they  stand  to  win 
mously  on  bonds   which   they  purohased  for  a  sung  when 

Turkey  first  defaulted.      A  war    involving  the  Turk    would 

bankrupt  that  empire  and  expose  to  repudiation  the  hold- 
ings of  a  thousai  of  dollars  of  i led  Turkish  In- 
debtedness, Russia,  with  eyes  fixei  tantinople, 
has  been  straining  upon  the  start  ever  since  her  au 
was  frustrated  by  the  treaty  of  Berlin  which  closed  the 
Ru«so  Turkish  war.  The  same  hand  holds  her  back  which 
protects  Turkey.  That  is  to  say,  the  same  hand  is  filled 
with  Russian  bonds.  Germany  prefers  the  massacre  of 
Christians  and  the  inaction  of  Greece,  not  because  war  is 
distasteful— it  would  be  recreation  for  Wilbelm — but  be- 
cause the  debt  of  ISO  millions  under  which  Greece  already 
staggers,  is  mainly  held  by  the  German  customers  of  the 
Bleichroder's  Bank  at  Berlin.  They  cannot  afford  to  per- 
mit Greece  to  endanger  her  ability  to  pay.  Princes  and 
potentates  pose  as  the  rulers — the  arbiters  of  war  and 
peace — but  Bellona  responds  only  to  the  bondholder's  nod, 
and  the  bondholder  will  not  nod  until  he  has  consulted  the 
strong-box  where  his  securities  lie. 

A  Geographic  Take  any  large  reliable  atlas  and  open  it 
Sentiment  at  the  map  of  Greece.  Observe  the 
For  Greece.  Peloponesus — the  southern  peninsular 
division  of  the  Kingdom  of  the  Hellenes. 
In  shape  it  approximates  the  resemblance  of  a  human 
right  hand  with  the  back  toward  you.  The  wrist  is  in  the 
northwest.  The  fingers  and  thumb  stretch  out  to  the 
southeast,  extending  in  a  grasping  posture  as  though 
clutching  at  the  island  of  Crete,  which  lies  directly  before 
them.  It  is  no  astral  hand  that  thus  strives  to  lay  hold 
on  the  coveted  island.  It  is  distinctly  of  the  earth,  earthy. 
The  well-formed  thumb  terminates  in  Cape  Skyli.  Three 
of  the  fingers  are  easily  traced  and  they  have  at  their  tips 
Capes  Malia,  Matapan  and  Gallio.  The  fourth  finger  you 
may  fancy  doubled  beneath  the  palm,  or  amputated, — lost 
perhaps  in  earlier  struggles  for  Crete.  The  whole  hand  is 
attached  to  the  Grecian  mainland  by  a  narrow  land  liga- 
ture which  separates  the  gulfs  of  Lepanto  and  .3Cgina. 
Other  gulfs  divide  the  fingers.  Now  look  at  Crete.  The 
island  has  the  rough  outline  of  a  man's  full  figure,  with  the 
Mediterranean  at  his  back  and  the  Agean  sea  in  front. 
His  head  is  to  the  west  and  wears  a  cap  whose  long  peak 
forms  Cape  Spada.  The  mouth,  at  Canea,  holds  a  short 
curved  pipe.  The  feet  are  conspicuous,  and  the  toes  are 
Cape  Sidero.  The  face  looks  toward  Greece.  This  is  not 
all.  The  subdivisions  of  the  island  fit  the  fancied  sem- 
blance perfectly.  Khania  is  the  head  and  cap,  Retimo  the 
chest  and  Cand.ia  the  legs  and  feet.  Politically,  the 
Grecian  hand  held  Crete  in  the  old  days  before  the  Moslem 
flood  overwhelmed  both.  Geologically,  Crete  was  a  part 
of  the  mainland  until  an  upheaval  of  Mediterranean  floods 
broke  the  whole  southern  portion  into  numerous  islands, 
tore  Crete  from  the  Peloponesian  hand,  and  indented  the 
mainland  with  gulfs  and  bays.  The  ties  of  religion  and 
consanguinity  still  demand  reunion,  the  hand  still  reaches 
out  for  its  ancient  possession,  and  nature  confesses  the 
justice  of  the  claim.  But  this  is  sentiment — something 
which  does  not  form  the  basis  of  action  in  the  European 
Concert. 

Greece  is  bold  and,  so  far,  is  holding  her  own 
The  Greek  remarkably  well.  But  it  is  to  be  feared  that 
Situation.      she  cannot  go  much  further.     With  Europe 

combined  to  compel  hei  to  keep  the  peace, 
nothing  is  left  her  but  to  withdraw  from  Crete  for  the 
present;  but  she  will  get  there  again,  and,  meanwhile,, 
much  is  gained  in  the  autonomy  that  is  to  be  extended  to 
the  little  island.  If  real  trouble  breaks  out  we  may  look 
for  it  on  the  borders  between  Thessaly  and  Macedonia,  and 
in  that  event  it  is  hard  to  say  where  matters  will  end.  The 
people  of  England,  France  and  Italy  are  not  for  war  with 
Greece,  t  is  easy  to  discern  that  a  resort  to  arms  may  be 
had  any  day. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


March  27,  1897. 


That  Filibustering  The  Geneva  award  in  our  favor  has 
Decision.  made  our   duties    as    neutrals  very- 

perplexing  and  difficult  of  execution. 
"We  had  much  bother  between  Chili  and  Peru,  and,  later, 
our  obligations  to  Spain  in  regard  to  the  rebellion  against 
her  authority  in  Cuba  have  tried  our  officials  to  the  ut- 
most. We  are  bound  by  the  principles  we  asserted  and 
maintained  against  England  at  Geneva.  A  decision  of 
very  great  importance  to  all  our  allies  and  neutrals  was 
handed  down  overruling  the  decision  of  Judge  Locke  of  the 
Southern  District  of  Florida  in  thecase  of  the  filibustering 
steamer,  the  Three  Friends.  Had  the  Supreme  Court 
sustained  Judge  Locke,  it  would  have  been  impossible  for 
the  Government  to  legally  prevent  filibustering  expedi- 
tions. The  famous  decision  of  Judge  Ross,  afterwards 
sustained  by  Judge  McKenna,  now  goes  by  the  board,  and 
at  the  instance  of  the  highest  appellate  court  in  the  land. 
The  Three  Friends,  while  on  a  voyage  to  Cuba  last  autumn, 
commenced  open  and  avowed  hostilities  against  the  regular 
Cuban  Government,  and  Spain  called  upon  our  Government 
to  begin  a  suit  for  forfeiture  against  the  vessel  by  reason 
of  its  violation  of  the  neutrality  laws.  Judge  Locke  held 
that  the  vessel  could  not  be  forfeited  under  the  statute, 
because  nondescript  bodies  like  the  Cuban  insurgents  are 
not  included  in  the  words  "foreign  prince,  or  state,  or  of 
any  colony,  district  or  people."  These  words  it  was  held 
were  only  intended  to  apply  to  governments  to  whom  the 
rights  of  belligerency  had  been  extended.  Spain  was  such 
a  country,  whilst  the  Cuban  insurgents  were  not.  That  is 
the  doctrine  we  laid  down  and  maintained  during  our  civil 
war,  and  our  best  citizens  have  been  pained  to  think  that 
our  Courts  were  inclined  to  abandon  the  clear  and  honor- 
able course  we  had  at  first  taken  up.  In  the  history  of  in- 
ternational law  no  such  weighty  and  authoritative  recog- 
nition of  the  principles  that  should  regulate  friendly  nations 
in  their  action  towards  each  other,  has  ever  been  given  as 
this  by  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 

Oom  Paul's  President  Kruger  is  minded  to  provide  a 
New  brand  new  constitution  for  the  Transvaal. 

Constitution.  In  point  of  fact  he  wants  no  constitution 
at  all,  save  his  own  sovereign  will.  Since 
England  occupied  the  country  there  has  been  a  written 
fundamental  law,  which  by  the  vote  of  the  Volksraad  and 
the  general  consent  of  the  people,  has  been  looked  upon  as 
the  higher  law  or  constitution  of  the  land.  It  provided 
for  a  High  Court,  as  like  unto  our  own  Supreme  Court  as 
two  peas.  This  High  Court  has  been  in  the  habit  of  set- 
ting aside  acts  of  the  Volksraad,  not  in  accordance  with 
the  fundamental  law.  Kruger  wants  this  stopped,  and 
has  just  caused  the  Volksraad  to  adopt  a  resolution  re- 
quiring the  Judges  to  at  once  renounce  by  oath  their 
right  to  pass  upon  the  constitutionality  of  laws,  or  to  re- 
sign. He  says,  "the  Judges  must  abide  by  the  voice  of 
the  Raad,  or  go."  This  is  pretty  good  Populistic  doctrine, 
and  the  uproar  over  its  adoption  in  the  Transvaal  hints 
pretty  plainly  at  what  might  be  expected  here.  The 
plain,  blunt,  and  unpolished  Boer,  who  has  done  so  much 
for  his  country,  is  making  a  mistake  in  trying  to  cause  a 
revolution  backwards.  It  cannot  be  done.  He  must  ren- 
der it  possible  to  live  and  invest  in  the  Transvaal,  or  the 
claims  of  the  Uitlanders  will  have  to  be  conceded.  If  he 
will  go  ahead  and  pass  measures  necessary  to  mining  and 
other  interests,  there  seems  no  disposition  to  disturb  him 
in  his  troubled  position  of  governing  Boerland. 

Any  sure  way  to  beat  the  hideous 
A  Proposal  to  trusts  would  be  worth  millions.  Yet 
Beat  the  Trusts,  the  Senate  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  believes 
it  has  hit  upon  a  plan  to  accomplish 
this  result.  The  proposed  law  makes  it  unlawful  for  any 
person  to  advertise  for  sale,  or  to  sell  any  article  at  less 
than  its  cost  price,  or  at  a  price  so  low  as  to  injure  the 
business  of  another  merchant."  It  is  a  curious  proposal  in 
which  there  is  much  more  than  meets  the  sight.  What  we 
like  most  about  this  bill  is  that  it  goes  to  the  root  of  the 
matter,  and  declares  "that  any  one  who  sells  anything 
anywhere  so  low  that  it  injures  the  business  of  anyone  else, 
shall  be  punished."  That  is  truly  sweeping  doctrine,  far- 
reaching  in  its  action,  and  not  to  be  mistaken  in  the  ten- 
dency of  its  operations.  The  thing  that  is  so  repulsive 
about  Trusts  is  that  the  single  trader  is  nowhere  in  com- 


petition with  a  combination  of  millionaires.  The  weakest 
must  tight  the  strongest  or  go  to  the  wall.  We  are  all  in- 
dividual dealers  in  or  producers  of  something,  and  what 
galls  us  is  that  some  one  is  always  offering  it  at  a  price  a 
little  lower  than  our  own;  obviously  there  is  hardship  here, 
and  the  same  hardships  exist  wherever  anything  is  pro- 
duced or  sold.  In  fact,  it  is  to  be  found  all  the  way  from 
Greeland's  icy  mountains  to  India's  coral  strands.  There 
is  no  special  legislation  about  this  bill.  It  applies  to  all 
classes,  and  gives  the  rich  and  poor  relief  alike.  It  says 
nothing  about  monopoly,  or  combination,  but  forbids  any 
one  to  sell  at  a  price  so  low  that  it  will  injure  any  one  else. 
The  person  so  injured  will  at  once  prefer  complaint  and 
justice  will  be  done.  Of  course,  objections  can  be  made  to 
this  bill,  as  they  can  to  any  bill,  but  when  nobody  can  un- 
dersell anybody  else,  there  can  be  no  dispute  about  the  ad- 
equacy of  the  remedy  to  the  seller  or  the  producer,  though 
the  consumer  may  not  be  just  as  well  served.  The  bill  may 
be  a  joke,  or  a  piece  of  ridicule,  but  it  is  the  only  really 
effective  remedy  for  the  everlasting  Trusts  we  have  yet 
met  with. 

Generously  Mayor  Phelan  is  like  wine:  he  improves 
Leads  with  age.  His  latest  act  of  general  com- 
The  Way.  mendation  was  the  gift  of  $1000  for  the 
building  of  the  boulevard.  This  sum  added 
to  the  Mayor's  original  check  places  to  his  credit  $1500  in 
aid  of  a  worthy  improvement  and  the  needy  unemployed. 
Mayor  Phelan  is  no  doubt  a  believer  in  the  force  of  exam- 
ple. He  does  not  point  the  way  like  a  sign  board  but 
leads  in  a  direction  that  is  luminous  with  merit.  His  in- 
fluence and  prompt  generosity  should  induce  other  men  of 
wealth  to  come  forward  at  once.  The  funds  being  raised 
are  used  in  a  most  economical  manner.  Every  dollar,  be 
it  remembered,  is  worth  two  just  now.  The  men  who  are 
employed  and  those  dependent  on  them,  would  have  to  be 
fed  in  any  event,  and  contributions  would  be  in  order  just 
the  same.  Now  the  hungry  are  cared  for,  and  the  city  is 
getting  full  value  for  every  cent  expended.  The  appeal  of 
the  Mayor  has  the  right  ring,  and  it  should  result  in  bring- 
ing out  many  who  are  abundantly  able,  who  have  hitherto 
given  nothing.  In  this  connection  it  might  be  well  to  point 
out  the  extreme  propriety  of  city  employes  who  are  draw- 
ing regular  salaries  making  addition  to  the  boulevard  fund. 
The  teachers  in  the  schools  could  further  endear  them- 
selves to  the  public  heart  by  contributing  toward  this 
fund.  The  salaries  of  all  public  employees  are  far  above 
the  amounts  paid  for  similar  labor  in  commercial  pursuits, 
and  it  is  but  just  that  they  should  be  heard  from  now. 
Their  easy  bread  and  butter  is  secure;  let  them  do  a  little 
for  a  good  cause,  and  for  those  less  fortunate.  Meantime 
the  Mayor's  generous  deed  shows  the  way  to  our  many 
millionaire  citizens. 

A  Senseless  and    While   the  "funny  papers,"  so-called, 

Humor-  may    safely    take   some    latitude   not 

less  Caricature,      allowable  in  serious  journalism,  their 

wanderings   should  not  extend  beyond 

the    pale     of     decency.       The     taste    of    subjecting     to 

disgusting  personal  caricature  a  President  of  the  United 

States  is  not  "questionable;"  it  is  unquestionably  bad.     It 

is  more;  it  is  an  insult,  not  only  to  the  sovereign  majority 

who  placed  him  in  his  exalted   position,  but  to  the  nation 

at  large.     It  would  be   so  construed  if   seen  in  a  foreign 

print. 

This  reflection  will  naturally  strike  any  one  who  has 
glanced  at  the  lithograph  which  is  given  the  place  of 
prominence  in  the  "Inauguration  number"  of  Judge.  The 
picture  of  an  out-going  President  of  the  United  States  as 
a  swine-bodied  churl  being  thrown  from  a  train,  the  moral 
of  this  color-blot  on  decency  being  pointed  by  the  label 
"He's  Off,"  is  one  to  disgust  every  decent  beholder  of 
either  party — all  things  considered,  a  Republican  more 
than  a  Democrat,  since  in  his  case  a  feeling  of  shame  must 
be  added  to  disgust.  (Perhaps  we  should  give  the  cari- 
caturist credit  for  admitting  the  poor  likeness  by  printing 
conspicuously  on  the  falling  hat  the  name  "Cleveland"). 
The  picture  has  not  even  the  faintest  element  of  humor  to 
palliate  the  outrage  of  its  being.  It  is  as  void  of  wit  as  of 
good  taste. 

A  President  naturally  vacates  his  office  when  his  term 
expires.     There  is  nothing  ignominious  in  the  fact  that  he 


March  j;,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


is  00  longer  President,  and  Mr.  Cleveland   was  not  even  a 
contestant  (or  the  pl.i  1  a  man  steps  down  from  .1 

I  oailkm   no  one   but   a   bully,  and   a  vulgar  bully  at 
that,  can  feel  any  <li  -    •  k   him  as  he  goes 

fault*  the  opposition  may   charge  against  Mr   1 
land's  administration,  lie  is  a   gentleman,  anil  has  left  the 

lential  chair  with  the  dignity  attaching  to  that 
undoubtedly,  also,  with  the  eztremeel 
good  feeling  toward  and  from  his  successor.  Neither, 
■arils  himself  as  thrown  out  or  as  having 
thrown  any  one  out.  There  is  a  legitimate  field  for  the 
humorist  and  the  caricaturist  in  political  warfare.  But 
each  must  make  sure  that  his  weapons  have  the  keen  edge 
of  wit  and  humor  instead  of  coarse  vituperation  anil  per- 
sonal ridicule,  and  that  they  are  aimed  at  the  acts  of  the 
directing  general,  not  at  the  back  of  a  retired  officer 
when  the  war  is  over.  If  Judge  has  any  owner,  publisher, 
or  accredited  editor,  and  is  not  given  over  wholly  into  the 
hands  of  an  irresponsible  and,  unfortunately,  vulgar- 
minded  caricaturist,  it  should  call  a  halt  and  order  its 
artistic  corps  to  a  school  of  journalistic  decency. 

Supervisor  Rottanzi  stood  manfully  by  his 
The  High  guns,  and  went  down  before  the  high  hat 
Hat  Win«.  brigade  with  flags  flying  and  drums  beating. 
He  did  his  duty  as  he  saw  it;  and  incidentally 
as  nine  out  of  about  every  ten  male  citizens  of  San  Fran- 
cisco saw  it.  Needless  to  say  the  duty  was  not  on  the 
stage  or  the  lecture  platform,  for  had  that  been  the  case 
it  would  have  been  hidden  behind  the  legitimate  object  of 
his  humane  attack.  That  the  Supervisors  failed  to  pass 
the  ordinance — at  least  in  a  modified  form — proves  that 
their  fear  of  curtain  lectures  exceeded  their  duty  to  a 
suffering  and  patient  constituency.  The  high  hat  is  a 
thing  of  beauty,  but  it  is  not  a  joy  forever.  Its  spread  of 
sail  may  delight  the  female  heart,  but  on  occasion  it 
carries  biting  discontent  and  impenetrable  gloom  to  the 
hearts  of  those  who  pay  for  the  tickets.  Ornithology  is  a 
delightful  study,  but  it  cannot  be  pursued  without  preju- 
dice at  the  theatre.  It  shines  better  at  a  museum.  Ostrich 
tips  are  not  the  kind  that  the  most  inveterate  sport  would 
care  to  look  on  at  the  play  house.  But  enough :  Rottanzi 
lies  buried  beneath  the  high  hat.  The  blood  of  the  martyr 
is  the  seed  of  the  church;  and  Rottanzi  will  rise  again.  Let 
him  embellish  his  ticket  with  the  highest  triumph  of  the 
milliner's  art  when  he  next  runs  for  office,  and  we'll  make 
him  Mayor. 

Journals  Not  The  Century  Club,  of  New  York,  having 
Fit  excluded  the  Journal  and  World  from  its 

To  Be  Read,  files  and  club  house,  as  not  fit  to  be  read, 
is  another  step  towards  the  extirpation 
of  a  social  pest.  The  N.  Y.  Nation  says  the  movement  has 
now  become  a  popular  one,  and  may  be  expected  to  ex- 
tend far  and  wide.  It  ought  to  find  imitators  throughout 
the  nation.  There  are  other  filthy  publications  in  other 
cities  that  ought  to  be  put  under  the  ban  equally  with  the 
two  that  are  meeting  with  exclusion  by  the  Century  Club 
and  others.  It  is  possible  for  the  decent  people  in  several 
communities  to  reform  these  journals  and  save  their 
children  from  the  moral  blight  which  threatens  them  by 
putting  such  a  stigma  upon  them  that  the  mass  of  unthink- 
ing people  who  now  support  such  journals  will  drop  them, 
and,  when  they  do  so,  the  reform  will  come.  It  is  simply 
a  matter  of  dollars  and  cents,  says  the  Nation,  with  the 
publishers  of  these  vile  sheets.  Whenever  they  find  that 
dirt  does  not  pay,  they  will  stop  publishing  dirt.  Clubs 
and  public  libraries  can  hasten  this  consummation  if  they 
will,  by  making  dirty  newspapers  unfashionable. 

ECHOES  of  the  great  Bradley-Martin  ball,  whose  cost 
set  all  the  sensational  New  York  preachers  and  sen- 
sational papers  discussing  and  condemning  the  right  of  a 
person  to  spend  his  wealth  as  he  please,  so  long  as  he 
wrongs  no  one,  are  awakened  by  a  clever  parody  just  put 
on  in  that  city  by  Hammerstein.  The  name  of  the  musi- 
cal burlesque  is  Mrs.  Radley's  Bartons  Ball,  and  in  gor- 
geous costumes  and  all  its  elegant  accessories,  it  is  said  to 
be  a  faithful  copy  of  the  original.  Now  our  friends  the 
gospelers,  and  the  sleuths  of  the  gutter,  will  have  another 
opportunity  to  point  another  moral  and  adorn  another 
tale. 


ART     JOTTINGS. 

THK  irt  evei  1  of  this  week  Is  the   picture  painted   by 
Keith  and  presented  to  the  Bohemian  Club  by  that 
artist,  where  it  now  standi  00  the  easel  in  the  Social  I. 
It  is  a  large  canvas,  and  is  certainly  one  of  the  most  strik- 
ing woodland  pictures  in  many    respects    which  lias 
from  Keith's  studio,  it  Is  entitled  "The  Unceasing  R01 

and  presents  B  deep  forest  glade,  with  B  monster  redwood 
tree  in  the  foregroui  d.  A  strong  light  strikes  in  from  the 
right  of  the  picture,  making  a  delirious  contrast  with    the 

cool  and  almost  dusky  gloom  of  the  background,   through 

which  some  woodsmen  are  passing.  1  Is  1 1  catment  is  unlike 
Keith's  methods,  giving  more  detail  and  more  expression 
of  form,  so  to  speak,  and  there  is  a  feeling  of  intense 
strength  through  all.  Mr.  E.  R.  Taylor  was  inspired  by 
this  fine  work  to  write  an  ode  thereon.  He  says  : 
In  center  of  the  canvas  pee  this  pine 

Alt  stark  in  death,  with  arms  in  vain  appeal 
For  what  it  nevermore  can  taste  or  feel 
Of  joys  of  earth,  or  of  the  hea vens  divine, 
titraigbt  as  in  life  it  stands,  still  bearing  sign 
Of  noble  majesty  and  dauntless  will 
While  at  its  base  its  elder  brothers  spill 
Their  ashes  where  the  grasses  kiss  and  twine. 
This  will  be  an  important  addition  to  the  many  fine  paint- 
ings which  now  decorate  the  walls  of   the  Bohemian  Club. 
It  is  richly  and  artistically  framed. 

Moonlights  and  marines  are  now  the  fashion.  Charles 
Rollo  Peters  has  sent  up  two  new  and  clever  studies  of 
moonlight  effects  in  Monterey.  Mr.  Peters,  who  is  very 
industrious,  must  now  be  the  possessor  of  acres  of  moonlit 
sea  and  shore. 

Robinson  exhibits  a  pleasant  marine,  carefully  painted, 
and  nice  in  out-of-door  feeling.  It  is  what  one  might  call  a 
wholesome  picture  of  shore  and  sea,  of  sun  and  breeze, 
faithful  and  refreshing  to  the  eye. 

Strong  is  so  busy  filling  orders  for  his  pastel  portraits 
that  he  finds  time  for  nothing  else.  His  studies  of  South 
Sea  scenery,  which  were  brought  up  by  Alfred  O.  Larkin, 
might  be  continued,  for  Strong  has  an  abundance  of 
sketches  made  among  those  pleasant  isles   to  draw  upon. 

Elizabeth  Strong  exhibits  a  large  landscape,  apparently 
from  the  prolific  Monterey  quarter,  which  is  most  original 
in  treatment  and  altogether  out  of  the  regular  lines.  It 
is  very  rich  in  color,  and  is  of  the  French  school,  with  per- 
haps more  attention  to  detail  than  they  usually  bestow, 
deeming  color  paramount  to  everything.  The  atmosphere 
is  there — one  can  feel  the  summery  glow,  and  the  long 
sedge  and  grasses  in  the  foreground  are  Nature  itself. 

Joullin  has  finished  a  delicate  little  study  of  marsh  land 
and  water  in  the  advanced  twilight.  It  is  soft  in  tone,  and 
the  effect  is  sentimental  and  harmonious. 

Donald  deV.  Graham  made  some  sketches  when  in  the 
Sandwish  Islands,  whence  he  has  just  returned  with  Messrs. 
Gillig,  Unger,  and  Hamilton.  Mr.  Graham  has  resumed 
his  instructions  in  singing,  as  painting  is  with  him  simply  a 
pastime. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  27,  1897. 


'KJ    u     l»"y     u   1/  Vt~ 


'  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's."—  Tom  Moore. 

I  AM  glad  to  see  that  our  modest  little 
opera  enterprise  at  the  California  Thea- 
tre has  not  fallen  into  the  hands  of  the 
financial  writers.  Grau  went  to  Chicago 
without  two  star  singers  and  without  a 
^  guarantee.  Furniture  was  visible  all  over 
the  Auditorium.  As  one  reporter  chronicled  the  per- 
formance: "all  that  was  lacking  to  make  up  a  perfect 
ensemble  was  an  audience."  The  Chicago  critics  wrote  by 
the  half-column,  the  financial  experts  by  the  half-page. 
Analogies  were  drawn  between  the  prices  of  wheat  and 
the  prices  of  opera;  canny  calculators  expounded  on  the 
declining  glory  of  the  stock-yards.  Somebody  pretended 
that  the  absence  of  Melba  and  Eames  caused  the  slim 
houses.  Nobody  believed  him.  There  were  Calve,  Leh- 
mann,  Plaucon  and  the  de  Reszkes — the  $4,000  per-night 
team  of  immortal  de  Reszkes — and  all  the  big  little  people. 
"Hard  times"  was  the  real  apology.  The  rich,  the  gor- 
geous lardy-dah  rich  of  Chicago,  even  syndicated  on-  the 
boxes.  Four  big  families  pooled  on  one  and  shook  dice  to 
see  which  would  get  it  on  choice  nights.  "Grau  is  on  the 
hog,  this  time  sure,"  said  a  Cook  county  wag.  And  poor 
Grau  dug  long  and  deep  to  pay  salaries,  while  a  few  real 
music-tasters  sat  in  cheap  seats  and  thought  what  a  lovely 
time  of  it  they  were  having  at  his  expense.  "I'll  never 
come  here  any  more"  said  Grau,  "without  a  guarantee;" 
and  be  cut. the  prices  down  until  you  could  buy  the  best 
seat  in  the  Auditorium  for  two  dollars. 

I  say  again,  I'm  glad  our  modest  month  of  French  opera 
has  not  required  the  services  of  the  journalistic  financiers. 
We  are  a  proud  little  people,  we  are,  and  we  have  done 
better  by  the  unknown  incandescents  of  the  New  Orleans 
Opera  House  than  Chicago  has  by  the  effulgent  arc-lights 
of  the  Metropolitan.  And  what  our  cheerful  three  dollars, 
two  dollars  and  one  dollar  do  not  contribute  to  the  ad- 
equacy of  the  receipts,  thirty  brave  guarantors,  check- 
book in  hand,  are  ready  to  make  good. 

Sometimes  angels  tread  where  fools  are  timid. 


Opera  companies  do  not  trouble  us  often  now,  and  we 
are  not  forever  holding  up  the  bogie  of  other  days,  those 
good  old  palmy  days  when  we  got  the  best  and  paid  for  it. 
The  present  public,  most  conveniently,  has  become  recon- 
ciled to  the  French  organization's  scenery  and  the  fluctu- 
ating value  of  its  choruses,  and  settled  into  quiet,  steady 
patronage  and  decent  appreciation  of  other  stable  merits 
of  the  performances.  The  audience  invariably  arrives  late, 
and  the  first  acts  of  all  the  operas  are  invariably  scat- 
tered. Perhaps  one  causes  the  other — we  will  give  the 
French  people  the  benefit  of  the  doubt. 

I  regret  the  shambling  first  act  of  The  Huguenots  Tues- 
day night:  first,  because  there  are  good  things  in  the  act, 
and  afterwards  because  it  was  an  injustice  to  the  rest  of 
the  performance,  which,  in  points  of  strength,  unauimity, 
and  authoritative  leadership,  was  a  distinctively  good  one 
for  the  most  part.  Foedor,  who  seemed  tired,  uncertain, 
and  out  of  the  spirit  in  the  role  of  Rachel  in  La  Juive  at 
the  Saturday  matinee,  fairly  flamed  in  the  music  of  Valen- 
tine. She  seemed  to  be  re-vitalized.  Her  throat  was  free 
and  open,  and  her  tone  came  big  and  true  with  the  sweep 
of  youth  and  the  throb  of  sympathy  in  it.  In  the  intensity 
of  her  parting  scene  with  Raoul  she  forgot  not  to  act,  for- 
got to  pose,  forgot  to  be  old-fashioned  and  prim  a- donnish, 
and  flung  herself  into  the  tumult  of  the  scene  with  real 
actorial  ardor  as  well  as  vocal  heroinism.  The  night  was 
Foedor's.  I  was  sorry  there  was  not  a  tenor  at  hand  who 
could  have  shared  in  some  of  the  glory.  Prevost,  in  my 
estimation,  is  hopeless.  Last  week  I  tried  to  do  justice  to 
his  well-put  high  C,  but  I  passed  over  the  rest  of  him  with 
the  mild  description,  "assertive  but  not  sensational." 
I  take  it  back.  Prevost  is  sensational.  So  are  fire- 
crackers, barbed  wire,  and  the  calliope.  His  is  the 
steamiest,  most  eruptive,  explosive,  non-musical  tenor 
that  ever  went  off  in  my  ears.  I  hold  human  life  a  precious 


thing,  but  if  at  any  time  during  the  four  acts  of  The  Hugue- 
nots, Prevost  should  find  his  mouth  an  inadequate  safety- 
valve  for  Raoul's  boiler  throat,  and  explode  upon  the  spot, 
I  promise  to  make  the  obituary  one  of  the  most  cheerful 
features  of  that  week's  News  Letter. 
*  *  * 

Prevost  was  the  one  serious  blot  on  the  performance. 
Raoul  is  an  important  character  in  the  opera;  many  of 
the  others  are  not,  strictly  speaking.  Even  the  page  is 
not  so  important  as  Mile.  Savine  looked  in  his  handsome 
clothes.  At  least,  not  unless  he  is  sung  proportionately 
well.  And  no  one  can  accuse  Savine's  singing  of  equalling 
the  tranquil  self-satisfaction  of  her  presence.  But  who 
ever  heard  of  a  comic  opera  queen,  no  matter  how  humble, 
being  submerged  in  anything,  even  Meyerbeer? 

Since  it  is  getting  to  be  such  an  old  and  usual  story  to 
say  that  Albers  carried  off  the  honors  of  the  performance, 
I  am  glad  in  this  instance  to  say  that  he  did  not.  It  is  not 
in  the  part  of  de  Nevers.  Albers  was  a  picture;  he  sang 
with  splendid  forcefulness  and  virile  grace,  and  that  cpr- 
dial  magnetism  of  his  which  reaches  over  the  lights  and  finds 
and  touches  us  where  we  live  and  feel.  It  does  not  take  a 
superior  person  to  know  that  Albers  is  a  wonderful  man. 
His  warm  art  is  unmistakable.  I  notice  the  audiences 
are  petting  him  shamelessly.  But  be  does  not  seem  to 
mind  it  a  bit;  he  goes  right  along  the  even  baritone  of  his 
way,  working  as  only  an  artist  will  work,  cheerfully,  com- 
petently, until  it  does  not  seem  to  be  work  at  all.  And 
think  of  the  responsibilities  Albers  carries  around  with 
him !  He  is  the  French  company's  link  between  mediocrity 
and  greatness.  Lose  him  and  there  would  be  little  incen- 
tive to  crush  hats  and  real  opera  cloaks.  That  is,  unless 
one  remembers  the  ballet.  It  is  not  a  big  ballet,  and  it 
numbers  only  one  premiere  dansense  worthy  of  italics,  but 
for  sheer  fleetness  of  limb,  lissomeness  of  vertebrae,  and  all 
the  flexible,  sinewy,  sinuous  usefulness  of  the  female  form 
in  action,  it  commands  our  best  attire.  The  girls  are 
not  of  that  devastating  youth  and  beauty  which  makes 
one  give  up  home  and  mother  without  a  struggle,  but  they 
made  the  ballet  scene  very  joyous  moments  in  this  produc- 
tion of  The  Huguenots.  And  de  Consoli  danced  shadows  all 
over  the  desert  pates  in  Observation  Row — danced  dream- 
ily, dulcetly,  glitteringly,  fervently,  volcanically;  threading 
with  slim,  serpentine  legs  verse  that  any  minor  poet  might 
be  proud  to  kick  off. 

*  *  # 

I  did  notnotice  any  one  sleeping  through  The  Huguenots. 
We  all  slept  more  or  less  at  L' Africaine ;  but  this  time  it 
was  a  more  exciting  Meyerbeer  and  a  more  exciting  stage. 
Anyway,  the  dead  could  not  have  slept  while  Prevost  sang, 
and  when  he  was  not  singing,  there  was  no  particular  in- 
ducement. Berthet  disposed  of  Queen  Marguerite's  music 
rather  tidily  in  that  cool,  flute  way  of  hers;  and  Athes  and 
Gavid  were  weak,  but  not  without  a  certain  dramatic  affa- 
bility, in  the  roles  of  Marcel  and  St.  Bris.  The  chorusters 
were  astonishingly  valiant  as  the  opera  wore  on,  working 
up  to  an  impressive  storm  in  the  great  weapon-blessing 
scene.  Nicosias  seemed  to  bring  a  bigger  and  better 
volume  than  usual  from  the  orchestra:  the  brass  was  not 
choked,  and  the  reeds  and  strings,  given  more  sway  to 
maintain  the  balance,  improved  in  articulation. 

*  *  * 

I  have  written  at  some  length  about  The  Huguenots  be- 
cause it  is  practically  the  only  theme  available.  La  Juive, 
at  the  Saturday  matinee,  developed  several  good  bits  of 
ensemble  work — otherwise  it  was  not  a  brilliant  affair. 
Foedor's  singing  was  dull — although  she  did  make  a  good 
effort  in  Rachel's  big  aria.  But  she  was  tired.  Worse 
luck,  Prevost  was  not. 

*  *  * 

The  Voyage  of  Suzette  on  Saturday  night  was  several 
shades  brighter  than  the  Miss  Helyett  performance  of  the 
Saturday  previous.  The  music  (by  Leon  Vasseur)  is 
quickly  intimate,  and  the  comedy  is  full  of  action.  But  I 
cannot  regard  these  comedy  people  seriously.  (And  that 
is  no  joke).  They  are  only  the  side-show  of  the  French 
Opera  organization. 

*  *  * 

At  last  I  have  found  the  man  who  thinks  two  brains  are 
better  than  none  to  build  a  vaudeville  act.  At  last,  after 
writing,  preaching,  cavilling  at  the  variety  perfesh  for  not 


March  27,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


having  its  skits,  sketches  and  acts   written    by   somebody 

i  in    the  di  li,  I  have    j 

found  tnv  man.  His  Dame  is  Henry  Lee,  and  lie  is  at  tin- 
Orpheum. 

a  twenty-minute  portr  at    Men —   j 

r    Lee  and  you  haw  advanced 
Admire   his  mimic 
,nd  the  rapidity   and    life- 
his   costuming     admire   these,  fur    Lee   is   an 
.11  innovator.     And    then   take  otT  your  hat  to   | 
the  man  who    wrote    the    lines    that   go    with   them.     The    I 
author   is   an    Englishman,    and    he    opens    with   William 
Shakespeare  reading  Jacques  melancholy  epigrams  on  the 

seven  aire-  of  man,  and  ends  with  Mr  ! delivering 

Shakespeare,   we  are   told,   ■ 

notori  1  tor.  s"  perhaps  it  is  only  fidelity  to  liis- 

■  tory  that  makes  Mr.  Lee  appear  at  his  worst  in  the 
Shakespeaiean  scene.  The  others  arc  all  good— Bis- 
marck, Dickens,  Pope  Leo,  Kipling,  and  half  a  dozen 
more.  The  Pope  makes  the  finest  picture,  a  perfect 
cameo  that  sheds  the  magnetism  and  mysticism  and  the 
serene  imperiousness  of  this  leader  of  leaders.  Rut  the 
Kipling  satire  is  exquisite.  Kipling  wears  the  cool, 
milkv  ducks  of  India,  and  the  cool,  incisive  candor  that  is 
all  his  own.  "Kiplinj; — Kudyard  Kipling — that's  my 
name."  he  drawls — "a  curious,  but  striking  one.  Profes- 
sion, a  story-teller — in  the  proper  sense  of  the  word,  of 
course.  Discovered  Tommy  Atkins  and  a  large  portion  of 
India,  which  I  afterwards  sold  to  the  English  nation  in 
several  volumes  for  a  considerable  sum.'1  Then  the  Bar- 
rack-Room Bard  tells  us  how  he  made  a  minute  study  of 
America  in  twelve  hours.  "But  that's  another  story,"  he 
says — "which  you  can  obtain  at  my  publishers." 

Ashton  Stevens. 

Otis  Skinner  commences  a  three  weeks'  engagement  at 
the  Baldwin  Monday  night  in  His  Grace  de  Grammont,  a 
play  by  Clyde  Fitch.  Let  us  hope  it  will  be  worthy  of  the 
author  of  Beau  Brummel  The  time  of  Charles  II  glows 
with  dramatic  color,  and  the  French  exile,  "Chevalier  de 
Grammont"  offers  the  gamut  of  gallantry,  wit,  feats  of 
arms  and  all  the  enticing  charms  of  "the  romantic." 
Skinner  is  said  to  be  supported  by  a  strong  company  and 
vivid  romantic  scenery.  Saturday  night  he  will  play 
Hamlet. 

To-night  the  French  singers  at  the  California  present 
Faust,  with  Foeder  as  Marguerite;  Tuesday  AiJa  will  be 
given;  Thursday,  Rigoletto;  Saturday  a  repetition  of  La 
Juice.  Albers  is  sure  to  do  great  work  in  Airfa  and  in 
Rigoletto,  and  La  Juice  will  well  stand  repetition  if  Massart 
is  the  tenor.  .Sunday  night  Suzette  will  be  repeated  at  re- 
duced prices. 

Cissy  winks  a  fond  farewell  Sunday  night,  and  Monday 
sees  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Russ  Why  tall  at  the  Columbia  in  a  new 
war  romance,  Fur  Fair  Virginia,  which  is  heralded  as  a  big 
New  York  success.  As  in  Gillette's  famous  war  piece, 
Secret  Service,  the  fighting  is  all  done  quietly  behind  the 
scenes;  the  stage  gives  us  the  excitement  and  suspense  of 
it  without  any  visible  carnage. 

The  excellent  production  of  The  Mori/  Wires  of  Windsor 
at  the  Tivoli,  has  but  two  more  nights.  Monday  night  com- 
mences John  P.  Wilson's  spectacular  burlesque,  Don  Juan 
ad  lib,  which  had  a  five  weeks'  run  at  the  Tivoli  several 
years  ago.  A  strong  cast,  new  songs,  new  jokes  and  two 
brilliant  ballets  are  promised. 

The  Orpheum  needs  no  new  bill  for  next  week.  Henry 
Lee  and  all  the  new-comers  of  this  week  remain. 

The  Symphony  Society  gives  a  Wagner  concert  at  the 
Columbia  Thursday  afternoon.  Excerpts  from  seven  of 
the  tone-poet's  works  will  be  given.  Mrs.  Cecilia  Adler 
Keesing  (who  has  sung  at  Beyreuth),  Mrs.  Mathilde  Wilde, 
Mrs.  Hinrichs,  Rhys  Thomas,  Alois  Werner  and  Jacob 
Muller  are  the  vocalists.  Hinrichs  has  arranged  a  big 
programme,  and  the  concert  should  draw  the  biggest 
patronage  of  the  season.  Hinrichs  will  read  a  lecture  on 
the  programme  at  Golden  Gate  Hall  (upper)  on  Wednes- 
day afternoon.     No  admission  will  be  charged. 

We  are  to  hear  more  of  Gertrude  Auld's  singing.  Mr. 
Greenbaum  announces  recitals  for  Wednesday  night  week 
and  Saturday  afternoon  week  at  Golden  Gate  Hall. 


It  bl  ing   time  since  Camilla  drso  played  the 

violin  in  Sal  .,-.,1  Manager  Greenbaum  seems  to 

have  a  bright  outlook  tnberthrei  at  Golden  Gate 

Hall   next    wei  At    Monday    night's   concert    Madame 

•  work,  "Caprice  oe  Concert,"  by  I 
Guirand,      she    will    also    play     Paginini'a     "Wit 

programmes  have  been  prepared  for  the 
other  concerts,  which  come  off  on  Friday  night  and  Satur- 
day afternoon. 

There  has  never  been  beld  in  tiiis  city  a  nor,-  successful  millinery 
opening  than  that  of  Mrs.  I.  Oonghlan,  at  BIB  Market  street,  which 
took  pi:!  The  ladles  still  throng  her  establishment  in 

qneal  of  tin-  latest  creations  in  millinery.  Everything  found  there 
is  thoroughly  artistic,  and  those  who  have  not  yet  visited  her  store 
should  not  fail  t the  admirable  goods  for  sale  there. 


B|    I      ,'  TL  1  al.  Hayman  &  Co.,  (Incorporated) 

aldvVin  I   heatre-  Proprietors. 

Monday,  Marob  Sib,  Brsl  st.Mlur  appearance  in  this  city  of 

OTIS    SKINNER 
Supported  I  bio  and  Frederick  Mosley  and  a  strong 

oompanyof  twenty  playera,     First,  week, five  nights  and  Sat- 
urday matinee, 

MIS    GRACE,    de    GRAMMONT 

Saturday  night, 

HAMLET 
Second  week—"  A  Soldier  of  Fortune  " 


G|  1    '        T"L         _L  The"  Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 

OlUmDia       I   he clt. re-    Prledlander.  Gottlob&Co.,  Lessees 
and  Managers. 
Two  weeks,  beginning  Monday,  March  23th     First  appearance 
here  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Russ  Whytall,  In  their  romantic  drama, 

FOR    FAIR    VIRGINIA 

by  Mr,  Whytall,  as  presented  by  them  over  400  times. 
Original  cast  and  scenery  from  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  N.  Y. 
April  ISth-MISS  GEORGIA  CAYVAN. 

Columbia  Theatre. — Extra- 

Thursday  afternoon,  April  1st,  at  3  sharp. 

GRAND    WAGNER    CONCERT 

of  the  San  Francisco  Symphony  Society. 

Greatest  programme  ever  offered  in  this  city.  Excerpts  from 
seven  Wagner  operas  Soloists :  Cecelia  Adler  Keesing, 
Mathilde  "Wilde,  and  Katherine  Fleming-Hinrichs.  Rhys 
Thomas,  Alois  Werner,  and  Jacob  Muller.  Gustav  Hinrichs, 
Director.    Seats  now  on  sale  at  box  office,  $1  and50c. 

Gl  'X"  '        TL         X  Al-  Hayman&Co.  (Incorporated) 

alitornta    I  heatre.  proprietors 

The  famous 

FRENCH    OPERATIC    ORGANIZATION, 

F.  CHARLEY,  Impresario. 
To-night  (Saturday)  Faust. 
Tuesday,  March  soth,  Aida. 
Thursday,  April  1st,  Rigoletto. 
Saturday  night,  April  3d,  (by  request),  La  Juive. 
Special— Sunday  night,  April  4,  Voyage  of  Suzette,  at  popu- 
lar prices,  50c.  io*2,  to  be  followed  by  William  Tell,  Pagli- 
acci.  Cabmen,  Hamlet,  eto 

0        1  San  Francisco's  Greatest  Music    Hall.      O'Farrell 

rpheUm  .    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 

Week  beginning  MoDday,  Maich  29th.    First  time  here  of 

BARNES    Z>    SISSON, 

"The  Singer  and  the  Maid  "  Last  week  of  Henry  Lee,  in  new 
characterizations.  Tremendous  success  of  Johnoy  Ray  and 
Emma  Ray,  Werner  &  Rieder,  the  ViloDa  Sisters,  Lillie  Laurel, 
the  3  Richards,  and  the  4  Cohans  Special  "  Henry  Lee"  mati- 
nee Wednesday  Special :  Secure  seats  early  in  advance. 
Reserved  seats,  25c  :  balcony  10c;  opera  chairs  and  box  seats  50o. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday.  Matinee  Prices: 
Parquet,  any  seat,  26c;  balcony  any  seat,  10c;  children,  10c, 
any  part. 

T"    _     I  ■    /"\  i—i  Mrs.  Ernestine  kreling. 

I  VOl  I    Upera     /lOUSe.  Proprietor  and  Manager 

Beginning  Monday  evening,  March  29th.  Every  evening,  the 
spectacular  operatic  burlesque, 

DON    dUAN,    Ad    Lib., 

A  hodge-podge  of  mirth,  music,  and  dance.     A  perfect  cast.    A 
merry-go  round  of  lovely  scenery,  beautiful  costumes,  and  ap- 
propriate accessories;  two  beautiful  ballets;  everything  new 
in  song,  dance,  and  humor. 
Popular  Prices 25c  and  50o 

Pacific  Goast  dockey  Glub. 

(Ingleside  Track  )  The  only  perfect  winter  race  track  in 
America.  Racing  from  Monday,  March  22d,  to  Saturday,  April 
3d, inclusive. 

FIVE   OR    MORE    RAGES    DAILY. 

Rain  or  shine.  First  race  at  3  p.  m.  Take  Southern  Pacific 
Trains  at  Third  and  Townsend  streets1  depot,  leaving  at  1  and 
1:20  pm  Fare  for  round  trip,  Including  admission  to  grounds, 
tl.  Take  Mission  street  electric  line  direct  to  track.  The  An- 
drous  stakes  Monday,  March 22d;  the  Ullman  stakes.  Saturday, 
March  27th;  the  California  Derby,  Saturday,  April  3d. 

S.  N.  Androus,  President.    F.  H.  GREEN.  Secretary 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  27,  1897. 


THE    GARRISON. 


IT  was  during  the  Thirty  Years'  War  that  the  Spanish 
Commander,  Gonzalve  de  Cordone,  having  in  his  plun- 
dering course  entered  Palatinate,  determined  to  seize  the 
village  of  Ogersheim,  defended  only  by  a  small  fortification. 

At  his  approach,  all  the  inhabitants  fled  to  Mannheim, 
while  within  the  enclosure  of  the  ramparts  there  remained 
only  a  poor  shepherd,  called  Fritz,  with  his  sick  wife  and 
new-born  son. 

You  may  picture  to  yourself  the  anguish  of  this  poor 
man,  who,  while  seeing  the  approach  of  his  enemies,  yet 
could  not,  like  his  neighbors,  flee  from  their  cruelty.  But, 
being  a  brave,  shrewd  fellow,  he  devised  a  plan  by  which 
he  hoped  to  escape  the  peril  now  threatening  him. 

Having  embraced  his  wife  and  child,  he  went  out  to  put 
his  project  in  execution. 

Amongst  the  baggage  abandoned  by  the  fugitives  he 
easily  found  that  for  which  he  was  seeking;  that  is  to  say, 
an  old  military  suit  complete. 

He  put  on  bis  head  an  enormous  helmet  crowned  with  a 
waving  plume;  on  his  feet  some  very  high  boots,  with 
jingling  spurs;  in  his  belt  a  pair  of  pistols  and  a  heavy 
sabre;  upon  his  shoulders  the  showy  cloak  of  an  officer. 

Thus  equipped,  he  hastened  to  the  ramparts,  on  the  out- 
side of  which  was  tbe  herald,  summoning  the  village  to 
surrender.  "  Friend,"  the  valiant  shepherd  replied,  "tell 
your  General,  I  pray  you,  that  I  have  no  intention  of  yield- 
ing to  his  request,  only  on  these  conditions  :  First,  that  the 
garrison  may  go  out  of  this  fortress  with  all  the  honors  of 
war;  second,  that  the  lives  of  the  inhabitants  will  be 
spared;  and  third,  that  we  may  preserve  the  free  enjoy- 
ment of  our  religion." 

Tbe  herald  declared  that  the  Spaniards  would  never 
submit  to  such  conditions,  since  they  knew  that  Oger- 
sheim was  not  prepared  to  defend  itself. 

"  My  friend,"  replied  the  shepherd,  tranquilly,  "be  not 
so  hasty.  Tell  your  commander  that  only  the  desire  to 
avoid  the  shedding  of  blood  can  induce  me  to  open  these 
gates  to  you;  but  if  he  will  not  accept  the  conditions  which 
I  have  given  you,  he  will  enter  here  only  by  force  of  the 
sword,  for  I  declare  to  you,  on  my  word  as  an  honest  man 
and  a  Christian,  that  the  garrison  has  just  received  a  re- 
inforcement of  which  you  know  nothing." 

Speaking  thus,  Fritz  lit  his  pipe  and  began  to  smoke  as 
unconcernedly  as  a  man  who  had  not  the  least  cause  for 
uneasiness. 

The  soldier,  disturbed  by  his  confidence  and  composure, 
returned  to  his  General  and  told  him  all  the  words  of  the 
Commander  of  Ogersheim. 

So  Gonzalve,  thinking  that  he  might  meet  with  some  re- 
sistance unexpected  by  him,  and  as  he  did  not  want  to  lose 
any  time  before  so  unimportant  a  town,  resolved  to  accept 
the  conditions  imposed  upon  him,  and  therefore  advanced 
with  his  troops  to  the  gate  of  the  fortress.  Learning  from 
the  herald  this  generous  determination  of  the  General,  the 
shepherd  coolly  responded  :  "Your  master  is  a  man  of 
sense." 

He  then  opened  the  gates  and  invited  the  Spaniards  to 
enter.  Surprised  at  seeing  before  him  only  the  rustic 
herdsman,  most  grotesque  in  his  military  costume,  Gon- 
zalve thought  there  was  some  treason  concealed,  and  im- 
mediately asked  where  the  garrison  was. 

"  If  you  will  follow  me,"  replied  Fritz,   "  I'll  show  you." 

"March  by  my  side,"  said  the  Spanish  General,  "a,nd  I 
warn  you  that  at  the  least  indication  of  treachery,  I  will 
send  a  bullet  into  your  head." 

"Very  well,"  responded  the  shepherd;  " follow  me  con- 
fidently, for  I  declare  by  all  that  is  to  me  most  dear,  that 
the  garrison  will  do  you  no  barm." 

He  then  conducted  the  General  through  the  silent  and 
deserted  streets  until,  coming  to  the  very  end  of  a  by-way, 
he  invited  him  to  enter  a  miserable  hovel  which  stood  be- 
fore them. 

There,  showing  him  his  wife,  Fritz  said  :  "  There  is  the 
best  part  of  the  garrison,"  and  proudly  exhibiting  his  new- 
born son,  added,   "and  here  is  our  last  reinforcement." 

Gonzalve,  seeing  with  what  a  singular  artifice  he  had 
been  deceived,  began  to  smile;  then,  detaching  a  gold  chain 
from  his  neck,  he  placed  it  upon   the  bed  of   the   young 


mother,  and  drawing  from  his  pocket  a  purse  fat  with 
ducats,  which  he  gave  to  Fritz,  said: 

"  Let  me  give,  as  a  testimony  of  my  esteem,  this  chain 
to  the  beautiful  garrison,  and  to  you  this  purse  for  your 
young  soldier  boy." 

Then,  taking  leave  of  the  wife  and  child,  he  departed, 
and  Fritz  led  him  back  through  the  village,  thanking  him 
with  deep  emotion  for  his  generous  kindness. — Translated 
from  the  French  by  Adelia  H.  Tapfindek. 


HOW     FITZY     WON      THE     FIGHT. 


"/~VH,  tell  us  of  the  fight,  my  lad,  the  fight  that  Fitzy  won; 

\J  And  tell  us  of  the  blows  they  struck  and  all  the  things  they  done. 
How  Corbett  started  in  and  thought  he'd  do  it  just  for  fun 
And  ended  up  a  living  corpse — the  played  out  son  of  a  gun." 
"  Oh,  father,  it  was  simply  great  I    I  knew  that  Fitz  would  win 
And  told  the  fellows  that  I  knew  on  him  to  pluck  their  tin. 
'Twas  I  who  tipped  O'Hara  there,  and  also  Patsy  Flynn, 
I  said  that  Corbett  was  no  good,  and  now  we  all  are  in." 

"But  tell  me,  boy,  for  you  was  there,  the  blows  the  fellows  blew, 

If  Jimmy  took  his  medicine  like  a  man  had  ought  to  do ; 

If  Fitzy  showed  his  scieDce  and  tbe  little  things  he  knew. 

And  how  our  Jimmy  looked  and  felt  when  Fitzy  got  all  through.'' 

"Why,  father,  it  was  simply  grand !    I  knew  it  all  the  while. 

I  told  young  Ike  and  Billy  White  to  lay  on  Fitz  their  pile; 

And  sister  won  some  chewing-gum  and  ma  a  brand  new  tile, 

And  all  the  fellows  look  at  me,  and  shake  my  hand  and  smile." 

"Ay,  ay,  I  know,"  the  old  man  said ;  "but  tell  me  now  about 

The  scrap  itself.    If  ever  there  was  just  the  smallest  doubt 

That  Fitz  would  land  a  decent  lick  upon  the  other  lout 

To  do  him  up,  and  how  he  came  to  knock  Jim  Corbett  out." 

'Why,  bang  it,  father,"  quoth  the  son,  "  I've  told  you  all  along 

The  way  it  went  until  they  rang  the  funny  little  gong. 

1  tell  you  I  feel  pretty  proud.    I  never  do  go  wrong, 

And  when  it  comes  to  betting,  it  is  there  that  1  am  strong." 

And  as  the  talk  goes  on  all  day,  and  half  the  weary  night 
And  nothing  can  the  father  learn  about  the  famous  fight, 
The  one  is  blind  to  all  things  else  except  that  be  was  right, 
The  other  rubs  his  borny  hands  and  prays  to  God  for  light. 

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March  27.  1897. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


-  a  long  ti-ne — not 
1  since  General  Kautz 
and  his  amiable  wife  reigned  at  Angel  Island — siuce  there 
has  been  so  much  hospitality  and  fun  at  that  post  as  has 
been  the  case  lately.  There  are  so  many  pretty  women  in 
the  Third  Artillery  they  are  quite  capable  of  furnishing  the 
feminine  element  at  the  different  entertainments  without 
going  out  of  Army  circles,  and  they  do.  Needless  to  say, 
our  city  belles  do  not  like  this,  as  they  had  got  to  look  upon 
the  Presido  chaps  as  their  own  especial  property.  An 
Army  girl  remarked  recently:  "  Now  we  can  pay  the  «  i t y 
girls  back  in  their  own  coin  .  a>kin}r  the  officers,  and  not 
an  army  woman.     See  how  they'll  like  it." 

#  ft  * 

San  Rafael  is  getting  ready  for  an  unusually  brilliant 
season.  The  cottagers  are  cleaning  house;  the  big  house 
owners  are  sounding  the  note  of  preparati6n  also,  while 
the  Hotel  Rafael  is  rapidly  filling  up.  Manager  Warfield 
will  do  everything  in  hrs  power  to  make  his  guests  enjoy 
themselves,  and  Baron  von  Schroeder  is  always  ready  to 
give  the  girls  a  jolly  good  time.  Then,  too,  the  place  is  so 
easy  of  access  and  so  moderate  in  fare  from  the  city  that 
men,  even  with  small  salaries,  can  indulge  in  a  trip  from 
Saturday  to  Monday  frequently  during  the  summer. 

#  #  * 

What  a  close  corporation  the  Goad  family  seem  to  be  in 
the  matter  of  weddings,  is  the  universal  comment  of  society 
on  learning  that  the  marriage  of  Miss  Aileen  and  Charley 
Mcintosh  is  to  be  limited  to  relatives  and  intimate  friends. 
Being  solemnized  in  Lent  may,  however,  account  for  this. 
Society  will  have  two  brilliant  weddings  to  look  forward  to 
in  those  of  Miss  Burton  and  Miss  Cohen,  both  of  which  will 
undoubtedly  be  the  occasion  of  much  gold  lace,  flags,  and 
jingling  sabres,  to  say  nothing  of  the  beauty  of  the  bridal 

parties. 

*  *  # 

The  news  that  the  gallant  Captain  Marion  P.  Maus  has 
been  ordered  away  from  California  to  act  as  aide  to  Gen- 
eral Miles  in  Washington  City,  will  be  heard  with  deep  re- 
gret by  his  numerous  lady  friends  on  this  Coast ;  and  any 
one  of  a  venturesome  inclination  can  easily  bet  two  to  one 
that  the  fascinating,  but  somewhat  elusive,  Captain's  ab- 
sence from  Coronado  will  rob  that  delightful  resort  of  the 
visit  several  of  our  most  charming  belles  had  in  view  this 
spring. 

*  *  * 

It  seems  a  pity  that  our  pretty  belles  do  not  utilize  the 
quiet  season  of  Lent,  when  balls  and  parties  must  be  ab- 
jured, by  a  club  for  learning  cooking.  Even  a  chafing  dish 
class  would  be  an  immense  factor  in  gaining  a  man's  favor, 
especially  if  a  few  men  were  invited  on  each  occasion  to  test 
the  proficiency  attained  by  the  fair  casinilres.  What  more 
potent  charm  to  the  average  masculine  than  a  dainty  re- 
past which  bis  own  wife  prepares  for  him.  Take  the  hint, 
girls. 

*  *  * 

The  ownership  of  country  homes  &  I'anglaise  is  fast  be- 
coming a  fixed  feature  of  our  wealthy  class.  The  Henry 
Scotls  are  going  to  make  an  ideal  rural  abode  of  their  place 
at  Burlingame,  and,  they  say,  will  have  house  parties  all 
summer.  On  (lit,  Jack  Casserley  will  briug  his  Chicago 
bride  to  dwell  amid  the  exclusive  set  down  there. 

*  #  * 

Our  fashionable  women  have  found  a  use  for  the  ex- 
champion.  They  are  meditating  getting  up  an  athletic 
class  for  him  to  teach  the  art  of  boxing  to.  The  idea  is 
not  half  a  bad  one,  for  if  women  aspire  to  be  men,  they 
should  not  be  averse  to  defending  themselves  and  not  com- 
pelled to  depend  upon  the  men  of  their  family  to  do  their 
fighting  for  them. 

#  *  * 

The  resignation  of  Henry  Crocker  from  the  horse  show 
and  the  riding  club  emphasizes  the  fact,  so  often  asserted 
by  his  friends,  that  he  is  not  to  be  dictated  to.  If  there 
is  any  bossing  to  do,  he  is  ready  to  do  it  himself. 


Everyone  in  the  inner  circle  of  the  swim  is  talking  of  the 

theatricals   the    Hager  Company  is   going  to  give  after 

r.    That  tbey  will  be  a  tragi  noonecao  doubt 

whtn  such  energetic  da  manage  the  affair 

as  are  to  be  found  among  the  clever  society  people  who 
compose  the  company. 

»  •  « 

The  Euchre  Club,  in  which  are  enrolled  some  of  our  love- 
liest belles,  has  i  tecoi  a  most  populai  ition.  The 
men  clamor  for  invitations,  they  say,  but  the  rule  of  the 
club  is,  "for  members  only,"  and  so,  if  the  "fellahs"  want 
to  be  in  it,  all  they  have  to  do  is  to  pay  their  dues  and  join. 
•  •  • 

Young  Breeze  is  spoken  of  by  the  society  girla  as  a  re- 
cent victim  of  the  wily  god  Cupid,  and  it  will  not  take  very 
long  to  guess  who  it  was  directed  the  shaft  from  his  bow. 

The  fountain  of  perpetual  youth  has  never  been  found;  but  the 
thing  next  to  it  is  Argonaut  Whiskey— which  is  invigorating,  health- 
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March  27,  1897. 


"A  Bride  from  the  Bush,"  by  E.  W.  Homung,     Charles  Scribner's 
Sons.    New  York.    1897.     Price,  75  cents. 

A  Book        The  eldest  son  of  Sir  James  Bligh,  a  Justice 
of  of    the   Supreme   Court  of  Great  Britain, 

the  Week,  wanders  out  to  Australia,  and,  being  a  sim- 
ple-minded sort  of  fellow  with  a  good  income, 
marries  the  daughter  of  a  "squatter"  in  the  Riverina  dis- 
trict of  New  South  Wales.  She  is  a  girl  of  remarkable 
physical  beauty,  but  as  untamed  and  unbroken  as  a 
"  waler."  She  and  her  husband  go  to  England  to  visit  Sir 
James  and  Lady  Bligh  at  their  house  in  Twickenham, 
where  one  of  the  bride's  first  performances  is  to  get  up 
early  in  the  morning  and  amuse  herself  by  crackiog  a 
slock-whip.  Just  as  the  coachman  and  stable-boy  have 
been  driven  into  the  safe  shelter  of  the  stable,  an  old  gen- 
tleman walks  into  the  yard,  and  is  at  once  greeted  by  a 
volley  of  pistol-shot-like  cracks  of  the  whip  round  his  ears. 
After  tiring  of  this,  the  bride  lifts  off  his  hat  with  the 
curling  lash,  and  discloses  the  features  of  Mr.  Justice 
Bligh.  Many  other  "bad  breaks  "  culminate  in  her  stand- 
ing up  in  the  family  carriage  in  the  presence  of  some  mem- 
bers of  the  Royal  fami!y,  and  uttering  a  loud,  shrill  "Coo-ee" 
to  an  Australian  girl  whom  she  recognizes  riding  down  the 
Row.  At  last,  her  mortification  at  her  inability  to  behave 
like  a  lady  becomes  so  insupportable  that  she  gets  her  hus- 
band's permission  to  visit  some  friends  in  Suffolk,  bids  him 
farewell,  and  takes  the  steamer  to  her  native  land.  After 
a  protracted  search,  her  husband  discovers  whither  she 
has  gone,  and  follows  her.  A  happy  re-union  ensues,  and 
the  couple  decide  that  the  atmosphere  of  an  Australian 
sheep-farm  is  freer  and  suits  them  better  than  that  of  the 
greatest  city  in  the  world.  We  have  known  many  Austra- 
lian girls,  and  are  inclined  to  think  that  Mr.  Hornung,  in 
his  eagerness  to  depict  strongly  the  contrast  between  the 
quiet  manners  of  well-bred  English  people  and  the  hoyden- 
ish  behavior  of  a  spoilt  Australienne,  has  overdrawn  the 
gancheries  and  extravagances  of  his  heroine.  But,  how- 
ever this  may  be,  the  tale  is  readable,  and  so  fulfills  its 
prime  function.  And  we  shall  be  pleased  to  read  another 
of  this  author's  stories  whenever  it  may  fall  into  our  hands. 
As  regards  make-up,  the  little  volume  is  well  printed, 
bound  in  white  and  green  cloth,  and  has  the  upper  edges 
of  its  pages  gilt. 

In  Collier's  Weekly  for  March  11th,  Mr.  John  Habberton 
not  unwisely  remarks:  "If  all  the  warlike  counsel  that  has 
been  offered  the  new  administration  by  some  of  the  news- 
paper press  is  accepted,  we  shall  need  a  Davy  that  will 
keep  all  our  shipyards  busy  for  several  years  to  come,  un- 
less some  of  the  Powers  that  are  to  be  fought,  defied,  bul- 
lied, SDubbed,  or  otherwise  offended,  should  take  the  in- 
itiative and  send  over  some  warships  or  torpedo  boats  to 
annihilate  the  ship-yards  themselves;  most  of  the  yards  are 
of  easy  reach  by  any  war-like  craft."  In  the  same  issue 
Elgar  Saltus  is  hard  at  work  making  things  straight  with 
the  Ambassador- to-be  at  the  court  of  St.  James,  by  letting 
us  know  that,  little  as  we  might  suspect  it,  the  Envoy- 
elect  is  a  sweet  poet,  who,  though  he  has  long  since  ceased 
to  be  a  lyre-strummer,  has  yet  contributed  to  the  verse  of 
his  native  land  a  "gem  which  is  almost  perfect."  This 
ought  to  be  worth  an  invite  to  lunch  when  the  Ambassa- 
dor-to-be is  installed  at  the  U.  S.  Embassy  in  London. 

The  first  issue  of  a  new  monthly  entitled  Current 
Thought,  and  defined  as  "a  magazine  of  individual  opinion 
and  research,"  consists  of  twenty  pages  and  a  picture. 
The  solitary  article  which  fills  the  issue  is  contributed  by 
William  George  Jordan,  a  sketch  of  whose  goggle-bedecked 
profile  is  the  picture.  The  article  is  headed:  "Mental 
training:  a  remedy  for  education."  The  writer  expresses 
his  dissatisfaction  with  the  results  of  the  school-training 
of  the  average  man,  and,  of  course,  they  are  poor  and 
meagre  enough.  He  says  (and,  no  doubt,  correctly)  that 
most  people  are  incapable  of  clear  thought,  and  conse- 
quently of  lucid  expression;   that   their   heads  have  been 


crammed  with  facts,  and  their  minds  have  not  been  trained. 
But  then  most  people  have  no  minds  to  train;  and  as  for 
their  incapacity  to  think,  it  is  probable  that  they  are 
better,  or  at  any  rate  more  healthfully,  occupied  than  in 
thinking,  which  is  notoriously  the  most  unwholesome  em- 
ployment in  the  world  for  man,  causing  headache,  nervous- 
ness, dyspepsia,  and  myriad  disorders.  Further,  if  Mr. 
Jordan's  essay  is  to  be  taken  as  a  sample  of  the  kind  of 
work  done  by  the  man  who  has  been  educated,  but  not 
mentally  trained,  we  are  inclined  to  say  "Give  us  the  edu- 
cated man  every  time."  We  are  unable  to  see  that  Mr. 
Jordan  has  shed  much  light  on  his  subject,  and  are  not 
disposed  to  hope  for  any  very  splendid  results  from  the 
extension  of  kindergarten  methods  to  children  of  a  larger 
growth.  And  all  this  talk  about  the  various  methods  of 
education  is  to  a  large  extent  vain  and  fruitless,  for  the 
very  best  system  of  education  in  the  world  cannot  put  into 
a  man's  head  or  heart  what  a  kindly  or  unkindly  Provid- 
ence has  denied.  As  hogs'  ears  are  not  the  raw  material 
out  of  which  silk  purses  are  made,  so  you  cannot  make  a 
mathematician  out  of  a  man  (however  intelligent)  devoid 
of  the  mathematical  instinct,  nor  dower  with  the  gift  of 
music  him  that  hath  no  music  in  his  soul.  Besides,  so  far 
as  we  know,  all  the  thinking  that  the  world  needs  to  have 
done  is  already  done  well  enough:  as  things  are,  we  are  in 
more  danger  of  running  short  of  bootblacks  and  plough- 
men than  of  becoming  "shy  on"  thinkers. 

Scribner's  Magazine  for  March  opens  with  a  lively  arti- 
cle by  Richard  Harding  Davis  on  the  Banderium  of  Hun- 
gary— a  description  of  the  celebration  at  Budapest  of  the 
thousandth  yearof  the  existence  of  Hungary  as  a  kingdom. 
The  Banderium  was  an  exceedingly  varied,  brilliant,  and 
picturesque  spectacle,  and  roused  the  greatest  enthusiasm 
in  all  who  were  fortunate  enough  to  witness  it.  Pour 
chapters  of  Mr.  Davis's  serial  story  appear  in  the  same 
issue  under  the  title  of  "Soldiers  of  Fortune."  Lewis 
Morris  Iddings  contributes  a  paper  on  the  Art  of  Travel 
by  Land.  It  is  a  very  sensible  article,  showing  that  its 
author  is  clearly  aware  that  the  varying  customs  of  Europe 
and  the  United  States  are  not  the  result  of  stupidity  and 
crass  ignorance,  as  some  suppose,  but  have  a  basis  of 
reason  in  the  national  temperament  and  in  the  forms  of 
national  civilization.  CD.  Gibson's  article  on  "London 
Audiences"  is,  as  one  might  fairly  expect  from  a  wielder 
of  the  pencil  who  has  only  recently  become  a  wielder  of 
the  pen,  nearly  all  pictures.  In  the  sketch  entitled  "A 
First  Night"  Mr.  Gibson  introduces  several  Englishmen 
and  Englishwomen,  but  we  feel  constrained  to  say  that  he 
does  not  seem  to  have  yet  caught  the  type  of  the  high- 
class  Briton:  not  one  of  his  men  looks  typically  and  unmis- 
takably an  Englishman  of  the  army,  navy,  or  university 
type.  Perhaps  the  women  are  a  little  better,  but  that  is 
probably  because  the  Englishwoman  is  not  so  pronounced 
and  inimitable  a  type  as  the  Englishman:  that  is,  she  is  in 
outward  appearance,  at  any  rate,  more  nearly  like  a  fash- 
ionable woman  of  any  nationality. 

In  the  March  issue  of  Self  Culture  we  find  editorial  com- 
ments on  various  subjects  under  discussion,  a  review  of 
Lord  Robert's  "Autobiography,"  an  article  from  the  Ed- 
inburgh Scotsman  on  the  value  of  various  foods  as  flesh- 
formers  and  heat-givers,  and  other  articles.  To  us  the 
most  interesting  contribution  is  Dr.  William  Clark's  on 
"Conduct  and  Manner."  "Conduct,"  says  the  writer, 
"not  only  mokes  a  man  what  he  is,  but  also  shows  what  he 
is."  Dr.  Clark  mentions  a  public-school  teacher  who  evi- 
dently held  very  different  views  from  Sir  Joseph  Porter, 
First  Lord  of  the  Admiralty  in  H.  M.  S.  Pinafore.  It  was 
a  primary  article  of  Sir  Joseph's  creed  that  the  ex- 
pression 'If  you  please'  imparts  a  particularly  gentlemanly 
tone  to  life  on  a  man-of-war,  but  the  school-ma'am  referred 
to  by  Dr.  Clark  forbade  her  luckless  pupils  to  use  such  ex- 
pressions as  "Thank  you"  or  "If  you  please,"  on  the 
ground  that  they  savor  of  servility.  Poor  fool !  as  though 
politeness  were  not  the  surest  test  of  superiority.  It  is 
just  to  Dr.  Clark  to  say  that  he  strongly  combats  what  he 
calls  "the  mischievous  delusion  that  suavity  of  manner  is 
a  confession  of  social  or  other  inferiority,  and  that  to  pre- 
serve his  self-respect  and  maintain  his  republican  equality 
a  man  has  to  be  surly  or  indifferent,  after  the  manner  of 
hotel-clerks  or  expressmen,  and  too  often  salesmen  and 
"salesladies."    Dr.   Clark's  article  is  good  reading.    . 


.Match  27,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


DBAS  EDITH  ('ne  of  the  handsomest  models  I  have 
seen  for  dibutantt*  is  made  ol  white  si'.k  gauze  over 
ivory-colored  satin.  The  skirt  lias  no  train,  if  very  close 
tittinL'  at  the  hips,  and  Hares  1 ■onsiderably  at  the  hem, 
Six  rail  ruches  of  rfory-colored  satin,  pinked  at  the  edges 
and  graduated  in  width  (the  widest  being  at  the  hem,  the 
narrowest  below  the  knees),  encircling  the  skirt.  The 
baby  waist  is  of  satin  covered  with  plaited  gauze  and 
• .  and  is  edged  with  a  silk  ruche.  Four  narrow 
ruches  at  back  and  four  at  front  of  the  neck,  extending 
diagonally  to  a  standing  collar  or  necklet  of  folded  satin 
ribbon  edged  at  the  top  with  satin  tabs.  A  close-fitting 
sleeve  reaches  almost  to  the  elbow,  where  it  is  finished  by 
a  ruche,  and  bunches  of  large  Malmaison  roses  take  the 
place  of  shoulder  puffs.  A  girdle  of  gold  filigree  set  with 
precious  stones  encircles  the  waist  and  finishes  at  the 
back  with  a  long  sash  of  satin  edged  with  two  rows  of 
very  narrow  ruches. 

A  new  ball  dress  of  pale  green  satin  is  covered  with 
green  mousseline  de  soie.  The  skirt  is  trained  and  has 
satin  panels  embroidered  with  silver  thread,  silver 
spangles  and  pearls.  They  open  over  the  underskirt  of 
green  mousseline  de  soie,  upon  which  are  sewn  small  sil- 
ver spangles  glittering  with  each  motion  of  the  wearer. 
The  sleeves  consist  of  a  small  puff,  and  the  square-cut 
bodice  has  a  small  yoke  embroidered  to  match  the  design 
on  the  panels.  Garlands  of  rose  geraniums,  with  their 
pretty  varicolored  foliage,  sprinkled  with  occasional  dew 
drops  of  diamonds,  form  the  epaulettes.  The  neck  is  en- 
tirely covered  by  a  light  green  satin  collar  and  tabs,  richly 
embroidered  and  edged  with  a  tiny  ruche  of  green  mousse- 
line de  soie.  The  hair  will  be  done  in  high  puffs,  orna- 
mented with  strings  of  pearls  and  diamonds  and  a  cluster 
of  the  geranium  flowers  and  ruches.  With  this  costume  a 
novelty  will  be  worn  in  the  shape  of  white  silk  gloves,  with 
long  arm  coverings  of  real  lace  extending  to  the  shoulders 
and  embroidered  with  silver  and  pearls. 

A  friend,  writing  from  Paris,  says  that  it  is  very  strange 
that  lingerie  is  so  much  cheaper  over  there  than  on  this 
side.  "Cotton  goods  in  France,"  she  says,  "cost  quite  a 
bit  more,  and  good  sewing  machines  a'.l  come  from  the 
other  side  of  the  water.  This  year  I  hear  that  white  wear 
is  cheaper  at  home  than  it  used  to  be.  One  merchant  ex- 
plained the  question  by  saying  there  was  a  steadier,  surer 
market  here  for  the  better  class  of  lingerie,  and  another 
merchant  attributed  the  difference  in  price  to  the  cheaper 
labor  to  be  had  in  France.  It  surprises  one  to  find  so 
much  bead  work  on  these  garments,  even  among  the  very 
ordinary  lots,  and  each  and  every  piece  of  lingerie  is  em- 
bellished with  a  fetching  bow  of  satin  ribbon,  and  is  set  off 
with  delicate,  tinted  tissue  paper,  until  it  becomes 
irresistible  to  shoppers. 

The  nightgowns  this  season  are  exquisite.  They  are 
made  of  the  choicest  materials,  and  with  each  gown  comes 
a  dainty  little  chemise  trimmed  like  the  gown,  and  they 
are  only  sold  in  sets.  One  of  the  very  expensive  sets  was 
made  of  a  very  fine  quality  of  cambric.  The  yoke  of  the 
gown  was  tucked  in  tiny  tucks,  with  a  feather  stitch 
worked  between  each  tuck.  It  was  a  short  yoke,  and  the 
fullness  was  gathered  into  a  band,  Empire  fashion.  The 
band  was  embroidered  with  eyelets,  through  which  rather 
broad  white  satin  ribbon  was  passed.  Around  the  neck  of 
the  gown  there  was  a  fall  of  Valenciennes  lace  that  merged 
into  a  jabot  at  the  front  of  the  gown  and  continued  down 
to  the  hem.  The  sleeves  were  full  bishop  sleeves  that 
opened  from  the  wrist  to  the  top.  They  were  edged  with 
narrow  frills  of  Valenciennes  along  the  opening,  and  at  the 
wrist  there  was  a  broad  frill  of  lace,  headed  by  a  band 
with  eyelets.  When  the  ribbon  is  taken  out  of  these 
sleeves  they  become  straight,  plain  affairs,  and  the  very 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  27,  1897. 


The  exaggerated  statements  which  have 
No  Demand  heralded  the  advent  of  every  individual  who 
for  Mines.  chooses  to  pose  as  an  expert  for  one  of  the 
many  so-called  exploration  companies,  and 
the  inflated  notioos  regarding  these  concerns  themselves, 
a^e  to  blame  very  much  for  upsetting  the.  minds  of  so  many 
people  by  misleading  them  on  the  mining  situation,  which 
from  a  popular  standpoint  has  been  on  the  eve  of  a  boom 
for  over  a  year  past.  These  exploration  companies  are 
not  scattering  money  around  by  the  million,  eager  to  ab- 
sorb in  competition  everything  offering  in  the  shape  of  a 
mine.  Even  as  it  is,  these  companies  have  much  to  learn 
about  investments  in  the  West,  and  nothing  but  experience 
will  teach  them.  In  any  event,  they  are  not  eleemosynary 
institutions,  operating  for  the  benefit  of  humanity  outside 
of  their  own  pale.  They  work  for  profits,  and  the  heaviest 
that  can  be  obtained  on  the  smallest  possible  investment. 
No  one  will  ever  make  a  cent,  wittingly,  beyond  the  inside 
ring  in  control  and  its  parasitical  attachments,  who  loom 
up  bigger,  as  a  rule,  than  any  one  else  in  the  concern.  An 
idea  of  what  is  actually  going  on  in  London  can  best  be 
formed  from  the  repeated  failures  which  are  known,  if  not 
reported,  of  finely  concocted  schemes  from  California. 
Nine  out  of  every  ten  propositions  sent  on  from  here  for  a 
twelvemonth  past,  have  failed.  Besides  this,  investment 
capital  has  fallen  off,  the  total  for  February  in  London  be- 
ing estimated  at  five  and  one-half  millions,  against  six  and 
three-fourths  millions  for  the  same  month  last  year.  Of 
this  amount,  but  a  very  minute  fraction  has  been  appor- 
tioned for  mines,  the  bulk  having  been  absorbed  by  brew- 
eries, distilleries,  cycling,  motor,  industrial,  and  miscel- 
laneous companies.  This,  however,  will  not  serve  to  check 
the  aspirations  of  local  budding  geniuses  in  the  promotion 
line,  nor  the  volume  of  presentations  by  mail  from  this 
quarter.     Hope  hangs  high,  like  the  proverbial  goose. 

Some  of  the  "tenderfoot"  promoters  in 
Mine  Promotion  this  city  who  aim  to  get  rich  by  a 
in  London.  brilliant  coup  in  London,  where  they 
imagine  investors  are  as  thick  as  black- 
berries, begin  to  look  anxious  over  the  prospects.  It 
would  be  useless  possibly  to  suggest  to  such  people  that 
they  are  chasing  a  phantom,  or  to  warn  them  that  nearly 
everything  they  are  told  about  the  condition  of 
affairs  is  false  in  every  particular.  Mines  are 
slow  of  sale  in  London,  slower  in  fact  than  any- 
thing else.  The  offices  of  mining  men  and  financiers 
are  loaded  down  with  propositions  of  the  kind. 
It  is  actually  surprising  to  learn  from  this  correspondence 
the  number  of  people  in  San  Francisco,  who  in  despera- 
tion have  joined  the  immense  caravan  of  fortune  seekers, 
as  well  as  the  absurdities  of  the  crude  attempt  at  techni- 
cal demonstration  by  the  veriest  tyros  in  the  art  of  mining. 
These  absurdities  are  so  glaring  that  they  incite  suspicion 
upon  the  part  of  the  hard  headed  business  man  abroad 
with  most  unsatisfactory  results  in  a  general  way  to  the 
State.  Every  profession  in  the  daily  walks  of  life  is  now 
represented  in  the  list  of  men  who  want  to  sell  a  mine,  and 
no  line  of  trade  is  lacking  in  this  display  of  a  hungry 
desire  to  blossom  out  as  a  Barnato,  or  some  other  freak  of 
fortune  in  the  new  world  of  finance.  Sooner  or  later  this 
mob  will  awake  from  its  day  dream  of  something  that  will 
never  be  and  go  back  to  its  ordinary  work  full  of  disap- 
pointment. But  this  is  the  way  of  life,  a  matter  of  every- 
day occurrence  with  some  one  or  other. 

The  Tuscarora  district  is  looming  up 

Tusearora  Mines     again  through  recent  rich  discoveries 

Looming  Up.        in  the  old  Coptic   and  Dexter  Mines. 

There  are  other  mines  in  the  vicinity 

which  will  doubtless  be  heard  from  in  turn,  as  this  portion 

of  the  State   is  just  close  enough  to  be  under  the  scrutiny 

of  its   energetic   and   enterprising  neighbors   across   the 

Utah  line.     This  quarter  of  Nevada  will  likely  continue  to 

pick  up  for  some  time  to  come,  as  it  is  rich  in  mineral. 


If  there  was  any  way  to  get  around  the 
An  Opening  promoter  and  that  twin  evil,  the  syndicate, 
For  Capital,     so  as  to  reach  the  monied  people  of  Great 

Britain  with  a  leaning  toward  mining  in- 
vestment, it  would  be  a  good  thing  for  all  concerned.  The 
profitable  mining  interest  in  the  future  will  result  from 
the  development  of  prospects  and  the  discovery  of  new 
mines.  The  State  is  full  of  opportunities  of  the  kind  to- 
day, but  the  disposition  is  to  overlook  them  in  the  general 
hunt  for  a  shell  with  enough  left  in  it  to  corroborate 
ancient  history  used  as  a  bait  for  legitimate  robbery. 
With  this  object  in  view,  an  opening  could  be  found  for  a 
large  amount  of  money  with  the  promise  of  grand  results. 
A  great  many  people  in  this  city  are  now  co-operating  in 
small  ventures  of  the  kind.  The  risk  is  compara- 
tively small,  because  before  any  heavy  expenditure 
of  money  is  made,  the  practical  operator  can  de- 
termine to  almost  a  certainty  whether  or  not  it 
would  be  prudent  to  continue  operations.  A  few  hundred 
dollars  will  open  up  a  ledge  or  piece  of  ground  sufficient 
in  any  case  to  give  a  fair  idea  of  its  value,  and  to  a  depth 
sufficient,  if  the  outlook  is  satisfactory,  to  give  a  value  to 
the  property  of  the  investment  many  times  over.  Not  in- 
frequently loss  in  enterprises  of  the  kind  are  occasioned 
by  bad  judgment  of  the  miner  in  charge,  who  fails  to  ex- 
pend the  funds  at  his  command  to  good  advantage,  by 
working  on  plans  which  might  be  right  enough  if  backed 
by  large  capital,  while  absolutely  suicidal  on  a  limited  scale. 

The  mining  industry  flourishes  in  and  around 
Mining  in  the  Grizzly  Flat  mining  district  of  El  Do- 
El  Dorado,     rado  County.     The  gravel  property  there, 

owned  by  Colonel  Sutherland  and  others,  is 
said  to  have  some  fine  prospects  in  sight,  averaging  from 
10  cents  to  SI.  50  per  pan  in  cement  gravel.  Arrangements 
have  been  completed  for  a  10-stamp  mill  to  crush  the 
cement.  The  property,  which  is  a  drift  proposition,  was 
purchased  originally  from  John  Melton  and  others,  ot 
Placerville.  A  correspondent,  writing  from  this  quarter, 
says  that  the  Flagstaff  mine,  four  miles  north  of  Grizzly 
Flat,  will  be  operated  early  this  spring  by  capitalists  from 
ColumbLs,  Ohio.  A  fine  chute  of  ore  is  also  said  to  have 
been  cut  in  the  Bullard  mine,  assays  running  as  high  as 
$75  per  ton.  A  mill  will  be  built  here.  A  rumor  is  also 
afloat  that  the  Mt.  Pleasant  mine  will  resume  operations 
in  the  near  future  under  new  management.  There  is  also 
some  talk  of  a  consolidation  between  the  Mt.  Pleasant  and 
the  Eagle  Mining  Company. 

The  troubles  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  un- 
A  Bonanza  associate  directors  have  not  as  yet  cul- 
For  Lawyers,  minated,  and  while  the  unfortunate  share- 
holders wait  in  patient  expectation  for  the 
long-foretold  bonanza,  lawyers  on  all  sides  make  the  run- 
ning and  capture  the  fat  stakes.  In  the  meantime,  busi- 
ness in  the  stock  boards  is  demoralized.  There  is  no  dis- 
guising that  fact.  The  next  thing  is,  what  are  the  brokers 
going  to  do  pending  the  settlement  of  a  litigation  which 
may  last  until  doomsday?  Misfortune  seems  to  have  set- 
tled heavily  over  this  Pine-street  institution.  Its  members 
have  had  a  hard  road  to  hoe  for  some  time  past,  and  the 
future  is  certainly  not  bright.  Taking  the  situation  as  a 
whole,  it  would  certainly  urge  the  necessity  for  radical 
action  of  some  kind  immediately.  The  continuance  of  the 
prevailing  weak-kneed  policy  means  ruin. 

The  London  Exploration  Company,  which 
Grand  Central  stood  sponsor  for  the  Grand  Central 
Of  Mexico.  mines  of  Mexico,  on  the  strength  of  a  re- 
port from  one  of  its  numerous  experts, 
seems  to  have  already  worked  the  property  up  to  an  ex- 
planation point.  Details  so  far  are  meagre,  but  it  ap- 
pears from  statements  made  that  the  estimates  of  ore 
reserves  have  fallen  short  considerably.  When  the  mine 
was  experted  for  the  Exploration  Company  a  few  months 
ago,  the  reports  showed  some  80,000  tons  of  ore  in  sight, 
and  after  9,000  tons  had  been  extracted  it  was  claimed 
that  only  40,000  tons  remained,  according  to  somebody 
else.  A  portion  of  the  London  financial  press  suggests 
hopefully  that  of  course  a  satisfactory  explanation  will  be 
forthcoming  on  a  point  which  it  insists  must  be  cleared  up 
in  the  interests  of  critical  investors. 


March  27,  1897. 


FRANCISCO   Nl  US    I.I.IT1.K. 


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Til  art  tboul" 
wllb  you." 


TIIK  Reverend  (I.  A    Ketchum,  who  has  for   six    years 
discoursed  on  matti  rs  vpiritual  from    the   pulpit 
First  Presbyterian  Church  at   Berkeley,   has  been 
adjudged  too  slow  and  old  fashioned   by   the   progressive 
members  of  his  congregation,  and  in  response  to   the   Arm 
but  uncomplimentary  pressed  by  the  lively  sisters 

and  frisky  brethren  who  pay  pew    rent,  has  tendered   his 
ation.  and  will  give  pi  a  :e  to  some  coworker  in  the 
vineyard  who  is  more  "  liberal." 

'Tis  sad.  Rood  sir.  tint  yon  must  go. 

Bat  you— beg  pardon— are  too  slow. 

Of  course  you  mean;  well.    That  is  plain. 

But  ministers  who  will  disdain 

With  Satan  sometimes  to  hobnob 

t'annot  expect  to  hold  their  job. 

Your  record  is  a  spotless  one. 

Pray  telt  us,  then,  bow  'nealh  the  sun 

Could  you  have  ever  limped  to  last? 

A  pastor,  sir,  without  a  past! 

Can  you  to  others  hold  a  candle 

Without  a  solitary  scandal 

Against  your  fair,  unsullied  name? 

You  see,  you  have  yourself  to  blame. 

We  will  have  men  who'll  make  things  hum 

Or  know  the  reason  why,  by  gum  I 

Successful  guardians  o(  flocks 

Are  never  sternly  orthodox. 

In  order  to  be  up  to  date. 

New  views  you  should  disseminate. 

'Tis  quite  the  proper  thing  to  mix 

Religion  with  your  politics; 

One-tenth  the  former,  nine-tenths  t'other — 

That  is  the  right  proportion,  brother. 

Once  'twas  your  duty  to  dilate 

Upon  a  sinner's  awful  fate — 

His  punishment  in  regions  warm — 

But  nowadays  'tis  not  good  form  : 

Hell's  conflagrations  were,  you  know, 

Put  out  by  science  long  ago. 

When  we  lean  back  in  cushioned  pews 

We  want  to  hear  the  latest  news. 

So,  sir,  if  Providence  should  send 

Another  flock  for  you  to  tend, 

Here's  hoping  you'll  know  how  to  fetch  'em. 

Reform  at  once,  good  brother  Ketchum  ! 

"T"~VAISY,"  who  must  be  a  sweet,  tender-hearted  maiden, 
\J  writes  to  the  Crier  on  cream-tinted  paper,  from  an 
interior  town,  to  know  if  poor  Mr.  Sutro  was  really  hung 
the  day  he  went  out  of  office.  No,  Daisy  dear,  unfortun- 
ately, Adolph  and  his  term  did  not  expire  simultaneously. 
Your  mistake  is  easy  to  trace,  however.  It  was  his  por- 
trait that  was  hung  in  the  Mayor's  office  on  that  joyful 
day,  in  obedience  to  a  time-honored  custom.  We  never 
hang  people  in  San  Francisco,  dearie. 

JUSTICE  John  A.  Carroll  is  in  a  predicament  from 
which  he  will  have  some  difficulty  in  extricating  him- 
self, Miss  Josephine  Gibbons  having  sued  him  for  the 
alleged  embezzlement  of  a  mandolin,  and  the  entire 
Grand  Jury  having  met  in  so'emn  conclave  on  the  case. 

Good  heavens,  what  a  fearful  din 

To  raise  about  a  mandolin  ! 

Where  is  the  "rift  within  the  lute" 

To  make  the  jarring  music  mute? 

E'en  the  defendant,  Judge  John  A., 

Is  CarrolliDg  his  little  lay. 

THE  overworked  insanity  plea,  which  is  the  pet  refuge 
of  most  murderers,  has  not  been  urged  in  Butler's 
case.  Strange.  He  has  already  given  evidence  of  mental 
nuttiness  as  well  as  criminal  naughtiness,  for  he  declares 
that  when  he  gets  back  to  Australia  he  will  employ  a  wo- 
man lawyer. 

COMMANDER  Booth-Tucker  is  of  the  opinion  that  had 
there  been  daily  newspapers  in  the  days  of  St.  Peter, 
that  worthy  would  never  have  landed  in  a  jail.  The  Com- 
mander probably  thinks  that  the  mere  perusal  of  the  sheet 
would  have  been  considered  punishment  enough  for  any 
offenses. 


Rtion  tocrusli  the  theatre  bat  »:. 
■elf  crushed    I  In.-  nan  maintain  her  mlllihi 

right*,  whl  •  etn  in   Impotent  rage  and 

a  in  spirit. 

The  theatre  hat  with  its  steeple-top  crown 
fan  not  by  municipal  law  he  brought  down. 

lb  in. I-  en. hire  roofa  ills. 
Hut  mortgage  their  incomes  to  settle  the  hills. 
I.e.. I.  nli  fur  tyrants!     The  average  play 
We  do  nol  mind  missing    Imt  there's  the  ballet! 
And  rather  than  silently  sacrifice  fhal 
We  warn  you  we're  rea.lv  to  light  fat,  not  at, 
The  ilmp  of  the  hat. 

CA  I'T.  DYE,  the  gallant  horse-marine  in  charge  of  the 
Sunol,  is  apparently  the  possessor  of  so  much  sea 
knowledge  that  he  should  be  promoted  to  a  position  in  our 
invincible  Navee.  This  genius,  it  appears,  is  unable  to 
distinguish  whether  the  bark  that  ran  him  down  was  at 
anchor  or  moving.  The  Town  CrIEB  is  no  sailor,  but  he 
has  never  heard  of  a  ship  at  anchor  with  all  sails  set.  In 
his  humble  opinion,  Captain  Dye  is  a  badly  water-logged 
craft. 

THE  fellow  who  sells  glucose  and  corn  starch  for  jelly, 
and  who  seem  to  be  proud  of  it,  may  be  readily  sus- 
pected of  putting  sand  in  their  sugar  or  burnt  wheat  in 
their  coffee.  In  this  unrighteous  traffic  the  thrifty  sellers 
of  unfit  goods  appear  to  forget  that  they  are  selling  a  per- 
centage of  their  reputations  whenever  they  knowingly 
take  good  money  for  bad  merchandise;  and  at  current 
rates  it  will  soon  be  the  least  valuable  part  of  the  pack- 
ages delivered. 

BROTHER  Hemphill  is  in  hot  water  with  the  Presby- 
terian divines  of  this  city  and  all  because  thev  con- 
sider his  remarks  of  "clowns"  and  "trained  monkeys" 
applicable  to  their  own  sacred  persons.  The  clown  and 
the  trained  monkey  are  undoubtedly  more  entertaining 
than  these  holy  and  stiff-lipped  Presbyters  and  it  can 
surely  be  no  misdemeanor  to  liken  them  to  those  entertain- 
ing delights  of  our  childhood,  although  it  is  somewhat  hard 
on  the  simians. 

EDWARD  CASHIN,  lighthouse  keeper  at  the  Faral- 
lones,  wagered  every  hair  on  his  pate  that  Pomp.  Jim 
would  win  the  fight  at  Carson.  Miss  Doud,  schoolma'am 
at  the  same  windy  suburb,  took  up  the  bet,  and  now  ex- 
hibits Cashin's  scalp  at  her  belt.  As  a  usual  thing,  when 
a  woman  wants  to  snatch  a  man  baldheaded,  she  does  not 
wait  for  somebody  in  another  State  to  do  the  fighting.  She 
prefers  to  take  part  in  the  melee  herself. 

MILLER  &  LUX  have  incurred  the  wrath  of  the 
butchers,  and  the  latter  are  now  on  the  war  path, 
headed  by  their  Board  of  Trade.  The  air  is  full  of  flying 
cleavers,  and,  festooned  with  strings  of  sausages  in  token 
of  their  vocation,  the  knights  of  the  chopping  block  are 
hastening  forward  to  the  fray.  Meanwhile  the  public 
dodges  the  missiles  and  prays  for  peace. 

SINCE  slogging  matches  so  delight 
The  people  that  they  hail  the  sight 
When  gory  gladiators  light; 
Resolved  to  win  or  die; 
I  hope  that  soon  the  day  will  come 
(For  me  'twill  be  millennium) 
When  sloggers  must  be  deaf  and  dumb— 
"None  others  need  apply." 

THAT  an  octogenarian  is  not  fit  to  write  poetry  was 
proven  last  Sunday  by  the  appearance  of  the  gibber- 
ish of  one  Rufus  C.  Hopkins,  an  otherwise  worthy  gentle- 
man who  usually  pays  for  the  publication  of  his  verse.  If 
it  is  true  that  at  eighty  one  can  hold  communion  with  the 
spirit  of  truth,  the  Town  Crier  wonders  why  Mr.  Hopkins 
has  the  audacity  to  persevere  at  his  nefarious  labors. 

THE  attention  of  the  Board  of  Health  is  respectfully 
called  to  Mr.  James  J.  Corbett,  a  defeated  prize- 
fighter. Can  he  not  be  classed  among  "Impure  Jellies" 
and  dumped  into  the  bay? 

NOW  that  the  mail  clerks  have  left   this  city  for  the 
South,  there  will  be  a  chance  for  some  of  us  to  get  in 
and  have  a  little  fun  with  the  female  variety. 

THE   only  proof    that    Ira    D.    Sankey,    the  chirping 
Evangelist,  is  a  great  singer,  lies  in  the  fact  that  he 
is  still  unaware  that  he  has  lost  his  voice. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  27,  1897. 


j»l  OPRING,  lovely  spring !  Season  of  vio- 
\J  lets,  primroses,  hyacinths,  and  inci- 
dentally head  colds  and  rheumatism,  has  burst  upon  us  so 
suddenly  and  so  gleefully  that  we  are  all  taken  unawares, 
and  stare  blinking  at  the  sunshine  like  so  many  owls.  It 
is  a  fine,  clear,  beautiful  sunlight,  too,  and  you  may  fancy 
the  temperature  when  overcoats  are  discarded.  There 
are  signs  of  brushing  up  in  the  Park  cafes,  and  the  cheerful 
visages  of  Isaacs  of  the  Casino,  Gabe  Case  of  McGown's 
Pass  Tavern,  and  the  suave  Italian  who  dictates  the  for- 
tunes of  Claremont  are  even  more  cheerful  than  usual,  es- 
pecially Claremont's  proprietor,  for  Claremont  will  be  the 
scene  of  the  unveiling— so  called — of  the  Grant  monument, 
which  has  really  been  unveiled  for  some  time.  Regulars, 
militia,  naval  reserves,  numerous  political  organizations,  to 
say  nothing  of  the  inevitable  G.  A.  R.,  look  forward  to  the 
day  as  something  of  great  moment.  Death  is  to  me  so 
solemn,  so  dignified,  so  sacred  that  I  am  not  appreciative 
of  display.  It  is  like  a  cannibal  feast.  How  many  will 
really  think  of  the  dead  and  how  many  of  the  festivity ! 
Squadron  A.,  the  crack  cavalry  troop,  blossoms  out  in  new 
uniforms  for  the  occasion,  something  like  the  Austrian  Hus- 
sar uniform,  and  very  effective. 

I  do  not  know  why  this  sudden  mad  rush  of  Californians 
to  Philadelphia,  but  for  the  last  ten  days  it  has  been  epi- 
demic. Mrs.  Philbin  has  just  returned  from  a  visit  there. 
Mrs.  Mullin-Belvin  is  now  in  the  Quaker  atmosphere.  Mrs. 
Bradley  and  Mrs.  Wallace  (who  by  the  way  is  much  im- 
proved under  Dr.  Weir  Mitchell's  care),  Mrs.  Carl  Jungen 
on  a  visit  to  Mrs.  Coghlan,  Wilder  Pease,  and  I  do  not 
know  i.ow  many  others. 

Mrs.  George  Harding,  of  the  staid  city,  went  over  to 
Washington  for  the  Inauguration  as  the  guest  of  Mrs.  Clin- 
ton Cushing,  who  has  taken  a  beautiful  house  at  the  Capi- 
tal for  the  season.  California  is  not  poorly  represented  by 
any  means  in  the  chief  city,  and  all  of  your  people  are  gen- 
erous entertainers.  Mrs.  Stanford,  Mrs.  Hearst,  Mrs. 
"Dick"  Clover,  Mrs.  Cushing,  Mrs.  McKenna,  Mrs.  Field, 
and  Mrs.  Condit  Smith  are  the  shining  lights. 

Mrs.  James  Lake  had  a  narrow  escape  a  few  days  ago, 
owing  to  the  desperately  reckless  driving  of  the  New 
York  tradesmen.  Mrs.  Lake  was  in  a  brougham  with 
Mrs.  Hammoud,  whose  father  and  mother,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
William  Breyfogle,  will  be  remembered  by  old  Califor- 
nians. Mrs.  Hammond's  little  two-year-old  daughter 
was  also  with  them.  A  brewers'  bottling  wagon,  dash- 
ing down  the  street  with  the  usual  recklessness  of  trades- 
men's wagons,  collided  with  the  brougham,  in  spite  of  the 
coachman's  skillful  efforts  to  avert  a  disaster.  One 
of  the  horses  was  instantly  killed,  however,  and  the 
brougham  partially  overturned.  The  nervous  shock  to  the 
occupants  of  the  vehicle  may  be  readily  imagined. 

I  believe  that  you  have  your  own  and  only  Tobin  with 
you  again.  Russell  Wilson  is  at  the  Holland.  Mrs.  El- 
monte  of  Los  Angeles  is  at  the  Vendome.  Mrs.  Vidaver 
has  a  permanent  engagement  to  sing  at  one  of  the  large 
synagogues.  Oliver  Hazard  Perry  Noyes  will  leave  in  a 
fortnight  for  San  Francisco  en  route  to  Japan.  Mrs.  John 
Hoffman  Martin,  you  will  be  pleased  to  hear,  has  been  re- 
leased from  her  embarrassments  re  Ted  Henley.  She 
keeps  up  the  excitement  diligently,  does  she  not? 

New  York,  March  20t  1897.  Passe-Partoct. 

PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 

THIS  week  the  News  Letter  presents  a  very  fine  view 
of  the  dining  room  of  a  Chinese  restaurant.  In  the 
elaborate  character  of  decorations  it  will  easily  bear  com- 
parison to  American  restaurants.  The  quaint  chairs  and 
stools  are  severe  and  devoid  of  the  least  ornamentation, 
showing  a  remarkable  difference  in  this  respect  from  civi- 
lized customs. 

If  one  really  desires  to  combine  business  and  pleasure  in  a  happy 
proportion,  it  is  only  necessary  to  drop  in  and  have  a  talk  with 
George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  at  625  Market  street,  under  the  Palace.  All 
the  finest  things  in  Japanese  curios,  art  and  antiques  are  collected 
there.    These  goods  are  all  the  rage  just  now. 


ROKDEAU. 


YOU  ask  me  why  my  heart's  as  gay 
As  it  was  only  yesterday, 
An  hour  before  she  proved  untrue, 
And  left  me  in  this  horrid  stew, 
With  all  her  modiste's  bills  to  pay. 
You  know,  ma  chere,  it  is  my  way 
To  never  fret  when  women  play 
Me  false,  in  spite  of  which  even  you, 
You  ask  me  why  I 

That's  not  the  reason,  sir,  you  say; 
Granted!    If  I  might  dare — I  may? 
Ahem !    Her  exit  gives  the  cue 
For  me  to  try  my  luck  with— you ! 
You  guessed  as  much?    And  yet,  pardieu! 
You  ask  me  why ! 

—St.  George  Best,  in  Quartier  Latin, 

To  the  refined  taste  food  must  not  only  be  good  but  served  in  an 
appetizing  manner.  Swain's  at  213  Sutter  street  fully  appreciate 
this  fact.  A  splendid  table  d'hote  dinner  is  served  there  every  day 
from  5  to  8  for  one  dollar,  that  is  a  model  of  taste  completeness  and 
refined  delicate  service.  Swain's  confectionery  and  pastries  are  the 
best,  and  orders  will  be  promptly  filled  by  telephone  or  otherwise. 


For  Morbid  Conditions  take  Beecham's  Pills. 


BANKING. 


Bank  of 
British  Columbia. 


Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up $3,000,00 

Reserve  Fund ?  500,000 

Southeast  Cob.  Bush  and  Sansome  Stb. 
HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lombard  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B,  C. ; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  Na  tional  Bank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico — London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  or 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

SflTI     FP/inri*Nrn  corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

c «.,:«««      n«:««  Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 134,202,327 

o3VinQ8     UniOn.  Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus....    1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors — Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday  even- 
lngs,6:30to8 

TtlP  ftPPman   SHVinnS  No"  526  Galifornia  street,  San  Francisco 

«ri     i  «~«     c«A;A*..        Guarantee  capital  and  surplus — $2,040.20166 

ailQ     LOan     oOGlGlU.       Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash..   1,000  000  00 

Deposits  December  31, 1896 27,7-0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B.A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary,  George  Tourny ;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A..  H.  Muller!  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A.  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann,  Ign.  Steiuhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt. 

M/olfc     F-ivn  a  N-  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 

VVGllO    I  (11  yU  John  J.Valentine President 

c-    r*      *        d    „i,  H.    Wadsworth CaBhier 

OC   GO.  S     BanK.  Homer S. King Manager 

F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 


Securitu 
Savings  Bank. 


William  Alvord 
Wm.  Babcock 
Adam  Grant 


222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building, 
interest  paid  on  deposits. 

LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS. 

S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

O.  D.  Baldwin  E  J.  McCutcheu 

W.  S-  Jones  J.  B.  Lincoln 


March  1-.  1897. 


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BANKING. 


I  looked  upon  her  lithographs. 

11. iw  hearehly  did  «he  seem' 
I'nlil  the  show  nmi  mtn  town 

1  wnlke.l  a*  in  n  ilrearu! 

I  went  Ihe  1  the  play. 

And  saw  her '     Do  yon  know 
That  they  n  1  lithographs 

Somefori>    w«r-  »|ro?       —Cleveland  Leader. 

"Oo  you  mean  to  say.'  asked  the  visitor,  in  horror,  "that 
the  gentleman  was  shot  fur  m  in  ply  rising  and  making  a 
motion  during  a  meeting  ol  your  debating  society?" 
"Sut'inly."  said  the  colonci  "but  you  must  remembah, 
sah,  that  the  motion  he  was  called  down  on  was  made  in 
the  direction  of  his  hip-pocket.  >;th." — Detroit  Free  Press. 

"No,"  sighed  the  transmigration  agent,  as  he  climbed 
from  the  tug  into  Charon's  boat,  "there  is  no  end  to  my 
troubles.  To-day  I  had  a  woman  doomed  to  be  an  elephant 
hereafter,  and  you  ought  to  have  heard  her  roar  about 
being  reduced  to  one  trunk.   —Detroit  Journal. 

Private  Theatrical  Hero — There  is  one  place  in  the  second 
act  where  I  am  to  kiss  you.  Private  Theatrical 
Heroine  (earnestly) — Oh,  my  fiance  would  never  consent 
to  that;  but  you  might  do  so  behind  the  scenes. — Brooklyn 
Eagle. 

The  Boarder  (pausing  to  rest) — This  steak  doesn't  seem 
to  like  me,  Mrs.  Slimdiet.  The  landlady — How  absurd! 
What  do  you  mean?  The  boarder — Well,  I  can't  make 
any  impression  on  it,  any  way. — New  York  Journal. 

'  You  had  better  keep  your  tongue  between  your  teeth 
out  West  here,"  cautioned  the  cicerone.  ''I  done  that 
once,"  said  the  pugilist,  "an'  got  arrested  for  carrying 
concealed  weapons." — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 

His  Sister  (wildly) — Oh,  Tom!  baby  has  just  swallowed 
the  gold  ring  you  gave  him,  Christmas!  Her  brother 
(indifferently) — Well,  never  mind,  sis.  It  was  only  plated. 
— B  ooklyn  Eagle. 

"Hungry  Higginsl"  said  the  kind  lady.  "Of  course,  that 
is  not  your  real  name?"  "No,  mum,"  answered  Mr.  Hig- 
gins.  "It's  wot  might  be  called  a  empty  title." — Odds 
and  Ends. 

"I  fear  your  wedded  happiness  will  be  of  short  duration. " 
"I  hope  so,"  candidly  confessed  the  young  lady  who  was 
to  wed  the  multi-aged  multi-millionaire. — Indianapolis 
Journal. 

"My  task  in  life,"  said  the pastorcomplacently,  "consists 
in  saving  young  men."  "Ah!"  replied  the  maiden  with  a 
soulful  longing,  "save  a  nice-looking  one  for  me." — Dublin 
World. 

Patient  (nervously) — How  did  you  get  all  those  awful 
skeletons,  doctor?  Doctor — Raised  them  when  I  was  a 
student.     Stick  out  your  tongue. — Philadelphia  Press. 

"Wouldn't  it  be  nice  if  we  only  lived  in  the  dark  ages?" 
she  murmured.  And  he  took  the  hint  and  turned  out  the 
gas. — Philadelphia  Record. 

THE  first  copy  of  "Highways;  the  Good  Roads  Jour- 
nal," is  just  received.  As  its  name  implies,  it  is  de- 
voted to  good  roads  in  the  country  and  good  streets  in  the 
cities.  It  is  an  interesting  publication,  published  in  San 
Francisco  and  Chicago,  for  $1  per  year. 

The  Overland  Limited. 

ONLY  Z%   DAYS  TO  CHICAGO.      4%   DAYS  TO  NEW   YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Dauble  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


Bank  of  California,  c*pU" »,ooo.ooooo 

San    FranCiSCO.  Profita  (October  I,  I8W)..    8.IM,1»TO 

WILLIAM  AI.VOKli  President  I  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP..  Vlce-Prea't 

AI. I. KN  M.CLAY  nry    THOMAS  BROWN Caahlor 

S.  Prentiss  Smith       Ass't  Cashier  1 1.  F.  Modlton 2d  Asa't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  Yoke- Messrs,  I.aldlaw  A  Co.;  Iho  Bank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
'■  -Tromont  National  Bank:  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  do  Kothschlld  Freres;  Virginia  City  (Ncv.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bank  or  California;  CniCAGo—  Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand— Bank  of 
New  Zealand:  CHINA,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St  Locis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  Issued  available  In  all  pans  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York.  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Borlln,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Chrlstlania.  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  In  Italy. 


Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copperplate  engraving.    Cooper  &  Co.,  746 
Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


California  Safe  Deposit     Cor- Cali,ornla  aai  n™^™™  sts. 
and  Trust  Company,       **...  p...,  p.M •«.«».«> 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity,  "Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  to  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  and  valuables  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickersham,  J»cob  C. 
Johnson,  .Tames  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R  B.  Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry,  A.  D.  Sharon,  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry,  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E,  Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

Mutual  ^av/inn*;    Rank  ^  PosT  street,  below  kearny, 

mutual   oaviiiuo    uailrv  Mechanics'  Institute  Building. 

Of    Sail      FrSnCiSCO.  Guaranteed  Capital 11,000,000 

Paid-Up  Capital I  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN   A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John   A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Granc. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks,    When  opening  aocounts  send  signatuie. 

I  onrlon  Pflris  and  n.w.  cor.  sansome  &  sutter  sts. 

nm««-«««     d«»i,       1  :«t«Kj      Subscribed  Capital 12,500,000 

American  Bank,  Limited,  paiaupcapnai 12.mw.uoo 

Reserve  Fund I    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cle,  17  Boulevard  Polssonlere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

The  Anglo-Galifornian       Si£Sa4S^.^:::::::::::,SSSSS 

D«nb       1  :«:«A*i  PaId   UP 1,500,000 

DanK,      LimiteQ.  Reserve    Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansomb  Sts. 
Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills*  'or  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

^  bUUi0D-  P°n:  LlE&Nrf  II  }  onager* 

Grocker-Woolworth         SSpJstis?SeeetSMontqombht' 
National  Bank  of  S.  F.    paia-up  capital «,ooo,ooo 

WM.  H.  CROCKER. .  > President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

Tho    Cathon  Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 

I  llt>   OdlllGl  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

Banking  Company,     capital 11,000,000 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Co wgill.  Cashier.  F.  W- Wolfe,  Secretary. 

Direotors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P-  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago — Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  BETTER. 


March  27,  1897. 


B 


AN    OLD    MAN'S    IDYL— rich ard  realf,  in  poems 

Y  the  waters  of  Life  we  sat  together, 

Hand  and  band  in  the  golden  days 
OE  the  beautiful  early  snmmer  weather, 

When  skies  were  purple  and  breath  was  praise, 
When  the  heart  kept  tune  to  the  carol  of  birds, 

And  the  birds  kept  tune  to  the  soDgs  which  ran 
Through  shimmer  of  flowers  on  grassy  swards, 

And  trees  with  voices  iEolian. 

By  the  rivers  of  Life  we  walked  together, 

I  and  my  darling,  unafraid ; 
And  lighter  than  any  linnet's  feather 

The  burdens  of  Being  on  us  weighed. 
And  Love's  sweet  miracles  o'er  us  threw 

Mamies  of  joy  outlasting  Time, 
And  up  from  the  rosy  morrows  grew 

A  sound  that  seemed  like  a  marriage  chime. 

In  the  gardens  of  Life  we  strayed  together; 

And  the  luscious  apples  were  ripe  and  red, 
And  the  languid  lilac  and  honeyed  heather 

Swooned  with  the  fragrance  which  they  shed. 
And  under  the  trees  the  angels  walked, 

And  up  in  the  air  a  sense  of  wings 
Awed  us  tenderly,  while  we  talked 

Softly  in  sacred  communings. 

In  the  meadows  of  Life  we  strayed  together, 

Watching  the  waving  harvests  grow ; 
And  under  the  benison  of  the  Father 

Our  hearts,  like  the  lambs,  skipped  to  and  fro. 
And  the  cowslips,  hearing  our  low  replies, 

Broidered  fairer  the  emerald  banks, 
And  glad  tears  shone  in  the  daisies'  eyes, 

And  the  timid  violet  glistened  thanks. 

Who  was  with  us,  and  what  was  round  us, 

Neither  myself  nor  my  darling  guessed ; 
Only  we  knew  that  something  crowned  us 

Out  from  the  heavens  with  crowns  of  rest; 
Only  we  knew  that  something  bright 

Lingered  lovingly  where  we  stood, 
Clothed  with  the  incandescent  light 

Of  something  higher  than  humanhood. 

Oh,  the  riches  Love  doth  inherit  1 

Ah,  the  alchemy  which  doth  change 
Dross  of  body  and  dregs  of  spirit 

Into  sanctiiies  rare  and  strange  1 
My  flesh  is  feeble  and  dry  and  old, 

My  darling's  beautiful  hair  is  gray; 
But  our  elixir  and  precious  gold 

Laugh  at  the  footsteps  of  decay. 
Harms  of  the  world  have  come  unto  us, 

Cups  of  sorrow  we  yet  shall  drain ; 
But  we  have  a  secret  which  doth  6how  us 

Wonderful  rainbows  in  the  rain. 
And  we  hear  the  tread  of  the  years  move  by, 

And  the  sun  is  setting  behind  the  hills ; 
But  my  darling  does  not  fear  to  die, 

And  I  am  happy  in  what  God  wills. 
So  we  sit  by  our  household  fires  together, 

Dreaming  the  dreams  of  long  ago; 
Then  it  was  balmy  summer  weather, 

And  now  the  valleys  are  laid  in  snow. 
Icicles  hang  from  the  slippery  eaves ; 

The  wind  blows  cold— 'tis  growing  late; 
Well,  well !  we  have  garnered  all  our  sheaves, 

I  and  my  darling,  and  we  wait. 


SUB      ROSA-— FLORENCE  PROVOST  CLARENDON. 


Queen  of  thy  sister  flowers, 

Mistress  of  silence,  too. 
If  thou  shonld'st  see  my  sweetheart, 

Tell  her  I  love  her,  anew. 

If  she  should'st  breathe  thy  fragrance, 
Fresh  with  the  morning  dew, 

Give  her  my  loving  message; 
Our  secret's  safe  with  you. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 


SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 


309  and  311  Sansome  St. 


San   Francisco,  Cal 


CORRESPONDENTS : 

PINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  46  Threadneedle  St., London 

SIMPSON,  MACKIRDY  &  CO 29  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 


INSURANCE. 


FIRE,   MARINE,   AND   INLAND  INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited),   OF  MANCHESTER,  ENGLAND. 
SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00    RESOURCES 


CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager, 
Pieb  Insurance. 


)  California  St.,  S.  F. 


Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Gompanu    of  Nortn  America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  PENN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St. ,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up $1,000,000 

Assets 3,192.001.69 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,506,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St.  . 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD   &   DICKSON,  S.F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  Established  1732. 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON   N8URANCE  CO.  incorporated  a* 

BUTLER  &  H ALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF    LIVERPOOL. 

Capital $6,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents, 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

nR  RIPORn'Q  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu- 
un.  nl^unu  O  ine— A  specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physical 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medloine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
J.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED— Box  of  50  pills,  $1  25;  of  100  pills,  $2;  of  200  pills, 
$3  50 ;  of  400  pills,  $6 ;  Preparatory  Pills  $2.    Send  for  circular. 

Josepli  Gillott's  Steel  Fens, 

Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1?89.    These  pens  are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sote  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Me.  Henry  Hoe,  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers .  .    . 


March  27,  1S97. 


FRANCISCO  NKWS   I.I-TTKR. 


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INSURANCE. 

GI.  Arthur  E.  Magill  of  the    Homo   Mutual,  of 
Now    York,   wbo    has    t»  '.>r  tho  past  two 

weeks,  has  just  returned. 

Manager  Conrad,  of  tho  Thuringta,  has  gone  to  Chicago, 
to  be  absent  two  or  throo  a 

-iiicnt  John  A    McCall,  of  the  Now  York    Life,  who 
has  been  rusticating  •  les  for  tho  jia.-t  fortnight, 

was  dined  and  wined  by  tl  •  of  the   company  there 

last  week.     He  will  bo  in  San  Krancisco  on  the  first  ol  the 
month 

The  I'nited  States  Casualty  Company,  represented  in 
this  city  by  J.  D,  Maxwell,  is  being  examined  by  tho  New 
York  Insurance  Department.  John  A  HoCall  has  recently 
resigned  from  the  directorate  of  the  Casualty,  and  this,  in 
connection  with  the  appearance  of  the  company's  last 
statement,  has  made  the  examination  necessary. 

The  Marine  Accident  and  Plate  Glass  Insurance  Com- 
pany continues  to  be  the  only  one  outside  of  the  Compact; 
and  as  a  consequence  it  is  reaping  a  rich  harvest. 

Captain  A.  W.  Masters.  I'nited  States  manager  for  the 
London  Guarantee  and  Accident  Company,  and  Hon.  R. 
W.  Sloan,  Western  manager  for  the  same  company,  with 
headquarters  at  Salt  Lake,  were  in  the  city  during  the 
week,  and  left  for  home  Wednesday. 

The  Nederland  Life  Insurance  Company,  of  Amsterdam, 
which  has  done  business  in  this  country  for  the  past  four 
years,  has  concluded  to  reinsure  its  lines  and  leave  the 
United  States.  The  reason  of  withdrawal  is  the  increased 
cost  of  securing  business  in  America,  as  against  Holland. 
The  company,  up  to  April  1st,  will  keep  an  office  in  New 
York  City  for  collecting  premiums,  settling  death  claims, 
paying  surrender  values,  etc. 

It  begins  to  look  as  if  the  Guarantor's  Insurance  Com- 
pany is  in  a  bad  way.  A  license  has  been  refused  it  in  its 
own  State,  New  York,  and  it  is  now  being  examined  by 
the  Pennsylvania  Insurance  Department.  This  company 
has  quite  a  business  iu  California. 

The  Phoenix  Life  Insurance  Company  has  appointed 
James  S.  Osborne  its  California  manager,  and  offices  have 
been  established  on  the  ground  floor  of  the  Mills  Building. 
Mr.  Osborne  is  a  young  gentleman  of  excellent  ability  and 
a  wide  and  favorable  acquaintance  in  the  community. 

The  failure  of  the  Legislature  to  pass  the  bill  compelling 
a  deposit  of  $200,000  by  foreign  insurance  companies,  will 
permit  the  continuance  of  unrestricted  writing  by  such 
companies.  A  number  of  these  are  Japan  and  Chinese 
concerns,  of  which  little  is  known,  and  they  come  in  direct 
and  hurtful  competition  with  responsible  home  and  foreign 
companies. 

E.  S.  Fowler,  California  manager  of  the  Preferred  Acci- 
dent Insurance  Company,  carried  off  the  honors  in  the 
accident  field  last  year,  having  written  considerably  more 
business  than  any  of  his  competitors. 

The  insurance  companies  lost  $155,000  by  the  destruction 
of  the  Coben  home  in  Alameda  last  Tuesday.  The  Penn- 
sylvania Fire  (Manager  Pope)  was  extremely  lucky, 
having  a  $5,000  line  on  the  bowling  alley  situated  but  fifty 
feet  from  the  residence,  which  escaped  untojehed. 

The  resignation  of  M.  R.  Higgins  from  the  office  of 
Insurance  Commissioner  for  the  State  of  California,  to  ac- 
cept a  position  with  the  Mutual  Life  as  Superintendent  of 
agencies,  is  probably  a  satisfactory  arrangement  for  both 
parties.  The  Pacific  Mutual  Life  has  been  making  stren- 
uous efforts  during  the  past  year  to  enlarge  its  business, 
and  has  been  in  a  degree  successful.  An  acquaintance 
with  the  business  which  experience  is  sure  to  bring  him, 
will  make  Mr.  Higgins  a  valuable  assistant.  It  is  likely 
that  Henry  C.  Gesfordwill  take  his  place  as  Commissioner 
for  the  unexpired  term  of  one  year,  after  which  Andrew 
J.  Clunie  will  fill  the  office  for  the  regular  term  of  four 
years. 

Through  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  from  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
phone Main  1531, 

Drowsiness  is  dispelled  by  beecbam's  Pills. 


Macbeth  lamp-chimneys  are 
right  it  you  get  the  right  one 
for  your  lamp. 

Let  ti^  send  you  the;  Index. 

Then-  is  no  other  way  to 
enjoy  your  lamp  and  avoid 
expense. 

Geo  A  Macbeth  Co 

Pittsburgh  Pa  1 


Gliy  sum  improvement  Go., 

Rooms,  11  and  45,  Fifth   Floor,    Mills  Building. 
Telephone,  Main  5377. 
Sacramento  Office,  411  c)  St. 

Directors: 

H  DrjTAitD,  C.  B.  Stone,  T  J.  Bishop,  J.  W.  McDonald, 
W.  E.  Dennison.  J.  W.  McDonald,  President;  W.  E.  Dennison, 
Secretary;  Col  G.  H.  Men  dell,  Corps  of  Engineers.  U.  S.  A.,  (Retired) 
Consulting  Engineer. 

Proprietors  Santa  Cruz,  Cal.,  and  King  City,  Monterey  Co. 

BITUMEN  MINES. 

Contractors  for  alt  kinds  of  street  work,  bridges,  and  rail- 
way construction,  wharves,  jetties,  and  sea  walls. 


MT.  VERNON  CO.,  Baltimore. 

The  undersigned,  having  been  appointed  Agents  for  the 
Pacific  Coast  for  the  Bale  of  the  manufactures  of  above 
company,  bave  now  in  store : 

SAIL  DUCK— ALL  NUMBERS. 
HYDRAULIC— ALL  NUMBERS. 
DRAPER  AND  WAGON  DUCK. 

From 30  to  120  Inches  wide;  and  a  complete  assortment 
of  all  qualities  28^-inoh  duck,  from  7  to  15  ozs.,  Inclusive. 
MURPHY.  GRANT  &  CO. 

Tomkinson's  Livery  Stable  ^liBh" 

J.  TOMPKINSON,  Proprietor. 

Nos.  57,  59,  and  61  Minna  St.,  between  First  and  Second. 

Through  to  Natoma  street,  Nos.  64,  66,  and  68.    One  block  from  the  Palace 

Hotel,  also  oarrlages  and  coupes  at  Pacific  Union  Club,  corner  Post  and 

Stcokton  streets,  San  Francisco.    Telephone  No.  153. 

Fine  turnouts  kept  especially  for  calling.    Also  rookaways,  buggies,  and 
vehicles  of  every  description  at  reduced  rates. 

ST.  LAWRENCE 

L1VEEY  AND 

SALES  STABLE. 

W.  E.  BRIDGE,  Proprietor. 

423  Post  St.,  between  Powell  and 
Mason,  San  Francisco. 
Telephone  No.  1323. 

CUNNINGHAM,    CURTISS   &   WELCH, 

Wholesale 
Stationers  and 
Booksellers. 

327,  329,  331  Sansome  St.  San  Francisco 


BRUSHES 


For  barbers,  bakers,  bootblacks,  bath-houses,  bil- 
liard tables,  brewers,  book-binders,  candy-makers, 
canners,  dyers,  flour-mills,  foundries,  laundries, 
paper-bangers,  printers,  painters,  shoe  factories, 
stable  men,  tar-roofers,  tanners  tailors,  etc. 


BUCHANAN   BROS., 

BRUSH   MANUFACTURERS,  609  Sacramento  St.  ,S.   F       Tel.  5610. 

Weak  Hen  and  Women  f^^^^SE 

edy ;  it  gives  health  and  strength  to  the  Sexual  Organs.    Depot  at  823  Mar- 
ket street,  San  Francisco.     (Send  for  circular.) 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  27,  1897. 


IT  was  to  be  the  best  entertainment  in  the  history  of 
local  clubdom.  The  jinks  of  the  Bohemian  Club,  the 
amateur  theatricals  of  the  Concordia,  the  ladies'  nights 
of  the  Cosmos — Ben  Davis  said  none  of  them  would  be  in  it 
with  his  little  party,  for  it  was  the  master  mind  of  Ben 
which  conceived  the  brilliant  idea  of  a  five-round  fight  be- 
tween gentlemen,  to  take  place  in  the  rooms  of  that  train- 
ing school  for  the  Concordia — the  Calliopean  Club.  He 
divulged  the  details  of  his  plan  about  a  month  ago  to  a 
group  of  fellow  members,  as  they  sat  together  in  their 
cosy  cottage  on  California  street.  All  approved  the  idea, 
but  as  there  was  some  reluc lance  among  the  others  to  act 
as  principals,  Ben  said  he  would  fight  himself,  and  further- 
more that  he  would  get  some  one  else  to  fight  with  him. 
As  Davis  is  a  light-weight,  he  selected,  as  his  antagonist, 
Melville  Schweitzer,  whose  avoirdupois  is  not  great. 

The  pair  said  tbey  would  begin  to  train  forthwith  for 
the  encounter,  and  their  friends  noted  with  satisfaction 
their  adherence  to  a  Spartan  diet  and  observed  that  they 
eschewed  strong  drink  and  tobacco. 

The  fight  was  arranged  for  last  Tuesday  night,  and  the 
members  of  the  Calliopean  were  besieged  by  their  friends 
for  invitations.  At  eight  o'clock  the  large  reception  rooms 
of  the  club  were  densely  packed.  In  the  center  a  ring  had 
been  roped  off.  with  all  necessary  pugilistic  accompani- 
ments of  the  best  quality,  for  the  Calliopeans  never  do 
anything  by  halves.  Seconds  were  on  band  with  bottles 
and  sponges,  with  Max  Koshland  in  charge  of  one  corner 
and  Mel  Waugerheim  diagonally  opposite  him.  Every  one 
was  present,  except  the  principals,  the  referee,  and  the 
timekeeper.  Ben  Davis  had  said  he  had  arranged  that 
Fitzsimmons  should  act  as  referee  and  made  a  little  speech, 
and  that  Jimmie  Carroll  should  hold  the  watch. 


The  minutes  dragged  slowly,  and  the  hands  of  the  clock 
wore  nearer  nine  than  eight,  when  the  telephone  bell  rang 
and  Mel  Schweitzer  announced  that  the  delay  was  caused 
by  the  tardiness  of  Fitzsimmons,  but  that  he  and  Bob  and 
Ben  Davis  would  start  for  the  club  at  once.  The  waiting 
members  resumed  attitudes  of  expectancy. 

"As  the  athletes  will  soon  be  here,  gentlemen  will  please 
refrain  from  smoking,"  Sam  Lezinsky  had  announced,  an 
hour  earlier,  so  even  the  solace  of  cigars  was  prohibited, 
but  Louis  Weill  and  "Peck"  Eppinger  livened  matters  by 
making  a  book  on  the  fight.  At  intervals  several  addi- 
tional telephonic  messages  were  received,  with  a  variety 
of  excuses  from  the  principals,  each  conversation  ending 
with  an  assurance  of  a  speedy  appearance.  Finally,  about 
midnight,  Ben  Davis  and  Mel  Schweitzer  entered  arm  in 
arm,  but  instead  of  ring  costume,  they  were  arrayed  in 
conventional  evening  dress.  They  had  been  having  a  jolly 
evening,  and  they  looked  it. 

"Where's  Fitz?  What's  the  matter?  Aren't  you  going 
to  fight?  Why  have  you  kept  us  waiting?"  were  a  few  of 
the  questions  hurled  at  the  lordly  pugilists. 

"Why,  we  were  giving  you  what  Governor  Budd  calls 
the  long-distance  jolly,"  replied  the  impresario  imper- 
turbably.  Davis  and  Schweitzer  had  spent  the  evening  at 
a  theatre,  sending  a  telephone  message  to  the  club  at  the 
end  of  every  act. 

"It's  a  case  of  sell,  boys,"  said  Hugo  Waterman,  who  is 
a  persistent  bear  on  'Change. 

After  much  grumbling,  the  disappointed  spectators 
organized  a  few  games  of  draw,  and  just  as  the  chips  were 
beginning  to  move  quickly,  the  fighters  slipped  unobserved 
down  cellar  and  turned  off  the  gas  at  the  meter.  As  a 
harmonious  whole,  the  evening  supplied  the  greatest  sells 
of  the  season.  Ben  Davis'  reputation  as  a  successful 
practical  joker  is  now  firmly  established,  and  the  Cal- 
liopeans are  convinced  that  their  field  is  too  restricted  for 
the  talents  of  Schweitzer  and  Davis,  and  that  those 
worthies  are  about  ripe  for  graduation  into  the  broader 
area  of  the  Concordia  Club. 


The  stormy  and  enthusiastic  welcome  accorded  to  prize- 
fighters and  bruisers  by  the  State  of  Nevada,  through  its 
highest  officials,  brings  to  mind  an  anecdote  told  with  in- 
finite enjoyment  by  the  late  Judge  Sabin  of  the  U.  S.  Cir- 
cuit Court,  and  which  has  the  merit  of  truth  as  well  as 
point.  The  Judge's  appreciation  of  the  story  was  none 
the  less  keen  that  the  joke  was  on  his  beloved  sage-brush 
State,  and  directly  on  Wm.  M.  Stewart,  its  representative 
in  the  U.  S.  Senate. 

A  distinguished  Federal  official  (whose  identity,  in  the 
lapse  of  years,  has  been  forgotten)  was,  during  a  visit  to 
the  Coast,  for  some  weeks  the  guest  of  Senator  Stewart 
at  his  Carson  home,  and  finally  journeyed  with  him  to  this 
city.  During  his  stay  the  Senator  gave  a  dinner  at  the 
Palace,  in  honor  of  the  distinguished  visitor,  at  which 
many  high  dignitaries  of  both  States  were  present. 

Conversation  drifted  into  a  discussion  of  the  Indian 
question,  in  the  course  of  which  the  host  rather  senten- 
tiously  remarked  to  the  guest  of  honor: 

"There  is  a  very  curious  fact  in  regard  to  the  Indians  <A 
my  State  which  you  may  not  be  aware  of.  You  know  that 
wherever  the  aborigines  have  been  brought  into  contact 
with  civilization,  their  number  has  steadily  decreased.  In 
Nevada  the  contrary  is  the  case — the  census  shows  a  de- 
cided increase  in  their  ranks,  particularly  in  the  vicinity 
of  Carson." 

The  visitor  regarded  the  speaker  thoughtfully  for  a  mo- 
ment, and  then  slowly  rejoined: 

"Are  you  positive,  Senator,  that  the  Indians  in  the 
vicinity  of  Carson  have  been  brought  into  contact  with 
civilization?" 

Stewart's  answer  is  not  of  record;  but  the  17th  of 
March  gave  an  especial  point  to  the  long-past  query. 

*  *  * 

If  any  love  is  lost  between  Antony  Hellman  and  Paul 
Jarboe,  no  one  has  ever  proclaimed  that  he  has  found  it. 
During  the  morning  hours  Tony  is  a  busy  broker  on  the 
floor  of  the  Stock  Board,  but  after  lunch  he  undergoes  a 
transformation.  He  is  the  premiere  danseuse  of  the  Bo- 
hemian Club,  and,  as  a  female  impersonator,  has  kicked 
himself  into  popularity  with  almost  everyone  in  the  club 
except  Jarboe,  who.  as  commander  of  the  brigade  which 
tempts  fortune  for  the  purchase  of  red  liquids,  is  not  in- 
terested in  high  kicking.  Tony  is  always  hatted  in  a  silk 
tile  of  a  modish  block.  Irrespective  of  the  character  of 
his  costume  and  regardless  of  time  or  weather,  the  topper 
is  always  in  evidence,  cocked  at  a  bewitching  angle.  Some 
people  say  that  Tony  sleeps  in  the  hat,  although  that  is 
denied.  Hellman's  love  for  his  hat  is  a  standing  joke  on 
'Change,  where  it  is  said  that  he  has  provided  for  its  per- 
petual care  by  a  legacy  in  his  will. 

As  Tony  walked  down  the  marble  steps  of  the  Bohemian 
Club  the  other  day,  Paul  Jarboe  started  to  ascend  the 
same.  They  met  at  the  big  oak  door,  and  neither  was  in- 
clined to  yield  that  the  other  might  pass.-  Finally  Paul 
made  an  exaggerated  bow,  as  he  backed  half  way  across 
the  Post-street  pavement. 

"After  you,  sir,"  he  said,  haughtily.  "Such  a  hat  as 
yours  always  has  the  right  of  way." 

Tony   was   subsequently    observed   at  various    hatters 

pricing  Fedoras. 

*  *  * 

Many  ludicrous  blunders  have  been  caused  by  the  facial 
resemblance  between  William  Greer  Harrison  and  George 
Grant,  assistant  cashier  of  the  Nevada  Bank.  Ladies 
have  mistaken  one  for  the  other,  and  the  result  has  fre- 
quently been  almost  inextricable  social  confusion.  When 
Grant  heard  that  Harrison  had  gone  East,  he  gave  a  sigh 
of  relief;  thinking  that  he  had  secured  an  immunity  from 
many  humiliating  embarrassments,  for  it  is  not  flattering 
to  one's  vanity  to  be  continually  mistaken  for  another  man. 
The  day  after  the  departure  of  his  double,  Grant  was 
stopped  on  Montgomery  street  by  an  exceptionally  pretty 
girl.  He  is  a  cousin  of  Sir  William  Gordon  Cumming,  and 
possesses  much  of  that  same  family  gallantry  which 
prompted  the  famous  English  soldier  to  suffer  a  vicarious 
sacrifice  after  the  Tanby  Croft  incident,  that  the  offence  of 
the  Prince  of  Wales  might  be  concealed.  Mr.  Grant  did 
not  remember  having  met  the  girl,  but  then,  there  were 
her  undeniably  good  looks,  and  he  found  no  difficulty  in 
convincing  himself  that  his  memory  was  not  so  good  as  it 


March  27,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'9 


while   he   acknowledged  her  effusive  greeting 
with  much  inward  complacency 

"How  d  I   the  churning  young  woman, 

with  a   radiant   smile   and   a   confiding  clasp  of  her  little 
hands.     "I  have  just  been  longing  to  sec  you." 

This  was  almost  too  much,  even  for  the  gallant  banker. 
but  he  endeavored  to  look  as  if  be  were  not  taken  aback 
by  the  gashing  girl's  entl  Idress.     Her  next  ie 

mark  was  a  cruel  stab  to  his  pride. 

"Yes,  I  wanted  to  ask  you  this  one  question  about  Rosa- 
lind. Mr.  Harrison."  continued  the  dazzling  young  lady, 
who  had  been  attending  the  insurance  manager's  drawing- 
room  lectures  on  "The  Women  of  Shakespeare."     "Now. 

won't  you  tell  me.  do  you  really  think " 

Grant  bad  Bed,  and  so  bad  his  gallantry,  for  his  in- 
articulate murmur  of  explanation  did  not  explain.  The 
damsel  stood  gating  after  bim  in  amazed  indignation,  and 
then  marched  off  with  flashing  eves  and  dilated  nostrils. 
She  has  been  telling  her  friends  that  while  Mr.  Harrison 
may  be  very  clever  and  profound,  he  has  all  the  eccen- 
tricities of  genius,  and  that  his  manners  are  sadly  brusque. 

*  *  * 

His  flattering  habit  of  invariably  saying  the  nice  thing 
expected  of  him  is  one  secret  of  the  social  and  mercantile 
popularity  of  big  Ray  Sherman,  leader  of  cotillions,  athlete 
and  hardware  expert.  He  diues  frequently  with  a  family 
noted  for  its  fashionable  Bobcmionism,  the  party  including 
beside  Sherman  and  the  host  and  hostess,  the  latter's  un- 
married sister.  At  the  table  the  other  night,  the  talk  drifted 
to  a  discussion  of  mutual  friends,  and  to  two  married  sisters 
who  maintained  an  establishment  in  common. 

"Why  don't  you  marry  some  nice  chap,  Amy,  and  bring 
him  here  to  live,  so  we  could  have  the  same  good  times?" 
said  her  brother-in-law,  chaffingly,  to  the  young  lady  of 
the  party. 

"Do  you  consider  me  a  nice  chap?"  smilingly  drawled 
Ray,  without  that  thought  which  should  always  precede 
an  utterance,  especially  on  such  a  topic. 

A  sudden  silence  oppressed  the  diners  and  Raymond 
realized  that  he  had  said  either  too  much  or  too  little.  He 
did  not  know  what  to  say  next  and  so,  rather  stupidly, 
said  nothing.  Now  Sherman  and  the  young  lady  are  each 
wondering  if  the  other  considered  it  a  proposal,  the  girl's 
friends  don't  know  whether  to  congratulate  her  or  not, 
and  stalwart  Ray  vows  he  will  never  again  say  the  right 
thing  for  the  sake  of  being  agreeable. 

*  *  * 

For  every  awkward  predicament  into  which  a  man  may 
blunder,  and  which  may  be  self-explanatory,  there  are 
others  which  become  more  involved  with  every  fresh  at- 
tempt to  clear  away  their  obsurity.  At  least  that  is  the 
conclusion  of  Eugene  Lent,  a  melancholy  conclusion  born  of 
an  episode  in  his  own  experience.  At  a  luncheon  given  in 
the  Ladies'  Annex  to  the  University  Club,  Lent  was  one 
of  the  guests.  Having  occasion  to  leave  the  table  tempor- 
arily, intending  to  seek  the  seclusion  of  the  cloak  room, 
Eugene  absent-mindedly  walked  into  the  ladies'  dressing 
apartments.  Discovering  his  mistake,  he  turned  to  leave 
the  quarter  where  no  man  may  enter.  Unfortunately,  he 
was  met  on  the  threshold  by  one  of  the  young  ladies  of  the 
party.  To  perceive  Lent's  intrusion  was  to  resent  it. 
Before  he  could  offer  any  explanation,  she  made  him  a  low 
bow  of  mock  courtesy. 

''Vice  la  Imperatrice  Eugenie,"  she  said,  with  cutting  sar- 
casm, and  then  promptly  turned  her  back  upon  him. 

The  girl  did  not  hesitate  to  narrate  the  occurrence, 
although  'Genie  did,  and  repeated  her  ban  mot  with  great 
gusto.  And  that  is  the  explanation  of  how  the  eldest  son 
of  General  "Bill"  Lent   came   to  be  familiarly   known  as 

"The  Empress  Eugenie." 

*  »  * 

"  The  ex-Commodore  of  the  Grecian  fleet"  is  the  title 
bestowed  by  his  friends  on  Thomas  C.  Kierulff,  who 
practices  law  and  incidentally  collects  the  rents  of  a  San- 
some-street  block.  Before  he  embarked  on  this  career  he 
had  lofty  political  ambitions,  but  wisely  determining  to 
begin  at  the  lowest  rung  of  the  ladder  and  work  up,  he 
sought,  as  a  starter,  an  office  which  seemed  easily  within 
his  grasp.  The  duties  were  not  onerous  and  the  pay  was 
good,  so  Tom  aspired  to  be  Town  Marsha]  of  Berkeley. 
He  made  a  rattling  canvass,  spending   his  money  lavishly 


among  "de  push "  ..f  i.orin  and  West  Berkeley,  They  all 
assured  him  that  his  opponent  was  "a  good  thing  and  dead 
easy."    All  the  members  of  the  Kierulfl  family  devoted 

their  entire  attention  to  the  campaign,  and  Tommy's 
father  and  three  of  his  brothers  being  on  the  voting  list, 
hi'  had  DO  fear  for  the  outcome.  As  the  polls  opened  he 
issued  orders  to  an  army  of  salaried  lieutenants. 

"We  will  beat  him  out  of  his  boots,"  said  Kierulff  to 
these  Hessians,  who  smiled,  but  said  DOthll 

At  sundown  of  election  day  the  would-be  Marshal  ar- 
ranged for  a  general  ratification  of  his  triumph.  Un- 
fortunately, the  result,  as  shown  by  the  counting  of  the 
ballots,  necessitated  a  slight  change  in  the  /«  ramni  /  of  1  be 
ratification  programme.  By  a  singular  succession  of 
blunders,  it  was  found  that  the  voters  had  marked  almost 
every  ballot  for  the  despised  opponent,  Kierulff  received 
just  five  votes.  The  Eierulfl  family  had  voted  solidly  for 
Tommy. 

#  *  # 

As  every  one  knows,  the  Town  and  Country  Club  is  com- 
posed of  fashionable  women,  young  and  old,  who  use  their 
handsome  quarters  on  Post  street  as  a  down-town  resting 
place  and  rendezvous.  One  day  this  week  a  suburban  resi- 
dent had  an  appointment  there  to  meet  her  mother,  who 
resides  in  an  interior  town.  Their  arrangement  was  that 
the  elder  woman  should  go  directly  from  the  ferry  to  the 
club.  At  the  expected  hour  the  daughter,  from  her  chair 
in  the  morning  room,  saw  coming  toward  her  a  lady  whom 
she  recognized  as  her  mother.  The  latter  had  in  her  hand 
a  string  attached  to  an  inflated  pink  balloon,  the  evident 
mission  of  which  was  to  carry  joy  to  the  heart  of  some 
petted  grandchild.  The  daughter  looked  at  the  balloon 
with  a  disapproving  gaze.  She  was  annoyed  that  her 
mother  should  present  such  a  ridiculous  figure  in  the.A'a  de 
siecle  club. 

"Well  !"  she  ejaculated,  sharply,  and  there  was  a  bale- 
ful glitter  in  her  eye.  "You  are  the  only  one  of  us  who 
ever  dared  to  carry  a  thing  like  that,"  and  she  pointed 
contemptuously  at  the  offending  balloon. 

And  then,  to  her  unspeakable  chagrin,  she  saw  that  she 
had  been  reproving,  not  her  mother,  but  one  of  the  grand 
ladies  of  the  club,  and  whose  house  is  one  of  the  smartest 
on  Jackson  street.  It  has  occurred  to  her  that  possibly 
her  mother's  idiosyncracies  might  better  be  allowed  to 
pass  hereafter  without  comment. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  27,  1897. 


SOCIETY  POLK  appear  to  be  keeping  more  quiet  than 
usual  this  Lent,  still  they  are  now  and  then  seen  in 
public,  as  for  instance  on  Tuesday  evening,  which  was  the 
gala  night  at  the  opera  this  week,  the  Huguenots  drawing 
the  largest  and  most  fashionable  audience  of  the  season, 
including  several  opera  parties;  and  quite  a  number  of 
theatre  parties  have  been  made  up  to  greet  Otis  Skinner 
at  the  Baldwin  on  Monday  night  of  next  week,  when  he 
makes  his  first  appearance  there  as  a  star.  On  Tuesday 
evening  also  the  Pioneers  gave  a  party  in  their  hall,  which 
was  the  eighth  of  the  series  planned  for  the  winter  season, 
and  it  was  equally  as  pleasant  and  successful  as  any  of 
those  given  before. 

Luncheons  have,  however,  been  the  principal  form  of  en- 
tertainment of  late.  Mrs.  Van  Bergin's  violet  lunch  was 
one  of  those  dainty  affairs  which  that  lady  is  such  an. adept 
at  giving.  The  pink  luncheon,  at  which  Mrs.  S.  P.  Thorne 
presided  as  hostess,  was  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Russell  Harding, 
and  was  a  very  charming  one,  the  verdict  of  Mrs.  Thome's 
guests  being  that  she  fills  that  role  far  too  seldom.  Miss 
Rosalie  Neustadter  was  guest  of  honor  at  the  white  and 
green  luncheon  given  by  Mrs.  S.  B.  Schloss  at  the  Hotel 
Richelieu,  to  which  were  bidden  a  score  of  other  young 
belles.  Mrs.  J.  C.  Hebbard's  selection  of  golden  poppies 
for  the  ornamentation  of  her  lunch  table  was  greatly  ad- 
mired by  her  guests;  all  of  them  were  married  ladies. 

There  has  not  been  so  much  done  in  the  dinner  line— one 
of  these  delightful  entertainments  was  given  by  the  officers 
of  the  Oregon  on  board  that  vessel  last  Thursday,  as  an 
adieu  to  their  popular  Commander,  Captain  Howison  and 
his  charming  wife.  Captain  Howison,  who  has  recently 
been  relieved  from  the  Oregon  on  his  promotion  in  the  ser- 
vice, has  gone  East.  Mrs.  Howison  left  on  the  steamer 
Australia  on  Tuesday  for  a  trip  to  the  Sandwich  Islands, 
anticipating  an  absence  of  several  weeks. 

Mrs.  James  Stuart's  recent  tea  was  a  farewell  compli- 
ment to  Mrs.  Greer  Harrison  and  her  daughters,  who 
have  flown  Eastward,  en  route  to  Europe,  where  they  will 
travel  for  a  year  or  more  before  settling  down  in  New 
York  en  permanence.  To-day  Mrs.  Clarence  Mann  will  give 
a  tea  at  her  residence  on  Washington  street,  when  she 
will  have  the  assistance  of  several  young  ladies  and  young 
matrons  in  her  duties  to  her  guests. 

Weddings,  these  Lenten  days,  are  few  and  far  between, 
but  after  Easter  the  chimes  of  bells  will  fill  the  air  right 
merrily.  The  only  one  named  for  the  immediate  future  is 
that  of  Miss  Aileen  Goad  and  Charley  Mcintosh,  which,  to 
the  disappointment  of  their  friends,  it  has  been  decided 
shall  be  a  home  function,  and  a  very  quiet  one  at  that,  and 
will  be  solemnized  late  in  the  afternoon  of  Tuesday,  the  7th 
of  April,  iu  the  presence  of  relatives  and  a  few  intimate 
friends. 

Our  fair  brides-elect  have  been  improving  the  quiet 
hours  of  Lent  in  preparing  many  of  the  dainty  little 
"fixins"  of  their  trousseaux,  and  from  all  that  is  said 
among  their  friends  the  different  ceremonials  will  be 
known  by  a  favorite  color.  The  date  named  by  Miss  Ethel 
Cohen  for  the  tying  of  her  nuptial  knot  is  to  be  some  time 
in  June,  and  it  will  be  a  blue  wedding.  The  destruction 
of  beautiful  Pernside,  the  magnificent  home  of  the  Cohens 
in  Alameda,  may  be  regarded  as  an  actual  calamity.  In 
the  past  it  was  the  scene  of  many  a  brilliant  function,  and 
though  its  hospitable  doors  have  been  in  a  degree  closed 
for  several  years,  they  were  about  to  reopen  for  the  wed- 
ding of  the  sole  remaining  unmarried  daughter,  Miss 
Ethel,  whose  marriage  to  Lieut.  Bent,  it  was  anticipated, 
would  be  the  event  of  the  early  summer. .  Miss  Grace 
Sabine's  wedding  will  take  place  at  St.  Paul's  Church,  on 
California  street,  but  the  marriage  of  Miss  Mattie  Whittier 
and  W.  B.  Weir  will  probably  be  another  home  ceremony, 
and  is  set  for  Wednesday,  the  21st  of  April. 


Prom  Paris  has  come  the  details  of  the  wedding  of  Miss 
Jennie  Sanderson  and  Roy  Herrick,  which  was  performed 
there  on  the  1st  of  March,  the  civil  ceremony  taking 
place  two  days  previously.  It  was  a  home  wedding  at  the 
apartments  of  Mrs.  Sanderson,  on  the  Avenue  Molaga, 
the  decorations  being  in  pink  and  white;  the  bridal  robe 
was  of  white  satin,  the  maid  of  honor,  Miss  Marion  Sander- 
son, and  the  two  bridesmaids,  Edith  Sanderson  and  Mabel 
Yost,  wore  gowns  of  pale  grey  cashmere  and  large  white 
hats  and  plumes.  Only  relatives  and  very  intimate  friends 
were  present  at  the  noon  service,  but  later  there  was  a 
large  reception  and  dancing.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herrick  spent 
their  honeymoon  in  Italy. 

There  has  been  another  golden  wedding  anniversary  cel- 
ebration to  add  to  the  already  long  list  of  what  were  at  one 
time  rare  occurrences  in  these  parts.  The  couple  on  this 
occasion  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leo  Eloesser,  aDd  they  held  a 
reception  at  their  California  street  residence  on  Tuesday 
last,  when  they  received  the  congratulations  of  a  very 
large  number  of  friends.  While  golden  wedding  celebra- 
tions are  now  looked  upon  as  quite  common  affairs,  it  is 
very  seldom  that  a  diamond  anniversary  is  celebrated  in 
California.  Such  a  gathering  took  place  last  Monday, 
when  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Polack  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Solomon  Bernstein  celebrated  their  sixty  years 
of  married  life  together.  The  floral  decorations  of  the 
rooms  were  elaborate  and  very  beautiful,  and  open  house 
was  the  rule  during  the  afternoon  and  evening,  crowds  of 
friends  calling  to  offer  their  congratulations  to  the  aged 
couple. 

To-morrow  and  Tuesday  next  Miss  Mattie  Brooks  and 
Charles  H.  Marshall,  whose  engagement  has  recently  been 
announced,  will  receive  their  friends  at  the  residence  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Max  Brooks. 

The  production  at  the  California  Theatre  of  the  Cantata  of 
Ruth  and  Naomi,  by  the  children  of  the  Beth  Israel  congre- 
gation for  the  benefit  of  their  Sunday-school,  was  not  only 
pretty  but  exceedingly  well  done.  The  house  was  packed 
with  a  very  enthusiastic  audience,  and  the  performance  of 
the  children,  especially  the  dancing,  was  greatly  admired, 
provoking  warm  and  hearty  applause. 

Spring  is  drawing  on  apace,  and  therefore  are  the 
yachtsmen  up  and  doing.  The  present  week  has  seen  lively 
work  in  the  different  yacht  clubs,  and  some  of  the  sea- 
son's programmes  have  already  been  arranged.  Opening 
day  at  the  Encinal  Club  will  be  on  the  17th  of  April,  that 
of  the  Corinthians  on  the  24th,  when  there  will  be  a  dance 
in  the  afternoon  and  stag  high  jinks  in  the  evening.  The 
fire  king  has  been  playing  some  sad  pranks  of  late.  The 
San  Franciscans  are  muchly  commiserated  on  the  loss  by 
fire  of  their  fine  club  house  at  Sausalito,  and  the  members 
have  been  invited  to  make  themselves  at  home  as  guests  of 
tne  Pacific  Yacht  Club  house. 

A  gala  entertainment  is  in  process  of  preparation  in 
Oakland,  where,  on  Easter  Tuesday,  the  20th  of  April,  at 
Ebell  Hall,  a  bal  masque  will  be  given  by  the  society  lights 
of  that  city,  who  will,  however,  have  the  assistance  of 
ladies  from  San  Francisco  and  Berkeley  as  patronesses  of 
the  party.  Invitations  will  of  course  be  in  great  demand, 
as  without  one  tickets  cannot  be  purchased,  and  the  en- 
deavor will  be  to  make  it  exclusive  and  select. 

The  departure  of  Captain  Maus  for  Washington  City  to 
act  as  aide  on  the  staff  of  General  Miles,  revives  the  rumors 
(and  indicate  their  truth)  current  a  few  months  ago,  of  the 
gallant  officer's  engagement  to  Miss  Cecelia  Miles;  so  our 
swim  will,  no  doubt,  soon  be  in  receipt  of  "cards"  from  the 
National  capital. 

Burns  McDonald  and  his  wife,  nee  Bessie  Younger,  are 
temporarily  established  in  Los  Angeles.  The  Misses 
Maude,  Lucelle  and  Alice  Younger  keep  house  with  their 
brother  Herbert  in  Green  street.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  William 
Younger  reside  in  Chicago.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herman  Zadig 
left  on  Wednesday  last  for  a  year's  absence  abroad.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Walter  Holcomb,  nee  Gibbs,  have  returned  from 
their  honeymoon  trip  and  are  "at  home"  to  their  friends 
at  the  Hotel  Pleasanton.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  Sprague 
arrived  from  New  Orleans  oh  Thursday  and  intend  to  make 
a  stay  of  some  duration. 


March  27,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


The  "children's"  daniinvr  class  seems  to  have  assumed 
the  proportions  of  a  training  -.(linol  for  dtbutmlrt,  and 
while  the  tfood  mammas  decidedly  object  to  their  daughters 
being  called  "'in  society,"  tl»v    nevertheless   would  sooner 

.k   night   at    the   opera    than   overlook   one  of  these 
affairs— at  home.     The  young  •   this  select 

set  have  apparently  graduated  from  the    Back-flsch,"   no 

-  require  I  B   dancing  master,   and  if 

my  informant  is  right,  the  H   conducted  on  Fri- 

day evening  last  at   the  Schwabacher  mansion,  on   Clay 

•      would    have    made    the    invulnerable    Sreenwav 
blush  -hit  competitors  has    he  in  this.rt'/i    dt 

a   week    they    meet    at    the  houses  of   their 
tive  parents,  where  they  are   thoroughly  coached  in 
all  the  intr  horean  art.  as  well  as  the 

mysteries  of  the  ballroom.  As  they  are  soon  to  do  away 
with  the  necessity  of  a  teacher,  these  youthful  scions  of 
the  houses  of  Neustadter,  Hellmao  Uuenthal,  etc.,  will 
most  likely  be  piloted  on  to  success  by  Mr.  Sanford  Walter. 

On  Thursday  evening  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moses  Blum,  Jr., 
gave  an  elegant  dinner  at  their  residence,  on  Franklin 
street,  in  honor  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Solomon  Hirsch,  of  Port- 
land, Or.  The  decorations  were  of  quite  a  novel  order. 
The  guests  included  none  but  married  folks  and  friends — 
who  assisted  in  the  recent  gold  wedding  ceremonies  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Jocob  Meyer.  Mrs.  Moses  Blum  is  a  daugher  of 
the  Meyers. 

On  Wednesday  evening  last  Miss  Louise  Sussman  enter- 
tained quite  a  number  of  friends  at  her  home  in  honor  of 
Mr.  AlbertEhrman  and  Miss  Rose  Xeustadter.  The  dinner, 
as  well  as  the  entertainment  following,  proved  extremely 
enjoyable  to  all  present. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Josua  Eppinger  have  returned  from  their 
honeymoon  after  an  extended  trip  through  the  South. 

The  following  San  Francisco  people  were  registered  at 
St.  Denis  Hotel.  Broadway  and  Eleventh  street.  New 
York,  on  the  18th  inst :  Mrs.  Etta  French,  I.  E.  Wooley, 
and  J.  B.  Ross. 

A.  W.  Jackson  and  family  leave  for  their  home  at  Wood- 
side,  San  Mateo  County,  on  April  1st. 


AT     THE      RACES. 


IKGLESIDE  was  re-opened  last  Monday  under  the  new 
management  for  the  regular  two  weeks'  races.  The 
sport  was  of  a  high  class,  the  weather  fine  and  the  attend- 
ance large.  The  sport  was  above  the  average,  and  the 
favorites  had  the  best  of  it.  President  Androus,  who  suc- 
ceeds Mr.  Spreckels,  has  been  a  director  of  the  club  from 
its  organization,  and  is  thoroughly  acquainted  with  racing 
affairs  on  the  coast.  Next  week's  card  will  be  an  interest- 
ing one,  and  if  the  weather  continues  fair  will  be  very 
largely  attended. 

THE  death  of  Major  Ruggles  at  his  home  in  this  city 
last  Saturday  afternoon  removes  another  member 
from  the  thinning  ranks  of  the  California  pioneers.  The 
Major  bad  been  a  resident  of  the  State  for  nearly  a  third 
of  a  century,  and  at  various  times  held  positions  of  trust. 
He  was  deputy  naval  officer  at  this  port  under  President 
Cleveland's  first  term,  and  was  well  known  and  highly 
regarded. 

THE  fur  store  of  Mr.  Ad.  Kocour,  at  5J  (up  stairs) 
Kearny  street,  which  was  considerably  damaged  by 
fire  last  Sunday,  will  be  ready  for  business  next  Tuesday, 
at  which  time  he  will  be  glad  to  meet  his  old  customers 
and  new. 

THE  San  Francisco  Bar  Pilots  ou  Thursday  last  pre- 
sented Senator  Androus  with  a  magnificent  diamond 
scarf  pin  in  appreciation  of  his  fairness  at  Sacramento 
when  measures  antagonistic  to  the  pilots  were  proposed. 

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with  more  force  than  when  you  are  preparing  for  dinners,  parties, 
banquets  or  similar  social  obligations.  Max  Abraham  at  428  Geary, 
is  the  cheapest  caterer  in  town  because  he  is  the  best.  He  superin- 
tends every  thing,  relieves  you  of  all  responsibility  and  knows  ex- 
actly what  to  do.    Try  him  once. 

Fob  Coughs,  Asthma  and  Throat  Disorders  "  Brown's  Bronchial 
Troches"  are  an  effectual  remedy.    Sold  only  in  boxes. 


Schilling's  Best  is  simply  good  honest  tea, 
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If  you  don't  like  it,  your  grocer  returns  your 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  27,  1897. 


HAIDEE 


WILSON  was  to  tell  a  story  to-night,  and  to  hear  it  we 
had  gathered  in   the   smoking  room  of  the   Crayon 
Club,  as  was  our  custom. 

"Well,"  he  began,  "the  story  commences  at  the  Cordon 
Rouge,  a  little  cafe  in  the  Latin  Quarter  much  frequented 
by  artists  and  students,  who,  whilst  they  talked  and  sipped 
cafe,  cognac,  or  absinthe,  were  entertained  by  girl  singers 
who  piped  bacchanal  songs,  appeared  in  poses  plastiques, 
or  executed  dances  in  which  eccentricity  and  verve  made 
up  for  grace  and  decorum.  The  waitresses  wore  the  short- 
est of  skirts  and  the  lowest  of  corsages,  and  were  under- 
stood to  be  paid  no  salary.  Since  the  time  of  which  I  speak 
the  whole  place  has,  I  believe,  been  pulled  down;  and  I 
suppose  the  panels  of  the  room,  which  we.re  enriched  with 
paintings  by  men  (some  of  whom  have  now  become  famous) 
in  lieu  of  their  '  score,' have  been  dispersed  or  destroyed. 
They  were  most  certainly  not  the  style  of  art  save  for  the 
walls  of  a  cabaret.  One  large  panel,  I  remember,  was  al- 
most worthy  of  Degas  himself.  It  was  a  scene  of  the  Cor- 
don Rouge  interior  in  the  early  morning.  Many  of  the 
men  still  left  were  sleepy  or  dull  with  absinthe;  the  girls 
were — but  why  describe  it?  You  would  have  to  see  it  to 
appreciate  it.  The  other  panels  were  none  of  them  so  well 
worked  out.  Several  were  portraits  of  well-known  Phrynes, 
in  traditional  attire,  with  here  and  there  a  clever  sketch 
of  some  Eden  star. 

"The  Exposition  had  been  closed  about  a  couple  of 
months.  And  Paris  had  been  duly  initiated  into  the  mys- 
teries of  the  danse  du  ventre,  and  the  frisky  and  risque 
prancings  of  Spanish  gitanas.  Of  course,  all  the  foreigners 
had  not  yet  returned  to  their  native  shores  or  mountains. 
Some  were  engaged  in  cafes  and  restaurants,  and  others 
had  found  equally  good  markets  for  their  eccentricity  or 
charms.  M.  le  Proprietaire  of  the  Cordon  Rouge  was  not 
behind  the  times,  and  to  his  third-rate  and  rather  banale 
troupe  of  lady  artists  had  added  'the  beautiful  Haidee.'  as 
the  bills  described  her.  She  was  to  make  her  debut  on  the 
night  of  which  I  am  speaking;  and  picture-posters,  in  which 
she  appeared  as  a  'milk-white  Circassian,'  clad  in  a  gauze 
scarf  and  a  sequin-trimmed  red  fez,  had  adorned  the  some- 
what grimy  walls  of  the  hall  of  the  Cordon  Rouge  for  some 
days  past. 

"  I  must  get  on  with  my  story,  however.  The  night 
came,  and  the  proprietor  of  the  Cordon  Rouge  had  a 
smiling  face  in  consequence  of  the  large  gathering  of  his 
patrons. 

"  On  the  slips  which  lay  about  in  plentitude  upon  the 
white,  marbled-top  tables,  Haidee,  we  were  informed,  was 
to  do  three  '  turns '  during  the  evening:  '  Une  danse  du  Sa- 
hara,'  '  Une  danse  du  ventre,'  and  '  Une  danse  du  harem.' 

"Well,  Haidee  came  on  to  the  mimic  stage  at  one  end 
of  the  room,  and  she  in  no  way  belied  her  name.  She  was 
nearly  white,  an  Eastern  beauty,  with  the  full  form  of  a 
woman  and  the  face  of  a  girl  of  about  nineteen.  The  frim- 
lah  (bodice)  of  crimson  silk  was  drawn  tight,  but  the  cnemise 
and  shirwal  (loose  trousers),  of  soft  silk,  hung  loose  about 
her  in  graceful  folds.  The  first  dance  was  slow,  monoton- 
ous, and  languorous.  The  second  was  the  danse  du  ventre  in 
its  most  Oriental  form,  the  costume  merely  the  shirwal. 

''What  is  the  danse  du  harem  ? "  the  spectators  asked 
one  another. 

"It  was  long  past  midnight  when  the  rustling  of  the 
faded  curtains  at  the  back  of  the  stage  heralded  Haidee's 
advent.  The  dance  proved  to  be  one  of  those  suggestive 
measures  often  described  by  Eastern  travelers,  though  sel- 
dom witnessed  save  by  the  privileged  few.  Haidee's  cos- 
tume was  that  of  the  picture  posters  adorning  the  walls  of 
the  room.  It  was  while  the  danse  was  in  progress,  and 
the  dancer  smiling  at  the  audience  through  the  thin  folds 
of  her  transparent  scarf,  which  she  occasionally  drew  across 
her  face  in  cleverly  simulated  shyness,  that  the  desire  to 
paint  this  beautiful  white  Circassian,  with  her  harem  ways, 
possessed  me. 

"I  sought  M.  le  Proprietaire  and  told  him  my  desire.  I 
was  one  of  his  favorite  customers,  had  been  for  two  or 
three  years,  and  so  he  promised  to  help  me.  Eager  to 
forestall  any  brother  artist,  I  accepted  Monsieur's  sugges- 
tion that  we  should  close  the  bargain  at  once. 

"  Haidee  had  scarcely  begun  to  assume  her  attire  of  civ- 


ilization when  we  entered  the  box  of  a  room  which  served 
as  the  artistes'  dressing-room.  She  received  us  without  a 
trace  of  embarrassment,  continuing  her  toilet  whilst  re- 
ceiving my  compliments,  and  hearing  Monsieur  le  Proprie- 
taire descant  upon  my  fame  and  ability  as  a  painter. 

"Haidee  was  rather  pleased  with  the  idea  of  being 
painted,  and  perhaps  appearing  on  the  walls  of  the  Salon 
and  in  the  print  shops,  so  we  soon  came  to  terms. 

"She  was  to  come  to  me  three  times  a  week,  about  mid- 
day, and  stay  till  five  if  I  wanted  her. 

She  was  a  most  tractable  model,  and  though  somewhat 
proud  of  her  Parisian  attire,  took  it  all  in  good  part  when 
I  told  her  one  day  that  she  mustn't  ruin  her  figure  by  such 
close-fitting  costumes  till  I  had  finished  with  her.  I  painted 
her  coming  through  a  doorway,  just  parting  the  heavy 
rich-colored  Eastern  hangings  with  her  fingers,  to  her 
bath  in  a  blue  and  white  mosaic  fountain  in  an  inner  court. 
Her  ivory-white  figure  was  thrown  up  by  the  effective, 
though  somewhat  bizarre,  background. 

Long  ere  the  picture  was  finished  I  became  confronted 
with  a  dilemma.  This  woman,  whose  charms  were  the 
cynosure  of  a  hundred  pairs  of  eyes  nightly  at  the  Cafe 
Cordon  Rouge,  was  in  love  with  me.  Of  course  the  thing 
was  impossible;  to  be  associated  in  whatever  manner  with 
the  eccentric  dancer  of  a,  cabaret  was  impossible,  I  told  my- 
self a  dozen  times.  But  the  fact  remained  that  my  model, 
this  Circassian  girl,  was  in  love  with  me.  In  a  score  of 
minor  ways  she  began  to  show  her  preference,  declining 
little  suppers,  and  insisting  upon  wearing  less  scanty  at- 
tire for  her  dancing  at  the  cafe.  When  the  men  chaffed 
her  she  would  hang  her  head,  and  resent  any  of  the  at- 
tentions the  other  girls  seemed  to  delight  in. 

"Like  most  men,  I  am  rather  a  coward  where  women 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC  RAILWAY  COMPANY. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    TIBURON  FERRY-  Foot  of  MarketStreet. 
WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:00,  11:00  AM;  12:35,3:30  5:10,6:30PM.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trip  at  ll:30p  m.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1:50  and  11:30  pm. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00,9:30.  U:00A  m:  1:30,  3:30,  5:00,6:20PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO  SCN    FRANCISCO, 
WEEK.  DAYS-fl  :15,  7 :50,  9 :20,  11 :10  A  m  ;  12 :45,  3 :40,  5 :10  p  M.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at  1 :55  and  6 :35  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40,  11:10  AM;  1:40,3:40,5:00,6:25PM. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave 

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In  Effect  Oct.  14,  1896 

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IN  S.  F. 

Week  Days. 

Sundays. 

Destination. 

Sundays 

10  :10  am 
6:10  pm 
7 :35  P  m 

Week  Days 

7:30AM 
3:30  pm 
5:10pm 

8:00am 
9:30am 
5:00pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

8:40  AM 
10:25  AM 
6:22  PM 

8:00  am 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyserville.  Cloverdale 

"7:35PM 

7:30AM 
3:30  pm 

6:22  p  M 

7:30  am 

8:00  AM 

Pieta,  Eopland,  Ukiah 

7:35PM 

6:22  P  M 

7:30am 
3:30pm 

8:00AM 

Guerneville. 

7:35PM 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  u 

7:30  am 
5:10pm 

8:00  am 
5:00pm 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40AM    1 
6:10pm    j 

8:40  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:30am 
3:30pm 

8:00am 
5:00pm 

Sevastopol. 

10:40AM     1 
6:10  pm     1 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs1  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  Highland 
Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake  port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport 
and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Ukiah,  for  "Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs, 
Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John 
Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sasnedoin  Heights,  Hullville, 
Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot  Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg.West- 
port,  Usal,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Harris,  Scotia,  Eureka. 

Saturday- to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.W.  FOSTER,  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agent. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  A.  M..  April  1,  6, 11, 16.  21,  26,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  a.  m..  April  1,  6, 11,  16, 
21.  26,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  p.m.  April  2,  6, 
10,  14.  1*,  22.  26,  30,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  ;  April  4,  8, 12, 16, 
20,  24,  28.  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  a.  m.,  April  2,  6, 10, 14, 
18,  22,  26,  30,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz,  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  A.  m, 
25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERKINS&CO.,Gen'lAgents,       10  Market  st.S.F. 

Tho    /^PQnrl    P-arifi/*     306  Stockton  St.  San    Francisco 
I  llD    \J\  dllU     rdblllOf         MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month.      Telephone :  Grant,  507. 


March  27.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  I. UTTER. 


23 


_-an  to  cudgel  my  brains  (or  an 
way  out  of  the  difficulty.  The  picture  was  fast  reach- 
I   should   have   no  need   of   the   model's 
To  retain  her    in    any  way.  I  at  01 

no  solution  of  my  difficulty.    So  I  deter- 
it  a  bold  face  on  the  matter,  and  dismiss  her  in 
the  natural  com 

my  opportunity   about   a   week   later,  just  as 
she  bad  tit  g,  and  \\;is  about  to  dress.     I  cannot 

recollect  exactly  what  I  said,  but  I  know  I  managed  to 
make  the  fact  that  I  shouldn't  want  her  to  sit  to  me  any 
longer  perfectly  clear. 

•arod  at  me  with  dilated  eves  of  alarm, 
and  then  threw  herself  at  my  feet,  pouring  out  her  love  in 
a  torrent  of  scraps  of  French  and  English,  which  sh 
picked  up— entreating  me  with  Hoods  of  tears  to  make  her 
my  servant,  my  slave,  anything,  so  that  she  might  remain 
with  me.  Then,  finding  I  vouchsafed  no  reply,  she  rose 
up  and  called  on  me  to  behold  her  beauty,  enumerating 
her  charms  with  the  freedom  of  a  savage  Bad  the  abandon 
of  a  woman  scorned.  Then  seeing  that,  though  I  wavered, 
I  was  unwon,  she  turned  on  me.  and,  when  I  still  refused 
her  suit,  with  her  eyes  flaming  with  passion  spat  at  my 
feet,  and  going  to  the  furthest  corner  of  the  studio  sullenly 
prepared  to  leave  the  studio.  She  made  one  more  appeai, 
and  then,  failing  in  her  object,  she  departed. 

"Rather  upset  by  the  incident,  I  decided  to  leave  Paris 
for  a  few  days'  change.  I  did  so;  and  upon  coming  back 
and  asking  for  my  key,  which  I  had  left  with  the  landlady, 
the  latter  told  me  Haidee  had  been  there  the  day  before 
and  had  had  the  key  for  a  few  minutes.  'I  hope  it  is  all 
right,  Monsieur,'  said  the  woman,  'but  Mademoiselle  as- 
sured me  she  had  your  permission.' 

"I  rushed  up-stairs  full  of  apprehension.  There  on  my 
easel  was  the  picture — but  what  a  change!  A  ghost 
seemed  to  glare  at  me  from  the  canvas.  The  large  brpsh 
and  pot  of  'white  lead'  standing  near,  which  I  had  used  in 
'covering'  old  canvases,  showed  me  what  had  been  the 
means  of  this  transformation.  On  the  top  of  the  painting, 
in  a  line  with  the  eye,  was  pinned  a  scrap  of  paper.  On 
it  was  written  in  childish,  sprawling  letters,    'ITa'uiee  fait, 

ceci.'     Then  on  another  line,  '  Venn   <<  la  Mo .'     I  could 

not  make  out  the  rest  of  the  word. 

"The  damage  was  beyond  repair.  This  I  at  once  saw. 
My  beautiful  Haidee  had  become  a  will-o'-the-wisp.  Then 
I  sat  down  somewhat  bewildered.  What  was  the  last 
word  she  had  written?  Suddenly  a  light  dawned  on  me. 
I  seized  my  hat,  and  hailing  a  passing  fiacre  drove  rapidly 
to  the  Place  of  the  Dead. 

"Haidee  was  there — her  dress  torn  away  by  the  hook  of 
the  grappling  rod,  revealing  one  white  shoulder  with  a 
blue  bruise  upon  it,  and  the  snowy  bosom  which  would 
never  heave  with  love  or  passion  again.  She  had  been 
drawn  from  the  Seine  that  morning.  I  identified  her,  and 
purchased  her  a  grave.     Less  I  could  not  do." 

— Carl  Huysmann  in  Quartier  Latin. 

SNNA  SHAW,  who  left  us  a  few  months  ago  with 
several  thousands  of  Californian  dollars  in  her  pocket 
and  her  tongue  in  her  cheek,  wonders  why  she  is  not  be- 
loved of  her  sister-suffragists.  The  scorpion,  madam,  is 
not  beloved  of  its  kind. 

A     FAN      FANCY. 

UPON  her  fan  where  cupids  play 
At  blind-man's  buff  in  droll  array, 
A  bit  of  rhyme  he  dares  to  write 
Whose  theme  is  love,  and  love's  delight 
Oh,  bold,  bad  man;  what  will  she^ay? 
And  while  she  reads  he  looks  away, 
To  awkward  doubts  and  fears  a  prey; 
"Oh,  fool !"  he  thinks,  "to  love  indite 
Upon  her  fanl" 
He  starts  to  go;  she  bids  him  stay, 
Then  blushes,  sighs,  and — names  the  day  ! 
Ah,  clever  maid  I  ah,  happy  wight! 
Behold  a  couple's  lives  made  bright 
By  just  a  couplet  light  and  gay 

Upon  her  fan !  — N.  Y.  Mail  and  Express. 

The  Kio  Grande  Western  Railway  aod  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedaker,  General  Agent. 


SOUTHERN  PACIFIC    COMPANY-PACIFIC  SYSTEM. 

Trains  Ltara  and  are  Out  to  ArrlTa  »i  SAN     FRANCISCO! 


7:00a 

7:00  a 

7:31a 
8:90  A 

•8:30  a 
9:00a 


Fnm    l/.ir.A  »l,  IW7. 


9:00  a 
9:00  a 

•i-oo'p 
1:00  p 

tl:80P 
«:00P 

4:00P 


S:0Op 

5:00  p 
d.OOP 
9:00  P 
J7:OOP 
7:00  p 


Nile*.  San  Jose,  and  way   atallons  

Atlantic  Express,  (V, I. -n  anil  East 

Benfola  Etumiey,  Sacramento,  OrovlUc,   and 

Rt'ridlnK.   vl;i  ,  

Martinez.  San  Kumon,  Vallejo,  Napa.  Cahstoga,  Santa  Rosa 
Nlles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone,  Sacramento,  Marysville, 

Tebama.and  Red   lllul! 

and  Milton  

N,w  Orleana  Express.  Raymond  (for  Yoaemltc),  Fresno, 
Bakerofleld,  Santa  itarhara,  Los  Angeles,  Doming.  El  Paso, 

New  Orlfiins.  and  Must 

Martinez  and  Sloclumi     

Vallojo 

Nlles.  San  Jose  Llvcrroorc,  and  Stockton 

Sacramento  River  steamers 

Nlles,  Sun  .lose,   and   Ltvermore 

Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and -Santa  Rosa 

Benlcla,  Vacavtlle  Woodland,  Knight's  Landing,  Marys- 
vine.  Oroville.  and  Saoramento 

Lathrop.  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  and  Fresno,  going  via 

Nlles,  returning  via  Martinez 

Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,  Mojave  (for  Rands- 
burg),  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles 

Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East — 

European  mall,  Ogden  and  East 

Haywards,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 

Vallejo 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysvllle,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East  


\ArrtM 


*:I.SA 
8:45  P 


11:46  P 
0:16  P 


4   15  P 

•7:16* 


4 :  45  p 
4:45P 
6:I5P 
7:15P 

•9:00P 
8:45  A 

ff:45p 

9:15a 


11:45  a 

7.45  A 
7:45  A 
9:45  A 
7:45  A 
tf:45p 

11:I5A 


Santa  Uboz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 


t7:45A  Santa  Cruz  Excursion.  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  t8:05p 
8:45  a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations    5:50  p 

•2:15 p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  T0se.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:20A 

4:15  p  Newark,  San  Jose, Los  GaTos 9:50A 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

7 :00  A  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1 :30  p 
9  00  a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Paoiflo  Grove,  Paso  RobleR 

San  LuisObispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  prlncipalway  stations    4:15P 

10:10  A  San  Jose  and  way  stations   6:30p 

11:30  A  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations  5:00  p 

*2:30p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose.  Gllroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa 

Cruz,  Salinas. Monterey. PaciflcGrove  .. *10:40A 

»3:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45A 

•4:30  p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations «8:05  A 

5  :S0  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations  *8 :45  a 

6:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations.. 6:35  A 

tll:45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations  t7:45P 

San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local. 


t«6-00  Al 

7:15  a 

8:00  a 

1(9:45  A 

9:00  a 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00  a 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  a 

ill. 00  A 

FITCHBURQ, 

13:45  p 

2:00  P 

San  Leandro, 

(1:45  P 

t3:00  p 

and 

4:45  P 

4:00  P 

Haywards. 

«5:45  P 

6:00  P 

6:15  P 

5:30  p 

7:45  P 

7:00  p 

i  Runs  through  to  Nlles. 

8:45  P 

8:00  p 

(  From  Nlles. 

9:45  P 

9:00  p 

10:50  P 

ttll:15  p 

I.ttl2:00  P 

CREEK  ROUTE  PERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  iislip  8),— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:UU  a.  M.,  11:00.  »a:00. 13:00.  *4:00,t5:00  and  *6:00P.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway. — *6:0O,8:O0,  10:00  A.  m.;  J12:00,  *1:00, 
t2 :0U,  *3 :00,  t4 :00  *5 :00  P.  M. 

a  for  Morning,     p  for  Aiternoon.     *Sundays  excepted.     fSaturdays  only. 

ISundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

HTuesdays  and  Saturdays.  gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  AND  BRAN  NAN  STREETS,  at  1  P  M.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and  connecting  at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc.    No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Coptic  (via  Honolulu) Thursday,  April  1, 1897 

Gaelic Wednesday,  April  21. 169? 

Duric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  11,  1897 

Belgic  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29, 1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS.  Secretary. 

S.  S.  "Mariposa,"  Thursday,  April  1st,  at  2  P.  H. 
Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa. 

S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu  only,  Tuesday, 
April  20th,  at  2  p    m. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &RROS.  CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office.  327 
Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


|ahic 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


March  27,  1897. 


THE  poet  says  that  in  spring  the  young  man's  mind 
lightly  turns  to  thoughts  of  love;  but  in  California  his 
mind  turns  toward  the  lightly-running  wheel.  And  really  it 
could  be  much  less  profitably  and  agreeably  employed. 
California  is  the  ideal  country  for  cycliug,  with  its  cool 
mornings  and  delightfully  still  and  fragrant  nights.  There 
are  a  hundred  highways  and  byways  within  easy  distance 
about  the  city  which  invite  the  idler  and  his  wheel.  There 
are  so  many  things  to  be  said  in  favor  of  the  bicycle,  and 
so  many  of  them  have  been  repeated  so  many  times  that  it 
seems  useless  to  attempt  any  new  argument  for  this  friend 
of  fresh  and  healthful  exercise.  One  of  its  strongest 
claims  is  that  it  is  equally  available  to  men  and  women;  to 
young  and  old — all  conditions  and  classes.  The  wheel,  too, 
is  a  practical  agent  of  reform,  and  is  felt  in  municipal 
matters  on  the  right  side  of  every  question.  It  is  the 
greatest  ally  of  good  streets  and  roads,  and  in.  these 
directions  will  ultimately  accomplish  great  results.  The 
present  local  season  promises  renewed  interest  in  the 
wheel,  and  the  prominent  agencies  are  fully  prepared 
with  all  the  latest  models  for  every  demand  upon  them. 

The  bicycle  meet  which  has  held  the  Pavilion  during  the 
present  week  cannot  fail  to  give  an  impetus  to  the  trade. 
The  meetings  have  been  fairly  well  attended,  and  several 
of  the  world's  amateur  records  have  been  broken. 

The  annual  hundred-mile  club  race  between  San  Fran- 
cisco and  Oakland,  which  takes  place  soon,  is  attracting  a 
great  deal  of  attention,  and  will  be  fought  out  in  grand 
style. 

A  CORRESPONDENT  of  the  Chicago  Record  says: 
"There  are  now  in  the  bonded  warehouse  at  Tampa 
more  than  9000  bales  of  tobacco,  which  belongs  to  a  few 
manufacturers,  and  will  last  them  two  years.  Some  of  the 
big  New  York  factories  were  equally  forehanded,  but  the 
rest  will  have  to  shut  up  shop  or  use  the  domestic  product. 
There  is  no  Sumatra  leaf,  but  the  shrewd  Dutchmen  of 
Amsterdam,  who  own  the  Sumatra  plantations,  have  had 
their  eyes  opened,  and  are  taking  advantage  of  the  situa- 
tion by  advancing  prices.  The  closing  of  the  Havana 
factories  is  going  to  make  imported  cigars  scarce  and 
high,  and  if  Gen.  Gomez  and  his  associates  keep  up  the 
war,  it  will  be  some  years  before  the  trade  can  be  re- 
sumed. Mexican  manufacturers  and  tobacco  growers  are 
alive  to  the  situation,  but  their  capacity  is  limited,  so  the 
smokers  will  have  to  return  to  pipes  and  use  the  domestic 
product." 

PROF.  FERRI  of  Paris  says  that  Mme.  Duse  and  Sarah 
Bernhardt  have  what  is  called  "the  sickle-shaped 
jaw,"  which  is  the  sign  of  nervous  physiognomy  in  its  full- 
est expression.  He  admits  that  it  is  a  sign  of  genius  as 
well;  but  at  the  same  time  it  is  a  warning  to  men  not  to 
marry  women  who  have  it.  Warnings  of  this  sort  are 
seldom  heeded.  Men  are  so  constructed  that  they  think 
all  signs  fail  when  they  are  interested,  and  even  if  the  wo- 
man whom  they  wanted  to  marry  had  two  sickle  jaws, 
they  would  not  be  deterred  from  marrying  her.  I  may 
add  that  women  are  not  deterred  by  storm  signals  where 
men  are  concerned,  either. — The  Critic. 

PRESIDENT  McKinley  is  beginning  early  the  exercise 
of  executive  clemency  toward  condemned  malefactors. 
He  has  just  given  a  ten-days'  respite  to  four  New  Mexico 
murderers,  who  should  have  had  their  necks  broken  last 
Tuesday.  The  President  desires  to  make  a  personal  in- 
vestigation. The  case  against  these  men  is  well  known 
and  their  guilt  established  beyond  a  doubt.  They  are 
assassins,  and  have  for  years  terrorized  Santa  Fe.  The 
President  should  let  them  hang  with  the  utmost  neatness 
and  dispatch. 

Thb  Press  Clippihq  Bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  P.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics,  business 
and  personal. 


PARIS  TRA  P.    Arranged  for  Four  Passengers. 

O.  F.  WILLEY  COMPANY,  SbSt!!™ 

CARRIAGE  BUILDERS  AND   DEALERS, 

817  MONTGOMERY  ST.,  (Nevada  Block). 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  of  Broome  St.,  New  Yorfe;  Michigan  Buggy 
Co.,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co.,  Camden,  New  Jersey;  A.  N. 
Parry  &  Co.,  Amesbury,  Mass.;  W.  S.  Frazler  &  Co.,  Chicago  Road  Cart; 
H.  H.  Babcock  Buggy  Co.,  Watertown,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co., 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

COKE—Cheapest  Fuel! 

REDUCTION  In  Price. 
Wholesale  (50  bbls.  or  more,)  EIGHTY 
Cents  per  bbl.  Retail  (any  quantity 
under  50  bbls.),  NINETY  Cents  per 
bbl.  At  the  works  of  the 

San  Francisco  Gaslight  Co. 

Howard  and  First  Streets. 


Foot  of  Second  Street. 


GEORGE  GOODMAN 


Patentee   and 
Manufacturer  of 


Schilllnger's  Patent  ] 

Side  Walk  and  Garden  Walk  a  specialty. 


Artificial  Stone 

In  all  Its  branches 
Office:    307  Montgomery  street,  (Nevada  block)  San  Francisco 

DR.    BYRON    W.    HAINES 


14    Grant    Avenue 
Rooms  16-17-18-19 


Dentist 


over  "  Gity  of  Paris  ' 


Dr.   F.  C.  PAGUE, 

Dentist. 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building, 


819  Market  street 


Q)R.  ARTHUR  T.   REGEISSBURGER, 

Office  and  Residence:  409V4  Post  St..  San  Francisco. 
Office  Hours :  9  to  12  A.  m.  ;  1  to  5  p.  M. 


Dentist. 


J   D.  SULLIVAN, 

ATTORN  EY-AT-LAW 

Rooms  34-38,  3d  Floor  Chronicle  Building,  San  Francisco. 


Pacific  Towel  6ompany 


Lick  Place 


Furnishes  clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates:  Clean  hand 
towels  each  week,  $1  per  month;  12  clean  hand  towels  each  week; 
$1  50  per  month;  4  clean  roller  towels  each  week,  81,  6  months 
6  clean  roller  towels  each  week.  81  25  per  month. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 
Hutchinson  Sugar  Plantation  Company. 
Dividend  No.  41,  of  25  cents  per  share,  of  the  Hutchinson  Sugar  Planta- 
tion Company,  will  be  payable  at  the  office  of  the  company,  337  Market  St., 
on  and   after  Saturday,  March  20,   1897.     Transfer  booku  will  close  on 
Saturday,  March  13, 1897,  at  12  o'clock  M.     E.  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

Paraffine  Paint  Company. 

Dividend  No.  23,  of  25  cents  per  share,  on  the  capital  stock  of  the  Paraffine 
Paint  Company,  will  be  payable  at  the  office  of  the  company,  116  Battery 
street,  on  and  after  Monday,  March  29,  1897.  Transfer  books  will  close 
on  March  24, 1897,  at  4  o'clock  P.  M  B.  S.  SHAINWALD,  Secretary. 

Office— No.  116  Battery  street,  SanFrancisco,  Cal, 


PANORAMIC  SERIES.  PLATE  56. 


WITH  S.  F.  NEWS  LETTER.  APRIL  3. 1897. 


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Number  14. 


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SH  Kearny  street.  San  Francisco  Kntered  at  b'an  FrancitcO  Poet. 
ojkee  a*  Second-class  Matter 

The  oJUs  OJ  the  SSWS  LKTTRR  in  Xew  York  City  U  at  Temple  Court; 
and  at  Chicago,  90S  Boyce  Building,  [Frank  R  MorrUon,  Eastern 
Representative),  where  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  subscrip- 
tion and  advertising  rate*. 

THE  tariff  bill  has  passed  the  House,  and  is  now  before 
the  Senate,  where  it  is  likely  to  be  subjected  to  a 
process  of  corrective  emasculation  that  will  rob  it  of  its 
more  objectionable  features. 


GOVERNOR  BUDD  is  nobly  earning  his  salary  these 
post-Legislative  days.  He  has  clipped  $i;o;'i,!i2r>..">fl 
from  the  general  appropriation  bill;  and  it  is  particularly 
pleasing  to  note  that  his  official  blue  pencil  strikes  the 
outrageous  salary  list  hard.  He  also  pays  economical 
and  caustic  respect  to  the  State  printing  department. 


STORMS,  floods,  snow  and  ice  were  the  April  greetings 
of  the  States  east  of  the  Rocky  Mountains  last  Thurs- 
day. In  California  the  month  came  smiling,  bearing  buds 
and  blossoms.  It  is  amazing  that  this  State  has  less  than 
two  million  inhabitants,  when  but  four  days  are  necessary 
to  escape  the  rigors  of  the ''East" — to  graduate  from  a 
condition  of  misery  to  surroundings  of  delight. 

SAN  FRANCISCO'S  week  of  Carnival  promises  to  wit- 
ness a  splendid  naval  demonstration.  The  Commander 
of  the  Pacific  squadron  has  been  instructed  by  Secretary 
Long  to  parade  every  available  war  ship  here  at  that 
time.  The  various  committees  report  satisfactory  pro- 
gress in  their  work,  and  notwithstanding  some  slight  mis- 
understanding at  headquarters  there  is  promise  of  a  bril- 
liant week  of  Carnival. 

IT  would  be  a  shame  for  the  people  of  this  city  to  per- 
mit the  location  of  the  Wilmerdinsj  school  outside  of 
San  Francisco.  The  generous  man  who  made  the  bequest 
for  the  help  of  poor  and  struggling  youth  intended  that  the 
school  should  be  located  here;  his  wealth  was  accumulated 
here;  this  city  was  the  scene  of  his  early  battles  and  after- 
life commercial  successes.  The  Wilmerding  school,  to  fulfil 
the  intent  of  the  man  who  made  it  possible,  should  be  a 
San  Francisco  institution. 


DR.  CLINTON  remarked  at  the  last  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  that  there  were  rumors  abroad 
concerning  the  choosing  of  a  certain  kind  of  rock  for  street 
work  in  this  city  that  did  not  reflect  credit  upon  the  board. 
Dr.  Clinton  made  a  very  allopathic  and  complimentary 
diagnosis  of  the  case.  There  are  rumors,  black,  well  de- 
fined ones,  and  backed  up  by  conclusive  circumstantial 
evidence,  they  are,  too,  that  point  to  deeds  well  worthy  of 
the  notice  of  the  Grand  Jury  and  the  jails.  Clinton  is 
right  in  asking  for  action:  it  is  what  any  gentleman  might 
be  expected  to  demand. 

ONE  of  the  most  important  happenings  of  the  week  in 
this  city  was  the  settlement  of  differences  between 
the  insurance  companies.  Rates  will  be  at  once  restored 
to  old  figures.  It  is  a  notorious  fact  that  immense  sums 
were  lost  by  the  companies  during  the  past  eighteen 
months,  because  business  was  written  right  and  left  at  a 
positive  loss.  As  the  public  secured  the  advantage  of  this 
unhealthy  condition  in  low  premiums,  no  particular  com- 
plaint can  be  made.  The  new  compact  will  be  likely  to 
be  permanent,  owing  to  the  rec-ent  costly  experiences. 
Insurance  will  cost  more  from  now  on  in  San  Francisco. 


THE  Missouri  Legislature  has  just  refused  to  pass  a 
bill  legalizing  "contests  of  speed,  power,  and  physical 
endurance  of  man  and  beast."  It  was  entitled  the  "horse 
breeders'  bill,"  and  was  a  thinly-disguised  and  futile  effort 
to  legalize  prize-fighting  in  that  State.  The  man  who  intro- 
duced it  owes  an  apology  to  the  equine  race  for  an  unwar- 
ranted insult. 

IT  is  a  misfortune  that  the  recent  effort  to  oust  Secretary 
Welch  from  a  position  of  authority  in  the  Society  for 
the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Children  was  not  successful. 
The  man  has  time  without  number  shown  his  utter  unfit- 
ness for  the  position.  That  he  is  still  retained  reflects 
upon  the  good  sense  and  capacity  of  those  who  keep  him 
in  office. 

ONE  of  the  worthy  deeds  of  the  Legislature  was  the  en- 
actment of  a  law  providing  for  the  building  of  a  State 
highway  connecting  Folso.11  and  Sacramento.  This  road- 
way is  to  be  built  of  crushed  rock,  with  granite  or  stone 
for  drains  and  culverts.  The  work  will  be  of  chief  advan- 
tage in  illustrating  in  a  practical  manner  the  system  that 
should  prevail  throughout  the  State.  Roads — permanent, 
sound,  and  equally  good  winter  and  summer  alike — are  a 
great  need.  The  Folsom-Sacramento  highway  maybe  their 
beginning. 

A  NUMBER  of  Northern  California  landowners  are  ar- 
ranging for  a  meeting  with  President  C.  P.  Hunting- 
ton of  the  Southern  Pacific.  They  want  his  assistance  in 
settling  and  improving  200,000  acres  of  land  in  the  Sacra- 
mento valley.  They  desire  to  cut  this  tract  into  small 
holdings,  and  improve  each  piece  upon  the  colonization 
plan.  Should  they  meet  the  shrewd  President  of  the  rail- 
road, they  will  obtain  information  and  practical  sugges- 
tions well  worthy  of  their  consideration.  Mr.  Huntington 
favors  anv  intelligent  means  of  settling  the  unoccupied 
lands  of  the  State,  and  the  promoters  of  this  scheme,  if  it 
be  meritorious,  are  wise  in  seeking  his  assistance. 


WORK  on  the  boulevard  continues  with  vigor.  Total 
subscriptions  are  neanng  the  $15,000  mark.  The 
men -employed  are  making  excellent  progress;  but  at  least 
an  equal  sum  must  be  added  to  that  already  announced  in 
order  to  complete  the  roadway  as  originally  contemplated. 
A  great  many  demands  have  been  made  upon  the  generous 
citizens  of  San  Francisco  within  the  past  year,  but  not  one 
of  them  has  greater  merit,  or  is  worthy  of  more  prompt 
response  than  this  one.  While  it  gives  the  needy  employ- 
ment, the  highway  they  are  building  will  intrinsically  be 
worth  in  the  nature  of  a  permanent  improvement,  many 
times  its  cost.     Help  along  the  boulevard. 

THE  sum  of  $10,000  was  appropriated  by  the  last  Board 
of  Health  for  the  purpose  of  providing  a  proper  sys- 
tem of  sewerage  for  the  City  and  County  Hospital.  As  is 
frequently  the  case,  the  money  was  wasted.  The  present 
Board  made  an  examination,  and  closed  up  a  part  of  the 
institution  for  a  time  because  of  the  wretched  condition  of 
the  sewers.  An  appropriation  of  $500,  it  was  thought, 
would  make  such  repairs  as  were  absolutely  necessary. 
Auditor  Broderick  signed  bills  for  more  than  $3,000  for  the 
improvements  that  it  was  promised  should  cost  but  $500, 
and  the  end  is  not  yet.  This  incident  is  an  illustration  of 
the  manner  in  which  the  taxpayers  of  San  Francisco  are 
duped,  fooled  and  defrauded  year  in  and  year  out.  The 
Auditor  is  not  at  fault,  the  Board  of  Health  is  blameless — 
in  heaven's  kind  name  where  are  all  these  leaks  and 
drains  hidden,  and  why  are  they  never  discovered  until 
the  mischief  has  been  done  ? 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


April  3,  1897. 


SPANISH      TROUBLES     AT      HOME     AND     ABROAD. 


SPAIN  is  in  more  troubles  than   those  she  has  in  Cuba. 
It  appears  pretty  certain  that  the  time  is   approach- 
ing when  she  will  need  more  men  and  officers  than  she  has 
got  to  suppress  another  Carlist  rebellion   at  home.     Judg- 
ing by  her  failure  in  Cuba,  she  cannot  be  strong  from  any 
military  point  of  view.     Her  Government  has   just   called 
the  attention  of  France  to  the  activity  of  Carlist  agents  in 
the   purchase  of    arms   and  ammunition   in   France   and 
Belgium,  and  their  dispatch  to  the  Pyrenees.    Don  Carlos, 
whose  partisans  were  driven  over   the   border  more  than 
twenty  years  ago,  announces  from  Venice  his  preparation 
to  resign  his  claims,  he  calls  them,  "to  abdicate  his  throne 
in  favor  of  his  son,  Don  Jay  me."     The  Basques  and  Navar- 
aise,  whose  ancient  rights  were   abolished   as   punishment 
for  their  part  in   the  Carlist  movement  of   1874-6,  have 
never  been  reconciled,  and  such  an  outbreak  as  that  was 
might  call  for  more  troops  than  the  Government  of  Queen 
Christina  has  either  at  home  or   abroad.     Then  the  rebel- 
lion in  the  Philippines  continues   unsubdued,  and,  in  fact, 
looks   more  formidable  than  ever.     The   Cuban  campaign 
clearly   reveals   the  fact   that  Spain   has  small  military 
talent  to   spare,  and  evidently  no  military  genius  at  all. 
The   collapse   of  Spain's    colonial    power    seems   ending, 
whilst  her  home  rule  has  a  formidable   chance  of   going  to 
Don  Carlos,  or  his  son.     There  are  not  a  few   Californians 
who  will   regret  such   a  complete   collapse  of  the  great 
power  that  once,  in  pride   and   grandeur,  ruled  well  nigh 
all  of  the   Pacific    Coast    on    which  we   dwell,,  and   will 
ardently  wish  that  such  a  fate  may  yet  be  spared  her,  bad 
as  the  outlook  for  the  moment  undoubtedly  appears  to  be. 
Spain  has  been  mighty  in  discovering,  but  weak  in  keep- 
ing new  lands.     The  colder,  or   what  may    be  termed  the 
harder  sections  of   the   Earth,  she  has  pretty  generally 
eschewed,  but   the   warmer  or  moderate   areas   she  was 
mindful  to  occupy  at  a  very  early   period  in  the  history  of 
modern  conquest.     We  believe  it  true  that  Columbus  was 
the  real  discoverer  of  America,  and  that  the  sale  of  her 
jewels  by  Queen  Isabella  rendered  him  essential   aid  at  a 
critical  moment.     No  true  American  can  desire  to  witness 
the  downfall  of  the  old  empire  that  gave  this  continent  to 
the  world.     No  genuine  man  can  desire  the  Spanish  race 
to  be  without  a  home  they  can  call   their  home — they  who 
have  discovered  homes  for  uncounted  millions,  ought  not 
to  have  it  to  say:  "No  foot  of  land  have   I   on  this  vast 
wilderness."       The    beauty    of    the    true-bred     Castilian 
women  and   the  lordly  hospitality  of  the  Hidalgos  ought 
never  to  be  blotted  off  this  Earth.     They  are  like  unto  the 
famous  gems  that  should  know  not  what  extinguishment 
is.     The  depth  of  their  welcome — la  casa  de  listed,  Senor — 
is  seldom  equaled  on  this  earth.     Tens  of  thousands  of  our 
pioneers  have   gone   to   their   graves   thinking  them  the 
sweetest  sounds  they  ever  heard  among  men.    When  they, 
with  distinguished  mien   and   the   sweetest  of  words,  tell 
you   that    "my   house  is   yours."   they    do  not    literally 
mean  a  strict  interpretation   of   their  words,  but  they  do 
mean  a  warmth  of  hospitality  that  has   scarcely  an  equal 
among  men.     The  greatest  of  colonizers,  no  one  will  wish 
that  old  Spain  shall  disappear  from  among  the  nations  of 
Earth.     She  has  given  us  several  large  slices  of  her  lands, 
added  considerably  to  our  population,  and  become  a  friend 
in  many  ways.     She  was  the  first  to  grant  us  a  valuable 
reciprocity  treaty.     It  is  difficult  for   even  the  jingoes  to 
give  a  reason  for  wishing  her  harm. 

The  Mistress  of  the  Spanish  Main  has  doubtless  made 
mistakes  in  her  treatment  of  her  colonies.  The  principal 
one  has  been  that  of  sending  lordlings  and  spendthrifts  to 
administer  lucrative  offices.  They  almost  invariably  went 
to  the  colonies  to  cut  a  dash  and  to  steal  themselves  rich. 
"As  wealthy  as  a  colonial  Governor"  became  a  by- word 
throughout  Spain.  So  much  was  made  out  of  the  current 
Government  revenues  by  the  home  ofijcers,  that  colony 
after  colony  broke  away  from  the  mother  country's  rule, 
and  finally  gained  their  independence.  Cuba  and  the 
Philippines  still  remain,  but  their  departure,  at  no  very 
distant  date,  is  inevitable,  which  will  prove  a  mistake  to 
themselves  as  well  as  to  civilization.  The  islands  are  not 
fit  for  self-government,  and  are  better,  in  every  way,  as 
they  are.  Cuba  free  will  mean  Cuba  eternally  at  war 
within  itself.  No  one  party  will  be  able  long  to  maintain 
itself.     A   mixed   race,    made   up  of  negroes,  Indians  and 


Creoles,  their  ways  differ  widely,  and  their  prejudices 
against  each  other  are  as  bitter  as  hatred  can  make 
them.  Some  of  our  own  people  are  glad  of  this  condition, 
because  it  renders  it  likely  that  the  Cuban  pear  will  one 
day  drop  into  the  open  mouth  of  Uncle  Sam.  They  know 
not  what  they  seek.  The  annexation  of  Cuba  would  bring 
us  endless  trouble,  which  we  had  better  leave  to  Spain. 

The  Arbitration     As  amended  the  arbitration  treaty  has 
Treaty  gone  back   to   the  Senate.     President 

At  Present.  McKinley's  influence  does  not  appear  to 
be  great  with  the  Committee  on  Foreign 
affairs,  for  that  body  has  recommended  substantially  the 
same  changes  that  had  been  agreed  upon  before  the  new 
administration  came  in.  The  most  important  of  these  is 
that  no  question  can  be  arbitrated  without  the  Senate's 
consent,  which  means  the  negotiation  of  a  new  treaty 
when  an  arbitration  is  desired.  If  ratified  in  this  form,  it 
will  seem  a  very  lame  ending  of  the  great  arbitration 
treaty  movement.  Still  the  idea  of  any  sort  of  treaty  will 
do  good.  By  this  so-called  treaty,  arbitration  will  be 
more  deeply  imbedded  in  the  public  mind,  and  that  alone 
will  do  good.  In  England  they  have  given  themselves 
over  to  the  idea  that  party  politics  are  in  some  way  in- 
terfering with  the  treaty's  ratification.  That  is  clearly 
not  the  case,  as  two  different  administrations  have  now 
fathered  it.  The  jealousy  of  certain  statesmen,  the 
hatred  borne  towards  England  by  a  few  jingoes,  and  the 
Hibernian  societies,  are  about  all  the  opposition  there  is  to 
the  treaty,  which  in  fact  has  become  no  treaty  at  all.  If 
the  Senate  says  "nay,"  there  can  be  no  arbitration.  It  is 
not  such  a  determination  of  an  issue  of  the  first  magnitude 
as  the  public  conscience  will  approve,  and  before  long  the 
best  American  voices  will  be  found  denouncing  it. 
European  exchanges  are  making  fun  of  the  amendments 
made,  and  some  of  them  are  finding  pleasure  in  the  idea 
that  Russia  and  the  Green  Isle  got  the  better  of  John 
Bull.  Of  course  with  the  people  who  treat  the  subject  in 
that  spirit,  arbitration  is  a  farce.  If  peace  be  not  the 
thing  wanted,  this  talk  about  arbitration  is  humbug,  and 
we  had  better  go  to  war  at  the  first  favorable  op- 
portunity. That  is  the  logic  of  the  jiDgoes,  but  happily 
there  are  a  great  many  people  in  this  country  who  do  not 
think  that  way. 

Does  Not  The  New  President  is  endeavoring  to  take 
Take  After  after  his  predecessor  as  little  as  possible. 
Cleveland.  That  may  be  good  politics,  but  that  is  some- 
thing the  future  alone  can  determine. 
Cleveland's  methods  procured  him  two  terms  and  three 
nominations,  but  it  has  not  yet  done,  or  shaped  as  if  it 
would  do  as  much  for  McKinley.  For  the  time  being  Mc- 
Kinley is  a  great  popular  success  in  Washington.  His  pie 
counter  is  still  covered  with  things  good  and  rare,  beauti- 
ful to  the  sight  and  of  great  value.  He  insists  on  special 
attention  being  paid  to  the  wishes  of  Senators  and  Re- 
presentatives in  appointments  to  office.  A  well  known 
writer  called  at  the  White  House  a  short  time  ago  and 
applied  for  a  certain  office.  As  McKinley  knew  him  well, 
he  said  he  had  secured  no  endorsements.  But  these  the 
President  advised  him  to  get.  The  names  of  Representa- 
tives are  good  to  have,  but  "be  sure  of  the  Senators" 
were  his  last  words.  That  was  not  much  like  Cleveland. 
Not  much!  The  new  President  has  no  use  for  special 
police  protection.  Garfield  had,  and  so  had  Cleveland 
more  than  once,  although  he  managed  to  keep  the  fact 
quiet.  McKinley  has  put  away  the  sentry  boxes,  sees  the 
people,  takes  afternoon  walks  down  Pennsylvania  avenue, 
but,  above  all,  is  determined  to  keep  on  good  relations 
with  Senators  and  Representatives.  He  may  do  all  these 
things  better  than  Grover  Cleveland,  but  that  will  not 
constitute  him  a  statesman,  nor  cause  his  name  to  live  in 
history.  If  he  makes  name  and  fame  his  efforts  must  be 
directed  in  a  totally  different  direction. 

The  Laws       It  is  the  supposed  right  of  every  American 
We  Are         citizen  to  have  the  opportunity  to  know 
Living  Under,     the  laws  which  he  is  living  under,  but  to- 
day no  man  can  learn   that,  unless  he  be 
the  Government  printer.     During  the   last  days  of   the 
sessions  such  an  avalanche  of  bills   went  through  that  no 
man  has  summed  them  up,  made   a  calendar  of  them  or, 


April  3.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


a   brief   glossary  of   what    they  contain, 
•••r   the  adjournment  of  the 
• 
■'-■all  the  fact   thai  I  I   bills  were 

past.<  adblg  their  titli  - 

it  was  thr.  wc  knew   as   much  as  the  titles 

of  the  laws  under  which  uinaging  to  keep  the 

peace,  if  we  did  keep  it.     Tin-  ititution  was  sup- 

.  to  cure  this,  in  a  large  measure,  but  its  success  has 
not  equalled  the  hopes  of  it-  friends.  What  happens  to 
the  bills  between  final  passage,  and  final  printing.  God 
alone  knows.  We  have  tried  to  keep  track  of  them  dur- 
ing that  dubious  period,  but  somehow  or  other  could  never 
keep  ourselves  in  exactly  the  right  place  at  the  right 
time.  The  bills  slipped  away  as  if  by  ma«ie.  The  Clerks 
were  obliging  and  good  fellows  like  Duckworth.  All  the 
same,  the  bills  became  laws  in  a  shape  that  all  was  pre- 
pared to  swear  to  be  O  K.  Every  man  stood  ready  to 
swear  that  each  bill,  even  to  the  dotting  of  an  "i"  was  ex- 
actly in  the  shape  members  had  voted  it  should  be.  Why 
we  cannot  at  this  late  date  get  at  what  bills  were  at  the 
last  moment  pushed  through  ami  what  were  left  behind, 
we  pretty  well  know,  but  think  the  new  journalism  should 
do  something  to  win  its  spurs,  and  accordingly  leave  them 
this  little  job  to  do.  In  better  days  good  journalists  were 
content  to  go  for  the  bottom  facts  of  things,  and  to  get 
them  so  straight,  that  they  could  take  the  risk  of  a  libel 
suit  every  time,  knowing  that  they  were  fortified  behind 
proofs  that  would  bear  them  harmless  through.  The  new 
journalism  the  other  day  guessed  at  its  facts,  lied  about 
them,  and  earned  nothing  but  contempt.  We  shall  all 
soon  know  that  any  statement  that  may  appear  in  a  cer- 
tain sheet  is  worthless  because  of  being  devoid  of  the  first 
element  of  truth.  What  the  new  list  of  laws  will  show  we 
cannot  now  be  very  sure,  but  we  are  fully  persuaded  that 
few  of  the  Examiner's  pet  measures  were  approved, 
whilst  nearly  all  that  it  opposed  became  laws.  "To  get 
there"  is  the  vaunting  motto  of  the  slum  sheet.  Its  pre- 
sent experience  is  "to  get  left." 

Bears  Expected     It  may  sometimes  be  wise   to  assume  a 
Fruit.  virtue,    even  though  you  have   it  not. 

Prize-fighting  is  one  of  the  amusements 
not  unknown  to  San  Francisco;  but  the  raw  and  repulsive 
features  of  the  pastime  are  thinly  veiled  under  the  guise 
of  physical  culture  exhibitions.  Licenses  are  granted  and 
boxing  contests  are  permitted  in  any  one  of  the  several 
clubs  in  the  city,  which  in  fact  are  knock-out  prize-fights. 
The  bruisers  are  just  as  vicious  and  brutal  as  were  the 
pugilists  who  appeared  last  month  at  Carson.  The  dis- 
tinction lies  in  the  unimportant  fact  that  the  local  fights 
are  not  called  finish  contests  :  and  if  they  are  prolonged 
beyond  a  certain  point  the  police  interfere.  But  defeat 
and  victory  are  more  frequently  accomplished  before  such 
official  restraint  is  exercised.  In  the  moral  effect  on  those 
present,  there  can  be  drawn  no  distinguishing  line  between 
despised  Carson  and  decent  San  Francisco.  This  fact  is  un- 
deniable, but  thick-skinned  and  indifferent  as  have  been 
average  California  legislative  bodies,  not  one  of  them  would 
for  one  moment  entertain  a  proposition  to  legalize  out-and- 
out  prize-fighting.  In  Nevada,  however,  there  exists  neither 
such  virtue  nor  the  claim  for  it.  With  blunt  frankness  Sa- 
tan's sage-brush  solons  advertised  to  the  world  their  entire 
willingness  to  barter  their  State's  honor  in  aid  of  its  treas- 
ury. That  men  do  not  gather  figs  from  thistles  nor  grapes 
from  thorns  is  therein  verified.  Such  flagrant  violation  of 
propriety  and  right  has  born  its  inevitable  fruit.  It  is  said 
that  arrangements  are  being  made  and  plans  laid  for  em- 
bellishing Nevada's  statutes  two  years  hence  with  a  fitting 
companion  to  the  prize-ring  law.  Ever  since  public  opinion 
and  the  acts  of  Congress  drove  the  lottery  out  of  business 
in  Louisiana,  it  has  desired  to  return  to  the  United  States. 
Nevada's  stand  has  given  the  enterprising  Stuart  hope 
that  he  has  found  there  congenial  soil  for  a  lottery  scheme. 
Being  interviewed  as  to  this  report,  Governor  Sadler  de- 
clared that  he  knew  nothing  of  the  movement  to  turn 
Nevada  into  a  cemetery  for  those  who  commit  suicide;  but 
the  genial  official  curio  gave  forth  no  note  of  disapproval. 
Without  doubt  he  would  be  entirely  pleased  to  superintend 
the  monthly  drawings  for  a  fat  salary,  and  give  his  per- 
sonal endorsement  to  a  plan  for  the  remodeling  of  the  State 
of  Nevada  upon  the  lines  of  Monte  Carlo. 


Slum  Libraries,  Club  rooms,  anil  such  like  institu- 

Journ»li»m.      |i  r  the  laud,  are  dealing  with  the 

N.  V  \\  orld  and  Journal  as  they  deserve 
to  be  dealt  with.  The  Springfield  Republican,  widely 
known  as  one  of  the  cleanest,  ablest,  and  best  of  our 
American  newspapers,  aptly  uses  the  phrase  "slum 
journal,"  and  adds  the  information  that  the  Sprinj 
city  library  has  removed  the  N  Y.  World  from  its  si 
and  that  the  Journal  never  had  a  place  there.  Tin 
tiny  Club  orders  the  Journal,  which  still  continues  to  be 
sent  against  many  demands  that  it  be  discontinued,  to  be 
thrown  into  the  ash  barrel.  "From  all  over  the  country," 
says  the  Republican,  "these  two  flagrant  examples  of  a 
vicious  development  of  news  is  being  condemned.  This 
exclusion  of  such  sheets  from  the  reading  rooms  of  associa- 
tions of  high  character  does  not  affect  seriously  their  sub- 
scription list,  or  their  sales  on  the  streets  and  car  lines. 
But  moral  reprobation  counts  for  something,  and  ere  long 
such  papers  will  not  be  read  in  families  that  have  regard 
for  the  moral  well  being  of  their  little  ones,  and  eventually 
the  hard-shelled  consciences  of  their  proprietors  will  be 
pricked,  and  their  sheets  will  no  longer  defame  and  dis- 
grace the  newspaper  profession."  This  is  good  and  whole- 
some talk  which  may  safely  be  indulged  in  with  comfort  in 
Massachusetts,  but  in  San  Francisco  it  involves  the  writer 
in  all  the  mud  spattering  that  a  vicious  press  has,  in  its 
malice  and  hatred,  the  heart  to  cover  him  with.  But  a 
discriminating  public,  or,  at  least,  that  part  of  it  which  is 
discriminating,  will  make  no  mistake  in  identifying  the 
qualities  of  the  old  and  new  journalist.  Once  upon  a  time 
it  was  the  rule  of  journalists  to  respect  each  other's  in- 
dividuality and  private  life,  but  now  it  is  the  fashion  to  lie 
about  these  matters  atrociously,  and  refuse  any  sort  of 
correction.  But  even  this  evil  will  be  cured,  for  men  will 
not  stand  it.  It  is  exceeding  the  boundary  line  between 
what  a  man  may  submit  to  and  what  his  manhood  forbids 
that  he  should.  This  New  Journalism  has  ways  that  can- 
not stand  exposure,  and  whatever  else  may  be  said  of  San 
Francisco,  it  does  not  give  its  sympathy  to  such  brutality 
as  the  Examiner  indulges  in.  It  knows  no  respect  for  any- 
body, or  for  anybody's  rights,  but  it  does  not  control  all 
the  Courts,  and  it  is  not  unlikely  to  be  compelled  to  res- 
pect the  law. 

Ingalls  Ex-Senator  Ingalls  is  catching  it  all  over 
Catching  It.  the  East  for  the  little  part  he  took  in  the 
recent  prize  fight  at  Carson.  To  be  sure, 
he  did  but  little  save  to  lend  his  Senatorial  name  to  the 
Examiner  and  Journal.  He  telegraphed  a  few  quirks  and 
jibes  for  two  or  three  days  directed  at  what  he  called 
"hypocrites"  who  pretended  not  to  like  pugilism.  That 
kind  of  talk  does  not  go  very  well  among  respectable  peo- 
ple and  Ingalls  is  being  tabooed  from  good  society  in  con- 
sequence. The  scoring  he  is  receiving  will  be  likely  to 
make  him  a  marked  man  as  long  as  he  lives.  His  eccen- 
tricity has  gained  him  much  notoriety  in  the  past,  but  his 
engaging  himself  to  a  disreputable  newspaper,  as  a  re- 
porter of  a  prizefight,  bars  him  from  the  portals  of  all 
that  good  citizens  desire  to  keep  clean.  He  is  now  with- 
out the  pale.  His  own  State  has  disowned  him,  and 
passed  a  law  by  which  any  citizen  of  Kansas  attending  a 
prize  fight  anywhere  shall  be  ineligible  thereafter  to  hold 
any  State  or  municipal  office.  The  Legislatures  generally 
have  the  power  to  pass  such  inhibitions.  California  has 
effectually  stopped  duelling  in  that  way.  If  the  majority 
of  our  people  are  as  sincere  as  we  believe  them  to  be  in  the 
matter  of  prize  fighting,  they  can  promptly  end  the  dis- 
grace of  Carson,  and  the  abominations  of  the  man  tights 
there,  by  simply  making  the  attendants,  who  are  nearly 
always  politicians,  ineligible  for  office.  They  would  run 
away  like  rats  leaving  a  sinking  ship. 

Ex-Presidents     What  to  do  with  our  Ex-Presidents  is  not 
And  a  problem  yet  solved,  nor  in  a  likely  way 

Their  Kin.  of  being  solved.  Some  ex-Presidents 
drop  out  of  view  better  than  others, 
whilst  a  few  remain  laggard  on  the  stage  for  many  long 
years.  Whether  they  should  be  comfortably  pensioned,  or 
made  life  Senators,  or  sent  as  ambassadors  to  the  fore- 
most nations,  are  all  suggestions  that  have  received  more 
or  less  approval,  but  none  of  them  has  commanded  national 
assent.     We  favor  life  Senatorship  ourselves,  but  as  that 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


April  3,  1897. 


proposition  meets  with  considerable  opposition  and  as  we 
have  no  personal  interest  in  it,  we  leave  the  settlement  of 
a  problem  that  may  one  day  become  a  grave  one  to  a 
newer  generation  that  may  favor  constitutional  changes 
more  than  this  one  does.  The  question  of  what  to  do  with 
ex-Presidents'  sons  seems,  however,  to  be  in  a  fair  way  to 
settle  itself.  Colonel  Fred  Grant  is  not  satisfied  with  the 
Police  Commissionership  of  New  York,  but  wants  a 
Foreign  Ambassadorship  to  a  first-class  power,  and  his 
wife  has  even  begged  Senator  Cullom  to  accredit  her  hus- 
band's name  to  the  State  of  Illinois,  in  order  to  promote 
his  chances.  Cullom  has  refused.  There  are  too  many 
actual  residents  of  Illinois  who  want  first-class  missions. 
One  of  the  Hayes  boys  is  also  up  for  a  foreign  Mission,  and 
so  also  is  one  of  the  Garfield  boys.  A  son  of  Chester  A. 
Arthur  is  a  candidate  for  one  of  the  Secretaryships  of  an 
European  embassy.  Mrs.  John  A.  Logan  is  working 
every  available  influence  to  secure  the  appointment  of 
John  A.  Logan  Jr.  to  the  Austrian  Mission.  His  chief 
qualifications  are  that  he  has  a  rich  wife  and  little  to  do. 
Russel  Harrison,  it  is  said,  will  be  content  with  a  federal 
office  near  to  Grandpa's  hat.  Lincoln  is  busy  in  gathering 
together  the  Presidential  families,  and  it  looks  likely  that 
we  may  some  day  have  a  nobility  of  Presidential  ancestry. 
Cleveland  will  be  "away  up"  in  the  matter  of  supplying 
marriageable  daughters,  whilst  McKinley  has  boys  that 
promise  to  rank  with  the  best.  There  is  no  longer  any 
import  in  the  query  as  to  "what  we  are  to  do  with  the 
boys:"  if  only  they  be  ex-Presidents'  sons. 

The  Hawaiian  It  is  noted  by  the  dispatches  that  the 
Dilemma.  Japanese  Consul  at  Honolulu  has  called 
for  a  warship  to  back  up  his  demand  for 
the  landing  of  Japanese  laborers  at  that  point.  The 
islands  are  now  overrun  with  "little  brown  men,"  and  the 
white  population  feel  that  their  further  influx  would  prove 
a  serious  menace  to  the  peace  and  prosperity  of  the  Ha- 
waiian republic.  If  the  demand  of  the  Consul  be  granted 
and  a  Japanese  warship  sent  to  override  the  laws  of  the 
Government,  a  crisis  such  as  the  islands  have  not  faced 
since  the  deposition  of  the  ex-Queen  will  engage  the  atten- 
tion of  President  Dole  and  his  compatriots.  Meantime 
representatives  of  the  Hawaiian  Government  at  Washing- 
ton are  actively  engaged  in  forwarding  their  scheme  of 
annexation  by  urging  the  incorporation  of  a  territorial 
autonomy  under  the  strong  protection  of  this  country. 
These  gentlemen  will  be  likely  to  achieve  a  brilliant  fail- 
ure. The  Sandwich  Islands  are  more  than  two  thousand 
miles  distant  from  the  Pacific  Coast.  That  any  considera- 
ble number  of  disinterested  intelligent  men  in  either  house 
of  Congress  should  favor  such  a  wide  and  ominous  depart- 
ure from  the  safe  precedent  of  past  American  history  is 
not  to  be  believed.  McKinley  declared  in  his  inaugural 
address  that  his  foreign  policy  would  be  built  on  conserva- 
tive lines;  and  he  may  be  expected  to  oppose  the  annexa- 
tionists. All  this  country  wants  with  the  Sandwich  Isl- 
ands is  the  commerce  dictated  by  mutual  interests,  and 
the  establishment  of  a  coaling  station  there — neither  one 
of  which  is  contingent  on  annexation. 

Pure  Food  From  present  indications  the  Pure  Food 
Congress.  Congress,  which  is  to  be  held  here  during  the 
first  days  of  May,  will  be  an  unqualified  suc- 
cess. The  crusade  for  pure  food  started  with  the  election 
of  Milk  Inspector  Dockery,  who  was  the  first  official  to 
demonstrate  that  his  position  was  not  a  sinecure.  His 
raid  against  dishonest  purveyors  of  milk  startled  the  com- 
munity and  aroused  an  interest  that  has  not  yet  dis- 
appeared. It  was  shown  by  his  vigilance  that  there  was 
an  immense  amount  of  fraud  in  the  milk  trade  of  the  city, 
which  through  his  industry  has  been  very  materially  cur- 
tailed. Later  the  officers  took  up  the  investigation  of 
various  articles  sold  by  grocers.  Here  was  also  discovered 
a  very  general  adulteration  of  jellies  and  similar  goods. 
The  fight  against  the  offenders  in  this  direction  has 
reached  an  acute  stage.  The  Manufacturers'  and  Pro- 
ducers' Association  has  taken  a  very  firm  stand  against 
adulterated  goods,  in  which  it  should  be  sustained.  The 
Merchants'  Association  takes  the  ground  that  the  innocent 
retailer  should  be  warned  of  the  impure  brands  of  goods 
he  has  for  sale,  and   be   given  time  in  which   to   replace 


them.  No  doubt  injustice  is  done  retailers  who,  having 
trusted  the  manufacturer,  find  themselves  arrested  for 
selling  goods  they  always  supposed  were  pure.  But  the 
fault  does  not  lie  with  the  consumer,  who  pays  honest 
money  out  for  food  that  is  not  what  he  thinks  it  is.  He 
must  be  protected.  The  retailer  has  recourse  against  the 
manufacturer  who  has  imposed  upon  him,  and  who  is 
morally  at  fault.  We  know  of  one  dealer  at  least  who  will 
bring  suit  for  heavy  damages  against  the  maker  of  adulter- 
ated jellies  for  the  sale  of  which  he  was  arrested  and  fined. 
In  bringing  about  the  reforms  that  are  now  proved  to  be 
most  necessary,  some  of  the  innocent  will  suffer  with  the 
guilty.  But  it  appears  that  the  chief  offenders — the  man- 
ufacturers— cannot  be  brought  to  justice  without  in 
greater  or  lesser  degree  involving  the  retailers.  The 
Pure  Food  Congress  which  it  has  been  determined  to  hold 
in  this  city,  beginning  on  the  30th  of  this  month,  will  keep 
alive  the  interest  in  this  deeply  important  question,  and 
should  result  in  much  practical,  lasting  good. 


The  Free  Governor  Budd  has  signed  Senate  Bill  507, 
Market.  authorizing  the  State  Board  of  Harbor  Com- 
missioners to  establish  and  maintain  a  free 
market  at  some  convenient  point  on  the  water  front  in 
San  Francisco.  This  is  a  move  that  has  at  various  times 
attracted  public  attention;  has  always  been  regarded 
favorably  by  the  people,  and  firmly  opposed  by  the  com- 
mission and  produce  dealers  of  the  city.  The  consumers 
in  San  Francisco  have  felt  that  there  has  been  maintained 
a  combination  among  the  dealers  whereby  the  prices  of 
vegetables,  fruits  and  garden  stuffs  generally  have  been 
kept  up  without  regard  to  the  laws  of  supply  and  demand. 
The  fact  that  tons  of  onions,  potatoes,  melons  and  other 
farm  products  are,  with  annual  regularity,  thrown  into 
the  bay  because  they  cannot  be  jobbed  at  a  certain  price, 
while  the  same  articles  in  the  stores  and  stands  about  the 
city  have  been  selling  at  undisturbed  figures,  has  made  it 
clear  that  prices  in  San  Francisco  have  been  little  influ- 
enced by  the  supply.  All  this  time  the  farmer  has  been 
unable  to  sell  bis  vegetables,  has  taken  about  what  was 
offered  to  him,  or  has  seen  his  hard  earnings  float  out  to 
sea. 

The  free  market  has  been  measurably  successful  in 
other  places,  and  there  appears  no  good  reason  why  it 
should  not  bring  the  producer  and  consumer  into  direct 
and  mutually  profitable  contact  here.  There  is  something 
radically  wrong  when  tons  of  wholesome  food  are  thrown 
into  the  bay,  while  within  actual  sight  of  the  waste  are 
thousands  of  people  in  want,  who  would  be  glad  to  pay 
enough  for  them  to  make  the  producer  whole  if  commis- 
sion charges  were  cut  out.  The  establishment  of  a  free 
market  on  the  water  front  will  give  the  countryman  a 
chance  to  bring  his  produce  here  and  sell  it  to  the  con- 
sumer. This  is  the  intent  of  the  act.  It  may  work  a 
temporary  hardship  upon  the  commission  dealers,  but  it 
should  effectually  prevent  the  waste  that  has  been  wit- 
nessed on  the  water  front  in  San  Francisco  every  year 
— a  waste  borne  by  the  helpless  producer  and  the  poorer 
class  of  consumers.  The  free  market  ought  to  be  a  bless- 
ing to  both. 

The  Face  The  Supreme  Court  has  decided  that  no  man 
Doctors,  may  practice  dentistry  in  this  State  except 
he  have  the  consent  of  the  State  Board  of 
Dental  Examiners.  Why  should  not  the  public  be  pro- 
tected in  other  directions?  San  Francisco  has  a  host  of 
alleged  dermatologists  and  face  doctors  who  are  every 
day  duping  women  in  search  of  beauty.  Their  numerous 
lotions,  face  washes,  and  skin  renewers  are  either  liable  to 
disfigure  the  users  of  them  for  life,  or  subject  them  to 
great  temporary  pain  and  inconvenience.  Laws  govern- 
ing these  brazen  quacks,  who  prey  upon  the  credulity  of 
the  female  community,  should  be  enacted.  They  should 
be  compelled  to  qualify  themselves  and  obtain  and  display 
diplomas  showing  a  practical  knowledge  of  their  business. 
Every  now  and  again  instances  are  noted  where  serious 
injuries  have  resulted  from  the  use  of  their  beautitiers. 
Mortification  and  fear  of  ridicule  prevents  many  who 
suffer  from  their  treatment  from  denouncing  them.  San 
Francisco  supports  no  frauds  equal  to  them,  and  they 
should  be  suppressed. 


April  3,  1897. 


SAN   PRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


ART     JOTTINGS. 


LATIMER   fn  '.imiiiK  in  the    I 

woods."  which  has  some  excellent  qualities,  bul 

iiij;  in  that  tender  feeling  which  is  expresi 
rood  and  water  piece  before  mentioned.  The  treat- 
ment is  j»ood.  but  there  temble 
which  is  more  of  an  artistic  accident  than  an  artistic- 
fault,  lie  has  presented  it  to  lian  Club,  an  in- 
stitution which  has  been  especially  fortunate  during  the 
last  tew  months  in  being  the  recipient  of  presents  from 
tist  members. 

At  a  recent  sale  in  London.  Arthur  Lemon  received  a 
thousand  pounds  for  an  animal  picture.  We  may  claim 
m,  though  of  English  birth,  as  a  California  artist. 
rst  work  of  any  merit  was  painted  in  Oakland,  and 
Edward  Bosqui  was  among  his  earliest  patrons.  Then 
Lemon  returned  to  London,  studied  some  time  in  Paris, 
and  astonished  the  artistic  world  by  an  animal  picture 
which  won  the  highest  commendation  from  the  critics. 
Lemon  was  made  a  member  of  the  Royal  Academy,  and  is 
to-day  the  Landseer  of  England. 

With  the  exception  of  Toby  Rosenthal,  every  artist  who 
pitched  his  camp  in  San  Francisco  and  painted  away  for 
the  crust  in  the  past  has  returned  to  this  city  certainly 
within  a  decade.  Fred  Yates  came  back  with  his  laurels 
won  as  a  painter  of  portraits.  Bloomer,  Peters,  all  the 
wanderers,  have  dropped  in  from  time  to  time  to  dwell  a 
little  while  among  the  scenes  of  their  early  struggles.  But 
Rosenthal,  of  whom  so  much  was  said  in  adulation,  keeps 
housed  in  Munich,  or  some  other  art  center,  and  languishes 
for  the  golden  sands  no  more. 

The  studio  art  patron  is  a  thing  of  the  past  in  this  city. 
Time  was  when  the  opulent  visitor  strolled  from  studio  to 
studio,  leaving  fat  orders  behind  him  or  her.  Something 
on  the  easel,  or  an  unfinished  canvas  in  a  corner  of  the 
room,  won  their  fancy,  and  a  request  for  its  completion 
was  usually  accompanied  by  a  check  for  a  trifle  on 
account.  Xor  were  those  angels'  visits  few  and  far  be- 
tween. Mrs.  Robert  A.  Johnson,  Tiburcio  Parrott,  Mr. 
A.  P.  Hotaling,  and  a  score  or  so  of  others,  amused 
themselves  in  this  way,  and  their  amusement  was  largely 
to  the  artist's  profit.  The  custom  of  giving  Saturday 
afternoon  receptions  has  also  gone  out  of  date,  with  the 
reception  of  Bruce  Porter,  who  still  asks  his  friends  to 
tea  with  him  occasionally. 

The  ninth  annual  exhibition  of  the  Sketch  Club  is  at 
hand,  and  invitations  have  been  issued  by  the  members  to 
their  friends.  The  receptions  will  begin  Tuesday  next, 
and  continue  to  Saturday,  the  lOtb,  at  503  Montgomery 
street.  The  hanging  committee  were  busy  this  week  in 
the  discharge  of  their  important  duties,  for  in  the  Sketch 
Club  many  are  called,  but  few  are  chosen. 

Emil  Carlsen,  at  one  time  instructor  at  the  Art  School, 
and  who  has  been  away  in  New  York  for  the  past  four 
years,  will  revisit  this  city  next  summer. 

JULIUS  S.   GODEAU. 

ONE  of  the  best-known  men  among  the  French  resi- 
dents of  this  city  is  Julius  S.  Godeau,  who  has  acted 
as  treasurer  of  the  Fourteenth  of  July  Committee  and 
been  a  factor  in  the  success  of  various  French  celebrations 
for  years  past.  He  has  a  wide  circle  of  friends  and  ac- 
quaintances, being  a  member  of  nearly  every  fraternal 
society  in  this  city.  In  consequence,  he  possesses  more 
than  usual  influence,  which  he  has  shown  not  only  in  poli- 
tics but  in  such  business  affairs  as  the  lighting  of  Mont- 
gomery avenue  with  arc  lights,  the  movement  for  that 
helpful  illumination  being  largely  aided  by  Mr.  Godeau. 
The  Republicans  of  his  district  hold  him  in  high  esteem,  he 
being  very  energetic  in  promoting  the  interests  of  his 
political  party  there.  His  parents  were  pioneers.  They 
were  established  in  business  here  in  1849.  Mr.  Godeau 
was  born  in  San  Francisco  in  1864. 


Ill  Tempered  Babies 
are  not  desirable  in  any  home.    Insufficient  nourishment  produces 
ill  temper.    Guard  against  fretful  children  by  feeding  nutritious  and 
digestible  food.    The  Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  is 
the  most  successful  of  all  infant  foods. 

The  handsomest  gentlemen's  neckwear  in  San  Francisco  is  found 
at  Carmany's,  25  Kearny  street. 


W-fcM  T  I  T  II 1 1 1  !  1 1 1  M>M-K 

I  President  Diaz 


SOLDIER   and 
STATESMAN 

Bu  Ghjs.  F.  Lummis 

Tiiis  article  ►rives  a  grapblr 
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distinguished     Preald 
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thftt  Republtt 

maoy  Illustrations. 

I  WASHINGTON  and  the  FRENCH  GRAZE  OF  '93 

Professor  John  Bach  MoMaator  dOBOrltMB  the  enthusiasm  for  osten- 
tatious republicanism  aroused  03  the  first  successes  of  tho  French 
Republic,  and  especially  by  "Citizen"  Genet,  the  French  Ambas- 
sador. The  illustrations,  Including  the  frontispiece  in  color,  are  by 
Howard  Pyle. 

Paleontological  Progress  of  the  Century, 

By  HENRY  SMITH  WILLIAMS,  M.  D.,  Illustrated. 

White  Man's  Africa,   by  Pouftney  Bigelow, 

Illustrated  by  R.  CATON  W00DVILLE. 

The  Action  of  the  number  is  especially  noteworthy,  including  "The 
Martian,"  by  George  du  Mrurier,  and  short  stories  by  Brander 
Matthews  and  Margaret  Deland. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  3,  1897. 


"We  obey  no  wand  but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


01 


\F  course  one  can  say  smart  things 
about  Otis  Skinner — things  that  are 
impertinent  and  unpleasant  and  true,  just 
as  one  can  say  them  about  any  new  star — 
but  one  cannot  read  the  list  of  the  plays 
^  in  which  Skinner  is  to  act  during  his  three 
weeks'  season  at  the  Baldwin  Theatre  and  deny  him  en- 
terprise and  grit.  Skinner  has  long  had  the  courage,  now 
he  has  the  means,  to  act  what  he  thinks  he  can  act;  and  if 
his  repertory  is  to  be  trusted  to  have  omitted  all  of  those 
plays  wherein  he  doubts  his  fitness  for  the  leading  roles,  it 
is  easy  to  see  that  what  Skinner  does  not  think  himself 
capable  of  attaining  to  is  not  of  much  consequence  in  the 
drama  anyway. 

For  my  part,  I  frankly  admire  the  young  actor  who  is 
so  heels-over-head  in  love  with  all  the  keys  of  his  art  that 
he  has  not  the  time,  or  the  luck,  to  become  highly  special- 
ized in  any  one  particular  department.  So  far  as  I  know, 
Mr.  Skinner  has  not  yet  committed  his  master-work.  It  is 
quite  possible  that  he  never  will — he  is  so  copious  and 
fearless.  Besides,  his  personality  is  evasive.  Like  the 
handwriting  of  the  young,  it  is  all  random  future — no 
past.  And  the  actor  without  a  past  is  o/tenest  the  acto:- 
with  a  future.  We  all  would  consider  Richard  Mansfield 
in  a  happier  light  as  an  all-around  craftsman  if  it  were 
not  for  Beau  Brummel.  No  matter  what  he  acts  now,  we 
remember  him  in  that  play;  and  I,  for  one,  am  human 
enough  to  deride  his  art,  catalogue  his  stageisms,  even 
resent  his  personality  whenever  he  fails  to  exact  from 
himself  that  very  best  of  tact,  technique  and  exquisite- 
ness  which  is  so  beautifully  epitomized  in  the  character 
of  the  Beau.  Perhaps  it  is  well  that  Skinner  has  never 
arrived,  that  he  has  no  Beau  Brummel  past  to  pale  the 
mild  glow  of  his  present. 

Beau  Brummel  brings  me  easily  to  His  Grace  de  Gram- 
mortt.  Clyde  Fitch  wrote  both  plays,  and  Skinner  gave  us 
the  latter  at  the  Baldwin  Monday  night — an  inoffensive  bit 
of  historic  romancing,  pretty,  in  truth  a  rather  entertain- 
ing elaboration  of  an  anecdote  or  two  which  Fitch  possibly 
did  not  hear  very  clearly  in  the  first  place,  or  bother 
himself  to  stick  to  ver}'  closely  in  the  second.  Play  tinkers 
avail  themselves  of  all  the  license  that  literature  has 
granted  geniuses,  and  consequently  a  Clyde  Fitch  of  to-day 
will  subordinate  polite  history,  or  any  sort  of  history  or 
historic  character,  to  the  requirements  of  his  mood,  or  his 
customer's,  quite  as  readily  and  as  loosely  as  a  William 
Shakespeare  would  have  done  in  an  equally  practical  yester- 
da}' — a  yesterday  wherein  dramatists  were  proportionately 
as  anxious  to  land  buttered  side  up  at  court  as  they  now 
are  to  land  any  side  up  anywhere,  so  long  as  the  feat  brings 
popularity  and  profit.  Of  course,  in  this  age  of  indiscrimi- 
nate trade,  Fitch  has  no  Crown  censor  to  fear,  no  noble 
patron  to  sleek  the  softest  way.  Dynasties  do  not  tremble 
or  noble  family  skeletons  rattle  bonefully  when  Fitch's 
pen  is  inked.  But  there  are  the  public  who  pays,  the 
matinee  maid  and  mother,  the  prudish  critic  made  prudish 
by  the  Ibsen  which  he  does  not  understand  and  the  cheaper 
decorative  problem  which  he  does.  Fitch  thought  of  these, 
and  he  de-odorized  de  Grammont.  "A  tinker's  tink  for 
fact  and  history,"  said  Fitch;  "the  'Chevalier' is  my  hero, 
and  I'll  make  him  respectable.  Charles  can  remain  a  wen- 
cher,  and  I  suppose  Middleton  and  Warmestre  will  go 
all  right  as  seducers — nobody  minds  the  morals  of  a  vil- 
lainess;  but  the  'Chevalier'  must  be  pure  and  fragrant." 
So  Fitch  adjusted  his  stained-glass  monocle  and  made  the 
"chaser"  chaste.  De  Grammont  could  now  be  turned 
loose  with  safety  at  a  Sabbath-school  picnic.  Needless  to 
say,  Mistress  Hamilton  is  converted  into  a  worthy  mate 
for  the  regenerated  hero. 

I  am  not  a  precisian  in  the  matter  of  immorals,  and  I 
admit  that  these  sanitary  improvements  have  not  spoiled 
the  play.  They  rather  enhance  my  reverence  for  the 
author's  pellucid  imagination.  After  this  rehabilitation  of 
de  Grammont — de  Grammont  the  prime  cut  of  the  tender- 
loin of  France,  the  sweetest  scoundrel  in  all  England,  the 


keenest  card-sharp  of  his  day — I  believe  Fitch  capable  of 
exalting  lusty  Tom  Jones  to  the  virgin  pages  of  the  Ladies' 
Home  Journal.  In  any  event  His  Grace  de  Grammont  is 
not  notably  dull.  It  is  very  much  like  a  comic  opera, 
decorative,  unreal,  better  constructed  than  most  comic 
operas,  and  quick  and  clever  in  some  of  the  lines.  "Your 
Majesty  has  done  me  the  honor  of  eaves-dropping,"  says  de 
Grammont  to  Charles  II.  Such  a  line  at  the  end  of  an  act 
has  an  infallibly  uplifting  effect  on  the  curtain.  To  say 
I  that  the  King  decks  his  mistresses  with  rings  for  every 
finger  but  the  wedding  one  is  also  bright  and  heroic. 
Other  parts  of  speech  are  not  so  good — as  when  de  Gram- 
mont finds  Mistress  Hamilton  with  the  King  at  Whitehall, 
and  fumes  on  her  thus:  "When  3'ou  smile  the  smile  that 
stings  but  does  not  intoxicate — when  you  pack  up  your 
court  belongings  and  unpack  3'our  love  for  me!"  Could 
anything  be  worse?  No.  Nor  could  anything  be  better 
than  this  which  follows,  when  Charles  has'  given  up  all 
hopes  of  possessing  the  pale,  exclusive  charms  of  Mistress 
Hamilton,  and  his  trusty  caterer,  Jermyn,  whispers  con- 
solingly, "Sire,  she  is  not  the  only  maiden  in  your  king- 
dom!" Isn't  that  immense?  If  Fitch  had  written,  "Sire, 
she  is  not  the  only  birdie  on  the  bough,"  or  something  like 
that,  I  should  know  he  meant  it  to  be  saucy  and  devilish. 
But  that  line  is  too  good.     It  must  have  been  an  accident. 

*  *  * 

I  have  little  to  say  about  the  acting.  Skinner  plays  the 
artificial  role  of  De  Grammont  in  a  thoroughly  artificial 
manner.  It  is  not  expected  of  an  actor  to  do  quite  all 
that  his  author  has  not  done  for  him.  Still,  a  little  more 
plasticity  and  a  little  less  elaboration  and  not  so  much  of 
that  over-trained  emotionalism  with  which  the  average 
actor  usually  convinces  himself — and  no  one  else — that  he 
is  being  French  and  I  can  imagine  the  "Chevalier,"  even  in 
his  present  state  of  expurgation,  being  a  much  more  en- 
chanting fellow  than  Skinner  made  him  Monday  night. 
Maud  Durbin  lent  no  distinction  whatever  to  Mistress 
Hamilton.  Frederick  Mosley  was  a  very  good  picture  as 
Charles  II.,  but  he  stopped  at  the  picture.  I  can  recall 
no  noteworthy  achievement  by  the  other  members  of  the 
company. 

*  *  * 

Massenet,  the  minaturest,  who  has  been  called  "Mile. 
Wagner"  by  persons  who  do  not  like  Wagner,  and  a  pla- 
giarist by  persons  who  do  not  like  Massenet,  and  a  noisy 
boulevardier  by  persons  who  do  not  like  any  musical  work 
that  is  not  posthumous,  was  represented  in  the  repertory 
of  his  countrymen  at  the  California  Theatre  a  week  ago 
Thursday.  I  come  late,  but  enthusiastic.  It  is  easy  to 
recall  the  thrill  of  La  Navarraise,  a  tragedy  of  an  hour's 
duration,  done  in  the  fierce  primary  tones  of  battle,  blood, 
passion  and  despair.  It  is  vast,  unsuperfluous,  terse, 
complete.  It  is  an  opera  of  tension.  It  begins  with  sus- 
pense as  the  orchestra  sounds  the  first  notes  that  echo 
the  savage  snapping  of  musketry  from  behind  the  yet  un- 
raised  curtain;  it  ends  with  death  and  madness  as  the  girl 
Anita  cries  her  pitiable,  brutish  cry  as  she  falls  upon  the 
body  of  her  dead  lover.  There  is  no  mistaking  the  mean- 
ing of  such  music.  It  is  dramatic — yes,  melodramatic, 
and  lyric,  too,  at  times,  in  a  bold,  grim  way.  Sheer  mel- 
ody leaps  like  verse  and  tells  the  story  quick  and  true, 
where  rhythm  can  tell  it  best.  But  the  colloquial  phrase, 
short,  terrible,  tragic,  moves  it  on  with  breathless  veloc- 
ity. The  orchestration  is  superb;  its  compactness  is  in- 
describable. It  is  not  multi-colored,  but  it  is  the  better 
for  that.  Foedor  gave  her  best  to  the  role  of  Anita.  It 
was  a  brave  best — strong,  magnetic  and  sure.  Nicosias 
led  with  inspiring  excitement. 

*  *  # 

Everybody  was  happy,  even  the  guarantors,  at  the 
opera  Tuesday  night.  Aida  was  the  bill,  and  it  marked 
the  most  pretentious  and  successful  production  of  the  sea- 
son. From  any  standpoint,  scenic,  ensemble  or  star,  it 
was  a  brilliant  night.  There  was  but  one  expression  from 
the  managers:  "Oh,  if  we  had  only  opened  the  season 
with  this!"  Critically  compared,  the  first  act  was  slow 
and  the  last  found  Foedor  and  Massart  somewhat  the 
worse  for  their  tremendous  work  in  the  scenes  which  had 
gone  before.  But  the  second  and  third  acts  were  glitter- 
ing triumphs.  The  finale  of  the  Temple  scene  will  be 
remembered  when  there  is  an  opera  house  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  the  work  of  Albers,  Foedor  and  Massart  will  do 


April  3,  1S97. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   Nl  \VS   LETTER. 


more  to  boom  opera  here  than  all   tin-  indiscriminate  puffs 

of  all  the  indiscriminate  critics  in  the  country 

•  •  « 

Whenever  the  French  singers  become  ton  serious  a 
strain  on  your  auditory  Dei  .11  at   the   Ttvoll  and 

see  />•»•  ./m.im  and  his  more  than  ever  erratic  ad  lib. 
Laura  Millard  is  home  again  with  the  trusty  Tivoli  folk, 
and  v.  ronic  buries  iving  a  glad  time  of  it 

at  the  old  opera  house  around  the  corner   on   Eddy  street. 

•  »  • 

rittia  is  an  unobtrusive  little  war  melo- 
drama that  will  offend  no  one  and  please  a  great  many.  I 
am  a  bit  sick  of  staeje  distortions  of  the  late  unpleasant- 
ness myself,  but  this  play  exploits  the  old  theme  in  softer 
than  usual;  dramatic  unity  is  aimed  at  more  than 
hair-raising  climaxes,  and  the  result  is  a  fairly  normal  bit 
ofdtama.  Like  most  war  pieces,  it  is  treated  from  the 
external  only.  I  should  like  to  see  some  American  play- 
wright catch  the  inside  spirit  of  the  thing,  as  iSret 
Harte  did  in  his  story,  "Clarence."  To  my  knowledge  it 
has  never  been  done. 

Russ  Whytal  is  the  author  of  the  play,  aud  he  makes 
the  villain's  part  worse  than  it  really  is  by  playing  it  him- 
self. The  only  mentionable  acting  by  the  company  is  done 
by  John  Woodward  as  an  old  negro,  and  Lottie  Briscoe,  a 
child  actress,  who,  in  the  part  of  a  boy,  maintains  a  good 
Southern  accent,  and  is  altogether  the   superior   artist  of 

her  colleagues. 

•  »  * 

If  I  could  only  satisfy  myself  that  it  was  Wagner,  and 
not  the  six  vocal  soloists,  who  packed  the  Columbia  Thurs- 
day afternoon,  I  should  say  that  we  were  in  a  fair  way  to 
become  Wagnerites  on  the  spot.  At  all  events,  it  was  a 
great  audience.  And  if  the  crowd  turned  out  only  to  hear 
its  friends  sing,  then  the  crowd  was  most  properly  pun- 
ished; for,  besides  the  singing  being  the  weakest  feature 
of  the  afternoon,  Hinrichs  was  in  one  of  his  brilliant  moods, 
and  he  performed  some  excellent  missionary  work  on  be- 
half of  the  Bard  of  Beyreuth.  I  have  always  claimed  that 
it  is  a  delicious  thing  to  be  educated  without  pain,  and  I 
must  say  that  for  an  orchestra  which,  as  a  body,  is  not  on 
the  chummiest  terms  with  Wagner,  Hinrichs's  accom- 
plished a  beautiful,  eloquent  lesson  on  Thursday  afternoon. 
In  the  Lohengrin  Prelude,  the  "  Murmuring  Forest"  music 
from  Siegfried,  the  "Song  of  the  Rhine  Daughters  "  from 
Gotterdammerung,  and  "Wotan's  Farewell"  and  "Fire 
Magic"  from  Die  Walhure,  Hinrichs  led  his  musicians  with 
power,  imagination,  and  unerring  authority.  Elsa  and 
Ortund's  duet  from  Lohengrin,  sung  by  Mrs.  Cecelia  A. 
Adler  and  Mrs.  Hinrichs,  struck  me  as  being  the  only 
vocal  episode  which  was  in  any  way  adequate.  The  Meis- 
U  ranger  quintette  was  loosely  sung,  and  Rhys  Thomas  ac- 
centuated an  inflexible  vocal  method  in  "Walter's  Prize 
Song."  The  Tannhaiuer  scene,  sung  by  Mathilde  Wilde  and 
Jacob  Mueller,  was  pitiable  rather  than  funny.  I  shall 
not  be  flippant  at  the  old  people's  expense.  They  both 
have  seen  better  days.  But  I  cannot  pass  over  Mr.  Muel- 
ler's feat  of  wearing  evening  clothes  and  bridegroom  gloves 
at  three  o'clock  in  the  afternoon.  AstiTON  Stevens. 

Next  week  is  the  last  of  the  opera  season  at  the  Cali- 
fornia, and  five  performances  will  be  given  instead  of  the 
usual  four.  The  extra  one  takes  place  on  Friday  night, 
when  Thomas'  Tlamhl  is  the  bill.  The  opera  is  new  to  us, 
and  Albers  sings  the  part  of  "Hamlet."  Moreover,  the 
performance  is  a  benefit  to  Albers,  and  everybody  is  sure 
to  be  there.  This  is  the  bill  for  the  rest  of  the  week: 
Monday,  William  Tell:  Wednesday,  a  repetition  of  Aula; 
Saturday  matinee,  Carmen;  Saturday  night,  grand  triple 
bill — Pagliacci,  La  Navarraise  and  a  scene  from  Ln  Favor- 
ita.     La  Juive  will  be  repeated  to-night. 

Otis  Skinner  plays  "Hamlet"  at  the  Baldwin  to-night. 
Five  nights  of  next  week  will  be  devoted  to  A  Soldier  of 
Fortune,  a  romantic  drama  placed  in  Italy  in  the  exciting 
sixteenth  century.  On  next  Saturday  night  Skinner  will 
present  The  Merchant  of  Venice  and  Katherine  and  Petruchio. 

Delmore  and  Lee,  in  a  risky  act  on  revolving  ladders, 
and  Titinia,  "the  toe-dancer,  who  made  a  big  hit  at  the 
Columbia  some  months  ago,  are  the  new  cards  for  the 
Orpheum.  Henry  Lee  and  many  other  good  people  have 
been  retained. 

Don  Juan  ad  lib.  continues  at  the  Tivoli. 


Pacific  Coast  dockey  Glub  nmmturnttn. 

DBDAY,  APRIL  i,  1*7. 

DERBY    DAY. 

JSOOO   Purse   for  3-Year-Olds. 

73  ENTRIES. 

One  Mile  and  a  Quarter. 

The  race  of  the  Season     Don't  mka  It. 

Gal !-&*•>•,.!-.     TU„,i Al.    Hayhan*  Co  (Incorporated) 
alifornia    I  neatre.  proprietors 

Grand  Opera  Season,  the  famous 

FRENCH    OPERATIC    ORGANIZATION. 

Lr\st  performances. 

Monday  evealng,  April  5th— Wu. mam  Tell 

Wednesday  evening,  April  7th  (by  urgeut  request}— A n> A 

Frldaj  ipril  Bth— fi&MLBT  (benefit  Henri  Albers) 

Saturday  matinee— Carmen 

Saturday  evening,  grand  farewell— Triple  bill,  Paoliacci,  La 

Navahraisk,  scene  from  La  Favorite,  etc. 

G-l L  !..     Tl J.     ~       The"  Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 
OIUmDia       I   neat.re-    Frledlander,  Gottlob&Co..  Lessees 
and  Managers 
Great  success  of  the  "Best  of  all  war  plays."    Mr.    and  Mrs. 
Russ  Whytal,  ln  the  romantic  drama 

FOR    >=AIR    VIRGINIA 

Beautiful  scenery.    A  brilliant  company. 
April  15th— MISS  GEORGIA  CAYVAN. 

Baldwin    Theatre-  AL  HAYMAN * Co- "SSSSHSKff 

Commencing  next  Monday,  second  week,  matinee  Saturday 

OTIS    SKINNER 
Supported  by  Maud  Durbin  and  Frederick   Mosley  and  a  strong 
company.    First  five  nights, 

A    SOLDIER    OF    FORTUNE 

Saturday  matinee— ROMEO  AND  clULIET 

Saturday  night,   double   bill—  M  ERGH ANT   OF    VENICE 

and  KATHERINE  AND  PETRUGHIO. 

Monday,   April   17— Last  week,  Otis  SUinner— Change  of  bill 

nightly. 


Orph 


San  Francisco's  Greatest  Music    Hall.      O'Farrell 
©U  IT!,    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 
Week  beginning  Monday,  April  5th, 

DELMORE    &    LEE, 

Cymnasts  extraordinary,  with  illuminated  revolving  ladders; 
Tltenia  Toe  Dancer:  the  4  Cohans;  3  Vilona  Sisters:  Werner  & 
Rieder,  in  new  Tyrolean  warblings;  Lillie  Laurel;  the  3  Rich- 
ards; Johnny  and  Emma  Ray,  in  a  new  sketch. 
Reserved  seats,  25c  ;  balcony  10c ;  opera  chairs  and  box  seats  50o. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday.  Matinee  Prices: 
Parquet,  any  seat,  25c;  balcony,  any  seat,  10c. ;  children.  10c, 
any  part. 


Tivol 


Ernestine  Kreling, 
Proprietor  and  Manager 

The  operatic  spectacle, 

Ad    Lib., 


i    r\  i_i  Mrs. 

i  Upera  Mouse. 

A  hit.    The  latest— the  very  latest. 

DON    JUAN, 

New  songs,  new  dances,  new  novelties.     A  perfect  cast:  two 
beautiful  ballets.    Next— The  beautiful  opera,  THE  LILY  OF 
KlLLARNEY  (The  Colleen  Bawn), 
Popular  Prices 35c  and  50o 

Pacific  Goast  dockey  Glub. 

(Ingleside  Track  )  The  only  perfect  winter  race  track  in 
America.  Racing  from  Monday,  March  23d,  to  Saturday,  April 
3d,  inclusive. 

FIVE    OR    MORE    RAGES    DAILY. 

Rain  or  shine.  First  race  at  2  p  m.  Take  Southern  Paciflo 
Trains  at  Third  and  Townsend  streets'  depot,  leaving  at  1  and 
1 :20  p  m  Fare  for  round  trip,  including  admission  to  grounds, 
81.  Take  Mission  street  electric  line  direct  to  track.  The  An- 
drous  stakes  Monday,  March 22d;  tbeUllman  stakes.  Saturday, 
March  27th ;  the  California  Derby,  Saturday,  April  3d. 

S.  N.  androos,  President.    F.  H.  GREEN.  Secretary. 

Pacific  Coast  Jockey  Glub. 

Sealed  proposals  for  customary  privileges  at  Ingleside  race 
track  for  the  season  of  1897-98  will  be  received  at  the  office  of  the 
Secretary.  Parlors  A  and  B,  Palace  Hotel,  until  April  10,  1897. 
F.  H.  GREEN,  Secretary. 

£)R.    ARTHUR  T.    REGENSBURGER 


Office  and  Residence,  409>2  Post  street,  San  Francisco. 
Office  Hours,  9  to  12  a.  m.;  1  to  5  p.  m. 


Dentist 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  3,  1897. 


GAYETIES     OF     FORTY     YEARS     AGO. 


THE  society  folk  of  the  present  day  are  frequently 
heard  expressing  a  wonder  if  the  entertainments  of 
early  days  in  San  Francisco  were  so  much  pleasanter  than 
those  now  given,  as  old  timers  would  have  them  believe. 
Take  for  instance  the  public  and  semi-public  balls  that  ap- 
pear to  have,  during  the  past  twenty  years,  fallen  into  a 
state  of  inocuous  desuetude;  for  the  surroundings  of  some 
of  these  early  affairs  were  what  would  now-a-davs  be 
called  crude — few  decorations  were  used  and  flowers  were 
seldom  seen  that  did  not  at  all  detract  from  their  enjoy- 
ability,  as  any  who  may  recall  them  can  testify.  Suppose 
we  enumerate  a  few  of  them  and '  see  what  the  verdict 
will  be. 

For  many  years  an  affair  to  date  from  was  the  ball  given 
away  back  in  the  early  fifties,  which  was- held  in  warm  re- 
gard by  all  who  took  part  in  it.  It  was  the  grandest 
affair  that  young  San  Francisco  had  ever  attempted  and 
took  place  at  Mme.  Pique's  Hall,  which  stood  on  Kearny 
street,  somewhere  near  Bush,  and  was  a  subscription  ball 
given  by  the  gentlemen  of  the  city  to  the  officers  of  the 
Army  and  Navy,  and  as  a  welcome  to  Captain  (afterwards 
Admiral)  Farragut  on  his  arrival  here  to  establish  the 
Navy  Yard  at  Mare  Island. 

Next  on  the  list,  to  be  recalled  with  pride,  was  the  fam- 
ous ball  given  by  the  members  of  the  Pacific  Club  on 
October  8,  1857.  The  Pacific  Club  then  occupied  the  rooms 
of  a  building  on  Commercial  street,  which  were  formerly 
those  of  Steve  Whipple's  gambling  establishment,  and  on 
this  occasion  they  were  all  thrown  open  and  garnished  for 
the  ball,  which  was  a  grand  affair,  all  the  best  society  of 
the  city  crowding  them  to  an  uncomfortable  degree. 

The  committee  of  invitation  were:  Judge  J.  B.  Crockett, 
J.  P.  Hoge,  Hall  McAllister,  J.  Mora  Moss,  William  Duer, 
and  Fred  Billings,  and  it  goes  without  saying  that  they 
were  a  very  much  sought  set  of  men  with  the  fair  sex 
about  that  date. 

It  was  at  this  ball  that  the  first  cotillion  was  ever 
danced  in  San  Francisco.  It  was  under  the  guidance  of 
Cutler  McAllister,  who  held  the  position  of  cotillion  leader 
for  many  a  year  afterwards.  The  first  military  ball  of  prom- 
inence was  given  at  the  Presidio  to  celebrate  the  tenth 
anniversary  of  the  establishment  of  that  post,  on  the 
second  of  May,  1859.  To  reach  the  Presidio  in  those  days 
was  an  arduous  undertaking  by  daylight;  the  road  was  a 
series  of  mud  holes  requiring  skillful  navigation  to  escape 
broken  springs  and  wrecked  axletrees.  How  much  more 
courage  then  did  it  take  to  make  the  trip  that  night,  es- 
pecially as  during  the  preceding  week  an  unusual  quantity 
of  rain  had  fallen?  There  were  very  few  regrets  received, 
however,  by  the  gallant  sons  of  Mars,  who  posed  as  hosts, 
among  whom  were  Major  E.  D.  Keyes,  Lieutenant  (after- 
wards the  lamented  General)  J.  B.  McPherson,  Lieuten- 
ant Custis  Lee,  Lieutenant  G.  H.  Elliott,  Lieutenant 
G.  H.  Gibson,  and  Doctor  C.  C.  Keeney. 

Mrs.  Keeney  (now  Mrs.  Wm.  Alvord)  assisted  the  gentle- 
men to  receive  their  guests;  the  dancing  took  place  in  the 
long  adobe  building  which  is  now  used  as  the  men's 
quarters.  Some  of  the  guests  made  up  parties  and 
chartered  omnibuses;  one  of  these,  which  included  John  H. 
Wise,  our  present  Collector,  then  a  leading  beau,  and  Miss 
Maggie  Middleton,  now  Mrs.  Tom  Morrison,  one  of  San 
Francisco's  belles  of  the  period,  came  to  grief  in  one  of  the 
aforesaid  mud  holes,  and  were  rescued  by  another  party 
after  a  delay  of  over  an  hour  on  the  road.  A  few  weeks 
later,  on  June  1,  1859,  a  very  delightful  ball  was  given  at 
the  American  Theatre,  in  aid  of  the  Mount  Vernon  Fund; 
the  parquet  was  boarded  over  and  canvassed  and  made  an 
excellent  floor  for  dancing,  and  the  whole  place  was 
artistically  draped  with  flags.  It  was  a  society  affair; 
every  one  went  to  it,  the  late  Mrs.  Wm.  Blanding,  who 
was  vice-regent  for  California,  receiving  the  guests,  as- 
sisted by  Mrs.  Louis  McLane,  Mrs.  E.  J.  Vandewater, 
Mrs.  Harrison  Randolph,  Mrs.  Chamberlain,  Mrs.  S.  P. 
Dewey  and  Miss  Sarah  Haight. 

Public  balls  were  a  very  favorite  form  of  welcoming 
Foreign  Naval  visitors,  and  during  the  '60  decade  they 
were  plentiful.  The  officers  of  the  Russian  Frigate 
Calavala  were  given  a  ball  at  Plat's  Hall  on  the  evening 
of  December  27,  1861,  which  was  under  the  management 
of  the  "City  Guard"  which  was  then  the  "society  corps" 


of  our  citizen  soldiery.  Next  on  the  list  comes  the  ball 
given  by  the  Spanish  residents  in  honor  of  Admiral  Pinzon 
and  the  officers  of  the  Spanish  Squadron,  which  also  took 
place  at  Plat's  Hall  on  the  16th  of  October,  1863.  The 
display  of  gold  lace  was  bewildering,  for  not  only  were 
there  several  Spanish  ships  in  port,  but  there  were  also 
the  English  flag-ship  Sutlej,  the  Russian  flag-ship  Bogatyre, 
the  U.  S.  flag-ship  Lancaster,  and  a  number  of  other  ships 
of  those  several  nationalities,  and  all  the  Admirals  and 
their  officers  were  present  at  the  ball  in  full  uniform.  The 
hall  was  elaborately  festooned  with  wreaths  of  flowers  and 
bunting  of  all  nations,  and  the  costumes  of  the  ladies  were 
remarkably  handsome.  One  of  the  most  gorgeous  was 
worn  by  a  Spanish  lady,  wife  of  Abel  Stearns  of  Los 
Angeles;  it  was  of  crimson  velvet,  draped  with  a  magnifi- 
cent point  lace  overdress;  she  also  fairly  blazed  with  many 
diamonds.  Madame  Gautier,  wife  of  the  French  Consul, 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Haggin,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Brumagim,  Mrs.  F.  F. 
Low,  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis,  Mrs.  Hall  McAllister,  and  Mrs. 
Leland  Stanford  were  among  those  who  were  remarked 
for  their  beautiful  toilettes. 

Handsome  as  was  this  ball  it  was  outshone  by  the  gor- 
geousness  of  the  grand  military  and  civic  ball  given  by  the 
city  in  honor  of  Admiral  Popoff  and  the  officers  of  the 
Russian  Fleet,  on  Tuesday  evening,  November  17,  1863. 
For  this  affair  Union  Hall  on  Howard  street  was  selected. 
The  decorations  were  most  elaborate,  consisting  of  the 
royal  arms  of  Russia,  allegorical  pictures  representing 
Unity  and  Love,  the  national  flags  of  Russia  and  America, 
pillars  and  arches  twined  with  evergreens  and  innumer- 
able little  cages  of  canary  birds  which  filled  the  hall  with 
melody. 

The  foreign  Consuls,  and  the  Army  and  Navy  officers 
were  in  uniform,  and  the  ladies  were,  of  course,  resplendent 
in  silks,  satans,  feathers,  and  jewels.  The  magnificence 
of  the  lace  on  Mrs.  S.  J.  Hensley's  dress  of  corn-colored 
silk  was  one  of  the  topics  of  the  evening.  Another  much 
admired  gown  of  white  moire  and  black  lace  was  worn  by 
Mrs.  O'Sullivan,  a  Spanish  looking  beauty,  who  about  this 
time  appeared  for  a  few  months  in  San  Francisco's  firma- 
ment, and  who  was  noted  for  that  crowning  glory  of  wo- 
man, magnificent  hair,  which  when  flowing  loose  com- 
pletely enveloped  her  figure  from  head  to  foot.  The 
supper  be  it  said,  was  superb,  and  the  whole  entertain- 
ment cost  upwards  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars. 

The  following  is  the  card  of  invitation: 
U.  R.  S. 

The  Citizens  of  San  Francisco  desiring  to  give  expression  to  the 
feelings  of  amity  and  respect  which  they  entertain  towards  Russia 
as  a  Nation,  respectfully  tender  to  Admiral  A.  A.  Popoff  and 
officers  of  H.  I.  R.  M.  Squadron,  a  Complimentary  Ball,  to  be  given 
at  Union  Hall,  on  Tuesday  evening,  November  17,  1863.  You  are 
cordially  invited  to  attend. 

Committee  of  Arrangements:  Hon.  F.  F.  Low,  (Governor  elect) 
Chairman;  Hon.  Ogden  Hoffman,  U.  S.  District  Judge;  Admiral  C. 
H.  Bell,  Commander  Pacific  Squadron;  Brig.  General  Geo.  Wright, 
Commander  Department  of  the  Pacific ;  Hon.  Charles  James,  Col- 
lector of  the  Port;  Hon.  W.  B.  Farwell,  NavalOfficer;  Hon.  Richard 
Chenery,  Naval  Agent;  Major  E.  S.  Purdy  D.  S.  A.;  Hon.  H.  P. 
Coon,  Mayor;  Major  General  L.  H.  Allen,  Major  John  Hewston,  Jr., 
Colonel  C.  L.  Taylor,  Captain  W.  C.  Little,  Wm.  C.  Ralston,  Chas. 
Walcott  Brooks,  William  R.  Garrison,  Frederick  W.  Macondray, 
1.  Ward  Eaton,  Frederick  MacCrellish,  William  W.  Greenwood, 
Benj.  C.  Howard,  E.  H.  Washburn,  Eugene  Casserly. 

Spring  is  here  and  flowers  will  soon  bloom  everywhere.  But  none 
will  be  so  beautiful  as  the  buds,  bouquets,  and  cut  flowers  you  can 
get  at  Leopold's,  39  Post  street.    Prices  lowest;  bouquets  the  choicest. 


'Macbeth"  means  tough- 
ness of  glass,  when  applied  to 
lamp-chimneys  ;  perfection  of 
draft  besides,  if  you  get  the 
Number  made  for  your  lamp. 
Let  us  send  you  the  Index. 
Geo  A  Macbeth  Co 

Pittsburgh  Pa 


April  3,  1897. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


* 


DEAR  EDITH:  One  would  hardly  imagine  that  there 
ore  different  schools  of  Fashion  for  Lenten  raiment, 
and  there  ore  the  conservative  .1^  well  as  progressive  ideas 
of  the  proper  fashions  during  those  repentant  days.  One 
school,  which  may  be  termed  the  progressive  one,  claims 
that  there  is  a  style,  and  a  correct  style,  for  everything, 
and  that  Lenten  raiment  is  as  much  governed  by  rule  as 
that  of  Easter,  midsummer,  or  any  other  season.  The 
other  school,  the  historical  one,  takes  the  position  that  the 
real  meaning  of  Lent  is  the  giving  up  of  the  pomps  and 
vanities  of  life,  among  which  and  pre-eminent  are  style, 
fashion,  and  dress.  Each  school  has  much  in  its  favor.  At 
one  time  women  wore  sackcloth  in  Lent;  at  another  time 
they  put  on  their  old  garments.  On  the  other  hand,  the 
society  woman  of  to-day  invariably  appears  in  some  very 
neat  though  subdued  toilet  during  the  prescribed  period. 
Both  schools,  however,  are  agreed  upon  the  avoidance  of 
bright  colors  and  striking  contrasts,  upon  the  disuse  of 
passementerie,  rich  laces,  costly  ornaments,  and  jewelry. 
A  majority  avoid  velvet,  unless  of  a  dark  shade,  silks  un- 
less dark,  and  gayly-figured  goods.  On?  common  practice 
is  the  wearing  of  special  waists  of  black  silk  or  other  deep 
color  during  Lent.  The  prevailing  fashion  of  separate 
waists  gives  great  latitude  to  the  wearer.  Thus,  it  will  be 
seen,  it  is  possible  to  gratify  any  taste,  no  matter  how 
sombre.  For  women  in  deep  mourning  separate  waists 
can  be  secured  in  crepe  or  in  crepe  with  a  black  silk  lining. 
For  those  in  half  mourning,  designs  in  black  and  purple, 
black  and  lilac,  purple  and  lilac,  are  numerous.  These  de- 
signs are  very  popular  with  Italians,  and  especially  the 
Spanish  and  Portuguese.  These  people  observe  Lent  with 
much  more  ceremony  than  do  we.  The  devout  fashionable 
woman  wears  special  clothing  and  even  half  mourning  dur- 
ing Lent,  and  on  Good  Friday  actually  puts  on  deep  mourn- 
ing, while  the  men  wear  mourning  and  put  all  the  flags  at 
half  mast.  Fashion  in  our  own  race  has  never  gone  this 
far,  although  many  women  of  a  poetic  temperament  have 
worn  half  mourning. 

Dark  coats  of  light  weight  in  faced  cloth  are  worn  this 
Lent.  Despite  their  color  they  are  really  very  artistic, 
and  serve  to  set  off  a  brilliant  complexion  very  effectively. 
Also  appropriate  are  many  of  the  new  spring  walking 
suits.  These  are  made  of  very  fine  tweeds,  of  finely  finished 
cheviots  and  of  soft  serges.  The  skirts  are  from  three  to 
eight  gored,  with  a  simple  but  elegant  coat,  and  beneath 
this  any  kind  of  pretty  waist,  which  may  suit  the  wearer's 
taste  or  complexion,  is  worn.  These  new  coat-jackets  vary 
considerably  in  cut.  Nearly  all  have  the  novel  style  of 
turreted  collar  which  is  rapidly  taking  the  place  of  the 
de  Medici  design  and  which  is  susceptible  of  numberless 
variations. 

The  two  favorite  types  of  coat  are  the  modified  Empire 
and  the  modified  Cambridge.  Still  another  style  which 
promises  to  grow  in  vogue  as  the  weather  becomes  warmer 
is  the  double-breasted  sacque,  with  roll-back  fronts.  In 
all  of  the  new  creations  the  edges  are  heavily  embroidered 
or  braided.  A  stunning  garmert  for  Lenten  wear  is  the 
Bernhardt  paletot,  which  is  very  chic  and  altogether  eccen- 
tric. In  carriage  wraps  and  capes  there  are  a  number  of 
new  patterns.  Opinion  differs  as  to  whether  these  latest 
examples  of  the  modiste's  art  will  be  very  much  worn  or  not. 

Red  bids  for  high  favor  this  season;  not  the  old-fashioned 
reds,  but  those  with  a  tinge  of  pink,  yellow,  or  violet  in 
their  composition.  The  bodice,  which  is  of  the  seamless 
kind  stretched  over  a  fitted  lining  and  fastening  at  left 
shoulder  and  under  arm  seams,  is  decorated  with  bands  of 
the  velvet  running  entirely  round  the  body,  the  two  lower 
ones  being  adorned  with  buttons  of  rhinestones.  The  same 
buttons  reappear  on  the  lace  scarf,  draping  it  artistically. 
The  skirt  is  cut  with  a  very  wide  front  gore,  and  two  back 
gores,  which  are  cut  straight  in  front,  where  they  join  the 
front  gore,  which  is  bias,  and  are  bias  at  the  back,  where 
they  meet.  Belinda. 


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April  3,  1897. 


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IT  had  come  to  be  the  custom  for  the  members  of  the 
Symphony  Orchestra  to  live  across  the  bridge  on  the 
west  side  of  the  river.  In  the  first  place,  it  facilitated 
frequent  rehearsals,  it  fostered  a  degree-  of  sociability 
among  the  men — and  their  number  was  sufficient  to  make 
a  good-sized  little  community — and  most  important  of  all, 
Frau  Weber  lived  there. 

It  was  the  ambition  of  every  unmarried  man  in  the 
orchestra  to  board  at  Frau  Weber's.  Her  great  roomy 
house  was  filled  with  musicians.  Pianos  rang  out  from  the 
secoDd  story,  violins  triumphantly  held  the  third,  while 
from  the  garret  trombones,  flutes  and  even  cymbals  were 
permitted  to  agitate  the  air  unmolested.  Breakfast  was 
served  to  tbe  crescendo  and  diminuendo  of  scales,  dinner 
was  accompanied  by  peals  of  vocal  arpeggios  and  at  sup- 
per, wild,  untrammeled  improvisations  upon  every  known 
instrument  besieged  the  ears  of  the  guests.  Not  to  their 
ioconvenience,  however.  They  criticized  as  they  ate, 
stopping  to  applaud  a  meritorious  bit  or  to  drown  in  de- 
risive shouts  that  which  offended  their  musical  ears.  They 
talked  nothing  but  music,  and  the  flaxen-haired  maids  as 
they  waited  upon  table,  hummed  strains  from  Schumann 
and"  Beethoven. 

Frau  Weber's  husband  had  been  a  violinist  and  the  Frau's 
fat  white  hands,  which  were  now  so  capable  in  the  con- 
coction of  sauces  and  pastry,  had  once  been  greatly  in  de- 
mand, so  careful,  so  sympathetic  an  accompanist  had  she 
been,  as  to  Fraulein  Weber,  she  could  play  well  upon  no 
instrument,  except  upon  the  male  human  heart. 

She  had  taken  lessons  from  Lowenthal,  the  harpist,  for 
a  time,  and  made  wonderful  progress.  So  had  he,  for  he 
proposed  at  the  end  of  three  months  and  the  lessons 
ceased.  Then  it  was  Meier's  turn.  He  undertook  to 
make  of  the  dimpled  little  fraulein  a  great  singer,  but  she 
made  a  fool  of  him  and  then  turned  diligently  to  the  piano. 
For  a  time  she  was  a  devoted  student  and  Von  Ehein  neg- 
lected his  other  pupils  to  watch  over  the  merry  little 
fraulein's  ten  fingers.  Then  he  went  the  way  of  all  others, 
and  the  fraulein  ceased  to  care  for  the  piano. 

When  Reicbert  came  to  the  house,  she  had  taken  a 
short  course  on  almost  every  musical  instrument,  and  had 
refused  every  man  in  the  house,  mockingly,  regretfully  or 
tearfully  as  the  occasion  and  the  degree  of  her  affection 
for  the  suitor  warranted.  She  liked  them  all.  She  stated 
frankly  that  she  couldn't  marry  a  man  who  wasn't'a 
musician,  and  after  the  young  fellows  had  recovered 
(which  to  tell  the  truth  they  did  promptly,  fearing  eject- 
ment from  the  happy  company)  Marie  was  ready  to  listen 
sympathetically  to  the  musical  woes  of  the  harpist,  the 
triumphs  of  the  baritone,  the  perplexities  of  the  pianist. 

She  teased  and  she  petted  them.  She  flirted  a  little 
when  a  man  seemed  indifferent,  but  a'ter  his  surrender, 
she  generously  admitted  him  into  the  large  brotherhood 
and  warmed  and  comforted  him  back  into  content.  Behind 
the  saucy  twinkle  of  her  dark  eyes  there  dwelt  a  deal  of 
tenderness  for  these  boys,  old  and  young,  whom  she 
mothered  adorably.  She  championed  the  timid,  she  de- 
voted herself  to  the  awkward,  she  kept  the  secrets  of  the 
composers  and  plotted  and  schemed  opportunities  for  them. 
Of  course,  it  was  she  who  had  worked  for  poor  old  Stoes, 
the  copyist,  who  dwelt  in  the  attic,  that  winter  rheumat- 
ism attacked  his  fingers,  and  it  was  she  who  had  con- 
ceived the  joke  which  humiliated  and  improved  Grau,  the 
celloist,  as  a  punishment  for  his  conceit  and  arrogance. 

When  Reichert  came  peace  reigned  in  Frau  Weber's 
house.  Every  man  in  it  was  devoted  to  the  fraulein  and 
she  never  seemed  to  desire  any  special  affection.  She 
laughingly  declared  that  the  house  would  become  Fraulein 


Weber's  in  time,  and  asked  the  boarders  to  promise  her 
the  patronage  of  their  sons  and  nephews  in  the  time  to 
come,  when  the  gold  should  have  faded  from  her  hair  and 
her  soft,  round  cheek  should  have  lost  its  delicate  color. 

But  she  never  spoke  so  to  Reichert.  She  confessed  to 
Von  Rhein  that  at  first  she  had  been  a  little  afraid  of  the 
tall,  grave  director,  but  as  he  fell  down  and  worshiped 
openly,  unabashed  by  the  men's  most  merciless  teasing,  it 
could  not  have  been  timidity  that  restrained  the  fraulein 
from  begging  Fritz  Reichert  to  kindly  influence  his  rela- 
tions in  her  behalf,  some  years  hence. 

There  was  nothing  she  might  ask  which  he  could  deny. 
He  seemed  like  a  man  who  had  never  looked  at  a  woman 
twice  before,  and  now  Fraulein  Marie's  grace,  her  tender- 
ness, her  frank  camraderie  had  come  to  him  like  a  revel- 
ation. 

He  consulted  with  her  as  to  the  programmes  for  the 
symphonies,  he  listened  with  all  deference  to  her  criticisms 
and  objections,  he  had  special  rehearsals  for  her,  taxing 
the  men's  time  and  their  patience,  that  their  playing 
might  call  forth  a  soft  "brava"  from  the  demure  little 
figure,  alone  in  the  empty  concert  hall,  up  in  the  balcony, 
where  the  music  sounded  best  to  her.  To  the  men  it  came 
to  seem  almost  as  though  all  their  work,  all  the  repeti- 
tions, all  the  ceaseless  practice  upon  which  Reichert  in- 
sisted were  solely  for  the  fraulein.  If  the  great  hall  were 
crowded  with  a  cheering,  music-mad  audience,  the  con- 
ductor's bow  was  only  prefunctory  unless  he  could  catch  a 
glimpse  of  a  flushed,  girlish  face  and  two  brown  eyes 
shining  applause. 

But  with  it  all  Reichert  was  still  unsatisfied.  He  had 
worked  unceasingly  till  his  men  had  become  so  many  replicas 
of  himself,  toned  by  his  artistic  insight,  warmed  into  en- 
thusiasm by  his  strong,  personality.  The  whole  orchestra 
was  swayed  by  him,  moved  by  his  intense  musical  feeling. 
Still  to  Reichert,  it  lacked  something. 

"I  want  a  first  violinist,"  he  said  to  the  fraulein  as  they 
walked  home  together,  while  the  men  left  behind,  were 
gathering  up  their  music  and  instruments.  "I  want  a 
man,  not  a  machine.  I  want  an  artist  who  will  be  himself, 
not  me,  who  will  play  with  us  but  who  will  not  be  domin- 
ated by  the  conductor.  Hartman  has  all  the  delicacy  but 
he  lacks  power,  spirit,  originality.  He  has  no  genius. 
Ah,  mein  Fraulein,  if  you  could  hear  that  solo  in  the 
second  movement" — he  whistled  the  opening  bars  of  the 
melody  as  the}'  walked — "if  you  could  hear  it  as  I  have 
heard  it  played — by  Jacobi— O,  the  man,  the  very  man! 
I'll  send  for  him.  If  he  comes,  Fraulein  Marie,  you'll  be 
satisfied.  Such  tone,  such  sweetness,  such  power.  Have 
you  never  heard  him?  He  shall  play  for  you.  The  man's 
an  artist,  a  genius,  I'll  write  to  him  to  night." 

And  Jacobi  came  and  verified  all  that  Reichert  had  said 
of  him.  When  at  the  first  rehearsal,  he  played  the 
morceau  upon  which  Hartmann  had  spent  months  of 
patient  practice,  even  the  deposed  violinist  could  not  re- 
sist the  beauty  of  his  art.  There  was  a  burst  of  raptur- 
ous applause  from  the  men  upon  the  stage,  in  which  poor 
Hartmann  joined.  Reichert  himself  beat  his  baton  upon 
the  stand  before  him,  and  from  the  balcony  Fraulein 
Marie  called  "Brava,  brava!" 

To  all  of  which  the  handsome  violinist  responded  with  a 
smile  and  a  mocking,  exaggerated  bow,  and  the  symphony 
proceeded. 

But  with  Jacobi's  entrance  into  Frau  Weber's  family  a 
new  and  inharmonious  element  was  introduced.  The 
violinist  followed  a  recognized  precedent  when  he  fell  in 
love  with  the  fraulein,  but  the  man's  tempestuous  nature 
was  not  the  kind  to  bring  comfort  with  his  love,  or  to  re- 
sign itself  to  an  unrequited  passion.  It  was  difficult,  too, 
to  tell  whether  Marie  responded  to  the  jealous  affection 
betrayed  by  the  artist's  undisciplined  nature.  At  first 
his  indifference  and  later  his  sarcasm  had  piqued  her,  and 
she  vowed  to  punish  him  for  every  taunting  word  he  had 
spoken  about  the  young  girl's  peculiar  position  among  the 
musicians  who  thronged  the  house. 

Jacobi  did  not  believe  in  friendship,  even  between  man 
and  man.  How  impossible  a  thing,  then,  between  man 
and  woman  !  His  childhood  had  been  a  miserable  one,  his 
youth  had  passed  in  sordid  struggles  for  time  and  oppor- 
tunity to  become  the  artist  he  felt,  at  heart,  he  was.  He 
had  conquered  obstacles  as  only  genius  can,  but  all  hope, 
all  faith  in  human  nature  had  left  him.      His  heart  was 


April  3,  1897. 


SAX   FRAXCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


weary  and  saddened  and  bitter,  and  the  gloom  and  hope- 
lessni  tnperauu  ent   in   cynicism   and 

sarcasm.    »  ,;e.  optimist  it-    natures 

with  which  in  1  ne  in  contact. 

Hut  Marie's  sweet  friendliness  at  length  disarmed  JacobL 
toher  charm,  and  with  all  the  Strength  of  his 
mate  nature  set  himself  to  win  the  girl's  love,  she 
lie  magical  drop,  he  told  himself,  that  could  sweeten 
the  whole  cup  of  life  for  him.  and  in  the  ardor  of  his  long- 
ing to  be  at  peace  again  with  the  whole  world,  be  tried  to 
be  gentle  and  considerate,  strove  to  be  tolerant  and  piti- 
ful, curbing  his  desire  to  ridicule  the  feeble  and  to  battle 
with  the  strong.  His  restless,  unhappy  spirit  kept  him 
ever  at  war  with  himself,  and  bei  .our  toeount  upon  Marie 
to  exercise  the  demon  of  dissatislaction  which  tormented 
him.  The  sound  of  her  gracious  voice,  the  touch  of  her 
hand,  soothed  him;  all  the  pettiness  and  misery  of  life  faded 
away  in  the  sunof  her  healthy,  merry  nature. 

The  artist  found  himself  roused  to  action,  with  the  hope 
of  gaining  that  which  would  make  his  life  so  well  worth 
living.  The  plans  and  hopes  of  his  youth  came  back  to 
him;  he  worked  like  one  possessed.  He  had  found  the 
touchstone  which  turned  those  old  idle  dreams  of  his  into 
vital,  noble  endeavor.  If  greater,  more-enduring  fame 
should  come  to  him  from  the  melodies  which  surged  in  his 
re-awakened  heart  and  brain,  the  more  nearly  worthy 
might  he  be  of  the  frank  and  lovely  girl,  whose  happy 
trustfulness  was  so  childlike,  whose  sympathetic  nature 
was  so  womanly. 

Neither  he  nor  Reichert  seemed  conscious  of  the  rivalry 
between  them.  Each  was  so  absorbed  in  his  own  emotion, 
and  all  three  became  so  engrossed  in  the  preparations  for 
the  grand,  final  symphony  of  the  winter  series,  that  for 
a  time  thej'  lived  together  in  a  sweet,  strange  trinity,  all 
three  thrilling  with  the  passion  of  loving,  yet  unaware  of 
the  tragedy  that  could  not  affect  but  one  of  such  close 
friends. 

Jacobi's  Awakening  Symphony  had  been  placed  last  upon 
the  programme.  He  had  written  it  under  the  influence  of 
the  strongest,  purest  emotion  he  had  ever  felt.  All  its 
delicacy,  its  exquisite  melody,  its  artistic  clearness  of  com- 
position, were  to  him  but  means  of  expression  for  the  soul- 
recreation  the  artist  had  experienced.  It  was  his  life's 
story  expressed  in  the  musical  language,  familiar  to  him 
since  his  childhood,  more  subtle,  more  expressive,  more 
delicately  true  and  richer,  fuller  than  the  idiom  of  words. 

Its  beginning  is  simple,  almost  elemental.  Then  the 
strivings,  the  vain  endeavor,  the  battle  between  the 
artist's  hopes  and  doubts  change  the  music  into  a  stormy, 
passionate  allegro,  through  which  a  half-uttered  melody 
continually  breaks,  and  then  dies  away  to  reappear  again 
and  again,  till  with  the  close  of  the  allegro  it  is  buried  be- 
neath the  hushed,  melancholy  minor  chords  which  fall  thick 
and  thicker,  soft  and  softer,  like  hurrying,  deadening 
snow-flakes. 

The  beautiful  solo  in  the  second  movement,  which  Jacobi 
had  written  for  the  violin,  is  the  reincarnation  of  the  half- 
uttered  melody.  From  the  first  faint  strain  to  its  fuller 
echo,  its  richer  repetition,  the  music  soars  and  swells  till 
it  closes  in  a  triumphantly  sweet  harmony,  the  revelation 
to  the  artist  of  bis  beloved's  perfection.  That  last  night 
Jacobi  played  this  as  he  had  never  played  in  his  life.  All 
the  strength,  the  fire  of  his  genius  seemed  to  condense 
upon  this  expression  of  his  passion.  He  played  to  Marie, 
to  her  alone.  With  his  eyes  fixed  upon  her  intent,  change- 
ful face,  forgetful  of  the  hushed,  eager  crowd,  his  heart 
spoke  to  bers  in  the  sweetest  love-poem  music  has  ever 
expressed.  To  him,  laying  his  heart  bare  before  her,  the 
girl  seemed  some  far-off  saint;  his  roses  she  held  in  her 
tightly-clasped  hands,  the  votive  offering  of  a  poor  sinner 
upon  the  shrine  of  her  purity  and  loveliness.  His  violin 
throbbed  and  wept,  and  sang  under  the  touch  of  the  mas- 
ter-hand. Its  tone  was  almost  humanly  sweet  and  power- 
ful as  the  strain  rose  and  fell  and  mounted  again,  ever  up- 
ward, till  the  last  note  quivered  upon  the  air. 

When  the  applause  died  away,  Jacobi  looked  again  at 
Marie.  All  that  a  man  might  do  to  woo  a  maid  he  had 
done.  She  knew  now  all  that  he  had  refrained  from  putting 
in  words.  O  for  a  sign  that  the  cord  of  her  sweet  nature 
might  vibrate  to  the  pitch  of  his  full  heart's  beating! 

The  short  chant  that  follows  the  violin  solo  is  like  a  mur- 
mured prayer.     It  came  in  exquisite  fullness  from  the  in- 


struments, win,  nly  varying  expressions  of  the 

director's  conception.  Reichert's  tall,  slender  figure 
swayed  it  almost  soared  with  the  music.  And  he  con- 
ducted the  la.-t  movement  as  though  he  alone  were  Inter- 
preting every  noie  of  it.  The  music  leaped  from  his  baton; 
'  h  up  the  melody  and  to  weave  and  inter- 
weave  the  swelling  si  rains  with  a  harmonic  shuttle  playing 
in  and  out,  above  and  underneath  this  great  loom  whose 
warp  and  woof  were  music.  The  magnetism  of  his  exalted, 
inspiring  face,  the  alert  enthusiasm  of  his  motions,  the  fire 
of  appreciation  and  expectation  that  glowed  in  bis  steel- 
gray  eyes,  roused  the  men  under  him  till  they  became  so 
many  passive  instruments  waiting  for  the  inspiration  that 
came  with  a  glance  or  a  wave  of  his  long,  white  hand,  or 
of  the  wand  which  drew  from  each  absorbed  artist  the 
note,  the  strain,  the  phrase  which  the  magician  needed  to 
complete  the  chorusing  tone-picture. 

In  the  whirl  of  his  own  emotion,  of  his  proud  satisfaction 
as  composer,  of  his  delight  as  an  artist,  Jacobi  marveled 
at  his  friend's  power.  Surely,  this,  too,  is  genius,  this  full- 
ness of  conception,  this  blending  of  others  to  work  one's 
will,  this  triumphant  exposition  of  one's  ideas,  this  wielding 
of  instruments  and  of  men,  not  as  inert  tools,  but  as  the 
slaves  of  one's  wish,  as  the  obedient  senses,  almost  of  one 
body. 

At  the  end  the  audience  was  standing.  The  hall  re- 
sounded with  shouts  and  applause.  Jacobi  looked  and 
listened,  and  gloried  doubly  in  his  friend's  triumph,  which 
was  so  much  his  own.  He  turned  from  Reichert's  bowing 
figure  and  raised  his  eyes  to  Marie's  face  that  his  cup  of 
satisfaction  might  be  fcH.  She  was  standing,  too,  her 
brown  eyes  gleaming,  her  lips  parted,  her  face  flushed 
with  pleasure  and  pride.  She  seemed  like  some  fluttering 
bird  poised  for  flight,  trembling  with  the  answering  call 
the  mad  melody  of  her  mate's  voice  had  created  within 
her. 

Jacobi  groaned  aloud  as  he  watched,  for  suddenly  she 
pressed  the  flowers  to  her  lips,  and  with  a  beautiful,  free 
gesture,  she  threw  them  at  Reichert's  feet.  The  leader 
bent  to  pick  them  up,  and  as  he  rose  his  eyes  met  hers  in 
perfect  unconsciousness  of  all  else.  They  two  were  alone, 
and  the  light  in  his  eyes  and  the  love  in  hers  winged  and 
met  across  the  crowd  of  turbulent  heads  that  separated 
them. 

To  Jacobi  it  seemed  that  instant  lasted  through  all 
eternity.  He  had  achieved  his  masterpiece,  every  heart- 
throb, every  pulse  of  his  genius  had  spent  itself  that 
Reichert  and  not  he  might  triumph.  The  girl  was  the  in- 
strument he  had  sought  to  play  upon,  and  she  responded 
to  Reichert's  hand,  not  his. 

Jacobi  turned  away,  and  holding  his  wonderful  old  violin 
a  moment  lovingly  to  him,  suddenly  with  both  hands  he 
broke  it  violently  across  his  knee.  He  rose,  and  ignoring 
the  enthusiastic  calls  for  the  composer,  made  his  way 
through  the  throng  of  astonished  musicians,  out  into  the 
street  and  away  from  the  town.  He  was  done  forever 
with  the  two  passions  that  had  been  all  of  life  to  him. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  3,  1897. 


Never  before  in  the  history  of  mining 
The  Pine  speculation  on  Pine  street  have  prices 
Street  Market,  been  so  low  as  they  are  at  present.  The 
question,  however,  which  now  agitates 
the  speculatively  inclined  mind  is  whether  the  stocks 
possess  the  recuperative  power  which  they  have  had  in 
the  past.  It  is  beginning  to  look  serious,  it  must  be  ad- 
mitted, for  investors  who  hold  shares  in  the  various  com- 
panies at  much  higher  figures,  augmented  in  many  cases 
by  a  continuous  levy  of  assessments,  which  must  be  kept 
up  in  the  future  or  work  will  have  to  stop  in  the  mines 
altogether.  Of  course  it  is  claimed  that -the  discovery  of 
another  ore  body  will  straighten  matters  out  all  right.  It 
is  very  questionable  whether  it  would  or  not,  in  face  of  the 
action  of  Chollar-Brunswick,  with  a  development  of  high- 
class  ore  as  good  as  anything  the  Comstock  has  ever  had 
to  boast  of  since  the  bonanza  days.  The  way  this  stock 
has  been  treated  by  speculators,  and  the  very  fact  that  a 
petty  little  ring  of  malicious  tricksters  on  the  street  were 
able  to  belie  its  merits  and  undermine  the  value  of  the 
mine,  in  spite  of  the  efforts  of  the  powerful  monied  interest 
supposed  to  be  at  its  back,  does  not  augur  very  favorably 
for  the  future  with  people  who  do  not  believe  in  the  om- 
nipotence of  the  Comstock  manipulator.  The  outrageous 
attack  on  Chollar  has  done  more  to  weaken  the  public  in- 
terest in  mining  speculation  than  all  the  law  suits  com- 
bined which  have  taken  place  in  the  past  twenty  years. 
Too  great  a  stress  is  being  placed  on  the  Hale  &  Norcross 
difficulty  altogether  as  a  lever  in  bearing  prices.  With  ad- 
vancing prices  in  other  quarters,  this  bugbear  would  soon 
be  passed  out  of  sight,  and  the  shares  side-tracked  as  a 
speculative  medium  until  a  settlement  is  reached  in  years 
to  come,  beyond  the  ken  of  this  generation  of  peace  dis- 
turbers. Some  palliative  measure  to  obliterate  the  mem- 
ory of  the  Chollar  disaster,  showing  speculators  that  they 
are  not  completely  at  the  mercy  of  any  clique  of  wreckers 
which  may  elect  to  raid  the  market,  will  do  more  than 
anything  else  to  revive  confidence  in  a  business  which  now 
appears  to  be  controlled  by  weaklings,  who  bend  before 
every  blast  as  it  comes  along.  Things  are  rapidly  coming 
down  to  a  crisis  on  Pine  street,  when  a  power  stronger 
than  any  now  in  existence  will  have  to  be  exerted  to  save 
the  market  from  destruction.  Talk  is  cheap,  and  getting 
cheaper  every  day  on  the  Stock  Exchange.  Money  is 
what  is  required,  and  some  one  who  knows  how  to  handle 
it  to  good  advantage. 

A  recent  number  of  the  Mining  Journal  of 
Some  News  London  contains,  among  notes  from  Cali- 
From  Abroad,  fornia,  some  most  extraordinary  state- 
ments, notably  the  figures  of  the  Utica 
Mining  Company,  which  are  set  down  as  glibly  as  if  the 
management  itself  bad  j  >tted  down  the  figures  at  $1,600,000 
in  gold  for  1895,  and  §2.300,000  for  "this  year,"  presuma- 
bly 1896.  The  Utica  owners  have  never  yet  given  up  the 
secret  of  their  actual  production  for  publication,  and  until 
this  London  announcement,  which  will  doubtless  receive 
full  weight  with  our  mining  men,  it  has  only  been  a  matter 
of  surmise.  A  few  more  surprising  facts  follow,  which  will 
also  prove  of  interest  to  us  out  here.  The  Kennedy  mine  is 
popped  up  as  second  in  rank  as  a  producer,  while  the 
North  Star  is  again  placed  on  a  paying  basis.  The  Raw- 
hyde  {sic)  mine  of  "Jamestown,"  gets  mention,  while  the 
Jumper,  Black  Oak,  and  Golden  Gate  are  classed  note- 
worthy as  old  mines  re-opened  or  put  in  shape  by  the  in- 
vestment of  capital.  The  Black  Oak  gets  a  great  send-off 
on  the  strength  of  an  alleged  sale  at  $500,000,  which,  by  the 
way,  never  took  place,  not  to  speak  of  the  figures  quoted 
a  mile  high,  and  the  kindly  prediction  is  made  that  "it 
will  be  one  of  the  leading  paying  mines  in  this  State  in  the 
near  future."  The  last  time  this  property  was  bonded  it 
was  to  Belgians,  not  to  Eastern  people,  and  they  did  not 
take  it  eventually.  The  Worcester  mine,  wherever  that 
is,  also  comes  in  for  a  boost,  while  English  capital  is  in- 
volved in  the  construction  of  a  line  of  railroad  tnrough 
Stanislaus  to  Tuolumne.  The  Mariposa  grant  is  transferred 
wholesale  to  London  parties.    The  Rothschilds  are  accred- 


ited with  heavy  investments  in  California.  In  dealing  with 
Randsburg,  a  discovery  is  reported,  following  "a  little 
desultory  investigation  by  one  of  theownersof  the  Monkey 
Wrench  mine,  which  developed  ore  capable  of  producing 
$8000  of  gold  to  the  ton."  On  the  day  of  the  strike,  it  is 
further  stated,  the  mine  was  visited  by  over  five  hundred 
people  anxious  for  specimens,  "  which  the  generous  owner 
permitted  each  one  to  take  away."  It  is  too  bad  that  the 
reputation  of  the  Monkey  Wrench  faded  with  another 
blast,  or  there  might  be  something  interesting  as  well  as 
romantic  about  the  Journal's  narrative.  Two  of  the  Fish 
Commissioners  are  reported  as  paying  $20,000  for  an  old 
Tuolumne  mine,  from  which  they  got  $26,000  right  back 
from  the  dump.  Another  paragraph  credits  the  Kennedy 
Company  with  having  spent  $100,000  in  re-opening  the 
mine,  and  have  "  since  received  $2,000,000  in  dividends." 
This  and  a  few  more  items  of  a  similar  character  constitute 
interesting  reading  for  the  investing  classes,  and  even  if 
they  bear  ear-marks  of  an  author's  license,  what  dees  it 
matter  ? 

The  Capitalist  of  London,  which  has  in- 
The  Holcomb  variably  shown  a  disposition  to  assist  in 
Valley  Humbug,  stamping  fraudulent  mining  schemes  and 
properties  of  all  kinds  detrimental  to 
investors,  says,  in  commenting  upon  a  recent  article  in  the 
News  Letter  warning  people  against  putting  more  money 
into  the  "sink"  of  the  Holcomb  Valley  management:  "The 
Holcomb  Valley  Company  came  into  existence  at  the  close 
of  1892,  with  the  object  of  taking  over  the  undertaking  of 
an  earlier  enterprise  known  as  the  Valley  Gold  Company. 
Limited.  Under  oue  name  or  another  the  concern  has 
been  sucking  up  the  money  of  shareholders  in  calls  for 
years,  and  there  appears  no  more  prospect  of  profit  now 
"than  at  any  previous  period.  An  ever  revolving  cycle  of 
calls  and  reconstructions  appears  to  be  the  fate  of  those 
who  put  their  faith  and  their  money  in  this  venture." 

Interest  became  due  and  payable  April 
April  interest      1st   on   the   following   bonds:     U.  S.  4s, 
And  Dividends,     old  issue;   California   Electric  Light  6s, 
quarterly;    Geary     street    railway    5s, 
semi-annual;  Northern  railway  of  California  5s,  semi-annual; 
Omnibus  Cable  railway  6s,  semi-annual;   Southern  Pacific 
railway   of  California   6s,    semi-annual;  Southern   Pacific 
Branch  Railway  of  California  6s,  semi-annual.     The  follow- 
ing corporations   will   pay   quarterly   dividends  in  April: 
Capital  Gas,  50  cents;  Stockton  Gas,  30  cents;  Fireman's 
Fund  Insurance,    $3;   California  Safe   Deposit  and   Trust 
Company,  $1.50;  First  National  Bank,  $1.50;  Bank  of  Cali- 
fornia, $3;  Nevada  Bank,  $1.50;  Sutter  St,  railroad,  $1.25. 
The  manner  in  which  some  of   the  goody- 
Grand  Central     goodies  of  the  London  financial  press  are 
Embroglio.       writhing  over  the  iniquitous  delinquencies 
of  the  Grand   Central  experts,  is  excru- 
ciatingly funny  after  reading  all  the  nice   things   the  same 
papers  had  to  say  about   this  property   and  other  invest- 
ments of  the  syndicate   about   the   time   the  prospectuses 
cropped  up  for  publication.     Before  another  year  elapses, 
there  will  be   lots   of   amusement  over   these  much  over- 
estimated combinations  and  the  naughty  brood  of  retainers 
in  their  train.     In  the  meantime,  it  is  consolatory  to  know 
that  every  time  a  Grand  Central  episode   is   reported,  the 
chances  for  trouble  to  the  investing  public   are  minimized. 
The    latest    reconstruction    scheme   an- 
Another  Mine     nounced  in  London  is  that  of   the  Banner 
Reconstructed.     Gold   mine,  Limited,  working   the   prop- 
erty of  that  name   in   Butte  county.     In 
the  future  this  concern  will  be  known  as  the  Consolidated 
Gold   Mines   of  California,  the    new   company  asking  for 
$1,250;000  from  the  investing  classes   to  continue  the   ex- 
ploration of  the   ground.     This  company  is   blessed,  how- 
ever, with  a  competent  management  at  this  end,  which  is 
something  to  be  said  in  its  favor.     If  there  is  a  mine  there 
it  has  some  chance  of  being  developed  in  time. 

While  there   are  undoubtedly  quite  a 
New  London        number  of  California  schemes   drifting 
Mine  Flotations,     around  the  London  mining  offices,  none 
have  so  far  cropped  up  before  the  pub- 
lic.    The  most  recent  American  scheme  is  the  Gold  Reefs 
of  Georgia,  to  work  mines   in   that  State.      A   company, 
known  as  the  Canadian  Pacific  Exploration  Company,  has 
been  brought  out  to  operate  in  Canada  and  United  States 
mines. 


April  3.  1S97. 


SAN   FRANC  I  \VS   LETTER. 


'3 


What  mtdnllHi  ibou?" 
I  pl»T  till  -',.-.    :.,|r.  with  jou." 


A  RIOT;  a  runaway  bridt; 
A  bu-baii'l  in  imt  1   irMiit 
<i(a  fleeing  pair,  gone  Ood  knows  where; 

Weapons  iwifl  raised  to  shoot; 
<*roaning  of  auii 

Chimes  From  a  wedding  bell; 
A  crime-stained  soul  sent  to  its  goal 

In  the  DtttmoM  depths,  of  bell ; 
The  tread  of  an  augeTfl  feet 

Where  sorrow  casta  its  blight : 
A  painted  face— ami  one  whose  grace 

Is  touched  with  heaven's  light; 
Scandals  that  shock  the  town; 

A  skeleton's  moldy  grin; 
Glitter  of  gold ;  a  conscience  Bold  : 

A  record  of  wanton  sin ; 
Men  nf  brain  ami  nerve, 

Who  dare  to  make  their  way 
With  honest  aim  that  a  spotless  fame 

Shall  be  their  own  some  day ; 
Hunger  and  riotous  least; 

A  "property"  infant's  part 
In  the  legal  strife  of  a  dual  life; 

A  woman's  broken  heart; 
Visions  of  earthly 

Willing  and  helpless,  slaves 
To  hollow  fashion  or  idle  passion; 

.Saints  and  scheming  knaves; 
Smiles  and  sneers  and  tears; 

A  murderer's  lengthened  rope — 
All  these  I've  seen,  and  more,  I  ween, 

In  our  city's  kinetoscope. 
A  bargain,  indeed,  my  lords,  to  seek — 
Yet  the  dailies  thought  it  a  quiet  week. 

NOW  that  the  pugilists  have  taken  their  battered  mugs 
Eastward,  and  Mrs.  Johu  Martin  has  arrived  upon 
the  lonely  scene,  the  terrible  possibility  is  suggested  that 
Mrs.  Fitz  be  recalled,  and  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion  secured 
for  a  slogging  match  between  these  two  pugnacious 
females.  Should  the  authorities  interfere,  the  petticoated 
championesses  could  easily  be  bundled  off  to  Carson  with 
extra  baggage  in  the  line  of  hairpins  and  "false  fronts"  to 
replace  inevitable  losses  in  the  fray.  Each  is  a  holy 
terror  in  her  way,  and  journalism  need  not  languish  for 
copyrighted  sensations  in  the  interim. 

MRS.  MARTIN,  of  will-contest  notoriety,  is,  she  says, 
undecided  whether  to  marry  a  New  York  millionaire, 
embark  in  a  business  scheme  that  will  bring  one  million 
dollars  yearly  to  California,  or  go  on  a  theatrical  tour  to 
Africa.  By  all  means  let  her  choose  the  latter  course.  It 
would  be  interesting  from  a  scientific  and  geographical 
standpoint;  for,  if  Mrs.  Martin  makes  it  as  hot  for  the  deni- 
zens of  the  Dark  Continent  as  she  has  for  people  elsewhere, 
the  climate  there  will  make  Hades  superfluous. 

FASTOR  GIBSON  has  been  again  paraded  in  the  public 
prints.  The  reverend  gentleman  did  not  achieve  his 
greatness.  It  was  thrust  upon  him.  He  didn't  do  a 
thing.  And  just  see  how  hard  his  confreres,  Parson  Case 
and  Dille  on  this  side  of  the  bay  and  Parson  P.  D.  Blow- 
hard  in  Alameda,  are  exercising  their  jaws  to  attend  an 
equal  share  of  fame.  This  is  a  cruel  world,  even  to  the 
Lord's  most  loudly  bleating  lambs. 

JAMES  WOOD,  of  the  Cigar  Makers'  National  Union, 
declares  that  Chinatown  has  the  vilest  cigar  factory 
in  the  country. 

We  do  not  attempt  to  deny,  Mr.  Wood, 
That  in  doing  our  duty  we  certainly  should 
Have  stamped  out  the  evil  tou,  horrified,  trace 
To  the  dens  of  the  wicked  Mongolian  race, 
But  how  can  we  preach  to  the  heathen  who  delves 
Until  we  have  ceased  to  be  heathen  ourselves* 

A  RUMOR  is  extant  to  the  effect  that  Judge  Campbell 
will  be  shorn  of  his  wonderful  whiskers  at  the  Chutes 
to-morrow.  The  attraction  should  draw  even  greater 
crowds  than  the  appearance  of  both  the  prize-fighters. 

BLANTHER  may  have  cheated  the  gallows  but  he  can- 
not swindle  the  devil. 


GR<  "    ER  Sn    ll      •  ne-s    1111    Market    si 

the  ferrii  titles   ibe    sale  of  currant  jellies 

d  with  apple  ju  the  ground  that  evei 

minted  with  il...  fact,  ami  Unit    it  is  DOl  tojurii 
public  health       An  injection  nf  water  dues  not  menace  the 
public  health  wl, in   ui    uspectlngly  taken   in  liquid  1 

but  the  ('mi  it  .1  ways  prefers  his  whisky  unadulter- 
ated The  value  er  Smith's  contribution  to  the 
pure  food  literature  nf  the  day  really  cannot  be  measured 
—chiefly  because  it  hasn't  any. 

NOW  that  Corbet  1  i;  at  a  safe  distance  from  the  hairy 
paws  of  his  fellow  bruiser,  he  is  gradually  waxing 
bold  and  defiant  again  and  we  shall  soon  hear  that  he  was 
the  victor  in  the  late  disgraceful  scrap.  At  present,  how- 
ever, he  is  still  whining  and  amongBt  other  things  stated 
that  "a  man  never  knows  how  many  friends  he  has  in  this 
city  until  he  is  down."  "Gentleman"  Jim  would  really  be 
surprised  to  know  how  many  of  us  would  readily  flock  to 
his  funeral. 

EDWARD  K.  ALSIP  linds  out  rather  late  that  it  is  a 
wise  father  who  knows  his  own  child.  The  informa- 
tion is  valuable,  for  the  hot-blooded  Edward  paid  something 
like  $15,000  to  make  the  discovery.  The  gay  blade  seems 
to  have  bad  the  name  without  the  game.  It  is  against  his 
philanthropic  intentions,  however,  that  he  christened  bis 
alleged  offspring  after  his  mother-in-law. 

JUSTICE  CARROLL,  to  whom  the  Almighty  gave 
small  bones  but  a  large  conceit,  is  accused  by  some 
gay  charmer  of  unlawfully  retainiug  her  mandolin.  It 
seems  to  us  only  proper  that  a  Carroll  should  occasionally 
like  to  accompany  himsjlf  and,  considering  the  emoluments 
and  their  extraction,  a  cultivated  musical  taste  can  hardly 
be  expected  of  a  mere  Justice  of  the  Peace. 

THE  Corbett  and  Fiizsimmons  brawl 
(The  fates  be  praised !)  is  o'er  at  last. 
We've  seen  the  boastful  Jimmy  fall, 
And  even  little  Fiiz's  squall 
Is  but  an  echo  of  the  past. 
The  lean  and  hungry  paws  of  Bob 
Have  firmly  clutched  the  champion's  job, 
While  California  veils  her  face 
ADd  mourns  her  sister  State's  disgrace. 
God  speed  the  time  (for  come  it  must) 
When  sloggers  all  shall  bite  the  dust. 
And  may  1  live  to  see  the  day 
When  Salan,  chuckling,  claims  his  prey. 

THE  bill  now  before  the  Senate  for  preventing  the  use 
of  the  United  States  mails  for  transmission  of  kineto- 
scope or  other  pictures  of  prize  fights,  if  it  should  finally 
become  a  law,  would  be  a  serious  blow  to  the  prize-ring. 
The  Crier  tenders  sympathies  to  Governor  Sadler  and  the 
Nevada  Legislators,  as  that  State  is  now  the  only  legal 
home  of  fistic  enterprise  in  the  country.  It  is  a  direct 
thrust  at  Nevada's  protected  industries. 

ONE  Mrs.  Bowen  has  been  given  six  months  by  Judge 
Campbell  for  having  pierced  the  lean  pericardium  of 
a  luckless  waiter  with  a  hat  stick  pin.  The  lady's  attor- 
ney pleaded  in  extenuation  that  his  client  was  drunk  at 
the  time;  but  the  Judge  learnedly  declared  that  intoxica- 
tion was  no  excuse  for  carrying  concealed  weapons. 

THE  succulent  spud  is  being  assiduously  cultivated  for 
the  benefit  of  the  poor,  and  Major  Winchell  of  the 
Salvation  Army  is  proving  himself  a  farmer  of  no  ordinary 
ability.  However,  a  man  who  is  accustomed  to  harvesting 
souls  ought  to  be  able  to  manage  a  potato  patch. 

SOME  day,  when  seeking  sweet  repose, 
The  Ckier  upward  turns  his  toes, 
And  his  most  cherished  enemy 
Is  dancing  on  his  grave  with  glee, 
Let  these  few  words  of  praise  be  said 
Upon  the  tombstone  at  his  head: 
"  He  never  cut  up  any  capers 
To  get  his  picture  in  the  papers, 
And  died  that  happiest  of  men — 
A  dead-broke,  wifeless  citizen." 

WHY  the  daily  drop  of  a  workman  down  the  wire  of  a 
city  building  should  cause  excitement  is  not  clear  to 
tbe  Crier's  perception.  Scarcely  a  day  passes  that  some 
one  of  our  citizens  does  not  fall  from  grace  with  equal 
swiftness  on  the  wire  of  public  opinion. 

IT  is  a  wise  child  that    knows    its    own  father   in  San 
Francisco. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  3,  1897. 


0' 


\NE  would  think  that 
our  swagger  set  were 
beginning  to  feel  deficiencies  of  early  education,  to  judge 
from  the  varied  "classes"  formed  by  the  swim  during  the 
penitential  period.  Some  are  to  study  French;  others  are 
"conversation  classes;"  others,  again,  for  literature.  The 
trio  of  society  lights  who  weekly  (an  "  a  "  in  this  would  not 
be  amiss)  go  through  a  Shakespearean  play,  are  doing 
such  good  work  it  would  not  be  surprising,  to  those  on  the 
inside,  if  the  queenly  Emily  essays  Portia  in  the  trial  scene 
of  the  Merchant  of  Venice,  as  the  much-expected 
dramatic  entertainment  to  be  offered  by-her  hospitable 
mother  to  the  dear  Five  Hundred  in  the  coming  Easter- 
tide. 

*  *  * 

Any  one  who  thinks  our  worthy  Mayor  is  not  a  marrying 
man  is  much  mistaken.  At  least  this  is  the  opinion  given 
by  one  of  his  oldest  friends,  who  further  adds  that  Jim  has 
his  e\'e  on  the  toga,  having  achieved  which  matrimony  will 
follow,  and  the  lady  of  his  choice  be  capable  of  shining  at 
the  nation's  capital.  Strangely  enough,  the  wives  of  Cali- 
fornia's representatives  "in  Congress  assembled,"  are  not 
quoted  as  adding  particular  lustre  to  their  husband's  posi- 
tion. "We  will  change  all  that,"  Jim  is  credited  with 
thinking,  and  one  has  not  to  go  far  afield  to  guess  who  the 
lady  of  his  choice  is,  her  brilliant  mental  attainments  hav- 
ing gained  her  a  reputation  for  wit  and  cleverness  ahead 
of  all  others  in  cur  local  swim. 

*  *  * 

The  "Sense  and  Sentiment  Club"  is  the  last  addition  to 
the  list.  The  President  of  the  day  takes  the  chair,  gives 
the  topic  to  be  discussed,  and  at  the  close  of  the  meeting 
requires  a  written  opinion  of  each  woman  to  be  read  at  the 
next  meeting.  On  dit,  a  recent  one  where  Love  was  the 
theme,  was  rich  and  racy,  and  efforts  are  being  made  by 
an  attache  of  a  leading  firm  to  obtain  a  copy  of  the  paper 
for  the  delectation  of  his  next  dinner  guests. 

*  *  # 

What  has  become  of  the  well-bred  genuine  American 
men  whom  we  were  wont  to  seeout  here  en  route  for  a  trip 
to  China,  or  the  Yosemite.  Has  the  East  been  so  alluring 
as  to  keep  them  all  at  home,  or  have  they  chosen  the 
Atlantic  in  lieu  of  the  Pacific  as  a  means  of  transporta- 
tion? This  query  is  often  made  when  the  fin  de  siecle  imita- 
tors of  a  Britisher  come  out  here  nowadays  and  call  them- 
selves New  Yorkers  or  Bostonians. 

*  *  * 

It  seems  incredible  that  a  man  like  Verdinal,  writing  for 
newspapers,  and  living  in  Gotham,  the  very  center  of 
Anglo-maniaism,  should  not  know  that  the  wife  of  a  baro- 
net has  no  right  to  a  personal  title,  and  is  only  "by  cour- 
tesy "  styled  "lady;"  but  will  persist  in  dubbing  little 
Maude  Burke  as  Lady  Maude  Cunard  ! 

*  *  * 

If  but  half  the  rumors  that  come  back  to  us  from  over 
the  sea  be  true,  no  wonder  some  people  take  such  delight 
in  trips  to  "the  Islands."  Honolulu  must  be  tinged  pretty 
strongly  with  a  Midway  Plaisance  flavor,  judging  from  the 
stories  told  of  and  by  our  tourists  who  go  there. 

*  #  * 

What  a  blessing  it  would  be  if  some  of  the  audience  in 
the  high  priced  seats  at  the  opera  would  not  afflict  their 
neighbors  with  a  chatter  intended  to  air  their  French. 
The  result  is  really  painful. 

*  *  * 

Gossip  says  it  begins  to  look  as  though  a  corner  residence 
on  the  broad  avenue  would  be  left  vacant  by  the  flitting  of 
its  owner  to  another  nest,  thus  forging  another  link  in  two 
families  recently  united. 

*  *  * 

Speculation  is  rife  among  the  many  friends  of  the  Shafter 
family  as  to  whether  the  robust  Colonel  will  ere  long  see 
stars    *    *    *    on  his  shoulder  straps. 


Of  vitality  and  energy,  a  good  appetite,  and  per- 
fect health  are  obtained  and  endure   by  taking 


Peruvian 
Bitters. 


Comet  Oolong. 


The  oldest  and  most  reliable  brand  on  the 
market.  Sold  only  in  1-3  pound  papers  at 
20  cents  per  paper.  All  grocers  keep  it. 

BANKING. 


Bank  0! 
British  Golumbia. 


Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1868. 


Capital  Paid  TTp S3,000,00 

Reserve  Fund $  500,000 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 
HEAD  OFFICE . 60  Lombard  Street,  London 

Branches— -Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B,  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada;  Chicago— First  National  Bank; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland — British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico — London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan — Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  oi 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

Sfffl     FrTinf  iSPO  Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Cn.i;nr.«      lln*~„  Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 134,^02,327 

OdVinQS     UniOn.  Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus....    1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  I  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee.G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  A.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday  even- 
lngs.6:30to8 

ThP  Gprman   SaVinnS  No  526  Callfobnia  Street.  San  Francisco 

**r>A     I  «.on     £>»»:«+..        Guarantee  capital  and  surplus — $2040,201  66 

3PQ    LOail    oOGlClU.      Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash..  1,00000000 

Deposits  December  31,  1896 27,7.0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B  A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstmau;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary,  George  Tourny ;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Mullen  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A.  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann,  Ign.  Steiuhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt 

M/pIIc    Farnn                   N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 
VfXjllQ    1  Ql  yu  jonn  j.valentine President 

&r*rt  »o     Bonl/                   H-   Wadsworth Cashier 
00.  S    DanK.                 HomerS.King Manager 

F.  L.  Llpman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentuie,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 
E.Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 
F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 


Security 
Savings  Bank. 


William  Alvord 
Wm.  Baboo  ck 
Adam  Grant 


222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 
LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS. 
S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

O-  D-  Baldwin  E  J.  MoCutchen 

W.  S-  Jones  '  J.  B.  Lincoln 


April  3,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


'5 


BANKING. 


Thelortr  said: 
"  M  <xl»t  she  was  when  ft  ret  we  wed  ; 
So  shy,  indeed.  I  can't  forget 

Her  blushes  red! 
And  when  she  mounted  her  pony  true 
For  a  canter  down  Fifth  avenue, 
She  wore  a  loni:  skirt  of  sober  blue, 
Hiding  ber  feet,  and  side-saddle,  too." 

Again  he  said: 
"Now  she's  a  bold  and  airy  maul. 
A  biking  miss,  of  naught  afraid. 

All  coyness  lied  ! 
She  wears  a  jaunty  bloomer  faddle, 
And,  when  mounting  her  cycle  saddle, 
bhe  nimble  leaps  ami  lands  a-straddle. 
Then  pedestrians  just  skedaddle." 

—  Washington  Star. 
Professor — Given  a  liberal  supply  of  ostrich,  canary  bird, 
and  bird  of  paradise  feathers,  jet,  silk,  satin,  straw,  braid, 
jewels,  and  lace,  what  have  we?  Bitmur  Pi  til — An 
Easter  bonnet.  Professor  -How  much  does  one  cost? 
B.  P. — About  as  much  as  a  business  block.  Professor — 
How  can  woman  afford  to  pay  so  much?  B.  P. — She  can't. 
She  makes  her  husband  think  that  he  can.  Professor — 
What  does  the  husband  say  when  he  pays  the  bill? — Ex. 

Mr.  Tynchaser  (who  has  been  obnoxiously  persistent  in  his 
attentions) — I  have  not  had  the  pleasure  of  finding  you 
at  home  for  a  lo^g  time,  Mrs.  Bond.  Opi'lent  Widow — 
Xo.  There  seems  to  be  an  obstacle.  Mr.  T. — Can't  I  re- 
move it?  O.  W.—  Possibly.  Mr.  T.  (tenderly)— At  least, 
let  me  know  what  it  is.  O.  W.  (coldly)— The  front  door. — 
Harlem  Life. 

"Will  this  medicine  cure  everything  that  ails  the  skin?" 
asked  the  little  girl.  "Yes,  that's  what  they  claim  for  it," 
replied  the  druggist's  clerk.  "Then  it's  what  I'm  after," 
said  the  little  girl,  handing  over  the  necessary  change. 
"We've  got  a  pet  alligator  at  home  that  has  warts  all 
over  it,  and  I  want  to  cure  it." — Chicago  Tribune. 

Bacon — Did  you  hear  about  Bacheller?  Egbert — No; 
what  now?  "I  hear  he  fell  a  victim  to  woman's  charms." 
"You  don't  say  so?"  "Yes;  he  was  riding  his  wheel,  and 
he  turned  around  to  see  what  the  woman  had  on,  when  he 
fell." — Yonkers  Statesman. 

One  day  an  artificial  bird 

Quoth:    "I'm  the  prettier  of  us  two." 
Quoth  the  natural  bird :     "Ha,  ha  I 
Somebody  must  have  been  stuffing  you." 

— Detroit  Journal. 
Erastus — Say,  Jeems,  does  you   know  dat  Sam  Jinks  am 
great  on   'memberin'   faces?    Jeems — Dat  may  be.     But 
when  it  comes  to  borrowed  money  de  faculty  kinder  leabs 
him. — Detroit  Free  Press. 

"He's  a  remarkably  clever  writer."  "Yes.  I  have 
heard  that  the  probabilities  are  that  he  will  have  to  stand 
trial  for  forgery." — Chicago  Post. 

"Do  you  think  the  English  have  a  right  to  boast  of  their 
superior  blood?"  "Well,  there  certainly  isn't  much  humor 
in  them." — Detroit  Journal. 

Wife — Why  do  you  persist  in  boring  us  all  by  talking 
about  the  tariff?  Husband — Simply  because  it  is  a  duty. 
— Detroit  Free  Press. 

Dollie — Was  it  a  quiet  spot  where  you  kissed  Mollie? 
Choi.t.ie — No;  it  was  on  the  mouth. — Yonkers  Statesman. 

The  Overland   Limited, 

ONLY  3%   DATS  TO   CHICAGO.     i%  DATS  TO   NEW  YORK. 

The  Onion  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  bullet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 

Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copperplate  engraving.  Cooper  &  Co.,  746 
Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


Bank  of  California,  **■> w.ooo.ooooo 

San    FranCiSCO.  ProllU  (October  I.18W)..    8.168,120  70 

WILLIAM  ALYOKD  President!  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP.  .Vico-Pres't 

ALLEN  M  CLAY  iry  I  THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Prentiss  Smith Ass't  Cashier  1 1.  F.  Moulton 2d  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Latdlaw  A  Co.;  the  Bank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  Hank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Rothschild  Frcres;  Virginia  City  (Nov.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand— Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China.  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York.  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Christianla,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy. 


California  Sate  Deposit     Cor  Cttl"°rnltt  «"»  Montgomery  sts. 

,„J     t......     /^-.m„~„..  Capital  Fully  Paid .81,000,000 

and  Trust  Company. 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  Interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity.  Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  to  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  and  valuables  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wicker&ham,  Jacob  C. 
Johnson.  James  Treadwell,  F.  *W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R  B.  Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry.  A.  D.  Sharon,  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry,  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.  Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

Mutual    ^auinnc    Rink  3s  Post    Street,   below   Kearny, 

mutual   OdVIIIUo    Ddllrv  mechanics'  institute  Building. 

Of    San      FranCiSCO.  Guaranteed  Capital 81,000,000 

Paid-Up  Capital I  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vioe -President. 

JOHN   A.   HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John   A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Granc. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co  ,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    When  opening  accounts  send  signatuie. 

I  onrinn  Paris  anri  n.w.  cor.  sansome  &  sutter  sts. 

n™«„-    „«    d««i,       1  :m:*A<l      Subscribed  Capital $2,500,000 

American  Bank,  Limited,  paidupcapuai «2,ouo.uoo 

Reserve  Fund I    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS — New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  FrereB 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

The  Anojo-Galifornian       &^&^::::::::::-$$$& 

d„«l       i:m:+~A  Paid    Up i,500,uuo 

KanK,     LimiteQ.      '  Reserve    Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts. 
Head  Office—  18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills'  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

-"union.  g^SgteL,}  Managers 

Crocker-  Woolworth         ^SHpEoBsMl?SsMOI,TOOMEBY' 
National  Bank  of  S.  F.     paia-up  capital »i,ooo,ooo 

WM.  H.  CROCKER. , President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Casbler 

Directors— Chas.  P.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond.  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 


The  Sather 
Banking  Gompanu. 


Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 
Established  1851.  San  Francisco. 


Capital 11,000,000 


James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolfe,  Secretary. 

Direotors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Brugulere,  F.  W.Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  3,  1897. 


THE    IRONY    OF    TIME—  charles  lotin  hildreth. 


IF  we  could  resurrect  the  years  again, 
When  lire  is  on  the  wane; 
If  we  could  learn  by  many  a  bitter  truth 

The  value  of  our  youth, 
Ere  the  inexorable  hand  of  Time 

Has  harvested  our  prime — 
How  we  should  drain  from  every'rlower  we  meet 

The  last  drop  of  its  sweet ! 
We  scorn  the  present  hour,  and  strive  to  borrow 

Some  foretaste  of  the  morrow ; 
The  morrow  has  its  morrow  and  the  pain 

Of  hope  deferred  again  ; 
So  waste  the  years,  till  Age  defeated  stands, 

Desolate,  with  empty  hands. 

Pilgrims  on  paths  our  fathers  trod  before, 

We  trace  their  footsteps  o'er; 
On  every  height,  in  every  vale  we  meet 

Signs  of  their  toiling  feet 
Gashed  on  the  rock  and  wounded  by  the  thorn, 

Where  we  are  stung  and  torn. 
What  was  it  that  they  sought?    O  burning  eyes, 

Fixed  on  low  western  skies! 
The  beckoning  shapes  that  seem  so  fair  to  you 

Wear  the  same  dazzling  hue 
That  lured  the  Vikings  through  tempestuous  seas, 

Beyond  the  Hebrides, 
Toward  purple  isles  of  peace  and  golden  lands — 

To  die  on  freezing  strands. 

Time  has  no  precious  treasure  stored  away 

Beyond  our  grasp  to-day. 
Earth  has  ao  secret  garden  of  delight 

Hid  from  our  aching  sight. 
Too  late  we  learn  the  humble  highway  flower 

Is  life's  best  gift  and  dower; 
The  light  that  Kindles  in  meek,  maiden  eyes 

Is  love's  divinest  guise ; 
Too  late,  too  late  we  rind  there  is  no  more, 

On  any  sea  or  shore, 
Than  those  rich  offerings  we  have  overthrown, 

Pursuing  the  unknown ; 
Nor  any  road  by  which  we  can  attain 

Youth's  vanished  grace  again. 


IN      ARCADY.— J.   B.   N„   IN  BOSTON  JOURNAL. 

It  was  easy  to  say  "  I  love  you  1 " 

Under  a  summer  sky, 
When  the  hours  went  glow,  and  the  bees  hummed  low, 

And  the  winds  went  whispering  by. 
For  we  were  young  and  happ5% 

Nothing  of  life  knew  we; 
And  what  more  sweet  than  with  careless  ieet 

To  wander  in  Arcady  ? 

To-day,  in  a  book  forgotten, 

I  found  a  rose  you  had  kissed, 
Do  you  remember  the  moonlight? 

The  path  to  the  lover's  tryst? 
And  do  you  sometimes,  J  wonder, 

Think  of  the  past  and  me? 
And  wish,  some  day,  we  could  steal  away 

And  wander  in  Arcady? 

Ah!  no,  'tis  a  foolish  fancy, 

The  dream  is  dreamed  and  over, 
And  you  have  forgotten  the  dear  dead  days, 

When  I  was  your  loyal  lover; 
For  we  are  two  weary  worldlings, 

Seldom  from  care  set  free, 
And  never  again  can  we  rind  the  path 

That  leads  through  Arcady  ! 


MAIDENHAIR    FERN. -dora  goodale. 


Where  the  twinkling  waterfalls 
Sparkle  over  rocky  ledges, 

Where  the  slate-gray  catbird  calls 
In  and  out  the  tangled  hedges, 

Green  and  slender,  spreading  fair, 

You  may  see  the  maidenhair. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 


SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 


309  and  311   Sansome  St. 


San  Francisco,  Cal 


CORRESPONDENTS : 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  46  Threadneedle  St.,  London 

SIMPSON,  MACK1RDY  &  CO 89  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 


INSURANCE. 


FIRE,   MARINE,    AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OP  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),   OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager,  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fire  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Gompanu    ol  Nortn   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  PENH. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 6,028,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000.000 

Assets 3,192.001 .69 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders... 1,506,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  601  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD    &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  Established  1732. 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON   NSURANCE  CO.  i-oorporated  1799 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 
413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 


Capital. 


OF   LIVERPOOL. 

$6,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents, 

No.  316  California  st.,  S.  F 


DR  ROORDS  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu" 
„  '  •  ^  '„wnu  "  ine— Aspeciflc  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physical 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
J.  Q.  8TEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

.oPcRICES™KED,:7CED-Box  of  5°  Pllls.  II  25;  of  100  pills,  12;  of  200  pills, 
$350;  of  400  pills,  16;  Preparatory  Pills  12.    Send  for  circular. 


Joseph  Gillott's  Steel  Pens, 


Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1P89.    These  pens  are  "  the 
best  In  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mr.  Henry  Hoe.  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers . 


April  3.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


INSURANCE. 


THK  revival  of  the  old  P   I    r  .Compact  la^t  Tuesday, 
under  the  name  of  the  Hoard  of  Kin-  Underwriters  of 

Ala  i"  oper- 
ation three  years  ago     Tl  e    agreement    la   practically 

unanimous,  as  several  companies  not  represented  at 
Tuesday's  meeting  ha  quilled    their  intention   to 

siirn  the  required  pledge.  Of  the  companies  remaining 
out.  the  Continental  and  Northwestern  National  are  alone 
of  any  conaequenoe,  the  Intention  of  Manager  Vosa,  of  the 
Thuriiio'ia.  bein<,*  in  doubt.  The  rates  throughout  the 
State  will  undoubtedly  undergo  reconstruction,  and  a  gen- 
eral reduction  of  from  15  to  L.'.">  per  cent,  be  effected  from 
those  prevailing  two  years  ago.  Much  business  has  been 
written  by  the  companies  for  terms  of  two  and  three 
years,  and  where  the  "non-cancellation"  clause  has  been 
attached  to  such  policies,  this  business  will  not  be  affected 
until  expiration  of  the  term;  where  term  insurance  has 
been  affected  without  the  clause,  however,  the  rate  will, 
undoubtedly,  sooner  or  later  be  raised  or  the  policy  can- 
celled. 

President  John  A.  McCall,  the  life  insurance  magnate, 
is  in  the  city,  and  is  being  extensively  wined  and  dined. 
The  rumor  that  his  visit  is  connected  with  an  intention  to 
loan  several  large  sums  to  San  Francisco  property  holders 
for  building  purposes,  lacks  foundation  in  fact. 

The  officers  of  the  reconstructed  Fire  Underwriter's 
Association  are:  Chas.  D.  Havens,  President;  Wm.  J. 
Dutton,  Vice  President;  J.  H.  Marhardt,  Secretary.  The 
Executive  Committee  consists  of  Arthur  E.  Magill,  Robt. 
Dickson,  A.  Mullins,  Geo.  W.  Spencer,  Geo.  H.  Tyson, 
Belden  and  Mann.  The  management  will  probably  go  to 
H.  M.  Grant,  although  Alfred  Stillman  has  a  strong  pull 
with  the  committee,  but  is  not  generally  liked  by  the 
members. 

Immediately  after  the  formation  of  the  compact  brokers 
were  energetically  engaged  in  the  effort  to  renew  existing 
contracts  for  an  extended  term  at  the  old  rates,  but  met 
with  poor  success,  companies  which  have  not  yet  signed 
the  agreement,  very  generally  refusing  to  accept  the 
business. 

The  Home  Mutual  has  entered  Wisconsin  for  business. 

The  Bankers'  Alliance  of  Los  Angeles  is  now  doing  busi- 
ness in  twenty-two  States  of  the  Union. 

The  Denver  Life  Insurance  Company  is  to  be  given  an 
overhauling  by  the  proper  authorities. 

Russell  Osborn  of  the  Pennsylvania  Fire  left  for  Salt 
Lake  City  last  Wednesday. 

Colonel  Alfred  Todhunter  goes  to  Portland  as  general 
agent  of  the  Provident  Savings  Life  for  Oregon  and 
Washington. 

Jacob  Wolf  of  Portland,  Oregon,  has  brought  suit  for 
$50,000  damages  against  the  Aachen  and  Munich,  the 
Home,  the  Phoenix,  the  Commercial  Union  Assurance  and 
the  Fire  Association  of  Philadelphia.  The  suit  arises  out 
of  Wolf's  arrest  in  connection  with  the  fire  in  his  father's 
store  last  year. 

The  "editress"  of  the  Insurance  Sun  says  that  "The 
hand  that  'rocks'  the  cradle  is  now  reaching  out  for 
'rocks'  of  other  kinds." 

C.  D.  Nash,  of  Milwaukee,  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Northwestern  Mutual  Life,  and  well  known  in  banking 
circles,  died  on  March  21st. 

Col.  L.  L.  Bromwell  returned  Wednesday  from  a  South- 
ern trip. 

W.  H.  Lowden,  of  the  Norwich  Union,  is  in  the  North- 
west. 

Twelve  million  dollars  was  paid  last  year  by  citizens  of 
this  country  for  accident  insurance  policies. 

The  State  of  Washington  has  passed  an  anti-trust  law,  a 
valued  policy  law,  and  a  law  taxing  foreign  companies 
three  per  cent,  and  home  companies  2  per  cent,  on  their 
gross  business. 

M.  R.  Higgins,  ex-Insurance  Commissioner  for  the 
State  of  California,  began  his  duties  as  General  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  on 
April  1st,  1897. 

The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedaker,  General  Agent. 


TH6  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company 

Of    NEW    YORK. 

RICHARD  ft.  McGURDY, President 

STATEMENT 

Won  the  vi:ah  eni.iv.  DbOKUBBB  3)1, 18M,  AOOonllDg   t«  the  Standard  of 
Hi* Insurance  l>p;irtmcnt  of  ibe  Sim-    of  Mew  York. 

INCOME- 
IBM $  39,593,4  M  20 

From  all  other  Bournes. 10,100,981  u? 

t  49,702,605  87 
DISBURSEMENTS. 

To  Policy-holders  for  olaims  by  Death 119.806,118  89 

To  Policy-holders  for  endowments,  Dividends, etc  19,84mm  h 

For  all  other  Accounts 10,781,005  64 

$  36,218.575  14 
ASSETS. 

United  Suites  Bonds  nod  other  Securities $110,125,082  15 

First  lien  Loans  ou  Bond  and  Mortgage 71,543,9^0  56 

Loans  on  Stocks  and  Bonds 11,091  525  00 

Real  Estate 22,767,666  65 

Cash  In  Banks  and  Trust  compsinies 12,680,390  00 

Accrued  Interest,  Net-Deferred  Premiums,  etc 6,545,555  06 

$984,744,148  42 
Reserve  Tor  Policies  and  other  Liabilities 205,010,633  72 

Surplus.   $29,733,514  70 

Insurance  and   Annuities  in  force $01H,698,338  45 


I  have  carefully  examined  the  foregoing  Statement  and  And  the  same  to 
be  correct;  liabilities  calculated  by  the  Insurance  Department. 

Charles  A.  Preller,  Auditor. 


From  the  Surplus  a  dividend  will  be  apportioned  as  usual. 


ROBERT    A.    QRAISNISS,    Vice-President. 
Walter  R.  Gillette,  General  Manager 
Isaac  F.  Lloyd,  Second  Vice-President 
Frederic  Cromwell,  Treasurer 
Emory  McClintock,  Actuary 


A.   B.    FORBES  Z>   SON, 


Mutual  Life  Building. 


San  Francisco 


Totnkinson's  Livery  Stable  guMi-h* 

J.  TOMPKINSON,  Proprietor, 

Nos.  57,  59,  and  61  Minna  Si.,  between  First  and  Second. 

Through  tn  Natoma  street,  Nos.  64,  66,  and  68.  One  block  from  the  Palaoe 
Hotel,  also  carriages  and  coupes  at  Paclflo  Union  Club,  corner  Post  and 
Stcokton  streets,  San  Franolsco.    Telephone  No.  153. 

Fine  turnouts  kept  especially  for  calling.    Also  rookaways,  buggies,  and 
vehicles  of  every  description  at  reduced  rates. 


ST.  LAWRENCE 

LIVEKY  AND 

SALES  STABLE. 

W.  E.  BRIDGE,  Proprietor. 

423  Post  St.,  between  Powell  and 
Mason.  San  Francisco. 
Telephone  No.  1323. 


CUNNINGHAM,    CURTISS   &   WELCH, 

Wholesale 
Stationers  and 
Booksellers. 
327,  329,  331  Sansome  St.  San  Francisco 


BRUSHES 


For  barbers,  bakers,  bootblacks,  bath-houses,  bil- 
liard tables,  brewers,  book-binders,  candy-makers, 
canners,  dyers,  flour-mills,  foundries,  laundries, 
paper-hangers,  printers,  painters,  shoe  factories, 
stable  men,  tar-roofers,  tanners  tailors,  etc. 


BUCHANAN   BROS., 

BRUSH   MANUFACTURERS,  609  Sacramento  St.  ,S.   F       Tel.  5610. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  3,  1897- 


1T  is  an  open  secret  in  the  editorial  rooms  of  the  Examiner 
that  the  affection  between  Andy  Lawrence  and  Tom 
Garrett,  who  holds  down  the  city  desk,  is  a  clever  imita- 
tion of  the  love  which  the  parrot  bears  to  the  proverbial 
monkey.  Andy  conceives  the  little  fakes,  and  Tommy 
elaborates  them.  Their  plots  against  the  whites  are 
developed  with  a  plentiful  lack  of  harmony,  for  Garrett 
does  not  enjoy  his  enforced  role  of  playing  the  sneeze  to 
Andy's  snuff.  The  relative  positions  of  the  harmonious 
pair  were  not  always  as  at  present.  Two  or  three  years 
ago,  after  a  brief  but  inglorious  reign  as  city  editor  of  the 
Examiner,  Andy  was  incontinently  fired,  and  became  a 
reporter  on  the  Chronicle,  which  was,  at  the  time,  pub- 
lishing daily  criticisms  of  the  existing  school  board.  Andy 
was  detailed  for  this  work  by  Garrett  who  then  occupied 
the  city  desk  in  the  tall  tower  on  Market  street.  Tommy 
took  unholy  pleasure  in  humiliating  the  reporter  who  had 
so  recently  been  his  editorial  rival.  Andy  writhed  under 
the  discipline,  and  most  unwillingly  acknowledged  the 
other's  authority. 

After  turning  in  his  copy  about  the  school  department 
one  night,  long  after  twelve  o'clock,  Andy  sauntered  com- 
placently into  Tommy's  sanctum,  magnificently  arrayed  in 
a  white  box  coat,  top  hat,  lavender  trousers  and  patent 
leather  boots. 

"Well,  Garrett,"  he  said,  breezily,  drawing  on  a  pair  of 
red  gloves,  preparatory  to  departure,  "If  I  keep  up  this 
lick,  I  guess  Hearst  will  be  sending  for  me." 

"Guess  again,"  snorted  the  irascible  Thomas,  with  a 
disdainful  glance  at  the  dapper  little  dandy.  "And  say," 
he  added,  as  an  afterthought,  "while  you  are  waiting  for 
that  summons  from  Hearst,  you  get  a  boat  and  board  the 
incoming  China  steamer  which  will  be  in  port  between  now 
and  four  o'clock.     Get  out  and  skate  now!" 

Andy  had  guessed  wrong.  After  he  had  procured  a 
new  suit  of  clothes  to  replace  those  ruined  by  his  water- 
front detail,  he  started  for  New  York  in  search  of  past- 
ures new. 


To  say  that  Jim  Thomas,  who  died  this  week,  was  the 
biggest  man  in  the  grain  business,  did  not  necessarily  im- 
ply that  his  operations  were  more  extensive  than  those  of 
any  other  local  speculator,  but  simply  that  he  measured 
six  feet  four  in  his  stockings.  He  was  quite  sensitive  re- 
garding his  stature  and  any  allusion  to  his  height  put  him 
into  a  fury.  In  some  discussion  with  Ed  Cutter,  the  latter 
accused  Thomas  of  trying  to  browbeat  him  because  he  was 
"a  mile  and  a  half  high."  Jim  rushed  at  his  critic  like  a 
wi'd  bull  and  although  Cutter  eluded  him,  Thomas  never 
spoke  to  Ed  again.  The  giant  grain  dealer  was  cantanker- 
ous and  notional,  no  one  being  able  to  keep  pace  with  his 
fancies.  Entering  his  store  one  morning  he  profanely 
commented  on  the  number  of  cats  about,  although  many 
of  the  cats  had  been  there  for  years  and  there  had  been  no 
recent  feline  multiplication. 

"Whose  cats  are  they,  anyway?"  thundered  Thomas, 
who  had  hitherto  been  indifferent  to  their  presence. 

"Why,  yours,  sir,  I  supposed,"  faltered  a  clerk. 

"Mine,  are  they?  Well,  I'll  show  you!  Close  the  store 
at  noon  to-day." 

When  the  doors  were  locked  at  twelve,  Thomas  armed 
himself  with  a  hatchet,  handed  one  clerk  a  boat  hook  and 
another  a  big  poker,  and  started  in  to  assassinate  the 
cats.  After  he  had  chopped  half  through  his  own  big  toe, 
and  one  of  his  clerks  had  almost  poked  out  the  eye  of  the 
other  with  the  boat  hook,  the  furniture  in  the  office  being 
partially  destroyed,  but  the  cats  sustaining  absolutely  no 
injuries,  Jim  suddenly  abandoned  his  plan  of  annihilation. 
It  was  thoroughly  characteristic  of  the  impetuous  giant 
that  after  this  defeat  he  developed  a  positive  affection  for 
cats  with  as  much  suddenness  as  had  marked  the  growth 
of  his  antipathy.  Until  the  day  of  his  sudden  death,  he 
always  maintained,  thereafter,  an  army  of  feline  pets. 


Bob  Woodward  judicially  remarks  that  his  friend  Ted 
Haldan,  the  insurance  manager,  is  a  trifle  slow,  adding 
that  when  Haldan  travels  he  always  goes  as  freight.  In 
the  new  Cosmos  Club,  a  week  ago,  the  assembled  sages 
were  discussing  the  topics  of  the  day. 

"  I  see  that  Governor  Boies  has  struck  the  town,"  re- 
marked handsome  Charlie  Mcintosh,  who  is  taking  advan- 
tage of  his  brief  ante-nuptial  furlough  to  spend  all  bis 
leisure  hours  at  the  club. 

A  few  yards  distant  sat  a  party  of  dead-game  sports, 
who  had  been  at  Carson,  had  gone  broke  on  Corbett,  and 
who  had  just  returned  penniless  and  irritable.  They 
failed  to  hear  correctly  all  of  Mcintosh's  harmless  remark 
about  his  distinguished  fellow  Iowan,  and  fancied  his  com- 
ment contained  some  reflection  on  their  woebegone  appear- 
ance. 

"Well,  we  are  not  beefing  about  it."  said  Ted  Haldan, 
sharply,  to  the  bride-groom  elect.  "We  are  not  that  kind 
of  boys." 

"And  I  was  talking  of  a  different  kind  of  Boies,  too,"  re- 
joined Charlie,  quickly. 

Woodward  says  Ted  has  not  seen  it  yet. 

*  *  # 

At  the  ecclesiastical  comedy,  sometimes  termed  a  church 
council,  which  followed  the  exposure  of  the  Brown-Over- 
man scandal,  the  rays  of  some  side  lights  feE  on  Charles 
G.  Nagle,  who  posed  as  the  adviser  of  the  erring  pastor. 
Nagle's  office  was  recently  the  scene  of  a  lively  encounter 
concerning  which  the  attorney  covets  the  shadows  of  ob- 
livion. The  story,  as  told  by  his  brother  Jim,  begins  with 
Charlie's  friendship  for  a  girl  whose  very  name  suggested 
purring,  and  who  had  been  accustomed  to  telephone  fre- 
quently to  the  Nagle  office.  Determining  to  discontinue 
the  affair,  Charlie  instructed  his  female  stenographer  to 
intimate  her  fickle  employer's  resolution  in  curt  terms  the 
next  time  his  fair  friend  telephoned.  This  order  was  so 
effectually  carried  out  by  the  zealous  typewriter  that  on 
the  following  day  there  was  an  impromptu  meeting  in  the 
office  of  the  inconstant  attorney,  with  a  lively  melee,  Lon- 
don prize  ring  rules.  The  grand  mixture  of  angry  females 
was  disentangled  by  Jim  Nagle,  at  imminent  risk  of  a 
broken  head.  Since  the  episode  Charlie  has  been  in  strict 
seclusion.  His  friends  say  he  is  considering  the  advisabil- 
ity of  entering  a  monastery. 

*  *  * 

Col.  Peter  A.  Finegan,  the  unfortunate  millionaire,  who 
is  so  poor  that  he  says  he  really  cannot  afford  to  pay  his 
wife  $100  a  month  alimony  while  her  divorce  suit  is  pending, 
has  always  been  noted  for  the  possession  of  that  form  of 
wealth  which  loves  to  ape  poverty.  In  the  business  office 
of  the  Call  they  tell  a  characteristic  story  concerning 
him.  For  many  years  the  Colonel  was  on  that  paper's 
free  list  on  the  strength  of  his  boasted  friendship  for  the 
late  Loring  Pickering.  When  Charles  M.  Shortridge  be- 
came proprietor  of  the  paper,  one  of  his  first  orders  was 
to  consign  the  list  of  deadheads  to  the  office  fire.  Colonel 
Finegan,  grief-stricken,  protested  against  the  injustice  of 
depriving  of  a  free  copy  such  a  good  friend  of  the  Call  as 
himself,  but  Mr.  Shortridge  was  obdurate.  Then  the 
Colonel  offered  to  compromise  by  paying  25  cents,  which 
is  the  carrier's  charge  for  serving  the  paper,  instead  of 
the  customary  monthly  rate  of  65  cents.  That  offer  being 
promptly     rejected,     Colonel     Finegan     grandiloquently 

"stopped  the  paper." 

*  *  * 

It  is  a  custom  of  the  Call  Board  men,  in  buying  or  selling 
produce,  to  sample  one  sack  in  ten  of  every  shipment,  and 
to  guage  the  price  by  the  average  of  all  the  samples  thus 
obtained.  A  large  consignment  of  beans  from  Ventura 
county  was  received  in  due  course  by  John  F.  English,  and 
a  few  days  later  he  managed  to  dispose  of  the  entire  ship- 
ment at  prices  which  left  the  current  market  quotations 
far  in  the  rear.  None  of  the  other  commission  men  could 
understand  the  reason  for  his  lucky  sales,  and  finally  they 
asked  him  about  it  in  the  Produce  Exchange. 

"Simple  enough,"  responded  English,  with  charming 
sangfroid.     "When  I  find  a  good  sack  I  stay  with  it." 

Having  opened  a  bag  of  exceptionally  fine  beans,  he  had 
used  only  the  contents  of  that  sack  as  his  selling  sample. 
He  explains  that  he  just  reverses  this  method  when  be 
buys.     As  Mr.  English  says,   "  It's  simple  enough. " 


April  3.  1897. 


SAN    IRAXCISCO  NKWS  LKTTER. 


'9 


~<nne  liicky  mischance,  young  G  an  became 

the  owner  of  a  rood  The   animal 

looked  well,  but  I  his  perl  at  the 

constituted  an  unbro  disappointments. 

-al  weeks  ..  :  his  friend  Euinae  Bresse, 

or  in  the  firm  of  I.    W.  HcGlaughlin 

■journ  in  New  York,    is    again    to    \h- 

seen  on  ti  ird   floor,  went  out   to  the  Ingleslde 

tber.     It  was  said  afterwards  that  "Cuss"  had 

il  Be  would  win,  but  as 

had  never   achieved  a  ail  ass,    he  was 

able  to  secure  odds  of  eight  to  one  for  his  money.      Care- 

ownerahip,  he  quietly  dis- 
tributed as  many  bets  as  ho  dared  among  the  stands  of  the 
various  iiookmakers.     Thi  deputed   Bresse   to 

more  money    for   him    on    Cold    Oust,    without 

ing  any  reason,  for  Costigan  does  not  like  to  share  a 

thing,  even  with  a  friend. 

"  I  don't  know  anything  about  horses.  Eugene,"   he  said 

with  apparent  ingenuousness    'but  I  am  betting  my  money 

On  Cold   I): 

ry  for  his  misguided  companion,  but  fail- 
ing to  convince  him  of  his  folly,  placed  Costigan's  money  as 
directed  on  Gold  Dust,  while  he  made  his  own  bets  on  the 
favorite.  After  the  race  was  over.  Bresse  sought  his  inno- 
cent friend,  who  was  cashing  a  big  pile  of  tickets,  all  at 
eight  to  one. 

"  I  say.  Cussie.  how  did  you  get  that  tip  for  Gold  Dust?" 
inquired  Eugene,  who  wondered  why  the  information  had 
not  been  passed  along  to  him. 

"Oh,  I  am  the  owner  of  the  horse,"  softly  replied  the 
man  who  "knew  nothing  about  horses." 

*  *  # 

Among  the  men  in  the  employ  of  the  El  Dorado  Linseed 
Oil  Works  is  a  dull  but  honest  Swede,  who  has  worked  for 
years  with  steady  industry  as  a  laborer.  During  the  tem- 
porary closing  down  of  the  works  this  week,  Secretary 
George  Moore,  of  the  company,  met  the  Swede  emerging 
from  a  steamship  office. 

'Hello.  Nansen,"  he  said,  in  his  customary  tone  of 
friendly  greeting.     "What  are  you  doing  in  there?" 

"Oh,  sir,"  replied  Nansen,  with  a  radiant  countenance, 
"I  have  been  working  eight  years  for  this." 

'Working  eight  years  for  what?"  asked  the  perplexed 
official. 

"To  bring  out  my  wife  and  children  from  Sweden.  I 
have  just  paid  for  their  passage,"  and  he  exhibited  several 
steerage  tickets. 

"Yes?"  pursued  Moore,  now  quite  interested.  "How 
old  are  your  children?" 

"Six,  four,  aud  two  years,"  replied  the  happy  "father." 

"Ahem!  And — and  you  haven't  seen  your  wife  or  fam- 
ily for  eight  years?"  queried  Moore,  doubtful^'. 

"No,  but  they  will  all  be  here  in  two  months,"  joyfully 
answered  Nansen,  whose  faith  was  only  equalled  by  his 
simplicity. 

Motives  of  delicacy  absolutely  prohibited  further  in- 
terrogation. 

*  *  # 

It  is  hardly  a  matter  for  comment  that  in  such  a  mu- 
sical neighborhood  as  Hyde  street,  twin  flats  should  each 
contain  an  inveterate  piano-player — but  with  a  difference. 
In  the  upper  flat  is  a  child,  with  an  abnormal  sense  of  jus- 
tice, and  with  an  aunt  who  is  really  a  brilliant  pianist. 
Below  is  a  woman  whose  industry  is  only  equalled  by  ber 
incompetency.  She  is  merely  a  mechanical  musician,  and 
when  she  pounds  on  the  unfortunate  instrument,  which 
never  did  anything  to  her,  she  jars  the  nerves  of  the  entire 
neighborhood.  But  she  piles  insult  on  top  of  injury  by 
complaining  that  the  performance  of  the  real  piano  sharp 
above  makes  her  intensely  nervous  and  quite  upsets  her. 
This  Pharasaical  comment  being  duly  retailed  upstairs,  in 
the  presence  of  the  little  girl  with  the  sense  of  justice, 
aroused  all  the  righteous  indignation  of  the  kid. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  3,  1897. 


LENTEN  clouds  still  lower  over  the  social  world,  and 
what  entertainments  are  given  are  mostly  on  a  small 
scale,  on  the  quiet,  as  it  were.  Theatre  parties  and  opera 
parties  there  have  been  during  the  week,  but  they  are  not 
so  many  as  would  have  been  the  case  were  it  Dot  the  sea- 
son for  sackcloth  and  ashes — not  exactly  the  garments  to 
be  worn  in  public.  However,  those  who  do  not  observe 
the  Lenten  fast  may  be  said  to  be  doing  fairly  well,  and  in 
music  especially  there  has  been  more  of  a  feast  than  a 
famine,  for  what  a  week  this  has  been  for  sweet  sounds  in 
addition  to  the  opera  concerts  taking  place  every  night, 
and  next  week  promises  to  be  equally  well  provided. 
Among  other  musical  affairs,  the  third  concert  of  their 
present  season  will  be  given  by  the  Loring  Club  next 
Tuesday  evening  ati  Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  and  it  will,  it  is 
said,  be  one  of  unusual  excellence. 

Mrs.  Whitelaw  Reid's  visit  here  is  passing  away  rapidly, 
and  yet  so  quietly  that  only  a  few  of  her  most  intimate 
friends  are  conscious  of  her  presence  in  her  old  home.  Her 
aunt,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Easton,  gave  a  luncheon  in  her  honor  last 
week,  which  was  one  of  the  few  occasions  she  has  met  her 
friends  since  coming  on  her  present  visit  to  California. 
Luncheons  and  cards  have  ever  been  favorite  Lenten 
diversions,  and  it  seems  as  though  the  young  ladies  were 
monopolizing  the  duties  of  hostess,  at  present  so  many  are 
filling  that  role.  Miss  Alice  Ames  came  to  the  front  as  a 
hostess  last  week,  and  the  parlors  of  the  Ames  residence, 
on  Taylor  street,  were  filled  with  a  merry  gathering  of 
young  people.  First  there  was  a  jolly  game  of  cards, 
then  delightful  music,  and  finally  delicious  refreshments, 
making  the  evening  a  continued  pleasure  to  the  friends 
thus  entertained. 

Miss  Mau's  euchre  party  was  a  particularly  pleasant 
one,  thirty  ladies  competing  for  the  pretty  prizes,  the  first 
of  which  was  won  by  Miss  Baldwin,  the  second  by  Miss 
Wells,  and  the  third  by  Mrs.  Whitney.  Miss  Giselmann's 
recent  dinner  was  in  compliment  to  the  bride  and  groom- 
elect,  Miss  Estee  and  Leonard  Everett;  pink  was  the  hue 
selected  for  the  floral  and  other  dainty  adornments  of  the 
dinner  table,  at  which  a  dozen  guests  were  seated. 

Miss  Rosalie  Neustadter  continues  to  be  the  motif  for 
many  a  pleasantgathering  at  the  hands  of  her  many  friends, 
and  another  young  lady  who  has  come  in  for  a  good  deal 
of  entertainment  is  Miss  Owen,  who  has  been  visiting  Mrs. 
G-.  C.  Boardman  for  some  time  past,  and  she  has  been 
indefatigable  in  giving  Miss  Owen  a  "good  time"  since  her 
arrival  from  the  East. 

Miss  Hecht's  entertainment  was  a  dinner,  which  she  gave 
to  a  party  of  young  people  on  Tuesday  evening. 

Wednesday's  review  at  the  Presidio,  in  spite  of  threat- 
ening skies,  drew  another  large  gathering  of  belles,  almost 
as  large  as  at  the  recent  one  in  which  Inspector-General 
Burton  was  the  chief  figjre.  On  this  occasion  Colonel 
Young  was  in  command,  with  Colonel  Willeston  an  able 
assistant,  and  after  the  display  was  over  and  the  duties  of 
the  day  finished  there  were  several  pleasant  little  luncheon 
parties  at  the  post. 

On  Monday  evening  last  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  Strass- 
burger  gave  an  elegant  dinner  at  the  Palace  Hotel.  Ever 
since  their  return  from  Europe  last  fall  they  have  been 
the  recipients  of  innumerable  attentions  at  the  hands  of 
their  friends,  and  sought  this  most  fitting  method  of 
reciprocating.  Some  three  hours  were  passed  at  the 
festal  board  which  was  beautifully  decorated  with  flowers 
and  ribbons.  An  orchestra  discoursed  the  popular 
melodies  of  the  day  from  an  adjacent  retreat.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Strassburger  will  shortly  leave  the  hotel  to  reside  in 
their  new  home  out  on  Pacific  Heights. 

Anything  novel  in  social  amusement  is  always  welcome, 
and  therefore  the  pretty  game  of  comptant  lesfleurs,  intro- 
duced by  Mrs.  Clarence   Mann  at  her   tea  last  Saturday, 


was  an  instant  and  great  success,  the  Misses  May, 
Schuarood  and  Harrison  being  the  winners  of  the  three 
prizes  offered  for  the  best  guesses.  The  musical  reception 
given  by  Chris.  Jorgensen  at  his  studio  on  Saturday  after- 
noon was  a  charming  affair,  as  are  indeed  most  gatherings 
of  a  like  nature.  There  is  a  spice  of  Bohemia  about  it 
that  adds  to  the  pleasure  of  the  bidden  guests.  Flowers, 
tastefully  arranged,  gave  brightness  to  the  rooms,  and 
the  musical  selections  of  the  Messrs.  Henley,  Tilton,  Sug- 
den  and  Jorgensen  were  warmly  applauded.  The  chief 
stag  gathering  was  the  elaborate  banquet  last  Saturday 
evening,  with  which  the  members  of  the  Cosmos  Club  in- 
augurated their  new  quarters  on  Sutter  street. 

The  handsome  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Boas,  on 
O'Farrell  and  Laguna  streets,  was  elaborately  adorned 
with  flowers  and  foliage  for  the  marriage  of  their  daugh- 
ter Minnie  to  Marc  L.  Davis,  which  was  celebrated  last 
Tuesday  evening  at  6.  o'clock.  The  wedding  ceremony  was 
performed  by  the  Rev.  Jacob  Nieto,  the  bridal  party 
standing  beneath  a  wedding  bell  of  white  roses,  sus- 
pended from  the  archway  between  the  parlors,  and  was 
witnessed  by  a  large  assemblage  of  friends.  The  pretty 
bride,  who  was  given  away  by  her  father,  was  robed  in  an 
elegant  creation  of  white  satin  and  mousseline  de  soie, 
trimmed  with  lace  and  orange  blossoms.  The  same  sweet- 
scented  blossoms  were  worn  in  her  hair,  and  her  tulle  vail 
enveloped  her  graceful  figure.  Her  bouquet  was  of  lilies 
of  the  valley.  The  bride's  only  attendant  was  her  sister 
Stella,  who  wore  a  gown  of  white  silk,  prettily  trimmed 
with  ribbons  and  tulle,  and  she  carried  a  bouquet  of  brides- 
maid's roses.  Benjamin  Davis  supported  his  brother  as 
best  man.  An  elaborate  banquet,  prepared  by  Max 
Abraham,  was  served  at  the  conclusion  of  the  ceremony, 
and  then  there  was  dancing  until  a  late  hour.  The  pres- 
ents were  many  and  very  handsome,  and  the  young  couple 
have  been   passing  their  honeymoon  at  Coronado. 

Several  interesting  engagements  have  been  announced 
during  the  past  week.  One  is  that  of  Mrs.  Margaret  E. 
Whitelaw  and  Walter  N.  Brunt,  with  the  wedding  day  set 
for  the  12th  of  May;  and  another,  that  of  Miss  Dollie  Brown 
and  Charles  Wood.  Oakland  will  claim  a  wedding  of 
the  near  future,  as  from  the  other  side  of  the  bay  comes 
the  intelligence  of  Miss  Jessie  Glascock's  engagement  to 
Alex.  R.  Baldwin,  which  means  that  society  will  on  this 
side  of  the  bay  acquire  a  charming  matron,  the  fair  bride 
having  been  one  of  Oakland's  belles  during  the  past  season. 
Miss  Mattie  Whittier's  will  not  be  the  only  society  wedding 
on  the  21st  of  April,  as  Miss  Minnie  O'Neill  has  selected 
that  date  for  her  marriage  to  J.  J.  Baumgartner. 

George  Hyde  Preston,  a  prominent  Seattle  attorney,  is 
the  guest  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Luke  Robinson,  at  their  home  on 
Fillmore  street. 

We  are  spending  more  than  our  profits  on 
Schilling's  Best  tea  to  get  you  to  try  it — just 
to  try  it. 

Your  money  back  if  you  don't  like  it. 

At  grocers'  in  packages. 

A  Schilling  &  Company 
San  Francisco. 


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April  3,  1897. 


FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


:ny  Marc1  .  misnomer  this  year;  the  cold- 

which   hus   t>ecn   far 

.ilxiut  this    period  of 

Bui  at  ran 

be  heard  r  tn  as  thou  >nUl  be  tbe 

favored  locale  «  th  0  ir  I  ishionahle  folk,  the  majority 

appearing  to  incline  in  that  direction      Ami  while  active 

front  iiitd  may  not  be  made  for 

some  lime  yet,  taking  time  by  the  forelock,  rooms  are   be- 

■  ured  at  tbe  H    I  .it  such   a   rate   that    the 

ones  may  have  to  regret  their  delay  in  doing  so  by 

finding  them  all  none. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maurice  Wieland  were  at  home  last  Sun- 
day and  Monday  for  the  purpose  of  bidding  their  friends 
adieu,  previous  to  their  departure  for  the  F.ast  and 
Europe.  Louis  Sloss  .1  r.  has  i^ne  on  an  extended  trip 
through  Canada  and  the  Eastern  States,  on  which  Rudolph 
Neumann  accompanied  him.  Society  is  about  to  sustain 
a  loss  in  the  uear  departure  of  Miss  Romie  Wallace,  who 
will  accompany  her  sister.  Mrs.  Sprague,  here  at  present 
on  a  visit  to  her  parents,  when  she  returns  Eastward,  and 
later  they  will  go  to  Europe  together. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P.  Huntington  are  installed  in  their 
handsome  residence  on  Nob  Hill,  having  arrived  last  week 
on  one  of  Mr.  Huntington's  periodical  business  visits  to  the 
coast.  They  will  remain  some  time  in  San  Francisco.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  S.  I.  Wormser  will  soon  occupy  the  Wieland  resi- 
dence on  Laguna  street,  and  remain  there  during  the  ab- 
sence of  the  owners  in  foreign  Darts.  Mrs.  Louise  Worm- 
ser has  taken  the  Rothschild  house  on  Octavia  street  for 
the  summer  months.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  Simon  will 
occupy  the  Muser  residence  on  California  street,  while  the 
Musers  spend  the  coming  two  years  abroad.  Mrs.  John 
W.  Shaw  of  New  York  is  visiting  her  sister,  Mrs.  I.  L. 
Requa,  at  Piedmont.  George  T.  Marye  was  one  of  the 
Eastbound  passengers  last  Saturday. 

One  of  the  most  worthy  charities  in  the  city  is  the 
Children's  Hospital,  which  in  a  practical  way  has  done  and 
is  doing  a  vast  deal  of  good.  The  lady  managers  of  this 
admirable  charity  contemplate?  giving  a  grand  entertain- 
ment some  time  in  May.  not  yet  fixed,  in  aid  of  that  insti- 
tution. 

The  Knickerbocker  Male  Quartet,  assisted  by  the  Col- 
onial Quartet  and  others,  will  give  a  very  enjoyable 
musical  entertainment  at  the  Auditorium,  corner  Mason 
and  Ellis  streets,  on  the  evening  of  the  8th  inst.,  in  aid  of 
the  Young  Men's  Improvement  Committee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 


PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 

THE  News  Letter  supplement  this  week  gives  a  very 
pretty  interior  view  of  a  Chinese  apothecary  shop. 
We  are  unable  to  translate  for  our  readers  the  characters 
on  the  walls,  but  they  no  doubt  refer  in  glowing  terms  to 
the  ability  of  the  proprietor  and  his  medicines  to  cure 
everv  ill  to  which  Mongolian  flesh  is  heir. 


THE  Park  is  to  be  effectively  lighted  by  electricity, 
the  Commissioners  having  determined  to  erect  a  power 
house  at  a  cost  of  $40,000  for  this  purpose.  The  plans 
adopted  contemplate  sufficient  light  to  make  the  roadway 
from  the  Park  entrance  to  the  beach  bright  and  clear  on 
the  darkest  nights.  The  installation  of  the  plant  will 
meet  a  popular  demand,  and  the  expenditure  is  more  than 
justified  by  the  increased  pleasure  to  be  derived  from  it  by 
cyclers,  pedestrians,  horsemen  and  others. 

COL.  SUTHERLAND  left  tbe  city  last  evening  for 
Candelaria.  All  the  machinery  necessary  for  work- 
ing tailings  of  the  Holmes  mine  has  arrived  at  Belleville, 
and  will  be  in  place  some   time  during   the  present  month. 

the  Press  Clipping  boread,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.  reads  all 
papers  on  tbe  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics,  business 
and  personal. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  '-Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  teething . 

For  high  grade  Diamonds  go  to  Hirschman's,  10  Post  street, 
(Masonic  Temple.) 


Some  Women 
jump  at  it.  They're  quick 
ti>  sic  the  advantages  of 
Pearline.  quick  to  econc- 
.  e  and  save,  quick  to  adopt 
the  modern  improvements 
life  easier.  And  those  quick 
the  ours  that. 
tn  use  Pearl- 
'ine  in  the  right  way. 
Some  Women  have  to  be 
driven  to  it.  They  wait  until  they 
can't  stand  the  old-fashioned  ways 
any  longer.  Then  they  get  Pearl- 
ine. But  ten  to  one  they  use  it 
for  only  part  oi  the  work,  or  use 
it  some  way  of  their  own,  and  don't 
get  half  thehelp  they  ought  to.  6U 


COKE— Cheapest  Fue!  1 


REDUCTION  tn  Price. 
Wholesale  (50  hols,  or  more.)  EIGHTY 
Cents  per  bbl.  Retail  (any  quantity 
under  60  bbls  ),  NINETY  Cents  per 
bbl.  At  the  works  of  tbe 


San  Francisco   Gaslight   Co. 
Howard  and  First  Streets. 


Foot  of  Seoond  Street. 


DR.    BYRON    W.    HAINES 


14  Grant  Avenue 
Rooms  16-17-18-19 


Dentist 


over    'Gity  of  Paris.1 


Dr.  F.  C.  PAGUE 

Dentist 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building, 


819  Market  stree 


Reduced  Long 


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and  any  office  in 

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Sntter  County 
Yuba  County 
Placer  County 

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Butte  County 
Glenn  County 
Nevada  County 

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$  .75 

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Fresno  County 
Tulare  County 
Kings  County 

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Ventura  County 
Santa  Barbara  Co. 

1- 

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Los  Angeles  Co.       1 
Orange  County         ! 
Riverside  County     |  ' " 
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SI  50 

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|R.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
CREAM,    OR    MAGICAL    BEAUTIFIER. 

Removes  Tan,  Pimples,  Freckles,  Moth 
Patches,  Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  bpauty,  and  defies  de- 
tection It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-ton  (a  pa- 
tient): "As  you  ladies  will  use  them,  I 
recommend  'Gouraud's  Cream'  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions," For  sale  by  all  Druggists  and 
Fancy-Goods  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe. 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS,   Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,  N .  Y. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Apiil  3,  1897. 


lrH 


"  My  LoDg  Life:  An  Autobiographic  Sketch. "  by  Mary  Oowden- 
Clarke,  author  of  "  The  Concordance  to  Shakespeare."  New 
York.    Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.    18915. 

Mary,  daughter  of  Vincent  Novello,  the  great  London 
music-publisher,  was  born  in  1809  in  a  house  on  Oxford 
street.  From  the  earliest  age  she  showed  a  strong  predi- 
lection for  music  and  literature,  in  which  she  was  much 
encouraged  by  her  father  and  by  the  distinguished  musi- 
cians and  literary  men  whom  she  met  at  her  parents' 
house.  During  her  childhood  she  met  Ma.ry  and  Charles 
Lamb,  Leigh  Hunt,  and  others,  aDd  in  later  life  made  the 
acquaintance  of  Mary  Shelley,  Sir  Michael  Costa,  Sir 
Henry  Bessemer,  Felix  Mendelssohn,  and  other  distin- 
guished persons.  When  she  was  seventeen  years  of  age 
she  was  betrothed  to  Charles  Cowden-Clarke,  whom  she 
married  in  1828.  From  that  time  forth  she  lived  an  ideally 
happy  married  life.  Her  husband  took  up  the  work  of 
lecturing  on  English  literature,  and  being  eminently,  well- 
fitted  by  nature  for  the  work ,  and  enthusiastically  devoted 
to  it,  he  achieved  great  success.  The  "Concordance  to 
Shakespeare,"  by  which  Mrs.  Cowden-Clarke  is  best  known 
to  the  world,  was  published  in  1841,  having  taken  several 
years  to  accomplish  :  but  besides  her  magnum  opus  she 
wrote  articles  for  English  and  American  magazines,  and 
stories  for  various  publications.  She  also  played  in  Charles 
Dickens's  Amateur  Company,  has  traveled  widely  in 
France,  Germany,  and  Italy,  and  heard  an  incalculable 
number  of  concerts,  operas,  and  dramatic  performances. 
She  has  known  nearly  every  musician  and  composer  of 
eminence  in  Europe,  and  her  sisters  are  singers  and  in- 
strumentalists of  no  mean  capacity.  Her  disposition 
throughout  life  has  been  of  the  sunniest,  and  wherever  she 
has  gone  she  has  made  warm  friends.  She  has  a  natural 
abhorrence  for  coarseness,  and,  as  an  illustration  of  her 
attitude  of  mind,  she  quotes  from  Sir  John  Lubbock's 
"Pleasures  of  Life"  the  following  words:  "The  soul  is 
dyed  by  its  thoughts :  we  cannot  keep  our  minds  pure  if 
we  allow  them  to  be  sullied  by  detailed  accounts  of  crime 
and  sin."  We  recommend  the  proprietors  of  our  big  daily 
papers  to  lay  these  words  to  heart,  and  to  consider 
whether  the  glowing  narratives  of  sensuality  and  wicked- 
ness which  defile  their  columns — and  by  a  singular  miscon- 
ception are  termed  "news" — are  not  the  efficient  cause  of 
much  of  the  crime  they  delight  to  chronicle.  An  hour  be- 
fore writing  these  words,  we  found  nearly  a  column  of  a 
daily  paper  taken  up  by  an  account  of  the  vulgar  intrigue 
of  a  butcher  with  the  wife  of  a  baker.  To  return  to  Mrs. 
Clarke  :  she  has  lived  so  much  in  foreign  countries  that  her 
English  seems  here  and  there  to  have  become  tinged  with 
foreign  idiom:  as  when  she  writes  of  Rubinstein,  the  pian- 
ist, "  I  felt,  so  to  say,  as  if  he  played  Mozart,  Mozartianly; 
Beethoven,  Beethovenishly;  Weber,  Weberishly,  and  so 
on."  Again,  she  speaks  of  Gounod  as  "  altogether  fascin- 
ating to  me  personally  as  well  as  composerly."  Of  a  cer- 
tain hotel  proprietor  in  Lugano,  she  says  "  that  it  seemed 
as  if  he  took  us  for  .  .  .  royalties,  he  treated  us  so  distin- 
guishably."  But  these  are  slight  blemishes  in  a  volume 
that  is  interesting  to  all  readers  as  the  record  of  the 
happy  life  of  a  singularly  vivacious  and  sweet-tempered 
woman,  and  especially  so  to  readers  who  are  fond  of  music 
and  musicians. 

In  The  Dial  of  March  1st,  we  find  a  communication  from 
Oscar  Lovell  Triggs,  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  who  is 
anxious  to  draw  a  distinction  between  what  he  terms 
"aristocratic  and  democratic  modes  of  criticism."  He 
asks:  "Are  we  to  form  our  methods  on  the  lines  of  a  cul- 
ture that  is  narrow,  intellectual,  exclusive,  or  of  a  culture 
that  is  comprehensive,  social,  inclusive  ? "  Does  Mr. 
Triggs  really  mean  to  say  that  the  culture  of  Matthew 
Arnold,  Andrew  Lang,  J.  R.  Lowell,  and  W.  E.  Gladstone 
is  "narrow"  as  compared  with  that  of  Hamlin  Garland 
and  the  Professors  of  Western  Universities?  Will  he  have 
the  temerity  to  assert  that  the  wisdom  of  John  Ruskin  is 
less   broad,   less   deep,    less  "comprehensive"  or  "inclu- 


sive "  than  that  of  Professor  Brander  Matthews,  let  us 
say?  That  their  culture  is  "intellectual"  seems  to  us 
self-evident;  is  that  of  Mr.  Triggs  unintellectual?  Mr. 
Triggs  proceeds:  "  The  tendency  of  modern  criticism,  un- 
der the  combined  influences  of  science  and  democracy,  is 
to  substitute  relative  for  absolute  standards,  and  the  per- 
sonal for  the  impersonal  point  of  view."  And  much  more 
to  the  same  purpose.  Now,  all  this  is  fundamentally  and 
entirely  wrong:  There  are  two  kinds  of  criticism,  it  is 
true,  but  these  have  nothing  essentially  to  do  either  with 
aristocracy  or  democracy,  as  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  the 
best  literary  criticism  is  found  in  France  and  Great  Britain, 
one  of  which  countries  is  a  democracy,  while  the  other  is^ 
an  aristocracy.  The  two  kinds  of  criticism  are  the  good 
and  the  bad,  the  true  and  the  false,  the  educated  and  the 
uneducated,  the  trained  and  the  untrained,  the  expert  and' 
the  inexpert,  the  "intellectual"  and  the  unintelligent, '. 
the  "exclusive,"  which  excludes  the  bad  and  worthless,; 
and  the  "inclusive,"  which  includes  bad  and  good  with: 
equal  indiscrimination.  The  only  estimates  of  literature! 
that  are  of  any  value  are  those  formed  by  persons  prop-! 
erly  qualified  by  Nature  and  training,  without  any  regardi 
at  all  to  the  forms  of  Government  that  they  favor  or  live 
under.  The  bluest-blooded  noble  may  be  an  utterly  worth-: 
less  literary  critic,  and  a  man  of  the  people  may  be 
a  most  valuable  one.  The  function  of  criticism  is  to 
distinguish  between  the  good  and  the  bad,  between  the 
rich  and  the  tawdry,  between  the  permanent  and  the 
ephemeral;  and  to  exclude  rigidly  the  latter.  The  critic 
who,  knowing  better,  tries  to  palm  off  a  bad  book  as  a. 
good  one,  is  unworthy  of  his  office,  which  should  be  taken 
by  another. 

The  immortality  of  a  work  of  literature  is  secured  by 
the  beauty  of  its  style,  and  no  work  the  stjle  of  which  is 
not  almost  perfect  has  survived,  or  will  survice,  through- 
out the  ages.  In  so  far  as  criticism,  whether  that  of 
aristocrats,  democrats,  yjlutocrats,  or  popocrats,  pro- 
ceeds upon  any  other  principles  than  these,  it  is  all  astray., 
There  is  no  method  whereby  a  poor  book,  written  by  a 
person  unfamiliar  with  the  technique  of  literature,  can  be 
made  out  to  be  a  good  one.  It  is  entirely  possible  that  a 
man  of  earnest  character,  broad  sympathies,  and  noble 
courage,  may  write  a  book  which  is,  as  literature,  quite 
worthless:  while  an  immortal  work  may  be  written  by  a 
shiftless,  unprincipled,  reckless,  devil-may-care  fellow 
without  a  dollar  in  the  world.  For  a  man  without  literary 
training  to  attempt  to  write — except  for  practice  and  his 
own  delectation — is  as  foolish  as  for  him  to  try  to  row,  box, 
play  billiards  or  whist,  in  utter  ignorance  of  the  rules  of 
those  exercises.  Ignominious  failure  can  be  the  only  re- 
sult. Amid  the  vast,  mass  of  law-books  that  have  been 
put  forth  in  the  last  century-and-a-half  what  is  it  that  has 
made  the  commentaries  of  Blackstone  pre-eminent?  Is  it 
not  the  beauty  of  their  style,  peerless  among  legal 
treatises?  A  good  book  is  good  for  all  alike,  and  a  bad 
one  is  a  bad  one.  To  say,  as  Mr.  Triggs  does,  that  "demo- 
cratic criticism  records  a  personal  experience"  is  to  say 
that  it  is  not  criticism:  that  it  is  merely  the  expression  of 
a  personal  preference.  There  are  many  millions  of  people 
who  can  only  say  of  a  work  of  art  "I  like  it,"  or  "I  do  not 
care  for  it, "  but  to  call  these  good  creatures  critics,  or 
their  feeble  likes  and  dislikes  criticism,  is  absurd.  The 
laws  of  right  reason  and  true  art  cannot  be  changed 
to  suit  the  personal  preferences  of  persons  who  have  not 
the  aptitude,  or  will  not  take  the  pains,  to  study  the  great 
masters  patiently,  modestly,  and  persistently.  The  new 
criticism  (so-called)  is  merely  another  of  the  familiar  at- 
tempts to  convert  Iowan  and  Nebraskan  goslings  into 
world-renowned  cygnets.  Such  attempts  are  foredoomed 
to  failure  and  should  not  be  made  by  men  whose  position 
seems  to  imply  the  possession  of  better  sense. 

Godey's  Magazine  for  March  is  filled  with  articles  of  in- 
terest to  women.  Grace  H.  Webb  writes  of  Dresden 
Opera,  and  Rupert  Hughes  contributes  "Modern  Art  in 
Piano  Building,"  and  "Music  in  America."  In  a  rather 
foolish  artie.e  on  "Handsome  newspaper  women"  Helen 
M.  Winslow  remarks  that  newspaper- work  "requires  not 
only  a  quick  but  a  well-developed  brain,  the  finest  of  per- 
ceptions, and  an  ever-increasing  culture."  And  here  we 
have  been  supposing,  from  what  we  see  of  the  daily  papers, 
that  journalistic  work  required  perceptions  naturally 
coarse  or  blunted  by  hard  experience,  very  moderate  edu- 


April  3,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


23 


a  certain  vulg  ilignlfled  by 

'!e  of  intcl'  I  aptitude  for  making 

other  people's   al 

that  anything  like  culture  absolutely  unlitleil  a  man  or 
woman  for  the  ordinary  work  of  the  local  room  of  ■  news 
paper.  Mrs.  Winalon  must  know  that  nineteen  twentieths 
of  the  contents  of  our  <i.i:  |  papcrt  are  written  by  men 
who  have  not  even  had  a  1  education,  and  whom 

it  would  be  ludii  ■  ■.     delicacy  or  cul- 

ture. Are  not  people  of  refinement  continually  shocked 
and  disgusted  at  the  daily  papers,  and  do  not  some  of 
them  abandon  the  reading  of  papers  altogether  for  weeks 
or  months?  How  is  it  that  the  work  of  people  of  "the 
finest  of  perceptions  and  an  ever-increasing  culture''  pro- 
these  results?  Nor  are  we  able  to  agree  with  Mrs. 
Winslow  when  she  says  that  journalistic  work  gives  well- 
bred  women  the  open  sesame  to  good  society  everywhere." 
Let  any  woman  who  thinks  so  try  toenter  t  tie  good  society 
of  Rome.  Paris,  Vienna,  or  London,  on  the  strength  of  be- 
ing a  "society  reporter.''  and  see  how  far  she  will  get. 
The  issue  contains  the  usual  well-iilustrated  fashion 
article,  and  the  third  of  f  I  race  E.  Drew's  "Modes  and 
Manners  of  seventy  years 

The  International  Studio,  published  by  John  Lane  at  the 
Bodley  Head,  is  one  of  the  handsomest  of  the  periodicals. 
The  paper  on  which  it  is  printed  is  heavy  and  of  fine 
quality.  The  March  issue  gives  us  reproductions,  in  black, 
brown  or  Bartolozzi  red.  of  M.  L.  Levy-Dhurmer's  pic- 
tures, which  arc  of  a  remarkably  dreamy  character.  A 
letter  from  Japan  by  Mortimer  Mempes  is  reproduced  in 
fac-simile,  drawings  and  all.  Other  copiously  illustrated 
articles  deal  with  early  Scandinavian  wood-carvings,  and 
show  some  excellent  examples  of  bookbinding  by  T.  J. 
Cobden-Sanderson  and  Miss  E.  M.  MacCall.  It  is  pointed 
out  that  the  important  thing  about  a  design  for  a  book- 
cover  is  beauty,  not  appropriateness:  a  very  "appro- 
priate" design  may  be  both  vulgar  and  stupid.  The 
Studio  will  prove  valuable  to  all  who  are  interested  in 
artistic  work  of  almost  every  kind,  for  it  covers  a  wide 
field. 

In  Game  Land  for  March  we  see  an  article  entitled 
"Three  Hundred  Miles  Afoot.  A  Pedestrian-Collecting 
Trip."  Now,  if  a  stamp-collector  means  one  who  collects 
stamps,  and  a  fern-collecting  expedition  is  one  having  for 
its  object  the  gathering  of  ferns,  it  must  needs  be  that  "  a 
pedestrian-collecting  trip"  is  one  taken  for  the  pur'pose  of 
collecting  pedestrians.  Yet  the  first  words  in  the  title  of 
the  article  make  it  clear  that  what  is  meant  is  a  trip  on 
foot  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  collection  of  certain  things 
not  mentioned — possibly  United  States  gold  dollars. 

On  February  25th  and  again  on  March  2d  Mr.  J.  W. 
Laing,  M.  A.,  F.  R.  G.  S..  formerly  of  this  city,  delivered 
at  Victoria,  B.  C,  a  lecture  on  India  and  its  people.  On 
the  first  occasion  the  lecture  was  delivered  in  aid  of  the 
Indian  Famine  Relief  Fund  and  realized  $165.  The  chair 
was  taken  on  both  evenings  by  the  Hon.  James  Baker, 
Minister  of  Education,  and  the  newspapers  of  Victoria 
speak  very  highly  of  the  lecture. 

Early  in  April  the  Century  Company  will  publish  "The 
Stand-by,"  a  novel  by  Edmund  P.  Dole  of  Hawaii,  and  a 
volume  of  stories  by  Mrs.  Schuyler  van  Rennsselaer;  also 
"Talks  to  young  men"  and  "Talks  to  young  women,"  by 
Dr.  Park  hurst,  who  is  turning  to  account  with  publishers 
the  notoriety  gained  in  New  York  purlieus. 

Dauchy's  newspaper  catalogue  tor  1897  is  fully  up  to  the 
standard  of  previous  issues,  and  will  be  t\,und  of  especial 
value  to  advertisers  generally. 

Through  Sleeping  Cars  to  Chicago. 
The  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa  Fe  route)  runs  daily 
through  from  Oakland  to  Chicago  first-class  drawing  room  and 
second-class  modern  upholstered  tourist  sleeping  cars.  Lowest  rates 
to  all  points  in  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  or  Europe. 
Ticket  office,  G44  Market  street,  opposite  Chronicle  Building.  Tele- 
phone Main  1531. 

The  best  is  the  cheapest  always.  And  in  this  case  the  best  whis- 
key is  the  J.  F.  Cutter.  Smooth  as  oil,  mellow  with  age,  it  is  the  de- 
light of  the  connoisseur  and  judges  of  good  drinks.  E.  Martin  it 
Co.,  411  Market  street,  are  sole  Pacific  Coast  agents  for  J.  F.  Cutter 
Whiskey. 


A  Slight  Cold,  if  neglected,  often  Attacks  the  Lungs. 
Bronchial   Troches  "  give  immediate  and  effectual  relief. 


'  Brown?* 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC    COMPANY-PACIFIC  SYSTEM. 

Trmtoa  Leave  and  are  Doe  to  Arrive  at  SAN    FRANCISCO: 


i/(iw.  I 

7:00A 
7:U0A 

7:»>  a 
8 -at  a 

•8:80  A 
0:00a 


Frtrm  March  tl,  IW7. 


Nllea.  Sao  Jone.  and  way  atattonn  8:46a 

Atlantic  KxprrHH,  Ogdon  and  East m:«ip 

Bcnlcla.    Vaoartlle     Rumsey,   Sacramento,   Orovillc,   and 

Redding,   vhi  Di 6:45  P 

Mart  I  no  7..  Sun  K  union,  Vullejo,  Napa.Cahsioga,  Santa  Rona    6:15  P 
NtlfH.  Sun  .lose.  Stockton.  lone,  Sacramento,  Marysvlllo, 

renama.and  Kcd  Bluff 4:I6p 

Peters  and  Milton *7:16p 

New  Orleans    Express,   Raymond  (for    Yoscmlie),    Fresno, 
Rakers  tit  ill,  Santa  iturbara,  Los  Angeles,  Doming,  El  Paso, 

Now  Orlfitns.  im,|   Baal 4:4SP 

Martinez  and  Stockton     ,.     4:45  P 

Vallejo 6:16  p 

Nlles,  San  Jose  Llvermore,  and  Stockton .     7:15 P 

Sacramento  River  steamers *9:0UP 

Nlles,  San  Jose,  and   Llvermore 8:45a 

Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations f7:45P 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Oallstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa . 9:15A 

Benlcla,   Vacavllle.  Woodland,  Knight's   Landing,  Marys 

vllle.  Orovllle.  and  Sacramento 11:15a 

Lathrop.  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  and  Fresno,  going  via 

Niks,  returning  via   Martinez -  11:45  A 

Los  Angeles   Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,   Mojave   (for  Rands- 
burg), Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles —    7.45a 

Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East —    7:45a 

European  mall,  Ogden  and  East 9:45  A 

Haywards,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7:45a 

Vallejo 17 :45  P 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysville,   Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East ..  .  11:15 A 

Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 

17:45  a  Santa  Cruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  {8:05  p 
8  :45  a  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Houlder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations ...  5:50 P 

•2:15  p  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:20a 

4:15  P  Newark,  San  Jose.LuS  Oatos ...      9:50  A 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

7:00a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1:30  p 
9 .00  a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos ,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Roblefi 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe,  Surf  and  prinoipalway  stations    4 :15  P 

10 :40  A  San  Jose  and  way  s  tations 6 :30  p 

11:30  a  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 5:O0p 

*2:30p  San  Mateo,  MenloFark.  San  Jose.  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa 

Cruz,  Salinas. Monterey. PacifloGrove    *10:40a 

•3:30 P  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45  a 

«4:30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8:05  a 

6 :30  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations *8 :45  a 

6 :30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 :35  a 

til  :45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations  fJ  :45  p 

San  leandro  and  haywards  Local. 


9:00  a 
9: 00  a 

1:00  P 
tl:30P 
4:00P 

4:00p 


6:00P 

5:00  p 
6:0UP 
6:00  P 
17:00P 
7:00  P 


t»6-00  Al 
8:00  a 

f      7:15A 

10:4b  A 

9:00  a 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00  A 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

ill. 00  A 

Fitchburq, 

12:45  P 

8:00  p 

San  Leandro, 

(1:45  p 

i3:00  p 

and 

4:45  F 

4:00  P 

Haywards. 

(5:45  P 

5:00  P 

6:15  P 

5:30  P 

7:45  P 

7:00  P 

i  Buns  through  to  Nlles. 

8:45  P 

8:00  p 

(  From  Niles. 

9:45  P 

9:00  p 

10:50  P 

tm:l5  p 

lttl2:00  p 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  talip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  a.  M.,  J1:0U,  *2:0U.  {3:00.  »4:00,{5;00  and  *6:00p.  m. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway.— *6:00,8:00, 10:00  A.  m.;  {12:00,  *1:00, 
{2:00,  *3:00,  J4:00  *5:00  P.  M. 

a  for  Morning,     p  for  Afternoon.     'Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

{Sundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

HTuesdays  and  Saturdays.  gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

FOR    1APAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  M.,  tor 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting  at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc.    No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Coptic  (via  Honolulu) Thursday,  April  1, 1897 

Gaelic .   Wednesday,  April  21.  1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  11,  1897 

Belgic  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29,  1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office,  No.  421  Market  street, 
oorner  First.  0.  D.  STUBBS,  Secretary 

IVHMIfV  S.  S.  "Mariposa,"  Thursday,  April  1st,  at  2  p.  M. 
ipMlllL  Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
ill  w    South  Africa. 

S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu   only,  TueBday, 
April  20th,  at  2  p    m. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO., 
/SmFlflDH-  Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
^llipuliq-     Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  3,  1897. 


THE  splendid  racing  which  has  been  witnessed  by  en- 
thusiastic crowds  at  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion  these  past 
two  weeks,  has  done  much  to  aid  the  interest  in  wheeling 
generally  and  the  trade  in  particular.  The  riding  has 
been  of  the  best,  and  the  aggregation  of  speedy  wheelmen 
and  the  close  competition  have  given  lovers  of  the  sport 
entertainment  of  the  highest  order.  Notwithstanding  the 
great  roar  made  by  the  manager  of  the  meet,  as  to  the 
manner  in  which  the  racing  men  have  been  imposed  upon 
by  race  promoters  on  this  Coast  before  -his  advent  upon 
the  scene,  he  has  seen  fit  to  discontinue  one  of  the  most 
interesting  features  of  the  meet — the  amateur  races — and 
all  because  he  could  not  force  the  boys  to  take  a  lot  of 
cheap  jewelry  and  under-value  prizes  as  trophies  won. 
He  declared  with  much  force  that  "them  amatoors  is  the 
ungratefulest  set  of  boys  I  ever  seen."  And  that  the 
prizes  were  "the  most  expensivest "  that  could  be  se- 
lected. 

The  tournament  concludes  with  this  evening's  races, 
most  of  the  flyers  taking  their  departure  to-morrow  for 
Nashville,  Tenn.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  no  better  nor  more 
niggardly  or  poor  management  ever  went  hand  in  hand 
before. 

Coming  on  the  heels  of  the  Indoor  Meet,  as  it  does,  the 
relay  race  to  be  held  to-morrow  has  been  in  a  manner  lost 
sight  of  by  wheelmen  generally,  excepting,  of  course,  those 
actually  conditioning  themselves  for  the  contest.  This  an- 
nual hundred-mile  race  around  the  bay  is  one  of  the  great- 
est road  events  that  takes  place  in  the  United  States.  It 
is  run  under  the  auspices  of  the  California  Associated 
Cycling  Clubs,  and  forms  one  of  a  series  of  three  annual 
races — the  others  being  respectively  ten  and  twenty-five 
mile  handicap  runs,  all  taking  place  on  the  road. 

To-night  will  determine  whether  or  not  we  are  to  have 
track  racing  on  Sunday  in  this  State.  The  matter  will  be 
finally  acted  upon  this  evening  at  a  general  meeting  of  the 
delegates  of  the  C.  A.  C.  C,  held  for  the  purpose  of  con- 
sidering the  advisability  of  wresting  the  control  of  track 
racing  in  this  State  from  the  League  of  American  Wheel- 
men, which  organization  has  refused  to  grant  the  West 
the  relief  •  asked  in  the  matter  of  division  option.  The 
course  of  the  parent  body  in  this  matter  has  been  the 
cause  of  the  dissolution  of  the  North  California  Division  of 
the  League,  and  bids  fair  to  deprive  the  L.  A.  W.  of  all 
control  of  track  racing  in  the  United  States. 


AT     THE      RACES. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC  RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    TlBOBON  FERRY- Foot  of  Market  Street. 
WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:1X),  u:uo  A  m;  12:35,  3:30  5:10,  6:30  p  M.    Thursdays— 
Extra  trip  at  11 :30  p  M.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :50  and  11 :30  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 3:00,9:30.  11:00  A  M:  1:30,  3:30,  5:00,6:20PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO  SAN   FRANCISCO. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50.  9 :2u,  11:10  am;  12:45,  3:40,5:10pm.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at  1 :55  and  6 :35  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40,  11:10  AM;  1 :40,  3 :40, 5 :00,  6 :25  P  M. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


THE  racing  at  Ingleside  during  the  past  week  has  been 
of  the  sensational  order,  and  on  several  occasions  the 
talent  have  been  completely  routed.  This  was  due  to  bad 
starting — in  several  cases — favorites  and  second  choices 
being  left  at  the  post.  There  has  been  a  lamentable  lack 
of  handicap  races  of  late,  and  too  many  cheap  selling 
events.  It  is  almost  impossible  to  fill  a  handicap  race  with 
high-class  perfor-ners,  owing  to  the  great  number  of  sell- 
ing races  on  the  daily  card.  The  sensation  of  the  week 
was  the  winning  of  Mainstay  at  odds  of  100  to  1,  he  defeat- 
ing Sallie  Cliquot,  Santa  Bella,  Lady  Diamond,  Caliente, 
Logan,  and  others;  the  odds  were  undoubtedly  false 
against  this  horse. 

The  Gentlemen's  race  for  the  cup  was  won  by  Flashlight, 
cleverly  ridden  by  Mr.  Skinner.  Athens  was' second,  rid- 
den by  Lieutenant  Haines,  who  rode  a  great  race  to  beat 
Yankee  Doodle.  The  California  Derby  will  be  decided  this 
afternoon,  and  promises  to  be  a  grand  contest,  and  will  be 
worth  a  long  journey  to  see.  There  is  a  large  number  of 
entries,  and  §5000  will  go  to  the  winners. 


There  is  the  fullest  and  most  valuable   collection  of  Japanese 

■'  ios,  tapestries,  art  goods,  etc.,  in  San  Francisco,  to  be  iound  any- 

;re  in  the  United  States.    George  T.  Marsb  &  Co.,  at  625  Market 

et,  under  the  Palace  Hotel,  is  the  place,  and  a  visit  there  is  a 

i  treat  and  liberal  education  in  Japanese  art. 


Leave  S.  F. 

In  Eflect  Oct.  14,  1896 

ARRIVE  IN  S.  F. 

Week  Days. 

Sundays. 

DESTINATION. 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

Sundays    1  Week  Days 

7:30am 
3:30  pm 
5:10  pm 

8:00am 
9:30  am 
5:00pm 

10 :40  A M    |      8:40  m 
6:10  PM    I     10:25  AM 
7:35pm    1     6:22  pm 

8:66  am 

Fulton,   Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyservllle.  Cloverdale 

7:35PM 

10:25  A  M 

7:30  AM 
3:30  pm 

6:22  p  M 

7:30  AM 

|   8:00  AM 

I  Pieta 

,  Hopland,  Uklah  | 

7:35  PM 

I     6:22  P  M 

7:30AM 
3:30pm 

I    8:0UAM 

1 

Guerneville.          \ 

7:35  PM 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:30  AM 
5:10PM 

1  8:00AM 
I   5:00pm 

| 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40am 

6:10pm 

8:40  A  M 
6 :22  P  M 

7:30AM 
3:30pm 

1  8:00am 
]   5:00pm 

| 

Sebastopol. 

10:40am 
6:10pm 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyservllle 
for  Skaggs'  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  Highland 
Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake  port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport 
and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs, 
Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper  Lake.Pomo,  Potter  Valley,  John 
Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville, 
Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot  Springs ,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg.West- 
port,  Usal,  WilUtts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Harris,  Scotia,  Eureka. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  W.  FOSTER.  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass .  Agent. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf,  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  a.  m..  April  1,  6, 11, 16.  21,  26,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  a.  m.,  April  1,  6,11, 16, 
21.  26,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  {Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,'1  at  2  p.  m.  Aprils,  6, 
10,  14,  lx,  22.  26,  30,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  ;  April  4,  8, 12, 16, 
20,  24,  28.  ana  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  a.  m.,  April  2.  6, 10, 14, 
18,  22,  26,  30,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  delCabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  A.  m., 
25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel.  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GQODALL,PERKINS&CO.,Qen,lAgents,       10  Market  st,  S.  F. 

Thn    r.Nnnrj     Parifir     306  Stockton   St.  San    Francisco 
1  lit)    Ul  dllU     rdulllbi        MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month.      Telephone :  Grant.  507. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Crown  Point  Gold  and  Silver  Mining   Company. 

Location  nf  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  24th  day  of  March,  lfc97,  an  assessment  (No  70)  of  twenty  cents  (20c) 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  room  35,  third  floor  of  Mills  building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
28th  DAY  OP  APRIL,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction:  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  19th  day  of 
May.  1897.  to  pay  tne  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

JAMES  NEWLANDS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  35,  third  floor  of  Mills  building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE    OF    REMOVAL    OF    PLACE    OF    BUSINESS, 
Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company. 

To  the  stockholders  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company  and 
to  all  others  concerned : 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that,  persuant  to  the  consent,  in  writing,  of  the 
holders  of  two  thirds  of  thy  capital  stock  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  Silver 
Mining  Company,  duly  filed  in  the  office  of  said  company,  the  principal 
place  of  business  of  said  Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company  has  been 
changed  from  room  3,  of  tbe  San  Francisco  Stock  and  Exchange  building, 
No  331  Pine  street,  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, to  room  No.  11  in  the  same  building,  where  the  business  of  said  com- 
pany will  be  hereafter  transacted.  This  notice  is  published  in  accordance 
with  Section  321  of  the  Civil  Code. 

Dated  March  19, 1897. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors.  R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  11,  San  Francisco  Stock  and  Exchange  Building,  311  Pine 
street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Occidental  Con.  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  26 

Amount  per  Share 10  cents 

Levied February  10,  1897 

Delinquent  in  Office March  16, 1887 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock      April  6, 1897 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


WITH   S.    F.    NEWS   LETTER. 


PROMINENT  MEMBERS  OF  THE  CALIFS 


APRIL    10,    1897. 


^NIA  SOCIETY  OF  SONS  OF  THE  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION 


Priet  per  Copy.  10  Centt. 


Annual  Subscription,   $4.00y 


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Ne^s 


Vol.  L1V. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  APRIL  10.  1897. 


Number  15. 


Frtnled  and  I'xblulua  etery  /yatyrda)  by  the  proprietor.  FRSD  HARRIOT! 

&H  A"'jrny  street.  San  Francisco.     Sntersd  at   San   Francisco  Post- 

OJI«  as  Second-class  Matter. 
r»«  OJUs  o/   tlu  SKWS  LKTTKR  in   gam   Vort  City  is  at  Tempi/  Court; 

and  at    Chicago.  *U   Boycs    BuUding.  {Front  S     Morrison,  eastern 

Brprssentatire).  when information  mayo*  obtained  regarding  subscrip- 

lion  and  advertising  rate*. 

THE  announcement  is  made  that  one  of  the  athletic 
clubs  of  the  city  will  "box  for  charity."  If  this  be 
not  borrowing  the  livery  of  heaven  to  serve  the  devil  in,  no 
such  instance  finds  record. 


Til  E  notorious  Cremorne,  on  Market  street,  must  yield 
to  the  march  of  improvements.  It  should  have  yielded 
to  a  sense  of  decency  and  the  march  of  the  police  long 
ago.  It  wore  the  frayed  garments  of  moulting  vulgarity, 
and  was  redolent  of  the  squirming  hula-bula,  the  blear-eyed 
box  rustler,  and  the  pickpocket.  That  its  going  is  owing 
to  commercial  pressure  rather  than  public  sentiment,  is 
no  compliment  to  this  city. 

STATEMENTS  that  fabulously  rich  diggings  have  been 
struck  in  the  Yuma,  Arizona,  mining  district,  may  be 
accepted  with  a  great  degree  of  caution.  There  has  never 
yet  been  manufactured  a  magnifying  glass  of  power  equal 
to  the  eye  of  the  prospector.  The  fact  that  he  is  sincere 
in  the  falsehoods  he  tells  detracts  nothing  from  their  harm- 
fulness.  Yuma  is  a  pretty  hot  district,  and  almost  any- 
thing can  be  hatched  out  in  the  sands  along  the  Colorado 
river. 

THE  Grand  Jury  has  just  discovered  that  the  new  sys- 
tem of  collecting  taxes  costs  $40,000  more  than  the 
old  plan,  and  a  special  committee  of  inquiry  very  sensibly 
recommends  that  a  return  to  former  methods  is  in  order. 
It  is  really  surprising  that  the  tax-eaters,  who  gather 
where  they  have  not  strewn,  and  reap  where  they  have 
not  sown,  let  us  off  with  a  simple  $40,000.  Their  modera- 
tion in  this  respect  entitles  them  to  the  penitentiary 
rather  than  the  gallows. 

A  MONUMENT  to  Lincoln  will  be  commendable  at  an 
opportune  time;  but  his  noble  life,  simplicity  of 
character,  and  sweet  regard  for  others,  have  made  for 
him  a  monument  so  lasting  that  mere  marble  is  almost 
superfluous.  There  is  just  at  this  time  a  more  urgent 
need  for  money  to  feed  the  hungry  than  to  raise  a  shaft  in 
memory  of  the  greatest  American.  Some  prominent 
point  in  the  c.ty,  rather  than  the  Park,  would  be  a  more 
appropriate  place  for  the  monument;  and  the  25-cent 
pieces  the  school  children  are  to  be  asked  to  give  toward 
it  will  in  many  cases  mean  either  actual  saciifice  or  per- 
sonal humiliation. 


THE  Mission  Five  Mile  Improvement  Club  is  making  an 
effort  to  remove  the  dairies  and  swineries  that  infest 
that  part  of  the  city.  The  inquisitive  goat,  the  odorous 
porker,  and  the  tuberculous  cow  that  now  make  up  a  large 
part  of  the  population  of  that  district  are  to  be  driven  off. 
The  Supervisors  are  asked  to  extend  the  pound  limits,  so 
that  the  operation  of  the  law  may  make  these  industries 
unremunerative.  It  is  a  source  of  surprise  that  the  dairy- 
men and  hog-raisers  have  been  permitted  to  conduct  their 
business  in  the  city  limits.  Milk  and  pork  are  unfit  for 
sale  when  so  produced,  to  say  nothing  of  the  health  of  those 
residing  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  such  disease-breeding 
localities.  That  these  offenders  insist  on  polluting  the  air 
of  the  city  and  endangering  health  is  a  conclusive  proof 
that  all  hogs  do  not  necessarily  travel  on  four  legs. 


LAW  is  said  to  be  the  perfection  of  human  reason.  But 
that  was  not  the  article  Judge  Coffey  dealt  out  when 
be  declared  that  a  will  was  invalid  because  the  first  two 
figures  of  the  date,  18!lj,  had  been  omitted  in  that  instru- 
ment. This  learned  Judge  says  that  he  cannot  tell  what 
''November  li.  '95,"  means,  and  so  sets  it  aside !  All  of 
which  shows  that  common  sense  is  not  necessarily  the 
mental  equipment  of  a  probate  judge. 

JUDGE  WALLACE  may  be  said  to  have  reversed  the 
Supreme  Court  in  the  case  of  Buckley,  ballot-box 
stuffer,  who  has  thus  far,  through  the  law's  delays,  par- 
tially escaped  punishment  for  his  crime.  The  higher  tribu- 
nal practically  ordered  the  release  of  Buckley,  and  Wallace 
refused  to  honor  the  requisition,  so  to  speak.  Now,  by 
denying  the  petition  for  a  writ  of  habeas  corpus,  the 
Supreme  Court  affirms  Judge  Wallace.  It  is  a  novel  pro- 
cedure, but  it  shows  that  the  soundest  law  does  not  neces- 
sarily spring  from  the  highest  source. 


A  LOS  ANGELES  jelly  manufacturer  writes  to  the  San 
Francisco  Board  cf  Health,  and  backs  his  protest  by 
affidavit,  that  goods  of  his  make  recently  found  to  be  adul- 
terated, are  the  quintessence  of  purity.  The  question 
naturally  arises  whether  affidavits  are  cheaper  in  Los 
Angeles  than  the  ingredients  of  which  pure  goods  are 
made.  He  also  suggests  that  the  Board  of  Health  submit 
to  the  Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce  a  similar  sam- 
ple for  analysis.     We  move  for  a  change  of  venue. 

ANOTHER  man  has  sued  the  city  for  damages  because 
of  the  overflow  from  a  broken  sewer.  There  is  little 
doubt  that  he  will  recover,  and  little  doubt  that  he  ought 
to.  It's  a  pretty  safe  proposition  to  say  that  half  the 
work  of  this  sort  done  in  San  Francisco  is  defective. 
Their  long  practice  in  giving  tax-payers  the  double  cross 
has  prepared  the  public  for  any  outrage  in  the  way  of 
contractors'  work.  Defective  sewers  and  defective  officials 
go  hand  in  hand — with  the  advantages  slightly  favoring 
the  sewers. 

THE  Populist  statesmen  of  Kansas  are  incubating  a  plan 
by  which  they  may  tax  inordinate  wealth.  These 
emissaries  of  financial'disaster  have  established  headquar- 
ters and  are  in  receipt  of  an  enormous  quantity  of  mail. 
Yes;  there  are  few  Populists  so  poor  that  they  cannot  af- 
ford a  postal  card  or  postage  stamp,  and  the  number  of 
statesmen  of  this  sort  who  can  tell  what  should  be  done 
with  other  people's  wealth  is  large  and  increasing.  Kan- 
sas has  woes  enough  already  without  these  exaggerated 
imbeciles.     It  claims  John  James  Ingalls  as  all  its  own. 


THE  Board  of  Health  is  worthy  of  its  name.  Its  members 
do  not  belong  to  the  invertebrates.  The  strenuous  ef- 
forts that  have  been  made  to  prevent  vigorous  prosecution  of 
violators  of  the  pure  food  laws  have  not  affected  this  board. 
The  crusade  will  continue,  and  every  effort  will  be  made  to 
stop  the  obtaining  of  money  under  false  pretenses  by  those 
who  knowingly  sell  adulterated  food  as  pure  goods.  There 
is  no  way  to  prevent  this  growing  evil  excepting  through 
public  prosecution.  No  doubt,  some  of  those  who  have 
been  gathering  in  honest  shekels  for  dishonest  foods  did  so 
ignorantly;  but  this  fact,  however  consoling  it  may  be  from 
a  strictly  moral  point  of  view,  subtracts  nothing  from  the 
wrong  inflicted  upon  the  unsuspecting  purchaser.  "Getting 
caught  at  it,"  is  a  wonderful  stimulant  for  dormant  con- 
sciences. The  doctors  should  not  spare  their  physic :  it 
will  kill  or  cure. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  10,  1897. 


GLADSTONE     ON      THE     CRETAN      DIFFICULTY. 

MR.  GLADSTONE  has  never  been  deemed  a  high 
authority  on  foreign  affairs,  but  his  influence  over 
the  opinions  and  passions  of  his  people  is  unequalled.  No 
man  living  has  a  greater  sway  over  the  judgment  of  the 
people  of  England  than  William  Ewart  Gladstone.  When 
he  passionately  declares  that  the  honor  of  his  country  is 
at  stake  the  conscience  of  England  will  go  with  him.  This 
he  has  just  said  in  a  way  that  only  he  can  say  it.  The 
Nation  is  with  him  and  he  is  for  war.  It  may  therefore 
be  taken  for  granted  that  whatever  occurs  ultimately, 
England  will  be  against  the  "unspeakable  Turk"  whom 
Mr.  Gladstone  wanted  to  turn  out  of  Europe  years  ago, 
"bag  and  baggage."  The  sympathy  of  the  people  of  the 
United  States  will  go  out  towards  the  grand  old  man  and 
do  what  it  can  to  uphold  his  hands.  At  the  same  time, 
whilst  Lord  Salisbury  has  charge  of  the  matter,  it  is  in 
safe,  capable,  and  conservative  bands.  He  will  wield  a 
moderating  influence,  but,  with  Gladstone  leading  public 
opinion,  he  dare  not  lag  far  behind.  It  is  obvious  that  the 
Prime  Minister  of  England  has  a  heavy  weight  of  respon- 
sibility on  bis  shoulders  just  now.  A  nod  of  his  head  or 
one  false  step  may  brirg  on  the  long  expected  and  much 
dreaded  European  war,  the  dire  consequences  of  which  no 
man  can  limit.  Whenever  the  time  comes  that  the  des- 
patches can  be  published,  we  feel  satisfied  that  Lord 
Salisbury  will  be  found  to  have  acted  well  his  part,  and 
that  under  stupendous  difficulties.  It  has  been  said  that 
great  occasions  make  great  men,  certainly  in  England  the 
right  time,  as  a  rule,  briugs  out  the  right  man.  Glad- 
stone is  all  right  where  he  is,  but  were  he  in  Salisbury's 
place  he  would  almost  certainly  be  all  wrong.  Salisbury's 
temper  is  fortunately  not  as  keen  as  a  Damascus  blade, 
but  his  head  is  strictly  level;  ■  and  he  has  a  wonderful 
amount  of  back  bone.  With  such  an  equipment  he  is  un- 
questionably the  right  man  in  the  right  place  at  this  time. 
What  the  particular  difficulties  are  which  keep  "the 
concert  of  Europe"  divided  and  inactive,  are  possibly  not 
so  much  as  imagined  by  the  guessing  newspaper  men  of 
the  period.  Diplomacy  is  conducted  in  a  very  high  handed 
and  secretive  way  in  the  older  countries.  More  than  one 
half  of  all  press  despatches  that  are  coming  to  this  coun- 
try at  present  are  mere  guess  work.  Combination  after 
combination  is  talked  about  that  is  absolutely  absurd. 
We  do  not  believe  that  any  one  outside  of  the  very  high- 
est diplomatic  ranks  has  the  slightest  idea  of  the  card 
that  Germany  is  playing.  We  believe  that  she  is  for  any 
side,  or  for  no  side,  if  that  will  tend  to  separate  Russia 
from  France.  That  Russia  will  ultimately  have  no  objec- 
tion to  Greece  annexing  Crete  is  undoubtedly  true,  but  the 
present  she  thinks  untimely.  She  is  not  ready  to  seize  the 
Dardannelles  and  occupy  Constantinople,  and  wants  no 
war  in  that  locality  until  she  is.  Greece  will  secure  a 
liberal  autonomy  for  Crete  now,  and  later  on  will  secure 
annexation.  All  this  looks  like  a  continuance  of  peace. 
But  we  are  strongly  disposed  to  think  that  a  play  for 
position  is  going  on,  and  that  the  issues  of  peace  or  war 
hang  upon  the  condition  of  the  Czar's  health.  We  think 
that  England  is  little  understood  in  this  matter.  She  re- 
ceived a  rude  shock  some  months  ago  and  woke  up  to  find 
Russia  and  Germany  united  against  her.  A  thing  that 
had  for  so  many  years  seemed  impossible.  Jealousy  of 
her  territorial  and  commercial  success  was  rampant  on 
every  side.  Nearly  every  body  was  ready  to  kick  old 
John  Bull's  pants  into  smithereens.  He  was  specially 
surprised  to  find  the  United  States  against  him,  and  took 
care  to  promptly  set  matters  straight  about  the  Monroe 
Doctrine  and  all  else  we  wanted.  He  then  began 
cautiously  to  set  all  his  other  fences  in  order,  and  without 
a  doubt  is  doing  a  heep  of  thinking  over  that  matter  to 
this  very  hour.  It  became  plain  that  Italy  and  Austria 
had  been  deluded  by  Germany  in  the  Dreibund.  France, 
too,  had  been  deceived  by  Russia  in  favor  of  Germany. 
All  these  powers  are  at  sixes  and  sevens,  and  distrust 
reigns  all  around.  England,  France,  Italy,  and  possibly 
Austria,  have  alone  proven  trustworthy.  We  think  they 
are  the  coming  combination  and  that  England  is  not  as 
averse  to  war  as  some  people  have  thought.  She  is  fairly 
well  prepared  now.  Her  million  and  a  half  of  trained 
Indian  soldiers,  her  wonderful  navy,  and,  above  all,  her 
great  supply  of   money,    give  her   a  degree  of  strength 


greater  than  anything  she  ever  before  possessed.  We 
think  she  is  now  engaged  in  convincing  the  European 
Concert  that  whilst  she  is  for  peace,  she  is  not  for  peace 
at  any  price,  and  that  if  the  circumstances  justify  it,  she 
is  willing  to  fight,  even  if  she  has  to  go  it  alone.  If  she 
plays  out  the  game  on  those  lines,  it  will  be  one  of  the 
most  heroic  bluffs  on  record.  Yet  England  can  fight  and 
no  man  living  can  set  bounds  to  what  she  might  prove  her- 
self capable  of  accomplishing  in  that  line.  We  believe  Mr. 
Gladstone  was  put  up  to  make  that  speech,  and  that  there 
was  design  in  it.  The  politics  of  Europe  are  seldom  what 
they  seem  to  be.  England  may  see  that  war  is  inevitable, 
and  that  the  present  time  suits  her  as  well  as  any  other. 

McKinley  and  There  is  to  be  no  jingoism  in  this  admin- 
Sherman's  istration.  That  much  is  certain.  Mr. 
Foreign  Policy.  Smalley,  the  American  correspondent 
of  the  London  Times,  publishes  an  inter- 
view he  had  with  our  President  and  Secretary  of  State,  in 
regard  to  matters  of  public  policy,  that  is  frank  and  un- 
pretentious in  the  extreme.  President  McKinley  will 
maintain  the  gold  standard  whilst  "doing  something"  for 
international  bimetallism;  he  is  still  a  convinced  protec- 
tionist, but  "  he  recognizes  that  times  are  altered  since 
the  1890  tariff."  He  favors  the  arbitration  treaty  without 
material  amendment.  He  did  not  propose  to  take  any 
new  departure  in  regard  to  Cuba.  Secretary  Sherman 
talked  at  length,  but  almost  exclusively  about  foreign 
affairs.  According  to  him,  and  he  ought  to  know,  this  ad- 
ministration is  possessed  of  the  most  conservative  and 
pacific  intentions.  He  believes  in  the  Washingtonian  doc- 
trine of  "friendship  with  all,  with  entangling  alliances 
with  none."  "There  will  be  no  war  with  Spaiu,"  he  said; 
"  we  want  rone,  and  have  no  reason  to  believe  she  does 
with  us."  He  declared  that  if  Spain  would  give  him  a  quit 
claim  to  Cuba,  he  would  not  have  it.  He  is  opposed  to  all 
the  annexation  schemes,  those  of  Hawaii  and  Canada  in- 
cluded. As  far  as  this  northern  continent  goes,  he  says 
"  that  his  dream  is  for  three  great  republics — Mexico,  the 
United  States,  and  Canada" — but  he  would  not  take  a  sin- 
gle step  to  alter  things  as  they  are.  That  is  all  good  and 
pretty  enough  for  a  Sunday  school,  and  we  believe  the 
Secretary  quite  sincere,  but  the  responsibilities  of  office 
do  most  wonderfully  change  the  views  of  men.  It  was  this 
self-same  Sherman  who,  as  a  Senator,  voted  for  recog- 
nizing both  the  belligerancy  and  independence  of  Cuba.  It 
is  one  of  the  humors  of  the  time  that  after  four  years  of 
Republican  roasting  of  Cleveland's  "invertebrate"  foreign 
policy,  the  administration  that  succeeds  him  should  an- 
nounce the  continuance  of  that  same  cursed  and  bedeviled 
policy.  But  it  is  the  policy  that  the  Republican  voters  of 
the  country  want,  all  the  same. 

In  re  There  are  good  laws  and  very  ill  considered 
Lunacy,  ones  on  the  statue  book.  There  are  some 
things  our  municipality  does  well,  whilst  there 
are  others  that  it  does  in  a  manner  that  is  a  disgrace  to 
our  vaunted  civilization.  For  instance  our  laws  relating 
to  the  arrest  and  imprisonment  of  a  person,  on  complaint 
of  another,  that  he  is  insane  and  unfit  to  go  at  large,  is  a 
relic  of  the  barbaric  ages.  It  may  occur  and  it  has  oc- 
cured  that  the  complaining  person  is  the  only  demented 
one.  It  is  one  of  the  well  known  freaks  of  lunatics  to 
imagine  and  charge  the  sane  person  to  be  insane.  That  is 
an  experience  which  mad  doctors  meet  with  almost  every 
day  of  their  lives,  and  not  infrequently  it  is  the  one  who 
prefers  the  charge  who  goes  to  jail.  When  the  law  is 
operated  in  that  way,  it  affords  the  kind  and  degree  of 
protection  that  it  appears  any  sane  man  may  need  any 
day.  No  man  should  be  sent  to  a  dungeon,  dark,  and 
drear,  unless  for  crime,  whether  he  be  sane  or  insane.  If 
he  be  sane  he  is  deprived  of  his  liberty,  and  it  may  be  of 
his  health,  without  cause.  If  he  be  insane,  he  should  be 
placed  in  a  suitable  place,  and  at  least  some  attention 
should  be  paid  to  his  wants.  The  dictates  of  humanity 
should  have  some  respect  paid  them  when  persons  sas- 
pected  of  either  disease  of  mind  or  body  are  concerned. 
When  all  the  officers  around  are  satisfied  that  the  arrested 
is  the  subject  of  a  job,  and  "has  as  clear  a  mind  as  any 
man  in  the  country"  it  is  a  bad  and  wicked  law  that  keeps 
him  there  longer,  and  which,  unless  he  has  a  kind  friend  at 
hand,  would  detain  him  three  days  more.     He  can  only  get 


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SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


discharged  by  on   order   of  a   v., |  crior  Judge,  and  i'  the 

police  be  that  »  given  u 

i  explain    '  -.  who 

care-  I  ike  the  risk 

•  >  at  large  -  treatment 

•  d  upon  bin  and  in  do 
■  ave  born  .1  and  probable 

shown.     To  imprison  a  man  »1                   daily    walk,    con- 

known  an>>  strate 

treatment  of  pi 
ire  a  libel  upon  humanity. 

-   to  lie  done  in    San 
Francisco  to  as  sane   a   man    .  -  In  it      Suppose 

that  in  addition  to  what  tin-  law  permits,  there  is  police 
malice,  press  jealousy,  and  private  deviltry  at  your  heels 
tryii  g  to  crush  you.  is  not  our  lunacy  laws  in  that 
danger.  -  weapon  for  your  ruin,  or  your  bclittlement  be- 
fore the  public?  Just  this  condition  has  been  permitted 
by  our  lunacy  laws,  and  that  is  evidence  enough  that  they 
need  a  radical  change.  Under  their  operation  an  irre- 
sponsible crank  may  cause  the  incarceration  of  Professor 
LeConte,  of  Professor  Jordan  or  of  any  man  of  mark  in 
our  midst. 

In  all  this  we  do  not  want  to  be  understood  as  reflecting 
upon  any  of  the  present  officials.  They  do  the  best  they 
can  with  the  laws  and  appliances  at  their  command. 
The  professional  gentlemen  of  the  commission  are  un- 
doubted experts,  and,  what  is  rarer  around  the  City  Hall, 
they  are  gentlemen.  Judge  Belcher  does  his  duty 
thoroughly,  but  rather  brusquely,  vet  possibly  that  is  his 
way  of  applying  an  expert  test.  The  man  who  receives 
his  patients,  as  in  fact  they  are,  and  takes  away  their 
private  papers  and  other  property  which  some  how  or 
other  reach  other  hands,  is  in  manner  and  otherwise  a 
good  man  to  be  permitted  to  find  another  situation.  We 
are  sorry  the  Legislature  is  Dot  in  existence  to  supply  a 
remedy,  but  one  shall  be  found  for  this  mad  house  infamy. 
The  laws  in  the  early  stages  of  their  administration  are 
not  operated  as  humanity  or  civilization  demand.  An  in- 
sane man  is  an  object  of  sympathy  and  should  be  treated 
as  such.  He  is  not  a  criminal  to  be  handed  over  to  a 
police,  perhaps  predetermined  to  treat  him  with  unusual 
brutality.  If  the  Governor  and  Mayor  will  lay  their  heads 
together  they  can  find  money  and  a  way  to  treat  them 
more  like  human  beings  than  they  now  are  treated. 

The  Change      Crowley  is  out  and  Lees  is  in,  but  that 
In  The  constitutes  no  change  in  the  inner  work- 

Police  Regime,  ings  of  the  Police  Department.  There  is 
a  change  in  the  name  of  the  ostensible 
Chief,  but  not  in  that  of  the  real  one.  Lees  is  now  in  name 
what  he  always  was  in  fact.  Crowley  was  kept  where  he 
was  because  of  his  suavity  of  manners.  He  possessed  a 
large  share  of  the  suavitor  in  modo,  but  was  so  given  to 
stock  gambling,  that  he  leaves  office  with  but  a  moderate 
fortune.  A  few  years  ago  stocks  ruined  him  and  it  has 
proved  a  good  thing  for  him  that  that  sort  of  gambling  at 
last  ended.  His  failure  to  grow  as  rich  as  some  of  his  as- 
sociates reflected  upon  them,  whilst  it  served  him  with 
the  public.  It  at  the  same  time  demonstrated  that  nomi- 
nal chief  though  be  was  the  money  department  was  in 
other  hands.  Ex-Chief  Crowley  himself  makes  no  bones  of 
these  facts  and  does  not  deny  that  he  never  was  the  real 
chief,  but  claims,  and  no  doubt  truly,  that  "he  could  not 
help  himself,  because  the  game  was  not  put  up  that  way, 
and  he  was  always  in  need  of  his  official  salary."  The 
dailies  are  pretending  to  give  an  unbiased  history  of 
Crowley's  Administration.  It  is  all  bosh.  They  dare  not 
do  it.  It  will  be  written  with  something  like  accuracy,  at 
the  end  of  the  short  period  at  which  the  venerable  Captain 
is  billed  to  resign  on  a  handsome  pension  he  does  not  need. 

Street  Work      The  Superintendent  of  Streets  has  not  al- 

And  The        ways,  or  often,  been   either   a  fool  or  a 

Departments,     knave,  but  he  has  always  been,  before  his 

term  was  far  advanced,   a  fifth  wheel  in 

the   coach  of  municipal   improvements.      He   was   in   an 

office  where  reform  had  to  come  from  without.     It  was  a 

place  that  could  not  rise  higher  than  its  source.     The 

Supervisors  had  use  of  it,  the  contractors  were  a  political 

power  whom  it  could  not  afford  to  displease,  and  certain 


privileged  tax  payers  never  failed  to  secure  a  pull  that 
OOUld  not  be  ignored  Henofl  it  came  that  the  Depart- 
ment more  often   paved  o  with   good  intentions 

than  with  the  material  contracted  and  paid  for,    Any  sort 

of  a  favor  ootlld  be  obtained  for  either  love  (politic 
money.  There  ha-  always  boon  corruption  In  the  depart 
but  ire  think,  not  nearly  so  much  as  has  at  times 
Buspeoted.  There  have  been  superintendents  who 
could  not  be  reached  that  way,  and  the  indications  are 
that  such  is  the  case  at  present,  But,  now  as  ever,  there 
are  ways  of  "getting  at"  tne  department.  Things  can  he 
Obtained   that     are    called     "favors.'      and     doubtless  the 

hangers  on  around   the  office  are  permitted  to  make  "a 

font  of  these  numerous  but  unconsidered  trifles, 
ndeed.  we  have  witnessed  signs  that  only  iii  tins  way  can 
the  Department  be  moved  to  do  even  legitimate  business. 
Its  a  way  that  has  sprung  up  by  which  "  the  boys  "  who 
did  not  get  places,  are  permitted  to  "earn  salt."  This 
practice  applies  to  nearly  every  public  office  in  the  city, 
There  are  favored  bummers  around  even  the  Courts,  and 
"useful"  ones,  both  with  and  without  stars,  are  as  plenti- 
ful around  police  quarters  as  the  business  will  carry.  It 
is  not  of  these  needy  hangers  on  to  the  ragged  edge  of 
politics  that  we  are  referring  when  we  say  that  things 
can  be  bought  at  even  the  street  department  counter.  It 
is  true  that  there  remains  one  thing  that  cannot  be 
bought  without  a  known  and  recognized  pull,  and 
that  thing  is:  civility.  The  best  exceptions  to 
this  bad  rule  may  be  found  in  the  County  Clerk's 
office,  and  on  about  two-thirds  of  the  Superior 
Court  Benches.  So  many  of  the  other  offices  need  taking 
to  pieces,  and  their  inner  works  exhibited  to  a  people  as 
yet  comparatively  uninformed,  that  its  non-performance 
renders  it  obvious  how  little  reliance  can  be  placed  upon 
"the  New  Journalism."  "The  slum  sheet"  was  long  since 
"downed"  by  one  of  the  departments,  and,  when  the  sign 
is  given,  dare  not  call  its  soul  its  own. 

A  Disagreeable    Judge  Wallace  is   a  disagreeable  man  to 
Man.  have  on  the  Superior  Court  Bench,  or 

at  least  it  is  more  than  probable  that 
the  Supreme  Judges  think  so.  A  head  and  shoulders 
above  the  Supreme  Judges  as  a  lawyer,  he  sets  traps  that 
tend  to  render  their  Honors  ridiculous  oftener  than  can 
be  comfortable  to  them.  The  other  day,  in  the  case  of  one 
of  the  election  officers,  the  Appellate  Court  reviewed  the 
testimony  and  declared  it  insufficient  to  justify  a  verdict  of 
guilty.  The  very  next  day,  as  it  happened,  their  Honors 
handed  down  a  decision  in  the  Durrant  case,  in  which 
they  held  that  it  was  not  their  province  to  review  the 
testimony,  of  which  it  was  to  be  supposed  that  the  jurors 
were  the  best  judges.  Their  Brother  Wallace  indulged  in 
one  of  those  bright  twinkles  of  the  eye  that  are  peculiar 
to  him,  and  let  fall  a  little  satirical  aside,  ex  cathedra,  as 
it  were,  that  made  the  whole  of  the  Supreme  Judges,  the 
Court  commissioners  included,  wince  as  if  they  were  hurt. 
When  judical  errors  of  that  kind  are  liable  to  be  made,  it 
cannot  be  consoling  to  have  Brother  Wallace  around.  The 
California  Reports  are  printed  at  great  cost,  and  are  sup- 
posed to  be  authoritative  as  to  the  sound  law  of  the  de- 
cisions to  be  found  therein.  But  what  is  to  be  said  of  them 
when  important  points  are  decided  both  ways?  No  doubt 
the  existing  rush  of  business  is  responsible  for  much  error 
that  would  not  otherwise  be  committed.  It  is  to  be  re- 
gretted that  a  constitutional  amendment  has  not  been 
submitted  to  the  people  adding  another  department  to  its 
highest  Court.  It  is  appalling  to  think  of  the  many  and 
grievous  evils  that  are  likely  to  flow  from  the  continuance 
for  four  years  longer  of  the  existing  status.  If  the  judges 
are  two  years  behind  now,  what  will  they  be  four  years 
hence,  and  what  will  be  the  condition  of  things  meanwhile. 

A  Growing  Menace  The  efforts  of  the  Health  Depart- 
To  Public  Health,  ment  of  San  Francisco  to  establish 
regulations  for  the  prevention  of  the 
spread  of  consumption  are  worthy  the  support  of  every 
citizen.  The  immediate  cause  of  consumption  has  for  some 
time  been  known  to  be  the  presence  in  the  lung  tissues  of 
the  bacillus  tuberculosis.  The  germ  was  discovered  and 
definitely  isolated  by  Robert  Koch  as  long  ago  as  1881. 
Since  that  time  the  investigations  of  pathologists,  of 
Health  Boards  in  large  cities  and  of  bacteriological   soci- 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


April  10,  1897. 


eties  in  all  parts  of  the  world  has  added  many  items  of  in- 
formation. Among  them,  that  the  bacillus  of  consumption 
is  one  of  the  most  active  and  fertile  of  disease  germs,  and 
of  remarkable  vitality;  that  it  survives  apart  from  the 
infected  tissues;  that  it  is  eminently  contagious,  being 
transmissible  from  person  to  person,  from  man  to  ani- 
mal and  vice  versa;  and  tbat  the  largest  number  of  germs 
is  to  be  found  in  the  sputum  of  consumptive  individuals. 
No  clime  or  country  is  free  from  the  disease,  except  per- 
haps small  areas  in  the  higher  Alps,  Andes,  and  Rocky 
Mountains,  and  on  the  elevated  plateau  of  Central  Mexico. 
No  race  is  exempt  from  it,  and  all  ages  and  conditions  are 
easily  susceptible.  The  disease  has  spread  through  care- 
lessness or  ignorance  of  its  infective  nature,  until  to-day  it 
is  the  attributable  cause  of  one-seventh  of  the  world's 
deaths — vastly  more  than  can  be  credited  to  any  other 
single  cause.  Its  spread  by  the  sputum  is  caused  largely 
by  expectoration  in  public  places,  on  floors,  sidewalks,  and 
in  street-cars.  When  the  sputum  has  dried  and  become 
ground  to  a  fine  dust,  it  easily  floats  in  the  air,  carrying 
the  germs  of  disease  to  the  healthy  lung  tissues  of  those 
who  inhale  it.  While  easily  communicable,  it  is  also  dis- 
tinctly preventable,  but  prevention  requires  careful  regu- 
lations enforced  by  intelligent,  popular  appreciation.  It 
requires  not  alone  the  control  of  the  tuberculous  individual, 
but  the  co-operation  of  the  healthy  who  are  continually 
exposed.  The  disease  is  rapidly  increasing  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  the  Health  Department  are  alive  to  the  neces- 
sity of  action,  as  is  shown  by  the  anti-expectoration 
ordinance  passed  by  the  Supervisors,  and  which  should 
be  vigorously  enforced.  This  is  in  line  with  what  has  al- 
ready been  accomplished  in  many  large  cities.  As  yet, 
no  specific,  germicidal  curative  for  tuberculosis  has 
been  discovered,  although  several  agents  are  being  dis- 
cussed, but  the  ounce  of  prevention  is  ready  to  the  public 
hand,  and  can  be  applied  with  good  effect  if  the  people  ap- 
preciate the  necessity,  and  support  wise  regulations  to 
that  end. 

The  Coming  The  coming  convention  of  Christian  En- 
Endeavorers.  deavorers  from  all  over  the  United  States 
is  likely  to  prove  a  notable  event.  Earnest 
minded  men  and  women,  intent  upon  the  spiritual  good  of 
mankind,  are  coming  in  their  thousands,  and  will  merit  all 
the  hospitality  that  can  be  shown  them.  They  will  see  our 
State  at  the  best  time  of  year  and  should  be  shown  as 
much  of  it  as  possible.  They  will,  among  other  things, 
make  admirable  immigration  agents.  They  will  do  much 
to  direct,  enliven,  and  enlarge  the  future  of  Christian  en- 
deavor on  this  Coast.  It  cannot  fail  to  be  of  incalculable 
good  to  come  into  close  touch  with  the  really  spiritually 
minded  folks  from  the  best  portions  of  our  great  Christian 
country.  The  missionary  work  among  our  Chinese  has  al- 
ways had  a  strange  sort  of  fascination  for  the  Eastern 
churches,  and  they  mainly  support  it.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  whilst  here  they  will  truly,  and  at  some  pains,  inform 
themselves  of  what  that  work  truly  is,  both  outwardly  and 
inwardly.  If  after  due  enquiry  they  should  reach  the  con- 
clusion that  it  is  an  exceptional  work  into  which  young 
girls  and  women  ought  not  to  be  intruded,  they  will  do 
wisely  and  well,  and  keep  step  with  the  best  thought  upon 
the  subject  on  this  Coast.  In  short,  they  will  have  it  in 
their  power  to  put  an  end  to  an  evil  that  otherwise  is 
bound  to  lead  to  an  open  scandal.  In  the  enlivenment  of 
the  Christian  work  generally  there  is  a  fine  field  for  en- 
deavor on  the  part  of  the  earnest  Endeavorers  who  are  soon 
to  visit  us. 

Cecil  Rhodes  Cecil  Rhodes  of  South  Africa  is  being  ac- 
Before  cused  as  Warren  Hastings  was,  and  for 

His  Accusers,  much  the  same  cause.  A  Parliamentary 
commission  is  enquiring  as  to  the  why 
and  the  wherefore  of  the  Jameson  raid  into  the  Transvaal. 
Rhodes  was  administering  the  far  off  Matabele  land  at 
the  time,  and  was  not  near  the  scene  of  action  when 
Jameson  planned  his  mad  but  brave  exploit.  Rhodes  says 
the_  whole  thing  was  premature  and  rash,  but  does  not 
hesitate  to  say  that  he  favored  the  cause  of  the  Uitlanders, 
and  would  have  aided  Jameson  had  he  been  at  the  scene  of 
action.  He  says  that  a  people  who  constitute  two  thirds 
of  the  population,  and  pay  nineteen-twentieths  of  the  reve- 
nue, are  not  to   be  denied  necessary  legislation,  mining 


and  water  rights,  educational  facilities,  railroads,  etc.,  etc. 
They  have  the  right  to  that  representation  that  naturally 
follows  taxation,  and  avows  that  the  Africanders  mean  to 
have  a  voice  in  the  Government,  which,  he  says,  will  bene- 
fit nobody  so  much  as  the  Boers  themselves.  If  that 
meant  treason,  he  declared  they  might  make  the  most  of 
it.  However  brave  that  talk  may  be,  spoken  where  it 
was,  it  is  likely  to  make  no  end  of  trouble  for  the  British 
Government,  who  were  bound  to  protect  the  Boers. 
Jameson  and  his  brave  party  have  been  tried  and  punished, 
and  England  is  about  to  make  a  money  indemnity  for  the 
damage  that  was  done.  Cecil  Rhodes  was  far  away  from 
the  conflict,  but  did  not  advise  or  participate  in  it.  He  is 
therefore  free  of  personal  responsibility  for  overt  acts, 
but  the  outspoken  statement  of  his  future  course  is  awk- 
ward in  every  way.  He  is  a  power  all  through  Southern 
Africa  that  cannot  be  denied.  They  have  the  right  of  self- 
government  in  Cape  Colony  and  will  undoubtedly  make 
Rhodes  Prime  Minister  again  at  an  early  day.  He  boasts 
that  "so  far  from  his  career  being  over,  it  had  hardly  yet 
begun."  He  declares,  in  open  speech,  that  all  South 
Africa  should  be  a  Republic  of  States,  and  says  he  shall 
work  to  that  end.  What  will  the  Transvaal  say  and  do 
under  the  circumstances.  She  has  an  independent  con- 
stitution guaranteed  to  her  by  Great  Britain.  Clearly 
England  cannot  permit  her  subjects  in  Cape  Colony  to  fili- 
buster over  into  the  Transvaal.  Mr.  Cecil  Rhodes  is  not 
a  good  man  to  have  around  Parliament  just  how. 

A  Kick  Against  Some  very  ardent  Protectionists  are 
The  Tariff.  making  a  sturdy  kick  against  parts  of 
the  proposed  tariff.  The  New  England 
cloth  manufacturers  are  against  the  duties  on  fine  wool  to 
a  man.  The  leather  men  declare  that  a  duty  on  raw  hides 
would  ruin  the  boot  trade.  The  apparently  strongest 
kick,  however,  is  that  which  comes  from  the  retail  traders 
of  New  York  and  Chicago,  who  strongly  object  to  "the 
personal  effects"  of  American  travelers  returning  from 
Europe  being  admitted  duty  free.  Of  course  everybody 
knows  that  these  Americans  return  with  many  trunks  full 
of  "personal  effects"  manufactured  by  the  pauper  labor 
of  Europe.  They  are  generally  high  priced  goods  and  are 
brought  in  by  a  class  well  able  to  bear  its  fair  burden  of 
taxation.  There  is  no  consistency  in  a  tariff  law  which 
compels  those  remaining  at  home  to  pay  tariff  prices  on 
all  merchandise  they  buy,  and  permits  those  who  are  able 
to  go  abroad  to  load  up  with  a  two  or  three  years  supply 
of  clothing,  gloves,  silks,  boots  and  the  like,  which  they 
are  graciously  permitted  to  enter  free  of  tariff  charges. 
There  should  be  no  favoritism  shown  to  the  already 
favored  army  of  annual  or  bi-annual  excursionists  to  Europe. 
They  should  pay  taxes  on  everything  they  did  not  take 
with  them,  which  could  easily  be  made  to  work.  Strange 
to  say,  we  should  exempt  diamonds,  for  the  reason  that 
they  simply  cannot  be  found.  The  enlarged  mouth  of 
Fitzsimmons  would  about  this  time  hide  enough  diamonds 
to  pay  for  the  ship  that  carried  him  and  them.  It  is  idle 
to  put  a  tax  on  anything  that  cannot  be  collected.  The 
traders  of  Chicago  and  New  York  are  quite  right,  and, 
organized,  as  they  now  are,  they  are  a  power.  The  end 
of  tariff  talk  is  not  yet,  although  everybody  is  sick  of  it. 

Railroads  It  has  come  to  be  quite  the  custom  with  the 
Beaten      stump  orators  of  the  day  to   proclaim  that  it 

In  Court,  is  useless  to  sue  the  railroads  in  Court,  be- 
cause they  always  win.  To  the  extent  to 
which  that  is  true,  the  fault  lies  with  those  who  bring  suits 
that  there  is  nothing  in  but  buncombe.  When  any  real 
breach  of  the  law  is  charged  against  a  railroad,  it  loses  as 
often  as  other  litigants.  The  other  day  two  officers  of  the 
Texas  and  Pacific  railroad  at  New  Orleans  were  convicted 
of  unjust  discrimination  in  favor  of  a  particular  cotton 
firm.  They  were  fined  $4,000  and  costs  each,  by  the  United 
States  Court.  This  is  a  very  proper  and  most  important 
decision,  the  first  of  its  kind  under  an  amended  section  of 
the  interstate  commerce  law,  prohibiting  the  granting  of 
rebates  and  other  favors  to  particular  shippers.  Rail- 
roads are  the  common  carriers  of  the  country,  and  must 
deal  with  all  alike,  or  they  will  enrich  many  men  at  the 
cost  of  others.  That  is  a  most  desirable  exhibition  of  the 
strength  of  the  law  which  imposes  heavy  fines  on  the 
wrong  doers;  railroad  officers  though  they  be. 


April  l<  .  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


ART     JOTTINGS. 

THE   ninth   semi-annual   exhibition  of   the  Sketch  Club 
opened  on    Tuesday,    at  .  ening.     The 

Sketch  Club  is  a  prospenni-  institution.  It  is  also  har- 
monious, though  its  membership,  now  forty-one,  is  confined 
to  th>  held  closely  toge- her 

in  tin  'hood   of   art,  and   assist  one  another 

on  the  narrow  and  thorny  path  to  fame.     The   list  ol 

members  is  a  lar;.'''  one,  composing  the  names  of  a 
large  proportion  of  those  ladies  and  gentlemen  who  are 
identified  with  the  art  progress  ol  this  Coast. 

The  oiub  rooms  in  the  Pacific-  Mutual  building  are  hunj; 
with  the  produet  of  the  six  months'  work — oils,  water 
colors,  pastels,  and  blaek  and  white.  Amoni;  the  former, 
-  inny  Road,"  Jane  Gallatin  Powers,  is  an  attractive 
little  canvas,  the  color  nice  and  waim,  and  the  perspective 
well  handled. 

"On  the  Slope  of  Tamalpais."  Marie  Rey  Sander,  is  a 
good  out-of-door  study,  carefully  painted,  and  with  a 
characteristic  fidelity  to  the  locality.  "San  Bruno 
Marsh,"  Josephine  Eokler;  "An  April  Day,"  Nellie  L. 
Treat,  and  "The  Beach,"  Isabella  Morrison  Niles,  are 
pleasintr,  and  show  fair  ability.  "The  Bolinas  Road," 
Marie  Rey  Sander,  is  a  pretty  bit  of  landscape,  with  a 
tender  atmospheric  effect,  and  the  distance  is  well  ex- 
pressed. There  is  a  rich,  autumnal  tone  in  the  color,  and 
a  clever  handling  of  the  foliage. 

Two  portraits,  one  by  L.  McDonald  Sleeth,  and  the 
other  by  Geneve  Rixford  Sartjeant.  have  merit,  as  also  a 
portrait  by  Caroline  E.  Rixford,  and  the  study  of  a  head 
by  Bertha  Henicke  Taussig  is  gentle,  clever,  and  full  of 
promise.  "Haycocks  in  June."  Nellie  L.  Treat,  "An 
Oak,"  Geneve  Rixford  Sargeant,  and  "Evening  in 
Sausalito,  Josephine  Eckler,  are  carefully  painted  and 
meritorious  studies. 

Helen  Hyde  contributes  one  of  the  most  ambitious  pic- 
tures in  the  oil  collection,  "Gabrielle."  It  is  a  girl  seated 
by  an  open  window,  through  which  the  light  falls  upon  her 
face  and  drapery.  The  handling  is  very  good,  and  the 
color  rich.  The  pose  is  easy  and  natural,  but  the  face 
might  be  more  comely. 

"Mending  the  Old  Coat,"  Molly  Hutchinson  Peixotto,  is 
strong,  and  in  drawing  and  color  will  compare  favorably 
with  the  work  of  more  famous  and  more  experienced 
artists.  "Some  Onions,"  a  still  life  piece  by  N.  L.  Murtha, 
is  quite  good,  and  suggestive  of  Carlsen,  the  master  in 
that  line  of  art.  "Chinese  Child,"  Jane  R.  McElroy, 
shows  good  taste  in  color. 

There  a:-e  in  all  thirty-three  oils,  and  the  prices  are 
marked  in  the  catalogue  after  each.  They  range  from  $7 
to  $150,  the  latter  being  the  figure  at  which  Miss  Peixotto 
values  "Mending  the  Old  Coat."  Some  of  the  more  con- 
servative artists  have  not  set  the  price  to  their  pictures. 
A  fair  number  have  been  sold  already. 

There  are  twenty-two  water-colors  on  exhibition,  em- 
bracing an  extensive  variety  of  subjects.  "Spring," 
Pauline  Dworzck,  and  "Spring,"  Anne  Prances  Briggs, 
give  a  poetic  conception  of  the  month  of  the  birth  of 
flowers.  "Hollyhocks,"  Mathilde  Hampe,  is  one  of  the 
most  original  and  cleverly  painted  studies  in  the  collec- 
tion. There  is  a  delicious  bit  of  distance  disclosed,  and  the 
handling  of  the  light  and  shade  ca  the  right  of  the  picture 
is  very  artistic.  "A  Street  in  Chinatown,"  by  the  same 
artist,  is  not  so  pleasing.  "A  Muddy  Road,"  Anne  Fran- 
ces Briggs,  has  some  excellent  points.  It  is  good  in  tone, 
and  the  wintry  air,  illustrated  by  the  withered  poplars  in 
the  middle  distance,  and  the  cloud-flecked  sky,  with  the 
purple  haze  beneath,  show  a  close  study  of  nature,  and 
careful  painting.  Miss  Stella  Austin  exhibits  some  good 
work  in  this  department.  Two  pictures  of  violets,  and 
"Baby  Blue  Eyes"  are  capital,  with  a  nice  attention  to 
detail  and  harmony  in  color.  "Chrysanthemums," 
Mathilde  Eggers  Hampe,  is  quite  an  ambitious,  and  cer- 
tainly a  well  executed  picture  of  those  fashionable  flowers, 
odorless,  passionless  things  that  they  are,  and  always 
suggestive  of  a  rag  baby.  But  Miss  Hampe  has  brought 
out  all  their  good  points.  "A  Field  of  Mustard,"  Pauline 
Dworzek,  and  a  "Quiet  Spot,"  by  the  same,  are  good. 
Lilian  Veseria  contributes  "Moonlight"  and  the  "Edge  of 
the  Marsh."     Both,  especially   the  latter,  possess  merit, 


which  may  be  said  of  "A  Willow  Pond,"  a  good  study  in 
bright  I  mirror-like  water. 

There  are  thirteen  pastels,  fourof  which  are  contributed 
by  Miss  Helen  Hyde.    The  "One-legg  rs,"  of  the 

latter,   is    well    bandied.     "A    (nay    Day,"  Sylvia   Rev, 
"Castle  Crags,"   Marie   Rey  Bander,    "Ethel,     Bli 
Letober,   ana   "Evening,"  N.   !.    Treat,   are  worthy  of 
mention. 

Miss  Grace  Wetherell  almost  monop  1,  and 

while.  Bhowing  sis  of  the  sixteen  hung  on  the  walls  ol 
department.     "Puck   on   Asparagus,"  by  Albertine 
dall  Wheelan,  is  a  clever  litth  row  lii.  and  the  study  of  an 
aged  Nun,  by  the  Bame  artist,  i-  decidedly  good. 

The  officers  of  the  Sketch  Club  arc:  President,  Josephine 
M.  Hyde;  Vice-President.  L.  Maedonald  Sleeth;  Treasurer, 
Helen  Hyde;  Secretai  Prances  Briggs;  Directors, 
Anne  Frances  Briggs.  Nellie  Stearns  Goodloe,  Marie  Rey 
Sander,  L.  Maedonald  Sleeth.  Nellie  L.  Treat,  Josephine 
M.  Hyde,  Nellie  L.  Murtha,  Helen  Hyde,  and  Caroline  L. 
Cook.  

"T3ICTTJRESQUE  San  Francisco"  gives  place  this  week 
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the  News  Letter's  article  upon  that  organization. 

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V 


''HE  performance  of  William  Tell,  at  the 
California  Monday  night,  was  not  the 
pleasantest  thing  in  the  world  that  might 
have  happened  me.  During  the  day  I  had 
been  looking  ove>-  the  score — re-acquaint- 
^  ing  myself  with  the  boiling  teapot  tempests 
of  recitative,  the  cumbersome  dialogue,  the  oratorical 
bursts  of  pompous  melody,  the  tenor's  dizzy  top-notes,  the 
fraternal  old  overture.  What  an  overture!  It  had  lived 
for  near  seventy  years,  it  would  live  longer — and  with  all 
that  length  of  verbose  opera  wagging  behind  it.  What  a 
beautiful  thing!  How  complete,  compact!  What  a  monu- 
ment of  melody — I  thought  to  myself — if  some  one  had  cut 
off  the  tail!  Altogether  I  was  in  just  the  mood  for  reflec- 
tion. Given  half  a  chance,  I  felt  cheerfully  competent  to 
settle  the  relative  unworth  of  operas  of  the  diddle-dee  and 
um-pa  schools  in  a  single  column.  Ten  shakes  of  the 
leader's  baton,  and  my  mood  fled.  Poor,  pre-Verdian 
Rossini  was  clean  forgot.  His  bug-a-boo  recitatives- did  not 
frighten  the  oldest  infant  in  the  house.  They  were  turned 
to  wild  comedic  extravagance.  The  feetful  rushes  of 
rythm  were  so  tangled  and  lamed  in  the  giving  forth  that 
the  youngest  critic  forgot  to  sneer  superiorly.  And  the 
overture — after  waiting  an  act  that  everybody  might  be 
there  to  hear  it — came  out  drivelling,  senile,  bald,  shorn 
of  all  its  might  and  meaning  and  tone.  Every  musician  in 
the  band  had  a  different  system  of  tempo,  nuance  and 
pitch  to  play  it  with.  Nicosias,  beat  the  air  wildly  for  a 
while;  then  he  dozed  while  his  men  waged  civil  war  in  the 

allegro. 

*  *  * 

So  my  good  schemes  came  to  naught.     Rossini's  case  is 

postponed. 

*  *  * 

I  understand  that  early  in  the  last  act — which  I  did  not 
wait  to  witness — Mons.  Charley,  the  sphinx-like  impres- 
ario, removed  his  hat  for  the  first  time  during  the  en- 
gagement, smote  himself  on  the  hair,  said  "William  t'  'ell!" 
and  ordered  the  curtain  down.  Down  it  came  in  the 
middle  of  the  act.  William  and  his  bow-arrow  are  still  in 
the  hands  of  the  enemy. 

God  bless  the  enemy! 

*  *  * 

If  there  were  any  scraps  of  honor  to  be  got  from  this 
night's  awful  work,  Berthet — who  sang  Mathilde — carried 
them  off  on  the  tip  of  her  fleet,  birdie  voice.  Albers  was 
completely  out  of  condition.  He  sang  Tell  with  a  strain 
in  every  note,  and  his  acting  was  dull  and  banal.  Some- 
body told  me  that  Prevost,  too,  was  on  the  off  list,  and 
that  he  could  turn  only  half  a  head  of  steam  into  Arnold's 
music.  It  was  enough.  He  blistered  my  ears,  the  noisy 
ruffian. 

*  *  * 

I  have  seen  a  great  many  bad  opera  productions  in  San 
Francisco,  but  never  such  a  sensational,  go-as-you-please 
scramble  as  this  one  of  William  Tell.  From  the  orchestra 
in  front  to  the  choruses  in  back,  and  in  all  that  lay  between, 
it  was  unfit  for  publication.  A  deaf  mute  could  have  dis- 
covered that  there  was  something  unfragrant  in  Switzer- 
land— it  was  in  the  air.  Out  of  curiosity  I  read  the  re- 
views written  by  my  colleagues  for  Tuesday's  newspapers. 
In  only  two  instances  was  I  disappointed.  All  the  others 
were  unqualified  puffs. 

*  *  * 

Otis  Skinner  and  his  own  play,  A  Soldier  of  Fortune,  did 
not  seem  to  have  so  much  luck  with  the  gentlemen  of  the 
press.  I  went  to  the  Baldwin  Tuesday  night,  and  for  the 
life  of  me  I  can  not  see  why  this  particular  play  should  be 
slated  by  these  particular  critics,  whose  policy  seems  to  be 
this:  praise  everything  that  is  strong  enough  to  reach  the 
town,  and  some  day  we  will  strike  a  masterpiece  in  dis- 
guise. A  Soldier  of  Fortune  is  not  the  masterpiece.  But 
that  is  not  the  question — it  might  have  been.  My  col- 
leagues acted  very  imprudently. 


Like  a  bandmaster's  opera,  Skinner's  drama  seems  to 
have  a  little  of  all  the  good  old  tunes  in  it.  T  tbmk  he 
might  have  named  it  The  Star-Actors'  Dream  with  a  more 
considerable  patness  than  the  present  title  shows — but 
that  is  no  particular  business  of  ours.  A  Soldier  of  For- 
tune is  a  good  title;  it  has  a  warm,  rich,  romantic  ring, 
and  in  several  ways  the  play  lives  up  to  it.  It  is  not  fair 
to  call  a  man  a  plagiarist  when  he  takes  openly  and  avow- 
edly, as  Skinner  does.  Skinner  wanted  Lucretia  Borgia 
for  his  play,  and  he  took  her  and  he  programmed  her  in 
her  full  name.  She  brings  circumstance  and  conviction  to 
the  otherwise  trite  poison  bottle.  He  wanted  a  hero,  a 
ready,  romantic  hero,  a  daring,  devilish  fire-eater,  and  he 
took  D'Artagnan,  transposed  him  to  the  Borgia  period  in 
Italy,  and  gave  him  the  lyrical  Latin  name  of  Fabian  Tor- 
elli.  Then  he  drew  forth  an  imperious  maiden  who  has  but 
to  be  insulted  and  Fabian  does  the  rest  in  noblest  s'death- 
villain  style.  Any  author  will  tell  you  that  history  covers 
a  multitude  of  play-maker's  sins.  Skinner  very  tactfully 
makes  the  imperious  Laura  a  ward  of  old  Niccolo  Macchi- 
avellio's — of  course  you  may  not  believe  that  Macchiavellio 
ever  had  such  a  beautiful,  statuesque  ward,  but  then  if 
you  don't  believe  it  you  have  no  imagination  and  3'ou  do 
not  belong  at  the  plush-mouhted,  dagger-studded,  roman- 
tic drama.  Add  to  these  I  have  mentioned  a  trusty  sol- 
dier to  companion  the  hero,  Caesar  Borgia,  for  high  lord 
villain,  Daubigny  to  assist  him,  Daubigny's  wife,  to  love 
the  hero  with  an  unrequited  passion  and  wear  man's  clothes 
for  his  sake,  and  be  made  love  to  in  a  perfectly  shameless 
manner,  while  she  is  in  doublet  and  hose,  by  warm,  poison- 
ous Lucretia,  and  finally  die  in  the  last  act  saving  the 
hero's  life  that  he  may  be  spared  to  the  beautiful,  Imper- 
ious One.  Then  put  in  the  Cardinal  of  Narbonne  in  the  act 
of  being  poisoned,  and  season  with  sundry  s worded  gentle- 
men of  rival  factions  full  of  "s'bloods!"  and  "whathos!" 
stew  the  whole  violently,  and  you  will  see  how  Otis  Skinner 
made  romantic  drama  that  is  the  real  article.  It  is  the  eas- 
iest thing  imaginable  after  you  see  Skinner's  work.  I  for- 
got to  detail  the  plot.  But  it  does  not  matter  much;  at- 
tend closely  to  the  plush  and  the  swords  and  the  people, 
and  the  plot  will  take  care  of  itself. 

*  *  * 

As  I  have  intimated  before,  it  takes  a  vigorous  imagina- 
tion to  receive  the  modern  idea  of  the  romantic  drama  in 
the  proper  spirit.  You  must  not  look  for  realty  of  any 
kind;  you  must  not  expect  character  building — you  must 
reckon  fever  the  equivalent  of  dramatic  power,  and  find 
the  finesse  in  the  costumes.  Skinner's  play  will  ask  you  to 
appreciate  dispatch.  It  has  a  wonderful  move  on,  so  to 
say.  No  critic  can  say  that  it  lacks  action.  In  ten  times 
my  allotted  space  I  could  not  tell  you  one-tenth  of  what 
takes  place  duriDg  those  four  momentous  acts.  And  Fabian 
Torelli,  you  may  be  sure,  is  in  the  thick  of  the  best  of  it; 
for  Skinner  plays  Torelli,  and  there  is  absolutely  no  limit 
to  Skinner's  self-sufficiency  in  the  romantic  drama. 

I  do  not  know  whether  I  like  Otis  Skinner  better  as  an 
author  or  actor.  By  comparison  with  Clyde  Fitch  of  last 
week  he  is  an  author  not  to  be  sneezed  at;  by  comparison 
with  himself  as  His  Grace  de  Grammont  he  is  a  most  live 
and  re-vitalized  actor.  In  either  capacity  he  entertained 
me  Tuesday  night.  But  I  cannot  imagine  why  any  actor 
so  young  and  ambitious  as  Mr.  Skinner  is,  should  burden 
himself  with  such  mannerisms  as  an  abject  cringeing  of 
the  shoulders  when  he  would  appear  to  be  most  intense, 
an  unchristian  working  of  the  eyebrows  when  he  would 
seem  most  passionate,  and  a  fabulous  expulsion  of  breath 
when  he  would  retain  his  audience's  respect  for  his  stage 
sufferings.  These  are  the  things  that  stamp  out  the  young 
actor's  anonymity;  we  get  to  know  him  too  intimately,  and 
he  loses  the  chance  of  some  day  surprising  us  into  believ- 
ing him  a  first-rate  actor.  What  I  cared  for  particularly 
in  Skinner's  acting  of  Fabian  Torelli  was  the  mettle,  vir- 
ility, and  spontaneity  which  were  noticeable  in  his  less 
theatrical  moments.  And  these  fresh  qualities  were  ap- 
parent only  when  the  actorisms  I  have  mentioned,  and 
several  others  not  so  important,  were  not. 

#  *  * 

The  company  was  at  much  better  advantage  all  round 
in  A  Soldier  of  Fortune.  Maud  Durbin  would  have  brought 
a  pretty  perfection  out  of  the  part  of  Blanche  Daubigny  if 
she  had  not  voiced  her  serious  lines  in  what,  for  lack  of  a 
truer  expression,  I  must  call  a  whine. 


April  10,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


■ner  broke  away  from  a  great  many  Hamlet  ti.i 

ditions  Saturday  night   at   the  Baldwin.     For   ii 

the  speech  before  the  curtain  he  neither  grovelled  toadily 

to  the  audience  nor  apologized  for  himself.     He  Mid  ■|uitc 

.nd  ingenij'  .  .dience  always  played 

the  b  ■ngralulated  this  par- 

ticular audience  on  it-  The  people  wore  very  en 

throughout  the  play,  and  cortuinh  such  demon- 
stration of  sympathy  and  approval  cou'd  not  Im?  without 
good  effect  on  the  actor.  In  fact,  Skinner's  Hamlet  charmed 
me  most  by  its  special  qualities  of  enthusiasm,  which, 
though  they  often  ran  away  with  him  and  left  me  in  rather 
ambiguous  understanding  of  jii-t  what  manner  of  madman 
be  construed  Hamlet  to  be,  at  other  times  gave  a  line 
nervous  grip  and  bold  youthfulnesa  to  the  character  that 
were  undeniably  attractive  Beyond  its  youth.  Skinner's 
Hamlet  is  unlike  others  thai  1  have  seen  in  that  it  is  at  its 
worst  in  the  passages  which  are  most  famous  for  bringing 
out  good  acting,  and  at  its  best  in  the  passages  that  are 
not  celebrated  for  any  marked  feats  of  virtuosity.  In  the 
soliloquies  Skinner  was  theatrical  and  unimpressive;  in  the 
direct  action  of  the  play,  in  the  ensembles  I  may  say,  he 
was  perhaps  equally  as  theatrical,  but  there  was  a  genuine 
burn  under  it  all — the  friction  that  comes  from  line  against 
line  and  action  for  action.  It  is  a  very  difficult  thing  to 
read  through  a  soliloquy  on  the  stage  and  not  detract 
from  whatever  illusion  the  play  may  have  built  up  for  the 
auditor  by  thrusting  upon  him  the  personality  of  the 
player.  To  do  this  sort  of  thing  perfectly,  I  should  think, 
must  be  almost  as  difficult  as  to  give  a  satisfying  monologue 
in  vaudeville.  I  have  seen  not  one  satisfying  monolo- 
guist  and  but  few  capable  soliloquists.  I  admire  theyouth, 
color,  and  velocity  that  have  so  many  timely  moments  in 
Skinner's  Hamlet,  and  I  hope  that  he  will  grow  to  be  more 
successful  in  maintaining  apart  the  super-sensationalism  of 
the  modern  romantic  play  of  costumes  and  valor  and  the 
intellectual  excitement  of  a  play  of  brains.  Hero  worship 
is  a  bad  thing  to  practice  on  one's  self  in  Samlet. 

Asiiton  Stevens. 


Monday  night  will  find  four  new  acts  on  the  Orpheum 
stage:  the  Merilles  Sisters,  who  are  modestly  billed 
"Europe's  premiere  singing  and  dancing  artistes;"  Harris 
and  Walters,  eccentric  comedians;  Kronemann  Brothers, 
comedic  acrobats,  and  Evans  and  Vidocq,  jocular  mu- 
sicians. Delmore  and  Lee,  who  have  made  a  big  hit  in 
their  revolving  ladder  act,  will  be  retained,  together  with 
several  other  favorites. 

Otis  Skinner  will  present  the  double  bill  of  The  Merchant 
of  Venice  and  Katherine  and  1'elruchio  at  the  Baldwin  to- 
night. Monday  and  Saturday  nights  of  next  week  will  be 
given  to  Richard  111.;  Tuesday  and  Saturday  matinee, 
The  Lady  of  Lyons:  Wednesday,  a  repetition  of  to-night's 
double  bill;  Thursday,  Romeo  and  Juliet.  On  Friday  night 
Skinner  will  give  another  performance  of  Hamlet. 

Georgia  Cayvan  comes  to  the  Columbia  Monday  night  a 
full-fledged  star  in  Buchanau's  pastoral  drama,  Hguire 
Kate.  The  Eastern  critics  have  been  more  than  kind  to 
Miss  Cayvan  and  her  company  in  the  revival  of  the  old 
Lyceum  company's  success.  During  the  second  week  she 
will  give  us  Mary  Pennington,  .Spinster,  a  feminine  problem 
that  caused  some  discussion  in  New  York. 

Only  two  more  nights  of  French  opera  at  the  California. 
To-night  a  big  bill,  embracing  the  second  act  of  L'Africaine, 
third  act  of  La.  Favorila,  La  Navarraue,  the  ballet  scene 
from  Faust,  and  the  William.  Tell  overture  and  the  Caval- 
leria  Rusticana  intermezzo.  Sunday  night,  La  Trariata  at 
popular  prices. 

The  Tivoli  company  will  sing  romantic  Irish  opera  next 
week — Benedict's  The  Lily  of  Killarney,  founded  on  Bouci- 
cault's  celebrated  play,  The  Colleen  Bawn.  After  the 
Easter  holidays  the  Tivoli  promises  a  number  of  breezy 
novelties,  beginning  with  Mm  Frisco,  a  genial  satire  on 
the  town. 

The  sixth  and  last  of  the  present  season  of  symphony 
concerts  is  postponed  a  week,  the  regular  day  falling 
on  Holy  Thursday. 

Gertrude  Auld  announces  a  song  recital  for  Friday 
night  week  at  Golden  Gate  Hall. 


No  other  lamp-chimneys  n 
quarter  so  goodaa  Macbeth':  ; 
or  cheap  i:i  the  long  run. 

You  want  the  right  shape 
besides.     We'll  send  you  the 

Index  ;     free. 

Geo   A   Macbeth  Co 

Pittsburgh   Pa 

Cnlnr^k,'-.  TL„,1„  The-  Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 
OIUmDia  I  neatre-  Frledlandcr.  Gottlob&Co..  Lessees 
and  Managers 
Two  weeks,  beginning  April  l-Jtb.  Limited  engagement  of 
America's  ravorfte  Boofety  actress,  miss  Georgia  cayvan 
and  her  admirable  c pafiy,  In  a  repertoire  of  new  and  interest- 
ing successes  Wirk  of  April  12th,  Rooeit  Buchanan's  charm- 
ing pastoral  drama, 

SQUIRE    KATE. 

Next  week  a  change  or  bill. 
Oil        ;  T"L_     i  al.  Havman  &  Co.,  (Incorporated) 

Dalawin      I  neatre-  proprietors' 

Commencing  Monday  evening,  April  12th,  third  and  last  week. 
Engagement  of 

OTIS    SKINNER 
Monday  and  Saturday  evenings— R  I G  H  A  R  D    III 
Tuesday  night  and  Saturday  matinee— LADY  OF   LYONS 
Wednesday,  double  bill—  M  ERQH  ANT    OF    WENIGE    and 
KATHERINE  ANI  PETRUGMIO. 
Thursday-ROM  EO  AND  (JULIET 
Friday-HAMLET 
Sunday  evening,  April  18— Primrose  &  West's  Big  Minstrels 

Tl   •— I!    f~\ M  Mrs.  Ernestine  Kreling. 

IVOII     vJPera     llOUSe.  Proprietor  and  Manager 

Commencing  Monday  eveDing,  April  12th.  Picturesque  produc- 
tion of  Sir  Jules  Benedict's  romantic  Irish  opera, 

THE    LILY    OF    KILLRRNEY. 

(The Colleen  Bawn). 
A  superb  cast;  beautiful  light  and  water  effects;  scenery,  cos- 
tumes, and  accessories  all  new;  lovely  ballads;  soul-stirring 
ensembles  and  finales      An  operatic  realization  of  Boucicault's 
famous  play. 
Popular  Prices 25c  and50o 

OL  San  Francisco's  Greatest  Music    Hall.      O'Farrell 

r  P  I~l6  U  m  .    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  s  treets . 
Week  beginning  Monday,  April  I2th, 

A    GREAT    BIG    BILL 

Merrilees  Sisters,  European  premiere  singers  and  dancers; 
Harris  and  Walters,  eccentric  comedy  duo;  Kronemann  Bros., 
grotesque  gymnasts;  Evans  and  Vidot-q,  stuff  aud  nonsense  by 
the  volume;  Barnes  and  Sissoa,  Lillie  Laurel,  and  Delmore 
and  Lee. 

Reserved  seats,  35c  ;  balcony  10c ;  opera  chairs  and  box  seats  50c. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday.  Matinee  Prices: 
Parquet,  any  seat,  25c;  baluony,  any  seat,  10c;  children,  10o., 
any  part. 

Pacific  Coast  Jockey  Glut). 

Sealed  proposals  for  customary  privileges  at  Ingleside  race 
track  for  the*  season  of  1897-93  will  be  received  at  the  office  of  the 
Secretary.  Pallors  A  and  B,  Palace  Hotel,  until  April  10,  1897. 
F.  H.  GREEN,  Secretary. 


Dentist 


Established 
1862. 


[}R.    ARTHUR  T.    REGENSBURGER 

Office  and  Residence,  409'3  Post  street,  San  Franolsco. 
Office  Hours,  9  to  12A.  m.;  1  to  5  p.  If. 

Tomkinson's  Livery  Stable 

J.  TOMPKINSON,  Proprietor. 

Nos.  57,  59,  and  61  Minna  Si.,  between  First  and  Second, 

Through  to  Natoma  street,  Nos.  64,  66,  and  68.  One  block  from  the  Palace 
Hotel,  also  carriages  and  coupes  at  Pacific  Union  Club,  corner  Post  and 
Stockton  streets,  San  Francisco.    Telephone  No.  153. 

Fine  turnouts  kept  especially  for  calling.    Also  rockaways,  buggies,  and 
vehicles  of  every  description  at  reduced  rates. 

ST.  LAWRENCE 

LIVERY  AND 

SALES  STABLE. 

W.  E.  BRIDGE,  Proprietor. 

423  Post  St.,  between  Powell  and 
Mason,  San  Francisco. 
Telephone  No.  1323. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  10,  1897. 


SONS     OF     THE    AMERICAN     REVOLUTION. 

IN  this  age,  in  which  the  absorbing  necessities  of  commer- 
cial existence  are  pressing  out  and  driving  from  the  gen- 
eral heart  that  respect  and  reverence  for  the  early  strug- 
gles for  American  independence,  and  the  heroes  whose  blood 
cemented  the  original  thirteen  States,  due  them,  it  is 
particularly  gratifying  to  emphasize  the  fact  that  the 
State  of  California  more  than  twenty  years  ago  gave  birth 
to  an  organization  whose  purpose  and  intent  contemplated 
the  perpetuity  of  that  loyalty  to  country  and  inspiring 
appreciation  of  those  brave  spirits  whose  sacrifices  and 
unwavering  courage  made  possible  a  republic  of  more  than 
seventy  millions  of  freemen.  It  is  an  honor  that  cannot  be 
too  widely  known,  that  the  order  of  the  "Sons  of  Revolu- 
tionary Sires" — now  the  "Sons  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution " — was  organized  in  this  city  on  the  22d  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1876,  and  that  after  a  wavering  and  doubtful  exist- 
ence, during  which  time  a  few  tenacious  and  patriotic 
citizens  struggled  against  almost  overwhelming  adversi- 
ties, the  order  has  grown  until  its  branches  are  found  in 
every  State  in  the  American  union,  its  members  are  num- 
bered by  the  thousands,  and  its  influence,  making  for  bet- 
ter citizenship  and  broader  patriotism,  rapidly  extending 
throughout  the  nation.  It  has  not  yet  taken  root  in 
foreign  soil — save  only  the  Sandwich  Islands — but  there 
can  be  no  doubt  that  in  time  under  every  flag,  where  are 
found  the  descendants  of  those  who  struggled  for  the  free- 
dom of  the  country,  its  seeds  will  take  root  and  its  exist- 
ence be  made  perpetual. 

It  would  be  impossible  in  fewer  words  than  are  found  in 
Article  II  of  the  Constitution  of  the  National  Society  to  set 
out  the  scope  of  the  organization: 

"  The  objects  of  this  society  shall  be  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of 
the  men  who  by  their  services  or  sacrifices  during  the  war  of  the 
American  Revolution,  achieved  the  independence  of  the  American 
people;  to  unite  and  promote  fellowship  among  their  descendants ; 
to  inspire  them  and  the  community  at  large  with  a  more  profound 
reverence  for  the  principles  of  the  Government  founded  by  our  fore- 
fathers; to  encourage  historical  research  in  relation  to  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution ;  to  acquire  and  preserve  the  records  of  the  individual 
services  of  the  patriots  of  the  war,  as  well  as  documents,  relics,  and 
landmarks ;  to  mark  the  scenes  of  the  Revolution  by  appropriate 
memorials ;  to  celebrate  the  anniversaries  of  the  prominent  events 
of  the  war;  to  foster  true  patriotism;  to  maintain  and  extend  the 
institutions  of  American  freedom,  and  to  carry  out  the  purposes  ex- 
pressed in  the  Preamble  to  the  Constitution  of  our  country  and  the 
injunctions  of  Washington  in  his  farewell  address  to  the  American 
people.'' 

"Article  III  provides  that  any  man  shall  be  eligible  to  membership 
in  this  society  who,  being  of  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  or  over, 
and  a  citizen  of  good  repute  in  the  community,  is  the  lineal  descend- 
ant of  an  ancestor  who  was  at  all  times  unfailing  in  his  loyalty  to  and 
rendered  actual  service  in  the  cause  of  American  independence, 
either  as  an  officer,  soldier,  seaman,  marine,  malitiaman,  or  minute 
man,  in  the  armed  forces  of  Continental  Congress,  or  of  any  one  of 
the  several  colonies  or  States ;  or  as  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence ;  or  as  a  member  of  a  committee  of  safety  or  corre- 
spondence, or  as  a  member  of  any  Continental,  Provincial  or  Colonial 
Congress,  or  Legislature;  was  a  civil  officer,  either  of  one  of  the 
colonies,  States,  or  of  the  National  Government;  or  as  a  recognized 
patriot  who  performed  actual  service  by  overt  acts  of  resistance  to 
the  authority  of  Great  Britain." 

Thus  comprehensively  are  set  out  the  aims  and  objects 
of  the  Order  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  They 
are  made  for  all  time,  and  will  meet  the  requirements  of  a 
century  hence,  when  the  Order  shall  have  gained  a  mem- 
bership of  hundreds  of  thousands,  and  assumed  an  impor- 
tance and  influence  in  the  councils  and  accomplishments  of 
the  nation  second  to  none  other. 

The  first  notice  which  suggested  the  formation  of  such 
an  organization  was  written  by  a  woman,  which  ap- 
peared in  the  Alta  California  of  June  26, 1876.  In  that  ar- 
ticle it  was  suggested  that  the  then  approaching  city  cen- 
tennial celebration  should  in  its  procession  have  a  repre- 
sentative from  every  State  in  the  union  who  should  be  the 
son  or  daughter  or  grandchild  of  one  of  the  Revolutionary 
heroes.  The  idea  was  eagerly  seized,  and  on  the  27th 
day  of  that  month  Dr.  La  Fayette  Cogswell  issued  an  invi- 
tation to  all  those  who  were  interested  in  the  matter  to 
assemble  at  his  office.  The  meeting  resulted  in  subse- 
quently meeting  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  the  morning  of 
July  4,  1876,  where  there  met  fifty  descendents  of  Revolu- 
tionary sires,  who  marched  in  San  Francisco's  procession. 


Organization  was  further  advanced  on  the  evening  of  July 
11,  1876,  at  Dashaway  Hall,  at  which  time  a  committee 
was  chosen  to  prepare  a  constitution  and  by-laws,  which 
were  accepted  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  the  evening  of 
August  2d;  and  the  "Sons  of  Revolutionary  Sires"  became 
an  accomplished  fact. 

From  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  have  grown 
up  kindred  Orders  throughout  the  country.  Originally 
the  organization  was  known  as  "Sons  of  Revolutionary 
Sires,"  and  it  was  under  this  signature  that  the  original 
bulletins  and  all  other  literature  was  sent  throughout  the 
United  States.  The  record  of  the  meetings  of  this  parent 
society  were  faithfully  kept,  and  their  proceedings  were 
regularly  sent  to  prominent  people  in  the  East,  to  public 
libraries  and  historical  societies — in  fact,  wherever  it  was 
thought  the  seed  might  fall  upon  fruitful  soil.  Provision 
for  co-operative  societies  had  been  wisely  provided  for  in 
the  original  organization  under  the  head  of  "co-equal 
branches."  In  1883  a  society  of  the  "Sons  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution,"  was  formed  in  New  York  city.  Again, 
in  1889,  in  view  of  the  approaching  centennial  anniver- 
sary of  the  inauguration  of  President  Washington,  a 
meeting  was  called  in  New  York  city  for  the  purpose  of 
further  arousing  interest  in  the  heroes  of  the  glorious  past, 
and  the  lasting  perpetuation  of  their  patriotic  deeds.  At 
that  meeting,  which  took  place  on  April  30,  1889,  and  to 
which  the  California  Sons  and  other  societies  had  been  in- 
vited to  send  delegates,  the  national  organization  became 
an  accomplished  fact.  The  name  "Sons  of  Revolutionary 
Sires"  disappeared,  and  in  its  place  appeared  the  "Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution  " — a  more  fitting  and  com- 
prehensive title. 

Since  that  time  the  organization  has  grown  rapidly.  In 
this  State  there  are  more  than  two  hundred  members,  and 
an  active  interest  is  taken  in  the  Order.  It  may  be  said 
to  be  the  parent  of  all  the  similar  societies — the  honored 
pioneer  whose  children  are  actuated  by  the  same  patriotic 
impulses  and  inspired  by  a  similar  love  of  country  and  ven- 
eration of  those  who  made  American  achievements  what 
they  have  been  in  the  past  and  what  they  promise  in  the 
future. 

The  Presidents  of  the  California  society  down  to  the 
present  time  have  been:  Dr.  Peter  Wilkins  Raudall,  Gen. 
Albert  M.  Winn,  Hon.  Caleb  T.  Fay,  Captain  Augustus  C. 
Taylor,  Loring  Pickering  (all  of  whom  are  dead),  Colonel 
A.  S.  Hubbard  (also  an  Honorary  President  General  of 
the  National  Society),  Colonel  Edward  Hunter,  U.  S.  A., 
Judge  E.  W.  McKinstry,  C.  J.  King,  and  Sydney  M.  Smith, 
the  present  incumbent. 

A     TYPE. 


"Wisdom,  humility  acd  dignity  are  woman's  fairest  attributes 
-Unidentified  Fossil. 

Tbe  San  Francisco  girl  may  not  be  wise, 
If  wisdom  be  tbe  knowledge  conned  from  books, 

But  there  is  witchery  within  her  eyes, 
And  in  her  laugh  one  hears  the  rippling  brooks 
Go  tinkling  on  their  way  through  sunny  nooks. 
So  much  has  nature  doue  for  her  in  looks, 

In  voice  and  gesture  and  in  supple  grace, 

That  gazing  in  her  bright,  uplifted  face 

One  is  not  prone  to  mourn  much,  I  surmise, 

If  she  be  not  Minerva-browed  and  wise. 

The  San  Francisco  girl  may  not  be  staid ; 

O'ermuch  of  primness  is  beyond  her  ken. 
Her  merry  glance  rests  on  you  unafraid; 

Perhaps  she  flirts  a  little  now  and  then — 

Such  is  the  dreadful  influence  of  men. 

I  am  not  here  to  chide  her  with  my  pen. 
Nor  wise,  nor  meek  nor  staid.    And  yet  were  she 
The  perfect  incarnation  of  all  three, 
Methinks  a  wallflower's  fate  were  hers,  poor  maid. 
Who  would  adore  her,  were  she  prim  and  staid? 

Lillian  Febguson. 


THE  photos  of  Messrs.  Requa,  Bonnell,  and  Colonel  A. 
S.  Hubbard,  published  in  to-day's  supplement,  were 
taken  by  Howland  &  Lonergan,  of  the  Imperial  studio,  724 
Market  street.  Tbe  photo  of  Z.  U.  Dodge  was  taken  by 
Thors,  and  that  of  Byron  Mauzy  by  Marceau. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  -Mrs.  Wmslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  teething . 


April  10,  1897. 


SAN*  FRAXCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


;^1. 


1-pito  of  the   enforced 
Mision    of   main 
ciotv  buds,  the  surp!  !    keepers   have 

been  pretty  busy  Hit   ■  •  theatre  parties,  card 

ditto,  and  suppers  ad  iib.  u  grown  in  favor 

with  those  who  Bod  a  Bald«  1  I  1  aire  party  or  the  French 
opera  quite  an  item  in    Bnance       Ml 

taken  several  parties  out  there  and  now  that  pale  Lima 
Is  trying  to  shine,  no  doubt  the  Park  will  be  a  favorite 
place  for  riding  part 

*  •  » 

The  brides  to  be— all  pretty  jjirls— are  vieiog  with  each 
Other  in  the  little  details  which  give  tone  and  finish  to  a 
brilliant  wedding.  The  Burton  and  Cohen  affairs  will  be 
strictly  military,  therefore  very  showy  hi  gilt  buttons,  gold 
lace,  etc;  and  the  maids  chosen  by  each  bride  arc  culled 
from  the  loveliest  buds  of  the  swim.  Miss  Emma  Butler 
will  be  rraidof- honor  to  Lieutenant  Bent's  future  bride, 
and  Miss  Leila  Burton  will  fill  that  role  for  her  sister.  The 
weddings  take  place  within  a  day  of  each  other,  and  while 
one  will  be  a  church  ceremonial,  the  other  will  be  solemn- 
ized at  borne. 

11  »  # 

Why  does  not  some  enterprising  social  light  undertake 
to  coach  the  swim  in  its  epistolary  efforts.  Surely  many 
of  the  dear  creatures — male  and  female — require  more 
than  a  hint  as  to  polite  ecriture.  The  stationery  stores  do 
much  to  cultivate  a  taste  for  the  beautiful  and  artistic  in 
paper,  but  it  is  what  goes  on  the  paper  that,  as  Hamlet 
says,  is  "the  rub."  These  reflections  are  the  result  of 
frequent  experiences  told  of,  and  met  with,  in  our  best 
society. 

*  »  * 

The  appendicitis  fad  seems  to  be  thelatest  in  fashionable 
circles;  every  young  person  who  has  a  stomach-achs  is 
"operated"  upon  at  once,  as  the  physicians  say  the  taking 
away  of  the  useless  little  affair  is  practically  "nothing" 
at  a  tender  age.  The  craze  has  broken  out  in  the  Eastern 
boarding  schools,  where  all  the  girls  are  offering  them- 
selves as  subjects  for  the  surgeon's  knife. 

*  #  * 

The  Hotel  Rafael  grows  in  favor  daily  as  a  place  for 
society's  summer  outing.  Even  Eastern  visitors  are  mak- 
ing Major  Warfield's  admirably  kept  hostelry  their  selec- 
tion for  an  abiding  place  for  the  spring  and  summer 
months.  The  residents  of  Koss  Valley  are  hoping  that  a 
large  fete  champitri  may  be  given  by  one  of  the  household- 
ers in  the  merry  month  of  May. 

*  *  # 

Rumor  is  again  insistent  upon  the  fact  that  a  young 
lady  of  Southern  States  stock,  and  the  Lieutenant  who 
abandoned  the  study  of  war  tactics  for  legal  maxims,  are 
subjects  for  congratulations  by  their  friends.  They  are 
both  of  the  same  studious  tastes,  and  society  is  unanimous 
in  declaring  it  would  be  a  charming  match. 


What  a  charming  ante-nuptial  trip  a  motbercau  manage 
for  her  son  is  evidenced  by  the  Southern  passnar  being  en- 
joyed together  by  three  prominent  society  people— mother 
son,  and  fiancee. 

*  *  * 

"  What  a  Godsend  Wiltsee  has  been  to  the  swim!"   the 
women  say.     This  popular  beau  can   always   be   depended 
upon  for  flowers,  theatre  tickets,  and  lovely  little  suppers 
— so  no  wonder  he  is  always  a  welcome  guest. 
*  *  # 

Every  one  is  pleased  to  see  Hon.  Frank  McCoppin  able 
to  be  out  among  his  friends  again  after  his  long  illness. 
Mrs.  McCoppin  is  slowly  recovering. 

*  #  # 

Gossip  credits  Mrs.  J.  D.  Fry  with  the  amiable  intention 
of  giving  a  very  elaborate  entertainment  shortly  after 
Easter. 


plaint  of  our  n  0   many   of 

mii  for  their   wardn 

tngc,  and  from  there  to  Pai  1-       As   Ihej 

ingly  ■  .ess  to  be  better 

with  all  our  rkli  ..  raj  t"  spend  their  money  ?" 

•  «  • 

To  judge  from  the  various  pretty  devices  adopted  by  the 
si  givers  0  1  atertainmenta  lately,  it  would 

that  the  chief  objei  t  to  be  attained    by  the  host 
an  opportunity  to  bestow  a  dainty  gift  as  a  "prize"  to  the 
luckiest  of  her  gi 


Comet;  Oolong. 


The  oldest  and  most  reliable  brand  on  the 
market.  Sold  only  in  1-3  pound  papers  at 
20  cents  per  paper.  All  grocers  keep  it. 


BRUSHES 


For  barbers,  bakers,  bootblacks,  bath-houses,  bil- 
liard tables,  brewers,  book-binders,  candy-makera, 
canners,  dyers,  flour-mills,  foundries,  laundries, 
paper-hangers,  printers,  painters,  shoe  factories, 
stable  men,  tar-roofers,  tanners  tailors,  etc, 


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' 


10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  10,  1897. 


"  In  Bamboo  Lands,"  by  Katharine  Schuyler  Baxter.    Illustrated. 
New  York.    The  Merriara  Company,  67  Fifth  Avenue. 

We  were  for  some  time  rather  doubtful  as  to  the  nation- 
ality of  Mrs.  Baxter,  but  now  feel  satisfied  that,  despite 
the  fact  that  she  started  from  a  Canadian  city  on  her  trip 
:o  Japan,  the  United  States  is  the  land  of  her  birth.  On 
page  253,  in  commenting  on  the  topsy-turviness  of  Japan- 
ese customs,  she  writes:  "Wine  is  used  before  dinner," 
without  saying  for  what  purpose  it  is  used.  Cooks  "use" 
champagne  to  boil  ham  in,  and  the  Romans  under  the  Em- 
pire ''used"  copious  draughts  of  wine  as  an  emetic,  to 
make  room  for  the  heavy  repast  to  follow.  Do  the  Japan- 
ese employ  it  in  cooking,  to  induce  nausea,  or  to  wash 
their  hands?  The  handsome  volume  before  us  gives  an 
account  of  the  author's  travels  in  the  land  of  the  Mikado, 
and  of  her  observations  of  the  manners,  customs,  and 
habits  of  the  Japanese.  It  is  illustrated  with  many  excel- 
lent reproductions  of  photographs,  and  is  further  supplied 
with  a  glossary  of  Japanese  words  and  a  map — the  last 
always  a  desirable  adjunct  to  a  book  of  travel.  The  vol- 
ume opens  with  a  short  description  of  the  journey  from 
Montreal  to  Vancouver,  which  is  called  "a  young  ambi- 
tious city,  with  a  fine  harbor,  a  beautiful  park,  and  real 
estate  agents  enough  to  buy  and  sell  every  foot  of  land  on 
the  Coast."  On  board  the  Empress  of  India  she  was  for- 
tunate enough  to  become  friendly  with  a  married  lady,  who 
turned  out  to  be  the  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Harry  Parkes, 
who  was  Britain's  able  representative  in  the  Far  East  for 
forty-three  years,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  British 
Minister  at  the  Court  of  Peking.  This  lady's  acquaintance 
proved  most  valuable,  rendering  all  letters  of  introduction 
superfluous,  and  freely  opening  to  Mrs.  Baxter  everything 
worth  seeing.  She  describes  well  what  she  saw,  but  has 
done  her  work  too  conscientiously:  she  has  the  idea,  com- 
monly entertained  by  the  inexperienced  writer,  that  5'ou 
must  faithfully  record  all  you  see.  Now,  a  lively  narrative 
owes  quite  as  much  of  its  vivacity  to  what  is  suppressed 
as  to  what  is  expressed;  it  is  in  knowing  what  not  to  tell, 
and  not  telling  it,  that  the  good  narrator  excels.  By  this 
we  do  not  mean  to  be  understood  assaying  that  Mrs.  Bax- 
ter's book  is  not  readable:  merely  that  we  think  that  she 
is  too  faithful  and  minute  a  recorder.  The  book  is  a  good 
epitome  of  the  things,  places,  and  people  that  a  visitor  to 
Japan  is  most  likely  to  see  and  to  want  to  learn  something 
about.  Much  of  the  scenery  of  Japan  is  very  beautiful, 
while  the  temples  are  perfectly  bewildering  in  number, 
variety,  and  richness  of  decoration.  Indeed,  one  cannot 
help  suspecting  from  Mrs.  Baxter's  book  that,  if  one  had 
the  good  fortune  to  visit  the  Britain  of  the  East,  one  would 
be  tempted,  after  carefully  examining  a  thousand  shrines 
or  so,  to  take  the  rest  for  granted.  There  are  some  notes 
on  the  manufacture  of  pottery,  cloisonne,  and  lacquer 
ware,  that  will  be  interesting  to  people  who  are  interested 
in  things  of  that  sort,  and  a  good  description  by  Major- 
G-eneral  Palmer  of  cormorant  fishing  has  been  rescued 
from  the  columns  of  the  London  Times.  The  press-work 
and  paper  of  the  volume  are  very  good,  and  the  photo- 
gravures excellent. 

"An  Ambitious  Slave,"  by  Reginald  Rowland.    Buffalo.    Published 
by  the  Peter  Paul  Book  Company.    1897. 

The  publishers'  note  accompanying  this  little  paper-cov- 
ered tome  informs  us  with  needless  particularity  that  the 
writer's  mother's  name  before  she  married  the  writer's 
father  was  Oakman,  that  Mrs.  Rowland  (nee  Oakman) 
lived  in  Atlanta,  that  the  youthful  Reginald  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one  left  the  said  Atlanta,  and  went  to  reside  in 
Norfolk,  Va.,  that  he  has  been  an  employee  of  the  Rich- 
mond &  Dansville  railroad,  etc.,  etc.  We  are  further  told 
that  the  principal  character  in  the  story  was  "taken  from 
real  life,"  and  that  some  of  the  incidents  are  founded  on 
real  facts,  and  are  presented  from  "an  unbiased  stand- 
point." All  of  which  is  either  unimportant  or  erroneous. 
The  author  it  not  yet,  at  any  rate,   of  sufficient  note  for 


the  precise  details  of  his  early  life  or  present  employment 
to  be  of  interest,  nor  is  the  value  of  the  tale  he  tells  en- 
hanced by  the  fact  that  his  hero  lived  somewhere  and 
somewhen.  A  work  of  fiction  is  an  offspring  of  the  imagi- 
nation, not  a  narrative  of  facts:  if  a  man's  talent  lies  in 
the  direction  of  narration  of  actual  events,  let  him  write 
historical  sketches.  The  characters  of  a  tale  are  good  or 
bad  according  as  they  interest  us  or  not:  you  cannot  make 
wooden  puppets  live  for  the  reader  by  telling  him  that  the 
people  from  whom  they  are  "taken"  did  once  move  and 
have  a  being.  The  reader  may  reply:  "Did  they?  Well, 
they  are  dead  enough  now."  The  story  is  that  of  a  negro 
slave  whose  freedom  is  purchased  by  some  Bostonians,  and 
who  becomes  a  person  of  importance  among  his  fellow-ne- 
groes. The  principal  event  is  the  attempt  of  the  liberated 
slave  to  warn  President  Lincoln  of  the  intention  to  assas- 
sinate him  at  Ford's  Theatre,  Washington.  There  is  really 
no  story,  and  no  plot :  but  there  are  some  queer  phrases, 
as,  for  instance,  "An  unlimited  degree  of  impunity;"  and 
"  the  counters  were  strewn  with  ....  all  manner  of  old 
jewelry  and  bric-a-brac  too  numerous  to  mention."  The 
little  book  does  not  contain  any  strong  evidence  of  the  ex- 
istence of  the  story-telling  gift  in  its  writer,  and  without 
that  gift  all  tales  are  naught. 

In  an  article  in  the  March  issue  of  McClure's  Magazine, 
Mr.  W.  D.  Howells,  while  speaking  in  terms  of  the  highest 
admiration  of  Rudyard  Kipling,  whom  he  calls  "The  Lau- 
reate of  the  larger  England,"  and  strangely  claims  as  in  some 
sort  an  American,  also  takes  occasion  (after  a  nasty  fash- 
ion that  he  has)  to  say  that  the  name  of  England  "awakens 
only  a  cold  disgust"  in  Americans.  We  cannot  help  think- 
ing that  Mr.  Howells  is  expressing  his  own  feeling  only, 
and  not  that  of  the  great  body  of  his  fellow-countrymen. 
For  Mr.  Howells'  individual  opinion  on  such  a  matter  we 
do  not  care  a  snap  of  the  fingers,  and  we  do  not  believe 
that  his  view  is  the  one  entertained  by  Americans  gener- 
ally. It  would  be  passing  strange  if  disgust  were  all  that 
England  spells  to  Americans,  when  we  reflect  that  upon 
all  that  is  greatest  and  best  in  the  United  States  is  writ 
in  large  characters  the  legend,  "Made  in  England. "  Is  it 
possible  that  Americans  feel  nothing  but  "disgust"  for  that 
little  isle  set  in  the  silver  seas,  whence  sprang  their  fore- 
fathers, their  language,  law,  literature,  and  most  of  their 
religions?  Does  an  American  feel  only  "disgust"  as  he 
walks  over  London  Bridge,  gazes  at  the  Tower,  stands  in 
Poets'  Corner  in  Westminster  Abbey,  listens  to  a  debate 
in  that  House  of  Commons  to  which  he  owes  his  own  lib- 
erty, or  stands  under  the  bust  of  Shakespeare  in  Stratford- 
on-Avon  church  ?  We  think  better  of  human  nature 
in  general,  and  of  American  nature  in  particular,  than 
Mr.  Howells'  utterances  (if  we  did  not  excuse  them  as  the 
result  of  unfortunate  early  environment)  might  perhaps 
permit  us  to  think. 

The  Hon.  George  N.  Curson,  M.  P.,  Permanent  Under- 
Secretary  for  Foreign  Affairs,   whose  marriage   to  Miss 
Leiter  of  Chicago   reverberated  over  the  whole  North 
American  continent,  and  awoke  echoes  in  distant  Japan 
and  India,  was  one  of  Dr.   Jewett's  young  men  at  Baliol 
College,  Oxford,  where  he  was  familiarly  known  as 
"  George  Nathaniel  Curzon 
A  most  superior  purzon." 
It  is  said  that  he  has  lately  developed   a  long-windedness 
and  verboseness  that  are  infinitely  tedious  to  the  House  of 
Commons,  which  is  not  at  all  patient  of  men  ambitious   to 
practice  oratory  at  the  expense  of  their  hearers. 

Massey's  Magazine  (Toronto,  Canada),  for  March,  opens 
with  an  account  of  Edouard  Detaille,  the  famous  French 
painter,  whose  spirited  pictures  of  military  life  are  so  well 
known.  Dr.  William  Clark  continues  his  series  of  articles 
on  Parkman  in  Canada,  and  W.  L.  Marschamp  contrib- 
utes a  well-illustrated  article  on  the  13th  (or  Winnipeg) 
Field  Battery  of  Canadian  Artillery.  Stories,  editorial 
comments,  and  verse,  round  out  the  issue. 

Among  all  the  many  fine  restaurants  in  San  Francisco,  Swain's 
Original  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  holds  its  own  and  improves 
with  age.  A  tine  dinner  is  served  there  every  day  from  5  to  8  p.  M  , 
for  ?1.  The  very  best  service— every  detail  quiet,  appetizing,  com- 
plete. Also,  orders  for  pastry  and  confections,  promptly  filled  by 
telephone. 

When  dizzy  or  drowsy  take  Bkkcham's  Piixs. 


April  to,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NBW3  I.KTTr.R. 


DEAR  EDITH  :  Reds,  green,  black,  and  white  are  to 
be  the  prevailing  colon  this  -eason,  and  particularly 
the  latter  two  colors  are  marked  for  greater  popularity 
than  ever  before  for  spring  ami  summer.  The  variety  of 
black  and  white  silks  is  probably  equal  to  all  the  other  de- 
signs put  together.  The  black  and  white  furore  appeals 
to  the  middle-aged  woman,  for  it  may  be  youthful  though 
elegant  and  yet  suited  to  her  forty  or  forty-rive  years.  A 
complete  novelty,  as  far  as  the  writer's  knowledge  goes,  is 
a  pinhead  check  moire.  Imagine  this  in  black  and  gray 
white  or  in  black,  white  and  lavender.  It  admits  of  many 
artistic  effects  and  is  a  joy  to  the  proficient  dressmaker, 
who  studies  materials  as  a  painter  does  his  canvas  and 
pigments.  A  costume  may  be  dressy  according  to  the 
proportion  of  white,  and  the  designs  range  all  the  way 
from  those  in  white  sprigged  with  black  to  those  in  black 
sprigged  with  only  a  little  white.  Black  and  white  petti- 
coats are  numerous  and  exceedingly  popular. 

Petticoats,  by  the  way.  deserve  a  word,  for  they  are 
anything  but  prosaic.  The  new  styles  in  white  muslin  em- 
broidery trimmed  are  out,  selling  from  $3  50  to  $5  and  $6. 
Hamburg  insertions  and  flounces  are  the  rule  here.  The 
dressy  petticoat  is  of  black  brocaded  silk,  flounced  with 
lace  and  trimmed  with  ribbon  the  shade  of  flower.  Black 
mohair,  trimmed  with  a  corded  flounce  or  with  silk  ruffles, 
is  a  good  petticoat  for  common  wear.  Moreen  has  its  ad- 
mirers. In  selecting  this  fabric  one  should  know  there  are 
several  varieties,  of  which  silk  moreen  is  the  best.  The 
colors  are  gray,  dull  blue,  black,  brown  and  yellow. 

Moire  velour  is  the  material  par  excellence  for  dressy 
toilettes  and  stem  green  is  the  stylish  color.  The  costume 
that  has  possessed  the  feminine  mind  is  made  with  a  stem 
green  moire  velour  skirt  and  a  black  velvet  coat  bodice. 
While  the  skirt  is  plain,  if  a  skirt  fitting  so  perfectly  can  be 
called  plain,  the  bodice  is  most  elaborate,  with  small  revers 
faced  with  green  silk  and  covered  with  Brussels  lace.  The 
full  vest  is  an  intricate  arrangement  of  yellow  and  white 
lace  frills.  The  black  velvet  coat,  of  course,  offers  a  strik- 
ing contrast  to  the  shimmering,  soft  green  skirt;  but  an- 
other almost  equally  pretty  costume  can  be  made  of  green 
moire,  with  the  bodice  of  the  same  cut,  with  a  plaited  pos- 
tillion back  and  a  blouse  front  of  yellow  chiffon,  trimmed 
with  bands  of  ostrich  feathers. 

Sleeves  of  silk  dresses  are,  in  nearly  every  case,  covered 
with  chiffon  or  gauze,  shirred  from  wrist  to  shoulder  puff. 

A  quaint  color  scheme  for  an  afternoon  frock  can  be 
made  in  the  following  way  :  The  silk  is  effective,  with  a 
white  ground  covered  with  green  wall  paper  scrolls  and 
black  sprays,  so  that  the  green  predominates.  The  skirt 
is  made  double,  with  the  upper  one  accordion  plaited  and 
reaching  just  below  the  knee,  when  it  is  finished  all  around 
with  a  black  lace  flounce.  A  black  lace  bolero  edged  with 
a  fine  piece  of  lace,  a  black  satin  girdle  and  a  fancy  col- 
larette of  finely  plaited  blue  silk,  the  stock  and  collarette 
being  in  one,  suggest  the  piquancy  of  the  bodice.  There 
is  a  scheme  of  economy  in  these  collarettes,  combining 
stock,  for,  when  removed,  the  dress  may  do  service  for 
evening  wear,  with  its  pretty,  round  throat. 

Other  very  handsome  gowns  for  afternoon  and  reception 
use  in  velvet  and  cream  guipure  are  made  thus:  Bodice  of 
the  lace  confined  round  the  waist  by  a  velvet  belt  fastened 
with  a  strass  clasp.  Short  bolero  of  velvet  with  lacings  in 
front.  Collar  and  sleeves  frilled  with  guipure.  Plain  skirt. 
Pale  gray  green  cashmere  cloth  gown.  The  skirt  has  a 
row  of  black  braiding  at  the  foot.  The  smart  little  coat 
has  a  plain  vest  of  the  cloth  closed  at  the  side,  and  is  con- 
fined to  the  figure  by  a  wide  belt  of  black  satin,  which 
passes  through  openings  at  each  side.  Princess  dress  of 
gray  cloth  or  peau  de  soie,  trimmed  with  velvet  set  on  in 
Vandykes.  At  the  top  the  front  is  cut  in  V  shape  over  a 
chemisette  of  pink  velvet,  the  same  lining  the  high  collar. 
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April  10,  1897. 


That  section  of  the  mother  lode  in  the 
Old  Tuolumne  neighborhood  of  Sonora  has  proved  so  far 
To  the  Front,  the  richest  of  any  heretofore  opened  up 
along  its  entire  line.  At  other  points, 
of  course,  there  are  mines  which  have  made  a  record,  but 
they  alone  represent  separate  and  distinct  localities. 
Take  the  Utica,  for  instance.  Outside  of  this  particular 
mine  and  the  extensions  which  constitute  that  group,  no 
other  property  has  yet  been  able  to  do  much  in  the  way 
of  brag  outside  of  the  hackneyed  bid  for  distinction  so 
common  in  expert  reports  from  the  vicinity,  which  always 
locate  the  ground  "within  half  a  mile  of  the  wealthy 
Utica,"  or  on  the  same  vein;  anything,  in  fact,  to  claim 
relationship  to  the  representative  mine  of  the  district.  Of 
course,  down  Sonora  way,  the  Rawhide  has  to  do  duty  as 
sponsor  for  no  end  of  locations,  but  at  the  same  time  there 
are  some  outside  properties  which  furnish  additional  proof 
of  the  extraordinary  prolific  character  of  the  "lode"  in 
this  vicinity.  It  may  interest  the  people  in  London,  who 
turned  the  Rawhide  down  at  $150,000,  to  learn  that  after 
producing  some  millions  in  gold,  the  ledge  at  a  depth  of 
1,100  feet,  the  point  to  which  the  shaft  is  now  down,  shows 
up  thirty  feet  wide,  and  is  of  an  exceedingly  rich  grade. 
They  lost  the  best  bargain  on  this  occasion  they  are  ever 
likely  to  get  again.  With  the  Rawhide  they  would  have 
had  something  to  fall  back  upon  to  offset  the  severe  salt- 
ing they  have  had  in  nearly  everything  they  have  touched 
in  the  past,  not  to  speak  of  the  similar  reckoning  which  is 
bound  to  fall  to  their  share  in  the  future.  The  App  and 
Jumper  are  next  in  line  as  representative  properties  of 
this  section.  Lately  the  Tarantula  has  begun  to  loom  up 
with  a  strike  of  ore  of  a  remarkably  fine  grade.  Present 
appearances  would  seem  to  indicate  that  the  new  owners 
of  this  property  have  got  a  very  valuable  piece  of  ground. 
The  season  is  now  approaching  when  the 
The  Alaskan  steamship  lines  doing  business  with  Alaska 
Gold  Bubble,  ports  beyin  to  dispense  attractive  litera- 
ture, calling  the  attention  of  the  public  to 
vast  deposits  of  gold  which  are  alleged  to  exist  in  this  dis- 
tant and  inhospitable  region.  The  bait  takes  with  a  class 
of  people  ever  ready  to  ensnarle  themselves  in  all  kinds  of 
trouble,  and  a  large  proportion  of  their  scanty  purses  finds 
its  way  into  the  coffers  of  corporations  which  would  as  lief 
transport  them  to  Satan's  domain  itself  could  any  induce- 
ment be  held  out  to  turn  travel  thither.  Steamship  own- 
ers were  enriched  last  year  by  the  same  ruthless  game. 
A  large  number  of  unfortunates  squandered  their  little 
savings  to  gain  the  bitter  experience  that  Alaska  gold 
fields  are  not  poor  men's  diggings,  and  return  broken  down 
in  spirits  and  health,  and  without  a  dollar.  The  authori- 
ties should  take  some  steps,  if  possible,  to  protect  such 
people  from  misadventure  and  the  hardships  entailed  in 
chasing  the  dazzling,  colored  illusions  so  skillfully  spread 
before  them  by  the  rapacious  managers  of  transportation 
companies,  whose  acts  are  equivalent  to  wholesale  murder. 
Experience  in  the  past  shows  that  where  one  man  makes 
money  in  Alaskan  gold  mining,  a  hundred  drift  home- 
ward in  a  state  of  pauperization  or  remain  to  perish  of 
starvation. 

A  doubt  has  been  ex  pressed  for  some  time 
Deep  Mining  on     past  of  the  existence  of  ore  at  any  con- 
the  Rand.  siderable   depth  in  the  South   African 

mines.  Some  news  has  just  been  re- 
ceived in  this  city  which  will  practically  settle  that  ques- 
tion. A  Johannesburg  correspondent  of  Mr.  E.  A.  Wiltze, 
the  prominent  mining  engineer  of  this  city,  reports  a  strike 
south  in  the  Robinson  Deep  property  in  that  district,  at  a 
depth  of  2,390  feet,  and  a  superficial  distance  of  3,900  feet 
from  the  outcrop,  the'deepest  strike  yet  made.  "The 
strike,"  he  continues,  "  is  important  as  proving  the  exist- 
ence of  the  reef  at  depth,  and  removing  all  doubt  as  to  the 
maintenance  of  value."  An  assurance  of  this  kind  should 
have  a  good  effect  in  stimulating  the  mining  market  in 
London  by  a  revival  of  interest  in  speculative  shares  of 
this  description.  This  in  turn  will  help  out  some  Califor- 
nia ventures  which  have  been  hanging  fire  woefully  of  late. 


Not  so  many  months  ago   a  mining  item 

Mining  Again  was  barred  on  most  of  the  great  daily 
Is  Favored.  papers  of  this  city.  The  author  of  it  was 
regarded  with  suspicion,  if  it  was  Dot 
openly  intimated  that  a  job  of  some  kind  was  behind  the 
story.  Now  it  is  altogether  different,  and  the  editorial 
columns  of  one  and  the  other  in  turn  give  expression  to  the 
opinion  that  mining  for  gold  is  the  future  basis  of  the 
State's  prosperity.  They  might  go  further,  and  say  that 
had  it  not  been  for  the  contempt  showered  Lpon  the  indus- 
try for  years  past,  and  the  obstacles  thrown  in  the  way  of 
developing  our  mineral  resources,  California  would  to-day 
be  the  most  flourishing  State  in  the  Union.  When  the 
citizens  of  San  Francisco  can  be  persuaded  to  embark  their 
money,  now  tied  up  in  the  savings  banks,  in  legitimate 
mining  work,  the  town  will  begin  to  take  new  life,  and  the 
more  the  press  enlarges  on  the  proposition  the  better  it 
will  be  for  every  one  concerned.  A  careful  investigation 
in  other  branches  of  business  does  not  develop  much  in 
augury  of  a  bright  future,  if  the  truth  were  told. 

The  question,  what  is   a    "known  mine?" 
What  is  a       has  arisen  in  the  Mirabel   mine  litigation, 

Known  Mine?  which  involves  the  validity  of  a  United 
States  patent  for  land  afterwards  found 
to  be  mineral  in  character.  Mr.  A.  H.  Ricketts,  the 
attorney  for  the  plaintiff,  shows  in  his  brief  that  a  "known 
mine"  in  the  eyes  of  the  law  is  an  actual  operated  mine, 
susceptible  of  profitable  working.  That  veins  of  cinnabar 
do  not  necessarily  impress  land  covered  by  an  agricultural 
patent  with  its  character  of  mineral  land.  That  a  vein  is 
not  legally  known  to  exist  until  it  has  been  duly  located, 
and  that  a  mine  is  not  properly  so  called  until  it  is  opened; 
before  that  it  is  but  a  "vein."  Or,  in  other  words,  that 
the  existence  of  UDlocated  out-croppings  of  a  vein  does  not 
constitute  a  mine,  nor  prove  that  the  land  will  ever  be 
sufficiently  valuable  to  be  worked  as  a  mine.  That  until 
ore  is  shown  to  exist  within  the  "location,"  it  is  only  a 
"prospect,"  and  the  mere  existence  of  shafts  and  other 
workings  on  the  vein  is  not  sufficient  evidence  of  a  "mine" 
to  exempt  the  land  from  agricultural  entry  and  patent. 

Prices  firmed  a  little  during  the  week 

Comstock  Shares  on  Pine  street,  creating  a  better  feel- 
More  Active.  ing  among  the  speculative  fraternity. 
Business  has  been  more  active  in  all 
the  leading  stocks,  and  the  onlv  prayer  is  that  it  may  last. 
The  touter  has  not  been  in  evidence,  for  a  wonder,  which 
probably  accounts  for  the  revival  of  confidence  to  a  certain 
degree.  That  this  feeling  may  continue  to  grow  and  ex- 
tend to  the  outside  masses  is  the  prayer  of  all  who  are  in- 
terested in  seeing  the  business  again  restored  to  a  basis 
of  prosperity.  A  good  many  bear  operators  are  wonder- 
ing what  struck  them.  Those  who  have  not  filled  and 
taken  their  losses  have  been  half  scared  to  death.  The 
scarcity  of  stocks  with  the  brokers  makes  the  situation 
precarious,  should  prices  shoot  up  to  a  point  which  would 
bring  heavy  operators  back  to  the  street.  A  boom  in  any 
particular  stock  or  line  of  stocks  would  undoubtedly  attract 
buyers,  with  the  inevitable  result  that  the  bear  pen  would 
be  speedily  vacated  by  its  occupants,  not  a  few  of  whom 
might  be  expected  to  take  to  the  woods,  never  to  return. 
Acetylene  gas  is  not  held  in  much  esteem 
A  Deadly         in  Great  Britain;  in  fact,    it   has  been 

Explosive  Gas.  branded  as  highly  dangerous,  owing  to 
the  number  of  serious  accidents  which 
have  attended  its  use  in  different  parts  of  the  country.  On 
the  first  of  the  current  month,  the  new  illuminant  came 
under  Government  control  in  accordance  with  an  order  in 
council  made  under  the  14th  section  of  the  Petroleum  Act, 
1871,  promulgated  in  a  circular  issued  from  the  Home 
Office.  Accordingly,  from  the  date  mentioned,  viz.,  April 
1,  1897,  it  will  be  unlawful  to  keep  carbide  of  calcium  ex- 
cept in  virtue  of  a  license,  to  be  obtained  from  the  local 
authority,  under  the  act  mentioned.  Any  local  authority 
to  whom  application  may  be  made  for  license  to  keep 
carbide  of  calcium  can,  if  it  so  desires,  obtain  on  applica- 
tion to  the  Home  Office,  a  memorandum  showing  the  char- 
acter of  the  risks  to  be  guarded  against,  and  containing 
suggestions  as  to  the  nature  of  the  precautions  likely  to  be 
most  effectual  for  securing  safety.  We  will  probably  come 
to  something  of  the  same  sort  in  this  country  after  the 
coroner  has  bad  to  do  with  a  few  victims  of  the  craze  for 
new  fads  of  the  kind. 


April  10,  1897. 


FRANCISCO   NEWS    LETTER. 


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'  Hear  theCrler'"    "Wl  \]\  art  thou!" 

'Onc'.hal  wllipUi  wllbrou." 


A'THKR  blow  ha^  Mi  stunning   severity 

upon  the  lonely  beads  jhing  spinsters  as  sur- 

-    i  Francisco;  and  1        tender   heart  of  many   a 
frisky  young  thing  of  fifty  nters.   u 

palpitated  w  ith  the  hope  that    \  would  in  its  mercy   send 
a  husband  her  way,  is  crushed  by  the  announcement    that 
und  shipload  of  bacbi  it  to  sail  to  the  South 

and  there  wed  the  dusky.  L'.mibolsome  native,  whoso 
petticoat  is  a  fig-leaf,  and  who  wears  naught  else  to  speak 
of  but  a  pair  of  ear-rings  and  an  engaging  smile.  The 
Crier  is  sympathetic,  though  lie  is  not  suspected  of  pos- 
sessing that  Christian  virtue,  and  advises  these  disheart- 
ened sisters  not  to  despair,  but  get  a  move  on,  charter  a 
brig,  lay  in  a  stock  of  cocoanut  oil  for  their  skins  and  some 
epidermis  dye  warranted  not  to  fade,  and  haste  to  the 
tropics.  By  the  time  they  arrive,  they  ought  to  be  a  rich 
tu  lait  tint.  Fig  leaves  are  cheap,  so  are  smiles  and 
nose  rings — and  there  you  are.  Cheer  up,  girls.  Bananas 
are  ripe. 

Why  sadly'mope  at  home  and  moorn, 
And  wish  that  you  were  never  born? 
Quick,  hie  you  to  the  southern  seas, 
"Where  husbands  are  as  thick  as  bees. 
First,  sell  your  duds  at  second-hand ; 
You  will  not  need  luem  in  ibat  land; 
The  sun,  my  dears,  will  keep  you  warm — 
Indeed,  your  clothes  would  be  bad  form. 
A  ligteaf  for  a  place  like  this 
When  emigrating  brings  you  bliss! 

IT  having  been  decided  by  the  medicos  and  public  at 
large  across  the  pond  that  the  Czar  and  Emperor 
William  are  rapidly  going  crazy,  and  other  distinguished 
personages  who  wear  glittering  crowns  for  a  living  are 
showing  unmistakable  symptoms  of  disintegration  in  the 
upper  story,  the  idea  of  a  Royal  Freak  Asylum  is  at  once 
feasible  and  appropriate.  By  all  means  let  a  nice,  sunny 
wing  of  the  structure  be  set  apart  for  a  colony  which 
might  easily  be  spared  this  side  o'  the  water.  That,  hoary- 
headed  crank,  ex-Mayor  Sutro,  would  look  real  picturesque 
if  added,  stuffed,  to  the  collection.     And  there  are  others. 

WITH  the  gay  and  gladsome  announcement  that  the 
Sunday  picnic  season  has  opened,  comes  the  usual 
list  of  casualties.  Several  women  on  the  last  holy  Sabbath 
day  had  their  ankles  twisted  from  over-indulgence  in 
dancing.  Considering  the  fact  that  these  picnics  are  such 
twisters  of  morals  as  well  as  ankles,  it  is  unfortunate  that 
an  equal  number  of  necks  cannot  undergo  the  twisting 
process.  The  chippy  aud  its  mate  flock  altogether  too 
numerously  as  it  is.  'Twere  a  benefit  to  San  Francisco 
were  there  an  open  season — say  the  picnic  season — for 
this  species  of  game. 

THE  man  who  would  expectorate 
In  public,  must  beware  his  fate. 
No  longer  can  he  take  the  floor 
Or  pavement  for  a  cuspidor. 
The  citizen  who  thus  defiles 
The  sidewalks  and  'he  street-car  aisles 
From  now  henceforth,  to  jail  must  go. 
So  far,  so  good,  I  say.    But  oh 
Great  City  fathers.  1  entreat 
You'll  take  your  eyes  from  off  the  street 
And  frame  another  ordinance 
The  public  comfort  to  enhance— 
A  law  to  fit  that  worst  of  bores 
And  nuisances,  the  man  who  snores! 

EMMA  Griffiths  rashly,  but  with  great  success,  dosed 
herself  with  rat  poison  the  other  day  because,  accord- 
ing to  her  statement,  her  Jim,  who  had  a  mortgage  on  her 
youthful  affections,  "did  not  greet  her  with  the  same  old 
smile."  Take  warning,  lads,  if  you  would  not  drive  your 
sweethearts  to  suicidal  despair.  Cultivate  the  old  smile 
for  all  it  is  worth.  It  won't  work  with  the  tailor  and  the 
landlady,  I  know,  but  it  may  keep  your  best  girl  out  of  the 
Morgue.  Smile.  It  may  save  you  costly  floral  emblems; 
and  times  are  hard,  lads,  hard. 


•  fur? 
Ala«,  ■  .  -  •., .  ra 

■  i,  willing  6 
Then  ;■  rmlng  in  the  soup. 

A  ell  1  ine. 

!it  he  owned  a  mine! 

He  ■ 

I  wound  Ins  vloUma  like  a  clock — 
6  1  promptly  did  tbey  coma  10  time. 
Us  nerve  ibtngqnfteeiiblime. 

■y.     Perhaps  it  mii.  in  truth, 
A  mine  thnt  Kerfer  worked,  forsooth, 
Before  be  vanished  like  a  rocket— 
The  kind  the  miners  call  "a  pocket." 

THE  ways  of  Providence  are  mysterious,   but  we  admit 
they  are   sometimes  g  wise.      One   Charles 

in  a  condition  of  presumed  insanity  (mortally 
drunk),  recently  committed  a  double  murder.  Being  in 
j.iil  in  Stockton,  he  last  Tuesday  quietly  hung  himself. 
Thus  in  an  act  of  sanity  lie  demonstrated  the  recovery  of 
his  reason.  He  hung  himself  to  escape  the  disgrace  of  be- 
ing hung.  So  the  scales  of  Divine  Justice  are  evenly  sus- 
pended, ami  the  money  of  the  people  saved  to  be  distrib- 
uted among  the  politic 

SOMEHOW  a  wrong  impression  got  abroad  this  week 
that  the  Miller  mixed  up  in  fight  by  heroically  trying 
to  defend  a  woman  was  our  own  Joaquin.  The  inference 
was  but  natural,  as  the  leonine  Poet  of  the  Sierras  has 
ever  been  noted  for  gallantry.  In  truth,  his  fondness  for 
the  fair  sex  has  led  to  many  romantic  entanglements  in 
his  tuneful  career  that  would  not  exactly  do  for  Sunday- 
school  literature.  Joaquin,  however,  was  always  safe 
from  legal  complications,  being  armed  with  a  poet's 
license. 

BENJAMIN  F.  Ames  avers  in  court  that  his  wife  has 
been  addicted  to  the  unpleasant  habit  of  scratching 
his  face  in  the  solemn  watches  of  the  night  while  he  was 
endeavoring  to  sleep  the  sleep  of  the  innocent  and  just. 
He  also  claims  that  she  refuses  point-blank  to  cook  his 
meals.  The  first  charge  savors  of  cruelty,  the  Crier  ad- 
mits, but  the  second  is  not  so  clearly  proven.  Many  a 
man's  life  has  been  saved  by  his  wife's  refusal  to  cook  his 
meals  for  him. 

THE  steeple  hat  that  woman  fair 
Now  dotes  in  placing  on  her  hair, 
And  'oves  especially  to  wear 

When  sitting  at  the  play. 

Produces  (so  they  say) 
Such  frightful  mental  irritation 
That  Liwyer  Vogelsang's  vexation 
Will  send  bim,  says  he,  "to  damnation." 
Now  this  is  news,  I  do  declare! 
Damnation,  eh?    I  thought,  I  swear, 
The  lawyers  were  already  there. 

MR.  Wm.  J.  Bryan  last  Tuesday  told  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court  what  the  law  was,  then  stalked  into 
the  White  House,  like  a  living  spectre,  to  make  Mr.  Mc- 
Kinley  uncomfortable,  aud  later  congratulated  Carter 
Harrison  on  being  elected  Democratic  Mayor  of  Chicago. 
Trouble  enough  for  one  day,  and  Willie  slept  all  night  and 
dreamed  he  was  President.  And  yet  they  say  "dreams 
goby  contraries,"  whatever  that  elegant  sentence  may 
mean. 

MEDICOS  Mizner's,  Livingstone's,  Tait's,  and  Rosen- 
stirn's  fees  for  attendance  in  a  professional  capacity 
upon  the  late  James  G.  Pair  prove  how  much  more  difficult 
it  is  to  kill  a  rich  man  than  a  poor  man.  Were  the  Town 
Crier,  for  instance,  to  be  brought  low  with  a  malady  that 
required  a  consultation  of  doctors,  the  chances  are  that  the 
learned  gentlemen  would  attend  to  his  case  with  such 
neatness  and  dispatch  that  he  would  not  have  time  to  say 
his  prayers. 

THE  fact  that  Blanther  was  much  handsomer  dead 
than  alive,  according  to  pictorial  evidence  in  the 
papers  this  week,  ought  to  appeal  somewhat  to  Durrant's 
well-known  vanity.  He  might  possibly  be  tempted  to 
assist  justice  by  becoming  a  cadaver,  provided  a  written 
agreement  between  himself  and  the  camera  man  were 
signed,  to  make  him  good-looking.  Old  Nick  can  safely 
be  entrusted  with  the  finishing  touches. 

GEOLOGIST  Attwood's  office  was  broken  into  by  thieves 
the  other  night.     They  were  probably  after  rocks. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  10,  1897. 


M^JteSI 


THE    OLD    SOLDIER—  fort  russel  knapsack- 

THE  soldier  was  old  and  his  hair  was  white, 
Where  it  fell  away  from  his  polished  pate, 
And  hid  the  scar  that  a  bullet's  flight 

Had  left  as  reminder  of  red  man's  hate, 
The  soldier  was  old  and  his  hair  was  white, 

But  it  mattered  not,  for  his  heart  was  light, 

And  his  clear  gray  eyes  with  youth  shone  bright, 

Though  a  veteran  soldier  of  nigh  three  score. 

Deep-chested  and  broad,  he's  at  home  in  the  gym, 
In  the  field  or  the  post  he's  contented, 

Whatever  the  grub,  it  satisfies  him. 
And  he  laughs  at  the  ill-feelings  vented. 

He's  a  hero,  that's  what  I— say  what  you  will, 

Revile  him  who  wish  for  some  fancied  ill, 
He's  a  soldier  and  a  veteran  still. 

A  veteran  soldier  of  Uncle  Sam — 

Aged  in  the  service — but  how  or  where? 
As  straight  as  an  arrow,  or  southern  palm, 

As  lithe  as  a  panther  though  not  so  spare- 
Strong  of  limb  and  disciplined  well, 

A  soldier  of  fortune— its  ebb  or  swell 
Find  him  unconcerned  though  it  pass  or  dwell ; 

The  fates  have  dealt  lightly  with  him  they  adore. 


EN    TOUT    CAS—  anthony  fox,  in  pall  mall- 


Accept,  dear  heart,  this  silken  sliade, 
Proclaimed  for  equal  service  made 

In  sun  and  shower; 
And  may  it  prove  companion  meet, 
Whether  noon-splendors  on  thee  beat 

Or  storm-clouds  lower. 

For  both  'tis  meant !    And  yet  I  deem 
It  augurs  less  of  gloom  than  gleam, 

Shaped  most  for  light : 
So,  though  some  passing  drops  most  fall, 
Yet  may  thy  years,  my  darling,  all 

Be  chiefly  bright! 

But  know  that  as  we  tread  together 
Life's  path,  with  all  its  changing  weather, 

Its  rain  and  shioe, 
For  ever,  thy  dear  head  above, 
Remains  a  canopy  of  Love 

En  tout  cas  thine ! 


CONSCIOUSNESS.— ella  wheeler  wilcox,  in  collier's  weekly- 


Within  the  silent  rock  exist 

A  billion  yearning  lives. 
Man  is  a  petty  egotist 

To  think  he  only  strives— 
To  think  he  only  struggles  up 

To  God  through  toil  and  pain: 
He  is  but  one  drop  in  a  cup 

Filled  from  the  mighty  main. 

The  flowers  have  tender  little  souls 

That  love,  repine,  aspire. 
Each  star  that  on  its  orbit  rolls 

Feels  infinite  desire. 
The  diamond  longs  to  scintillate 

When  hid  beneath  the  sod. 
The  universe  is  animate 

With  consciousness  of  God. 

WHENNE    HATTE-TREES    BLOCM.-godey's- 

Whenne  hatte-trees  bloom  and  blue  skyes  shyne 
Lives  there  ye  mayde  who  can  declyne 

Toe  crympe  ye  bange  and  curl  ye  locke, 
Or  Steele  her  hearte  agaynst  that  knocke 
Whych  promptes  Easter  offeryngs  fyne. 

In  soothe  each  fayre  must  falle  in  lyne 
Toe  sporten  Springe's  garbe  divyne, 

And  all  ye  maydes  uponne  ye  blocke 
Have  hattes  ye  witteof  man  toe  mocke, 
And  rove  where  bonnet-bushes  twynne 

And  hatte-trees  bloom, 


CITY    INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 


RESTAURANTS. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle    Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  roomB,      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Brum. 

DAIRIES. 

Oakland  Dairy  Depot,  330  Fulton  street,  S.  F.  Absolutely  pure  Milk  and 

Cream.    Telephone.  Pine  1693. 

DENTISTS. 
Or.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 

Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jones.     Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILERMAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  \ 2  and  1-lb  boxes.    Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 

LADIES'     HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze   (known   as   Hermann   at  Strozyn  ski's)  haB  opened 
Ladies' Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  225  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main  5820 


BANKING. 


Bank  of 
British  Columbia. 


Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 


Capital  Paid  Up 13.000,00 

Reserve  Fund $  500,000 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 
HEAD  OFFICE '. 60  Lombard  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  NaD 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  SandoD,  B,  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada;  Chicago— FirstNationalBank; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America ;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  of 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

Sflll     FrflflfiSf ft  Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

c«..:nr.n      ii«:««  Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 124,202,327 

oaVIIIQS     UniOn.  Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus ... .    1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,'  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday  even- 
ings.6:30  to8 

ThP  ftPPniTin  SflVinnS  No'  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco 

nnA    1  «^«     e »«:«+..        Guarantee  capital  and  surplus — $2040.20166 

and     LOan     oOGlolU.      Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash..  1000  000  00 

Deposits  December  31, 1896 27,7-0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B.A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Ca&hier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary.  George Tourny;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Mullerl  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A.  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann.  Jgn.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt. 

Ufollc     Farnn                   N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 
VV0I1O    I  ai  UU  jotm  j.  valentine President 

&n*  »„     d„«i,                   H.   Wadsworth Cashier 
00.  S     DanK.                 HomerS.Klng Manager 

F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldrldge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  MoCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

SPf  lirif  11  322  MoNTQOMEBY  St-  Mills  Building. 

Qswinne      Rani-  INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 

oavings  oanK.        loans  made. 

DIRECTORS. 

William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr,  H.  H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Baboock  0  D.  Baldwin  E  J-  McCutchen 

Adam  Grant  W.S.Jones    '  J.B.Lincoln 


April  10,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


•5 


BANKING. 


An  Knir'.ish  captain  of  a  regiment  stationed  at  Natal  was 
paying  off  his  command  and  happened  to  give  one  of  them 
a  Transvaal  half-crown  which  Ih>.h>  the  image  of  President 
Kruger.  The  man  brought  it  back  to  the  pay  table  and 
said  to  the  captain  r,  you've  given  me  a  bad 

half-crown."  The  oflicer  took  the  coin,  anil,  without  look- 
ing at  it.  rung  it  on  the  tabic,  and  then  remarked:  "It 
sounds  all  right,  Bagster.  It's  all  right.  You  can  pass 
it  at  the  canteen.''  This  apparently  satisfied  Bagster, 
who  walked  off,  making  the  remark:  "If  you  say  it's  a' 
right,  sir,  it's  a'  right;  but  it's  the  first  time  I've  seed  the 
Queen  wi'  whiskers  on." — London  Answers. 

Now  her  sins  she  repents— 

Though  you'll  scarcely  expect  HI 

Hut  a  place  to  commence? 

At  what  charming  offense? 

Twould  puzzle  the  sense 
Of  a  saint  to  select  it ' 

Bat  her  sins  she  repents  — 
Nowadays  "they"  expect  it.  — Life. 

O'Hooiahan  (laying  down  morning  paper) — Bridget. 
Mrs.  O'Hoolahan— Well,  Pat?  O'Hoolaban  (fervently) 
— Arrah,  O'm  glad  Oi  voted  fer  protection  this  last  elec- 
tion! Sure,  our  American  citizens  down  at  Cuby  do  be 
needin'  it  bad  enough! — Brooklyn  Eagle. 

"A  capital  invention,  these  horseless  carriages!"  "Don't 
talk  rubbish.  We  have  had  foe  a  long  time  things  quite  as 
remarkable  in  their  way  as  horseless  carriages,  and  no- 
body takes  the  slightest  notice  of  them."  "Indeed!  What, 
for  instance?"      "Cowless  milk." — Exchange. 

Aunt  Geehaw  (of  Hay  Corners,  laying  down  weekly 
paper,  horrified) — They're  bavin'  terrible  times  jist  now, 
over  to  Crete,  Joshuway!  Uncle  Geehaw  (sympatheti- 
cally)— Yes,  I'm  blamed  sorry  for  ther  poor  Creters! — 
Mail  and  Express. 

Poet — Let  me  tell  you,  sir,  that  poem  cost  me  a  week's 
hard  labor.  Editor  (who  has  read  it)— Is  that  all?  If  I'd 
have  had  the  passing  of  the  sentence  you'd  have  got  a 
month.— Tid-Bits. 

Jenkins  (of  New  York) — Well,  what  are  you  looking  so 
sour  about,  my  dear?  Mrs.  Jenkins  (severely)— John 
Henry  Jenkins,  you  have  been  drinking  again!  I  can 
smell  ham  sandwiches  on  your  breath! — Brooklyn  Eagle. 

First  Deaf  Mute  (speaking  by  finger  signs,  sympatheti- 
cally)— How  did  you  sprain  your  wrist?  Second  Deaf 
Mute  (speaking  by  ditto,  with  one  hand) — I  was  reading 
Scotch  dialect  aloud. — Globe  Democrat. 

"What  is  Bexton  hustling  around  so  in  the  interest  of  a 
curfew  ordinance  for?"  "His  boy  saw  him  coming  out  of 
a  variety  theatre  the  other  night  and  went  home  and  told 
about  it." — Indianapolis  Journal. 

Wallace — I  notice  that  Hargreaves  isn't  wearing  his 
diamond.  Freddy — No;  he  pawned  it  last  week.  "I 
wonder  what  he  got  on  it?"  "Drunk." — Cincinnati  En- 
quirer. 

"Why  do  you  hate  soap  so?"  asked  the  inquisitive  lady. 
"I  don't,"  said  Mr.  Dismal  Dawson.  "I  simply  ignore  it. 
We  don't  move  in  the  same  set;  that's  all." — Indianapolis 
Journal. 

"Do  you  know  that  your  confounded  dog  barks  all 
night?"  "Yes,  I  suppose  he  does.  But  don't  worry  about 
him.     He  sleeps  all  right  in  the  day  time." — Tid-Bits. 

Miss  Adipose  (gratified) — So  a  gentleman  likened  me  to 
something  sweet,  last  evening?  Phyllis — Yes;  he  said 
you  were  a  pudding. — Brooklyn  Eagle. 

Don't    Worry    Yourself 
and  don't  worry  the  baby;  avoid  both  unpleasant  conditions  by  giv- 
ing the  child  pure,  digestible  food.     Don't  use  solid  preparations. 
Infant  Health  is  a  valuable  pamphlet  for  mothers.    Send  your  ad- 
dress to  the  New  York  Condensed  Milk  Company,  New  York. 

All  the  latest  and  handsomest  gentlemen's  furnishing  goods  at 
Carmany  &  Co.'s,  25  Kearny  street. 


Bank  of  California,         °*M urn*** 

San  Francisco.  p^u'tociobcr11!,  ww)..  3.158,120 to 

WILLIAM  ALVORD  Pr.sul.nl  I  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP.  .VJccPres't 

ALLEN  M.CLAY  irj     THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Prentiss  Smith..    Ars'i  Cashier  1 1.  F.  Moulton 3d  Aas't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laldlaw  A  Co.;  tho  Bank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Trcmont  National  Hank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  A 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  do  Rothschild  LTrersa;  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Hunk;  AUSTRALIA  and  New  Zealand— Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  Issued  available  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Maln,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm, Chrlstianla,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy. 


California  Sale  Deposit 
and  Trust  Company. 


Cor.  California  and  Montgomery  Sts. 

Capital  Fully  Paid $1,000,000 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  Interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice, 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  In  any 
other  trust  capacity.  Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  to  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  ami  valuables  of  all  kinds  are  atored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickersham.  Jscob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R.  B.  Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry,  A.  D.  Sharon,  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry,  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 


Mutual  Savings  Bank 
of  San   FrancisGO. 


33  Post    Street,   below   Kearny, 
Mechanics'  Institute  Building. 

Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000 

Paid-Dp  Capital 1800,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President,      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,   John  A.   Hooper,  C.  G 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks,    When  opening  accounts  send  signatuie. 

I  oniion  Paris  anri  n.w.  cor.  sansome  &  sutter  sts. 

n™««-«««    d««i,      1  :«.:*aj      Subscribed  Capital 12,500,000 

American  Bank,  Limited,  paidupoapnii i2,oou.ooo 

Reserve  Fund I    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Frerea 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  prinoipal  olties  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

g.IGALGTBSBci^lBAUM}M»°aEer.. 

The  ftnglo-Galifornian       iX^ib^.or.i.!ed:::::::.\::1:PS 

D„„.,       ,  !m:.„j  Paid   Up l,6CO,uuo 

BanK,     LlllllieQ.  Reserve   Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cob.  Fine  and  Sansome  Sis 
Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills'  'or  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART     \M„naMra 

P.  N.  LILIENTB.AL  /  Manners 

Crocker-  Wool  worth         %!2v5£toS&?omo*mM 
National  Bank  of  S.  F.    paid-up  capital «,ooo,ooo 

WM.  B.CROCKER... President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  P.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 


The  Sather 
Banking  Company. 

James  K.  Wilson  President. 
L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bniguiere, F.  W.Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 


Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 
Established  1661,  San  Francisco. 

Capital 11,000,000 

Albert  Miller.  Vice-President 
F.  W.  Wolfe,  Secretary. 


i6 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  BETTER. 


April  10,  1897. 


INSURANCE. 

THOS.  C.  HINDMAN,  formerly  General  Pacific  Coast 
Manager  of  the  defunct  Columbian  Fire  Insurance 
Company,  and  a  heavy  stockholder  thereof,  is  retrieving 
his  fortunes  with  the  Mutual  Life,  of  New  York,  in  Ken- 
tucky. As  manager  of  that  company  be  captured  the 
Presidents' cup  for  doing  the  largest  amount  of  business 
during  the  months  of  November  and  December  of  last 
year. 

W.  S.  Du  Vail  has  been  appointed  Inspector  for  the 
new  compact  for  all  territory  in  this  State  north  of  Teha- 
chapi. 

Affairs  in  the  recently  organized  Fire  Underwriters' 
Association  are  running  smoothly,  and  there  is  every  indi- 
cation of  permanency.  With  the  exception  of  the  Thuringia 
and  Continental,  all  companies  of  any  consequence  are  in 
the  Board. 

During  the  visit  here  of  John  A.  MfCall,  he  was  agree- 
ably entertained  by  Charles  A.  McLane,  the  comtanj's 
chief  representative  at  this  place,  and  others  of  the 
insurance  fraternity.  He  left  for  the  East  on  Thursday 
night. 

Manager  Callingham,  of  the  Sun  Insurance  Office,  has 
appointed  Crawford  &  Conover  representatives  of  the  com- 
pany at  Seattle. 

Manager  Beggs,  of  the  Standard  Life  and  Accident  In- 
surance Company,  has  moved  his  Pacific  Coast  head- 
quarters from  Portland  to  San  Francisco.  With  the  ex- 
ception of  the  Penn  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company, 
the  headquarters  of  all  companies  doing  business  on 
the  Pacific  Coast  are  now  located  here. 

The  much-advertised  Denver  Life  Insurance  Company  is 
having  its  books  examined  by  the  Colorado  State  insur- 
ance officials.  It  has  been  discovered  that  the  $25,000 
securities  deposited  with  the  Insurance  Department  are 
practically  worthless,  and  that  the  majority  of  the 
Directors  are  ignorant  of  its  financial  standiug.  Many  of 
them  have  resigned  the  past  week,  and  the  vacancies  have 
not  yet  been  filled. 

.Risks  written  last  year  in  this  State  amounted  to 
$336,334,238;  for  which  premiums  received  were  $3,817,317. 
The  largest  amount  written  and  largest  amount  of 
premiums  received  in  any  one  year  in  California  was  in 
1892,  when  the  amount'  written  was  $398,623,480,  and 
premiums  received  $7,007,460.  From  these  figures  some 
interesting  deductions  as  to  the  cost  of  the  recently-ended 
rate  war  may  be  obtained. 

-  The  business  of  the  Nederland  Life,  since  the  retirement 
of  that  company  on  the  first  of  the  month,  is  being  rapidly 
absorbed  by  other  companies,  and  the  probabilities  are 
that  there  will  be  little  cause  for  continuing  the  New  York 
office  for  finishing  up  its  business  in  this  country. 

Five  of  the  seven  Directors  of  the  Massachusetts  Benefit 
Life  have  resigned,  and  their  places  have  been  filled. 

Will  D.  Jenkins,  Secretary  of  State  of  Washington,  and 
acting  Insurance  Commissioner,  desires  us  to  say  that 
until  further  notice  checks,  drafts,  or  certificates  of 
deposit  will  not  be  received  by  his  department  for  the 
payment  of  any  fees  or  licenses,  as  the  department  has 
lost  mouey  through  the  failure  of  s  -veral  northern  bank^. 

Manager  Houghton,  oE  the  Mtna  Life,  has  appointed  J. 
W.  Edmonds  general  agent  for  Oregon  and  Washington, 
to  succeed  W.  J.  Hunter,  who  died  January  27th. 

Manager  Cofran,  of  the  Hartford,  after  a  two  weeks' 
visit,  has  returned  to  Chicago. 

Alfred  Stoneman  has  been  elected  manager  of  the 
Board  of  Fire  Underwriters  of  the  Pacific.  This  gentle- 
man filled  the  same  position  under  the  old  Pacific  Insur- 
ance Union. 

The  Norwalk  Fire  has  been  admitted  to  South  Dakota 
and  Colorado. 

The  Hartford  Life  and  Annuity  Company  will  hereafter 
be  known  as  the  Hartford  Life  Insurance  Company. 

When  it  comes  to  a  question  of  quality.  Argonaut  Whiskey  stands 
at  ihe  head  of  all  the  drinks  made  for  Ihe  gratification  of  the  tasres 
of  man.  It  is  recognized  as  the  perfection  of  excellence  in  the  art 
of  l'quor  making.  E.  Martin  &  Co..  411  Market  street,  are  sole 
Pacific  Coast  agents  for  this  delightful  whiskey. 

For  Allatino  Hoarseness  and  Irritation  of  the  Throat  "Brown's 
Bronchial  Troches  "  are  wonderlu.ly  effective.    Avoid  imita Lions. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 
309  and  311  Sansome  St.  San  Francisco,  Cal 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  46  Threadneedle  St.,  London 

SIMPSON,  MACKIRDY  &  CO 89  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 


INSURANCE. 


FIRE,   MARINE,   AND  INLAND  INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),  OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager.  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Firs  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Company    ol  Nortn   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  PENN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT   FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up $1,000,000 

Assets f. : 3,192.001.69 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,506,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD    &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  Established  » 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON    NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  1799 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF    LIVERPOOL. 

Capital »6,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents, 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

nR  RirTlDn'Q  RESTORATIVE  PILLS— Buy  none  but  the  genu- 
Lm.  niwru  O  ine_A  specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality.  Physical 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
O.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mall  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED-Box  of  50  pills,  $1  25;  of  100  pills,  12;  of  200plllS, 
»350;  of  400  pills,  S6;  Preparatory  Pills  82.    Send  for  circular. 

Joseph  Gillott's  Steel  Fens, 

GoM  Medals.  Paris.  1878-lc89.    These  wens  are  "  the 
best  1d  the  wond."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mr.  Henry  Hoe.  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers .- 


i   in.   1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NI-WS   LETTER. 


>7 


GAVETIES     OF     FORTY     YEARS    AGO.— S«eond   P.pot 

Till  (fiven  durinif  lHftl  was 

Hotel 
mention  was  made  In 

tat  event  «as  the  ball  given  by 

ral  and  Mrs.  McDowe     »  called  of  a  semi- 

.ractt-r.  as  it  was  lonal  friends 

who  were  entertained  at  it  The  ball,  which  was  given  on 
i>h  of  January,  at  the  O  cidentaJ  Hotel,  wag  tl 
of  the  hour  The  dining  room  ni  made  the  ball- 
room for  the  occasion.  General  and  Mrs  McDowell  receiv- 
ing their  guests  in  the  parlors,  the  supper  tables  being 
laid  in  the  broad  halls  near  by,  the  new  portion  of  the 
hotel  not  being  yet  opened. 

Very  nearly  all  society  was  present,  regardless  of  the 
North  and  South  war  feeling  which  pervaded  it  at  that 
time.  Society  being  largely  composed  of  the  Southern  ele- 
ment. Among  the  belles  were  the  Misses  Maxwell, 
McMullin.  Butterworth.  Atherton,  Raymond  Foard, 
Chamberlains.  Hort,  etc..  and  among  the  most  noted 
guests  were  Mr.  and  Mrs  Charles  Kean,  who  were  then 
playing  an  engagement  at  Maguire's  Opera  House. 

The  Navy  proved  that  they  could  play  hosts  as  well  as 
guests,  by  a  delightful  ball  given  on  board  the  flagship 
Lancaster  on  the  22nd  of  June.  1S65.  The  weather,  for- 
tunately was  most  propitious,  and  the  trip  to  the  ship,  by 
means  of  small  boats,  was  one  of  the  pleasant  features  of 
the  evening.  The  entire  deck  was  covered  in  for  dancing, 
and  brilliantly  lighted  with  lanterns,  and  a  superb  supper 
was  served  by  Leland  of  the  Occidental  Hotel.  The  offi- 
cers of  the  ship  included  Admiral  Pearson,  Captain  Daven- 
port, Lieutenant-Commander  E.  P.  McCrea,  Lieutenants 
W.  R.  Bridgeman,  A.  S.  Barker,  present  Commander  of 
the  Oregon,  M.  W.  Sanders,  Surgeon  Potter,  Lieutenant 
Webster  of  the  marines,  etc. 

The  Occidental  Hotel  was  again  the  scene  of  a  brilliant 
gathering  on  Thursday  evening,  July  6th,  when  the  young 
gentlemen  of  society  gave  a  ball  in  honor  of  Admiral 
Pearson  and  the  officers  of  the  Lancaster  as  a  return 
compliment  for  the  very  delightful  one  above  mentioned. 
Cutler  McAllister  had  entire  charge  ox  this  affair,  and  it 
was  as  perfect  as  it  could  be  made;  W.  H.  L.  Barnes, 
Lieutenant  W.  W.  Tompkins,  TJ.  S.  A.,  W.  C.  Little,  and 
Ben  Smith  were  his  assistants  and  floor  managers.  Being 
a  button  dance,  the  scene  was  a  dazzling  .one,  and  of  the 
belles,  both  married  and  single,  there  was  not  one  missing. 
Then  followed  another  button  affair,  a  military  one  this 
time,  given  at  the  Presidio  by  the  officers  of  the  Second 
Infantry  of  California  Volunteers,  who  were  garrisoning 
that  Post  while  the  regulars  were  in  the  field. 

When  the  new  dining-room  of  the  Lick  House  was 
opened,  it  at  once  sprang  into  popularity  for  ballroom 
purposes,  and  the  "Lick  House  Ball,"  given  on  the  21st  of 
February,  1867,  was  the  first  of  a  series  that  took  place 
therein.  The  second  came  off  one  week  later,  and  was  a 
masquerade,  at  which  Miss  Alice  Risdon  appeared  as  the 
Goddess  of  Liberty,  Mrs.  Peters  and  Mrs.  Schmieden  as 
two  peasant  girls,  Mrs.  Fred  Castle  as  Diana,  Mrs. 
as  Columbia,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Speyer  as 
Bezique,  Mrs.  A.  Seligman  as  the  Queen 
Fred  Low  as  a  French  Marquise,  Mrs. 
Pocahontas,  Mhs  Lotty  Hall  as  Queen 
Janes  as  a  Gypsy,  Miss  Gummer  as  a  Snow 
Storm,  Mrs.  Frank  Hassey  as  "Night."  Fred  Castle  ap- 
peared as  Hamlet,  General  Hewston  as  aMatelot,  Eugene 
Dewey  as  a  gallant  of  the  time  of  Louis  the  15th,  and  John 
McCullough  as  a  knight  in  armor.  A  number  of  ladies 
created  quite  a  sensation  by  going  in  a  party,  in  domino, 
and  fleeing  at  midnight,  when  unmasking  time  came. 
Among  them  were  Mrs.  Hall  McAllister,  Miss  Ella  Max- 
well, Miss  Jenny  McNulty,  Miss  Alexandra  Atherton  and 
Miss  Noyes.  The  escorts  of  this  "Cinderella  Brigade,"  as 
it  was  called,  included  General  C.  A.  Whittier,  Colonel 
Neil  Dennison,  W.  H.  L.  Barnes,  Charley  Le  Gay,  Ben 
Smith,  etc. 

A  new  aspirant  for  ballroom  honors  was  Pacific  Hall, 
over  the  new  (old)  California  Theatre,  inaugurated  on  the 
6th  of  February,  1869,  by  a  ball  given  by  the  San  Fran- 
cisco Verein  Club.  It  was  a  fancy  dress  masquerade,  at 
■which  Mrs.  J.  W.  Kidwell  wore   a  Plantagenet  costume, 


C.    R."    Story 
the    game  of 
of  Clubs,  Mrs. 
Bandman    as 
of  Night,  Mrs. 


her    cousin.    Miss     M  v,    appeared    aa  "Cherry 

Bine,"  Miss  Ding.  t,  Mrs.   Bravennan  ■ 

an,  Miss  Nonie  Smith  as  an  Indian  Princess.  Mrs. 
Schmieden.  Miss  Kate  Robinson,  Mrs,  Tom  Cash,  Miss 
Lotty  Ball,    Mit  Danii        Mil      1    tint,   and   the 

Misses  Greenh 1   were  among   those  who  wore  dominoa, 

Captain   Roberta  appeared   aa  a  B reman,  Coll  Deane  as 
.Charley  Le  Gay  as   Pierrot,  w  .  C   Ralston  as  the 
of  Venice,  Raphael  Weill  wore  the  dress  of  a  German 
Dragoon,  George  C    Bodie  was  Cardinal  de  Richelieu.  One 
Of  the  most  was  thai  worn  by  Miss  Emma 

Adams,  who  appeared  as  a  Peasant  Girl. 

During  the  spring  and  summer  of  1870  the  port  of  San 
Francisco  was   paid   frequent  visits  by  11    D.  M.  flagship 

Zealous.  Admiral  Farquhar  and  his  officers  gave  in 
numerable  dances  on  board  the  ship:  indeed,  during  one 
long  stay  of  nearly  three  months  these  hops  were  of 
weekly  occurrence.  Therefore,  towards  the  close  of  this 
visit,  gentlemen  who  had  been  among  their  guests  on 
many  occasions,  deemed  it  only  fitting  that  some  return 
should  be  made  by  them,  and  the  result  was  a  handsome 
entertainment  in  the  shape  of  a  ball,  given  at  Pacific  Hall 
September  13,  1STM.  It  was  on  a  very  elaborate  scale; 
the  decorations  of  the  brilliantly  lighted  hall,  the  excellent 
floor,  superb  music,  delicious  supper,  and  the  beautifully 
garbed  ladies,  who  represented  the  cream  of  our  social 
world,  rendered  it  an  affair  to  be  proud  of,  and  a  theme 
talked  of  for  many  a  day  afterwards.  The  committee  of 
invitation  were  Thomas  H.  Sclby,  Cutler  McAllister,  Delos 
Lake,  Judge  Ogdcn  Hoffman,  Judge  H.  A.  Lyons,  and  H. 
B.  Williams.  The  floor  managers  included  the  best  known 
young  club  men  of  the  city.  Admiral  Farquhar  and  offi- 
cers of  the  Zealous,  escorted  by  Mayor  Selby  and  the  floor 
managers,  entered  the  ballroom  to  the  strains  of  "God 
Save  the  Queen,"  and  after  they  had  made  a  tour  of  the 
hall  the  ball  was  opened  by  Admiral  Farquhar  selecting 
a  partner  for  the  "Admiral's  Quadrille."  Once  dancing 
was  inaugurated,  the  ball  went  with  a  brilliancy  seldom 
seen,  and  never  excelled  in  San  Francisco. 

The  dining-room  of  the  Lick  House  was  the  place  chosen 
for  the  ball  given  on  the  15th  of  September,  1870,  by  the 
city  to  General  Sherman  on  his  visit  here  that  summer, 
General  Sherman  and  General  Schofield  entering  the  ball- 
room together  at  10  o'clock.  It  was  a  veritable  jam;  so 
great  was  the  crowd  in  the  ballroom  it  was  a  pleasure  to 
the  guests  to  wander  through  the  broad  halls,  the  lemon- 
ade and  punch  tables  which  were  placed  in  one  of  them 
near  the  door  of  the  dining-room  attracting  almost  as 
many  as  the  dance  inside.  Among  the  handsome  women 
present  were  Mrs.  C.  A.  Low,  Mrs.  Pepe  Barron,  Mrs.  F. 
F.  Low,  Mrs.  George  Howard,  Mrs.  P.  S.  Van  Ranselaer 
of  New  York,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Ralston,  Mrs.  M.  S.  Latham, 
and  Mrs.  Wherry,  the  wife  of  one  of  Schofield's  aides. 

During  the  Ralston  regime  at  Belmont,  many  delightful 
entertainments  were  given  there;  probably  the  two  most 
of  a  semi-public  character  were  the  receptions  given  by 
him  in  honor  of  Admiral  Farragut  and  Schuyler  Colfax, 
September  24,  1869,  and  of  General  Sherman,  September 
10,  1870.  On  both  occasions  the  guests  went  down  by 
special  train,  were  conveyed  to  the  house  by  carriages, 
and  found  that  palatial  abode  ablaze  with  lights,  Ballen- 
berg  and  his  band  to  provide  the  music  for  dancing,  and  a 
magnificent  supper  for  a  finale. 

One  of  the  public  balls  of  1870  was  given  at  the  Cosmo- 
politan Hotel  in  compliment  to  the  Boston  Board  of  Trade, 
which,  with  a  large  party  of  ladies,  paid  San  Francisco  a 
brief  visit.  It  took  place  on  the  17th  of  June,  and  was 
known  as  the  $50,000,000  dance.  This  Boston  party  was 
composed  of  many  leading  members  of  the  Hub's  social 
and  business  circles,  and  with  them  they  brought  a  bottle 
of  water  from  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  which  with  great  cere- 
mony they  poured  into  the  Pacific  from  the  beach  near 
the  Cliff  House,  thus  mingling  the  waters  of  two  great 
oceans,  and  uniting  Boston  and  San  Francisco. 


"On  the  Santa   Fe  There's  No  Delay.' 


Leave  San  Francisco  Mondays  and  Thursdays,  and  connect  at 
Barstow  with  Santa  Fe  Limited,  Dining  cars,  buffet,  smoking  car. 
Pullman  Palace  Drawing  Koom  Sleeping  Cars.  Three  and  one  half 
days  to  Chicago  or  St.  Louis,  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  Chronicle  building.     Tel.  Main  1531. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  10,  1897- 


FAUPER  ALLEY  has  been  much  exercised  over  the 
mysterious  disappearance  of  Windsor  A.  Keefer,  the 
well-known  mining  man,  who,  for  many  years,  has  been 
a  familiar  figure  on  the  lane  which  serves  as  a  thorough- 
fare for  every  one  having  the  slightest  connection  with 
stocks.  Keefer  spent  most  of  his  waking  hours  on  the 
alley,  and  notwithstanding  his  apparent  prosperity,  took 
many  of  his  meals  at  a  cheap  little  kitchen,  the  only  virtue 
of  which  was  its  proximity  to  the  Stock  Boards.  He  was 
the  first  man  to  be  seen  in  that  vicinity  in  the  morning, 
arriving  before  the  shutters  were  taken  from  the  saloons 
and  iuvariably  being  served  with  the  first  national  cock- 
tail. Long  after  the  stars  came  out,  he  took  his  final  and 
purposeless  promenade  through  the  quarter.  Reefer's 
costume  was  as  peculiar  as  were  the  hours  he  kept.  He 
invariably  wore  a  suit  of  black  broadcloth,  of  antique  cut, 
a  black  slouch  hat  and  a  small  black  cravat  tied  in  a  bow, 
leaving  a  wide  expanse  of  skirt  bosom. 

This  costume  and  his  habitually  solemn  countenance 
were  once  responsible  lor  a  ludicrous  mistake  which  caused 
the  mining  speculator  much  secret  gratification.  Up  in 
Tuolumne  County,  while  investigating  a  reported  mineral 
discovery,  he  had  occasion  to  spend  a  day  or  two  in  a 
mountain  hamlet  where  he  was  quite  unknown.  Misled  by 
his  broadcloth  and  his  demeanor,  the  miners  mistook  him 
for  an  itinerant  Methodist  minister — an  assumption  quite 
justified  by  bis  appearance.  A  clergyman  was  an  un- 
known quantity  in  that  camp  and  the  novelty  made  the 
miners  anxious  to  utilize  his  talents  promptly.  According- 
ly a  deputation  waited  on  Keefer  and  asked  him  to  preach 
that  eveniug.  Without  changing  countenance  or  making 
verbal  response  to  the  request,  he  sauntered  toward  the 
bar  of  the  inn,  the  deputation  following  from  force  of 
habit. 

"Everybody  step  up,"  shouted  Keefer,  in  stentorian 
tones,  and  the  population  of  the  entire  camp  was  soon 
crowded  about  the  saloon. 

There  were  not  glasses  enough  to  go  around  and  so  the 
barkeeper  passed  out  bottles  from  which  each  man  took 
as  big  a  drink  as  he  was  able. 

"Here's  to  you,  Parson,"  they  shouted,  a  toast  which 
the  supposed  minister  modestly  acknowledged. 

Then  Keefer,  without  any  reference  to  his  prospective 
sermon,  paid  his  score,  slung  bis  bag  over  his  shoulder  and 
silently  departed.  The  miners  looked  after  him  with  ad- 
miration and  wonderment. 

"He's  O.  K.,  he  is,"  was  the  emphatic  verdict  of  the 
spokesman  of  the  deputation,  "but  I'll  be  jiggered  if  he  ain't 
the  rummest  parson  I  ever  seed!" 

*  *  * 

Everyone,  including  babies  and  dogs,  likes  James  C. 
Adams,  who  practices  law  onSansome  street,  lives  in  Oak- 
land and  is  famous  for  voiceless  cachinnation.  So  good 
natured  and  approachable  is  he  that  he  is  daily  accosted 
by  people  he  does  not  know,  but  who  want  to  see  his 
parted  lips.  As  Adams  was  crossing  on  the  ferry  one  day 
this  week,  he  was  greeted  by  a  very  inebriated  individual, 
confident  of  the  friendly  sympathy  which  he  at  once  re- 
ceived. The  bacchant  warmly  grasped  the  hand  of  the 
popular  member  of  the  aristocratic  Lake  Merritt  set. 

"You're  a  good  fellow,"  he  proclaimed,  with  alcoholic 
effusiveness.  "I  like  you.  Now,  where's  your  joint?  I 
want  to  give  you  all  my  trade.  I  know  every  joint  from 
Second  street  to  East  Oakland  and  I've  never  yet  seen 
you  behind  a  bar.     Where's  your  joint?" 

All  his   acquaintances   are  now   asking  Jim   the   same 

question. 

*  #  * 

Comment  is  made  that  at  the  noon  meetings  for  business 
men  conducted  by  Archdeacon  Webber  in  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  the  Episcopal  clergy,  who  share  seats  in  the 
audience  with  the  down-town  contingent,  are  as  tardy  as 
the  bankers  and  brokers  are  punctual  in  their  attendance. 


No  one  has  been  quite  so  late,  however,  as  the  Reverend 
Robert  C.  Poute,  rector  of  Grace  Church.  Thereby  hangs 
a  tale,  and  thereby  also  hung,  for  a  time,  the  fashionable 
priest.  As  the  auditorium  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
is  on  the  second  floor  and  up  a  long  flight  of  steps,  many 
elderly  gentlemen  en  route  to  hear  the  Archdeacon  have 
recourse  to  the  Merchants'  Exchange  elevator,  an  old- 
fashioned  contrivance  which  frequently  illustrates  Matthew 
Arnold's  declaration  that  it  is  the  unexpected  that  hap- 
pens. Mr.  Poute  knew  that  he  was  late  when  he  stepped 
into  the  elevator,  but  when  it  stopped  between  the  first 
and  second  floors  he  foresaw  that  he  would  be  later. 
.  "  Never  mind  taking  me  up-stairs,"  he  shouted,  in  his 
abrupt  way.  "  Just  let  me  out  of  this  confounded  thing, 
and  I'll  walk." 

Even  this  was  impossible.  The  lift  stuck  fast;  all  efforts 
to  move  it  were  unavailing,  and  it  was  as  difficult  to  go 
down  as  up.  There  soon  gathered  a  crowd,  composed  of 
the  unregenerate  who  were  not  going  to  the  meeting,  and 
who  amused  themselves  with  jeering  the  caged  occupants 
of  the  suspended  elevator.  Rector  Poute,  having  gradu- 
ated from  the  navy  into  the  church,  was  able  to  express 
his  opinions  as  forcibly  as  the  less  reverend. 

"  The  preacher  don't  seem  to  be  stepping  heavenward 
at  a  very  rapid  gait,"  said  a  scoffer,  at  whom  the  clergy- 
man hurled  muttered  anathemas. 

After  half  an  hour's  hard  work  the  lift  slowly  descended 
to  its  starting  place.  Mr.  Foute  rushed  out,  and  hur- 
riedly made  for  the  stairway.  He  was  in  time  to  meet  his 
descending  brother  clergymen,  who  had  left  the  chamber, 
the  meeting  being  long  over.  The  portly  rector's  ruffled 
sensibilities  were  not  soothed  to  any  noticeable  extent  by 
the  evident  incredulity  with  which  the  other  ministers  re- 
ceived his  explanation  of  absence. 

*  *  * 

A  tapping  at  the  studio  door  of  a  young  woman  who  is 
a  member  of  the  Art  Students'  League,  brought  the  fair 
tenant  to  the  entrance.  The  vision  that  met  her  eyes  was 
more  gorgeous  than  sunset  at  the  Cliff  House.  A  pink 
shirt  with  broad  bars  of  yellow,  a  bright  blue  necktie, 
white  hat,  black  clothes,  brown  waistcoat,  and  about 
seven  inches  of  grin — all  bowed  to  her  at  once.  She 
rubbed  her  eyes,  but  it  was  still  there,  and,  oh,  horrors! 
the  grin  was  perceptibly  widening! 

The  artist  realized  that  she  had  been  working  too 
steadily.  She  resolved  to  lay  aside  her  palette,  stop  mix- 
ing tubes  of  paint,  and  take  a  long  rest  in  the  country. 

Then  her  reflective  monologue  was  interrupted. 

"I'm  Jimmie,"  piped  a  voice,  which  came  from  the 
center  of  that  growing  cavity. 

"So  you  are  a  real,  live  Brownie?  And  it  wasn't  a 
mirage,  and  I  haven't  strabismus!"  ejaculated  the  artist, 
in  surprised  relief.  "But,  who  is  Jimmie?"  she  added, 
haughtily.  "This  is  no  Christmas  pantomime.  I  am  not 
accustomed  to  such  introductions,  sir!" 

The  animated  rainbow,  without  a  word,  produced  a 
stubby  pencil,  and,  with  afew  strokes,  sketched  on  a  panel 
of  the  artist's  door  the  outlines  of  a  diminutive  bear  and 
the  head  of  a  cherub,  of  which  the  most  distinguishing 
feature  was  its  expansive  smile. 

The  unmistakable  evidences  of  frost  vanished,  and  were 
succeeded  by  a  sunshine  which  was  almost  tropical. 

"Oh!  I  see.  How  do  you  do  ?  Won't  you  come  in,  Mr. 
Swinnerton  ?  "  invited  the  artist  cordially.  "I  am  so 
pleased  to  meet  you." 

Joaquin  Miller  has  issued  invitations  for  a  dinner  party 
on  Sunday  at  his  quaint  cabin  on  The  Heights.  Like 
everything  else  with  which  the  Poet  of  the  Sierras  is  con- 
nected, the  invitations  were  highly  original,  although  ir- 
reverent, bordering,  indeed,  on  the  sacreligious. 

"Come  and  have  a  good  time  with  me,"  said  old  Joaquin, 
to  his  prospective  guests.  "We  will  emulate  the  example 
of  the  Creator.  God  always  took  Sunday  off  and  lay 
around,  and  smoked  and  had  a  good  time.  He  didn't  hold 
any  of  those  praise  services  that  are  so  fashionable  nowa- 
days.    No;  he  wasn't  so  damned  egotistical." 

*  *  * 

And  now  it  is  Oakland  which,  according  to  the  Thespian 
verdict,  from  which  there  is  no  appeal,  is  a  jay  town.  It 
all  came  about  through  the  way  the  mud  flat  residents  re- 


April  10.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


19 


:  the  presentation  of  Gismomla.     At  the  end  of  the 
third   act   it   was  quite   ii  ion   with    the  nightly 

programme  that   flowers  for  V,  —   Dtvanport  should  l«' 
passed  upover  the  footlights,  and  plump  Kunny  and  tl 
wart  Melbourne  Maodowell  were  always  called  !>ofori>  the 
curtain. 

Now.  anions  th<-  trifling  detail-,  of  the  handsome  stage 
1  bunch  of  artificial   rosea   which  conscientiously 
imitate  a  bloom  from  their   vase   on   a   small  round  table. 
Ihirintr  his  Impassioned  love-making,   Maodowell   unoon- 
v  upset  this  imitation  boquet,   which  fell,  unnoticed, 
to  the  BOOT.     The  Oaklanders   were  somewhat   shy  on  the 
proper  standard   of    enthusiasm    that    night;    even   the 
manager  forgot  his  cue.    and    so.    no    Mowers    were  forth- 
coming from  the  orchestra  leader  at  the  critical  moment, 
ived  this   omission,    as   also   the  manifest 
pointtnent  of  Miss  Davenport. 

ienly  he  caught  sight  of  the  paper  roses  at  his  feet. 
In  the  excitement  of  the  moment,  he  mistook  the  property 
boquet  for  the  genuine  floral  article,  aud  gracefully  pre- 
sented it  to  the  uow  smiling  Fanny.  But  those  in  the 
circle,  who  had  noted  all  the  movements  of  the  stage 
-.  and  who  appreciated  the  significance  of  Melbourne's 
mistake,  unkindly  laughed;  while  the  gallery  howled  with 
malicious  glee.  There  was  no  recall  after  the  third  act 
that  night,  and  now  Oakland  is  added,  in  the  dramatic 
catalogue,  to  the  list  of  uncultured  communities. 

*  »  * 

A  taste  of  his  own  medicine  was  administered  this  week 
to  Professor  L.  Du  Pont  Syle  of  the  English  Department 
iu  the  State  University.  Syle  is  noted  in  college  circles  as 
a  particularly  severe  critic  and  his  students  often  writhe 
under  his  sarcastic  shafts. 

'What  they  need  is  a  tonic,  not  a  sedative,"  is  his  de- 
fence for  biting  judgments  harshly  expressed. 

Outside  of  his  lecture  room  Syle  is  amiable  enough  and 
is  considered  an  accomplished  dramatist.  He  recently 
wrote  a  comedy,  "The  Chaplain's  Revenge,"  which  was 
produced  by  his  students.  The  play  was  so  favorably  re- 
ceived that  Syle  thought  he  could  afford  to  invite  class 
criticisms  upon  it,  anticipating  comments  from  bis  own 
scholars  at  least  as  favorable  as  those  of  the  critics  in  the 
daily  press.  Unfortunately  for  him,  Professor  Syle  had 
forgotten  that  characteristic  of  collegians  which  never 
overlooks  an  opportunity  to  get  even.  To  his  pain  and 
surprise  one  after  another  in  his  class  poured  hot  shot  into 
his  little  comedy,  and  it  was  small  comfort  to  the  unhappy 
instructor  to  feel  that  most  of  the  aspersions  of  his  critics 
were  unjust.  His  cupof  bitterness  ran  over  when  a  "co-ed." 
who  had  had  a  leading  role  in  the  caste  and  who,  Syle  nat- 
urally supposed,  would  rush  to  his  defense,  declared  that  the 
play  was  sadly  lacking  in  unity  and  was  merely  a  succes- 
sion of  commonplace  incidents,  inartistically  strung  to- 
gether. Syle  hotly  defended  the  child  of  his  brain,  but  it 
is  understood  he  will  change   its   name   to  "The  Student's 

Revenge." 

*  *  * 

Her  ostensible  purpose  in  visiting  the  Anglo-California 
Bank  was  to  have  a  check  cashed,  but  she  almost  forgot 
about  the  money  in  her  eagerness  to  discuss  Edwin  K. 
Alsip's  little  slip,  the  fiightof  Attorney  Morgan,  the  baby, 
the  fictitious  mamma,  the  discomfiture  of  those  concerned 
in  the  blackmailing  scheme  and  all  the  details  of  the  vic- 
tim's misadventure. 

"I  know  Alsip  quite  well,"  she  said,  volubly,  to  genial 
Billy  Stinson,  the  paying  teller.  "Alsip's  all  right.  In 
his  case,  it  was  not  an  error  of  the  heart,"  she  continued, 
oracularly,  "but  of  the — ahem! — of  the " 

She  floundered,  hesitated,  blushed  and  gasped.  With  a 
dexterous  sweep  of  his  arm,  Stinson  spread  in  a  shining 
semi-circle  on  the  counter,  the  gold  pieces  represented  by 
her  check.  Then  he  looked  steadiiy  at  the  confused  female 
and  leaned  confidentially  toward  her. 

"My  dear  Madam,"  said  Billy,  in  his  blandest  tones, 
"you  are  in  deep  water.     Swim  out." 

*  *  * 

Some  of  his  opponents  in  the  Hale  &  Norcross  manage- 
ment are  now  unkind  enough  to  say  that  it  was  the  irony 
of  fate  which  sent  Jeremiah  Lynch  to  the  State  Senate. 
His  political  triumph  came  just  after  he  completed  his 
memorable  trip  on  the  Nile,  under  the  direction  of  a  tour- 


leuralon  party.     That  expedition  was  directly  re 
sponsible  for  the  book  aboul  Egyptian  und,  and  mummies, 
and  obelisks,  published  after  the  travelers  return,  B 
the  editing  of  which  was  ascribed  the  sudden   allium. ,-   of 
Harry  Dam.  now  of  London.      Jerry  has  always   been   a 
great  favorite  among  the  ladies,  and  his  sun-esses  are  sup- 
posed to  be  due  to  those  well-known  oharma  of  person,  of 
which  he  is  not  unconscious.     When  he  arrived   In   Sacra 
mento  to  attend    the    Legislature,    Senator    Lynoh    wore 
bushy  whiskers,  on  whirl,  he  lavished  a  wealth  of  affection. 
He  took  a  seat  in  the  Chamber  next  to  a   hold  over  Sena- 
tor, of  whom   he  asked    an  embarrassing  question,   in    his 
famous  lisp,  while  he  caressed   the  curls  on  his  chin. 

"Can  you  tell  me,  thir,"  Jerry  said,  sweetly.  "  who  wath 
the  handthometh  man  in  the  fatf  Thenate  '  "' 

There  could  be  no  question  as  to  the  identity  of  the  hand- 
somest man  in  the  Senate  during  that  session. 
#  #  # 

The  decorative  soul  of  John  Harrold  has  been  finding  a 
partial  expression  in  the  work  of  college  settlement,  es- 
tablished in  San  Francisco  two  years  ago  by  Professor 
Bernard  Moses.  Harrold  has  been  showering  his  talents 
on  a  band  of  ungrateful  little  street  arabs,  but  who,  he  is 
firmly  convinced,  will  be  more  appreciative  some  day. 
They  view  the  entire  plan  for  their  mental  and  social  im- 
provement in  the  light  of  a  huge  joke,  their  conception  of 
its  benefits  being  confined  to  the  many  opportunities  it 
presents  for  "stringing"  their  instructors.  By  wayof  in- 
ducing better  deportment,  and  with  his  own  dignity  iu 
mind,  Harrold  organized  the  kids  under  his  supervision  in- 
to a  club,  to  meet  two  nights  a  week,  all  business  being 
transacted  by  the  boys  themselves.  The  first  test  of  the 
new  order  of  things  came  at  the  second  meeting  of  the 
club,  when  the  juvenile  secretary  gravely  read  the  minutes 
of  the  previous  session,  recording  the  first  vote  thus: 

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April  io,  1897. 


IF  music  be  the  food  of  love,  what  a  feast  there  has  been 
of  late  !  The  opera  will,  however,  soon  be  a  thing  of  the 
past,  and  for  the  closing  nights  of  the  season  there  have 
been  quite  a  number  of  parties  arranged  to  enjoy  them. 
The  concert  of  the  Loring  Club,  on  Tuesday  night,  was  one 
of  the  best  the  club  has  ever  given,  and  the  attendance — 
always  large  at  these  popular  society  affairs — was  even 
more  so  than  usual.  The  art  lectures  of  the  Henri  Fair- 
weathers,  which  Sorosis  has  been  enjoying  during  the  past 
weeks,  have  been  great  treats.  The  Wagner  series  has 
been  finished,  and  now  Browning  is  to  be  the  theme. 

Social  festivities  have,  in  the  main,  been  confined  to  din- 
ners and  suppers,  the  latter  preceded  by  theatre,  opera, 
and  Chute  parties,  of  which  last  Mrs.  J.  O'Neil  Reis  has 
proved  to  be  one  of  the  most  successful  arrangers.  On 
Monday  evening  the  members  of  the  Sketch  Club  gave  a 
reception  in  their  rooms  on  Montgomery  street,  the  mus- 
ical features  being  provided  by  the  University  Mandolin 
Club,  and  the  Spring  Show  has,  during  the  week,  at- 
tracted many  visitors  to  their  pleasant  quarters. 

By  far  the  handsomest  entertainment  of  the  Lenten 
season  was  the  pink  luncheon  which  Mrs.  William  Alvord 
gave  on  Tuesday  last  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Whitelaw  Reid.  Fif- 
teen ladies  were  seated  at  the  round  table,  the  floral  adorn- 
ments of  which  were  pinks  of  various  tints  combined  with 
smilax,  and  a  couple  of  hours  were  delightfully  spent  in 
discussing  a  most  elaborate  menu.  Among  the  guests  were 
Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis,  Mrs.  Ansel  Easton,  Mrs.  Lawrence 
Poole,  Mrs.  Willie  Howard,  Mrs.  Chas.  Brigham,  Mrs.  Ed. 
Hopkins,  Mrs.  Willie  Babcock,  Mrs.  Russ  Wilson,  etc. 

Dinners  were  quite  plentiful  during  the  closing  days  of 
last  week,  one  of  the  prettiest  being  given  by  Miss  Gene- 
vieve Goad,  whose  guests  were  all  young  people.  William 
Alvord  presided  as  host  at  a  very  elaborate  dinner  given 
at  the  Pacific-Union  Club,  at  which  D.  O.  Mills  was  guest 
of  honor,  to  meet  whom  twenty-two  other  gentlemen  were 
bidden  at  what  was  a  veritable  banquet.  The  menus  were 
in  book  form  on  white  cardboard,  and  the  guests'  names 
were  hand-painted  on  the  front  leaf.  Miss  Grace  Hecht's 
recent  white  dinner  was  to  signalize  her  formal  dihut  in 
society,  and  the  evening  hours  were  delightfully  passed  in 
dancing. 

On  Sunday  last  the  marriage  of  Miss  Henrietta  Weil 
and  Leopold  Sondheimer  took  place  at  the  home  of  the 
bride  on  Ellis  street.  Rabbi  Voorsanger  performed  the 
ceremony,  relatives  and  intimate  friends  only  being  pres- 
ent, and  at  its  conclusion  a  handsome  wedding  dejeuner  was 
served,  later  in  the  day  the  young  couple  departing  on  a 
honeymoon  trip  to  Coronado.  There  were  neither  brides- 
maids nor  groomsmen,  and  the  bride  wore  a  travelling  cos- 
tume of  gray  cloth,  which  was  very  becoming,  and  a  hat 
to  correspond. 

It  has  been  a  matter  of  comment  the  disagreeable 
weather  most  of  the  brides  of  the  past  winter  and  early 
spring  have  had  to  mark  their  wedding  days.  Miss  Aileen 
Goad  had,  therefore,  to  congratulate  herself  on  her  better 
fortune  in  having  one  of  the  brightest  days  which  has 
fallen  to  our  lot  of  late,  for  her  marriage  to  Charles 
Mcintosh,  which  was  solemnized  at  the  Goad  residence  on 
Washington  street,  on  Wednesday  afternoon,  Bishop 
Nichols  tying  the  nuptial  knot  in  the  presence  of  quite  an 
assemblage  of  relatives  and  intimate  friends.  Miss  Gene- 
vieve Goad  officiated  as  her  sister's  maid-of-honor,  and 
Claude  Terry  Hamilton  supported  the  groom  as  best  man. 

Still  a  third  wedding  for  the  21st  of  April  is  arranged 
to  take  place  in  addition  to  those  of  Miss  Mattie  Whittier 
and  Miss  Minnie  O'Neil;  the  bride  and  groom  in  this  in- 
stance will  be  Miss  Helen  Sutro  and  Samuel  Schwartz, 
and  the  ceremony  to  be  performed  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  mother,  on  Pine  street.     The  Low-Bush  wedding, 


which  will  be  an  event  in  New  York  society,  will  take 
place  in  Gotham  during  Easter  week.  The  fair  bride-elect 
is  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Adolph  Low,  former 
popular  members  of  San  Francisco's  swim. 

The  coming  June  weddings  are  a  leading  topic  in  fashion- 
able circles,  and  the  indications  are  that  they  will  be 
brilliant  affairs.  June  1st  will  be  the  wedding  day  of  Miss 
Minnie  Burton  and  Lieutenant  Pierce,  and  the  ceremony 
will  be  performed  at  the  residence  of  Colonel  Burton  on 
Pacific  avenue.  It  is  to  be  a  blue  wedding,  and  Miss 
Leila  Burton  is  to  appear  as  her  sister's  maid-of-honor, 
and  the  Misses  Grace  Sabine,  Lottie  Woods,  Kathro  Bur- 
ton, etc.,  will  officiate  as  bridesmaids.  A  large  reception 
will  follow  the  ceremony. 

The  nuptials  of  Miss  Ethel  Cohen  and  Lieutenant  Bent 
will  be  solemnized  on  Wednesday  evening,  June  2d,  the 
Rev.  Horatio  Stebbins  tying  the  knot  at  the  Unitarian 
Church  on  Franklin  street,  after  which  there  will  be  a  re- 
ception at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  uncle,  Dr.  Henry 
Gibbons,  on  Polk  street.  Miss  Cohen's  bridal  robe  will  be 
of  white  satin,  and  Miss  Emma  Butler,  as  maid-of-honor, 
will  be  arrayed  in  blue.  The  bridesmaids,  who  will  wear 
dainty  gowns  of  white  organdie,  wili  be  the  Misses  Ida 
Gibbons,  Helen  Wagner,  Julia  Crocker.  Bernie  Drown,  and 
Alice  Moffitt  of  Oakland. 

A  very  pretty  wedding  was  that  which  took  place  at  the 
residence  of  J.  H.  Swain,  in  Stockton,  on  last  Wednesday, 
when  Miss  Mabel  Swain  was  united  in  marriage  to  H.  E. 
Plummer,  of  Lathrop.  The  family  home  was  profusely 
decorated  with  flowers,  and  the  ceremony  was  performed 
beneath  a  mass  of  smilax  and  white  rosebuds.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Plummer  will  spend  their  honeymoon  in  an  extended 
tour  of  the  Coast. 

Recently  announced  engagements  include  that  of  Miss 
Lauretta  Cook  and  J.  C.  Applewhite. 

But  one  more  week  of  Lent,  and  then  a  brief  but  gay 
season  of  dances  and  weddings  ere  the  summer  flit  from 
town  begins.  First  on  the  list  of  gay  doings  will  probably 
be  the  Oakland  fancy  dress  bal  masque  at  Ebell  Hall  on 
Easter  Tuesday  night;  quite  a  large  party  will  go  from 
this  side  of  the  bay  to  take  part  in  the  festivity,  and  it 
promises  to  be  a  brilliant  affair.  On  Friday  evening,  the 
23d,  the  last  meeting  for  this  season  of  the  Saturday  even- 
ing Cotillion  Club  will  be  held  in  Native  Son's  hall.  It  will 
be  on  quite  an  elaborate  scale,  and  more  formal  than  any 
of  the  dances  last  winter.  Howard  Adams,  who  will  lead 
the  cotillion,  will  introduce  several  new  figures,  for  which 
favors  are  to  be  distributed,  and  after  supper  it  is  the  in- 
tention to  have  general  dancing. 

The  opening  day  of  the  Pacific  Yacht  Club  is  set  for  the 
15th  of  May,  for  which  preparations  will  soon  be  made, 
ensuring  the  club  and  its  guests  one  of  those  delightful 
times  for  which  in  the  past  it  has  been  famous. 

The  entertainment  under  discussion  by  the  lady  mana- 
gers of  the  Maria  Kip  Orphanage  has  resolved  itself  into 
a  concert  and  tea,  which  will  be  given  at  the  new  buildiug 
on  Seventh  avenue  and  Lake  street  on  the  afternoon  of 
May  22d.  The  lady  managers  of  the  Children's  Hospital 
are  busily  preparing  an  entertainment  for  the  benefit  of 
that  popular  charity,  of  which  due  notice  will  be  given. 

Mrs.  W.  L.  Gerstle  is  visiting  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H. 
Hecht  at  their  home  on  Washington  street  during  the  ab- 
sence of  Mr.  Gerstle  in  Alaska,  who  anticipates  returning 
about  the  first  of  June.  Mrs.  and  Miss  Skea,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ignatz  Steinhart,  Dr.  George  Sheils,  Mrs.  T.  W.  Lilien- 
thal,  Mrs.  J.  L.  Little,  Miss  Little,  Mrs.  Gustave  Sutro, 
and  Miss  Sutro,  are  among  the  guests  at  the  Hotel  Rafael; 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  Roth  and  family,  have  returned  from  a 
year's  sojourn  abroad,  during  which  time  they  very  thor- 
oughly did  Continental  Europe.  Miss  May  Hoffman  is  ex- 
pected home  by  the  next  steamer  from  the  Sandwich 
Islands. 

Among  those  making  the  annual  exodus  to  San  Rafael 
this  season,  we  may  count  upon  the  Slosses,  Gerstles, 
Hechts,  Greenwalds,  and  Hasses,  all  of  whom  are  already 
preparing  to  leave  the  city.  The  Neustadters  will  fre- 
quent their  usual  "haunts"  at  Tahoe,  while  Alaska  and 
Yosemite  parties  are  now  being  planned  galore. 


April  10,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


The  most  important  affair  of   the  week  wa«  the  magnifi- 
cent theatre  party  iriven  by  Mt>s  Ilcllmanat  Um  Open  >>n 
;esday  night.     I'nlike   tho   i;*uol   theatre  party,  the 
rived   on    time,    ami   ei  joyed    the   rare  treat  of 
hearing   the   overture.     After   the   opera   the  party  ad- 
journed to  the  Hellman  11  rner  of   Kranklin   and 

■  sumptuous  feast 
awaited  them  It  was  not  until  the  "wee  sma'  hours"  of 
the  morn  that  the  party  broke  up.  Mr.  Albert  Ehrman 
and  Miss  Rosalie  Neustadter  were  guests  of  honor. 

It  it  noted  from  a  late  copy  of  the  Berlin  (German)  Times 
that  Miss  Marion  Bear,  a  well-known  young  lady  of  this 
city,  who  has  been  abroad  for  the  past  four  years  study- 
ing music,  made  her  initial  appearance  in  concert  at 
Berlin  on  the  10th  of  March.  The  Times  speaks  in  very 
flattering  terms  of  Miss  Bear's  titbut.  Her  performance 
is  described  as  brilliant,  powerful,  and  effective.  Miss 
Bear  intends  returning  to  San  Francisco  this  fall,  when 
she  will  doubtless  be  heard. 

Miss  Laura  McKinstry  accompanied  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry 
Scott  on  their  recent  hurried  trip  East.  Mrs.  Frank 
Carolan  is  visiting  Mrs.  George  Pullman  in  Chicago.  Mrs. 
Fred  Castle  and  Miss  Blanche  have  departed  for  Europe, 
where  they  will  remain  until  the  early  autumn.  D.  O. 
Mills.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wbitelaw  Reed,  leave  for  their  home 
in  New  York  to-day,  and  to-day  also  Mrs.  McNutt  and  her 
daughters,  accompanied  by  Miss  Genevieve  Goad,  leave  for 
a  several  weeks'  visit  to  Santa  Barbara. 

Club  elections  is  the  talk  of  the  hour.  The  San  Francisco 
Verein  has  nominated  Mr.  I.  Strassburger  for  President 
for  the  ensuing  year.  The  nominating  board  is  to  be  con- 
gratulated upon  its  selection,  as  their  choice  is  a  gentle- 
man of  wide  experience  and  good  judgment  in  club  mat- 
ters, who  fortunately  has  the  time  at  his  disposal  to  devote 
to  the  club's  interests. 

On  the  2d  inst.,  Mrs.  Leila  Ellis  and  Miss  L.  Owen  Ellis, 
both  of  whom  have  a  wide  acquaintance  in  this  city,  gave 
a  most  enjoyable  dramatic  recital  at  the  residence  of  Mrs. 
Gilbert  Jones,  222  Madison  avenue,  New  York  city.  The 
subject  of  the  entertainment  was  "Word  Pictures  of  Plan- 
tation Life  in  the  Old  South,"  and  was  illustrated  by 
scenes  from  modern  literature.  The  recital  was  so  well 
received  that  it  is  to  be  repeated  on  next  Monday  evening 
at  the  Carnegie  building  in  that  city. 

Not  so  with  the  Concordia,  however;  their  board  has 
been  laboring  arduously,  endeavoring  to  make  the  right 
selection  for  the  place.  The  enormous  amount  of  work 
connected  with  the  executive  office,  in  this  instance,  has 
made  the  available  element  rather  wary  about  accepting 
the  honor.  Henry  Wangenheim,  last  year's  Vice-Presi- 
dent, has  been  looked  upon  as  a  possibility,  although 
younger  members  are  to  be  placed  upon  the  Board  of 
Managers. 

Miss  Ella  Morgan  will  spend  the  summer  months  the 
other  side  of  the  continent.  Mrs.  Homer  King  will  be  an- 
other absentee  from  our  social  world  for  some  weeks,  but 
when  she  returns  from  her  trip  East,  her  daughter,  who 
is  there  at  school,  will  return  with  her.  Colonel  Fred 
Crocker  and  family  will  occupy  their  villa  at  San  Mateo  in 
June. 

Mrs.  A.  Schwabacher  and  Miss  Mina  Schwabacher  have 
returned  home,  after  an  extended  sojourn  in  the  East. 

GENERAL  Francis  J.  Heney  left  Wednesday  night  for 
Arizona  and  Mexico,  where  he  goes  for  several  weeks 
in  the  interest  of  the  San  Rafael  de  la  Zenja  Mexican  land 
grant  as  against  the  government  of  the  United  States. 
This  grant  contains  255  square  miles  of  land  and  belongs 
to  Senator  Don  Cameron. 


The  Japanese  may  not  capture  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  but  if  you 
want  to  see  their  exquisite  art  work,  curios,  tapestries,  etc.,  a  visit 
to  George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  at  625  Market  street,  under  the  Palace 
Hotel,  is  the  place  to  find  them.  Constantly  receiving  new  and  beauti- 
ful art  goods  from  Japan. 

Excellent  taste,  combined  with  wide  experience,  is  necessary  to 
make  the  successful  caterer.  All  these,  Max  Abraham,  at  428  Geary 
street,  has.  He  superintends  nearly  every  swell  banquet  and  supper 
given  in  the  city,  and  his  services  are  always  most  satisfactory. 


Queer  way  to  sell  tea  ? 

Your  grocer  sells  you  a  package  of  Schillings 

/its/.     If  you    don't    like    it    he   returns    your 
money. 

Makes  quick  business  and  plenty  of  it. 

A  Schilling  &  Company 
San  Francisco. 


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In  all  its  branches 


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Commission   Merchants 


39  Clay  St.  and  28  Commercial  St.,  S.  F. 

Branches  at  Bay  District,  Ingleslde,  and  Third  St.  Hay  Wharf. 

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California  Milk  Producers'  Association. 

PURE,  COUNTRY  MILK  and  CREAM. 

Special  Rates  Made.    Depot:  438-430  Turk  St.,  S.F 
Telephone  Bast  942. 

ROBERT  P.  KAVANAUGH,  Manager. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 

SHIPPING   AND  COMMISSION    MERCHANTS 
General  Agents 

OCEANIC   STEAMSHIP   COMPANY, 
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MT.  VERNON  CO.,  Baltimore. 

The  undersigned,  having  been  appointed  Agents  (or  tbe 
Pacific  Coast  for  tbe  sale  of  the  manufactures  of  above 
company,  have  now  in  store : 

SAIL  DUCK— ALL  NUMBERS. 
HYDRAULIC— ALL  NUMBERS. 
DRAPER  AND  WAGON  DUCK. 

From  SO  to  120  Inches  wide;  and  a  complete  assortment 
of  all  qualities  28^-inch  duck,  from  7  to  15  ozs.,  inclusive. 

MURPHY,  GRANT  &  CO. 

CUNNINGHAM,    CURTISS    &   WELCH, 

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Booksellers. 
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kR.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
CREAM,     OR    MAGICAL   BEAUTIFIER. 

Removes  Tan,  Pimples,  Freckles,  Motn 
Patches,  Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  beauty,  and  denes  de- 
tection It  has  s  tood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-tou  {a  pa- 
tient): "As  you  ladies  will  use  them,  I 
recommend  'Gouraud's  Cream'  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions," For  sale  by  ail  Druggists  and 
Fancy-Goods  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe. 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS,  Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,N.Y. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS    UiTTKR. 


Apiil  10,  1897. 


CAN  I  ever  forget  that  New  Year's  dinner  at  the  house 
of  the  adorable  Senora?  Not  that  I  have  not  tasted 
such  sweet  birds,  such  salads,  such  soup,  or  such  wines 
before  or  since.  I  am  not  speaking  of  that.  Things  of 
the  kitchen  are  like  yesterday's  smoked  cigar — be  it  ever 
so  rich — soon  forgotten.  But  that  which  transpired  dur- 
ing the  dinner,  or  rather  after,  has  stirred  my  heart  and 
left  an  indelible  mark  upon  my  memory.  The  story  of 
Bechinia  de  Leon,  the  tragic  end  of  one  of  the  guests,  and 
Donna  Anna's  vendetta  are  fresh.  I  see  them  before  me 
as  I  pen  these  lines. 

The  dinner  party  was  the  Senora's  tribute  to  the  Bohe- 
mians of  San  Francisco. 

A  dinner  at  the  Senora's  was  an  affair,  and  all  were 
eager  to  be  there.  Her  house  had  not  exactly  the  air  of 
a  convent,  nor  was  it  quite  a  salon  du  demi  monde.  They 
sat  in  corners  by  pairs,  but  the  best  gas  light  would  not 
have  revealed  a  rumpled  skirt  or  a  disarranged  corsage. 
Of  course  Fety  was  an  exception;  but  he  was  not  bound 
by  ordinary  rules  of  conduct.  He  was  the  SeiSora's  favorite, 
and  as  he  had  a  penchant  for  whispering — a  habit  most 
unbecoming  yet  uncontrollable — he  was  polite  enough  to 
retire  into  some  dark  corner,  or  into  an  adjoining  room, 
and  the  Seiiora — dear  heart — would  keep  him  company  for 
a  brief  spell.  If  anyone  asked  for  Pety,  the  Senora  would 
put  her  bejewelled  and  plump  little  hand  upon  her  dazzling 
bosom  and  say:  "Ah,  dios  mio,  de  Senor  Pete,  he  seek; 
he  lie  on  de  lounge." 

The  Senora's  husband,  a  learned  man,  was  a  splendid 
talker,  and  she  adored  him — she  adored  all  men  who  had 
brains  and  heart  and  looks.  The  Senor  did  not  have  much 
looks,  and  he  was  rather  of  diminutive  size;  but  then,  he 
was  brainy  and  a  splendid  cook. 

However,  I  am  not  to  write  of  the  viands,  but  of  the 
tragedy,  perchance  of  men.  Had  you  been  present  at 
that  dinner,  you  might  have  been  guilty  of  the  same  di- 
gression. There  were  so  many  interesting  people  present. 
I  have  spoken  already  of  Pety,  whose  conversational 
powers  were  as  unlimited  as  his  capacity  for  punch.  Pety 
the  beautiful,  whose  cherubic  face  and  perennial  smile 
made  him  the  favorite  of  his  superiors  and  the  envied  of 
his  equals;  the  incomparable  Pety,  who  had  dined  with 
Lords  and  Princes;  the  sailor,  soldier,  journalist  and 
champion  liar  of  the  universe. 

Then  there  was  that  little  curly-headed,  black-eyed 
musician,  who  spoke  of  his  violin  as  his  mistress,  and  when 
in  drink,  spoke  of  his  mistress  as  his  violin. 

Then  there  were  the  "brothers,"  both  rather  small  and 
slender,  but  endowed  with  a  Gambrinian  capacity  for  beer. 
Willis,  the  elder,  had  long,  light  hair,  that  fell  in  matted 
strands  from  the  middle  of  his  head.  His  brilliant,  glisten- 
ing eyes  were  almost  as  marvelous  as  his  mouth,  which,  in 
its  semi-circular  stretch,  frequently  caught  the  lobes  of 
his  ears  in  the  corners.  Dan,  the  younger,  was  a  musician, 
a  painter,  a  poet,  and  an  all-around  minstrel;  next  to 
cigarettes  he  loved  the  Senora's  second  daughter,  who  he 
called  his  Moon-kissed  Pink. 

And  so,  one  and  all  of  those  fellows  who  constitute  the 
vie  du  Bohenie  and  its  hangers  on,  of  San  Francisco,  might 
be  said  to  have  accepted  the  invitation  of  the  Senora,  and 
to  have  turned  in  ready  to  eat  and  drink  in  honor  of  her 
who  was  prolific  in  her  favors  to  those  she  liked. 

Among  the  great  number  of  people  at  the  table,  there 
was  one  person  who  had  attracted  my  attention  more  than 
the  rest.  Firstly,  because  he  was  a  stranger  to  me; 
secondly,  because  he  was  a  queer  looking  man  of  an  uncer- 
tain age,  who  had  evidently  disguised  his  looks,  and, 
thirdly,  because  he  sat  a  little  too  close,  I  thought,  to 
Katy,  the  finest  specimen  of  a  Spanish  Creole  I  had  ever 
seen.  Katy  was  a  type  of  beauty,  Madonna-like  in  ex- 
pression, with  that  dreamy,  pensive  look  in  her  eyes,  the 
light  and  fire  of  which  are  a  mixture  of  heaven  and  hell; 


we  SENORA'S 

DINNER  PARTY 


.  By       Q.^/l.pM-ccygei"! 

the  power  of  which  no  man  ever  successfully  withstood. 
The  person  referred  to  looked  into  Katy's  face  with  the 
insinuating  smile  of  a  hyena.  He  was  almost  ghastly  pale 
and  this  I  thought  so  unnatural  that  I  was  tempted  to 
throw  a  glass  of  wine  in  his  face,  just  to  see  whether  that 
whitewash  would  come  off.  His  waxed  mustacbios,  which 
stood  out  straight  on  either  side,  had  that  dark  lack- 
luster tinge  which  dye  gives  to  hair;  and  when  he  moved 
his  lips  those  waxed  points  moved  automatically. 

The  Senora,  in  the  flush  of  wine  and  in  the  grace  of 
Pety's  attentions,  suddenly  cast  her  dancing  eyes  upon 
Katy's  neighbor  and  exclaimed: 

"Ustedes  un  pobre  comedor;  listed  no  come  nada,  Senor 
Campo-Novo." 

'Gracias  StTiora,  you  no  deseo  nada  mas,"  replied  he,  ad- 
dressed as  Senor  Campo-Novo. 

Few  noticed  this  parley;  most  of  the  guests  were  either 
jesting,  or  swearing  eternal  friendship  with  liberal  pota- 
tions of  red,  red  wine,  and  the  Seiiora  continued  her 
whisperings  with  the  divine  Pety. 

Our  host  dilated  upon  some  of  the  Italian  dishes  he  had 
prepared,  and  told  stories  to  those  near  him.  When 
black  coffee  and  cigars  had  been  served,  the  door  opened 
and  Donna  Anna,  mother  of  our  hostess,  entered. 

"To  tesaludo,  mama,"  cried  our  host,  and  all  present 
gave  the  quaint,  swarthy  little  woman  a  roaring  welcome. 

"Donna  Anna  does  not  dine  with  us  on  New  Year's 
eve,"  said  our  host,  "she  only  partakes  in  a  smoke  as  a 
peace  offering  to  the  family;  hey,  mama?"  he  cried,  hand- 
ing her  a  long  Virginia. 

Donna  Anna  smiled,  showing  a  set  of  symmetrical  white 
teeth  that  contrasted  beautifully  with  her  dark  face. 

"It  is  just  fifteen  years  to-night,"  our  host  continued, 
"that  Don  Francisco  de  Leon  took  dinner  with  us  in  this 
very  room  and  fell  dead  at  the  very  place  now  occupied  by 
Senor  Campo-Novo." 

By  this  time  the  noise  had  somewhat  subsided  and  all 
were  listening  to  the  Senor. 

"You  are  burning  the  table-cloth,  Donna  Anna,"  cried 
our  host. 

Donna  Anna  put  her  dark  hand  upon  the  smoldering 
cloth. 

"Jo  siento,"  she  said,  and  all  laughed  at  her  contrition, 
she  was  such  a  good  soul,  no  one  could  be  harsh  with  her. 

"As  I  was  saying,"  the  Senor  continued,  "Francisco  de 
Leon  died  of  money.  That  is  a  strange  disease.  But  old 
Francisco  was  a  miser,  and  when  a  miser  gives  away  his 
money — something  breaks.  Look  out,  Donna  Anna!" 
cried  the  Seiior,  seeing  that  the  hand  holding  the  Donna's 
cigar  had  sank  upon  the  table  and  the  fire  was  igniting 
the  cloth.  She  started,  put  the  cigar  on  a  plate,  and 
while  our  host  continued  his  narrative  she  held  her  gaze 
riveted  upon  the  place  occupied  by  Senor  Campo-Novo. 

"Francisco  had  an  only  child,  Bechinia,  upon  whom  he 
doted,  and  for  whose  sake  he  labored  and  lived  in  a  mis- 
erable hovel,  though  he  owned  all  the  property  on  the 
north  side  between  Bush  and  Pine  streets.  Bechinia  was 
a  beautiful  woman,  and  when  she  became  engaged  to 
Senor  de  Cima  the  old  man  was  not  quite  satisfied.  'She 
ought  to  be  a  great  lady,'  he  would  say.  De  Cima  did  not 
suit  him.  In  one  of  Francisco's  houses  there  lived  at  that 
time  a  German  music  teacher,  a  handsome  fellow,  who 
went  by  the  name  of  Count  Duerstein.  He  was  the  fashion, 
and  Bechinia,  too,  became  his  pupil.  In  less  than  a  month 
she  threw  over  de  Cima  and  married  the  Count." 

At  this  juncture  Senor  Campo-Novo,  who  I  soon  learned 
was  engaged  to  Katy,  whispered  into  the  latter's  ear, 
whereupon  she  proposed  that  the  company  go  into  the 
parlor.  But  we  objected  sotto  voce,  clamoring  for  the 
end  of  the  story. 

"The  majority  rules,"  said  our  host,  and  continued: 

"Francisco  de  Leon  always  dined  with  us  on  New  Year's 


April  to,  1897. 


s.\N   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


•id  while   at   the   table   the   last   time,  told  us  of  the 
vir<'  m-in-law.    and    that    the   fount  had  taken 

Bechinia  to  Germany    I  ntrodured    to    his  p 

Donna  Anna  did  not  like  the  Count.  '1  don't  believe  he  is 
a  Count  at  all  and  he  may  have  a  wife  and  children  some- 
where in  tbe  world,'  she  had  Old  Frai  bo  grew 
very  angry  at  bis  sister-  li  nark:  his  face  turned 
almost  purple,  he  wanted  I                  but  fell  and  was  .lead. 

"However,  he  made  a  will,  ami  had  Stipulated  that  under 
no  condition  should  t1  i    by   Uechinia  or  her 

husband,  that  they  were  to  draw   thi  luring  their 

lives,  and  on  the  death  of  her  without  issue,  the  husband 
should  receive  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  and  the 
whole  estate  to  revert  to  my  wife 

"Two  years  bad  gone  by  and  all  that  was  heard  of  the 
Duersteins  was  through  their  European  bankers,  to  whom 
we  sent  a  princely  sum  every  three  months.  One  day  an 
order  was  sent  from  Germany  for  a  very  large  sum  of 
money.  The  executors  of  the  estate  had  a  consultation  and 
concluded  not  to  honor  the  order,  claiming  that  it  would 
affect  the  estate.  Two  months  after  this  a  cablegram 
announced  the  death  of  Bechinia.  and  having  received  the 
necessary  papers,  we  sent  ten  thousand  dollars  to  the. 
Count.  Donna  Anna  was  inconsolable;  Bechinia's  death 
seemed  to  have  clouded  her  life. 

e  day  a  letter  reached  me  from   the  Mexican  Consul 
in  Strassbourjr,  that  chilled  my   very   blood.     It  ran  thus: 

"  'I  happened  to  make  a  tour  through  the  asylum  for 
the  insane  in  this  city,  when  I  came  upon  a  Spanish  wo- 
man from  San  Francisco,  California.  She  told  me  that 
her  husband  had  put  her  there  two  years  ago.  She  is  a 
sad  sight,  though  no  more  insane  than  lam.  Her  name  is 
Bechinia  de  Leon.  Countess  Duerstein.' 

"The  trustees  of  the  estate,  being  informed  of  the  out- 
rage, sent  a  trusted  agent  to  Europe  to  bring  Bechinia 
home.  Poor  thing,  she  died  on  the  steamer.  It  is  just 
twelve  years,  three  years  before  that,  old  Francisco  dined 
with  us." 

"And  wbat  became  of  the  Count?"  we  asked  in  chorus. 

"I  have  never  heard  of  him  since,  and  I  hope  never  to 
hear  of  him  again.  It  would  not  do  for  him  to  meet  Donna 
Anna." 

The  latter  had  risen,  her  oval  face  livid,  her  black  eyes 
shooting  flashes,  and  her  blue  lips  covered  with  foam. 

"The  murderer  of  my  poor  child,  my  Bechinia,"  she 
shrieked,  "there — there  be  sits,"  pointing  at  SeiiorCampo- 
Novo.  "I  know  you,  Professor  Duerstein  in  spite  of  your 
shaven  chin  and  waxed  moustachios!  You  murdered  my 
Bechinia,  when  you  could  not  get  her  fortune,  you " 

Like  a  puma,  Donna  Anna  leaped  over  the  table,  and 
before  any  one  could  as  much  as  move,  she  struck  the 
Senor  Campo-Novo  in  the  chest.  He  groaned  and  fell 
from  bis  seat,  blood  maculating  his  white  shirt  front.  She 
had  driven  a  stiletto  into  his  heart. 

Donna  Anna  has  since  died  in  the  asylum  whither  she 
was  taken  a  few  days  later. 

FOOLING    HIS    SHADOW  --robeut  lows  stevenson, 

I  HAVE  a  little  shadow  that  goes  in  and  out  with  me, 
And  what  can  be  the  use  of  him  is  more  than  1  can  see. 
He  is  very,  very  like  me,  from  the  heels  up  to  the  head; 
And  I  see  him  jump  before  me  when  I  jump  into  my  bed. 
The  funniest  thing  about  him  is  the  way  he  likes  to  grow — 
Not  at  all  like  proper  children,  which  is  always  very  slow ; 
For  he  sometimes  shoots  up  tal'sr,  like  an  India  rubber  ball, 
And  he  sometimes  gets  so  little  that  there's  none  of  him  at  all, 
One  morning  very  early,  before  the  sun  was  up, 
1  rose  and  found  the  shining  dew  on  every  buttercup, 
But  my  lazy  little  shadow,  like  an  arrant  sleepyhead, 
Had  stayed  at  home  behind  me  and  was  fast  asleep  in  bed. 

THE  annual  election  of  the  Directors  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad  took  place  Wednesday  in  this  city, 
and  resulted  in  the  re-election  of  the  entire  old  Board. 
Julian  Kruttschnitt  was  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused 
by  the  death  of  A.  L.  Tubbs.  President  Huntington  will 
succeed  himself. 

THE  performance  to  take  place  on  Monday  evening  in 
aid  of  the  relief  fund,  at  the  Standard  Theatre,  prom- 
ises to  be  well-attended.  The  programme  includes  three 
one-act  plays,  A  Fair  Encounter,  The  Violin  Maker  of  Cre- 
mona, and  Off  the  Stage. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC    COMPANY-PACIFIC  SYSTEM. 

Tram*  Lc»to  and   are  Due  to   Arrtvt  at  SAN     FRANCISCO: 


L*ar*.  I 


Fr*tm  April  «,  IS»7. 


MrrtM 


•«:tt>A 
7:00a 

7:00  a 

f:SD  a 

8   30  A 

•ci:»A 
9:00a 

0:00  a 
0:00  a 

•1:00  p 
I:00p 

tl:30P 
4:00p 

4:O0p 


5:00  p 

5:00p 
8:00  P 
6:00  P 
17:00  P 
7:00  p 


NUea.  San  Jose,  and  way   stations  H:45  A 

Atlantic  Express    Ogdcnand  East 8:46p 

Henlcln,  Ramsay,   Sacramento,   Oroville,   and 

Redding,    via  Davis 8:45  P 

Martinez.  Sun  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa.  Calistoga,  Santa  Rosa    8:16  p 
Nllcs,  San  Jose.  Stockton.  lone,  Sacramento,  MarysvlUo, 

I Vhamn.  and    Ked    Bluff 4:15P 

Peters  and  Milton *7:\b  p 

Now  Orleans    Express,  Fresno.  Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbarr, 

Los  Angeles,  Doming.  El  Paso.  New  Orleans,  and  East 4:4ftp 

Martinez  and  Stockton 4:45  P 

Vallejo 6:15  p 

Niles,  San  Jose  Livermorp,  and  Stockton 7:15p 

Sacramento  River  steamers .     *9:00  P 

Niles,  San  Jose,    and    Livennore 8:45A 

Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations t7:45p 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Calistoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa  9:15a 

Benicia,    Vacavllle   Woodland,    Knight's    Landing,  Marys- 

ville.  Oroville.  and  Sacramento  11:15a 

Lathrop,  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yosem- 

Lte)  and  Fresno,  going   ^ia  Niles,  returning  via  Martinez..  11:45  a 

Los  Angeles    Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,   Mojave   (for  Rands 

burg), Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles 7.45a 

Sama  Pe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  Tor  Mojave  and  East  ...    7:45a 

European  mall.Ogden  and  East 9:45  A 

Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose 7:45A 

Vallejo.  f7:45p 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysvllle,   Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East  .  11 :15  a 


Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 


J7:45A  Santa  Cruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  J8:05p 
b:4oa  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Houlder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations  ...   .  5:50 p 

•2:16  p  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:20A 

4:15  P  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9:50  A 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

7:00a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1:30  P 
9  00a  SanJose.Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Roblefi 

San  LulsOblspo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principalway  stations    4:15  p 

10:40  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations :'.'.' 6:30  p 

11:30  a  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations  5:00  p 

*2:80p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose.  Gllroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa 

Cruz, Salinas. Monterey. PacifloGrove    *10:40A 

*3:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45  A 

*4:30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations '. ...  *8:05  A 

5:30  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations  ■  *8:45a 

6 :30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 :35  A 

tl  1  :45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations  t7 :45  P 

San  Leandro  and  haywards  Local. 


t»6-00  Al 
8:00  A 

f      7:15  A 

69:45  A 

9:00  A 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00A 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

ill  .00  A 

FlTCHBURG, 

12:45  P 

2:00  P 

San  Leandro, 

(1:45  P 

t3:00  P 

and 

4:45  P 

4:00  P 

HAYWARDS. 

(5:45  F 

5:00  P 

6:15  P 

5:30  P 

7:45  P 

7:00  p 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

8:45  P 

8:00  p 

t  From  Niles 

9:45  P 

9:00  p 

10:50  P 

ttll:15  P 

vttl2:00  p 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  (Slip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  a.  m.,  tl:00.  *3:UU.  13:00.  *4:00,  J5:00  and  *6:00p.  m 

Prom  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway.  — *6:00,8:00, 10:00  A.  M.;  J12:00,  *1:00, 
J2:0U,  "3:00, 14:00  *5:00  P.  H. 

a  for  Morning,     p  for  Afternoon.     *Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays.  gSundays  and  Thursdays, 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

OCCIDENTAL  ANO  ORIENTAL  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRAN  NAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  M.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting  at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc     No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Gaelic Wednesday,  April  21. 1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  11, 1897 

Belgic  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29.  1897 

Coptic    Thursday,  June  17,  1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 

cornerFirst.  D.  D.  STUBBS,  Secretary. 

S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu  only,  Tuesday, 
April  20th.  at  2  p    m. 

S.  S.  "Monowai,"  Thursday,  April  29th,  at  2  p  m. 
Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  10,  1897. 


WHAT  a  revelation  to  those  who  think  cycling  a  (ad 
fast  dying  out,  the  thousands  of  wheels  at  the  finish 
of  the  relay  last  Sunday  must  have  been.  Many  of  the 
bikes  were  of  this  year's  vintage,  and  showed  that  the 
riders  of  last  year  appreciate  fully  the  pleasures  to  be  en- 
joyed by  pedaling  a  new  mount.  It  is  safe  to  say  that,  un- 
til the  problem  of  aerial  navigation  is  settled,  that  wheeling 
will  be  the  nearest  approach  to  flying  we  of  the  human  race 
may  indulge  in. 

Now  that  the  cup  is  won  and  the  race  ended,  it  behooves 
some  enterprising  business  firm  or  public-spirited  wheel 
enthusiast  to  present  another  trophy  to  the  California 
Associated  Cycling  Clubs,  to  be  competed  for  under  the 
same  conditions,  but  with  several  restrictions,  that  the 
Varney  cup  was  ridden  for.  In  limiting  a  club's  repre- 
sentatives on  a  relay  team  to  those  hona  fide  members  who 
reside  within  a  radius  of  one  hundred  miles  from  the  head- 
quarters of  the  club,  a  check  is  put  upon  the  wholesale  im- 
portation of  the  "cracks  "  from  all  parts  of  the  country, 
thus  giving  clubs  not  financially  able  to  bid  for  a  rider's 
services  an  equal  chance  with  their  more  wealthy  adver- 
saries. 

That  the  coming  year  will  see  the  daily  use  of  motor 
vehicles  in  the  larger  cities  of  the  country  is  presaged  by 
this  week's  reports,  which  show  that  two  companies  are 
in  active  preparation  to  meet  the  demand  which  is  sure  to 
come.  Chicago  has  had  a  company  in  successful  operation 
for  the  past  year,  several  of  its  vehicles  having  been  pur- 
chased by  business  houses  for  various  uses. 

Too  often  the  cycling  reformer  with  a  mission  is  looking 
for  a  commission,  and  because  a  man  has  had  some 
success  as  a  trainer  of  racing  men,  it  is  no  reason  why 
he  should  shine  as  a  promoter  of  bicycle  meets  and 
"booster"  to  the  trade.  The  manager  and  "his  secre- 
tary" of  the  late  lamented  indoor  tournament  are  bright 
examples  of  promoters  who  fail  to  promote.  When  it 
comes  to  reckoning  up  the  cost,  the  trade  may  very  well 
congratulate  themselves  that  although  they  benefited  in  a 
way,  it  was  not  through  the  endeavors  of  the  manage- 
ment, and  the  professional  riders  who  were  beguiled  into 
parting  with  their  hard-earned  cash  for  the  privilege  of 
riding  on  a  so-called  California  circuit  are  mourning  their 
loss  and  wondering  if  ever  again  they  will  let  an  outsider 
promise  them  forty  dollars  for  a  first  prize,  and  pay  them 
one  dollar  and  fifty-five  cents  as  their  share  of  the  per- 
centage, as  was  the  remuneration  at  Santa  Rosa. 


EASTERN  advices  say  that  California  prunes  are  in 
great  demand  and  prices  rising.  The  same  conditions 
exist  as  to  oranges.  The  prune  is  not  so  gaudy  as  the 
orange,  but  Central  California's  crop  brings  annually  a 
large  sum  of  money  into  the  State.  Take  the  prunes, 
oranges,  olives,  dried  fruits,  and  grain  of  California  into 
account,  and  they  make  a  combination  for  prosperity  that 
even  McKinley  cannot  break. 


THIS  evening  a  lecture  will  be  delivered  in  aid  of  the 
boulevard  fund  by  Henry  A.  Butters,  who  has  re- 
cently returned  from  South  Africa.  The  lecture  will  be  il- 
lustrated by  one  hundred  superb  stereoptican  views  of 
that  most  interesting  country.  It  should  be  attended  by 
every  one  who  believes  iD  helping  the  poor  and  needy. 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  Auditorium,  corner  Ellis  and  Mason   streets. 


The  Overland   Limited, 

ONLT  3%   DAYS  TO  CHICAGO.  i%   DATS  TO  NEW  YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


FORGET-ME-NOT.-/!,  w.  beuaw. 

A  simple  flower,  and  the  night. 

And  neither  night  or  flower  forgot. 
When  coming  years  looked  dim  through  tears 

She  gave  me  this  Forget-me-not. 
O  never  tongue  more  tenderly 

Murmured  a  maiden's  pleading  prayer, 
"Farewell.     Well  fare. 

Forget-me-not.    Forget  not  me" 

A  little  maiden,  and  the  night, 

And  Love  that  drew  of  Sorrow's  lot, 
When  unresigued  I  left  behind 

Ail  save  this  fain  Forget-me-not. 
Moved  all  my  soul  to  hear  the  plea 

That  scarcely  stirred  the  stilly  air, 
"Farewell.     Well  fare. 

Forget-me-not.     Forget  not  me." 
The  maid,  the  flower,  and  the  night. 

The  lingering  at  the  parting  spot, 
And  then  the  past  which  was  so  vast 

Was  closed  by  this  Forget-me-not. 
Sweet  spirit,  saintly  memory, 

Still  in  this  flower  abides  thy  prayer, 
"Farewell.     Well  fare. 

Forget-me-not.    Forget  not  me." 

ONE  of  the  neatest  souvenirs  that  has  been  issued  here 
for  a  long  time  is  that  of  the  San  Francisco  and  North 
Pacific  Railroad,  descriptive  of  the  country  through  which 
the  line  runs.  The  little  booklet  is  a  pleasing  invitation  to 
travel  via  the  S.  F.  &  N.  P.  R.  R.,  and  is  a  beautiful  exam- 
ple of  half-tone  work. 


Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copperplate  engraving. 
Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


Cooper  &  Co.,  746 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC  RAILWAY  COMPANY. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.   TiBUBON  Ferry-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 
WEEKDAYS— 7:30,9:00,  11  :U0  am;  12:35,3:30  5:10,6:30  pm.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trip  at  11 :30  p  M.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :50  and  11 :30  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00,9:30, 11:00A  m;  1:30,  3:30,  5:00,6:20PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO  SAN    FRANCISCO, 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,9:20,  11:10  AM;  12:45,  3:40,5:10pm.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at  1:55  and  6 :35  PM. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40.  11:10  AM;  1:40,  3:40,  5:00,6:25  P  M. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Scnuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  F. 

In  Effect  Oct.  14,  1896 

ARRIVE  IN  S.  F. 

Week  Days. 

Sundays. 

Destination. 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

Sundays 

10:40  am 
6:10pm 
7:35  pm 

Week  Days 

7:30  AM 
3:30pm 
5:10  pm 

8:00am 
9:30am 
5:00pm 

8:40  AH 
10:25  AM 
6 :22  P  M 

8:00  AM 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyserville.  Cloverdale 

10:25  A  M 

7:30AM 
3:30  PM 

7:35pm 

6:22  P  M 

7:30  AM 

8:00  AH 

Pieta,  Hopland,  Uklah 

7:35  pm 

6:22  P  m 

7:30AM 
3:30pm 

8:00  am 

Guernevllle. 

7:35PM 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:30  am 
5:10pm 

8:00  AM 
5:00  pm 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40am 
6:10pm 

8:40  A  M 
6 :23  p  M 

7:30am 
3:30pm 

8:00a  m 
5:00pm 

Sevastopol. 

10:40am     I 
6:10pm     1 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs'  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  Highland 
Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake  port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport 
and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Ukiah.  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs, 
Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John 
Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville, 
Boonevllle,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot  Springs,  Mendocino  City.  Ft.Bragg.West- 
port,  Usal,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Harris,  Scotia,  Eureka. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points*  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
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PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  a.  m..  April  1,  6, 11, 16.  21,  26,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Britisn  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  a.  m..  April  1,  6,11,  16, 
21.  26,  and  every  5th  dav  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  P.  M.April  2,  6, 
10,  14,  !■*,  22.  26,  30,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  ;  April  4,  8, 12, 16, 
20,  24,  28.  ana  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  a.  m.,  April  i.  6, 10, 14, 
18.  22,  26,  30,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  AHata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  a.  m, 
25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO,  APRIL  17,  1897. 


Number  16. 


Printed  and  Published  stsru  Saturday  by  the  proprietor.  FRKD  HARRIOT! 

&H  Kearny  street.  San  Francisco,     h'nttrtd   at    San    Francisco  Post- 

ofics  a*  Second-class  Matter. 
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and  at    Chicago.  M3  Bonce   Building.  {Frank  S    Morrison.  Eastern 

Representative),  where  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  subscrip 

lion  and  advertising  rate*. 

CHARLES  P.  Welch  has  resigned  from  the  position  of 
tary  of  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty 
to  Children.  It  is  the  only  thing  he  has  done  since  assum- 
ing the  office  that  entitles  him  to  the  thanks  of  the  com- 
munity. 

IT  is  estimated  that  five  hundred  delegates  will  attend 
the  pure  food  congress  to  be  held  here  on  the  30th  inst. 
This  congress  should  accomplish  great  good,  and  stimulate 
the  manufacture  of  wholesome  foods,  composed  of  Califor- 
nia products,  thus  excluding  Eastern  trash. 

DR.  STABLE,  former  Superintendent  of  the  City  and 
County  hospital,  has  been  indicted  by  the  Grand  Jury 
for  a  failure  to  discriminate  between  "mine"  and  "thine." 
The  thrifty  doctor  is  charged  with  having  appropriated 
furniture  and  carpets  paid  for  by  the  city  for  hospital  use. 
This  is  an  ugly  accusation.  If  it  be  true,  the  only  proper 
and  harmonious  place  for  their  use  by  the  doctor  would 
appear  to  be  in  the  city  and  county  jail. 

THE  San  Francisco  Carnival  has  been  abandoned.  It 
never  seriously  got  beyond  the  offices  of  the  news- 
papers. There  was  no  enthusiasm  and  less  money  in  the 
movement,  and  sudden  death,  rather  than  a  halting,  half- 
hearted parade,  is  desirable.  The  coin  subscribed  should 
be  speedily  transferred  to  the  boulevard  fund,  where  its 
expenditure  will  yield  excellent  and  permanent  results. 
Evidently  Los  Angeles  holds  the  patent  rights  of  this 
Coast  for  la  fiesta. 

INASMUCH  as  self-preservation  is  the  first  law  of  nature, 
mankind  may  hail  with  delight  and  a  new  sense  of  secur- 
ity the  statement  that  the  cooking  departments  are  to  be 
abolished  in  the  public  schools.  Strict  adherence  to  the 
original  intent  of  that  branch  of  instruction  would  have 
undermined  the  public  health  and  resulted  in  a  race  of  dys- 
peptics in  San  Francisco.  The  morning  flap-jack  and  the 
dinner  steak  will  now  proceed  along  their  alimentary  way, 
unobstructed  by  bad  grammar  or  mathematical  conun- 
drums. 

THE  Horticultural  Society  of  this  State  has  placed  an 
embargo  upon  the  beautiful  custom  of  wreathing  the 
Hawaiian  steamships  bound  for  San  Francisco  with  plants 
and  flowers  ot  the  islands.  These  evidences  and  testimo- 
nials of  friendship  are  often  alive  with  red  wax-scales, 
which,  once  here,  would  spread  with  amazing  rapidity. 
The  pest  is  very  destructive,  and  is  exterminated  only  at 
great  cost.  It  is  possible  that  there  are  those  in  Califor- 
nia who  want  to  annex  the  islands,  but  there  is  no  dispo- 
sition to  annex  the  Honolulu  red  wax-scale. 


THE  people  of  Indianapolis  secured  the  passage  of  a  law 
by  the  Legislature  of  Indiana  cutting  street  railway 
fares  in  that  city  from  five  to  three  cents.  The  New  York 
Central  Trust  Company,  the  trustee  of  the  street  railway 
bonds,  has  brought  suit  to  perpetually  enjoin  the  company 
from  observance  of  the  law.  It  will  doubtless  maintain 
that  the  law  is  illegal  in  that  its  application  would  virtu- 
ally amount  to  confiscation  of  private  property,  and  the 
courts  will  more  than  likely  sustain  the  contention  of  the 
Trust  Company. 


IT  is  said  that  the  commission  men  of  the  city  will  attack, 
by  injunction,  the  law  enacted  by  the  last  Legislature 
which  empowers  the  Harbor  Commissioners  to  establish  a 
free  market  on  the  water  front.  The  enterprising  pur- 
veyors of  fruits,  vegetables  and  etceteras,  by  their  active 
opposition  to  the  free  market,  are  giving  voluntary  testi- 
mony against  themselves.  They  have  played  both  ends 
against  the  middle  so  long  that  a  single  commission  will 
not  satisfy  them. 

JUDGE  Campbell  has  fined  Louis  Hartter,  of  the  gro- 
cery firm  of  Hartter,  Hayes  &  Co.  of  this  city,  $60for 
having  sold  adulterated  Eastern  jellies.  Hartter  filed 
an  affidavit  for  a  change  of  venue,  declaring  that  the 
Judge  was  prejudiced  and  that  he  could  not  get  a  fair  trial. 
Campbell  was  assigned  all  those  adulterated  food  cases  at 
the  beginning  of  this  crusade,  and  the  fact  that  he  has 
fined  every  man  brought  before  him  clearly  disposes  of  the 
theory  that  he  is  not  treating  them  fairly. 

THE  report  that  John  W.  Mack  ay  has  determined  to 
drive  out  the  disreputable  habitues  of  the  old  Cre- 
morne  building  on  Market  street,  raze  it,  and  purify  the 
air  thereabout  by  erecting  a  creditable  building  that 
should  be  leased  to  respectable  occupants,  was  prema- 
ture. Mr.  Mackay  did  intend  to  remove  that  shameful 
deadfall,  but  his  temporary  lapse  has  been  succeeded  by 
usual  convalescence:  The  Cremorne  will  run  for  another 
three  years — unless  the  Supervisors  refuse  a  license  for 
the  Midway  Plaisance  and  its  hula-hula  charms. 


SUPERVISOR  Rottanzi  is  nothing  if  not  dauntless.  He 
introduced  on  last  Monday,  for  the  second  time  within 
the  month,  his  anti-high  hat  ordinance.  Like  the  head- 
gear against  which  he  tilts,  he  will  not  down.  Seriously, 
there  is  substantial  reason  and  justice  in  his  crusade.  The 
high  hat  is  a  nuisance,  and  there  is  every  reason  why  it 
should  be  prohibited  at  the  theatre.  The  Supervisors  can 
spend  some  time  very  profitably  in  literally  clipping  its 
wings.  The  constitution  gives  every  woman  the  right  to 
pursue  her  own  inclinations  so  long  as  there  is  no  inter- 
ference with  the  happiness  of  others.  But  the  high  hat 
not  only  interferes — it  eclipses. 

THE  warship  Oregon  has  met  with  a  serious  mishap  in 
the  waters  of  Puget  Sound.  Thus  the  misfortunes  of 
our  new  navy  are  not  confined  to  the  Atlantic  squadron. 
The  exact  extent  of  the  Oregon's  injuries  are  not  known; 
but  there  is  consolation  in  the  fact  that  this  is  the  first 
accident  that  has  occurred  to  one  of  the  Pacific-built  ves- 
sels of  the  navy.  The  English  drydock  at  Esquimalt  may 
be  employed  to  make  necessary  repairs  on  Uncle  Sam's 
fighting  machine.  ShoLld  the  misfortunes  that  have  be- 
fallen the  Atlantic  squadron  become  epidemic  here,  as 
a  means  of  protection  we  would  suggest  the  equipment  of 
war  vessels  with  sets  of  legs. 

STD  of  the  Cuban  revolutionists  by  enthusiastic  citizens 
is  a  matter  of  personal  judgment;  but  there  can  be  no 
question  that  there  are  at  our  own  doors  those  who  are 
very  much  more  in  need  of  assistance  and  far  more  de- 
serving. The  Cuban  situation  is  not  correctly  understood 
here,  owing  to  the  untruthful  and  distorted  press  reports; 
and  the  stories  of  Spanish  atrocities  and  lamb-like  rebel 
virtues  are  in  essentials  false.  The  continued  outrages  by 
one  and  the  uncomplaining  forbearance  of  the  other  have 
no  place  in  fact.  A  half-caste,  clad  in  rags,  waving  a 
machete  and  yelling  "Cuba  Libre!"  at  the  top  of  his  lungs, 
is  not  the  only  proof  necessary  of  his  nobility  of  character 
and  claim  for  the  contribution  of  American  dollars. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  17,  1897. 


FOOD     ADULTERATION. 

THE  News  Letter  takes  considerable  interest,  as  well 
as  pride,  in  the  work  the  Board  of  Health  is  attempt- 
ing to  accomplish  in  suppressing  the  adulterated,  and  de- 
teriorated food  that  constitutes  so  large  a  share  of  the  re- 
tail trade  of  this  city.  This  work  is  now  going  ahead  like 
a  flame  through  a  burning  bush.  For  3'ears,  commencing 
about  1880,  it  was  impossible  to  arouse  public  attention  to 
the  food  evils,  unspeakably  bad  as  they  then  were.  The 
News  Letter's  plans  of  action  were  then  more  costly  and 
efficient  than  any  thing  that  has  yet  been  substituted  for 
them.  We  procured  samples  all  over  the  city,  and  without 
the  knowledge  of  the  purveyor.  Beginning  with  milk,  we 
went  on  to  cofTee,  sugar,  jellies,  jams,  but  did  not  reach, 
perhaps  the  most  important  of  all:  lager  beer.  We  paid 
for  all  our  samples  but  kept  quiet  as  to  the  purpose  to 
which  they  were  destined.  The  News-  Letter  had  the 
good  fortune  to  secure  the  services  of,  perhaps,  the  most 
accomplished  quantitative,  and  qualitative  analvst  that 
ever  came  to  this  coast.  The  late  Dr.  John  Bleasdale 
D.  D.  had  no  superior  as  an  analytical  chemist  in  this 
country,  and  probably  in  no  other.  He  took  hold  of  the 
work  for  this  paper  with  a  zest  born  of  his  interest  in  the 
subject.  Samples  were  obtained  for  him  in  two  parts, 
one  to  be  analyzed  by  him;  the  other  to  be  retained  as 
evidence  that  the  analysis  of  the  first  was  correct.  When 
the  undeniable  results  were  reached  they  were  written  up 
in  words  that  breathed  and  in  thoughts  that  burned,  by  a 
writer  who  was  then  and  still  continues  a  contributor  to 
these  columns.  The  microscopic  examples  of  horribly  bad 
products  were  enlarged,  engraved  and  printed,  and 
samples  of  sugar,  full  of  live  insects,  were  kept  on  our 
office  counter,  and  materially  lessened  the  sales  of  the 
candy  makers.  The  exposures  we  made  of  whiskey  and 
imported  wines  were  almost  beyond  belief.  The  fusil  oil 
in  the  one,  and  the  sulphuric  acid  in  the  other,  rendered 
them  both  vicious  and  dangerous,  beyond  the  power  of  the 
lay  mind  to  comprehend.  The  milk  proved  to  be  worse, 
rather  than  better,  than  Mr.  Dockery  found  it  to  be. 
There  can  be  no  doubt  but  that  hundreds  of  innocent  babes 
were  being  sent  to  untimely  graves  because  of  the 
poisonous  character  of  the  milk  they  then  consumed. 

The  advantage  Mr.  Dockery  had  was  that  he  was  sus- 
tained by  good  officers,  and  strengthened  laws.  His  earnest- 
ness in  stamping  out  bad  milk  brought  him  prestige  from 
all  quarters.  The  daily  press,  instead  of  being  jealous  of 
his  success,  backed  up  his  every  good  movement  with 
support,  as  they  ought  to  have  done  in  all  other  cases. 
Moreover,  public  opinion  had  become  educated  and  ripe 
for  an  earnest  raid  upon  all  adulteration  in  both  food  and 
drink,  and  thus  we  cheerfully  concede  that  Mr.  Dockery 
has  builded  better  than  even  he  himself  at  first  expected. 
But  he  has  much  yet  to  accomplish.  He  needs  more  help, 
better  analytical  arrangements  and  power  to  enforce 
quantitative,  as  well  as  qualitative  virtues  in  all  the  food 
and  drink  that  go  to  sustain  the  vim  and  force  in  young 
America.  He  needs  to  be,  as  happily  he  is  now  being, 
better  backed  up  by  the  force  of  a  healthier  public  opinion. 
The  News  Letter  recently  pointed  out  the  urgent  need 
there  is  for  looking  into  the  wretched  stuff  sold  under  the 
name  of  Lager  Beer.  Some  of  it  is  not  "kept"  as  long  as  it 
ought  to  be,  it  is  vilely  concocted,  and  most  abominably  adul- 
terated, which,  no  doubt,  accounts  for  the  ill  effects  it  has 
upon  the  policemen  in  our  suburbs.  The  jams  and  jellies 
have  not  been  severely  enough  dealt  with  as  yet,  and  as- 
tonishing facts  remain  to  be  evolved.  The  milk  campaign 
is  on  the  wane,  and  needs  stirring  up.  It  should  never  be 
lost  sight  of.  Many  of  the  grocery  stores  need  a  watch- 
ful eye  kept  on  them  all  the  time.  Eternal  vigilance,  on 
the  part  of  the  officers  charged  with  the  work,  is  the  price 
of  getting  what  you  can  buy  and  what  you  pay  for  in  San 
Francisco.  We  are  cheated  in  all  we  buy,  from  the  cradle 
to  the  grave.  When  the  News  Letter  sampled  coffee,  we 
succeeded  in  procuring  one  pure  sample  in  all  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  that  was  in  a  little  unpretentious  shop;  whilst 
the  very  worst  specimen  came  from  the  then  store  that 
held  up  its  head  with  more  pretense  and  show  than  the 
others.  Fraud  in  what  we  may  buy,  may  be  said  to  be 
every  man's  individual  affair,  but  no  one  man  can  be  an  ex- 
pert in  everything.  That  is  the  truest  experting  which 
provides  the  greatest  good  for  the  greatest  number. 


The  Grand  Jurors     The   Grand   Jury   are    travelling  far 
Seeking  afield  of  legitimate  duty  in  search  of 

Popularity.  popularity.  A  reduction  of  water  rates 

may  be  an  admirable  thing  to  many 
consumers,  but  it  may  be  loss  and  practical  confiscation  to 
a  host  of  investors  in  a  great  public  use.  Of  the  two  the 
latter  has  a  right  to  no  less  fair  play  than  the  former. 
The  one  invests  and  risks  his  money  in  an  enterprise  which 
the  other  could  not  get  along  without,  and  saves  the  city 
from  fire  and  drought.  Nobody  these  times  puts  his  money 
in  the  safest  of  local  securities,  such  as  banks,  building 
societies  and  the  like,  at  less  than  six  percent  per  annum. 
The  Grand  Jury  of  this  city  is  poking  its  nose  into  a  matter  . 
over  which  it  has  no  judicial  control,  and  for  no  other  pur- 
pose, as  we  believe,  than  to  gain  a  certain  kind  of  popular- 
ity that  has  never  proved  as  certain  as  it  appeared  on  the 
surface.  The  owners  of  capital  in  this  city  are  now  so 
wide  spread  as  to  be  abundantly  able  to  take  care  of  them- 
selves. Demagogism  is  not  as  rampant  as  it  was,  and 
men  are  counting  the  cost  of  belittling  capital  in  street 
cars,  water  works  and  the  like.  We  are  all  seeing  the  lo- 
cal utility  of  owning  a  share  iu  these  public  necessities. 
If  the  people  are  but  honest  they  are  about  the  best  se- 
curity a  city  can  hold.  Besides  building  up  the  municipal- 
ity, they  afford  a  perfect  security  among  an  honest  com- 
munity. The}'  keep  money  and  interest  at  home  and  local- 
ize municipal  improvements.  A  dollar  spent  in  improving 
our  city  is  worth  two  dollars  sent  to  improve  some  other 
city.  The  Grand  Jury  of  this  city  and  county  has  taken 
the  Examiner's  figures  as  correct,  although  they  have 
time  and  time  again  been  proven  as  inaccurate  as  its  state- 
ments usually  are.  That  is  at  least  bad  form  for  the 
grand  inquest  to  find  itself  in,  and  tends  to  weaken  the  End- 
ings it  has  more  right  to  deal  with.  As  a  matter  of  law  it 
has  nothing  whatever  to  do  with  the  water  rates  at  all, 
unless  it  finds  that  somebody  has  been  criminally  stealing 
them.  There  was  a  law  passed  by  the  late  Legislature 
that  may  cause  grand  juries  to  consider  how  they  pass  up- 
on acts,  over  which  they  have  no  jurisdiction.  "Reports 
not  ending  in  indictments  are  no  longer  privileged,"  and 
are  subject  to  prosecution  as  libels.  It  is  a  good  law,  un- 
less the  jury  be  held  in  public,  and  a  hearing  given  to  both 
sides.  It  is  monstrous  that  men  should  get  on  to  juries  in 
order  to  wreak  their  vengeance  on  men  better  than  them- 
selves. This  is  frequently  done,  and  is  doing  more  than  all 
other  causes  combined  to  bring  our  jury  system  into  con- 
tempt. The  filing  of  infamous  law  papers,  in  order  to 
blacken  a  man,  but  with  no  intention  of  trying  them  is  one 
of  the  many  outrages  now  perpetrated  and  at  which  the 
judges  blink.  Grand  Jurors  have  in  times  passed  perpe- 
trated more  malicious  libels  than  all  of  our  scandal  loving 
newspapers  put  together.  Hereafter,  jury  reports  will 
have  to  be  followed  by  indictments,  or  they  will  be  perse 
libels.  Jurors  passing  upon  the  charges  for  public  utilities 
are  practically  declaring  that  some  one  is  being  allowed  to* 
steal.  So  grave  a  charge  ought  to  be  proven,  and  here- 
after it  will  have  to  be,  as  is  meet  and  right. 

Holographic     When  the  holographic  will  of  Mme.  Saroni, 
Wills.  who    died    in    Alameda    in   January,    was 

offered  for  probate  before  Judge  Coffey 
last  week,  the  acceptance  of  the  instrument  was  opposed 
on  the  ground  that  it  was  not  in  legal  form,  and  was  there- 
fore void.  The  testatrix,  in  dating  her  last  testament, 
had  failed  to  write  in  the  full  four  figures  of  the  year  1895. 
Following  a  general  custom,  she  had  employed  an  abbrev- 
iation: '95,  rather  than  1895.  The  contention  of  counsel 
was  that  this  omission,  which  to  the  mind  of  the  layman 
appears  to  be  really  trivial  and  unimportant,  was  vital; 
that  "95"  did  not  legally  express  the  date  of  the  will,  and 
that  it  was  therefore  no  will  at  all.  Judge  Coffey  sus- 
tained this  position,  and  in  summing  up,  said:  "It's  a  very 
astonishing  thing,  but  every  layman,  every  woman  on  top 
of  the  earth  thinks  that  he  or  she  can  draw  a  will  cor- 
rectly. And  not  one  of  them  can.  I've  no  doubt  that 
when  Mme.  Saroni  drew  that  will,  she  imagined  it  to  be 
perfect  in  every  particular.  Yet  the  omission  of  those 
apparently  insignificant  letters  '18'  in  the  date  '1895' 
caused  all  this  trouble.  And  it  is  an  omission  which  is 
practiced  by  everybody,  every  day,  too.  .  .  .  Why 
can't  people  obtain  advice  before  attempting  to  draw 
such  an  important  thing  as  a  will."     It  has  been  held,  and 


I  17.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


often   truly    so.  that   the   tendency  of  courts  is  toward   a 
teoht.  Tuition   and   interpretation  of   laws;  that 

this  hair-splitting  of  sharp  pointc  frequently  results  In 
the  defeat  rather  than  promoti,,:  ..f  justice.  Our  courts 
have  often  become,  through  the  sharp  practice  of  lawyers 
and  the  technical  development  (>f  the  bench,  a  means  for 
the  delay  of  relief,  and  sometimes  its  absolute  denial.  In 
the  case  of  Mme.  Saroni,  wii<>^.-  intent  appears  to  have 
been  transparent  and  unmistakable,  Judjfe  Coffey  was 
guided  by  the  statutes  In  the  drawing  of  wills  nothing 
can  be  taken  for  granted;  the  instrument  can  leave 
nothing  for  imagination  or  conjecture.  The  document 
must  be  complete  within  itself.  In  a  comparatively  re- 
cent  case,  one  of  the  two  witnesses  to  a  will  wrote  his 
initials,  but  by  some  inexplicable  mistake  signed  the  sur 
name  of  the  testator  as  his  own  The  intent  of  the  witness 
was  clear  and  undoubted,  and  all  the  circumstances  were 
susceptible  of  absolute  proof:  yet  the  court  declared  the 
instrument  to  be  void.  In  another  case  in  this  State,  the 
testator  made  a  holographic  will,  in  which  every  line  was 
written  by  himself,  with  the  exception  of  the  year  date, 
which  was  printed.  He  had  taken  a  letter  head  with  the 
figures  1880  printed  thereon,  but  had  in  all  other  ways 
complied  with  the  letter  of  the  statutes.  The  court  held, 
because  of  his  failure  to  write  with  his  own  hand  every 
character  employed  in  bequeathing  his  property,  that  it 
was  invalid.  In  any  other  instrument  to  which  the  man 
might  have  attached  his  name,  the  printed  figures  would 
have  been  sustained  as  sound  and  legal.  The  right  to 
make  testamentary  disposition  of  property  is  not  an  in- 
herent right  or  a  right  of  citizenship,  nor  is  it  even  a 
right  granted  by  the  Constitution.  It  rests  wholly  upon 
the  legislative  will,  and  gains  its  life  and  force  from  the 
statutes.  In  conferring  that  right,  the  Legislature  has 
seen  fit  to  prescribe  certain  exactions  and  requirements 
looking  to  the  execution  and  authentication  of  the  instru- 
ment, say  the  courts,  and  exact  compliance  with  these  re- 
quirements becomes  necessary  to  its  exercise.  While  the 
primary  rule  governing  the  interpretation  of  wills  when 
admitted  to  probate  recognizes  and  endeavors  to  carry 
out  the  intention  of  the  testator,  that  rule  cannot  be  in- 
voked in  the  construction  of  the  statute  regulating  their 
execution.  In  the  latter  case  courts  do  not  consider  the 
intention  of  the  testator,  but  that  of  the  Legislature. 
Judge  Coffey  could  have  rendered  no  other  decision  with 
the  least  hope  of  having  it  stand  finally. 

A  Telling  Relief  from  the  scourge  of  the  new  journalism 
Attack.  seems  not  far  distant,  if  one  may  judge  from 
the  systematic  attacks  now  being  quietly 
made  in  the  East  upon  the  Journal  and  World.  As  the 
venality  and  unstrained  filth  of  these  papers  find  justifica- 
tion in  the  unclean  minds  of  their  publishers  in  large  sales, 
the  only  way  in  which  the  cure  can  come  must  be  along 
similar  lines.  Realizing  that  no  sense  of  shame  or  senti- 
ment of  self-respect  could  bridle  those  publishers,  a  vigor- 
ous boycott  was  inaugurated  a  short  time  ago  by  numer- 
ous societies,  libraries,  and  other  institutions.  Among 
most  recent  additions  to  those  that  have  purified  their 
files  by  the  exclusion  of  these  sheets,  we  note  the  Omaha 
public  library,  public  library  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  New 
York  Military  Academy  public  library,  the  Brooklyn  (N. 
Y.)  Library,  which  is  one  of  the  largest  in  the  country, 
and  others.  The  total  number  of  these  societies  that  have 
purged  their  shelves  number  more  than  seventy-five.  In 
themselves  these  amount  to  little;  but  their  example  and 
moral  influence  upon  the  general  public  in  the  East  must 
be  very  great.  No  doubt  thousands  of  individual  sub- 
scribers have  discontinued  their  support  for  similar 
causes.  This  is  the  ody  way  in  which  the  evils  of  un- 
reliable, sensational,  and  fraudulent  journalism  can  be 
bridled.  It  is  idle  to  appeal  to  any  other  sentiment  than 
that  which  controls  the  nickels.  The  business  office  re- 
ceipts alone  can  settle  the  issue.  When  it  becones  un- 
profitable to  sink  virtue  and  elevate  crime,  to  outrage  de- 
cency and  heroize  the  low  and  brutal  in  man — then  only 
will  these  shameless  agents  of  immorality  bend  to  a  sense 
of  right.  To  make  wrong-doing  unpopular  with  the  new 
journalism  it  must  be  made  unprofitable.  The  vigorous 
discipline  undertaken  in  the  East,  which  is  a  measure  of 
self-protection,  should  continue.  The  new  journalism 
should  be  made  as  odious  as  it  is  now  odorous. 


I  Again  the        There    have   been    many  times  within  the 

Opera  Homo       past  ten  \  ears    when    the  need  Of  a  thor- 
oughly equipped  modern  opera  bouse  to  San 

Francisco  has  been  felt.  Hefore  the  approach  of  an  opera 
company,  or  after  its  departure,  the  complaints  have  been 
loudest,  and  the  demand  apparently  most  insistent.  This 
is  natural,  because  at  such  times  the  painful  object  lesson 
is  most  clearly  impressed  upon  the  public  mind.  Tl 
cent  French  opera  season  in  this  city  has  again  crystallised 
this  dormant  feeling,  and  grand  opera  house  talk  is  heard 
;  among  those  who  are  patrons  of  the  art.  It  is  understood 
that  the  gentlemen  who  guaranteed  a  large  sum  in  order 
to  bring  the  French  opera  from  New  Orleans  to  San 
Francisco  have  been  very  seriously  considering  the  advis- 
ability of  organizing  a  company  for  the  purpose  of  building 
an  opera  house  in  this  city. 

San  Francisco  is  distant  from  other  large  centers,  and 
pays  the  penalty  of  isolation  whenever  musical  or  other 
great  attractions  are  obtained.  This  is  particularly  true 
of  opera  organizations  where  large  numbers  of  people  re- 
quire transportation,  necessitating  an  unavoidable  and 
heavy  expenditure,  which  must  be  guaranteed  entirely 
independent  of  the  merit  of  the  companies  or  the 
support  given  them  here.  Thus  we  are  compelled  to 
secure  the  management  against  loss  in  the  first  instance, 
and  in  the  second  place  accept  good,  bad  or  indifferent 
artists  as  the  case  may  be,  and  pay  exorbitant  fees  for 
the  privilege.  Had  the  city  a  modern  opera  house,  the 
two  most  objectionable  and  unjust  features  would  be  elim- 
inated. The  prices  of  admission  would  be  reasonable,  and 
the  guarantee  would  not  be  necessary.  San  Francisco  is 
a  good  show  town,  and  is  so  recognized  by  every  manager 
in  the  United  States.  If  we  had  a  suitable  temple  of 
music,  meritorious  companies,  upon  their  own  responsi- 
bility, would  be  willing  to  come  here,  depending  upon  the 
appreciation  of  a  discriminating  public  for  support,  rather 
than  a  cast-iron  guarantee  in  advance.  Sufficient  seating 
capacity  would  permit  a  popular  scale  of  prices,  so 
that,  in  very  great  measure,  the  cost  of  tickets  in  San 
Francisco  would  relatively  be  little,  if  any,  higher  than 
they  are  at  the  East.  In  fine,  with  a  suitable  opera  house 
we  should  get  infinitely  better  operas,  pay  much  less 
for  them,  and  would  not  be  forced  to  guarantee  expenses. 
Abundant  money  is  here,  and  there  ought  to  be  little  diffi- 
culty in  stimulating  the  enterprise  necessary  for  the  con- 
struction of  a  grand  opera  house  in  this  city — at  once  a 
broad  public  benefaction  and  an  honor  and  source  of  profit 
to  its  promoters  and  stockholders. 

A  Good  There  is  a  fight  in  down  right  earnest  in  Ken- 
Roads  tucky  over  good  roads.  The  populace  is  at  war 
Fight.  with  private  owners  of  public  roads.  This  is 
the  outcome  of  neglect  in  early  days,  and  pro- 
mises to  recur  here  in  our  own  State.  The  people  were 
not  enterprising  enough  in  the  past  to  make  roads  for 
themselves,  so  that  this  work  was  done  for  them  by  the 
corporations.  In  order  to  recompense  themselves  for  the 
expense,  the  owners  collected  toll  and  paid  themselves 
many  times  over.  Is  there  not  a  disposition  in  California 
to  procure  our  much  needed  roads  in  the  same  old  way? 
Recently  civilization  has  penetrated  in  Kentucky  and 
citizens  in  that  State  who  have  travelled,  have  returned 
with  tales  of  the  ease  with  which  farmers  on  Long  Island 
now  get  to  market  over  smooth,  broad-highways,  and  how 
in  even  hilly  New  England  and  New  Jersey,  people  may 
drive  for  miles  without  losing  wheels,  disabling  horses  or 
breaking  vehicles.  They  have  even  witnessed  bicyclers 
going  to  these  regions,  driving  their  wheels  and  spending 
their  money  among  the  inhabitants  thereof.  So  the 
Kentuckians  mean  to  have  similar  roads,  come  what  will. 
As  the  private  owners  would  do  nothing  and  not  sell  out 
their  rights-of-way,  or  their  toll  gates,  the  people  have 
risen  in  their  might  and  are  burning  the  toll  houses,  driving 
away  the  toll  takers,  and,  when  resistance  is  offered, 
shooting  the  employees  of  the  companies.  In  the  end  the 
people  will  have  a  larger  bill  of  damages  to  pay  than  if 
they  had  paid  an  extravagant  price  for  the  right  of  way 
in  the  first  place.  The  incident  is  instructive  as  it  shows 
good  roads  to  be  a  live  subject.  It  is  a  most  important 
matter  to  California,  but  we  must  begin  right.  We  want 
good  roads,  but  must  tolerate  no  such  thing  as  tolls  upon 
them. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


April  17,  1897. 


The  Outlook    Greece  is  not  paying  the  deference  to  the 
More  so-called  European  Concert  she  once  did, 

Warl.ke.  and  Turkey  is  bent  upon  war  no  matter 
what  else  happens.  This  would  seem  to 
mean  war  all  round,  the  extent  and  end  of  which  no  man 
may  surely  foretell.  The  European  Concert  will  go  to 
pieces,  and  divide  according  to  their  sympathies,  or  their 
supposed  interests.  Already  both  the  Germans  and 
Russians  are  showing  their  hands  in  favor  of  Turkey.  The 
"Times"  says  that  considerable  comment  is  caused  by  the 
news  from  Constantinople  that  General Grumkoff,  the  well- 
known  German  military  tactician,  is  going  to  Elassona  to 
inspect  the  Turkish  military,  and  that  Admiral  Kallay  of 
the  German  Fleet  has  gone  to  the  Dardannelles  to  inspect 
the  Turkish  squadron  and  Flotilla  there.  The  Russian 
Consuls  have  been  instructed  to  do  all  in  their  power  to  in- 
fluence Russian  Christians  to  abstain  from  listening  to  evil 
counsels  from  their  own  countrymen,  and  to  be  patient  and 
prudent.  The  Turks  threaten  to  follow  the  Greeks  into 
Thessaly  and  give  battle  at  once.  A  despatch  to  the 
"Times"  from  Constantinople  says  it  is  evident  from  the 
Porte's  language  to  the  Powers,  remains  civil,  but  is  tinged 
with  scorn,  and  it  renders  clear  that  the  concert  of  the 
Powers  is  not  regarded  there  with  the  consideration  paid 
to  it  prior  to  the  wavering  policy  of  Europe  in  dealing  with 
Greece.  A  Vienna  correspondent  says  that  one  of  the 
least  favorable  consequences  of  the  course  of  action  taken 
by  the  Powers,  is  that  it  has  not  failed  to  overawe  the 
Greeks,  but  there  are  unmistakable  signs  that  it  has 
diminished  the  prestige  of  the  European  Concert.  All 
this  means  war  with  Russia  and  Germany  on  the  one  side, 
with,  perhaps,  England,  France,  Italy  and  Austria  on  the 
other.  Denmark,  Norway,  Sweden  and  Greece  will  join 
in  the  fray  on  the  one  side,  whilst,  of  course,  Turkey  will 
be  expected  to  go  with  the  other.  It  will  be  a  terrible 
war  and  better  the  markets  for  American  products.  Our 
people  are  a  mixed  people,  and  will  have  mixed  sympathies. 
Many  will  be  for  Russians  who  are  esteemed  friends,  whilst 
not  a  few  will  be  for  England,  although  she  is  not  as  well 
liked  as  she  might  be.  But  we  shall  keep  out  of  the  fight, 
make  money,  and  thank  God  it  is  an  ill  wind  that  blows  no- 
body any  good. 

Striking  at  The  proposed  new  tariff  strikes  sore  dis- 
Canada.  comfiture  at  Canadian  industries,  and  would 
do  more,  were  not  the  Dominion  pretty  well 
able  to  take  care  of  herself.  The  Toronto  Globe,  the 
leading  liberal  organ  of  Canada,  makes  the  point  that 
"when  the  American  tariff  shuts  out  from  the  United 
States  a  dollar's  worth  of  Canadian  products,  it  does  for 
all  practicable  purposes  send  that  dollar's  worth  of 
Canadian  products  into  the  British  market,  there  to  com- 
pete with  the  products  of  the  United  States."  But  if  we 
want  that  kind  of  competition,  our  neighbors  declare  per- 
fect readiness  for  it.  If  we  drive  them  to  look  to  Great 
Britain  for  their  market,  it  will  be  to  their  advantage  to 
secure  more  favorable  terms  than  are  given  to  us,  and 
therein  reappears  the  Zolverein  scheme  of  the  Imperial- 
ists, which  we  practically  force  the  Canadian  liberals  to 
adopt.  We  thus,  without  intending  it,  help  to  consolidate 
and  build  up  the  British  Empire.  It  is  not  a  proposal  in 
the  line  of  John  Sherman's  scheme  to  be  content  with 
three  great  republics,  the  United  States,  Canada,  and 
Mexico.  The  more  each  buys  from  the  others,  the  less  there 
will  be  to  buy  from  abroad.  That  is  the  way  to  build  up 
American  interests  and  cause  pan- Americanism  to  thrive. 

The  Betterments  How  to  make  pavements  good  aud 
of  Pavements.  keep  them  so,  has  been  one  of  the  live 
questions  for  San  Francisco,  time  out 
of  mind.  The  last  movement  has  been  to  bring  the  Mer- 
chants' Association  together  with  the  teamsters,  in  order 
to  devise  the  best  possible  pavements  for  the  different 
portions  of  the  city.  They  do  not  materially  disagree. 
The  teamsters  are  for  basalt  blocks  for  streets  that  carry 
heavy  loads,  and  the  association  urged,  whilst  the  carriers 
did  not  disapprove,  of  the  use  of  asphalt  and  wooden  block 
pavements,  where  the  owners  are  not  averse  to  that  kind 
of  street.  The  two  plans  ought  to  settle  the  whole  matter, 
if  the  parties  on  both  sides  are  really  sincere  in  the  agree- 
ment they  have  reached.  But  we  doubt  their  sincerity. 
They  both  agree  or  rather  rely  upon  "the  pull"  they  in- 


dividually have.  The  carriers  are  politicians  to  a  man, 
and  exercise  the  influence  that  all  organizations  of  public 
men  do.  The  Association  yet  lacks  the  power  to  pull  to- 
gether, and  would  be  likely  to  get  beaten  every  time. 
Stone  blocks  are  favored  in  the  heavy  business  part  of  the 
city,  whereas  the  smoother,  and  less  noisy  pavement  is 
desired  in  the  quieter  suburbs.  These  two  interests  have 
long  clashed  and  are  likely  to  fight  it  out  on  the  same  old 
lines.  It  will  be  every  man  for  himself,  with  no  promise 
of  God  for  us  all.  The  agreement  reached,  if  there  were 
any  likelihood  of  its  bemg  adhered  to,  would  give  good  re- 
sults. The  Belgium  Blocks  give  fairly  good  satisfaction 
from  the  water  front  to  Sansome,  and  for  the  first  half  of 
Market,  but  in  all  the  region  beyond  that,  they  are  a 
nuisance  and  out  of  place.  Wooden,  or  stone  blocks,  laid 
on  sand,  and  covered  with  bitumen,  make  the  very  best 
possible  roads  for  the  suburbs,  and,  if  a  vote  were  taken, 
would  be  sustained  by  an  immense  majority  vote  of  the 
dwellers  outside  of  the  city  proper.  The  city  officials 
should  take  care  to  provide  for  due  competition  in  building 
the  different  kinds  of  roads.  Special  attention  should  be 
given  to  good  building  and  to  good  workmanship. 

The  Sierra  The  early  construction  of  a  feeder  to 

Railroad  Company,  the  Southern  Pacific  railway  system 
by  an  independent  company,  tapping 
the  rich  mining  districts  between  Stanislaus  and  Mariposa 
Counties,  will  be  of  great  benefit  to  the  sections  through 
which  the  rails  will  be  laid,  and  will  prove  a  valuable  addi- 
tion to  the  side  lines  of  the  greater  corporation.  The  road 
will  be  124  miles  in  length,  starting  at  Oakdale  in  Stanis- 
laus County  and  ending  at  Coulterville  in  Mariposa  County. 
The  line  will  be  of  the  greatest  value  in  developing  the 
country  through  which  it  runs,  and  will  very  greatly 
stimulate  all  agricultural  interests  of  those  sections.  The 
growth  of  interior  California  has  been  retarded  because  of 
of  the  lack  of  trunk  line  feeders.  This  has  in  some 
measure  been  unavoidable,  because  railroads  are  con- 
structed only  when  there  is  reasonable  expectation  of 
return  upon  investment  of  capital  and  payment  of  fixed 
charges.  In  the  present  case,  the  line  will  be  of  benefit 
to  the  two  great  interests  of  California — mining  and  agri- 
culture. The  road  completed  will  reach  the  heart  of  the 
mining  districts  of  Calaveras,  Amador,  and  Tuolumne  Coun- 
ties. Touching,  as  it  will,  the  great  Mother  Lode,  the 
"Sierra  Railroad  Company  of  California"  will  open  up  a 
section  that  has  hitherto  been  accessible  only  by  tedious, 
expensive,  and  circuitous  routes,  but  which  has  for  many 
years  been  an  immense  contributor  to  the  gold  aggregate 
of  the  State.  It  is  the  most  important  part  of  California 
at  present  without  railroad  connection.  Work  is  already 
under  way,  and  several  miles  of  track  are  now  laid.  Inci- 
dentally, the  road  will  greatly  shorten  the  distance  to  the 
Yosemite  Valley  from  this  city. 

Letting  Down  The  Republican  administration  is  not 
The  Civil         keeping   the   pledge  of  its  platform.     It 

Service  Bars,  promised  faithfulness  to  the  Civil  Service 
rules,  but  is  violating  them  at  every  turn. 
"The  present  crush  of  officeseekers,"  says  the  fair  and  relia- 
ble Springfield  Republican,  "may  have  been  equaled,  but 
never  has  been  exceeded  in  the  past. "  Senator  Cullom  offers 
an  interesting  view  of  the  situation.  He  left  word  with  the 
house  servant  one  evening  to  send  callers  up  to  his  second 
floor.  "In  a  short  time  every  available  chair  in  the  room 
was  occupied,  and  in  sheer  despair  he  suggested  that  an 
overflow  meeting  be  held  in  the  bedroom.  This  did  not 
deter  the  horde  of  officeseekers,  but  they  took  the  Senator 
at  his  word  and  proceeded  to  tile  into  his  sleeping  apart- 
ment, where  there  were  beds  and  sleeping  chairs,  and 
lounges,  too.  Those  who  could  not  be  accommodated  with 
chairs,  sat  on  the  sides  of  the  beds  until  they  broke  down, 
and  then  waited  until  they  could  obtain  an  interview. 
Meanwhile,  the  Washington  correspondents  are  sending 
home  word  that  the  civil  service  bars  are  being  let  down 
in  all  directions.  The  consuls  are  to  go,  because  it  is  said 
there  are  inferior  men  (Democrats)  who  cannot  be  got  rid 
of  in  any  other  way.  This  is  not  what  the  country  ex- 
pected, nor  what  the  platform  promised.  Ere  long  the 
cry  will  be:  "Oh,  for  a  month  of  Cleveland!"  The  plain 
fact  is  that  we  have  a  weak  administration,  out  of  which 
very  little  good  can  come. 


April  17,  1897. 


SAM    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


ART     JOTTINGS. 

THE  artists  have  !>een  industi  ..ring.      A  good 

baa  been   done   in    both   in-door   and  out-of-door 
in    oil    and    pastel  have   come  into 
fashion,  and  this  once  almost  totally  neglected   branch  of 
art  has  experienced  a  distinct  revival. 

■npleted  a  portrait  in  oil   of   General 

w   11   L.  Karnes.  It  has  all  the  strength  and  peculiarities 

and  is  -of  tbe  distinct    Rembrudtlsn  type.    The 

likeness  is  good,  though  perhaps  possessing  more  stern 
■  nia!  General  usually  wears,  even  when  un- 
dergoing that  ordeal  of  sitting  for  his  picture.  The 
shadows,  a  la  Rembrandt,  are  so  heavy  that  the  outline  of 
the  perspective  portion  of  the  face  is  almost  merged  in 
the  deep  color.  But  Yates  has  made  a  hit  in  England. 
and  those  dark  canvases  are  the  correct  thing  in  portraits. 

Joseph  D.  Strong  has  no  end  of  demands  for  his  pastel 
pictures,  rie  has  completed  portraits  of  Bruce  Elder, 
W.  H.  Bagley,  and  Tony  Hellman.  the  latter  in  full  length. 
All  three  are  admirable,  and  will  bring  more  grist  to  Mr. 
Strong's  mill. 

Joseph  A.  Barrington,  the  Roman  painter,  has  done  up 
Andromeda  chained  to  her  rock,  and  awaiting  the  arrival 
of  her  faithful  lover.  While  there  are  some  fine  points  in 
this  last  work  of  Mr.  Barrington,  it  is  to  be  regretted 
that  he  was  not  more  fortunate  in  his  selection  of  a  model. 
The  face  of  the  daughter  of  Kephens  would  not  be  likely 
to  attract  the  regards  of  such  a  dashing  fellow  as  Perseus, 
nor  does  her  decollete  costume  disclose  any  remarkable 
charms.  A  head  of  Archbishop  Alemany  is  agem;  indeed, 
by  all  means  the  best  portrait  of  that  good  prelate  that 
has  been  executed. 

In  landscape,  Joullin  exhibits  an  Indian  scene,  a  prairie 
with  wigwams  in  the  distance  and  two  Indian  figures  in 
the  foreground.  It  is  a  pleasing  picture,  delicate  in  tone 
and  color,  and  shows  careful  study. 

Charles  Rollo  Peters  was  in  town  this  week,  with  some 
of  his  moonlights  from  Monterey.  A  lone  and  weird 
cypress  tree  outlined  against  a  sombre  sky,  and  a  loDg 
streak  of  moonlight  on  the  water,  is  a  very  clever  bit  of 
painting,  and  indicates  how  closely  Peters  has  applied 
himself  to  the  study  and  expression  of  moonlight  effects. 
An  old  house,  the  moonlight  falling  on  the  gables,  and 
dark  grasses  in  the  foreground,  and  moonrise  on  the 
water,  will  be  hung  at  the  spring  exhibition  of  the  Art 
Association.  Peters  sent  some  of  his  characteristic  work 
to  London  recently,  which  was  commented  on  by  "The 
Sketch"  in  the  most  laudatory  phrase.  It  is  likely  that 
this  artist  will  leave  for  London  in  December,  and  make 
it  his  future  home. 

John  Stanton  is  at  work  on  a  portrait  of  General 
Beuston,  which  promises  to  be  a  striking  picture. 

Cadenasso  exhibits  a  landscape,  showing  much  improve- 
ment on  his  last  olla-podrida  of  sky  and  cloud.  Bis  sky  is 
still  considerably  stirred  up,  but  the  trees  in  the  fore- 
ground are  good  in  color,  and  indicate  how  closely  he  is 
following  Keith  in  his  treatment  of  those  sjbjects. 

The  artist  members  of  the  Bohemian  Club  have  intro- 
duced a  new  and  interesting  feature,  sketching  in  the  wine 
room  of  the  club  on  the  panels,  which  has  not  only  furn- 
ished much  amusement,  but  has  also  produced  many  clever 
caricatures,  some  excellent  portraits,  and  several  charm- 
ing bits  of  landscape.  During  the  year  this  club  has 
acquired  in  all  twenty-six  new  pictures,  which  brings  its 
art  collection  up  into  the  hundreds. 


V  T  T  '  -T  T -7  T-T  T  1 


The  name  "Maison  Riche,"  at  Geary  and  Grant  avenue,  at  once 
calls  up  pleasant  memories  of  banquets  and  feasting.  This  restau- 
rant is  one  of  the  landmarks  of  tbe  Coast — noted  alike  for  tbe  com- 
pleteness of  its  cuisine,  the  quality  of  its  wines,  its  perfect  service, 
and  refined,  polite  attention.  An  elegant  dinner  is  served  at  the 
Maison  Riche  from  6  to  9  o'clock  every  day,  and  the  gratification  of 
the  taste  is  made  more  complete  by  choice  selections  played  by  a 
string  band.  

The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedaker,  General  Agent. 


The  Press  Clipping  Bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  toplos,  business 
and  personal. 


Board  01  Health's 
Investigation 


OF.^ 


CONDENSED 


MILKS 


and 


CREAMS. 


fln  Item  ot  Interest- 


TO   MOTHERS 


It  has  been  disclosed  by  the  investigation 
of  Dr.  Wenzell,  the  chemist  of  the  Board 
of  Health,  that  the  so-called  evaporated 
creams  are  nothing  but  pure  and  simple 
condensed  milk,  and  in  many  instances 
very  poor  condensed  milk  at  that,  and 
while  little  or  nothing  can  be  said  in  favor 
of  these  evaporated  creams  by  Dr.  Wenzell 
still  less  is  said  in  favor  of  most  brands  of 
condensed  milk,  which  suffer  equally  un- 
de/  his  searching  analysis. 

Amidst  all  this  investigation  and  hue- 
and-cry  one  prominent  fact  has  been 
brought  out  with  unusual  distinctness,  and 
that  is,  the 

Gail  Borden  Eaole  Brand 

of  Condensed  Milk  has  passed  through  the 
fiery  furnace  of  investigation  of  a  most 
searching  character,  with  its  usual  great 
success. 

Every  brand,  except  the  Gail  Borden 
Eagle  Brand.  tnat  nas  come  under  the  at- 
tention of  the  chemist,  has  had  more  or 
less  criticism  bestowed  upon    it,  but   the 

Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  nas  been  found 

to  be  without  a  single  flaw,  and  has  been 
pronounced  to  be  the  purest  and  the  rich- 
est in  quality  of  any  brand  on  the  market; 
superior  to  evaporated  creams  in  richness; 
stronger  than  any  milk  now  before  the 
public. 

The  Pure  Food  investigation  bids  fair  to 
be  a  most  searching  one,  and  the  public 
have  a  great  interest  at  stake,  and  it  is 
with  pleasure  that  we  refer  now  to  one 
brand  that  seems  to  have  met  with  the 
approval  of  all. 


I 


I 


I 


I 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  17,  1897. 


u»  1/  X>~ 


'  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's.'1—  Tom  Moore. 


V 


^HE  first  thing  that  impressed  me  dur- 
_  ing  the,  performance  of  Squire  Kate  was 
the  large,  obvious  fact  that  the  company 
could  act.  I  am  candidly  prejudiced  in  fa- 
vor of  good  companies  and  good  acting, 
and  I  refuse  to  allow  my  prejudices  to  be- 
come corrupt.  Gaudy  stars  and  cheap-Jack  companies 
may  come  and  go,  but  there  will  still  remain  persons  who 
have  seen  good  acting  somewhere  at  some  time,  and  will 
recognize  craft  of  the  same  quality,  or  anything  like  the 
same  quality,  just  as  soon  as  they  meet  it  face  to  face,  and 
not  a  moment  sooner,  even  if  it  takes  a  whole  season.  This 
form  of  stubbornness  is  too  common,  perhaps,  to  give  dis- 
tinguishment  to  any  one  of  its  devotees,  but  in  the  instance 
of  critics,  say,  it  will  at  least  keep  the  one  kind  from  be- 
ing confused  with  the  other — those  unconscious  humorists 
of  the  press  who  promote  the  gaiety  of  the  county  by 
shouting  such  long  and  loud  esteem  for  every  tramp  show 
outfit  which  wends  westward,  that  when  something  of  real 
art  value  comes  along  it  finds  them  hoarse  and  speechless. 

*  *  # 

For  me  there  is  some  art  in  this  fantastic  melodrama  of 
the  soil,  and  much  art  in  the  earnest,  competent  acting  of 
it  by  Georgia  Cayvan  and  her  associate  players;  and  for 
the  casual  playgoer — the  one  who  pays  his  money  and  ex- 
pects to  be  entertained  without  worrying  about  the  how 
or  why  of  it — there  is,  it  seems  to  me,  capital  diversion  in 
the  play  and  the  acting.  The  manager  of  a  theatre  re- 
verses this  order  of  things  by  very  sensibly  considering  his 
public  first  and  his  critics  afterward;  but  in  this  instance  J 
he  gets  two  strong  elements  of  success  either  way:  artis-  I 
tic  value  and  popular  value.  At  a  first  glance  many  per- 
sons, having  seen  much  rustic  scenery  and  not  remember- 
ing how  little  a  play  they  usually  got  with  it,  will  say  that 
what  Squire  Kate  lacks  is  novelty — or  they  may  even  con- 
cede that  the  good  acting  constitutes  that,  and  entirely 
overlook  what,  to  us  of  Western  America,  is  a  suggestion 
of  novelty  in  the  way  of  dramatic  literature.  I  mean  by 
this  that  the  average  patron  of  the  theatre  will  not  note, 
or,  possibly,  care  to  note,  the  Ibsenite  flavor  of  Robert 
Buchanan's  play.  And  for  two  good  reasons:  one  is,  that 
the  average  patron,  having  unconsciously  taken  his  Ibsen 
in  small,  diluted  doses  from  small  playmakers  (who  in 
turn  had  got  their  Norwegian  essence  from  somebody  else 
at  second-hand)  thinks  no  more  of  the  cunning  Ibsen  sub- 
urbanity  tincturing  the  play  he  witnesses  than  he  does  of 
the  microbes  making  merry  in  the  water  he  drinks;  the 
other  is  that  Mr.  Buchanan,  while  in  some  respects  a 
modern,  is  still  far  too  respectable  and  usual  a  man  to  en- 
tirely disbelieve  in  the  debilitated  logic  which  taught  our 
grandparents  to  reason,  "if  all  the  world's  a  stage,  then 
all  the  stage  's  a  world."  Mr.  Buchanan  pins  his  colors  to 
the  New  only  so  far  as  he  can  make  them  fuse  with  the 
Old.  He  has  neither  the  foolhardiness  nor  the  genius,  nor 
yet  the  lack  of  romantic  idealism  to  get  his  play  so  near 
to  earth  and  close  to  humanity,  so  far  from  Stageland  and 
all  its  pretty  refinements  and  trustful  traditions,  that  it 
would  reveal  a  soul-exposure  of  ourself  or  our  neighbor 
which  might  be  strong  and  absorbing,  but  surely  not  tasty 
or  decorative.  And  if  he  had  given  us  an  expression  of 
Life — Life  as  it  is  not  lived  on  the  stage — unfrescoed  and 
unperfumed,  it  is  more  than  probable  that  we  would  have 
received  it  frowning  and  blinking  and  wondering  what  it 
was  all  about. 

*  *  # 

It  is  because  this  play,  with  all  its  incorrigible  optim- 
ism and  picturesquely  pathetic  ending,  occasionally  comes 
so  near  to  huge,  unvarnished  Truth  that  I  have  taken  this 
round-about  way  of  considering  it.  .  It  were  an  easy  mat- 
ter to  be  brief  and  just,  and  say  that  Mr.  Buchanan  had 
written  a  play  of  strong  dramatic  incident  and  feeling, 
and  written  it  vigorously  and  well  in  all  acts  but  the  last. 
But  he  has  done  more  than  that.  He  has  given  us  a  study 
of  a  big,  sturdy,  open-hearted,  country-bred  woman,  who 
gives  up  all  the  rough  tenderness  of  her  heart   to  a  man, 


who,  instead  of  loving  her.  as  she  supposed,  loves  her  sis- 
ter; and  her  sister  loves  him — the  softly-nurtured  little 
sister  whom  she  had  mothered  and  cuddled  and  protected 
at  every  sacrifice  to  herself.  With  this  for  a  theme,  Mr. 
Buchanan  set  about  the  work  of  elaboration  bravely,  but 
with  fatal  disregard  of  his  inability  to  cope  with  the  last 
act.  The  strong  sister— Squire  Kate  she  is  called,  for  she 
is  the  owner  of  the  little  Sussex  farm  where  the  scenes  are 
placed — not  only  loves  where  it  is  hopeless,  but  is  hope- 
lessly loved  by  her  farm  overseer,  a  man  of  few  words, 
much  generosity,  and  many  virtues.  Besides  handling  the 
mortification,  rage  and  passionate  grief  of  Kate  after  she 
comes  upon  the  lovers  in  the  field  and  sees  that  George  is 
notforher,  and  the  diminuendo  of  all  this  high  feeling — which 
must  be  accomplished  before  Kate  reaches  the  hysterical 
calm  of  her  renunciation  scene — the  author  imposes  upon 
himself  the  task  of  sustaining  throughout  the  piece  the 
tranquil,  faithful,  deprecating  devotion  of  Jeoffery  the 
overseer.  And  as  this  of  necessity  makes  the  psychologic 
contrast  between  these  two  hopeless  loves  one  of  the  most 
urgently  potent  possibilities  of  the  play,  it  is  particularly 
exasperating  that  Mr.  Buchanan  realizes  this  possibility 
only  by  such  flimsy  make-shift  as  Jeoffery's  weird  suspicion 
that  Kate  had  poisoned  her  little  sister,  and  the  gushing 
finale  where  Kate  blesses  the  lovers,  dowers  them  with 
every  pound  of  her  legacy,  and  permits  Jeoffery  to  continue 
in  his  modest  hope  that  some  day  she  may  be  his.  The  end- 
ing is  of  course  a  compromise  with  those  peculiar  patrons 
of  the  drama  who  would  not  enjoy  their  after-theatre  sup- 
per unless  the  play  closed  with  respectable  gladness.  But 
it  is  bad  art  any  way  you  take  it. 

For  the  rest  of  Squire  Knte  I  have  nothing  but  good  will. 
If  I  have  thought  that  it  might  have  been   a   bigger  play 
it  is  all  the  author's  fault  for  writing  something   which  is 
important  enough  to  be  taken  seriously. 
*  *  # 

This  is  the  first  I  have  seen  of  Miss  Cayvan  in  several 
years,  and  it  seems  even  longer  than  that.  I  went  to  the 
Columbia  Monday  night  remembering  her  as  the  feminine 
Herbert  Kelcey  of  the  Lyceum  Company;  a  woman  well 
grown  and  well  groomed,  always  in  the  best  of  health,  if 
looks  counted.  I  used  to  wonder  why  some  enterprising 
medicine  manufacturer  did  not  get  out  an  edition  of  Geor- 
gia Cayvan's  "System  Builder,"  or  "Pulmonary  Balsam," 
or  "Bloom  of  Life. "  It  would  have  sold.  It  would  sell 
still.  But  I  had  no  such  thoughts  Monday  night.  I  forgot 
the  enthusiastic  health  of  Miss  Cayvan — in  truth,  I  forgot 
all  about  Miss  Cayvan.  I  was  so  absorbed  in.  the  girl 
Kate.  And  in  the  third  week  of  Skinner,  Skinner,  Skin- 
ner, it  was  real  refreshment  to  forget,  even  for  a  little 
while,  that  there  was  such  an  accomplishment  as  star  act- 
ing. So  far  as  I  remember,  Squire  Kate  is  the  best  act- 
ing Miss  Cayvan  has  ever  given  San  Francisco.  It  seems 
to  be  limited  only  by  the  weak  spots  of  the  play,  for  if  ever 
a  part  fitted  an  actress,  this  one  fits  Georgia  Cayvan. 

That  effusive  "womanliness"  of  voice  which  used  to  duet 
with  Mr.  Kelcey's  high-bred  elocution  in  the  old  Lyceum 
days  now  finds  a  character  value  in  every  word  that  Kate 
utters;  those  uncurbable  gestures  that  once  played  havoc 
among  the  Lyceum  scenery  are  now  fitting  the  action  to 
the  word,  as  Mr.  Skinner  would  say.  In  all  seriousness. 
Miss  Cayvan's  work  in  this  play  is  something  to  thrill  to 
and  remember.  That  second  act!  The  farce-comedy  sit- 
uation of  the  little  army  of  suitors  rushing  to  Kate's  farm 
so  soon  as  she  has  got  the  legacy — the  absurdity  of  the 
courting — the  absurdity  of  George's  old  stepfather  joining 
the  ranks,  asking  her  to  marry  him — the  dramatic  mo- 
ment and  swift  surprise  of  his  asking  her  to  marry 
George — George,  whom  she  has  loved  so  long  and  silently, 
and  who,  she  thinks,  loves  her.  Then  the  exaltation,  the 
shy,  awkward  pride  when  she  meets  George — for  us  who 
sit  in  front  there  is  something  unspeakably  pitiable,  cruel, 
tragic  in  ber  very  bumptious  coyness,  as  we  look  ahead 
and  see  the  humiliation  that  must  follow.  It  is  a  remark- 
able act  in  the  first  place,  and  it  is  remarkably  acted  in 
the  second.  In  the  third  act  comes  the  storm.  Kate 
comes  in  at  the  log  gateway  in  the  twilight.  Her  sister 
is  in  the  field  in  George's  arms.  Then  breaks  the  fury  of 
the  woman  scorned.  It  has  the  power  of  vulgarity,  the 
strength  of  long  repression;  it  falls  with  sheer,  blind  bru- 
tality on  the  lovers'  heads.  Nature  may  have  been  gener- 
ous in  equipping  Miss  Cayvan  for  these  scenes,  but  I  bend 


Aj>ril  17.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


low  to  the   art   that   know*   when    to  let  nature  take   its 
course. 
The  last  act  is  a  sad  drop.     1  will  not  dis.  us.-  it. 

•  •  • 

>rt       I  eannot  mention  all  the  jrood  acting 

-  room  (or  the  bail      Frank  Atli 

I  actinjf. 

me  bad  actor  in  a  cast  of  fifteen!     Well,  one  Mr. 

enough.     If  I  had  the  space   I  should  make  Bpe 

-aphs   for  George  Woodward  and  Orrin   .John- 

rk  was  spot 

•  •  • 

he  rest  of  hi>  repertory  at  the  Bald- 
win during  the  week,  and  while  1  >;iw  more  or  less  (if  his 
Bhyto  I  111..  Homo  1  and  Claude   Meluotte,  1  liml 

(  in  a  poor  way  to  write  anything  about  them  that  Mr. 
Skinner's  previous  efforts  have  not  inspired  me  to  write 
before.  Shylock  being  a  part  that,  first  of  all.  demands 
semblance  of  age  and  a  certain  amount  of  unique 
characterization,  was  to  me  thoroughly  unsatisfying,  if 
for  no  other  reasons  than  that  Shylock's  years  were  insuffi- 
ciently suggested  by  several  score,  and  his  character 
stopped  at  the  make-up. 

It  is  Bernard  Shaw,  I  believe,  who  says,  "Richard  is  the 
prince  of  Bunches:  he  delights  man  by  provoking  God, 
and  dies  unrepentant  and  game  to  the  last."  Mr.  Skin- 
ner's Richard  doubtless  provokes  God;  not  by  incarnate 
Gendishness  and  a  devil's  wit,  but  by  the  utter  absence  of 
wit  appreciation  on  the  part  of  the  actor.  Man  is  less 
tolerant  than  his  Maker,  so  we  are  not  expected  to  take 
kindly  to  a  Richard  whose  humor  is  farce-comical  and 
whose  rage  is  bathetic. 

Youthful  Romeo,  tingling  with  romance  and  heroism, 
found  a  happier  life  at  Mr.  Skinner's  hands.  But  the  sur- 
prise of  the  week  was  Claude  Melnotte.  He  bounded  from 
the  grave,  gave  the  jubilant  ha!  ha!  to  the  critics  who  had 
written  his  epitaph  so  many  years  ago,  and  drew  the  big- 
gest house  of  the  Skinner  season. 

•  *  * 

Somebody  told  me  the  Merilles  Sisters  were  very 
naughty  girls,  so  I  went  to  the  Orpheum  to  see  for  my- 
self, intending,  of  course,  to  write  them  a  few  lines  of 
Christian  reproof  if  this  were  true.  It  is  not  true.  The 
Misses  Merilles  are  merely  gay.  Their  skirts  are  short  and 
their  stockings  are  charged  with  curves  that  are  all  their 
own,  and  they  dance  with  wonderful  poise  and  fling,  and  sing 
a  song  of  paceful  measure  that  is  good  to  hear — even  if 
you  cannot  understand  the  words — but  the  Misses  Merilles 
are  moral.  Ashton  Stevens. 

The  Tivoli  springs  a  sensation  on  the  town  with  the  an- 
nouncement, for  week  after  next,  of  Charles  Villiers  Stan- 
ford's new  opera,  Sharnus  O'Brien  and  Denis  O'Sullivan, 
who  created  the  title  role  in  the  English  production.  It  is 
a  timely  stroke  of  enterprise,  for  it  gives  us  a  celebrated 
operatic  work  while  it  is  still  in  the  glow  of  London  and 
New  York  success,  and  our  townsman  O'Sullivan,  while  he 
is  still  in  the  enthusiasm  of  his  maiden  fame.  Dr.  Stan- 
ford is  essentially  a  modern  composer,  and  this,  his  most 
ambitious  work,  has  made  him  one  of  the  celebrated  tone 
dramatists  of  the  day. 

Georgia  Cayvan  plays  Squire  Kate  at  the  Columbia  until 
Monday  night,  when  Mary  Pennington,  Spinster  is  the  bill. 
This  play  is  said  to  be  a  satire  on  the  "advanced  woman," 
showing  that  in  spite  of  modernity  and  independence,  a 
woman's  heart,  like  murder,  will  out.  Later  in  the  week 
Miss  Cayvan  will  present  a  double  bill  of  Goblin  Castle,  a 
comedy  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Bisland,  and  The  Little  Individ- 
ual, a  comedietta  by  Thomas  Haynes  Bayley. 

The  Orpheum  opens  Monday  with  its  big  Easter  bill. 
Sig.  Achille  Albert!,  late  baritone  of  Mapelson's  company, 
and  Mme.  Annina  Orlandi,  late  soprano  of  the  same  organ- 
ization, will  sing  selections  from  the  Italian  operas.  Mar- 
zelli  and  Millay,  comedy  acrobats;  Ed  Latelle,  comedy 
musical  artist,  and  our  old  friends,  the  educated  monkey 
and  the  cultured  baboon — who  will  exhibit  Herr  Grais  in 
friendly  and  scientific  tricks — make  up  the  rest  of  the  new- 
comers. 

In  the  meantime,  Benedict's  Irish  opera,  The  Lily  of 
Killarney— which,  by  the  way,  is  not  noticeably  Irish,  in 
music,  flavor,  or  dramatic,  either,  but  cheerful  and  melo- 


dious in  the  old,  popular  style— is  doing  so  well  that  it  will 
be  continued  until  the  coming  of  Sfomtn.     There  will  be  a 
wealth  of    comparison    between    these   two  works,  tl, 
and  the  new. 

Brimrosc  and  West's  minstrels  open  at  the  Baldwin  to- 
morrow (Sunday)  night.  They  gave  an  excellent  show  at 
the  California  last  year,  ami   we    are    promised  even  more 

this  time.    George  II,  Primrose,  William  H.  West, George 

Wilson,  Jimmy  Wall  and  all  the  fluent  favorites  are  on  the 
hill,  also  the  other  band  of  gorgeous  gentlemen  who  are 
not  colored  but  born  that  way. 

Thursday  afternoon,  at  the  Columbia,  gives  us  the  last 
of  the  present  season  of  symphony  concerts.  In  addition 
to  an  attractive  itsj  programme — which  includes 

Rubenstein's  5th  Symphony,  a  work  new  to  San  Francisco 
— Denis  O'Sullivan,  the  hero  of  Shamiu  O'Brien,    will  sing. 


An    Ounce    of     Prevention 
is  cheaper  ihan  any  quantity  of  cure.     Don't  give  children  narcotics 
or  sedative*.     They  mc    unnecessary    when    tile    infant    i-<  properly 
nourished,  as  ii  will   tie  if   brought  up  on   the  (Jail   Borden    Kagle 
Hrand  Condensed  MilK. 

Bl  J  TL        J.  al.  Hayman  &  Co.,  (Incorporated) 

aldvVin      I  neatre-  proprietor*. 

SUNDAY  evening,  April  IBtfa,  engagement  for  two  weelis, 
matinee  Saturday,  Primrose  and  West's 

GREAT    BIG    MINSTRELS 

Black  and  white.    One  hundred  performers. 

CA|..ML!^     Tk«^l^«       The'   Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 
OlUmDia       I   neatXe-    Frledlander,  Gottlob&Co.,  Lessees 
and  Managers 
During  the  second  and  last  week  of  her  engagement,  beginning 
Monday,  April  19th 

MISS  GEORGIA    CAYVAN 
and  her  company  will  present,  for  the  ilrst  time  here,  a  new 
and  original  comedy,  by  W.  ft.  Walkes,  entitled 

MARY    PENNINGTON,   SPINSTER 

Everv  evening  (Including  Sunday),  matinee  Saturday 
Monday,  April  28th,  Ward  &  Vokes  In  A  RUN  ON  THE  BANK 

Columbia  Theatre. — Extra- 
Thursday  afternooD,  April  22d,  at  3:30  o'clock, 

LAST  SYMPHONY  CONCERT. 

Gustav  Hinrjchs,  Director.  Soloist— Mr.  Denis  O'Sullivan. 
Rubinstein's  Fifth  Symphony  (first  time),  and  the  famous  Nut 
Crocker  suite    Reserved  seats.  50c.  and  81.  Box-office  now  open. 

Ti    .     I  •     r\  I— i  Mrs.  Ernestine  Krkling, 

IVOll    Upera     flOUSe.  Proprietor  and  Manager 

Every  evening,  the  artistic  rendition  of  Sir  Jules  Benedict's 
Irish  opera, 

THE    LILY    OF    KILLARNEY. 

Great  cast;  superb  effects;  magnificent  ensembles 
Monday  evening.  April  26th— Careful  presentation  of  Charles 
Villiers  Stanford's  romantic  comic  opera,  SHAMUS  O'BRIEN. 
First  appearance  in  this  city  of  Mr.  Denis  O'Sullivan,  the  emi- 
nent baritone. 
Popular  Prices 25c  and50o 


San  Francisco's  Greatest  Music    Hall.      O'Farrell 
street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 


Orpheum 

Week  beginning  Monday,  April  19th. 

SPECIAL    ENGAGEMENT 

of  the  noted  singers,  Sig.  Achille  Albert!,  baritone,  and  Mme. 
Annina  Orlandi,  mezzo-soprano;  Marzelll  &  Millay,  comedy 
acrobats;  Herr  Grais,  and  his  marvelous  trick  baboon  and  don- 
key; Ed.  Latelle,  comedy  musical  artist;  in  conjunction  with 
the  Kronemann  Brothers,  Merrilees  Sisters,  Evans  &  Vidocq, 
Harris  &  Walters,  and  Delmore  &  Lee. 

Reserved  seats,  25c  ;  balcony  10c;  opera  chairs  and  box  seats  50c. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday.  Matinee  Prices : 
Parquet,  any  seat,  25c;  balcony,  any  seat,  10c;  children.  10c, 
any  part. 

Pacific  Coast  dockey  Club. 

(Ingleside  Track.)  The  only  perfect  winter  race  track  In 
America.  Racing  from  Monday,  April  19th,  to  Saturday,  May 
1st, inclusive. 

FIVE   OR    MORE    RACES    DAILY. 

Rain  or  shine.  First  race  at  2  p.  h.  Take  Southern  Pacific 
Trains  at  Third  and  Townsend  streets'  depot,  leaving  at  1  and 
1 :20  p.  m  ;  stopping  at  Valencia  street.  Fare  for  round  trip,  in- 
cluding admission  to  grounds,  tl.  Take  Mission-street  electric 
line  direct  to  track.  The  Corrigan  StakeB  will  be  run  Monday, 
April  19 th;  the  Spreckels  Cup,  Saturday,  April  24th;  the  Cali- 
fornia Hurdle,  Wednesday,  April  28th;  the  Ingleside  Stakes, 
4  miles,  Saturday,  May  1st 

S.N.  androus,  President.    F.  H.  GREEN.  Secretary. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  17,  [897. 


GAYETIES     OF     FORTY     YEARS     AGO.— Third   Paper. 

AMONG  the  public  balls  of  the  '70  decade  was  the 
grand  calico  ball  at  Piatt's  Hall,  February  1872,  in 
aid  of  charity.  Mrs.  General  Schofield,  Mrs.  James  Otis, 
Mrs.  O.  C.  Pratt,  and  Mrs.  Cutler  McAllister  were  among 
the  ladies  who  received.  Colonel  Julian  McAllister,  John 
Middleton,  Noble  Eaton,  James  L.  Beyea,  Eugene  Deuprey, 
Alfred  VerMehr,  Hugh  Davidson,  and  A.  J.  LeBreton 
were  among  the  floor  managers.  The  ladies  all  wore 
( ambric  or  calico  dresses.  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis  and  Mrs. 
Frank  Hassey  wore  yellow;  Mrs.  Shorb,  Miss  Lotty  Hall, 
and  Miss  Lizzie  Miller  in  black  and  white;  Miss  Theresa 
Lawton  and  Miss  Laura  De  Russy  in  blue;  Miss  Head' 
Miss  Carrie  Gwin,  Lilly  Tompkins,  Fanny  Daniels  and 
Mary  Mears  were  in  white.  Mrs.  Sam  Wilson,  Mrs. 
Frank  Pixley,  Mrs.  J.  R.  Jarboe,  Mrs.  W.  H.  S.  Barnes, 
Miss  Flora  Main,  wore  Dolly  Vardens.  " 

Another  calico  ball  was  given  in  Union  Hall  on  January 
8,  1874,  which  was  also  for  charity;  during  the  evening 
Mme.  Anna  Bishop  sang  several  ballads,  notably  "Home 
Sweet  Home;"  and  "the  little  sisters,"  twelve  in  number, 
sold  boutonniires,  Mrs.  Ralston  wore  corn  color,  Mrs. 
Lilly  Coit  drab  linen;  Mme.  Gros,  Mrs.  Jos  Spear  Jr.,  Miss 
Mamie  Reilley,  Mrs.  D.  J.  Staples  were  in  white.  The 
prettiest  and  most  effective  dress  in  the  room  was  worn 
by  Miss  Lita  Ogden,  a  charming  combination  of  black  and 
yellow. 

A  Dickens  Ball  was  given  at  Union  Hall  in  1874,  at 
which  Sumner  Bugbee  personated  Charles  Dickens,  Louis 
Townsend  as  Dr.  Venus,  George  Bromley  and  Smyth 
Clark  were  the  Cherryble  brothers,  Mrs.  Sophie  Maccono- 
chie  personated  Mrs.  Luttrell,  Mrs.  de  Haven,  Dolly 
Varden,  Carrie  Wyatt,  Oliver  Twist. 

On  October  12,  1877,  Senator  Sharon  gave  a  reception 
at  Belmont  in  honor  of  General  Sherman,  when  the  Earl 
of  Dufferin,  Governor-General  of  Canada,  and  the  Countess 
of  Dufferin  were  also  his  guests.  The  opening  quadrille 
was  danced  by  General  Sherman  and  Lady  Dufferin,  Lord 
Dufferin  and  Miss  Sherman,  Major-General  McDowell  and 
Miss  Cameron,  Secretary  of  War  Cameron  and  Miss  Sharon. 

It  must  not  for  a  moment  be  supposed  that  San  Fran- 
cisco's early  day  society  was  dependent  upon  public  balls 
for  its  pleasures.  Quite  the  contrary  in  fact,  for  not  alone 
were  there  many  delightful  little  home  dances,  weddings, 
and  frolics  of  various  kinds,  but  there  were  excursions  by 
land  and  by  water,  every  excuse  being  taken  advantage 
of  for  one  or  the  other. 

It  must  be  confessed,  however,  that  water  parties  were 
the  most  popular,  land  travelling  being  a  pursuit  of  pleas- 
ure under  difficulties.  Among  the  earliest  of  these  water 
parties  was  one  given  by  Messrs.  Jos.  A.  Donohoe  and 
John  Y.  Hallock  of  this  city  and  Edgar  Mills  of  Sacra- 
mento, who  in  June  1859,  decided  upon  taking  a  tour 
around  the  world,  and  they  made  their  departure  the  oc- 
casion of  a  most  charming  party  d'adieu. 

Of  course  this  was  long  before  the  days  of  steamers 
across  the  broad  Pacific  Ocean  and  the  voyage  to  the 
Orient  had  to  be  made  by  sailing  ships.  The  vessel  which 
was  to  bear  these  three  gentlemen  away,  was  the  clipper 
ship  "Storm  King,"  and  to  see  them  sail  and  at  the  same 
time  wish  them  bon  voyage,  they  chartered  the  steamer 
"Surprise"  and  invited  a  number  of  their  friends  to  ac- 
company them  on  it  as  far  as  the  Heads.  The  day  proved 
a  most  beautiful  one  for  such  an  affair;  the  water  was  like 
glass  and  of  wind  there  was  no  more  than  a  gentle  breeze. 
The  company  assembled  at  the  wharf,  where  the  steamer 
lay  alongside,  at  ten  a.  m.,  and  on  going  aboard  a  band  of 
music  was  beard  discoursing  a  selection  of  inspiriting  airs 
which  when  once  the  steamer  started  was  changed  to 
dance  music,  so  that  while  a  tour  round  the  bay  was  made 
tripping  the  light  fantastic  was  indulged  in  by  the  three 
hosts  and  their  guests.  The  dance  was  followed  by  an 
elaborate  luncheon  when  champagne  flowed  like  water,  in 
which  the  departing  ones  were  toasted  again  and  again. 
In  the  mean  time  the  "Storm  King"  had  sailed  down  the 
bay  and  off  Fort  Point  lay  to  for  her  passengers,  and  when 
they  left  the  steamer's  side  in  the  Clipper's  boat,  cheer 
after  cheer  followed  them  across  the  dividing  waters. 
The  "Surprise"  accompanied  the  "Storm  King"  as  far  as 
the  Heads,  reaching  the  city  upon  its  return  late  in  the 
afternoon. 


An  excursion  which  was  of  a  combined  public  and  pri- 
vate character,  was  the  occasion  of  the  launch  of  the  first 
Man-of-War  built  upon  this  coast.  This  vessel  was  known 
first  as  "No.  2,"  then  the  "Toucey,"  and  finally  the 
"Saginaw."  The  launch  took  place  at  the  Navy  Yard, 
Mare  Island,  on  the  3rd  of  March  1859,  and  as  befitted  the 
importance  of  such  an  event  it  was  made  a  very  gala 
affair.  For  the  general  public  the  steamer  "Wilson  G. 
Hunt"  under  command  of  Capt.  R.  J.  Vandewater  went 
up  from  the  city  with  about  four  hundred  people,  reaching 
the  Island  about  noon.  Two  other  excursion  steamers  al- 
so carried  passengers  from  San  Francisco,  and  crowds 
arrived  from  Benicia  and  other  parts  of  the  country  there- 
abouts. Captain  James  B.  Alden,  U.  S.  N.  (afterwards 
Admiral  Alden),  then  on  this  coast  in  command  of  the 
Surveying  steamer  Active,  was  ever  on  the  qui  rive  for  just 
such  an  occasion  for  the  frolic  on  board  his  vessel,  and 
several  days  previous  to  the  third,  printed  invitations 
were  sent  from  him  and  his  officers  to  nearly  all  the  best 
known  members  of  the  social  world  to  witness  the  launch 
under  their  protecting  care.  It  is  almost  needless  to  say 
there  was  not  a  single  regret  received  in  reply.  The  deck 
of  the  Active  was  covered  in  with  flags  and  the  band  of  the 
Sixth  Infantry  provided  music  for  dancing,  which  was 
kept  up  unflaggingly  until  Mare  Island  was  reached,  about 
the  same  time  that  the  "Hunt"  arrived.  There  were 
fully  five  thousand  people  assembled  to  see  the  new  ship 
glide  into  its  future  element  which  was  done  at  precisely 
thirteen  minutes  to  one  o'clock,  Miss  Molly  Cunningham, 
daughter  of  the  Commandant  of  the  Navy  Yard,  perform- 
ing the  ceremony  of  naming  the  vessel.  As  soon  as  the 
launch  was  successfully  accomplished,  Capt.  Alden's 
guests  were  invited  to  the  Commandant's  house,  where  a 
handsome  luncheon  was  provided  for  them.  Over  the  en- 
trance door  hung  a  square  of  white  linen  on  which  was 
painted  the  words: 

'  'Welcome  to  see 
The  Toucey  to  sea." 

After  luncheon  the  entire  company  joined  the  rest  of  the 
excursionists  in  the  carpenter  shop,  which  was  very  taste- 
fully decorated  with  flags,  and  there  was  more  dancing 
for  a  couple  of  hours.  At  half  past  three  the  signal  gun 
was  fired  and  a  start  soon  after  made  for  home. 

An  excursion  of  which  mention  should  not  be  omitted 
was  the  one  given  by  Collector  John  F.  Miller  in  honor  of 
Queen  Emma  of  the  Sandwich  Islands  during  her  visit  to 
San  Francisco  in  September  1866.  For  this  purpose  the 
Shubrick  was  called  into  service,  the  party  consisting 
among  others  of  Her  Majesty  and  suite,  Major-General 
Halleck  and  staff,  Colonel  Drum,  Hawaiian  Consul  Hitch- 
cock, Collector  Miller  and  a  number  of  ladies.  Alcatraz 
was  the  first  point  visited,  Major  Darling  receiving  the 
party  and  doing  the  honors  of  that  Island.  Thence  a  trip 
round  the  bay  was  made,  a  royal  salute  of  twenty-one  guns 
greeting  the  steamer  as  she  passed  Black  Point.  General 
French  was  in  waiting  at  Fort  Point,  where  some  target 
firing  (with  the  big  guns  of  those  days)  was  done  for  the 
entertainment  of  Queen  Emma,  after  which  Angel  Island 
was  rounded.  During  the  trip  an  elaborate  luncheon  was 
served,  the  military  band  on  board  providing  the  music 
for  the  occasion. 

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Julia  Crocker  is 


death,  her  friends  declare,  by  people  asking  her  when  her 
wedding  is  to  come  off,  and  why  it  is  not  to  be  a  JuDe  wed- 
ding, which  is  the  great  fad  just  now.  Apropos  of  Juce 
bridals,  the  list  of  army  affairs  is  likely  to  be  increased, 
says  gossip,  and  the  maid-of-honor  at  one  of  the  weddings 
already  announced  for  that  date  is  spoken  of  as  the  proba- 
ble bride  number  three.  Not  of  one  man  Lien  entendu,  but 
in  the  trio  of  pretty  girls  who  will  don  bridal  robes  at  that 

time. 

*  *  * 

There  is  a  rumor  that  a  very  wealthy  matron  who  has 
three  daughters  is  meditating  a  trip  to  Japan  with  them 
and  a  party  of  young  friends.  A  visit  to  Honolulu  has  be- 
come a  means  to  the  end  of  one  or  two  matrimonial  en- 
gagements in  the  swim,  and  there  is  no  sayinar  what  an 
extended  ocean  voyage  might  not  accomplish  in  swelling 
the  number,  there  being  an  old  saying  about  the  wonder- 
ful results  obtainable  by  propinquity. 

*  *  * 

A  prominent  member  of  society  was  complaining  the 
other  day  upon  the  scarcity  of  nice  tourist  travel  this  year; 
but  the  trouble  lies  in  the  fact  that  "nice  tourists"  are 
not  entertained  and  welcomed  as  of  yore.  A  put-up  at  the 
club,  and  possibly  a  dinner  by  one's  banker,  is  all  they  re- 
ceive from  San  Francisco  society  nowadays.  So  whose 
fault  is  it  that  our  girls  do  not  oftener  meet  agreeable, 
well-bred  Eastern  men  on  a  visit  to  the  Coast? 

*  *  *, 

At  length  that  incorrigible  old  bachelor,  Claude  Terry 
Hamilton,  is  said  to  be  captured  by  Cupid's  wiles,  and 
surely,  to  judge  from  appearances  at  the  recent  wedding 
breakfast,  things  looked  very  much  that  way.  Well, 
Claude  is  an  awfully  nice  young  fellow,  and  hence  the  woman 
and  the  lucky  ''she"  is  to  be  congratulated  sincerely,  if 

the  thing  is  a  go. 

*  *  * 

The  numerous  social  friends  of  Mr.  W.  S.  Jones  are  de- 
lighted to  find  that  hospitable  gentleman  resuming  the 
charming  little  musicales  which  have  made  his  name  fam- 
ous. Mr.  Jones  has  very  powerful  adjuncts  in  the  singing 
of  Mrs.  McGavin  and  Miss  Bowie,  while  his  recherche  sup- 
pers are  feasts  in  themselves. 

*  *  # 

The  people  in  and  about  San  Mateo  and  B'lingham  are 
in  raptures  over  the  acquisition  to  their  neighborhood  of 
Colonel  Fred  Crocker  and  family.  The  beautiful  residence, 
erstwhile  the  home  of  the  Willie  Howards,  will  be  occupied 
by  the  Colonel,  his  young  family,  and  their  grandmother, 
Mrs.  A.  M.  Easton,  during  the  coming  summer. 

*  *  * 

How  true  it  is  that  once  Dame  Fortune  turns  her  head 
in  your  direction,  she  showers  you  with  gifts.  The  genial 
Downey  Harvey  is  an  illustration  of  this,  and  his  friends 
are  joshing  him  as  to  who  will  be  the  next  to  leave  him 
coin.     But  every  one  is  glad  to  know  of  his  good  luck. 

*  *  * 

When  a  married  man  who  is  inclined  to  be  flirtatious — 
to  put  it  mildly — adopts  the  paternal  tone  with  young  girls 
of  a  breezy  style,  he  should  burn  his  boats  behind  him,  and 
not  let  a  jealous  wife  find  documentary  evidence  in  his 
pockets  when  he  comes  home  o'nights. 

*  *  # 

If  girls  would  only  ever  learn  to  be  cautious  as   to  whom 

they  write  and  how  they  write,   the  "cute  little  notes," 

which  are  so  dangerous  in  the   hands   of  an   unprincipled 

man.     A  well-known  society  girl  can  now  acknowledge  the 

wisdom  of  this. 

*  *  # 

One  of  the  most  attractive  girls  in  society  is  the  grace" 
ful  young  daughter  of  A.  N.  Drown,  the  well-known  law- 
yer. Miss  Bernie  is  very  popular  with  her  own  sex  as 
well  as  with  the  beaux,  which  is  an  evidence  of  her  worth. 


There  is  a  lady  in  society  whose  great  boast  is  that  she 
can  lure  a  man  to  the  very  verge  of  the  proprieties  and 
then  bring  him  up  standing  in  "  haughty  scorn."  Men  and 
boys,  beware  !    Take  warning  by  this  timely  hint. 
*  *  * 

A  large  party  of  fashionable  folk  will  spend  the   Easter 
holidays  at  San  Rafael.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.   I.    Kip,   with 
their  charming  daughters,  are  said  to  be  among  those  who 
will  pass  the  early  summer  at  the  Hotel  Rafael. 
*  *  # 

A  suffering  community  will  thank  the  Catholic  priest 
who  surrendered  bis  legacy  of  Miss  Murphy's  property  to 
her  relatives,  and  thus  saved  another  cleansing  of  the 
Murphy  family  linen  in  pub'.ic. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup  "  for  yoi  r 
children  while  teething . 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER 


DEAR  EDITH:  Nature,  intended,  no  doubt,  that 
woman  should  look  beautiful,  and  the  gay  Parisians, 
I  think,  are  justified  in  improving  upan  an  adage  that  a 
woman  has  the  right  to  look  as  young  as  she  can.  They 
hold  that  it  is  her  duty  to  cheat  old  Father  Time,  rather 
than  a  passive  privilege  ;  and  they  all  live  up  to  the  obli- 
gation with  more  than  religious  promptness.  In  this  de- 
termination the  modistes  and  dressmakers  ably  assist  the 
fair  I'arisienne,  so  that  the  battle  againstold  age  is  a  win- 
ning one  up  to  a  period  long  after  we  Americans  have  re- 
signed ourselves  to  the  pauS,  the  yellow  leaf.  A  friend  of 
mine,  just  writing  from  the  French  capital,  describes  most 
entertainingly  her  recent  experience  among  the  styles  and 
the  married  ladies  of  Paris.     She  says  : 

"  Let  me  describe  a  group  of  young  matrons,  among 
whom  were  Lady  Terrence  Blackwood  and  the  Countess 
of  Essex,  trying  on  gowns  for  Easter.  In  Paris  they  have 
such  a  delighful  way  of  showing  dresses.  You  walk  through 
the  prettiest  rooms,  sip  the  clearest  tea,  and  hear  all  the 
gossip  while  "  trying  on"  the  most  beautiful  French  crea- 
tions. Had  there  been  no  names  mentioned  I  should  have 
asserted  that  not  one  of  these  matrons  was  on  the  sunny 
side  of  thirty — nearer  forty,  most  of  them — yet  their  gowns 
gave  them  the  delicate  figures  of  young  girls.  The  Easter 
gown  of  the  Countess  of  Essex  was  of  mignonette  grena- 
dine over  green  taffeta.  A  little  green  satin  stripe  ran 
through  the  goods.  The  waist  had  a  vest  and  lapels  of 
pale  green  satin-faced  cloth,  and  the  hat  repeated  the  pale 
green  shade  and  was  set  off  with  black  plumes.  Another 
dress,  a  black  and  white  striped  canvas  goods,  was  made 
up  over  white  silk.  The  material  was  not  really  silk,  but 
that  heavy  imitation  of  silk  which  wears  so  well,  and  is 
called  by  so  many  names.  These  materials  are  patented, 
many  of  them,  and  very  useful,  being  cheap  and  silky.  The 
tiniest  bolero  of  dahlia  silk  fell  over  the  shoulders,  and 
there  was  a  belt  and  collar  of  dahlia.  Another  gown  was 
of  full  primrose  ladies' cloth,  with  a  satin  face.  At  the 
side  there  was  a  panel  of  white  cloth,  with  gold  embroidery, 
and  the  yoke  was  of  the  same  material.  Another  dress 
was  of  the  new  royal  purple,  lined  freely  with  changeable 
taffeta.  These  gowns  were  none  of  them  marvelously  ele- 
gant, but  they  gave  a  nice  hint  of  the  coming  fashions  in 
materials  and  colors.  Prom  them  it  might  be  learned  that 
navy  blue  and  seal  brown  have  "gone  out,"  and  their 
places  been  taken  by  purples,  greens,  and  reds.  A  very 
pretty  gown,  also  of  the  X-ray  variety,  was  of  canvas  plaid. 
This  is  silk  stripes  plaided  in  a  field  of  openwork;  the 
stripes  are  silk.  This  is  to  be  worn  on  all  street  occasions 
over  a  brown  taffeta.  In  the  house,  or  for  calling  or  dress 
occasions,  it  will  be  slipped  over  tan  silk.  This  wearing  of 
one  X-ray  dress  over  several  slips  is  a  trick  much  resorted 
to  by  economic  matrons.  The  under  slip  is  cut  in  princess 
shape,  without  a  belt.  The  skirt  has  an  ingenious  arrange- 
ment of  godet  plaits  in  the  back  that  makes  it  set  out  well 
underneath  tl  e  canvas  outside.  The  waist  is  puffed  in 
front  for  the  same  reason,  but  otherwise,  in  plainness  of 
back  and  sides,  the  under  slip  is  a  princess.  All  of  the 
gowns  shown  me  had  some  pretty,  soft  finish  of  lace  or 
chiffon  at  the  neck  and  wrists.  For  French  women  insist 
on  fluffy  materials  coming  next  to  their  faces  and  hands, 
especially  if  they  are  no  longer  young." 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  17,  1897. 


There  are  some  people  in  this  city  who 
British  Columbia  have  come  to  the  conclusion  recently 
Mining  Sharps.  that  "there  are  others,"  when  it 
comes  down  to  accusing  California 
mijing  men  with  sharp  practice  in  promoting  the  sale  of 
property  on  the  market  at  home  or  abroad.  For  a  time 
past  an  endeavor  has  been  made  to  float  a  copper  deposit 
alleged  to  exist  on  the  west  coast  of  Vancouver  Island, 
and  some  fine  specimens  of  ore  have  been  received  here. 
The  bait  was  tempting  enough  to  attract  the  most 
cautious  investors,  and  a  very  prominent  copper  expert 
left  to  report  on  the  property  in  the  interest  of  a  buyer, 
who  was  willing  to  take  the  mine  if  the  ore  in  sight 
amounted  to  only  one-half  of  what  the  owners  claimed. 
He  has  returned  disgusted  and  angry  at  what  he  terms  a 
bold  imposition  on  the  part  of  the  vendors.  His  samples 
taken  are  totally  different  from  those  previously  received, 
and  show  no  value  whatever  in  the  workings.  He  is  now 
demanding  the  repayment  of  the  money  expended  in  travel 
there  and  back,  threatening  to  sue  for  it.  The  only  cop- 
per found  was  a  small  blow-out  of  little  value,  where  the 
report  called  for  a  ledge  of  270  feet  in  width.  At  another 
point  where  it  was  claimed  the  ledge  was  1,500  feet  wide, 
the  prospect  was  absolutely  valueless.  This  is  one  of  the 
most  extraordinary  cases  we  have  heard  of  for  a  long 
time  in  connection  with  mining  promotion,  for  the  reason 
that  the  owners  are  men  of  repute  in  other  lines  of  busi- 
ness unless  it  is  that  mining  is  getting  down  to  a  par 
with  horse  trading,  at  which  even  a  church  deacon  is  apt 
to  turn  up  a  little  shy  now  and  again.  Two  of  these  men 
are  well-known  clothing  dealers,  one  is  a  steamboat  cap- 
tain, another  a  big  grocery  man,  and  another  a  lawyer  of 
good  standing.  Were  it  not  that  the  reputation  of  the 
expert  is  above  suspicion,  a  person  would  naturally  sup- 
pose there  was  some  mistake.  As  it  is,  it  seems  most 
outrageous  to  take  a  man  so  far  away  on  a  wild-goos  e 
chase.  The  case  is  one  which  we  trust  will  be  thoroughly 
investigated,  for  such  conduct  cannot  but  reflect  most  dis- 
creditably in  the  future  upon  our  neighbors  across  the 
line.  The  properties  in  question  are  known  as  the  Sareta 
River  and  Santa  Maria  Island,  on  Barclay  Sound. 

The  owners  of  promising  properties  ah 
Worrying  over  the  State  are  being  literally  worried 
Mine  Owners,  to  death  by  correspondents  wanting  an 
opportunity  to  dispose  of  their  mines. 
The  thousand  and  one  promoters  now  engaged  in  mine 
selling  on  paper  have  a  new  system  which  is  down  to  a 
very  fine  point.  The  plan  is  to  look  over  the  list  of  mines 
contained  in  the  State  Mineralogist's  reports  and  the 
owners'  address,  accommodation  in  this  line  being  ar- 
ranged for  on  the  last  publication  of  the  kind.  He  is  then 
addressed  a  communication,  setting  forth  the  advantages 
to  be  derived  by  bonding  his  mine  to  the  writer,  who  poses 
as  a  close  associate  of  capitalists  eager  to  own  a  California 
mine.  Before  the  game  became  known,  quite  a  number  of 
mine  owners  fell  into  the  trap,  and  paid  the  penalty  by  no 
end  of  annoyance  and  disappointment.  It  is  needless  to 
say  that  nine  out  of  every  ten  of  the  writers  are  incapable 
of  carrying  out  a  single  promise  made  in  their  haste  to  get 
bonds  on  property  likely  to  attract  a  buyer. 

The  fifth  annual  convention  of  the  Califor- 
Bankers  in  nia  Bankers'  Association  will  be  held  in 
Convention.     Los  Angeles,  April  19th   and  20th,  in  the 

rooms  of  the  Concordia  Club.  The  Execu- 
tive Council  will  meet  on  Monday  an  hour  prior  to  the 
assembling  of  the  convention,  which  will  be  welcomed  by 
GeDeral  Forman,  President  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Papers  will  be  read  by  J.  E.  Baker  of  the  Bank  of  Ala- 
meda, Frank  A.  Gibson  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Los 
Angeles,  Charles  Altschul  of  the  London,  Paris  and  Amer- 
ican Bank  (Limited),  Lovell  White  of  the  San  Francisco 
Savings  Union,  J.  T.  Burke  of  the  San  Francisco  Clearing 
House,  H.  W.  Magee,  Bank  Commissioner,  and  B.  C. 
Wright  of  San  Francisco.  The  Los  Angeles  Clearing 
House  will  entertain  the  visiting  bankers. 


If  one  half  of  what  appears  in  print  could 
The  Market  be  believed  about  California  mining,  South 
for  Mines.  Africa  would  not  be  in  it,  except  as  a  gradu- 
ation place  for  experts.  The  most  extraor- 
dinary stories  are  retailed  by  the  yard  about  strikes  here, 
there,  and  everywhere,  done  up  usually  a  la  Margueritte, 
the  Placer  County  bonanza,  with  its  $75,000  assays.  Mines 
of  all  sizes  are  on  tap  for  the  accommodation  of  the  "lead- 
ing expert"  and  the  "prominent  mining  operator"  with 
a  grip  on  the  Rothschild  auricle,  who  are  done  up  proud 
for  a  column  or  so  as  possible  investors  ready  to  perform 
the  most  extraordinary  financial  feats  at  a  moment's  no- 
tice. Wishy-washy  bosh  of  the  kind  has  become  so  volum- 
inous that  it  is  as  nauseating  as  the  cultured  airs  of  the 
imported  mining  expert,  particularly  if  he  happens  to  have 
been  a  little  successful.  For  all  the  talk  and  boasting  go- 
ing on,  sales  have  been  few  and  far  between.  The  syndi- 
cated millions  are  in  the  air,  bombastic  conceptions  of 
nickel-plated  charlatans,  posing  for  the  edification  of  an 
untraveled  class  of  people  apt  at  all  times  to  be  deceived 
by  appearances.  Mine  owners  here  are  not  so  easily 
gulled  as  they  were  formerly,  and  they  are,  as  a  rule, 
about  as  approachable  as  a  porcupine.  Some  of  them  are 
inclined  to  carry  matters  too  far  this  way,  although  they 
certainly  can  scarcely  be  blamed,  after  the  manner  in 
which  they  have  been  trifled  with  and  deceived.  It  is  still 
possible,  however,  to  dispose  of  $20  for  $5  in  property  of 
this  class,  and  any  number  of  agents,  or  whatever  they 
choose  to  call  themselves,  are  on  the  look-out  for  the 
miner  ready  to  sacrifice  the  labors  of  a  life-time.  The 
man  with  some  money  for  legitimate  development  work  on 
a  small  scale  is  still  as  scarce  a  commodity  as  ever. 

Enthusiasm  is   still  dull    in    the    local 
The  Pine-Street    mining  share   market,  and  business  is 
Market.  abnormally  slow  with   the   commission 

brokers.  How  some  of  the  poorer  men 
on  the  street  hold  on  is  a  wonder  to  people  outside  the  fra- 
ternity who  have  heretofore  labored  under  the  delusion 
that  a  stock-broker  was  a  gilt-edged  genius  of  expensive 
tastes,  which  had  to  be  indulged  at  any  cost.  The  mys- 
tery of  it  all  just  now  is  where  a  living  could  be  made  by 
one  man  in  the  business,  let  alone  a  hundred.  Prices  have 
firmed  up  a  little  in  many  instances  of  late,  and  would 
likely  have  done  much  better  had  it  not  been  for  the  ef- 
forts made  by  men  on  the  floor  to  turn  a  cent  or  two  of 
profit  on  every  opportunity.  The  speculative  broker  al- 
ways gets  ahead  of  the  unfortunate  outside  operator,  who 
pays  a  dollar  each  way  to  turn  a  few  shares.  A  commis- 
sion on  one  purchase  and  sale  is  not  a  bad  day's  work, 
judging  from  the  lists,  and  a  dealer  on  the  floor  can  clean 
this  up  on  a  two-cent  raise  where  the  client  could  only 
come  out  even.  With  cross-cutting  now  well  under  way 
on  the  500  level  of  Chollar-Brunswick,  and  favorable  con- 
ditions in  Potosi  and  elsewhere  along  the  old  lode,  better 
times  might  be  looked  for  in  the  market,  were  there  only 
some  one  to  handle  the  stocks.  Without  a  head  to  the 
game,  it  proves  too  monotonous  to  invite  speculation.  An 
assessment  of  20  cents  on  Savage  was  levied  during  the 
week. 

The  most  active  mining  operations  in  the 
Big  Electric  State  seem  to  center  around  the  Raw- 
Power  Plant,  bide  mine  of  Tuolumne.  Prospectors  are 
as  thick  in  its  vicinity  as  flies  around  a 
cask  of  molasses,  and  from  all  that  can  be  learned  the 
travel  in  that  direction  shows  no  abatement.  It  is  satis- 
factory to  note  that  many  of  the  mines  are  also  looking 
very  well,  with  no  end  of  claimants  for  the  distinction  of 
being  a  "second  Rawhide."  It  is  a  moral  certainty  that 
had  it  not  been  for  this  same  Rawhide  the  chances  are 
that  the  country  side  would  have  been  as  dull  to-day  as  it 
was  three  jears  ago.  There  is  no  getting  around  that 
proposition.  In  the  beginning  of  June  work  will  be  com- 
menced and  rushed  through  on  the  1,000  horse- power  elec- 
tric plant  for  the  Rawhide  Company,  which  will  be  located 
either  on  the  Stanislaus  or  Tuolumne  river.  The  force 
generated  will  also  be  used  in  operating  the  machinery 
about  the  App  mines. 

THE  total  transactions  of  the  Imperial  Bank  of  Ger- 
many and  its  branches  for  1895,  were  $30,000,000,000. 
This  bank,  in  fact,  performs  in  large  measure  the  work  of 
a  clearing  house  for  the  business  of  the  Empire. 


April  17,  1897 


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■  Hear  tbe  ("r>r   ■      'Wbal  :•.*■  ,le«ll  »rl  Ibou*' 
OulMl  »U1o1»t  tbejerii  •tr.wltbrou  " 


M  188  Phul*  Couxins.  a  veteran  in  the  suffrage  war  of 
/  V  Rebellion  Against  Tyrant  Man,  is  railing  at  her 
ral,  and  the  San  Francisco  branch  of  the 
family  in  particular,  because  they  do  not  pension  her  olT 
handsomely.  The  unhappy  lad;  is  mad  clear  through  be- 
cause Doctor  of  Divinity  and  Envoy  Extraordinary  Adds 
Shan-  is  gobbling  up  golden  shekels  galore  for  her  lectures, 
while  she  is  laid  up  with  the  rheumatics,  and  can  no  longer 
hurl  iovectivesfrotn  the  platform  at  pantalooned  oppress its 
of  down-trodden  woman.  Her  ease  should  prove  an  awful 
warning  to  her  sex. 

A  torry  sight,  this,  to  behold— 
A  woman  grown  infirm  and  old, 
Regenerated  to  a  Mold  ' 

Behind  her  lies  a  wretched  lite 
Whose  loneliness  and  needless  strife 
Knew  not  the  blessed  name  of  wife. 

Tis  true,  mistakes  are  made;  but  then 
The  world,  you  know,  is  full  of  men. 
And  she  who  wills  may  wed  again. 

Oh,  sisters,  cease  to  tramp  the  earth. 
Contented  stay  beside  the  hearth. 
Fulfill  tbe  destiny  of  birth. 

We  men  were  made  to  love,  not  hate. 

Take  heed,  before  it  is  too  late, 

I,est  yours  may  be  poor  Pho-be's  fate! 

MR.  Dennis  McCarty,  who  was  to  have  hanged  Friday 
for  "one  of  the  bloodiest  murders  in  the  annals,  etc.." 
has  been  so  fortunate  as  to  be  discovered  to  be  insane. 
The  bloody  taking-off  of  bis  victim  is  thus  made  the  easier, 
and  the  Governor  has  granted  the  murderer  a  stay  of 
execution  for  six  months.  It  is  pretty  well  recognized 
that  we  are  all  more  or  less  insane — the  only  difficult  prob- 
lem is  to  determine  just  how  intense  this  insanity  must  be 
to  make  murdering  a  safe  occupation.  Governor  Budd 
has  apparently  fixed  the  point  of  demarcation,  and  can  no 
doubt  inform  us. 

THE  career  of  Mrs.  Carey  Higby  Dimond,  erstwhile  of 
Honolulu,  who,  as  a  preliminary  step  to  going  on  the 
stage,  gained  considerable  divorce  court  notoriety,  does 
not  loom  up  with  the  scintillating  brilliancy  that  the  frisky 
matron  fondly  expected,  and  which  her  name  implies.  A 
few  more  such  fiascos  will,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  have  a  sani- 
tary effect  upon  other  feminines  who  regard  scandal  as  the 
easiest  path  to  the  footlights. 

CHARLES  Empey  wants  the  Chutes  to  pay  him  the 
trifling  sum  of  twenty  thousand  dollars  because  on  the 
day  that  he  visited  the  grounds  he  was  whacked  by  a 
stick  of  lumber  and  bitten  by  a  monkey.  Some  people  are 
very  unreasonable.  •  Empey  gets  two  distinct  kinds  of 
diversion  not  down  on  the  bills,  and  wants  to  be  paid  for 
them  into  the  bargain.  He  should  have  been  charged  ex- 
tra by  the  management. 

CAREFUL  perusal  of  expert  testimony  in  the  Craven- 
Fair  case  ought  to  enable  almost  anybody  to  dash  off 
a  bogus  will  when  the  spirit  moves  him  to  thus  acquire 
wealth  that  does  not  belong  to  bim.  The  information 
gleaned  might  be  compiled  with  profit  to  agents  into  a 
condensed  volume  entitled  "Wills  Knocked  Endwise;  or, 
Forgery  Made  Easy."     Special  terms  to  would-be  widows. 

IT  does  not  really  mar  our  joy 
When  grocers  sell  us  bogus  jam, 
Nor  do  we  kick  if  butcher  boy 

Palms  mutton  off  on  us  for  lamb; 
We're  used  to  fakes,  and  do  not  mind 
Deceptions  of  a  sugar  kind, 
But  we  will  hang  the  dealer,  sure, 
Who  does  not  give  us  whiskey  pure. 

DISSENSIONS  among  the  brethren  in  the  Presbyterian 
pow-wow  this  week  would  indicate  to  the  ordinary 
layman  that  brotherly  love  is  as  scarce  an  article  in  the 
tents  of  the  godly  as  it  is  in  the  haunts  of  unordained  sin- 
ners. 


A  JILTED  man.  one  Kragorri. 
N"«  -I  a  painful  story. 

■  birns 
To  wrt-Hk  rn.  ■.,-.•  on  Bridget  Stearns 
Who.  as  the  ti.klr  widow  lUmage, 
To  his  affectlona  did  surh  damage. 
That  In'  oompeli  the  dame  to  face 
A  lively  broach  of  promise  case. 
Ten  thousand  dollars,  he  demands, 
Be  paiil  him  at  his  rival's  hands. 
Coquettes,  beware  the  worm  who  turns, 
Or,  like  inconstant  Bridget  Stearns, 
The  man  you  pnve  the  ha-ha  to 
May  some  day  have  the  laugh  on  you, 

WUTINt;  FANG,  the  newly  appointed  and  recently 
arrived  Chinese  minister  to  the  United  States,  will 
depart  from  this  eitv  with  a  rather  disturbed  idea  of  Cali- 
fornia politeness.  He  finds  himself  unable  to  leave  or  en- 
ter his  apartments  without  being  subjected  to  a  scrutiny 
and  personal  examination  very  much  more  earnest  and 
persistent  than  gratifying.  Gaping,  wide-eyed  crowds 
stand  for  hours  gazing  at  his  hotel  windows,  in  the  hope  of 
catching  a  glimpse  of  the  Chinese  dignitaries;  and  the  re- 
marks heard  bv  the  Minister  must  make  him  thank  the 
Deity  of  his  land  that  the  barbarians  of  the  Pacific 
Coast  are  unlike  his  civilized  fellow  countrymen.  The  dis- 
tribution of  tracts,  taken  at  random  from  Confucius,  would 
exert  an  elevating  influence  among  such  people. 


THE  sudden  and  extraordinary  activity  in  the  hat  pin 
trade,  noticeable  around  town  this  week  in  the  shops 
where  those  birds  of  bright  plumage,  women,  most  do 
hover,  has  puzzled  the  local  merchants  not  a  little,  used 
as  they  are  to  the  whims  of  their  feminine  patrons.  While 
they  are  laying  in  a  new  stock  of  that  innocent-appearing 
but  deadly  article  of  torture,  the  Ceier  will  explain  the 
mystery.  An  Oakland  man  of  an  economical  turn  of  mind, 
on  suicide  bent,  waiving  the  purchase  of  sword  or  pistol, 
ramned  his  wife's  hatpin  down  his  esophagus  the  other 
day,  and  would  have  ornamented  a  slab  at  the  morgue  had 
not  a  minion  of  the  law  interfered  and  yanked  the  pointed 
weapon  of  destruction  out  again.  It  is  not  surprising  that 
wives  should  offer  every  encouragement  to  the  undesirable 
husbands  in  the  way  of  nicely  sharpened  hatpins  with 
which  they  can  jab  themselves  to  death  at  their  pleasure. 
The  idea  naturally  recommends  itself  to  all  neat  housewives 
with  a  yearning  for  widowhood. 

Why  toil  to  pay  drygoods  bills 

When  husbands  may  shirk  these  ills 
By  a  skilfull  stab? 
A  marble  slab 

May  give  one  the  cold,  cold  chills 

But  think  of  the  peace  it  instills ! 

Why  slave  in  a  world  of  woe 
I  respectfully  want  to  know 

When  one  may  slip  in 

At  the  point  of  a  pin 
To  heaven— or  slide  below 
To  a  climate  not  troubled  with  snow? 

SLICE  Edith  Dickason  Blythe  is  now  the  bride  of  one 
J.  H.  von  Brahmstead,  which  goes  to  show  that  a 
woman  may  acquire  questionable  notoriety,  become  habit- 
ually intoxicated,  and  yet  find  some  one  to  marry  her.  It 
is  a  discouraging  outlook  for  spinsters  who  rely  upon  re- 
spectability and  decorum  to  recommend  them  to  the  mat- 
rimonially inclined,  but  we  hope  that  they  will  not  be 
tempted  to  embark  upon  a  dizzy  career  in  consequence. 
Tbe  old  tradition  that  virtue  is  its  own  reward  must  be 
maintained  somehow. 

IT  is  hardly  right  to  give  publicity  to  Durrant's  daily 
menu  at  the  Hotel  San  Quentin.  The  luxurious  fare 
served  to  tempt  that  young  gentleman's  epicurean  appe- 
tite may  incite  others  in  our  midst  to  do  that  which  will 
entitle  them  to  play  tbe  role  of  star  boarder  at  that  cara- 
vansary. 

HEN  millionaires  lay  down  their  lives 

And  "dust"'  to  "dust"  we  have  consigned  them, 
'Tis  not  good  deeds  the  public  strives 
To  count— it  figures  on  the  wives 
The  gay  old  boys  have  left  behind  them. 

THE  legal  noose  is  coy  and   nimble,  but  Durrant   is  be- 
ginning to  see  that  that  persistent   runner,   Time,  is 
destined  to  overtake  it  in  the  end. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  17,  1897. 


'^l^M 


PURITY    AT    PRAYER.-roivA!  topics. 

A  MEMORY   OF   EASTER  SUNDAY. 

N  earnest  face,  with  blue  and  humid  eyes, 
i       Trustful  and  pure,  yet  innocently  proud, 
Confronts  me  as  the  music  slowly  dies 

And  heads  in  prayer  are  reverently  bowed. 

The  drowning  priest  intones  his  solemn  lay 
With  hands  upraised,  his  penitents  to  biess, 

"Whilst  I,  that  came  to  dream  and  not  to  pray, 
Smile  at  the  thought  of  my  unwortfiiness. 

In  the  cathedral's  consecrated  space 

I,  worldling,  stand  in  mute  irreverence. 
And  in  the  hyianal  of  this  slim  girl's  face 

For  all  my  earthly  ills  find  recompense. 
Regard  her  well ;  the  golden  head  humbly  bent. 

The  red  lips  parted  in  her  whispered  prayer, 
The  folded  hands,  so  white  and  reverent — 

O  sweet  young  saint,  who  stands  so  meekly  there, 

I'll  give  my  all— yes,  all  my  mad  past  years, 

With  all  their  splendor  and  with  all  their  glow, 

Could  my  tired  eyes  the  luxury  of  tears, 

Like  those  that  tremble  'neath  your  lashes,  know. 

Sweet  maid,  whose  purity  has  kindly  shed 

Upon  a  life  all  barren  radiance  new. 
From  yon  gilt  crucifix  I  turn  my  head 

And  bend  it  in  humility  to  you. 
And  why?    Well,  let  me  whisper  it  all  low. 

And  not  this  host  of  worshipers  appall : 
You  are  so  very  different,  you  know, 

From  the  brown  witch  that  holds  me  in  her  thrall. 

Loud  peals  the  final  hymn;  the  white,  pure  face 
Has  disappeared;  the  crowds  move  slowly  hence; 

I  rise  and  }"awn,  and  saunter  from  the  place 
The  better  for  a  sight  of— Innocence. 


WITH    THE    TIDE.— English  illustrated  magazine- 


The  tide  went  out  with  a  sob  and  a  sigh — 

Speak  low,  my  dear,  speak  low- 
Without  word  or  tear  was  their  last  good-by ; 
Yet  hearts  may  break  although  eyes  be  dry — 
Speak  low,  my  dear,  speak  low. 

What's  for  a  woman  except  to  wait- 
Winds  are  wild  and  nights  are  dark ; 
Love's  a  fever  that's  fiercer  than  hate. 
It  burned  in  her  veins  from  early  till  late — 
Winds  are  wild  and  nights  are  dark. 

She  watched  the  waves  in  their  ebb  and  flow- 
Life  is  long  to  a  waiting  heart : 

And  dreamed  the  story  she  dared  not  know 

All  the  dreary  day  till  the  sun  was  low — 
Life  is  long  to  a  waiting  heart. 

And  one  gray  dawn  when  the  cold  night  died— 
Speak  low,  my  dear,  speak  low — 

An  empty  boat  reached  the  old  pier  side; 

And  a  girl's  soul  fled  with  the  outward  tide- 
Speak  low,  my  dear,  speak  low. 


THE    SISTERS.— w/lliam  emory  Griffiths,  in  the  lotus. 


Night,  in  the  chambered  east, 
Sits  with  Dawn  at  the  door. 

Dropped  from  her  golden  feast, 
Star-crumbs  scatter  the  floor. 

Mice,  from  behind  the  sun, 

Patter  along  the  sky. 
Nibbling  the  crumbs  they  run, 

Touching  with  foot-prints  shy. 

Echoes,  of  purring  sound, 
Softljr  begin  to  grow, 

Nothing  more  to  be  found- 
Scamper— away  they  go! 

Dawn,  in  the  chambered  east, 

Sits  by  an  open  door. 
Night  has  gone  from  the  feast: 

Barren  of  crumbs  the  floor. 


CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 


RESTAURANTS. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserle,  HI  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantlni,  Proprietor. 
Poodle    Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Brun. 

DAIRIES. 
Oakland  Dairy  Depot,  320  Fulton  street,  S.  F.  Absolutely  pure  Milk  and 
Cream.    Telephone.  Pine  1693. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St..  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS; 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,827Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105O'Farrell  St.,S.  F. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  Street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 


CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  %  and  1-lb  boxes. 


Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 


LADIES'     HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze  (known  as   Hermann   at  Strozynskl's)  has  opened 
Ladies'  Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  235  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main   5820 


BANKING. 


Rflllk     fit  Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

D„:*;nh    r*Ai..mK;n  Capital  Paid  Up 83,000.00 

BriLISh    GOiUmDia.  Reserve  Fund.. 8  5UU,UUU 

Southeast  Cob.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 
HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lombard  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
lamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C. ; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  York — Merchants' Bank  of  Canada;  Chicago— First  National  Bank; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  01 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

Sfin     FrVinrKm  Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

c„,  . ,  .    -    „  Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 824,^02,327 

oaVinyS     UfllOn.  Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus  .. .    1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee.G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday  even- 
ings. 6:30  to  8 

ThP  (tPrman   Savinfm  No'  526  CAIjIFOaK:fcA  Street.  San  Francisco 

nrt     1  rt_M     c#*«:«*i.        Guarantee  capital  and  surplus — $2040,20166 

ailQ     LOan     oOGlolU.      Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash..   100000000 

Deposi'.s  December  31,  1896 27,7.0.247  45 

OFFICERS:  Pres'dent,  B  A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Presidem,  H.  Horstman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cai-hier,  Wil  liam  Herrmann ;  Secretary.  George  Tourny ;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Muller;  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OP  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann,  Ign.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohiandt 

lAfollc     Farnrt  N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 

VVOIIO     IdiyU  j0hn  J.Valentine President 

r    n      »        d       1  H.    Wadsworth Cashier 

0C    bO.  S     DaOK.  HomerS.King Manager 

F.  L.  Lipman ....Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus , 86,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.Y.  City,H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington.  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

Spf  liritll  232  MoNTGOMEBT  St-  Mills  Building. 

0„.,:„ d„„i,  INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 

Savings  Bank.        loans  made. 

DIRECTORS. 

William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.'H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O   D   Baldwin  E   J.  McCutohen 

Adam  Grant  w.  s.  Jones  J.  B.  Lincoln 


April  17.  1897 


K  VNCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


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BANKING. 


SET  Mamie  was  a  fair  young  thing, 
Hut  ber  papa  «  1 
Antl  when ha  beard  thi         -tHdl  ring 
He  aolllj  laid        '  '■; , 

"  He's  got  to  leave  by  hi     :  istiea!*1 
;re.  he  wa*  11  lie 

Was  Ki'tiinc  rallicr  tin 

•■  Yes,  dear  papa '  '  sal  1  Mamie. 

But  when  it  got  to  balf-posl  ten 

The  cool  young  rnan  »1»"  came,  he 

Stayed  on,  just  like  the  other  men. 
And  pale  and  wan  ^rcw  Mamie. 

There  came  a  voice  chock  full  of  sand- 
She  thought  it  said,  '  Obev  me  !  " 

She  up  and  told  the  voting  man,  and — 
He  said  good-b;  t.i  Mamie. 

Now.  Mamie,  as  she  went  to  bed, 

(She  went,  though,  all  the  sai 
she  sobbed  and  wished  that  she  were  dead— 

So  mortified  was  Mamie. 
Then  she  stole  up  to  papa's  door 

Before  she  said  her  lay-me— 
Alas!  That  noise  was  papa's  snore: 

And  oh!  how  mad  was  Mamie. — N.  Y.  I'ress. 

A  little  girl  about  four  or  five  years  old  was  enjoying  a 
slide  upon  the  sidewalk,  when  to  her  consternation  her 
heels  flew  up,  and  she  fell  with  jji-cat  force  upon  the  stones. 
A  lady  who  was  passing  by  saw  the  accident  and  ran  to 
the  child's  assistance.  She  picked  her  up,  brushed  the 
snow  from  her  clothes,  and  asked  kindly:  "  You  poor  little 
mite,  how  did  you  fall?  "  The  tiny  child  looked  up  into  her 
kind  friend's  face,  and  with  the  tears  streaming  down  her 
cheeks,  sobbed:  "Vertically,  ma'am." — Boston  Watchman. 

Aunt  Geertaw  (of  Hay  Corners,  in  surprise,  to  husband, 
just  back  from  the  city) — Lan'  sake,  Joshua,  what  be  them 
china  things,  anyway?  Uncle  Geehaw  (exhibiting  his 
purchases,  proudly) — They're  new-fangled  flower  jugs,  I 
guess.  The  crockery  man  calls  them  cuspidors.  I  got  'em 
tew  decorate  our  parlor  mantel. — Exchange. 

"You  say  that  Jones  is  living  a  dual  life?  I  am  aston- 
ished!" "Yes.  He  has  rented  a  private  box  at  the 
postoffice  and  gets  letters  from  his  wife,  who  is  visiting  her 
people,  without  having  them  pass  through  the  hauds  of  his 
typewriter." — Exchange. 

"  If  I'm  not  home  by  11,  Bessie,"  said  a  husband  to  his 
better,  and  bigger,  half,  "  don't  wait  for  me."  "  That  I 
won't,"  said  Bessie,  significantly;  "  but  I'll  come  for  you." 
He  was  punctual,  as  usual. — Household  Words. 

"The  Streets  of  New  Jerusalem  ,"  said  the  Reverend 
Mr.  Sprocketts,  "are  paved  with  the  smoothest  asphalt, 
and  truck  delivery  wagons  are  not  allowed  on  the  road." 
There  were  eight  hundred  converts. — Figaro. 

"  What  became  of  that  Samuels  girl  that  Pottersby  was 
flirting  with  last  summer  ?  "  "You  mean  the  girl  that 
Pottersby  thought  he  was  flirting  with?  She  married 
him."— Tid-Bits. 

First  Friend — My  doctor  advises  me  to  cycle,  but  I  don't 
think  I  will  do  so.  Second  Friend — You  don't.  First 
Friend — No.  I  think  he  is  biased — he's  a  surgeon. — 
Larks. 

She — It  would  have  taken  a  great  deal  of  persistence  on 
your  part  to  learn  to  play  the  violin  so  well.  He — It  did. 
I  had  to  go  constantly  armed  for  live  years. — Life. 

"Is  Maud  still  thinking  of  joining  a  religious  sisterhood?" 
"Gracious,  no!  Her  father  bought  her  a  new  bicycle."— 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  17,  1897. 


"  In  Maiden  Meditation."  By  E.  V.  A.  Published  by  A.  C.  McClurg 
&  Co.    Chicago. 

This  little  collection  of  the  musings  of  an  unmarried  girl 
consists  of  five  chapters,  entitled  "After  the  Ball,"  "After 
Dinner,"  "After  Church,"  "After  a  Wedding,"  "After 
One  Summer."  There  is  nothing  particularly  profound  or 
specially  original  in  any  of  the  young  lady's  remarks,  but 
they  are  of  ten  true  enough,  and  are  stated  in  a  not  alto- 
gether uninteresting,  though  occasionally  rather  slipshod, 
manner.  Evidently  the  relations  of  the'  sexes  occupy  a 
good  deal  of  the  thoughts  of  the  writer,  whose  dreamy  and 
rather  highstrung  imaginings  are  somewhat  hard  for  a 
mere  man  to  follow  understandingly.  The  fair  E.  V.  A.  is 
fully  possessed  of  the  notion  that  woman  is  an  enigmati- 
cal creature,  too  deep  for  the  comprehension  of  man.  She 
says:  "  If  any  man  says  that  he  understands  woman,  he  is 
convicted  of  folly  by  his  own  speech."  That  women  are 
"less  logical,  more  whimsical,  more  uncertain  in  their  men- 
tal processes  than  men  "  she  admits— and  so  do  we.  We 
must  confess  that  we  have  not  much  sympathy  with  this 
notion  of  the  incomprehensibility  of  woman,  and  are  in- 
clined to  the  opinion  that  the  dear  creatures  are  by  no 
means  so  deep  as  they  like  to  think  they  are:  indeed,  often 
enough  they  are  charmingly  transparent.  Why  is  it  that 
we  often  group  "women  and  children"  together?  Is  it 
not  because  women  always  remain  children  in  some  sort? 
Woman  is  more  precocious  than  man,  attains  her  full  de- 
velopment at  an  earlier  age,  most  of  her  strength  after 
maturity  being  reserved  for  the  great  end  of  her  existence 
— maternity.  High  intelligence,  exact  reasoning,  and  cor- 
rect thinking,  are  not  necessary  to  the  adequate  fulfill- 
ment of  her  functions;  hence,  Nature  has  not  dowered  her 
with  these  characteristics  in  any  marked  degree.  Her 
smiles,  coquetries,  and  personal  attractiveness  have  usually 
the  very  natural  and  obvious  purpose  of  enchaining  the 
affections  of  the  opposite  sex,  and  of  securing  support  and 
maintenance  thereby.  To  this  end,  as  Schopenhauer  points 
out,  she  is  gifted  during  the  years  of  early  womanhood 
with  considerable  charms  of  complexion  and  figure,  and 
these  she  enhances  in  every  possible  way.  What  is  the 
secret  of  woman's  long  skirts  and  dainty  clothing?  Are 
they  not  intended  to  gently  tickle  the  fancy  of  men?  and 
do  not  men  humor  this  feminine  notion  by  pretending  not 
to  understand  "the  mysteries  "  of  woman's  apparel?  "Yet 
are  not  these  same  "mysteries"  devised  by  men,  or  manu- 
factured and  sold  in  establishments  directed  and  superin- 
tended by  men?  Nor  must  it  be  forgotten  that  men  have 
much  more  unrestricted  opportunities  for  studying  and 
understanding  women  than  women  have  for  investigating 
men.  What  does  the  ordinary,  well-brought-up  girl  know 
of  men's  habits  compared  with  a  young  man's  knowledge 
of  women's  habits.  E.  V.  A.  says  that  "women  are  not 
very  mysterious  objects  to  each  other  ....  the  silliest 
girl  can  see  through  the  most  astute  woman  as  though  she 
were  of  glass."  Do  you  not  think  that  a  clever  man,  with 
fair  opportunities  for  observation,  can  see  as  far  as  "the 
silliest  girl?"  If  women  are  really  cleverer  than  men  in 
affairs  of  the  heart,  is  not  the  reason  to  be  found  in  the 
higher  development  of  their  emotions,  and  in  the  greater 
importance  to  them  of  love  and  matrimony?  All  women 
like  to  hear,  read,  and  talk  of  love,  engagements,  wed- 
dings, christenings;  how  few  take  any  serious  interest  in 
politics,  war,  diplomacy,  philosophy,  or  even  literature, 
except  in  so  far  as  these  things  concern  men  ?  But  E.  V. 
A.  seems  to  be  a  "real  nice  girl,"  round  whose  chairback 
(to  slightly  adapt  her  own  words)  we  should  be  pleased 
enough  to  reach  an  arm,  and  suffer  our  fingers  to  play 
idly  with  her  curls;  to  ciasp  with  our  other  hand  her  little 
white  fingers,  to  draw  nearer  to  her  laughing,  teasing, 
loving  eyes:  to  clasp  her  rounded  waist,  and  to  feel  the 
warm  breath,  growing  warmer  and  warmer . 

Two  weeks  ago  we  referred  in  these  columns  to  a 
theory    of    criticism    (so-called)    propounded    by  a  Mr. 


O.  L.  Triggs,  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  and  we 
took  occasion  to  remark  that,  if  the  theory  were 
adopted,  criticism  would  be  an  extinct  thing.  We  are 
glad  to  see  this  frankly  confessed  by  Mr.  Edward  E.  Hale 
Jr.,  of  Union  College,  who  writes  a  letter  in  The  Dial  of 
March  16,  strangely  entitling  his  communication  "The 
true  critical  attitude."  In  this  letter  he  says:  "To 
understand  or  appreciate  anything  you  must  surrender 
yourself  to  it  entirely,  and  for  the  time  being  judge  every- 
thing else  by  that  one  thing  .  .  .  this  is  the  only  way 
to  criticize  anything.  Dismiss  former  standards,  get 
wholly  absorbed  in  what  you  are  to  judge,  look  at  every 
thing  from  the  point  of  view  so  gained,  and  then  express 
your  views.  This  is  the  only  true  criticism  of  literature, 
or  of  life:  although  I  do  not  know  that  before  Mr.  Triggs 
any  one  ever  stated  it  quite  so  definitely."  Yet  a  little 
further  on  Mr.  Hale  says  that  Mr.  Triggs  "does  shrink 
from  going  to  the  logical  length  of  his  theory."  However, 
young  Mr.  Hale  has  no  hesitatiun,  and  begs  to  formulale 
the  new  gospel  in  the  following  propositions:  or,  as  he 
naively  expresses  it,  "lay  down  the  following  truths:" 

"1.  There  is  no  such  thing  as  criticism  ...  or 
rather,  if  there  is,  it  is  cold,  hesitating,  niggardly,  judicial, 
negative,  professional,  and  no  one  need  consider  it. 

"2.  There  is  nothing  but  appreciation,  which  must  be 
deep  and  widely  sympathetic,  without  reservation,  bound- 
lessly enthusiastic,  emotional,  and  various  other  things — 
in  fact,  absorption." 

We  do  not  know  what  the  "various  other  things"  are: 
perhaps  they  may  be  hysterical  and  absurd.  Nor  do  we 
wonder  that  Mr.  Triggs,  if  he  wishes  to  preserve  an  out- 
ward appearance  at  least  of  common  literary  sanity,  hes- 
itates to  follow  his  theory  to  its  logical  limit,  which  is, 
as  young  Mr.  Hale  sees  and  confesses,  the  abandonment  of 
criticism  altogether.  Nor  is  3'oung  Mr.  Hale  content  to 
apply  his  new  theory  of  "absorption"  to  literature  only: 
he  wants  to  extend  it  into  the  domain  of  life.  On  this 
theory,  when  some  new,  revolting  and  hideous  crime  is 
committed,  we  must  "dismiss  all  former  standards"  of 
right  and  wrong,  "get  absorbed  in"  the  criminal,  and 
"look  at  everything  from  the  point  of  view  so  gained." 
What  sloughs  of  unreason  men  fall  headlong  into  when  they 
abandon  the  cardinal  principles,  and  follow  will-o'-the- 
wisps!  The  truth  is  that  the  leading  principles  of  human 
conduct  and  of  literature  are  settled  beyond  all  dispute, 
and  we  have  no  choice  but  to  abide  by  them.  If  Messrs. 
Triggs  and  Hale  are  instructors,  we  pity  the  young  peo- 
ple who  sit  under  them.  To  adopt  their  theories  of  life 
and  letters  is  to  abandon  sanity,  and  welcome  hysteria. 
Is  there  anybody  who  in  his  heart  imagines  that  sensible 
men  and  women  are  likely  to  reject  Matthew  Arnold, 
Saint  Beuve,  Andrew  Lang,  J.  R.  Lowell,  George  Saints- 
bury,  Edmund  Gosse,  Frederic  Harrison,  Hamilton  W. 
Mabie,  and  the  whole  army  of  critics,  to  accept  Triggs 
and  Hale?  If  The  Dial  is  going  to  spread  nonsense  of  this 
kind  broadcast  over  the  land,  it  should  begin  by  removing 
from  its  title  page  the  words  "A  journal  of  literary  critic- 
ism," and  should  cease  to  quote  in  its  advertising  pages 
John  G.  Wbittier  and  Sir  Walter  Besant's  references  to 
The  Dial  as  the  best  and  ablest  "literary  journal"  in 
America.  Some  ingenuous  young  person  may  read  this 
stuff  of  Triggs  and  Hale,  and  contract  foolish  ideas  that 
will  cost  him  years  of  painful  struggle  to  get  rid  of. 

We  are  sorry  to  find  our  good  friend,  Mr.  Edgar  Saltus, 
in  "Our  Note  Book"  in  Collier's  Weekly  employing  the 
barbarism  "electrocuted."  This  is  a  monstrosity  against 
which  every  friend  of  good  English  should  set  his  face 
like  a  flint:  it  should  not  so  much  as  be  mentioned  among 
decent  people.  To  use  it  even  in  jest  is  a  crime,  for  which 
the  Lord  High  Executioner  should  be  asked  to  devise  a 
fitting  punishment:  say,  boiling  in  oil,  or  something  humor- 
ous of  that  sort. 

Mr.  Edgar  Fawcett  has  been  recently  guilty  of  employ- 
ing the  word  "  claim  "  in  the  sense  of  "  declare,"  or  "pro- 
fess." Speaking  of  a  recently  published  book,  entitled 
"Masses  and  Classes,"  he  writes:  "Mr.  W.  H.  Mallock 
claims  to  have  delved  deep  among  statistics:  why  not 
'professes  ?  '  "  The  word  "claim"  in  this  sense  should  be 
abandoned  to  embezzlers,  detectives,  reporters  of  the 
water-front  and  police-courts,  and  other  lewd  fellows  of  the 
baser  sort. 


April  17.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LBTTBR. 


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-    good    friend    and    contemporary.    The    Phi/ 
humorously  quotes  upon  the  cm  i.arles 

I.am'  .  'tli  April  again,   and   so  far  as 

I  can  see,  the   world   hath   more  fools  in   it   than   ever   ' 
■me  remarks  from  a  recent  Niwa  I.kitkh, 
Tlie  Coast  is   a   loi>>;   way 
from  "  to  be  sure,   but    I   didn't  know   that  the 

(>ers  had   forgotten   that  Americans  also 
-h— even  Yonc  Noguchl  knows  that."     Now,  we 
undertook  to  t»  ,.  for  the  Ignorance  of  The 

-tine,  nor  do   we  the   points  In   which   the 

•  Japanese  poet's  knowledge  surpasses  that  of  the 
-!ine  either  very  interesting  orimportant.  The  Phil- 
istine  must  kindlyspure  us  the  rec  ital  of  all  that  it  doesn't 
know.  There  isn't  time  on  this  side  of  eternity  to  lend 
our  ears  to  so  long  a  tale.  Aneot  th6  reading  of  news- 
papers, we  beg  leave  to  quote  the  following:  We  read 
too  much.  We  have  no  time  to  think.  How  can  men 
meditate  who  take  a  daily  paper,  four  weeklies,  and  six 
monthly  magazines?  You  subscribe  for  'em  and  you've 
got  to  read  'em  or  else  conscience  will  smite  you  for  being 
a  spendthrift.  '  I've  just  canceled  my  subscription  to  The 
Outlook,'  said  George  Dudley  Seymour  the  other  day. 
'Why.  don't  you  like  it?'  I  asked.  'Certainly;  the  paper 
is  all  right,  but  it  came  every  Friday  with  such  damnable 
regularity. 

Ella  Wheeler,  the  poetess  who  cooled  the  fires  of  her 
passion  by  marrying  a  drummer  named  Wilcox,  lately 
made  a  sensible  remark  when  she  wrote:  "The  free  circu- 
lation of  the  '  literature '  which  reports  all  the  criminal 
doings  of  each  day  is  one  great  cause  of  our  present  crop 
of  child  burglars,  shoplifters,  and  precocious  criminals  in 
all  lines."  Mr.  Hearst  and  his  peanut-vending  editor  have 
to  answer  for  the  production  of  a  large  number  of  the 
youthful  criminals  of  California.  If  the  existence  of  vast 
fortunes  is  a  wrong  to  the  community,  surely  a  double 
wrong  is  inflicted  when  wealth  is  used  not  in  mere  high 
living  and  ostentation,  but  in  unceasing  efforts  to  lower  the 
standard  of  taste,  honor,  and  decency  throughout  the 
population  of  several  States. 

The  frontispiece  of  the  April  Traveler  is  a  reproduction 
of  a  photograph  of  Oakland  estuary,  showing  an 
afternoon  effect.  An  article  by  Charles  Frederick 
Holder  describes  the  wonders  to  be  seen  in  Pacific  waters 
through  a  glass-bottomed  boat,  and  one  by  Arthur  Inkers- 
ley  tells  of  the  animals  in  Golden  Gate  Park.  Other  con- 
tributions describe  "Street  Scenes  in  Mexico,"  the  obser- 
vance of  Easter  by  the  Spanish,  and  the  University  of 
California.  There  is  a  good  half-tone  reproduction  of  a 
photograph  of  Miss  Corinne  Tebault,  a  New  Orleans  girl 
who  has  lately  been  visiting  San  Francisco. 

THE  American  Fibre  Chamois  Company  of  New  York 
has  inaugurated  a  novel  system  for  advertising.  The 
company  will  run  a  special  full-vestibuled  train  of  ten  cars 
from  New  York  to  this  Coast  about  the  1st  of  May,  con- 
suming six  months'  time  and  covering  about  9000  miles 
before  returning  to  the  point  of  starting.  The  cars  of  this 
unique  train  will  be  fitted  up  for  the  exhibition  of  all  man- 
ner of  goods,  and  will  give  the  public  along  its  route  excel- 
lent opportunity  for  examination  of  the  exhibits.  In  short, 
the  train  will  be  a  sort  of  advertising  exposition,  which 
will  visit  all  principal  points  throughout  the  country.  Ex- 
hibitors may  send  salesmen  with  their  goods,  who  will  in 
this  way  come  in  direct  contact  with  the  consumers.  A 
second  similar  train  will  leave  the  East  about  December 
1st.  Full  particulars  by  addressing  the  United  States 
Trades  Exposition,  New  York. 

THE  Mayor  of  Bridgeport  has  appointed  Miss  Susan 
Watson  to  the  new  and  novel  office  of  "hat  matron," 
says  the  New  York  Tribune.  Her  duties  take  her  to  all 
the  theatres,  where  she  secures  a  commanding  position 
and  "views  the  landscape  o'er."  Any  women  wearing 
tall  hats  are  immediately  pounced  upon  and  requested  to 
remove  them.  If  they  refuse  Miss  Watson  takes  down 
their  names  and  reports  them  to  all  the  theatrical  man- 
agers in  town,  who  promptly  refuse  to  sell  front  seats  to 
tbem  ever  after.  Of  course,  if  they  repent  and  wear  low- 
crowned  hats  or  none  at  all,  they  can  get  front  seats.  But 
until  they  do,  the  only  reserved  seats  they  can  get  are  in 
the  rear. 


FOLLIES  repeat thi  It  mi  Edward  IV   who 

decreed  that  .1  shoemaker  making  peaked    toes  more 
than  two  mi  -I1..11I1I  be  lined  twenty  shillings.    Now, 

un trammeled  by  such  laws,  one  of  our  must  fastuol 
bootmakers  baa  introduced  long-pointed  toes,  which  have 
to  be  tilled  in  with  cork  at  the  tips,  ami  are  mostly  carried 
out  In. the  finest  patent  leather  with  Bmall  buokles  on  the 
instep.  In  the  Tudor  and  Stuart  time  women  desirous  of 
rising  in  the  world  lioirowed  inordinately  high  heels  from 
Italy,  and  these  went  by  the  name  of  "chopping 
lyn  in  his  Diary  calls  them  "scaffolds" — and  the  ladies  who 
wore  them  to  walk  abroad  had  to  bave  a  servant  on  either 
side  for  support.  This  unpractical  fashion  is  not  likely  to 
have  any  great  following;  but  some  beautifully  made  shoes, 
with  heels  varying  from  three  to  seven  inches  in  height, 
are  to  be  seen  at  a  modern  shoemaker's,  rendered  in  the 
most  costly  stuffs,  such  as  floral  brocaded  velvet  on  cream 
satin,  and  gold  and  silver  brocades  introduced  on  the  high 
heel  as  well  as  on  the  upper  part  of  the  shoes.  It 
seems  almost  impossible  that  the  wearers  could  walk  in 
them,  but  they  do.— St.  James  Gazette. 

Lk  "Every  one 
/ih  \\^  to  her  taste 

^  _J^~     — as   the    old  woman 
ggy/^^T^^-^.  said  when  she  kissed  the 

Wl       t .     \\ >7">\  C°W"    Ify°udrather 

lr   j/iL-JL \^A-^  V  do  your  washing  and 

\\\      1r!        J    cleaning  in  a  slow,   laborious 
"«       "  /  way,  spending  your  time  and 

strengthin  useless,  tiresome,  ruinous  rubbing,  it's 
nobody's  business  but  yours.  You  are  the'one 
that  will  suffer  by  it.  But  if  you  want  the  easiest, 
quickest,  most  economical  way  of  washino-  and 
cleaning — then  you'll  have  to  use  Pearline. 
There's  nothing  else,  among  things  absolutely 
safe  to  wash  with,  that  can  be  compared  to  it    sis 

M7//o/?s^Pedr///?e 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Overman  Sliver  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation 0*  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  tbat  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Diiectors,  beld 
on  the  i2th  day  of  Apr  I  1897,  an  assessment,  No.  77,  of  Ten  cents  (10c) 
per  share  was  levied  upon  each  and  every  share  of  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the 
Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  company,  No.  414  California  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

17TB  DAY  OP   MAY,  1897, 

will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  ind  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  7th  day  of  June, 
1897  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale .    By  crder  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

GEO.  D.  EDWARDS,  Secretary. 
Office — No.  414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Seg.   Belcher  &  Mides  Con.  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Gold  Hill  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  held  on 
the  6th  day  or  April,  1£97,  an  assessment,  No.  19,  of  Five  cents  (5o.)  per 
share,  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  50,  Nevada  Block,  3i9  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  on  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
10th  DAY  OF  MAY,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  SATURDAY,  the  29th  day  of 
May.  1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with   the  costs 
of   advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.      By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

E    B    HOLMES.  Secretary 

Office:  Room  50,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St  ,  San  Froncisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 
Hutchinson  Sugar  Plantation  Company. 

Dividend  No.  42,  of  25  cents  per  share,  of  the  Hutchinson  Sugar  Planta- 
tion Company,  will  be  payable  at  the  office  of  the  company,  327  Market  St., 
on  and  after  Tuesday,  April  20,  1897.  Transfer  booky  will  close  on 
Wednesday,  April  14,  1897.  at  3o'olockp.M.   E  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 

Wf*alr  ripii  strid  Wntripri  Should  use  damiana  bit- 
WeaK  i  len  anU  VVOmen  TERS,  the  great  Mexican  ren:- 
edy;  it  gives  health  and  strength  to  the  Sexual  Organs.  Depot  at  338  Mar- 
ket street,  San  Franclsoo.     (Send  for  circular. ) 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  17,  1897. 


ft~LLl  Bohemia  will  be  rejoicing  to-night  because  of  a 
double  anniversary  within  its  portals — the  twenty- 
fifth  biithday  of  the  Bohemian  Club  and  the  eightieth 
birthday  of  its  patron  Saint,  "Uncle"  George  Bromley. 
Apropos  of  the  twin  celebration,  D.  J.  Staples,  the  vet- 
eran insurance  President,  recalls  a  reminiscence  which  is 
characteristic  of  the  idol  of  Bohemia. 

In  1852,  Staples  and  Bromley  were  fellow  travelers 
from  New  York  for  San  Francisco.  As  the  party,  dusty 
and  begrimed,  toiled  on  toward  Panama  irr  a  slowly  mov- 
ing caravan,  Bromley  was  suddenly  missed.  A  careful 
search  failed  to  reveal  any  trace  of  the  missing  argonaut, 
and  the  others  feared  some  serious  accident  had  befallen 
their  sprightly  comrade.  At  the  entrance  to  the  town, 
however,  the  missing  traveler  rejoined  them  as  unex- 
pectedly as  he  had  disappeared.  In  marked  contrast  to 
his  travel-stained  friends,  Bromley  was  freshly  clad  in  an 
immaculate  suit  of  white  duck,  within  which  he  very  com- 
fortably carried  a  good  quart  of  gin.  He  had  got  ahead 
of  his  friends,  a  happy  faculty  which  has  been  remarked 
many  thousand  times  in  the  succeeding  forty-five  years. 

Something  like  four  decades  ago,  "Uncle  George"  organ- 
ized what  he  called  the  "Young  Men's  Moral  Reform 
Club."  Many  religious  people  were  much  interested  in 
the  new  institution,  but  they  were  somewhat  curious 
about  the  fields  in  which  the  club  intended  to  operate,  for 
the  reformation  was  scarcely  perceptible  at  first  glance. 
The  scope  of  the  organization  was  finally  understood  when 
sime  feminine  unbeliever  was  an  involuntary  and  much 
shocked  witness  at  the  solemn  observance  of  the  rites  of 
the  members.  It  was  then  discovered  that  the  unwritten 
constitution  and  by-laws  of  the  club  consisted  of  a  sacred 
mutual  agreement  on  the  part  of  the  reformers  to  take 
nothing  but  straight  drinks! 

*  *  * 

Among  the  many  accomplishments  of  the  gifted  Presi- 
dent of  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  is  a  highly 
cultivated  ear  for  music.  He  came  up  from  Palo  Alto  last 
Saturday  especially  to  hear  the  French  Grand  Opera 
Company's  rendering  of  Carmen.  After  listening  with 
much  appreciation  to  the  music,  the  great  piscatorial 
authority  studied  with  grave  interest  the  graceful  evolu- 
tions of  the  ballet.  He  recalled  his  condemnatory  views 
concerning  all  forms  of  religious  excitement.  Dr.  Jordan 
pondered  a  minute  or  two,  and  then,  borrowing  a  pair  of 
opera  glasses,  took  another  long  look  at  the  pirouetting 
females. 

"Here's  work  for  some  revivalist,"  he  remarked,  with 
apparent  earnestness. 

His  companions,  believing  that  the  protector  of  the 
Pribyloff  Island  seals  was  taking  a  high  moral  stand, 
silently  assented. 

"Yes,"  continued  Dr.  Jordan  in  a  meditative  tone. 
"Poor  girls!     No  one  seems  concerned  about   their  soles." 

Then  he  walked  out  into  the  foyer. 

*  *  * 

Some  social  courtesies  were  extended,  on  his  temporary 
return  trip  hither,  to  Bob  Davis,  who,  a  year  ago,  forsook 
this  city  to  try  his  Western  yarns  on  innocent  New  York 
editors.  Among  other  compliments  of  this  kind  which  he 
received  was  a  visitors'  card  to  the  Bohemian  Club.  Now, 
Bob  prides  himself  on  his  Nevadan  simplicity,  and  his  man- 
ners are  as  fresh  as  his  own  windy  stories  about  his  breezy 
native  State.  He  greeted  all  alike  whom  he  encountered 
beneath  the  wings  of  the  owl, — old  and  young,  members  or 
attendants, — for  Bob  is  no  respecter  of  persons. 

"Here,  Tom!"  he  would  shout  to  a  servant  in  the  Social 

HaE,  disdaining  the  use    of    a    bell.     "Come  here,  Tom. 

Bill  and  I  want  a  drink,"  Bill  being  a  member.     "What'll 

'  have,  Bill?    A  cocktail?    All  right,   Bill.     Make  it  two, 

Tom!" 

Upon  its  expiration,  Mr.  Robert  Davis'  card  was  not 
renewed. 


Rollicking  Colonel  Pat  Lannon,  the  jovial  editor  of  the 
Salt  Lake  Tribune,  and  a  well-known  and  unique  char- 
acter, is  in  town,  as  many  of  his  San  Francisco  friends 
know  to  their  sorrow.  Lannon  has  all  the  natural  wit  of 
his  race,  and  his  fund  of  humorous  anecdote  seems  inex- 
haustible. His  appearance  alone  is  a  huge  joke,  for  his 
corpulence  is  marvelous,  and  he  is  accustomed  to  quote 
his  own  dimensions  as  "four  feet  square." 

"To  please  my  wife,"  he  says,  pathetically,  "I  have  been 
fasting  for  almost  forty  days.  But  it's  no  use!"  despair- 
ingly. "After  all  that  mortification  of  the  flesh,"  with  a 
sigh,  "no  one  is  stuck  on  me  shape!" 

Lannon  has  a  new  story  about  his  former  partner,  who 
wrote  the  editorials  for  their  paper,  and  whose  caustic 
pen  seemed  perpetually  steeped  in  gall.  The  partner 
bitterly  attacked  a  prominent  citizen,  scorching  him  with 
frequent  editorial  denunciations.  In  the  fullness  of  time 
this  citizen  died. 

"Then  I  went  to  my  partner,"  said  Colonel  Pat,  "and 
tried  to  soothe  him  a  little.  '  Now,  for  heaven's  sake,  let 
up,'  I  says.  'The  man  is  dead' — he  is  in  hell,  by  the  way. 
'  Now,  you  have  assailed  him  often  enough.  Be  a  little 
magnanimous  and  give  him  a  nice  little  send-off  in  the 
paper.' 

"'Pat,'  replied  he  to  me,  'I  am  surprised  at  you! 
Would  you  have  me  tell  a  lie  about  a  dead  man?  This 
fellow  was  a  damned  scoundrel,  and  I  am  going  to  print  it. 
Lie  about  a  dead  man?    Never,  Lannon!'  " 

*  *  * 

The  old  aphorism  about  the  lack  of  honor  accorded  to  a 
prophet  in  his  own  country,  has  been  pretty  well  dis- 
proved in  the  case  of  Denis  O'Sullivan,  the  fashionable 
London  baritone,  who  came  to  his  home  by  the  Golden 
Gate  a  day  or  two  ago,  that  he  might  share  his  laurels 
with  his  own  people.  His  appearance  at  the  Tivoli  the 
latter  part  of  this  month,  in  the  title-role  of  "Shamus 
O'Brien,"  suggests  his  comical  experience  at  the  hands  of 
the  English  critics. 

Denis  is  a  son  of  the  late  C.  D.  O'Sullivan,  who,  in  early 
days,  accumulated  a  fortune  in  the  paint  and  oil  trade, 
and  was  prominent  in  many  mining  ventures.  The  rapid 
rise  of  the  young  dramatic  vocalist  has  been  almost 
phenomenal,  and  his  name  and  operatic  associations  gave 
force  to  the  idea  that  he  was  born  with  emeralds  in  his 
eyes.  The  London  critics  gravely  remarked  on  the 
natural  odor  of  peat  which  pervaded  his  presence.  They 
pointed  out  that  much  of  O'Sullivan's  success  in  Irish 
operas  was  due  to  his  Irish  birth,  adding  that  the  nativity 
of  his  brogue  was  unmistakable.  All  this  was  amusing 
enough  to  the  native  San  Franciscan  for  a  time,  but  when, 
in  touring  the  towns  of  Ireland,  the  perfection  of  his  accent 
caused  him  to  be  hailed  with  delight  as  a  native  of  Donegal, 
Denis  thought  the  joke  had  become  rather  flat. 

"Begad,"  he  said,  in  some  heat,  "hereafter  I  shall  pro- 
duce Irish  opera  in  Italian!" 

And  then  the  critics  triumphantly  announced  that  they 
needed  no  further  justification. 

*  *  * 

Collection  Day  has  its  terrors  for  cashiers,  not  alone  be- 
cause of  the  large  payments  involved,  but  frequently  be- 
cause of  the  myriads  of  petty  accounts  requiring  settle- 
ment and  entry,  the  bill  for  a  dime  necessitating  as  much 
clerical  work  as  that  for  a  thousand.  George  R.  Maxwell, 
Paying  Teller  of  the  First  National  Bank,  ordinarily  the 
most  urbane  of  men,  was  much  annoyed  this  week  by  a 
succession  of  tardy  collectors,  each  with  a  trifling  account, 
and  all  delaying  presentation  until  after  the  regular  bank- 
ing hours.  Maxwell  remonstrated  with  them,  one  after 
another,  his  normal  supply  of  affability  visibly  decreasing 
with  every  fresh  offender.  About  four  o'clock  in  sauntered 
a  whistling  boy,  who  gracefully  dropped  a  folded  paper  be- 
fore the  busy  teller  methodically  balancing  his  cash. 

"Bill?"  queried  Maxwell,  curtly. 

"Yep,"  was  the  nonchalant  reply  of  the  boy,  who  im- 
mediately resumed  work  on  his  tune. 

"Why  in  thunder  did  you  not  bring  it  here  two  hours 
ago?"  demanded  Maxwell,  sternly. 

Without  a  word  the  boy,  still  whistling,  turned  on  his 
heel. 

Then  Maxwell  opened  the  bill.     It  read  as  follows: 

To  fixing  type  on  typewriter.  No  charge. 


April  17,  1897. 


S.\N  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'9 


It  was  too  good  to  keep,  that  storv  of  the  gold  tirii'k 
which  Jim  '  .rst  of  the  New  York 

Journal  at-  soo  Kxaminer, — and  the  details 

form  an     :  Djmbliabed  book, 

"How  ton  ng   for   nothing."     The  episode  con- 

■  and  after  the  Carson 

1      .llow  mockery  to 

Willie  era  and  the  ■>■  " exclusive"  inter 

-    from  which  no  newspaperman  was  excluded,  unless 

he  1  I 

■  >und  train  from  Chicago,  Corbett  B  party 
included  Sporting  Editor  Backett  of  the  New  York  World. 
•edium  of  the  trip  he,  half-jocularly.  offered 
the  pomp  doured  pugilist  live  hundred  dollars  if  he  would 
si  g n  a  contract  for  exclusive  signed  statements  in  the 
World. 

"That's  a  good  scheme  ami  a  handsome  offer."  remarked 
the  ■'  tl     "I'll  think  about  it." 

At  toe  next  station  the  fighter  sent  the  following  tele- 
gram to  Bearsl 

World  offers  me  fifteen  hundred  dollars  for  exclusive 
statements." 

Corbett  rather  expected  a  telegraphic  reply  the  next 
time  the  train  stopped,  and  he  was  not  disappointed. 
Hearst's  message  read: 
"1  will  pay  you  two  thousand.  Wire  acceptance."  WW 
The  alacrity  with  which  Corbett  obeyed  this  admonition 
convinced  his  backers  that  his  condition  was  irreproach- 
able. 

*  *  * 

"  Long  John  "  Wilkins,  whose  immaculate  "gall"  is  only 
equaled  by  his  Ethiopian  cuticle,  went  up  to  Porter  Ashe's 
office  the  other  day,  and  after  waiting  for  nearly  an  hour, 
finally  secured  an  audience. 

"How'd  a-do,  Mistah  Ashe?"  was  "Long  John's"  greet- 
ing. 

"  Pretty  good,  John.  How  are  you  ?"  pleasantly  replied 
the  always  gracious  Porter. 

"  Oh,  I'se  fust  rate,  Mistah  Ashe,"  said  John.  "I  just 
come  up  heah  to  'gratulate  you,  sah.  I'se  felt  myself  over- 
looking my  duty,  sab.  hadn't  T  come  up  heah,  sah.  I'm 
so  glad,  sah,  dat  dat  horse  Ruinhart  win,  sah." 

"Thank  you,  John,  thank  you,"  returned  Porter. 
"Your  kind  feeling  is  appreciated,"  and  Mr.  Ashe  started 
to  go  into  his  private  office. 

"I  beg  pardon,  Mistah  Ashe,"  hastily  remarked  John; 
"I  almost  fo'got,  sah,  to  say  dat  I  had  a  dollar  bet  on  Sal- 
vation, sah,  and  I  lost,  sah.  So  if  you  could  kindly,  sah, 
let  me  have  a  dollah  I'd  feel  very  thankful,  for,  honest, 
Mistah  Ashe,  really  I  couldn't  affo'd  to  lose  de  dollah, 
and " 

Here  Porter  interrupted  the  loquacious  negro.  "Take 
this  dollar,  John,  and  in  the  future  never  look  for  Salva- 
tion around   a   race  track.     Good-by,  John,"  and  he  made 

his  escape. 

*  *  # 

At  the  cathedral  choral  service  in  Grace  Episcopal 
Church  on  the  evening  of  Palm  Sunday,  the  vested  male 
choir  had  such  arduous  duties  to  perform  that  the  singers 
deemed  it  proper,  and  even  necessary,  to  fortify  themselves 
in  advance  for  their  special  musical  efforts  by  such  pota- 
tions as  are  not  customary  in  the  sanctuary.  Each  of  the 
numbers  was  creditably  rendered.  As  the  gowned 
choristers  marched  down  the  aisle,  singing  lustily  the  re- 
cessional hymn,  all  doubt  was  lifted  from  the  olfactory 
nerves  of  the  standing  worshippers,  regarding  the  char- 
acter of  the  motive  power  behind  their  fervid  praises. 
Carrington  Wilson  had  attended  the  service  to  hear  Clar- 
ence Eddy  play  the  great  organ.  Someone  solicited  his 
opinion. 

"It  has  been  an  intensely  interesting  service,  I  assure 
you,"  replied  Wilson,  with  his  British  precision.  "Why.  I 
could  discern  spirits  in  the  air!" 

*  *  * 

Now  that  the  announcement  of  Jack  Casserly's  engage- 
ment to  Miss  Cudahy,  the  pressed-beef  Princess,  has 
placed  a  limit  upon  his  bachelor  days,  his  friends  are  re- 
calling some  of  the  pranks  of  his  untamed  era,  from  that 
interesting  historical  episode  connected  with  the  enter- 
tainment of  the  Gaiety  Girls  at  the  Burlingame  Club, 
down  to  the  current  history  of   the  present  season.     The 


latest  story  told  about  this  vivacious  youth  concerns  a 
dinner  party  al  Joe  Grant's  picturesque  cottage  at 
"H'lingham.  '  On  that  occasion  Casscrly  was  placed  next 
B  I  harming  woman,  whom  he  had  not  previously  met,  and 
I   of  whose  connections  he  was  ignorant. 

In  the  course  of  tbeir  somewhat  confidential  lite-d-lttr, 
.lack  gathered,  incidentally,  that  his  table  companion's 
husband  was  an  absent  physician,     By  the  time  the  cheese 

appeared  her  statements  formed  a  jumble  of  recollections 
in  the  Caaserlv  brain,  and  suddenly  noting  that  her  silk 
gown  was  black,  be  conceived  the  idea  that  be  was  in  the 
presence  of  affliction.  Believing  it  a  case  for  that  delicate 
sympathy  for  which  he  is  famous,  .lack  bent  over  the  fair 
"widow,"  and  with  moistening  eyes,  softly  asked  her  a 
question,  while  a  tearful  thrill  shook  his  melodious  voice. 

"And  is  the  Doctor  in  heaven?"  he  asked  tenderly  and 
meaningly 

Jack  supposes  it  was  hysteria  which  caused  the  be- 
reaved woman  to  burst  into  uncontrollable  laughter,  in 
the  midst  of  which  the  ladies  rose,  and  the  Casserly  query 
is  still  unanswered. 

*  *  * 

To  guard  against  all  possible  contingencies  at  Central 
Park  this  afternoon,  when  the  second  of  the  series  of  inter- 
collegiate baseball  matches  will  be  played  between  the 
teams  of  the  two  big  Universities,  some  solicitous  friends 
of  the  players  have  provided  a  chest  of  all  the  liniments 
known  to  the  patent  medicine  vendor.  Charlie  Elston, 
the  popular  Berkeley  captain,  suggested  with  quiet  irony, 
that  since  the  idea  of  a  few  bruises  was  so  appalling,  it 
might  be  prudent  to  lay  in  a  large  supply  of  wood  alcohol. 

"Oh!  Don't  get  wood  alcohol,"  objected  Pete  Karsberg, 
"the  cowboy  pitcher,"  who  comes  from  Fresno  and  who 
threatened  to  resign  because  he  was  not  allowed  to  wear 
his  sombrero  during  the  game. 

"Why  not,  Pete?"  came  a  chorus  of  interrogatives. 

"Because  we  would  all  get  splinters  in  our  legs,"  was 
the  scornful  rejoinder  of  the  Fresno  athlete. 

*  *  # 

A  fussy  lady  walked  into  Stanton's  studio  one  day  this 
week,  and  brusquely  inquired  if  the  artist  were  in. 

"No,  madam,"  said  Paul,  the  Indian  painter,  "if  you  call 
later  you  will  find  him." 

She  called  again,  and  this  time  the  statuesque  Stanton 
was  at  home. 

"Humph,"  said  the  dame,  surveying  the  stalwart 
painter  critically,  "seems  to  me  you  don't  took  much  like 
an  artist." 

This  uncalled  for  insult  sent  the  rich  blood  coloring 
Stanton's  damaged  cheek,  and  he  replied  in  accents  of 
ineffable  scorn: 

"Nor  could  I  say,  madam,  that  from  your  language  and 
appearance,  I  should  ever  take  you  for  an  art  patron. 
Paul,  show  the  lady  down  stairs." 

The  sassy  thing  was  crushed,    and   the  honor  of  the 

Stantons  avenged. . 

*  *  * 

Joullin  is  a  man  of  distinguished  appearance,  and  that 
excellent  artist  has  frequently  been  taken  for  a  foreign 
count.  Not  so  on  Tuesday,  however,  for  as  he  boarded  a 
Clay-street  car,  a  big  German  considered  himself  discom- 
posed by  Mr.  Joullin.  When  the  latter  came  to  his  des- 
tination, as  he  stepped  off  the  car  he  heard  the  German 
inquire: 

"Who  is  dot  big  fellow,  anyhow?" 

"Oh,"  replied  the  gripman,  indifferently,  "he  is  one  of 
them  waiters  at  Campi's." 

The  scowl  from  Joullin's  dark,  rolling  eye,  when  this  re- 
mark fell  upon  his  ear,  was  withering. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  17,  1897. 


THE  last  week  of  Lent  brought  us  the  first  hot  weather 
of  the  year  thus  far,  which  par  parenthese  caught  us 
like  a  thief  in  the  night,  quite  unprepared  for  it.  Still, 
for  that  the  week  was  welcome,  as  no  doubt  it  has  also 
been  to  a  majority  of  our  young  people,  who  are  glad  that 
the  penitential  period,  with  its  enforced  quiet,  has  at  last 
come  to  an  end.  Easter  millinery  has  been  the  chief  sub- 
ject occupying  the  thoughts  of  the  fair  .sex,  and  the  indi- 
cations are  that  to-morrow  the  churches  will  blossom  like 
the  most  gorgeous  conservatories;  not  only  the  buildings 
themselves,  but  the  heads  of  most  of  the  congregations, 
and  will  be  sights  worth  seeing. 

Gay  doings  have  been  scarce  this  week.  Even  dinners 
and  luncheons  have  in  a  measure  failed,  and  theatre  parties 
one  may  say  have  not  been  "in  it"  to  any  great  extent. 
But  then  there  is  a  good  deal  on  the  tapis  for  the  near 
future,  and  next  week  will  lead  off  with  some  club  dances, 
to  say  nothing  of  several  weddings  and  minor  affairs  that 
have  been  kept  waiting  until  after  Lent;  and  there  is  a 
probability  of  some  hops  at  the  Presidio  before  the  troops 
go  off  for  the  summer  to  Yosemite  and  elsewhere. 

The  Native  Sons  of  Vermont  gave  a  charming  entertain- 
ment at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall  on  Monday  evening.  The  first 
part  consisted  of  a  musical  olio,  followed  by  Dream  Faces, 
which  was  excellently  cast  and  played;  and  then  there 
was  dancing  until  after  midnight,  a  most  enjoyable  even- 
ing being  passed.  On  Tuesday  afternoon  the  Henri  Fair- 
weatbers  gave  their  series  of  Browning  lectures  at  the 
Sorosis  Club  rooms  on  Pine  street. 

Wednesday  this  week  was  selected  by  several  fair  brides, 
both  in  this  city  and  Oakland,  for  their  nuptials.  Among 
them  was  an  evening  wedding,  which  took  place  at  the 
First  Unitarian  Church,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Stebbins  uniting  in 
marriage  Miss  Mae  Belle  Green  and  George  Lipman.  The 
handsome  bride,  who  was  robed  in  white  satin  trimmed 
with  lace  and  orange  blossoms,  was  attended  by  Miss  Ada 
Young  as  maid-of-honor,  and  the  Misses  Clementine 
Allardyce  and  Edna  Donaldson  as  bridesmaids,  and  T.  H. 
Ramsay  officiated  as  the  groom's  best  man.  After  the 
church  ceremony  there  was  a  reception  at  the  home  of  the 
bride  on  Hawthorne  street,  followed  by  a  handsome 
supper. 

One  of  last  week's  weddings  was  that  of  Miss  Edith 
Kittridge  and  Henry  A.  Sargent  of  Portland,  Oregon,  the 
ceremony  taking  place  at  the  Howarth  residence  on  Lau- 
rel street,  where  the  Reverend  John  Hemphill  tied  the 
nuptial  knot.  This  was  a  yellow  and  white  wedding,  the 
elaborate  decorations  of  the  house  being  entirely  in  those 
tints,  and  the  costumes  of  the  maid-of-honor,  little  Geral- 
dine  Howarth,  and  of  the  bridesmaids,  the  Misses  Kate 
Durbrow  and  Amy  Swain,  being  of  white  mousseline  de 
soie,  and  their  hand  bouquets  yellow  roses.  The  beautiful 
bride  wore  a  robe  of  white  moire  trimmed  with  chiffon,  a 
tulle  vail,  and  pearl  and  diamond  ornaments.  She  carried 
a  bouquet  of  brides'  roses.  The  happy  pair  left  for  their 
future  home  in  Portland  last  Saturday. 

The  date  for  another  of  the  spring  weddings  has  been 
set  this  week,  and  it  is  now  announced  that  the  marriage 
of  Miss  Quita  Collier  and  Atherton  Macoudray  will  take 
place  during  the  first  week  of  June. 

There  will  be  a  number  of  weddings  next  week,  chief  of 
Wednesday's  ceremonials  being  the  one  in  which  Miss  Mat- 
tie  Whittier  will  be  the  bride.  It  will  be  a  home  function, 
taking  place  at  the  Whittier  residence  on  Jackson  street 
Wednesday  evening. 

At  San  Rafael  the  entertaining  season  has  been  inaugu- 
rated already  by  Mrs.  W.  F.  Babcock,  who  last  week  gave 
a  most  delightful  luncheon  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Whitelaw  Reid, 
who  left  for  her  Eastern  home  last  Saturday.  The  dinners 
of  Colonel  Fred-Croeker-and-of  J3orac£.Davis,,  the  musicale 


of  W.  S.  Jones,  and  the  luncheons  of  Mrs.  Davis  and  Mrs. 
J.  B.  Crockett  were  among  recent  pleasant  gatherings, 
the  menus  of  which  were  scarcely  what  one  would  call 
Lenten.  A  delightful  piano  recital  was  given  at  Beethoven 
Hall  on  Saturday  afternoon,  when  Miss  Helen  Hager 
charmed  the  large  crowd  of  friends  who  were  present  by 
the  brilliancy  of  her  playing.  She  was  assisted  by  Miss 
Caroline  Little,  whose  sweet  voice  was  heard  in  a  number 
of  German  and  English  songs.  Both  young  ladies  were 
most  becomingly  costumed,  one  in  Nile  green,  and  the 
other  lavender  and  white,  and  were  the  recipients  of  a  pro- 
fusion of  beautiful  floral  tributes. 

The  managers  of  the  Women's  Congress  are  making 
great  preparations  for  the  annual  meet,  which  will  be  held 
in  the  First  Congregational  Church  the  week  after  next. 
The  programme  of  the  speakers  and  their  subjects,  which 
has  been  given  to  the  public,  gives  also  assurance  that  it 
will  be  well  attended. 

The  long  anticipated  bal  masque  at  Ebell  Hall,  in  Oak- 
land, on  Tuesday  evening ;  the  last  dance  of  the  Sat- 
urday Evening  Cotillion  Club  at  Native  Sons'  Hall,  and  of 
the  Winter  Cotillion  Club  at  Beethoven  Hall  on  Friday 
evening,  are  some  of  the  pleasures  in  store  for  young  soci- 
ety next  week. 

It  having  been  decided  that  the  projected  Golden  Gate 
Carnival  is  not  to  materialize  next  month,  as  anticipated, 
many  of  our  residents  have  betaken  themselves  to  Los 
Angeles  to  view  the  beauties  of  the  Fiesta  in  that  city  of 
orange  groves  as  a  slight  compensation  for  their  disap- 
pointment at  home,  one  large  party  leaving  last  Wednes- 
day. 

There  are  likely  to  be  a  number  of  changes  at  the  Pre- 
sidio ere  long,  and  among  the  losses  none  will  be  more  re- 
gretted than  the  Misses  Young,  who  during  their  stay  at 
that  post  have  been  among  the  most  popular  ladies  ever 
in  residence  there. 

George  Boney  has  gone  East  en  route  to  Europe  for  a 
passear.  Among  the  week's  overland  passengers  were 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis  and  Miss  Florence  Breckenridge 
for  Kentucky  and  Gotham,  this  being  the  first  visit  Mrs. 
Tevis  has  paid  to  her  old  home  in  the  South  for  many 
years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Davis  have  been  passing  the 
week  at  their  country  home  in  the  Santa  Cruz  mountains, 
preparing  it  for  their  occupancy  this  summer,  as  it  is 
likely  they  will  spend  the  greater  part  of  the  season  there. 

Mrs.  and  Miss  Quita  Collier  have  come  down  to  the  city 
from  their  home  in  Lake  county,  and  will  remain  here  for 
several  weeks.  Mrs.  Daniel  Roth  and  the  Misses  Roth, 
who  recently  returned  after  a  year's  absence  passed  in 
foreign  travel,  will  be  "at  home"  on  Saturdays  and  Sun- 
days during  April  at  their  handsome  residence  on  Baker 
and  Hayes  streets. 

Recent  returns  of  absentees  from  the  East  and  Europe 
include  General,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Houghton.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henri  Kahn  leave  Paris  for  home  next  week.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Albert  Raas  and  Mrs.  E.  G.  Lyons  are  visiting  in 
Los  Angeles. 

Mizpah  Charity  Club  will  give  an  Indian  picnic  on  the 
evening  of  the  24th  inst.  at  Golden  Gate  Hall,  for  the  ben- 
efit of  the  fund.  The  hall  will  be  decorated  in  rustic  fash- 
ion, and  baskets  with  lunches  for  two  will  be  sold.  A 
farce,  vocal  selections  and  dancing  will  fill  out  the  even- 
ing. Tickets,  50  cents,  to  be  had  of  tne  officers  or  mem- 
bers of  the  club. 

Alfred  S.  Gump  left  for  the  East  and  Europe  this  week 
to  visit  the  art  centers  for  the  firm  of  S.  &  G.  Gump. 

You  can't  get  Schilling'' s  Best  tea  except  in 
packages.  We  want  the  credit  for  the  pleasure 
and  comfort  and  health  that  it  gives  you. 

Your  money  back  if  you  don't  like  Schilling's 
Best. 

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April  i- 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


•   of  the  mo*t    prominent  the  season 

will  t*>  the  grand    Parisien    fe'-  ngerbread 

Hospital    during    the  month  of 

which  will  be  under   the  personal  direction  ami  man- 

'    the    Lady  Mi  the  institution.     The 

-    -  tding  families 
have  been  I 
tire  proceeds  from  the  fete  will  pass   to  the  General  Fund 
of  the  Children's  Hospital  and  Training  School  for  Nurses. 

The  Concordia  Club  nominating   committee   has  at  last 
.-k.     Mr  Michaels   has  been  so 

lected  for  President  and  Mr.  Chas.  Hirsh  for  Vice  Presi 
dent  Hoth  gentlemen  have  been  prominently  Identified 
with  the  club's  management  for  many  years.  Many 
changes  are  looked  forward  to.  and  a  new  policy  favorable 
to  the  younger  members  is  being  planned.  The  finances 
of  the  institution  are  in  a  most  flourishing  condition. 

Buena  Vista  Parlor,  No.  68,  Native  Daughters  of  the 
Golden  West,  will  celebrate  the  lifth  anniversary  of  the 
parlor  by  giving  a  ball  at  Native  Sons'  hall,  on  Mason,  be- 
tween Geary  and  Post  streets,  on  next  Tuesday  evening, 
the  '.'nth  inst. 

Mr.  Wadsworth  Harris,  of  the  Otis  Skinner  Company, 
gave  enjoyable  dramatic  readings  at  Irving  Institute  on 
last  Thursday  afternoon  to  the  young  ladies  of  the  insti- 
tute and  their  friends. 

The  Esberg  dinner,  which  was  given  at  the  family  resi- 
dence on  Pacific  avenue  on  last  Wednesday  evening,  was 
greatly  enjoyed  by  those  present.  Miss  Edith  Esberg  very 
gracefully  assisted  her  mother  as  hostess.  Covers  were 
laid  for  twenty  guests,  and  the  hours  were  late  before  the 
adieux  were  said. 

The  boulevard  fund  will  be  the  worthy  object  of  a  second 
lecture,  to  be  delivered  next  Monday  evening,  April  19th, 
at  Y.  M.  C.  A.  hall,  on  Mason  and  Ellis  streets,  by  Mr. 
Henry  A.  Butters,  the  noted  South  African  mining  ex- 
pert. The  lecture  will,  in  addition  to  treatment  of  the 
gold  fields,  review  the  recent  political  disturbances  in  that 
country.  Tickets,  50  cents,  to  be  had  at  the  hall  or  of  the 
Boulevard  Committee. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo.  E.  Morse  arrived  Monday  evening 
from  Washington,  where  they  have  been  the  guests  of 
President  and  Mrs.  McKinley  at  the  Executive  Mansion 
since  the  Inauguration. 

The  P.  D.  Club  will  give  its  sixty-fourth  party  on  the 
evening  of  April  27th  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall. 


THE  Pacific  Coast  Syrup  Company  is  one  of  the  manu- 
facturers of  syrup  and  jellies  in  San  Francisco  that 
courts  the  fullest  investigation,  not  only  into  its  methods 
of  manufacture,  but  the  quality  of  ingredients  used.  The 
company  makes  a  raspberry  syrup  which  will  hereafter 
be  known  as  "Imitation  Raspberry  Syrup."  All  the  ma- 
terials of  which  this  product  is  made  are  certified  as 
wholesome,  clean  and  nutritious.  They  are:  Granulated 
sugar,  water,  citric  acid  (lemon  juice),  extract  of  rasp- 
berry, red  fruit  color.  It  is  a  wholesome,  healthy 
article  of  food.  The  company,  in  order  to  meet  Eastern 
competition,  is  also  making  a  jelly  composed  of  apple 
stock,  glucose  and  sugar.  This  jelly  is  also  wholesome, 
and  has  been  used  with  satisfactory  results  for  years  on 
this  coast.  The  company  labels  this  jelly:  Fruit,  sugar, 
glucose  jelly,  or  jam,  as  the  case  may  be.  It  has  obtained 
a  large  sale  and  is  aD  excellent  product.  The  company 
also  make  the  celebrated  Tea  Garden  Drips — an  unexcelled 
aiticle.  The  Pacific  Coast  Syrup  Company  is  proud  of  the 
large  business  it  has  built  up;  it  misrepresents  nothing, 
invites  everywhere  and  at  all  times  the  fullest  investiga- 
tion of  its  plant  and  products — all  of  which  have  a  valued 
and  recognized  place  in  the  grocery  trade  of  the  Pacific 
Coast. 

The  Lenten  season  is  over.  Dinners,  parties,  and  banquets  will  be 
the  order,  and  at  this  time  it  will  be  well  to  remember  that  Max 
Abraham,  caterer,  at  428  Geary  street,  is  prepared  to  take  complete 
charge  of  these  functions,  and  his  wide  experience  and  constant  at- 
tention guarantees  perfect  success  in  this  most  important  feature  of 
entertaining. 

Bkecham's  Pills  for  wind  and  distress  after  eattng. 


AT      INGLESIDE. 

RACING  will  t>o  resumed  nest  Monday,  the  19th  inst., 
at  Ingleside.  and  continue  for  the  following  two  weeks, 
ending  May  1st  The  programme  indicates  an  unusually 
high-class  entertainment  for  the  lovers  of  this  sport.  On 
Opening  day  the  Corrlgan  stakes,  live  furlongs,  will  be 
run.  This  is  a  handicap  sweepstakes  for  t  wo -vear-olds, 
with  first  purse  11,000.  On  Saturday,  the  24th,  the 
Spreckels'  Cup  race,  one  mile  and  a  quarter,  will  be  run — 
a  handicap  for  three-year  olds.  The  first  prize  for  this 
great  race  will  be  the  Spreckels  Cup,  valued  at  $1,500,  and 
a  purse  of  15,000;  second,  12,000;  third,  *'>00.  This  will 
bring  out  the  best  horses  on  the  Coast,  and  result  in  a 
battle  for  first  place  worth  going  a  long  way  to  see.  The 
California  Stakes,  two  miles  over  eight  hurdles,  will  be 
run  on  Wednesday,  the  2Sth  inst.,  for  $1,200  first  money, 
(200  second,  $100  third.  On  Saturday,  May  1st,  the  Ingle- 
side stakes,  four  miles,  for  $3,000  first  money,  $500  second, 
$300  third,  will  be  run.  The  general  racing  for  the  two 
weeks  will  be  fully  up  to  the  standard,  which,  with  these 
special  additions,  will  make  up  a  programme  exciting 
enough  to  satisfy  the  most  exacting  sportsman. 


For  Bigh  Grade  Diamonds  go  to   Hirschman's,   10  Post  street, 
(Masonic  Temple.) 


One Instance 

IN   WHICH  (^5^  V 

Deiayi*  Dangerous- 


If  the  teeth  attacked 
by  tartar  have  lost 
their  enamel,  it  is  too 
late  to  save  them;  but 
if  not,  use  S0Z0D0NT 
at  once,  the  liquid  daily, 
the  powder  twice  a 
week.  Both  in  one 
package.      Druggists. 

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A  sample  of  Sozodont  and  Sozoderma  Soap 

for  the  postage,  three  cents. 


UNITED    STATES 
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lR.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
'     CREAM,  OR    MAGICAL   BEAUTIFIER. 

R  jioves  Tan,  Pimples,  Freckles,  Moth 
Patches,  Rash,  and  SUin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  beauty,  and  defies  de- 
tection It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-ton  (a  pa- 
tient): "'As  you  ladies  will  use  them.  I 
recommend  'Gouraud's  Cream'  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions, "  For  sale  by  all  Druggists  and 
Fancy-Goods  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe. 


FERD.  T.  HOPKINS,  Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,  N .  Y. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


Apiil  17,  1897. 


Ilii-','»"i""'..-'T-iriil(rnii/«' 


ELOISE  seemingly  smiled  to  her  righthand  neighbor 
at  the  dinner-table,  but  in  reality  to  herself,  as  she 
felt  on  the  opposite  side  a  nervous  touch  against  the  hand 
resting  on  her  chair-arm. 

"Poor  boy!"  she  thought,  smiling  still  at  his  opponent, 
yet  she  could  hardly  restrain  an  impulse  to  yield  a  warm 
clasp  to  the  hand  so  dumbly  begging,  but  she  did  resist. 
Twenty-eight  years  was  too  late  an  age  to  dally  with 
youths. 

"I  have  done  with  them  long  ago,"  formed  her  thought 
in  the  midst  of  the  conversation;  but  rose  odors,  light,  and 
champagne  always  floated  the  senses  of  Eloise  away  in  a 
luxurious  dream,  and  to-night  the  warmth  within,  and 
hovering  spirit  of  love  with  its  inevitable  memories,  made 
it  easy  to  flash  worlds  almost  unconsciously  into  the  eyes 
of  the  boy  at  her  side.  It  was  a  long  time  since  she  had 
met  this  same  sweet  boy  love,  so  tender  and  reverential. 
A  dew  clouded  her  eyes,  but  musical  voices  and  the  motion 
to  leave  the  table  broke  her  momentary  wanderings. 

As  for  Harry  Hastings,  he  understood,  in  the  myste- 
rious way  of  budding  passion,  that  some  softness  lay  with- 
in Eloise  for  him.  The  blonde  collegian  thrilled  with  sweet 
doubt  in  all  his  live  young  heart  and  flesh.  True,  be  hardly 
dared  touch  her  or  speak  to  her.  For  what  would  she  say 
to  him?  She  with  her  beauty  and  dignity,  the  center  of 
those  favored  men.  One  of  them  would  take  her  to  the 
ball  to-night,  while  he  would  have  no  share  in  her,  except 
for  a  glance.  His  heart  beat  tumultuously  as  Thurston, 
her  dinner  partner,  gradually  and  entirely  absorbed  her 
attention — Harry's  helplessness  was  so  patent  to  himself 
against  the  man  of  years,  position,  and  self-poise. 

When  his  mother  spoke  he  was  glad,  even  to  the  send- 
ing of  their  fair  guest  from  his  presence.  "Eloise,  you 
girls  must  sleep  before  the  ball;  your  long  morning  drive 
and  two  afternoon  receptions  will  necessarily  involve  a  re- 
turn in  the  way  of  rest." 

"Yes,  I  for  one  am  a  little  weary,"  she  answered 
languidly,  amidst  the  protests  of  her  companions,  in  her 
eyes  that  bright  promise  of  something  to  come  that  always 
left  behind  her  the  greatest  desire  for  her  return.  The 
girl  knew  sleep  did  so  much  for  her  these  days,  and  some- 
way a  feeling  of  sadness  disquieted  her.  She  did  not  like 
the  looks  of  those  hurt  young  eyes  across  the  room. 

"I  want  to  be  alone;  then  I  can  decide."  She  could  have 
laughed  at  her  affection  for  the  boy.  The  other  girls  had 
passed  on  out,  but  Thurston  still  kept  Eloise  dallying  over 
some  flowers  he  had  sent  her  for  the  ball.  His  confidence 
racked  Harry's  very  soul,  and  he  moved  away  from  them 
down  the  hall. 

"If  I  speak  to  her  perhaps  that  will  lull  the  longing," 
thought  he  in  smothered  and  fretting  suppression. 

"I  must  go,"  came  to  him  in  her  clear  tones. 

"Fortwo  long  hours,"  answered  Thurston,  then  light 
footfalls  passed  the  recess  in  which  Harry  stood. 

"Should  he  follow  her?  Would  it  only  make  things 
worse?"  Swift  pursuit  avowed  his  decision.  Eloise  felt 
rather  than  heard  his  coming.  An  inexpressible  softness 
crept  over  her.  Five  years  gone  since  she  had  been  so 
warmed  by  the  presence  of  any  man.  He  was  like  Hu- 
bert— but  Hubert  had  taken  all  her  heart  and  left  her 
eating  out  her  soul  with  bitterness.  Her  succeeding 
thought  in  these  few  steps  was: 

"Yet  how  sweet  even  a  semblance  of  the  dear,  engross- 
ing love!     It  would  be  hard,  though,  for  the  boy." 

They  were  at  the  head  of  the  stairs  now;  still  she  had 
not  turned.  Faint  odors  of  violets  floated  down  to  her 
pursuer  from  the  flowers  on  her  bosom.  They  electrified 
and  mastered    Harry    for    a    moment.     As    he    reached 


Eloise  his  arm  closed  strongly  round  her  waist.  The  very 
soul  of  the  girl  cried  in  recognition: 

"Hubert!"   My  Hubert!" 

Flinging  back  her  head  to  him,  she'  received  Harry's 
fresh,  pure  lips,  quivering  in  one  wild  instant  upon  her  own 
— and  fled — to  Hubert. 

Harry  stood  there,  dazed  with  his  newly  discovered  de- 
light. She  loved  him!  She  had  given  that  kiss.  The 
boy's  blood  flowed  with  renewed  power  in  great  warming 
waves,  and  with  eyes  turned  inwardly  upon  his  own  unex- 
pected happiness,  he  sought  solitude.  The  sight  of  those 
men  below,  with  their  cynical  jokes  and  woi Id-gathered 
disbeliefs,  was  shameful  to  him  in  this  time  of  his  sacred 
and  almost  incredible  triumph. 

Oh!  what  an  hour  of  Heaven  to  Harry! 

In  her  room,  Eloise,  wrapped  in  her  dressing-gown, 
loosened  with  tender  fingers  the  hair  Hubert  loved.  It 
brushed  her  face  like  Hubert's  own  caresses.  The  boy 
outside  was  forgotten,  but  for  a  guilty  sense  of  betrayal. 
That  kiss  was  not  his.  It  was  Hubert's.  She  drowsed 
away  in  an  utter  lethargy  of  happiness.  Hubert  held  her 
to  his  breast;  her  lips  and  eyes  trembled  to  his  enchanted 
fondling.  She  sunk  in  the  pillows  lost,  steeped  in  the  old 
love.  Oh!  he  had  come  back  to  her — with  him  time  had 
no  beginning  and  no  end. 

Eloise  shivered.  The  maid  wakened  her  by  stirring  the 
fire.  How  chilled  she  was,  and  how  cold  to  be  torn  from 
her  paradise! 

"A  delusion,"  she  murmured;  "he  is  gone  forever,  and  I 
have  been  faithful  so  long!"  Two  burning  tears  soaked  in 
the  pillow.  "Oh,  how  my  arms  ache  for  his  beloved  care  I 
It  is  there,  and  will  not  leave  me,    but   he  has  forgotten!" 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC  RAILWAY  COMPANY, 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    T1BOHON  FERRY-  Fool  of  MarketStreet. 
WEEK  DAYS— 7:3u,  9:00,  11:00  am;  12:35,  3:30  5:10,  6:30  p  M.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trip  at  11:30p  m.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :50  and  11 :30  P  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00,  9:30.  11 :0U  A  M:  1:30,  3:30.  5:00,  6:20  PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO  SAN    FtANCISCO. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  am;  12:45,  3:4O,5:10pm.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at  1:55  and  6:35  PM. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40,  11:10  am;  1:40.3:40.5:00,6:25PM. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Scbuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave 

S.  F. 

In  Effect  Oct.  14,  1896 

ARRIVE 

IN  S.  F. 

Week  Days. 

Sundays. 

Destination. 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

Sundays 

10:40  am 
6:10  pm 
7:35  pm 

Week  Days 

7:30AM 
3:30  pm 
5:10pm 

8:00  am 
9:30am 
5:00  pm 

8:40  am 
10:25  AM 
6 :22  P  M 

8:00am' 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyserville.  CToverdale 

"7:35  PM 

7:3UAM 
3:30PM 

6:22  P  M 

7:30AM 
3:30PM 


8 :0O  a  M   I  Pleta,  Bopland,  Ukiah  | 
8:00am 


Guerneville. 


7:35PM    I     6:22  P_M_ 

,.os„M         10 :25 "a  m 
7.35PM  6:22  PM 


7:30  AM 
5:10pm 


8:0uam 
5:00pm 


Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 


10:40am 
6:10  pm 


8:40  A  M 
6:22  p  M 


7:30am 
3:30pm 


8:00am 
5:00  pm 


Sebastopol. 


10:40am 
6:10pm 


10:25  A  M 
6:22  p  M 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs'  Springs ;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers ;  at  Pieta  for  Highland 
Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake  port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport 
and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Ukiah.  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs, 
Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley.  John 
Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville, 
Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot  Springs,  Mendocino  City.  Ft.  Bragg.West- 
port,  Usal,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Harris,  Scotia,  Eureka. 

Saturday- to- Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  w.  FOSTER,  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass .  Agent. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  lor  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  a.  m..  April  l,  6.  11. 16.  21,26,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  A.  M..  April  I,  6, 11, 16, 
21.  26,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pc  _r  ,aa,"  at  2  p.m.  Aprils,  6, 
10,  14.  l«,  22.  26.  30,  and  every  fourth  day       jeafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  ;  April  4,  8, 12, 16, 
20,  24,  28.  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  a.  m.,  April  2.  6, 10, 14, 
18,  22,  26,  30,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  a.  m., 
25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERKINS&CO.,Gen'lAgents,      10  Market  st.S.F. 

mAponH     Porifir*     306  Stockton   St.  San    Francisco 
Ul  dllll     rdblllOi         MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month.      Telephone:  Grant,  507. 


April  17.  1897. 


>\N   FRANXisco  NEWS  LETTER. 


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1  down  her  cheek.     She  sat  up 

uood. 

*ith     some    advantageous 
marriage'.'     Wl  ;.t  Thurston.   I  ml  his 

«as  my  purpose;  why  suffer  pane's  for  this 
boy.  Harry'     Did  Hubert  pity 

But  Harry  >  sweet,  boyish  f.iitli  and  love  tugged  at  her 
tendi  ■  roachful  eyes  and  felt 

in  some  cold  and  far-off  wav  that  she  had  tacitly  accepted 
him. 

"I  am  fond  of  him,'  she  murmured  dreamily.  "He 
brintrs  hack  my  youth  that  0  long  gone,"  and  she 

with  almost  a  sob.     Suddenly    Eloise  missed  the  opal 
pin  she  wore  that   evening  membered  pressing  it 

against  her  breast  as  she  threw  hack  her  head  at  the  top 
of  the  stairs  It  must  be  in  the  hall,  and  then  she  went  to 
look  for  it. 

"Ah!"  and  as  Klnise  rose  with  the  recovered  pin,  she 
came  face  to  face  with  Harry  on  his  way  down  the  stairs. 
The  boy  hesitated;  his  eyes  grew  luminous  as  he  took  in 
the  Kin's  slim  figure,  dressing  gown,  ami  Bowing  hair. 
She  had  given  him  before:  now  he  would  claim.  Instantly 
his  young  arms  gathered  close  and  gently  her  soft,  round 
body.  His  cheek  flamed  against  her  veil  of  hair,  and 
kisses  fell  like  flowers  upon  her  face.  She  clung  there 
weakly. 

"You  love  me  a  little?"  lie  whispered.  Her  face  nestled 
close  in  his  throat  for  answer,  and  then,  in  the  quick  way 
peculiar  to  her,  she  tore  herself  free.  It  was  no  place  to 
wait. 

The  ball  went  like  some  unreal  and  dazzling  hour  met 
once  in  life.  Harry  stood  oil  in  the  palms,  following  with 
his  eyes  and  soul  the  girl  who  after  to-night  would  be  his 
own.  After  this  he  would  claim  her  against  those  men 
who  floated  about  the  room  with  her  as  if  she  were  a  part 
of  themselves.     He  fumed  at  the  thought. 

"But  she  is  so  fair  and  glad.  Ah,  for  to-morrow!  just 
for  to-morrow,  the  beginning  of  my  reign!" 

He  waited,  meaning  to  see  her  last  that  night,  but, 
annoyingly,  she  passed  out  unmissed  by  his  watchful  eye, 
and  on  searching  for  her,  it  was  only  to  find  that  she  had 
left  the  ball.  When  Eloise  reached  home,  the  ball-room 
effulgence  had  long  since  sunk  from  her  face. 

"After  all,"  she  murmured,  in  painful  concentration,  I 
cannot  do  it.  I  cannot  take  either  Thurston  for  my  own 
sake,  or  the  boy  for  his.  I  must  go  at  once  before  seeing 
them  again.  Mamma's  letter  will  come  in  the  morning. 
Upon  that  I  can  easily  frame  an  excuse." 

It  was  a  girl  of  weary  body  and  sore  heart  that  tossed 
and  cried  that  night  in  sleep,  but  morning  broke  in  the 
end,  and  hours  crawled  and  doubled  upon  themselves  till 
rising-time. 

The  letter  came.  A  sudden  illness  of  Eloise's  father 
called  her  home  immediately,  amid  the  smypathies  of 
Mrs.  Hastings'  family.  Harry,  down  in  the  city,  counted 
the  minutes  to  luncheon,  when,  obstacles  or  none,  he  would 
see  Eloise  again.  Midday  found  him  at  home — and  waiting 
for  him,  a  note  from  Eloise. 

"Forgive  me!     It  was  a  mistake.     I   love  someone  else. 

E." 

A  hundred  miles  away  with  the  pleading  thought,  "If  he 
will  but  thank  me  in  the  end,"  she  sped  southward  to 
loneliness  and  Hubert's  wraith. — EucyS.  Orrick  in  Eotus. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC    COMPANY-PACIFIC  SYSTEM. 


PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 

THE  supplement  accompanying  this  issue  of  the  News 
Letter  gives  the  Christian  an  idea  of  the  Celestial's 
place  of  worship,  with  its  weird,  grotesque  object  of  adora- 
tion. There  is  no  absence  of  imagination  in  the  image  or 
the  furnishings  of  the  interior  of  the  Temple,  which  in  a 
way  affords  one  something  of  an  idea  of  Chinese  character. 

An  article  well  bought  is  half  sold.  .1 .  F.  Cutter  Whiskey  is  always 
well  bought,  because  it  is  of  the  highest  quality,  and  to  sell  it  once 
is  to  sell  it  always.  For  many  years  this  tine  liquor  has  held  a  first 
place  in  every  first-class  bar.  E.  Martin  &  Co.,  at  411  Market  street, 
are  sole  Coast  agents  for  J.  F.  Cutter  Whiskey. 

The  flowers  that  bloom  in  the  spring,  tra  la,  are  all  very  well;  but 
Leopold,  at  35  Post  street,  has  the  choicest  buds  and  blossoms  to 
be  found  in  San  Francisco,  and  at  prices  that  defy  competition. 
Look  at  them. 


TrftiD*  Leave  »nd   Are  Duo   io  Arrive  at  SAN 

FRANCISCO: 

rn*n    Iprtt  ■ 

I  Arrit* 

•6:00  A  Niles,  San  Joae,  and  vnty    Mat  Ions  8:45  A 

7:00  A  Atlantic    Ktpi.ss,  i  iKMe'n  ami  East 8:45p 

7  :UU  a  Bcnlcia.    Vacavilln     Kumsey,    Sacramento,    Orovllle.    and 

KeddttiK.    vlu  6:45p 

7  .*»)  a  Martinez.  San  Kninnn,  Vallejo,  Napa.  Calistoga,  Santa  Rosa  6:15p 
H:»ia  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton.  lone,  Sacramento,    Marvsvllle, 

Chico.  Tehama,  and   Red    Hluff 4:15p 

•s:SQa  Peters  and  Milton  »7:15p 

9:00a  New  Orleans    Express.  Fresno.  Bakerslleld,  Santa  Barbara, 

Lob  Angeles,  Ueining.  El  Paso,  New  Orleans,  and  East —    4:45p 

9:00  a  Martinez  and  Stockton     4:45  P 

0:00a  Vallejo fl;iftp 

....   .     Ntles,  San  Jose  Llvcrmore,  and  Stockton 7:16 P 

•1 :00  p  Sacramento  River  steamers  *9  :fKJ  P 

1:00  p  Nilcs.  San  .lose,  and  Livermore 8:45a 

tl:30P  Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations f7:46P 

4  00  p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa       ,     . 9 :  15  a 

4:00p  Benicla,   Vacavllle.  Woodland,  Knight's   Landing,  Marys- 

vllle.  Orovllle.  and  Saoratnento  ...    11:15a 

4  30  P  Lathrop,  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  Raymond  {for  Yosem- 

Itej  and  Fresno,  going  ^la  Niles,  roturnfnK  via  Martinez..  11:45  A 
5:00p  Los  Angeles   Express,  Tracy.  Fresno.   Mojave  (for   Rands- 

burg), Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles —    7.45a 

5:00p  Santa  Fe  Route.  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East —    7:45  a 

0:00  p  European  mail,  Ogden  and  East 9:45  A 

6:00  p  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose  7:45  a 

17:00  p  Vallejo.  t7:45p 

7:00  p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land. Puget  Sound  and  East 11: 15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 


J7:45  a  Santa  Cruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  18:05  p 
b:45a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Houlder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations  5:50  p 
"8:15  p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *ll:20A 

4:15  P  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos  .         9:50/ 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

7:00  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1 :30  p 
9 .00  a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Roblefi 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principal  way  stations    4:15  P 

10  :40  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6:3i)p 

11:30  A  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations   5:u0p 

*2 :30  p  San  Mateo,  Menld  Park.  San  Jose.  Gllroy.  Tres  Pinos,  Santa 

Cruz,  Salinas.  Monterey  Pacific  Grove *10:40  a 

*3:30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations.     9:45a 

*4:30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations  *8:05a 

5 :30  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations  * *8 :45  a 

6  :30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations.. 6:35  a 

tl  I  :45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations ¥7:45  p 

San  Lkandro  and  Haywards  Local. 


i«6  00  Al 
8:00  A 

7:15  A 

29:45  A 

9:00A 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00  a 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

ill  .00  A 

FITCBBDRG, 

12:45  P 

2:00  P 

San  Leandro, 

(1:45  P 

i'3:00  F 

and 
Haywards. 

4:45  P 

4:00  p 

(5:45  P 

5:00  p 

6:15  p 

5:30  p 

7:45  p 

7:00  p 

*  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

8:45  P 

8:00  P 

(  From  Niles 

9:45  P 

9:00  P 

10:50  p 

ttll:15  p 

lttl2:00  p 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  (Slip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  a.  M..  11:00.  »2:0U.  13:00.  *4:00,J5:00  and  *6:00p.  m. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of- Broadway.—  *6:00,  8:00,  10:00  a.  m.;  112:00, *1:00, 
12 :00,  *3 :00,  t4 :00  *5 :00  p.  M. 

A  for  Morning,     p  for  Afternoon.     "Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

HTuesdays  and  Saturdays.  ^Sundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  oheck  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  Information 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  m.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting   at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc     No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Gaelic Wednesday,  April  21. 1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu), Tuesday,  May  11, 1897 

Belgic  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29. 1897 

Coptic - Thursday,  June  17,  1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 

corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS.  Secretary 

iVHAlflf  s   s   "Australia",  for  Honolulu    only,  Tuesday, 

)l?HllSL  April  20th,  at  2  p    m. 

J  fc  ^  S.  S.  "Monowai,"  Thursday,  April  29tb,  at  2  P  M. 

,  J  /""T^x  Line   t0  Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 

'G)lE3IH$lliP^  '    J.  D.  SPRECKELS&RROS  CO., 

/KmFWD/J-      Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.    Freight  office,  327 
^lllfAlliq^     Market  St.,San  Francisco. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


April  17,  1897. 


INSURANCE 

THE  resignation  of  M.  E.  Higgins  not  having  been  ac- 
cepted by  the  Governor,  will  allow  him  to  draw  two 
salaries — that  of  General  Superintendent  of  the  Pacific 
Mutual,  and  Insurance  Commissioner,  as  well.  Higgins 
is  not  making  any  complaint  at  the  neglect  of  Governor 
Budd. 

The  $50,000  damage  suit  of  Jacob  Wolf  of  Portland 
against  the  Aachen  &  Munich,  the  Home  of  New  York, 
the  Commercial  Union,  and  the  Fire  Association,  for  arrest 
on  a  charge  of  arson,  is  considered  a  big  bluff. 

The  Fire  Patrol  of  San  Francisco,  which  has  been  sup- 
ported since  organization  by  contributions  of  the  different 
fire  offices,  has  secured  official  recognition  by  the  Legisla- 
ture, and  now  all  companies,  including  the  Lloyds,  will  be 
taxed  for  its  maintenance. 

The  Alliance  Assurance  Company  will  at  once  erect  a 
five-story  modern  building  on  its  property  at  416-418 
California  street. 

Manager  Lowden,  of  the  Norwich  Union,  has  returned 
from  a  visit  to  the  Northwest. 

J.  W.  G.  Cofran,  Chairman  Governing  Committee  of  the 
Western  Union,  Chicago,  is  spending  a  month's  vacation 
in  California. 

David  Lawrie,  of  the  London  Assurance,  en  route  to 
Japan,  is  visiting  Manager  George  F.  Grant. 

D.  E.  Miles,  Assistant  Manager  of  the  London  &  Lanca- 
shire, is  in  Honolulu. 

The  Marine  Underwriters  Association  held  its  regular 
meeting  on  the  15th. 

II.  K.  Field,  General  Agent  of  the  New  England  Mutual 
Life,  with  his  son  Charles  K.,  attended  the  reception  given 
in  honor  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  President  Stevens' 
official  connection  with  the  company  on  the  9th  inst.  in 
Boston. 

Charles  F.  Wilson  has  been  appointed  a  special  by  Gen- 
eral Agent  Medcraft  of  the  Scottish  Union  and  National. 

The  Helvetia-Swiss  has  been  admitted  to  Washington 
and  Montana. 

Manager  J.  G.  Conrad  has  returned  from  a  business  trip 
to  Chicago. 

Manager  L.  B.  Edwards,  of  the  Manchester,  has  gone 
to  Chicago  to  confer  with  representatives  of  the  home 
office. 

Mrs.  D.  W.  Dohrmann,  of  Stockton,  has  been  appointed 
Agent  of  the  Standard  Life  and  Accident  Insurance  Com- 
pany by  Manager  Biggs. 

The  passage  of  the  County  Mutual  law,  providing  for 
the  organization  and  management  of  county  fire  insurance 
companies,  will  probably  act  as  a  great  stimulus  for  the 
growth  of  irresponsible  wild  cat  schemes  for  cheap  insur- 
ance throughout  the  State.  It  will  be  perfectly  safe  for 
those  who  contemplate  insuring  to  look  twice  before  they 
insure  in  the  coming  county  insurance  companies. 

Boston  is  to  have  a  horseless  fire  engine,  of  a  pattern 
practically  valuable.  It  will  be  remembered  that  Chicago 
tried  the  experiment,  and  horses  had  to  pull  the  engine 
out  of  the  street. 

Seattle  has  introduced  the  latest  improved  fire  alarm 
boxes  with  glass  fronts. 

J".  L.  M.  Shetterley,  Manager  of  the  Fidelity  Mutual 
Aid,  was  some  time  ago  married  to  Miss  Kate  V.  Heavey, 
an  accomplished  young  lady  from  Tehama  County.  The 
secret  was  so  carefully  guarded  that  the  fact  has  just 
leaked  out,  and  his  maDy  friends  are  shower.ng  him  with 
congratulations. 

iyr  E.  WENDELL  E  ASTON  delivered  a  very  interesting 
I  I  lecture  at  Golden  Gate  hall  last  Wednesday  evening 
on  "California's  Country  Homes."  The  lecture  was  illus- 
trated with  colored  stereopticon  slides,  and  was  both  en- 
tertaining and  instructive. 

Japanese  art  is  the  most  distinctive,  dainty,  and  delicate  of  all. 
George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  at  625  Market  street,  under  the  Palace  Hotel, 
have  a  splendid  variety  of  Japanese  art  goods  and  quaint  tapestries 
that  are  worth  a  long  journey  to  see.  Drop  in  and  get  a  liberal  edu- 
cation in  Japanese  art.    Spend  a  pleasant  hour  and  get  prices. 


For    Hoarseness,  Coughs,  Asthma  and  Bronchial  Troubles,  use 
'  Brown's  Bronchial  Troches."    Sold  only  in  boxes .    Avoid  Imitations. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO, 


SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 
309  and  311  Sansome  St.  -         San   Francisco,  Cal 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  46Threadneedle  St., London 

SIMPSON,  MACKIRDY  &  CO 29  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 

INSURANCE. 

FIRE,   MARINE,   AND   INLAND  INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),  OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager.  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fire  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Company    of  North   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  PHNN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Polloy  Holders 5,023,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up : »l,O0O,00O 

Assets 3,192.001 .  69 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,606,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  601  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD   &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  Established  1782. 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON   NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  179. 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF   LIVERPOOL. 

Capital »6,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents. 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

nR  RIPnPn'Q  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu- 
wt\.  nii/unu  o  ine— Aspeolflo  for  Exhausted  Vitality.  Physical 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medloine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
J.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

prices  reduced-box  of  50  puis,  ti  25;  of  100  pins,  »2;  of  200pius, 

13  50 ;  of  400  pills,  (6 ;  Preparatory  Pills  (2.    Send  for  circular. 

Joseph  Gillott's  Steel  Fens, 

Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1889.    These  pens  are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mr.  Henry  Hoe,  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers . 


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SAN  FRANCISCO,   AI'RIL  24,  1897. 


Number  17. 


Mnttd  M  f»Mu«w  mry  Dalurdaf  (-»  M»  proprUtor.  MKI>  HARRIOT! 

W,  Ktarmt  itrrtt.  San  rronrtsco      Knttrtd   at   San    Krancitco  Poll- 

oJUt  <u  Sttond-cUut  Matter. 
Tkt  ofa  of  tSe   SSWS  LSTTBR  (n   .Wir  York  City  it  at  Temple  Court; 

and  at    CkUego.  MU    Bouct    Building.  {Frank  K    Morriton,  Katttrn 

Repreientatiee).  vktre  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  mtbecrip 

tion  and  adrerfistng  ratet. 

THE  Board  of  Health  should  stand  firm  in  its  determin- 
ation to  prevent  the  sale  of  adulterated  foods. 

IT  is  now  estimated  that  more  than  20,000  Christian  En- 
deavorers  will  visit  San  Francisco  during  the  national 
convention  in  July.  They  should  be  made  welcome,  for  they 
represent  the  very  best  elements  of  practical  Christianity. 
The  Endeavorers  stand  (or  an  earnest  purpose  that  com- 
mends itself  to  every  man  who  respects  character  and 
sincerity.  Before  they  leave  us.  they  may  be  able  to  help 
some  of  our  churches  that  are  short  on  piety  and  salvation 
and  long  on  creed  and  sensation. 


THE  milkmen  of  this  city,  who  have  been  compelled  to 
sell  milk  without  water,  are  crying  out  against  their 
sharper  brethren  of  the  can  without  cream,  and  declare 
that  they  adulterate  their  lacteal  fluid  with  choice  Spring 
Valley  after  their  wagons  are  turned  loose  by  the  inspec- 
tors. These  newly-honest  dealers  desire  that  all  shall  fare 
alike,  and  are  anxious  to  aid  the  inspectors  in  detecting 
the  milk  and  water  criminals.  All  of  which  shows  that 
enforced  integrity  has  sometimes  a  keener  nose  than 
native  honestv. 


THE  death  of  an  aspiring  young  pugilist  resulted  at 
San  Jose  Wednesday  night  from  a  "terrific  right-hand 
swing,"  which  landed  on  his  jaw,  which  also  knocked  the 
life  out  of  the  athletic  club  at  the  same  time.  It  may  be 
noted  that  the  police  were  present  to  see  that  the  fight 
was  properly  conducted  !  It  is  nearly  time  for  some  mus- 
cular bruiser  to  awaken  the  sleeping  conscience  of  San 
Francisco  by  peaceable  slaughter  of  a  fellow  pugilist  in  the 
presence  of  the  police  and  a  few  tender-hearted  Super- 
visors. 

M  ILLIONAIRE  Bradbury  of  San  Francisco,  who  was 
i"  fined  for  having  expectorated  upon  the  floorof  a  Sac- 
ramento-street car,  says  he  will  spit  wherever  he  may 
choose — at  least,  until  the  highest  tribunal  in  the  country 
denies  him  the  right  to  inflict  his  mouth  upon  those  about 
him.  The  ordinance  violated  by  the  obstinate  citizen  rests 
upon  a  foundation  of  good  sense,  good  health  and  good 
manners.  Possibly  Millionaire  Bradbury  might  defeat  his 
persecutors  and  win  his  case  by  setting  up  that  the  Su- 
pervisors did  not  intend  the  order  to  apply  to  hogs. 

THERE  is  room  for  extending  the  business  of  San  Fran- 
cisco with  West  Coast  centers  of  South  America,  and 
certain  gold  awaits  it.  There  is  nothing  new  in  the  state- 
ment ;  but  it  is  possible  that  the  business  men  of  the  city 
will  organize  for  the  purpose  of  trade  development  with 
South  Pacific  peoples.  Germany  and  England  have  long 
dominated  the  commerce  of  those  countries,  have  become 
opulent,  and  have  amassed  millions  upon  millions  of  money 
by  exercising  ordinary  adventure  and  energy.  Their  con- 
quest has  been  unobstructed  and  unchallenged  by  one  of 
the  richest  cities  of  its  size  in  the  world — San  Francisco 
— which  has  the  better  right,  and  which  comparatively 
lies  within  hail  of  this  passing  commerce.  This  matter  has 
been  talked  about  here  for  some  time;  and  notwithstand- 
ing the  warm  weather,  it  is  announced  that  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  has  published  and  is  distributing  a  circular 
calling  for  a  future  meeting  for  more  talk. 


THE  great  sugar  industry  of  this  State  is  to  be  stimu- 
lated by  the  addition  of  large  Eastern  capital.  The 
American  Sugar  Refineries  Company  has  purchased  an 
interest  in  the  Spreckels  properties;  and  although  the  in- 
dustry was  being  rapidly  developed,  the  new  deal  will  in- 
crease this  activity.  California  has  within  its  own  borders 
every  element  necessary  to  the  erection  of  a  prosperous 
empire.  The  future  holds  permanent  development  and 
material  progress  for  the  people  of  this  State. 

THE  fight  for  pure  food  meets  with  general  approval, 
but  the  result  of  the  chemist's  work  shows  that  sale  of 
adulterated  jelly  goes  sweetly  on,  notwithstanding.  The 
gelatinous  stuff  bearing  the  strongest  guarantees  of  purity 
is  found  to  be  the  worst.  The  mixture  in  many  cases  is 
harmless,  but  that  fact  does  not  lessen  the  fraud.  These 
local  purveyors  of  impure  foods  have  shown  that  they  can 
meet  Eastern  competition.  Their  consciences  are  diluted 
quite  as  much  as  their  goods.  Truly,  this  is  a  wicked  and 
adulterated  generation,  and  the  man  who  knows  what  he 
is  eating  hath  wisdom. 

IT  is  announced  that  President  McKinley  will  appoint 
Judge  McKenna  to  a  position  on  the  Supreme  Bench, 
upon  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Justice  Field;  and  the  Washing- 
ton dispatches  say  that  the  aged  jurist  would  step  down  at 
once  except  for  the  desire  of  his  wife  to  accomplish  certain 
brilliant  social  functions  before  sinking  to  the  level  of  pri- 
vate life.  The  gallantry  of  the  distinguished  octogena- 
rian will  be  regarded  with  deep  grief  by  Judge  Waymire, 
who  expects  to  warm  the  chair  now  occupied  by  McKenna, 
when  the  Attorney-General  steps  up  higher.  Recent 
political  vicissitudes  have  painfully  sharpened  the  appre- 
hensive faculties  of  the  Alameda  statesman. 


M  R.  AMBROSE,  Superintendent  of  Streets,  will  be 
I  1  given  an  opportunity  by  the  Supervisors  to  deny  that 
he  has  men  on  his  pay-roll  who  do  nothing  but  draw  their 
existence  from  politician  Graney  and  their  salaries  from 
the  tax-payers.  Also,  why  others  are  paid  $4  and  $5  per 
day  for  services  that  are  worth  not  to  exceed  $2.50?  Graney 
and  Ambrose,  the  Supervisors  think,  are  operating  as  a 
close  corporation,  and  have  no  respect  for  a  square  division 
of  the  spoils  of  insolent  office.  The  street  committee  of 
the  Board  of  Supervisors  will  smoke  out  the  unfeeling  Am- 
brose by  refusing  to  agree  to  his  appropriation  for  next  year 
unless  he  develops  a  disposition  to  recognize  their  rights 
in  appointments.  Really,  Ambrose  seems  to  have  forgotten 
the  old  adage  that  there  should  be  honor  among — politi- 
cians. 

MAYOR  PHELAN  has  called  the  attention  of  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  to  the  fact  that  cemetery  asso- 
ciations are  continually  selling  lots  for  burial  in  the  city 
limits,  in  utter  contempt  of  resolutions  of  the  Board.  The 
Mayor  further  has  expressed  a  decided  objection  to  these 
places  of  sepulture,  for  the  reason  that  they  obstruct  pro- 
gress, and  are  to  be  condemned  upon  sanitary  reasons. 
The  Mayor's  views  are  those  of  intelligent  understanding. 
Sentiment  is  all  right  in  its  place;  but  it  is  nothing  less 
than  amazing  that  we  continue  to  inter  our  dead  in  the 
precincts  of  the  living.  The  cemeteries  should  be  con- 
demned as  a  positive  and  growing  menace  to  health.  The 
sacred  dead  should  be  removed  to  more  distant  and  har- 
monious place.  We  may  justly  reverence  the  memory  of 
the  departed,  and  consecrate  the  ground  where  their 
bodies  sleep,  but  we  should  not  forget  the  living,  nor  allow 
a  false  sentiment  to  raise  up  and  maintain  a  certain  men- 
ace to  health  and  life  at  our  very  doors  :  We  love  the  dead 
— but  do  not  wish  to  join  them. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  24,  1897. 


THE      ERRATICS     OF     THE     NEW     TARIFF. 

THE  new  tariff  is  a  mosaic   which  do  man  can  piece  to- 
gether.    The  House,  under  the  lash  and  whip  of  Czar 
Reed,  has  hurried  it  on  without  regard   to  its  symmetry, 
form,  or  applicability  to  the  existing  condition  of  things. 
It  has  gone  to  the  Senate  where  the  whip  and  spur  are  be- 
ing applied  with  vigor,  and  some   chance  of  success,  as  it 
is  understood  that   deals   have   been   made   by  which  the 
silver  Republicans  are  to  "stand  in,"    as   it  was  expected 
they  would.     The  passage  of  the  bill  is   therefore  assured, 
but  a  crop  of  amendments  in  the  Upper  House  are  pretty 
certain.  The  proposed  tariff  was  incubated  by  a  Committee 
not  yet  sworn  in  as  members  of  the  present  House.     All 
accounts  agree  that  if  the  House   had   been   permitted  to 
vote  on    these    amendments    most    of   them    would  have 
carried.     But  it  was  not  allowed  to  vote  upon  them.  Thus 
a  committee  drawn  in  its  entirety  before  the  present  Con- 
gress met,   has   been  imposed    from     the    outside  upon 
the   inside  without   adequete  debate   or  opportunity   for 
amendment,  and  then  the  Senate   and  Country  were  told 
that  this  was  the  spontaneous  voice  of  the  House  of  Re- 
presentatives!    Who  framed  this   tariff   bill?     Accurately 
speaking,  the  tariff  beneficiaries  pulling  the  strings  that 
move  their  puppets  on  the  Committee.     The  solid  trusts 
"that  had  the  fat  fried  out  of  them"  for  campaign  pur- 
poses are  ualpably  now  leading  the  country  by  the  nose  on 
the  great  tariff  question.     We  are  all  to  be  over-taxed  to 
pay  the  cost  of  Major  McKinley's  election  as  President. 
The  whole  bill  is  full  of  inconsistencies  that  can    neither  be 
explained  or  argued  away.     Mr.  Dingley,    for  instance,  is 
on  record,  as  bitterly  opposed  to  the  principal  schedule  of 
his  own  bill.     His  bill  of  last   session   with  duties  on  wool 
and  woolens  at  about  half  the  rates  now  proposed  was  his 
idea  of  what  the  tariff  should   be.     But  now   he   has  been 
outvoted   and  humiliated   in   his   own  Committee   and   is 
forced  to  get  up  in  the  House,  and  defend  schedules  which 
he   privately   denounces   as  monstrous.     The   articles   of 
perfumery    and    especially    hair    tonics,    dentifrices  and 
similar  alcoholic  preparations  are  practically  shut  out  of  this 
country  altogether,  and  are  not  produced  here.     Take  for 
instance  eau  de  quinine  and   we  find  that  whereas  the  duty 
under  previous  tariffs  was  but  31  per  cent,   it  is  proposed 
that  it  shall  at  once   jump,  under  the  new  law,Jto  150  per 
cent.     To  point  out  all  the   absurdities  and  irrational  pro- 
posals of  the  new   law   would   take   several  pages   of  the 
News  Letter,  and  no  little  fun  could  be  made  out  of  even 
so  dull  a  subject.     But  it  is  not  going  to  pass  as  it  is.  The 
Senate  contains  men  who  will   not  stand  it   and  mean  to 
amend  it  out  of  all   recognition.     Many  of   them  have  re- 
cords and  will  stand  by  them.     If  the  so-called  house  com- 
mittee had  three  months  to   work   on   the   tariff  bill,  the 
Senate  Finance  Committee  may  well  demand  two.     A  sub- 
committee of  four  is,  in  fact,  already  at  work  on  a  measure 
of  its  own.     To  oppose   a   tariff  framed  in  the  House  by 
practically  six  men,  a  tariff  will  be   offered  in   the  Senate 
made  by  three  men.     This  Committee  will  do  well  to  take 
advice  from  a   source  that  Mr.    Dingley  and  his  advisers 
have  strangely  neglected.    We  refer  to  the  recorded  views 
of  Wm.  McKinley.     He  said  in  a  speech  in  the  House  upon 
the  adoption  of  the  tariff  that  bears  his  own  name:     "If  a 
new  policy  is  hereafter   to  be   inaugurated,   and   new  de- 
partures made,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the   change  will  be 
made  sufficiently  remote  from  the  present  time  to  enable 
business  men  and   trades   people   to   prepare  for  the  new 
order  of  things  and  adjust  their  new  trade  conformably  to 
it.     A  law  passed  presently  to  go   into  operation  at  once, 
or  in  the  near  future  would  be  without  justification  on  the 
part  of  the  House,  and,  I  may  almost  say,  would  be  an  act 
of  criminality." 

Remodeling  Governor  Budd  has  just  appointed  three 
the  Codes,  new  Code  Commissioners,  who  supersede  the 
old  ones.  The  men  who  bave  just  left  office 
patched  up  the  existing  codes  rather  gingerly,  but  were 
conservative  and  safe.  Some  good  and  no  evil  would  have 
come  of  their  handiwork,  and  tbe  Legislature  might  well 
have  accepted  it  en  globo.  But  for  some  reason  hard  to 
fathom  it  was  emphatically  opposed  to  the  commission  and 
all  its  work.  It  took  revision  into  its  own  hands  and  added 
about  three  hundred  amendments  to  the  existing  codes, 
rendering  confusion  worse   confounded.      We   do   not  yet 


know,  because  of  the  trouble  with  the  printing  office, 
what  changes  have  been  made.  The  evil  to  be  cured  is 
about  as  bad  as  it  can  be,  but  to  remedy  it  by  special 
legislation  is  a  mistake  from  whatever  point  of  view  it  is 
looked  at.  The  codes  ought  to  be  so  framed  that  they  will 
stand  criticism,  ensure  justice  and  equity,  and  made  so 
clear  to  the  Appellate  Court  that  cow  county  Judges  will 
either  administer  them  as  they  are,  or  suffer  such  repri- 
mands from  the  higher  court  as  could  not  fail  to  have  a 
due  effect.  It  does  not  seem  to  be  generally  known,  but 
it  is  nevertheless  the  fact,  that  a  persistent  refusal  to  fol- 
low the  rulings  of  the  court  above  renders  the  Judge  be- 
low amenable  to  disbarrment  and  removal  from  his  bench. 
We  are  not  of  those  who  cry  out  against  our  highest  ap- 
pellate court.  It  cannot  accomplish  the  impossible  and 
keep  abreast  of  its  calendar,  but  it  can  and  it  does 
straighten  out  the  crooked  law  of  many  an  inferior  court. 
There  are  counties  in  which  no  man's  life,  liberty,  or  prop- 
erty would  be  safe  if  it  were  not  for  the  existence  of  a 
higher  court.  Said  the  late  Professor  Calhoun  Benham  to 
the  writer:  "Thank  God  we  have  a  Supreme  Court,  as 
otherwise  the  judiciary  of  the  interior  would  mean  chaos." 
The  main  difficulty  of  the  upper  court  is  to  keep  decisions 
below  from  unsettling  determined  principles  of  law.  If  the 
new  Code  Commissioners  succeed  in  giving  us  a  code  that 
will  remain  intact  on  the  statute  book,  they  will  deserve 
all  the  honors  that  can  be  showered  upon  them.  We  fear 
such  a  consummation  impossible,  because  the  Legislature 
will  not  have  it  so.  It  will  amend  and  amend  every 
session  over  again,  so  that  no  possiole  code  will  remain 
definite  and  settled.  If  we  all  are  to  know  anything  what- 
ever of  the  laws  under  which  we  live,  those  laws  must  not 
eternally  be  undergoing  changes.  The  New  York  code 
has  won  such  approval  that  it  is  well  nigh  impregnable. 
California  badly  needs  something  like  it.  We  have  the  be- 
lief that  Shanahan  of  Shasta,  ex-Congressman  Caminetti, 
and  Bulla  of  Los  Angeles,  are  a  head  and  shoulders  above 
the  average  Legislator,  but  that  they  are  just  the  men 
to  give  us  a  permanent  code  we  somewhat  doubt. 

The  Present  The  present  position  of  Italy  is  to  some 
Position  people  an  enigma.  She  is  yet  in  the  Drei- 
Of  Italy.  bund  but  not  of  it.  She  is  not  adrift  from 
the  Concert  of  Europe,  yet  she  is  not  for  it, 
because  her  high  spirited  people  decline  to  be  put  on  re- 
cord as  favoring  the  Turks  against  the  Greeks.  The 
Italians  have  had  many  soft  words,  which  butter  no  par- 
snips, said  to  them,  but  they  decline  all  advances  from 
that  quarter.  They  refuse  all  overtures  from  the  Mussul- 
mans and  adhere  to  the  cause  of  their  kith  and  kin.  Blood 
is  thicker  than  water  even  on  the  shore  of  the  Med- 
iterranean. The  ultimate  attitude  of  Italy  is  not  in  doubt. 
Already  it  is  given  out  from  Germany  that  she  is  to  be 
put  out  of  the  Dreibund,  because  she  cannot  keep  step  to 
the  needed  expenses.  Germany  is  the  head  and  front  of 
the  reactionary  influences  of  Europe  at  the  present 
time,  and  Austria  is  her  shadow,  in  the  Greek  matter. 
Italy's  place  will  be  found  with  France  and  England,  the 
other  great  powers  in  which  the  Government  is  amenable 
to  the  popular  will.  Russia  ought  to  and  probably  will, 
take  the  place  in  the  triple  Alliance  which  she  had  when 
that  combination  was  first  formed,  and  which,  on  her  with- 
drawal was  taken  by  Italy  a  league  of  the  three  Emperors, 
and  an  Alliance  of  France,  England  and  Italy  would  end 
the  present  artificial  arrangement,  in  which  there  is  neither 
heart,  or  soul,  or  true  feeling  or  real  interest.  There  is 
nothing  in  common  between  Italy  and  Germany  or  between 
Russia  and  Ital},  or  between  Russia  and  England.  Ger- 
many is  going  her  own  road,  and  that,  is  incompatible  with 
everything  French.  Germany  kept  England  and  France 
apart  for  awhile,  but  the  exposure  of  the  Bismarck  secret 
treaty  with  Russia  ends  all  that.  Germany  has  made  the 
mistake  of  the  last  decade,  and  her  hot  headed  Emperor  is 
to  blame  for  it.  Not  during  this  generation  will  Germany 
and  England  be  found  on  the  same  side  again. 

Is  Cuba     If  there  be  anything  in  appearances,  it   would 
Sold  1      seem  that  Spain   has   sold   Cuba   to   somebody 
representing  the  insurgents.      Spain   is  with- 
drawing her  troops  to  a  mere   handful.      The  insurgents 
are  doing  little  or  nothing,   aud   the  belligerants   are   not 
saying  the  ugly  things  of  each  other  that  they  were  a  few 


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■  '1    than  that  the 
Cubans  can  find  the  money.     It  ia  said  that   they  can  pro 
cure  it  in  Now  York  by  mortgaging  their  rich   sugar  es- 
but  that  will  Involve  the  I  Hit.  i  some  sort 

of  interference  sooner  or  later  There  will  ere  long  be 
trouble  among  the  people  that  irill  lead  to  much  the  kind 
of  differences  that  SO  frequently  occur  in  the  worst  parts  of 
South  America.  The  interests  of  our  people  must  be  pro- 
tected, and  our  Government  must  protect  them.  That 
italicized  must  means  a  great  deal  It  will  mean  civil  war 
in  the  first  place,  and  to  interference  on  our  part  in  the 
next.  There  will  soon  be  local  hatreds,  strifes,  and  even  war. 
In  that  pretty  certain  event,  the  American  money  loaners 
can  do  nothing  better  than  lean  upon  Uncle  Sam,  aod  all 
the  time  we  shall  practically  be  collecting  English  bonds, 
held  in  American  names.  The  ramifications  of  money  are 
multitudinous,  and  the  coin  that  goes  to  Cuba  will  pretty 
surely  be,  in  fact.  English.  Collecting  Cuba's  English 
debts  will  be  a  newer  and  more  agreeable  way  of  "twist- 
ing the  British  lion's  tail."  Although  in  many  aspects  un- 
desirable, annexation  ultimately  may  become  the  lesser  of 
two  evils.  As  to  the  pride  of  the  Spanish,  which  is  un- 
doubtedly at  home,  has  not  cut  much  of  a  figure  abroad. 
Her  great  colonies  she  haslet  go  one  by  one,  upon  very  easy 
and  even  humiliating  terms.  In  view  of  ber  past,  there 
can  be  no  great  loss  of  pride  in  her  selling  Cuba  now.  We 
regret  that  it  should  be  so.  We  should  like  to  see  the 
Mother  of  Colonization  retain  the  little  that  is  left  to  her. 
But  that  seems  hardly  possible  now.  A  want  of  frugality 
has  been  the  cause  of  most  of  her  troubles.  Once  the 
world's  storehouse  of  gold,  she  has  not  saved  enough  to 
protect  herself  from  foes  at  home  and  abroad. 

The  Tortey  Congress  has  been  promising  the  Coun- 
Bankruptcy  Bill,  try  a  Bankruptcy  law  for  many  years 
past,  but,  as  the  promise  had  no  money 
at  the  back  of  it,  and  no  lobby,  what  was  everybody's 
business  proved  to  be  nobody's  business.  But  something 
is  going  to  be  done  this  session.  The  measure  has  been 
given  an  early  start,  and  as  it  has  the  support  of  almost 
all  the  Boards  of  Trade,  and  Chambers  of  Commerce  in  the 
country,  it  appears  to  have  a  good  chance  of  enactment. 
The  repeal  of  the  old  law  in  1886  without  substituting 
another  for  it,  was  a  dirty  parliamentary  trick  which  was 
severe'y  denounced  at  the  time.  The  South  has  kept  the 
matter  bung  up  ever  since  and  has  not  improved  her  cred- 
it thereby.  The  disposition  to  evade  passing  such  Bank- 
ruptcy laws  as  are  found  in  other  States,  and  to  prevent 
the  Federal  Government  passing  a  general  law,  has  been 
regretted  by  the  best  Northern  friends  that  section  has. 
All  the  great  business  centres  have  for  years  urged  the 
enactment  of  the  Torrey  bill,  but  with  surprising  non- 
success.  The  sooner  it  gets  on  to  the  statute  book  the 
better.  It  is  essential  to  the  restoration  of  business  con- 
fidence. 

The  Trouble     England  never  seems  to    be    out    of    one 
In  The  trouble   until  she     is  into   another.      Her 

Transvaal.  membership  in  the  combine  known  as  the 
"Concert  of  Europe"  is  enough,  in  all  con- 
science, for  one  power  to  attend  to.  It  might  well  break 
down  half  a  dozen  statesmen  to  meet  the  numerous  difficul- 
ties that  wait  upon  existing  European  conflicts.  But  the 
British  foreign  office  is  not  only  able  to  attend  to  them  all 
but  is  ready  to  give  attention  to  whatever  corner  of  the 
world  in  which  others  may  turn  up.  In  all  these  affairs 
our  popular  papers  predict  that  she  is  going  to  get  the 
worst  of  it,  and  the  very  mischief  is  going  to  happen  as 
a  consequence.  Yet  as  a  rule  she  comes  out  something 
more  than  even.  At  present  she  has  a  pretty  considerable 
affair  looming  up  in   the   Transvaal.     The  foreign  miners, 


»h    and    Americans,    will    either 

or    Kruger    will    ba 

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blood  would  ha  aforeona   Boer,  and  abac 

don  their  property       It    i>.   pretty   safe    to   predict,  ti 

si.ch  thing  would  happen.  That  the  Boers  are  becoming 
more  and  more  determined  todi  danders  out,  by 

-  of  adverse  legislation,  is    perfectly  clear       They  arc 

a  people  very  stubborn  and  tixed  In  their  views.  It  is  hard 
to  make  them  see  either  the  inevitable,  or  accept  it.   They 

will  light  with  splendid  valor,  without  hardly  knowing 
The  task  before  BDgland  ought  only  to  diplomacy, 

but  the  Boors  know  little  and  care  less  about  blandish- 
ments of  that  kind.  They  know  what  they  want,  and  do 
not  care  for  much  talk  about  it.  They  want  the  Uitlander 
out  of  the  country  in  fact,  as  well  as  in  name.  As  the 
Uitlander  will  not  go  voluntarily  there  seems  nothing 
left  10  the  Boers  but  to  try  and  make  him.  This  they  are 
seeking  to  do  by  indirection:  that  is  by  legislation  under 
which  it  is  impossible  to  live  and  conduct  mining  operations. 
It  would,  under  these  circumstances,  seem  inevitable  'hat 
there  will  be  a  fight,  the  result  of  which  can  be  in  no  man- 
ner of  doubt  this  time.  The  strength  and  temper  of  the 
Boers  have  been  tested,  and  England  knows  how  to  make 
the  means  equal  to  the  end.  Her  great  Indian  army  are 
only  a  little  way  off,  and  would  be  found  much  more  than 
equal  to  the  emergency.  If  Oom  Paul  can  only  induce  his 
people  to  see  that  the  Uitlanders  are  there  to  stay,  the 
peace  may  not  after  all  be  broken.  But  that  is  not  the 
outlook  at  present. 

$100,000,000  Worth     These  figures  represent  the  yearly 
of  Sugar.  total  of  sugar  we  buy  from  foreign- 

ers. It  is  a  vast  sum.  Last  year 
every  pound  of  wheat  and  flour  we  exported  was  required 
to  pay  for  the  sugar  we  imported.  That  is  a  startling 
fact  that  must  seem  hardly  credible  lo  the  uninitiated. 
There  is  no  reason  why  such  a  huge  sum  should  much 
longer  remain  on  the  wrong  side  of  our  commercial  ledger. 
California  alone  is  abundantly  able  to  produce  the  whole, 
with  profit  to  herself  and  with  advantage  to  the  nation. 
It  has  been  considered  a  misfortune  that  our  fertile  plains 
and  valleys  have  so  long  remained  comparatively  unculti- 
vated, but  it  begins  to  look  as  if  a  kind  Providence  had 
preserved  the  virgin  soil  intact  for  the  production  of  the 
sugar  beet.  Beet  sugar  has  become  of  so  much  import- 
ance to  the  farmers,  manufacturers,  and  merchants  of 
Germany  and  Prance  that  they  are  engaged  in  a  sort  of 
protective  duel  over  the  first  place  in  its  exportation,  for 
which  both  countries  pay  a  bounty.  Supplying  sugar  to 
the  world  is  clearly  a  profitable  business.  Our  own  cash 
payment  averages  $274,000  a  day,  which  is  proof  enough 
that  there  is  money  in  sugar  from  this  one  customer  alone; 
and  that  average  will  necessarily  increase  with  the  greater 
canning  output.  We  produced  last  year  about  40,000  tons 
of  beet  sugar  of  the  best  quality,  which  is  not  much,  to  be 
sure,  but  it  is  an  excellent  beginning,  and  shows  that  time 
will  do  wonders  for  us  in  this  direction.  The  new  tariff  has 
been  fixed  just  as  the  sugar  growers  wanted  it,  and  will 
undoubtedly  give  a  great  impetus  to  the  production  of  this 
wonderfully  money-making  article  of  commerce. 

Collector  of  The  appointment  of  Colonel  John  P.  Jack- 
the  Port.  son  to  the  position  of  Collector  of  the  Port 
of  San  Francisco,  on  Wednesday,  by  Presi- 
dent McKinley,  andhis  prompt  confirmation  by  the  Senate 
on  the  day  following,  was  an  expected  and  deserved  recog- 
nition of  the  Colonel's  services  to  his  party  in  this  State. 
There  is  no  one  in  California  better  known  than  John  P. 
Jackson;  and  his  services  to  the  Republican  cause  in  the 
last  campaign  entitled  him  to  substantial  remembrance 
by  the  President.  The  appointment  will  meet  the  approval 
of  his  party  generally,  and  of  the  business  community,  and 
what  is  more,  will  give  this  port  the  services  of  a  thor- 
oughly competent  and  faithful  official.  Colonel  Jackson 
was  a  candidate  for  Collector  of  this  Port  when  General 
Harrison  became  President;  but  failing  to  secure  the 
Senatorial  endorsement  of  the  State,  was  appointed  to  the 
United  States  Sub-treasury  by  Harrison.  That  was  the 
only  office  the  Colonel  ever  held,  notwithstanding  his 
prominence  in  the  party  and  valued  services  in  the  ranks. 
The  new  appointee  will  take  office  on  the  first  day  of  June. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  24,  1897. 


Adulterated  The  vigorous  and  persistent  efforts  of  the 
Food.  Board  of  Health   to  protect  the  consumers 

of  San  Francisco  from  adulterated  foods  put 
up  and  fraudulently  sold  for  pure  products,  are  to  be  com- 
mended. It  appears  tnat  in  no  other  way  can  the  whole- 
sale manufacture  of  adulterated  goods  be  prevented  or 
even  partially  suspended.  The  plea  made  by  California 
makers  of  jellies,  etc.,  that  they  have  been  forced  into 
the  manufacture  of  impure  food  by  the  unchecked  compe- 
tition of  the  East,  is  not  worth  a  moment's  consideration. 
If  they  were  aware  of  the  frauds,  they  should  have  warned 
the  public  against  them,  rather  than  attempt  to  meet 
fraud  by  fraud,  for  the  imposition  upon  the  consumer  can 
be  no  less  harshly  described.  The  News  Letter  is  par- 
ticularly pleased  that  the  city  has  a  Board  of  Health  that 
cannot  be  influenced  by  improper  motives,  nor  turned  aside 
from  performing  a  valuable  service  to  the  people.  The 
Board  should  be  provided  with  every  assistance  promptly 
for  the  effective  prosecution  of  its  work,  and  the  money 
just  appropriated  for  a  special  attorney  will  be  well  spent. 
There  is  sufficient  work  to  justify  it,  and  the  tax-payers 
will  endorse  all  necessary  expenditure  in  this  or  any  other 
legitimate  direction  by  the  Board  in  its  crusade. 

Years  ago  the  News  Letter,  alone  and  unaided,  took 
up  the  fight  against  adulterated  goods,  spent  money 
freely  in  making  analyses,  obtaining  information,  and  ex- 
posing frauds  in  food  products,  with  most  beneficial  re- 
sults. The  Board  of  Health,  with  the  power  at  its  com- 
mand, can  accomplish  an  almost  inestimable  public  ser- 
vice, and  while  the  temporary  commercial  loss  to  manufac- 
turers will  be  something,  if  they  will  co-operate  hereafter 
with  the  authorities  in  their  work,  will  find  that  this  just 
reformation  will  result  in  their  direct  and  lasting  benefit. 
It  is  unfortunate  that  innocent  retailers  should  suffer  for 
the  wrong-doing  of  the  makers;  but  there  appears  no 
other  practical  method  of  reaching  the  really  guilty — the 
manufacturers.  Appended  is  a  list  of  those  whose  goods 
were  examiued  by  the  Board  of  Health  chemist,  W.  T. 
Wenzell,  during  the  month  of  March,    and  found  impure: 

Golden  Star  lemon  jelly,  manufactured  by  Tillman  &  Bendel,  con- 
sists principally  of  starch  jelly  and  tartaric  acid;  contains  some 
lemon. 

Orange  jelly,  fram  Faust  E.  Mascherine,  718  Greenwich  street;  not 
orange  jelly,  but  made  of  starch  jelly  and  tartaric  acid. 

Epicurean  raspberry  jelly,  manufactured  by  Tillman  Canning 
Company,  Oakland;  compounded  with  raspberry  and  apple  jelly  and 
adulterated  with  starch. 

Raspberry  jelly,  from  Dick  von  der  Mehiien,  Fourth  and  Mission 
street;  is  apple  jelly,  colored  with  coal  tar  colors. 

Paragon  raspberry  jelly,  manufactured  by  Temescal  Packing  Com- 
pany, Oakland ;  is  starch  jelly  colored  with  coal  tar  colors. 

Tomato  catsup,  from  Maas  Packing  Company,  1424  Valencia 
street;  below  the  standard  in  solids,  contains  boric  acid,  salicylic 
acid  and  coal  tar  coloring. 

Paragon  lemon  jelly,  from  Temescal  Packing  Company,  Oakland; 
not  lemon  jelly,  is  composed  of  starch  jelly  and  tartaric  acid. 

Paragon  blackberry  jelly,  manufactured  by  Temescal  Packing 
Company,  Oakland ;  is  one-half  blackberry  and  one-half  apple  jelly, 
colored  with  coal  tar  colors  and  adulterated  with  starch. 

Blackberry  jelly,  manufactured  by  Cutting  Packing  Company;  is 
apple  jelly  artificiaily  colored. 

Paragon  blackberry  jelly,  made  by  Temescal  Packing  CorapaDy; 
is  apple  jelly  artificially  colored. 

Quince  jelly,  made  by  Cutting  Packing  Company;  is  quince  jelly 
adulterated  with  starch. 

Strawberry  jelly,  from  Sbarboro  &  Co.,  531  Washington  street;  is 
apple  jelly  artificially  colored. 

Columbus  brand  strawberry  jelly,  made  by  Fontana  &  Co.;  is 
apple  jelly  colored  with  coal  tar  coloring. 

Warranted  pure  strawberry  jelly,  made  by  F.  Saunders.  San  Fran- 
cisco; it  consists  of  one-half  of  strawberry  and  one-half  of  apple  jelly. 

Strawberry  jelly,  made  by  Cutting  Packing  Company ;  consists  of 
two-thirds  of  strawberry  and  oue-third  of  apple  jelly. 

Golden  Star  strawberry  jelly,  made  by  Tillman  &  Bendel;  is  straw- 
berry jelly  containing  starch  and  coal  tar  colors. 

Blackberry  jelly,  made  by  King-Morse  Canning  Company;  con- 
sists of  one-quarter  blackberry  jelly  and  three-quarters  apple  jelly. 

Paragon  raspberry  jelly,  by  Temescal  Packing  Company,  is  rasp- 
berry jelly  adulterated  with  starch  and  coal  tar  colors. 

Golden  Star  lemon  jelly,  by  Tillman  &  Bendel ;  is  made  of  starch 
jelly  and  tartaric  acid. 

Orange  jelly,  from  Solomon  Brothers,  396  Sixth  street;  is  apple 
jelly  with  tartaric  acid. 

Currant  jelly,  by  Alvarado  Packing  Company  ;  is  made  from  three 
quarters  apple  and  one-quarter  current  jelly,  and  colored  with  coal 
tar  colors. 


Alvarado  raspberry  jeliy,  by  Alvarado  Packing  Company;  is  apple 
jelly  colored  with  coal  tar  coloring. 

Raspberry  jelly,  by  Code,  Elfelt  &  Co.,  is  apple  jelly  with  coal  tar 
coloring. 

Raspberry  jelly,  by  Cutting  Packing  Company;  is  apple  jelly  col- 
ored artificially. 

Paragon  strawberry  jelly,  by  Temescal  Packing  Company,  is  apple 
jelly  artificially  colored  and  adulterated  with  starch. 

Star  strawberry  jelly,  by  F.  Suunders  from  the  Emporium ;  is 
apple  jelly  artificially  colored. 

Star  raspberry  jelly,  by  F.  Saunders ;  consists  of  one-fifth  raspberry 
and  four-fifths  apple  jelly. 

Strawberry  jelly,  by  Cutting  Packing  Company,  from  C.  G.  Tre- 
deli,  1222  Howard  street;  is  made  of  apple  jelly  and  starch  jelly,  and 
colored  with  coal  tar  colors. 

Columbia  tomato  catsup,  by  Mullen-Blackedge  Company,  Indian- 
apolis, Ind. ;  contains  a  considerable  amount  of  salicylic  acid  and 
coal  tar  colors. 

Raspberry  jelly,  by  Code,  Elfeld  &  Co.;  is  apple  jelly  artificially 
colored. 

Raspberry  jelly,  by  Cutting  Packing  Company;  is  apple  jelly  arti- 
ficially colored. 

Raspberry  jelly,  by  Standard  Packing  Company ;  is  apple  jelly  ar- 
tificially colored  and  adulterated  with  starch. 

Raspberry  jelly  by  Cutting  Packing  Company ;  is  apple  jelly  arti- 
ficially colored  and  adul*erated  with  starch. 

Raspberry  jelly,  by  F.  Saunders ;  is  apple  jelly  artificially  colored. 

Raspberry  jelly,  from  Johnston  Brothers,  318  Sixth  street;  is  ap- 
ple jeliy  artificially  colored. 

Lemon  jelly,  by  San  Jose  Fruit  Packing  Company,  San  Jose;  is 
made  from  starch  jelly  and  tartaric  acid,  colored  and  flavored. 

Private  Jugs  Down  in  South  Carolina  the  State  owns 
That  Belong  and  runs  the  whiskey  business  and  has  a 
To  The  State,  right  to  enter  a  private  dwelling  to  ex- 
amine the  contents  of  a  demijohn  or  of  a 
smaller  measure,  such  as  a  jug.  Finding  it  to  be  a  pro- 
fitable traffic  she  is  just  now  paying  special  heed  to  it.  A 
startling  instance  of  her  vigilance,  has  just  presented  it- 
self. A  like  case  in  California,  would,  we  think,  create 
somewhat  of  a  ruction.  A  citizen  was  convicted  of  having 
in  his  possession  a  jug  of  whiskey  which  did  not  bear  the 
certificate  of  the  State  Liquor  Association.  For  this 
offense  he  was  adjudged  a  criminal  and  sentenced  to  serve 
three  months  in  the  chain  gang.  The  case  was  appealed 
to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State,  and  that  body,  on  a 
division  of  its  members,  confirmed  the  decision  of  the 
Court  below,  and  committed  the  offender  to  serve  his  sen- 
tence. A  man's  house  is  held  to  be  his  castle,  but  in  South 
Carolina  his  jug  is  the  State's.  This  on  its  face  is  a  bar- 
barous and  outrageous  decision,  but  it  is  consistent  with 
the  Gottenberg  system,  which  has  been  adopted  by  more 
States  than  South  Carolina.  If  the  commonwealth  has  a 
right  to  create  a  monopoly  of  the  whiskey  business  for  the 
nominal  purpose  of  raising  revenue,  it  has  by  implication 
the  right  to  protect  its  monopoly,  even  to  the  extent  of  in- 
vading the  house  in  quest  of  the  unlicensed  jug.  The  house 
is  sacred  from  intrusion,  but  the  jug  is  not.  The  rain  may 
descend  upon  the  one,  the  wind  may  blow  through  every 
crevice,  and  the  sun  may  shine  through  every  apperture, 
yet  the  President  may  not  unbidden  so  much  as  lift  the 
latchet.  Yet  if  there  be  a  suspicion  of  a  whiskey  jug  be- 
ing in  it  a  petty  officer  may  enter,  rumage  through  every 
corner,  and  finally  attach  the  owner  for  three  months  to 
the  chain  gang.  Verily!  We  have  some  queer  laws  in 
parts  of  this  country! 

The  Fate  of  the  San  Francisco  has  defeated  four  char- 
Greater  Charter,  ters,  and  would  be  likely  to  outvote  an- 
other to-morrow  if  she  had  a  chance. 
Nor  do  charters  fare  any  better  at  the  hands  of  an  indi- 
vidual than  at  those  of  the  mob.  Mayor  Strong  has  just 
vetoed  the  proposed  charter  for  the  Greater  New  York, 
which  the  people  and  both  houses  of  the  Legislature  had 
approved.  All  through  the  battle  he  himself  warmly  ad- 
vocated it,  but  changed  his  mind  at  the  last  moment.  He 
now  wants  only  one  chamber,  a  single  Police  Commissioner 
and  a  full  Board  of  Election  Commissioners,  with  the 
Mayor's  veto  to  stand  as  it  was.  There  has  been  an  im- 
mense amount  of  work  done,  with  all  of  which  Mayor 
Strong  has  appeared  to  agree,  but  suddenly  he  has  gone 
back  upon  himself,  and  two  or  three  years'  work  has  to  be 
done  over  again.  The  Mayor  promised  in  advance  to  sup- 
port and  sign  the  Greater  Charter,  and  many  are  the 
guesses  as  to  his  ignoble  recalcitrancy. 


I  2^.  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


Dumnt't     The  stat.  .ml  on  excellent  authority 

Cat*.        that  an  effort  will  be  ni.i.le    to  sot  u  re  commu- 
tation  of    the   death   sentence    passed    upon 
Theodore  Durrant.     There  ap;  •  te  for  such 

attempt      The  stater:  r  did  not  I 

fair  trial  finds  no  foundation  in 

bratod  case.     Ill  fact,  it  it  ado  'he  .Indue  before 

whom  the   trial   took    pln<  anything,  more   than 

iefendant.     Cii  •   sometimes 

plays  us  false,  but  in    the   case  of  Durrnnt   there  appears 
no  possibility  of  mistake.     Not  one   crime  olone  was   thus 
■  •  ond,  although  not  at    bar,  carried  double 
conviction,  and   pointed   with   equal   certainty  to  the  de- 
uilt.     The  proceeding  were   regular   in   every 
as   was  determined    by  the   ruling  of   the  Su- 
preme Court.     There  has  been  nothing   produced  to  show 
that   the   verdict   was   influenced    by  the   press  or  public 
opinion.     It  is  natural  for  the   relatives  of   the  condemned 
man  to  desire  the  commutation  of  his  sentence.     The  rec- 
ord of  crime  furnishes    no   instance  where  all   ties  of  blood 
have  been  broken,  no  matter   how   dark    the  deeds  of  the 
criminal  :  and   that  some  effort   would   be  made  to  save 
Durrant  from  the  fallows  was  to  have  been  expected. 

The  petitions  for  executive  interference  with  the  sen- 
tence of  the  Superior  Court,  now  said  to  be  abroad  in  the 
State,  will  doubtless  have  very  little  influence  with  Gov- 
ernor Budd.  Petitions  of  general  and  indiscriminate 
signatures  are  not  entitled  to  serious  consideration,  for 
the  reason  that  there  are  in  every  community  a  consider- 
able number  of  people  who  will  sign  almost  anything  so 
long  as  it  costs  them  nothing.  That  sort  of  sympathy  is 
inexpensive,  and  a  few  well-chosen  words  will  frequently 
awaken  it  in  the  hearts  of  the  thoughtless  or  emotional. 
These  facts  are  known  by  no  one  better  than  Governor 
Budd.  He  will  not  look  at  the  number  of  names  or  any 
petition  for  clemency  addressed  to  him,  but  at  their 
quality.  Being  himseif  a  lawyer,  the  Governor  will  review 
the  evidence  in  the  case,  if  it  ever  comes  officially  before 
him,  and  from  the  facts  that  induced  the  verdict  of  the 
jury,  make  up  his  answer.  More  than  two  years  have 
elapsed  since  the  awful  crime  for  which  Durrant  has  been 
declared  responsible  was  committed;  and  nothing  has 
occurred  to  shake  the  verdict  given  or  remove  the  belief, 
doubly  clear,  that  at  his  death  only  should  the  slow  steps 
of  justice  halt. 

Ths  More  than  $26,0(10  have  been  subscribed   to 

Boulevard,  the  boulevard  fund,  and  with  the  exception 
of  the  small  balance  remaining  in  the  hands 
of  Daniel  Meyer,  have  been  wisely  expended.  The  work 
done  has  kept  many  people  from  actual  suffering,  and  if 
the  few  thousand  dollars  still  necessary  are  obtained,  will 
complete  a  permanent  and  valued  public  improvement. 
The  responses  to  urgent  appeal  have  been  fairly  free, 
and  more  than  one  generous  citizen  has  given  twice  ;  but 
there  are  a  considerable  number  of  large  estates  and 
wealthy  individuals  from  whom  notnins:  has  been  obtained. 
The  fact  that  the  poor  we  have  always  with  us  takes  noth- 
ing from  the  urgency  of  the  present  moment.  Actual 
want  has  in  hundreds  of  cases  been  averted  by  this  char- 
itable work  ;  but  the  funds  gathered  are  nearly  exhausted, 
the  boulevard  is  not  yet  completed,  and  the  season  is  not 
so  far  advanced  that  the  congested  idleness  of  the  city  can 
find  employment  in  the  interior.  To  perfect  and  preserve 
the  admirable  improvement  already  accomplished,  and  to 
save  the  city  from  the  charge  of  actual  want  within  its 
borders,  more  money  is  required.  Contributes,  to  be  of 
the  most  value,  must  be  promptly  made.  It  is  certainly 
the  duty  of  all  who  can  afford  little  or  much  to  send  in 
their  subscriptions,  and  send  them  in  at  once. 

A  PETITION  is  being  circulated  for  signatures,  to  be 
presented  to  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  State  Uni- 
versitj',  asking  for  the  establishment  of  a  ehair  of  "Norse 
language  and  literature."  It  is  justified  by  the  rich  myth- 
ology, history,  language,  and  literature  of  the  far  north 
of  Europe,  and  is  doubly  worthy  a  place  in  the  State's 
educational  institution. 

The  daintiest  and  most  fashionable  neckwear  and  gents'  furnish- 
ing goods  at  Carnaany's,  25  Kearny  street. 

The  besi  of  all  Pills  are  Beecbam's. 


A     MONKS     DISCOVERY. 

I  thai  the  spurkling    wine  which 

takes  its  name  from  the  French  province  of  Champagne, 

■  1  made  until  near  tl ml  of  the  [7th century,  when 

Kiim  I'erignon  and  horn  Ruynart,  Benedictine  monks,  who 

bad  charge  of  the  cellars  oi   s'     Peter's   Abbey  at  Haul 

Villiers,  gave  to  the  world  this  valuable  diBCOTI 

Dora  I'erignon  conceived  the  idea  of  marrying  the 
products  of  one  vineyard  with  that  of  another,  niiil  found 
that  by  his  method  a  white  wine  could  be  made  from  the 
blackest  grapes  without  turning  yellow,  as  it  had  always 
done.  He  also  substituted  a  piece  of  corktree  bark  (cAi  n< 
./-  Bouchon)  for  the  flax  dipped  in  oil,  which  had  formerly 
been  used  as  a  stopper  for  a  bottle;  but  the  greatest  of  all 
his  discoveries  was  the  method  by  which  the  sparkle  or 
"(novate, "  as  the  French  call  it,  was  obtained.  This  effer- 
vescent wine  naturally  became  more  popular  than  the  old- 
fashioned  still  wine  formerly  used  in  the  province. 

These  monks  died  in  the  first  quarter  of  the  18th  cen- 
tury, and  in  the  floor  of  the  old  Abbey  Church  at  Haut 
Villiers,  close  to  the  altar,  two  black  marble  slabs,  side  by 
side,  mark  to  this  day  the  last  resting  places  of  Dom  Per- 
ignon and  Dom  Ruynart,  to  whom  the  world  owes  a  debt 
of  gratitude  for  the  discovery  of  sparkling  champagne. 

"  Dom  Ruynart"  imparted  this  then  secret  process  to 
his  nephew,  Nicolas  Ruinart,  who  in  1729,  at  Rheims, 
founded  the  house  of  Ruinart,  the  first  establishment  to 
produce  champagne  for  the  public  market,  and  which 
house  has  been  presided  over  by  an  unbroken  line  of 
Ruinarts  from  father  to  son,  until  to-day  we  find  directing 
the  firm  of  Ruinart  per-  et  filt,  Andre  de  Ruinart, 
Vicomte  de  Brimont,  the  seventh  generation  since  that  of 
the  old  Benedictine  monk,  cellarer  of  the  abbey  at  Haut 
Villiers. 

As  this  house  made  the  first  champagne,  it  seemed  emi- 
nently proper  that  the  jury  at  the  World's  Fair,  Chicago, 
in  1803,  should  have  given,  as  it  did,  the  highest  and  the 
only  award  for  "Brut"  champagne  to  Messrs.  Ruinart 
pere  et  tils. 

The  word  "Brut"  means  that  no  artificial  sweetening  is 
used  in  the  preparation  of  the  wine,  and  is  used  in  contra- 
distinction to  the  terms  "Dry"  and  "Extra  Dry." 

In  America,  champagne  can  hardly  be  too  much  iced  to 
suit  the  general  taste,  some  epicures  going  so  far  as  to 
drink  it  frnppe.  This  practice  is  probably  open  to  criti- 
cism, although  it  greatly  assists  sweet  wines  in  making 
them  palatable,  as  they  are  generally  mide  from  inferior 
grapes.  The  "Brut"  wines  can  only  be  made  from  the 
finest  selections  of  the  best  years,  and  require  no  sweet- 
ening to  hide  deficiencies  in  flavor  and  no  extra  chilling. 


Josepn  Glllott's  Steel  Fens, 


Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1889.    These  pens  are  "  the 
best  Id  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mb,  Henry  Hoe,  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  24,  1897. 


•  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


^N  Monday  night  Georgia  Cayvan  sep- 
arated herself  from  the  weather- 
stained,  passion-stirred  hunaanness  of 
Squire  Kate  and  appeared  in  the  stiff, 
smart  groomery  of  Mary  Pennington, 
spinster,  an  impossible  and  uninteresting 
young  woman  who  is  the  central  figure  in  a  comedy  of  that 
name,  written  by  W.  R.  Walkes,  of  London.  Miss  Cay- 
van's  press  agent  says  that  Mr.  Walkes  is  a  well-known 
young  London  author.  All  I  know  of  him  is  that  hiscomedy 
lasted  through  one  afternoon  performance  in  London. 
Miss  Cayvan  bought  this  play  and  produced  it,  early  in 
the  present  season,  in  New  York.  It  failed  there  almost  as 
fleetly  as  it  had  failed  in  London.  I  knew  all  this  before  I 
went  to  the  Columbia  Mondaynight — and  still  I  had  hopes. 
I  remembered  some  of  those  New  York  "successes," 
which  had  come  all  the  way  to  sunny  California  to  find 
themselves  below  zero,  and  I  thought  it  was  a  poor  rule 
that  couldn't  work  the  other  way  around  once  in  a  while. 
Now  I  have  seen  the  play,  and  in  it  Georgia  Cayvan — 
whom,  under  such  conditions  as  those  of  last  week,  I  re- 
gard as  an  artist.  And  now  I  am  sad.  For  Mary  Pen- 
nington, Spinster,  is  a  new  woman  joke — written  by  a  man 
— a  coarse,  unsympathetic  man — and  an  English  man  at 
that.  Why,  oh  why,  I  say  to  myself,  did  Miss  Cayvan  go 
shopping  in  London  for  such  goods  as  this?  Does  not  her 
true  American  heart  tell  her  that  America  is  the  home  of 
all  such  jest  and  pleasantry — that  the  new  woman,  to- 
gether with  the  mother-in-law,  the  plumber,  and  the  re- 
jected manuscript  jokes,  belongs  by  all  the  rights  of  dis- 
covery and  conquest  to  us? 

*  *  * 

Mary  Pennington,  Spinster,  is  an  alleged  satire  on  the 
woman  of  advanced  ideas.  As  satire,  or  as  anything  else 
that  people  go  to  the  theatre  to  see,  it  fails:  first,  because 
the  author  has  no  story  to  tell,  and.  second,  because  he 
has  no  cleverness  of  pen  with  which  to  conceal  that  fact 
from  the  audience.  Almost  half  of  Mr.  Walkes's  work 
consists  of  those  uncivilized  parts  of  drama  known  as  the 
Soliloquy  and  the  Aside.  Being  paid  to  witness  the  per- 
formance, I  was  possibly  more  attentive  than  the  man  who 
paid  for  the  same  privilege.  Out  of  the  Soliloquies  and 
Asides,  and  the  cheerless  patter  which  limped  between,  I 
was  able  to  glean  that  the  author  was  struggling  to  por- 
tray Mary  Pennington  as  a  sex-sufficient  Amazon,  who 
takes  man  on  the  broad  basis  of  brotherhood,  provided  he 
acknowledges  woman's  equality  and  independence.  To 
accomplish  this,  Mr.  Walkes  gives  Mary  the  ownership  of 
a  paper  manufactory,  and  a  masculine  junior  partner.  By 
means  of  the  accustomed  physician  of  the  stage,  who  has 
no  visible  practice  besides  that  of  diagnosing  the  personal 
affairs  of  the  people  about  him,  it  is  discovered  that  Mary 
and  her  partner,  Geoffrey  Armstrong,  are  the  subject  of 
much  gossip  over  the  village  teacups.  The  sly  process  of 
awakening  femininity  is,  I  presume,  supposed  to  commence 
when  Mary  barks  to  this  gossip;  for,  sooner  than  have 
Geoffrey  leave  the  mill — as  he  intends  doing,  to  save  her 
fair  name,  although  he  is  suffused  with  vast,  unspoken 
love  for  her — she  follows  out  the  physician's  prescription 
by  proposing  marriage  with  him.  in  a  cordial,  business- 
like way.  He  would  take  her  to  his  bosom  on  the  spot, 
but  she  gives  him  the  senior  partner's  eye;  so  they  shake 
hands  on  it  and  close  the  bargain. 

Of  course  there  is  another  woman.  Lady  Maitland  is 
her  name.  She  would  have  been  worldly,  cynical  and 
epigrammatic,  if  Mr.  Walkes  had  known  bow  to  make  her 
so.  As  it  is,  she  is  impossible,  impolite  and  insistent.  She 
jilted  Geoffrey  several  years  before  the  play  begins,  to 
marry  money.  Now  she  is  a  widow,  and  seeing  him  again, 
is  the  glory  of  grizzled  hair  and  paste  "side-boards,"  her 
heart  re-flames.  She  wants  him  for  herself.  "You  sell 
yourself  to  Mary  Pennington,"  she  says;  "sell  yourself  to 
me — I  can  pay  you  a  better  price."  She  repeats  this 
tactful  phrase  to  Mary,  adding  that  she  saw  him  first,  had 
always  loved  him  and  is  willing   to   pay   whatever  his  loss 


costs  the  firm.  Lady  Maitland  pleads,  and  Mary  con- 
sents to  release  him — just  when  she  has  found  her  heart 
and  the  fallacy  of  feminine  sufficiency.  She  bids  Geoffrey 
go — it  had  only  been  a  business  proposition  in  the  first 
place,  she  tells  him — somebody  else  loves  him  and  he  loves 
somebody  else.  Geoffrey  is  heart-broken,  but  proud.  He 
goes.  Then  somebody  rushes  in  to  say  that  the  mill  hands 
have  struck.  "What  do  I  care  for  the  strike!"  cries 
Mary.     "He's  gone!     Geoffrey's  gone!" 

Another  act  is  necessary  to  bring  the  bruised  hearts  to- 
gether. The  paper  business  has  gone  to  smash.  Lady 
Maitland  and  her  bulging  wallet  trail  Geoffrey  to  the 
doctor's  dwelling  (where  Mary  is).  Again  she  offers  to 
purchase  him  at  a  handsome  figure.  He  is  about  to  accept 
— to  save  the  business — but  the  good  doctor  holds  him 
back.  "This  is  a  firm  affair,"  he  says,  "and  the  senior 
partner  must  be  consulted."  Mary  is  called  in,  and  she 
promptly  hustles  Lady  Maitland  and  her  money  out,  and 
falls  into  the  eager  arms  of  Geoffrey — where,  it  may  be 
imagined,  she  finds  adequate  felicity,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
glad  consciousness  that  at  last  the  suspenders  are  on 
shoulders  strong  enough  to  bear  their  weight. 
*  *  * 

As  I  have  hinted  before,  the  play  is  devoid  of  dramatic 
invention.  The  situations,  characters  and  dialogue  are 
heavily,  obesely,  Britishly  banal.  If  our  best  plays  come 
from  England,  so  do  our  worst.  And  what  can  even  a 
good  company  like  Miss  Cayvan's  do  with  such  a  piece  as 
this?  Nothing.  Miss  Cayvan  plays  Mary  in  a  half- 
hearted, hopeless  way,  as  though  she  were  saying,  "It's 
not  my  fault,  I'm  doing  my  best;  I  wish  you  could  like  it, 
but  if  you  don't,  I  won't  blame  you  a  bit."  The  company 
is  not  so  amiable.  Orrin  Johnson  perceptibly  sulks  at  the 
part  of  Geoffrey;  and  George  Woodward,  whose  misfor- 
tune it  is  to  be  the  doctor  who  has  so  much  to  say  and 
nothing  to  do  that  counts,  can  be  heard  muttering  in  his 
teeth,  "And  me  a  character  actor!"  Anne  Sutherland 
takes  it  out  on  the  author  by  making  Lady  Maitland  even 
worse  than  she  really  is.  Mary  Jerrold  is  too  young  to 
know  just  how  bad  a  part  she  has. 
*  *  * 

There  was  a  time  when  old-fashioned  Methodist  min- 
strels were  good  enough  for  San  Francisco;  but  times 
change,  and  now  it  is  high  church  minstrels  or  nothing. 
The  Reverend  Doctors  Primrose  and  West,  at  the  Bald- 
win, come  high  enough,  I  think;  still  there  is  trouble  in 
the  congregation.  It  is  all  about  the  music.  "Listen  to 
that  stuff!"  said  a  pew  bolder  to  me  during  the  Easter 
services.  I  listened.  One  of  the  choir  was  singing  what 
appeared  to  me  to  be  touching  moral  on  the  impotence  of 
gold.  A  young  man  and  a  young  woman  were  in  the  song; 
his  name,  strange  to  say,  was  .Tack.  Jack  bade  her  be- 
gone—  "Another  will  be  my  bride,"  he  said,  "and  gold  will 
help  you  to  forget."     And  she  answered  bravely: 

Take  back  your  gold,  for  gold  can  never  buy  me, 
Take  back  your  gold  and  promise  to  be  true; 
Give  me  the  love,  the  love  that  you  deny  me, 
Make  me  your  wife — that's  all  I  ask  of  you. 

And  there  was  another  song  which  pleased  him  even  less. 
In  it  there  was  a  young  man  who  spoke  right  up  to  his 
father,  saying,  "Father,  she's  my  sister,  I  don't  care 
what  she's  done."  He  followed  that  up  with  the  dread 
alternative,  "If  you  turn  my  sister  from  her  home,  I'll  go 
too."  "Did  you  ever  hear  such  rot?"  the  pew  holder 
growled.  "Why,  it's  worse  than  that  fellow  Sankey's 
sniffling.     Bah!     I'd  like  to  throw  an  Easter  egg  at  him." 

I  cannot  understand  it.  Nobody  complained  last  year 
when  these  same  minstrels  sang  the  same  songs,  or  almost 
the  same  songs — "It  don't  seem  like  the  same  old  smile" 
and  "Tell  them  that  you  saw  me."  This  culture  is  sudden. 
It  must  be  the  result  of  that  French  opera  season. 

However,  there  are  other  songs  and  other  things  be- 
sides songs  which  will  offend  no  one.  George  Wilson's  Rock- 
of-Ages  humor  is  still  inspiring  aid  intact;  the  eccentric 
musical  trio  has  found  some  new  post-office  harmonies,  and 
the  club  swingers  do  many  neat  turns.  Mr.  Primrose 
sings  a  graphic  song  about  the  "Hot  time  in  Old  Town 
to-night."  The  Primrose  legs  have  lost  none  of  their  elo- 
quent address.  And  the  Primrose  Easter  vesture — well — 
bountiful,  gorgeous,  intoxicating,  does  not  describe  it.  I 
observed  Mr.  James  Swinnerton  taking  it  in  with  a  hungry 


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m  Hrummcl  West,  (or  mManre 

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■  .'tiris.     It  is 
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Mr  i  'Sullivan's  dlstim  I 
cess  in  Knirlanci  was  in  opi  (bund   thai  he  could 

■  ter  than  he  sinirs.  fur 

iid  of  him  that  I  •     ictOl       So  amid 

glum  church  surroundings,  under  the  zealots,  proprietary 

■iy  of  his  friends,  ami    «  ,•  to   sing 

-  running  all  the  way  from  Schumann's  "Dichterlieb" 

I    irnelius   and 
Sorb  the  Irish  |  must  be  un- 

derstood that  his  task  was  not  an  P08J   01  6       \nil  to  have 
ii  as  gracefully  as  he  did  is  not  to  be  regarded, 
by  Mr.  ('Sullivan,  or  by  any  01  the  least  of  his 

Several  triumphs.      I    have    noted   the   conditions    and   re 
Btrictions ot  Wednesday  night,  and  now,  in  all  fait 
can  lay  aside  localism,  let    slip    the  dogs  of  criticism,  and 

ler  Mr.  O'Sullivan  as  an  artist— which  he  certainly 
is,  and.  as  such,  merits  nothing  less  than  absolute  sincer- 
ity from  his  reviewers.  Mr.  O'Sullivan's  voice  has  not  lost 
the  old  tremolo  that,  so  far  back  as  I  can  recall,  has 
always  marred  the  full  beauty  of  his  tone.  He  steadies  it 
most  of  the  time,  but  it  is  still  there,  to  sound  upon  you 
when  you  least  want  it  and  to  be  regarded  as  an  inevitable 
drawback  to  the  singer.  It  is  not  an  aggressive  tremolo, 
not  a  "nanny,''  but  just  enough  of  a  tremulous  injustice  to 
a  big,  frank,  swinging  barytone  to  make  one  think  what 
this  voice  might  have  been  without  it.  Even  with  it 
there  is  much  to  admire,  and  at  times  something  to  thrill 
to;  for  the  rich,  virile  quality  is  there,  the  enthusiasm  of 
power  and  the  caress  of  magnetism.  And  where  he  once 
charmed  us  by  the  bounding  generosity  of  these  good 
characteristics,  he  now  charms  us  by  the  discriminate, 
musicianly  manner  in  which  he  marshals  his  forces.  Not 
that  Mr.  O'Sullivan  is  freed  from  the  healthy  animal  spirit 
which  so  often  impels  a  singer  to  shoot  out  a  good,  strong 
note  for  the  good,  strong  note's  sake,  and  no  other  reason 
in  the  world — no,  indeed,  he  is  not  ;  we  read  about  singers 
who  are,  but  they  seldom  really  happen.  But  he  has  ac- 
quired the  sense  of  values.  His  imagination  is  finer;  he 
has  the  character  appreciation  of  the  man  who  has  acted 
and  who  feels  what  he  sings,  and  something  of  the  musi- 
cian's decent  respect  for  his  instrument,  even  though  not 
enough  of  it  to  always  keep  him  from  blaring  uneasily  on 
his  high  notes  or  falling  into  bad  breathing  when  the  song 
calls  for  a  special  gush  of  tenderness.  To  my  thinking, 
Mr.  O'Sullivan's  best  work  was  in  the  "Fischio,  Fischio," 
from  Mefixtofele,  theZegeuner  Melodie  by  Dvorak,  the  first 
of  the  Schumann  songs  (''Im  wunderschiiuen  Monat  Mai"), 
Rossini's  "Gia  La  Luna, "  and  the  Irish  air,  "Kitty  Ma- 
gee."  The  nervous  dramatic  power  of  the  Boito,  the  safe 
agility  of  the  Rossini,  and  the  tender  grace  of  the  Schu- 
mann and  Dvorak,  marked  splendid  singing  and  broad  ver- 
satility. And  "Kitty  Magee"  promises  some  rare  Irish 
humor  for   next   week   in   the   lighter  parts  of  Shamus's 

music. 

*  *  * 

The  symphony  season  closed  creditably  at  the  Colum- 
bia Thursday  afternoon.  Denis  O'Sullivan  sang  ;  Horace 
Piatt  made  a  speech,  urging  the  subscribers  to  come  out 
strong  and  early  for  next  season;  and  Hinrichs  played  the 
band  with  exceptional  fluency.  Although  the  novelty — 
Rubinstein's  fifth  symphony — turned  out  to  be  a  palpably 
ungreat  work  as  a  whole,  it  is  beautiful  in  the  slow  move- 
ment, and  it  was  beautifully  played.  Mr.  O'Sullivan  was 
at  his  wavering  worst  in  the  Don  Caring  aria,  but  he  pulled 
himself  together  in  the  Pagliacci  prologue,  singing  with 
firmer  tone  and  convincing  dramatic  feeling. 

Ashton  Stevens. 


Monday  night,  at  the  Tivoli,  will  tell  the  tale  of  Shamus 
O'Brien.  Denis  O'Sullivan  will  sing  his  great  role  Shamus, 
and  San  Francisco  will  be  among  the  cities  which  have  wit- 
nessed Dr.  Stanford's  famous  Irish  opera.  The  Tivoli  has 
gone  into  this  enterprise  with  a  generous  hand,  new  scen- 
ery and  costumes  modelled  after  the  originals,  two  weeks' 
rehearsals,  and  everything  that  is  available  to  make  the 
production  a  big  success. 


The  lady  like  baboon  with  dainty  gold  didy,  the  placid 
donkey,  and  the  beautiful  Herr  QraU  are  again  making 
Derry  at  the  Orpheum,    where    they    are  undoubtedly  the 

stars  ot  the  wees      Next  wees  we  are  to  have  Taoblanu, 

the  gentleman    BOprano,  the    Miille\s.    who    do    a    juvenile 

burlesque,  and    V   and   Mamie  Anderson,    Mat  foot  buck 

dancers,  plantation  warblers  and  cake  pedestria 

Farce  comedy  pure  and  simple  at  the  Columbia  Monday 

night.      No  subterfuge    this    time.      The  author  says  of  his 
word     ".I  linn  .,;.  the  Hunk  is  an  invasion  of  the  drama,  an 

unassuming  effort  t ■  •  present  a  few  character  sketches  in 

an  amusing   form,'       Such  modesty  could    not,    travel   with 

anything  but  a  good  show  ;  besides,  Ward  and 

stars,  are  reputed  to  lie  among    the    cleverest    farce-com- 

edians  extant. 

Primrose  and  West's  Minstrels  will  have  a  change  of 
programme  for  next  week  at  the  Baldwin,  which  includes 
a  bonafidi  cake  walk  by  eighty  prancing  niggers. 


No  SafbR  OR  MOBS  l'.i  t  i'  kCIOUS  KKMKiiv  can  lie  had  for  Coughs, or 
any  iroubi-'ut  the  throat,  than"  Drowa't  BroncMal  Troche*  " 

Fink  stationery,  steel  anil  copperplate  engrav,ug.    Cooper  &  Co  .  7*6 
M   r^iet  street.  Ran  Francisco 

Gi  l    '        Tl  i.  The"  Gem"  Theatre  ot  the  Coast. 

OlUmDia       I    neatre-     Frlodlander.  Gottlob&Co„  Lessees 
and  Managers 
A  jolly  time.    Monday.  April  26lh,  and   two  weeks       The  king 
plus  ot  comedy  on  their  llrsi   Pacitio   trip      WaRD  &  VOttES, 
in  the  satirical  craze, 

A    RUN    ON    THE    BANK, 

Full  of  farce  and  fin;  ice  Nothing  like  It  Thirty  people  All 
farce  authorities  unite  iheir  befct  efforts  to  render  a  rapid,  joy- 
tut,  20th  century  night  of  fun  and  frolic.  Largest  organization 
in  the  comedy  business 


Bi  j        ■  n~L         _l_  al.  Hayman  &  Co.,  (Incorporated) 

aldvVin      I  neatre-  proprietors. 

To-night,  Sunday  night,  and  all  next  week.  Last  performances 
Primrose  &  West's 

GREAT    BIG    MINSTRELS 

Commencing  with  Monday  night,  our  famous  Cake  Walk  Car- 
nival will  be  given  every  evening,  in  Hddition  to  the  regular 
performance.    Forty  couple  In  the  walk. 

Monday,  May  3d :  De  Wolf  Hopper  in  Sousa's  opera,  EL  CAPI- 
TAN. 


Tivoli  Opera  Mouse. 


Mrs.  Ernestine  Kreling. 

Proprietor  and  Manager 

Commencing  Monday  evening,  April  26th      Every  eveniDg    The 
London  success,  the  romantic  comic  opera, 

SHAMUS    O'BRIEN, 

with  Mr.  Denis  O'Sullivan,  the  eminent  baritone,  the  creator  of 
;he    title  role.      Superb  cast;   correct  costumes:  approp  iate 
accessories.    New  scenery  from  the  original  models. 
Popular  Prices 25o  anaSOo 


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rpneUrn  •    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 
Week  beginning  Monday,  April  26th, 

MORE    GREAT    IMPORTATIONS. 

Alexander  Tacianu.  phenomenal  male  soprano;  The  Midgleys, 
juvenile  character  delineators;  The  Andersons,  createst  of  all 
colored  artists;  in  conjunction  with  Sig  Achille  Albert!  & 
Mme.  Annina  Orlandi,  Marzelli  &  Millay,  Herr  Grais.  and  his 
trick  baboon  and  donkey,  Merrilees  Sisters,  Harris  &  Walters, 
and  Ed   Latell. 

Reserved  seats,  25c  :  balcony  10c ;  opera  chairs  and  box  seats  50c. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday.  Matinee  Prices; 
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any  part. 

Pacific  Goast  dockey  Glub. 

(Ingleside  Track  )  The  only  perfect  winter  race  track  in 
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1st,  inclusive. 

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cluding admission  to  grouDds,  $t.  Take  Mission  street  electric 
line  direct  to  track.  The  Corrigan  Stakes  will  be  run  Monday, 
April  19th;  the  Spreckels  Cup,  Saturday.  April  24th;  the  Cali- 
fornia Hurdle,  Wednesday,  April  28th;  the  Ingleside  Stakes, 
4  miles,  Saturday,  May  1st 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  24,  1897. 


THE     EXHIBITION     AT    THE    ART     ASSOCIATION. 

THE  San  Francisco  Art  Association  opened  its  doors 
on  Thursday  evening  for  its  annual  spring  exhibition. 
The  motives  which  prompt  the  presence  of  the  usual 
crowd  who  gather  on  such  occasions  is  a  matter  for  spec- 
ulation. From  the  perfunctory  attention  given  the  ex- 
hibit, it  certainly  cannot  be  love  of  art  which  brings  the 
people  together.  Love  of  mankind  would  seem  to  be  the 
actuating  impulse,  judging  from  the  manner  and  attitude 
of  the  majority  of  the  lookers-on.  No  one,  however,  can 
be  blamed  for  turning  a  back  on  the  collection  of  pictures 
which  the  Association  has  had  the  effrontery  to  dub  an 
"exhibition,"  and,  furthermore,  invite  the  public  to  its  in- 
spection. There  have  been  poor  exhibits  in  the  Hopkius 
Institute  of  Art  before  now,  but  this  is  by  all  odds  the 
very  worst.  They  say  it  was  a  disputed  point  as  to  the 
advisability  of  giving  the  exhibition  this  spring,  and  that 
the  question  was  carried  by  two  small  votes.  It  would 
have  shown  good  judgment  and  common  sense  on  the  part 
of  the  committee  to  have  overlooked  those  votes  when 
they  saw  the  material  offered  for  admission.  To  have 
"hung"  jury  and  "hanging"  committee  instead  of  the  pic- 
tures would  have  been  a  meritorious  deed.  The  committee 
certainly  had  poor  material  with  which  to  work,  but  even 
so,  they  could  have  attained  other  results  than  the  indis- 
criminate massing  of  oils,  pen  and  inks,  pastels,  water- 
colors  and  sketches,  which  make  the  spectator,  if  he 
knows  aught  of  the  canons  of  art,  gasp  with  horror. 

Good  pictures  are  hidden  in  dark  corners,  while  poor 
ones  flaunt  their  imperfections  in  the  light.  In  fact,  the 
whole  exhibition  is  bad,  and  would  be  a  rank  failure  were 
it  not  for  a  few  paintings  carefully  scattered  among  the 
poor  ones,  with  the  probable  object  of  encouraging  the 
gazer  to  continue  his  inspection  with  the  hope  of  finding 
another  after  unexpectedly  meeting  with  the  first  merito- 
rious work. 

The  portraits  are  a  saving  grace  to  the  collection.  Fred 
Yates  has  three  excellent  pieces,  particularly  interesting, 
as  they  are  the  counterfeit  presentments  of  well-known 
men.  It  is  worth  while  to  compare  the  three  and  note 
the  differences  in  treatment. 

A  new  aspirant  has  entered  the  portrait  field,  and 
shows  remarkable  talent  in  that  direction.  Elizabeth 
Curtis  O'Sullivan  has  returned  from  her  European  study 
with  evidences  of  her  improvement  in  every  stroke  of  her 
brush.  She  bids  fair  to  hold  her  own  against  the  more 
mature  work  of  her  accomplished  aunt,  Mrs.  Mary  Curtis 
Richardson. 

Arthur  Mathews'  painting  holds  tne  place  of  honor  in 
the  rotunda,.  The  subject  is  the  sentence  of  banishment 
pronounced  by  the  Angel  upon  Adam  and  Eve.  Mathews 
is  a  hard  and  conscientious  worker,  and  his  drawing  is 
beyond  criticism.  He  is  undoubtedly  the  best  figure 
draughtsman  in  San  Francisco.  The  reflected  light  from 
the  flaming  sword  of  the  Angel  is  a  nice  bit  of  work,  well 
handled. 

Keith  is  represented  by  one  of  his  delightful  composi- 
tions, "From  the  Berkeley  Hills,"  which  makes  one  con- 
scious of  green  pastures,  blue  skies,  and  fresh  spring 
breezes.  His  other  contribution,  "A  Warm  Morning,"  is 
in  the  same  vein  of  out-doors,  and  glows  with  the  touch 
and  atmosphere  of  nature. 

A  new  name  on  the  list  is  that  of  Sidney  Yard,  who 
sends  in  one  modest  canvas,  "Hillside  in  Spring."  This 
man  knows  Nature,  and  can  interpret  her,  for  it  is  a  hill- 
side up  which  one  may  ramble,  sure  of  a  glorious  view  at 
the  top.  Mr.  Yard  arouses  one's  expectations  as  to  what 
he  will  do  in  the  future;  there  is  promise  in  this  little  bit 
he  has  given  us. 

L.  P.  Latimer  is  another  artist  who  paints  close  to 
Nature  and  follows  her  moods  carefully.  His  large  picture, 
"Solitude,"  is  full  of  harmony  and  quiet  tones.  He  has 
two  sunny  little  canvases  in  another  room  that  are  charm- 
ing in  their  freshness  and  delicacy. 

A  marine,  "Coast  Near  Santa  Cruz,' by  Chris  Jorgen- 
son,  attracts  the  attention  as  an  interesting  piece  of  work. 
A  close  inspection,  however,  reveals  carelessness  of 
handling  which  should  not  be  found  in  the  work  of  so  good 
an  artist.  In  fact,  that  criticism  can  be  applied  to  the 
paintings  of  several  of  the  artists  from  whom  better 
things  are  expected. 


The  impression  received,  after  a  view  at  the  collection,  is 
one  of  no  effort,  ambition  or  energy.  It  would  be  much  better 
to  have  but  one  exhibition  in  the  year,  and  give  the  artists 
the  opportunity  of  sending  in  something  worth  looking  at. 
To  call  public  attention  to  such  work  as  is  now  on  the 
walls  of  the  Hopkins'  Institute,  is  to  fully  warrant  the 
verdict  that  San  Francisco  knows  nothing  of  art.  A 
stranger,  judging  only  from  the  "Spring  Exhibition," 
would  be  justified  in  thinking  so. 

One  word  more:  Among  the  pen  and  ink  drawings  is  the 
original  sketch  of  an  illustration  which  recently  appeared 
in  a  daily  paper.  While  no  one  can  deny  the  excellence  of 
the  work,  one  can  only  deplore  the  excessively  poor  taste 
which  displays  in  such  a  place  an  illustration  recalling  to 
the  memory  the  committing  of  an  atrocious  crime. 

TRAUMERIE  —  carolyn  waldo  wade. 


All  happily!  drift; 

And  see,  with  half  shut  eyes,  the  willows  reach 

Over  the  water's  edge,  where  you  and  I 

Are  wont  to  linger,  caring  not  for  speech. 

Expressing  our  contentment  with  a  sigh, 

Or  glances  deep  and  swift. 

Ah !  but  the  world  is  fair; 
And  white  the  lilies  that  you  love  so  well ; 
And  azure  all  the  ripples  'neath  the  boat. 
The  dear  old  story  still  is  sweet  to  tell. 
I  listen  for  your  low  words  as  1  float, 
Stirring  the  fragrant  air. 

Sweetheart,  row  on  and  on, — 
What!  may  I  not  my  joyous  dreaming  keep? 
For  one  glad  moment  I  had  bridged  the  years 
That  long  have  held  you  in  your  dreamless  sleep, 
The  lilies  on  your  breast  wet  with  my  tears. 
Now  all  the  sunlight's  gone. 

THE  Realty  Syndicate,  whose  attractive  advertisement 
appears  on  the  title  page  of  the  News  Letter,  has 
some  of  the  most  desirable  property  across  the  bay  for 
sale.  The  properties  of  the  syndicate  are  all  located  upon 
the  line  of  growth  of  San  Francisco.  Its  tracts  in  Berkeley 
and  Oakland  are  desirable  for  permanent  investment  and  for 
residence,  and  have  been  selected  with  excellent  judgment 
as  to  future  growth.  The  wealth  of  the  syndicate  and  its 
large  interests  enable  the  smallest  holder  to  enjoy  the 
profits  and  advantages  that  come  from  concerted  action  by 
great  capital.  Full  knowledge  of  the  Syndicate  proper- 
ties, its  methods  of  doing  business  and  the  safe  opportunities 
offered  by  it  for  both  small  and  large  investors  will  be 
furnished  upon  application  at  its  principal  office,  14  San- 
some  street,  this  city. 

THE  Easter  display  of  flowers  at  John  H.  Sievers',  25 
Post  street,  on  last  Saturday,  was  a  most  beautiful 
exhibition  of  bloom  and  bud.  Azaleas,  Bermuda  lilies,  rho- 
dodendrons, roses,  buds,  violets — in  fragrant  profusion — 
delighted  the  eye  and  taste.  This  successful  florist's  place 
of  business  was  thronged  during  the  day,  and  its  handsome 
display  a  subject  of  general  remark  by  those  who   saw  it. 

PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 

THE  mysteries  of  the  underground  Chinese  opium  joint, 
of  which  so  much  has  been  said  and  written,  are  pre- 
sented to  the  News  Letter's  readers  this  week.  The  pic- 
ture tells  the  story  better  than  any  words,  and  presents 
the  rude  and  uncomfortable  furnishings  of  this  particular 
den  with  interesting  distinctness. 

"Pearl  top,"  "pearl  glass," 
"tough  glass,"  "no  smell," 
and  "best  light,"  are  great 
big;  things.  "Macbeth"  in- 
eludes  them  all,  if  you  get  the 
chimney  made  for  your  lamp. 

Let  us  send  you  an  Index. 
Geo  A  Macbeth  Co 


Pittsburgh   Pa 


April  24,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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COMPETITION 

Combines  Pleasure  with 

Information  and  Mental 

Training. 

The  Century  Co.  announces  an  edu- 
cational competition  which  it  is  hoped 
will  arouse  very  general  interest. 
Three  examination  papers,  each  con- 
taining fifty  questions,  have  been  pre- 
pared ;  the  competitors  have  a  month 
to  answer  each  set.  The  prizes  are  as 
follows  :  $500  to  the  person  sending 
in  the  best  set  of  answers,  $ioo  for  the 
second  best,  $50  for  the  third,  two  of 
$25  each  for  the  fourth  and  fifth,  and 
thirty  of  $10  each  for  the  next  thirty 
in  order  of  merit.  For  another  and 
further  offer  of  $500,  see  News  Let- 
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pleasure  with  mental  exercise;  the  use  of  dumb-bells  is  drudgery 

combine  pleasure  with  exercise.     You  cannot  start  work  on  the  first  one  without 

to  the  last,  and  when  you  finish  them  you  find  that  you  are  repaid  a  hundred  fold. 


HE    QUESTIONS     in    these    examination 
papers  are  based  Oil  the  supposition  that 

a  public  school  graduate  of  averaire  intelli- 
gence can  score  75  pei  cent,    if  be  gives  ten 

minutes  of  serious  application  to  each  question. 
Any  one,  therefore,  who  devoirs   to 
them  three  hours  a  week  should  make 
a  better  score  and  stand   an  excel- 
lent chance  of  winning  a  prize. 

The  aim  of  the  questions  is  to  im- 
part knowledge  and  to  lead  to  a 
habit  of  investigation  that  will  be  of 
value  through  life.  This  they  do  in 
an  astonishing  degree.  If  you  gain 
first  prize,  the  knowledge  you  have  acquired 
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receive.  But  whether  you  win  that  prize  or 
not,  you  learn  to  concentrate  your  mind, 
sharpen  your  wits,  and  secure  most  valuable 
information. 

Do  not  cease  your  education  when  you  leave 
school  or  college;  keep  on  learning.  Horace 
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acquired  new  knowledge  and  therefore  broad- 
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questions.  They  are  not  the  kind  that  are 
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know.  No  university  extentiou  lec- 
tures, no  course  of  reading  can  help 
you  as  these  questions  do,  because 
the  lectures  and  the  reading  deal 
with  theoretical  knowledge,  these 
questions  with  practical  everyday 
knowledge. 

Dumb-bells  and   bicycles  may  be 
equally  useful  in    physical  develop- 
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reason  is  perfectly  evident.     Bicycle   riding  combines 
So  with  these  questions;  they 
continuing  on 


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Combined 


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if 


University 
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Surpassed 


An  analysis  of  the  first  fifty  questions  shows  that  they  deal  with  or  touch  upon   a   very   large 
number  of  different  and  distinct  points  or  bits  of  knowledge.      That   is,    in  answering  fifty  ques- 
tions you  have  investigated  fifty  subjects,  and  in  addition  have  touched  upon  hundreds  of  others. 
History  and  literature,  the  Bibio  and  Homer,  travel,  machinery,  and   law,   operas   and 
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American  Indians,  the  Amazon  and  the  Mississippi,  gold  mining  and  puddling,    questions 
of  home  and  of  business — all  these  and  a  muhitude  of  others  are  covered  by  these  ques- 
tions.    Thus,  in  addition  to  the  pleasure  and  the  mental  training  comes  the  new   knowl- 
edge that  will  broaden  you  as  Greely  said  it  broadened  Lincoln.      On   request,    we   will 
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monthly  payments. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  24,  1897. 


".  Wow  like  all  earthly 
1  £    things,"    say    the 


girlies.  "Here  we  have  been  looking  Forward  tosucb  a  fes- 
tive time  after  Easter,  and  there  ain't  a  thing  but  a  lot  of 
old  teas."  It  looks  as  though  there  was  some  cause  of 
complaint  in  there  being  no  Eastertide  cotillion.  No 
dancing  class  even.  The  truth  is,  coin  is  not  superabun- 
dant anywhere,  and  parents  who  have  to  get  their  daugh- 
ters '"in  shape" — i.  e.,  fresh  outfits  for  the  summer  cam- 
paign, with  hotel  bills  at  rural  resorts  looming  up,  are  not 
\ery  enthusiastic  about  cotillion  subscriptions.  Then  the 
beaux  have  had  an  expensive  winter.  French  opera,  thea- 
tre parties,  club  suppers,  etc.,  make  big  holes  in  salaries, 
and  the  average  society  beau  lives  on  a  salary.  However, 
the  buds  will  soon  have  the  out-of-town  pleasures  to  engage 
in — lolling  on  the  broad  veranda  of  the  Hotel  Rafael,  ten- 
nis, paper  chases,  moonlight  rides  and  straw  rides,  picnics, 
and  the  like,  which  result  in  far  more  genuine  fun,  and 
profit,  too,  than  a  dozen  cotillions  and  hops.  By  the  way, 
speaking  of  the  Hotel  Rafael  reminds  me  that  Manager 
Warheld  has  made  more  extensive  preparations  than  ever 
before  to  entertain  his  many  guests  this  season. 

*  #  * 

Evidently  our  esteemed  fellow  townsman,  George  Bonny, 
does  not  take  old  Weller's  advice  in  regard  to  "vidders," 
for  if  rumor  speaks  truly,  'lis  a  widow  who  has  been  the 
attraction  in  his  recent  Eastern  and  European  trip.  Well, 
'tis  time  for  the  old  fellow  to  take  upon  himself  the  respon- 
sibilities of  married  life,  and  a  right  glad  welcome  will  he 
get  from  his  friends  should  he  bring  a  wife  back  with  him 
when  he  returns  to  the  Coast. 

*  *  * 

Gossip  says  a  very  funny  incident  of  the  Lai  masque  at 
Oakland  was  when  a  well-known  clubman  from  this  side  of 
the  bay  made  tierce  love  to  bis  own  w.fe  without  being 
aware  of  her  identity,  and  it  may  be  serious,  as  he  "let 
the  cat  out  of  the  bag,"  to  use  a  homely  old  phrase,  most 
beautifully  when  he  called  the  unknown  mask    by   tender 

names  ! 

*  *  * 

Apropos  of  hops,  the  Presidio  is  to  be  congratulated  upon 
the  success  achieved  by  the  success  of  their  delightful 
dances.  Our  prettiest  maids  and  matrons  are  always 
glad  to  go  out  to  them,  and  the  military  circles  of  the 
different  posts  hold  many  pretty  and  attractive  women  as 
well.  So  that  the  hop-room  is  a  brilliant  scene  independ- 
ently of  the  glitter  of  gold  lace  and  buttons. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Lau>-a  McKinstry  seems  to  have  taken  the  place 
left  vacant  by  Miss  Millie  Ashe,  when  she  became  Mrs. 
Harold  Sewell,  in  the  affectionate  regard  of  the  B'lingham 
matron.  But  although  Miss  Miliie — as  was — was  always 
ready  for  jollity,  Miss  Laura  is  by  far  the  more  brainy 
girl  of  the  two.  Hence,  a  delightful  companion,  whether 
du  voyage,  or  in  a  country  bouse. 

*  *  * 

How  pained  one  of  our  prettiest  belles  must  have  been 
on  Easter  day  by  the  way  the  weekly  falsifier  served  up 
to  its  readers  her  Easter  hat  brilliant  in  scarlet  and  green. 
And  the  young  lady  in  deep  mourning  for  her  mother  !  So 
much -for  "news." 

*  *  # 

It  looks  now  as  though  the  Fred  Sharons  will  not  make 
their  yearly  visit  to  San  Francisco  until  winter — if  then. 
The  Queen's  Jubilee  will  be  the  attraction  in  London  first, 
and  later  a  visit  to  Mr.  Sharon's  sister  Flora  io  her  Eng- 
lish home. 

*  *  * 

Society  is  wondering  if  it  is  true,    the  report  that  comes 
from  New  York,  of  Wilcox  being  engaged  to  Miss  Keeney. 
*  *  * 

Rumor  goes  that  a  popular  belle  has  but  to  speak  the 
word  to  Winn  a  soldier  for  a  husband. 


What  is  the  matter  with  the  slim  young  bud,  Miss  Flor 
ence  Breckenridge,  that  the  newspapers  in  announcing 
her  departure  Kentuckywards  with  her  grandparents, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis,  persistently  styling  her  a  "lit- 
tle miss,"  aud  she  just  on  the  verge   of   coming  out  next 

season. 

*  *  * 

What  a  jolly  couple  Harry  Benson  and  his  wife  make,  is 
the  general  comment  of  their  numerous  friends.  But  wait 
till  Bent  brings  his  bride  to  the  Presidio,  and  you'll  see 
ideal  wedded  bliss,  is  the  dictum  of  society  in  general. 

*  *  * 

It  was  a  sight  to  behold  to  walk  along  Van  Ness  avenue 
on  Easter  Sunday,  and  see  the  Easter  gowns,  hats,  and 
wearers!     Surely  California  may  well  boast  of  its  beauties 

in  many  forms. 

*  *  * 

The  appointment.given  Colonel  W.  R.  Smedburg  by  his 
friend  Alger,  of  visitor  to  West  Point,  has  elicited  many 
expressions    of  approbation  from   the  popular  Colonel's 

friends. 

*  *  * 

What  a  lot  of  buzzing  will  go  on  at  the  Woman's  Con- 
gress. An  inveterate  woman  hater  of  an  old  bachelor 
wants  to  know  what  is  the  good  achieved  by  them,  anyhow? 

The  best  dinner  in  town  for  one  dollar  is  served  at  Swain's  Bak- 
ery, 213  Sutter  street,  between  the  hours  of  5  and  8  o'clock  p.  M.  The 
choicest  viands  served  in  faultless  stvle  and  great  variety,  tempt  the 
ino-t  jaded  appetite.  Closest  attention  to  every  little  detail  is  ob- 
served, and  the  re-ult  is  a  delicious  dinner.  Orders  for  confections, 
pastries,  etc.,  by  telephone  or  otherwise,  promptly  tilled. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  W.nslow's  Sojthlng  Syrup' 
ohildren  while  teething. 


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•April  24.  1897. 


PAN   FRAN-CISCO   NEWS   T.F.TTI-R. 


DEAR  EDITH:— It  is  evident  that  the  trick  of  building 
up  dresses  ami  wraps  high  about  the  throat  that  pre- 
I  all  winter  long  is  to  be  continued  Into  summer.     Of 
oourse  tbere  is  a  change  in  the  materials,  but  collar 
touch  ears  jusl  did  in  midwinter.     A  new  gown 

shown  well  illustrates  tlii-  point,  vet  it  was  intended 
for  wear  In  weather  that  necessitates  little  protection  for 
the  most  sensitive  throat.  lis  material  was  shot  Nile 
green  silk,  and  the  skirt  was  banded  with  narrow  black 
Chan  till  V  insertion  that  met  in  points  in  front.  The  fitted 
bodice  was  trimmed  with  lace  bands  and  fastened  Invisibly 
at  the  left  side.  Its  sleeves  and  stock  collar  were  green 
silk,  covered  with  lace,  but  the  pulls  were  from  the  plain 
material.  Nile  green  velvet  gave  the  wide  girdle  and  long 
ends. 

One  development  of  the  coming  swathing  for  the  throat 
is  entirely  new.  The  limit  to  the  upstanding  possibilities 
of  the  neck  ruff,  or  other  kindred  arrangements,  seems  to 
have  been  reached,  so,  as  women  still  wish  the  building 
about  their  throats  to  rise,  they  have  taken  to  ruflled 
veils.  These  deceptive  rutlles  are  set  on  the  veil  along 
the  lower  edge,  except  the  little  portion  where  the  chin 
shows  through.  This  ruflle,  therefore,  hangs  high  on  the 
very  top  of  the  collar  elaboration,  and  seems  to  be  part  of 
it.  thus  extending  it  at  least  a  half  inch  higher.  If  the 
ruffle  crossed  the  chin,  the   deception  would  betray  itself. 

Embroidered  grass  lawns  are  dainty  and  beautiful,  but 
after  one  wearing  they  will  not  be  nearly  so  attractive,  so 
there's  no  need  of  turning  covetous  over  them.  Lace 
striped  liuens  are  not  so  dainty,  perhaps,  but  they  will 
make  up  charmingly  and  were  never  shown  in  such  pro- 
fusion. Figured  muslins  come  in  black,  with  bright  roses 
or  vines  sprinkled  all  over  them.  Very  artistic  and 
pretty  gowns  can  be  made  of  these  over  either  black  or  a 
color  that  is  suggested  in  some  part  of  the  design.  A 
black  muslin  lasts  better  than  do  the  lighter  ones. 

No  doubt  you  have  heard  that  skirts  on  yokes  will  be 
popular.  The  yoke  is  usually  made  pointed  in  front  and 
rounded  and  shorter  in  the  back,  ft  6ts  stiffly  and  close, 
sheath  like  in  its  exactness  of  surface.  The  skirt  that 
flows  from  under  this  sheath-yoke  is  attached  to  an  under 
yoke,  for  it  would  never  do  to  risk  pulling  the  outer  yoke 
out  of  line  by  fastening  the  rest  of  the  skirt  to  it.  A 
skirt  thus  planned  can  be  worn  by  a  really  stout  person 
and  allow  them  the  full  and  sweeping  lines  of  a  wide  skirt 
at  the  hem.  while  their  hips  are  not  in  the  least  widened. 
To  such  women  this  sort  of  a  skirtolfers  a  rare  advantage, 
while  to  a  slender  woman  the  style  is  all  the  more  becom- 
ing. 

Skirts  shirred  on  to  the  edge  of  a  bodice  belt  are  ex- 
tremely pretty.  The  bodice  thus  outlines  the  figure  from 
just  below  the  bust  line  to  just  above  the  hips,  the  skirt 
falling  very  full  from  there.  Thus  the  wide  hips,  at  pre- 
sent rather  favored  by  fancifully  fashionable  women,  are 
secured  and  the  contrasting  small  waist  demanded  is  em- 
phasized. 

Abroad  the  modern  ball  glove  is  considerably  shorter  than 
the  one  worn  heretofore.  It  reaches  only  just  above  the 
elbow,  leaving  the  fair  upper  arm  well  in  view.  In  color 
the  glove  follows  the  dainty  gown  with  which  it  is  worn 
and  often  is  trimmed  or  embroidered  to  match.  Narrow 
lace  insertions  adorn  the  glove  to  be  worn  with  a  gown 
profusely  trimmed  with  lace,  and  with  ball  costumes  em- 
broidered or  studded  with  spangles  and  glittering  stones 
the  glove  must  be  equally  studded  and  embroidered.  The 
soft  suede  glove  has  fallen  into  disuse  and  the  glace  is  uni- 
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these  symptoms  are  cnused  by  constipation,  as  most  of  rh<m  are.  THE 
FIRST  DOSE  WILL  GIVE  RELIEF  IN  TWENTY  MINUTES- 
This  is  no  rli-tiun  Every  sufferer  is  earnestly  invited  to  try  one  Box  of 
these  Pills  and  they  will  be  acknowledged  to  be 

A    WONDERFUL    MEDICINE. 

BEECHAM'S  PILLS,  taken  asdirected,  will  quickly  restore  Females  to 
complete  health.  They  promptly  remove  obstructions  or  Irregularities  of 
the  system.    For  a 

Weak  Stomach 

Impaired    Digestion 

Disordered   Liver 

they  act  like  magic— a  few  doses  will  work  wonders  upon  the  Vital  Organs; 
strengthening  the  muscular  system,  restoring  the  Jong-lost  complexion, 
bringing  back  the  keen  edge  of  appetite,  and  arousing  with  the  Rosebud 
of  Health  the  whole  physical  energy  of  the  human  frame.  Thebe  are 
facts  admitted  by  ihousands.  in  all  classes  of  soriety.  and  one  of  the  best 
guarantees  to  the  Nervous  and  Debililated  Is  that  Beecham's  Pills  havo 

the  Largest  Sale  of  any  Patent  Medicine  in  the  World. 

WITHOUT  A   RIVAL. 

Annual  Sales  more   than  6.000,000   Boxes. 

25o  at  Drug  Stores,  or  will  ho  sent  by  U.  S.  Agents.  B.  F.  ALLEN  CO. 
3<S5  Canal  St.,  New  York,  post  paid,  upon  receipt  ol  price.  Book  tree  upon 
papllcalion. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  24,  1897, 


The  annual  report  of  the  London  Explora- 

Many  Millions     lion    Company   is    disappointing,    in    its 

in  the  Air.        way — very   much  so,  indeed,   to   Califor- 

nians  who  read  it  and  learn  that, 
outside  of  the  Oneida,  not  a  property  in  the  State  is  rep- 
resented on  the  list  of  the  company's  possessions.  This, 
too,  after  having  been  introduced  through  the  press  to  so 
many  gentlemen  acting  as  its  agents  as  men  backed  with 
plenary  powers  to  place  millions  in  gold  here,  there,  and 
everywhere,  at  their  sweet  will,  whenever  a  mine  took 
their  fancy.  At  one  time,  between  this  and  one  or  two 
other  high-falutin  concerns,  it  looked  as  though  there 
would  be  nothing  left  of  the  "Mother  Lode"  for  plain, 
ordinary  folks,  but  ideas  have  changed  considerably  since 
then.  The  much-vaunted  allegation  that  the  concern  had 
gobbled  up  a  slice  of  the  Mariposa  estate  is  not  even  borne 
out  by  this  report,  while  one  thing  is  morally  certain  from 
the  financial  statement:  they  not  only  have  not  money 
enough,  without  enlarging  their  capital,  1o  purchase  the 
whole  of  this  grant  at  the  price  set  by  the  owners,  any 
more  than  they  have  millions  for  distribution  elsewhere. 
While  undoubtedly  the  Exploration  Company  is  a  well- 
managed  and  prosperous  concern,  operating  on  a  scale  of 
the  highest  magnitude,  it  is  but  a  shadow  of  the  eslimate 
placed  upon  it  by  the  "spielers"  at  this  end.  But  this 
belongs  to  another  chapter  in  the  future.  Suffice  it,  how- 
ever, to  say  that  with  the  figures  now  in  print  there  will 
be  no  further  necessity  for  information  second-hand  about 
the  financial  position  of  the  company.  Another  notable 
feature  of  the  report  is  the  absence  of  any  reference  to 
men  who  were  put  up  here  as  the  pivot  upon  which  the 
whole  concern  evolved.  Of  all  those,  Captain  Mien  alone 
is  mentioned.  It  would  be  hardly  fair  to  hold  the  com- 
pany itself  responsible  for  the  wildly  exaggerated  state- 
ments which  have  appeared  about  it  and  its  operations 
here  from  time  to  time.  It  seems  altogether  unlikely  that 
its  every  movement  should  be  blazoned  out  all  over  the 
country  with  the  consent  of  its  managers,  a  method  rather 
unusual  by  people  who  mean  business.  The  wonder  is, 
however,  that  after  so  much  trumpeting  and  noise  of  all 
kinds  that  there  is  so  little  to  show  for  it  in  the  way  of 
investment.  It  has  been  another  case  of  "much  cry  and 
little  wool"  all  through. 

If  all  the  sales  reported   on  paper  from 
Still  Gathering     time  to  lime  were   genuine,  there   would 
Them  in.  not  be  a  ghost  of  a  mine  left  in  the  State 

to  haggle  over.  Scarcely  a  day  passes 
but  an  announcement  is  made  of  a  sale  in  some  district, 
and  modesty  does  not  usually  set  a  limit  on  the  price 
paid.  When  it  comes  down  to  money  changing  hands, 
however,  it  is  a  horse  of  different  color  entirely.  There 
have  been  more  "turn-downs"  than  sales,  if  the  truth  were 
told,  and  this  is  probably  the  best  thing  that  could  happen 
in  the  long  run.  Jt  will  make  our  people  more  self-reliant, 
and  lead  to  the  investment  of  borne  capital  in  legitimate 
devel>pment  work,  putting  a  stop  to  the  trickery  and 
sharp  practice  of  the  company  promoter  and  his  ally,  the 
parasitic  mining  lout.  There  are  few  mine  owners  in 
California  who  have  not  gained  in  experience  during  the 
past  six  months.  They  have  read  a  lot  of  bosh  about  the 
money  at  command  abroad  for  mining  investment,  and 
wasted  months  in- proving  the  utter  unreliability  of  such 
reports.  Men  have  visited  their  mines  alleging  an  ability 
to  put  up  certain  amounts  at  a  given  time,  but  invariably 
they  have  fallen  down  at  the  crucial  moment.  This  has 
served  to  make  mine  owners  very  guarded  in  their  deal- 
ings with  strangers,  and  it  is  high  time  that  this  was  so. 
The  State  is  infested  with  a  plague  of  schemers,  ready  to 
promise  anything  to  make  their  game.  No  sales  of  note 
have  taken  place  recently.  Some  dickering  is  going  on 
Mr.  P.  Diedesheimer  experted  the  Confidence  mine  last 
over  the  Keystone  and  a  group  of  mines  in  the  vicinity. 
week  with  the  representative  of  a  prospective  buyer,  but 
so  far  nothing  has  come  of  it.  It  is  said  now.  on  the  best 
authority,  that  the  London  Exploration  Company  has 
finally  decided  to   withdraw  from  the  State  entirely. 


It  is  evident  that  the   tales  from  Cali- 
Webs  of  forniaof  mining  romance  which  appears 

Mining  Illusion,  from  time  to  time  in  an  old  and  highly 
respectable  British  financial  paper,  to 
some  of  which  attention  was  drawn  by  the  News  Letter 
a  few  weeks  ago,  have  not  escaped  notice  in  other  quar- 
ters. The  Mining  and  Electrical  Review,  an  up-to-date 
paper  of  this  city,  says  in  its  recent  issue:  "The  London 
Mining  Journal  can  be  relied  on  for  saying  something  con- 
cerning the  mines  of  California  which  has  been  said  before 
undoubtedly  by  some  uninformed  Pacific  Coast  paper, 
whether  it  is  true  or  not.  A  recent  report  of  some  of  the 
mines  in  that  sedate  old  journal,  though  exceedingly  flat- 
tering to  the  State,  is  also  excruciatingly  funny.  The 
reason  the  parrot  causes  us  to  laugh  is  the  sober  and 
sedate  expression  of  its  countenance,  while  giving  ex- 
pression to  the  most  atrocious  statements."  We  might 
add  that  this  foreign  paper  does  not  surpass  in  entertain- 
ing matter  of  the  kind  some  of  our  home  journals  which, 
in  catering  to  the  subscription  end  of  the  industry,  evolve 
in  competition  a  series  of  fairy  tales  covering  a  stretch  of 
country  from  Siskiyou  to  San  Diego,  lurid  with  millions  in 
either  strikes  of  gold  or  the  investment  of  foreign  capital. 
Like  all  other  tales  of  the  kind,  they  end  with  the  delusion. 
They  also  carry  about  the  same  weight  even  with  the 
novitiate  in  the  art  of  mining,  and  strangers  who  have 
arrived  within  our  gates  ready  to  credit  almost  anything 
they  are  told  about  California  wonders,  from  the  Breyfogle 
phantasy  down  to  the  missing  Pegleg  and  other  nuisances 
of  the  space  fiend.  Continued  disappointment  in  after  re- 
sults acting  as  an  alternative,  is,  however,  the  safest  self- 
cure  in  such  cases  of  mental  hilarity. 

A    Tuolumne     correspondent    writes : 

Where  the  Biter  "  I  note  with  interest  your  remarks  on 
Got  Bitten.  Tuolumne  mines,  and  agree  with  you 
that  the  Rawhide  is  the  hub,  and  that 
Captain  Neville  has  done  more  to  boom  our  county  than 
all  the  other  mine  owners  together.  In  your  issue  of  the 
3d  inst.  you  poke  fun  at  some  of  the  statements  in  the 
London  Mining  Journal.  Now,  I  can  assure  you  that  those 
about  the  Fish  Commissioners  were  not  far  wrong.  They 
paid  $25,000  for  the  mine  (the  Norwegian).  The  owner 
had  left  a  streak  of  gold  at  one  end  of  the  shalt  as  an  in- 
ducement to  buyers,  and  on  taking  this  down  the  fortu- 
nate buyers  extracted  more  than  they  paid  for  the  prop- 
erty. If  you  will  take  the  trouble  to  go  round  to  the 
Bank  of  Commerce  in  your  city  you  will  see  the  results  of 
two  blasts  put  off  one  day  last  week.  About  half  of  it  is 
in  bars,  the  rest  as  it  was  crushed  in  a  hand  mortar,  that 
being  the  only  mill  they  have  finished.  The  Black  Oak  mine, 
I  am  glad  to  say,  is  looking  so  well  that  the  owners  refused 
a  second  payment  (which  did  not  come  to  time)  from  the 
New  York  and  Belgian  people,  they  being  satisfied  that 
their  mine  is  the  best  investment  they  could  make  with 
the  money.  I  omitted  to  state  lhat  at  the  Norwegian  they 
estimate  that  they  have  fully  $50,000  in  quartz,  which  is 
not  rich  enough  for  a  hand  mortar,  lyingon  the  dump,  and 
which  is  awaiting  the  completion  of  the  mill."  A  person 
can  be  excused  for  considering  anything  connected  with 
this  commission  as  rather  fisliy  in  character,  but  our  cor- 
respondent does  well  in  rescuing  so  estimable  a  proposition 
from  a  maelstrom  of  absurdities  such  as  we  mentioned 
in  the  article  to  which  reference  is  made. 

A  meeting  was  held  recently  at  the  Bank 

The  Bank  of  of  England  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a 
England.  Governor  and  Deputy  Governor  for  the 
ensuing  year,  in  place  of  Mr.  A.  G.  Sande- 
man  and  Mr.  H.  C.  Smith.  Mr.  H.  C.  Smith  was  elected 
as  Governor  and  Mr.  S.  S.  Gladstone  as  Deputy.  The  new 
Governor,  Hugh  Colin  Smith,  of  Hays  Wharf,  Tooley 
street,  is  Chairman  of  the  Ceylon  and  Oriental  Estates 
Company,  and  a  Director  of  the  Alliance  Insurance  and 
Australian  Agricultural  companies.  Mr.  Samuel  Steuart 
Gladstone,  a  member  of  the  old  East  India  firm  of 
Ogilvy,  Gillanders  &  Co..  is  a  Director  of  the  Peninsula 
and  Oriental  Steam   Navigation   Company. 

A  little  movement  in  Con. -Cal. -Virginia 

Pine-St.   Market,     and  a  higher  range  of  prices  for  Chnl- 
lar,  were  the  features  of  the  local  min- 
ing market  on  Pine  street  during  the  week.  Business  was 
active  for  a  time,  and  the  hope  is  general   that  the  move- 
ment will  widen  out  ictp  something  like  old-time  speculation. 


April  14.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   I.KTTF.R. 


13 


'Hear  the  Crier:"    "Wh»t  ttie  derll  *rl  ihool" 
'One  that  will  OUT  lbe  derll.tlr.  wllhyou." 


WARDEN  Hnlcisbeinsr  severely  criticised  for  permit- 
ling  two  coovicts  under  his  jurisdiction  to  engage  in 
murderous  warfare.  There  is  another  view  of  the  case, 
however,  that  recommends  itself  to  the  thoughllul  observer 
interested  in  the  survival  of  the  til  test.  It  would  save  an 
infinite  amount  of  expense— to  say  nothing  of  suspense 
(from  a  scaffold) — were  the  variously  distinguished  eight 
hundred  gentlemen  now  doing  time  at  San  Quentin  as 
guests  of  California  tax  payers,  lined  up  in  battle  array 
and  permitted  to  indulge  in  their  murderous  instincts  in  a 
tight  to  the  finish.  Besides,  it  would  prevent  maudlin 
sympathy  on  the  part  of  the  tender  souls  who  condemn 
hanging  as  an  unchristian-like  form  of  punishment. 

REVEREND  W.  D.  Williams,  D.  D.,  who  forsome  years 
has  been  doing  his  clerical  sprinting  toward  the  pearly 
gates  via  the  Congregational  road,  has  shaken  the  creed 
that  shackled  bim  and  turned  his  ministerial  toes  into  the 
Episcopal  path  of  righteousness,  along  which  he  purposes 
to  cavort  hereafter.  Whether  the  influences  that  caused 
Pastor  Williams'  sudden  change  of  faith  were  of  a  spiritual 
or  financial  nature,  the  Crier  cannot  say,  not  being  posted 
in  matters  ecclesiastical,  and  not  enjoying  the  gentleman's 
contidence  on  either  mundane  or  ethereal  topics.  It  is 
exceedingly  puzzling  in  these  days  to  tell  which  is  hardest 
hit,  the  pocket  or  the  conscience,  both  being  invisible  to 
the  naked  eye. 

WILLIAM  D.  BRADBURY,  the  pugnacious  millionaire, 
has  had  his  pride  bumbled  this  week  by  the  imposition 
of  a  live-dollar  line  for  expectorating  with  malicious  intent 
upon  the  floor  of  a  street-car.  Mr.  Bradbury  labored 
under  the  delusion  that  the  moneyed  aristocracy  of  this 
ciiy  could  secure  transportation  and  cuspidor  privileges 
by  dropping  a  nickel  into  the  slot.  He  now  finds  that  the 
vulgar  rich  are  subject  to  the  same  laws  as  the  respectable 
poor.  Mr.  Bradbury  would  better  study  the  ethics  of 
politeness  as  practiced  by  any  honest  hod-carrier.  The 
elderly  millionaire  is  not  too  old  to  learn. 

A  HOWL  has  gone  up  from  the  Merchants'  Association 
in  general  and  W.  S.  Chapman  in  particular  against 
what  is  claimed  by  them  to  be  a  monopoly  in  the  garbage 
line.  Even  the  ash  barrel  in  one's  back  yard,  it  seems,  is 
not  exempt  from  corruption  of  a  political  as  well  as  veget- 
able kind.  The  arm  of  the  law  would  fain  penetrate  to  the 
family  doorstep.  It  is  now  in  order  for  a  man  to  secure  a 
license  from  the  municipality  before  shring  a  bootjack  by 
moonlight  at  the  feline  intruders  who  may  make  night 
hideous  on  his  back  fence. 

ANEW  tamale  plant  and  a  pickle  factory  have  been 
started  this  week,  but  it  is  not  true  that  their  incor- 
porators are  physicians.  The  rumor  to  make  the  laller 
accessory  to  the  crimes  is  clearly  a  malicious  one.  It  is  a 
well-known  fact  that  the  fraternity  has  its  hands  full  al- 
ready, without  an  increase  in  either  the  tamale  or  the 
pickle  trade. 

ARTHUR  Sears  and  Nellie  Covington  sued  Belasco,  the 
actor-maker,  for  $150  because  he  failed  to  fit  ihem 
with  the  intellect  necessary  to  a  successful  career  on  the 
stage.  These  aspirants  to  footlight  glitter  and  mimic  life 
imagined  that  they  were  entitled  to  brains  as  well  as  elo- 
cution, carriage,  and  articulation;  but  Judge  Barry  ruled 
that  grey  matter  was  not  included  in  Belasco's  contract. 

THE  joy  we  Californians  naturally  feel  at  the  prospect 
of  advanced  prices  in  wheat,  should  Europe  become 
involved  in  war,  is  somewhat  dampened  by  the  fear  that 
the  excitement  may  awaken  that  windy  demagogue  and 
political  weathercock,  T.  V.  Cator,  and  incite  him  to  again 
let  loose  the  valves  of  his  leather  lungs. 

IT  may  be  merely  a  coincidence,  but  stalislics  show  that 
during  the  week  when  the  attention  of  the  Medical 
Society  of  California  is  absorbed  by  its  annual  session,  the 
mortuary  record  of  the  city  is  at  its  lightest. 

DURRANT  has  been  dubbed   "The  Criminal  of  a  Cen- 
tury.", No  wopder.  .  It  takes  a,  century  to  hang  bim. 


MEDICAL  science  has  received  another  boom  inCarras- 
quillu's  leprosy  scrum  cure,  and  Dr.  Winslow  Amler- 
iks  permission  of  the  l>cul  Board  of  Health  to  make 
experiments  with  It  free  of  charge.  The  sight  of  a  d'ictor 
doing  anything  without  the  inspiration  of  a  fee  will  be 
quite  as  novel  in  its  way  as  the  new  cure  which  is  arousing 
so  much  professional  interest.  But  while  it  is  about  it, 
why  doesn't  wisdom-endowed  Science  turn  its  goggles  up- 
on the  moral  lepers  that  infest  civilization?  An  experi- 
ment tried  upon  Durrant,  for  instance,  might  have  saved 
the  lives  of  two  pure  girls,  as  well  as  a  vast  expense  to 
the  city.  Hanging  is,  of  course,  efficacious,  but  it  fails 
miserably  as  a  prevention  of  crime. 

THE  Congregational  Minister  Rev.  Mr.  Rader  is  a  bold 
man,  and  has  challenged  the  brethren's  shuddering 
attention  by  declaring  that  one  may  get  through  heaven's 
pearly  gates  without  believing  that  Jonah  resided  for 
several  clays  in  a  whale's  interior.  In  fact  he  inti- 
mates that  a  man  should  not  be  condemned  for  employing 
common  sense  in  scouting  out  the  steep  and  thorny  way; 
nor  be  sent  post  haste  to  perdition  because  he  declines  to 
believe  that  everything  between  the  Bible's  lids  is  literally 
true.  If  the  worthy  and  reverend  Wm.  escapes  the  fangs 
of  the  brethren  he  need  have  no  fear  of  the  displeasure  of 
God. 

THE  scientific  portion  of  this  community  sympathizes 
deeply  with  the  irreparable  loss  sustained  by  Profes- 
sor E.  W.  Hilgard  in  the  recent  fire  which  destroyed  the 
College  of  Agriculture  at  Berkeley.  A  large  and  ex- 
tremely choice  collection  of  stuffed  hues,  representing  the 
scrambles  of  a  lifetime  and  dangerous  encounters  sufficient 
to  fill  a  volume,  went  up  in  smoke,  uninsured.  Had  the 
blaze  started,  instead,  at  Sacramento's  capitol  during  the 
late  disrespected  Legislature,  the  occasion  might  have 
been  fraught  with  more  or  less  good.  It  might  have 
destroyed  some  of  the  prolific  bugs  in  the  bills. 

1WI  1SS  Prances  Lane.  Oakland's  young  lady  lawyer,  who 
J  1  has  turned  the  '"God  Bless  Our  Home"  motto  in  the 
Lane  household  to  the  wall,  and  proposes  to  camp  in  the 
more  congenial  environs  of  the  Police  Court  hereafte™,  is 
ambitious  to  secure  the  release  of  Convict  Wood,  who  has 
been  languishing  at  San  Quentin  for  thirteen  years.  San 
Francisco  has  several  specimens  of  the  emancipated  sex; 
but  heaven  has  kindly  denied  us  the  pain  of  this  petticoat 
lawyer,  Frances  Lane.  The  women  on  this  side  of  the  bay 
are  content  with  sending  men  to  jail,  not  getting  them  out 
again. 

ATTORNEY  W.  D.  Grady,  the  Fresno  lawyer  charged 
with  masticating  a  San  Francisco  waiter's  ear,  has 
been  adjudged  not  guilty  of  mayhem.  Down  where  Law- 
yer Grady  hailed  from  it  is  so  ordinary  an  occurrence  for 
people  to  get  bitten  that  he  had  no  idea  he  was  infringe- 
ing  upon  our  ideas  of  decorum,  and  pleaded  ignorance  of 
the  law  as  his  excuse.  Asa  matter  of  protection  to  our 
citizens,  an  ordinance  should  at  once  be  passed  requiring  all 
visiting  Fresnoites- to  go  muzzled. 

WA.  CLARK,  superintendent  and  resident  physician 
,  of  the  Alameda  County  Infirmary,  is  being  rudely 
chicled  by  Secretary  Godchaux,  of  the  San  Francisco  Board 
of  Health,  for  supplying  Cooper  College  with  ten  bright, 
new  cadavers  within  the  past  year  without  having  ob- 
tained the  Board's  permission.  The  Secretary  should  not 
be  so  critical.  If  Alameda  wants  to  furnish  San  Francisco 
with  material  for  hospital  service,  there  should  be  no  ob- 
jection so  long  as  the  subjects  don't  kick. 

«T  the  Congregational  Bay  Conference,  which  celebrated 
a  sort  of  religious  Spring  Opening  this  week,  Brother 
Kader  is  reported  as  haxing  asked  his  confreres  if  it  were 
"time  to  build  for  Congregationalism  an  ark  of  safety?" 
This  lack  of  progressiveness  is  indeed  astonishing,  duly 
fancy  trying  to  steer  another  Noah's  ark  through  Golden 
Gate!  She  would  founder  before  she  struck  the  Farallones. 
What's  the  matter  with  an  up-to-date  gospel  air-ship, 
Brother  Rader? 

"  '"pHE  Celtic  Union  is  determined  to  have  a  hall  of  its 
1  own,"  says  Secretary  O'Reilly.  Judging  from  its 
representatives  in  politics,  and  its  general  strength  of 
"push"  and  "pull,"  the  sons  of  Erin  hereabout  come  devil- 
ish near  having  a  City  Hall  of  their  owd,  be  jabbers. 


■•^BHBprj »^JL  — 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  24,  1897. 


MARTHY    VIRGINIA'S    HAND.— George  parsons    lathrop,    in   century. 

"'THERE,  on  the  left!"  said  the  colonel;  the  battle  had  shuddered 
1         and  faded  away, 

Wraith  of  a  fiery  enchantment  that  left  only  ashes  and  blood- 
sprinkled  clay — 

"Ride  to  the  left  and  examine  that  ridge,  where  the  enemy's  sharp- 
shooters stood. 

Lord,  how  they  picked  off  our  men,  from  the  treacherous  vantage- 
ground  of  the  wood  I 

But  for  their  bullets,  I'll  bet,  my  batteries  sent  them  something  as 
good. 

Go  and  explore,  and  report  to  me  then,  and  tell  me  how  many  we 
killed. 

Sever  a  wink  shall  I  sleep  till  I  know  our  vengeance  was  fulfilled." 

Fiercely  the  orderly  rode  down  the  slope  of  the  corn-field— scarred 

and  forlorn, 
Rutted  by  violent  wheels,  and  scathed  by  the  shot  that  had  plowed 

it  in  scorn ; 
Fiercely,  and  burning  with   wrath  for  the  sight  of  his   comrades 

crushed  at  a  blow, 
Flung  in  broken  shapes  on  the  ground  like  ruined  memorials  of  woe ; 
These  were  the  men  whom  at  daybreak  he  knew,  but  never  again 

could  know, 
Thence  to  the  ridge,  where  roots  outthrust,  and  twisted  branches  of 

trees 
Clutched  the  hill  like  clawing  lions,  firm  their  prey  to  seize. 

"What's  your  report?"— and  the  grim    colonel  smiled  when  the 

orderly  came  back  at  last. 
Strangely  the  soldier  paused:    "Well,  they  were  punished."    And 

strangely  his  face  looked,  aghast. 
"Yes,  our  fire  told  on  tliem  ;  knocked  over  fifty— laid  out  in  line  of 

parade. 
Brave  fellows,  colonel,  to  stay  as  they  did!    But  one  I  most  wish 

hadn't  stayed. 
Mortally  wounded,  he'd  torn  off  his  knapsack ;  and  then,  at  the  end 

he  prayed — 
Easy  to  see,  by  bis  hands  that  were  clasped;  and  the  dull,  dead 

fingers  yet  held 
This  little  letter— his  wife's— from  the  knapsack.  A  pity  those  woods 

were  shelled  1" 
Silent  the  orderly,  watching  with  tears  in  his  eyes  as  his  officer 

scanned 
Four  short  pages    of   writing.    "What's    this,    about    'Marthy  Vir- 
ginia's hand?' " 
Swift  from  his  honey-moon  he,  the  dead  soldier,  had  gone  from  his 

bride  to  the  strife; 
Never  they  met  again,  but  she  had  written  him,  telling  of  that  new 

life, 
Born  in  the  daughter,  that  bound  her  still  closer  and  closer  to  him 

as  his  wife. 
Laying  her  baby's  hand  down  on  the  letter,  around  it  she  traced  a 

rude  line; 
"If  you  would  kiss  the  baby,"  she  wrote,   "you  must  kiss  this  out- 
line of  mine." 
There  was  the  shape  of  the  hand  on  (he  page,  with  the  small,  chubby 

fingers  outspread. 
"Marthy  Virginia's  hand,  for  her  pa"— so   the  words   ontheliltle 

palm  said. 
Never  a  wink    slept  the  colonel  that  night,  for  (he  vengeance  so 

blindly  fulfilled, 
Never  again  woke  the  old  battle-glow  when  the  bullets  their  death- 
note  shrilled, . 
Long  ago  ended  the    struggle,    in    union    of   brotherhood  happily 

stilled ; 
Yet  from  (hat  field  of  Antietam.in   warning  and  token  ot  love's 

command, 
See !  there  is  lifted  the  hand  of  a  baby— Marthy  Virginia's  hand ! 


VIOLETS-— EDITH  MAUDE  DUNAWAY,  IN  PALL  MALL  MAGAZINE. 

I  bring  thee  Violets  all  dew-emnearl'd. 
As  fresh  and  sweet  as  the  awakened  dawn 
Which  found  them  budding  into  fragrant  bloom, 
Like  thoughts  of  Love,  from  gentle  Pity  born. 

And  if  thou  wilt— I  fear  to  ask  too  much— 
1  pray  thee  have  them  nestle  on  thy  breast; 
Since  fade  they  must,  let  their  last  perfumed  sigh 
Be  one  of  Peace,  at  such- a  perfect  rest. 


CITY    INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 


RESTAURANTS. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserle,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  St. 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429. 


Private 
A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Brun. 


DAIRIES. 

Oakland  Dairy  Depot,  320  Fulton  street,  S.  F.  Absolutely  pure  Milk  and 
Cream.    Telephone.  Pine  1693. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105 O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILERMAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 


CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  H  and  1-lb  boxes. 


Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 


LADIES'     HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze  (known   as   Hermann   at  Strozynski's)  has  opened 
Ladies'  Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  225  Powell  st.    Telephone  MaiD  5a20 


BANKING. 


Bank  of 
British  Columbia. 


Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up 83.000.00 

Reserve  Fund if  5OU,UO0 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush   and  Sansome  Sts. 
headoffice : 60  lombard  street,  london 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo.  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon:  Sandon,  B.  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transac  ts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  Its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  York — Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  Na  tional  Bank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland — British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
Sooth  America — London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  bl 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

Sfin     Frfllirisrn  Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

c,.:n«o      1 1„:««  Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 124,202,327 

OdVlnQS     UMIOll.  Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus....    1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier.  if 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  Is  made  for 
pass-book  or  en  trance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.m.  Saturday  even- 
ings.6:30  to  8 

ThP  Gprmflfl  SaVinflS  No  526  Califobnia  Street.  San  Francisco 

^nrl    1  «o«     e»sv;n+..        Guarantee  capital  and  surplus. ...$2040-201  66 

ailU     LOan     oOGlolU.       Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash..  100000000 

Deposits  December  31,  1896, 27,7.0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  Pres'deDt,  B  A.Becker;  First  Vice-President.  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Presideni,  H.  Horsimau;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary.  George Tourny;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Mullerl  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
m^nn.  )gn.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohiandt 

1/UpIIc    Farrm                   N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 
VVGIId     Id!  yu  j0hn  j.  valentine President 

&C n.  » c     Rani/                   Homer S. King Manager 
00,  S     DailK.                 H.    Wadsworth Cashier 

F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,350,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington.  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  MoCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 


Security 
Savings  Bank. 


William  Alvord 
Wm.  Babcock 
Adam  Grant 


222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 
LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS. 
S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

O.  D.  Baldwin  .  E  J.  McCutchen 

-  W.  S.  Jones  -  j.  B.  Lincoln 


April  ?4.  1897. 


S\X   FRANCISCO   Ni:\VS  LETTER 


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BANKING. 


Bank  of  California, 
San  Francisco. 


"Why,  you  don't  even  tlrc-^  mi  -.id  reproachfully 

to  her  slinky  husbanti  ho  replied  with 

the  chuckle  of  a  piofessional  humorist.  "I  supposed  all 
the  time  that  you  wanted  a  husbai  <1  and  not  a  lady's  maid.'' 
Then  he  escaped  before  she  had  recovered  sufficiently  to 
tell  him  what  she  thought  of  him.— Chicago  Post. 

"Wh»t  a  severe  rain  storm  that  was  which  we  had  last 
dlgtall"  exclaimed  Eve,  w;ilkinL'  over  a  muddy  crossing  on 
her  heels  in  the  garden  of  Eden.  "Yes,"  responded  Adam. 
standing  on  one  foot  while  he  rescued  one  of  his  ruin 
'it  was  the  heaviest  rainful  in  the  memory  of  the  oldest 
inhabitant." — Brooklyn  Eagle. 

The  whale  spouted  in  triumph.  "Never  you  mind!'' 
shouted  Jonah,  vindictively:  you've  given  me  a  good  deal  of 
trouble,  I'll  admit,  but  you  just  wait  till  the  latter-day 
theologians  tackle  you!"  With  a  hoarse  chuckle  he  struck 
out  over  the  sanddunes  toward  Nineveh. — New  York 
Press. 

Cannibal  King  (approvingly) — Yarrum,  you  cooked  this 
last  touring  bicyclist  perfectly!  CANNIBAL  Cook  (com- 
placently)—Well,  your  highness,  when  I  began  operation, 
he  attempted  to  scorch,  but  I  put  a  stop  to  auything  of 
that  sort. — Brooklyn  Eagle. 

"Going  out  to  the  club  with  that  party  to-morrow  night?" 
"No;  I  can't.  Are  you?"  "I  should  say  I  was.  Young 
Mrs.  Wallingford  is  to  be  the  chaperon,  and,  say,  an  hour's 
flirting  with  her  is  worth  a  week  with  any  one  else."  — 
Cleveland  Leader. 

Miss  Grimes — He  insulted  me  grossly.  He  kissed  me — 
Miss  Chimes — The  monster!  Miss  Grimes — I  could  have 
forgiven  him  that;  but  he  had  the  meanness  to  apologize 
and  say  that  he  thought  it  was  his  wife! — Boston  Trans- 
script. 

Sigh  and  the  world  sighs  with  you, 

Liugh  and  you  laugh  alone, 
For  it's  mostly  the  rule  that  each  durned  fool 
Can't  see  any  joke  but  his  own. 

—Globe  Democrat. 

"What  is  your  new  painting  called?"  "  'The  Gleaner.'  " 
"Ah,  a  young  girl  with  a  sickle  and  a  bundle  of  grain?" 
"No;  an  elderly  girl  with  a  flat  pocketbook  and  an  armful 
of  bargain  dry  goods." — Chicago  Record. 

"Well,"  said  the  approached;  "I  suppose  you  are  another 
one  who  claims  the  world  owes  you  a  living?"  "That's 
just  it,"  replied  the  mendicant,  "I'm  trying  to  collect 
now." — Philadelphia  North  American. 

"What's  the  matter  between  Blims  and  his  typewriter?" 
"He  thought  when  he  hired  her  that  he  was  going  to  dic- 
tate to  her,  but  he  has  discovered  his  mistake." — Detroit 
Free  Press. 

Phyllis  (airily) — How  do  you  like  my  Easter  hat,  dear? 
Phoebe  (sweetly) — Why,  it  looks  just  like  new,  love! — 
Omaha  Republican. 

Bertwhistle  (skeptically) — What  did  you  give  up  duriug 
Lent?     Jamieson — Conundrums — Chicago  Record. 

The  Overland   Limited, 

ONLY  ZXA   DAYS  TO   CHICAGO.     4}^   DAYS  TO   NEW   YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
D  luble  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
A^eut,  No.  1  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 

The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  11  Montgomery  slreet. 

W.  H.  Snedakek,  General  Agent. 


Tai  Press  Clipping  bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.  reads  all 
papers  oo  the  Paolitc  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics,  business 
'and  personal. 


Capital 18,000,000  00 


Surplus    and   Undivided 
Prottla  (October  1,  IWMI.. 


s.ivuao  70 

WILLIAM  ALVORD President  I  CHARLES  R   BISHOP.  Vice  I'rest 

ALLEN  M.CLAY  Secretary    THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Prkntiss  Smith  ...Asut  Cashier  1 1.  P.  Mooi.ton 2d  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laldlaw  &  Co.;  tho  Hank  ol  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  Hank;  London— Mossrs.  N.  M.  Rollischtld  A 
Sons;  Pa  his—  Messrs.  dc  Rothschild  Frores;  Virginia  City  (Nov.)— 
Agency  of  The  Hank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand— Hank  of 
New  Zealand;  China,  Japan,  nnd  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  Issued  available  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York.  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen.  Hamb'.'.rg,  Frankfort-on-Maln,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm. Chrlstlanla,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  In  Italy. 

California  Safe  Deposit     Cor- CaI1[ornla  and  Montgomery  su. 
and  Trust  Company.       »p"«™»™ »'.™.°°° 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  interest  on  deposits  payablo  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
otber  trust  capacity.  Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  'o  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
wii'fl  accord irjg  to  size,  ami  valuab'es  of  all  kinds  are  stoied  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  j.  d  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickers-bam.  J«cob  C. 
Juhoson,  James  Treadwell,  V.  W.  Lougee.  Benry  F.  Fortmunn,  R  B.Wal- 
lace. R.  D  Fry.  A.  D.  Sharon   nnd  J,  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry.  President:  Henry.  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry.  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.  Shotwell,  Assistant,  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

33  Post    Street,   below   Kearny, 

mechanics'  Institute  Building. 

Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000 

Paid-Up  Capital S  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vioe-President. 

JOHN   A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John   A.   Hooper,  O.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks,    Whenopening  accounts  send  signatuie. 

London  Paris  ?*nc1  n.w.  cor.  sansome  &  sutter  sts. 

nmn»;non     Do„i,       1  :m:*«^      Subscribed  Capital 12,500,000 

American  Bank,  Limited,  raidupcapnii k.uuu.uuo 

ReserveFund t    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissonlere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM  1  ManaeprR 
C.  ALTSCHUL  J  Managers. 

Capital  authorized 86,000,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000 

Paid    Up 1,5U0,UU) 

Reserve    Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts 
Head  Office— is  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bill-a  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

IGN.  STEINEART     \  Mftn(Urers 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL  f  »"»&«« 


Mutual  Savings  Bank 
ot  San   FranoisGo. 


The  flnglo-Galitornian 
Bank,  Limited. 


and  bullion. 


Corner  Market,  Montgomery', 
and  Post  Streets. 


Crocker-  Woolworth 

National  Bank  of  S.  F.    paw-up  caPnai u,«n,ooo 

WM.  H.  CROCKER. President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vioe-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  P.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 


The  Sather 
Banking  Gompanu. 


Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 
Established  1851,  San  Francisco - 

Capital $1,000,000 


James  K.Wilson  President 
L.X-Cowgill.  Cashier. 


Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 
F.  W.  Wolee.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Brugulere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler   Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

agents  :  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank..  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley.  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  24,  1897. 


SHE  had  received  a  letter  in  the  morning  begging  her 
to  somehow  procure  him  a  little  money.  Things  were 
goiug  badly,  and  he  had  been  ill.  She  thought  of  it  ail  day 
long,  having  dispatched  the  little  she  had,  and,  for  the 
thinking,  things  looked  no  better.  Her  brother  had  not 
enough  to  live  upon,  and  there  was  an  end  of  it.  Fate  was 
niggardly  with  them  all.  During  the  afternoon  the  girls 
came  in,  and  Mrs.  Hamlin.  Mrs.  Hamlin  "was  always  de- 
lightful and  cheery.  Her  lovely  dresses  and  sweet  face 
and  fragrant  elegance  reminded  Maisie  that  at  least  she 
was  the  right  person  in  the  right  place — with  fitting  sur- 
roundings, and  the  beautiful  things  of  life  that  all  women 
instinctively  claim  as  their  right,  hers.  She  did  not  mean 
the  actual  material  possessions,  but  these  others,  that, 
after  all,  in  these  days  at  any  rate,  wealth  alone  can  pro- 
cure. 

"Maisie,  you  look  preposterously  dejected.  What  is  it? 
Are  you  in  love  with  an  Anarchist  or  is  it  only  general  as- 
pirations towards  the  impossible?" 

"No,  I  am  not  in  love:  but  I  am  thinking  of  proposing 
to  some  one." 

"Why?" 

"  Because  I  am  in  a  hurry.  Fred,  you  know,  is  fright- 
fully hard  up." 

"  But  why  don't  you  accept  Mr.  Howard,  when  he's  so 
devoted,  poor  man  ?  " 

"That  wouldn't  be  fair,  because,  you  see,  he  is  devoted 
and  I — no,  I  think  a  fat  man  with  a  beard  and  glasses  is 
the  sort  of  thing — in  the  abstract." 

"Oh,  excellent  in  the  abstract.  Protects  you,  is  kind  to 
you,  and  gives  you  cheques.     In  1he  concrete  he " 

"  Dear  Mrs.  Hamlin,  don't  1  The  matter  is  not  discuss- 
able in  the  concrete." 

"  Fancy  Maisie  proposing  !  "  said  one  of  the  girls. 

"You  don't  know  what  I  am  capable  of,"  returned 
Maisie. 

"  I'll  dare  you,  Maisie!"  Mrs.  Hamlin  twinkled,  "twenty 
pounds  on,  and  I'll  give  you  a  month." 

'■  Twenty  pounds  I  "  repeated  Maisie,  and  there  was  an 
odd  sound  in  her  voice. 

"  Twenty  pounds." 

"Done!"  she  said,  to  the  astonishment  of  the  room. 
"It's  a  bet!"  Everyone  sat  up  and  bristled  with  de- 
lighted curiosity.  Maisie,  of  all  people,  who  invariably 
treated  her  swains  with  a  good  tempered  scorn  that  was 
the  envy  of  her  friends. 

" I  will  do  it  now  1"  she  went  on  excitedly.  "Mabel, 
give  me  those  telegraph-forms.  Of  course,  I  won't  under- 
take to  carry  out  the  contract  if  any  one  accepts,"  she 
added. 

"  No,  no  ;  but  a  lona-fide  proposal  I  " 

She  then  sat  down  and  addressed  seven  telegrams  and 
dispatched  them  by  the  maid.  "Reply  paid,"  she  said. 
"And  now  we'll  have  tea  1 " 

"  What  have  you  done  ?"  questioned  Mr.  Hamlin. 

"  I  have  asked  seven  men  to  marry  me  1 " 

"Seven?" 

"  Yes.    Law  of  averages,  you  see." 

"Maisie  1" 

"Well,  seven  gentlemen  will  hardly  be  able  to  say  that 
I  am  pining  for  them  all;  and  they'll  exchange  notes." 

"Men  never  do  that." 

"Ah,  what  men  never  do,  that  surely  man  always,"  she 
laughed.  "Honor  with  them  is  a  collective  virtue  that 
has  no  honor  in  the  singular.  You  shall  read  the  answers." 
***** 

In  due  course  of  time  the  answers  came.  One  by  one 
the  girl  opened  them  before  her  expectant  friends,  who 
refused  to  go  till  all  had  come.  "  Regrets,"  quoth  Maisie, 
holding  up  one,  with  mock  gravity.  "Next,  please.  Ah! 
thank  you,  Susan.  '  Sorry,  previous  cngagiment,'   'Alas!  im- 


ihle!'  'Circumstances  over  which  I  have  no  control!'  'I 
would  -if  I could ',  but  I  can't.'  'No!'  That's  rather  im- 
polite, and  he  really — well,  one  mustn't  be  kissed  and  tell. 
'Twas  so  long  ago,  too.  You  see,  ladies,  how  devoted  my 
lovers  all  are;  but  I  have  won  my  bet.  Ah!  here  is  an- 
other one  more  polite  refusal.  No?  'Of  course.  I  am 
honored,"  she  read.  A  crimson  flushof  shame  spread  over 
the  girl's  laughing  face.  The  wild  impulse  of  that  moment's 
joke— the  daring  that  had  made  her  on  the  instant  accept 
the  challenge,  and  act  upon  it  before  time  could  sober  the 
uncontrollable  spirit  of  fun  that  had  come  to  her  in  a  mood 
too  despairing  to  care  for  any  result  so  long  as  she  could 
gain  the  twenty  pounds  for  her  brother— had  passed.  Odd- 
ly enough,  consciousness  of  what  she  had  done  came  to 
her  whimsical  soul  only  on  the  receipt  of  an  acceptance. 
"That's  chivalrous  of  him,"  she  said,  trying  to  hide  her 
embarrassment.  "And  now  to  invent  a  polite  refusal  to 
my  own  proposal." 

***** 

Horace  Sands  was  in  chambers  wheta  Miss  Maisie's  tele- 
gram— reply  paid — arrived.  He  was  smoking  a  cigarette 
with  Max  VVelby.  They  generally  smoked  together  after 
lunch,  in  a  kind  of  sympathetic  silence.  He  read  it  slowly 
and  then  said,  "God!"  and  then  (it  must  be  recorded) 
"  Damn  !"  After  which,  for  him,  unusual  ejaculations,  he 
went  out  of  the  room.  On  returning,  his  friend  noticed 
an  expression  of  most  pathetic  woe  upon  his  placid  fea- 
tures, and  such  a  bang-dog  look  that  he  refrained  from 
putting  any  questions  from  fear  of  intruding  on  private 
matters.  Horace,  after  some  fidgeting  said,  "You  know, 
after  all,  it's  a  dreadful  thing,  but  what  could  a  fellow  do? 
She's  a  charming  girl,  of  course — but  I  don't  think  of  ex- 
actly— in  fact,  I  am  not  a  marrying  man,  you  know — I 
never  thought  of  marrying — don't  know  anything  about 
it."  He  got  up  and  paced  the  room.  "  I  couldn't  do  any- 
thing else — a  man  would  be  such  a  beastly  cad — but  it  is 
appalling,  all  the  same.  I  feel  rather  inclined  to  run 
a " 

"  If  you'll  explain  what  you  are  talking  about,  I  may  be 
able  to  understand." 

"Well,  the  fact  is,  Miss  Maisie  wired  and  asked  me — 
don't  you  know;  and  I,  of  course " 

"Asked  you  what  ?" 

"  Well,  I  suppose  I  oughtn't  to  say,"  he  said,  suddenly 
flushing  crimson. 

"  Did  she  propose  to  you?"  asked  Welby  with  an  in- 
credulous look  of  amusement.  "Answer  paid,  too.  The 
devil  she  did  !     And  you  have  accepted  ?  " 

"  What  else  would  you  have  me  do?"  returned  Sands, 
stolidly. 

For  the  next  few  days  Horace  Sands  experienced  a  gen- 
eral sense  of  bewildering  depression.  He  was  an  engaged 
man — to  a  very  lovely  girl,  it  was  true,  but  nevertheless 
he  was  engaged,  tied  up,  as  it  were — somebody's  property. 
He  must  buy  presents  and  rings,  and  think  of  furniture. 
Never  in  his  life  had  he  thought  about  furniture.  Even  at 
college  he  had  not,  as  many  of  the  men  did,  troubled  how 
his  diggins  were  arranged.  He  passed  a  man  in  the 
street  carrying  a  kitchen  safe.  He  tried  to  think  what  a 
safe  was  meant  for,  and  realized  that  they  would  certainly 
have  to  have  a  safe.  Some  perambulators  in  a  great  shop 
caught  his  eye,  and  he  blushed  and  looked  obstinately  on 
the  other  side  of  the  road.  He  had  postponed  calling — he 
had  not  dared  yet.  He  would  never  summon  courage  to 
behave  as  a  lover  should  to  such  a  wonderful  piece  of 
femininity.  He  remembered  now  that  her  eyes  were  grey 
and  serious,  and  laughing  all  at  once;  that  she  had  a -de- 
lightful, petulant  mouth.  The  thought  of  her  was  sweet. 
The  reality  at  present  was  terrifying,  fie  could  not  yet 
face  his  betrothed.  He  must  have  time  to  get  used  to  him- 
self under  these  new  conditions.  If  she  had  only  hit  on 
Welby — Welby  was  an  awful  decent  sort.    Still  he  would- 


April  24.  1897. 


SAN   PRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


n  l  do.    perhaps.     Welby   wasn't    really  good   enough  for 
Id  she  want  a  II. >  ooalan'l  bear  a  Hat. 

perhaps,  with  .1  gardes,  would  be  nice 
•  live  in  the  OOUDtrjr  part  of  the  year.  She 
would  look  awfully  sweet  In  a  Mower  garden!  Another 
day  passed.  On  the  fourth  he  dressed  himself  in  a  frock- 
adorned  his  buttonhole  with  a  boui|ue*.  Mid  started 
for  her  house.  When  he  arrived  as  far  as  the  street  in 
which  she  lived  he  turned  round  and  went  to  the  club. 
There,  there  was  a  note  from  her — three  days  old.  Again 
he  Hushed,  and  thrust  it  into  bis  pocket,  He  went  out, 
and.  in  the  busy  traffic  of  the  streets,  read  his  first  love 
letter  from  Maisie.  "Dear  Mr.  Sand*,—Mmo  chicalrotu 
ftifl  nia  of  ijnu  '  It  wat  11  Int,  ij'tii  know."  He  did  not  read 
anymore,  but  strode  homewards.  He  had  been  a  pretty  kind 
of  fool,  anyhow — a  vain  ass,  too.  As  if  a  beautiful  girl 
like  that — then  he  began  to  laugh.  At  any  rate,  he  was 
free  again,  free! — but  somehow  he  wasn't  quite  sure  that 
he  wanted  to  be  so  very  free.  The  furniture  had  begun  to 
interest  him. 

They  met  the  next  evening  at  Lady  V'aughan's.  She 
received  him  with  a  very  bright  smile,  and  they  danced. 
They  danced  several  times  and  then  he  said  at  the  end,  ifI 
suppose  you  couldn't  care  for  me,  could  you?"  And  she 
colored  all  over,  and  said,  "Oh! no,  I  couldn't,  not  anyhow 
in  the  world!'' 

Fate  threw  them  together.  They  constantly  met.  She 
tried  to  avoid  him,  but  he  would  not  let  her,  and  she  ceased 
at  last  to  try.  At  the  end  of  three  months  he  again  asked 
her  to  be  his  wife.  The  tears  crept  into  her  eyes  then,  and 
she  said,  "You  are  very  kind  and  chivalrous,  and  lam  very 
grateful,  but  I  can't,  indeed  I  can't!"  So  that  be  went 
away  conscious  that  there  was  a  barrier  between  them  he 
could  not  break  down.  He  went  abroad  with  Welby,  and 
proved  a  preposterously  dull  companion. 

"She  will  never  have  me!"  he  said  one  day  irrelevantly. 
"I  believe  it's  all  because  of  that  confounded  telegram!" 

"Most  likely." 

"What  shall  I  do?" 

"Forget  her." 

"That's  what  I  have  been  trying  to  do,  but  she's  crept 
somehow  into  my  heart,  and  I  can't." 

"Wire,  then!" 

"What?" 

"What  she  wired  to  you." 

***** 

Maisie  was  sitting  with  Mrs.  Hamlin,  and  her  pretty 
face  was  even  paler  than  on  the  memorable  occasion  of 
the  sending  of  the  telegrams.  "Ah!"  she  said,  "it  is  a 
pity.  I  care  for  him  so  much— so  much — and  it  could 
never  be  now!     Could  it?" 

"It's  rather  difficult,"  said  Mrs.  Hamlin.  "How  mad  of 
us  all  to  have  let  you  do  it!  We  didn't  realize  till  the 
things  were  gone.  Your  spirits  carried  us  away.  He's 
abroad,  isn't  he?" 

"Yes,  and  I  can't  b?ar  it,  but  I  must;  that's  life  isn't 
it?"  she  said,  with  a  little  sad  smile.  "We  all  manage  to 
bear  what  we  can't."  And  then  a  telegram  came,  reply 
paid. 

"What  is  it?"  said  Mrs.  Hamlin. 

"He  has  wired.     Look!" 

"And  what  are  you  goicig  to  say?" 

The  girl  sat  down  upon  her  heels,  on  the  floor,  and  looked 
first  into  the  fire  and  then  at  Mrs.  Hamlin.  "I  think  I 
ought  to  be  polite,  don't  you?"  she  said.    "He  was  to  me." 

"Yes,"  said  Mrs.  Hamlin,  "I  think  you  should  be 
polite!" 

And  Miss  Maisie  was. — Westminster  Gazette. 


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Leave  San  Francisco  Mondays  and  Thursdays,  and  connect  at 
Barstow  with  Santa  Fe  Limited,  Dining  cars,  buffet,  smoking  car. 
Pullman  Palace  Drawing  Room  Sleeping  Cars.  Three  and  one-half 
days  to  Chicago  or  St.  Louis,  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  Chronicle  building.     Tel.  Main  1831. 

If  all  the  notables  who  have  feasted  at  the  Maison  Riche,  Geary 
and  Grant  avenue,  in  the  past  five  years  were  written,  the  list  would 
be  a  brilliant  one.  This  famous  restaurant  serves  a  splendid  dinner 
from  5  to  9  every  day.  A  string  band  plays  delicious  music  while 
the  cultivated  appetite  is  gratified  by  delicious  cooking,  dainty 
dishes,  and  rare  wines;  and  every  refined  attention  that  the  guest 
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ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Crown  Point  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  24th  day  of  March,  1»>97,  an  assessment  (No  70)  of  twenty  cents  (20c) 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  st^ck  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Seoretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  room  35,  third  floor  of  Mills  building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

28th  DAY  OF  APRIL,  1897, 

will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction:  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  19th  day  of 
May,  1897.  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

JAMES  NEWLANDS,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  35,  third  floor  of  Mills  building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Overman  Silver  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Diiectors,  held 
on  the  i2th  day  of  Apnl  1897,  an  assessment.  No.  77,  of  Ten  cents  (10c) 
per  share  was  levied  upon  each  and  every  share  of  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the 
Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  company,  No.  414  California  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

•       17TF  DAY  OF   MAY,  1897, 

will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auotion,  *nd  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  7th  day  of  June, 
1897  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale .    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

GEO.  D.  EDWARDS,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Seg.   Belcher  &  Mides  Con.   Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Gold  Hill  Mining  District.  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  held  on 
the  6th  day  of  April,  1897,  an  assessment,  No.  19,  of  Five  cents  (5c.)  per 
share,  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  50.  Nevada  Block,  3-9  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  on  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

10th  DAY  OF  MAY,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  SATURDAY,  the  29th  day  of 
May.  1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent   assessment,  together  with   the  costs 
of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.      By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

E    B    HOLMES.  Secretary. 
Office:  Room  50,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St  ,  San  Froncisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 

Hutchinson  Sugar  Plantation  Company. 
Dividend  No.  42,  of  25  cents  per  share,  of  the  Hutchinson  Sugar  Planta- 
tion Company,  will  be  payable  at  the  office  of  the  company,  327  Market  St., 
on  and    after  Tuesday,  April  20,   1897.      Transfer  bookn    will    close  on 
Wednesday,  April  14,  1897,  at  3  o'clock  p.m.   E.  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  24,  1897 


ONE  of  the  difficulties  about  a  suburban  residence  is  the 
promptness  which  marks  the  departure  of  last  trains 
from  the  city.  When  Paul  Jarboe  sought  and  obtained 
domestic  permission  to  attend  the  anniversary  dinner  at 
the  Bohemian  Club  last  Saturday  night,  he  really  intended 
to  keep  his  promise  to  return  to  his  Burlingame  cottage 
on  the  11:15  train.  But  the  cheer  was  good,  and  the  sto- 
ries were  better,  and  Denis  O'Sullivan's  singing  was  very 
soothing,  and — when  Paul  first  thought  of  the  hour,  and 
took  a  surreptitious  peep  at  Jhis  watch,  he  was  amazed 
and  dismayed  to  find  that  it  was  long  past  midnight.  As 
he  could  not  possibly  reach  home,  he  consoled  himself  as 
best  he  could  with  the  sympathetic  companionship  of 
other  belated  husbands  at  the  club.  He  might  have  taken 
the  early  Menlo  Park  train  on  Sunday  morning,  but  he 
preferred  the  Sabbath  quiet  of  the  city. 

Some  time  in  the  afternoon  he  began  to  realize  the  enor- 
mity of  missing  last  trains,  and.  procuring  a  trap,  he 
started  to  drive  to  his  country  house.  On  the  way  he  met 
a  boy  on  a  small  gray  burro,  and  purchased  it  on  the  spot 
as  a  propitiatory  offering  to  his  own  household  gods,  for 
the  legs  of  Paul's  son  and  heir  are  just  long  enough  to 
straddle  the  back  of  such  an  animal.  The  journey  home 
with  his  new  acquisition  formed  the  most  exciting  episode 
in  Jarboe's  adventurous  career.  Having  seen  calves  taken 
to  market  with  their  legs  tied,  Paul  similarly  fastened  the 
legs  of  the  jackass  with  a  strap  and  dumped  him  into  the 
bottom  of  the  trap.  After  the  dashboard  had  been  kicked 
out  and  the  t>-ap  otherwise  damaged  to  the  extent  of  about 
$40,  the  captive  was  released,  and  the  tardy  Jarboe  essayed 
to  drag  him  along  behind  his  conveyance.  It  was  hard 
work,  but  they  made  some  progress  until  they  came  to  a 
steep  hill.  The  burro  pulled  as  hard  as  the  horse,  but  in 
an  opposite  direction,  and  all  efforts  to  advance  were  fu- 
tile. Finally  the  strap  broke,  the  burro  disappeared  in  a 
cloud  of  dust,  and  Paul  went  home  empty-handed. 

The  worst  of  it  all  was  that  his  story  of  the  burro  was 
regarded  as  a  wild  dream,  and  his  explanation  of  the  dam- 
aged trap  was  received  with  such  tolerant  incredulity 
that  he  fears  that  nothing  but  his  resignation  from  the 
club  will  suffice  to  square  his  transgressions. 

*  *  * 

After  dreaming  all  night  that  he  was  in  Hades,  where 
his  inconsiderate  master  had  set  him  the  difficult  task  of 
swallowing  a  football,  Gellett  Burgess  awoke  oneimorning 
to  a  realization  that  he  was  still  trying  to  gulp  down  that 
impossible  leather  sphere.  The  artist-poet  consulted  a 
specialist,  who  made  a  cursory  examination,  and  promptly 
informed  him  that  he  possessed  an  ulcerated  throat.  The 
doctor  forbade  smoking  for  a  week,  and  prescribed  the 
usual  remedies.  Burgess  wandered  out  in  great  dejection, 
affectionately  clutching  bis  roll  of  forbidden  cigarette 
papers.  While  he  lay  moping  on  a  divan  in  the  Bohemian 
Club,  Harry  Dimond  came  in  briskly,  and  slapped  the 
prostrate  figure  on  the  back. 

"What's  the  matter,  G ell?"  he  said,  cheerily.  "You 
look  like  a  dead  man.  Brace  up,  my  boy,  and  have  a 
cigarette,"  extending  bis  box  of  Turkish  favorites. 

Burgess  languidly  waved  a  declining  hand. 

"No — can't  do  it — not  allowed,"  he  answered  in  a  life- 
less tone. 

"Why  not,"  demanded  Dimond,  in  amazement. 

"Because  I  have  an  illustrated  throat,"  pathetically 
answered  the  artist,  the  ruling  passion  strong  within  him. 

Harry  Dimond  says  privately  that  the  committee  really 
ought  to  prohibit  the  supplying  of  absinthe  frappe  in  the 
club  to  persons  of  nervous  temperament. 

*  *  * 

There  are  many  things  which  Richard  E.  Kelly  can  do 
well,  such  as  managing  mining  companies,  but  among 
those  accomplishments  which  he  does  not  possess  is  the 
sailing  of  a  boat.  With  not  unusual  perversity,  Dick 
longs,  above  all  else,  to  achieve  nautical  excellence,  al- 
though he  is  in  actual  terror  whenever  he  is  afloat.     Some 


friends  who  have  bestowed  on  him  the  honorary  title  of 
"Commodore  Dick"  invited  him  to  go  on  the  first  cruise  of 
the  season  in  the  yacht  "Nita,"  a  few  days  ago.  Having 
sacrificed  bis  nerves  to  his  ambition,  he  stepped  into  a 
small  boat  to  be  rowed  out  to  the  yacht,  and  was  alarmed  at 
noticing  that  the  skiff  was  leaking  freely  from  a  badly 
calked  seam. 

"I  say,"  he  remarked,  warningly.  "Do  you  fellows  see 
that  this  boat  is  filling  fast?" 

"Oh,  that's  nothing,"  airily  replied  Jack  Pinlay,  who 
was  skipper.  "We  never  pay  any  attention  to  a  little 
thing  like  that.  If  the  water  gets  up  over  your  ankles, 
you  can  bail  her  out,  but  leave  anything  short  of  that  alone. 
You  know,"  be  added,  with  preternatural  gravity. 
"Water  makes  fine  ballast." 

The  others  solemnly  corroborating  this,  Kelly  dared 
make  no  further  remonstrance  and  sat  with  his  feet  in 
water  until  the  jolly  tars  boarded  the  yacht.  The  yachts- 
men say  it  was  a  mere  coincidence  that  the  "Nita"  also 
had  considerable  water  about  her  center  board.  Dick 
said  nothing  about  this  new  danger,  but  set  vigorously  to 
work  with  a  bailing  car.,  a  self  imposed  task  which  kept 
him  occupied  during  the  entire  trip.  The  wind  was  rather 
fresh,  and  the  yacht  shipped  a  good  deal  of  water, — ac- 
cidentally, they  protest.  Matters  grew  so  hazardous  in 
Kelly's  eyes,  that  he  begged  to  be  put  ashore  on  Alcatraz, 
and  was  with  difficulty  restrained  from  taking  a  header 
and  swimming  for  the  Island. 

When  he  reached  home  that  night,  Richard  discovered  a 
new  field  of  gray  hairs  under  his  hat,  and  he  did  not  go  to 
bed  until  he  had  drafted  a  bill  for  presentation  to  the  next 
Legislature,  prohibiting  yachting  as  a  pastime.  If  anyone 
desires  a  discarded  title  of  Honorary  Commodore  he  can 
secure  it  upon  his  own  terms  by  negotiating  with  Mr. 
Kelly. 

*  *  * 

Members  of  the  canine  family  have  no  more  loyal  friend 
than  Jack  de  Ruvter,  vice-president  of  the  San  Francisco 
Kennel  Club.  Once  or  twice  a  week,  he  resolutely  turns 
his  back  on  the  wheat  market,  and  joyfully  hies  him  to 
Livermore,  on  an  inspection  tour  of  the  Verona  Kennels, 
where  he  spends  many  happy  hours.  De  Ruyter's  florid 
complexion  suggests  a  degree  of  dissipation  not  at  all 
justified  by  the  facts,  but  it  occasions  Jack  no  worry  to 
bear  the  reputation  of  a  bacchante.  When  women  look 
him  over  and  sadly  remark:  "What  a  hard  drinker  that 
young  man  must  be!"  Jack  recklessly  pulls  his  hat  down 
over  one  eye  and  assumes  the  wicked  air  of  a  bad  buccaneer. 
On  one  of  his  regular  trips  to  his  Kennels,  he  encountered 
a  party  of  acquaintances,  as  he  was  boarding  the  train  at 
the  Oakland  mole. 

"Oh,  Mr.  de  Ruyter,  are  we  to  have  you  as  a  travelling 
companion?"  they  ask  with  flattering  eagerness.  "Where 
are  you  going?" 

"Going  to  the  dogs!"  replied  Jack,  desperately,  as  he 
turned  to  enter  the  smoker. 

And  now  those  shocked  ladies,  whenever  de  Ruyter's 
name  is  mentioned,  shake  their  heads  sadly,  and  will  tell 
you,  in  mournful  confidence  that  "he  is  going  the  pace!" 

*  *  * 

That  Harry  Wise  is  inaptly  named  is  the  practically 
unanimous  conclusion  of  his  most  intimate  friends.  But 
Harry  does  not  suspect  it,  considering  his  cognomen  singu- 
larly appropriate,  while  his  father,  the  Collector  of  the 
Port,  sanquinely  considers  his  pert  offspring  a  rising 
young  statesman.  On  the  floor  of  the  Merchants'  Ex- 
change, the  other  day,  young  Wise  encountered  Philip 
Alston  Williams,  who  was  smoking  his  inevitable  cigar. 
Phil  shares  the  general  opinion  regarding  the  extent  of 
Harry's  wisdom,  an  unflattering  estimate  of  which  the 
latter  is  serenely  unconscious. 

"Lucky  dog,  you  are,  Williams,"  be  said,  with  a  com- 
placent leer  at  his  own  facetiousness.  "The  vilest  weed 
doesn't  care  who  smokes  it,  does  it?" 

"That's  so,"  quickly  responded  Williams,  as  if  suddenly 
convinced  of  a  great  truth.  "Have  one,  Harry?"  he 
added,  pointedly,  though  with  apparent  cordiality. 

And  young  Wise,  who  is  never  known  to  refuse,  mechani- 
cally but  eagerly  extended  his  hand  for  the  proffered 
cigar,  and  then  withdrew  to  puzzle  over  the  reason  why 
every  one  laughed  at  him. 


April  24.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


■9 


Attorney  Knight  is  not  noted  for  piety,  and 

Lteodance  ll  lip  throughout  a  Ion*;  ami 

int  le^al  career  has   oeoui-red   at    distant    Intervals, 
appearances,   however,  and  possibly   to 
Umighty,  who  is  of  being  preju- 

*t  him  on  account  of  his  re<  ord  ;^  a  criminal 
-.  Mr.  Knight  is  in  the  habit  of  assuming  a  thought 
ful  and  repentant  expression,  which  illumines  his  counte- 
nance like  a  sunset  glow  on  Mount  Tamalpais.  and  hieing 
•If  to  divine  service  once  a  year,  on  Easter  Sunday. 
According  to  tradition,  he  therefore  betook  himself  on  the 
Sabbath  just  passed  to  a  sanctuary  which,  out  of  consid- 
eration for  that  edifice  and  his  friends,  shall  be  nameless. 
Now,  musk  hath  such  charms  to  soothe  Mr.  Knight's 
savage  breast  that  it  was  not  lon>;  before  the  melody  in- 
voked by  the  choir  had  wooed  him  to  slumber  as  peacefully 
swct  ;b  that  of  an  infant,  and  the  scriptural  eloquence 
which,  alas,  he  so  much  needed,  fell  on  unheeding  ears. 
When  the  pastor  engaged  in  prayer  befitting  the  beautiful 
itide,  the  lawyer  was  seen  to  stir  as  though  about  to 
awaken  from  his  comfortable  but  ill-timed  nap.  Perhaps 
the  unaccustomed  supplications  for  sinners  disturbed  his 
repose.  At  all  events,  the  preacher  had  just  uttered  the 
solemn  and  impressive  words,  "Thy  will  be  done,"  when 
the  attorney  electrified  the  assemblage  and  broke  the 
prayerful  hush  by  springing  to  his  feet  and  exclaiming: 
"Your  Honor,  I  object  !     The  will  is  a  forgery   and   I  can 

prove " 

Kind  hands  bore  him  out  into  the  spring  sunshine,  where 
the  mortified  Knight  explained  that  he  had  been  dream- 
ing be  was  in  Judge  Slack's  court-room. 

*  *  * 

The  delicate  sensibilities  of  the  men  on  Change  were  so 
much  offended  by  Sim  Erlanger's  little  black  pipe,  with  its 
two  inches  of  stem  and  its  unmistakable  characteristics  of 
the  dudheen,  that  they  took  up  a  private  subscription  and 
purchased  him  a  substitute  of  the  orthodox  German  type, 
the  chief  feature  being  a  stem  with  as  many  curves  as  a 
baseball  pitcher.  Sim  accepted  this  gift  without  demur, 
and  the  other  brokers  chuckled  complacently  at  the 
pointed  reproof  they  had  administered.  A  day  or  two  later, 
however,  it  was  remarked  that  young  Erlanger  was  smok- 
ing an  atrocious  mixture  of  tobacco,  no  leaf  of  which  had 
ever  seen  Virginia.  Even  the  beans  turned  yellow  at  the 
pungentodor,  and  the  indignantcommission  men  threatened 
all  kinds  of  disinfectants  and  the  use  of  a  hose,  but  they 
subsequently  concluded  to  present  the  offender  with  a  five- 
pound  box  of  the  choicest  fine-cut,  as  the  most  effectual 
mode  of  abating  the  nuisance. 

This  generous  feat  was  duly  performed,  to  Sim's  huge  de- 
light, although  he  made  a  faint  display  of  rather  tame  re- 
sentment when  he  received  a  season's  supply  of  tobacco. 
He  is  now  wondering  whether  the  wearing  of  the  most  dis- 
reputable garments  obtainable,  on  the  floor  of  the  Call 
Board,  would  secure  him  a  present  of  a  new  suit  of  clothes 
of  fashionable  cut.  In  view  of  his  recent  experiences,  he 
considers  the  experiment  worth  a  trial,  anyhow. 

*  *  * 

On  the  day  of  the  departure  for  Washington  of  Wu  Ting 
Pang,  the  new  Chinese  minister,  the  apartments  of  that 
functionary  in  the  Occidental  Hotel  contained  a  large  num- 
ber of  his  countrymen  from  the  local  Chinese  colony,  anxious 
for  a  final  word  of  supplication  or  suggestion  in  the  ear  of 
their  ambassador.  One  villainous-looking  highbinder  who, 
through  some  mistake,  obtained  an  audience  with  Wu  Ting 
Pang,  after  grovelling  for  several  minutes  on  the  carpet, 
so  far  recovered  his  assurance,  as  to  invite  the  Minister  to 
be  his  financial  backer  in  a  plan  he  had  purchased  from  a 
white  buncoman  for  the  manufacture  of  a  new  kind  of  fly- 
ing machine.  The  great  diplomat  politely  declined  the  op- 
portunity to  make  his  fortune,  but  the  highbinder  was  in- 
sistent. As  he  peremptorily  closed  the  interview  the 
Minister  explained  that  he  was  too  poor  to  embark  in  such 
a  speculation.  The  common  Chinaman  looked  over  the  re- 
tinue of  his  uncommon  countrymen  and  noted  the  evidences 
of  wealth  and  luxury  with  a  kindling  eye. 

"Oh,  no,"  he  replied,  jauntily,  but  with  an  added  touch 
of  sarcasm.     "You  not  poor.     You  only  saving." 
*  *  # 

His   ability   to   talk    tender   sentiment   to  an  indefinite 
number  of  girls  at  one  and  the  same  time,  with  absolutely 


no  danger   to   himself,    is   an    accomplishment    which    l>r 
Harry  Tevia    has    thoroughly    mastered       But    he    was 

caught  at    his    own    game    the    other    da\ .  and    was   very 
nearly  brought  up  with  a  round    turn.      Bundsome    Harry 

was  fit  Si  comfortable  sittiog-out  place,  his  companion  be 
log  a  particularly  pretty  girl.  How  could  he  help  saying 
the  sweet  little  things  expected  of  him? 

"You  have  the  most  beautiful  eyes  in  the  world.  Miss 
Fannie,"  lie  said,  softly. 

Just  then  the  cosy /'>.''"/. was  interrupted  by  the  ag 
proach  of  the  young  lady's  cousin.  The  new  coiner  was 
the  last  person  in  the  world  Tevia  desired  to  see  at  that 
moment,  for  be  remembered  that  be  had  been  making 
rather  violent  love  to  her  also  an  hour  or  two  earlier.  He 
tried  hard  to  conceal  the  discomfiture  he  felt,  but  his  com- 
panion's remark  hardly  increased  his  composure,  and 
made  him  feel  that  he  had  strewn  his  pearls  inadvisedly. 

"What  do  you  suppose  Dr.  Tevis  has  been  telling  me, 
Nellie?"  asked  this  unappreciative  young  woman,  with  a 
sly  glance  at  her  cousin.  "He  says  I  have  the  most  beau- 
tiful eyes  in  the  world." 

The  debonnaire  Doctor,  with  feigned  sincerity,  glanced 
critically  from  one  pretty  girl  to  the  other,  inwardly  wish- 
ing both  were  far  removed. 

"And  so  she  has,"  he  protested,  vehemently — "barring 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


April  24,  1897. 


HOW  gladly  the  Eastertide  has  been  welcomed  this  year, 
the  entire  week  being  well  filled  with  festive  gath- 
erings, which  were  of  the  most  varied  character.  Among 
the  earliest  to  celebrate  were  the  Colonial  Dames  of  the 
Sequoia  Chapter,  who  enjoyed  a  breakfast  at  the  Occi- 
dental Hotel  on  Monday  in  commemoration  of  "Lexington 
Day."  In  the  evening  the  Monday  Night  Club  had  their 
last  dance  of  the  season,  which  was  well  attended  and  al- 
together delightful.  The  athletic  sports  at  the  Presidio 
drew  a  large  crowd  of  spectators  on  Monday,  but  the 
turn-out  of  society  thereat  on  Tuesday  was  something 
quite  remarkable,  and  several  very  pleasant  little  luncheon 
parties  were  given  at  the  post.  Mrs.  W.  D.  O'Kane's 
pink  dinner,  which  was  a  very  elaborate  affair,  was  given 
as  an  adieu  to  Peter  Donahue,  who  left  for  the  East  on 
Thursday;  and  the  bal  masque  in  Oakland  was  a  brilliant 
scene  and  a  great  success.  Some  of  the  costumes  worn 
by  the  ladies  were  extremely  handsome,  and  their  wearers 
much  admired.  Wednesday  was  largely  given  over  to 
Hymen,  and  on  Thursday  the  Philomath  Club  gave  a  tea. 
Yesterday's  gay  doings  included  a  tea  at  Mrs.  Jewett's 
and  one  in  Oakland  at  the  residence  of  Miss  Holt,  who, 
■with  the  Misses  Kitteridge  and  Simmons,  were  the  host- 
esses of  the  occasion. 

The  Eastertide  is  always  a  favorite  time  for  weddings, 
and  this  year  has  proved  no  exception  to  the  rule.  On 
Monday,  at  noon,  Miss  Minnie  Bradbury,  of  Los  Angeles, 
and  Isaac  H.  Polk  were  the  bride  and  groom  whose  nup- 
tial knot  was  tied  by  the  Rev.  Father  McSweeney  at  the 
residence  of  Mrs.  Bradbury,  on  O'Farrell  street.  The 
decorations  of  the  house  were  decidedly  Easter  in  charac- 
ter, lilies  and  white  roses  being  used  in  great  profusion, 
with  other  sweet-scented  blossoms.  The  bride's  robe  was 
of  white  satin  and  tulle,  with  trimmings  of  point  lace  ;  a 
wreath  of  orange  blossoms  and  a  sunburst  of  diamonds 
held  the  fleecy  tulle  vail,  which  quite  enveloped  her  pretty 
figure,  and  she  carried  a  bouquet  of  white  violets.  Miss 
Laura  Bradbury,  who  was  one  of  the  attendant  maids, 
was  gowned  in  white  dotted  muslin  over  a  slip  of  yellow 
silk.  The  other  bridesmaid,  Miss  Mary  Vernon,  wore  a 
similar  gown  over  green  silk.  Two  pretty  children,  the 
Misses  Marion  and  Louise  Winston,  officiated  as  flower 
bearers,  and  James  Winston  was  the  groom's  best  man. 
A  dainty  wedding  breakfast  followed  the  ceremony,  and 
later  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Polk  left  town  on  their  honeymoon 
trip,  their  destination  being  a  profound  secret. 

In  Oakland,  Miss  Alice  Kimball  and  James  Campbell,  of 
Honolulu,  were  joined  in  marriage  at  the  noon  hour  on 
Monday,  in  the  Tenth  Avenue  Baptist  Church,  which  was 
prettily  decorated  for  the  ceremony.  Miss  Helen  Camp- 
bell appeared  as  maid-of-honor,  and  the  Misses  Georgia 
Emerson,  Fanny  Bently,  Louie  Pierce,  and  Daisy  Kimball 
as  bridesmaids.  The  Hawaiian  Consul,  Charles  Wilder, 
supported  the  groom  as  his  best  man.  After  the  church 
service  a  reception  was  held  at  the  Kimball  residence. 

Alameda's  wedding  was  an  evening  one  at  the  First 
Unitarian  Church,  when  Miss  Gertrude  Peck  and  Herbert 
Atherton  Page  were  the  bride  and  groom.  Miss  Maud 
Miller  was  maid-of-honor,  the  Misses  Olita  Lunt,  Carrol 
Baldwin,  Edith  Brown,  and  Edna  Gillis  the  other  attend- 
ants of  the  bride.  Willard  Francis  appeared  as  the 
groom's  best  man.  A  dancing  reception  followed  at  the 
home  of  the  bride  on  Central  avenue. 

Another  of  Monday's  weddings  was  performed  at  the 
residence  of  Archbishop  Riordan,  where  the  Rev.  Father 
Mulligan  united  in  marriage  Miss  Thama  Dickenson  and 
William  K.  Speed.  It  was  a  very  quiet  affair,  the  bride's 
family  alone  being  present  at  the  ceremony,  and  later  the 
happy  pair  left  for  a  honeymoon  trip  East.  They  expect 
to  make  California  their  future  home  when  they  return 
several  months  hence. 


Wednesday  was  another  popular  day  with  the  brides,  to 
judge  from  the  number  who  selected  it  for  their  nuptial 
ceremony.  Among  the  day  weddings  were  those  of  Miss 
Helen  Sutro  and  Samuel  Schwartz,  Dr.  Voorsanger  per- 
forming the  marriage  service  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
mother  on  Pine  street;  and  of  Miss  Maud  Alberger  and 
Lieutenant  E.  J.  Dorey,  which  was  another  home  cere- 
mony, taking  place  at  the  house  of  the  bride  on  Pacific 
avenue,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Chetwood  officiating.  Those  of  the 
evening  included  that  of  Miss  Minnie  O'Neil  to  J.  J.  Baum- 
gartner,  and  Miss  Margaret  Daily  to  Charles  B.  Tom- 
son,  who  were  united  in  marriage  at  the  residence  of  Mrs. 
Harry  Hunt  on  Geary  street. 

The  Wednesday  evening  wedding  of  ehiefest  interest 
was  that  of  Miss  Mattie  Whittier  and  W.  B.  Weir,  of  New 
York,  which  was  solemnized  in  the  Whittiers'  handsome 
brown-stone  mansion  on  Jackson  street.  It  was  a  pink 
wedding,  and  the  floral  decorations,  which  were  both  pro- 
fuse and  beautiful,  were  chiefly  of  that  tint.  The  bridal 
party  was  also  an  extremely  pretty  one.  Miss  Lottie 
Woods  was  the  fair  bride's  maid-of-honor,  the  Misses 
Hattie  Jackson,  Harriet  Griswold  and  Jessie  Weir,  the 
groom's  sister,  officiated  as  bridesmaids,  George  Danforth, 
of  New  York,  appearing  as  the  groom's  best  man.  The 
ceremony  was  witnessed  by  comparatively  a  few  relatives 
and  most  intimate  friends  only;  but  the  reception,  which 
followed  later,  was  very  large.  It  was  in  a  bower  of  green 
palms,  Bermuda  lilies  and  white  snowballs  that  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Church  tied  the  nuptial  knot,  the  bride  wearing  a 
robe  of  white  satin  elaborately  trimmed  with  point  lace,  a 
tulle  veil  and  wreath  of  orange  blossoms,  and  her  hand 
bouquet  was  of  lilies  of  the  valley.  The  bridesmaids  were 
gowned  alike  in  pink  tulle  over  pink  silk,  and  they  carried 
clusters  of  Bon  Silene  roses. 

It  would  seem  as  though  the  Easter  season  is  to  be  as 
prolific  of  engagements  as  of  weddings  from  the  way  in 
which  they  are  being  announced.  First  on  the  fist  this 
week  came  two,  of  which  the  bride-elect  of  one  and  the 
groom-elect  of  the  other  are  well-known  residents  of  San 
Francisco.  Miss  Addie  Mills,  who  will  wed  Chester  Hol- 
combe,  a  member  of  the  Chinese  Legation  in  Washington, 
was,  after  her  debut,  one  of  our  belles  during  a  couple  of 
seasons  in  San  Francisco  society. 

Joe  Grant  is  one  of  the  most  popular  young  men  of  the 
swim,  and  his  future  bride,  Miss  Macleay,  is  not  quite  un- 
known itj  our  social  circles,  having  made  several  visits 
both  here  and  at  Burlingame  during  the  past  two  years. 
It  will  be  a  disappointment,  however,  that  neither  wed- 
ding takes  place  in  San  Francisco,  as  that  of  Miss  Mills 
will  probably  be  at  the  home  of  her  uncle,  D.  O.  Mills,  in 
New  York,  and  of  Miss  Macleay  at  her  home  in  Portland, 
Oregon. 

Oakland  contributes  an  announcement  this  week,  also, 
Miss  Lillian  Mastick  and  Oliver  Ellsworth  being  the  inter- 
ested parties,  with  the  wedding  to  take  place  in  the  very 
near  future.  And  from  New  York  comes  the  news  of  the 
engagement  of  a  former  Oakland  beau,  who  has  for  a 
couple  of  years  past  been  a  resident  of  Gotham.  William 
H.  Little  is  the  groom-elect  and  Miss  Anna  Boelter  of  New 
York  will  be  his  bride.  The  date  for  the  postponed  mar- 
riage of  Miss  Belle  McKenna  and  Peter  Martin  will  no 
doubt  soon  be  announced  now,  as  it  has  been  decided  that 
the  wedding  shall  take  place  in  Washington  city  as  soon  as 
the  family  of  Judge  McKenna  become  settled  there.  The 
2d  of  June  is  the  day  named  for  the  wedding  of  Miss  Quita 
Collier  and  Atherton  Macondray. 

The  review  which  General  Forsythe  held  at  the  Presidio 
last  Saturday  recalled  the  many  similar  turn-outs  of  troops 
during  General  McDowell's  regime  as  Commanding  General 
of  this  Department. ,  He  was  particularly  fond  of  showing 
foreign  visitors  .of  distinction  what  his  boys  in  blue  could 
do,  and  as  a  general  thing  the  reviews  at  the  Presidio 
were  followed  by  a  luncheon  and  a  dance  at  Black  Point 
(Fort  Mason),  where  he  and  his  family  resided,  at  which 
the  beauty  and  fashion  of  San  Francisco  participated. 
Among  the  visitors  thus  entertained  were  H.  R.  H.  le  Due 
de  Penthieve,  Sir  Arthur  Kennedy,  Governor  of  British 
Columbia  ;  Earl  Dufferin,  the  Governor-General  of  Can- 
ada ;  Princess  Louise  and  the  Marquis  of  Lome,  whose 
entertainment  at  Black  Point  was  in  the  form  of  a  tea. 


April  24.  «897 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sandwich  ipular    plai 

•  ar,  judirinn  from  the  number  of  folks  whom  'tis 
Mr.   Thomas   Brown 
and  his   daughters,    and    Miss  Lela    RoMnMD,    wore   the 
members  of  a  party    wbicl  11    the   Australia  last 

Thursday.     That  steamer  on  ber    recent    arrival    brought 
.(uito  a  party  of  San  I'r.u  in  tlicir    visit    to 

the  Islands,  which  they  all  de>  are  *H  most  delightful 
from  first  to  last.  Anions  the  returners  was  Sam  B 
man.  greatly  improved  in  health  by  the  trip.  Ed.  Green- 
way  has  been  taking  in  the  beauties  of  the  tiesta  and  the 
gaieties  of  Los  Angeles  this  week.  Miss  Jennie  Flood  has 
gone  Kast  on  a  month's  visit.  Mrs.  Webb  Howard  will 
soon  be  with  us  again,  after  a  lengthy  visit  East  and 
abroad.  Mrs.  Sherwood  and  her  son  Will,  and  A.  B. 
McCreary.  are  guests  at  the  Hotel  Rafael. 

Among  the  affairs  on  the  taplt  for  next  week  is  the  re- 
ception and  tea  to  be  given  at  the  Nursery  for  Homeless 
Children,  on  Harrison  street,  on  Wednesday,  between  the 
hours  of  3  and  5  o'clock  ;  and  on  Friday  evening  the  Entre 
Nous  Club  will  give  their  last  cotillion  of  the  season  in 
Maple  Hall  of  the  Palace.  The  "Gingerbread  Fete,"  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Children's  Hospital,  which  is  to  be  an 
accomplished  fact  next  month,  is  awakening  much  interest 
in  the  swim.  The  idea  is  new,  and  everything  novel  takes. 
It  will  be  held  at  the  Clark  Crocker  house,  on  Sutter 
street,  and  will  last  an  entire  week. 

Among  the  notable  wedding  feasts  of  the  week  were 
those  given  on  Wednesday  last  at  the  O'Neil  residence,  on 
the  occasion  of  the  marriage  of  Miss  Minnie  O'Neil  and  J. 
J.  Baumgartner;  and  at  the  residence  of  Colonel  W.  C. 
Alberger,  when  Miss  Maud  Alberger  was  married  to  Lieut. 
J.  E.  Dorey.  The  elegant  dinners  served  were  prepared 
by  the  well-known  caterer.  Max  Abraham,  of  428  Geary 
street. 

The  Country  Club  has  made  a  new  departure  this  year, 
whereby  the  members  can  take  their  wives  and  a  few  lady 
friends  with  them  to  enjoy  the  pleasures  of  life  at  their 
comfortable  quarters  for  a  few  days  in  the  middle  of  the 
week,  reserving  the  "over  Sunday"  portion  for  their 
bachelor  frolics. 

Hotel  El  Monte,  the  favorite  summer  hostelry  of  Sausa- 
lito,  will  open  for  the  season  to-morrow,  the  25th  inst. , 
under  the  management  of  J.  E.  Slinkey. 


THE      TRANS-SIBERIAN      RAILROAD. 

RAILS  on  this  road,  we  learn  from  Cosmos  (Paris,  Feb- 
ruary 6th)  are  laid  for  a  distance  of  8,000  kilometers 
(5,000  miles);  the  section  of  Western  Siberia  is  ready  for 
service,  as  well  for  freight  as  for  passenger  traffic,  but 
the  bridges  over  the  Irtisch  and  the  Obi  are  not  yet  fin- 
ished. These  rivers  are  crossed  on  the  ice  in  winter  and 
by  means  of  ferry-boats  in  summer. 

"The  line  from  Cheliabinski  to  Ekaterinburg  was 
opened  in  1895,  but  with  temporary  wooden  bridges  that 
are  now  being  replaced  with  iron  ones.  In  Central  Siberia 
only  the  short  section  from  the  Obi  to  Bolotna  (about  75 
miles)  is  in  service;  but  that  from  Bolotna  to  Krasnoyarsk 
is  almost  finished,  all  bridges  east  of  the  Obi  being  built 
provisionally  of  wood.  The  iron  bridge  over  the  Yai  is 
finished,  but  it  will  be  at  least  a  year  before  the  1,760  kilo- 
meters (1,094  miles)  of  line  that  crosses  Central  Siberia 
will  be  completed. 

"Beyond  Irkutsk,  as  far  as  Listvinitchna,  the  prelim- 
inary work  has  not  been  done.  Nothing  more  than  this 
has  been  accomplished  in  the  basin  of  Lake  Baikal,  except 
an  enormous  embankment  not  yet  finished. 

"In  the  Amoor  region,  the  preparatory  work  has  been 
almost  completed;  in  this  region  there  is  more  than  the 
average  amount  of  difficulty,  and  it  will  be  necessary  to 
construct  at  least  one  long  tunnel.  In  the  Lower  Ussuri, 
400  kilometers  (249  miles)  of  line  have  been  built.  This 
section  extends  from  Vladivostok  to  Grafska;  and  from 
this  latter  place  to  Juran  it  follows  the  bank  of  the  Ussuri 
for  about  a  dozen  kilometers. 

"In  official  circles  it  is  believed  that  there  will  be  unin- 
terrupted communication  by  rail  between  St.  Petersburg 
and  Vladivostok  by  the  beginning  of  the  new  century." — 
The  Literary  Digest. 


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you  can — there's  profit  in  it  for  him  ;  there's 
I  loss  in  it  for  you. 

Your  money  back  if  you  don't  like  Schillings 
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fcR.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
CREAM,  OR    MAGICAL  BEAUTIFIER. 

R  jsoves  Tan,  Pimples,  Freckles,  Moth 
Patches,  Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  beauty,  and  defies  de- 
tection. It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-ton  (a  pa- 
tient): "As  you  ladies  will  use  them,  I 
recommend  'Gouraud's  Cream'  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions," For  sale  by  all  Druggists  and 
Fancy-Goods  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe. 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS.  Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,N.Y. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Apiil  24,  1897. 


America  and  the  Americans,  from  a  French  point  of  view. 
Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  New  York,  1897. 
The  preface  tells  us  that  this  clever  little  volume 
with  the  poster-ornamented  cover  is  a  transcrip- 
tion of  the  notes  made  by  a  Frenchman  for 
the  benefit  and  amusement  of  his  sister  during  two 
visits  to  the  United  States.  But,  notwithstanding 
these  prefatory  statements,  we  are  decidedly  of  the 
opinion  that  the  book  was  written  by  an  American 
born  and  bred.  Though  the  writer  has  some  acquaintance 
with  the  French  character,  and  makes  many  criticisms 
such  as  might  well  enough  be  made  by  a  Frenchman,  yet 
one  feels  that  he  is  merely  assuming  a  virtue,  though  he 
has  it  not.  For,  if  he  were  really  and  truly  a  Frenchman, 
and  writing  for  the  delectation  of  his  sister,  living  in 
France,  he  would  write  in  French.  But  his  book  is  in 
English.  "Ah!"  but  you  say,  "it  has  been  translated. 
You  know  that  M.  Paul  Blouet  writes  in  French,  and 
Madame  Blouet  translates  for  him  into  English."  Quite 
so:  but  this  book  bears  none  of  the  ear-marks  of  a  trans- 
lation; while  it  does  bear  clear  marks  of  being  an  original 
work,  written  in  a  language  native  to  the  writer,  who  has 
merely  fitted  a  pair  of  French  spectacles  on  to  his  Yankee 
nose.  Several  phrases  seem  to  us  clearly  American,  and 
clearly  not  French:  e.  g.,  on  page  18  we  read  of  a  party  of 
four  ata  hotel,  "two  gentlemen  and  two  ladies,  the  ladies 
decollete  (sic)  to  the  point  of  embarrassment."  Whv  not 
decollcteesf  On  page  141  we  read  of  the  "holders  of 
-American  securities  in  Europe  literally  dumping  them 
back  upon  the  market  here."  "  Elsewhere  we  find  "claim" 
used  in  the  thoroughly  American  sense  of  "profess,  de- 
clare, assert,"  and  mention  made  of  "a  sandy  chin- 
whisker" — an  expression  utterly  unknown  to  a  Frenchman. 
The  book  is  full  of  sharp  comments  upon  the  society  of 
New  York,  Boston  and  Chicago,  upon  class  distinctions  in 
theUnited  States,  upon  children,  and  their  manners  (or 
their  lack  of  them),  the  newspapers  and  many  other 
matters.  Perhaps  one  of  the  most  amusing  things  in  the 
book  is  the  description  of  the  "imp  of  infernal  origin,  who 
wends  his  way  up  and  down  the  aisles  of  the  railroad  cars 
offering  newspapers,  magazines,  fruit,  chewing-gum, 
smelling-salts,  cigars,  candy,  for  sale,  and  shouting  the 
while  at  the  top  of  his  lungs."  The  author  professes  him- 
self unable  to  understand  the  continued  existence  of  his 
"peripatetic  fiend."  The  writer  pays  his  respects  to  the 
traveler  "who  at  one  of  the  stopping-places,  in  seven 
minutes  by  a  watch,  ate  two  little  bird-dishes  full  of  raw 
oysters,  four  ham  sandwiches,  a  large  section  of  pie,  which 
looked  as  though  it  were  stuffed  with  insects— mince-pie 
they  call  it— and  drank  one  glass  of  beer,  and  two  bowls  of 
cafe  au  lait,  and  then  hurried  to  the  train  with  two  dough- 
nuts and  an  apple."  If  the  traveler  swallowed  the  "two 
little  bird-dishes"  in  addition  to  the  oysters  and  all  the 
other  dainties,  he  certainly  made  a  surprising  meal.  The 
author  makes  lots  of  fun  of  the  "clubmen,"  the  "society 
women,"  and  the  talk  about  "old  families"  in  this  new 
country.  He  certainly  touches  the  right  spot  when  he 
says  that  what  is  called  "  society  "  in  the  United  States  is 
a  poor  thing  indeed  compared  to  the  society  of  Paris, 
London,  Vienna  or  Rome.  In  those  great  cities  you  meet 
in  society  eminent  men  of  every  kind— soldiers,  sailors, 
diplomatists,  statesmen,  painters,  writers,  phvsicians  and 
explorers.  In  "society"  in  the  United  States  you  meet 
the  wives,  sons,  and  daughters  of  wealthy  porkpackers, 
patent-pill-venders,  and  such  like.  You  never  see  the 
men  who  are  really  making  the  country.  At  the  great 
watering-places  and  "summer  resorts,"  our  author  says, 
"the  women  make  the  laws,  and  the  men  put  up  with  the 
manners  of  the  women."  The  book  is  lively  and  sparkling 
throughout,  and  satisfies  us  that  the  thorough  knowledge 
and  understanding  of  the  United  States  which  it  exhibits 
could  not  have  been  acquired  by  a  foreigner  in  the  course 
of  two  visits.  To  feel  sure  that  the  book  is  not  the  work 
of  a  Frenchman,  one  has  only  to  turn  to  Max  O'Rell's 
vivacious  notes   upon   Jonathau   and  his  continent,  which 


are  genuinely  and  unmistakably  Gallic.  But,  though  the 
book  is  not  what  it  professes  to  be,  it  is  full  of  amusing  and 
clever  remarks,  and  decidedly  interesting. 

The  Atlantic  Monthly  for  last  month  contained  a  forcible 
plea  by  Irving  Babbitt  for  the  rational  study  of  the  class- 
ical languages  of  antiquity.  Hitherto  the  tendency  of 
American  scholarship  has  been  to  become  too  minute, 
pedantic,  and  philological:  the  broad,  humanizing,  cultiva- 
ting effect  of  the  study  of  the  great  writers  of  Greece  and 
Rome  has  been  missed.  The  literature  of  Greece,  especially, 
supplies  the  best  antidotes  to  many  of  the  most  «erious 
faults  of  American  civilization:  it  teaches  men  to  respect 
and  honor  the  past,  and  strips  them  of  the  mischievous  and 
grotesque  idea  that  each  decade  represents  a  gain  over  the 
last  decade.  The  first  step  the  average  American  "has 
to  take  in  the  path  of  culture  is  to  realize  that  movement 
is  not  necessarily  progress,  and  that  the  advance  in  civili- 
zation cannot  be  measured  by  the  increase  in  the  number 
of  eighteen-story  buildings."  But  in  order  to  render  the 
study  of  the  classics  fruitful  it  is  necessary  that  they 
should  be  taught  by  men  of  high  and  broad  general  culture, 
by  men  almost  as  familiar  with  modern  literature  as  with 
that  of  the  ancient  world.  The  teacher  should  be  able  to 
show  that  human  nature  has  at  all  times  been  essentially 
and  fundamentally  the  same,  harassed  by  the  same  doubts, 
tormented  by  the  same  anxieties,  puzzled  by  the  same 
mysteries.  The  Greek  spirit,  with  its  sweet  reasonable- 
ness and  never-failing  sense  of  proportion,  tends  to 
counteract  the  most  dangerous  tendencies  in  American 
character,  viz.,  the  lack  of  the  power  of  sustained  and 
concentrated  attention,  the  proneness  to  hysteria  in  re- 
ligion, politics,  and  social  economy,  and  the  inclination  to 
apply  a  purely  materialistic  standard  to  all  the  concerns 
of  life.  No  man  who  has  to  any  serious  degree  become  im- 
bued with  the  teachings  of  Plato  and  Aristotle  can  ever  be 
inoculated  with  Bryanism,  Bellamyism,  Edenism,  or  any 
other  of  the  intellectual  debaucheries  and  spiritual  har- 
lotries into  which  so  many  millions  heedlessly  plunge. 

The  Pall  Mall  Magazine  (London)  seems  to  us  the  hand 
somest  of  the  monthly  magazines.  The  paper  is  of  the 
best,  and  the  etchings,  sketches,  and  reproductions  of 
photographs  are  excellent.  The  April  issue  is  of  some- 
what special  interest  to  Californians,  for  the  list  of  con- 
tents displays  three  names  very  well  known  to  readers  on 
the  Pacific  Coast — Geraldine  Bonner,  Horace  Annesley 
Vachell,  and  the  late  Robert  Louis  Stevenson.  Miss  Bon- 
ner's story  is  entitled  "The  Strange  Adventures  of  Joan 
Archer;"  Mr.  Vachell,  whose  "Quicksands  of  Pactolus  " 
first  appeared  in  the  Overland  Monthly,  contributes  "The 
Breeching  of  Sammy,"  while  chapters  16  to  18  of  Steven- 
son's last  story,  "St.  Ives,"  are  given.  The  sport  of  the 
month  is  "Trout  Fishing,"  by  theHon.  T.  W.  Legb,  M.  P. 
Mr.  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch  is  in  charge  of  the  department 
headed  "From  a  Cornish  Window,"  a  record  of  the  per- 
sonal impressions  of  a  very  genial  and  clever  critic.  "The 
Jubilee  Cup,"  a  poem  of  some  thirty  verses,  by  Mr.  Quiller- 
Couch,  is  a  delightful  bit  of  irony  on  the  "pieces"  that 
professional  (and  alas  !  amateur)  elocutionists  are  so  fond 
of  tryiDg  on  us  whenever  we  are  so  foolish  as  to  permit 
them  to  do  so  :  it  has  plenty  of  "go,"  and  is  really  better 
"by  a  whole  jugful"  than  many  of  the  compositions  it 
satirizes.  A  particularly  well-illustrated  article  in  the 
issue  deals  with  Honiton  lace,  which  is  made  in  several 
small  Devonshire  towns,  and  derives  its  name  from  one  of 
them. 

The  "popular"  ten-cent  periodicals  have  a  strong  fam- 
ily likeness:  in  almost  every  one  of  them  we  find  articles 
on  beautiful  women,  ambitious  young  actresses,  and  the 
bicycling  mania.  Of  course,  the  wide  prevalence  of  these 
features  is  largely  to  be  explained  by  the  fact  that  they 
are  producers  of  revenue.  For  twenty  dollars  or  so  Miss 
Tiny  Tintype  may  pose  as  the  belle  of  Tinville,  or  Miss  Gay 
Spanker  as  a  brilliant  tragedienne.  For  twice  that  sum 
you  may  have  a  half-page  portrait  and  be  called  a 
"society  leader"  of  Leadville,  Colo.  Who  would  refuse 
fame  on  terms  so  easy  ?  The  April  Godey's  contains  all 
these  indispensable  features,  and  also  well-illustrated  arti- 
cles on  rose  culture  and  the  development  of  the  reed-organ. 
In  "The  Bookery  "  are  some  remarks  upon  the  mechani- 
cal, perfunctory,  and  professional  humor   of  that  dreary 


1  ?4-   '897- 


SAN   FRANCISCO   M  WS   1.1  TTKR. 


23 


and  dow  happily  drfunrt  journa  One 

phrase  in  ll  puzzles  in 

Pater.       !  r,  we  may 

say  that  tin  Pater  in    Australia,    nor   will 

■  ••rat  centuri  matters  the 

issue  contains  the  usual  fashion  article   and   hints   on    the 

The  Sportsman's  Magazine  for  April  is  a  "Ashing  num- 
.ontaining  articles  on  angling  in  various  regions  for 
various  kinds  of  lish.  We  also  find  the  usual  departments 
of  amateur  photography,  current  topics,  and  editorial 
In  the  photographic  department,  reproductions  of 
the  pictures  to  which  were  awarded  the  prizes  in  the  re- 
cent competition  for  flashlight  studies  are  given,  with  com- 
ments upon  them  by  "Professor . "  The  entries  for  the 
next  competition  close  on  June  1st. 

The  International  Magazine  for  April  furnishes  four  ar- 
ticles translated  from  French  magazines,  three  from  Ger- 
man, two  from  Spanish,  one  from  Dutch,  and  one  from 
Italian.  In  addition  to  this,  there  is  Chat  from  foreign 
journals,  also  notes  on  books,  American  travel,  etc. 

The  Kaster  number  of  Life  is  full  of  interesting  matter. 
Its  pictorial  features  are  unusually  strong.  There  are 
various  articles — humorous,  satirical,  and  sentimental,  and 
short  sketches  and  poems  in  the  best  vein  of  Life's  con- 
tributors. 

Sickness     Among     Children 
is  prevalent  at  all  seasons  of  the  year,  but  can  be  avoided  largely  when 
tbey  are  properly  cared  for.    Infant  Health  is  the  title  of  a  valuable 
pamphlet  accessible  to  all  who  will  send  address  to  the  N.  Y.  Con- 
densed Milk  Co.,  New  York  City. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC  RAILWAY  COMPANY. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC    COMPANY-PACIFIC  SYSTEM, 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    TlBORON  FERRY-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 
WEEK  DAYS— 7:3U,  »:UU,  I1:UUam;  12:35,  3 :3U  5:10,  6:30  p  m.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trip  at  11:30P  m.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :50  and  11:30  P  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00,  9:30.  11  :UO  a  M:  1:30,  3:30,  5:00,6:20PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO   SAN   FRANCISCO. 
WEEK  DAYS— «:I5,  7:50,  9:2U,  11:10  A  M;  12:45,  3:40,5:10PM.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at   1:55  and  6:35  PM. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10.  8:40.  11:111  am;  1:40,  3:40,  5:00,  6:25  p  M. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Scbuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  F. 

In  Effect  Oct.  14,  1896 

ARRIVE 

IN  S.  F. 

Week  Days.,  Sundays. 

Destination. 

Sundays    1  Week  Days 

7:30am      '    8:00am 
3:30pm         9:30am 
5:10pm      i    5:00pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40am    1      8:40  AM 
6:10pm    1     10:25  AM 
7:35  PM    |      6:22  PM 

8:00  am 

FultoD,     Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyserville.  Cloverdale 

7:35PM 

7:30am 
8:30pm 

6:22  p  M 

7:30  AM 

1  8:00  am 

|  Pieta 

,  Hopland,  Uklah  | 

7:35pm 

6:22  P  M 

7:30a  m 
3:30pm 

1   8:00am 

[ 

Guernevllle. 

7:35pm 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  p  M 

7:30  am 
5:10  pm 

1    8 :0UA  M 
1    5:00  PM 

1 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40am 
6:10pm 

8:40  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:30am 
3:30pm 

1    8:00AM 
I    5:00PM 

| 

Sebastopol. 

10:40  AM 
6:10PM 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs*  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  Highland 
Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake  port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport 
and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs, 
Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake.  Upper  Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John 
Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's.  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville, 
Booneville,  Greenwood,  Orr's  Hot  Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg  .West- 
port,  Usal,  Willitts,  Canto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Harris,  Scotia,  Eureka. 

Saturday- to-Mond ay  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  W.  FOSTER,  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.      R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass .  Agent. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  a.  m.,  May  1,  6,  11,  16.  21,  26,  31,  and  every  ftth  day  thereafter. 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  A.  M..  May  1,  6, 11,  16, 
21,  26,  31,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  ''Pc.r  .ua,"  at  2  p.  m.  May  4,  8, 
12,   16,  20,  24.  28,  and  every  fourth  day  th  ieafter. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  ;  May  2,  6,  10, 14, 
18.  22,  36,  3),  ana  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  a.  m.,  May  4.  8, 12, 16, 
20,  24,  23,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz,  Santa  Rosaita,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  a.  m, 
25th  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL.  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents,       10  Market  st.  S.  F. 

Thn    r  nonrl    Di^itis*     306  Stockton   St.  San    Franolsco 
I  NO     UrdllU     rduIllOf         MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month.      Telephone:  Grant,  507. 


Tralnn  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  ai  SAN 

FRANCISCO'. 

rrum  Apt 

I  Arrive 

•6:00  A  Ntles.  San  Jose,  and  way  slat  Inn* 9:46  a 

7:00  a  Atlantic)  Express.  Og Jen  and  East —     8:46  P 

7:00  A  Boolcla.    Viicav.h.'     itimncy,   Sacramento,   Oroville.    and 

Redding,   via  Davis 6  Ah  P 

T:8Q  a  Martinez.  San  Ramon,  Vallojo,  Napa.  Calls  toga,  Santa  Rosa    6:  lb  p 
8:30a  Niles,  Sao  Jose,  Stockton.  lone,  Sacramento,  Marysvtlle, 

Cbico.  Tehama,  and    Red    Bluff 1:16  V 

•8:80  a  Peters  and  Milton  «7:l5p 

9:00a  New  Orleans    Express,  Merced,  Fresno,  Bakerstleld,  Santa 
Barbara.  Los  Angeles,  Demlng,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans,  and 

East 4  :45  P 

8:00  a  Martinez  and  Stockton    4:46p 

9:00  A  Vallejo 8 :15  p 

Nlles,  San  Jose  Livcnnore,  and  Stockton 7:15P 

•1 :00  p  Sacramento  River  steamers *9:00  P 

1  :iki  p  Nilcs,  San  Jose,  and  Livermore 8:45  A 

tl  :30p  Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations f7:45P 

4  00  p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa     , .  . .  9 :15  A 

4:00  p  Benlcia,   Vacuvllln   Woodland,   Knight's    Landing,  Marys- 

vllle.  Oroville.  and  Sacramento tl:16A 

4  30  P  Lathrop,  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yosem- 

ite)  and  Fresno,  going   via  Nlles,  returning  via   Martinez,.  11:45  a 
5:00  P  Los  Angeles   Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,   Mojave   (for  Rands- 
burg),  jsanta  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles —    7.45a 

5:00  p  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East 7:45a 

6 :00  p  European  mail,  Ogden  and  East 9 :45  a 

6:00  p  Hay  wards,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7:45  a 

17 :00  p  Vallejo f7 :45  P 

7  :00p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysville,   Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East    ..     ,  11:15a 

Santa  Crdz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 

t7:45A  Santa  Cruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  J8:05  P 
tl:45A  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations  ...  ...  5:50p 

•2:15  p  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *ll:20> 

4  :15p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9:50> 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 


7:00  a 
9:00  a 

10  :40  a 
11:30  a 

♦2:30  p 

*3:30P 
•4:30  p 
5:30P 
6:30P 
tll:45p 


1:30  p 


4:15  P 
6:30  P 
6:U0P 


San  Jose  and  way  stations  {New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only) 
San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos ,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Roblep. 
San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principal  way  stations 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 

Palo  Alto  and  way  stations    

San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa 

Cruz,  Salinas, Monterey. PaciflcGrove *10:40A 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 9 :45  A 

San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8:05A 

San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations *8 :45  a 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 :35  A 

San  Jose  and  way  s  tations f7 :45  p 

San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Locate 


i«6-00  Al 

8:00  A  j 

9:00  A 

10:00  a1, 

ill. 00  A 

J12 :00  M 

2:00  p 

i'3:00  p 

4:00  p 

5:00  p 

5:30  P 

7:00  P 

8:00  P 

9:00  P 

ttll:16  PJ 

Melrose, 
Seminary  Parr, 
fitchburg, 
San  Leandro, 
and 

HAYWARDB. 


i  Runs  through  to  Ntles. 
t  From  Niles 


7:15  A 
'9:45  A 
10:45  A 
11:45  A 
12:45  P 
<1:45  p 
$2:45  p 
4:45  P 
«5:45P 
6:15  P 
7:45  P 
8:45  P 
9:45  P 
10:50  P 
Lttl2jOO_P 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  (Slip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  A.  M.,  J1:00.  »2:00.  X3100.  «4:00, 16:00  and  *6:00p.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway.  — *6:00,8:00, 10:00  A.  M.;  112:00,  »1:00, 
J2 :00,  *3 :00, 14 :00  »5 :00  P.  M. 

A  tor  Morning,     p  tor  Afternoon.     *Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

{Sundays  only .  tt  Monday ,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only . 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays.  ^Sundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  oall  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  Information. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  M.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and  Shanghai,  and  connecting  at 
Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc  No  cargo  received  on  board  on 
day  of  sailing. 

Doric  (via  Honolulu), Tuesday,  May  11,  1897 

Belgig  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29, 1897 

Coptic Thursday,  June  17,  1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Wednesday,  July  7.  1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS,  Secretary. 

■JWVfMIlP  S'  s-  "Monowai,"  Thursday,  April  29th,  at  2  P  M. 

k     ppMUlw  Line    t0   Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 

,  ■■  South  Africa. 

.  J  _y^\^\  s  s  "Australia",  for  Honolulu    only,  Tuesday, 

'eJlMllSllIP^  ~  J.  IXSPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO., 

fffi.Tlffi.DU--     Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.    Freight  office,  £.»7 
VyUfJUltq       Market  St.,  San    Francisco. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


April  24,  1897. 


INSURANCE 


THE  iEtna  Indemnity  Company,  of  Hartford,  has  been 
organized  to  do  a  surety  and  plate  glass  business. 

Percy  T.  Morgan,  President  of  the  California  Wine  As- 
sociation of  this  city,  is  a  stockholder  in  the  recently 
organized  National  Surety  Company  of  New  York,  and 
will  probably  be  made  a  director. 

Foreign  home  office  figures  of  all  insurance  companies 
doing  business  in  this  State  must  be  filed  with  the  Cali- 
fornia Insurance  Department  before  the  first  day  of  next 
month. 

E.  S.  Rich  &  Co. ,  of  Denver,  will  hereafter  manage  the 
business  of  the  Frankfort  Marine  Accident  and  Plate 
Glass  Insurance  Company,  they  having  received  the  ap- 
pointment from  United  States  Managers  Voss,  Conrad 
&  Co. 

A.  M.  Smiley,  of  Denver,  will  do  special  work  for  the 
Thuringia  Fire  Insurance  Company. 

In  all  probability  the  action  of  the  New  Mexico  Legis- 
lature, in  compelling  a  deposit  of  $10,000  from  all  foreign 
insurance  companies,  will  have  the  effect  of  driving  fire 
insurance  companies  from  that  State.  The  fire  business 
in  New  Mexico  has  proven  very  unprofitable  to  the  com- 
panies, and  this  hostile  legislation  will  have  a  discouraging 
effect.  Similar  results  are  not  improbable  in  Washington, 
owing  to  the  recent  hostile  enactments  of  a  Populist  Leg- 
islature. 

It  is  noticeable  that  as  the  business  of  the  giant  insur- 
ance companies  in  this  State  declines,  that  of  the  smaller 
companies  together  increases  in  volume.  The  battle  for 
supremacy  during  the  past  five  years  between  the  three 
giants  has  been  very  expensive,  the  price  paid  for  new 
business  forcing  the  less  wealthy  companies  to  lie  on  their 
oars.  A  return  to  business  principles  has  enabled  the 
smaller  companies  to  enter  into  competition  on  an  equit- 
able basis,  and  will  result  greatly  to  their  advantage. 

M.  R.  Higgins,  the  recently-appointed  General  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Mutual  Life,  enters  upon  the  discharge  of 
his  duties  on  May  1st.  He  leaves  on  that  date  for  a  trip 
through  the  Eastern  States,  to  appoint  agents  and  other- 
wise supervise  the  business  of  his  company. 

General  R.  H.  Magill,  once  prominent  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  Home  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  this 
city,  is  said  to  have  a  new  company  under  way  in  Alameda 
County,  where,  no  doubt,  under  the  privileges  of  the  re- 
cently enacted  County  Mutual  law,  a  profitable  business 
could  be  done. 

The  Frankfort  will  deposit  $50,000  with  Ohio,  and  enter 
that  State  for  business. 

P.  B.  Armstrong,  the  California  fruit  grower  and  ex- 
fire  insurance  man,  is  in  New  York,  resisting  the  efforts 
of  the  Mutual  Life,  of  that  city,  to  change  its  name.  Mr. 
Armstrong  at  one  time  controlled  that  company,  and  still 
holds  an  interest  in  it. 

A  company  has  just  been  organized  in  England  to  insure 
parents  against  twins;  this  is  the  natural  sequence  of  the 
Old  Maids'  Insurance  Company,  which  has  been  in  suc- 
cessful existence  in  England  for  years. 

The  rate  of  compensation  to  agents  in  all  cities  on  the 
Coast,  excepting  San  Francisco,  Oakland,  Alameda, 
Berkeley,  and  Portland,  has  been  fixed  by  the  new  com- 
pact at  15  per  cent. ;  the  rate  for  San  Francisco  25  per 
cent,  on  preferred  and  20  per  ceDt.  on  ordinary  business. 
Under  the  old  compact  Los  Angeles,  Sacramento  and  Stock- 
ton were  also  "excepted  cities,"  with  a  higher  rate  to 
agents,  and  much  dissatisfaction  is  expressed  by  them  at 
the  new  apportionment. 

Webb  McNall,  Superiutendent  of  Insurance  for  Kansas, 
who  ruled  out  the  Mutual  Life,  New  York  Life,  and  Con- 
necticut Mutual  Life  Insurance  Companies  from  that  State 
for  refusal  to  settle  the  Hillmon  claim,  which  has  been  in 
the  courts  of  that  State  for  eighteen  years,  has  been  in- 
dicted by  the  Grand  Jury  for  an  attempt  to  obstruct  the 
administration  of  justice. 

There  is  a  new  experience  arjd  unexpected  pleasure  in  store  for  the 
man  who  has  not  yet  tasted  Argonant  Whiskey.  This  is  a  drink 
fit  for  tbe  gods  and  for  men  who  know  a  superior  article.  Argonaut 
is  the  finest  liquor  made,  and  all  connoisseurs  endorse  it.  E.  Mar- 
tin &  Co.,  411  Market  street,  are  sole  Pacific  Coast  agents. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 

309 and  311   Sansome  St.         -         -         -  -         San   Francisco,  Cal 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  46  Threadneedle  St.,  London 

SIMPSON,  MACK1RDY  &  CO 29  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 

INSURANCE. 

PIRE,   MARINE,   AND  INLAND   INSURANCE. 

Firemans    Fund 

INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OP  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),   OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager.  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fire  Insurance. 


Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Gompanu    of  North   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,   PENN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders '. 5,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000,000 

Assets 3,192.001 .69 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,506,409 .41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager   501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD    &    DICKSON,  S.F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON   *«««"■■ 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON    NSURANCE  CO.  moon*™**  im 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF   LIVERPOOL. 

Capital 16,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents. 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  P 


THE  THURINGIA  INSURANCE  COMPANY. 

Of  ERFIEST,  GERMANY. 
Capital.  $2,250  000        Assets,  $10,984,248. 
Pacific  Coast  Department:  2:4-208  SANSOME  ST.,  S.  F. 
VOSS.  CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 

nR  RlfnPn'Q  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  gemr 
un.  niuunu  o  ine— Aspeclno  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physioal 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
J.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palaoe  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
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Vol.  L IV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  MAY  1,  1897. 


Number  IS. 


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and  at  Chicago,  903  Boyce  Building.  (Frank  A*  Morrison,  Saltern 
Representatite),  where  information  may  be  obtained  regarding  subscrip 
lion  and  advertising  rates. 

Sl'PERVlSt  'R  Smith  says  he  opposes  improvements  in 
the  disreputable  districts  of   this   city.      The   Super- 
>hould  make  himself  clear.     Does   he  object   to   the 
completion  of  the  City  Hall  ? 

IT  is  said  that  the  ballot-box  stuffer  Sternberg,  now 
serving  a  three  years'  sentence  at  San  Quentin,  is  try- 
ing to  escape  punishment  through  the  sympathetic  offices 
of  the  Board  of  Prison  directors.  Pardon  is  not  for  Stern- 
berg, who  deliberately  debauched  the  ballot-box.  He  is 
now  valuable  as  an  example  of  the  fact  that  election  frauds 
in  San  Francisco  are  sometimes  punished.  That  he  was 
the  instrument  of  others  should  count  for  nothing.  His 
guilt  was  clearly  proved,  and  pardon  for  such  a  man 
would  be  a  monstrous  outrage. 


FOLICE-CLEKK  Foley,  of  Department  2,  Police  Court 
of  this  city,  has  made  himself  the  subject  of  investiga- 
tion by  the  Grand  Jury  and  the  Board  of  Supervisors.  It 
is  alleged  that  Foley  has  been  accepting  bonds  of  straw, 
and  that  in  consequence  criminals  who  should  be  doing  time 
go  unwhipped  of  Justice.  That  straw  bonds  are  popular 
in  San  Francisco  is  no  Dews;  but  if  Foley  has  been  guilty, 
as  now  seems  probable,  he  should  be  sent  hunting  a  bond 
to  keep  his  own  precious  hide  outside  the  prison  bars. 
And  care  should  be  taken  that  no  straw  bond  need  apply 
in  his  case. 

SAMUEL  J.  Ruddell,  Deputy  Surveyor  of  this  port,  has 
been  weighed  in  the  official  balance  and  found  wanting. 
Ruddell  was  charged  with  being  neglectful  of  his  duty,  and 
found  guilty.  He  permitted  forty-two  Japanese  to  land 
at  this  port  before  they  had  been  regularly  examined  by 
Dr.  Jordan  of  the  United  States  Quarantine  Service;  and 
now  he  is  likely  to  lose  his  head  and  be  compelled  to 
work  for  his  living.  If  Samuel  had  been  as  prompt  in  dis- 
charging his  duties  as  he  was  in  drawing  his  salary,  he 
would  have  been  entitled  to  honorable  mention  rather  than 
dishonorable  discharge. 

JAKE  RUDOLPH  has  twice  within  two  years  escaped 
San  Quentin  and  found  shelter  at  Stockton  Insane 
Asylum  instead,  for  attempting  to  commit  murder  in  this 
city.  His  method  is  simplicity  itself :  He  drinks  whiskey, 
which  makes  him  crazy,  and  wheu  be  is  crazy  he  tries  to 
kill  people  ;  is  promptly  sent  to  the  asylum,  where  he  re- 
covers his  reason  and  regains  his  liberty — and  his  pistol. 
This  beautiful  illustration  of  the  applied  perfection  of  hu- 
man reason — which  is  the  law — may  be  expected  to  con- 
tinue until  the  whiskey  is  all  gone,  Rudolph  dies  of  old  age, 
or  shoots  all  his  enemies. 


THE  Chicago  mechanics  are  growing  restless,  and  the 
dispatches  indicate  that  they  are  likely  to  strike  for 
higher  wages  soon  ;  and  even  the  plumbers  are  thinking 
of  further  confiscation.  It  is  time  for  labor  to  lift  up  its 
horny  hand  and  grasp  the  throat  of  enterprise.  The  coun- 
try is  not  yet  beyond  the  depression  of  the  past  few  years, 
but  the  indications  of  returning  activity  are  quite  enough 
to  rouse  the  unions  to  ask  for  the  profits  on  their  employ- 
ers' business,  without  sharing  their  uncertainties;  and  now 
we  shall  hear  the  blatant  voice  of  the  walking  delegate, 
whose  overworked  jaw  has  had  a  few  month's  rest. 


ftQENERAL  investigation  of  Police  Court  methods  is 
promised  by  the  Grand  Jury  and  Supervisors.  No 
one  will  doubt  that  there  is  enough  legitimate  material  for 
fumigation  about  the  City  Hall  to  absorb  all  the  disinfec- 
tants in  town.  The  hope  is  expressed,  however,  that 
the  work  will  be  done  and  the  dead  buried  before  the  ar- 
rival of  Christian  Endeavorers  in  July  next. 


MISS  Harraden,  the  authoress,  has  written  a  story, 
"Hilda  Stafford,"  whose  plot  is  laid  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. The  writer  literally  roasts  the  country  south  of 
Tehachapi,  and  declares  it  to  be  unfit  for  the  habitation 
of  ladies.  ''Only  men  and  animals  should  live  there,"  says 
the  author  of  "Ships  that  Pass  in  the  Night."  Miss 
Harraden's  ideas  of  good  literary  work  are  about  as  ac- 
curate as  her  knowledge  of  the  country  she  describes. 


THE  proposal  to  give  the  $3000  usually  voted  by  the 
city  for  observation  of  the  Fourth  of  July  to  the  un- 
employed fund,  now  being  expended  in  building  a  boule- 
vard, is  a  good  one.  The  money  is  worse  than  wasted  in 
the  celebration.  These'  natal  day  jubilations  have  dejener- 
ated  into  noise  and  bluster — into  sound  and  fury,  signifying 
nothing.  They  drive  people  with  nerves  out  of  the  city; 
teach  nothing  grand,  inculcate  no  permanent  lesson. 
Parades,  plumes,  and  politicians  incite  to  more  profanity 
than  patriotism.  If  it  can  be  done,  let  the  laborer  and  the 
boulevard  have  the  old  flag  and  the  appropriation. 


SUPERINTENDENT  Webster,  of  the  public  schools,  is 
in  favor  of  practical  studies.  He  intimates  plainly 
that  too  much  attention  is  being  paid  to  branches  that 
are  not  useful  to  the  average  school  boy  or  girl.  He  is 
right.  Our  children  are  taught  all  manner  of  nonsense, 
and  their  time  is  taken  up  with  questions  and  studies  that 
are  never  heard  of  outside  the  schoolrooms.  There  is  such 
a  thing  as  too  much  education — and  San  Francisco's  tax- 
payers are  getting  it.  Better  go  back  toward  the  three 
R's  of  our  forefathers;  otherwise  we  shall  soon  require  the 
services  of  an  interpreter  in  order  to  communicate  with 
our  own  children. 


COMPLAINTS  are  made  that  there  is  unnecessary  de- 
lay upon  construction  of  the  new  Hall  of  Justice.  It 
appears  to  be  absolutely  impossible  to  secure  the  atten- 
tion, energy,  and  business  ability  on  municipal  work  that 
goes  begging  for  a  chance  to  earn  an  honest  dollar  on  pri- 
vate enterprises.  The  moment  contractors  come  in  con- 
tact with  the  city,  complete  metamorphosis  ensues,  busi- 
ness methods  are  thrown  to  the  winds,  and  the  systematic 
cinch  of  taxpayers  begins.  San  Francisco  has  been  a  suf- 
ferer from  delayed  Justice  in  a  hundred  courts;  and  it 
would  be  little  less  than  marvelous  if  the  hali  of  the  blind 
goddess  should  fare  any  better. 


ST  the  Unitarian  banquet  at  the  Palace  the  other  even- 
ing. Professor  Joseph  Le  Conte,  in  the  course  of  an 
address,  uttered  these  prophetic  words:  "I  call  upon  you, 
you  cultivators  of  art  and  you  teachers  of  religion,  to  hold 
up  your  end.  Science  wins  because  all  scientific  men  work 
together.  You  must  all  work  together.  If  you  do  not, 
and  if  you  do  not  bold  up  your  end,  there  will  come  such  a 
landslide  as  the  world  has  never  yet  seen."  And  the  land- 
slide is  coming;  for  at  that  very  moment  the  editor  of  the 
Occident,  the  Presbyterian  organ  in  this  city,  was  writing 
a  blistering  editorial,  roasting  before  his  time  the  Rev. 
Wm.  Rader  for  intimating  that  eternal  salvation  does  not 
depend  upon  the  fable  of  Jonah  and  the  whale  ! 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  i,  1897. 


CONSTANTINOPLE     AS     THE      KEY. 


MUCH  has  been  written  about  Constantinople,  and 
much  remains  to  be  written.  It  is  today  the  Key  to 
the  European  Situation.  Let  Russia  possess  it,  and  at 
once  she  becomes  the  mistress  of  the  world.  The  greatest 
naval  and  military  authorities  of  the  century  have  held  it 
to  be  the  best  site  on  Earth  for  a  great  dominating  centre, 
which,  in  a  sense,  might  become  a  world's  capital.  Its 
possession  gives  control  of  the  Mediterranean  and  largely  of 
Southern  Europe,  Northern  Africa,  and  South  Eastern 
Asia.  To  prevent  that  prize  falling  into  the  hands  of  any 
one  dangerous  power,  we  have  the  policy  of  the  "Concert 
of  Europe,"  and  with  it  the  maintenance  of  the  "sick  man," 
too  feeble  to  take  advantage  of  the  centre  of  power  be 
possesses.  If  that  can  be  maintained  as  a  certain,  fixed 
and  governing  policy,  the  peace  of  Europe  must  continue 
to  be  kept,  and,  out  of  some  evil,  not  a  little  good  must 
arise.  But  it  requires  great  good  faith  among  the  con- 
tracting powers  for  their  agreement  to  be  strictly  kept. 
It  is  doubtful  if  there  be  more  than  an  ounce  of  sincerity 
in  the  whole  of  the  powers  in  the  concert,  and  that  ounce 
is  to  be  found  in  the  warm  hearts  of  the  people  of  France 
and  Italy  on  this  subject,  who  abhor  even  the  appearance 
of  maintaining  the  unspeakable  Turk.  They,  regardless 
of  personal  profit,  or  gain,  would  drive  him  into  Asia  bag 
and  baggage,  and  in  short  order,  but  they  cannot  do  it 
alone.  Russia  and  the  German  Emperor,  strange  to  say, 
are  for  keeping  the  sick  man  where  he  is,  until  they  are 
ready  to  divide  his  effects.  England,  at  heart,  is  with 
France  and  Italy,  but,  whilst  protesting  against  the  course 
of  the  two  Kaisers,  takes  care  not  to  diplomatically  break 
with  them.  The  exact  why  and  wherefore  of  all  this,  the 
blue  books  in  due  time  will  disclose,  but  allowance  is  being 
made  for  the  delays  of  diplomacy,  and  for  posing  for  posi- 
tion, but  the  great  heart  of  England  is  as  sure  as  to  where 
Salisbury  will  ultimately  stand,  as  it  is  of  any  known  fact 
in  life.  It  is  certain  that  the  war  is  now  on,  and  that  it 
will  not  be  declared  "off"  in  a  hurry.  The  longer  it  lasts, 
and  the  wider  it  spreads  among  the  people,  the  greater 
the  certainty  that  it  will  become  "the  great  war"  that 
has  so  long  been  dreaded.  Kings  and  Emperors  do  not 
always  make  battles,  any  more  than  they  fight  them. 
The  spirit  of  the  age  and  of  the  people,  have  now  practi- 
cally the  initiative.  Neither  Salisbury,  nor  the  President 
nor  the  King  of  Italy  combined,  could  make  war  in  favor 
of  the  Turk  at  present.  Their  people  would  simply  take 
hold  of  the  reins  of  power  and  drive  over  to  the  other 
camp. 

The  diplomats  keep  a  keen  eye  upon  Constantinople  as 
the  key  of  the  situation,  and  the  ultimate  prize 
to  be  fought  for.  The  people  for  the  time  being, 
are  for  flesh  and  blood,  kith  and  kin,  the  preservation 
of  the  earliest  center  of  the  arts  and  miDd  culture, 
and  for  the  christian  faith  of  the  Armenians  as 
against  the  butchery  of  the  wretched  master  of  the  Harem. 
It  is  idle  for  the  two  tainted  sons  of  Russia  and  Germany 
to  think  of  staying  the  tide  which  is  stirred  by  such  issues 
as  these.  Let  these  "two  youthful  despots,"  as  Mr. 
Gladstone  calls  them,  order  as  they  may,  civilization  is 
against  them,  and,  in  the  end,  the  triumph  will  be  for 
truth  and  justice,  against  which  they  are  warring.  A 
power  has  arisen  greater,  higher,  better  far  than  that  of 
autocratic  rulers.  A  press  with  a  conscience,  combined 
with  a  telegraph  that  does  not  fear  to  transmit  the  news; 
bring  the  people  together,  cultivate  their  thoughts, 
unify  their  minds  and  raise  them  to  a  standard  that  will 
not  permit  the  world's  greatest  revolution  to  turn  back 
upon  itself.  We  see  how  this  is  in  the  present  prompt 
change  of  allies  in  Europe.  France  no  longer  goes  wild 
over  the  mere  prospects  of  an  alliance  with  Russia.  Eng- 
land takes  no  interest  in  whether  the  Czar  visits  Edin- 
burgh, or  stops  at  home,  and  Emperor  Williams  pops  in  up- 
on the  sick  man,  gives  him  a  dose  of  courage,  and  then 
hastily  departs,  nobody  caring  why  or  wherefore.  But  let 
three  Parliaments  talk,  and  some  seven  or  eight  news- 
papers thunder,  and  the  world  is  all  attention  at  once. 
The  listening  to  these  powers  of  moral  force  is  the  way 
that  decisive  wars  are  brought  on  these  times.  Kinglake 
in  the  opening  volumes  of  his  history  of  the  Crimean  war, 
tells  the  story  as  perhaps  no  other  man  ever  told  it.  It  is 
a  good  book  to  read  at  this  juncture.     It  tells  of  the  same 


issues  as  those  now  uppermost,  and  demonstrates  Russia's 
aims  and  ends  from  the  beginning.  What  he  shrewdly 
guessed,  is  now  clearly  apparent.  Use  Turkey  as  an 
earth-work  to  fight  behind;  when  she  is  exhausted,  step 
forward  and  secure  the  plunder.  That  is  the  programme. 
It  means  first  the  crushing  of  the  christians,  because  they 
are  liable  to  give  trouble  in  the  final  settlement.  Will 
such  a  game  succeed?  We  think  not.  The  temper  of  the 
world  is  against  it. 

The  Progress  The  tug-of-war  between  the  Turks  and 
of  the  War.  Greeks  is  located  partly  in  Macedonia, 
which  was  declared  a  neutral  zone  by  the 
Berlin  Conference,  and  partly  in  Thessaly,  which  is  un- 
doubted Greek  territory.  During  the  passage  from  Mace- 
donia into  Thessaly  the  Turks  are  reported  to  have  had 
the  best  of  it,  although  tbe  Greeks  fought  most  valiantly, 
contesting  almost  every  point  of  advantage.  The  native 
population  were  not  as  well  organized  as  was  hoped,  but 
since  Thessaly  has  been  reached  and  become  the  scene  of 
operations,  the  Greeks  have  given  the  Turks  a  far  differ- 
ent reception,  and  have  generally  beaten  them  gloriously. 
If  the  war  could  be  confined  to  that  particular  region,  and 
it  is  said  to  be  the  intention  of  the  European  concert  to 
prevent  its  spreading  any  further,  it  is  almost  beyond  a 
doubt  that  Greece  would  much  more  than  hold  her  own. 
But  there  is  talk  of  the  Dardanelles  being  passed  and 
Constantinople  entered,  and  if  matters  once  proceed  that 
far,  the  general  war  is  on,  and  no  man  may  predict  the 
end.  The  war  spirit  is  up,  and  blood  is  in  the 
eye  throughout  South  and  South-eastern  Europe. 
Men  are  massing  together  everywhere,  begging 
for  leaders,  ammunition  and  organization.  When 
20,000  imperfectly  organized  Macedonians  fall  in  a  day, 
and  are  still  as  eager  as  ever  for  the  fray,  there  can  be  no 
doubt  about  the  blood  being  up,  and  the  dogs  of  war  being 
loose  in  dead  earnest.  The  navy  of  Greece,  small  as  it  is, 
is  showing  wonderful  efficiency.  The  Balkan  provinces 
are  still  to  be  heard  from,  and  sympathy  for  the  Greeks  is 
liable  to  break  out  in  several  different  quarters.  The 
Roumanian  Government  is  plainly  strengthening  her  credit 
and  her  armies,  and  talking  fight  against  Turkey.  The 
rage  and  discontent  of  the  Greek  populace  because  of  the 
failure  of  their  arms,  and  the  formation  of  a  new  Cabinet 
by  King  George,  make  the  future  still  more  dubious. 
Rumors  of  peace  and  European  intervention  are  not  to  be 
trusted.  From  latest  information  the  contest  will  not  be 
prolonged;  but  the  whole  truth  as  to  this  question  has  not 
yet  appeared,  and  prognostication  as  to  the  future  must 
be  subject  to  constant  revision  or  total  change. 

Grant's  Final  The  remains  of  tbe  great  American  Gen- 
Resting-Place.  eral  were  placed  in  their  final  resting- 
place  on  the  bank  of  the  Hudson  last 
Tuesday,  in  the  midst  of  a  demonstration  such  as  has 
rarely  been  witnessed  in  any  land.  Soldiers,  citizens, 
statesmen,  diplomats,  Americans  and  foreigners,  paid  rev- 
erent respect  to  the  memory  and  name  of  Grant.  The 
impressive  ceremonies  were  made  the  occasion  of  a  spon- 
taneous outburst  of  affection  for  the  dead  General  that 
can  leave  no  doubt  as  to  the  place  held  by  the  hero  of  Ap- 
pomattox and  Shiloh  in  the  heart  of  the  nation.  A  third 
of  a  century  has  elapsed  since  these  stirring  epochs  in  the 
world's  greatest  struggle  transpired  ;  but  the  deeds  and 
their  chief  actor  are  fresh  in  the  memory  of  the  people, 
whose  estimate  of  their  import  and  regard  for  the  great 
Captain  found  expression  on  last  Tuesday. 

During  his  life  General  Grant  was  accorded  the  highest 
honors  that  have  ever  been  conferred  on  an  American  cit- 
izen. In  his  journey  around  the  world  he  received  one 
continual  ovation,  and  was  hailed  by  the  crowned  heads  of 
the  earth  with  entertainments  and  honors  without  par- 
allel. Time  has  revealed  in  brighter  light  the  services 
rendered  to  his  country  by  General  Grant,  and  has  made 
his  place  in  the  history  of  the  nation  and  the  world  more 
secure.  Those  qualities  of  character  that  made  him  great 
on  the  battlefield  and  in  the  councils  of  the  nation  shone  out 
as  he  neared  the  end  of  life  in  touching  splendor.  As  a 
citizen,  a  statesman  and  a  soldier,  he  filled  up  the  full 
measure  of  all,  and  he  will  forever  hold  a  place  in  the 
hearts  of  the  people  of  the  nation  as  a  patriot  and  a  hero. 


May  i,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


Pur»  Food*     If  one  may  determine  from  the  number  and 

Congress  earnest  lu-s-  Of    -  mling    the 

Pure  Poods  1 '.ingress  now  being  held  at 
Pioneer  Hall  in  this  city,  adulterations  of  food  products 
have  received  a  body  blow  in    I  From  which  they 

are  not  likely  to  recover.  The  interest  taken  in  this  first 
meeting  shows  clearly  that  the  public  is  thoroughly 
aroused,  and  that  hereafter  the  question  will  be  one  of 
quality  rather  than  quantity  The  vigorous  attack  that 
was  made  upon  all  adulterations  of  articles  of  food  by  the 
San  Francisco  Board  of  Health  is  shown  by  this  congress 
in  the  interest  of  healthy,  honest  goods  to  have  been 
timely.  The  abuse  has  grown  rapidly  in  recent  years,  and 
if  it  had  not  been  met  by  drastic  measures  for  eradication, 
would  in  a  short  time  have  driven  pure  foods  entirely  out 
of  the  market.  The  arguments  made  by  the  local  manu- 
facturers of  adulterated  goods,  that  they  were  forced  to 
resort  to  these  extremes  to  meet  Eastern  competition  in 
similar  products,  is  fallacious  and  vicious.  Prompt 
and  vigorous  exposure  of  imported  trash  would  have 
made  a  complete  and  abundant  protection.  The  adulter- 
ations were  made  so  perfectly  that  nothing  short  of  chem- 
ical analysis  and  expert  testimony  could  prove  their  char- 
acter. In  taste,  color,  and  general  appearance  the  good 
stood  no  higher  than  the  half  bad  or  wholly  fraudulent. 
Their  effect  upon  health  is  quite  another  and  more  serious 
matter. 

Of  all  States  in  the  Union.  California  has  the  least  right 
to  indulge  in  such  business.  The  prolific  soil,  quality  and 
quantity  of  crops,  and  the  cost  of  labor  remove  the  neces- 
sity— waiving  the  question  of  integrity — of  resorting  to 
such  methods.  Competition  from  the  East  could  prove  to 
be  or.ly  a  temporary  embarrassment.  The  moment  that 
the  tests  of  purity  were  applied,  the  sale  of  Eastern  trash 
would  have  been  stopped.  The  proof  that  California  goods 
were  pure  would  have  endorsed  them  in  the  larger 
markets  of  the  world,  and  have  forced  an  honest  compe- 
tition. 

The  Pure  Foods  Congress  carries  with  it  the  weight  of 
the  State's  name;  and  in  its  moral  effect  lifts  the  issue  out 
of  the  circle  of  mere  locality  and  stamps  it  with  the  en- 
dorsement of  the  commonwealth.  It  will  carry  into  the 
different  parts  of  California  something  of  the  interest 
existing  in  San  Francisco,  and  will  stimulate  and  make 
general  the  sentiment  and  action  which  had  their  birth  in 
the  Board  of  Health  of  this  city.  In  their  native  state 
the  qualities  of  California  fruits  are  second  to  none  in  the 
world;  they  should  lose  nothing  of  their  excellence,  no 
matter  what  form  they  take,  in  reaching  the  table  of  the 
consumer.  This  fact  once  known  and  applied,  an  im- 
measurable service  will  have  been  accomplished. 

The  Poster  The  News  Letter  has  frequently  called 
Nuisance.  attention  to  the  outrageous  abuse  of  priv- 
ileges by  the  various  bill-posting  companies 
in  this  city.  There  is  no  limit  to  their  greed  or  care  for 
appearances.  They  began  by  erecting  modest  advertising 
walls  along  the  streets  wherever  they  could  secure  per- 
mission from  the  owners;  but  as  competition  increased  and 
available  spaces  were  occupied,  the  bill-posters  began 
building  their  fences  higher,  until  at  the  present  time 
there  are  many  places  where  these  frail  and  dangerous 
walls  are  fully  twenty  feet  in  the  air.  The  city  begins  to 
present  the  appearance  of  one  lTast  bill  board.  These  pos- 
ter advertisements  disfigure  every  residence  portion  of 
the  city,  shutting  out  the  view  and  interfering  with  adjoin- 
ing property.  They  are  a  nuisance,  in  the  first  place,  and 
in  many  instances  a  serious  menace  to  life  and  limb  in  the 
second.  They  glare  on  every  street,  and  obtrude  them- 
selves upon  the  helpless  view  from  every  point  of  the  com- 
pass. Erected  in  the  cheapest  manner  possible,  the  walls 
are  liable  to  be  torn  from  their  insecure  fastenings  by  the 
high  wind  and  thrown  upon  passing  pedestrians  or  vehicles. 
That  some  such  accident  has  not  already  occurred  is  due 
to  good  fortune  alone.  The  Supervisors  have  taken  up 
this  nuisance  at  the  request  of  the  Merchants'  Association. 
It  is  a  matter  of  considerable  importance,  and  it  is  to  be 
hoped  that  it  will  receive  serious  attention.  Fence  adver- 
tising should  be  restricted  to  a  safe  height;  and  some  con- 
sideration should  be  given  to  this  imposition  from  the  stand- 
point of  ordinary  municipal  pride  in  the  general  appear- 
ance of  the  city. 


The  Woman's  The  Woman's  Congress,  just  closing  an 
Congress.  interesting  session  in  this  city,  has  be- 
come the  very  glass  of  fashion  and  mould 
I  of  form  in  the  eyes  of  sensible  men  for  all  future  conclaves 
at  which  the  female  presence  may  be  profitably  invoked. 
The  woman  of  this  Congress  has  not  taken  hold  with  a 
masculine  grip  and  strident  voice  the  male  person  at 
scruff  of  neck  and  seat  of  trousers;  she  has  not  proclaimed 
that  man  is  a  tyrant  and  lovely  and  lowly  woman  his  slave; 
she  has  not  intimated  that  there  awaits  her  in  the  field  of 
politics  and  at  the  ballot  box  the  conquest  of  a  world  and 
the  regeneration  of  a  race.  She  has  not  turned  her  back 
upon  the  kitchen  furniture  nor  scorned  the  care  of  her 
offspring  as  beneath  her  ambitious  notice.  The  harness 
of  the  Amazon  has  not  once  clanked  grimly  upon  the 
scene,  neither  have  ideas  arrayed  in  bloomers  and  short 
hair,  and  armed  with  claws,  charged  down  the  stage  in  a 
mad  tilt  against  the  sweetness  and  modesty  of  woman's 
character.  The  Congress,  with  rare  good  judgment,  has 
turned  away  from  the  clamorous  host  whose  plaint  of 
political  inequality  and  personal  wrongs,  have  divorced 
them  from  the  gentler  attributes,  and  has  shown  the  way 
where  the  worth  of  woman  and  the  grace  of  her  mind 
really  lead  the  world  and  best  adorn  the  field  of  human  ad- 
vancement. 

The  Congress  has  discussed  the  subject  of  education,  in 
its  practical  application  to  the  young,  and  has  taken  up 
and  intelligently  treated  the  questions  of  manual  training 
and  their  relation  to  the  requirements  and  conditions  of 
to-day.  The  essays  have  largely  covered  the  entire 
sphere  of  woman  in  the  struggle  for  permanent  progress, 
and  have  borne  a  direct  and  pertinent  relation  to  the  en- 
vironments of  the  present.  The  organization  of  the  "Cal- 
ifornia Home  and  Child  Study  Association"  is  one  of  the 
prominent  accomplishments  of  the  Woman's  Congress;  and 
its  title  indicates  admirably  the  spirit  and  character 
of  the  gathering.  The  mothers  and  the  teachers  of  Cali- 
fornia are  facing  in  a  direction  of  promise,  and  a  field  of 
limitless  possibilities  and  expansion.  This  gathering  of 
California  women  obtained  an  added  strength  from  the 
presence  of  men  prominent  in  educational,  religious  and 
business  matters.  It  has  accomplisned  much,  and  its  in- 
fluence will  be  wholesome  and  lasting. 

Wheelmen,  It  is  time  now  for  the  bicyclists  of  the  city 
Attention  I  to  speak  out  in  a  body,  and  by  their  prompt 
assistance  assure  the  completion  of  the 
Balboa  boulevard  upon  the  lines  originally  intended.  The 
grading  is  almost  done;  the  asphaltum  surface  alone  is 
necessary  to  make  the  long  stretch  of  road  a  permanent 
source  of  pleasure  and  recreation  to  the  fifteen  thousand 
wheelmen  in  San  Francisco.  The  merchants  who  have  lib- 
erally contributed  to  the  fund  have  done  so  because  of  a 
pride  in  the  work  and  in  answer  to  the  call  of  charity. 
But  every  man,  woman,  or  child  who  rides  a  wheel  has  a 
personal  interest  in  the  boulevard;  for  they  will,  as  a  class, 
be  the  first  to  enjoy  it.  It  will  become  a  daily  highway 
for  every  one  who  can  get  out,  for  the  road  is  designed  on 
ideal  plans  for  the  bicycle.  The  grade  on  the  first  two 
miles  beyond  the  Park  and  to  the  highest  point  on  the 
boulevard,  is  not  great,  and  once  at  the  top  there  follow 
three  miles  of  beautiful  descent  to  the  beach,  where  the 
rider  need  never  touch  foot  to  pedal.  The  smooth  asphal- 
tum surface  is  absolutely  necessary  to  the  purpose  of  the 
wheelman,  and  now  it  is  the  time  for  him  to  come  forward. 
If  each  rider  in  the  city  should  give  but  one  dollar  to  this 
fund,  the  committee  would  have  abundant  money  to  com- 
plete the  boulevard  in  first-class  shape.  Horses  and  car- 
riages can  get  along  without  much  care  as  to  the  surface 
of  the  roads,  but  the  wheelman  must  have  smooth  high- 
ways if  he  would  enjov  his  outing.  The  finish  is  in  sight; 
there  is  no  time  to  waste.  If  the  boulevard  is  to  be  com- 
pleted to  the  liking  and  pleasure  of  the  army  of  wheelmen 
in  San  Francisco,  the  contributions  must  come  in  promptly. 
Let  every  man  who  knows  the  delights  of  the  bicycle 
put  his  foot  to  the  pedal  and  help  out  this  work.  The 
club  officials  should  take  the  matter  up  at  once,  bring  it 
to  the  attention  of  their  members,  and  urge  them  to  con- 
tribute one  dollar  each.  The  unattached  riders,  of  whom 
there  are  thousands,  should  immediately  send  their  sub- 
scriptions to  Daniel  Meyer,  at  214  Pine  street.  Let  the 
wheelmen  be  heard  from  now. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


May  i,  1897. 


Federal  Authorities  Major  H.  A.  Moore,  special  agent 
After  the  Traffic        at  this  port  of   the  TJ.  S.  Treasury 

In  Chinese  Women.  Department,  promises  to  root  out 
the  shameful  curse  of  importing 
Chinese  women  for  evil  purposes.  The  present  traffic 
amounts  to  about  three  hundred  per  year,  and  never  be- 
fore has  it  been  known  to  be  so  low.  We  know  whereof 
we  speak  when  we  say  that  it  has  been  the  fruitful  field  of 
official  corruption,  the  cause  of  the  fights  between  the 
rival  tongs,  and  the  source  of  evils  unmentionable  to  white 
girls.  The  new  Chinese  Minister  has  been  taken  into  con- 
fidence, and  professes  to  be  shocked  at  what  he  has  seen 
and  learned.  Like  many  of  his  predecessors,  he  will 
probably  not  long  remember  the  shock.  Secretary  Gage 
is  reported  to  have  "received  representations  from  cer- 
tain of  the  missionary  societies,  who,  however,  have  not 
supplied  him  with  evidence  of  sufficient  weight  to  justify  a 
resort  to  drastic  measures."  No,  and-  they  never  will. 
Their  principal  work  consists  of  maintaining  certain  homes 
for  these  people,  which  are  paid  for  chiefly  by  New  Eng- 
land philanthropists,  with  more  heart  than  head.  These 
homes  kidnap  the  Chinese  slaves,  and  then  marry  (that  is 
sell)  them  to  other  Mongolians  at  low  prices,  and,  of 
course,  where  the  differences  goes  may  be  imagined.  We 
have  had  occasion  to  learn  of  some  very  bare-faced  tricks 
in  this  connection.  The  missionary  business  of  "house  to 
house  visitation"  by  young  white  women,  has  produced  a 
thousand  times  more  evils  than  the  whole  band  of  mission- 
aries have  done  good.  This  is  easily  susceptible  of  proof. 
It  is  at  least  doubtful  whether  the  missionaries  can  claim 
the  conversion  of  a  single  Mongolian,  whereas  it  is  too 
painfully  easy  of  proof  that  Chinamen  have  captured 
women  of  the  white  race,  and  from  among  the  missionary 
fold.  The  matured  ladies,  of  most  excellent  inten- 
tions, who  undertake  to  meet  once  a  month  to  look  into 
the  management  of  the  homes,  are  deluded  and  deceived 
by  many  of  those  whom  they  trust,  and  the  Chinese  habits 
of  lying  and  deceit  prevail,  rather  than  the  true,  frank, 
honest  utterances  of  a  Christian  home.  Chinese  exclusion 
has  not  yet  reached  its  obvious  and  necessary  limit.  Their 
permanent  abode  must  be  without  the  city,  and  ways  and 
means  can  be  found  to  accomplish  this.  Major  Moore  need 
not  look  far  afield  for  useful  information. 

The  Yukon  It  appears  that  the  United  States  has  a 
Country.  new  mining  region  on  its  hands  but  in  such 
an  inaccessible  location,  that  it  is  difficult 
to  tell  how  to  reach  and  work  it.  The  Yukon  country  has 
been  known  to  be  of  exceeding  great  promise  e7er  since 
it  came  into  the  possession  of  the  United  States.  In  1867 
a  strong  party  were  sent  out  to  explore  the  country  by  a 
company  that  intended  to  connect  the  United  States  with 
Siberia  by  means  of  a  telegraph  cable,  via  British  Colum- 
bia, Alaska,  and  Bering  Straits.  The  company  started 
out  big  with  promises  but  soon  fell  through  for  lack  of 
capital.  The  members  of  the  exploring  party  were  all 
able  men  and  one  of  them,  Mr.  Fred  Whymper,  subse- 
quently became  a  member  of  the  News  Letter  staff.  He 
was  the  artist  of  the  party  and  published  the  first  valua- 
ble and  detailed  report  of  the  Yukon.  It  remains  to  this 
day  the  fullest  and  most  authoritative  work  in  regard  to 
that  region.  The  Yukon  was  explored  to  a  considerable 
distance  and  valuable  facts  put  on  permanent  record. 
Mr.  Whymper  was  strong  in  the  faith  that  it  would 
ultimately  be  found  to  be  a  vast  and  valuable  gold  region. 
His  opinions  are  now  being  justified  to  the  letter.  From 
recent  press  despatches,  by  way  of  Portland,  we  learn 
that  discoveries  have  been  made  in  the  Clondyke  district  of 
the  Yukon,  that  promise  a  repetition  of  the  great  mining 
districts  of  California  and  Australia.  'Gentlemen  well 
known  in  Portland  have  just  arrived  from  the  new  gold 
field  and  give  particulars  that  are  really  astonishing. 
One  pan  of  dirt  taken  from  a  crevice  in  the  bed  rock  ac- 
tually yielded  $293.  On  the  Rhodes  claim  the  pay  dirt  at 
the  surface  runs  an  average  of  $2.47  per  ton  and  at  the 
bed  rock  at  an  average  of  S4.90.  The  depth  from  the 
surface  to  bottom  is  an  average  of  nine  feet.  If  there  be 
much  country  like  that,  and  we  are  told  there  is,  it  must 
be  an  almost  incomparable  gold  field.  With  the  severity 
of  the  winters,  the  difficulty  of  transit  and  the  uncon- 
geniality  of  the  place  generally,  it  will  be  a  hard  locality  to 
mine,  but  American  pluck  and  energy  will  "get  there." 


The  Kind  of  Citizens    We  are   all,  of  course,  in  favor  of 
Who  are  Unworthy        "protecting"    hona-fide   American 
Of  Protection.  citizens  who  are  ready  to  light  for 

their  own  flag,  and,  in  order  to  be 
able  to  do  that,  are  mindful  not  to  imperil  their  lives  by 
fighting  for  another.  A  dead  soldier  is  of  little  use  to  the 
United  States.  We  want  live  men,  and  the  more  of  them 
the  better.  When  a  man  joins  a  foreign  army,  whether  it 
be  rebellious  or  regular,  he  has  cast  aside  his  American 
citizenship,  and  should,  as  a  soldier  of  fortune,  abide  what- 
ever betides  him.  We  have  more  than  once  stamped  and 
raved,  and  threatened  Spain  with  war,  and  all  because 
soldiers  of  that  sort  have  lost  in  the  chances  of  battle.  We 
may  be  sorry  for  the  man,  and  may  even  use  our  good  in- 
fluences on  the  side  of  mercy,  but  beyond  that  we  have  no 
more  right  to  dictate  than  when  an  American  in  a  foreign 
land  has  disobeyed  its  laws  by  fighting  a  duel.  A  few  days 
ago  we  were  ready  to  rush  to  arms  if  Spain  did  not  at 
once  release  Sanquilly.  He  was  reluctantly  released  by 
reason  of  our  pressure.  He  swore  not  again  to  give  aid 
or  comfort  to  the  rebellion.  Yet  within  three  or  four  days 
he  was  captured  on  board  of  a  filibuster  attempting  to 
land  troops  and  munitions  of  war  for  use  against  the  Gov- 
ernment that  had  so  lately  pardoned  him.  This  places  our 
Government  in  a  plight  that  our  best  citizens  must  regret. 
It  ought  to  put  the  jingoes  to  shame.  And  it  may  be  re- 
membered that  while  the  Spanish  war  vessels  were  takin'g 
part  in  the  splendid  exercises  at  Grant's  tomb,  a  big  fiU- 
bustering  party  was  just  clearing  the  Atlantic  coast  with 
arms  and  recruits  for  the  cause  of  "Cuba  libre." 


Panama  and  The  publication  of  an  article  in  an  Eastern 
Nicaragua.  magazine  by  Cyrus  Adams  goes  far  to 
show  that  the  French  are  slowly  but  surely 
pushing  the  Panama  Canal  to  completion.  The  promi- 
nence given  a  year  or  two  ago  to  Nicaragua  has  served  as 
a  stimulus  to  the  Panama  concern,  and,  in  well-informed 
quarters,  was  intended  to  subserve  that  very  purpose, 
and  at  the  same  time  to  give  the  American  people  a  little 
scare  over  the  prospect  of  an  isthmian  canal  under  the 
control  of  a  foreign  power.  But  if  France  has  the  money 
and  the  will  to  finish  her  big  ditch,  why  not  let  her  do  it  ? 
If  France  can  build  a  canal  at  Panama,  let  her  build  it. 
When  completed,  our  people  will  take  good  care  that  it  is 
not  used  to  our  disadvantage.  We  shall  have  our  money, 
too,  and  France  will  have  the  experience.  We  observe 
that  England  never  objects  to  the  building  of  such  works 
by  other  powers  at  great  expenditure  of  resources.  When 
the  canal  is  dug,  however,  she  uses  it  more  than  any  other 
nation,  and  gets  the  most  benefit  from  it.  She  waits  to 
see  what  dividend  it  earns,  and  then  buys  up  the  stock  at 
its  earning  capacity.  France  ardently  desires  the  honor 
of  being  the  great  canal  builder.  She  has  achieved  much, 
and  has  spent  a  great  deal  of  money,  and  is  still  pegging 
away,  notwithstanding  her  losses.  Why  not  let  her  have 
the  glory  she  seeks  ?  It  will  please  her  and  hurt  nobody 
else. 


The  Gold  President  McKinley  has  kept  faith  with 
Commission,  the  platform,  and  appointed  the  delegates 
who  are  to  represent  bimetallism  in 
Europe.  That  was  the  programme  of  the  Republican 
party  at  the  late  election.  It  was  taken  as  a  joke  then, 
and  puts  on  no  other  appearance  now  that  it  has  taken 
on  official  form.  It  is  not  taken  as  a  serious  proposal  by 
any  of  the  great  powers.  Russia  has  just  announced  that 
her  resolve  to  go  to  the  single  gold  standard  is  not  to  be 
changed.  Germany  declares  that  she  will  make  no  move 
unless  England  does.  Japan  is,  by  the  payment  of  the 
Chinese  war  indemnity,  enabled  to  go  to  a  gold  basis,  and 
very  jubilant  she  is  about  it.  England,  as  a  great  gold 
producer,  sees  nothing  but  loss  in  her  falling  in  love  with 
the  white  metal,  besides  pretty  nearly  all  the  gold  there 
is  in  the  world  is  either  hers,  or  due  to  her.  Where  we 
are  to  find  50-cent  dollar  allies  does  not  anywhere  appear. 
Our  delegates  will  go  to  Europe,  be  treated  hospitably, 
talked  to  nicely,  and  come  home  wiser  but  not  more  out- 
spoken statesmen.  The  subject  will  then  be  dropped. 
Simply  that  and  nothing  more.  Silver  may  give  trouble 
in  the  Senate  for  some  time  to  come,  but  it  will  hardly  be 
heard  of  elsewhere  until  1900. 


May  : 


-\N  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


GRANT'S       MEMORABLE       VISIT        TO       SAN     FRANCISCO. 

THE  dedication  of  I  Memorial,  and  the  . 

irk  this 
arrival  inS  G  rant 

round    the  '.ich  with  its    tor*  and 

ro  in  every  country  which 
v  a  triumphaJ  march  than 
irdlnary  pleasure   trip  of  a   private  citizen  of   the 
pposed  t.> 
of  the  main  Incidents  of  his  visit  here  may  prove  interesting. 
>m  has  San  Francis,  n  io  such  gala  attire 

la  presented  for  the  welcome  of  General  Grant 
on  his  homecoming.  Committees  of  various  kinds  had 
been  hard  at  work  for  days  before,  and  most  thoroughly 
did  they  carry  out  the  work  assigned  them.  Among 
Others  were  Mayor  A.  J.  Bryant  — who  was  chairman  of 
the  executive  committee — Colonel  Sam  Mayer  looked  after 
the  music,  Governor  F.  F.  Low  had  charge  of  the  linances, 
and  of  the  ex-confederate  soldiers  J.  C.  Maynard  was 
chairman. 

The  steamer  T^ki".  which  brought  the  honored  guest, 
was  looked  for  on  Wednesday,  the  17th  of  September  1879, 
but  it  was  not  until  twenty  minutes  past  three  p.  M.,  on 
Saturday,  September  20th  that  eleven  strokes  from  the 
fire-alarm  bell — the  signal  agreed  upon — gave  notice  that 
the  long  expected  Tokio  with  the  conquering  hero.  General 
U.  S.  Grant,  ou  board,  was  off  the  Golden  Gate. 

The  bay  was  fairly  alive  with  excursion  steamers,  tugs, 
yachts,  and  craft  of  all  kinds  going  out  to  meet  the  incom- 
ing ship;  the  steamer  China,  gay  with  bunting  from  stem 
to  stern  had  ou  board  at  least  three  thousand  people,  the 
Humboldt,  St.  Paul,  Ancon,  George  II'.  Elder,  and 
]'ntlf  iti'trs.  being  also  crowded  with  guests.  The  Millen 
Griffith  carried  among  others,  U.  S.  Grant  Jr.,  Frank 
Pixley.  General  J.  F.  Miller,  and  ex-SeDator  Cole  of  the 
invitation  committee;  the  receiving  committee  were  on 
the  St.  /'mil;  the  Government  steamer  McPherson  carried 
General  McDowell  and  staff. 

At  5:40  the  first  gun  of  welcome  was  fired  from  Fort 
Point;  then  followed  salutes  from  Angel  Island,  Alcatraz. 
the  Presidio  and  Black  Point,  the  smoke  effectually  hiding 
the  incoming  vessel  as  well  as  the  fleet  that  accompanied 
it,  the  increasing  darkness  clouding  the  hopes  of  all  who 
had  spent  hours  waiting  to  view  the  water  pageant,  in 
vain.  It  was  amid  a  din  of  steam  whistles,  clanging  of 
bells,  music,  and  explosion  of  gunpowder  that  at  half  past 
seven  General  Grant  set  foot  upon  his  native  land  again, 
and  as  he  came  down  the  gang  plank,  arm  in  arm  with 
General  J.  F.  Miller,  was  received  by  Mayor  Bryant, 
Governor  Irwin  and  staff,  the  Board  of   Supervisors,    etc. 

After  an  address  of  welcome  by  the  Mayor,  and  a  brief 
response  by  General  Grant,  he  and  General  Miller  entered 
a  barouche  drawn  by  six  bay  horses,  which  was  followed 
by  another  carriage  drawn  by  four  horses,  in  which  were 
seated  Mrs.  Grant,  U.  S.  Grant  Jr.,  and  Frank  Pixley, 
chairman  of  the  Marine  parade.  Behind  these  came  other 
carriages  conveying  General  McDowell,  Governor  Irwin, 
the  Foreign  Consuls,  Supreme  Court  Judges,  State 
Officials,  Army  and  Naval  Commanders,  etc.  The  rest  of 
the  procession  consisted  of  a  grand  turn  out  of  all  the 
federal  and  State  military,  Board  of  Supervisors,  Fire 
Department,  Foreign  military  Companies,  Clubs,  Musical 
Societies,  etc.,  it  requiring  one  and  a  quarter  hours  for  it 
to  pass  a  given  point. 

Grand  Marshall  W.  L.  Elliott,  wore  a  yellow  sash; 
Chief  of  staff,  Colonel  A.  W.  Preston,  a  crimson  sash;  Chief 
Aides  Major  Smiley  and  Colonel  Stuart  Taylor  wore  blue 
sashes;  the  other  aides,  some  fifty  in  number,  had  on  white 
sashes. 

The  line  of  march  was  up  Market  to  Montgomery,  to  Mont- 
gomery avenue,  to  Kearny,  to  Market,  to  Sixth,  and  back 
Market  to  the  Palace  Hotel,  where  their  rooms,  beauti- 
fully decorated  with  choicest  flowers,  were  ready  for  the 
party.  The  court  yard  of  the  Palace  presented  a  bril- 
liant appearance,  with  its  bright  illuminations;  and  every 
balcony  from  the  ground  to  the  roof  packed  with  an  en- 
thusiastic crowd  of  ladies  and  gentlemen.  A  chorus  of 
voices  from  the  second  balcony  sang,  "  Lo  He  Comes  Tri- 
umphant," as  the  General  alighted  from  his  carriage. 
Later,  General  Grant  appeared  for  a  moment  on  the  first 


floor  balcony,  and  bowed  his  thanks  to  the  cheering  which 
i  him. 
inning  (he  period  of  their  stay  in  San  Francisco,  General 

and  Mi's.  ( I  rant  had  little  time  for  rest.       Sunday  morning 

was  passed  at  the  Palace  receiving  calls   from   friends;  in 
the  afternoon  the  General  drove   to  the    Part   and 
Bouse  with  Mayor  Bryant,  taking  in  Chinatown  on   their 

return.      Monday  .rant   and    party  wit- 

i  the  Color  i;<i.t,.l  at  the  California  Theatre;  and  on 
Tuesdaj  he  and  Mrs.  Grant  were  guests  of  honor  at  a  re- 
ception  at  the  City  Hall,  and  in  the  evening  they  were 
present  at  a  ball  given  at  the  Pavilion  for  the  benefit  of 
the  Widows  and  Orphans  of  the  Police  Department.  On 
Wednesday  General  McDowell  gave  a  reception  in  their 
honor  at  Black  Point,  when  Mrs.  McDowell  and  Mrs. 
(Irani  wore  assisted  by  Mrs.  F.  F.  Low  and  Mrs.  D.  O. 
Mills:  and  the  Baldwin  Theatre  was  visited  in  the  evening. 
On  Thursday  Oakland  was  the  objective  point,  and  in  the 
evening  the  party  was  present  at  a  masquerade  ball  got 
up  for  their  entertainment  bj  Colonel  A.  A.  Andrews  at 
the  Pavilion.  On  Friday  a  special  train  conveyed  the 
party  to  San  Jose  to  attend  the  Fair  of  the  Santa  Clara 
Agriculture  Society,  where  they  were  the  guests  of  Mayor 
Archer.  On  Saturday  the  Stock  Exchange  gave  General 
Grant  a  reception  in  the  morning,  and  in  the  evening  he 
and  Mrs.  Grant  heard  Pinafore  sung  by  Emelie  Melville 
and  Company  at  the  California  Theatre,  after  which  he  at- 
tended a  camp-fire  meeting  of  the  Veterans  at  the 
Pavilion. 

On  Monday  General  and  Mrs.  Grant  dined  with  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  D.  O.  Mills  at  Milbrae;  and  on  Tuesday,  October  1st, 
they  left  town  for  the  Yosetuite,  the  party  including, 
among  others,  Miss  Flora  Sharon,  Miss  Dora  Miller,  Miss 
Jennie  Flood,  Miss  Nellie  McDowell,  U.  S.  Grant  Jr.,  and 
John  Russel  Young.  It  was  after  the  return  of  General 
and  Mrs.  Grant  from  Yosemite  that  Senator  Sharon  gave 
the  famous  ''Grant  ball,"  at  Belmont,  on  the  8th  of  Octo- 
ber, a  special  train  conveying  the  guests  from  town,  .the 
General  and  his  party  having  gone  down  there  the  day  be- 
fore to  rest.  They  returned  to  town  the  day  after  the 
ball,  when  the  merchants  of  the  city  gave  them  a  recep- 
tion in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  when  M.  P.  Jones, 
James  de  Fremery,  W.  F.  Whittier,  and  J.  C.  Patrick  were 
the  special  committee  of  reception.  Governor-elect  George 
C.  Perkins  delivered  the  address  of  welcome,  and  General 
Grant's  response  to  it  was  received  with  rounds  of  cheers. 

A  large  party,  which  included  ex-Governor  Low  and 
wife,  Fred  Crocker,  General  Miller,  wife  and  daughter, 
Miss  Flood,  Hon.  A.  A.  Sargent,  Louis  Sloss,  J.  P.  Hoge, 
Captain  Hasbrouck,  and  George  W.  Dent,  accompanied 
General  and  Mrs.  Grant  to  Oregon,  sailing  on  the  St.  Paul 
on  the  10th  of  October.  They  returned  on  the  21st,  and 
the  same  evening  were  present  at  a  reception  given  by 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Crocker. 

The  22d  of  October  included  a  reception  at  Mills  Semi- 
nary, a  visit  to  the  Oakland  race  track,  and  in  the  evening 
a  banquet  at  the  Palace  Hotel  at  which  two  hundred  and 
thirty-eight  gentlemen  were  seated.  The  invitation  cards 
bore  the  monogram,  "U.  S.  G."  interwoven  with  a  vine  of 
laurel  and  the  names  of  the  executive  committee — A.  J. 
Bryant,  Charles  Crocker,  W.  M.  Bunker.  Charles  Kohler, 
R.  P.  Hammond,  Charles  Main,  J.  P.  Jackson,  D.  F.  Verde- 
nal,  George  Hewston,  Colonel  W.  E.  McArthur.  General 
Grant  was  seated  between  General  Miller  aud  Mayor  Bry- 
ant, the  latter  acting  as  toast-master  on  the  conclusion  of 
the  feast.  The  first  toast  offered  was  "Our  honored 
guest,"  to  which  General  Grant  responded  at  some  length, 
in  which  he  expressed  his  gratitude  for  the  hospitality  and 
cordiality  with  which  he  had  been  received,  and  that  while 
it  had  been  a  quarter  of  a  century  since  his  last  visit,  he 
hoped  it  would  not  be  another  quarter  before  he  came 
again.  The  other  toasts  were:  "California,  the  Golden 
State,"  responded  to  by  Horace  Davis;  "San  Francisco," 
F.  F.  Low;  "The  Press,"  M.  D.  Boruck;  "The  South," 
Colonel  Stuart  Taylor;  "Nevada,"  Senator  Sharon;  "The 
American  Bar,"  J.  McM.  Shatter;  "Our  Volunteers,"  A. 
A.  Sargent.  At  eleven  o'clock  the  "Exempt  Firemen," 
with  a  band  of  music,  arrived  to  escort  the  city's  distin- 
guished guest  to  Oakland,  where  General  Grant  and  his 
party  took  the  train  for  Virginia  City,  en  route  East — 
this  time  never  to  return. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  i,  1897. 


We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


w 


fITHOUT  in  any  way  belittling  Mr. 
Denis  O'Sullivan's  excellent  work  in 
Shamus  O'Brien  on  Monday  night,  I  will 
venture  that  where  one  person  went  once 
to  hear  Mr.  O'Sullivan,  two  persons  will  go 
^  twice  to  hear  Professor  Charles  Villiers 
Stanford's  Irish  opera.  For  Shamus  O'Brien  is  an  absorb- 
ing work.  It  has  the  two-fold  value  of  appealing  to  the 
appreciation  of  the  laic  listener  and  to  the  respect  of  the 
musician.  It  gives  color,  circumstance  and  romantic 
reality  to  a  type  of  Irish  melodrama  that  even  Irishmen 
have  come  to  regard  as  stale  entertainment. 

When  I  first  read  through  the  book  and  score,  I  thought 
that  Professor  Stanford  had  builded  his  music  on  an  in- 
fernally cheap  text;  when  I  saw  Shamus  O'Brien  acted  I 
changed  my  mind.  The  triteness  of  the  characters,  the 
obviousness  of  the  situations,  the  time-worn  greenness  of 
the  whole  book  are  the  very  body  of  Stanford's  themes; 
for  the  themes  are  typically  Irish,  the  essence  of  that 
trustful,  traditional  Ireland  familiarized  by  the  Irish 
drama.  I  cannot  but  regret  that  Mr.  George  H.  Jessup 
did  not  get  an  occasional  good  joke  into  his  book.  If  Pro- 
fessor Stanford's  academicism  did  not  shy  at  the  bad 
jokes,  surely  it  could  have  stood  a  few  good  ones.  Besides, 
Mr.  Jessup  was  no  slouch  of  a  humorist  in  the  old  days 
when  he  wrote  for  the  News  Letter,  and  it  is  sad  to 
think  of  him  now  with  the  fun  running  out  just  so  soon  as 
fortune  runs  in. 

But  Shamus  does  not  depend  much  on  its  fun;  the  com- 
edic  element  is  purely  incidental  to  extraneous  moods  of 
the  opera,  and  it  flags  perceptibly  only  in  the  spoken  lines. 
The  real  value  of  Mr.  Jessup's  book  lies  in  its  admirable 
proportions,  cumulative  skill,  the  swift  address  with 
which  it  fits  the  music  to  the  action  and  the  action  to  the 
word.  There  is  such  thorough  inter- blending  of  composer 
and  librettist  that,  except  in  the  spoken  lines,  one  never 
considers  the  two  apart.  Anyway,  a  librettist's  lot  is  not 
a  happy  one.  Harry  Smith  says  with  as  much  truth  as 
wit:  "If  an  opera  is  a  failure,  everybody  says,  'What  a 
stupid  book!'  If  it  is  a  success,  'What  clever  music!' " 
*  *  * 

The  music  of  Shamus  O'Brien  finds  the  real  spirit  of  Irish 
defiance.  It  celebrates  the  ascendancy  of  the  Irishman's 
pulse  over  his  reason;  it  flings  the  jeer  in  the  teeth  of 
death;  and  in  the  bodeful,  superstitious  background  it 
sounds  the  harbinger  of  death — the  banshee.  The  opera 
is  candidly  melodious;  the  melody  runs  in  stirring  Irish 
meter,  but  it  is  written  in  the  modern  idiom  with  tense, 
dramatic  scoring  for  the  orchestra,  so  that  even  in  the  most 
detached  melodic  bits  you  feel  the  onward  sweep  of  the 
drama.  It  is  this  oneness  of  the  work,  the  suspense  it  ex- 
cites from  the  rattling  opening  of  the  prelude  until  the 
final  crash  of  that  oft-used  phrase,  "Listen  to  Shamus  !  " 
that  stamps  the  power  of  the  music.  It  is  a_  melodrama 
boldly  told;  and  throughout  its  three  acts  it  has  that  com- 
pact excitement  which  heretofore  has  been  monopolized  by 
such  one-act  composers  as  Leoncavello,  Mascagni,  and 
Massenet. 

Of  course  all  this  means  Wagnerism,  more  or  less.  All 
new  music  seems  to  mean  that  now;  the  uew  composers 
either  revel  in  the  power  of  speech  that  Bayreuth  has 
taught  man  is  in  him,  if  he  will  only  give  it  free  expres- 
sion, or  else  they  fly  to  the  other  extreme  of  lyric  absurd- 
ity. There  is  no  pre-Wagnerian  music  being  written  to- 
day; it  is  either  Wagnerian  or  anti-Wagnerian. 

Professor  Stanford,  who  is  at  heart  essentially  a  classi- 
calist,  the  director  of  the  Bach  Society  in  London,  and 
heaven  knows  how  many  academic  things,  is  possibly  the 
last  man  in  the  world  from  whom  a  new  opera  with  new 
life,  new  light,  and  new  color  was  to  be  expected;  and  pos- 
sibly he  never  would  have  given  it  to  us  if  he  had  not  gone 
to  a  new  field — old  enough  in  itself,  mind  !  old  in  farce- 
comical  comic  opera  and  all  sorts  of  ballad  melanges,  but 
absolutely  new  for  the  new  method  of   exploiting  it.     And 


this  was  where  the  familiar  story  and  the  familiar  beat  of 
Irish  rythm  were  the  accessories  of  genius:  they  made  the 
characters  unmistakable,  the  colors  unmistakable.  Stan- 
ford had  but  to  dip  his  pen  in  the  green  ink,  forget  that 
there  had  ever  been  such  musicianlettes  as  drawing-room 
and  boudoir  opera  builders,  and  write  in  the  new  tongue 
to  the  limit  of  his  invention.  A  bigger  man  might  have 
made  a  bigger  opera  of  it,  but  S/iamus  O'Brien  is  not  to 
be  sneezed  at  for  a  generation  at  least.  It  is  the  best 
operatic  work  that  has  come  out  of  England  in  many  a 
day.  In  fact,  it  is  the  only  recent  English  work  in  the 
romantic  or  comic  class  that  has  not  turned  out  to  be  a 
comic  oratorio  or  a  musical  farce. 


When  a  man  does  as  much  as  Stanford  has  done  with  this 
Irish  subject,  it  is  only  human  nature  to  ask,  Couldn't  he 
have  done  more  ?  I  doubt  if  Stanford  could  have  gone  in  much 
deeper  without  imperiling  the  popular  value  of  his  work  ; 
for,  even  viewed  from  the  most  fastidious  modern  stand- 
point, the  only  thing  he  did  not  do  was  to  build  up  a  coun- 
terdistinction  for  every  one  of  the  characters,  and  exploit 
the  hit  motif  to  a  more  generous  extent.  Shamus  has  a 
character  value  of  his  own  ;  Trevor,  the  British  officer,  is 
moderately  removed  from  the  Celtic  taint ;  Mike,  the  in- 
former, is  villainized  in  a  deliciously  grotesque  vein,  and 
Nora  and  Kitty  are  given  unmistakable  moods,  if,  indeed, 
they  have  no  striking  musical  personalities.  Sure,  it  is 
hard  enough  to  criticise  a  composer  for  what  he  has  writ- 
ten without  bothering  with  what  he  has  not.  And  no  one 
can  write  a  comparative  review  of  this  Irish  opera  with- 
out fetching  the  comparisons  a  long  way  from  posterity — 
for  Shamus  is  an  ancestor. 

*  *  * 

I  do  not  know  whether  or  no  the  orchestration  was 
"contracted"  to  fit  the  modest  dimensions  of  the  Tivoli 
band.  To  me  it  sounds  full  and  satisfying,  and  is  a  lesson 
in  structural  symmetry.  I  am  glad  to  say  that  in  it  there 
is  not  a  single  instance  of  freak  instrumentation — no  hard- 
ware or  firecracker  effects.  Professor  Stanford  focuses 
attention  to  the  stage.  The  play  is  the  thing  ;  the  story 
is  in  the  songs,  in  the  action,  in  the  people.  The  shifts  of 
coloi ,  the  commemorative  voices,  the  harmonic  sympathy, 
are  in  the  orchestra.  And  the  orchestra  is  subservient,  sug- 
gestive, assistant  to,  rather  than  dominant  of,  the  drama. 
Even  where  Stanford  melodizes  most  scrappily,  giving  free 
vent  to  the  pace  of  Irish  6-8  time,  there  is  a  note  of 
deeper  significance  in  the  orchestra,  a  warning  of  impend- 
ing disaster.  The  songs,  the  stage,  are  the  luminous  ex- 
pression of  a  deliberate,  symphonic  scheme. 

But  after  one  has  been  keyed  up  during  three  acts  to 
all  this  musical  portent  of  dire  fatality,  one  cannot  but  feel 
some  disappointment  that  the  banshee  has  done  such  a 
might  of  witch  work  to  no  better  purpose  than  the  death 
of  Mike,  the  informer.  Stanford's  good  music,  it  seems  to 
me,  would  have  more  than  justified  a  little  extra  conjuring 
with  the  Panu  poem.  Shamus  could  die  a  game  and  glori- 
ous death,  the  reliability  of  the  O'Brien  banshee  could  be 
preserved,  and  we  would  not  feel  that  a  false  alarm  had 
not  been  rung  on  our  creeps. 

*  *  # 

To  all  appearances  the  Tivoli  has  a  cast-iron  monopoly 
on  the  opera  patronage  of  San  Francisco.  But  it  is  not 
without  a  rival  in  the  form  of  its  past  record — a  rival  that 
has  so  pampered  the  Tivoli  patrons  that  now  nothing 
short  of  an  exceptionally  insane  extravaganza  or  a  par- 
ticularly well-arranged  legitimate  piece  will  fire  them  to 
anything  like  grateful  enthusiasm.  Shamus  O'Brien  adds 
to  the  dangerous  precedent  of  good  productions.  It  is 
well  managed,  staged  and  sung.  And  the  chorus  sings  its 
difficult  music  with  real  Irish  zest  and  ginger. 

Mr.  O'Sullivan  finds  his  very  own  in  the  part  of  Shamus. 
It  calls  for  strenuous,  melodramatic  singing  and  acting, 
and  be  does  all  that  is  called  for — and  even  a  little  more. 
What  I  wrote  about  his  singing  last  week  will  hold  good  in 
Shamus.  The  tremolo  is  there,  and  very  frequently  he 
forces  his  tone,  but  there  are  warmth  and  vitality  and  a 
splendid  width  in  his  voice  withal;  and  his  acting  is  the 
better  for  its  wild  enthusiasm. 

Miss  Millard  has  suddenly  developed  a  wonderful  state 
of  wakefulness.  She  has  a  modest  little  tremolo  of  her 
own,  but  her  Nora  is  abundantly  dramatic,   and,  in  parts, 


May  i,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER 


•■ntly  sun";      Miss  Myra  Morella,  a  new  Tivolite,  does 
rather  neatly  with  the  part  of  Kitty,  »nd   Mr.   Thou 
ijuite  an  ideal  tiKure  of  a  man  for  the   Hritish  officer.     Mr. 
Thomas  has  a  good  as  well  as  a  bad 

method  will  let  him.  Mr  Weet,  reliable  for  anything  from 
low  comedy  to  oratorio,  dispatches  the  Priest's  part  easily. 
Nimble  Mr.  Pan-y  has  the  roleol  his  life  in  Mike;  and,  after 
van.  Dare;  is  the  sensation  of  the  cast.  I  never 
dreamed  that  so  much  character  appreciation  was  in  him. 
•  •  • 

There  is  a  wild,  irresponsible  farce-comedy  at  the  Co- 
lumbia Theatre  that  will  make  you  laugh.  It  may  have 
other  virtues,  but  I  did  not  discover  them.  It  is  called  A 
A'um  ..»  like  Bank,  but  that  does  not  matter.  It  is  funny. 
It  is  an  avalanche  of  seething,  disordered  fun,  which  never 
stops  during  the  first  act,  ami  only  slows  up  a  bit  during 
the  second  and  third,  so  that  you  may  catch  your  breath. 
A  few  of  the  jokes  that  travel  with  this  show  have  been 
here  before,  but  they  are  still  in  good  health,  and  all  the 
others  are  strangers.  Many  people  take  part  in  this  silly 
show.  Particularly  Mr.  Ward  and  Mr.  Yokes,  who  own 
it.  and  who,  no  doubt,  feel  glad  that  they  have  such  a  good 
thing.  These  gentlemen  own  the  show,  but  Miss  Lucy 
Daly  makes  them  divide  on  the  audience. 

Ashton  Stevkns. 

DeWolf  Hopper.  Edna  Wallace  Hopper  and  the  big 
company  which  made  such  a  success  of  El  Capilan  in  New 
York,  come  to  the  Baldwin  Monday  night  for  a  two-weeks' 
season  in  that  famous  Sousa  work.  From  all  accounts  El 
Caption  is  one  of  those  Eastern  successes  which  will  stand 
the  climate  of  a  Western  audience.  We  know  the  value  of 
Hopper  and  the  charm  of  dainty  Edna  Wallace,  and  with 
a  good  company  and  a  good  show  the  Baldwin  returns  to 
swelldom. 

This  is  what  one  gets  for  missing  a  week  at  the  Orpheum : 

Haven't  seen  you  this  week,  and  am  sorry.  Alexander  Tacianu, 
the  female  impersonator,  is  the  greatest  artist  in  his  line  who  ever 
struck  the  town.  He  has  a  combination  soprano  and  baritone  voice 
that  beats  anything  in  the  register.  At  the  end  of  a  long  pro- 
gramme, he  gets  six  and  seven  encores,  and  then  the  people  want 
more.  Next  week  he  will  have  several  new  songs  Mile.  Fleurette 
and  her  "Four  Fleurs-de  Lis,"  direct  from  Paris,  who  do  a  dainty 
dancing  act  coupled  with  songs,  and  Mile.  Ani,  a  European  u'rial 
marvel,  will  make  their  first  appearance.  Ed  Latell,  the  musical 
comedian,  plays  a  great  banjo.  The  parquet  in  the  Orpheum  has 
been  raised,  and  new  settees,  accommodating  two  persons,  are  being 
put  in.  Yours  for  health. 

Philip  Hastings. 

Mr.  Otto  Bendix,  who  is  one  of  the  foremost,  if  not  the 
very  first,  of  our  local  pianists,  will  give  a  recital  at  Byron 
Mauzy  Hall  on  Thursday  evening.  The  programme  in- 
cludes Schubert's  Fantasie,  op.  15,  Schuman's  novelette, 
No.  8,  several  of  Brahms's  shorter  pieces  and  Chopin's 
Sonata,  op.  58. 

A  Run  on  the  Bank  has  another  week  at  the  Columbia. 
Then  Rice's  big  burlesque,  Excelsior  Jr. 

Sham  us  O'Brien  is  up  for  a  good  run  at  the  Tivoli. 

^  MEETING  of  Englishmen  was  held  at  Scottish  Hall 
on  Wednesday  evening,  and  preliminary  arrange- 
ments made  for  the  Queen's  Diamond  Jubilee,  by  the  ap- 
pointment of  several  committees.  It  is  evident  that  Her 
Majesty's  loyal  subjects  here  wi'l  celebrate  in  enthusiastic 
and  appropriate  manner  the  Jubilee.  Three  days  will  be 
devoted  to  the  occasion,  and  sports,  feasting,  and  literary 
exercises  will  be  the  order.  The  Jubilee  will  occur  on 
Saturday,  Sunday,  and  Monday,  the  19th,  20th,  and  21st 
of  June. 

THE  inaugural  bench  show  of  the  San  Francisco  Kennel 
Club,  which  takes  place  on  the  19th,  20th,  21st  and 
22d  of  this  month,  promises  to  be  a  great  success.  The 
show  will  be  held  at  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion. 


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"Maison  Riche,"  at  Geary  street  and  Grant  avenue,  that  famous 
French  restaurant  of  the  Pacific  Coast  maintains  its  high  excellence 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  I,  1897. 


"  /^VARMELITA,  Carmelita,  mia  bonita,  sirigtome.'' 

V_/  The  little  village  of  San  Louis  Rey  is  drowsy  with 
the  feeling  of  a  perpetual  summer  afternoon.  Long  shadows 
and  a  golden  yellow  atmosphere  are  over  all. 

There  is  a  faint  humming  as  of  bees.  There  is  nothing 
doing. 

There  are  few  things  worth  striving  for,  and  one  of  them 
is  peace.  The  peace  which,  to  some  degree,  may  come  in 
this  world  is  nearer  idealization  in  these  old  Franciscan 
Missions  among  the  olive  hills  of  California  than  anywhere 
else.  The  peace  here  cannot  be  put  into  words  or  painted. 
It  is  in  the  air,  and  breathes  the  feeling  that  the  past  has 
not  yet  gone  away. 

The  dust  lies  thick  in  the  crooked  paths,  and  one  almost 
looks  to  find  a  print  of  sandals. 

The  voices  of  the  natives — inherited  from  the  Spanish 
conquerer — are  soft  and  musical.  There  are  glimpses  of 
bright  shawls  over  black  tresses;  feet  shod,  but  stocking- 
less. 

There  is  no  wind,  no  noise,  until  the  evening  comes  on, 
bringing  that  cool  breeze,  stirring  the  beautiful  palm  and 
pepper  trees,  which  all  through  the  hot  day  have  remained 
motionless. 

The  rambling  and  roofless  adobe,  its  brown  walls  crum- 
bling with  age,  is  near  the  Mission.  The  Padre's  dwelling 
— being  a  little  better  than  the  others — is  on  the  banks  of 
the  little  river. 

"Sing,  sing  to  me,  ca.ro  nub."  This  from  a  swarthy  ran- 
chero,  bent  and  old,  with  hard,  drawn  features,  which 
soften  only  when  his  eyes  turn  to  the  beautiful  child  near 
him. 

The  child  is  little  Carmelita — his  only  treasure.  Left  to 
him — left  before  the  door  of  his  adobe — with  no  name,  no 
dower,  save  her  peerless  beauty  and  a  voice  like  the  song- 
birds. 

Pico,  oldest  and  poorest  of  the  poor  beggars  of  this 
summer  village,  has  for  eight  years  spent  his  earnings  on 
Carmelita — Carmelita,  with  roses  in  her  hair  and  cheeks 
—  Carmelita,  dancing,  laughing,  praying,  and  weeping  with 
an  inconsistency  that  is  bewitching. 

The  tinkle  of  the  guitar  and  a  silver  voice  ring  out.  Old 
Pico  listens  and  dreams  and  is  content. 

Carmelita  must  marry — yes,  and  some  handsome  cabal- 
lero  would,  bye  and  bye,  come  along,  and  this  flower,  this 
gem  of  budding  womanhood,  would  be  a  happy  wife — a 
mother;  but  now  his  little  one  must  cheer  his  old  days. 
He  would  not  be  here  long.  Yes,  he  would  work  for  her 
— he  would — 

The  song  dies  away  on  the  soft  evening  breeze.  Pico 
sleeps  peacefully,  with  a  smile  upon  his  face.  The  birds 
are  still  and  the  insects'  hum  is  hushed. 

***** 

The  fierce  sun  pours  down  again.  The  old  man  awakens 
and  drags  his  weary  limbs  about  to  prepare  the  breakfast 
of  fruit  and  milk.  He  goes  softly  towards  Carmelita's  bed. 

"Carmelita,  Carmelita  !     Sweet  one,    where  are  you  ?  " 

The  bed  has  not  been  touched.  Carmelita  cannot  be 
found.     No  one  has  seen  her. 

Only  the  little  red  dress,  the  coarse  lace  mantilla  and 
comb  thrown  carelessly  near  the  door,  and — what  is  that  ? 
A  glistening  object — a  bright  gold-piece.  Yes,  yes,  the 
kind  the  tall,  insinuating  Americano  yesterday  offered 
Pico  for  a  draught  of  native  wine. 

Poor  Pico  is  alone — a  fever  seizes  him.  For  months  he 
is  at  death's  door,  and  rises  a  mere  shadow  of  the  man  he 
once  was.  Still  ever  the  cry,  "Carmelita,  Carmelita  !  my 
little  one,  let  me  find  thee." 


The  way  is  long  and  rough  to  the  great  city,  but  old  Pico 
sets  out  on  his  way,  begging  and  working  as  best  he  can. 
For  eight  years  we  hear  of  him  wandering  about  the  gay 
city — living  God  knows  how;  a  poor,  bent  cripple,  haunt- 
ing the  cafh  and  open  gardens,  looking  vainly  for  a  dear 
lost  face. 

He  listens  to  the  voices  in  the  great  churches,  hoping  to 
hear  the  sweet,  familiar  tone. 

"Mother  of  Christ,  help  me  to  find  her,  my  Carmelita  !  " 

It  is  night.  Pico,  bowed  by  grief  and  utter  dreariness, 
creeps  past  the  gay  plaza  where,  coquetting  and  laughing, 
are  women  clad  in  rich  satins,  of  bright  colors,  sparkling 
with  gems,  their  white  shoulders  peeping  above  the  lace; 
rich  caballeros,  in  velvet  and  silk,  with  fiery  eyes  looking 
out  beneath  the  black  sombreros. 

Creeping  along,  he  crouches  in  the  shadow  of  the  walls 
of  a  palatial  house  in  the  rich  American  quarter  of  the 
city.  The  rays  of  light  from  one  of  the  windows  fall  upon 
his  drawn  face  as  he  sleeps  on  the  cold,  damp  stones. 

Hark  !  Is  he  dreaming  ?  Can  it  be — the  beloved  voice 
— the  rich,  deep  notes  ? 

"Madre  de  Dios,  look  !" 

Staggering  to  his  feet,  he  gazes  in  at  the  open  window  : 
A  brilliantly  lighted  room,  filled  with  luxurious  works  of 
Oriental  art.  A  table  with  luscious  wines  and  fruit 
crowded  upon  it.  Half  a  dozen  men,  their  faces  showing 
the  wine  they  have  drunk  and  the  lives  they  have  led.  The 
jeunesse  dor£,  representing  American  capital  in  this  half- 
Spanish  town.  A  guitar — a  woman  once  beautiful,  now 
hollow-eyed  and  hardened,  rough  cheeks,  blackened  eyes, 
and  tinseled  dress  that  tell  their  own  story. 

She  sings — holding  her  wine-glass  high — a  seductive 
love-song  of  old  Spain. 

The  men  cheer  and  drink  again. 

The  old  man  falls  against  the  wall. 

"Carmelita,  Carmelita  !  Mother  of  Christ !  Why  did  I 
find  thee  ?  "     ' 

In  the  gray  dawn  the  wine-sleepy  revelers  reel  from  the 
house.  They  stumble  over  an  old  man  by  the  gate — dead, 
,his  hands  clasping  his  beads,  his  eyes  fixed  as  though  in 
prayer. 

OBITUARY. 

THE  death  of  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Ellert,  which  occurred  on 
the  26th  ult.  at  the  residence  of  her  son,  ex-Mayor 
L.  R.  Ellert,  in  this  city,  takes  away  a  pioneer  of  1854, 
and  a  widely-known  and  most  estimable  lady.  Mrs.  Ellert 
had  been  ill  for  two  years  or  more,  and  her  death  was  not 
unexpected.  She  had  reached  the  age  of  seventy-five 
years.  The  remains  were  interred  in  Mountain  View  Ceme- 
tery, Oakland,  on  Wednesday,  and  were  followed  to  their 
last  resting  place  by  a  large  number  of  sorrowing  friends. 

ftMOST  interesting  paper  was  read  before  the  Califor- 
nia Bankers'  Association,  which  completed  its  annual 
meeting  at  Los  Angeles  last  week,  by  Mr.  John  J.  Valen- 
tine, President  of  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.'s  Bank  of  this  city. 
Mr.  Valentine's  subject,  "International  Bimetallism," 
was  a  review  of  that  question,  which  contained  an  array 
of  facts  against  the  proposed  international  agreement  for 
the  coinage  and  circulation  of  silver,  as  seems  to  be  contem- 
plated by  the  present  administration.  The  Bank  President 
address  has  been  published  in  a  pamphlet  of  twenty  pages, 
and,  as  may  well  be  supposed,  contains  a  mass  of  expert 
opinion  in  opposition  of  this  movement.  Mr.  Valentine 
has  given  a  great  deal  of  study  to  the  subject,  and  his 
address  presents  unanswerable  argument,  not  only  against 
the  contention  of  the  so-called  Democratic  party  for  its 
adoption  in  the  United  States;  but  as  well  shows  the  im- 
possibility of  favorable  international  action.  The  paper  is 
a  valuable  contribution  to  the  bimetallic  literature  of  the 
day.  

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May  I,  1897. 


SAN  FRAXCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


MIRA      MONTE     COUNTRY     CLUB. 


FAN  'ing  to  come  across  a  perfectly  appointed 

club  bouse  in  the  mid^t  of  .1  wide  stretch  of  Marin 
bed  on  a  knoll  well  wooded  with  old  oaks — 
and  in  rem   a  lemon.     Yet  here  a 

en,  enamored  ol  hunting,  fishing  and 
kindred  quiet  sport?,  pi  1  > :  lenta.    Later  die  tents 

formed  into  a  beautiful  club  house,  with  the 
thick,  stuccoed  walls  and  leaded  easements,  the  low,  tl.it 
roof  and  wide  wings,  the  heavy  columns  supporting  the 
roof  of  the  wide  veranda,  all  .so  faithfully  earning  out  the 
Spanish  style  of  architecture  that  seems  to  be  part  and 
parcel  of  California,  so  comi  1  tcly  does  it  harmonize  with 
the  landscape. 

To  be  entertained  at  Mira  Monte  is  a  joy  of  delightful 
anticipation,  for  it  means  an  entrancing  diversion  from 
the  rush  and  bustle  of  this  windy  city  to  the  hushed  soli- 
tudes disturbed  only  by  the  curlew's  cry  or  the  quail's 
measured  call;  and  if  rest  is  what  you  crave,  those  piazza 
chairs,  inviting  couches,  hospitable  rockers,  woo  to  sweet 
repose.  And  to  enjoy  the  dula  far  nientt  of  this  idyllic 
spot  one  has  only  about  one  hundred  minutes'  trip  to  the 
station  at  Burdells'  and  thence,  across  the  marsh  but  a 
few  hundred  yards.  Then,  ton,  several  of  the  members 
own  vapor  launches  which  cau  carry  a  party  from  this 
city,  via  bay  and  river,  up  to  the  very  threshold  of  the  do- 
main, which  is  by  far  the  more  romantic  mode  of  transpor- 
tation, and  well  suited  to  the  charm  of  these  moonlit  nights. 
But  in  no  case  must  the  mandolin  and  guitar  be  forgot, 
for  the  senoritas  would  be  as  lost  without  this  finishing 
touch  to  the  scene  as  without  the  flirtatious  fan.  Which 
brings  to  mind  a  charming  house  party  that  assembled 
within  the  hospitable  walls  of  the  Mira  Monte  club  house 
recently,  gracefully  chaperoned  by  Mrs.  Thomas  Magee, 
who,  with  her  husband  and  the  Misses  Genevieve  Goad, 
Mary  Belle  Gwin,  Belle  Hutchinson,  Clara  Crockett  and 
Mamie  McNutt,  were,  with  Mr.  Ed.  M.  Greenway,  the 
guests  of  four  of  the  club  members:  Messrs.  Geo.  A. 
Martin,  Xat  N.  Wilson,  L.  S.  Adams  Jr.,  and  Milton  S. 
Latbarr..  The  entertainment  was,  of  course,  in  keeping 
with  former  social  affairs  for  which  the  members  have  es- 
tablished an  enviable  reputation,  and  upon  arrival,  after 
refreshing  themselves,  the  guests  were  invited  to  the  din- 
ing room  where  an  elaborate  dinner  was  in  waiting, 
after  which  the  cool  piazzas  and  cosy  nooks  under  the  oaks 
or  down  by  the  water's  edge  were  in  demand.  Then  came 
music — and  there  is  plenty  of  talent  in  the  Mira  Monte 
club — piano,  mandolin,  banjo,  guitar,  and  a  tripping  to 
waltz  measure  or  deux  temps.  "Tired  nature's  sweet 
restorer"  finally  claimed  a  hearing,  and  the  party  dis- 
persed to  their  rooms,  after  viewing  by  moonlight  the 
miles  of  surrounding  hills  and  lowlands  from  the  roof  ob- 
servatory. Next  morning,  after  a  meal  wherein  the  oft- 
quoted  "speckled  beauty"  was  ruthlessly  sacrificed  and 
other  dainties  provided  to  make  it  an  ideal  country  house 
breakfast,  the  party  set  sail  (to  use  poetic  license)  in  the 
launch  Olompali,  stopping  at  Point  Pedro  for  luncheon, 
thence  to  Tiburon,  from  which  point  the  remainder  of  the 
trip  was  made  most  prosaically  v:a  ferryboat. 

Besides  the  above  four  members  of  the  Mira  Monte  Club 
the  list  includes  J.  B.  Burdell,  its  president;  W.  H.  Fair- 
banks, secretary  and  treasurer;  J.  H.  Follis,  A.  H. 
Whitney,  W.  K.  Hill,  J.  Dov^ney  Harvey,  Harry  B. 
Houghton.  The  death  of  Colonel  Fred  F.  Follis  last 
December  depleted  the  list  of  original  members.  The  re- 
tirement of  \V.  R.  Whittier,  one  of  the  charter  twelve,  on 
the  occasion  of  his  recent  marriage  to  Miss  Carroll,  may 
be  only  temporary,  the  delight  of  domesticity  being  a  very 
powerful  rival  to  the  pleasures  of  bachelordom;  but  his 
former  confreres  hope  to  make  him  see  the  error  of  his 
ways,  and  bring  him  back  into  the  fold;  Mrs.  Whittier 
would  make  such  a  delightful  chaperone,  too,  for  the  young 
ladies  who  know  the  delights  of  this  suburban  retreat. 

But  these  young  bachelors  are  by  no  means  mere  society 
butterflies,  else  why  would  they  lease  the  shooting 
privileges,  for  ten  years,  of  the  1,600  acres  of  marsh  land 
and  ten  or  twelve  thousand  acres  of  high  land  on  the 
famous  Burdell  rancho,  two  leagues  in  extent?  The  gun 
racks  in  the  big  living  room  are  not  merely  ornamental, 
by  any  means,  and  the  young  sportsmen  could  tell  tales  of 
some  big  game  secured  in  the  chaparral  of  the  mountain 


the  club  name,  by  the  way,  being  suggested  by  the 
grand  view  of  the  mountain  just  back  of  the  Burdell  ranch 

on  entering  the  big  oblong  hall  or  living  room  of  the 
club  house,  the  lirst  thing  noted  by  the  feminine  eye  would 
be  B  certain  masculine  solidity  of  things  in  general,  and  es- 
pecially to  the  gnat  fireplace  thai  Fairly  wants  to  em- 
brace the  ass, mi  ipany  in  its  wide  hospitality.  Then 
there  are  no  stupid  little  footstools  to  insist  upon  waylay- 
ing the  unwary.  n<>  fragile  tables  with  spindle  legs  to  ever- 
lastingly argue  the  poitit  of  right  of  way;  but  plenty  of 
big,  comfortable  rockers,  and  arm  chairs  and  an  immense, 
pillow-laden  divan  — this  latter  usurping  the  veranda  side 
of  the  room.  Above  this  couch,  along  the  entire  side,  are 
wide  windows  from  which  a  view  of  the  river — yes,  even 
the  bay — is  obtained.  From  this  room,  on  each  side,  a 
wing  extends,  containing  the  sleeping  apartments  of  the 
members.  The  narrow  halls  stretching  into  the  perspec- 
tive, the  thick,  plaster  covered  outer  walls  with  the  pro- 
jecting roof  beams,  the  heavy  columns  supporting  the 
veranda  roof — all  help  to  suggest  the  fantastic  idea  of  a 
nunnery.  Could  anything  be  more  absurd— a  bachelors' 
club  house  like  unto  a  convent!  Suppose  we  liken  it  to  a 
monastery,  instead? 

The  most  delightful  room  is  the  dining  room,  opening  out 
of  and  two  steps  higher  than  the  living  room,  with  en- 
trances on  each  side  of  the  fireplace.  This  room  has  one 
side  and  corner  given  over  to  windows,  from  which  such  a 
superb  view  is  obtained  that  the  pen  halts  in  the  telling. 
On  two  other  sides  are  the  fireplace  and  the  handsome 
oaken  buffet  built  into  the  wall.  In  the  basement  is  a  fully 
equipped  billiard  room. 

The  site  of  the  club  house  is  historic,  being  the  scene  of 
the  battle  of  Olompali,  between  General  Fremont,  (when 
he  was  returning  to  San  Francisco  after  the  capture  of 
Sonoma),  and  Chief  Carmelo.  The  story  goes  that  while 
Fremont  was  placidly  ambling  along  with  his  command  he 
encountered  the  gallant  chief  with  200  braves  at  his  heels. 
A  two-bours'  battle  was  fought  before  Carmelo  was  con- 
vinced of  the  error  of  bis  ways  and  with  his  henchmen 
ignominiously  routed.  Perhaps  if  it  had  ended  differently 
we  might  not  be  telling  the  story  with  so  much  gusto. 
There  was  great  slaughter,  so  runs  the  legend,  but  legends 
take  on  a  surprising  elasticity  sometimes,  and  the  club 
members  say  they've  never  come  across  any  Indian  bones. 
But  then  Indians  had  a  peculiar  post  mortem  fad  of  perch- 
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May  i,  1897. 


"  The  King,  the  Knave,  and  the  Donkey."     By  P\tbias  Damon. 
Published  by  T.  L.  Denison.    Chicago.    163  Randolph  street. 

This  book  resembles  a  wasp,  in  tbat  its  sting  is  in  its 
tail,  the  tail  being  a  vocabulary,  wherein  certain  terms  in 
common  use  in  the  United  States  are  defined,  after  this 
fashion:  "Lobbyists;  very  smooth  persons,  male  and" 
(?  or)  "female,  who  infest  capitals  to  influence  legislation 
in  ihe  interest  of  corporations.  Their  methods  are  sim- 
pler and  tnuch  easier  than  'laying  salt  on  a  bird's  tail.' 
The  Lobbyist  gently  passes  a  roll  of  'fat '  before  the  eyes 
of  the  Legislator  to  be  operated  upon,  and  immediately 
the  subject  passes  into  the  condition  described  under  'out 
for  the  stuff.'  The  subject  is  then  completely  under  the 
influence  of  L.,  and  is  ready  to  sell  his  vote  or  his  soul,  if 
the  latter  had  any  market  value."  The  ten  chapters 
which  make  up  the  body  of  the  wasp  tell,  in  a  rude  way, 
how,  since  the  world's  dawn,  the  "plain  people"  have 
been  robbed,  abused,  hoodwinked,  and  fleeced  by  the 
knaves  for  the  benefit  of  the  rulers.  Though  the  volume 
does  not  give  indications  of  any  considerable  degree  of 
cultivation  being  possessed  by  its  writer,  it  is  yet  by  no 
means  so  badly  written  as  most  tirades  against  the  injus- 
tice and  inequality  of  men's  worldly  conditions.  The  writer 
asks  what  the  remedy  is  for  the  constantly  growing  dis- 
content of  the  "  plain  people,"  who,  once  splendidly  op- 
pressed by  emperors,  kings,  and  nobles,  are  now  ignomin- 
iously  ground  beneath  the  heels  of  vulgar  millionaires,  too 
cowardly  to  fight  in  the  open,  and  too  tricky  to  be  caught 
by  the  law.  The  writer  suggests  education  as  the  remedy, 
though  he  admits  that  the  rudimentary  education  fur- 
nished by  the  public  school,  and  the  superficial,  preten- 
tious education  supplied  by  the  University,  are  not  what 
is  wanted.  He  says  that  the  system  of  education  in  the 
United  States  tends  to  turn  out  a  vast  horde  of  underbred, 
under-educated,  and  imperfectly-trained  lawyers,  doctors, 
and  parsons.  What  is  needed  is  education  of  character. 
As  Matthew  Arnold,  though  pre-eminently  the  man  of  cul- 
ture and  high  training,  and  often  spoken  of  by  persons 
utterly  unfamiliar  with  his  work  as  a  mere  academic,  was 
never  tired  of  insisting,  "Conduct  is  three-fourths  of  life." 
Knowledge  of  grammar,  science,  art,  history,  jurispru- 
dence, political  economy,  government,  is  not  the  really  im- 
portant matter;  what  a  country  needs  is  not  well-informed 
rascals,  smooth  of  tongue  and  slippery  as  eels,  but  honest 
men.  A  quite  well-informed  man  does  not  know  on  any 
given  subject  as  much  as  can  be  enclosed  within  the  covers 
of  a  moderate-sized  volume,  and  it  is  not  necessary  that 
the  majority  of  the  citizens  of  a  State  should  be  even  well- 
informed.  The  possession  of  a  varied  stock  of  information 
by  no  means  saves  a  man  from  falling  into  the  most  deadly 
heresies  about  Government,  social  and  political  economy, 
and  a  hundred  other  things.  But  let  a  man  have  a  few 
principles  of  right  conduct  thoroughly  implanted  in  his 
mind  and  heart,  and  it  is  surprising  how  correct  his  ideas 
will  be  on  almost  all  matters  of  daily  life.  Abraham  Lin- 
coln was  a  man  of  very  moderate  intellectual  attainments 
and  of  very  narrow  culture,  yet  by  his  firm  grip  upon  a 
few  cardinal  principles  he  became  a  nation's  hero.  Did 
the  history,  the  geography,  the  science,  the  art  he  knew 
make  him  what  he  was  ?  Certainly  not.  Fortunately  for 
the  bulk  of  mankind,  an  exceedingly  moderate  degree  of 
knowledge  is  sufficient  for  the  purposes  of  life  :  it  is  not 
knowledge  that  counts,  but  character.  And  the  main 
principles  of  conduct  are  as  well  understood  by  an  honest 
man  who  does  not  know  the  meaning  of  the  word  "ethics" 
as  they  were  by  Aristotle  himself.  The  misfortune  is  that 
most  people  think  that  the  only  difference  between  an  or- 
dinary man  and  a  great  man  is  that  the  great  man  knows 
more  facts.  One  might  have  supposed  that  Matthew  Ar- 
nold, a  type  of  academic  training  and  the  highest  culture, 
would  have  been  inclined  to  exalt  knowledge  above  all  else, 
yet  no  one  in  our  time  has  so  persistently,  or  so  effectively, 
taught  the  comparative  worthlessness  of  mere  knowledge, 
and  the  surpassing  value  of  conduct. 


As  Mr.  E.  L.  Godkin  has  recently  so  well  pointed  out, 
the  idea  is  almost  universally  entertained  in  the  United 
States  that  one  man  is  as  fit  as  another  for  the  perfor- 
mance of  almost  any  function.  A  deduction  from  this  is 
the  notion  that  official  plums  should  be  distributed  evenly 
among  applicants,  without  any  impertinent  inquiries  into 
their  fitness  for  the  work  to  be  done.  This  notion  is  now 
being  further  extended  by  some  ingenious  person  into  the 
domain  of  literature.  From  a  recent  issue  of  a  periodical 
we  extract  the  following:  "As  the  January  issue  of  your 
magazine  contained  a  poem  from  this  city,  it  might  be  de- 
sirable to  you  to  represent  some  other  section  at  this  time. 

If  so,  my  address  might  be  printed instead  of ,  as 

■ is   my  home   when  not  in   school   here."     This  poet 

evidently  has  the  notion  tbat  the  publication  of  verse  is,  or 
ought  to  be,  based  on  population,  or  on  residence  in 
particular  "sections."  Of  course,  besides  the  wild  ab- 
surdity of  this  notion,  there  is  also  the  dishonest  sugges- 
tion of  a  change  of  address,  so  as  to  make  the  readers  of 
the  magazine  believe  that  they  are  reading  the  work  of 
another  writer,  resident  in  another  town.  Yet  this  ab- 
surd notion  is  only  a  strictly  logical  deduction  from  the 
idea  commonly  entertained  and  acted  upon  in  public  affairs, 
and  shows  that,  the  more  nearly  correct  the  reasoning 
from  wrong  premises  is,  the  more  entirely  erroneous  is 
the  conclusion.  Logic  is  indeed  a  two-edged  sword,  which 
should  be  handled  only  by  experts. 

Ev'ry  Month  is  a  magazine  of  literature  and  music  for 
women;  it  is  published  by  Messrs.  Howley,  Haviland  & 
Co.,  New  York  City.  The  Easter  issue  is  a  handsome  one, 
containing  profusely  illustrated  articles  on  the  ladies  of 
the  present  administration,  Easter  flowers  and  decora- 
tion, the  Havemeyers  at  home,  and  other  topics.  There 
are  also  some  original  pieces  of  music.  An  article  entitled 
"Photography  at  its  Best,"  gives  reproductions  of  several 
photographs  by  Mr.  M.  B.  Parkinson,  which  show  much 
skill  and  artistic  feeling.  We  are,  however,  by  no  means 
at  one  with  the  writer  in  thinking  that  the  portrait  painter 
is  in  any  danger  of  being  superseded  by  the  photographer; 
the  limitations  of  the  photographic  art  are  so  numerous, 
obvious,  and  apparently  insurmountable.  The  photogra- 
pher, however  skillful  he  may  be,  cannot  give  us  color,  and 
has  only  a  limited  power  of  excluding  undesirable  details. 
People  would  scarcely  pay  artists  like  the  late  Sir  John 
Millais,  for  example,  ten  thousand  dollars  for  a  portrait, 
if  it  were  only  equal  in  value  to  a  photograph  that  can  be 
produced  for  a  dollar  or  two.  Photography  has  risen 
above  the  level  of  a  mechanical  trade  to  that  of  an  art, 
but  it  is  not  yet,  and,  so  far  as  we  can  see,  is  not  likely  to 
become,  a  fine  art.  It  is  far  easier  to  make  a  good  photo- 
graph than  a  good  watch,  yet  no  one  calls  watch-making 
one  of  the  fine  arts. 

Perhaps  no  one  to-day  more  thoroughly  understands  the 
value  of  a  famous  or  notorious  name  than  the  smug,  self- 
complacent,  enterprising  Editor  of  The  Ladies'  Home 
Journal.  Whether  the  bearer  of  the  name  can  write  or 
not  is  of  little  or  no  moment  to  young  Mr.  Bok — it  is  the 
name  he  wants.  He  has  discovered,  and  turned  to  great 
profit,  the  fact  that,  in  democratic  circles  at  any  rate,  the 
utterly  undistinguished  niece  or  daughter  (till  she  is  ma  rried 
and  done  for)  bears  the  same  name  as  her  distinguished 
father,  and  for  advertising  purposes  is  nearly  as  valuable. 
Acting  on  this  great  principle,  Mr.  Bok  tempts  the  young 
woman,  by  the  offer  of  a  substantial  check,  to  put  down  on 
paper  her  impressions  of  something  or  somebody,  and 
(after  proper  editing)  these  impressions  are  printed  in 
Mr.  Bok's  paper.  In  an  early  issue  Mr.  Bok  promises  an 
article  from  Miss  Olga  Nethersole,  whom  everybody  be- 
lieves to  be  an  actress,  but  whom  nobody  suspects  of  be- 
ing a  writer.  Her  article  is  to  be  entitled  "The  girl  who 
aspires  to  elocution."  May  the  good  Lord  grant  that 
Mr.  Bok's  enterprise  may  not  be  the  cause  of  inspiring 
any  ambitious  girls  to  indulge  in  those  elocutionary  per- 
formances that  have  made  so  many  evenings  a  horror  and 
a  nightmare.  For  goodness'  sake,  kind  Mr.  Bok,  don't 
spring  the  amateur  elocutionist  on  us! 

See  the  elegant  line  of  neckties  just  arrived  at  Carmany's,  25 
Kearny  Street.    Also  gent's  furnishing  goods— latest,  best. 

Mothers,  besureanduse  "Mrs.  Wlnslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  tor  your 
children  while  teething . 


I.  1897 


PAN   FRANCISCO  NF.WS  LETTER. 


TS    seem    to    have 
broken  out  apain  and 
the  buds  are  in  despair    \\  -  otne  one  give  a  dance? 

is  the  question  heard  on  al.  -  -  Somip  .-ays  Mrs.  Louis 
Parrott  will  soon  have  a  lawn  party  at  San  Rafael;  and 
indefatigable  Baron  von  bebroeder  is  credited  with  the 
most  elaborate  designs  for  the  summer  gaieties  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael,  being  a  most  1  B  cient  aid  to  Manager  War 
Held  in  planning  and  executing  pleasures  for  the  guests  of 
that  favorite  caravansary.  The  Jure  weddings  will  delay 
the  exodus  to  country  resorts  a  few  weeks,  but  by  the 
middle  of  June  the  swim  will  be  disporting  itself  in  various 
localities. 

*  *  * 

What  a  change  a  few  months  will  ofttimes  make  with 
some,  while  with  others  monotony  reigns  supreme.  As  an 
example  of  the  first  stands  Captain  Marion  Maus — that 
gallant  soldier,  whose  flirtatious  ways  brought  woe  to 
more  than  one  bud  of  the  swim — who,  after  sipping  sweets 
from  the  flowers  in  his  path  here,  took  himself  and  his 
fascinations  to  Coronado,  and  is  now  going  to  see  real  war- 
fare between  the  Greeks  and  the  Turns,  haviog  been  de- 
tailed to  accompany  the  General  of  the  army  on  his  Euro- 
pean tour.  Our  belles  are  wondering  if  some  Greek  maiden 
will  capture  the  elusive  Captain,  or  will  he  inspect  the 
Turkish  harems  in  preference  to  Grecian  abodes. 
*  *  » 

Sometimes  it  happens  in  life  that  one  sees  a  person 
placed  in  a  position  which  recalls  a  square  peg  in  a  round 
hole.  In  the  case  of  the  recent  appointment  of  Mr.  Harold 
Sewell  as  Minister  to  Hawaii,  however,  nothing  of  this 
sort  of  thing  is  apparent,  for  if  ever  any  one  was  fitted  to 
fill  a  place  in  the  jolly,  pleasure-loving  society  of  Hono- 
lulu, it  is  the  new  Minister's  wife — our  own  popular  Millie 
Ashe — who  will,  beyond  doubt,  be  the  center  of  fun  and 
frolic  in  the  Islands.  And  equally  without  doubt  many  a 
parly  of  her  San  Francisco  friends  will  be  made  up  for  a 
trip  to  the  Islands  to  visit  the  United  States  Minister  and 

wife. 

*  *  * 

The  attendance  of  beauty  and  fashion  at  the  recent 
tournament  held  at  the  Presidio  reservation  goes  to  prove 
how  much  San  Francisco  needs  some  place  for  the  beau 
monde  to  congregate,  as  in  Europe  at  flower  shows.  What 
a  good  idea  a  lawn  party  at  the  Park  would  be  !  Not  the 
Sunday  music  for  the  people  at  large,  but  an  afternoon  in 
the  week  when  the  band  would  play — say  near  the  con- 
servatory— and  the  elite  would  assemble  for  a  chat  or  a 
stroll  while  listening  to  the  music. 

*  *  * 

The  owners  of  rural  abodes  at  and  about  B'lingham  are 
jubilant  over  Joe  Grant's  impending  marriage;  for  the  set- 
tlement at  that  aristocratic  locality  have  had  the  charm- 
ing bride-to-be  among  them  for  some  time  pastas  a  visitor, 
and  as  the  young  lady  is  thoroughly  versed  in  the  art  of 
entertaining,  they  look  forward  to  Joe's  cottage  being  a 
head  center  for  much  that  goes  to  enliven   a  rural  locale. 

*  *  * 

There  are  to  be  several  functions  in  honor  of  the  two 
pretty  brides-elect,  Minnie  Burton  and  Ethel  Cohen,  dur- 
ing the  month  of  May.  Some  one  has  suggested  that  the 
dejected  bachelors  who  have  been  "left"  should  unite  in 
tendering  them  a  farewell  dance.  Needless  to  say,  the 
future  bridesmaids  are  all  in  accord  with  this  idea. 

*  #  * 

Among  the  novel  ideas  propounded  by  society  is  one  that 
Mrs.  Pixley  should  utilize  her  lovely  place  for  a  garden 
party.  She  is  almost  the  only  one  possessing  grounds  ex- 
teusive  enough  for  such  a  purpose  in  the  city. 

*  *  * 

Surely  the  happiest  young  mother  in  the  city  is  Walter 
Hobart's  fair  wife.  One  of  the  prettiest  sights  imaginable 
is  the  baby's  daily  outing,  with  its  beautiful  mother  super- 
intending the  proceeding. 


The  Jewett  tea  exhibited,  as  all   that  lady's  receptions 
do,  a  wonderful  mini-ling  of  the  past  and   present  in   the 
Is,  more  especially  observable  in  the  atttmragi  of  ladies 
living"  with  the  hostess. 

•  #  • 

1  >ne  of  the  possible  announcements  of  the  near  future, 
we  are  told,  may  he  that  of  two  young  people  who  re- 
cently made  the  trip  from  Honolulu  on  the  same   steamer. 
»  »  » 

Gossips  are  linking  the  names  of  the  maid-of-honor  at  an 
approaching  wedding:  and  one  of  the  military  ushers  at 
the  same  who  bears  the  name  of  a  famed  trapper. 

«  *  * 

Boyd  is  the  favorite  soldier  beau  of  the  newly  arrived  at 
the  Presidio,  and  bids  fair  to  take  the  place  so  long  left 
vacant  by  the  popular  Strother. 

The  proof  of  the  pmhiine  is  in  the  eating  it.  The  proof  of  good 
whiskey  is  in  drinking  it.  And  J.  F.  Cutter  whiskey  is  pronounced 
by  people  who  know,  to  be  a  liquor  of  the  finest  quality.  It  has  a 
delightful  bouquet,  and  is  smooth,  and  mellow.  E.  Martin  &  Co., 
at  411  Market  street,  are  sole  Pacific  Coast  Agents. 


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May  r,  1897. 


Little  spurts  which  take   place  in  the 
The  Pine-Street    market  for   Comstock   mining    shares 
Market.  show  a  latent  life  in  the  business,  dead 

and  although  it  may  appear  on  the 
surface,  which  cannot  but  be  reassuring  to  dealers,  al- 
most worn  out  under  the  burden  of  expense  incurred  in 
carrying  on  the  work  of  the  mines.  One  of  these  flare- 
ups  may  kindle  some  of  these  days  into  a  flame  which  will 
bring  the  old  ngime  of  operators  back  to  the  street.  The 
whole  of  the  Pacific  States  are  hungering  for  another  era 
of  mining  speculation.  Talk  of  activity  in  legitimate  min- 
ing about  ends  there.  Where  money  can  be  obtained  in 
driblets  arid  begrudgingly  for  legitimate  work,  it  comes  in 
an  overwhelming  flood  for  speculative  purposes.  The  dull 
times  in  this  city,  and  all  over  the  West  for  that  matter, 
cannot  be  ascribed  to  any  lack  of  money.  There  is  a 
plethora  of  wealth  here,  and  people  are  literally  famishing 
in  the  midst  of  plenty,  simply  for  the  want  of  something 
to  put  surplus  funds  in  circulation.  The  only  channel 
available  for  the  purpose  is  the  mining  market  on  Pine 
street,  and  if  the  men  backed  with  money  for  heavj  in- 
vestment could  only  be  persuaded  into  operating  different 
lines  of  Comstocks,  their  profits  would  exceed  those  of 
previous  boom  periods  in  history.  Wheat  speculation  does 
not  come  natural  to  our  people  as  a  rule.  A  few  under- 
stand the  game  and  play  it,  but  it  is  not  popular  with  the 
masses,  who  now  content  themselves  with  lotteries  and 
schemes  of  the  kind.  The  scope  of  mineral  territory  in 
and  around  Virginia  City  render  the  chances  for  important 
discoveries  of  ore  absolutely  inexhaustible,  and  new  mines 
and  new  districts  can  be  depended  on  to  keep  up  public  in- 
terest once  it  is  again  awakened.  Would  it  not  be  possible 
to  get  a  syndicate  of  wealthy  operators  together  to  stir 
up  the  dying  embers  of  local  mining  e peculation  ? 

The  latest  among  the  possibilities  of  the 
Possible  future  in  the  way  of  mining  sales  is  a 
Mining  Sales,  reported  deal  between  the  London  Ex- 
ploration Company  and  the  owners  of  the 
De  la  Mar  mine,  known  and  transcribed  as  "  The  Great " 
in  the  territory  where  a  nod  from  the  man  who  honored  it 
with  bis  haughty  cognomen  ranks  next  to  an  autograph 
letter  from  the  President.  This  surmise  is  based  upon  a 
recent  examination  of  Victor  Clement,  who,  strange  to 
say,  has  hitherto  been  attached  to  the  African  caravan  of 
the  Gold  Fields  Limited.  It  is  only  a  few  weeks  since  an 
almighty  bluff  was  made  at  closing  down  the  mine,  "it 
might  be  for  years,  and  it  might  be  forever,"  because  His 
Altesse  objected  to  a  miners'  union  in  his  neighborhood. 
Small  blame  to  him  for  that.  The  threat  carried  the  day 
in  the  demesne,  and  was  followed  by  retrenchments  and 
changes  in  the  staff.  Next  comes  the  visit  of  Clement  and 
the  rumor  of  a  sale.  The  latest  report  made  to  the  Tax 
Collector  for  the  quarter  ended  on  January  1st  last,  dis- 
closes the  fact  that  during  that  period  20,677  tons  of  ore 
were  worked,  the  gross  value  of  which  was  $575,462.  From 
this,  $77,000  was  taken  for  extraction,  $22,000  for  trans- 
portation, and  1372,186  for  milling,  leaving  a  net  profit  of 
$100,000.  '  With  all  respect  to  the  De  lar  Mar  mine,  it 
would  need  be  a  high-grade  proposition,  if  this  return  is  cor- 
rect. Low-grade  ores  could  not  stand  such  charges  for 
any  great  length  of  time.  And  yet  the  figures  are  presum- 
ably official. 

A  New  York  correspondent  of   a  big  local 
Drawing  the     daily,  in  praising  a   highly  promising  pros- 
Long  Bow.      pect    in    a    Tuolumne     mine,    speaks    of 
"three-foot  ledge  of  gold  ore  that  sampled 
over  $50,000  per   ton  from   the  grass  roots  down."     This 
almost  equals   the  Placer   County  daisy  which   blossomed 
out  with  $75,000  a  short  time  ago.     And  yet  people  won- 
der why  California  gets   a   name  abroad  for  exaggeration 
in  mining  reports.     The  first  to  condemn  such  statements 
in  the  $50,000.  case,  at  least,  would  be  the  owners  of  the 
mine  to  which  reference  is  made,  as  they  are  not  fakers  in 
any  sense  of  the  word. 


All  the  preaching  that  is  done  about  the 
Arid  Plains  wealth  of  Arizona  mines  does  not  seem  to 
Of  Arizona,  enthuse  people  to  the  point  of  investment. 
A  few  go  into  the  territory,  but  outside  of 
the  one  or  two  big  copper  plants  in  successful  operation, 
one  has  yet  to  learn  of  any  marked  success.  Experience 
is  gained  at  the  expense  of  capital,  and  monuments  in  the 
form  of  abandoned  plants  are  to  be  found  in  all  directions, 
marking  the  march  of  outside  investors,  as  skeletons  are 
wont  to  do  along  the  highways  of  the  American  Sahara. 
The  Salt  Lake  Tribune,  one  of  the  recognized  mining 
authorities  of  the  Coast,  in  commenting  on  a  recent  trip 
of  well-known  mining  men  through  the  diggings  of  Ari- 
zona, says  that  it  was  "fraught  with  more  hardship  than 
fancy  can  possibly  paint.  They  (the  prospectors)  rode 
over  barren  acres,  tramped  among  frogs  and  snakes,  and 
ate  their  lunches  beneath  suns  that  were  almost  unendur- 
able. They  did  not  find  the  claim  to  which  their  attention 
had  been  called  what  had  been  represented  to  them,  and 
came  back  like  others  have  come,  to  resume  the  search 
for  copper  in  this  State,  Nevada  and  Idaho."  All  of 
which  is  very  complimentary  indeed  to  Arizona. 

Charles  G.  Yale.  Statistician  of  the  U.  S. 
The  State  Mint  in  this  city,  has  furnished  his  report 
Gold  Product,  of  the  product  of  gold  and  silver  in  Cali- 
fornia for  the  calendar  year  of  1896, 
which  has  been  forwarded  to  the  Director  of  the  Mint  for 
subsequent  publication  in  his  report,  which  will  appear  at 
a  later  date.  The  report  shows  a  product  of  over 
$17,600,000  for  the  year,  of  which  $17,181,562.70  is  gold 
and  $422,463.60  in  silver,  against  $15,934,108  in  1895,  of 
which  $13,863,282  was  in  gold  and  $297,331  in  silver.  This 
is  the  largest  yield  in  several  years.  In  1896  the  total 
yield  was  only  $14,160,613,  of  which  $13,863,282  was  in 
gold  and  $297,331  in  silver.  Thirty-three  counties  in  the 
State  contributed  to  the  total  last  year.  Seven  of  these 
counties  reported  a  gold  yield  of  $1,070,142  to  $2,380,756, 
the  last  named  total  coming  from  Nevada  County.  Ama- 
dor, Calaveras  and  Placer  Counties  reported  $1,523,357, 
$1,546,399  and  $1,674,844  respectively,  and  Siskiyou,  Tuol- 
umne, and  Trinity  upwards  of  $1,000,000  each. 

The  efforts  to  influence  and  change  exist- 

Looal.  Stocks    ing  tariff  rates  on  sugar  have  had  the  effect 

are  Active,      of  stimulating  speculation  in   the    stocks 

quoted  on  the  local  Stock  Exchange. 
Prices  have  dropped  considerably  on  account  of  heavy 
sales  by  the  bearishly  inclined,  but  a  large  contingent  of 
bull  operators  stand  ready  to  absorb  the  shares  when  the 
point  of  value  reaches  what  may  be  considered  bed-rock. 
The  chance  for  money-making  eventually  on  the  long  end 
is  emphasized  by  the  possibilities  that  no  decision  will  be 
reached  regarding  the  trusts  in  this  session  of  Congress, 
and  perhaps  never.  Other  stocks  are  in  fair  demand  and 
generally  firm.  In  May,  interest  will  be  due  and  payable 
on  the  following  bonds:  United  States  fours  (new  issue), 
quarterly;  Edison  Light  and  Power  sixes,  quarterly;  Na- 
toma  Vineyard  first  mortgage  sixes,  semi-annual;  Sacra- 
mento Light  and  Power  sixes,  semi-annual;  Southern  Pa- 
cific Railroad  of  California  first  construction  (guaranteed 
in  gold)  fives,  semi-annual,  and  Spring  Valley  Water  fours, 
quarterly. 

The  passing  of  the  Charman  mine,  of 
A  Nevada  White  Pine,  Nev.,  into  the  hands  of  such 
Mining  Deal,  an  expert  miner  as  Charles  Lane  will  be 
watched  with  much  interest.  The  prop- 
erty, which  has  been  experted  by  some  of  the  best  men  in 
the  West,  among  others  by  John  Hays  Hammond,  has 
heretofore  proven  a  most  rebellious  subject.  The  quantity 
of  ore  is  great,  and  the  facilities  for  working,  in  the  way 
of  cheap  power,  etc.,  are  excellent,  the  difficulty  ex- 
perienced being  in  treating  the  ores,  which  can  be  mined 
for  almost  nothing.  It  is  not  likely  that  Mr.  Lane  would 
have  taken  hold  of  the  mine  without  some  idea  of  the  diffi- 
culties in  store,  and  his  success  will  be  another  proof  of 
his  ability  to  cope  with  a  ticklish  mining  proposition  over 
which  so  many  failures  have  been  recorded  in  the  past.  It 
is  understood  that  to  begin  with  he  will  put  in  an  elabor- 
ate electric  plant. 


May  i,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER 


'3 


"HeanoeCrlcr:"    'IVbn  ihoderll  »rl  thou!" 
"One thai  wlllplaT  tbclcrll.str.  wllo  you." 


SERGEANT  Puckett.  of  the  Presidio,  started  out  to  be  a 
.irio  on    $i'n   per  month,  and   has   already 
let     A  wronged  maiden  has  appeared  upon  the 
scene,  and  the  glory  of  the  s<  iutillating  sergeant's  military 
achievements  is  rapidly  fading,  while  his  brass  buttons  are 
looming  up  as  brilliantly  as  tin  cent  pieces  in  a  Farallone 
Moreover,  the  sorrowing   sergeant  is  accused  by  his 
ites  at    Uncle  Sam's   reservation  of  hoarding  his 
princely  income  in  miserly  fashion,  and   lending  out   sums 
of  six-bits  and   less  at  exorbitant  rates  of  interest.     This 
is  truly  infamous.     Puckett 's   dual   career  of  crime  as  a 
seducer  and  usurer  should  be  promptly  nipped  in  the  bud. 
It    is    preposterous    that    the    accomplishments    of    our 
millionaires   should   thus   be  usurped    by   a   $2M   infantry 
officer. 

THE  sympathy  of  the  devil  is  due  to  the  unprotected 
people  who  worship  at  the  sanctuary  of  the  Green- 
street  Congregational  Church  in  Chicago.  Dr.  C.  O. 
Brown,  who  disgraced  the  name  of  decency,  to  say  nothing 
of  the  name  of  religion,  in  Sau  Francisco,  has  become  the 
pastor  of  the  Chicago  flock.  To  say  that  all  the  charges 
made  against  Brown  in  this  city,  and  which  resulted  in 
his  dismissal,  were  true,  would  be  to  repeat  that  which  is 
everywhere  known.  The  people  of  Iowa  and  Illinois — more 
particularly  those  of  Dubuque  and  Chicago — require  at- 
tention. That  they  receive  with  open  arms  this  direct 
representative  of  Satan  should  quench  the  foreign  mis- 
sionary spirit  of  weak-headed  and  soft-hearted  philanthro- 
pists, and  direct  their  contributions  to  the  Windy  City 
instead. 

CHARLES  Montgomery,  saver  of  San  Francisco  souls, 
is  busily  baptizing  local  sinners  in  the  bay,  ducking  as 
many  as  eleven  per  day  in  the  same  spiritually-purifying 
briny  that  yields  up  its  wealth  of  tomcods  and  other  finny 
delicacies  to  more  worldly  fishermen.  There  is  a  large 
and  notable  assortment  of  sinners,  however,  that  the 
Crier  fears  Evangelist  Montgomery  will  never  get  his 
holy  clutches  on.  They  are  to  be  found  at  the  City  Hall 
and  in  other  municipal  places,  as  well  as  among  the  legal 
fraternity.  The  Crier  recommends  that  they  be  so  effec- 
tually doused  they  will  never  come  up  again. 

THE  Gavigan  person  is  desirous  of  filling  his  belly  at 
the  serological  crib  of  the  San  Francisco  School  De- 
partment, and  is  preparing  through  the  Supreme  Court  to 
compel  Governor  Budd  to  show  cause  why  the  Gavigan 
appetite  should  not  be  appeased.  This  enterprising  citi- 
zen was  a  lawyer  until  he  became  a  doctor,  and  he  became 
a  doctor  in  order  that  he  might  fill  the  position  of  seiolog- 
ical  instructor  in  the  city  schools  by  means  of  a  bill  that 
he  caused  to  be  passed  by  the  last  Legislature.  Budd 
vetoed  the  bill,  which  fact  cuts  off  the  salary  and  promises 
to  set  Gavigan  killing  people  in  some  other  way  than  by 
sciological  injections.  Hence  the  Gavigan  wail. 
M  ILLIONaIRE  Finigan,  of  Marin  County,  who  is  now 
11  embellishing  with  indifferent  success  a  cell  in  the  San 
Rafael  jail,  declared  that  he  preferred  the  quiet  of  his 
quarters  to  the  domestic  felicity  of  his  home  ;  but  it  is 
noted  that  he  spoke  as  a  false  witness.  He  is  already 
making  overtures  to  escape  further  punishment  by  the 
payment  of  alimony  to  his  wife  and  attorneys'  fees  in  her 
suit  for  divorce.  Gnawing  a  file  is  hard  on  the  teeth,  and 
Finigan  now  prefers  the  turmoil  of  female  contact  rather 
than  the  introspective  silence  of  the  jail. 

ONE  Floethe,  a  conductor  on  Sutro's  railroad,  has  been 
accused  by  an  elderly  school  teacher  of  squeezing  her 
hand  while  collecting  her  fare.  The  Crier  does  not  see 
that  the  lady  has  any  kick  coming.  Many  a  lonely  bachelor 
of  the  gentler  sex  would  think  it  a  bargain  were  she,  by 
the  dropping  of  a  nickel,  to  get  transportation  and  love- 
making  too. 

SOiMEBODY  interrogated  the  Town  Crier   the  other 
day  as  to  "  what  was  to  be  seen  at  the  theatres  ?" 
And  the  Crier,  being  a  modest  man,  blushed. 


Til  I'.  .Mission  !,  with  Qeorge  D.  Shadbume  as  Presi- 
dent  of  the  movement,  demand  a  park  of  their  own. 
In  getting  it,  'tis  to  be  hoped  they  will  not  be  hampered 
by  propositions  fri  m  that  antiquated  nuisance,  Cogswell. 
the  Fountain  Fiend,  to  erect  thereon  another  school  and  a 
job  lot  of  drinking  fountains  surmounted  with  east-iron 
facsimiles  of  bimsi  Should  this  calamity  occur,  how- 
ever, the  CRIER  suggests  that  the  irrepressible  Doctor  be 
gently  but  tirniK  ,1    to  the  city  pound,   and  there 

fatally  immersed  in  his  favorite  fluid. 

IT  will  be  a  ministerial  miracle  if  the  unfortunate  fate  of 
young  Lehmann,  who  missed  his  footing  and  was 
drowned  in  the  bay  while  yachting  last  Sunday,  does  not 
furnish  the  parsons  hereabouts  with  a  text  for  to-mor- 
row's sermons.  The  righteous  landlubber  who  sits  piously 
in  his  pew  o'  Sabbaths,  may  not  find  a  watery  grave,  it  is 
true.  He  elects  to  take  his  dampness  in  another  form 
later  in  the  week.  Perhaps  it  is  the  dryness  of  the  dis- 
course that  induces  bis  terrible  thirst. 

SOME  one  stole  a  few  pages  of  a  Grand  Jury  report  in 
Los  Angeles  which  reflected  severely  on  two  Justices 
of  the  Peace  in  that  community.  Upon  discovery  of  the 
theft,  the  heartless  secretary  of  that  inquisitorial  body  filed 
with  the  Judge  an  exact  copy  of  the  sheets  stolen,  in  San 
Francisco  the  theft  would  never  have  been  discovered,  or 
if  it  had  been,  there  would  have  been  no  official  memory 
on  hand  to  reproduce  it.  Bad  memory  and  official  integ- 
rity are  rarely  twins. 

CHARLES  O.  BROWN,  late  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  this  city,  but  now  of  the  Windy  City, 
will  preach  in  Chicago,  where  his  paramour,  Mattie  Over- 
man, is  engaged  in  rescue  work.  When  Charles  and 
Mattie  have  joined  forces  to  redeem  Chicago,  Satan's 
anxiety  about  that  particular  section  of  the  country  will 
be  at  rest,  and  His  Majesty  can  redouble  his  attentions  to 
San  Francisco,  knowing  that  Chicago  is  in  the  safe  hands 
of  his  emissaries. 

DR.  John  Fryer,  professor  of  Oriental  languages  at  the 
State  University,  who  so  successfully  juggles  with  the 
Chinese  language  that  the  Mongolian  Government  has 
given  him  the  lucrative  job  of  translating  its  scientific 
works  into  English,  sailed  on  Wednesday  for  China.  It 
now  transpires  why  Joaquin  Miller  declares  that  he  ''will 
sing  no  more."  No  one  but  the  gifted  Fryer  has  ever 
been  able  to  interpret  the  bard's  manuscripts  for  the 
printer. 

IN  the  programme  of  the  Woman's  Congress  this  week, 
the  name  of  Professor  Griggs,  Doctor  Anna  Shaw's 
"ideal  man,"  is  conspicuous  by  its  absence.  The  Professor 
is  a  brainy  young  man,  who  should  have  more  backbone 
than  to  go  into  hiding  bacause  a  spinster  with  a  yearning 
to  be  a  bloomered  policeman  has  fixed  her  glittering  eye 
upon  him  in  admiration.  He  should  be  lured  from  his  lair, 
and  Anna  bound  over  to  keep  the  peace. 

"  '■p-HE  Hall  of  Justice  has  been  delayed,"  quoth  a  con- 
1  temporary  this  week.  The  statement  savors  of 
irony.  Justice  herself  having  suffered  delays  interminable 
throughout  her  career  in  San  Francisco,  it  is  but  in  the 
order  of  the  eternal  fitness  of  things  that  her  temple 
should  share  her  fate.  It  is  too  much  to  expect,  anyhow, 
that  Justice  can  make  a  haul  of  any  kind  in  this  neck  of 
civilization's  woods. 

"  JOAQUIN  MILLER  will  sin  no  more"  is  the  startling 
vJ  statement  made  by  a  contemporary.  A  mere  typo- 
graphical error,  this;  just  the  dropping  of  an  insignificant 
little  letter;  yet  those  who  read  will  labor  under  a  grave 
misapprehension.  No  such  miraculous  reform  will  cloud 
the  bard's  interesting,  if  not  strictly  orthodox,  career.  It 
is  not  true  that  Joaquin  will  sin  no  more,  but  that  he  will 
"sing  no  more." 

WIDOW  ARCHER,  the  fair  speculator  who  won  $1,555 
at  the  race  track  this  week,  has  had  no  less  than 
nineteen  matrimonial  offers  since  her  accession  of  luck. 
Times  are  indeed  hard  when  men  will  resort  to  such  des- 
perate means  as  marriage  in  order  to  gain  wealth. 

ARTICLES  of  incorporation  were  filed  this  week  by  a 
Teapot  Company,  whose  capital  stock  is  $1,000,000. 
A  million-dollar  tempest  may  be  expected  if  the  directors 
disagree  as  to  the  manner  in  which  it  should  be  boiled. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  i,  1897. 


Uncle  Reuben  was  visiting  the  metropolis  for  the  first 
time.  "What  do  you  think  of  New  York?"  asked  his  city 
nephew.  "Waal,"  replied  the  old  man,  "it's  a  mighty 
big  place,  but  it  don't  seem  sitified.  I  hain't  seen  a  tele- 
graph pole  in  the  hull  town."  "The  wires  are  under- 
ground." "Underground?"  "Yes — in  conduits."  "Con- 
duits ?  What's  them?"  "Subterranean  passages." 
Uncle  Reuben  was  thoughtful.  "Waal,"  said  he,  "they 
must  be  powerful  deep  to  take  in  them  tall  poles." — New 
York  World. 

The  club  of  old  was,  we've  been  told, 

A  den  of  wickedness, 
And  e'en  in  Lent  the  members  bent 

Toward  sipping  B.  and  S. 
But  now  they  say  men  hail  the  day 
When  gone  are  things  infernal, 
For  everywhere  the  clubs  forswear 

The  World,  the  Flesh,  and  Journal. 

—Life. 
"Master  has  got  eyes  like  these  here  rays  you  read 
about."  "How  so,  Delia?"  "I  was  standin'  in  the  door- 
way when  he  came  up  an'  says:  'Delia,  your  back  hair  is 
comin'  down.'  an'  when  I  threw  up  both  me  hands  he 
kissed  me.  Now,  how  did  he  know  my  back  hair  was 
comin'  down?" — Cleveland  Plain  Dealer. 

Playwright  (in  excitement) — They  are  calling  for  the 
author.  What  shall  I  do?  Stage  Manager  (who  has 
seen  the  crowd) — You'd  better  slip  out  of  the  stage  door 
and  make  your  escape  while  there  is  time. — Philadelphia 
North  American. 

Mother — You  should  consent  to  let  her  marry  him.  They 
have  two  hearts  that  beat  as  one.  Father — Yes,  and 
two  minds  without  a  single  thought.  I  shall  enter  no  ob- 
jection at  all. — Ex. 

Prisoilia  (just  arrived) — Are  there  any  men  here? 
Phyllis— Oh.  there  are  a  few  apologies  for  men! 
Priscilla — Well,  if  an  apology  is  offered  to  me  I  shall  ac- 
cept it.— Tit-Bits. 

Blakely — So  you  want  to  sell  your  tandem,  eh?  I  thought 
there  was  nothing  like  it.  Foxhall  -Oh,  yes,  it  was  all 
right  then;  but  we're  married  now. — Cleveland  Leader. 

He — When  I  married  3-ou,  you  hadn't  a  cent.  She — Oh 
yes,  I  had.  My  face  was  my  fortune.  He — Now  I  know 
what  they  mean  when  they  say  money  talks. — Life. 

Teacher — Give  an  example  of  a  paradox.  Pupil — My 
pa  is  a  tall  man,  but  ma  says  he  is  always  short. — New 
York  Sunday  Journal. 

The  Wife — John,  the  parrot  talks  all  the  time.  The 
Husband— Yes,  I  know,  but  it  never  asks  for  money. — 
Town  Topics. 

Molly — A  gypsy  once  told  me  I  would  be  married  before 
I  was  thirty.  Dolly — That  ought  to  cure  you  of  super- 
stition.— Ex. 

"Your  wife  is  such  a  brilliant  talker  I  could  listen  to  her 
all  night."     "I  often  do." — New  York  Journal. 

Burglar — Yes,  Judge,  I'll  repent  if  you'll  only  give  me 
time.     Judge — Six  years. — Boston  Ideas. 


Young    Mothers 
f-hould  early  learn  Ihe  necessity  of  keeping  on  hand  a  supply  of 
Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  for  nursing  babies  as  well 
as  for  general  cooking.    It  has  stood  the  test  for  30  years,  and  its 
value  is  recognized. 

It  will  make  no  difference  to  George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.  whether 
Japan  captures  the  Hawaiian  government  or  not.  They  are  con- 
s'.antly  receiving  all  the  choicest  works  of  Japanese  art.  curios, 
tapestries,  etc. ,  and  are  displaying  them  at  their  store,  625  Market 
street,  under  the  Palace  Hotel.  Something  always  unique,  striking, 
and  ornamental. 

The  Press  Clipping  bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics,  business 
and  personal. 


CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 


RESTAURANTS. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserle,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms, 


Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B  Brun. 


DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 


MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,827Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  \  J  and  1-lb  boxes.    Roberts1,  Polk  and  Bash. 

LADIES'    BLAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze   (known   as   Hermann   at  Strozynski's)  has  opened 
Ladies*  Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  225  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main  5820 


BANKING. 


Bank  of 
British  Columbia. 


Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 


Capital  Paid  Up S3.000.00 

Reserve  Fund *  500,000 

Southeast  Cob.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 
HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lombabd  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
lamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  Yobk— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— FlrstNationalBank; 
Liverpool — North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland — British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  ot 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 


Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 824,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 1,575,631 


San  FranGisGO 
Savings  Union. 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.    No  charge  is  made  for 

f»ass-book  or  entrance  fee.    Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  even- 
ngs,6:30to8. 


TIlP  ftPPniTin  SflVHlflS  No"  526  CALrFORNIA  Street.  San  Francisco 

and  Loan  Societu. 


Guarantee  capital  and  surplus  — $2  040,201  66 
Capital  actually  paid  up  In  cash. .  1.000  000  00 
Deposits  December  31,  1896 27,7.0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B  A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Presldeni,  H.  Horsiman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary.  George  Tourny ;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Mullert  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann.  Ign.  Steiohart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  JU.  Kuss,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt. 

IAIpIIc     Farnn                     N.  E.  Corner  Sansohe&  Sotter  Streets 
VVOlla    Idl  yi)  John  J.  Valentine President 

&rn  V     Hani/                   HomerS.Klng Manager 
00.  S    BanK.                 H.    Wadsworth Cashier 

F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

Spnirifll  ~~~  MoNTGOMEKY  ST"  Mills  Building, 

c„.,:„„„     u„„l,  INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 

Savincjs  BanK.        loans  made. 

DIRECTORS. 

■William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.H.Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O.D.Baldwin  E  J.  McCutchen 

Adam  Grant  W.S.Jones  J.  B.  Lincoln 


May  i,  1897. 


SAN    I-RANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


'S 


OUT     OF     ALEXANDR*     BAY. 

-TORY. 

POKB  Lhi  lire  ft  little,  yonkers.  till  the  log  begins  to  blaze, 
for  the  January  blizzards  hev  a  lot  of  cliillv  ways ; 
Bring  the  apples  an'    the  doughnut*,  an'— the  cider,  understan', 
An'  b*  mighty  sure  to  place  'em  sotue'at  handy  to  the  ban'; 
An'  I'll  string  you  up  a  story  illustrative  of  the  way 
That  1  used  to  go  afishia'  out  of  Alrxandr*  Haw 

First,  I  asked  the  wind  an'  current  fur  to  furnish  me  a  lift. 
Then  I  sailed  away  a  distance  in  my  doobla  p'inted  skift; 
An'  1  tuk  it  when  desirous  of  a  half  a  day  alone; 
Fur  the  biggest  of  the  fishes  doesn't  like  a  human  tone. 
An'  1  recollect  I  anchored  on  one  morula*  bright  an'  clear. 
Where  the  basses  used  to  gather  in  that  season  of  the  year. 

When  I  found  'em.   they   was  huddled  near  a  little  islan'-beach, 
An'  they  measured— O,  my  gracious,  twice  as  much  as  I  ken  reach; 
(An'  I  don't  believe  there's  any  hev  their  arms  in  a  posish 
Fur  to  stretch  'em  more  than  I  ken,  in  describin'  of  a  fish  ;) 
An'  the  mornin'  was  so  gentle,  an'  the  water  was  so  clear, 
X  cud  see  'em  smell  my  ruinny  jus'  us  if  they  all  was  here. 

But  a  lot  o'  rich  New  Yorkers  bed  their  summer-housen  nigh 

An*  my  gracious  them  'er  fishes  was  a-eatin'  cake  an'  pie! 

Cooks  had  throwed  it  in  the  river  when  it  cluttered  up  a  dish, 

An'  I  s'pose  it  tasted  better  to  the  fishes,  than  a  fish; 

An.  1  whispered  to  my  conscience.  "You  are  very  near  a  fool, 

Ef  you  waste  your  time  a-danglin'  ovemeath  a  boardin'-school !" 

Then  ray  conscience  answered.  "Stiddy;  keepa-givin'  'em  the  bait! 

There  is  al'ays  blessin's  c  »min'  to  a  feller  that  can  wait." 

An'  I  kep'  a  peekin'  down'ard  so  'a  to  see  how  matters  stood, 

An'  I  held  a  lively  minny  jus'  as  near  em  as  I  could; 

An*  1  meant  it  as  a  primium  fer  the  scholars;  but  alas  I 

Not  a  single  one  would  offer  fur  to  jine  my  cooktn'  class! 

Then  they  sort  o'  laid  an'  rested  in  the  water  still  an'  deep, 

An'  they  dropped  their  noses  down'ard,  an'  appeared  to  go  to  sleep  ; 

An'  they  nestled  near  an'  nearer  to  the  river's  sandy  floor, 

An'  1  listened  till  I  reckoned  I  could  hear  the  fellers  snore! 

An' I  says,  "Lie  still  and  slumber;   I'm  a-watchin' o'er  your  bed; 

If  you'll  only  wake  up  hungry,  here  is  blessin's  on  your  head  I" 

Bye  an'  bye  the  leader  started,  scratched  his  for'ead  with  a  fin, 

An'  he  stretched  an'  yawned  a  little,  an'  my  minny  wiggled  in ; 

('Twas  a  knowin*  breed  o'  minnys  we  was  rearm'  at  the  Bay.) 

An'  the  bass  he  shut  his  mouth   up,  an'  the  hook  got  in  the  way ; 

An'  before  he  had  the  priv'Iege  fur  to  yell  a  single  note, 

He  had  left  his  loved  companions,  an'  had  started  for  the  boat. 

Then  I  winked  unto  the  minny,  an*  I  thought  I  see  him  grin, 
An'  I  'magine  he  enjoyed  i«,  so  I  sent  him  down  ag'in ; 
An'  he  run  among  'em  lively— like  a  wiggler  in  a  cup ; 
An'  kep'  knockin'  at  their  doorways,  till  he  woke  another  up; 
An'  the  fish  embraced  his  caller,  more  in  passion  than  in  love ; 
An'  immediately  started  for  the  happy  land  above. 

One  by  one  the  others  wakened;  an'  the  word  was  passed  aroun' 
There  was  somethin'  there  fur  nothin'  that  hed  jus*  come  into  town  ; 
An'  they  soon  was  crazy  fur  it— an.  the  smartest  of  'em  led 
(Fur  a  fish  is  partly  human,  as  I  think  I  al'ays  said); 
An'  may  Ananias'  spirit  come  and  visit  me  to-night, 
Ef  them  everlastin'  fishes  didn't  stan'  in  line  to  bite ! 

An'  my  boat  was  overloaded  till  it  sort  0'  sagged  an'  stuck. 
An'  I  sold  'em  out  in  messes  to  some  fellers  scant  of  luck ; 
An'  some  fifty  reputations  as  a  fisherman,  no  doubt, 
Was  established  on  the  fishes  I'm  a-tellin'  ye  about; 
Anyhow,  the  rich  New  Yorkers,  they  was  buyin'  all  the  way 
From  theislan'  of  the  basses  into  Alexandr'  Bay. 

— WillCarleton  in  Every  Where  for  January. 


BANKING. 


THE  Chinese  wall  is  the  most  extensive  fortification  in 
the  world.  According  to  the  surveys  made  within 
the  last  few  years,  this  wall  is  1,728  miles  in  length,  and  it 
passes  up  steep  mountains,  down  into  gorges  and  ravines, 
crosses  rivers,  valleys,  and  plains,  seemingly  regardless  of 
obstacles.  It  is  25  feet  thick  at  the  bottom  and  15  feet  at 
the  top,  and  from  25  feet  to  30  feet  in  height,  with  turrets 
or  towers  35  feet  to  40  feet  high  every  200  or  300  yards 
during  its  entire  length.  The  exterior  walls  are  of  well- 
cut  granite  block,  the  interior  is  filled  with  earth  and 
stone,  and  the  passage-way  is  paved  with  bricks  1  foot 
square.  The  erection  was  begun  in  211  b.  c,  and  it  was 
designed  to  protect  the  northern  frontier  of  China  against 
the  savage  tribes  of  Siberia. 

All  manner  of  beautiful  buds  aud  blossoms  are  kept  by  Leopold, 
at  35  Post  Street— freth,  dewy,  fragrant.  It's  a  pleasure  to  drop  in 
and  see  the  lovely  bouquets  he  makes  up— and  so  reasonable.  Small 
prices  appear  to  have  little  to  do  with  the  excellence  of  his  flowers. 


Bank  of  California,  c»»"" w»w»» 

Can    Fnanrtcrn,  Surplus    and    Urnl 

Otlll    ridllbloGO*  Prollts  (October  1,  1884)..    3,158,1'JO  70 

WILLIAM  ALVORD President  |  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP.  .Vice  Prcs't 

ALLEN  M.CLAY Secretary    THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Pkkntiss  Smith....  Ash' t  Cashier  [  I.  P.  Moolton M  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

N«w  York— Mossrs.  Laidlaw  A  Co.;  the  Bankof  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  Bank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sods;  Paris— Messrs.  do  Rothschild  Freres;  Virginia  City  (Nov.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bankof  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savins  Hank;  AUSTRALIA  and  New  ZEALAND—  Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bankof  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Maln,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Christlania,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auokland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy. 

California  Safe  Deposit     Cor- CaIlfornlB  and  Montgomery  sts. 
and  Trust  Company.       Ca»"™Paid *'°°°™ 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity.  Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  >o  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  ami  valuab'es  of  all  kinds  »re  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickersham.  J«cob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.Fortmann,  R  B.Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry.  A.  D.  Sharon   and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officer*:  J.  D  Fry,  Presiilent:  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry,  Second  Vice-President;  J  Dalzell  Brown.  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.  Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Boo:h  &  Barmett, 
Attorneys. 

Mutual    ^.auinnc     Rank'  3s  Post    Street,    below    Kearnt, 

(VlUbUai   oaviliyo    uailrv  mechanics'  institute  Building. 

Of    Sail      FraJlGiSGO.  Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000 

Paid-Up  Capital $  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A.   HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,   John  A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    When  opening  accounts  send  sfgnatuie. 

I  nnilnn   Parte  anil  n.w.  cor.  sansome  &  sutter  sts. 

„  .  d       1        1  *-«**«j      Subscribed  Capital $2,500,000 

American  Bank,  Limited.  paiduPcaPitai r^.u-u 

Reserve  Fund t    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agenoy  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

g.IGALGTRSEcl^BAPM}M->°agers. 

The  flnoIo-Galifornian      iX^SS^1:1.^:::::::::.-.-^^ 

„      .        .  .     ..     .  Paid   Up i,5uu,uuo 

BanK,     Limit6d.  Reserve    Fund 700.000 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts 
Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars ,  London,  E.  C.     • 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bill»  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

ana  bullion.  IGN.  fTEINHAR^  J  Manager8 

Grocker-Woolworth         S™Eos^?REKETisMONTO°ttERT' 
National  Bank  of  S.  F.    paw-nP  capital 11,000,000 

WM.H.  CROCKER., ....President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 


Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 
Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

CAPITAL 11,000,000 


The  Sather 
Banking  Company. 

James  K.  Wilsoh  President. 
L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier. 

Direotors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents-  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bankof  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Dresel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Ce 


Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 
F.   W.  WOLFE.  Secretary. 


i6 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  i,  1897. 


^  ©    G  9  «» 


DEAR  EDITH:— The  Queen's  Jubilee  has  brought  into 
prominence  for  this  spring  a  new  kind  of  a  bonnet — 
or  rather,  an  old  style  under  a  new  name.  They  are 
quite  the  vogue  in  New  York.  The  are  called  "Jubilee" 
bonnets  but  are  really  nothing  more  or  less  than  pokes, 
newly  named  because  Queen  Victoria  .wove  a  poke  when 
she  ascended  the  throne;  not,  perhaps,  at  the  very  moment 
when  she  walked  up  the  steps,  unless  she  had  the  crown 
made  over  for  the  occasion,  but  pokes  were. in  fashion  that 
year.  This  being  jubilee  year,  poke  bonnets  are  made  the 
fashion  again,  just  to  remind  Victoria  how  she  used  to 
look.  They  are  very  becoming  to  young  faces,  and  the 
reason  that  they  are  not  more  generally  liked  is  that  so 
many  women  like  to  be  dashing  instead  of  demure.  If  you 
are  going  to  wear  a  poke,  you  must  be  demure;  not  to  be 
would  be  like  going  to  church  on  roller  skates. 

Demureness  should  win  new  converts,  however,  when 
women  see  these  chic  affairs  with  a  little  row  of  pink  rose- 
buds under  the  brim  against  the  hair  and  framing  the  face. 
They  have  white  or  delicate  green  moire  ribbon  laid  quaint- 
ly over  the  outside  and  drawn  down  under  the  chin  in  a 
great  big  bow  that  could  tie  at  least  half  a  dozen  hearts 
within,  such  hearts  as  the  men  have  these  days,  anyhow, 
which  are  much  more  likely  to  succumb  to  a  bonnet  than 
to  a  girl. 

For  her  who  neither  wants  to  be  dashing  nor  demure, 
there  is  a  host  of  medium-sized  hats  in  gay  New  York, 
most  of  them  striking  because  of  brilliance  of  color  or 
through  their  masses  of  bloom.  One  of  this  type  was 
shown,  its  puffed  crown  and  its  brim,  composed  of  violet 
glace  taffeta,  the  brim  almost  hidden  by  masses  of  violets. 
Separating  brim  and  crown  was  a  full  twist  of  violet  velvet. 
On  the  left  side  was  a  high  loop  of  the  taffeta  supported 
by  an  aigrette  of  violets  and  foliage,  and  a  corresponding 
loop  without  flowers  was  on  the  other  side.  The  back  was 
filled  in  with  small  rosettes  of  velvet,  violets  and  leaves. 

I  have  just  seen  a  bride's  gown  fresh  from  Paris.  It 
was  made  of  white  poplin  with  a  little  boero  jacket  of 
white  chiffon.  It  was  trimmed  all  around  the  edge  with 
pearl  embroidery,  upon  white  satin.  There  was  a  big 
collar-like  effect,  front  and  back;  something  like  a  sailor 
collar,  and  the  pearls  were  continued  on  the  ruffle  around 
the  neck  and  upon  the  heavy  ruffling  that  fell  over  the 
hand.  Two  short,  pointed  panels  of  the  pearl  embroidery 
trimmed  the  skirt. 

The  sleeves  were  rather  peculiar.  They  were  shirred 
upon  the  inside  seam  and  pulled  up  to  give  a  puffed  effect. 
Short  gloves  could  be  worn  with  this  dress,  or,  as  the 
style  is  here,  none  at  all.  The  bridal  veil  was  designed 
especially  to  go  with  this  gown.  It  was  of  the  thinnest 
chiffon,  caught  at  the  head  with  a  beautiful  ornament, 
which  matched  the  embroidery  upon  the  dress.  Should 
the  bridegroom  in  this  case  be  so  inclined  he  can  substi- 
tute something  of  h's  own  buying  in  the  place  of  this  pearl 
ornament. 

You  are  hardly  prepared  for  cloth  wedding  dresses,  yet 
I  can  describe  one  to  you  that  was  certainly  the  prettiest 
thing  that  I  have  seen  this  year.  It  was  of  a  very  light- 
weight ladies'  cloth,  satin-faced,  and  not  any  one,  even  an 
expert,  could  tell  it  from  heavy  satin  in  the  effect.  ' 

This  skirt  was  elaborately  trimmed  with  heavy  lace,  of 
the  kind  that  looks  as  though  it  had  been  cut  in  a  pattern. 
It  was  a  kind  of  point  lace,  being  undoubtedly  made  with 
the  point  of  a  needle,  and  yet  it  was  not  the'  Irish  point. 
It  was,  perhaps,  the  new  Brussels  point,  which  you  hear 
so  much  about.  It  was  very  open,  so  that  you  could  put 
your  fingers  through  the  mesh  anywhere.  There  was  the 
heavy,  pointed  yoke,  front  and  back,  and  a  little  bolero 
that  began  at  the  armholes  and  went  around  the  sides  and 
back.  It  was  scarcely  visible  from  the  front,  and  hung 
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his  goods,  recommending  Pearline  for  washing. 
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MSURAMGE 


NT.  JAMES,  formerly  general  agent  <>f  the  Alliance, 
,  has  been  appoin'  the  marine  depart- 

■•eneral    Insure  may  of   Trieste, 

•  ria. 

jrr  of  the  New  York 
Life,  ii  rUiting  the  home  office  of  the  company. 

The  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  IVnn  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
anoe  Company  will  be  celebrated  on  the  2.'ith  of  next 
month 

The  North  British  ami  Mercantile   Insurance  Company, 
of  London  and  Edinburgh,  will  follow  the  example  of 
British  companies,  and  form  an  American  company  of  the 
same  name,  witli  1800,000  1  apital  and  1100,000  surplus. 

The  tabulated  results  of  fifty-five  American  life  insur- 
ance companies,  from  their  organization  down  to  January 
1,  1897,  show  that  they  have  received  in  premiums  $3,167,- 
1.  which  has  been  increased  by  interest  and  profit 
earnings  to  $4,013,126,352.  Of  this  amount  $1,246,378,34(1 
is  held  in  hand  to  provide  for  future  obligations,  and 
l_!:i  have  been  distributed  to  policy  holders  and 
their  beneficiaries. 

Thornton  Chase,  superintendent  of  agencies  for  the 
Union  Mutual  Life,  has  been  visiting  the  California  agency. 
He  returned  to  Chicago  last  Wednesday. 

Mr.  A.  Dalton  Harrison,  manager  of  the  Union  Assur- 
ance Society  of  London,  has  gone  to  England  for  a  three 
months'  visit. 

The  Palatine  Fire  has  deposited  $100,000  with  the  Ohio 
Insurance  Department. 

The  newly-elected  officers  of  the  Utah  State  Board  of 
Fire  Underwriters  are  Hugh  Anderson,  President,  and  E. 
W.  Watson.  Secretary. 

The  two  biggest  fire  engines  in  the  world  belong  to  the 
Liverpool  Fire  Department. 

The  Mutual  Life,  of  New  York,  will  hereafter  make  no 
distinction  between  the  sexes,  so  far  as  rates  are  con- 
cerned. Hitherto  women  have  been  compelled  to  pay  $5 
on  the  $1,000  more  than  men. 

In  the  two  $20,000  damage  suits  brought  by  the  New 
York  Life  and  the  Mutual  Life  of  New  York  against  the 
Kansas  Superintendent  of  Insurance  for  refusing  them 
licenses  to  do  business  in  Kansas,  McNall's  bondsmen  are 
made  co-defendants. 

From  the  first  day  of  last  January  up  to  February  27th, 
various  English  marine  associations  lost  $10,000,000  in 
shipwrecks. 

The  Ocean  Accident  and  Guarantee  Corporation,  Lim- 
ited, of  London,  has  absorbed  the  Marine  Credit  Guar- 
antee Company  of  New  York. 

The  First  Municipal  Bond  Insurance  Company  of  America 
has  been  organized  in  New  York,  with  a  capital  of 
$1,000,000  and  a  surplus  of  $500,000. 

Mr.  Thos.  W.  Aisbitt,  manager  Coast  Department 
National  Life  of  Hartford,  with  headquarters  at  Louisiana, 
will  be  in  this  city  until  June. 

The  Senate  bill  authorizing  the  New  York  insurance 
companies  to  invest  in  the  stock  of  other  companies,  has 
been  signed  by  the  Governor,  and  is  now  a  law. 

The  cash  in  surrender  value  of  life  insurance  policies 
will  hereafter  be  assessed  in  Indiana. 

The  Frankfort  will  deposit  $50,000  with  the  Ohio  Insur- 
ance Department,  and  enter  that  State. 

The  ./Etna  Indemnity  Company  of  Hartford  has  been 
organized. 

Edward  M.  Needles,  of  the  Penn  Mutual  Life,  has  re- 
signed the  presidency  of  that  company,  and  is  succeeded 
by  H.  F.  West,  formerly  Vice  President. 

The  Germania  Life,  the  only  American  life  insurance 
company  doing  business  in  Germany,  will  be  ruled  out  of 
Prussia,  owing  to  the  New  York  retaliatory  law. 

D.  E.  Miles,  of  the  London  and  Lancashire,  is  spending 
his  vacation  in  Honolulu. 

Manager  L.  B.  Edwards,  of  the  Manchester,  is  in 
Chicago. 

E.  S.  Fowler,  Pacific  Coast  manager  of  the  Preferred 
Accident  Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  died  at  his 
home  in  Oakland  last  Tuesday.  He  had  been  here  but 
three  years,  and  was  popular  among  his  associates,  be- 
sides making  a  most  successful  manager  for  his  company. 


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Capital  Paid  Up 11,000.000 

Assets 3,192.001.69 

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ROBERT  DICKSON,  M&nager  501  Montgomery  St. 
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BOYD    &    DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

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PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON    NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  1799 

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May  i,  1897- 


ftG-OOD  story  comes  from  the  Produce  Exchange  anent 
the  threatening  weather  of  the  past  week.  At  lunch 
in  the  University  Club,  last  Monday,  George  P.  Morrow, 
the  ex-President  of  the  Exchange,  thought  the  prevalent 
cloudiness  indicated  rain,  but  Ed  Eyre,  with  bearish  in- 
stincts, said  no. 

"  Tell  you  what,  Eddie,"  said  Morrow,  "if  you  want  to 
back  your  judgment,  I'll  lay  you  twenty  that  it  rains  be- 
fore 1  o'clock  to-morrow." 

"That's  ago!"  said  Eyre.  "  You  can  settle  with  me 
here  at  lunch." 

During  the  next  twenty -four  hours  there  were  clouds, 
no  sun,  but  neither  was  there  rain.  George  Morrow  de- 
manded no  storm.  All  he  asked  was  a  trace — a  single 
drop.  When  noon  passed  without  precipitation  from  the 
hovering  clouds  he  grew  desperate.  And  then  his  inspira- 
tion came  to  him.  It  cost  him  only  one  dollar  to  induce  a 
boy  to  walk  several  times  slowly  by  the  University  Club 
with  raised  umbrella  about  1  o'clock. 

"  You're  a  good  thing,  George,"  chaffed  Eyre  in  the 
club  a  few  minutes  later.  "Your  own  bet,  too,"  he 
chuckled. 

"I  have  not  given  up  all  hope  yet.  That  eloud  looks 
pretty  black,"  replied  Morrow  hopefully.  "  But  I  tell  you 
what  I'll  do,"  he  added  suddenly.  "I'll  give  you  $5  right 
now  for  your  bet,  and  we  won't  go  to  lunch  for  ten  min- 
utes yet." 

"Oh,  no,  George,"  was  the  sarcastic  rejoinder,  "I 
wouldn't  take  your  money.  Why,  man,  the  bet  is  as  good 
as  won." 

Morrow  carelessly  threw  himself  into  an  easy  chair  near 
the  window,  with  his  back  to  the  glass.  Eyre,  following, 
glanced  toward  the  street.  He  rubbed  his  eyes.  The 
boy's  umbrella  was  certainly  up.  It  must  be  sprinkling. 
He  had  lost  his  bet  ! 

"Well,  Morrow,"  he  said,  trying  to  steady  his  voice,  and 
silently  praying  that  his  friend  would  not  turn  around, 
"you  can  have  that  bet  for  two  fifty  if  you  like,  seeing  it's 
you." 

Without  a  word  Morrow  passed  over  the  amount  of  the 
compromise.  At  luncheon  he  ordered  champagne,  and 
they  had  more  than  one  bottle. 

"  You  had  better  sign  these,"  he  remarked  casually  at 
the  end  of  the  meal  an  hour  later,  tossing  the  lunch  cards 
toward  Eyre.     "This  little  feast  is  on  you." 

"Why,  what  do  you  mean  ?"  asked  Eyre  in  surprise. 

"Well,  you  see  that  boy  with  the  umbrella — he  is  an 
unprincipled  young  scoundrel — put  up  a  job  on  you." 

*  *  * 

What  are  known  as  observatory  clocks  are  planted  in 
several  offices  about  town,  all  connected  by  a  telegraphic 
circuit  wire  with  the  Western  Union.  They  are  all  sup- 
posed to  ring  a  bell  simultaneously  at  noon,  and  perpetual 
motion  is  one  of  their  properties.  During  an  exciting 
scramble  for  water  front  jobs,  one  of  these  clocks,  located 
in  the  office  of  the  State  Board  of  Harbor  Commissioners, 
stopped,  and  a  message  was  dispatched  post  haste  to  the 
headquarters  of  the  telegraph  company  to  seek  the  repair 
of  the  mechanism. 

"That's  a  department  charge,"  said  Billy  Martin,  man- 
ager of  the  clock  department,  and  incidentally  of  a  number 
of  wires  and  poles  and  things,  when  he  received  the  com- 
plaint. "That  clock  is  strung  with  wires  to  the  sun,  and 
it  never  stops  itself.  It  would  have  kept  going  all  right  if 
you  had  not  had  so  much  nervous  agitation  in  the  office." 

*  #  # 

Not  without  some  secret  misgivings  did  George  Hoff- 
man, fresh  from  the  University  course  in  mineralogy, 
accept  his  father's  commission  to  assume  the  active  man- 
agement of  the  Red  Point  mines  in  Nevada  County.  The 
miners  were  reputed  a  particularly  hard  crowd,  and  his 
friends  thoughtfully  predicted  trouble  for  bim.  He  ar- 
rived at  the  mines  prepared  for  an  unfavorable  reception, 
and  he  was  not  disappointed.     He  determined  to  preserve 


a  bold  front,  however,  even  when  the  gang,  after  a  series 
of  petty  but  annoying  actions,  openly  jeered  at  his  opin- 
ions, ignored  his  orders  and  worked  about  as  they  chose. 
The  hardy  mountaineers  made  no  effort  to  conceal  their 
contempt  for  the  book-taught  and  youthful  foreman.  After 
a  few  days  of  this,  and  just  as  they  were  flattering  them- 
selves that  they  had  "broke  in  de  kid,"  young  Hoffman 
caused  them  no  little  amazement  by  discharging  every 
man  in  the  mine.  They  marvelled  at  his  nerve,  but  they 
were  confident  he  would  soon  realize  bis  dependence  on 
them,  for  there  were  no  other  available  miners  in  the 
district. 

"No,  thanks;  I  can  swing  a  pick  myself  in  the  mean- 
time, and  in  a  few  days,  I  shall  have  a  new  crew  here," 
said  George,  as  he  refused  the  application  for  reinstate- 
ment of  the  malcontents,  who  perceived  their  mistake, 
and  suddenly  abandoning  their  dignity,  made  a  wild  break 
for  cover. 

He  was  as  good  as  his  word,  and  temporarily  consti- 
tuted himself  the  entire  working  force  of  the  mine.  When 
his  new  crew  arrived,  there  was  no  necessity  for  a  word 
on  the  subject  of  discipline.  Hoffman  now  operates  his 
mine,  for  the  most  part,  from  his  comfortable  offices  in 
the  Nevada  Block,  but  when  he  goes  up  to  the  Red 
Point  for  a  periodical  inspection,  he  is  greeted  as  a  king 
by  the  hardy  prospectors. 

*  «  * 

While  travelling  recently  in  a  part  of  the  country  where 
his  quaint  costume  was  no  identification,  Joaquin  Miller 
was  regarded  in  silent  adoration  for  a  time  by  an  old  wo- 
man who  was  a  fellow-passenger.  She  seemed  anxious  to 
speak  to  him,  fidgeting  about  in  her  seat  and  sending  im- 
ploring glances  at  the  Poet  of  the  Sierras.  Finally  she 
mustered  up  sufficient  courage  to  address  the  old  man 
with  the  long  beard,  and  the  curling  locks  which  fell  to  his 
shoulders. 

"Please, — will  you, — may  I — touch  your  hand?"  she 
stammered,  pleadingly. 

"Why,  certainly,"  replied  Joaquin,  as  he  extended  his 
brawny  fist.  "But  why  should  you  wish  to  touch  my 
hand?"  he  added,  much  gratified  at  this  evidence  of  his 
widespread  fame. 

"Because — you  look, — so  much — like  Jesus  Christ,"  ex- 
plained his  admirer,  slowly. 

Joaquin  is  very  fond  of  relating  this  story  to  his  friends, 
a  party  of  whom  he  recently  entertained  at  his  house  on 
Oakland  Heights.  The  poet  had  been  dining  much  better 
than  wisely,  and  finally  collapsed. 

"That  old  woman  would  hardly  perceive  the  fancied  re- 
semblance if  she  could  see  Joaquin  now,"  was  the  ill- 
mannered  comment  of  one  of  the  guests,  as  they  made  an 
unceremonious  departure. 

*  *  * 

Three  newspapermen  have  encountered  the  enemy,  and 
he  is  theirs.  Representing  the  three  morning  papers, 
they  were  simultaneously  interviewing  T.  R.  Price,  the 
South  African  railroad  king.  While  the  four  were  talking 
together  Tom  Mein,  agent  of  the  London  Exploration 
Company,  entered  the  room.  Mein  is  an  ex-resident  of 
Johannesburg,  sinned  in  company  with  John  Hays  Ham- 
mond et  al.,  was  brought  into  captivity  by  Oom  Paul  and 
is  now  obliged  to  find  an  abiding  place  outside  the  Dark 
Continent.  Journalistic  comments  on  his  career  have 
given  Mr.  Mein  an  antipathy  of  a  peculiarly  healthy 
growth  toward  everything  that  is  printed. 

"Who  are  these  fellows,  Price?"  he  shouted,  courteously. 
"Reporters  are  they?  Well,  look  out  for  them.  They'll 
garble  you.  They're  no  good!  Look  out  for  them,  I  say, 
or  you'll  regret  it." 

The  suddenness  of  the  attack  caught  the  interviewers 
at  a  disadvantage.  President  Coe  of  the  Press  Club,  who 
does  hotels  for  the  Call,  was  the  first  to  recover  his 
breath. 

"Well,  Mr.  Mein,"  he  said,  significantly.  "We may  be 
hard  game,  but  we  have  never  been  in  jail." 

"And  we  have  not  been  exiled  for  treason,"  chirped 
"Birdie"  Hunt. 

"Nor  fined  for  conspiracy,"  solemnly  chanted  Sam 
Ewing. 

"You  are  well  named,  Mr.  Mein,"  added  "Birdie." 
"And  if— " 

But  the  enemy  had  retreated,  precipitately. 


May  i,  1897. 


SAN   FRAXC1  WS   LETTKR. 


19 


If  t; 

unwinding  his  rv 

iti-li  a  friend  napping 
I  as  he  returned 
encountered  Aleck  Vogelsang  on 
no  uncertainty. 


John  Hunt   likes    bettor  than 

irn.     If   anythii 

lasts  than   catching  a  Bah,   it 

The  Judge    went    fishing  on 

booM   late  in  the  evening,  he 

the   train.     The    judicial 

ol  the  Ban  lishv. 


We  .  Judge,  what  luck      asked   the   Plata  and  Same 

Commissioner,  with  the  curiosity  of  the  sportsman. 

The  jurist  slowly  opened  hie  creel  an  inch  or  two,  thrust 
in  his  hand,  and  produced  a  Bsh  about  four  inches  long. 

"That  is  the  smallest  on,-  1  caught,"  he  said  modestly. 

"Did  you  get  many  oth,  ■ 

"Ol  ..I    Hunt,    impressively.     "By   the  way.  I 

have  to  decide  an  important  motion  tomorrow." 

"Let's  see  one  of  your  big  ones."  persisted  Vogelsang, 
not  to  be  turned  from  the  practical  subject  on  hand  by  the 
sunny  wavs  of  the  specious  occupant  of  the  Superior 
Bench. 

The  judicial  arm  again  dived  into  the  angler's  basket,  a 
small   fish   was   momentarily   held   up  for  inspection,  and 
then  hastily  consigned  again  to  the  depths  of  the  creel. 
Yes.  it's  very  import—     began  Hunt  again. 

iw,  produce   the   biggest   fish  you  caught,"  ordered 
Aleck,  impatiently. 

Very  slowly  and  carefully  was  a  fish  brought  to  the 
light.  Very  quickly  and  suddenly  was  it  popped  back  to 
its  receptacle. 

"I  thought  so,"  was  Vogelsang's  quiet  comment.     "It's 

the  same  fish." 

»  #  # 

Dressed  with  his  usual  elaborate  attention  to  details, 
Henry  Redington  was  descending  the  stairway  of  a  Cali- 
fornia-street office  building,  the  ancient  interior  of  which 
was  being  rejuvenated  by  a  corps  of  painters,  a  few  days 
ago.  He  picked  his  way  somewhat  gingerly  down  the 
darkened  stairs,  his  progress  made  doubly  uncertain  be- 
cause of  the  dubious  light  from  the  entrance.  In  spite  of 
all  his  precautions,  he  splashed  into  a  large  pot  of  paint, 
carelessly  left  in  the  middle  of  a  step.  From  his  waist  to 
his  heels,  Henry's  trowsers  were  instantaneously  dyed  a 
beautiful  ecru,  but  his  language  was  much  darker. 

After  the  painters  had  given  the  dabbler  in  futures  a 
benzine  bath  so  thorough  that  the  corrosive  liquid  removed 
not  only  the  paint  from  his  trowsers,  but  likewise  the  skin 
from  his  legs,  Redington  was  placed  on  the  edge  of  the 
sidewalk  to  dry.  John  Dempster  McKee  passed  by,  with- 
out apparently  having  noticed  the  mishap,  and  to  avoid 
comment  on  his  helpless  plight,  Henry  inquired  uncon- 
cernedly if  the  other  had  noticed  any  one  run  foul  of  the 
paint. 

"Well,  I  should  say  so,"  replied  the  bank  cashier,  who 
is  somewhat  shortsighted.  "It  was  the  funniest  specta- 
cle imaginable.  I  was  passing  a  few  minutes  ago,  while 
some  fellow  was  coming  down  stairs,  and  the  blithering 
idiot  walked  deliberately  into  a  paint  pot,  splashing  his 
clothes  from  head  to  foot  !  Served  the  duffer  right,  too; 
he  should  have  watched  his  bearings." 

*  *  * 

Not  for  one  moment  does  Dr.  George  L.  Fitch  cease  to 
regard  the  woman  suffrage  movement  with  disfavor  and 
its  advocates  with  dislove.  Passing  a  clothier's  window 
with  a  brother  medico,  his  attention  was  drawn  to  a 
placard  which  generously  proclaimed  that  "These  pants 
are  only  80  cents.     Worth  $2." 

"Happy  Anna  Shaw!"  exclaimed  Fitch,  in  seeming 
ecstasy.  "That  will  be  grand  news  for  her.  Victory  is 
now  within  her  reach!     Equal  rights  for  all!     Hooray!" 

*  *  * 

J.  J.  Jamison,  the  jovial  Assistant  Grand  Secretary  of 
the  Native  Sons,  the  order  now  engaged  in  painting  the 
Redwoods  a  still  redder  hue,  is  fond  of  a  good  time,  and, 
with  true  Californian  frankness,  doesn't  care  who  knows 
it.  In  the  various  entertainments  promulgated  by  his 
especial  parlor,  Jamison  is  a  leading  spirit,  and  loses  no 
opportunity  to  boom  the  parlor  in  question.  The  other 
day,  just  before  the  grand  lodge  convened,  he  met  a  re- 
porter and  buttonholed  him  confidentially. 

"I  say,"  said  he  with  the  engaging  persuasiveness  that 
has  made  him  popular  throughout  the  order,  "give  our 
parlor  a  good  send-off,  will  you?      We  had  a  glorious  time 


last  night    big  a  of  enthusiasm  and  a  splen- 

did programme. 

"  What  did  you  .1,,  '     asked  the  scribe. 

"Oh,  SOmebod]  made  a  BPeeob  and  somebody  else  played 
a  piano  solo.  Conic  to  think  of  it.  1  believe  'here  «;,-  a 
vocal  solo,  (00,    We  had  an  elegantentertainnii'ht.  though, 

Never  had  a  bigger  time  in  all  my  life."  and   the  < 
Secretary  beamed  benignly  at  recollection  of  the  previous 
evening's  hilarity. 

The  reporter  looked  puzzled.  "Wasn't  there  anything 
else  on  that  programme?"  he  asked. 

"  Betcherlife,  my  boy!"  was  the  enthusiastic  response; 
"one  hundred  -j.  *er." 

EFFECTS     OF     WAR     ON      AMERICAN      GRAIN. 

A  CONTRACT  by  ruble  has  just  been  made  between  an 
English  syndicate  and  the  New  York  Central  and 
Hudson  River  Railroad  to  transport  5,000,000  bushels  of 
wheat  from  Buffalo  to  New  York.  A  New  York  Central 
standard  freight  engine  will  haul  a  train  of  fifty-five  loaded 
cars,  each  of  which,  without,  load,  weighs  30,000  pounds, 
and  has  a  capacity  of  1:0,111111  pounds  of  grain.  The  weight 
of  grain  in  such  a  train  is  3,3(10,000  pounds.  The  weight  of 
the  cars  is  1,650,000  pounds.  Total  weight  of  train  loaded, 
4,950,000  pounds.  This  means  that  it  would  require  one 
hundred  such  trains  to  fulfill  the  above  contract.  The 
New  York  Central  claim  that  they  can  land  the  whole 
amount  in  New  York  thirty  hours  after  it  is  delivered  to 
them  in  Buffalo. 


PRINCESS  Louise  and  her  niece,  the  Duchess  of  Fife, 
are,  according  to  a  contributor  to  the  April  "Woman 
at  Home,"  the  two  royal  ladies  who  affect  as  much  as  cir- 
cumstances will  permit  the  role  of  private  ladies.  The 
former  delights  in  the  society  of  literary  and  artistic  peo- 
ple, and  one  day  her  Royal  Highness  made  arrangements 
to  take  a  country  drive  with  a  distinguished  literary  lady. 
When  about  to  start  Princess  Louise  said:  "I  do  not 
wish  to  be  treated  as  a  Princess.  Pray  let  me  drive  with 
you  just  as  any  other  of  your  lady  friends  would  do."  All 
ceremony  was  accordingly  dropped,  and  the  two  ladies 
drove  off'  a  tete-e-tete,  stopped  at  a  village  through  which 
they  passed  to  make  purchases  and  call  upon  some  poor 
people,  and  her  Royal  Highness  confessed  to  having  had 
an  unusually  delightful  time  in  thus  escaping  from  her  rank. 

THE  Palace  Hotel  subscribed  $250  to  the  boulevard 
fund  last  Thursday.  This  is  not  pointing  the  way, 
but  leading  it.  Other  hotels  should  see  in  Manager  Kirk- 
patrick's  action  a  pertinent  and  timely  suggestion  for  per- 
sonal application. 

Moore's     Poison     Oak     Remedy 
cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    The  oldest  and  best  remedy, 
which  has  cured  thousands     At  all   druggists. 


BICYCLE  Sunday  racing   begins   at  the  Velodrome  to- 
morrow, and  a  number  of   exciting  events  have   been 
arranged  for  the  opening  day. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  I,  1897. 


•iSSffiil 


PROSPECTIVE  brides  are  so  busy  with  their  trous- 
seaux, and  the  belles  in  preparation  of  bewitching 
toilettes  for  their  summer  outing,  they  do  not  seem  in- 
clined to  give  time  or  thought  for  much  else,  and  as  a 
consequence  it  has  been  very  quiet  in  social  circles  this 
week.  The  Woman's  Congress  drew  a  goodly  sprinkling 
of  society  to  its  inaugural  ceremonies  on  Monday  morning, 
and  the  Tivoli  was  the  great  objective  point  to  which  all 
the  fashionable  folk  of  the  city  found  their  way  on  Monday 
evening  to  give  welcome  to  Mr.  Denis  O'Sullivan,  and  in- 
cidentally enjoy  his  rendering  of  Sbamus  O'Brien. 

Mrs.  Jewett's  tea  last  week  washer  final  entertainment 
for  the  season,  she  and  her  family  having  gone  to  their 
country  home  in  Sonoma  County  for  a  few  weeks  prior  to 
a  trip  to  Alaska.  Mrs.  M.  R.  Higgins  gave  a  tea  in  her 
rwoms  in  the  Wenban  on  Monday  afternoon  of  this  week. 
On  Wednesday  a  very  pleasant  tea  was  given  at  the  San 
Francisco  Nursery  for  Homeless  Children,  on  Harrison 
street.  The  Andrews  concert  at  the  C.  A.  Auditorium  on 
Thursday  evening  was  another  fashionable  crowd,  the 
young  beneficiary  being  a  favorite  in  the  swim.  To-day 
Miss  Wilkinson  gives  a  tea  at  her  home  in  Berkeley,  and 
Mrs.  W.  A.  Magee  one  at  her  residence  in  Fruitvale. 

Church  receptions  the  other  side  of  the  bay  have  been 
quite  a  fad  of  late.  Among  them  was  one  given  to  the 
Rev.  J.  K.  McLean  on  Tuesday  evening,  in  the  parlors  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church  in  Oakland,  in  celebra- 
tion of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  his  pastorate,  and 
on  Thursday  evening  the  ladies  of  Christ  Church,  of  Ala- 
meda, gave  a  reception  in  honor  of  their  newly  arrived  rec- 
tor, the  Rev.  T.  J.  Lacey. 

Weddings  have  not,  however,  failed,  and  this  has  been 
another  week  well  filled  up  with  them.  The  Coleman  resi- 
dence, on  Post  street,  was  the  scene  of  the  marriage  of 
Miss  Martha  Washington  Coleman  and  Mathias  R.  Fleisch- 
man  last  Sunday  afternoon,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Nieto  tying  the 
nuptial  knot  beneath  a  floral  bower  placed  in  the  bow- 
window,  in  the  presence  of  a  large  number  of  guests.  The 
bride  wore  an  exquisite  gown  of  white  organdie  over  white 
satin,  a  tulle  vail  held  in  place  by  a  diamond  sunburst,  the 
gift  of  the  groom,  and  she  carried  a  bouquet  of  lilies  of  the 
valley.  Miss  Alice  Oppenheim,  as  maid-of-honor,  was 
gowned  in  lavendar  tulle  over  silk  of  the  same  hue,  with 
pearl  ornaments.  The  other  attendants  were  Florence 
Cleve  and  Arthur  Stoltre,  and  Louis  Newberger,  who  was 
the  groom's  best  man.  An  elaborate  dejeuner  followed 
the  ceremony,  and  the  young  couple  have  been  spending 
their  honeymoon  at  Coronado. 

Miss  Adele  Rottanzi  and  Professor  J.  B.  Argenti  were 
united  in  marriage  by  Father  Mulligan  at  St.  Mary's 
Cathedral  at  seven  o'clock  on  Tuesday  morning;  Miss 
Ottie  Sotarie  was  maid-of-honor  and  Prank  Argenti  best 
man. 

Tuesday  evening's  wedding  was  at  the  residence  of  Mrs. 
Goodman  on  Post  street,  when  her  daughter  Lillian  and 
Leon  Lewin,  of  San  Salvador,  were  the  bride  and  groom. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Nieto  officiated,  the  ceremony  being  per- 
formed beneath  a  floral  canopy,  which  was  suspended  by 
white  ribbons  held  in  the  beaks  of  numerous  white  doves. 
The  bride  looked  charmingly  in  a  robe  of  rich  white  satin 
and  point  lace,  and  her  tulle  veil  was  fastened  to  her 
coiffure  by  a  diamond  sunburst.  Dancing  followed  the 
elaborate  supper  which  was  served  after  the  ceremony. 
On  Wednesday  the  bride  and  groom  departed  for  a  year's 
tour  abroad. 

On  Wednesday,  at  noon,  Miss  Elizabeth  Vero  Wate  and 
Dr.  James  Albert  Brown  were  married  at  St.  John's 
Church  on  Valencia  street,  by  Rev.  Dr.  Spalding,  and  the 
ceremony  was  followed  by  a  reception  at  the  home  of  the 
bride  on  Pierce  street. 


The  wedding  of  Miss  Loretta  Cook  and  J.  C.  Appelwhite 
was  a  home  one,  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  mother  on 
Turk  street,  on  the  evening  of  the  23rd  ult. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Grace  Young  and  Francis 
Churchill  Williams  will  be  solemnized  at  the  home  of  the 
bride-elect,  on  Pacific  avenue,  at  half-past  eight  o'clock 
next  Wednesday  evening. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  Schwartz,  nee  Helen  Sutro,  who  were 
recently  married,  left  San  Francisco  last  Sunday  evening 
for  Costa  Rica,  where  they  expect  to  remain  for  about 
two  months.  On  their  return  here  they  will  reside  at  the 
Sutro  home  on  Pine  street. 

The  engagement  of  Miss  Hattie  Bastheim,  of  this  city, 
to  Mr.  L.  Frankenheimer,  of  Stockton,  has  been  an- 
nounced. 

Recent  pleasant  entertainments  included  Mrs.  Thos. 
Watson's  coaching  party  to  San  Mateo;  Mrs.  W.  P. 
Buckingham's  luncheon,  at  which  twelve  ladies  were 
seated  at  table;  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Merrill's  dinner,  at  which 
Miss  Georgia  Cayvan  was  chief  guest.  Last  Saturday's 
affairs  included  the  first  "Meet"  of  the  season  at  Burlin- 
game  and  the  opening  of  the  yachting  season  by  the  Cor- 
inthian Club. 

On  Thursday  afternoon  Mrs.  Lowenberg  was  the  guest 
of  the  Philomath  Literary  Club  at  a  high  tea  given  in  her 
honor  at  the  Beethoven  Hall.  Mrs.  Lowenberg  has  for 
many  years  been  President  of  both  the  Century  and  Philo- 
math Clubs,  whose  members  have  often  been  her  guests  ; 
but  this  was  the  first  chance  the  members  of  the  Philo- 
maths had  of  reciprocating.  The  affair  lasted  till  late  in 
the  afternoon,  and  if  numbers  constitute  a  success  it  was 
indeed  one,  as  well-nigh  the  entire  membership  was  rep- 
resented in  the  gathering. 

The  entertainment  for  the  Children's  Hospital  and 
Training  School  for  Nurses  will  begin  on  May  11th,  con- 
tinuing throughout  the  week,  afternoons  and  evenings,  at 
the  house  of  Mrs.  Clarke  Crocker,  corner  of  Sutter  and 
Octavia  streets.  It  will  be  very  novel  as  well  as  instruc- 
tive, being  a  sort  of  Midwinter  Fair  in  miniature.  There 
will  be  varied  entertainments  afternoons  and  evenings, 
and  Wednesday  and  Saturday  afternoons  will  be  specially 
devoted  to  children.  There  will  be  an  Oriental  Room,  an 
Art  Treasure  Room,  where  Toby  Rosenthal's  last  picture 
will  be  on  exhibition,  and  an  Indian  Room,  in  which  there 
will  be  specimens  of  Indian  work,  baskets,  blankets,  etc., 
from  Oonalaska  to  Mexico.  In  the  grounds,  which  will  be 
illuminated  at  night,  there  will  be  a  shooting  gallery, 
kinetiscope,  anamatiscope,  etc.  It  is  to  be  hoped  the 
public  will  generously  respond  for  the  many  sick  chil- 
dren for  whom  the  lady  managers  are  working  so  hard. 
Admission  to  the  house  and  grounds  will  be  50  cents  in  the 
evening  and  25  cents  in  the  afternoon. 

The  news  of  the  appointment  of  Lieutenant  Cloman  to 
succeed  Lieutenant  Winn  as  Military  Instructor  at 
Berkeley  has  been  received  with  much  favor  by  our  belles 
who,  while  regretting  the  loss  of  one  favorite,  will  be  glad 
to  welcome  back  another.  It  is  probable  that  Lieutenant 
Winn  will  go  abroad  for  a  vacation  when  his  term  of  duty 
at  Berkeley  expires  in  August.  Another  Army  Officer 
popular  with  our  belles,  Lieutenant  Strother,  is  at  present 
stationed  at  New  York  as  Aid  to  the  newly  appointed 
Commanding  General,  Wesley  Merritt,  who  is  General 
Ruger's  successor  at  that  post. 

The  summer  resorts  are  aU  preparing  for  the  coming 
season  and  "Opening  days"  will  soon  be  in  order.  Society 
as  yet  seems  to  be  rather  undecided  as  to  which  shall  be 
the  place  selected  by  them  for  their  locale,  but  the  Hotel 
Rafael  is  decidedly  in  the  lead  as  favorite,  and  from  now  on 
a  steady  stream  of  guests  may  be  looked  for,  the  hegira 
having  already  begun,  and  what  is  something  new  over 
there,  the  arrivals  include  a  long  fist  of  Eastern  visitors. 
The  WhittelFs  have  gone  to  the  Hotel  Rafael  for  the  sea- 
son, and  Mrs.  J.  A.  Folger  goes  over  next  week.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  D.  N.  Walter  will  also  spend  the  summer  there.  We 
may  soon  now  have  a  visit  from  Mrs.  Harold  Sewall  who 
as  Miss  Millie  Ashe  was  such  a  popular  belle  in  our  swim. 
Mr.  Sewall  has  received  the  appointment  as  Minister  to 
Hawaii  and  they  will  of  course  spend  some  time  here  en 
route  to  Honolulu. 


May  i 


SAX   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER 


The  last  assembly  and  german  of   the  seventh  season  of 

place  at  the  Palace  11. itel 

ible      Three  beautiful 

Novelty.'' 

Bella  "     The  gprman  was 

ind   Miss  Those 

were    Mr     ai  d    Mr>  ; '   i Irabam, 

trrera    and    Mis-    Bmily  Herxer.   W.   W. 

Future.  Jr..  and  Miss  Louise  Heppner,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ofaas. 

H.  Meuaadorffer  and   Mi.-s   Leafa  Young, 

W   Craig  and  Miss  Beatrice  Hughes.  Wen.  Wester- 

feld  and  Miss  Mizpah  Fredericb,  .1.    .T.  Do  Haven  and  Miss 

M.  T.  Alexander.  Mr.  and    Mrs.  Jas.    P.  Whitney,  Roberl 

1'    Haighl  and  Miss  Felice  Kingston],    Herman  H.  Herzer 

and  Miss    Frances  Burton.  Wm.  G.  Barr  and  Miss  Emma 

Prosek,  Chester  Judah  and    Miss   Mae  Folsom,  Wm.  Hocl- 

scher  and  Miss  Sadie  Gardner.     B.C.    Warwick    and   Miss 

Nellie  6.  Martland.     The  eighth   season  of  the  club  will 

commence  early  the  comin}.'  winter. 

Arrivals  have  been  quite  numerous  of  late,  including 
Mrs.  Daggett  who  comes  to  be  present  at  the  wedding  of 
her  sister  Miss  Ethel  Cohen;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henri  Kahn 
who  have  spent  the  last  two  years  in  Paris,  and  Mrs.  and 
Miss  Delmas  from  a  lengthened  absence  abroad.  Miss  Alice 
Boggs  is  looked  for  to-morrow  after  an  absence  of  several 
months  in  the  East.  Mrs.  and  Miss  Blakeman  and  Miss 
Ethel  Keeney  are  expected  home  in  a  few  days.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  W.  J.  Younger  will  come  out  in  June  from  their 
Chicago  home  to  visit  their  daughters  during  the  heated 
term  of  the  East.  Mrs.  L.  P.  Ralston  has  been  the  guest 
of  her  son.  W.  C.  Ralston,  at  Georgetown  for  some  weeks 
past. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jno.  D.  Spreckels  have  gone  East  for  a 
visit  of  several  weeks.  The  Rev.  W.  H.  and  Mrs.  More- 
land,  left  last  week  for  a  visit  to  relatives  in  South  Caro- 
lina. Other  recent  departures  included  ex-Senator  C. 
N.  Felton;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rounseville  Wildman  for  the 
other  side  of  the  continent,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Homer  S. 
King  for  the  City  of  Mexico.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas 
Watson  are  on  the  eve  of  departure  for  a  trip  to  Oregon. 
Mr.  and  Mme.  Adolphe  Roos  have  been  giving  a  series 
of  dinners.  One  of  these  took  place  on  Tuesday  evening 
last  at  their  home  on  Post  street,  and,  like  the  others, 
proved  itself  a  most  delightful  affair.  While  Mme.  Roos 
has  long  been  looked  upon  as  a  queen  of  hostesses,  Roos, 
senior,  took  this  occasion  to  tender  his  guests  the  choicest 
selections  from  bis  cellar,  which  is  stocked  with  rarest  old 
wines.  The  decorations,  as  usual,  were  rich,  and  were 
beautified  by  the  handsome  background  the  house  itself 
affords.     Covers  were  laid  for  twenty. 

Tuesday,  the  11th  of  May,  is  the  date  finally  set  for  the 
opening  of  the  "gingerbread  fete"  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Children's  Hospital.  Next  on  the  tapis  is  the  concert 
which  the  Saturday  Morning  Orchestra  will  give  on  the 
15tb  of  May  at  Golden  Gate  Hall,  under  the  direction  of 
W.  A.  Sabin.  which  will  be  for  the  benefit  of  the  Episcopal 
Old  Ladies'  Home;  and  Mr.  Denis  O'Sullivan  has  promised 
his  valuable  assistance. 

Rumor  has  it  that  the  Calliopean  Club  is  not  to  be  out- 
done by  its  older  brothers,  nor  will  it  let  summer  interfere 
with  its  entertainments.  President  Tries  t  has  been  anx- 
iously scouring  the  country  for  a  suitable  place  where  the 
members  and  their  lady  friends  oiay  enjoy  a  pleasant  day's 
outing  and  seclusion  from  the  city's  turmoil. 

A  SMOOTH  and  velvet  skin  is  an  essential  to  beauty,  or 
even  good  looks.  Dr.  Dupuis,  at  713  Post  street,  near 
Jones,  treats  these  blemishes  and  facial  disfigurements  on 
scientific  principles,  and  has  given  permanent  relief  and 
perfect  satisfaction  to  many  of  the  ladies  of  this  city.  In- 
formation gladly  given  by  the  Doctor,  or  Mrs.  Dupuis,  at 
their  office. 

The  season  of  jollity,  dinners,  weddings,  suppers,  and  banquets 
is  at  hand.  Max  Abraham,  the  popular  caterer,  of  428  Geary  street, 
is  the  busiest  man  in  town.  His  knowledge  of  his  art  is  complete, 
and  he  is  in  demand  at  almost  every  swell  function  in  the  city.  He 
takes  complete  charge,  with  the  happiest  results  to  all  concerned. 


The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedakek,  General  Agent. 


Why  Schillih .;  'j    Best   tea  is  in  packages  ! 
(\)    to  keep  it   fresh  ; 

to  make  sure  that  you  get  it. 
The  grocer    returns  your   money  in    full  if 
you  don't  like  it. 

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San  Francisco. 


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New  Management  .... 


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from  San  francisco. 


Six  miles  from  Los  patos  Tea 
miles  from  Santa  Clara.  Twelve 
miles  from  San  Jose.    Address 


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Management 


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(Bertha  Postottlce) 

LAKE  COUNTY,  CAL. 
Only  19  miles  from  Uklah. 
Finest  summer  resort  in  California. 
Good  hunting,  fishing,  boating,  and  Bathing. 
Finest  cuisine  ana  best  accommodations. 

R.  E.  WHITEFIELD,  Manager, 

SUMMER    NOVELTIES 
JUST  OPENED 


W.   fi.   RAMSEY, 


121  Montgomery  St., 

Opposite  Occidental  Hotel. 


Merchant 
Tailor, 


DR.  D.  E.  DUNNE, 

Chiropodist. 
Office:  Hammam  Baths, 


11-13  Grant  Ave. 


Ingrowing  Nails  a  Specialty. 


Dr.  F.  G.  PAGUE 

Dentist 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  of  bciences  Building, 


819  Market  street. 


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Office  and  Residence,  409V£  Post  street,  San  Francisco. 
Office  Hours,  9  to  12  a.  m.  ;  1  to  5  p.  m. 

Joseph  Gillott's  Steel  Pens, 


Dentist 


Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1889.    These  pens  are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mb.  Henry  Hob.  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers . 


|R.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
'     CREAM,  OR    MAGICAL   BEAUTIFIER. 

R  jaoves  Tan,  Pimples,  Freckles,  Moth 
Patches,  Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  beauty,  and  defies  de- 
tection It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-ton  (a  pa- 
tient): -'As  you  ladies  will  use  them.  I 
recommend  'Gouraud's  Cream''  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions," For  sale  by  all  Druggists  and 
Fancy-Goods  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe. 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS.  Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,  N.  Y. 


SAX    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


May  i,  1897. 


TO    KNOW    HOW. 


"  OUNDAY'S  a  dull  day,"  remarked  Elton. 

v3  "Yes.  "What  are  you  going  to  do  this  afternoon?" 
inquired  Tibbets  from  the  other  side  of  the  club-stove. 

"I  think  I'll  take  in  the  Louvre,"  answered  Elton. 
"Want  to  come?" 

"No.     I'm  goiDg  for  a  stroll  on  the  Cbamps-Elysees." 

So  they  met,  an  hour  later,  in  Miss  Auber's  drawing- 
room,  on  the  Rue  Boccador. 

"I  suppose  you've  both  been  working  hard  all  the  week," 
said  Miss  Auber. 

"Work,"  Elton  said,  airily,  "in  Bohemia!  It's  a  country 
of  play." 

"What  do  you  do  in  that  giddy  land?" 

"Live.     To  work  is  to  exist." 

"How  nice!"  Miss  Auber  exclaimed,  "I  must  go  explor- 
ing over  there." 

"H'm.  I  wouldn't,"  Elton  answered.  "I  don't  think 
you'd — I  mean  I  fear  they  would  not  appreciate  you." 

"I  know  I  am  not  very  clever." 

"Ah,  modesty  has  a  great  charm.  But  you  see,  while 
they  admire  beauty,  they  are  apt  to  be  prejudiced  critics 
of  the  spiritual." 

"And  she  weighs  one  hundred  and  forty,"  remarked 
Miss  Auber's  cousin. 

"I  don't  either,  Tom.  But,  by  the  way,  Mr.  Elton,  you 
intend  something  for  the  Salon,  do  you  not?" 

"Certainly." 

"Aren't  you  doing  anything  on  it?" 

"A  little;  but  there's  more  than  time  in  a  picture." 

"Still,  3'ou  might  spend  more  on  it.  Just  think  how  you'd 
feel  if  your  work  was  refused!" 

"I  have  no  fear,"  said  Elton,  confidently.  "They  ac- 
cepted a  piece  last  year  that  I  had  skimmed  off  in  a  few 
weeks." 

"Is  there  nothing  beyond  acceptance  to  be  bad  at  the 
Salon?"  inquired  Miss  Auber's  cousin,  whose  name  was 
Jones. 

"O,  mentions  and  medals  come  in  due  season.  "I'm  so 
young  that  if  I  took  one  now  it  might  dull  my  ambition." 

"Don't  permit  such  as  that  to  occur,"  said  Mr.  Jones. 
"May  I  smoke?" 

"Certainly,"  responded  Miss  Auber.  "Won't  you  all  do 
so?  I  enjoy  the  odor  of  tobacco.  Here's  a  match.  Mr. 
Tibbets- — I'm  sure  you  deserve  one  for  listening  to  us  so 
long.     You  have  been  working,  I  know." 

"Yes,"  said  Tibbets,  "I  have." 

"And  is  your  picture  for  the  Salon?" 

"I  hope  to  have  it  exhibited." 

"Nothing  more  than  hope?"  Mr.  Jones  asked. 

"No." 

"That's  refreshing.  But  I  must  be  off  now,  Maude. 
Good-day,  gentlemen." 

"Well,"  he  continued,   as  he   turned  into   the   Avenue 
de  l'Alma,  "a  woman   with  two  minds   and  two  men  with 
one  each.     A  comedy  that  needs  no  funny  man." 
***** 

It  came  about  at  a  dance.  Mr.  Jones,  with  cousinly 
forethought,  had  left  Miss  Auber  to  sit  alone  in  a  secluded 
place  while  he  went  off  to  the  smoking  room.  On  the 
other  side  of  a  screen  which  hid  her  were  two  young  wo- 
men students  from  the  Latin  Quarter,  busy  tearing  people 
up. 

"Did  you  see  that  awfully  handsome  Mr.  Elton  at  the 
club  dance,  the  night  before  last?"  asked  the  fair  girl  in 
blue. 

"Yes.  Isn't  he  lovely!  I  danced  with  him  three  times," 
answered  the  sweet  thing  in  yellow,  red,  pink,  green,  and 
every  other  color  that  could  be  put  into  five  feet  three 
inches. 

"They  say  he's  such  a  great  painter." 

"And  he's  got  lots  of  money." 

"Altogether  very  eligible.  I  heard  he  was  in  love  with  a 
wealthy  American  girl  on  this  side  of  the  river." 

"Yes,  but  he's  got  a  rival,  that  What's-his-name?  who 
can't  say  a  word,  and  only  sits  and  stars— oh,  Tibbets." 

"Is  that  why  Mr.  Elton  sticks  so  closely  to  him?  But  I 
don't  see  what  he's  got  to  fear  from  Mr.  Tibbets.  He 
looks  like  an  old-clothes  shop." 


"No  one  is  negative  to  jealousy,  my  dear.  But  Mr.  El- 
ton will  be  sure  to  get  her.     He  knows  how." 

"They  say  he's  rather  gay." 

"Yes;  I  heard  he  went  down  to  the  Cafe  d'Harcourt  the 
other  night,  and — " 

When  Mr.  Jones  returned  he  found  Miss  Auber  sitting 
alone  near  the  screen,  gnawing  her  fan. 

***** 

"You're  not  looking  very  well  this  afternoon,"  said  Miss 
Auber. 

"No,"  answered  Tibbets,  "I'm  feeling  blue." 

"It  was  too  bad  of  them  to  refuse  your  picture." 

"How  did  you  know?" 

"Oh,  Mr.  Elton  was  here  last  evening."    She  smiled. 

"Did  he  tell  you?" 

"Yes." 

"And  that  his  work  had  been  accepted?" 

"Yes." 

"And  that  Carolus  Duran  has  said  that  he'll  probably 
receive  a  medal?" 

"Yes." 

"And  that  he  expected  to  go  home  soon?" 

"Yes." 

"Did  he  say  anything  else?"  he  asked  very  earnestly. 

"Yes."     Her  smiles  had  increased. 

"Then  I  won't."    He  arose. 

"Why  not?"   Her  smiles  vanished. 

"What's  the  use?"  he  asked,  wearily. 

"If  I  had  anything  to  sav,"  she  said,  decidedly,  "I'd  say 
it." 

"Then  I  will." 

And  he  did. — Edward  Bedloe  Mendum,  in  Quartier 
Latin. 

ANCIENT      RUSSIAN      JEWELS. 


AMONG  the  most  precious  jewels  in  the  treasury  of  the 
Russian  imperial  family  are  a  few  relics  of  olden  times 
which  are  no  longer  used.  The  old  hereditary  crown  of 
the  Russian  czars  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  and  at  the 
same  time  one  of  the  handsomest  of  these  antique  pieces. 
It  is  worked  in  wonderfully  fine  gold  filigree,  says  the 
Jeweler's  Circular,  bearing  on  the  top  a  massive  golden 
cross,  the  four  ends  of  which  are  adorned  by  large  and  very 
valuable  pearls.  The  upper  part  of  the  crown  is  formed 
of  a  large  topaz,  a  sapphire  and  a  ruby  set  between  three 
large  pearls.  The  lower  part  of  the  crown,  consisting  of 
eight  fields,  is  adorned  with  four  immense  emeralds  and 
four  rubies,  about  twenty-four  pearls  set  in  golden  caps 
surrounding  these  gems.  Like  all  Russian  crowns,  this 
crown  is  bordered  at  the  bottom  with  beautiful  sable  fur, 
and  on  the  inside  lined  with  red  silk.  It  is  a  notable  work 
of  art.  The  most  interesting  piece,  probably,  is  the  old 
imperial  orb  with  a  large  cross.  No  less  than  58  diamonds, 
89  rubies,  23  sapphires,  50  emeralds  and  37  beautiful 
pearls  go  to  make  it  the  magnificent  jewel  it  is.  Minia- 
tures painted  in  enamel  adorn  the  orb.  The  pictures  in 
the  four  fields  represent  the  anointment  of  David;  his  vic- 
tory over  Goliath,  his  return  from  the  fight  and  David 
pursued  by  Saul.  Between  these  miniature  symbolic 
figures  of  heraldic  animals  are  arranged.  They  are  the 
eagle,  lion,  griffin  and  unicorn.  This  orb  authentically  be- 
longs to  the  period  of  the  latter  Byzantine  Empire  and 
was  brought  to  Russia  from  Constantinople  probably  in  the 
eleventh  century. 

THE  official  stamp  of  the  great  World's  Columbian  Ex- 
position, since  sustained  by  the  Supreme  Court,  gave 
the  final  award  to  the  Anheuser-Busch  Brewing  Association 
for  the  quality  of  its  beer.  This  beer  has  stood  the  test  of 
experience  and  time,  and  the  efforts  that  are  made  by  be- 
lated competitors  to  obscure  the  facts  or  to  deceive  the 
public,  are  futile  and  useless. 

"On  the   Santa   Fe   There's  No   Delay." 


Leave  San  Francisco  Mondays  and  Thursdays,  and  connect  at 
Barstow  with  Santa  Fe  Limited,  Dining  cars,  buffet,  smoking  car, 
Pullman  Palace  Drawing  Room  Sleeping  Cars.  Three  and  one-half 
days  to  Chicago  or  St.  Louis,  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  Chronicle  building.     Tel.  Main  1531. 


May  i.  1897. 


-AN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


23 


LOVE'S      LARCENY. 

A  1 -id,  on  a  summer's  dAy, 

In  idle  sport  wu  flitting 
Prom  place  to  place,  he  chanced  to  stray 
Near  where  my  love  was  sitting. 

"  Now,  here's  a  face.'    Pan  Cupid  cried, 

"  To  shake  my  filial  iluty, 
"  For  mother  Varna  found*  her  pride 
■n  far  inferior  beauty  ; 

"  f  '11  paint  a  picture,  ere  I  go, 

"  Of  these  enchanting  features, 
"  And  thus  admiring  (iods  shall  know 

"  The  loveliest  ol  their  creatures!" 

From  out  his  quiver  then  he  drew 

Bis  palette  and  his  brushes; 
Then  from  a  rose-leaf  stole  the  hue 

To  paint  my  lady's  blushes; 

To  catch  the  color  of  her  eyes 

He  hesitated  whether 
To  rob  the  violet,  or  the  skies. 

Or  blend  their  tints  together. 

That  problem  solved,  another  vexed 

His  mind,  and  set  them  racking 
His  feather-brains,  for  sore  perplexed, 

He  found  his  canvas  lacking. 

Impatient  to  display  his  art 

(His  subject  well  excused  it), 
The  roguish  God  purloined  my  heart 

And  as  a  canvas  used  it  I 

—  Arthur  W.  Gundry,  in  Life. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC  RAILWAY  COMPANY. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    TlBDRON  Perry-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 
WEEK  DAYS— 7:30.  9:00,  11:00  A  M;  12:35,  3:30  5:10,  6:30  P  M.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trip  at  11:30  P  H.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :50  and  11 :30  P  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00. 9:30.  11:00  A  H:  1 :3U.  3:3U.  5:00.  8:20  p  M. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO  SAN   FfANCISCO, 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  ah;  12:45,  3:40,5:10pm.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at  1:55  and 6:35  ph. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10.  9:40,  11:10  ah:  1:40.3:40.5:00,6:25PM. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzeu  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave 

S.  F. 
Sundays. 

In  EBect  April  26,  1897 

ARRIVE  IN  S.  P. 

Week    Days. 

DESTINATION. 

Sundays 

10:40  ah    I 
6:10pm    1 
7:85  PH 

Weeh  Days 

7:30AM 

3:30  PM 
5:10  PH 

8:00  am 
9:30am 
5:00  PM 

Novato, 

Petaluma, 

Santa  Rosa. 

8:40  AM 
10:25  ah 
6:22  PM 

8:00  AH 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyservllle.  Cloverdale 

7:35PM 

7:30AM 
3:30  PH 

6:22  P  M 

7:30  AM 

8 :3i>  P.M 

8:00  AM 

Pieta,  Hopland,  Uklah 

7:35  PH 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:30AM 

3:30PM 

8:00am 

Guernevllle. 

7:35PM 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:30  ah 
5:10PH 

8:00  ah 
5:00  pm 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40AM 

6:10ph 

8:40  A  M 
6:22  p  m 

7:30AH 

3:30PM 

8:00am 
5:00  pm 

Sevastopol. 

10:40am    I 
6:10pm    1 

10:25  A  m 
6:22  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyservllle 
for  Skaggs' Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers ;  at  Pieta  for  Highland 
Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay  and  Lake  port;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport 
and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Ukiah.  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs, 
Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del  Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John 
Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville, 
Booneville.Orr's  Hot  Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal. 

Saturday- to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.W.FOSTER,  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.      R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agent. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  A.  m..  May  1,  6,  11,  18.  21,  26,  31,  and  every  Eth  day  thereafter. 

For  Britisn  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  4.  m..  May  1,  6,  U,  16, 
21,  26,  31,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  P.  m.  May  4,  8, 
12.  16,  20,  24.  28,  and  every  fourth  day  th  ieafter 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  ;  May  2,  6, 10, 14, 
18.  22,  26  3J,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  {Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  a.  m.,  May  4.  8, 12, 16, 
20,  24,  23,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz,  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  A.  M, 
June  2d,  and  2d  of  each  month  thereafter. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Officii- Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL.  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents.       10  Market  st.S.  F. 

Thp    r«l*anr.     Parifir     3Q&  Stockton  St.  San    Francisco 
1  HO    01  dllll     idolllOf         MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month.      Telephone:  Grant.  507, 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY-PACIFIC  SYSTEM. 


Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  la  Arrive  at  SAN 

FRANCISCO: 

IMM.  1                                       From  April  is,  is97. 

1  Arrive 

•6:00  a  Nllcs.  San  Jose,  and  way  stations 0:46a 

7:00a  Atlantic  Express,  Ogdenand  East ....     8:45P 

7:00  a  Bcnicla,    Vacavllle,    Rumsey,    Sacramento,    Orovllle,    and 

Redding,  via  Davis 6:45  P 

7:30a  Martinez.  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa.  Calistoga,  Santa  Rosa    6:15p 
8:30a  Nllcs,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone,  Sacramento,  MarysvlUe, 

Chico.  Tehama,  and   Red   Bluff 4:16p 

•8:30a  Peters  and  Milton *7:16p 

9:00a  New  Orleans    Express,  Merced.  Fresno,  Bakorsflold,  Santa 
Barbara,  Los  Angeles,  Demlng,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans,  and 

East 4:46P 

9 :00  a  Martinez  and  Stockton     4 :45  P 

9:00  A  Vallejo 6:15  P 

Niles,  San  Jose  Livennore,  and  Stockton 7:15p 

•1 :00  P  Sacramento  River  s learners *9 :00  P 

1 :00  P  Niles,  San  Jose,  and  Llvermore 8:45  a 

tl:S0p  Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations f7:4fip 

4:00p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Calistoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa.     .  9:15 A 

4:00  p  Benlcia,   Vacavllle   Woodland,  Knight's   Landing,  Marys- 
vine.  Orovllle.  and  Saoramento 11:16A 

4  30  p  Lathrop.  Stockton,  Modesto,  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yosem- 

ite)  and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles,  returning  via  Martinez. .  11:45  A 
5:00p  Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,  Mojave  (for  Rands- 
burg),  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles 7.45A 

5:00p  Santa  Fe  Route,  AtlanticExpress,  for  Mojave  and  East —    7:45a 

6:00  p  European  mail,  Ogden  and  East 9:45  A 

6:00  p  Hay  wards,  Niles  and  San  Jose 7:45a 

J7:00p  vallejo t7:45p 

7:00 p  Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysville,   Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East ...11:15  A 

Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 

J7:45a  Santa  Cruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  t8:05P 
8:45  a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations ....  5:50  p 

•3:15  p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  -\nd  principal  way  stations *11:20A 

4:15  p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9:50> 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

7 :00  A  San  Jose  and  wav  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1 :30  p 
9.00  a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe,  Surf  and  prinoipalway  stations    4:15  P 

10:40  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6:30  p 

11:30A  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 6:O0P 

*2:30p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa 

Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey.  Pacific  Grove *10:40A 

*3 :30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45A 

•4:30  p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8:05A 

5 :30  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations *8 :45  a 

6 :30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 :35  A 

tll:45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations  f7:45P 


San  Leandro  and  Haywardb  local. 


i«6:00  Al 

f      7:15  A 

8:00  A 

<9:45  A 

9:00  a 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00  a 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

ill  .00  A 

FITCHBURG, 

12:45  p 

J12:00  M 

San  Leandro, 

(1:45  P 

2:00  p 

and 

J2:45  P 

»3:00  p 

Haywardb. 

4:45  P 

4:00  p 

(5:45  P 

5:00  P 

6:15  p 

5:30  P 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

7:45  p 

7:00  P 

(  From  Niles 

8:45  P 

8:00  p 

9:45  P 

9:00  p 

10:50  P 

1+11:15  pj 

Ltt  12:00  P 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  iSlip  8).— +7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  a.  m.,  J1.0U,  *2:0U.  t3:00,  *4:O0,t5:O0  and  *6:00P.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway.— *6:00,8:00, 10:00  a.  m.;  tl2:00,  *1:00, 
12 :00,  *3 :00,  14 :00  *5 :00  P.  M. 

A  for  Morning,     p  for  Afternoon.     *Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

{Sundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays.  gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  m.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and  Shanghai,  and  connecting  at 
Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc  No  cargo  received  on  board  on 
day  of  sailing. 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  May  11, 1897 

BELGTC  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29. 1897 

Coptic .Thursday,  June  17, 1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Wednesday,  July  7.  1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS.  Secretary. 

iPflttllF  S-  S*  "Monowai,"  Thursday,  April  29th,  at  2  p  m. 
'ffnllBw  Line  t0  Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
li  South  Africa. 

S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu    only,  Tuesday, 
May  18th,  at  2  p    m. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &BROS.  CO., 
4fimE.fll7.it'  Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
^IlljUUIlt^     Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


May  i,  1897. 


LOVE    AND    MAYTIME.— nathan   haskell    dole,  in    current   literature, 

LOVE,  gentle  Love,  I  am  weary  of  waiting! 
Why  hast  thou  lingered  so  long  on  the  way  ! 
Birds  'mid  the  boskage  are  wooing  and  mating. 
It  is  May  I 

Cold  was  the  winter  with  snow-plumy  pinions, 
Holding  our  hearts  in  his  insolent  sway. 

Now  he  has  gone  to  his  icy  dominions. 
It  is  May ! 

Brooks  down  the  hillsides  are  leaping  and  singing — 
What  makes  their  laughter  so  rollicking  gay? 

Why  are  the  hedges  with  merriment  ringing? 
It  is  Mayl 

Love,  gentle  Love,  I  would  welcome  thee  gladly, 
Yet  far  aloof  from  my  roof  thou- dost  stray. 

I  cannot  sing,  for  my  song  would  sound  sadly. 
It  is  May ! 

Come,  gentle  Love,  bring  me  joy  without  measure, 
.  .  Make  me  thy  .debtor  this  jubilant  day  ! 

Here  is  my  heart  in  exchange  for  thy  treasure. 
It  is  May  I    It  is  May  ! 


M  EMORY.— CHARLES  C.   NOTT  JR.,  IN  SCRIBNER'S  MAGAZINE  FOR   MAY. 

Upon  a  night  long  after  I  had  died 
I  rose  and  passed  the  portals  of  Her  heart, 
Therein  no  wreck  nor  ruin  I  espied, 
But  fair  and  quiet  its  dim-lit  chambers  lay 
And  a  sweet  silence  breathed  in  every  part. 
And  I,  who  once  had  dwelt  there,  stood  and  sighed 
And  thought,  "While  I"  have  slept  in  the  cold  clay, 
How  soon  the  stains  of  grief  were  washed  away, 
That  soon  some  tenant  new  might  here  abide." 
And  as  I  thought,  one  quietly  entered  in, 
And  in  his  hand  a  key  to  every  door. 
I  bowed  my  head  and  turned  away  and  said: 
"  Pardon  me  if  I  return  here  from  the  dead; 
I  dwelt  here  once,  though  I  dwell  here  no  more." 
But  he  the  keys  did  place  my  hands  within, 
And  said,  "Whate'er  thy  steward's  is,  is  thine; 
My  name  is  Memory,  and  this  place  is  mine." 


CLOSE    TO    SPRINGTIME-— frank  l-  stanton,  in  the  chaperone. 

Gittin'  close  to  springtime— know  it  by  the  way 

The  sun  is  streamin',  gleamin'  in  the  middle  o'  the  day ; 

Know  it  by  the  river  that  is  lazyin'  along, 

An'  the  mocking-birds  a-primpin'  o'  their  feathers  fer  a  song. 

Gittin'  close  to  springtime— know  it  by  the  signs; 
Hear  it  the  whisper  o'  the  maples  an'  the  pines; 
Feel  it  in  the  blowin'  o'  the  breezes,  singin'  sweet; 
See  it  in  the  daisies  just  a-drearain'  at  my  feet. 

Gittin'  close  to  springtime— hope  she'll  come  to  stay; 
Got  a  million  kisses  for  the  red  lips  o'  May. 
Wearyin'  to  meet  her,  list'nin'  all  the  time  ') 

Fer  the  twinkle  o'  her  footsteps,  her  roses  an'  her  rhyme. 

LONGING-— VALERIC  KOHUT,   IN  CHAPERONE  MAGAZINE. 

I  lean  from  my  western  window, 

As  darkness  falls  on  the  sea, 
And  the  white  sails  pass  in  the  distance, 

Stately  and  proud  and  free. 

To  what  fair  ports  are  they  tending; 

To  what  fair  lands  do  they  go ; 
As  their  white  wings  fade  in  the  twilight 

And  die  in  the  afterglow? 

My  spirit  yearns  with  a  longing, 

Never  to  be  expressed, 
To  follow  the  paths  they  are  tracing, 

Toward  the  distant,  luminous  west. 

Forever  and  ever  to  journey, 

Toward  the  gleam  of  the  evening  star, 

Toward  the  luminous  west  in  the  distance, 
Tender  and  faint  and  far. 


PICTURESQUE      SAN      FRANCISCO. 

A  BEAUTIFUL  specimen  of  Chinese  carving  appears 
in  this  issue  of  the  News  Letter,  in  the  shape  of  a 
bedroom  set,  purchased  years  ago  by  Senator  Stanford, 
and  now  owned  by  his  widow.  It  is  without  doubt  the 
most  interesting,  elaborate,  and  artistic  work  of  the  sort 
in  the  country;  and  is  very  valuable.  The  entire  series  of 
these  Chinese  subjects  are  furnished  by  Taber,  and  that 
one  which  was  given  last  week — a  Chinese  opium  den — by 
an  oversight  failed  to  give  credit  to  him. 

Wedding  and  Birthday  Presents.       Magnificent  assortment  to 
choose  from  at  Art  Store  of  S.  &  G.  Gump.  113  Geary  street. 


ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  20th  day  of  March,  1897,  an  assessment,  No.  Ill,  of  10  cents  per 
share,  was  levied  on  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  Im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  room  11,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
23D  DAY  OF  APRIL,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  Friday,  the  14th  day  of  May, 
1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  11,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal 

OFFICE  OF  THE  HALE  &  NORCROSS  SILVER  MINING  CO., 
Room  11,  331  Pine  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal  .  Ap<il  22, 1897. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  this 
company,  held  this  day,  the  date  of  delinquency  of  stock  for  Assessment 
No.  Ill   was  postponed  until  May  24. 1897. 

Any  stock  upon  which  said  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

24th  DAY  OF  MAY,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless 
payment  be  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY.  June  15,  1897.  to  pay 
said  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  tee  cof  t  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

REMOVAL    NOTICE, 

Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company. 

To  the  stockholders  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company  and 
to  all  others  concerned: 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that,  pursuant  to  the  consent,  in  writing,  of  the 
holders  of  two-thirds  of  the  capital  stock  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  Silver 
Mining  Company,  duly  filed  in  the  office  of  said  company,  the  principal 
place  of  business  of  said  Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company  has  been 
changed  from  Room  No.  3  of  the  San  Francisco  Stock  and  Exchange  Build- 
ing, No.  331  Pine  street,  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  State  of 
California,  to  room  No.  11  in  the  same  building,  where  the  business  of  said 
company  will  be  hereafter  transacted.  This  notice  is  published  in  accord- 
ance with  Section  321  of  the  Civil  Code. 

Dated  March  19, 1897 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors.  R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office-Room  11,  Stock  Exchange  Building,  331  Pine  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  held 
on  the  Nineteenth  day  of  March,  1897,  an  assessment,  No.  Ill,  of  Ten 
Cents  (ID  cents)  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the 
corporation,  payable  immediately  In  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Sec- 
retary, at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  3,  331  Pine  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
23D  DAY  OF  APRIL,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  Friday,  the  14th  day  of  May, 
1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

R    U.  COLLINS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  3,  No  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ANNUAL    MEETING 

Hutchinson  Sugar  Plantation  Company, 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the    stockholders   of   the   Hutchinson 
Sugar  Plantation  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  327 
Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

TUESDAY,  THE  11TH  DAY  OF  MAY,  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  11  o'clock  a.m.,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors 
to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  for  the  transaction  of  such  other  business 
as  may  come  before  the  meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  Friday,  April 
30th  at  3  o'clock  p  m  EH   SHELDON,  Secretary. 

Office— 327  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL     MEETING 

Justice  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Justice  Mining 
Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  23,  Nevada  Block, 
309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

MONDAY,  the  30  DAY  OF  MAY.  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  election  of  a  Board  of  Directors  to 
serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as 
may  come  before  the  meeting.     Transfer  books  will  close  on  Saturday, 
May  1, 1897,  at  12  o'clock  m. 

R.  E.  KELLY,  Secretary. 
Office:  Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO,   MAY  S,  1897. 


Number  19. 


Printed  and  PuolisAta  stiry  Saturday  by  > he  proprwtor .  FKIW  UAJWWT7 
b\%  Kearny  street.  San  Francisco  Knterid  at  San  Francisco  Post- 
ofics  as  second-class  Matter. 

Tkl  oJUl  of  the  ySWS  LETT  SB  in  .Vnr  York  City  it  at  Temple  Court; 
and  at  Chicago.  MS  Boyce  Building.  [Frank  S  Morrison,  Kastcrn 
Repretenlalire).  u-here  information  may  be  obtained  regarding  subscrip- 
tion and  adrertising  rates. 

THE  investigation  of  Police  Court  methods  of  releasing 
prisoners  upon  personal  recognizance,  in  the  hope  of 
curing  the  evil,  will  be  likely  to  accomplish  very  little 
good.  The  aim  of  the  Grand  Jury  is  commendable;  but  it 
were  better  engaged  in  attempting  the  possible. 

THE  boulevard  fund  is  still  below  the  mark  necessary  to 
the  completion  of  that  fine  road  upon  the  plan  origin- 
ally intended.  The  wheelmen,  from  whom  something  hand- 
some was  expected,  have  signally  failed  to  come  forward. 
No  concerted  effort  has  been  made  by  them,  notwithstand- 
ing the  fact  that  the  boulevard  will  contribute  directly  to 
the  pleasure  of  every  person  about  the  city  who  rides  a 
bicycle. 

SN  example  of  the  influence  of  organized  effort  in 
municipal  matters  is  found  in  the  work  being  ac- 
complished by  the  various  improvement  clubs  throughout 
the  city.  The  latest  to  enter  the  field  is  the  Mission  Club. 
The  Mission  has  been  sadly  neglected  in  everything  aside 
from  the  collection  of  taxes,  and  an  organized  demand  is 
now  made  for  a  division  of  the  moneys  paid  into  the  City 
Treasury.  The  fact  is,  the  tax-eaters  have  only  been 
dividing  with  the  Western  Addition,  and  supplemental 
provision  will  have  to  be  made  for  that  part  of  the  city 
lying  south  of  Market  street. 

WITHIN  the  last  year  a  half  dozen  penny-purchase 
Clubs  have  been  started — and  stopped — in  this  city, 
every  burst-up  being  followed  by  wild  outcries  of  those 
who  have  become  members — and  also  victims.  The  daily 
press  of  Wednesday  recorded  the  last  failure  of  one  of 
these  penny-purchase  agencies.  Doubtless  the  necessity 
of  purchase  of  a  penny's  worth  of  brains  as  an  original 
investment,  never  presented  itself  to  the  members  of  these 
clubs. 

THE  Southern  Pacific  has  made  arrangements  to  give 
the  fruit  growers  of  this  State  excellent  freight  ser- 
vice, in  getting  their  products  to  the  Eastern  markets. 
Special  fast  fruit  trains  made  up  of  refrigerater  cars 
will  be  hurried  through  with  the  utmost  dispatch — reach- 
ing Chicago  at  an  early  hour  in  the  morning  for  immediate 
distribution,  and  points  further  East  will  be  handled  in 
the  same  satisfactory  manner.  California's  fruit  crop  pro- 
mises to  be  large,  while  unfavorable  weather  beyond  the 
Rocky  Mountains  will  greatly  curtail  the  home  supply. 
This  new  arrangement  means  many  thousands  of  dollars  to 
the  fruit  growers  of  California. 

THE  Rev.  Dr.  McLean  of  the  Congregational  faith  has 
reached  the  conclusion  that  there  are  too  many 
churches.  This  good  minister  at  a  meeting  of  his  co-laborers 
declared  that  there  are  one  hundred  more  churches  in  this 
State  than  there  should  be;  and  that  "if  they  should  die 
off  it  would  be  the  best  thing  for  the  Kingdom  of  God." 
The  Dr.  claims  that  there  should  be  more  inter  denomina- 
tional unity;  that  religion  should  be  of  more  importance 
than  any  sect  or  creed.  All  true.  But  with  our  friends, 
the  ministers,  it  is  always  the  other  fellow's  denomination 
that  should  be  sacrificed.  The  Dr.  is  facing  in  the  right 
direction;  but  we  fear  that  the  hundred  ministers  and 
Satan  would  object. 


THE  ladies  of  the  recent  Woman's  Congress  are  making 
more  of  the  breach  of  the  peace  between  an  Indian 
night  robe  and  the  United  States  than  the  occasion  war- 
rants. The  character  of  the  Congress  was  an  abundant 
guarantee  that  the  hitherto  distinguished  guest  of  the 
ladies  received  the  respectful  attention  and  courtesy  due 
his  rank.  That  the  bucking  B.  Bodarhoskshu  lost  his  temper 
and  his  manners  should  be  no  concern  of  theirs.  The  young 
man  of  the  nightgown  should  have  been  cordially  spanked 
and  sent  to  bed. 

THOSE  who  have  investigated  the  mysteries  of  hyp- 
notism, say  that  in  the  hands  of  irresponsible  and  un- 
scrupulous persons  it  may  be  made  a  potent  influence  for 
evil.  During  the  present  week  an  instance  of  hypnotic 
power  has  illustrated  the  uses  to  which  it  may  be  put.  It  be- 
came necessary  for  the  parents  of  a  boy  eighteen  years  old 
to  obtain  a  warrant  for  their  son's  arrest  before  they  were 
able  to  rescue  him  from  the  clutches  of  Dr.  H.  M.  Thorn- 
ton, in  whose  "hypnotic  institution"  he  was  profitably 
used  as  a  "subject."  If  the  allegations  concerning  this 
institution  be  true,  its  proprietors  should  be  given  an  op- 
portunity to  study  their  occult  science  in  quiet  and  at  the 
city's  expense. 

THE  Directors  of  the  Merchants'  Association  have 
adopted  resolutions  favoring  the  tranferof  the  munici- 
pal $3000  appropriation  for  celebration  of  the  Fourth  of 
July  to  the  boulevard  fund.  These  gentlemen  represent 
nearly  one  thousand  of  the  leading  business  firms  of  San 
Francisco,  and  the  Supervisors  should  accept  their  opinion 
as  the  conclusive  voice  of  the  people.  They  should  not  hes- 
itate, if  the  transfer  can  be  legally  accomplished.  Three 
thousand  dollars'  worth  of  valuable,  permanent  improve- 
ment with  incidental  bread  and  meat  for  deserving  labor, 
against  a  day  ot  windy  chestnuts,  distracting  tumult, 
brass-banding  and  meaningless  parade  !  There  is  no  room 
for  honest  argument  here. 

THE  giving  of  a  silver  service  to  that  noble  patriot, 
Samuel  Rainey,  by  his  admirers  in  the  Fire  Depart- 
ment demonstrates  the  fact  that  gratitude  has  not  yet  fled 
the  earth.  Mr.  Rainey  was  the  virtual  (not  virtuous)  au- 
thor of  the  legislation  which  increased  the  salaries  of  the 
department,  and  added  another  straw  to  the  back  of  the 
ass — that  docile  animal  in  this  instance  being  the  people  of 
San  Francisco,  who  tamely  submit  to  the  burdens  of  the 
place-hunters,  the  politicians  and  their  unclean  henchmen. 
The  resolutions  which  accompanied  the  silver  service  give 
an  added  flavor  to  the  offering  of  the  appreciative  firemen; 
and  they  are  simply  returning  service  for  service  when 
they  chip  in  for  a  memorial  celebrating  the  venality  of  a 
legislature  and  the  adroitness  of  a  rogue. 

AS  the  windy  season  advances,  the  great  need  of  sprink- 
ling the  principal  streets  is  again  pressed  upon  the 
public  attention,  and  into  the  public's  eyes,  and  hair,  and 
nostrils.  The  present  street  sprinkling  combine  is  a  most 
unjust,  unequal,  and  monstrous  grab.  Some  merchants 
pay  $5  per  week,  where  others  who  have  equal  frontage 
and  have  the  same  service,  pay  but  half  as  much,  or  even 
less.  The  whole  arrangement  is  a  fraud  on  the  public, 
who  are  outraged  by  it,  the  store  keepers  who  pay  for  it, 
and  a  disgrace  to  San  Francisco  which  allows  it.  The 
sprinklers  in  some  manner — certainly  not  by  the  giving  of 
bribes — defeated  the  efforts  of  the  Merchants'  Association 
to  have  the  sweeping  and  sprinkling  done  by  the  same 
contractor,  and  as  a  result  the  filth  deposited  on  the 
streets  is  literally  forced  down  the  throats  of  those  who 
walk  abroad. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  8,  1897. 


HAWAIIAN      RECIPROCITY      DOOMED. 


THAT  reciprocity  which  is  genuine  is  a  most  excellent 
thing.  That  which  is  reciprocity  merely  in  name  is  a 
fraud,  and  in  fact  a  downright  steal.  It  is  obtaining 
something  for  nothing,  and  securing  benefits  by 
false  representations.  The  Hawaiian  planters  loot  the 
people  of  the  United  States  out  of  about  $4,000,000  a  year 
in  the  shape  of  rebated  sugar  duties.  Since  1890  the 
sugar  duty  remitted  has  amounted  to $24, 586, 900;  the  duty 
remitted  in  Hawaii  on  goods  arriving  from  this  country 
has  in  the  same  period  amounted  only  to  $1,848,600,  or 
nearly  12  times  greater  benefit  to  that  country  than  to 
our  own.  That  kind  of  reciprocity  is  like  Mr.  Curran's 
cheek.  Coming  into  Court  one  morning  with  the  side  of 
his  face  greatly  swollen,  the  judge  who,  by  the  way,  al- 
ways ruled  for  the  crown,  said:  "I  congratulate  the 
prisoner  on  the  counsel  he  has  this  morning;  you  will  to- 
day surpass  yourself  as  a  pleader,  Mr.  Curran."  "How 
is  that?"  quoth  the  eminent  counsel.  "Because  you  have 
plenty  of  cheek,  Mr.  Curran,"  replied  the  impertinent  and 
always  unfair  man  on  the  Bench.  Promptly  came  the  re- 
tort that  "as  times  go  I  think  my  cheek  would  better 
qualify  me  for  a  Judge."  "How  is  that?"  queried  Lord 
Clonmel,  for  it  was  he  who  was  on  the  Bench.  Qu;ck  as  a 
flash  Mr.  Curran  flung  back  the  retort:  "because  my 
cheek  is  all  on  one  side,  my  Lord."  Just  so  itis  with 
Hawaiian  reciprocity.  It  is  all  for  a  small  band  of  island 
planters,  and  nothing  for  the  people  of  the  United  States. 
Since  the  treaty  first  went  into  operation  we  have  given 
that  band  remitted  sugar  duties  to  the  amount  of  $80,47S,- 
272.  It  is  a  mighty  sum  to  have  put  around  among  such 
a  pack  of  hungry  and  ungrateful  wolves!  No  wonder  that 
these  tropical  weaklings  are  becoming  rich  beyond  any 
needs  or  merits  of  their  own. 

Whilst  all  this  is  true,  it  is  also  true  that  we  have  an  in- 
fant but  promising  industry  that  needs  fostering  and  car- 
ing for.  Our  great  valleys  are  proving  preeminently 
fitted  for  the  growth  of  the  sugar  beet.  There  is  no  rea- 
son on  earth,  except  the  so-called  Hawaiian  reciprocity, 
why  all  that  region  of  our  country  West  of  the  Missouri, 
should  not  be  supplied  with  home  made  sugar.  Its  pro- 
duction means  employment  to  many  millions  of  capital,  and 
to  hundreds  of  thousands  of  laborers.  From  every  stump 
tbe  doctrine  has  gone  forth  that  we  must  above  all  things 
preserve  the  home  market  for  the  home  producer.  That 
is  the  key  stone  of  our  whole  tariff  policy  at  present.  To 
extend  protection  to  Hawaiian  sugar,  as  against  our  own, 
means  the  making  of  foreign  planters  rich,  at  the  expense 
of  what  otherwise  can  be  made  the  greatest  industry  of 
our  State.  The  Hawaiians  are  gorged  with  our  80 
millions  of  remitted  duties.  They  are  now  abundantly  able 
to  go  it  alone,  and  should  be  permitted  to  do  so.  They 
have  the  wide  world  for  a  market  and  are  very  well  able 
to  compete  in  it.  There  is  no  hardship  in  letting  them  do  so. 
The  Senate  appears  resolved  to  follow  nearly  the  course, 
in  regard  to  this  matter,  which  the  News  Letter  has  for 
many  years  advocated  with  vigor  and  effect.  It  perpe- 
trates a  mistake,  however,  when  it  hesitates  to  make  a 
clean  sweep  of  this  wretched  Hawaiian  treaty  business. 
There  is  no  logical  reason  why  Hawaii  should  still  be  made 
a  present  of  |  of  a  cent  per  pound.  Her  trade  will  come 
here  anyhow,  because  she  has  nowhere  else  to  go  with  that 
part  of  it  which  already  comes  to  us.  Our  law-makers 
are  worried  to  find  revenue  and  are  at  their  wits  ends  to 
make  the  National  ledger  balance.  In  view  of  that  con- 
dition of  things  there  is  no  sense  in  sending  away  to  tbe 
islands  $1,500,000  per  year  for  nothing.  It  is  high  time 
that  our  charitv  began  at  home.  The  population  of  the 
islands  is  but  "109,000.  Of  these  24,407  are  Japanese, 
21,616  are  Chinese,  and  15,191  are  Portuguese,  whilst 
47,806  are  Kanakas.  There  are  but  about  8,000  people  of 
other  nationalities,  consisting  mainly  of  Americans,  Eng- 
lish and  Germans.  Except  the  latter  and  there  is  little 
hope  of  finding  among  such  a  population  a  further  pur- 
chasing power  for  our  products.  Moreover,  theirs  is  not 
a  kind  of  population  that  we  should  care  to  help  at  the  ex- 
pense of  our  own.  Looking  at  this  question  from  every 
practical  standpoint,  and  more  particularly  holding  in  view 
the  interests  and  prosperity  of  this  State,  the  treaty 
should  be  abrogated.  The  Islands  are  near  enough  at 
2200  miles. 


Will  Durrant  Be  Governor  Budd,  may,  if  he  so  chooses, 
Hanged,  Or  Not?  take  council  with  the  Board  of  Prison 
Directors,  as  a  counsel  of  advice  mere- 
ly, as  to  whether  Theodore  Durrant  should  be  hanged,  or 
imprisoned  for  life.  But  the  responsibility  for  ultimate 
action  rests  with  hira  and  him  alone.  It  is  a  terrible  res- 
ponsibility, very  hard  to  bear,  and  should  render  the 
Gubernatorial  office  unendurable  to  sensitive  minds. 
There  are  ugly  duties  to  perform  in  this  world,  and  as  some- 
bod}'  has  got  to  be  hanged,  it  is  necessary  that  someone 
should  be  equal  to  the  emergency.  The  late  Governor 
Booth  was  not.  His  clear  intellect  believed  the  man 
guilty,  but  his  band  felt  as  if  it  had  become  paralyzed,  and 
his  heart  forbade  the  signing  of  the  warrant.  When  the 
time  came  be  couldn't  do  it,  and  signed  a  reprieve  instead. 
He  sought  the  forbearance  of  his  critics,  said  it  was  a 
plenary  power  placed  in  his  hand  for  the  use  of  which  he 
was  responsible  to  no  one  but  his  God,  before  whom  he 
some  day  expected  to  plead  for  mercy  for  himself.  He 
begged  those  inclined  to  condemn  him  to  first  put  them- 
selves in  his  place.  For  the  moment  public  feeling  was 
against  him  but,  ere  long,  the  great  heart  of  the  State 
went  out  towards  him,  and  said  he  had  done  right. 
Newton  Booth  lost  nothing  by  that  reprieve,  and  it  may 
be  believed  that  the  God  before  whom  he  has  since  gone  has 
held  it  as  a  sin  against  him. 

We  are  not,  however,  of  those  who  believe,  with  Victor 
Hugo,  that  "the  worst  use  a  State  can  put  a  man  to  is  to 
hang  him. "  We  believe  that  if  by  hanging  him  such  a 
deterrent,  example  is  set  as  to  prevent  uine  other  murders; 
the  greatest  good  to  the  greatest  number  is  accomplished 
by  the  hanging.  John  Stuart  Mill,  the  most  sympathetic 
humanitarian  this  age  has  produced,  being  elected  to  the 
House  of  Commons  for  the  great  constituency  of  West- 
minster, made  his  first  and  perhaps  his  best  speech  on 
the  subject  of  capital  punishment.  Up  to  that  time  there 
had  been  annual  motions  for  the  repeal  of  the  extreme 
penalty  and  the  time  had  arrived  when  it  was  believed  that 
the  repeal  would  surely  carry.  Mr.  Mill  rose  to  his 
full  strength  and  delivered  an  address  so  full  of  sound 
philosophy,  that  from  that  day  to  this  no  one  has  ventured 
to  renew  the  subject  in  tbe  House  of  Commons.  He 
showed  from  well  determined  statistics  that  the  deterr- 
ent example  of  hanging  was  the  only  proven  preventive  of 
murder.  It  saved  lives,  and  those  the  innocent  and  the 
best  ones.  We  do  not  pretend  to  any  occult  knowledge  of 
what  will  be  the  final  decision  in  Durrant's  case,  but  there 
are  two  signs  that  appear  to  us  indicative.  His  parents 
are  self-contained  and  apparently  satisfied,  as  if  they  were 
resting  upon  a  promise,  and  Governor  Budd  is  casting 
around  among  Prison  Directors  and  others  to  procure  aid 
in  bearing  the  responsibility  of  a  reprieve  with  him. 
Public  opinion  is  clearly  in  favor  of  permitting  the  law  to 
take  its  course. 

Farmers  and     The  law  directing  the  Harbor  Commission- 
Commission     ers  to  establish  and  put  in  operation  a  free 
Merchants,      market  at  some  convenient   point  on  the 
water  front,  and  the  real  or  apparent  in- 
activity of  those  officials,  has  awakened   earnest   inquiry 
among  the  growers  of  garden  truck  and  fruit,   the   season 
for  which  is  now  at  hand.     The   News  Letter   has    been, 
and  is  now,  an  advocate  of  a  free  market  for  this  specific 
purpose,    where   the  grower  and    the  consumer  may   be 
brought  together.     But  it  will  not  do   to  assume  because 
in  this  matter  the  middle  man   may  be  ignored   that   the 
principle  applies  with  equal  force  in  other  directions. 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  and  as  a  general  rule,  the  farmer 
looks  upon  the  merchaut,  the  commission  man,  and  the 
agent  who  stands  between  him  and  the  consumer,  as  a 
privileged  character — a  sort  of  licensed  robber,  who  sits 
in  his  office  all  day  over  schemes  how  he  may  gouge  the 
seller  and  defraud  the  buyer  of  the  articles  in  which  he 
deals.  The  farmers  imagine  that  all  their  ills  are  the  re- 
sult of  studied  intent  upon  the  part  of  the  merchant;  and 
whenever  half  a  dozen  of  these  sons  of  toil  assemble  in  the 
grange  or  at  the  corner  store,  they  pass  sanguinary  reso- 
lutions condemning  the  city  merchant  as  a  Crcesus — a  sort 
of  bold  buccaneer  who  wrongfully  piles  up  as  his  thousands 
the  money  which  by  right  of  creation  belongs  to  them. 
The  markets  and  the  merchants — which  to  the  average 
farmer  are  convertible — he  holds  are  put  up  with  a  definite 


May  8,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


their  worth    and    soil 
ouble  their  valui  people  are  so  in- 

tolerant or  so  dumb  to  tl  •  Their   ex- 

peri< ■•  ■  .liii,  rather 

than  from  the  world  where  their  harvests  find  a   market. 
The  legitimate  and  all-powerful  law  of  supply  and  demand 
e  in  their  economy,  and  all  their  misfortunes  are 
promptly  charged  up  to  tl  merchants,    who 

I  the  land  ■  g   the  simple-minded 

and  innoct ■■  The   cause   of   this 

in  the  mercurial  temperament  of  the 
farmer  as  applii  of  combines 

in  any  other  direction  than  Ins   own.      Let    the  telegraph 
in  grain  or   dried   fruits,  or   let    the 
r  short  foreign  yield  reach  him,    and   be   walks 
on  air-  fancies  that  bi  world  and    the    merchant 

in  the  bargain.  When  the  result  does  not  materialize,  he 
seeks  the  commission  dealer  as  the  object  of  bis  wrath,  the 
of  all  his  misfortunes.  This  fact  has  been  proved 
over  and  over  again  in  San  Francisco.  The  commission 
merchant  is  as  necessary  a  part  and  parcel  of  the  business 
routine  of  todav  as  the  railroad  and  the  steamship.  He 
is  the  invaluable  and  unavoidable  connecting  link  between 
the  farmer  and  the  consumer.  He  simplifies  the  problem 
of  sale  and  purchase;  and  instead  of  clogging  the  wheels  of 
commerce  is  the  ready  lubricant  that  smoothes  the  way. 
The  efforts  that  are  from  time  to  time  made  by  the  pro- 
ducers to  override  the  established  lines  of  trade  and  enjoy 
the  fancied  wealth  of  the  commission  barons,  are  always 
met  by  crushing  and  disheartening  failure.  The  organiza- 
tions of  farmers  who  feel  that  they  are  simply  wearing 
their  lives  and  lands  out  for  the  enrichment  of  the  mer- 
chant, should  look  at  the  merciless  competitions  of  the  city, 
the  money  involved,  and  the  chances  taken  by  those  who 
stand  between  their  granaries  and  the  mills  and  mouthg 
of  Europe.  And  lastly,  if  the  complaining  and  incredulous 
farmer  were  to  apply  the  method  and  precision,  the  intel- 
ligence and  judgment,  to  his  acres  that  the  commission 
dealer  does  to  his  business,  he  would  find  himself  to  blame 
for  nearly  all  his  misfortunes. 

After  the  Pure  The  Pure  Food  Congress  has  met,  had 
Food  Congress,  a  good  time,  and  adjourned  without  ac- 
complishing much  worth  placing  on 
record.  It  simply  relegated  the  pure  food  question  to  the 
different  Boards  of  Health,  which  in  effect  leaves  the  whole 
subject  matter  just  about  where  it  is.  Much  more  is 
needed.  The  Boards  of  Health  are  very  well  in  their  way, 
but  they  are  not  so  constituted  as  to  take  up  this  matter 
and  push  it  until  pure  food  is  everywhere  the  rule  rather 
than  the  exception.  Medical  gentlemen  have  not  the  time 
nor  the  aptitude  required  for  the  active  performance  of 
the  duties  involved.  Unsalaried  officers  as  they  are,  too 
much  is  already  expected  of  them.  The  way  to  do  a  thing 
is  to  do  it.  The  way  to  regulate  the  sale  of  the  food  of  the 
people  is  no  new  thing.  It  is  now,  and  long  has  been  in 
successful  operation  in  most  countries  we  know.  New 
York  has  a  very  excellent  department  in  operation,  and 
Ohio  has  a  still  better  one.  What  is  needed  is  a  thoroughly 
equipped  department,  with  a  few  energetic  detectives  to 
procure  samples,  a  few  analytical  chemists,  and  earnest 
pi  oseeuting  officers.  We  cannot  do  better  than  pattern 
after  the  plans  that  are  elsewhere  in  successful  opeiation. 
A  State  department  is  found  to  work  better  than  a 
municipal  one.  Local  ''pulls  '  and  influences  are  less 
potential  in  the  former  case  than  in  the  latter.  California, 
of  all  places  in  the  world,  has  need  of  food  inspection.  We 
export  largely,  and  it  is  essential  that  our  customers  should 
be  guaranteed  genuine  articles. 

The  Tariff  The  party  now  in  power  is  in  dire  straits 
Mixture.  over  its  tariff  mixture.  Chairman  Dingley 
admits  that  imports  are  being  rushed  in  at 
such  a  rate  that  little  or  no  revenue  will  be  realized 
through  the  Custom  Houses  for  over  a  year.  Thus,  if  no 
change  were  made,  the  deficiency  would  go  on  increasing, 
whi?h  would  mean  the  political  ruin  of  the  new  administra- 
tion. Accordingly,  the  tariff,  as  it  left  the  House,  has 
been  thrown  aside,  and  a  substantially  new  measure  im- 
provised by  the  Senate.  Protection  for  protection's  sake, 
which  was  the  cry  of  the  campaign,  has  been  practically 
abandoned,  and  the  additional  revenue  needed  is   now   to 


1  from  internal   products.      The    tax 
on  beer  hae  .  $1.50  a  barrel.      On  tobacco  it 

has  been  raised  from  six  to  eight  cents  a  pound.     Hides 
arc  to  bear  one  and  one-half  cents  a  pound,     Sugar  is  to 

fay  one  and  one-half  cents,  with  a  differential  in  favor  of 
lawaii  and  other  countries  with  which   we  have   recipro- 

1  cal  arrangements,  of  one  eighth  of  a  cent  per  pound.  Lead 
Ore  is  to  be  dutiab  e  at  one  and  one-half  cents   per    pound. 

■  Tea,  which  is  now  on  the  free  list,  is  to  bear  ten  cents  per 
pound.  The  higher  grades  of  wool  have  been  reduced. 
The  free  list  has  been  greatly  enlarged  and  now  exceeds 
that  of  the  Wilson  tariff.  Of  1000  changes  made  in  the 
House  bill,  nearly  all  represent  cuts.  And  so  it  comes 
that  the  need  for  revenue  is  driving  McKinleyism  as  near 
as  possible  into  free  trade.  It  is  a  most  curious  condition 
that  confronts  the  party  in  power,  the  outcome  of  which 
will  be  watched  with  more  than  passing  interest.  The 
long  drawn-out  discussion  upon  the  tariff'  seems  doomed  to 
reach  a  most  wondrous,  strange,  and  impotent  end.  These 
changes  are  what  the  Republicans  have  up  to  date  agreed 
upon,  but  their  opponents  have  yet  to  be  heard  from.  The 
Democratic  members  of  the  finance  committee  of  the  Sen- 
ate will  not  agree  to  the  proposition  of  their  Republican 
colleagues  to  allow  the  tariff  bill  to  be  reported  back  with- 
out being  discussed  by  the  full  committee.  In  this  it  seems 
to  us  that  they  are  only  doing  the  duty  for  which  they 
were  put  upon  the  committee.  If  a  majority  of  a  com- 
mittee may  prepare  a  bill  in  secret,  and  the  minority  then 
withdraw,  and  agree  that  it  shall  be  reported  without 
their  looking  into  it  or  considering  whether  it  is  good  or 
bad,  or  what  kind  of  measure  they  themselves  would  rec- 
ommend, there  is  obviously  no  reason  for  their  being  on 
the  committee  at  all.  The  object  of  having  the  different 
parties  represented  on  the  committees  is  that  a  thorough 
preparation  shall  be  made  for  debate.  Hence,  there  is 
much  talk  ahead  over  the  tariff,  and  in  view  of  the  state 
of  parties  in  the  Senate,  it  is  pretty  certain  that  further 
changes  will  yet  be  made  in  the  bill  before  it  can  become  a 
law.  At  the  Reform  Club  banquet,  which  took  place  just 
two  weeks  ago.  Senator  McCaffery  indicated  what  was 
coming  in  this  tariff  matter  in  language  that  seems  to 
mean  a  reconstruction  of  parties.  He  said:  "There  are 
many  Republicans  who  do  not  believe  in  erecting  the 
'Chinese  wall '  of  protection  so  high  as  both  to  keep  out 
foreign  imports  and  to  keep  in  domestic  manufactures. 
These  forces  ought  to  unite  with  the  gold  Democrats  for 
the  weal  of  a  common  country,  whose  prosperity  lies  so 
close  to  their  hearts."  Importers  are  paying  little  or  no 
attention  in  the  retroactive  clause,  because  they  know 
that  it  is  utterly  illegal.  There  can  be  no  authority  for 
collecting  taxes  not  yet  authorized  by  law. 

The  Cause  of     If  Spain  had  kept  her   forests  she  might 
Spain's  now  easily  keep  Cuba.     When  her  woods 

Weakness.  were  cut  away  she  lost  her  springs  and 
rivers;  therewith  she  lost  her  farms  and 
means  of  livelihood;  she  lost  with  food  and  wealth,  her 
schools  and  arts;  her  population  diminished,  her  initiative 
disappeared;  therefore  she  is  to-day  a  weak  nation,  un- 
recognized among  the  powers.  All  this  is  the  truth  of 
history,  and  should  bring  home  to  the  people  of  the  United 
States  an  important  lesson.  We  are  denuding  our  forests 
at  an  alarming  rate;  for  which  senseless  act  of  spoliation 
those  who  are  to  come  after  us  will  pay  only  too  dearly. 
Keep  the  forests  that  we  may  have  rivers,  keep  the  birds 
that  we  may  have  crops,  and  we  shall  continue  to  be  a 
great  people.  Save  the  big  trees,  save  the  redwoods,  the 
pines,  the  spruce,  and  all  the  rest  of  the  forest  giants,  and 
then  the  rains  will  come  in  due  season,  the  soil  will  bring 
forth  abundantly,  and  wealth  will  remain  and  increase 
throughout  all  our  borders.  Let  us  learn  all  this  from  the 
present  impoverished  condition  of  old  Spain.  She  will  lose 
Cuba  because  she  has  no  money.  Her  debts  are  crushing 
her  worse  than  are  the  arms  of  the  Cubans. 

Overman  Brown  The  Chicago  Congregational  Confer- 
Reinstated.  ence  has  voted  fellowship  to  the  notori- 
ous C.  Overman  Brown.  To  be  sure, 
the  majority  was  not  great.  Sixty-seven  members  voted 
for  Brown,  whilst  fifty  seven  voted  against  him.  This  is 
doing  pretty  well  for  Chicago.  It  shows  that  the  im- 
moral congregationalists  only   exceed   the  moral  ones  by 


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May  8,  1897. 


hardly  nine  per  cent.  Of  course  if  that  showing  were  for 
the  whole  population  it  would  not  be  so  bad,  but  as  it 
applies  to  a  picked  assemblage  of  strict  religionists,  it 
shows  that  Congregationalism  in  the  windy  city  is  not 
what  it  ought  to  be.  It  is  enough,  however,  to  save  it 
from  the  application  of  the  words  that  were  applied  to 
Sodom  and  Gomorrah:  "there  was  none  found  good  there, 
not  one. "  The  Chicago  Conference,  it  is  to  be  presumed, 
knew  Brown's  character,  or  they  bad  no  right  to  pass  up- 
on it.  Knowing  it,  they  have  condoned  in  a  clerical 
brother  the  sins  of  adultery,  perjury,  and  subornation  of 
perjury.  The  public  trial  held  here  in  San  Francisco, 
which  was  reported  with  great  fulness  in  the  daily  news- 
papers, shocked  this  community  and  drove  Brown  to  seek 
fresh  fields  and  pastures  new.  In  an  incredibly  short  time 
he  has  found  what  he  sought  in  the  wicked  city  of  Chicago. 
The  rehabilitating  of  him  into  the  Congregational  church, 
is  a  shame  to  the  conference  that  admitted  him,  and  a  sad 
blow  at  religion  itself.  If  these  things  may  be  done  in  a 
green  tree,  what  may  not  be  done  in  a  dry?  If  religionists 
have  no  discipline  for  a  man  like  Brown,  how  may  the 
common  debauchee  be  held  up  to  merited  scorn?  In  other 
words,  how  can  religion  be  respected  and  society  pro- 
tected? If  the  church  can  see  no  evil  in  these  things,  how 
is  a  sound  public  opinion  to  be  cultivated,  and  purity  of 
life  maintained?  Certainly  no  such  Congregationalism  can 
be  reckoned  among  the  forces  for  good.  Its  influence  can 
only  be  baneful.  All  of  which  we  feel  constrained  to  say 
with  more  of  sorrow  than  of  anger.  Yet  it  is  a  case  about 
which  it  is  very  possible  to  wax  indignant  and  sin  not. 

Tests  of  Circulation  and  advertising  are  not,  as  the 
Newspaper  Examiner  claims,  true  tests  of  a  news- 
Popularity,  paper's  real  popularity.  A  newspaper  may 
be  widely  read  for  a  combination  of  incon- 
gruous causes  that  in  no  manner  constitute  popularity.  A 
crowd  may  be  attracted  by  a  freak  parading  the  streets, 
but  that  does  not  prove  that  be  is  in  any  true  sense  popu- 
lar. Mere  curiosity  to  look  upon  a  deformity,  or  to  watch 
for  scandals,  or  libels  upon  men  you  know,  may  bring 
nickels  to  the  counter,  but  it  is  not  popularity.  It  is  very 
possible  to  attract  attention  without  inspiring  respect. 
Half  the  State  would  like  to  go  and  see  a  celebrated  mur- 
derer hanged,  but  that  would  not  indicate  that  they  were 
his  admirers,  or  that  he  had  enlisted  their  good  will. 
Popularity,  in  its  true  sense,  means  the  good  will,  ap- 
proval and  respect  of  the  populace.  It  does  not  mean  the 
mere  attraction  of  attention  by  doing  things  out  of  the 
way,  or  scandalous,  malicious,  or  startling  to  the  sense  of 
right.  There  is  no  respect  in  that  sort  of  attention,  and 
without  respect  there  can  be  no  real  popularity.  For 
years  the  old  Bulletin  ruled  the  politics  of  this  city  and 
State.  The  people  believed  it  sincere  and  trusted  it;  that 
meant  popularity.  The  Examiner  cannot  rule  even  its 
own  party,  and  is  profoundly  distrusted  by  it.  Many  read 
it,  but  no  one  trusts  it,  which  clearly  means  unpopularity. 
When  the  Examiner  has  any  influence  upon  the  judgment 
of  thinking  men,  on  serious  matters,  it  will  have  to  be 
about  everything  that  it  is  not  now,  and  then  it  may  be  on 
the  way  to  become  popular.  At  present  its  ways  are 
those  of  the  gutter-snipe.  The  mere  winning  of  nickels, 
as  times  go,  more  often  means  the  telling  of  things  which 
are  not,  rather  than  the  things  that  are.  The  number  of 
nickels  thus  gained  are  almost  invariably  in  inverse  pro- 
portion to  the  amount  of  respect  inspired. 

The  Pending      We   seem  in   California  to  have  pretty 
Treaty  nearly  forgotten  the   great  treaty  of  in- 

Of  Arbitration,  ternational  arbitration.  The  case  is  very 
different,  however,  in  the  East.  Peti- 
tions in  its  favor  are  pouring  in  upon  Congress  from  all 
quarters.  A  very  suggestive  and  neatly  worded  one 
comes  from  the  Confederate  veterans  of  Louisiana,  repre- 
senting that  these  veterans  "have  intimately  known  the 
actualities  of  war  and  forcibly  realizing  its  evils"  respect- 
fully ask  to  be  heard  "as  an  authority  against  it  as  a 
method  of  settling  disputes  between  peoples."  They  say 
that  "the  recent  proffer  of  a  powerful  kindred  nation  to 
substitute,  in  the  adjustment  of  international  differences, 
the  arbitrament  of  a  calm  and  mediatory  tribunal  for  the 
inflamed  passions  of  partizan  or  popular  prejudices,  offers 


an  opportunity  of  inaugurating  a  rational  and  radical  re- 
volution of  international  procedure  which,  if  now  repulsed, 
may  never  recur."  They  therefore  ask  the  Senate  of  the 
United  States  to  ratify  the  treaty,  and  conclude  by  saying 
that  as  they  have  accepted  in  good  faith  the  result  <A  the 
civil  war,  they  now  ask  for  clemency,  not  for  themselves, 
but  for  the  generations  of  both  sections  who  are  to  come 
after  them.  When  we  compare  the  tone  of  this  simple  and 
solemn  memorial  with  the  vaporings  of  Senator  Morgan, 
we  marvel  that  demagogues  can  get  into  Congress  whilst 
the  brave  and  sincere  are  kept  out.  The  arbitration 
treaty  is  not  meeting  with  the  treatment  in  the  Senate 
that  its  merits  and  importance  demand.  Since  the  fore- 
going was  written,  the  treaty  has  been  defeated  in  the 
Senate  by  a  vote  of  forty-three  for  to  twenty-six  against. 
It  requires  a  majority  to  make  it  law  of  two-thirds.  It  is 
a  wicked  and  bad  ending  to  a  great  measure. 

The  Libel  It  does  not  seem  to  be  understood  as 
Law.  generally  as  it  might  be  that  there  is  a  vast 
difference  between  libel  trials  and  those  of 
other  suits.  In  all  cases,  save  those  of  libel  the  jury  is 
bound  to  take  the  law  from  the  court  and  are  judges  only 
in  the  facts.  The  exact  opposite  is  the  rule  involving  the 
freedom  of  publication.  Our  State  constitution  provides 
"that  in  libel  eases  the  jury  shall  be  judges  of  the  law  as 
well  as  of  the  facts."  The  court  may  rule  out  question 
after  question,  and  counsel  may  keep  on  repeating  them, 
because  in  the  end  the  jurors  are  sole  judges  of  whether 
they  were  proper  questions  or  not.  They  and  they  alone 
are  the  sole  judges  of  whether  the  matter  sought  to  be 
brought  out  was  material  to  the  issue  or  not.  If  the 
questions  be  not  put,  despite  any  ruling  of  the  court,  there 
is  no  law  before  the  jurors  upon  which  they  can  exercise 
their  constitutional  right  of  passing  an  opinion,  and  hence 
the  necessity  of  bringing  out  both  law  and  facts.  We 
doubt  very  much  the  right  of  the  court  to  charge  the  jury 
at  all  in  libel  cases.  If  they,  and  not  he,  are  judges  of  the 
law  what  remains  for  him  to  talk  to  them  about?  Any- 
thing he  may  say  is  merely  ex  Cathedra  and  to  which  they 
are  bound  by  their  oaths  to  pay  no  attention  whatever. 
Upon  them  alone  rests  the  responsibility  of  what  is  law, 
and  what  are  legal  rulings  in  cases  of  the  nature  we  are 
referring  to.  Judges  endeavor  to  try  these  cases  as  they 
do  others,  they  rule  in  and  rule  out  questions  as  if  they 
alone  had  control  of  the  law,  but,  as  we  have  shown,  that 
is  far  from  being  their  right.  In  fact  it  is  a  mere  usurpa- 
tion of  power,  not  warranted  by  the  constitution.  As  a 
matter  of  dry  fact,  we  believe  that,  if  the  law  were  strictly 
followed,  the  jury  ought  to  be  polled  every  time  the  com- 
petency of  a  question  is  involved.  This  of  course  would  be 
inconvenient,  but  it  would  be  the  law.  This  strong  buttress 
to  the  liberty  of  the  press  we  come  by  in  a  grand  historical 
way  that  leaves  no  doubt  of  the  original  intention.  The 
Kings  of  England  in  other  days  had  the  power  of  packing 
the  benches  with  their  creatures,  who,  in  most  cases,  were 
selected  for  the  express  purpose  of  preventing  free  discus- 
sion. They  declared  that  "the  greater  the  truth  the 
greater  the  libel,"  and  would  let  no  testimony  go  to  the 
jury  except  as  to  the  fact  of  publication.  After  a  long 
and  stubborn  fight,  the  House  of  Commons  was  induced  to 
see  the  necessity  of  changing  the  law  of  libel,  taking  away 
from  the  judges  and  giving  to  the  jury,  all  power  to  decide 
what  was  law  and  what  was  not.  This  safeguard  all 
American  constitutions  have  copied  verbatim  et  literatim, 
It  is  in  the  fundamental  law  of  California.  It  is  the 
Supreme  law  of  the  State.  If  jurors  were  to  ignore  it, 
they  would  be  forgetting  how  they  came  by  the  rights  and 
liberties  they  possess,  and  would  be  recreant  to  their 
oaths. 

ON  last  Saturday  morning  Clay  W.  Taylor,  a  well-known 
politician  and  attorney,  died  at  his  residence  in  this 
city.  During  his  life  he  was  frequently  called  to  fill  many 
important  positions,  and  was  held  in  general  and  high  re- 
spect by  all  who  knew  him.  For  some  time,  Mr.  Taylor's 
health  had  been  bad,  but  his  death  came  as  a  surprise  to 
his  friends.  He  was  a  prominent  Mason,  at  one  time  hav- 
ing been  Grand  Master  of  the  order  in  this  State. 


Wedding  and   BirthHay   Presents.       Magnificent  assortment  to 
choose  from  at  Art  Store  of  S.  &  G.  Gump,  113  Geary  street. 


May  8,  1897. 


>.\N    FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTKR. 


A    ONCE    FASHIONABLE    QUARTER    OF    THE    CITV. 

TH  r  .col   Soutti   Park    to    the  city  recalls  to 

many  old-timers  recollection  of  the  period  when  it  was 
the  fashionable  residence  quarter  of  the  city.  South  Park 
was  designed  and  laid  out  after  the  plan  of  English  Cres- 
353,  by  the  late  George  Gordon,  an  early 
•  r.  than  whom  there  was  never  a  man  better  known 
_•  the  business  fraternity  of  this  city.  George  Gor- 
don was  an  erratic  genius.  II''  was  very  fond  of  11 
into  print  on  the  slightest  provocation,  and  loved  to  air 
intone  iu  the  daily  press.  He  knew  well,  also,  how 
to  drive  a  sharp  bargain,  and  one  of  them  is  in  conni 
with  this  same  South  Park.  He  retained  in  his  own  name 
the  title  to  the  plot  of  ground  which  formed  the  Park  of 
the  enclosure,  and  when  the  different  parties  to  whom  he 
sold  lots  and  houses  in  the  Crescent  refused  to  take  a  share 
in  the  expense  of  keeping  it  up,  he  threatened  to  build  a 
market  thereon,  which  speedily  brought  them  to  terms. 
It  was  for  many  years  the  nucleus  around  which  gathered 
a  goodly  portion  of  the  social  lights  of  that  decade.  Within 
its  limits  were  the  dwellings  of  its  founder,  George  Gor- 
don. Colonel  B.  F.  Washington,  Commodore  Watkins, 
Horace  P.  Janes,  John  H.  Redington,  Lloyd  Tevis,  Isaac 
Friedlander.  Charles  de  Ro,  Alexander  Forbes,  the  agent 
of  the  S.  S.  Co..  Russian  Consul  Kostromitinoff,  James 
Bell,  founder  of  the  house  of  Falkner,  Bell  &  Co.,  (now 
merged  into  Balfour,  Guthrie),  R.  P.  Ashe,  George  C. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  M.  Ritchie.  James  Otis,  Wm.  M.  Lent,  T.  J. 
Polterer,  etc.  The  colony,  for  it  was  one,  far  removed 
from  the  other  parts  of  the  city,  was  very  sociable  within 
its  own  circle,  and  amoDg  other  attractions  boasted  three 
young  ladies  whom  one  of  the  three  dubbed  "the  World, 
the  Flesh,  and  the  Devil  " — Miss  Lottie  Hall  was  the  first, 
from  her  fondness  for  dancing;  Miss  Rosa  Gore  was  the 
second,  owing  to  her  plump  form,  and  the  sponsor,  Miss 
Patsey  Ritchie,  completed  the  trio,  her  sharpness  of 
tongue  being  proverbial.  She  sometimes  met  her  match, 
however,  as  an  instance  will  show.  Miss  Patsey  was  re- 
marking upon  the  size  of  Miss  Pauline  Hoge's  nose  (now 
Mrs.  Delmas.)  That  young  lady  at  once  replied  :  "  I'm 
not  always  looking  at  it,  at  any  rate," — referring  to  Miss 
Patsey's  oblique  vision.  South  Park  still  remains,  but 
Fashion  deserted  it  ages  ago. 

THE     APPROACHING     DOG     SHOW. 

DURING  the  current  week  entries  for  the  coming 
bench  show  have  been  coming  into  the  office  of  the  San 
Francisco  Kennel  Club  at  the  rate  of  a  hundred  a  day,  and 
from  now  until  the  close — next  Monday  night — the  rate 
will  probably  be  doubled.  Among  the  number  thus  far 
claiming  place  no  particular  class  or  breed  has  come  for- 
ward with  prominence.  The  club  at  the  outset  declared 
itself  out  for  dogs,  and  it  is  securing  them.  Cash  prizes 
have  been  offered  to  the  amount  of  $1,500;  silver  cups — 
many  of  them  of  magnificent  design — valued  at  $750;  and 
gold  aud  silver  medals  worth  $500  more.  And  yet  the  en- 
trance fee  remains  at  $3,  as  in  previous  years. 

Among  the  most  notable  features  of  the  exhibition  will 
be  the  number  of  kennels  benched.  The  vast  number  of 
new  dogs  entered  will  not  only  lend  much  to  the  specu- 
lative interest  in  the  disposition  of  the  ribbons,  but  in  the 
end  will  afford  to  the  San  Francisco  Kennel  Club  the  satis- 
faction of  having  given  a  bench  show  never  before  equalled 
west  of  St.  Louis. 

THE  "Hygienic  Ralston"  is  the  name  of  a  restaurant 
just  opened  at  315  and  317  Bush  street.  The  name 
"Ralston"  comes  from  the  fact  that  the  system  of  cooking 
at  this  restaurant  is  not  only  the  preventive  of  dyspepsia, 
but  its  cure.  The  Ralston  prepares  food  upon  proved 
hygienic  principles,  which  ensures  freedom  from  all  stom- 
ach troubles,  biliousness,  or  indigestion.  The  place  is 
fitted  up  in  a  quiet,  substantial  manner,  pleasing  to  the 
eye.  The  service  is  superior,  and  all  dishes  found  in  any 
modern  restaurant  may  be  had,  in  addition  to  the  Ralston 
specialties. 

A    Pound    of    Facts 
is  worth  oceans  of  theories.    More  infants  are  successfully  raised  on 
the  Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  than  upon  any  other 
food.    Infant   Health  is  a  valuable  pamphlet  for    mothers.    Send 
your  address  to  the  New  York  Condensed  Milk  Company,  N.  Y. 


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SALE  OF  THL- 

DOANE&HENSHELWOOD 


AND  OTHER  STOCKS. 


Such  values  as  we  are  off  ring  now  on  fresh,  clean,  new 
season's  merchandise,  »rv  a  revelation.  Ttiey  have  never 
been  equaled.  ThoasamH  nt  buyers  have  come  fro rn  all  parts 
of  the  city  and  near-by  low  ns. 

Read  this  list  of  Extraordinaru  Reductions  from 
the  Domestic  Department. 

50c  yd— Linen  Table  Damask,  72  in.— D.  &H.  Pricewas. . .  .75 
90c  yd— Double  Table  Damask.  72  '•  — D.  &  H.  price  was . . .  1.35 
10c  each— Huck  Linen  Towels  17*34-- D  &H.price  was,  doz.  1.50 
20c  each-Huck  Linen  Towels  21x43--D.&H.  price  was,  doz,  3  50 

5c  yd— Lace  Stripe  Dimity — D.  &  II.  price  was ...  .10 

7%c  yd— Printed  Batiste —  D.  &  H.  price  was. . .  .15 

15c  yd— Printed  Organdies —  D.  &H.  price  was...  .25 

20c  yd— Scotch  Lappets — D.  &  H.  price  was.. .  .30 

Read  this  I'st  of  Extraordinaru  Reductions  from  the  Dress 
Goods  Department. 

22K  yard-Choice  Printed  Challies— D.  &  H. 
ifl.20  Suit— Novelty  Dress  Patterns— D.  &  H. 
$2.00  Suit— Novelty  Dress  Patterns— D.  &  H. 

2.50  Suit— Novelty  Dress  Patterns— D.  &  H. 

3.50  Suit— Novelty  Dress  Patterns— D.  &  H. 

5  00  Suit— Novelty  Diess  Patterns— D.  &  H. 

35c.  yard— Black  Dress  Goods —  D.  &  H. 

59c.  yard— Black  Dress  Goods — D.  &  H. 

$3.00  Suit— Black  Dress  Patterns.  — D.  &  H. 

3  50  Suit— Black  Dress  Patterns..— D.  &  H. 

4.75  Suit— Black  Dress  Patterns. .— D.  &  H. 

6.75  Suit— Black  Dress  Patterns.  — D.  &  H. 


Read  this  list  of  Extraordinaru  Reductions  from  the  Silk 
and  Velvet  Departments. 

25c  yd  — Imported  Foulards — D.  &  H.  price  was  .75 

40c  yd— Printed  Indias  (French). .— D.  &  H.  price  was  .85 

70c  yd— French  Printed  Indias — D.  &  H.  price  was  1.25 

65c  yd — Finest  Crepe  de  Chene — D.  &  H.  price  was  1.25 

50c  yd— Fancy  Figured  Silks — D.  &  H.  price  was  85c 

Read  this  list  of  Extraordinaru  Reductions  from  the  Hosiery 
Department. 


price  was 

.50 

price  was 

3.00 

price  was 

500 

price  was 

7.50 

price  was 

10.00 

price  was 

12.50 

price  was 

.95 

price  was 

1.25 

price  was 

650 

price  was 

8.50 

price  was 

10.50 

price  was 

15.00 

12j^c  pair— Ladies'  Black  Hose. . 
17c  pair—Ladies'  Black  Hose. . 
25c  pair— Ladies'  Black  Hose. . 
25c  pair — Ladies'  Fancy  Hose. 
25c  pair— Ladies'  Fancy  Hose. . 


— D,  &  H.  price  was 
—  D.  &  H.  price  was 
— D.  <&  H.  price  was 
— D.  &  H.  price  was 
— D.  &  H,  price  was 


35c  pair— Ladies'  Lisle  Hose —  D.  &  H.  price  was 


.20 
.25 
.35 

1.00 
1.50 

.75 


Read  this  list  of  Extraordinary  Reductions  from  the  Suit 
and  Cloak   Department. 

$5.00—  Ladies'  All-Wool  Outing  Suits ;  were $15.00 

Light  or  dark  colors— all  sizes. 

15.00— Ladies'  Silk-lined  Tailor  Dresses;  were  $25.00  and  30.00 

Skirt  and  Jacket  lined  throughout  with  !Silk  Taffeta. 

6.45— New  Tan  Covert  Flv-front  Jackets;  were 10.00 

All  Silk-Lined— all  sizes. 
7.50— Black  Silk  Velour  Moreen,  separate  skirts;  were  12.50 

2.85— Fancy  Silk   Foulard  Waists,  lined  ;  were 4.00 

69c— Dimity  and  Lawn  Shirt  Waists;  were $1  and  $1.25 


THE  EMPORIUM. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  8,  1897. 


'  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 

EL  CAPITAN  is  for  purposes  of  recu- 
peration. It  is  exactly  what  tired 
people  want — a  rest,  a  vacation,  a  sham- 
poo. I  shall  not  say  that  I  was  a  total 
wreck,  mentally  and  physically,  prior  to 
*^  Monday  night;  but  I  was  less  happy  in  my 
daily  work,  less  of  a  sunbeam  to  my  family  and  less  satis- 
faction to  myself,  than  I  am  now  since  witnessing  Messrs. 
Klein  &  Sousa's  opera  as  performed  by  Mr.  Hopper  and 
his  company.  I  could  write  a  testimonial  on  the  spot,  and 
assert  that"  I  have  tried  Vin  Mariani,  Del  Monte,  iron,  gold 
and  other  minerals,  sea  voyage,  sleeping  with  my  head  to 
the  north,  lime  fruit,  Indian  clubs,  Jaeger  flannels,  kumys, 
pulley  weights,  old  ladies'  herb  soup,  bicycling,  glass  of 
hot  water  before  breakfast,  spiritualism  and  alcohol  baths 
— and  that  none  of  these  gave  me  that  rejuvenility,  that  in- 
spirited sans  gene  which  I  derived  from  EI  Caption  on  Mon- 
day night. 

Because  I  take  El  Oapitan  as  a  ionic  is  no  reason  why 
the  perfect  man  should  not  enjoy  it.  I  can  imagine  no  one 
so  strong  and  unjaded  that  a  three  hours'  percolation  of 
this  healthy,  idle  fun  will  not  do  him  good,  infuse  the  glad 
spirit  of  springtide  in  his  breast,  and  make  him 
think  better  of  the  world  in  general,  and  of  "comic 
opera"  in  particular.  I  use  the  term  "comic  opera"  in 
its  most  unmeaningful  way.  Carmen  is  called  comic  opera 
— so  is  El  Capitan.  Yet  there  are  many  differences  be- 
tween them;  andSousa,  judged  by  the  standard  of  a  Bizet, 
would  be  found  considerably  minus.  But  you  must  not 
take  him  that  way.  Sousa  is  a  genial  tunesmith,  and  he 
gives  Klein's  burlesque  some  smart,  tuneful  settings — mu- 
sic with  smash,  power — mostly  foot  power — and  bing.  But 
this  does  not  infer  that  he  has  written  an  opera:  quite  the 
contrary.  Of  course,  it  would  be  a  hard  matter  to  con- 
vert Mr.  Sousa  to  this  opinion.  The  people  flock  to  El 
Capitan,  laugh  at  Be  Wolf  Hopper — the  funniest  funnyman  in 
the  business, — laugh  at  Charles  Klein's  book — one  of  the  best 
burlesques  ever  got  together  in  this  country, — applaud  the 
springy  "two-steps,"  whistle  the  jocose  Zanzibar  song,  and 
go  off  to  supper  amused  and  diverted,  as  we  all  did  Monday 
night.  And  Mr.  Sousa  tunes  his  Stygian  whisker,  adorns  his 
bosom  with  sundry  specimens  of  hardware,  performs  a 
sonata  in  drum-major  on  the  baton,  and  says  to  the  world, 
"Ah!  perceive  me;  I  am  your  John  Philip,  and  I  did  it." 
Of  course,  he  did  not.  He  wrote  the  incidental  music  to  a 
sensationally  good  burlesque.  The  march  is  splendid,  the 
Zanzibar  tune  is  fresh  and  witty,  and  the  finale  of 
the  second  act  is  noisy  and  valuable.  But  any  band- 
master, without  a  whisker  or  a  medal  or  a  double-back- 
action  gesture  to  his  name,  could  have  written  the  rest, 
which  is  neat,  bandmaster  melodizing,  quite  as  good  as  any 
cheap  imported  fluff  opera  music,  and  quite  as  common- 
place. 

I  am  not  undervaluing  Mr.  Sousa's  share  in  the  success 
of  El  Capitan.  I  think  as  much  of  him  as  any  fair-minded 
appreciator  of  music  can  think.  The  "Washington  Post," 
"High  School  Cadets"  and  "Liberty  Bell"  are  genuine 
music.  They  are  marches;  and,  after  the  negro  songs  of 
Foster,  the  most  convincingly  American  melodies  that 
have  been  written.  It  is  not  improbable  that  some  day 
Sousa  might  write  a  "Marseillaise"  for  Americans.  But 
the  promise  of  it  is  not  so  strong  in  El  Capitan. 

*  *  * 

All  this  Sousa  seriousness  is  an  after-thought.  I  did  not 
think  for  a  single  minute  on  Monday  night.  I  did  not  care 
whether  El  Capitan  was  an  opera  or  a  circus.  I  was  swal- 
lowed up  in  a  sensation  of  large,  unusual  content.  And 
who  couldn't  be  contented  with  the  facile  tomfoolery  of 
Mr.  Klein's  book,  and  the  cultured  clownishness  of  DeWolf 
Hopper,  and  the  easy,  cheerful  music,  and  the  pretty 
good  company  ? 

The  book  is  a  treasure.  Only  one  hand-me-down  banal- 
ity— a  tippling  scene  for  the  comedian — and  that  is  so 
unctiously  acted  you  forgive  it  without   a  struggle.     No 


cheap  gags,  no  sewery  slang,  and,  above  all,  no  cues 
for  acrobatics.  I  do  not  remember  a  single  instance  of 
one  comic  person  kicking  another  comic  person  upon — as 
the  gentle  Goldsmith  described  it — that  side  least  capable 
of  making  a  defense.  This  last  innovation  is  daring,  but 
it  works  like  a  charm.  And  Mr.  Hopper  has  legs,  too, 
that  are  a  temptation  to  that  business.  Mr.  Klein  seems 
to  have  studied  closely  the  comicality  of  his  comedian. 
Hopper  has  a  part  that  fits  him  to  the  limit  of  his  lux- 
urious length.  It  is  fluent,  affable,  full  of  sumptious  lan- 
guage. Hopoer  is  happy  when  he  is  wallowing  in  rhe- 
toric, and  Mr.  Klein  gives  him  a  vast,  continuous  gush. 
Some  of  the  lines  are  really  too  good — that  is,  they  were 
too  good  for  the  Baldwin  first-nighters. 

"You  have  met  before?"  says  the  jealous  lover,  over- 
hearing Estrelda's  fervent  greeting  to  the  warrior,  El 
Capitan. 

"Only  in  dreams,"  El  Capitan  answers. 

"Whose  dreams?"  shouts  the  lover. 

Nobody  seemed  to  think  this  was  funny  enough  to  laugh 
over.  And  nobody  even  winked  an  eyelash  when  El 
Capitan  said,  "My  mother  was  a  vivandicre,  and  I  was  the 
child  of  the  regiment." 

The  librettist  is  usually  the  fortieth  consideration  in 
light  opera — he  comes  somewhere  between  the  under- 
studies and  the  scene-shifters,  and  he  usually  deserves  his 
position.  Mr.  Klein  is  different.  He  divides  the  top 
honors  with  Mr.  Hopper.  I  did  not  pay  attention  enough 
to  the  lyrics  to  know  if  they  are  clever.  But  the  plot! 
The  hilarious  ingenuity  that  conceived  the  Viceroy  of  Peru 
masquerading  his  cowardly  bones  in  the  armor  of  El  Cap- 
itan and  joiuing  the  insurgents,  so  as  to  win  either  way; 
and  the  attendant  complications  of  his  leaving  the  little, 
yard-high  Chamberlain  in  the  Palace  in  his  stead;  and  the 
brilliant,  unswerving,  legitimate  humor  with  which  every- 
thing is  worked  out!  Well,  Mr.  Klein  is  a  young  man,  I 
understand,  and  this  is  his  first  offense  of  the  kind,  and  if 
he  is  not  champagned  to  death  by  his  admirers,  or  led 
down  some  dark  alley  by  his  competitors,  there  is  some- 
thing in  this  soiled  old  world  for  him  to  look  forward  to. 
*  *  * 

Among  Mr.  Hopper's  company  there  are  a  large,  com- 
petent chorus  which  makes  itself  justly  eminent,  the  usual 
paper  tenor  and  the  dubious  basso,  a  notably  forceful 
prima  donna  soprano  assoluto — Miss  Nellie  Bergin — who 
sings  a  strong,  shrill,  birdie  note  with  good  Sousanian 
effect,  and  a  middle-aged  comedy  mezzo-soprano — Miss 
Alice  Hosmer — who  can  both  sing  and  act  her  role. 

There  are  very  few  chances  for  Edna  Wallace  Hopper 
in  her  part  this  time.  Mr.  Alfred  Klein  is  not  much  better 
off,  but  he  plays  the  Chamberlain  with  such  fine  accomp- 
lishment, such  dry  sincerity,  such  concealed  consciousness 
of  how  funny  a  little  fellow  he  is,  that  I  regretted  when 
necessity  put  him  out  of  sight  in  the  prison  cell.  I  could 
have  more  easily  spared  Mrs.  Hopper,  who,  finding  noth- 
ing in  the  part  of  Estrelda  to  fit  her  specialized  daintiness, 
takes  it  out  on  the  audience  by  an  extravagant  system  of 
ogles,  smirks,  and  leg  agitations,  which  must  sorely  try 
even  a  man  of  Mr.  Hopper's  uxorious  complacency. 

I  am  candidly  prejudiced  in  favor  of  De  Wolf  Hopper, 
and  while  I  fear  he  is  not  a  versatile  comedian,  I  have 
never  seen  so  much  of  him  as  to  grow  tired  of  his  unique 
personality  and  his  unique  methods.  There  is  something 
ingenuously  delicate,  intimate  and  artistic  in  his  work  which 
I  have  missed  in  that  of  other  operatic  comedians,  and  his 
magnetism  is  sure  and  companiable.  It  glows  in  his  play- 
ing, as  it  glows  in  the  speeches  he  makes  before  the  cur- 
tain. He  is  confidential  with  an  audience,  and  yet  he  is 
refined — a  nice  distinction  if  you  will  observe  many 
comedians.  And  Hopper  can  sing.  This  is  not  considered 
vital  by  most  singing  comedians,  and  one  admires  Hopper 
the  more  for  the  eccentricity.  There  is  a  soulfully  humor- 
ous throb  in  his  voice  that,  to  me,  is  the  true  vocal  expres- 
sion of  comedy.  Mr.  Hopper  is  nine-tenths  of  the  cast  in 
El  Capitan,  but  nobody  seems  to  object.  For  my  part,  if 
it  were  not  for  Alfred  Klein,  he  could   be  the  other  tenth. 


Modest  man,  with  sublime  faith  in  the  superior  advan- 
tages of  his  sex,  can  better  understand  why  "girls  will  be 
boys";  but  the  effeminated  male  person  will  ever  be  some- 
thing of  a  mystery  to  him.     Until  Tuesday  Dight,  when  I 


May  8.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


heard    Alexander  Ticianu   at    the   Orpheum.  I   onjoyi'd  11 
.  contempt  for   the  "female  impersonator,'   1  weird 
creature  w:  -trut>   liki  1   and  mh;'s  like 

two.    Ticianu  is  a  surprise     He  weara  the  tfarfo  of  woman, 
and  he-sopranoizes   la  hysterical  falsetto,  and,  j">t  as  you 
■  for  the  hand  of  Gixl   or   man  to  reach  out  and 
smite  him  where  he  la  •  drops  into  a  clean,  mu- 

sical barytone,  and  finishes  out  his  song  with  unchalleng- 
able  virility  Tieianu's  abnormal  j;eniu«  is  not  feminine,  it 
is  epicene. 

■v  respectable  patrons  of  music  and  myself  sat  be- 
tween the  piauos  in  Hyron  Mauzy'a  Hall  on  Thursday  night 
and  listened  to  Mr.  Otto  fiendix's  recital.  It  was  solemn, 
good,  unsensational.  Mr.  Bendix'a  playing  of  the  Schu- 
bert Fantasy  was  not,  to  my  thinking,  a  revelation  of  the 
work;  it  was  heavy  rather  than  BtOOOJT,  and  pedantic 
rather  than  poetic.  In  the  Schuman  Novelette  he  found 
a  better  mood,  and  in  the  Brahm's  pieces  he  asserted  crisp 
understanding  of  the  music  and  keen  tonal  discrimination. 
1  left  after  the  Liszt  transcription  of  Schubert's  "Spinning 
Wheel.''  which,  so  far  as  I  heard,  was  the  best  of  the  pro- 
gramme. He  colored  it  vividly  and  tempered  it  in  beau- 
tiful rythm.  &6HT0N  Stevens. 

Mr.  Frawley  has  a  brilliant  outlook  for  the  coming  sea- 
son at  the  Columbia.  He  has  re-engaged  Frank  Worth- 
ing, Blanche  Bates  and  several  other  members  of  last 
season's  company.  J.  M.  Colville,  Theodore  Hamilton, 
Grace  Henderson,  Gladys  Wallis  and  Georgia  Busby  are 
among  the  newcomers.  Some  of  the  plays  secured  are: 
The  Fain!  Card,  Tun  Litth  Vagrants,  Sin,  The  Henrietta, 
Held  by  tin  Jin*  mi/.  A  Social  Highwayman,  The  Case  of  Re- 
bellious Susan  and  Shenandoah. 

The  Columbia  promises  a  big  spectacular  show  next 
week  in  the  engagement  of  Rice's  Excelsior  Jr.  Sadie 
Martinot,  Joe  Cawthorne,  Johnny  Page  and  Carrie  Behr, 
and  David  Abrahams,  the  English  pantomimist,  are  of  the 
company.  The  scenic  display  is  said  to  have  engaged  the 
attention  of  all  the  art  editors  in  the  East,  and  the  chorus 
girls,  so  says  the  honorable  press  agent,  have  youth  and 
beauty  and  chic  that  will  set  the  youths  of  the  town  mad 
as  March  hares. 

The  Orpheum  has  another  strong  bill  for  next  week: 
Edmund  Martin's  educated  dogs,  the  "Crocodile  and 
Demon''  Eclair  brothers,  and  the  return  of  little  Guile,  the 
tenor.  Tacianu,  Fleurette  and  her  four  fleurs-de-lis,  and 
other  favorites  are  retained.  The  Venetian  Ladies' 
Orchestra  plays  in  the  Orpheum  Anuex  every  afternoon 
from  four  to  six,  as  well  as  after  the  regular  evening  per- 
formances. 

The  great  Irish  opera,  Shamus  O'Brien,  continues  at  the 
Ttvoli.  Next  week  Mr.  O'Sullivan  will  interpolate  several 
Irish  ballads.  After  the  run  of  Shamus  comes  Dellinger's 
opera  of  waltzes  and  marches,  Captain  Fracassa. 

Frederick  M.  Biggerstaff,  pianist,  will  give  a  concert  at 
Golden  Gate  Hall  on  Thursday  evening. 

El  Capitan  will  crowd  the  Baldwin  for  another  week — 
then  Nat  Goodwin. 

THE  annual  spring  sale  of  road,  harness,  work,  and 
draft  horses,  from  the  famous  Haggin  ranch,  will  take 
place  on  Wednesday,  the  12th  inst  ,  at  10  o'clock  A.  M.,  cor- 
ner Market  street  and  Van  Ness  avenue.  KXlip  &  Co., 
auctioneers. 

MR.  J.  O.  Harron,  Vice-President  of  the  Parke-Lacy 
Company  of  this  city,  has  gone  to  Guatemala  to  attend 
the  exposition  there,  on  a  visit  that  may  be  protracted 
for  several  months. 


THE  Mining  Journal  has  another  whoop-up  for  the  new 
railroad   from  Oakdale  to  Sonora.  The  Rawhyde  (sic) 
mine  comes  in,  as  usual,  for  honorable  mention. 

The  art  of  serving  a  fine  dinner,  perfect  in  its  variety  and  appoint- 
ments, suitable  to  every  taste,  and  all  for  $1.00,  is  seen  at  its  best  at 
Swain's  Bakery,  213  Sutter  street.  The  best  in  the  market,  cooked 
in  the  best  manner,  and  served  in  faultless  style  from  5  to  8  o'clock 
every  evening.  Fine  pastries,  and  confections  of  all  kinds  promptly 
supplied. 

Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your 
cbi  ldren  while  teething . 


Comni.-nrirn.'    Monday,  May  10th 
imvtgMM, 

EXCELSIOR 


G_|.._L!_     T"L  i  The"  Oom"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 

OIUmDia      I  neatre-    Frledl»ndor.  Qottlob&Co.,  Leasee! 
and  Managers 

RICES  gorgeous  lao.OuO  ex- 

cJR. 

iiiy  people  In  the  oasetnhle.  including  Sadie  Martinot    and 
Joe  Caw  thorn. 

Bl  J        '  ri-i  ■  al.  H atm an  &  Co.,  (Incorporated) 

aldvVin      I  neatre-  proprietor! 

i' MinneucinK  Monday,  May  10th.    Second  and  last  wouk  of  De 
Wi.li  Hopper,  present  leg  Sousa's  brilliant  opera, 

EL    GAPITAIS. 

Monday.  May  17th— Mr    Nat  C.  Goodwin,  in  "An  American  Citi- 
zen.'' "The  Rivals,"  "David  Qarrick,"  etc. 


Tivolt  Opera  House. 


Mrs.  Ernestine  Kreling. 

Proprietor  and  Manager 

Every  evening,  the  musical  triumph  of  the  season,  the  romantic 
Irish  opera, 

SHAMUS    O'BRIEN, 

with  Mr.  Denis  O'Sullivan,  the  eminent  baritone,  the  creator 
of  the  title  role.  Gieat  cast;  correct  costumes;  appropriate 
accessories.  Next— The  geat  Vienna  success.  CAPTAIN  FRA- 
CASSA (The  Prince  of  Liars.)  A  comic  opera  abounding  in 
catchy  music. 
Popular  Prices 35o  and  50o 

Oi  San  Francisco's  Greatest  Music    Hall        O'Farrell 

rpneum.    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 

Week  commencing  Monday,  May  10th.  Direct  from  the  An- 
tipodes.   The 

ECLAIR    BROTHERS 

the  "Crocodile  and  Demon";  return  of  the  world's  greatest 
tenor,  A.  L  Guille;  Edmund  Martin's  .Educated  Dugs,  in 
exjunction  with  Fleurette  and  her  ■  Four  Fleurs  de-Lis,"  Mile. 
Ant,  Europe's  greatest  aerial  artiste,  Tacianu.  Edwin  LateJl, 
The  Midgleys,  and  The  Andt-raons.  Concerts  in  the  Annex 
every  afternoon  between  4  and  6,  and  evenings  after  the  regular 
performance,  by  the  Venetian  Ladies'  Orchestra.  Our  never 
changing  popular  prices. 

Reserved  seats,  35c  ;  balcony  10c;  opera  chairs  and  box  spats  50c. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday.  Matinee  Prices: 
Parquet,  any  seat,  25c;  balcony,  any  seat,  10c;  children.  10c, 
any  part. 

Mr  i         i      o       -'  I  '  Southwest  corner 

eChaniCS       laVlllOn.     Larkin  and  Grove 

May  10th,  20th,  21st.  22d, 

DOG    SHOW. 

The  largest  number  of  dogs  ever  on  exhibition  on  the  Paoific 
Tickets  50  cents;  children  25  cents. 


A.  B.  SPRECKELS,  Pres't. 


H.  H.  CARLTON,  Sec't'y. 


El  Gampo. 


THE  POPULAR  BAY  RESORT. 

Now  open  every  Sunday  during  the  season. 

Music,  Dancing,  Bowling.   Boating.    Fishing,  and  other 

Amusements. 

Refreshments  at  oity  prioes. 

FARE,    ROUND  TRIP,    25c. 


Children  15  cents.   Including  admission  to  grounds. 

The  steamer  TJkiah  will  leave  Tiburon  Ferry  10:30  A.M.,  12:10, 

2:00,  and<J:00p   M. 

Returning  leave  El  Campo  11:15  a.  m  ,  1:00,  3:00,  and  5:00  P.  m. 


UNITED    STATES 
LAUNDRY. 


Telephone  South  420. 


Office.  1004  Market  Street. 

SAN  FRANCISCO. 


SUMMER    NOVELTIES 
JUST  OPENED 


121  Montgomery  St., 

Opposite  Occidental  Hotel. 


H.    RAMSEY, 

Merchant 
Tailor. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  8,  1897. 


MAMZELLE     NOISETTE 

A    SALON     STORY 
Carl  Huysmann   in  Quartier  Latin. 


¥E,  that  is  to  say,  about  half-a-dozen  of  us  "indigent 
artists,"  with  Robert  Summers  the  only  financially 
successful  one  amoDgst  us,  were  gathered  together  in  the 
smoking  room  of  the  Crayon  Club.  We  had  just  enter- 
tained Summers  at  dinner — why  is  it  always  that  the  fat 
and  rich  are  fed  and  feted,  and  the  poor  and  thin  sent 
empty  away? — and  now  were  to  hear  the  story  of  his  first 
successful  picture.  Most  of  us  hoped  that  some  day  we 
ourselves  should  be  "dined,"  and  have  to  tell  the  story  of 
our  own  first  success. 

"It  was  in  this  way,"  he  began,  after  lighting  a  shilling 
cigar  {ice  all  smoked  pipes).  "I  had  done  my  time  at 
Julian's,  and  had  mastered  the  Flesh,  or;  at  all  events,  the 
way  to  paint  it — if  not  the  World  and  the  Devil.  I  decided 
that  my  chances  were  better  in  Paris  than  here  in  London, 
and,  the  worst  come,  there  were  the  p 'tites  pieces  d'art  for 
the  shops  of  the  Rue  de  Rivoli,  baignevses  and  studies  of  the 
toilet,  to  fall  back  on,  so  I  took  a  studio  not  far  from  the 
Passage  des  Panoramas  at  the  top  of  a  house  in  a  by- 
street. 

"It  was  not  at  all  a  bad  little  place.  The  studio  was 
well  ventilated  and  splendidly  lighted,  its  last  tenant  hav- 
ing spent  a  good  deal  of  money  on  fixtures;  there  was  a 
good  stove,  and  a  little  gas  one  for  cooking.  The  bed- 
room was  en  state,  and  had  also  a  door  opening  on  to  the 
stairs.  The  studio  had  been  to  let  some  little  time,  and 
for  this  reason  they  had  reduced  the  rent,  which  was  now 
decidedly  low;  so  I  took  it,  and  moved  in  as  soon  as  I  could. 
This  was  in  November  or  December. 

"Whilst  I  was  working  at  a  study  of  the  nude  at  Julian's 
— from  a  model,  a  girl  with  Titian  red  hair,  a  lovely  skin, 
and  the  most  graceful  pose  of  any  model  there — a  con- 
noisseur who  used  occasionally  to  drop  in  took  a  fancy  to 
my  treatment  of  the  figure,  especially  the  handling  of  the 
flesh  tints,  and  one  day,  soon  after  I  had  settled  down  in 
my  new  quarters,  he  called  and  gave  me  a  commission  to 
paint  a  picture. 

"  'I'm  going  to  give  you  a  chance,' he  said,  naming  what 
was  to  me  at  that  time  a  considerable  sum.  And  then  he 
described  what  he  wanted.  Well,  the  subject  was  quite 
unconventional,  not  such  a  one  as  many  English  collectors 
would  commission  or  hang  without  a  locked  frame.  He 
was  a  cute  enough  man,  and  he  knew  that  if  I  did  my  part 
well  the  thing  was  sure  to  be  hung  in  the  Salon,  be  talked 
about  a  lot,  and  he  would  get  the  credit  and  enjoy  the 
pleasure  of  'discovering'  me. 

"  'You  must  get  hold  of  someone  who  won't  either  look 
ashamed  of  herself  or  as  if  she  liked  it.  I  want  it  to  be  a 
perfectly  natural  picture,'  he  continued,  'and  I  believe  you 
can  do  it.' 

"I  hinted  that  I  thought  models  of  the  type  he  wanted 
were  not  too  easily  found. 

"  'Oh,'  said  he,  'don't  spare  expense.  I'll  pay  every- 
thing over  and  above  the  usual  fee  that  may  be  necessary 
if  you  find  the  right  kind  of  girl.'  And  then  he  said  good- 
day,  and  promised  to  look  in  again  in  a  week  or  two. 

"Of  course,  I  immediately  began  to  look  out  for  what  I 
wanted,  letting  a  few  of  the  fellows  at  Julian's  know  the 
sort  of  thing  I  was  in  search  of.  I  remember  Jackie  Fen- 
wick  (poor  chap,  he's  dead)  saying  with  a  laugh,  'Bob, 
my  boy,  it  will  be  some  time  before  you  find  la  belle  fille. 
The  ones  who've  been  through  the  mill  couldn't  look  shy  to 
save  their  lives,  and  those  who  haven't  "sat"  won't  "sit," 
my  boy,  for  five  francs  a  day. ' 

"I  had  plenty  of  applications,  of  course.  I  think  the 
fellows  used  to  take  a  delight  in  plaguing  me  by  sending 
me  anything  they  came  across  in  the  shape  of  a  woman. 
I  had  Junos,  Venuses,  Psyches  without  end.  The  first 
mostly  too  fat,  except  for  a  picture  of  the  'Mere  de  la 
Natiou'  class,  the  second  class  mostly  too  knowing,  and 
the  third  mostly  slips  of  girls  with  no  figures  (though  some 
had  good  skins)  to  speak  of,  several  of  whom  had  never 
posed  before,  but  had  no  objection  to  doing  so  for  five 
francs  a  day  if  I'd  take  them. 


"I  selected  one  in  sheer  despair  at,  last — one  of  the 
Venus  type.  I  wasn't  at  all  satisfied  with  her,  however, 
and  was  in  a  despondent  sort  of  mood  one  morning  in 
February,  got  from  gazing  on  the  canvas,  when  I  was 
startled  by  a  knock  at  my  door,  and  in  response  to  my 
'Entrez,'  a  young  lady  appeared.  She  was  of  slight,  girl- 
ish figure,  very  well  dressed,  and  somewhat  heavily  veiled. 

"Bowing  her  to  a  seat  I  awaited  her  pleasure. 

"Lifting  her  veil,  and  thereby  disclosing  one  of  the 
loveliest  faces  it  has  been  my  good  fortune  to  see,  she  said 
in  a  low,  clear  voice — 

"  'Monsieur  Summers,  I  presume.'  And  when  I  had  in- 
timated that  she  was  correct  in  her  supposition,  she  con- 
tinued, 'I  have  heard,  Monsieur,  that  you  are  in  need  of  a 
model.     Is  that  so?  ' 

The  temptation  to  throw  over  my  somewhat  cxigeante 
Venus  at  once  assailed  me.  Here  was  my  ideal,  at  last. 
So  I  said — 

"  'Mademoiselle '  waiting  for  her  to  fill  in  the  blank, 

which  she  did  with  a  slight  hesitation,  and  with  a  blush 
caused  by  the  giving  of  a  name  other  than  her  own.  'Ah, 
thanks!  Mamzelle  Noisette  is  correctly  informed.  But 
does  she  know  the  subject?'  I  asked. 

"'Yes.     And  does  Monsieur  think  that  I   should  serve?' 

"  'That  I  cannot '  I  commenced.  But  she  inter- 
rupted me  with  'Ah!  no.  Of  course;  how  stupid  of  me. 
But  pardon,  Monsieur,  I  am  not  accustomed — that  is,'  she 
hastily  added,  her  face  and  neck  getting  crimson,  'not 
very  much  accustomed  to  sitting.'  Then  she  glanced 
round,  and  seeing  her  eyes  rest  upon  the  door  of  my  other 
apartment,  I  signified  that  it  was  entirely  at  her  service. 

"The  outcome  of  it  was  that  she  arranged  to  sit  to  me — 
to  come  at  eleven  o'clock  next  day.  And  then  she  dressed 
herself,  and  pulling  her  ve'l  over  her  face  went  down  the 
somewhat  dark  staircase,  with  a  promise  to  be  punctual 
on  the  morrow. 

"When  I  went  into  my  room  to  write  to  Venus,  I  per- 
ceived a  delightful  odor  of  heliotrope. 

"At  eleven  precisely  next  day  I  heard  Mamzelle  Noisette 
coming  up  the  stairs.  I  had  tidied  up  my  room  in  readi- 
ness, and  had  even  put  a  bouquet  of  white  narcissus  and 
daffodils  on  the  small  dressing-table.  I  had  got  a  new 
canvas  on  my  easel,  having  turned  the  old  one  with  the 
commencement  of  Venus  thankfully  to  the  wall. 

She  came  out  almost  shyly,  with  the  studio  robe  envelop- 
ing her  till  I  was  ready  to  commence,  walking  forward 
with  the  dainty  grace  of  a  well-born  woman. 

"As  she  took  her  stand,  a  few  moments  later,  in  a  patch 
of  sunlight  near  the  stove,  I  thought  that  I  had  never 
seen  such  a  perfect  figure  or  so  beautiful  a  woman. 

"As  was  perhaps  natural,  I  speculated  very  consider- 
ably as  to  the  identity  of  my  sitter.  That  she  was  no 
model  I  immediately  decided.  That  she  was  a  young  lady 
was  almost  equally  certain,  at  least  from  her  manner  and 
address,  as  well  as  from  her  attire. 

"At  the  end  of  a  week  I  was  ready  for  the  background. 
The  subject  of  the  picture  was,  briefly,  the  morning  'tub' 
of  a  well-born  young  woman  of  about  twenty.  And  for 
this  purpose  I  had  to  temporarily  fit  up  a  part  of  the 
studio  as  a  dressing  room.  Articles  of  feminine  attire 
played  a  conspicuous  part  as  accessories.  A  rose-colored 
satin  garment  lay,  just  as  it  had  evidently  slipped  from  a 
chair,  on  a  fur  mat,  and  a  pile  of  white,  lace-trimmed 
linen  (difficult,  indeed,  to  paint  well)  was  heaped  on  the 
chair  standing  at  the  side  of  the  large  china  bath.  Mam- 
zelle Noisette,  half  facing  the  spectator,  was  just  trying 
the  water  by  lifting  it  in  her  pink  hand.  Behind  the  tub 
and  her  body,  with  its  golden  and  pink  shadows,  was  an 
olive-green  Japanese  paper  screen,  on  which  were  cranes 
and  other  waterfowl.  The  morning  I  began  the  back- 
ground I  bad  explained  the  general  scheme  of  the  picture 
to  her,  and  laughingly  she  helped  me  dispose  the  dessous 
of  her  toilette  with  artistic  and  natural  negligence.  It 
was  the  lingerie  of  a  woman  of  taste  and  position,  exhaling 
the  same  faint  odor  of  heliotrope  I  had  noticed  on  a  former 
occasion. 

"When  she  had  posed,  looking  at  the  pile  of  laced 
whitenesses  on  the  inlaid  rosewood  Louis  Quinze  chair,  I 
said,  'I  thought  all  women  were  tidy.'  'Not  when  they 
keep  maids,'  she  replied,  and  then  blushed  lest  she  should- 
have  betrayed  a  secret. 


May  8,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


The  weeks  went  by.     The  picture  was  almost  finished. 
■  veral  tlavs  1  had  been  working  at   the    final  touches 
on  the  face.     There   was   really   no  necessity   for  further 
sittings,  but  I  was  in  I"ve   with   my   model,  and  MnigbJ  to 
me  the  time  of  her   going,    and   the  time  of   my  de- 
claration. 

''I  had  found  out  very  little  about  her  beyond  the  fact 
that  she  was  undoubtedly  a  lady,  and  had  no  need  to  sit  to 
me  or  anyone  else. 

"Whilst  she  was  dressing   a   few  days   before  the  com- 
pletion of  the  picture.    I    had    ventured  to  express  regret 
that  she  was  so  soon  to  discontinue  her  sittings.     I  even 
suggested  another  picture,    but  the  conversation  was  at 
turned  by  herself  into  another  channel. 

"On  the  day  I  was  finishing  the  face,  I  realized  that  I 
could  ask  her  to  come  only  once  more.  I  decided  to  post- 
pone until  then  the  avowal  of  my  love. 

"Oo  the  morning  of  the  last  sitting  I  received  a  note. 
It  ran — 

" 'Avenue 

■"Paris, 

"  'le  7  avril,  188— 
"  'Pear  ^ir, 

"  I  cannot  corue  to  day  or  any  other  day.  I  shall  not,  probably, 
see  \ mi  again.  1  have  sat  to  yen,  and  aliowid  you  to  paint  my 
beamy  for  a  bet.  I  I  ave  «od  10100  francs,  which  I  nxdtdtotave 
tne  fn  ni  di>giace.  ]  Lope  that  iLe  piciure  will  make  you  a  name. 
I  shall  go  to  >ee  it  r i  ce  if  it  n-  Lin  p  in  ibe  Salon  (as  it  is  ^re  to  be), 
and  then  I  shall  Have  Paris  wiib  my  family  for  a  long  time.  If  you 
should  meet  me,  which,  however,  is  improbable,  do  not  seek  to  ad- 
dress me.    With  my  btst  friendship's  regard, 

"  "Ever  to  you, 

"'Wamzelle  Noisette.' 

"I  never  saw  her  again.  Once  I  thought  I  caught  a 
glimpse  of  her  when  a  smart  Victoria  swept  round  a  cor- 
ner of  the  Place  de  la  Concorde,  and  for  a  moment  dis- 
closed to  me  a  lady  in  a  veil;  but  I  have  never  been  able  to 
decide  whether  it  was  really  Mamzelle  Noisette,  or  not. 

"The  picture  did  make  me  a  name.  The  critics  were 
kind,  except,  perhaps,  a  few  feminine  ones.  To  them  the 
realism  of  clothes  is  very  real.  I  overheard  a  group  of 
ladies  discussing  the  latter  one  day.  They  admired  my 
painting  of  the  rose-colnred  satin  garment  immensely. 
But  one  young  demoiselle  of  the  party  exclaimed,  'No  one 
wears  ribbon  trimmings  like  that  now,'  and  she  pointed  to 
an  article  of  attire  with  her  parasol.  'Nor  that  kiDd  of 
frills!     How  very  old  fashioned!' 

"And  yet  Mamzelle  Noisette  had  laughingly  assured  me 
one  day  not  two  months  before  that  they  were  the  latest 
nouvcauth!" 

PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 

THE  supplement  of  to-day's  News  Letter  will  recall 
vividly  to  pioneers  of  San  Francisco  the  material  of 
which  many  of  the  structures  in  early  days  were  made. 
The  dilapidated  section  reproduced  may  be  seen  on  Jack- 
son street,  between  Sansome  and  Battery.  The  corru- 
gated iron  came  around  the  Horn  by  sail  half  a  century 
ago,  and  is  of  a  kind  very  generally  used  before  lumber 
mills  were  built  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  battered  and 
rust-eaten  material,  as  Caesar's  clay  might  have  done, 
stops  up  the  holes  and  keeps  the  wind  away  in  a  part  of 
the  city  very  much  out  at  heel  and  elbow.  It  recalls  to 
the  argonaut  the  factof  the  shifting  and  uncertain  trend  of 
trade;  for  in  early  days  the  part  of  the  city  now  given 
over  to  junk  shops,  neglect,  and  squalor,  were  the  most 
important  streets  of  San  Francisco. 

No  other  people  equal  the  French  for  the  quality  and  artistic  per- 
fection of  cooking.  The  liaison  Riche,  Geary  street  and  Grant 
avenue,  is  an  admirable  example  of  this  fact.  The  finest  French 
dinner  to  be  had  in  San  Francisco  is  served  daily  at  the  Maison 
Riche,  between  the  hours  of  5  and  9  p.  M.  Music  by  a  string  band 
adds  to  the  dainty  creations  of  the  chef.  Faultless  service.  Rare 
wines.  

The  adornment  of  any  borne  is  made  more  complete  by  the  pre- 
sence of  tasteful  Japanese  works  of  art — carvings,  curios,  figures, 
tapestries,  etc.  George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  at  625  Market  street,  under 
the  Palace  Hotel,  have  a  full  line  ot  these  unique  and  beautiful 
goods,  for  sale  at  most  reasonable  rates. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  8,  1897. 


"  Book  and  Heart."  Essays  on  liierature  and  life,  by  Thomas 
Wentwonh  H'gginso  -.  Published  by  Harper  &  Brothers.  New 
York.    1897. 

Of  the  three  dozen  save  one  articles  in  this  volume  twelve 
deal  with  literature,  and  are  placed  first.  It  seems  a 
favorite  trick  with  Mr.  Higginson  to  place  words  in  a  dif- 
ferent order  from  the  usual  one;  just  as  some  British  peo- 
ple, out  of  mere  perversity,  say  "Cambridge  and  Oxford," 
though  all  the  world  long  since  decided  to  say  "Oxford 
and  Cambridge."  As  Mr.  Higginson  once  wrote  a  book 
entitled  "Women  and  Men,"  we  are  quite  prepared  to 
find  him  writing  "literature  and  life."  Whether  he  means 
thereby  to  put  literature  before  life,  or  women  before  men, 
or  not,  we  neither  know  nor  care:  the  order  of  importance 
in  which  things  stand  in  Mr.  Higginson's  mind  is  a  subject 
of  no  concern  to  us.  Of  the  literary  essays  the  most  inter- 
esting to  us  is  that  entitled  "A  world  outside  of  science," 
in  which  the  author  shows  that  the  mere  man  of  s.-ience 
is  a  very  uarrow  man,  large  areas  of  whose  heart  and 
spirit  are  uncultivated.  Thus  Charles  Darwin,  perhaps 
tbe  greatest  and  purest  man  of  science  that  ever  lived,  as 
he  progressed  in  his  lifelong  studies,  lost,  slowly  but  surely, 
his  taste  for  literature,  art,  and  music,  for  which  as  a 
young  man  he  had  had  much  aptitude,  until  at  sixty  years 
of  age  he  found  tbe  poetry  of  Shakespeare  so  iutolerably 
dull  that  it  nauseated  him,  pictures  bored  him,  and  music 
was  a  lost  pleasure.  Of  fervor  or  emotion,  of  course,  he 
had  not  a  trace  left:  the  dry  light  of  science  had  withered 
his  heart  and  soul.  In  another  essay,  Mr.  Higginson  very 
truly  says  that  the  best  thicg  that  Americans  have  to 
learn  at  Loudon  dinner-tables  is  to  abandon  the  habit  of 
monologue  :  no  man,  however  brilliant  or  self-assertive,  is 
permitted  to  monopolize  the  talk  there.  The  "orating" 
habit  smacks  of  a  condition  of  semi-civilization,  just  as  does 
the  inordinate  esteem  in  which  long-winded-ness  and  wind- 
bagginess  are  held  in  the  United  States.  Mr.  Higginson 
says  that  the  daily  press  is  the  greatest  foe  to  eloquence 
inthe  United  Stales,  and  speaks  feelingly,  as  though  some 
fine  flights  of  his  own  had  been  spoiled  by  the  reporters. 
We  cannot  agree,  being  rather  disposed  to  think  that  most 
of  the  silver-tongued,  brass-throated,  iron-jawed,  leather- 
lunged  orators,  possessed  of  the  cheek  of  the  devil,  have 
been  incited  to  their  misdeeds  by  the  adulation  of  foolish 
newspapers.  The  twenty-three  articles  on  Life  are  all  of 
them  readable,  and  give  the  reader  a  very  favorable  idea 
of  the  essential  soundness  of  the  writer's  mind  and  heart. 
We  Dote  little  of  that  tendency  to  over-emotion  of  which 
we  seemed  to  find  traces  in  "  Women  and  Men,"  or  of  that 
inclination  to  twist  the  British  lion's  tail  which  is  occa- 
sionally apparent  in  "Concerning  all  of  us."  In  "Book 
and  Heart"  we  have  the  reflections  of  a  man  who  has  seen 
many  years  and  got  rid  of  many  ideas.  There  is  just  one 
matter  on  which  we  must  join  issue.  In  "Anglo-mania 
and  Anglo-phobia"  Mr.  Higginson  speaks  of  the  "widely- 
spread  dislike"  of  England  in  the  United  States,  and  leads 
us  to  suppose  that  something  of  the  same  kind  is  present 
in  Englishmen's  minds.  This  is  not  so  at  all.  The  Briton, 
as  a  Briton,  has  no  feeling  of  dislike  for  the  United  States: 
rather,  indeed,  the  reverse;  he  is  naturally  disposed  to  be 
kind  and  hospitable  to  Americans  visiting  the  Old  Home. 
He  may,  perhaps,  be  a  little  surprised  to  find  that  an 
American  is  an  excellent  classical  scholar,  but  then  he 
would  be  just  as  much  surprised  at  finding  that  an  Aus- 
tralian was  one.  When  Mr.  Higginson  assigns  British 
sympathy  for  the  Confederates  as  a  reason  for  mis-trust- 
ing Britain  and  Britons,  he  is  merely  falling  into  an  error 
almost  universal  among  his  countrymen.  When  the  War 
of  Secession  began,  it  was  impossible  to  tell  which  side 
would  gain  the  day,  and,  had  the  Southerners  prevailed, 
the  British  would  have  found  themselves  sympathizing 
with  the  "upper  dog":  as  it  was,  they  sympathized 
with  the  dog  that  eventually  turned  out  the  "under"  one: 
but  were  not  both  the  dogs  American  ?  It  is  surely  rather 
hard  that,  when  a  nation  splits  into  two  nearly  equal  parts, 


a  foreigner  should  be  blamed  for  wishing  well  to  one  rather 
than  the  other.  Nowhere,  so  far  as  we  know,  in  the 
United  Kingdom,  would  a  solitary  American  visitor  find 
himself  or  his  country  a  target  for  abusive  and  insolent 
attack;  yet  how  frequently  in  the  United  States  does  not 
a  pack  of  jackals  snap  and  snarl  at  the  heels  of  any  Brit- 
ish lion  whom  they  may  have  succeeded  in  isolating?  In- 
deed, we  have  heard  a  pleasant  American  woman,  who  had 
traveled  considerably  in  Europe,  say  that  she  dearly  loved 
to  chaff  an  Englishman.  Now,  the  teasing  of  a  pretty 
woman  may  be  endured  by  men  who  have  no  stomach  for 
the  vulgar  insolence  of  the  opposite  sex.  To  turn  to  an- 
other matter:  Mr.  Higginson  clearly  sees  that  wealth  is 
powerless  to  secure  great  social  prizes  in  America,  be- 
cause there  are  no  such  prizes.  Whereas,  in  Europe,  and 
especially  in  Great  Britain,  wealth  can  consolidate  and 
psrpetuate  itself  (almost  beyond  the  possibility  of  wreck) 
in  the  hereditary  nobility.  Whether  this  is  to  be  con- 
sidered an  advantage  or  not  depends  on  the  views  one 
takes  of  society,  Government,  the  hereditary  transmission 
of  capacity,  and  other  matters.  We  think  that  the  ex- 
cellent administration  of  almost  every  branch  of  the  public 
service  in  the  British  Empire  is  largely  due  to  the  fact 
that  affairs  are  in  the  hands  of  a  body  of  men  fitted  by 
heredity,  social  environment,  education  and  ideals  for  the 
tasks  they  perform.  Thank  God,  the  British  Empire  is 
not  yet  administered  upon  the  theory  that  one  man  is  as 
good  as  another,  but  on  a  recognition  of  the  fact  that  some 
men  are  incomparably  better  than  others. 

Mr.  Edgar  Saltus  has  lately  been  speaking  of  Sir  Edwin 
Arnold  as  a  newspaper  reporter:  he  never  was  anything 
of  the  kind.  After  his  Oxford  career  Edwin  Arnold  be- 
came an  assistant  master  at  King  Edward's  school,  Bir- 
mingham, a  famous  school  that  gave  the  late  Archbishop 
Benson,  the  late  Bishop  Lightfoot,  Bishop  Westcott,  and 
many  other  great  scholars,  to  the  English  Church;  thence 
he  went  out  to  India,  where  he  became  Principal  of  the 
Poona  College,  and  a  Fellow  of  the  University  of  Bombay; 
on  his  return  to  England  he  became  ac  editor  of  the  Daily 
Telegraph.  Younu  men  possessing  the  scholarship  and 
attainments  that  Edwin  Arnold  possessed  after  his  grad- 
uation at  Oxford  do  not  become  reporters  on  English  news- 
papers; if  they  take  up  journalistic  work  at  all,  as  Mr.  E. 
T.  Cook  or  Sir  Alfred  Milner  did,  they  enter  the  editorial 
room  at  once. 

The  May  issue  of  Scribner's  Magazine  appears  in  a  very 
pretty  colored  cover.  E.  S.  Martin  and  Robert  Grant 
write  of  life  at  Harvard,  and  C.  D.  Gibson  of  a  London 
drawing-room.  There  is  an  article  on  golf  by  the  amateur 
champion  of  the  United  States,  and  an  elaborately  illus- 
trated account  by  Charles  D.  Lanier  of  "The  Working  of 
a  Bank."  Charles  Edwin  Markham  contributes  a  short 
poem  of  two  stanzas,  entitled  "The  Whirlwind  Road." 
It  has  amused  us  to  see  on  the  back  cover  of  Scribner's  a 
tinted  cut  of  a  young  woman  in  a  corset  waist,  when  we 
remember  that  a  certain  association  of  would-be  women 
writers  on  this  Pacific  Coast  affected  to  resent  the  publi- 
cation of  a  cut  of  a  plump  voung  person,  bien  cnrsitee,  in 
the  souvenir  of  an  entertainment.  Is  Scribner's  immod- 
est, or  are  the  Pacific  Coast  women  prudes?  If  we  may 
judge  from  some  of  the  young  ones  we  know,  we  should  not 
consider  prudishness  their  most  strongly  marked  char- 
acteristic. 

Newnham  College,  one  of  the  ladies'  colleges  at  Cam- 
bridge, England,  furnishes  some  striking  proofs  of  the 
great  advantage  of  having  people  of  high  intelligence  and 
training  for  one's  parents.  Miss  Helen  Gladstone,  who 
nas  just  retired  from  the  position  of  First  vice-Principal 
of  Newnham  in  order  to  solace  her  distinguished  parents' 
declining  years,  is  adaughter  of  William  Ewart  Gladstone, 
four  times  Prime  Minister  of  Great  Britain,  and  controller 
of  the  British  Empire.  She  is  succeeded  by  Miss  Kath- 
erine  Stephen,  daughter  of  the  eminent  lawyer,  Sir  James 
Stephen.  Miss  B.  A.  Clough,  the  Head  of  Clough  Hall, 
Newnham,  is  the  youngest  daughter  of  the  brilliant  Arthur 
Hugh  Clough,  the"  favorite  pupil  of  Dr.  Thomas  Arnold  of 
Rugby. 

Carmany,  at  25  Kearny  street,  will  supply  you  with  the  late«t 
and  most  fashionable  gent's  furnishing  goods  at  most  reasonable 
prices. 


May  8,  1897. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


INK  Host  Warfield 
has  cause  for  rejoic- 
ing, for  he  could  not  ask  a  better  adjunct  to  his  efforts  in 
making  San  Rafael  the  objective  point  for  our  beauty  ami 
fashion  this  summer  than  Mrs.  Hager.  Society  people 
will  be  safe  in  choosing  the  Hotel  Rafael  for  their  summer 
"Season,*'  for  between  Baron  Yon  Schroeder  and  Mrs. 
Hager,  with  Major  Warlield  at  the  head,  a  constant  stream 
of  pleasure  is  sure  to  flow. 

•  #  • 

The  list  of  guests,  as  given  bv  the  press  dispatches,  who 
were  invited  by  Lady  Hesketh  (Flora  Sharon)  to  meet  the 
Prince  of  Wales  on  his  recent  two  days  visit  to  the  country 
home  of  Sir  Thomas  Hesketh  in  Northamptonshire  inclines 
one  to  think  that  our  erstwhile  native  daughter  is  getting 
inducted  in  the  ways  of  "the  Princes  set."  Firstly,  as  'tis 
said,  Sir  Thomas  was  absent  in  Africa,  and  the  little  lady 
had  therefore  all  the  responsibility  of  collecting  the  guests, 
who  comprised  the  Duke  of  Grafton,  whose  reputation  is 
well-known  in  the  London  swim,  the  Earl  of  Euston,  who 
married  the  notorious  Dolly  Tester,  and  Lord  Fitzroy, 
whose  name  was  associated  with  Oscar  Wilde.  One  is  led 
to  wonder  in  reading  this  list,  who  the  women  were  that 
completed  this  aristocratic  "house  party." 

*  #  # 

Rumor  has  it  that  our  respected  townsman,  Winfield 
Scott  Jones,  has  taken  a  trip  to  Washington  for  the  pur- 
pose of  bringing  back  a  bride  to  his  Hyde  street  home. 
The  lady  is  said  to  be  an  old  love  and  one  who  was  an  inti- 
mate friend  of  the  rival  belles — Addie  Smith  (now  Mrs. 
Holt)  and  Addie  Cutts,  the  widow  of  Stephen  A.  Douglass. 
Should  this  be  true,  what  a  warm  reception  she  will  re- 
ceive at  the  hands  of  Mr.  Jones's  numerous  lady  friends  in 
San  Francisco. 

*  *  # 

"Milty  Latham  is  the  jolliest  kind  of  a  fellow,"  is  the 
dictum  of  the  guests  at  the  recent  gathering  at  Mira 
Monte  Club  House  over  in  Marin  County,  where  Milty  is  a 
leading  spirit.  By  the  way,  gossip  asserts  that  this 
"jolly  fellow"  is  "gone" — and  a  very  bad  case  too — on  the 
last  remaining  sister  of  a  charming  trio  of  sisters  who  are 
very  great  favorites  both  in  the  city  and  Sausalito. 

*  *  * 

Apropos  cf  moonlight  frolics,  the  members  of  the  riding 
school  are  credited  with  the  intention  of  getting  up  a  large 
riding  party  during  the  next  moonlight,  and  after  a  trip 
through  the  Park  the  evening  will  wind  up  with  supper  at 
the  large  home  belonging  to  one  of  the  party.  Some  of 
them  wanted  to  bring  up  at  the  Presidio,  and  others  the 
Occidental,  but  nothing  has  been  settled  so  far. 

*  #  * 

"Bonnie  Bernie" — as  Miss  Bernice  Drown's  girl  friends 
style  her,  is  said  to  be  a  young  lady  whose  mental  attain- 
ments place  her  in  front  rank  of  our  many  bright  girls. 
Miss  Mary  Kip  bids  fair  to  take  the  place'left  vacant  by 
Miss  Hannah  Williams  when  she  became  Walter  Hobart's 
bride,  her  rare  beauty  making  her  a  bright  feature  of  any 
entertainment  at  which  she  appears. 

*  *  * 

The  nearness  of  Sausalito  to  San  Rafael  will  no  doubt 
occasion  maDy  a  merry-making  between  the  two  places 
this  season.  Already  several  frolics  are  being  discussed, 
and  when  the  moonlight  nights  come,  a  picnic  by  pale 
Luna  s  beams  is  on  the  tapis  to  be  awfully  jolly,  and  des- 
perately select,  don't  ye  know. 

*  *  # 

The  Tivoli  has  been  rehabilitated  in  a  society  point  of 
view  by  the  favorite  son  of  the  soil,  Denis  O'Sullivan,  sing- 
ing his  famous  "Shamus  O'Brien"  there,  and  swell  theatre 
parties  to  hear  him  have  been  the  rule,  with  suppers  at 
the  University  Club  or  at  home  almost  every  evening  dur- 
ing the  past  week. 

*  #  * 

On  (lit  that  the  gallant  Lieutenant  Winn  will  make  his 
projected  European  trip  a  wedding  tour. 


There  is  no  doubt  about  it.  the  new  men  at  the  Presidio 
are  the  soul  of  hospitality.  Ever  since  their  arrival  they 
have  kept  the  ball  rolling  in  fun  of  some  sort  for  their  lady 
friends,  and  the  dinner  dance  to  the  bride  electof  Lieuten- 
ant Bent,  Miss  Ethel  Cohen,  tops  it  off.  Only  a  few  of  the 
most  popular  city  belles  were  guests  at  the  dinner,  but 
they  were  the  merriest  crowd  imaginable.  What  a  grace- 
ful compliment  to  this  charming  fiancee  for  her  brides- 
maids—to be— to  combine  in  an  entertainment  of  like 
nature  before  the  wedding,  and  have  it  take  place  at  the 
biggest  house  of  the  lot. 

»  «  » 

The  recent  reception,  supper  and  exhibition  of  riding 
under  the  tutelage  of  Captain  Dilhan,  was  a  delightful 
affair,  much  enjoyed  by  those  fortunate  enough  to  be  pre- 
sent. All  rode  well,  though  of  course  some  were  better 
than  others.  Special  mention  must  be  accorded  Miss  Rose 
Hooper  and  Mrs.  Fanny  Lent  for  their  skill  and  graceful 
daring,  especially  in  the  "tandem"  act.  It  is  a  matter  of 
congratulation  that  this  delightful  art  is  being  taken  up 
by  society,  fo;  surely  never  did  woman  appear  to  greater 
advantage  than  when  on  horseback — if  she  knows  how  to 
ride. 

Pure  Cosmetics— Professor  Wenzell,  the  Pure  Food  Chemist,  says  of 
Mme  Marchand's  Prepara'i  >ns  Use  Creme  de  la  Creme.  Positively  pre- 
vents sunburn  and  poison  oak.    Price.  Wots.    107  Geary  street. 


Beecbam's  Pills  will  dispel  ihe  "  blues.' 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  8,  1897. 


The  London  Mining  Journal  publishes  a 
The  Engl'sh  lengthy  editorial  in  defense  of  the  na- 
Minina  txpert.  tiou's  experts.  It  originated  in  the 
rather  pungent  criticism  of  Indian  En- 
gineeiing,  which  is  accredited  with  the  assertion  "that 
the  men  who  leave  England  and  apply  for  appointments  as 
mining  engiueers  are,  for  the  most  part,  simply  a  set  of 
adventurers,  who  have  during  some  time  or  another, 
served  at  a  mine,  and  picked  up  a  smattering  of  mining. 
The  Journal,  while  reluctantly  admitting  the  decline  of  the 
English  mining  engineer,  takes  exception  to  the  view  that 
the  majority  of  soi-dlaant  mining  experts  are  a  "set  of  ad- 
venturers," asserting  that  the  majority  of  men  in  all  walks 
of  life  are  adventurers,  a  term  which  in  this  sense  hardly 
carries  with  it  a  reproach.  California  has  not  been  happy 
in  the  selection  of  the  class  under  discussion.  While  of 
course  it  would  be  absurd  to  deny  that  some  of  the  men 
imported  in  the  profession  are  able  and  fully  competent 
for  the  positions,  the  majority  come  under  the  category  of 
our  East  Indian  contemporary.  While  their  scientific 
training  may  be  excellent  in  every  respect,  they  lack  in 
knowledge  of  practical  mining  and  the  common  sense  which 
should  teach  them  that  in  every  new  territory  there  is 
much  to  be  learned  from  experience.  Time  and  again  the 
opinions  of  the  best  men  in  this  State,  who  have  been 
brought  up  in  its  different  mining  sections,  each  of  which 
has  its  own  peculiarities  of  formation  and  general  condi- 
tions, have  been  offset  and  counteracted,  to  the  heavy  loss 
of  capital  by  self-sufficient  individuals  who,  if  skilled  in 
scierce,  were  practically  lost  in  the  field.  For  this  reason 
we  have  repeatedly  urged  the  necessity  for  the  employ- 
ment of  trained  and  competent  California  engineers  in  re- 
porting on  property  in  this  Stale  in  the  interests  of  the 
foreign  investor.  The  most  reliable  class  of  English  ex- 
perts fully  recognize  the  necessity  for  this,  and  invariably 
secure  the  services  of  a  local  professional  engiueer.  The 
man  who  does  this  can  be  set  down  as  level-headed  and 
trustworthy,  but  unfortunately  in  the  past  he  has  been  the 
exception.  We  would  have  had  no  fiascos  to  regret,  such 
as  the  Uni  >n  Gold,  Ilex,  and  some  others,  had  home  talent 
been  employed,  instead  of  feather-weight  English  ex- 
perts. The  best  argument  of  eternal  fitness  ia  the  profes- 
sion is  the  selection  of  California  mining  men  as  managers 
by  the  most  prominent  mining  companies  of  London  oper- 
ating in  South  Africa  and  Australia. 

With  the  passing  of  the  control  of  the 
Dredging  for  Bowen  dredging  outfit  some  days  ago,  the 
River  Gold,  possibilities  of  reaching  the  gold  in  the 
sands  of  California  rivers  are  now  being 
discussed.  The  success  which  has  been  attained  in  oper- 
ations of  Ihe  kind  up  north  in  Washington  has  stimulated 
a  desire  for  operations  of  the  kind  elsewhere,  and  during 
the  week  a  strong  company  has  obtained  by  purchase  the 
Rogue  river,  which  will  soon  be  under  active  exploitation. 
A  company  of  the  kind  has  just  been  formed  in  London, 
called  ihe  Quesnelle  River  Gold  Dredging  Company,  Lim- 
ited, which  will  work  the  bed  of  that  river  for  gold,  which 
has  been  found  to  exist  in  amounts  ranging  from  $1.70  to 
$17  per  ton.  The  men  at  the  back  of  this  company  were 
formerly  connected  with  West  Australian  mining.  An 
effort  is  now  being  made  in  this  city  to  place  one  or  more 
of  the  Bowen  dredgers  at  work  on  the  Sacramento  and 
some  of  the  other  Californian  rivers.  The  working  capital 
of  the  London  company  is  placed  at  $75,000. 

Just  on  the  eve  of  the  dissolution  of  the 

Con.  Virginia  in     speculative  mining  market  in  this  city, 

Ore  Again.         Con.  Virginia   again   looms  up    as   the 

possible  savior  of  the  business.    A  most 

important  strike   has   been   made   in   upraising  from   the 

1.650  level.     About  60  feet  ahove  Ihe  sill  floor  of  this  level 

high-grade  ore  has  been  found,  which  is  already  promising 

in  its  dimensions.    What  the   extent  of  the  new  find   may 

be  is  something  which  lime   alone  can  determine,  but  it  is 

safe  to  sav  that  the   development  is  the  most  important 

made  in  the  mine  since  1886,  a  year  of  happy  memory  to 


shareholders.  So  far  no  official  announcement  has  been 
made  as  to  the  character  of  the  ground  in  the  locality  of 
the  strike;  whether  it  is  absolutely  new  and  clear  from 
previous  workings.  The  general  impression  is  that  it  is 
virgin  tei  ritory,  but  it  will  be  more  satisfactory  to  have 
this  statement  come  from  Mr.  Lyman  himself  whenever  he 
feels  justified  in  expressing  an  opinion  on  the  subject.  The 
effect  of  the  development  so  far  on  the  market  has  been 
salutary.  Business  has  been  active  at  a  higher  range  of 
prices,  and  the  ranks  of  dealers  have  been  already  re- 
cruited from  the  vast  army  of  speculators  which  during 
the  past  twelve  months  retired  from  the  field  in  disgust. 
Should  the  development  make  into  a  big  ore  body  in  the 
course  of  exploration,  the  question  of  the  future  of  the 
business  is  solved  for  a  long  time  to  come.  The  manage- 
ment of  the  mine  is  highly  popular  and  backed  with  capital 
to  protect  its  own  interests  in  every  way.  So  far  the  ad- 
vance has  been  light  in  all  directions. 

All  the  good  things  seem  to  driltLon- 

Miilions  for         donward    nowadays.      With    all     the 

Mexican  Rubber,     boasted    wealth  of    the  New  World, 

strange  to  say,  whenever  financial  aid 
is  required  to  promote  an  enterprise  of  magnitude,  the 
British  public  is  called  upon  through  the  London  pro- 
moter. New  York  cycles,  down  East  railways,  Western 
mines  and  industrial  projects  of  varied  description  all  drift 
toward  the  great  monied  center  of  the  universe.  One  of 
the  inducements  held  forth  just  now  to  investors  is  what  is 
known  as  the  India  Rubber  (Mexico)  Limited,  brought  out 
in  London  with  a  capital  of  $2,300,000,  is  the  unlimited  de- 
mand for  chewing-gum  in  the  United  States  of  America, 
which  the  property  is  in  a  position  to  supply,  no  less 
than  250,000  chich  or  chewing  gum  trees  being  ready  for 
tapping,  according  to  the  prospectus.  This  will  be  glad 
news  to  the  millions  of  masticators  in  this  country — male 
and  female — who  have  been  laboring  under  suspicion, 
while  cud-chewing,  that  the  material  was  anything  but  a 
natural  product.  One  would  think  that  with  such  a  de- 
mand alone  to  supply,  that  American  manufacturers 
would  have  found  it  expedient  and  profitable  to  have  cor- 
raled  this  font  of  the  chewers'  delight,  before  taking  the 
output  second-hand  from  Great  Britain.  The  "tapping" 
process  for  working  capital  is  possibly  an  easier  matter 
over  the  Allantic  than  it  might  be  in  America,  or  the  trees 
on  the  vast  estate  of  Llano  de  Juarez,  in  Oxaca,  Mex.. 
might  remain  untapped  for  another  generation,  and  this 
in  the  face  of  the  Mexican  Government's  subsidy  of  three 
cents  for  every  new  tree  planted  up  to  a  limit  of  15.000,000 
trees.  The  omission  of  chewing-gum  from  the  Dingley 
bill,  in  view  of  the  new  India  Rubber  (Mexico)  Limited,  is 
an  oversight  upon  the  part  of  the  nation's  legislators, 
fraught  with  peculiar  danger  to  the  chewing-gum  manu- 
facturers of  the  country. 

The  Griffiths  mine,  of  El  Dorado,  re- 
A  Prosperous       cently  purchased  by   syndicate  repre- 
Sootch  Concern,     sented  here  by  P.  George  Gow,  is  rap- 
idly developing   into   a   valuable  prop- 
erty.    Prospecting  on  the  surface  has  revealed  some  fine 
veins  on  the  seven  claims,  with  first-class  ore  at  all  points, 
justifying  the  management  in  starting  a  tunnel  at  a  depth 
of  1,000  feet  to  crosscut   the  whole   property.     Sinking  a 
shaft  is   also   progressing   1,500  feet  from  the  north  line, 
which  is  down   250   feet,  exposing  good  ore.     This  Scotch 
company  is  one  of   the   most  prosperous  concerns  in   the 
State,  and  deservedly  so,  as  its  management,  while  always 
ready  to  put  money  up  for  the  development  of  a  promising 
prospect,   has   the  faculty   of  minding   its  own  business, 
without  interfering  with  that  of  other  people. 

Some  of  the  directors  of  Ihe  Development 
Mining  on       Syndicate  Limited,   of    London,   will  ar- 
The  Feather,     rive  in   town  next  week  on  a  visit  of  in- 
spection  to  the   company's  property  at 
Oroville.     This  includes  the  Banner,  Long's  Bar,  and  sev- 
eral other  promising  mines  in   this   vicinity,  making  one 
consolidation.     Work   is   being  carried  on  with  excellent 
results  under  the  direction  of  Colonel  J.  B.  Low,  the  con- 
sulting engineer  of  the  company.     No  work  has  been  done 
yet  this  year  in   the   river   mines   below,  owing  to   high 
water,  but  everything  is  ready  to  start  up  when  the  time 
comes. 


May  8.  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


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'  llfir  itir  Crlrr:"    "Wbn  the  dtTll  >rt thou!" 
Oneth»t  wIllolKT  thedorll. air. with  rou." 


GUN  practice  at  the  Presidio  languished  sadly  on  Mod 
day,  there  being,  apparently  a  lio  >doo  upon  the  day's 
proceedings.  The  guns  kicked,  hi  did  the  weather,  the 
wind  howling  like  a  banshee  and  the  powcier  being  damp- 
ened bj  a  lack  of  ardor.  No  wonder  that  Lieutenants 
Randolph,  Hubbard  and  .Mi Yv  feel  mortified  at  the  fiasco, 
which  took  place  under  thtir  direction,  but  they  m  1 
fatal  mistake  in  not  having  any  targets  to  lire  at.  If  the 
laws  of  the  land  only  permitted  the  slaughter  of  assorted 
batches  of  unjailed  miscreants  upon  such  occasions,  gun 
practicing  in  Cncle  Sam's  pretty  Presidio  yard  would  be 
of  immense  advantage  to  the  city  and  to  the  soldiers.  The 
Ckikr  would  be  overjoyed  to  sit  on  the  fence  at  such  per- 
formances, and  would  take  unholy  delight  in  seeing  a  pro- 
cession of  blatherskite  politicians,  and  blackmailing 
scoundrels  of  the  journalistic  ilk  march  forward  to  a  de- 
served doom. 

BOSS  Rainey's  Sacramento  labors  in  behalf  of  the  fully- 
paid  fire  department  bill  have  been  rewarded  by  a 
"pelone"  in  the  shapefif  a  silver  tea-service,  an  illumin- 
ated text,  and  other  flattering  but  inappropriate  testi- 
monials of  the  department's  adoring  regard.  Rainey,  be- 
ing in  polities,  is  of  course  familiar  with  silver,  and  its 
acquirement  in  any  form  is  doubtless  pleasing  to  a  man 
who  has  been  out  for  stuff  so  long  as  he  has,  but  his  un- 
familiarity  with  such  a  beverage  as  tea,  and  his  long-dis- 
tance acquaintance  with  texts  of  any  kind,  tend  to  invest 
these  complimentary  but  useless  gifts  with  ironical  signifi- 
cance. With  Rainey  as  guardian  angel  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment above  ground,  and  Satan  as  guardian  of  the  fire  de- 
partment below,  these  necessary  adjuncts  to  civilization 
should  be  faultlessly  controlled,  provided  the  brimstone 
supply  does  not  fail. 

ftHIXDU  nuisance,  who  calls  himself  Bramacharin 
Bobbabhiskshu  for  short,  and  who  is  earning  his  living 
here  by  picturesque  posing  and  the  gift  of  gab,  has 
grossly  insulted  the  American  women  because  they  wear 
modern  millinery  instead  of  towels  about  their  heads.  He 
also  accuses  persons  unknown  of  pulling  his  pajamas.  The 
man  from  India's  coral  strand  will  soon  be  stranded  him- 
self if  he  does  not  put  a  padlock  upon  his  vituperative 
mouth-piece.  He  has  no  kick  coming,  since  he  does  not, 
like  his  Christian  brothers,  have  to  foot  the  bills  for  the 
dear  girls'  head-gear,  and  as  for  the  familiarity  of  yanking 
at  his  nether  garments,  it  is  too  trivial  to  mention.  What 
if  this  wild  Indian's  leg  had  been  pulled  in  true  American 
fashion?  Away  with  him!  Tie  his  name  around  his  neck 
and  drop  him  into  the  translucent  waters  of  the  bay. 

MADAME  Lydia  Mamreoff  von  Finklestein  Mountford, 
a  distinguished  piophetess  from  Jerusalem,  admon- 
ishes us  to  practice  brotherly  love  in  the  spirit  and  not  in 
the  letter.  The  lady  is  dead  right.  Many  a  millionaire 
would  have  lived  in  comparative  peace,  instead  of  suffer- 
ing mental  and  financial  torture  unspeakable,  had  he  com- 
municated his  affections  to  the  fair  object  thereof  by  the 
spirit  instead  of  the  letter  route.  Letters  are  dangerous, 
deucedly  dangerous,  and  the  Cbier  advises  his  wealthy 
brothers  who  have  susceptible  leanings  womanward,  to 
avoid  ink-slinging  absolutely,  and  work  the  spirit  trolley 
for  all  it  is  worth.  Only  the  devil  himself  knows  the  num- 
ber of  breach  of  promise  suits  and  other  embarrassing 
legal  complications  that  will  thus  be  prevented. 

SOME  of  the  Missionites  want  a  zoo  and  others  want  a 
park.  By  all  means  let  them  have  the  zoo.  A  brand 
new  park  would  increase  the  suicide  record  unnecessarily, 
Golden  Gate  Park  having  somewhat  exhausted  its  popular- 
ity as  a  happy  hunting-ground  for  despondent  souls  to 
shuffle  off  their  mortal  coils  upon.     Give  'em  a  zoo. 

LITERARY  note:  It  is  rumored  that  a  volume  of  es- 
pecial interest  to  the  legal  fraternity  and  the  general 
public  is  now  in  press.  Advance  sheets  have  already  been 
furnished  to  the  daily  papers.  Its  title  is  "A  Knight  and 
a  Fair  Lady." 


nb  EHia  D.  Keith,  a  school  teacher,  read  a  paper  at 
the  Womai  1  bs,  advocating  the  spanking  of 

infants  in  the  primary  grades.  This  idea  will,  if  acted 
u|ion,  be  anything  but  a  welcome  innovation  to  the  city's 
taxpayers,  although  it  may  be  hailed  with  joy  by  the 
schoolma'ams,  who  yearn  to  practice  upon  the  anatomy 
as  well  as  the  minds  of  insubordinate  kidlets.  It  would  be 
physically  impossible,  even  for  an  athletic  teacher,  to  ad- 
minister corporal  punishment  to  a  class  of  several  dozen 
small  rebels  in  the  good,  old-fashioned  way,  and  the  de- 
partment has  enough  to  do  to  pay  salaries  without  incurr- 
ing the  expense  of  spanking  machines.  Meanwhile  the 
maternal  hand  and  the  paternal  slipper  will  doubtless  con- 
tinue to  get  in  their  deadly  work. 

ftLOYF.  feast  was  held  by  the  Congregational  Club  this 
week,  the  Methodist  and  Presbyterian  brothers 
breaking  bread  together.  Love  feasts  seem  to  be  ex- 
tremely popular  with  the  Congregationalists  hereabouts, 
the  most  successful  in  the  holy  history  of  the  local  denom- 
ination having  been  held  in  a  series  by  one  Charles  O. 
Brown,  D.  D.,  who  did  not,  however,  content  himself  with 
breaking  bread,  but  broke  the  commandments  and  the 
clerical  record  of  the  church  simultaneously  into  most  un- 
holy smithereens.  To  follow  his  career  consistently,  this 
pastoral  animal,  instead  of  browsing  in  Chicago's  fertile 
fields,  should  be  financially  broke,  and  breaking  rocks  in 
the  congenial  environs  of  a  penitentiary. 

IN  days  of  old  it  was  fashionable  for  a  shepherd  to  walk 
at  the  head  of  his  flock.  Later  on  the  mode  changed, 
and  he  drove  it  with  the  assistance  of  a  dog,  whose  men- 
aces terrified  it,  but  perceiving  that  the  beast's  bark  was 
worse  than  his  bite,  the  sheep  laughed  and  ceased  to  fear. 
This  is  a  parable  of  the  church;  the  dog  is  the  devil.  Dr. 
Dille,  of  the  Central  M.  E.  Church,  has  been  uttering  the 
weekly  wail  because  young  men  prefer  cycling  to  church- 
going.  It  is  not  surprising  that  they  find  fresh  air  more 
invigorating  than  the  average  sermon.  The  cycle  is  up-to- 
date,  but  the  sanctuary  is  behind  the  age. 

M  RS.  Carrie  Higley  Dimond  is  wondering  whether  she 
J  1  made  such  a  good  exchange  after  all  in  leaving  her 
luxurious  island  home  to  become  a  giddy  burlesque  actress. 
There  seems  to  have  been  a  hitch  in  the  elopement  in  the 
first  place,  for  the  fascinating  drug  clerk  soon  became  in- 
visible, and  has  not  been  heard  of  since;  and  now  those 
photographs  of  her  extremities  so  freely  scattered  over 
the  town  don't  look  as  appetizing  as  she  fondly  hoped  they 
would,  even  when  painted  pink.  Carrie  is  a  star,  but  she's 
barely  twinkling. 

THE  Town  Crier  is  pleased  to  notice  that  the  poppers 
and  mommers  of  San  Francisco  have  been  protesting 
against  the  length  of  the  racing  season  on  the  grounds 
that  the  race  course  has  injurious  effects  on  the  budding 
morals  of  their  sons.  This  shows  that  the  old-fashioned 
custom  of  training  up  a  child  in  the  way  he  should  go  is 
not  entirely  out  of  vogue,  as  some  suppose.  A  boy  who  is 
not  brought  up  on  Puritan  principles  is  cheated  out  of  a 
glorious  heritage.  He  can  never  know  to  the  full  the  joys 
of  going  astray. 

POLICEMAN  Cassius  Blackman  abused  his  deadhead 
privileges  by  demanding  that  the  Sutter-street  car 
upon  which  he  was  enjoying  a  free  ride,  should  stop  in 
order  to  allow  him  to  make  his  exits  and  entrances  in  a 
dignified  and  majestic  manner.  Now  the  company  re- 
taliates by  putting  him  off  the  free  list.  Now  Blackburn 
should  be  frozen  out  by  the  fruit  and  peanut  stands,  and 
frowned  upon  by  all  the  pretty  chambermaids  and  nurses 
on  his  beat. 

CIGAR  dealer  A.  Mass  and  wife  have  been  arrested  for 
obtaining  money  under  false  pretenses.  People  are 
continually  getting  into  trouble,  trying  to  amass  wealth. 
The  Town  Crier  rejoices  in  his  poverty,  and  righteously 
condemns  the  course  of  the  acquisitive  tobacconist  and  his 
spouse  for  endeavoring  to  live  up  to  the  family  name. 

S  LATTER  day  wit  says  that  cosmetics  are  the  out- 
ward and  visible  sign  of  an  inward  and  spiritual  dis- 
grace. If  this  be  true  San  Francisco  is  the  most  immoral 
city  in  the  world. 

THE   Balboa  Boulevard's  sinking  fund  will  soon  be  out 
of  sight. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  8,  1897. 


"1  must  say,  dearest,"  said  tbe  young  man  in  a  tentative 
way,  "that  you — ah, — er — make  love  rather — um — scienti- 
fically for  a  pirl  who  never  kissed  another  man."  1-I  sup- 
pose," said  the  young  lady  in  the  ease,  "that  I  must  have 
had  some  practice  in  a  previ  us  incarnation.  Don't  you 
think  so?" — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 

Mrs.  Homespun — Land  sakes  alive,  Josiah!  I  won't  let 
our  Henry  stay  at  college  another  minute.  Me.  Homespun 
— What  is  it  now,  my  dear?  Mrs.  Homespun — W'y,  here's 
an  article  says  there  are  several  young  women  at  that 
same  college  and  that  they  are  outstripping  the  men. — 
Judge. 

Department  Store  Photographer  (suavely,  to  sitter) — Now, 
look  pleasant,  please.  Van  Prune  (being  photographed 
while  waiting  for  his  wife,  miserably) — I  can't.  My  wife 
is  downstairs  attending  your  spring  bargain-sales  of  dress 
goods  and  millinery. — Puck. 

"Pa,  who  was  Shylock?"  "Great  goodness,  boy!  You 
attend  church  and  Sunday  school  every  week,  and  don't 
know  who  Shylock  was?"  cried  his  father,  with  a  look  of 
surprise  and  horror.  "Go  and  read  your  Bible,  sir." — 
Tit-Bits. 

Son  (who  had  been  caught  reading  a  dime  novel) — Un- 
hand me,  tyrant,  or  there  maybe  bloodshed!  Father — 
No,  my  son;  there  will  be  nothing  more  serious  than  wood- 
shed. Come;  that  is  where  my  strap  hangs. — Princeton 
Tiger. 

Lady  Shopper — These  boots  are  a  mile  too  big  for  me. 
Shopkeeper — Really,  madam,  I  cannot  allow  my  wares  to 
be  slandered.  I  think  it  is  that  your  feet  are  a  mile  too 
small  for  the  boots. — Boston  Transcript. 

Mrs.  Bountful  (after  hearing  the  new  organ  at  the  village 
church) — What  I  most  admire,  Mr.  Simplex,  are  the 
wonderfully  human  tones  of  the  Nux  Vomica  stop! — Lon- 
don Punch. 

"I  saw  your  mother  going  to  the  neighbors'  as  I  crossed 
the  street.  When  will  she  be  home?"  asked  the  lady 
caller.  "She  said  she'd  be  back  just's  soon  as  you  left," 
answered  truthful  Jimmie. — Detroit  Free  Press. 

Mrs.  Henry  Peck — I  read  here  that  a  western  state  pro- 
poses to  tax  bachelorhood!  Mr.  Henrv  Peck — A  good 
idea.     All  luxuries  should  be  taxed. — Puck. 

"This  is  an  awful  big  bill  for  Turkish  baths.  Why  do 
you  go  there  so  often?"  "Where  else  can  a  girl  go  who 
has  nothing  to  wear?" — Boston  Herald. 

"Papa,  we  have  come  back  to  ask  your  forgiveness." 
"All  right.  Have  vou  paid  the  parson,  or  is  that  charged 
to  me?"— Truth. 

"What  a  firm,  manly  tread  that  young  Simmons  has." 
"Yes,  he's  commenced  using  a  higher  gear." — Cleveland 
Leader. 

Only  a  lock  of  auburn  bair  caught  on  the  fr_ont  of  his  vest. 
He  carelessly  "pressed  the  button,"  aDd  his  wife  she  did  the  rest. 

—Exchange. 

"May  I  kiss  your  hand?"  he  asked.  She  removed  her 
veil.     "No,"  she  replied.     "I  have  my  gloves  on." — Ex. 

The  Overland  Limited, 

ONLY  3\4  DATS  TO  CHICAGO.      i]4   DATS  TO   NEW   TOEK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Doable  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  O^den  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
•leepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 

The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedakeb,  General  Agent. 


CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    5.  Constantlnl,  Proprietor. 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B  Bbun. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cuttar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MA  KINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Holds  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105 O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  aesigned  and  constructed. 

CANDIES. 
Maillard's  Chocolates  in  %  and  1-lb  boxes.    Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 

LADIES'    HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze  (known   as   Hermann  at  Strozynski's)  has  opened 
Ladies'  Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  225  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main  5c20 


BANKING. 


Bank  of 
British  Columbia. 


Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 


Capital  Paid  Up $3,000,00 

Reserve  Fund t  5UU.UU0 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush  and  Sansome  Sts. 
headoffice 60  lombard  street,  london 

Branches— Victoria,  "Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B,  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transac  ts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  Na  tional  Bank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand— Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  of 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

San     FranfiSPO  Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

cn.,;nnA      n«:An  Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 $24,^)2,327 

OuVlFlQS     UniOll*  Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus ... .    1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.    No  charge  is  made  for 

f -ass-book  or  entrance  fee.    Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  P.  m.    Saturday  even- 
ngs,6:30to8 

ThP  ftPrman  Savinn^  No"  526  Galifobnia  Street.  San  Francisco 

nnA    i  «or.     o»~:»+..        Guarantee  capital  and  surplus. ...$2040,201  66 

3mQ     L03n     OOGlolU.       Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash..   l.OUOOOOOO 

Deposits  December  31,  1896 27,7.0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  Pres'dent,  B  A  Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Pres»deu<.  H.  Horsiman:  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Ca-hier,  William  Henmann;  Secretary  George  Tourny;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Mullen  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann.  ]gn.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  is.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Oh  andt. 

Mj'pIIc    Farnn                   N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 
WCIIO    Tdl  UU  j0hn  J.  Valentine President 

&o«  »«     D^n|r                   Homer  S.King Manager 
00.  S     KanK.                 H.    Wadsworth Cashier 

F.  L.  Llpman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus $6,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City.  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  p.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington.  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker.  Dudley  Evans. 

Spnirif  II  82a  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

C„,.:„„„     D„»I,  INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 

Savings  Bank.        loans  made. 

DIRECTORS. 

William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott.  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Rabcock  O.  D  Baldwin  E  J.  McCutchen 

Adam  Grant  W.  S.  Jones  J._B.  Lincoln 


May  8,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   MITTF.R. 


15 


THE    DOLLS    FUNERAL -w/u  >uc*  moimi,   /»  ».  0.  pictruiic 


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H  EN  my  dolly  died,  when  my  dolly  died, 
I  sal  on  tbe  step  and  I  cried,  and  t  cried ; 
A 1 1  •  1  I  couldn't  eat  any  j  mi  and  bread, 
'Cause  it  didn't  seem  rtgbl  when  my  doll  was  dead. 
And  Bridget  was  sorry  as  she  c«mld  be, 
For  she  patted  my  head  and  'Ob,*'  said  she, 
■  To  think  that  tbe  pretty  has  gone  and  died!" 
Then  I  brokeout  afresh,  and  I  cried  and  cried. 

And  all  the  dollies  from  all  around 
Came  to  see  my  doll  put  under  tbe  ground ; 
There  were  Lucy  Lee  and  Mary  Clack 
Brought  their  dolls  over  all  dressed  in  black. 
And  Kmmeline  Hope  and  Sara  Lou 
Came  over  and  brought  their  dollies,  too. 
And  all  the  lime  1  cried,  and  cried. 
'Cause  it  burt  me  so  when  my  dolly  died. 

We  dressed  ber  up  in  a  new  white  gown, 

Wiih  ribbons  and  laces  all  around  ; 

And  made  ber  cotKu  in  a  box 

Where  my  brother  keeps  his  spelling  blocks, 

And  we  had  some  prayers,  and  a  funeral,  too; 

And  our  hymn  was  "The  Two  Litlle  Girls  in  Blue.' 

But  for  me,  I  only  cried  and  cried, 

'Cause  it  truly  hurt  when  my  dolly  died. 

We  dug  her  a  grave  in  the  violet  bed, 
And  planted  violets  at  her  bead; 
And  we  raised  a  stone  aud  wrote  quite  plain: 
"  Here  lies  a  dear  doll  who  died  of  pain." 
And  then  my  brother  he  said  ''Arneu," 
Aud  we  all  went  back  to  ihe  house  again. 
But  all  the  time  I  cried  and  cried, 
Because  'twas  right  when  my  doll  had  died. 

And  then  we  had  more  jam  and  bread, 
But  1  didn't  eat  'cause  my  doll  was  dead. 
But  I  tied  somecrape  on  my  dollbouse  door, 
And  then  I  cried  and  cried  some  more. 
I  couldn't  be  happy,  don't  you  see! 
Because  the  funeral  belonged  to  me. 
And  then  the  others  went  home;  and  then 
1  went  out  aud  dug  up  my  doll  again. 


HEARTS    FOR    SALE.— maud  hosford,  in  life. 

For  sale:    A  very  fine  line  of  hearts 

At  prices  far  below  cost, 
A  circumstance  which  affords  you  a  chance 

To  replace  the  one  you  have  lost. 

Hearts  that  are  tender;  hearts  that  are  brave; 

One  that's  been  worn  on  a  sleeve 
Is  marked  down  so  low  it  surely  must  go, 

Though  it  is  somewhat  soiled,  you  perceive. 

Broken  hearts,  too,  that  have  been  "restored;' 

One  thai  has  only  a  crack; 
And  hearts  that  are  set  on  a  coronet, 

For  lovers  of  bric-a-brae. 

Sad  hearts,  glad  hearts,  hearts  of  gold, 

Hearts  that  gold  only  can  buy; 
And  a  heart  so  true  it  will  just  suit  you 

If  you'll  only  take  it  to  try. 


BANKING. 


MY    THOUGHT— AND    H  ER'S  ?— /vii/i  si/mm,  in  ladies'  home  journal. 

The  gray  of  the  sea  and  ihe  gray  of  the  sky, 
A  glimpse  of  the  morn  like  a  half-closed  eye; 
The  gleam  on  the  waves  and  tbe  lights  on  the  land, 
A  thrill  in  my  heart— aud  my  sweetheart's  hand. 

She  turned  from  the  sea  with  a  woman's  grace, 
And  the  light  fell  soft  on  her  upturned  face. 
And  1  thought  of  tbe  rloodtide  of  infinite  bliss 
That  would  flow  to  my  soul  with  a  single  kiss. 

But  my  sweetheart  is  shy,  so  I  dared  not  ask 
For  the  boon,  so  biavely  t  wore  the  mask ; 
But  iu  her  face  there  came  a  flame— 
I  wonder  could  she  have  been  thinking  the  same? 


Bank  of  California,         °""ul »3,ooo,ooooo 

ca„    FnnricrA  Surplus    and   Undivided 

Oflll    ndllGISGO.  Protlts  (October  1,  18W,..    3,158,120  70 

WILLIAM  ALVORD President  |  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP. .  Vlce-Pres't 

ALLEN  M.CLAY Secretary    THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Phentiss  Smith....  Ass' t  Cashier  1 1.  F.  Moclton 2d  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laldlaw  &  Co.;  the  Bank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  Bank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  A 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Rothschild  Freres;  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand—  Bank  of 
New  Zealand ;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis—Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm, Christian^,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  In  Italy. 


California  Safe  Deposit 
and  Trust  Gompanij. 


Cor.  California  and  Montgomery  Sts. 

Capital  Fully  Paid $1,000,000 

Tnnsaots  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capaotty.  W  ills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  takeo  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  'o  rent  at  prires  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
wa-d  according  tu  size,  ami  valuab  es  of  all  kinds  «re  sto-ed  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Htnry  Williams,  I.  G.  vV1cker>bam.  J*cob  C. 
Johnson.  Janes  Tread  well,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R  B.Wal- 
lace  K    D  Fry.A.D  Sharon   and  J    Dalzell  Hrnwn. 

Officer*:  J  D  Fry.  Pr>&ident:  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry.  Second  Vice-President;  J  Dalzell  Brown.  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.Shotwell,  Ass.stant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Boo'.h  &  Bartnelt, 
Attorneys. 


Mutual  Savings  Bank 
of  San  Francisco. 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President. 


33  Post    Street,   below   Kearny, 
Mechanics'  Institute  Building. 

Guaranteed  Capital tl  .000.000 

Pald-Up  Capital I  300,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 
JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L,.  P.  Drexler,  John  A.  Hooper,  C.  O. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Tnterest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY.  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Hanks.    When  opening  accounts  send  signatuie. 

N.W.  Cos.  Sansome  &  Sutter  Sts. 


Subscribed  Capital  . 


London,  Paris  and 

American  Bank,  Limited,  paid  up  capital «2,uuu«.u 

ReserveFund I    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cle,  1?  Boulevard  Polssoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  oitles  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

gIGALGTRS^!fAT™}Ma°agers. 

The  Anglo-Galifornlan       &^£SF!^-"/".:%$&$& 

o„„i,       i  im:*Bj  Paid    Up l,5uu,uuu 

BanK,     Limited.  Reserve   Fund 700.000 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts 
Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Sellgman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills 'or  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

andlmmo°- jffiggg&gl,}""-" 

Grocker-Woolworth         2SNF30'sMsSisMONTGOMEBY• 
National  Bank  of  S.  F.    paid-up  capital n,ooo,ooo 

WM.  H.CROCKER.,  President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crooker,  E.  B.  Pond.  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 


The  Sather 
Banking  Company. 


Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 
Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

Capital •1,000,000 


James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller.  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolfe.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E  G.  Lukens,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil- 
ler  Wm  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf.  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
lonal  Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  C« 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  8,  1897. 


3Q    ©<?«' 


DEAR  EDITH  :  Bright  colors  are  fashionable  now,  but 
when  true  feminine  taste  blends  the  combination  the 
effect  is  pleasing  rather  than  otherwise.  Of  course,  the 
senses  are  shocked  by  the  blaze  of  coloring;  but  as  a  rule 
the  colors  are  so  mixed  that  they  please  and  delight  the 
eye.  One  of  the  neatest  examples  of  this  treatment  I  note 
in  a  dress  of  bright  billiard  green  crepe  cloth.  Its  tex- 
ture was  so  soft,  it  was  so  closely  covered  with  tiny  crepe 
wrinkles  that  did  not  seem  to  ridge  the  surface,  that  the 
color  took  on  a  thousand  lights  and  made  the  green  har- 
monize with  any  shade  of  green  put  with  it,  and  with  any 
any  other  color,  too,  as  a  leaf  does  on  a  rose  tree.  The 
skirt  was  made  over  black  satin,  the  breadths  rounded 
short  at  waist  and  hem  to  show  the  satin.  A  deep  facing 
of  plaid  silk  reached  the  knees  on  the  under  side  of  the 
skirt,  the  plaid  showing  dark  blue,  dark  green,  and  lines 
of  scarlet  and  light  green,  a  tiny  streak  of  daffodil  yellow 
striping  here  and  there  as  inconspicuously  as  a  streak  of 
sunshine  on  a  lily  pad.  One  bodice  for  this  skirt  was  plaid 
silk,  crossed  in  a  lot  of  folds  over  the  front  and  fastening 
under  a  big  frill  from  shoulder  to  belt.  The  belt  was  wide, 
fitted,  and  from  black  satin.  A  green  cloth  bolero,  that 
fastened  also  at  the  side  with  a  series  of  straps,  between 
which  the  frill  of  the  silk  bodice  showed,  was  for  wear  over 
this  silk  bodice.     The  jacket  was  lined  with  bright  green. 

The  trick  can  be  done  too  when  the  variety  of  colors  is 
not  great,  and  when  the  dominant  one  is  very  brilliant. 
The  skirt  was  serge,  and  had  a  row  of  appliqued  black 
braiding  at  the  hem.  The  bodice  was  cerise  taffeta,  was 
tucked  between  the  bretelles,  gathered  at  the  waist,  and 
held  by  a  belt  of  scarlet  India  foulard.  The  bretelles  of 
scarlet  silk  were  trimmed  with  appliqued  braiding,  and  a 
full  ruching  of  black  chiffon  finished  the  neck.  Even  when 
worn  with  a  scarlet  hat  of  turban  shape,  trimmed  with 
black  tips,  this  dress  will  not  seem  too  striking  or  too 
high  colored,  so  effective  is  a  little  black  in  softening  the 
brilliancy  of  reds.  The  proportion  of  black  is  much  greater 
than  this  in  many  cases,  and  women  who  are  fond  of  quiet 
effects  will  be  pretty  sure  to  use  more.  They  need  not, 
however,  for  scarlet  is  to  be  so  abundant  that  a  dress  like 
that  just  described  will  not  seem  assertive. 

A  favorite  resort  of  those  who  are  a  bit  fearful  of  over- 
doing bright  colors  is  to  mask  them  with  a  sober,  but  semi- 
transparent  material.  This  method  of  making  is  highly 
fashionable,  as  by  it  the  two  chief  characteristics  of  the  sea- 
son— bright  colors  and  elaborateness — can  be  combined  in 
one  dress.  Besides  this  point  it  has  much  to  recommend 
it.  Beauty  of  result  is  strongly  on  its  side,  and  then  it 
affords  a  fine  chance  for  her  who  is  ingenious  as  well  as  of 
sound  judgment  in  dress  matters. 

From  the  standpoint  of  economy  there  is,  perhaps,  less 
to  say  in  its  favor.  True,  there  is  a  host  of  beautiful 
transparent  fabrics  that  are  stylish  and  inexpensive,  but 
what  of  saving  is  scored  up  by  these  is  all  wiped  out  by  the 
outlay  necessary  for  the  silken  lining.  In  these  circum- 
stances it  is  some  comfort  to  remember  that  new  styles 
are  very  seldom  favorable  to  economy,  and  after  taking 
all  possible  solace  from  this  fact,  the  next  thing  is  to  con- 
sider how  to  do  the  trick  inexpensively.  There  are  many 
models  that  tend  toward  this  end,  and  a  very  pretty  one  is 
thus  described  :  Its  skirt  was  of  black  grenadine  over  sal- 
mon silk  lining,  three  small  ruffles  of  the  silk  trimming  it 
near  the  foot.  Shirring  on  the  back  and  front  of  the 
bodice  supplied  a  yoke  effect,  and  from  this  hung  a  pleat- 
ing of  salmon  chiffon.  The  sleeves  were  gathered  to  the 
elbows,  ending  in  chiffon  frills;  salmon  chiffon  and  black 
chiffon  were  combiued  in  the  collar,  and  very  handsome 
figured  salmon  ribbon  gave  the  belt  and  the  elbows  at  the 
shoulders  an  effect  that  saved  the  outlines  therefrom  bare- 
ness. Tight  sleeves  may  be  coming,  indeed  they  can  be 
seen  not  infrequently,  but  seldom  without  some  elaboration 
at  the  shoulders  to  take  the  place  of  the  departed  puffs. 

Belinda. 


Great  Unloading  and 
Clearing-Out  Sale 

Our  Gigantic 


OF- 


overstock 


New  Spring  Styles 
and  Novelties 


fit  ProdlQious  Reductions. 


See  daily  papers  for  particulars. 


MURPHY  BUILDING,  Market  and  Jones  Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

203  to  207  N  Spring  St.  bet.  Temple  and  First  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.'] 


EGYPTIAN 
ENAMEL. 


An  incomparable  beautifler.  It  denes  detection  and 
is  perfectly  Harmless. 

50  cents  and  $1.00 

MFHIftflTF  H  I  The  Famous  Skin  Food.    It  makes  the  skin  soft  and 

niLL/iuM  i  b^  i  smooth,  the  complexion  clear,  and  cures  tan,  sun- 

r.FRATF  I  burn,  and  pimples. 

ODrvniL.  |  50  cents  and  81,00 

Endorsed  by  leading  physicians  and  the  theatrical  profession. 
Trade  supplied  by  REDINGTON  &  CO  where  I  have  no  Agent, 

/VlrS-     ill.    J-     DllllCr    San  Francisco,  Cal.,' U.S.  A. 


Dr.  D.  R.  Dupuis, 

The  only  physician  in  the  city 
who  makes  a  specialty  of  .  .  . 


FACIAL  TREATMENT 


Permanently  removes  Wrinkles,  Small-pox 
Scars,  and  all  Facial  Disfigurations. 

713   POST  ST,  Near  Jones. 


5RUSHES 


For  barbers,  bakers,  bootblacks,  bath-houses,  bil- 
liard tables,  brewers,  book-binders,  candy-makers, 
canners,  dyers,  flour-mills,  foundries,  laundries, 
paper-hangers,  printers,  painters,  shoe  factories, 
stable  men,  tar-roofers,  tanners  tailors,  etc. 


BUCHANAN   BROS., 

BRUSH   MANUFACTURERS,  609  Sacramento  St.  ,S.   F       Tel.  5610. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 

SHIPPING   AND  COMMISSION    MERCHANTS 
General  Agents 

OCEANIC   STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 
GILLINGHAM   CEMENT. 
337  I1ARKBT  ST.,  Corner  Fremont,  S.  P. 


Pacific  Towel  Company 


No.  9 


Lick  Place 


Furnishes  clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates:  Clean  hand 
towels  each  week,  $1  per  month;  12  clean  hand  towels  each  weeks 
81  50  per  month;  4  clean  roller  towels  each  week,  II,  6  month; 
6  clean  roller  towels  each  week,  $1  25  per  month. 


May  8,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'7 


INSURANCE 

THERE   will  probably  bo  a  change  in  Ihe  management 
of  the  1'iiioii  Casualty  and  Surety  Company  in   the 

thirty   days.  if.  indeed,  it    does   not    retire  from   the 
Coa-  er 

that    there  will    be  a  change  in  the  Coast 
management  of  the  At 

antile  community  is  taking  very  kindly  to  the 
retui  '   I.  V.  rates,  which  were  announced  as  the 

coin  pact. 

Arthur  ML  llrown  has  become  a  partner  with  his  father 
under  the  name  of  Brown  A  Son.  They  have  the  Coast 
agency  of  the  American,  ol  Philadelphia,  and  the  Svea. 

The  year  book  of  the  Spectator  Publishing  Company  is 
out. 

The  different  Casualty  companies  are  making  an  effort 
to  combine  against  the  Frankfort — the  only  company  out- 
side the  board.  The  plan  is  to  cut  the  rate  made  by  the 
Frankfort,  and  all  such  business  will  be  reinsured  in  the 
different  companies. 

The  Metropolitan  Life  has  completed  a  large  8-story 
building  in  New  York,  and  will  occupy  the  entire  struc- 
ture. 

The  Caledonia  Insurance  Company,  represented  by  L.  B. 
Edwards  on  this  Coast,  has  issued  a  magnificent  brochure, 
which  is  being  distributed  to  the  patrons  of  the  company 
in  this  city. 

Julius  Ach,  the  well-known  Manufacturers'  agent,  has 
been  appointed  inspector  for  the  Kalamazoo  Sprinkling 
Company. 

Wilcox  &  Company,  agents  for  the  Battery  Insurance 
Company,  are  issuing  a  handsome  calendar. 

The  New  York  Insurance  Department  this  year  is 
issuing  a  complete  record  of  all  business  done  by  insurance 
companies  in  that  State,  together  with  a  statement  of 
their  standing. 

The  State  Glass  Insurance  combine  in  the  East  is  mov- 
ing Westward,  and  it  is  likely  that  there  will  be  an  in- 
crease of  rates  in  this  city  shortly. 

Ex-Commissioner  Higjjins  left  for  the  East  on  Tuesday. 
His  successor  is  Henry  G.  Gesford. 

HEAVILY     OVERSTOCKED. 


J.  J.  O'Brien  &  Co.'s  Great  Sacrifice  Sale  of  New  Spring  Goods. 

THE  great  sacrifice  sale  of  J.  J.  O'Brien  &  Co.,  which 
began  last  Monday  morning,  has  crowded  that  mam- 
moth establishment  with  customers  in  search  of  genuine 
bargains.  The  fact  that  the  tremendous  reduction  applied 
to  every  article  in  the  great  store,  and  that  the  prices 
that  were  cut  in  two  meant  new,  up-to-date  spring  impor- 
tations of  the  best  designers  and  the  most  famous  manu- 
facturers. 

The  extraordinary  character  of  the  sale  can  be  judged 
from  the  fact  that  the  Messrs.  O'Brien,  having  nearly 
doubled  their  usual  spring  importations  in  anticipation  of 
the  proposed  great  increase  in  the  tariff,  found  them- 
selves heavily  overstocked,  owing  to  the  backwardness  of 
the  season;  and  this  compelled  them  to  adopt  the  most 
radical  measures  to  unload  the  vast  quantities  of  goods  on 
hand  before  the  season  becomes  too  far  advanced  and  while 
the  goods  are  yet  seasonable.  That  their  efforts  would  be 
successful  was  a  foregone  conclusion  in  view  of  the  reduc- 
tions made,  the  prices  in  many  cases  having  been  cut  in 
two;  and  these  reduced  prices  are  not  confined  to  a  few 
special  lines,  but  extend  to  every  article  in  every  depart- 
ment of  the  firm's  mammoth  establishment,  including  black 
and  colored  dress  goods,  silks,  laces,  ribbons,  gloves, 
handkerchiefs,  dress  trimmings,  ladies'  shirt  waists,  jack- 
ets, capes,  suits,  dress  skirts,  hosiery,  underwear,  cor- 
sets, men's  and  boy's  furnishing  goods,  wash  dress  fabrics, 
curtains,  linens,  housefurnishings,  and  the  thousand  and 
one  other  articles  that  go  to  make  up  a  first-class  dry 
goods  stock. 

Finally,  and  most  important  of  all,  and  the  point  that 
appeals  with  resistless  force  to  those  in  search  of  the  best 
values  for  their  money,  is  the  fact  that  the  goods  are  all 
new,  fresh  and  clean,  of  this  season's  importation,  instead 
of  the  usual  run  of  old,  shelf- worn,  obsolete  styles  that  are 
generally  offered  at  the  conventional  reduction  or  cut-price 
sale.     This  great  sacrifice  sale  continues  next  week. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  8,  1897. 


IN  the  palmy  days  of  his  career,  no  office  in  the  gift  of 
Shasta  County  would  have  been  withheld  from  Clay 
Webster  Taylor,  the  Democratic  politician  and  attorney 
who  died  here  a  few  days  ago.  Among  other  honors  was 
his  election  to  represent  his  district  in  the  State  Senate, 
where  he  had  as  his  deskmate  Attorney  Charles  W.  Cross, 
now  of  this  city.  The  story  goes  that  the  debris  question 
was  the  dominant  issue  during  that  session,  and  Taylor's 
constituents  made  many  demands  that  he  declare  himself 
upon  the  mooted  question. 

"You'll  hear  from  me  all  right,"  said  the  stentorian- 
voiced  bearer  of  three  famous  names,  "and  it  will  be  no 
uncertain  sound,  either." 

Then  he  carefully  prepared  and  wrote  out  a  speech 
which  was  to  reverberate  down  the  hills  of  time,  change 
the  entire  vote  of  the  Legislature,  and  accomplish  several 
other  equally  impossible  results.  After  finishing  the  com- 
pilation of  this  oration,  he  placed  the  manuscript,  as  he 
thought,  in  his  desk,  but  inadvertently  deposited  it  in  that 
used  by  his  neighbor,  Senator  Cross.  Now,  Taylor  and 
Cross  had  taken  opposite  sides  in  the  debris  controversy, 
and  when  Cross  discovered  this  manuscript  in  his  desk,  be 
considered  it  ammunition  sent  him  by  the  gods.  He  care- 
fully mastered  its  legal  points,  and  on  the  very  day  on 
which  Taylor  had  planned  to  deliver  it,  Cross  made  a  rat- 
tliDg  speech,  anticipating  and  refuting  in  advance  all  the 
arguments  Taylor  had  intended  to  state.  The  latter  was 
furious,  and  despite  the  clamor  of  his  constituents,  he  was 
obliged  to  sit  through  the  debate  in  speechless  rage. 
Cross  told  it  everywhere,  and  although  Taylor  threatened 
to  denounce  his  opponent  in  the  chamber,  he  found  himself 
laughed  out  of  the  Capitol. 

*  *  # 

True  harbinger  of  summer,  Henry  J.  Crocker  burst 
forth  this  week  in  a  magnificent  waistcoat  of  the  fashion- 
able tint  of  the  season, — slate  colored  blue.  Wherever  he 
went,  be  was  conscious  that  people  glanced  at  him  in 
amused  surprise,  and  to  escape  vulgar  observation  he 
sought  the  seclusion  of  the  University  Club. 

"Oh,  where  did  you  get  it?"  was  the  wailing  greeting  of 
young  Harry  Stetson. 

"We  heard  you  coming,  Henry,"  added  Jack  Casserly, 
with  his  famous  grin. 

"Looks  as  though  he  had  just  stepped  out  of  Bond 
street,  you  know,"  remarked  Jack  Parrott,  significantly. 

Mr.  Crocker  hardly  considered  these  personal  comments 
so  screamingly  funny  or  killingly  witty  as  to  justify  the  up- 
roarious laughter  with  which  they  were  greeted.  Hastily 
buttoning  up  bis  coat  to  hide  his  new  raiment,  he  turned 
on  his  heel,  feeling  somewhat  affronted.  Jack  Casserly, 
with  a  deterring  arm,  turned  him  around,  in  full  view  of 
the  other  men. 

"My  son,"  said  Jack,  with  paternal  demeanor,  "it  is  a 
pernicious  practice  to  buy  your  clothes  in  London.  I  am 
glad  you  patronize  the  tailors  of  your  own  land.  But  why 
do  you  wear  the  badge?"  and  he  skilfully  removed  a  tag, 
bearing  the  words,  "Ah  Wong,  $1.35." 

It  cost  Crocker  the  price  of  several  bottles.  He  says 
he  will  get  even  with  Eddie  Eyre  for  that  tag,  if  it  takes 
all  summer. 

#  *  * 

Anticipatory  joys  abound  in  art  circles  over  the  ex- 
pected arrival  from  New  York  of  Emil  Carlsen,  who  is 
about  to  revisit  his  old  hunting  grounds  in  this  city,  after 
an  absence  of  five  years.  During  his  sojourn  here,  his 
friends  assert  that  he  will  again  occupy  his  old  studio 
quarters  on  Barbary  Coast,  the  former  Mecca  of  all  lovers 
of  still  life.  There,  Emil  gracefully  played  the  role  of  en- 
lertainer,  and  his  "  Four  O'clocks  "  were  famous  in  Bo- 
hemian circles.  No  girl  of  his  acquaintance  ever  needed 
to  go  thirsty.  A  pilgrimage  to  Montgomery  avenue  would 
always  insure  her  a  foaming  gin  fizz  or  a  cool  cocktail,  art- 
fully concocted  by  the  sunny-tempered  painter.  He  was 
intensely  proud  of  the  degree  conferred  upon  him   by  that 


club  within  the  Bohemian  Club — the  Knights  of  the  Round 
Table — which  dubbed  him  "  D.  D."  (Dissipated  Dane)  and 
he  used  the  mystic  initials  with  as  great  a  flourish  as  does 
any  learned  parson  with  his  much-prized  "Doctor  of  Divin- 
Ity." 

Carlsen's  work  in  San  Francisco  was  spasmodic,  and  the 
sale  of  a  picture  always  meant  the  relegation  of  palette 
and  brushes  to  a  dark  corner,  the  studio  being  used  solely 
as  a  place  of  lavish  entertainment  until  the  artist's  purse 
again  became  depleted.  MaDy  of  his  best  pictures  adorn 
the  walls  of  the  Bohemian  Club,  the  ransom  for  princely 
bills,  lavishly  contracted  in  dining  room  and  cafe. 

Emii's  greatest  success  was  achieved  in  paintings  of  fish, 
and  one,  which  he  considered  his  masterpiece,  represented 
a  big  barracuda,  sent  him  by  an  admirer  from  Catalina 
Island.  The  fish  was  packed  in  ice,  and  Carlsen  worked 
on  it  several  days.  When  the  odor  became  too  pungent 
in  his  studio,  during  a  party,  he  shied  the  fish  out  of  a 
window,  and  noticed  it,  early  next  morning,  lying  in  the 
alley.  Emil  had  been  accustomed  to  take  his  meals  in  an 
adjacent  Spanish  restaurant,  but  when  the  waiter  brought 
him  barracuda  on  three  successive  days,  the  still-life 
painter  concluded  to  change  his  caterer. 


To  the  visit  of  E.  L.  Thayer  is  ascribed  much  of  the  re- 
cent gaiety  of  the  clubs,  although  the  once  rollicking 
Eddie  of  San  Francisco's  most  advanced  bohemianism  is 
now  transformed  into  a  supposedly  staid  business  man  of 
Boston.  It  was  during  his  residence  here  that  he  wrote, 
anonymously,  that  famous  epic  poem,  "Casey  at  the  bat," 
and  it  was  penned  during  great  financial  stress.  Thayer 
and  Eugene  Lent,  fresh  from  Harvard,  having  had  a  dis- 
agreement with  their  respective  sires,  decided  to  carve 
out  their  fortunes  unaided.  To  that  end,  they  applied  for 
work  to  their  former  classmate,  the  then  youthful  pro- 
prietor of  the  Examiner.  They  were  given  regular  assign- 
ments on  the  paper,  although  they  were  disgusted  to  find 
no  resemblance  to  the  companion  of  their  college  escapades 
in  the  distant  and  unapproachable  employer  whom  they 
accordingly  dubbed  "The  Great  White  Throne."  This 
dread  being  was  absolutely  pitiless  on  questions  of  finance, 
and  the  petted  darlings  of  rich  fathers,  with  luxurious 
college  habits  added,  found  it  no  easy  task  to  maintain 
their  membership  in  the  Pacific-Union  Club,  go  the  pace 
and  pay  car-fare,  on  their  salaries  of  twenty  dollars  per 
week.  After  an  elaborate  dinner,  one  night,  they  gave 
their  last  dollar  to  the  waiter,  and  then  decided  that 
nothing  but  a  carriage  would  restore  their  shattered  health. 
Having  issued  a  mandate  to  a  hackman,  they  proceeded 
to  climb  in,  but  the  cabby,  familiar  with  the  condition 
which  prompts  such  abandon,  demanded  a  retainer  in  ad- 
vance.    As  this  was  impossible,  a  consultation  was  held. 

"It's  no  use  asking  for  another  order  on  the  cashier  from 
the  Great  White  Throne,"  said  'Gene.  "Give  him  'Casey,' 
Eddie." 

The  poem  had  hitherto  been  heard  only  indoor,  with 
the  recitative  author  on  the  table,  each  verse  punctuated 
by  mugs  and  bottles.  But  Thayer  was  in  the  humor  for  it 
that  night  and  no  party  of  his  friends  ever  heard  him  so 
well  describe  the  lack  of  joy  in  Mudville  as  the  open- 
mouthed  Jehu  on  the  pavement.  Casey  and  Thayer  be- 
tween them  won  the  cabby's  heart  and  he  not  only  drove 
the  boys  to  the  Cliff  House,  but  waited  for  them  all  night. 
The  bill?  Oh,  that's  another  story. 
*  #  * 

In  the  person  of  the  accomplished  dramatic  singer  at 
the  Tivoli,  it  is  hard  to  perceive  much  resemblance  to  the 
Denis  O'Sullivan,  as  San  Franciscans  principally  remember 
him,  who,  less  than  ten  year  ago  was  a  bashful  boy  making 
no  pretension  to  vocal  merit.  Some  of  the  other  boys,  in- 
deed, declared  that  he  could  sing  like  an  old-time  minstrel, 
but  no  amount  of  coaxing  could  sufficiently  overcome  his 
modesty  to  induce  a  display  of  his  talent  before  young 
women. 

One  summer,  while  the  O'Sullivan's  were  staying  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael,  the  talk  of  their  brothers  and  friends  con- 
cerning Neely's  wonderful  singing  aroused  a  keen  desire  to 
hear  him  in  the  hearts  of  the  society  girls  of  that  season. 
It  was  a  case  of  Mahomet  and  the  mountain,  so  the  girls 
begged  for  eavesdropping  facilities.  One  of  the  men  ar- 
ranged that,  as  young  O'Sullivan  would  sing  to  a  male 


May  8.  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'9 


audience  that    afternoon    in    the   billiard   room,    the  girls 
could  he  secreted  in  an  adjoining   apartment,  entrance  to 
which  wus  provided  only  through  the  billiard-room.     All  of 
the  arrangements  were  carried  out   and  the  young  singer 
'ed  his   audience,    both    seen    and   unseen.      Many 
■  ■  ordered  and  their  co  conspirator  managed  to 
me  glasses  to  the   imprisoned  but  joyful  young 
ladie-  ur  led  to  another,  each  man  demanding  his 

Finally,    the   selections    degenerated   from    the 
1  the  ballads  of   the  concert   hall  and  Denis  was 
aded  to  sing  a  French  ditty,  more  remarkable  for  its 
melody  than  its  morals.     Unfortunately,    the  society  girls 
understood  French,  and  it  would   be  difficult    to  estimate 
their  relative  chagrin  with   thai   of   their  escort.     Uncon- 
-  of  these   unwelcome   auditors,   Denis  was   about  to 
respond    to    a    rapturous    encore,     when    the    unhappy 
ere,    unable  to  endure   another    Parisian   number, 
rapped  on  the  table  with    their   glasses,  in  sheer  despera- 
tion. 

And  then  there  was  a  scene!  Denis  had  been  trapped, 
but  so  had  the  girls,  and  they  dared  not  express  their 
mutual  reproaches,  but  they  all  turned  their  indignation 
on  the  wretched  man  who  had  arranged  the  secret  audi- 
ence. Most  of  those  girls  are  young  matrons  now,  and 
that  is  why  the  story  is  being  revived,  for  the  incident  has 
hitherto  been  a  strictly  tabooed  topic. 

*  *  * 

Included  in  the  paraphernalia  which  the  De  Wolf 
Hoppers  brought  to  San  Francisco  is  a  thousand-dollar 
pug,  presented  to  Edna  Wallace  by  Willie  Hearst  of  New 
York.  To  the  unbounded  admiration  of  Willie  for  the 
;,.  tih  opera  singer  is  ascribed  the  laudatory  telegrams 
published  in  the  Examiner  from  every  water  tank  along 
the  transcontinental  journey  of  the  company.  Great  in- 
terest in  that  diminutive  canine  is  taken  in  the  Mission- 
street  editorial  rooms,  and  dally  bulletins  are  posted  by 
City  Editor  Garrett  regarding  its  health  and  the  char- 
acter of  the  food  it  consumes.  Intense  rivalry  is  mani- 
fested among  the  members  of  the  staff  for  the  honor  of 
attendance  on  the  dog,  and  it  is  adjudged  high  treason  to 
refer  to  the  animal  as  a  "purp."  Its  advent  has  been  the 
means  of  shattering  the  friendship  of  two  old  chums,  for 
since  the  managing  news  editor  detailed  Fred  Lawrence 
for  the  honorable  assignment  of  leading  the  pug  from  the 
ferry  to  the  hotel,  Jake  Dressier  has  been  unable  to  con- 
ceal  his   jealous   rage,  and   now   refuses   to  speak  to  his 

former  companion. 

*  #  # 

The  proximity  of  Senator  W.  J.  Biggy  is  always  readily 
discernible  by  the  cigars  he  smokes,  suggestive  of  Cuba 
before  the  revolution.  While  the  quality  of  his  perfectos 
admits  of  no  question,  his  friends  have  little  hesitation  in 
guying  the  genial  statesman,  in  the  supposed  belief  that 
his  Havanas  are  so  many  bluffs  to  the  box.  Biggy  takes 
the  chaffing  good  naturedly,  and  occasionally  goes  the 
guyer  one  better. 

"Ahem!  Is  that  imported,  Senator?"  was  the  sus- 
picious query,  a  few  days  ago,  of  a  friend,  with  a  disdain- 
ful sniff. 

"Yep.     Brought  in  through  the  customs  all  right." 

"Oh,  I  see.     From  Chinatown?"  persisted  the  friend. 

"Well,  no.  They  were  imported  in  bulk  by  the  Kittle 
Cordage  Company,"  replied  the  Senator,  cheerily. 

*  *  * 

While  all  the  other  insurance  men  on  the  street  are  pray- 
ing for  rain,  which  would  produce  big  crops  of  grain  and 
give  the  companies  fat  premiums  for  policies  covering  the 
growing  cereals,  Ned  Bosqui  is  quite  content  with  dry 
weather,  so  long  as  there  is  plenty  of  it.  Being  a  true 
sportsman,  he  is  naturally  more  interested  in  the  hatch- 
ing of  young  birds  than  in  the  writing  of  prosaic  policies, 
for  which  there  is  not  even  a  closed  season. 

"  No,  sir,  you  are  mistaken.  We  don't  want  rain,"  he 
asserted  to  J.  D.  Maxwell.     "It  would  spoil  the  crops." 

"Why,  you  are  crazy,  man,"  replied  Maxwell.  Then 
his  curiosity  got  the  better  of  his  judgment.  "What 
crops  would  it  spoil  ?  "  he  asked. 

"  The  crop  of  quail,"  joyously  replied  the  crack  shot  of 
the  Country  Club. 

Moore's     Poison     Oak     Remedy 
cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    The  oldest  and  best  remedy, 
which  has  cured  thousands     At  all   druggists. 


J   D.  SULLIVAN. 

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Rooms  34-38,  3d  Floor  Ghronlcle  Builrtino,  San  Francisco. 

SANDS   W.    FORMAN, 

Notary  Public 
and  Commissioner. 

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DR.    BYRON    W.    HAINES 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  8,  1897. 


IF  Tivoli  parties  were  the  rule  last  week,  the  Baldwin 
has  been  similarly  favored  this  week,  society  turning 
out  in  large  numbers  to  welcome  the  DeWolf  Hoppers  and 
enjoy  El  Capitan  in  the  first  place,  and  in  the  second  the 
delicious  little  suppers  that  followed  the  performance. 
Otherwise  the  week  has  also  been  much  livelier  than  the 
last  one  was,  and  though  it  is  now  rather  late  iu  the  sea- 
son to  expect  anything  very  formal,  some  of  the  entertain- 
ments given  approached  that  style  very  nearly.  For  in- 
stance, the  musical  tea  given  by  Mrs.  Darling  at  the  Occi- 
dental Hotel  on  Monday  afternoon,  when  she  entertained 
a  large  number  of  her  friends,  and  at  the  same  time  re- 
ceived their  congratulations  on  the  news  just  received  of 
Major  Darling's  appointment  as  Military  Attache  at  Vi- 
enna— one  of  the  most  brilliant  courts  in  Europe.  Mrs. 
C.  P.  Huntington  was  chief  guest  of  the  occasion,  and  one 
of  the  features  was  a  number  of  Major  Darling's  composi- 
tions, which  were  given,  making  it  almost  a  recital  of  his 
musical  gems,  which  were  listened  to  with  delight  by  Mrs. 
Darling's  guests.  The  decorations  were  all  in  crimson, 
including  bunting,  roses,  carnations,  etc.  Major  and  Mrs. 
Darling  having  given  up  their  trip  to  Japan,  expect  to 
leave  for  the  East  in  June,  and  will  form  a  part  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  C.  P.  Huntington's  party  over  the  road. 

There  were  several  card  parties  on  Tuesday,  and  a  very 
delightful  tea  given  by  Miss  Meyerstein  at  her  home  on 
Octavia  street,  her  guests  being  all  young  people,  and 
twelve  of  her  young  girl  friends   assisted  her  in  receiving. 

On  Wednesday  Mr.  C.  P.  Huntington  gave  a  banquet  at 
his  residence  on  California  street,  entertaining  one  hun7 
dred  guests,  representing  chiefly  members  of  the  different 
departments  of  the  Southern  and  Central  Pacific  Rail- 
roads. 

The  event  of  principal  interest  to  the  young  people  on 
Wednesday  was  the  dinner  dance  at  the  Presidio,  given  in 
honor  of  Miss  Ethel  Cohen,  the  bride-elect  of  Lieutenant 
C.  L.  Bent,  and  which  was  a  most  charming  affair,  as  are, 
in  fact,  all  the  entertainments  given  at  that  most  hospita- 
ble army  post.  Among  the  party  of  twenty-eight  at  din- 
ner were  the  Misses  May  and  Alice  Hoffman,  Ida  Gibbons, 
Emma  Butler,  Clemmy  Kip,  Kate  Salisbury,  Bernie 
Drown,  Helen  Wagner  and  Julia  Crocker. 

Among  the  last  of  April  weddings  was  the  ceremony 
which  united  Miss  Marguerite  Heister  and  Robert  Hig- 
gins,  performed  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Spalding,  at  the  Heister 
residence  on  Howard  street,  last  Friday  at  noon.  White 
roses  artistically  arranged  with  green  foliage  converted 
the  parlors  into  veritable  bowers,  and  the  toilettes  of  the 
bride  and  ber  maid-of-bonor,  Miss  Kate  Hyland,  were 
springlike  in  their  dainty  freshness,  the  bride's  robe  being 
of  white  organdie  over  white  satin,  trimmed  with  Valen- 
ciennes lace;  her  fleecy  tulle  veil  held  in  place  by  a  dia- 
mond star,  and  her  bouquet  was  of  bride's  roses.  Miss 
Hyland's  costume  was  of  white  mousseline  de  soie  over  pink 
satin,  and  she  carried  a  cluster  of  long-stemmed  La 
France  roses.  Herbert  Calinan  supported  the  groom  as 
best  man.  A  wedding  breakfast  followed  the  ceremony, 
and  later  in  the  day  the  newly-wedded  pair  left  town  for 
their  future  home  at  the  Needles. 

First  on  the  list  of  May'  weddings  comes  that  of  Miss 
May  Spencer  and  Ira  N.  Breedlove,  which  took  place  at 
Trinity  Church  at  4  o'clock  last  Saturday  afternoon  (May 
Day),  the  Rev.  George  "Walk  officiating.  There  were  no 
attendants,  and  the  wedding  reception  was  held  in  Oak- 
land at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Wm.    Jacobs   on  Oak  street. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Grace  Young  and  Francis  C. 
Williams  was  solemnized  at  the  home  of  the  bride,  on 
Pacific  avenue,  on  Wednesday  evening. 

June,  the  month  of  roses,  is  to  be  prolific  of  weddings, 
an  announcement  made  this  week   adding   another  to  the 


long  list  of  those  already  arranged  to  take  place.  The 
bride  and  groom-elect  in  this  instance  are  Miss  Helen 
Wright  and  Chas.  L.  Davis.  Another  recent  announce- 
ment is  of  the  engagement  of  Miss  Eva  Estelle  Worth  and 
George  R.  Gay. 

Miss  Minnie  Burton  has  reconsidered  her  first  intention 
of  having  a  number  of  bridesmaids,  and  has  decided  that 
her  sisters,  the  Misses  Leila  and  Kathro  Burton,  shall  be 
her  sole  attendants.  However,  a  whole  bevy  of  her  pretty 
girl  friends  will  assist  at  the  reception  which  will  follow 
the  ceremony,  for  which  several  hundred  cards  have  been 
issued.  Lieutenant  Thos.  Pierce,  her  groom-elect,  will 
arrive  from  Fort  Logan  about  the  23rd,  accompanied  by 
his  best  man,  Lieutenant  Wm.  Sells,  also  from  Fort 
Logan. 

The  reception  and  exhibition  given  by  the  Thursday 
evening  class  of  the  San  Francisco  Riding  Club;  Mrs.  Joe 
Crockett's  luncheon  party  of  twelve  ladies;  Mrs.  Walter 
Campbell's  musical  reception  for  Mrs.  Bishop,  and  Miss 
Florence  Sharon's  debut  tea  in  Oakland,  are  among  the  re- 
cent society  gatherings. 

The  details  of  a  Poster  Show  and  Matinee  Concert  to  be 
given  at  Golden  Gate  Hall,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Old 
Ladies'  Home,  on  next  Saturday  afternoon  have  been  ar- 
ranged, and  the  indications  are  that  it  will  be  a  society 
affair  and  very  well  attended.  Mr.  Denis  O'Sullivan  will 
sing,  the  Misses  Ames  and  Marie  Wilson,  as  well  as  the 
Saturday  Morning  Orchestra,  will  assist,  and  at  the  con- 
clusion of  the  concert  the  Art  Posters  will  be  sold  by 
auction.  Mr.  Fred  Yates  and  Miss  Helen  Hyde  are 
among  the  artists  who  will  be  represented  in  this  line. 

The  lady  managers  of  the  Maria  Kip  Orphanage  will 
celebrate  the  opening  of  their  new  building,  on  Lake 
street,  on  Saturday,  the  22d  of  May,  with  a  musical  recep- 
tion. Herr  Schott,  Frank  Coffin,  S.  Homer  Henley,  Miss 
Alice  Bacon,  Mrs.  Richard  Bayne  and  others  will  take 
part  in  the  programme. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leon  Lewin  {nte  Goodman)  have  departed 
for  Europe.  Mrs.  Lewin's  farewell  reception  at  the  Pal- 
ace Hotel  on  Monday  was  very  largely  attended.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  W.  I.  Kip  and  their  daughters,  who  will  spend  the 
summer  at  the  Hotel  Rafael,  left  town  for  that  charming 
hostelry  on  Saturday  last.  Miss  Ada  Sullivan  and  Miss 
Masten  are  also  among  the  guests  at  the  Hotel  Rafael. 
Mrs.  George  Howard,  who  leaves  to-day  for  Europe,  where 
she  will  join  Mr.  Howard,  expects  to  make  a  visit  of  some 
duration  in  the  Old  World. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Theodore  E.  Schuck- 
ing,  son  of  Mrs.  E.  Schucking  and  nephew  of  the  Hon. 
Adolph  Sutro  and  of  the  late  Levin  Schucking,  a  well- 
known  German  author,  to  Miss  Ella  Leichter,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P.  L.  Leichter  and  niece  of  Mr.  Frederick 
Hess  of  the  Demokrat.  Both  young  people  are  well  and 
favorably  known  in  the  best  German  society  circles  of  this 
city. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Oppenheim  and  Hugo  Lyons  ha<s 
been  arranged  to  take  place  on  the  30th  of  May.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Albert  Raas  returned  from  their  Southern  trip  on 
Sunday  last  and  are  at  the  Hotel  Baltimore,  on  Van  Ness 
avenue.     They  will  spend  the  summer  in  San  Rafael. 

In  response  to  the  many  requests  for  a  repetition  of  Mr. 
Ad.  Locher's  mass,  it  will  be  sung  at  the  French  Church 
(Notre  Dame  des  Victoires),  on  Bush  street,  between 
Stockton  and  Grant  avenue,  Sunday,  May  9th,  at  11  A.  M. 
Mr.  Locher's  composition  has  been  accepted  at  Bordeaux, 
and  will  be  sung  there  shortly  at  St.  Peter's  Church  by 
eminent  artists. 

Colored  tea  is  poisonous,  but  it  won't  kill 
anybody. 

Neither  will  poison  oak. 

Your  money  back  if  you  don't  like  Schilling's 
Best  tea — sold  only  in  packages. 

A  Schilling  &  Company 
San  Francisco. 


May  8,  1897. 


SAX   PRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


The   Gingerbread    F\  to.  t..   be   opened  at  Ihi 
of    Mrs.   Clark   Crocker,   corner  oi  tnd  Octavia 

the   lith,  and  continue 
i|  the  week,  in  aid  of 
tbe  Child  ri  attracting  great  attention.    A 

most  interesting  programme  .>f  entertainment  bat 
arranged  by  the  ladles  having  the  Wte  In  hand.  The 
handsome  grounds  will  be  brilliantly  illuminated  at  night. 
a  shooting  gallery  will  be  provided,  and  especial  arrange- 
ments made  (or  entertainment  of  children  on  Wednesday 
and  Saturday  evenings.  A  number  of  noted  paintings  will  be 
exhibited,  among  them  l>cin;.'  'The  Cardinal's  Portrait. 
by  Toby  Rosenthal 

In  a  monastery,  seated  in  an  arm  chair  near  a  table,  on 
which  is  a  bottle  of  Italian  wine  and  a  dish  of  fruit,  is  a 
Cardinal  whose  portrait  is  being  painted  by  a  young  monk. 
The  Cardinal  is  rather  well  advanced  in  years,  and  ap- 
parently no«  strong;  still,  judging  by  his  partially  finished 
portrait  on  the  easel,  it  will  be  noticed  that  he  desires  to 
appear  as  a  man  in  the  full  vigor  of  life. 

While  the  monk  has  been  at  work  the  Cardinal  has 
fallen  into  a  sound  sleep.  His  head  has  dropped  on  his 
chest,  and  a  book  which  he  had  been  reading  has  fallen  to 
the  floor.  It  is  at  this  moment  that  the  monk  turns 
away  from  his  canvas,  and  seeing  the  Cardinal  asleep,  he 
stands,  palette  in  hand,  bewildered  and  nonplussed.  He 
dare  not  awaken  the  high  dignitary  of  the  church,  neither 
can  he  proceed  with  his  portrait.  With  his  hand  in  his 
chair  he  is  a  picture  of  astonishment,  as  he  gazes  on  the 
Cardinal. 

The  contrast  between  the  latter  as  he  is  and  as  he  is 
made  to  appear  on  the  canvas  is  remarkable.  The  canvas 
is  43x55  inches,  and  the  many  details  that  Rosenthal  in- 
troduced are  beautifully  carried  out.  A  handsome  piece 
of  tapestry  forms  a  part  of  the  back-ground,  while  a  rich 
carpet  covers  the  platform  on  which  the  Cardinal's  chair 
stands. 

The  artist  Defregger  gave  it  as  his  opinion  that  this 
latest  work  of  Toby  Rosenthal  is  the  most  brilliant  that  he 
has  ever  done,  while  Kaulbacb,  in  speaking  of  it,  said  that  it 
reminded  him  of,  or  rather  appeared  to  him  like  a  large 
Meissonnier.  In  Munich  the  Prince  Regent  went  to  see  it 
twice;  while  in  Berlin,  where  it  was  afterwards  exhibited, 
it  attracted  the  attention  of  Emperor  William. 

The  object  of  the  fete  is  most  worthy,  and  a  generous 
response  to  the  praiseworthy  efforts  of  the  ladies  having 
it  in  charge  will  be  made.  Admission  for  the  evening  will 
be  50  cents;  afternoon,  25  cents. 

The  Vendome  at  San  Jose  easily  takes  rank  among  the 
few  first-class  hotels  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Its  appoint- 
ments are  both  abundant  and  refined,  its  management  in 
all  respects  thoroughly  up  to  date,  and  cuisine  and  ser- 
vice are  everything  that  the  guest  can  desire.  The  grand 
popular  concerts  given  every  Sunday  afternoon  by  the 
Vendome  orchestra,  are  a  feature  of  the  Sabbath's  recrea- 
tion, and  are  greatly  enjoyed  by  the  people  of  the  Garden 
City,  and  the  guests  of  the  hotel.  The  music  is  of  a  high 
class,  and  is  rendered  in  a  finished  and  artistic  manner. 
Hotel  Vendome  is  a  source  of  pride  to  the  citizens  of  San 
Jose,  and  a  pleasant  home  for  those  who  sojourn  there  for 
a  day  or  remain  a  season. 

Major  John  A.  Darling,  U.  S.  A.,  now  on  leave  of  ab- 
sence, in  this  city,  is  reported  to  be  slated  for  military  at- 
tache of  the  American  Embassy  at  Vienna.  His  many 
friends,  and  the  friends  of  his  charming  wife,  who  was  Mrs. 
Catherwood,  are  greatly  pleased  at  the  Major's  reported 
good  fortune. 

JOHN  PARTRIDGE,  stationer,  printer,  and  book- 
binder, at  306  California  street,  has  recently  added 
a  large  space  to  his  manufacturing  department,  and  has 
greatly  increased  the  capacity  of  his  printing  establish- 
ment by  the  purchase  of  new  type  and  other  materials. 
All  kinds  of  half-tone,  line  drawing,  color  work,  etc.,  done 
at  lowest  prices  consistent  with  legitimate  trade. 

When  pondering  over  the  worry  of  getting  up  your  dinners  and 
entertainments,  it  is  a  relief  to  remember  that  Max  Abraham,  the 
caterer,  at  428  Geary  street,  takes  complete  charge  of  your  banquet 
hall  or  dining  room  and  prepares  the  wedding  feast  or  the  banquet 
with  perfect  satisfaction  to  both  host  and  guests.  Tell  your 
troubles  to  him. 


SANDS  vv  FORMAN.  ex-Supervisor,  has  been  ap- 
pointed .1  notary  public  tor  the  olty  and  county  of  San 
Francisco,  and  has  opened  an  office  at  19  Montgomery 
street,     Mr.  Forman  will  attend   to   the  taking 

tions,    protests    and    notes,    acknow  1  ivits, 

etc.,  with  promptne 

El,  t'AMPi  ).  the  popular  Sunday  bay  resort,  is  open  for 
the  season.  The  steamer  Ukiah  will  leave  Tiburon 
ferry  at  HI  30  \  M.,  and  every  two  hours  thereafter  until 
I  P.  m.,  and  will  make  the  final  return  trip  at  5  P.  M. 


PROCRASTINATION  t 

IS  THE  THIEF  OF  TIME; 
VEAR  AFTER  YEAR  IT  STEALS, 
TILL  ALL  ARE  FLED." 

Sfixocfont 

^^Arrests  Decay 
of  the  Teeth 


and  prevents  their  loss.  It  also 
cleans  them  without  injury,  strength- 
ens the  gums,  perfumes  the  breath 
and  imparts  a  most  refreshing 
sensation. 

HALL  &  EUCKEL 

new  york  Proprietors  i.ondon 

A  sample  of  Sozodont  and  Sozoderma  Soap 


for  the  postage,  three  cents. 


Remodeled    and    under 
New  Management .... 


PACIFIC 
CONGRESS 
1  SPRINGS 
HOTEL 

Santa  Cruz  Mountains, 

Santa  Clara  County. 


Onlu  two-and-a-half  hours 
from  San  frantiSGO. 

Six  miles  from  Los  Gatos.  Ten 
miles  from  Santa  Clh-a.  Twelve 
miles  from  San  Jose.    Address 

GEO.    O.    WATKINS, 
523  Market  St     -   -   San  Francisco. 


Under   New  <^. 

Management 

Only  19  miles  from  Ukiah 

Finest  summer  resort  in  California. 

Good  hunting,  fishing,  boating,  and  Bathing 

Finest  cuisine  and  best  accommodations. 


.BLUE  LAKES  HOTEL. 

(Bertha  Postofflce) 
LAKE  COUNTY,  CAL. 

R.  E     WHITEFIELD, 

Manager. 


»R.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
CREAM,  OR    MAGICAL   BEAUTIFIER. 

R  jnoves  Tan,  Pimples,  Freckles,  Moth 
Patches,  Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  beauty,  and  defies  de- 
tection It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-ton  (a  pa- 
tient): "As  you  ladies  will  use  them,  I 
recommend  'Gouraud's  Cream'  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions," For  sale  by  all  Druggists  and 
Fancy-Goods  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe. 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS,  Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,N.Y. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LKTTRR. 


May  8,  1897. 


GOOD    HOUSEKEEPING- 


GEORGE  Meredith,  in  "Rhoda  Fleming,"  speaking  of 
Margaret  Lovell,  says,  "She  was  a  most  distinguished 
sitter  in  a  luxurious  drawing-room  chair,  which  is  a  more 
difficult  thing  than  you  may  suppose,"  but  one  must  be 
phenomenally  awkward  to  manage  to  sit  ungracefully  in 
the  "luxurious  drawing-room  chairs"  of  to-day.  So  cun- 
ningly are  they  fashioned  to  fit  every  angle  of  the  room 
and  adjust  themselves  to  every  curve  of  the  body,  that  one 
only  requires  a  certain  yieldingness,  as  it  were,  to  become 
a   ' '  distinguished  si  tter. " 

The  variety  in  chairs  is  so  great,  and  the  patterns  shown 
are  so  excellent,  that  if  you  have  only  one  chair  to  buy  it 
will  be  worth  your  while  to  make  a  comprehensive  study 
of  the  subject  before  making  your  purchase.  A  few  years 
ago,  the  Turkish  chair  was  considered  the  acme  of  luxury, 
but  beside  the  creations  of  to-day  it  looks  clumsy  and 
stuffy.     It  has  no  grace  of  outline. 

Other  high-back  chairs  are  an  arm-chair  of  English  oak 
which,  already  upholstered  in  heraldic  English  tapestry, 
and  one  with  mahogany  arms  and  legs,  but  seat  and  back 
upholstered  in  gold  and  green  Cambridge  cotton. 

Lighter  high-back  hall,  library  or  parlor  chairs  are 
popular,  either  in  mahogany  or  the  dark-veined  toa-wond. 
Others  are  in  forest-green  ash,  and  there  is  an  infinite 
variety  of  wicker  chairs  in  natural  wicker  or  stained  forest- 
green,  brown,  black,  or  blue. 

The  green  satin  sometimes  called  "Epping-forest  green," 
is  especially  admirable  for  country  halls,  or  for  libraries, 
unless  one  affects  the  heavy  black  English  or  Dutch  oak 
style  of  furnishing. 

Among  oddities  in  chairs  is  one  of  California  "toa-wood," 
in  massive,  rectangular  lines,  with  a  rush  seat  of  coarse 
grass.  It  is  not  exactly  the  chair  you  would  choose  for 
the  boudoir  of  some  lithe,  latter-day  damsel,  but  her  portly 
father  would  take  infinite  comfort  in  its  capacious  depths. 

Never  stain  furniture  in  imitation  of  some  other  kind  of 
wood.  In  carrying  out  a  color  scheme,  especially  in  cham- 
bers, soft-wood  furniture  may  be  greatly  improved  by  stain- 
ing it  the  dominant  color;  but  hard-wood  furniture,  how- 
ever simple  the  design,  is  handsomest  when  given  a  var- 
nished, polished  or  dead  finish  that  brings  out  the  natural 
tint  and  grain  of  the  wood.  Enamel  is  not  a  pretentious 
humbug  like  stain  in  imitation  of  hard  wood.  On  the  con- 
trary, it  is  often  the  most  effective  method  of  renovating 
cheap,  old  soft-wood  bed-room  furniture,  but,  like  stain, 
it  never  improves  hard  wood. 

Lukewarm  soft  water,  a  clean,  soft  sponge  and  tine 
chamois-skin  are  all  that  is  needed  to  freshen  fine,  highly- 
polished  furniture  that  is  only  dulled  by  use.  Wet  both 
the  sponge  and  chamois,  and  wring  the  latter  dry;  wash 
with  the  former,  wetting  only  a  small  part  of  the  article 
before  drying,  and  polishing  with  the  chamois;  and  in  do- 
ing the  last-mentioned  operation,  rub  always  in  one  direc- 
tion. Slight  dents  in  furniture  can  usually  be  raised  by 
wetting  the  spot,  then  placing  a  wet  cloth  over  it,  and 
holding  a  hot  sad-iron  close  enough  to  steam.  White  spots 
can  be  removed  with  spirits  of  camphor,  but  it  also  takes 
off  the  varnish.  No  matter  what  finish  is  to  be  given  fur- 
niture, it  should  be  first  well  cleaned.  Use  turpentine  or 
ammonia  in  warm  water,  and  a  flat,  rather  stiff  paint 
brush  for  the  corners  and  crevices. 

Manufacturers  have  evidently  learned  that  however 
attractive  in  design  and  coloring  they  make  cheap  case- 
ment muslins,  that  are  faded  and  stringy  with  a  month's 
use,  the  woman  who  knows  what  economy  really  is  cannot 
be  deluded  into  buying  them  a  second  time,  for  the  shops 
show  less  of  such  trash  than  heretofore. 

For  sash  curtains — either  half  or  full  length — plain  swiss; 
dotted,  woven  figured  and  cord  and  lace  striped  white 
muslins  are  far  more  popular  than  those  with  woven  or 
printed  colored  designs. 

Tamboured  muslins  are  in  little  favor,  consequently  no 
new  styles  are  shown. 

Lace-striped  and  plain  scrim  has  regained  much  of  its 
old-time  popularity,  and  there  is  a  beautiful  quality  of 
cream  cheese-cloth  at  fifteen  cents  a  yard  that  is  in  every 
way  desirable  for  casement  or  long  drapery  curtains. 

_  In  colored  draperies  there  are  printed  gossamers  thirty- 
six  inches  wide,  that  are  beautiful  in  quality  of  weave,  but 


like  cheaper  muslins,  the  greater  number  are  printed  in 
strong  colors  and  bold  designs.  Penang  muslins  show 
smaller  and  more  dainty  designs,  in  softer  tints  of  color; 
fifty-four  inches  wide. 

Nottingham,  Tambour,  Irish  point,  Brussels,  and  all 
other  kinds  of  pattern  lace  curtains  come  by  the  piece  in 
white,  or  both  white  and  ecru,  for  sash  curtains;  are 
twenty-seven  inches  wide. 

Point  d'esprit  lace  is  charming  for  either  casement  or 
long  curtains,  but  it  is  too  flimsy,  unless  the  best  quality 
is  purchased. 

"On  the  Santa   Fe  There's   No   Delay." 


Leave  San  Francisco  Mondays  and  Thursdays,  and  connect  at 
Barstow  with  Santa  F6  Limited,  Dining  cars,  buffet,  smoking  car, 
Pullman  Palace  Drawing  Room  Sleeping  Cars.  Three  and  one-half 
days  to  Chicago  or  St.  Louis,  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  Chronicle  building.     Tel.  Main  1531. 


There  are  any  number  of  brands  of  whiskey,  but  there  are  only  a 
few  that  are  positively  the  best.  One  of  them  is  Argonaut  whiskey. 
Every  connoisseur  will  instantly  place  Argonaut  at  the  top.  It  is 
old,  mellow,  and  has  a  rare  flavor,  which,  once  tasted,  is  not  for- 
gotten. Call  for  Argonaut.  E.Martin  &  Co.,  411  Market  St. ,  sole 
Pacific  Coast  Agents. 


S.  Stroztnski.  24  Geary  street.  Expert  European  hairdressers  and 
cutters  employed;  no  appren  ices;  prices  equal  toothers.  Artistic  hair 
work  and  shampooing  by  a  modern  process.    Telephone  Main  5697. 


HOT  WATER 


in  an  unlimited  quantity 
by  using  the 

DOUGLAS  or 
ACHE 

Instantaneous     Water 
Heaters. 


Tti6  Instantaneous 

Wa^r  Heating  Go. 


® 

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inquire  of  your 
plumber  or  write 
us  for  catalogue. 


719  McAllister  Street        <i 
San   Francisco  % 

New  York  :  <S 

48    Cliff   Street  | 

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Chicago  :  (2 

88-92    E  Ohio  Street        <| 

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MORRIS  &  KENNEDY'S 


Art  Galleru- 


19  and  21   POST   ST.,  S.    F. 

New  and    Elegant  PAINTINGS, 
PICTURES  and    FRAMES. 


fit  Greatly  Reduced  Prices. 


THE  RALSTON^  A  Lunch 

R6St3lir3nt.  315"317  Bush st"  s  F  > Cal-  Place. 

Ralston  Ko*ee— A  delicious  drink.    Ralston  Whole  Wheat  Bread. 
Ralston  Cooked  Meats.  Ralston  Cereals  and  Mush.      Wm.  E.Allen.  Prop. 

Dr.  F.  G.  PAGUE 

Dentist 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  ot  bciences  Building,  819  Market  street. 


M»y  *.  1897. 


SAN   PR  \N\  us  LETTER. 


23 


By    l^ail,    Boat    ai>d    Stacte. 
San  Francisco  and  Norm  Pacltlc  Railway  Co.     Southern  Pacitic  Company-Paciilc  System. 


SAM  FRAIICISCO  TO  SIN  RAFAEL.    Tikmoj  Pun.  Foot  of  Market  Street. 
WEEK  DAYS—  7JU.»:UO.  !  .  j  so  »:tO.  6:30  Ml     Thursdavs- 

Eltratrlpat  IISjp  a.    Saturday.     Kitr*  trip*  »t   I  :60  anil  II  :SO  p  M. 
\YS-J«-U).»  d.iijua  k  n.ljiiri 

SAN    RAFAEL    10   SIN   F«ANCISCO. 
WEEK  HAYS— 6  14.7  S0.»:&|.  II  :I0  a  ■;  M:«6,  1:40.6:10PM.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trip*  .1   IHiutjtn 

•AYS— »:K>.  »:«.  11:10  AM:  1 :40.  3:«0.»«,oJ6  p  m. 
Between  8m  rrmBclico  Ami  Scbuctrcn  Park,  imm  iphedule  as  above. 


LlAVE  S.  P. 


Week    Dmjr»     Sundays 


T     »     <   ¥ 

1   ■  I'M 

S.-Iupm 


-  ■  1  A  * 
*  BAH 
ft  'i.rx 


7:3UAM 
I:3upm 

7:9)  am 

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3:30pm 
7:30  AM 
SMOPM 

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■  40PM 


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8:0OAM 


Id  Effect  April  26.  IW7 


Dirt  1 - 


Novato. 
Pelaluma. 

S.in'it  i;.i.;» 


Kulton.    w 

HeaMsburg, 
Qeyservlllc  Cloverdale 


Plela.  Roplaod.  Uklab 


Guernevllle 


5:00  pm 


SODoma, 
Glen  Ellen 


ARKIVR  IN  B.  K. 

Sundays    1  Week  Days 


10:40  AM 
6:10PM 
7:35  PM 


7:35  PM 


8:40  AM 
10  :25  A  M 

»:»"p'  m 


7:*P-    J    »»;* 


7:35  pm 


flrJ'.'p  « 


Sebastopol. 


10:40AM 
6:10pm 


8:40  A   M 

6:22  p  m 


10  :40  am 

6:10pm 


10:25  A  M 
6:22  p  M 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs:  at  Gevserville 
or  Skaggs' Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  High  land 
Springs.  Kelseyville.  Soda  Bay  and  Lake  port;  at  Hopland  tor  Lakeport 
and  Bar; let!  Springs;  at  Ukiah.  for  Vichy  Springs.  Saratoga  Springs, 
51"'  „,cs'  LBUrel  f*1  Lake-  Upper  Lake.  Porno,  Potter  Valley.  John 
Day  s.  Riverside  Lierley's.  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville, 
Booneville.Orr  s  Hoi  Springs.  Mendocino  City.  Ft.  Bragg.  Westport,  Usal. 
Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE-650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  W.  FOSTER.  Prcs.  ft  Gen.  Manager.      R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agent. 


Pacific  Coast  Steamship  Company. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska 
9  A.  M..  May  1,6.  11,  16.31,28,  31,  and  every  6th  day  thereafter 

For  Brmsn  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  a.  m..  Mav  1  6  11  16 
-'I.  sb,  31.  and  every  5th  day  thereafter  ' 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay).  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  p  M  May  4  8 
12.   16.  20.  24.  2":.  and  every  fourth  day  thieafter  '     ' 

,^FoJ,  ^5w,poI't'  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  A.  m.  ;  May  2,  6, 10, 14, 
18.  22.  26  3j.  ana  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  A.  M.,  May  4.  8,  12,  16 
2U,  24,  2S,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

ForEnsenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  delCabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  A.  M, 
June  2d,  and  2d  of  each  month  thereafter. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street 
GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents,      10  Market  st,  S.  F. 

Occidental  and  Oriental  Steamship  Company. 

FOR    1APAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  add  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  m    for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai    and   connecting  »t 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc     No  carlo  receded  ?n  board  on 

quj  of  s&ilin^ . 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday  Mav  11   1897 

£?££  <*IaH°°<"ul»> "I  Satufda^'Ma/^:  iS? 

§SE!£  .via  Honoiniuy:::::::;:::.:;;;;;.;;;^^^^?:  it!? 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street 
corner  First. D.  D.  STUBBS.  Secretary.   ' 


imit 


?»  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu   only,  Tuesday. 
May  18th.  at  2  p    m.  <==«»y, 

S.  S.  "Alameda,"  Thursday,  May  27th,  at  2  p  m 
Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown 
South  Africa. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &BROS.  CO.. 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St.. San    Francisco. 


Trains  Lcavo  and  are  Dae  to  Arnvo  at  SAN     FRANCISCO! 


From  April  l«,  1OTJ. 


•6:00  a  Nllcs.  Sao  Jose,  and  way  stations  

'52*  Atlantic  Biproas,  ogdenand  East 

7:t0  a  llcnlcla.  Vac  u*oy,  Sacramento,  Orovlllo,  and 
Redding,   via  Davis 

7:30  a  Marl  Inez,  San  Ramon.  Vallcjo,  Napa.Cahstoga,  Santa  Rosa 

8:SO A  Nllcs,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone,  Sacramento,  Marys vllle, 

Chlco,  Tehama,  and  Red  Bluff 

•8 :30  A  Peters  and  M 1 1  ton 

9:00a  New  Orleans    Bjrpn  Fresno,  Bakerstleld,  Santa 

Barbara,  Los  Angeles,  Doming.  El  Paso,  New  Orleans,  and 

East 

Martinez  and  Stockton 

Vallejo 

Nlles,  San  .lose  Llvormore.  and  Stockton 

Sacramento  River  steamers 

Niles.San  .lose,  and  Llvermorc 

Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa 

Benlcla,   Vacavllle.  Woodland,  Knight's   Landing,  Marys- 

vllle.  Orovllle.  and  Sacramento 

Lathrop,  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yosem- 
ile)  and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles,  returning  via  Martinez.. 
Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,  Mojave  (for  Rands- 
burg),  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles 

Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojavo  and  East 

European  mail,  Ogden  and  East 

Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose... 

Vallejo 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysvllle,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East 


I  Arrive 


1' :4ft  A 
8:45P 


9:00  a 
9:00  a 

•i  :66  P 
1:00  p 

tl:30p 
4:00p 

4:00P 


5:00  P 

5:00p 
6:U0p 
6:00P 
J7:00  P 
7:00  P 


6:45  p 
6:15  p 


1:1ft  p 
•7:16  P 


4:45P 
4:45P 
6:15  P 
7:15P 

•9:0OP 
8:45  A 

t7:45P 

9:15  A 

11:15A 

11 :45  A 

7.45A 
7:45A 
9:45A 
7:45  A 
t7:45p 

11:15  A 


Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 


J7:45A  Santa  Cruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  t8:05p 
8:45  a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations ...  5:50  p 

•2 :15  p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:20a 

4:15  p  Newark,  San  Jose, Los  Gatos 9:50> 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

7:00  a 
9.00a 


San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1 :30  P 

San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz.Paoifio  Grove,  Paso  Robles 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principalway  stations    4:15  p 

10:40  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  6:30p 

11  :30  a  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 5:U0P 

♦2:30  p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park,  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Plnos,  Santa 

Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey.  Pacific  Grove *10:40A 

*3:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45  A 

•4:30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations »8:05  A 

5 :30  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations *8 :45  A 

6:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations.. 6:35A 

tll:45P  San  Jose  and  way  stations 77:45  p 

San  Leandro  and  haywards  Local. 


t*6'00  Al 

f      7:15  A 

8:00  a 

/11:4ft  A 

9:00  a 

Melrose, 

10:45  A 

10:00  A 

Seminary  Park, 

11:45  A 

ill. 00  A 

FITCBBURG, 

12:45  P 

112:00  m 

San  Leandro, 

(1:45  P 

2:00  p 

and 

}2:45  P 

i'3 :00  P 

Haywards. 

4:45  P 

4:00  P 

(5:45  P 

5:00  P 

6:15  P 

5:30  P 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

7:45  P 

7:00  P 

t  From  Niles 

8:45  P 

8:00  p 

9:45  P 

9:00  P 

10:50  P 

frll:15Pj 

ttl2:00  P 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  (Slip  8).—  *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  a.  M., 11:00.  '2:00. 13:00, «4:00, 15:00  and  *6:00p.  M. 

From  OAKLAND— Foot  of  Broadway—  ♦6:00,8:00,  10:00  A.  M.;  113:00,  *1:00, 
J2 :0u,  «3 :00,  J4 :00  »5 :0O  p.  M. 

A  for  Morning,     p  for  Alternoon.     *Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only,  ft  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

HTuesdays  and  Saturdays.  ^Sundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

Th£>    Cvonri    PorifiV    306  Stockton  St.  San   Francisco 
lilt)    UldllU     rdblllUi         MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT.  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day.  week,  or  month       Telephone :  Grant.  507. 


THE  great  firm  of  Miller  A  Lux  filed  articles  of  incor- 
poration on  Monday,  with  a  capital  of  $12,000,000. 
The  incorporators  and  directors  are  Henry  Miller,  Henry 
Lux,  Thomas  B.  Bishop,  J.  Leroy  Nickel,  Edward  T.  Al- 
len, Jesse  S.  Potter  and  Azro  N.  Lewis.  The  object  of  the 
incorporation  is  for  the  purpose  of  facilitating  the  distri- 
bution of  the  estate  and  legally  winding  up  its  affairs.  The 
property  of  the  incorporation  consists  of  lands  from  Ore- 
gon to  Texas,  and  thousands  of  cattle,  sheep  and  hogs, 
besides  other  property;  and  it  will  require  several  years 
to  dispose  of  all  their  varied  interests  to  advantage. 


THE  San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific  Railway  has 
issued  a  beautiful  little  booklet  descriptive  of  the  coun- 
try through  which  the  line  runs.  It  is  filled  with  photographic 
views  of  some  of  the  many  lovely  points  along  its  route. 
The  San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific  Railway  is  the  pic- 
turesque road  running  out  of  the  city;  aDd  it  pierces  a  sec- 
tion of  the  State  that  is  the  ideal  cruising  ground  of  the 
summer  camper,  the  fisher,  and  hunter.  Ticket  office, 
650  Market  street;  general  office,    Mutual  Life  Building. 


Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copperplate  engraving. 
Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


Cooper  &  Co.,  746 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


May  8,  iSgy. 


YOU    WILL    FORGET -mu  mall  gazette. 

You  will  forget^a  few  swift  hours. 
Fortune  and  fame  and  all  to  woo, 

And  ere  the  bloom  forsakes  the  flowers 
The  lips  you  kiss  have  kissed  for  you, 

And  ere  the  morrow's  sun  is  set, 
You  will  forget. 

You  will  forget— a  mile  or  so, 

And  out  of  sight  is  out  of  mind ; 

The  easy  tears  soon  cease  to  flow 

When  life's  before  and  life's  behind; 

Aye,  love,  while  still  your  eyes  are  wet, 
You  will  forget. 

You  will  forget— in  other  years 

"When  you  behold  that  white  starshine 
We  see  so  dimly  through  the  tears ; 

When  vou  shall  pass  these  doors  of  mine. 
Or  that  dear  spot  where  first  we  met, 
1  ou  will  forget. 

You  will  forget— let  me  love  on, 
You  have  been  all  in  all  to  me; 

So  when  the  past  is  dead  and  gone, 
Like  some  fine  golden  phantasy, 

Let  me  love  on,  to  pay  my  debt — 
You  will  forget. 


THE   TAVERN   OF   CASTLE  CRAG. 

THE  Tavern  of  Castle  Crag  was  built  in  the  heart  of  the 
Sierras,  almost  at  the  foot  of  Mount  Shasta,  and 
amid  the  most  picturesque  mountain  scenery  accessible  to 
the  tourist.  The  eligibility  of  the  place  selected  was  due 
to  a  rare  combination  of  flowing  water,  inspiring  mountain 
scenery  and  inviting  forests. 

The  Tavern  of  Castle  Crag,  with  its  splendid  environ- 
ment, it  was  believed  would  appeal  chiefly  to  those  who 
seek  a  summer  resort  for  health,  recreation,  outdoor 
sports,  sympathy  with  nature  and  informal  sociability. 
To  emphasize  this  intention  and  signify  the  kind  of  invita- 
tion extended,  the  name  tavern  of  Castle  Crag  was 
chosen. 

To  avoid  all  implication  of  sumptuous  accommodations, 
or  the  tyranny  of  social  formalism,  and  to  realize  this 
original  conception,  the  management  has  decided  to  make 
the  Tavern  of  Castle  Crag  distinctively  a  family  resort; 
and  especially  attractive  to  those  to  whom  health,  recreation 
and  sympathy  with  nature  are  paramount  considerations. 
To  this  end  rooms  on  the  first  and  second  floors  of  this 
splendid  tavern,  with  board,  will  be  furnished  at  a  monthly 
rate  of  $65  a  person;  and  rooms  on  the  third  floor,  with 
board,  at  a  monthly  rate  of  $50  a  person. 

The  accommodations  of  the  Tavern  are  first-class  in 
every  particular.  Its  parlors  and  halls  are  elegant  and 
spacious.  Its  verandas  are  cool  and  inviting,  placing  the 
guest  always  in  the  presence  of  the  most  attractive  moun- 
tain scenery  to  be  enjoyed  from  the  balcony  of  any  tavern 
in  the  world. 

The  opportunity  for  outdoor  sports  embraces  hunting, 
fishing,  riding,  bicycling,  walkiDg  on  mountain  paths,  and 
driving  on  picturesque  roads.  The  Tavern  is  located  im- 
mediately on  the  main  trunk  line  of  the  California  and 
Oregon  railroad,  and  is  fourteen  hours'  ride  from  San 
Francisco,  twelve  hours  from  Stockton,  ten  hours  from 
Sacramento  thirty  hours  from  Los  Angeles,  and  twenty- 
three  hours  trom  Portland.  The  Tavern  of  Castle  Crag  "is 
reached  from  San  Francisco  and  Sacramento  without  loss 
of  time.  The  train  leaves  San  Francisco  at  8  o'clock  p.  m., 
arriving  early  the  following  morning  for  breakfast,  which 
is  always  ready  upon  the  arrival  of  the  train.  Returning, 
the  train  time  affords  equal  accommodation.  Thus  both  in 
going  and  iu  coming  the  comfort  of  the  passenger  and  the 
economy  of  his  time  have  been  studied.  In  brief,  the 
Tavern  of  Castle  Crag  realizes  to  its  guests  the  perfect 
ideal  of  that  spring-time  in  the  high  altitudes  of  the 
Sierras  which  never  becomes  high  summer,  and  is  the  com- 
fortable home  of  pleasing  recreation  and  restful  repose. 

For  particulars  apply  to 

George  Schonewald, 

Room  59,  Union  Trust  Building,  San  Francisco. 

Korn,  the  Hatter,  726  Market  street,  near  Kearny,  is  the  sole  agent  for 
Knox.    See  the  latest  spring  styles. 


ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 
Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.     Location 
of  works— Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  20th  day  of  March,  1897,  an  assessment,  No.  ill,  of  10  cents  per 
share,  was  levied  on  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  room  11,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
23D  DAY  OF  APRIL,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  Friday,  the  14th  day  of  May, 
1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  11,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal 

OFFICE  OF  THE  HALE  &  NORCROSS  SILVER  MINING  CO., 
Room  11,  331  Pine  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal..  Apdl  22, 1897. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  this 
company,  held  this  day,  the  date  of  delinquency  of  stock  for  Assessment 
No.  Ill  was  postponed  until  May  24, 1897. 

Any  stock  upon  which  said  assessment  shall  remair  unpaid  on  the 

24th  DAY  OF  MAY,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless 
payment  be  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  June  15,  1897,  to  pay 
said  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  cost  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

REMOVAL     NOTICE, 

Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company. 

To  the  stockholders  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company  and 
to  all  others  concerned: 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that,  pursuant  to  the  consent,  in  writing,  of  the 
holders  of  two-thirds  of  the  capital  stock  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  Silver 
Mining  Company,  duly  filed  in  the  office  of  said  company,  the  principal 
place  of  business  of  said  Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company  has  been 
changed  from  Room  No.  3  of  the  San  Francisco  Stock  and  Exchange  Build- 
ing, No.  331  Pine  street,  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  State  of 
California,  to  room  No.  11  in  the  same  building,  where  the  business  of  said 
company  will  be  hereafter  transacted.  This  notice  is  published  in  accord- 
ance with  Section  S21  of  the  Civil  Code. 

Dated  March  19, 1897 

By  order  or  the  Board  of  Directors.  R.  R.  GRAYSON.  Secretary. 

Office -Room  11,  Stock  Exchange  Building,  331  Pine  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  held 
on  the  Nineteenth  day  of  March,  1897,  an  assessment,  No.  Ill,  of  Ten 
Cents  (ID  cents)  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the 
corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Sec- 
retary, at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  3,  331  Pine  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
23D  DAY  OF  APRIL,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  Friday,  the  14th  day  of  May, 
1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

R    U.  COLLINS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  3.  No  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Bullion  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco.  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Direotors,  held 
the  4th  day  of  May,  1897,  an  assessment  (No.  50)  of  10  cts.  per  share,  was 
levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  la 
United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  company, 
331  Pine  Street,  room  11,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
8th  DAY  OF  JUNE,   1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment    is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  28th  day  of  June, 
1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office — Room  11.  331  Pine  street.  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  81 

Amount  per  Share 20  cente 

Levied April  24, 1897 

Delinquent  in  Office June  1,  1897 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock... June  22,  1897 

ALFRED.  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office:    Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

ANNUAL     MEETING 

Hutchinson  Sugar  Plantation  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Hutchinson 
Sugar  Plantation  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  327 
Market  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal.,  on 

TUESDAY,  THE  11th  DAY  OF  MAY,  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  11  o'clock  a  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors 
to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  for  the  transaction  of  such  other  business 
as  may  come  before  the  meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  Friday,  April 
30th   at  3  o'clock  p    m  EH    SHELDON,  Secretary. 

Office— 327  Market  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Josepli  Glllott's  Steel  Pens, 

Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1589.    These  pens  are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mb.  Henry  Hoe.  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers . 


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Vol.  L IV 


SAN  FRANCISCO,   MAY  15,  1897. 


Number  20. 


Printed  and  PubU,n,a  every  Saturday  by  the  proprietor,  FRED  HARRIOT! 

54  Ktarny  street,  San  Francisco.     Entered   at   San    FrancUco  Pott- 

ojkt  a*  Second-close  Matter. 
The  oJUe  of   the    WMWB  LETTER  (n   Stir  York  City  it  at  Temple  Court; 

and  at    Chicago,  90S    Boyce    Building.  (Frank  S     MorrUon.  Saltern 

Representative),  where  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  eubecrip- 

Hon  and  advertising  ralee. 

THE   .Mayor   suggests   that  Lotta's  perpetual  fountain 
be  gilded.     The  suggestion  is  well  in  its  way;  but,  un- 
ortunately,  to  gild  a  nuisanee  does  not  abate  it. 


IF  Mayor  Phelan  prove  himself  able  to  enforce  economy 
and  business  methods  in  the  different  departments  of 
his  official  family,  he  will  have  manufactured  a  plank  large 
enough  to  carry  him  from  the  City  Hall  to  Sacramento. 

SOCKLESS  Simpson,  the  Kansas  Representative,  asked 
Speaker  Reed  the  other  day:  ''Where  am  I  at  ?  "  To 
which  the  Maine  statesman  responded:  "I  have  never  been 
able  to  find  anybody  who  knew  that."  Judge  Hebbard  has 
just  propounded  the  same  question  to  twelve  of  his  fellow- 
citizens,  and  has  received  about  the  same  answer. 


EMPLOYES  who  will  have  to  wait  three  months  before 
their  warrants  can  be  cashed  by  the  city  are  fortu- 
nate. They  can  afford  to  wait.  Their  hours  of  toil  are 
shorter,  their  labors  lighter,  and  their  pay  greater,  than 
rule  in  commercial  circles  for  similar  services.  Were  they 
to  resign  to-day,  five  thousand  competent  men  would 
clamor  for  their  shoes  at  half  their  salaries. 


EFFORTS  to  put  the  wires  strung  about  the  city  under- 
ground should  receive  the  assistance  of  everyone 
who  wishes  to  see  San  Francisco  dressed  in  modern  garb. 
But  it  is  far  more  likely  that  the  irony  of  fate,  and  the  ordi- 
nary course  of  nature,  will  see  the  progressive  citizens 
who  advocate  this  innovation  well  and  securely  under  the 
ground  before  the  wires  reach  that  desired  destination. 

WHILE  the  fate  of  a  celebration  of  the  Fourth  of  July 
by  the  people  of  San  Francisco  appears  to  rest  upon 
an  annual  municipal  appropriation  of  $3,000,  it  may  be  ob- 
served that  the  patriotic  subjects  of  Great  Britain  here 
resident  have  put  up  $3,500  for  a  proper  celebration  of 
the  good  Queen's  Jubilee.  It  might  not  be  inappropriate 
to  add  that  there  are  not  as  many  Englishmen  as  Amer- 
icans living  in  this  city. 

THE  Mechanics'  Institute  Fair  management  has  deter- 
mined to  make  pure  food  the  central  idea  and  motif, 
so  to  say,  of  the  exhibition.  This  will  prove  to  be  a  draw- 
ing card,  and  is  good  business  judgment,  as  well  as,  inci- 
dentally, the  right  thing.  It  is  promised  that  one  of  the 
attractions  will  be  a  dairy  in  full  operation,  even  including 
the  presence  of  the  mild-mannered  and  genteel  cow. 
Thanks  to  the  efficient  Dockery,  the  appearance  of  the 
female  bovine  will  not  be  thought  to  be  superfluous  or  in- 
appropriate. 

NO  one  questions  Auditor  Broderick's  sincerity  in  his 
contention  that  there  can  be  found  no  warrant  of 
law  for  voting  money  from  the  emergency  fund  in  aid  of 
the  unemployed  now  temporarily  employed  in  completing 
Balboa  boulevard.  The  Good  Book  declares  that  charity 
covers  a  multitude  of  sins;  and  the  Auditor  may  err  on 
the  side  of  right  in  this  case  without  fear  of  incurring  the 
criticisms  of  the  taxpayers  or  complaints  of  his  bondsmen. 
Broderick's  hesitation  might  mean  just  the  difference 
between  an  empty  belly  and  a  full  stomach  to  many. 


IN  the  Fair  Craven  will  case,  some  comment  has  been 
occasioned  by  the  touching  solicitude  shown  by  the 
attorneys  for  Mrs.  Craven  for  certain  handwriting  ex- 
perts. The  solicitude  is  natural,  and  is  no  doubt  born  of 
observation.  It  is  really  astonishing  that  the  testimony 
of  experts  should  be  held  of  the  slightest  consequence;  for 
whoever  beard  of  one  of  them  disagreeing  on  the  stand 
with  the  fee  obtained  in  payment  for  his  services?  or  for- 
getting in  his  yearning  for  the  truth  which  side  of  the  case 
his  testimony  was  expected  to  support? 

LABOR  Commissioner  Fitzgerald  may  be  big  enough  to 
handle  himself  on  American  soil,  but  when  he  becomes 
a  self-elected  diplomatic  representative  of  this  country  to 
Hawaii,  he  painfully  illustrates  the  difference  between 
ability  and  absurdity.  His  threat  made  to  the  planters 
that  Congress  would  oppose  annexation  if  the  islanders  did 
not  open  their  arms  to  the  unemployed  of  the  Pacific  Coast, 
who  are  supposed  to  be  anxiously  peering  over  the  bosom 
of  the  ocean  toward  the  cane  fields  of  the  Hawaiians,  was 
a  stretch  of  the  Fitzgerald  imagination.  Our  Labor  Com- 
missioner should  be  chained  up  in  his  office,  or  sent  to  join 
the  ranks  of  the  unemployed  himself. 

THE  Manufacturers'  and  Producers'  Association  held 
an  important  meeting  Wednesday,  and  determined  to 
employ  every  effort  to  make  the  Pure  Food  Congress  a 
permanent  organization,  with  branches  in  every  county  of 
the  State.  Delegates  will  be  named  by  President  Kerr  to 
attend  the  Trans-Mississippi  Congress,  to  be  held  at  Salt 
Lake  on  June  14tb.  A  fight  will  be  made  there  to  prevent 
the  shipping  of  convict-made  goods  into  this  State.  A 
telegram  was  ordered  sent  toW.  R.  Hearst,  in  New  York, 
asking  him  to  use  only  California  materials  in  his  new 
building  to  be  erected  in  this  city.  The  association  might 
well  have  added  a  request  that  Hearst  send  out  a  gentle- 
man to  take  editorial  management  of  his  paper. 

EDWARD  BOYCE,  President  of  the  Miners'  Federa- 
tion which  has  just  adjourned  at  Salt  Lake,  in  his 
address  before  the  assembled  miners,  urged  them  to  arm 
for  the  purpose  of  maintaining  their  rights.  "Every 
miners'  union,"  says  this  anarchist,  "should  form  a  rifle 
club,  so  that  the  inspiring  music  of  the  martial  tread  of 
25,000  armed  men  in  the  ranks  of  labor  might  be  heard." 
And  in  this  revolutionary  and  treasonable  utterance  this 
arch  enemy  of  the  laboring  man  found  a  hearty  amen  in 
the  endorsement  of  Eugene  V.  Debs.  It  is  well  that  the 
headsman  stalks  behind  these  incendiary  and  turbulent 
spirits;  and  the  sooner  Debs  and  Boyce  are  looking 
through  the  bars  or  wearing  stripes  in  some  penitentiary, 
the  better  and  happier  will  be  the  fate  of  the  laboring 
element  in  the  United  States. 


SOUTH  American  trade  is  just  now  attracting  the  at- 
tention of  the  mercantile  community  of  San  Francisco, 
and  it  is  well  that  the  truth  is  dawning  that  trade,  to  be 
obtained,  must  be  worked  for.  Too  long  have  this  city's 
merchants  lived  in  the  hope  that  they  were  entitled  by 
right  of  original  possession  to  the  tribute  which,  in  a  few 
years,  made  many  of  them  opulent.  They  have  seen  trade 
gradually  seek  other  channels,  until  to  the  north  and  south 
have  been  raised  up  important  centers  of  commerce.  It 
is  time  to  reach  out  for  trade;  it  is  time  to  get  rid  of  the 
old-fogy,  sleepy  ideas  of  the  past.  South  American  trade 
waits  for  San  Francisco  to  take  it.  Some  money  and  more 
enterprise  are  necessary.  Will  our  merchants  rip  the 
commercial  barnacles  off  the  seats  of  their  somewhat  un- 
commercial trousers  ? 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  15,  1897. 


INVOKING      THE      LIBEL      LAW. 


JUDGE  Hebbard  has  wasted  six  weeks,  that  he  owed 
the  public,  in  a  fruitless  attempt  to  gain  glory  out  of 
libel  suits.     He   has   had  his  henchmen  around  him;   they 
have  beaten  the  big  drums  and  made  much  noise;  but  what 
have  he  and  they  gained  by  it  all  ?  Hebbard  came  through 
his  election  in  a  blaze  of  glory.     The   public,  who  did  not 
know  him,  took   him   at   the   valuation  Sheehan,  Baggett 
and  the  Examiner   put   upon  him;  he  received  a  phenom- 
enal majority  at  the  polls;  all  his  sins  of  omission  and  com- 
mission  were  forgotten,  and  it   remained  only  for  him  to 
justify  the  promises  made  on  his  behalf  by  bis  friends,  and 
honor  the  dignified  position  to  which   he  had  been  so  hand- 
somely elected.     But  he  turned  out  not  to  be  that  kind  of 
a  man.     He  has  exhibited  himself  as  he  is,  and  not  as  our 
citizens  took  him  to  be,  and,  as  a  consequence,  he  could  not 
to-day  be  elected  to  any  office  within  the  gift  of  the  people. 
Because  of  the   false  pretenses  of  his  friends,  he  went   up 
like  a  rocket,  but  through  his  love  of  notoriety,  and  hatred 
of   all   newspaper   men,    except   LoDg  Green   Lawrence, 
be     has     fallen     as     rapidly    as     the     stick.       He     has 
done  little   or   nothing  since   the   1st  of  January  last  but 
virulently  prosecute  two  libel   suits,  has  lost  in  both  cases 
tried,  and  has  seven  on  his   hands  yet.     During  all   that 
time    he    has    drawn    his    official    salary    amounting    to 
$1,333.33,  his  clerk  and  bailiff  have   also   been  paid  large 
sums,  and  his  reporter,  we  presume,  is   out   and   injured, 
and  above  all,  the  public  interests  have  been  treated  as  of 
no  account.     A    strictly  conscientious  Judge   would  have 
deemed  his  first  duty  to   be   the   discharge  of  the  onerous 
obligations  with  which  our  citizens  had  intrusted  him.  Not 
knowing  him,  they  had  vindicated  him,   and   at  that  he 
ought  to  have  rested.     But  Hebbard,  whose  face  indicates 
the  man.  went  inquest  of  fresh  notoriety,  and  he  has  got  it. 
If  he  were  to  abide   by  his  own   pretenses  he  would  now 
resign  his  official  position.     He  claimed  that  his  usefulness 
was  gone  until  he  bad  been  vindicated   by  a  jury  of  his  fel- 
low citizens.     Well,  he  found  that  such   a  jury  was  not  to 
be    humbugged    by  his    claqueurs   as   were    the    voters, 
and  so  the  expected  vindication  turned  out  to  be  an  utter 
condemnation.     Will  he  follow  the  logical  course  which  his 
own   pretenses   and   judicial  propriety   alike   indicate  to 
him?     We  think  not.     He  consorts   with  men  of  too  low  a 
calibre  to  make  clear   to  him   high-minded   obligations  of 
that  character.     The    men    he    consorts  with,    and   who 
speak  for  him   with   grsat   accuracy,  make   good  the  old 
saying:  "Tell  us     the   company  he   keeps,    and  we    will 
tell  you  the  man  he  is."      He  was  hail-fellow-well-met  with 
bank  emptiers,  and  now   shares   with   them   the  unpopu- 
larity, if  nothing  more,  of  a   course    that   left  widows  and 
orphans  minus  their  hard-earned   savings.     It  was  a  poor 
and  paltry  plea  he  had  the  hardihood  to  set  up.     "He  was 
not  responsible,"  he  said,  "for  the  acts  of  his  appointees." 
He  was,  when  he  appointed,  in   the  face  of  protests  from 
good  citizens,  and  when  he  failed  to  remove  them  when  the 
stockholders  called  his  official  attention  to  what  they  were 
doing.    If  Hebbard  was  not  responsible  for  Sheehan,  their 
boon  companionship  and  secret  confabs  lasted  a  long  time 
for  nothing.  The  breakdown  of  this  particular  Judge  should 
teach  the  lesson  that  only  men  of  proved  qualities  and  abil- 
ity should  be  elected  to  the  Superior  Bench.     If  Hebbard, 
as  a  lawyer,  ever  tried  a  case  in  court,  we  never  heard  of 
it.     He  was  for  a  time  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  but  that  is 
the  highest   and  only  legal   experience   he  had  prior  to 
reaching  his  present  office.     He  lacks  legal  knowledge,  in 


our  judgment,  and  certainly  is  devoid  of  the  judicial  tem- 
perament. To  all  of  which  is  now  to  be  added  the  wreck- 
age the  libel  court  has  strewn  around  and  about  him. 

The  News  Letter  has,  more  in  sorrow  than  in  anger, 
stripped  the  plumage  from  this  gay  bird.  It  at  all  times 
likes  to  speak  well  of  good  Judges.  They  ordinarily  cannot 
strike  back.  But  it  should  be  remembered  that  Hebbard 
was  a  candidate  and  free  as  well  as  able  to  defend  himself. 
He  did  not  do  it  then,  just  as  he  did  not  submit  himself  to 
examination  in  court  the  other  day.  That  was  a  bad  break 
for  a  man  of  his  pretentions  to  make.  If  he  were  conscious 
of  nothing  to  hide,  why  did  he  not  speak  out?  He  knew 
that  he  would  have  to  submit  to  a  cross-examination,  and 
knowing  the  cross-examiner,  he  avoided  it.  As  to  the 
law  of  the  case,  we  shall  have  something  to  say  hereafter. 
Now,  as  ever,  the  News  Letter  has  endeavored  to  main- 
tain the  liberty  of  the  press,  without  using  its  privileges 
as  a  license  or  in  a  bad  cause.  This  has  been  a  contest  for 
the  freedom  of  the  press  against  the  dangerous  assump- 
tion that  the  judiciary  of  the  country  is  above  criticism; 
that  because  a  citizen  has  been  made  a  Judge  by  the  votes 
of  his  peers  he  may  not  be  subject  to  the  same  obligations 
and  penalties  to  which  they  are  amenable.  The  establish- 
ment of  such  a  precedent  as  has  been  sought  by  the  prose- 
cution in  this  case,  would  be  a  travesty  upon  the  spirit  and 
the  letter  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States;  it 
would  close  the  mouth  of  honest  criticism  and  silence  the 
press  against  any  outrage  that  might  stand  forth  if  it 
were  but  clothed  in  judicial  garments.  We  have  felt  from 
the  first  that  not  the  News  Letter  alone,  but  a  great  prin- 
ciple, in  which  the  press  of  the  country  and  the  whole  people 
were  vitally  interested,  was  on  trial.  While  we  have  been 
silent,  the  personal  fight  against  us  has  been  urged  on  and 
fed  by  a  desire  for  revenge  of  a  weak  Judge  ;  but  we  have 
never  fe't  that  the  result  could  be  other  than  the  triumph  of 
final  Justice,  and  the  deserved  and  lasting  rebuke  of  a  man 
whose  whole  career  shows  that  he  is  unfitted  for  the  high 
office  to  which  accident  and  a  fortuitous  combination  of 
circumstances  elevated  him.  Judge  Hebbard  has  been 
beaten;  the  viodieation  he  sought  has  been  spoken  by 
twelve  of  his  peers,  and  their  verdict  is  a  victory  for  free- 
dom of  speech,  personal  rights,  and  criticism  of  the  judi- 
ciary in  which  honest  men  should  everywhere  rejoice. 

Public  acknowledgment  of  the  invaluable  services  of 
Hon.  Samuel  M.  Shortridge,  who  conducted  the  defense  of 
the  case,  is  doubly  due  him,  not  only  on  account  of  the 
News  Letter,  but  for  the  further  reason  that  his  exposi- 
tion of  the  law  and  his  arguments  involved  the  principles  of 
personal  freedom,  without  which  the  guarantee  of  our 
constitution  would  be  as  shifting  sands :  they  were  in 
reality  an  able  defense  of  the  press  and  people  against 
a  pernicious  and  dangerous  assumption  of  judicial  freedom 
from  legitimate  responsibility. 


City  Ante-election  pledges  and  post-election  per- 
Finances.  formances  were  drawn  in  very  significant 
parallel  lines  at  the  conference  between 
heads  of  departments  last  Saturday  at  the  City  Hall.  The 
meeting  was  held  for  the  purpose  of  devising  some  method 
of  staving  off  the  threatened  assaults  upon  the  municipal 
coffers,  or  of  raising  or  saving  money  enough  to  pay  for 
supplies  and  other  necessities  aside  from  salaries.  The 
meeting  resulted  in  a  sort  of  show-down  by  the  different 
department  heads,  and  the  only  patriot  that  could  be 
found  with  a  magnifying  glass  was  Auditor  Broderick, 
who  boldly  declared  that  he  bad  discharged  two  men  and 
compelled  the  remaining  five  to  work  each  one  hour  longer 
daily.  But  Broderick  stood  alone;  not  another  man 
emerged  from  the  financial  ruck  who  had  discharged  any 
of  his  assistants,  or  could  do  so  without  seriously  crippling 
bis  office. 

The  most  remarkable  exhibition  of  municipal  maladmin- 
istration, however,  was  accidentally   uncovered  by  F.  W. 


>5.  >»97- 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


He  declared  with   all  tl 
that  he  could  not  run  .ir  lest  Iban  it  is 

■ne  of  hi»  nu'ii  di  -      !5Q  per 

and    his    collections    amount    to  *i. 2(Ml.     In  other 
words,  the  iitv  is  paying  nut  ISO  per  year  more  than  it   is 
i    branch  of    Lees'  department .1 
This  is  no  doubt  an  exaggerated   illustration,  but  it  shows 
the  1".  fol,  and  more    than  unsatisfactory  manner 

in  which   the   people's   bn-  eitie;  done  in  some  de- 

partments. How  long  would  a  merchant  be  able  to  meet 
his  bills  on  a  basis  of  this  sort;  and  where  is  the  man  who 
would  in  private  enterprise  for  a  single  day  permit  such  B 
condition  of  affairs  as  is  knowi  it  the  City  Hall.' 

The  general  public  who  know  anything  of  the  hours  and 
the  amount  of  labor  performed  by  the  city's  employees, 
will  not  believe  for  one  moment  that  the  different  depart- 
ments cannot  be  kept  well  within  their  appropriations,  or 
that  in  such  a  pinch  as  at  present  faces  the  treasury,  can- 
not satisfactorily  perform  all  reasonable  duties  with  re- 
duced forces.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  a  level-headed  busi- 
nan  could  take  charge  of  any  branch  uj  the  municipal 
service,  and  under  contract  perform  every  duty  for  sixty 
per  cent,  of  the  money  now  paid  out. 

The  fact  is,  that  the  people's  interests  are  of  secondary 
consequence — if  they  are  even  considered.  The  offices  are 
first  of  all  for  the  politicians  and  their  creatures.  Some 
good  men  are  doubtless  elected,  but  they  are  too  of teu 
powerless  to  prevent  the  loot  of  the  taxpayers  by  the  ap- 
pointment of  incompetent  and  unfit  persons,  who  have 
qualified  for  soft  jobs  by  manipulation  at  ward  meetings 
and  around  election  booths. 

Mayor  Phelan,  in  his  determination  to  personally  in- 
vestigate and  for  himself  determine  the  value  of  the  state- 
ments made  at  Saturday's  conference,  meets  the  approval 
of  every  man  who  wants  to  see  justice  done.  The  Mayor 
is  a  business  man,  and  his  judgment  will  be  accepted  by 
the  people  of  the  city  as  conclusive.  The  mere  claim  of 
politicians  that  they  are  doing  the  best  they  can  bears  no 
conviction  to  the  minds  of  intelligent  taxpayers.  Some- 
thing reliable  and  authoritative  is  wanted  now. 

The  Hawaiian  To  obtain  something  for  nothing,  by 
Swindle.  false   representations,    is   an   undoubted 

swindle.  That  is  why  we  feel  entitled 
to  apply  that  epithet  to  the  so-called  Hawaiian  reci- 
procity treaty.  Under  it  the  sugar  consumers  of  this 
coast  pay  an  average  of  84,000,000  a  year  in  rebated  sugar 
duties  to  a  few  Hawaiian  planters.  In  return  we  prac- 
tically get  nothing.  It  is  true  that  they  give  us  a  small 
trade  that  would  come  here  anyhow.  It  could  go  nowhere 
else.  We  are  their  nearest  market,  and  we  have  for  sale 
the  articles  that  use  has  accustomed  them  to.  After  all, 
they  bring  us  only  about  8,000  customers.  Most  of  the 
others  are  Chinese  and  Japanese,  who  do  not  buy  of  us, 
but  yet  are  given  an  enormous  bonus  with  which  to  com- 
pete with  the  very  people  who  furnish  the  bonus.  Every 
pound  of  sugar  imported  from  Hawaii  comes  into  compe- 
tition with  our  new  and  promising  industry  of  beet-sugar 
growing.  We  as  a  people  hold  to  the  doctrine  of  protect- 
ing the  home  market.  But  so  far  from  doing  that  in  re- 
gard to  the  Hawaiian  article,  we  actually  give  a  bonus  of 
1]  cents  a  pound  for  the  pleasure  of  having  it  as  a 
competitor.  We,  in  other  words,  give  protection  to  the 
foreigner,  whilst  applying  free  trade  to  our  own  sugar 
producers.  That  is  a  reversal  of  the  national  policy,  and 
substantially  filching  the  benefits  of  the  home  market 
from  the  home  producer. 

Senator  Perkins  avows  that  he  finds  himself  impaled  on 
the  horns  of  a  dilemma  on  this  question.  He  is  a  protec- 
tionist, but  is  being  urged  to  vote  for  free  trade  by  our 
merchants,  and  between  the  two  he  is  troubled  to  make 
up  his  mind  as  to  what  he  ought  to  do.  Clearly  there  is 
no  path  before  him  but  the  straight  one.  As  an  honor- 
able man  he  is  bound  by  the  principles  he  advocated  prior 
to  his  election.  He  was  then  a  thick  and  thin  advocate  of 
the  home  market  being  preserved  for  the  home  producer. 
He  knows  perfectly  that  the  Hawaiian  treaty  does  not  do 
that.  He  admits  that  it  is  only  "the  commercial  organ- 
izations, banks  and  exporters  of  San  Francisco  who  deem 
the  treaty  of  importance  to  them."  He  confesses  that  "all 
the  interior  cities  and  counties  are  asainst  the  treaty,  and 
that  they  base   their  opposition  on  their  desire  to  see  the 


beet  Industry  succeed.  To  which  he  replies  that  "i 
can  Ih>  more  alive  than  myself  to  the  importance  of  that 
industry,  and  I  hope  to  Bee  it  grow  and  give  to  the  State 
that  prosperity  which  I  believe  il  is  capable  of  producing." 
Just  so.  Then,  as  a  protectionist,  why  subject  it  to  a 
free  trade  competition  with  Hawaiian  sugar?  If  he  is 
such  a  believer  in  the  future  of  the  beet,  why  put  this  new 
and  struggling  industry  under  a  ban.'  The  Senator  is 
very  hazy  in  his  words  when  talking  about  protection, 
and  seems  better  posted  in  the  logic  of  the  free  trade 
school  of  political  economists.  He  is  likely  to  hear  language 
from  his  constituents  that  we,  in  common  with  his  many 
friends,  will  regret. 

Our  silly  contemporary,  t lie  Examiner,  thinks  it  is  a  free 
trader,  but  knows  as  little  about  either  free  trade  or  pro- 
tection as  it  does  about  decent  journalism,  saves  less 
than  half  a  column  of  space  for  the  discussion  of  the  Ha- 
waiian treaty.  Among  other  stupidities,  it  actually  has 
the  amazing  ignorance  to  claim  that  we  pay  for  $15,244,!»77 
worth  of  sugar  by  parting  with  $4,184,351  in  goods, 
$1,005,278  in  gold  and  $73,000  in  silver.  Such  a  claim 
seems  incredible  as  coming  from  even  "the  new  journal- 
ism." It  goes  on  to  say:  "that  by  paying  out  $5,323,- 
520  all  told,  we  bought  goods  worth  $15,244,077.  Is  there 
any  objection  to  that  kind  of  balance  of  trade?  Is  there 
any  one  in  California  who  would  object  to  a  trade  in  which 
he  got  $15  worth  of  goods  in  return  for  $5  ?  That  is  what 
we  are  doing  right  along  in  the  Hawaiian  trade."  Gener- 
ous Hawaiians!  They  let  us  off  with  a  payment  of  about 
33  per  cent  of  the  value  of  the  goods  they  send.  Such 
liberality  has  not  before  been  discovered  in  all  the  world. 
The  Examiner  man,  as  a  discoverer,  is  greater  than 
Nansen.  The  former  has  reached  the  end  of  financial  fool- 
ery, whilst  the  latter  has  failed  to  get  as  far  as  the  pole 
of  folly.  It  may  be  accepted  as  a  certainty  that  the  astute 
missionaries  collect  dollar  for  dollar  on  all  they  send  to  us. 
They  do  not  import  their  balance  of  trade  to  Hawaii,  be- 
cause they  have  use  for  it  elsewhere,  and  Honolulu  is  not 
a  market  for  gold.  Hawaii  buys  largely  from  England 
and  Germany,  and  permits  her  to  do  her  remitting  there. 
Moreover,  the  plantations  are  not  all  owned  in  the  Islands, 
and  dividends  (paid  out  of  our  rebated  duties),  have  in 
large  part  to  go  to  New  England,  France,  Germany,  Great 
Britain,  and  to  our  own  State.  Again,  money  goes  to  the 
Islands  through  the  mails  in  the  shape  of  bills  of  exchange, 
greenbacks,  and  the  like.  England  every  year  imports 
more  than  she  exports,  and  according  to  the  Examiner 
man,  to  be  getting  poorer  instead  of  richer.  The  reci- 
procity treaty  was  conceived  in  jobbery,  is  a  fraud  from 
every  point  from  which  it  is  viewed,  and  ought  to  be 
swept  out  of  existence. 


The  Tariff  Question     McKinley  and  Dingley  are  nowhere 
Goes  these   times.      They  and    all   they 

By  the  Board.  represent  have  been  given  the  go- 
'  by,  and  the  Senate  has  done  it.  The 
House  was  docile  enough,  and  promptly  and  without  de- 
bate passed  a  measure  that  within  two  years  would  have 
rendered  the  Republicans  as  unpopular  as  the  framers  of 
the  Chicago  platform.  It  was  simply  full  of  outrageous 
proposals,  that  would  have  grown  more  and  more  unpopu- 
lar every  day,  and  in  the  end  would  have  buried  McKin- 
leyism  as  deep  as  the  gold  in  the  Comstock  mines 
now  appears  to  be.  The  Senate  was  wise  enough  to  see 
all  this  ahead,  with  the  result  that  we  have  a  brand  new 
set  of  tariff  proposals  that  out-Herod  Herod,  and  surpass 
Wilson  at  all  points,  that  lead  towards  free  trade.  It  ad- 
mits that  Mr.  Dingley's  figures  are  all  wrong,  and  that  to 
make  receipts  equal  to  expenditures,  an  entirely  new  plan 
must  be  adopted.  Hence,  the  increasing  of  the  beer  and 
tobacco  taxes,  and  putting  a  large  duty  or,  tea.  These 
items  alone  mean  an  increase  of  about  $60,000,000  a  year 
to  the  revenue,  without  an  atom  of  protection  to  home  in- 
dustries. The  other  changes  all  favor  lower  duties,  and 
some  are  against  all  the  definitions  of  protection  as  we 
have  been  taught  them  from  the  stump.  Thus,  while  the 
duties  on  clothing  wools  are  materially  reduced,  those  on 
carpet  wools  are  raised  to  an  extent  almost,  if  not  quite, 
ruinous  to  the  carpet  industry.  The  duty  of  one  and  one- 
half  cents  a  pound  on  hides,  while  logically  sound  from  a 
protection  point  of  view,  will  arouse  fierce  resistance  from 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


May  15,  1897. 


all  the  leather  manufacturers  of  the  country.  New  Eng- 
land is  already  up  in  arms,  and  the  fate  of  the  tariff  is  not 
as  =ure  as  it  at  one  time  seemed  to  be.  The  tacit  abroga- 
tion of  the  present  treaty  with  the  Hawaiian  Islands  is 
protection  to  our  sugar  beet  industry,  and  is  a  matter  of 
much  moment  to  this  coast.  No  true  representative  of 
California  can  favor  the  retention  of  the  planters'  treaty, 
all  one-sided,  monopolistic,  and  fraudulent  as  it  is.  The 
omission  of  the  retroactive  clause  was  necessary  in  order 
to  conform  to  the  law.  Duties  could  not  be  collected  until 
a  law  authorized  their  collection.  The  sugar  duty  is  in- 
creased from  one  cent  to  one  and  one-half  cents  per  pound, 
and  the  act  is  to  go  into  effect  on  the  1st  of  July.  All  these 
changes  are  of  great  import,  and  together  constitute  a 
better  tariff  than  we  had  expected  from  the  party  in 
power.  There  is  still  a  great  deal  of  paying  of  election 
debts,  but  not  nearly  so  much  as  was  at  one  time  ap- 
parent. If  the  latest  proposals  go  through,  we  trust  that 
they  will  never  again  be  changed,  except  at  the  instance 
of  a  permanent  and  non-partisan  tariff  commission. 

How  the  Once  more  there  is  to  be  a  shortage  in  the 
Money  Goes,  municipal  funds  of  the  year.  The  sum  of 
$166,180  is  said  to  be  the  amount  needed  to 
make  good  the  deficiency.  There  will  again  be  a  long  wait 
for  creditors,  much  discomfort  to  teachers  and  other  offi- 
cials, and  confusion  in  the  public  accounts.  These  things 
occur  year  after  year  with  unhappy  regularity.  The  last 
Supervisors  went  on  the  same  track  as  their  predecessors, 
and  a  task  is  upon  the  new  men  to  tide  the  municipaUty 
over  the  difficulties  they  have  inherited.  Nearly  every 
one  of  the  departments  have  overrun  the  appropriations 
set  apart  for  their  use.  How  this  can  be  done  with  the 
one-twelfth  act  still  on  the  statute  books  surpasses  our 
comprehension.  In  this  instance  there  does  not  appear 
to  be  any  particular  official  upon  whom  to  fix  the  blame. 
About  all  alike  have  sinned  in  exceeding  the  amounts  ap- 
propriated, and  then  wrangles  over  the  new  Fee  bill,  and 
the  assessment  of  bank  deposits,  reduced  the  revenue  that 
had  been  calculated  upon.  It  would  be  better  always  to 
anticipate  difficulties  of  this  nature  and  make  allowance 
for  them  when  the  rate  is  struck.  The  overdrawing  of 
fixed  appropriations  is  inexcusable,  and  a  way  ought  to 
be  found  to  put  an  end  to  it.  A  charter  that  would  regu- 
late these  things  is  badly  needed.  But  if  we  may  judge 
from  past  experiences,  relief  by  this  road  is  far  off,  for 
there  appears  only  a  small  disposition  upon  the  part  of 
the  majority  to  accept  a  way  out  along  this  line. 

On  the  Streets  There  is  a  new  moral  movement  on  foot 
at  Night.  in  several  of  our  States  to  prevent  young 
people,  under  the  age  of  sixteen,  parad- 
ing the  streets  and  out  of  the  way  places  after  nine  o'clock 
at  night.  A  number  of  towns  and  some  cities  of  consider- 
able size,  both  in  the  "West  and  the  South,  have  yielded  to 
this  demand,  and  the  Michigan  Legislature  has  been  per- 
suaded to  pass  a  "curfew  law,"  as  it  is  called,  for  the 
whole  State.  Governor  Pingree  has  shown  more  sense  in 
this  matter  than  the  law-makers,  for  he  has  vetoed  the 
bill  on  the  ground  that  it  involves  interference  by  the  State 
in  matters  of  purely  domestic  concern.  Roaming;  the 
streets  at  night  is  bad  business  for  young  people,  but  it 
would  be  worse  for  the  community  to  have  the  State  at- 
tempt the  role  of  a  beneficent  parent.  In  our  own  Queen 
City  of  the  Pacific  the  evil  practice  of  night  prowling,  on 
the  part  of  3'oung  people,  is  perhaps  as  bad  as  it  is  any- 
where. But  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  in  a  free  city  it  can 
be  regulated  by  law.  The  streets  are  free,  the  air  we 
breathe  is  free,  and  our  coming  and  going  are  free.  None 
of  these,  in  this  free  land  of  ours,  can  be  subjected  to 
license,  limit,  or  litigation.  Any  such  venture  is  bound  to 
prove  a  failure,  and  would  simply  aggravate  an  evil  which 
can  only  be  cured  by  persuading  fathers  and  mothers  to 
do  their  duty  by  their  children. 

Nervous  Prostration     The  medical  men  of   the  city  report 
and  Insomnia.  an   unusual   prevalence  of   nervous 

prostration,  accompanied  by  insom- 
nia, in  our  midst,  and  especially  among  men  past  middle 
age.  This  condition  is  in  part  accounted  for  because  of 
the  exceptionally  large  number  of  cold  north  winds  that 
have  prevailed  all  through  the  winter  and  spring,  and   in 


part  because  of  the  worry  and  harassment  of  hard  times. 
The  evils  we  speak  of  are  found  mainly  among  men  who 
work  with  their  brains.  The  struggle  to  make  ends  meet 
is  breaking  down  many  a  sturdy  son  of  the  Golden  State. 
Patient  after  patient  tells  the  same  story.  He  goes  to 
bed  at  his  usual  hour,  falls  off  to  sleep  very  much  as  usual, 
but  instead  of  sleeping  through  the  wbole  night  until  six  or 
seven  in  the  morning,  he  wakes  about  two  or  three,  or 
even  earlier,  and  do  what  he  will,  he  can  get  no  sound 
sleep  after  that  time.  He  may  lie  more  or  less  still,  and 
may  even  doze  off  occasionally,  but  if  he  does,  he  dreams 
and  is  more  than  half  conscious  all  the  time,  and  when  he 
rises  he  feels  not  only  unrefreshed,  but  as  if  he  would  give 
all  his  day's  profits  for  one  single  hour  of  sound,  refreshing 
sleep.  But  that  may  not  be.  Now,  there  are  three 
things  to  be  said  on  this  point:  First,  something  as  to  the 
cause;  secondly,  as  to  the  treatment  to  be  avoided,  and 
thirdly,  as  to  the  treatment  that  will  probably  cure.  The 
cause  is,  no  doubt,  abnormal  weather.  Our  north  winds 
are  trying  to  the  strongest  nerves.  These  have  been  ac- 
companied by  a  damp,  relaxing  atmosphere,  and  this  again 
by  worries  of  the  mind  occasioned  by  the  state  of  business. 
Under  the  circumstances,  what  is  to  be  done?  One  thing 
must  certainly  not  be  done;  soporifics  must  not  be  resorted 
to.  The  right  thing  to  do  is,  if  possible,  to  diminish  or  al- 
together stop  excessive  brain  activity.  The  most  effectual 
step  to  this  end  is  to  run  away  for  a  time  to  the  sea  side 
or  to  the  foothills,  where  it  is  cold  and  bracing.  The  un- 
defined ozone  of  a  cool  atmosphere  works  wonders  in  such 
cases,  and  mental  rest  will  do  the  remainder.  To  take 
sleep  producing  remedies  may  answer  the  purpose  for  a 
time,  but  such  a  course  cannot  but  be  attended  with  after 
injury  under  the  peculiar  physiological  condition.  A  few 
days  of  brain  resting  in  a  brain  bracing  climate  will,  with 
certainty,  effect  a  natural  cure  in  most  cases,  and  the 
effect  upon  the  whole  system  will  be  as  lasting  as  it  will 
be  beneficial.  We  are  not  puffing  any  particular  resort, 
but  merely  telling  a  truth  that  the  entire  medical  faculty, 
we  think,  will  indorse  as  one  of  importance  at  the  present 
time.  The  mountain  and  seaside  resorts  cannot  be  too 
well  patronized  this  year. 

The  Proposed  Park     It  is  being  often   repeated,  and  it  is 
and  Zoo.  true,  that   the  people   cannot  have 

too  many  breathing  places.  But  as 
the  people  cannot  have  parks  in  every  block,  and  must 
necessarily  set  a  limit  on  their  desires  in  that  regard,  it 
is  the  part  of  wisdom  to  see  to  it  that  those  the}'  have  are 
placed  where  they  will  do  the  most  good.  Where  the  popu- 
lation is  likely  to  be  densest,  or,  in  other  words,  where  the 
greatest  good  is  likely  to  be  done  to  the  greatest  number, 
is  the  best  place  for  a  new  and  popular  breathing  place. 
No  doubt  the  Mission  is  becoming  the  most  crowded  part 
of  San  Francisco's  residential  population.  It  will  continue 
to  grow,  and  in  the  end  will  be  occupied  mainly  by  the 
working  classes,  who  most  need  open  squares  and  pleasure 
grounds.  It  is,  therefore,  the  first  place  that  should  be 
attended  to  by  the  Supervisors,  who  are  being  so  strenu- 
ously urged  thereto  by  the  energetic  committee  of  citizens 
who  have  the  matter  in  charge.  But  it  will  be  well  for  the 
parties  to  moderate  their  plans  to  what  is  practicable. 
We  cannot  afford  a  second  Golden  Gate  Park,  and  a 
Zoological  Garden  talked  of  for  that  section  of  the  city. 
While  it  would  cost  a  large  amount  of  money,  it  would  be 
a  source  of  pleasure  and  education.  San  Francisco  is  to 
be  a  great  city,  and  the  full  cost  need  not  be  an  original 
investment.  The  foundation  could  be  laid,  the  plan  could 
be  mapped  out,  and  a  creditable  beginning  made,  without 
very  great  expense.  It  is  true  that  the  Mission  has  been 
neglected,  and  it  is  but  just  that  taxation  should  have  rep- 
resentation. Let  us  have  a  park  and  a  zoo  south  of  Mar- 
ket street;  but  if  we  cannot  have  both,  and  the  people 
prefer  the  latter,  let  us  see  that  it  is  provided. 


MORE  money  will  be  necessary  immediately,  or  work  on 
the  boulevard  must  stop.  A  few  hundred  dollars  will 
complete  this  splendid  highway  and  make  it  permanent. 
It  must  not  be  said  that  San  Francisco  will  permit  the 
work  to  end  now  when  it  is  so  near  a  lasting  finish. 

Kohn,  the  Hatter,  726  Market  street,  near  Kearny,  is  tbe  sole  agent  for 
Knox.    See  the  latest  spring  styles. 


May  15,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


SOUTH      AMERICAN      TRADE. 

I.  >nly  a  comparatively  recent  idea   anions  San  I'ran- 
T-ehants  that  the  ocean  commerce  nf    this   port 
.  ii  a  profitable  field  for  their  capital  and  energy;   The 
•  r  idea  was  to  develop  interior  trade  over    the  same 
that  brought  merchandise  westward,  but  competitive 
points  have  deprived  this  city  of  a  large  part  of   tins   dis- 
tributive commerce,  and  our  merchants  have  been   forced 
to  look  out  through  the  Golden  <  late  for  business.     It  was 
high  time  they  came  to  this  conclusion. 

The  result  has  fully  justified  the  effort,  and  a  large  trade 
has  been  developed  in  Oceanica  (including  Hawaii),  Cen- 
tral America,  Alaska,  and  measureably  in  China,  Japan, 
and  Australia.  In  the  development  of  this  ocean  com- 
merce the  question  of  cheap  transportation  has  figured 
largely.  The  rates  formerly  charged  were  practically 
prohibitory,  but  have  been  largely  reduced.  Take  the  in- 
stance of  Central  American  trade,  now  the  most  prosper- 
ous of  San  Francisco's  ocean  commerce.  Prior  to  1893  it 
amounted  to  little,  and  was  restricted  by  very  heavy  trans- 
portation charges.  The  organization  of  the  North  Ameri- 
can Navigation  Company  inaugurated  a  contest  for  fifteen 
months,  which  reduced  the  rate  of  freight  to  Central 
American  ports  to  two  dollars  per  ton  southwatd,  and 
coffee,  northward,  to  five  dollars  per  ton.  These  abnormal 
rates  made  a  loss  to  carriers,  but  the  effect  was  almost 
magical,  and  the  business  increased  beyond  expectation. 
When  the  contest  ended  by  the  withdrawal  of  the  Com- 
pany, it  had  sunk  $300,000  in  the  too  cheap  carriage  of 
merchandise  between  San  Francisco,  New  York,  and  Cen- 
tral America.  But  the  money  was  very  profitably  ex- 
pended, and  the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company  has  re- 
covered its  losses  many  times  in  its  increased  traffic.  Judi- 
ciously restricting  its  advanced  rates,  it  has  retained  the 
trade,  and  now  makes  it  pay  a  remunerative  rate.  Its 
steamers  leave  always  full,  and  seldom  cleaning  up  the 
offerings;  in  fact,  the  tonnage  available  is  now  much  too 
small,  and  must  be  increased.  With  the  advantage  of  geo- 
graphical position,  we  have  higher  rates  to  reach  that 
market,  and  we  need  for  its  development  a  direct  line  of 
steamships  to  South  American  west  coast  ports.  The 
miserable  policy  of  our  Government,  which  has  permitted 
the  American  foreign  carrying  trade  to  be  destroyed 
through  hostile  legislation,  prevents  the  inauguration  of 
such  a  line  of  steamships,  unless  the  legislation  now  pro- 
posed by  Senator  Elkins  applies  a  remedy. 

While  the  products  of  the  west  coast  of  South  America 
are  largely  identical  with  those  of  the  California  coast, 
there  are  still  many  articles  which  our  merchants  can  sell 
there.  The  finer  forms  of  manufactured  leather,  refined 
sugar,  confectionery,  mining  machinery,  portable  mills, 
agricultural  implements,  cotton  fabrics,  carts  and  car- 
riages, horse  accoutrements,  firearms,  cutlery,  beer,  sew- 
ing machines,  chemicals,  rope  and  twine,  canned  meats 
and  canned  and  dried  fruits,  and,  to  the  nearest  South 
American  ports,  cereal  products  in  large  quantity,  are  all 
in  demand,  while  the  long  and  varied  manifests  of  ships 
discharging  at  those  ports  from  the  Atlantic  States  and 
Europe  contain  many  other  articles  not  above  enumerated, 
which  can  be  added  thereto.  One  serious  impediment  to 
the  development  of  the  commerce  of  this  coast  with  our 
port  is  the  rate  of  exchange,  owing  to  those  countries  being 
on  a  silver  basis;  but  in  this  we  are  no  worse,  off  than  our 
competitors,  while  there  is  a  disposition  in  Chile  to  adopt 
a  gold  standard,  after  a  fashion,  and  at  a  ratio  which  we 
would  not  entertain  as  practicable. 

The  Chamber  of  Commerce  has  successfully  inaugurated 
combined  action  in  Asiatic  and  Central  American  trade. 
The  results  have  fully  warranted  the  efforts,  and  have  en- 
couraged the  trustees  to  invite  our  merchants  to  join  in  a 
like  effort  on  the  southwestern  coast  of  America.  A  re- 
duction in  freights  has  been  obtained,  and  still  lower  rates 
are  possible  if  the  volume  of  traffic  can  be  increased.  The 
time  appears  propitious,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  our 
merchants  will  respond  to  the  invitation  by  a  combined 
movement  to  increase  our  trade  in  that  inviting  field.  Cer- 
tainly, they  cannot  expect  prosperity  in  foreign  commerce 
to  come  to  them  uninvited,  since  their  competitors  are  al- 
ways ready  to  take  the  initiative. 

Connected  with  the'subject  is  that  of  the  proposed  es- 
tablishment of  a  College  of  Commerce,  Manufactures  and 


Navigation  at  the  California  State  University.  This  rec- 
ognition of  the  commercial  situation  is  itself  encouraging, 
and  evinces  a  desire  to  make  the  University  practically 
useful  in  commercial  pursuits.  The  eduoation  of  our  yi 
men  intending  to  take  up  a  commercial  career,  in  the 
Spanish  language,  is  one  of  the  necessities  connected  with 
South  American  trade,  vastly  more  important  to  our  peo- 
ple than  any  other  language,  not  excepting  French.  The 
Germans  have  paid  special  attention  to  this  by  educating 
their  commercial  representatives  sent  to  this  coast,  not 
only  in  the  language,  but  in  the  geography,  productions 
and  customs  of  the  people  whose  trade  they  have  acquired 
to  a  large  extent. 

San  Francisco  must  hereafter  make  her  record  as  a  great 
tea-port,  and  the  development  of  her  maritime  commerce 
should  be  the  aim  of  our  merchants  and  capitalists.  In 
this  there  is  an  assured  future  prosperity.  We  have  too 
long  delayed  action  on  this  important  commercial  fact,  but 
the  awakening  is  full  of  hope.  William  L.  Merry. 

San  Francisco,  May  14,  1897. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  15,  1897. 


J^SiJ/£g  WHD 


EXCELSIOR  JR. 
The  shades  of  night  were  falling  fast, 
As  through  a  Western  village  passed 
A  show,  that  bore  the  name  of  Rice 
On  play-bills  with  the  strange  device, 
Excelsior  Jr  1 

His  brow  was  sad,  his  eye  beneath 
Bespoke  the  critic,  and  his  wreath 
Of  dusky  hair  proclaimed  the  same. 
"  To  see  the  show,"  he  said,  "I've  came — 
Excelsior  Jr  !  " 

"Try  not  the  Pass,"  the  old  man  said; 
He  heeded  nol,  he  went  dead-head 
(And  took  a  friend  along  beside) 
And  loud  that  clarion  voice  replied, 
Excelsior  Jr  ! 

"  Oh  stay,"  the  maiden  said,  "and  rest 
Thy  weary  head  upon  this  breast!" 

"Nay,  nay,"  he  said,  "I'd  rather  go 
And  see  sweet  Sadie  Martinot 
In  Excelsior  Jr. .'" 

"  Beware  the  choruses'  withered  branch, 
Beware  the  awful  avalanche 
Of  doleful  song  and  senile  smirk 
And  palsied  jest  and  gibe  that  lurk 
In  Excelsior  Jr.!" 

At  break  of  day  they  found  him  there, 
Froze  fast  within  his  velvet  chair, 
Still  grasping  in  his  hand  of  ice 
The  play-bill  with  that  strange  device, 
Excelsior  Jr. ! 

And  on  its  margin  this  was  writ: 
"Once  Martinot,  now  Martinit." 
A  tear  was  frosted  in  his  eye, 
His  glacial  lips  still  seemed  to  sigh, 
Excelsior  Jr! 

There  in  the  theatre,  cold  and  gray, 
Lifeless,  but  beautiful,  he  lay. 
A  steamy  voice  from  far  below 
Groaned,  "Better  here  than  at  that  show, 
Excelsior  Jr.  /" 
(  *  *  * 

Nat  Goodwin  comes  to  us  again  next  week.  We  may 
be  remote,  but  sometimes  we  are  lucky.  That  was,  for 
us  anj'way,  a  fortunate  day  when  Goodwin  resolved  to  go 
to  Australia.  We  had  In  Mizzoura,  with  his  indelible 
character  of  Jim  Radburn — the  finest  individual  acting  of 
the  decade,  to  my  thinking — before  he  steamed  away;  and 
we  got  the  first  blush  of  the  most  humanly  comedic  Bob 
Acres  of  the  stage  when  he  came  back — to  say  nothing  of 
his  trim,  tailor-made  work  in  Mrs.  Ryley's  comedy,  An 
American  Citizen.  Ever  since  Jim  Radburn  I  have  been 
penning  away  that  Nat  Goodwin  is  the  greatest  of  Amer- 
ican actors;  a  fact,  strange  to  say,  not  universally  ac- 
cepted. In  New  York  they  persist  in  regarding  him  as  a 
funny  actor  with  magnetism  and  geniality — an  enter- 
tainer, nothing  more.  New  York  is  a  long,  large  place. 
It  wakes  slowly.  By  the  time  Mr.  Goodwin  has  estab- 
lished his  ability  for  serious  acting  to  the  complete  satis- 
faction of  Podunk,  Fre>no  and  Chicago,  he  can  commence 
to  rebuild  his  metropolitan  reputation  on  that  line — that 
is,  if  any  theatres  besides  the  vaudeville  houses  are  left  for 
him  to  work  in,  and  the  syndicate  does  not  object  to  his 
using  one  of  those. 

*  *  * 

To  a  sincere  student  of  the  drama  and  the  day,  Nat 
Goodwin  is  the  only  hope  for  real  greatness  on  the 
American  stage.  He  is  an  actor;  but,  better  still,  he  is  a 
manager.  And  he  is  now  nearly  in  a  position  to  give  the 
people,  not  what  they  think  they  want — the  tradesmen  of 
the  syndicate  will  look  to  that  sort  of  thing — but  what  he 
wants.  And  unlike  Mr.  Mansfield,  who  has  bad  taste  and 
worse  mannerisms,  or  William  Crane,  who  is  pre-emi- 
neutly  bourgeois  in  talent  and  taste,  or  Mr.  Haworth,  who 


cannot  even  manage  himself,  Mr.  Good  win  has  the  mind, 
the  appreciation  to  choose  the  play,  to  direct  the  miuutest 
details  of  its  presentation,  and,  so  far  as  I  have  seen,  the 
artistic  naturalness  to  play  his  own  part  as  no  other  living 
actor  can  play  it. 

*  *  * 

It  is  easy  to  understand  how  the  New  York  critic — who, 
as  a  rule,  is  so  busy  writing  that  he  has  little  time  to  think 
— could  overlook  Mr.  Goodwin  in  the  shuffle  of  the  season. 
Goodwin  has  never  been  a  fad;  he  has  a  jovial,  chummy 
personality,  and  for  years  he  traveled  on  that,  fitting  plays 
to  it,  as  his  tailor  fitted  clothes  to  him,  gaining  general 
popularity  all  the  time,  and,  at  the  same  time,  the  sure, 
definite  touch  of  the  artist — poising  himself  and  placing 
his  audience.  When  he  took  himself  so  seriously  as  to  play 
Jim  Radburn  in  New  York,  he  was  ready  to  wake  the  next 
morning  and  find  himself  famous,  and  doubtless  arose  early 
for  that  express  purpose.  There  are  soils  where  the  early 
bird  has  no  advantage.  Mr.  Goodwin  found  the  town 
peacefully  encased  in  its  pajamas,  enjoying  the  unruffled 
slumber  of  the  innocent,  and  smugly  unconscious  that  any- 
thing bad  happened,  or  ever  would — unless  it  was  imported. 
Yet  a  few  persons  found  out  In  Mizzoura :  several  com- 
muters, Charles  McLellan  of  Town  Topics  (his  broiner  was 
afterwards  Goodwin's  mismanage!'  on  the  Australian  tour) 
and  a  few  obscure  gentlemen  of  the  pictorial,  dialect  mag- 
azines. But  the  bulk  of  the  people  and  the  bulk  of  the 
critics  passed  it  over  as  a  good  show — "atmospheric," 
"conscientious  detail,"  "Goodwin  quite  convincing  in  his 
serious  role,"  I  believe  they  said.  That  was  all.  i\'o  fire- 
crackers, no  notoriety,  no  interviews. 

That  David  Garrick  had  fared  even  worse  is  a  part  of 
dramatic  history.  The  critics  insisted  that  there  was  a 
joke  in  it. 

So,  if  it  is  not  too  much  to  expect  the  old  rule  to  work 
the  wrong  way  once  again,  even  the  dullest  of  us  may  an- 
ticipate something  of  artistic  consequence  in  Goodwin's 
Garrick — which  was  not  a  hundred  nights'  success  in  New 
York. 

*  *  * 

The  repertory  for  the  fortnight's  engagement  at  the 
Baldwin  consists  of  Daxid  Garrick,  The  Rivals,  and  An 
American  Citizen.  My  interest  centers  in  Garrick,  which 
I  never  have  seen  Goodwin  play,  and  which  to  my  knowl- 
edge is  the  only  work  of  the  romantic  class  that  he  has 
ever  essayed.  The  play  belongs  to  the  "trustful"  age; 
much  of  its  sentiment  and  much  of  its  comedy  are  highly 
artificial,  builded,  it  would  seem,  as  man  and  woman  never 
were  nor  will  be.  But  the  opportunities  are  big  in  the 
leading  part;  there  is  a  splendid  scale  of  diverse  expres- 
sion to  be  got  from  it  by  the  versatile  actor;  and  Goodwin, 
with  his  transcendent  comedy  gift,  his  sensitive  fervor,  and 
that  fine,  nervous,  magnetic  character-grip  of  his,  should 
bring  out  all  there  is  in  it. 

Bob  Acres  he  played  here  for  the  first  time  in  America. 
It  gave  promise  of  being  the  best  on  the  stage, — a  rosier, 
blusterer  than  Jefferson's  Bob,  more  of  a  younker  and  less 
of  a  Yank. 

An  American  Citizen  is  three  hours  of  Nat  Goodwin  in  his 
everyday  clothes.  It  is  clever  and  diverting  for  us,  and 
easy  play  for  him. 

*  *  * 

Altogether,  the  season  seems  to  be  worth  living  to  see. 
The  Baldwin  has  a  long  list  of  high-sounding  attractions 
on  the  way,  and  Mr.  Frawley  comes  to  the  Columbia  with 
an  enticing  array  of  plays,  and  what  reads  like  a  good 
company.  I  hope  Mr.  Frawley  has  secured  a  stage 
director  of  some  accomplishment — ensemble  and  deport- 
ment were  the  weak  points  last  season. 

*  *  * 

A  pink-inked  annex  devoted  to  plays  and  players  is  the 
glowing  feature  of  last  week's  Musical  Courier.  I  cheer- 
fully recommend  it  to  any  one  who  cares  to  read  clever, 
competent  paragraphs  on  the  drama.  A  new  broom 
sweeps  clean,  and  the  New  York  theatres  are  sadly  in 
need  of  one.  In  London,  weekly  criticism  is  power  and 
authority;  in  New  York  it  is  almost  unknown.  There  is  a 
big  field  for  the  Courier's  new  department.  Mr.  James  G. 
Huneker  (of  whom  I  recently  wrote  at  some  length)  and 
Mr.  Vance  Thompson  are  the  editors.  They  are  not  play 
reporters,  but  students,  essayists,  critics. 

Ashton  Stevens. 


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:  we«k  at  the  Tlvoli   a   m>w   German   comic   opera. 
ted.     This  work  is  said    to 
abound  in  catchy  solos,  beautiful  waltzes,  stirring  ma  I 
and  ciiairn.-  and   tinales.      The 

writt.  ..ph  Dellini  ■'    /.  trranu 

and  ti  and   Jell. 

adapted  into  English  by  Harry  I!    Smith,    the   author  of 

;  other  successful  works  of 
naracter.     Captain  ias   been  running   for 

over  two  years  in  Vienna. 

The  Orpheuni  announces  a  h\g  bill  of  novelties  for  next 
week  :i  and  his   burlesque   pantomime  nun 

panv  in  a  fanta-'  «  entitled  Yvttt*,  and  an  eccen- 

tric musical  act.  "Do-mi-sol  do;'  the  Baggesens  in  an  in- 
tricate specialty  called  "the  juj.'Bli"tf  waitress  and  the 
twisting  waiter,"  and  the  Kroneman  Brothers,  humorous 
acrobats,  who  have  been  secured  for  a  return  week. 
Kleurette  and  her  four  Beurs-de-lis,  Ed  I.atelle,  the  music- 
maker,  Tachianu.  with  lightning  change  of  sex.  and  sev- 
eral other  favorite  acts  arc  retained. 

At  the  Baldwin  Mr.  Goodwin  will  play  David  Gjrrick  on 
Monday.  Tuesday.  Wednesday  and  Saturday  matinee. 
The  rest  of  the  week  will  he  devoted  to  77..  Rivals.  <;>ir- 
n'./.- will  be  preceded  by  77,.  Silent  Hyitrm,  the  curtain- 
raiser  which  Miss  Maxine  Eiliott  and  Frank  Worthing 
played  so  cleverly  at  the  Columbia  last  season. 

trior  Jr.,  with  Sadie  Martinot,  Joe  Cawthorne  and 
Johnny  Page  in  new  specialties,  will  be  continued  another 
week  at  the  Columbia,  after  which  the  house  closes  for  a 
week's  renovation.  Then  opens  the  Frawley  season  with 
77..  Fatal  <  nrrf,  a  melodrama  of  reputation. 

Mrs.  Charles  Dickman,  contralto,  prior  to  her  departure 
for  Europe,  announces  a  concert  at  the  Young  Men's 
Auditorium  on  Monday  evening.  Donald  deV.  Graham, 
Bernhard  Mollenhauer,  J.  C.  Hughes,  Will  Wood,  and 
Mrs   C.  A.  Keesing  will  assist  Mrs.  Dickman. 

The  McKenzie  Musical  Society,  a  hundred  voices  strong, 
will  give  a  concert  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall  on  Thursday  even- 
ing. A  special  feature  will  be  Mr.  McKenzie's  arrange- 
ment of  several  popular  marches  for  the  big  chorus. 

Miss  Hattie  Nathan  will  give  a  dramatic  reading  in  the 
Maple  Room  on  Thursday  night  week,  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Eureka  Society  for  the  Protection  of  Children. 


Baldwin    Theatre- 


ONE  of  the  most  important  recent  patents  is  the  Wels- 
bach  Incandescent  Gas  Light.  It  has  the  merit  of 
giving  three  times  the  light  at  one-half  the  cost  of  the  or- 
dinary gas  burner.  Thousands  of  the  Welsbach  burners 
are  in  use  in  this  city,  among  large  consumers  being: 
Western  Union  Telegraph  Company,  Pacific  Telephone 
Company,  Murphy,  Grant  &  Co.,  J.  J.  O'Brien  &  Co., 
Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.'s  Express  Company  and  Bank,  Me- 
chanics' Institute  Building  and  Library,  Knights  Pythias 
Castle,  Red  Men's  Hall,  Foresters'  Hall,  and  hundreds  of 
others  that  can  be  mentioned,  besides  many  of  the  finest 
residences,  are  fitted  up  with  the  lights.  W.  W.  Gillespie 
is  the  agent  for  the  city  of  San  Francisco  for  Welsbach 
Gas  Lights  and  Supplies.  His  office  and  salesrooms  are 
located  at  No.  134  Ellis  street,  where  the  lights  and  ap- 
paratus may  be  seen  in  operation,  and  any  information 
concerning  the  same  will  be  cheerfully  given,  and  all  orders 
entrusted  to  him  will  be  promptly  filled. 


Owing  to  the  unprecedented  success  of  her  New  York  establish- 
ment, Miss  A,  L.  Stone,  of  217  Post  street,  will  be  compelled  to  leave 
for  Paris  on  May  22d,  an  earlier  date  than  heretofore.  Previous  to 
her  departure  at  217  Post  street,  Miss  Stone  will  offer  her  choice  and 
exclusive  designs  in  fine  millinery  at  less  than  cost.  This  will  be  an 
opportunity  to  purchase  fine  millinery  at  lower  prices  than  ever  be- 
fore offered  in  this  city. 


The  "drink  which  cheers  but  not  inebriates"  is  J.  F.  Cutter 
whiskey— the  delight  of  good  judges  and  the  favorite  of  all  connois- 
seurs. This  liquor  is  pure,  properly  aged  and  has  a  smooth,  grateful 
flavor.  E.  Martin  &  Co.  at  411  Market  street,  are  sole  Pacific 
Coast  Agen  '.s  for  J.  F.  Cutter  Whiskey. 

Wedding  and  Birthday  Presents.  Magnificent  assortment  to 
choose  from  at  Art  Store  of  S.  &  G.  Gump,  113  Geary  street. 


Alt.  Hatha*  &  Co..  (Incorporated) 
Proprietors . 

Knir«iL'<>m<T!t    limited  to  two  weeks,  comment- loi;  next  Monday 
'ti    Mr     N.  C    OOODWIX.  supported    l.y  Mlsn 
Maxim*  Klllolt  and  a  superb  comedy  oompMy. 
Klr-u  we!,     Mo-idar.  Tuesday,  and   Wednesday-   orenlnga    and 
Saturday  umtlnee 

DAVID    GARRIGK 
Thursday.  Friday,  and  Saturday  evenings. 


THE     RIVALS 
'  An  American  Citizen.- 


Fine  Watch  and  Jewelry  Repairing.    Low  prices.    All  work  guaran- 
teed.   J.  N.  Brlttan,  watchmaker  and  jeweler,  20  Geary  street. 


G_|.. L!        TL        J.  Tho  '  Qom  "  Theatre  of  the  Coaat. 

OIUfTlDla       I   neatre-     Krlcdlandcr.  GoHlob&Co.,  Leasees 
and  Managers. 

Monday    May  17th,  second  and  last  yyeek  of  Klcc's  norgeous  ex- 
travugan/a. 

EXCELSIOR    cJR. 

Note— During  the  week  Of  M;iy  -'1th,   the  theatre  will  be  closed 

for  renoviuloDs.  etc 

Monday,  Muy  3ist— The  Fkawi.ky  Company. 

T*   ,_  I  '     f\  t_i  Mrs    Ernestine  Kkbling. 

IVOll     Upera     (lOUSe.  Proprietor  and  Manager 

Last  nights  of  Shamis  O'Rrien, 

Next  week,  a  real  Cerinan  opera.    Dellingcr's  great  success, 

CAPTAIN     FRAGASSA. 

(The  Prince  or  Liars). 
Beautiful    waltzes;    magnificent    marches;    great    ensembles; 
stirring  finales;  superb  cast;  new  scenery;  correct  costumes; 
'"The  Great  Carnival  in  Venice  "  scene. 


PopularPrices. 


0         1  San  Francisco's  Greatest   Music    Hall.       O'Farrell 

rpnSU  m  .    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets 

Week  commencin','  Monday.  May  I7th.  George  Osraai  and  his 
burlesque  Pantomime  company  in  their  humorous  creation, 

YVETTE, 

Also  the  eccentric  musical  specialty,  ''DO  MI-SOL-DO ';  the 
B»ggesens.  the  juggling  waitress  and  the  twisting  waiter;  re- 
turn for  one  week  only  of  the  Kronemann  Bros  ,  burlesque  acro- 
hats,  in  conjunction  with  Fleurette  and  her  four  Fleurs-de-Hs. 
Ed  Latell.  Taclanu,  the  Andersons,  and  Mile  Ani  The  Veni- 
tian  Ladies'  Orchestra  in  the  Annex  after  regular  performance. 
Reserved  seats,  25c  ;  balcony  lOo;  opera  chairs  and  box  seats  50c. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday.  Matinee  Prices: 
Parquet,  any  seat,  25c;  balcony  any  seat,  10c;  children.  10c, 
any  part. 

ML  '         '      D       ,'  I  '  Southwest  corner 

eChaniCS       raVlllOn.    Larkin  and  Grove. 

May  19th,  20th,  21st,  22d, 

DOG    SHOW. 

The  largest  number  of  dogs  ever  on  exhibition  on  the  Pacific 

Coast. 

Tickets  50  cents;  children  25  cents. 

A.  B.  SPRECKELS,  Pres't.  H.  H.CARLTON,  Sec'fy. 


El  G 


ampo. 

THE  POPULAR  BAY  RESORT. 

Now  open  every  Sunday  during  the  season. 

Music,  Dancing,  Bowlingi  Boating,    Fishing,  and  other 

Amusements. 

Refreshments  at  city  prices. 

FARE,    ROUND  TRIP,    25c. 

Children  15  cents.   Including  admission  to  grounds. 

The  steamer  TJkiah  will  leave  Tiburon  Ferry  10:30  a.m.,   12:10, 

2:00,  and  4:00  p   m. 

Returning  leave  El  Campo  11:15  a.  m  ,  1:00,  3:00,  and  5;00p.  m. 


97?me.    Jt.    ftuppert 


New  York,  London,  Paris,  San  Francisco 
Sole  originator  of  the  world  renowned 

^* FACE  BLEACH 

FACE  BLEACH  has  stood  the  test  of  20 
years,  and  is  to-day  acknowledged  to  be 
the  best  remedy  known  for  Blackbeads, 
Cir.v  Skin.  Pimples,  Freckels,  and  all 
Facial  Blemishes. 

FACE  BLEACH   sells  at  $2  per  bottle,  oi 

three    bottles    (sometimes   reqnired)    for 

i    85,  and  will  be  sent  to  anv  address  on  re- 

*  SJ&?  tSSfi  o?  ^SZTa'ch  sen, 
;g)  to  any  address  in  plain  wrapper  on  receipt  of  25  cents,  accompanied 
^s    with  my  book,  "How  to  be  Beautiful." 

■i     MME.  RUPPERT  begs  to  announce  to  the  ladies  of  San   Francisco  that     ,_ 
£    she  has  recently  removed  to  Rooms  16-16.  131  Post  St.,  S.  F. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  15,  [897. 


A  Reminiscence  of 
T^rJVjcmt-eCWUj 


¥E  were  floating  lazily  down  the  Grand  Lagoon  in 
Venice, — Douglas  Mclntyre  and  I. 

The  full  moon,  in  her  southern  splendor,  spangled  the 
sea,  as  it  chanted  mysteriously  on  its  way  to  the  broad 
ocean. 

Our  gondolier's  form,  bendiDg  far  down  to  the  oar, 
looked  like  a  black  half-mooD  struggling  with  the  shadows. 

Snatches  of  songs  came  to  us  over  the  water,  and  the 
whole  mise-en-scene  was  fraught  with  the  glamour  and  ro- 
mance of  a  Venetian  night. 

Somehow — perhaps  it  was  the  moonbeams  chasing  the 
amethystine  waves — but  my  thoughts  flew  back  to  Monte 
Carlo.  I  was  sitting  again  in  the  Casino  gardens  there, 
watching  the  Mediterranean  turn  from  dewy  violet  to 
darkest  hyacinth  beneath  the  strange  spell  of  that  warm 
clime. 

My  hair  was  brown  then,  but  now  it  shines  like  little 
drifts  of  snow  round  my  temples,  so  a  friend  of  the  gentler 
sex  tells  me,  but  she  is  amiable,  especially  so  since  my 
trouble. 

"A  penny  for  your  thoughts,  old  man!"  and  Douglas  Mc- 
Intyre's  buoyant  voice  startled  me  out  of  my  reverie,  al- 
most making  me  drop  overboard  the  cigar  which  I  had 
just  settled  down  to  enjoy. 

"Would  you  really  like  to  be  bored  with  my  thoughts?" 

"Bored!  I  can't  imagine  you  causing  such  an  emotion. 
Why,  all  the  fellows  say  you  are  most  interesting;  a  cer- 
tain episode  in  your  life  particularly  so."  His  frank  eyes 
glowed  with  natural  curiosity  as  he  paused. 

"I  suppose  I  should  feel  flattered  at  being  the  subject  of 
the  conversation  of  my  friends,"  I  muttered  stiffly,  feeling 
curiously  annoyed. 

"Oh,  don't  be  huffy,  Lee,  for  you  know  it  is  impossible 
for  some  people  to  escape  greatness.  It's  destiny.  Re- 
member George  Washington,  Gladstone,  Roseberry,  Bis- 
marck, and  all  those  fellows,  dear  boy."  He  laughed  in 
his  cheery  way,  and  lit  a  fresh  cigarette.  No  one  could 
bear  a  grudge  to  him  when  he  laughed,  and  I  felt  my  dis- 
pleasure rapidly  melting  away. 

"So  you  would  really  like  me  to  tell  you  what  I  was 
dreaming?"  I  began,  hesitating  only  a  moment.  "I  was 
living  over  my  Monte  Carlo  experience  of  three  years  ago. 
The  winter  when  frost  stopped  hunting  for  so  long  and  I 
was  snowed  up  in  the  country.  Growing  tired  one  day  of 
the  inaction  and  the  attractions  of  the  library,  I  turned 
my  desire  to  the  fascinations  of  the  South,  and  three  days 
later  I  was  comfortably  installed  in  a  bright  suite  of  rooms 
on  the  hill  at  Monte  Carlo. 

"Several  nights  after,  when,  as  usual,  luck  turned 
against  me,  I  rushed  from  the  hot  rooms  and  went  for  a 
stroll  on  the  terrace  facing  the  sea. 

"The  scent  of  tropical  flowers  made  me  languid,  as  I 
threw  myself  full  length  on  a  bench,  half  yielding  to  the 
delicious  lassitude  stealing  over  me.  Just  then  a  tall, 
gaunt,  old  man,  very  poorly  clad,  passed  hurriedly,  talking 
to  himself  excitedly  in  a  foreign  tongue.  His  grey  hair 
and  beard  straggled  down  long  and  unkempt,  and  he 
looked  on  the  ground  in  a  preoccupied  manner  as  he 
stumbled  along. 

"When  he  had  gone  on  about  fifty  yards,  my  attention 
was  attracted  by  a  youth,  who  was  evidently  following  the 
old  man. 

"Suddenly  the  moon  sailed  out  from  behind  a  cloud  in  all 
her  glory,  lighting  up  the  slim  figure  of  the  boy,  and  as  he 
turned  his  head,  I  could  see  the  beauty  of  his  fair  hair  and 
face. 

"A  cigarette  case  dropped  out  of  his  pocket,  but  he  con- 
tinued on  his  way,  ignorant  apparently  of  his  loss. 

"Going  over,  I  picked  up  the  case,  over-took  the  owner, 
and  restored  it  to  him.  Thanking  me  in  a  nice,  frank, 
English  way,  he  looked  me  full  in  the  face.  Our  eyes  met, 
and  I  shall  never  forget  what  a  tender  blue  his  were. 


* — 


"  'Will  you  not  do  me  the  honor?  '  and  he  proffered  me 
the  open  case.  Charmed  by  his  pleasant  manner,  I  was 
about  to  select  a  cigarette,  when  he  cried  out:  'Oh,  no, 
don't  take  those;  these  on  the  left  side  with  the  gold  tips 
are  much  more  superior. 

We  walked  on  for  a  bit,  smoking  and  chatting  together. 
Finally  the  conversation  drifted  to  Heidelberg,  where  he 
was  studying. 

"Having  many  friends  in  Heidelberg,  Ibecameinterested, 
and  begged  him  to  come  and  sup  with  me  at  the  Cafe  de 
Paris,  an  invitation  which  he  accepted  with  all  a  boy's 
enthusiasm. 

"His  beautiful  face  was  Greek  in  its  purity  of  outline, 
and  his  long,  lovely  hands  revealed  an  artistic  tempera- 
ment. I  judged  that  he  was  not  more  than  sixteen  years 
of  age,  although  remarkably  precocious  for  that  spring- 
time of  life. 

"After  promising  that  I  would  dine  with  him  the  next 
evening,  I  bade  him  a  drowsy  good-night,  and  hurried  to 
my  room,  almost  overpowered  with  sleep.  Before  I  slept, 
it  struck  me  that  I  had  been  the  more  confidential  of  the 
two,  and  that  the  boy  had  been  a  very  good  listener,  for 
when  I  came  to  remember,  he  had  only  spoken  of  Heidel- 
berg, for  he  seemed  so  excited  by  his  surroundings  and  ap- 
peared to  drink  more  wine  than  was  permissible  for  one 
of  his  youthful  experience. 

"The  next  morning  I  awoke  with  a  dull  headache. 
When  the  garcon  brought  me  my  cafe  au  lait,  he  handed  me 
a  message,  which  I  found  was  from  my  lawyer,  advising 
me  that  my  presence  in  London  was  imperative. 

"Knowing  that  fresh  complications  were  brewing  in  a 
lawsuit  I  had  on,  I  made  immediate  preparations  for  de- 
parture, and  only  remembered  my  dinner  engagement 
with  the  pretty  boy  at  the  last  moment. 

'  'Expressing  my  regrets  to  him  in  a  short  note  which  I 
dispatched  by  a  commissionaire,  I  hurried  down  to  the  sta- 
tion to  secure  a  compartment  in  the  Club  train;  but 
missed  the  train,  unfortunately,  by  a  few  seconds.  I  found, 
however,  that  an  express,  which  was  almost  as  good, 
would  leave  for  Paris  io  half  an  hour,  so  I  consoled  myself 
by  watching  the  mixed  crowd  coming  and  going  until  the 
express  was  ready. 

"A  fiacre  rattled  up,  and  to  my  surprise,  my  young 
friend  of  the  evening  before  alighted,  and  walked  leisurely 
over  to  the  ticket  office  window,  followed  by  a  porter 
laden  with  his  luggage.  On  seeing  me  he  expressed  the 
keenest  delight,  and  insisted  on  our  traveling  in  the  same 
carriage  together,  when  I  told  him  that  I  had  been  called 
away  to  England. 

"He,  also,  had  received  a  message  telling  him  to  return 
at  once. 

"  'Just  awhile  ago  I  sent  you  my  regrets  about  the  post- 
ponement of  our  little  dinner,'  he  said. 

"Both  our  notes  had  crossed,  so  neither  of  us  had  re- 
ceived the  other's. 

'  'I  followed  my  friend  as  he  opened  the  door  of  the  near- 
est carriage  and  swung  himself  in. 

"To  my  relief  there  was  only  one  other  occupant,  and 
he  seemed  so  interested  in  a  newspaper  that  he  didn't  look 
up. 

"We  settled  ourselves  and  our  traps  to  our  satisfaction, 
then  my  youthful  companion  drew  a  long  sigh  as  the  train 
moved  slowly  out  of  the  depot. 

"  'I'm  jolly  well  glad  to  get  away  from  Monte  Carlo. 
The  tables  were  too  much  for  me,  and  should  my  governor 
hear  of  my  playing,  there'll  be  a  rumpus,  and  no  mistake,' 
he  said. 

"As  he  offered  me  a  cigarette  our  eyes  met,  and  he 
blushed  like  a  girl,  until  his  face  had  the  glow  of  a  wild 
rose. 

"  'Wasn't  it  difficult  for  you  to  get  admittance  to  the 


May  IS,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


gomir  I    ventured    to   remark.     "Minors  aren't 

ird 
"Hi  iv.  clear  cloud  of  smoke  through  his  well- 

It    is   odd  how  well  I  re- 
of  that  lime. 

[y — by  presenting  the  raid  of  a 
friend.     And — and  how  can  they   tell  a   fellow's  age.  anv- 

ing  at  his   bravado.    I    wisely   forebore  telling  him 
that  he  didn't  look  to  be  more  than  sixteen  at  the  most. 

ike  one  rather  stupid.' lie  mur- 
mured presently,  with  a  yaw.i.  and  in  a  few  minutes  he  fell 
asleep  with  his  golden  head  resting  back  on  the  carriage 
cushion.  He  looked  so  fresh  and  innocent  that,  callous 
man  of  the  world  as  I  was.  1  fell  a  vague  pity,  because  he 
had  begun  to  see  the  seamy  side  of  life  so  soon. 

"I  smoked  on  for  some  time,  watching  the  pink  and 
white  villas  in  their  Bowery  bowers  on  one  side,  and  the 
dazzling  gleam  of  the  Mediterranean  in  the  brilliant  sun- 
shine on  the  other. 

"After  awhile  I  became  drowsy,  and  soon  fell  off  to 
sleep.  Just  before  doing  so  1  saw  the  other  occupant  of 
the  carriage  staring  at  my  young  friend.  I  had  a  (Us- 
eable impression  that  I  had  seen  the  pale  face,  with 
its  shaggy  grey  beard,  somewhere,  but  I  could  not  locate 
it. 

■  We  must  have  been  journeying  for  some  hours,  for  I 
was  awakened  by  the  cold  and  sat  up,  cramped  and  un re- 
freshed. 

"Sbiveringly  drawing  my  rug  closer  about  me.  and 
glancing  over  at  the  opposite  seat  I  saw  that  the  boy  had 
departed. 

"The  old  man  in  the  comer  seemed  to  be  sleeping.  I 
gazed  at  him  idly,  wondering  where  I  had  seen  him  before. 
It  dawned  upon  me  slowly  that  he  was  the  same  man  I  had 
seen  the  previous  night  when  my  young  friend  had  dropped 
his  cigarette  case. 

"It  appeared  to  me,  after  awhile,  that  the  old  man  was 
in  a  very  awkward  position.  His  head  was  hanging  down 
on  his  breast  helplessly,  and  he  was  too  still  to  be  sleeping. 
Something  tickled  sluggishly  over  his  coat.  I  watched  it, 
like  one  in  a  nightmare,  as  it  fell  in  a  red  pool  on  the 
fl'ior.  With  a  sickening  fear  at  my  heart  I  sprang  to  his 
side,  calling  aloud  and  shaking  him  roughly  by  the 
shoulders,  but  he  was  far  beyond  human  help.  His  head 
rolled  and  almost  fell  off — it  had  been  nearly  severed  from 
his  body.  Near  by,  on  the  carpet,  I  discovered  a  razor, 
clotted  with  blood,  still  wet.  Pickhg  it  up  I  saw,  to  my 
great  terror,  that  it  was  one  of  my  own,  which  some  one 
had  abstracted  from  my  dressing  bag.  My  predicament 
was  a  very  dreadful  one,  and  I  sat  down  opposite  the 
corpse,  appalled  with  the  horror  of  it  all.  Quickly  mak- 
ing up  my  mind.  I  rang  the  alarm  bell.  The  train  stopped 
with  such  suddenness  as  to  pitch  the  dead  man  over,  and 
he  fell  with  a  heavy  thud  against  my  traps. 

"I  told  the  excited  guards  how  I  met  the  boy,  of  his 
journey  with  me  in  the  same  carriage  and  his  absence 
when  I  awoke;  but  they  only  sneered  at  my  story  and  pro- 
testations of  innocence,  and  arrested  me  for  murder. 

"After  I  had  had  three  months  of  imprisonment  in  a 
bare  cell,  where  the  rats  made  night  hideous,  friends  con- 
trived to  obtain  ray  freedom.  They  convinced  the  French 
authorities  that  I  had  no  motive  to  induce  me  to  kill  the 
old  man,  who  was  afterwards  identified  as  a  traitor  to  the 
Russian  Nihilist  cause. 

"While  I  was  confined  in  prison  my  hair  turned  white, 
and  I  became  prematurely  old. 

"Last  season,  in  London,  I  attended  a  reception  given 
by  a  literary  friend.  We  were  chatting  about  her  latest 
book,  when  I  suddenly  heard  a  laughing  voice  that  made 
my  heart  almost  cease  to  beat.  It  was  the  voice  of  the 
pretty  boy  I  had  met  at  Monte  Carlo.  I  listened  eagerly, 
quite  forgetting  my  hostess. 

'  'Yes!'  chirped  on  the  voice.  'Those  were  ideal  days, 
yachting  on  the  Mediterranean.  The  blue  of  the  sky,  and 
the  languor  of  that  fair  land  coax  one  into  happy  illusions. 
Come!  let's  go  into  the  conservatory,  I  couldn't  get  a 
chance  to  smoke  after  dinner.  No!  you  won't  like  those — 
these  gold- tipped  ones  are  better.'    Then  I  beard  the  click 


Li 


of  a  cigarette  case 
man's  gown, 


as  it  closed,  and  the  swish  of  a  wo- 


Itushing  round  the  jungle  of  palms  to  obtain  a  glimpse  of 
the  boy,  1  was  confronted  by  a  slender,  lovely  woman.  A 
radiant  smile  lit  up  her  sweet,   fair  face,  but  her  sea-blue 

eyes  gleamed  like  steel  in  the  candle  light,  as  she  glanced 
ssly  full  in  my  face.  Then  she  slipped  her  hand 
through  her  escort's  arm  and  they  leisurely  walked 
through  the  crowded  rooms.  I  watched  them  until  they 
disappeared.  Peeling  as  though  turned  to  stone,  but  re- 
1  overing  my  normal  condition,  1  went  in  search  of  my 
hostess,  who  had  escaped  to  talk  to  other  guests,  when 
she  found  me  so  engrossed.  Finally  coming  upon  her,  I 
gasped  out:     'Who  is  she?1 

"  'Whom  do  you  mean'.'''  asked  my  hostess,  regarding  me 
as  one  would  a  mild  sort  of  lunatic. 

"  'Why,  the  lady  with  fair  hair,  who  stood  talking  to 
that  journalist  by  the  palms  a  few  moments  ago.' 

"  'Oh!  that  is  the  Countess  Gonboroff,  the  great  agitator 
for  free  Russia.     Shall  I  present  you?' 

"When  we  went  in  search  of  her,  she  had  flown,  and 
hasn't  been  seen  in  London  to  my  knowledge  since  that 
night.     She  disappeared  completely  from  my  horizon." 

Douglas  Mclntyre  ejaculated:  "By  Jove!  what  a  mar- 
velous experience!" 

Just  then  the  familiar  scent  of  a  Russian  cigarette  and 
the  clear  music  of  a  woman's  laugh  made  me  tremble,  as  a 
gondola  sped  past  and  shot  under  the  arch  of  a  bridge. 

Again  she  had  eluded  me,  and  the  darkness  covered  her 
path,  while  the  plaintive  strains  of  a  mandolin  sobbed 
through  the  warm  night,  saddening  my  mood  until  I 
throbbed  with  an  infinite  pity  for  my  beautiful  youth. — 
Irene  Osgood  in  Travel. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  15,  1897. 


"  T  le  Stand-By."  by  EJmund  P.  Dole.    Published  by  the  Century 
Company,  New  York.     1897. 

The  hero  of  the  story,  the  "Stand-by,"  is  WL'liam  H. 
Craigin,  stroke  and  captain  of  the  Yale  Eight,  which,  after 
a  terrific  race  against  Harvard,  crosses  the  line  victorious. 
Immediately  after  the  race,  the  stroke  is  inttoduced  to 
John  Denman  and  bis  beautiful  daughter  Isabel,  whose 
girlish  heart  at  once  goes  out  toward  the  strong  and  mod- 
est young  fellow.  Just  after  taking  his  degree,  Craigin 
has  offered  to  him  the  editorship  of  The  Tocsin,  a  news- 
paper recently  established  in  John  Denman's  town,  Aps- 
leigh.  Now,  John  Denman  owns  Apsleigh,  and  to  edit  an 
organ  of  prohibitionism  there  is  to  incur  John  Denman's 
undying  enmity,  for  he  is  a  millionaire  whiskey-dealer. 
However,  despite  some  warnings,  Craigin  accepts  the  post, 
and  soon  the  battle  is  raging.  Craigin  saves  DenruaD's 
life  from  a  vicious  horse,  aud  gratitude  and  admiration  stay 
his  spite  for  a  time.  But  the  Prohibition  Party  gains 
strength,  and  at  last  hundreds  of  complaints  are  piled  up 
against  Denman  and  the  other  whiskey-dealers  and  sellers 
by  a  bold  county  attorney.  Tbeu  comes  out  the  unscru- 
pulous nature  of  Denman;  he  bribes  one  juryman,  lends 
money  to  another,  frightens  a  third,  and  so  defeats  the 
actions.  But  he  has  a  game  antagonist,  whom  he  can 
neither  hoodwink,  cajole,  mr  "bull-doze";  who  fights  on, 
and  marshals  the  Prohibitionist  Party  till  it  gains  strength 
enough  to  render  itself  irresistible.  The  great  whiskey- 
man  is  forced  to  give  up  his  business:  maddened  by  rage 
and  a  sense  of  defeat,  he  tries  by  underhand  means  of  all 
sorts  to  gain  control  of  The  Tocsin,  that  he  may  turn  its 
bold  editor,  the  savior  of  his  life  and  the  lover  of  his  daugh- 
ter, out  into  the  street:  failing,  he  hires  six  ruffians  to 
break  into  the  pressrooms  and  smash  the  presses.  Craigin 
happens  to  be  on  the  spot,  and,  taking  the  scoundrels 
singly,  fells  some,  and  holds  the  rest  off  till  help  comes. 
This  act  of  unscrupulous  rascality  turns  even  Isabel,  his 
pampered  daughter,  against  Denman,  who  loves  her  as 
the  apple  of  his  eye.  When  Craigin  is  unanimously  nomi- 
nated for  the  House  of  Representatives,  Denman  is  seized 
by  a  paralytic  stroke.  Though  the  author  tries  his  best 
to  make  John  Denman  out  to  be  a  very  fine  fellow,  and  con- 
tinually harps  upon  his  generosity,  goodness  of  heart,  and 
noble  nature,  he  only  succeeds  in  depicting  a  thorough- 
paced scoundrel,  who,  if  thwarted  in  any  dirty  scheme  that 
he  has  invested  money  in,  will  bribe,  corrupt,  iutimidate 
public  officials,  and  even  hire  others  to  beat,  maim,  or 
murder  the  people  who  are  bold  enough  to  oppose  him. 
Of  course,  such  a  man,  if  let  alone  to  pile  up  wealth  in  his 
own  way,  will  pay  his  servants  good  wages,  pet  his  wife 
and  daughters,  and  give  good  cigars  and  wines  to  his 
friends.  But,  for  all  that,  he  is  a  rascal  at  heart,  without 
principle  to  sustain  him  when  any  severe  strain  comes; 
then  the  essential  vulgarity,  meanness,  and  treachery  of 
his  nature  come  out  unmistakably.  But  we  think  that 
Mr.  Dole  (who  is  Assistant  Attorney-General  of  Hawaii), 
has  written  a  very  readable  story,  although  we  consider 
his  attempt  to  whitewash  Denman  eminently  regrettable, 
because  it  tends  to  obscure  the  clear  distinction  between 
Right  and  Wrong,  and  to  cause  people  to  think  that  a  man 
is  justified  in  committing  any  crime  to  save  the  dollars  he 
has  invested  in  his  business.  This  loose  thinking  is  respon- 
sible for  much  crime.  Though  Mr.  Dole  writes  interest- 
ingly, his  English  is  by  no  means  free  from  blemish:  he 
makes  a  United  States  Senator  say,  "I'm  very  glad  to 
have  you  fed  that  way  toward  me";  and  "I  don't  know  as 
I  would  want  to  influence  you."  Other  queer  phrases  are: 
"  You've  never  seen  me  but  twice,"  "I  don't  know  as 
that's  any  worse,"  "  Most  people  like  a  glass  of  wine  or 
beer  at  the  table  when  they  feel  like  it":  how  does  a  man 
feel  when  he  feels  like  a  glass  of  wine?  Craigin  is  spoken  of 
as  being  "'Most  as  old  as  Napoleon  was  when  he  crossed 
the  Alps":  on  another  occasion  he  takes  a  boy  on  his  knee 
and  "feeds  him  grapes." 


Sir  Walter  Besant  has  kindly  forwarded  to  us  a  copy  of 
the  April  issue  of  the  Cornhill  Magazine,  which  still  retains 
the  yellow  covers  with  designs  showing  ploughing,  sowing, 
reaping,  and  thrashing  that  it  had  when  W.  M.  Thackeray 
and  Anthony  Trollope  successively  edited  it.  The  opening 
article,  by  Sir  Walter  Besant,  is  entitled  "A  Day  of  Cele- 
bration," and  contains  a  quotation  from  the  Christmas 
1896  News  Letter.  Sir  Walter  comments  on  the  facts 
that  sentiment  rules  the  mass  of  a  people  in  any  country, 
and  is  largely  fostered  by  flags,  emblems,  fireworks,  bon- 
fires, brass  bands,  and  other  things  not  much- beloved  of 
educated  people,  but  highly  useful  for  all  that.  He  at- 
tributes the  patriotic  sentiments  of  Americans  to  the  de- 
liberate fostering  of  national  pride  by  school  text-books, 
days  of  celebration  and  spread-eagle  speeches,  and  thinks 
that  the  British  will  do  well  to  set  apart  Shakespeare's 
birthday  (April  23d)  as  a  day  of  general  rejoicing  through- 
out the  Empire.  As  the  ultimate,  though  yet  far-off,  cul- 
mination of  this  celebration,  he  looks  forward  to  the  fed- 
eration of  the  whole  Anglo-Celtic  race.  The  article  is  very 
interesting  and  suggestive,  and  we  sincerely  trust  that 
the  proposal  may  meet  with  the  same  success  that  attended 
Sir  Walter's  efforts  to  establish  a  palace  of  recreation  for 
the  poor  of  East  London  slums.  We  learn  from  Sir  Wal- 
ter that  the  article  was  published  simultaneously  in  many 
parts  of  the  English-speaking  world. 

"The  Mill  of  Silence,"  by  B.  E.  J.  Capes,  has  just  been 
issued  in  book  form  by  Rand,  McNally  &  Co.,  of  Chicago 
and  New  York.  It  is  a  story  of  mystery,  and  won  the 
second  prize  in  the  competition  for  weird  stories  organized 
by  the  Chicago  Record.  At  a  period  perhaps  not  yet  so 
long  past  that  the  short-memoried  newspaper-reader  has 
forgotten  it  entirely,  the  Examiner  printed  "The  Mill  of 
Silence,"  and  invited  the  readers  thereof  to  furnish  a  de- 
nouement. What  the  result  of  this  invitation  was  we  are 
quite  unable  to  say,  but  doubtless  those  persons  to  whom 
it  was  a  matter  of  concern  remember  what  happened. 
Personally,  we  cannot  abide  the  newspaper  tale  of  mys- 
tery, for,  to  our  mind,  the  better  it  is  (1.  e.,  the  more  com- 
pletely bewildering,  mind-torturing,  and  abnormal  it  is), 
the  worse  it  is.  To  take  sat:sfaction  in  the  perusal  of  such 
horrors  is  one  of  the  many  pleasures  of  bad  taste.  How- 
ever, any  person  who  prefers  to  read  "The  Mill  of  Silence" 
in  a  volume  decently  printed  on  decent  paper,  instead  of 
in  the  multi-colored,  variously-defiled  sheets  of  a  blanket 
supplement,  has  now  the  opportunity  to  gratify  his  prefer- 
ence.    May  sound  sleep  attend  him  ! 

When  Robert  Louis  Stevenson  died,  he  had  just  finished 
writing  a  story  entitled  "St.  Ives,  or  the  Adventures  of 
a  French  Prisoner  in  England."  The  serial  rights  of  the 
story  for  America  were  purchased  by  S.  S.  McClure,  and 
for  Great  Britain  by  W.  W.  Astor,  proprietor  of  the  Pall 
Mall  Magazine,  in  the  November,  1896,  issue  of  which  the 
publication  of  "St.  Ives  "  began.  As  the  Pall  Mall  Maga- 
zine, which  is  probably  the  handsomest  and  most  expen- 
sively gotten-up  periodical  (except,  perhaps,  one  or  two 
artistic  publications)  in  the  English  language,  has  an  ex- 
tensive circulation  in  the  United  States,  Mr.  McClure  in- 
tends to  try  to  get  an  injunction  against  the  further  pub- 
lication of  "St.  Ives." 

Mr.  Edgar  Fawcett  has  lately  (and  with  much  wisdom, 
as  we  think)  urged  young  and  pretty  women  to  wear  flow- 
ers, but  to  avoid  jewels,  especially  the  hard  and  brilliant 
diamonds  commonly  so  beloved  of  the  fair  sex:  mature 
women  he  recommends  to  wear  diamonds,  so  as  to  distract 
attention  from  their  faded  charms.  As  regards  apparel, 
Mr.  Fawcett  thinks  that  plain  women  gain  by  gorgeous 
raiment,  but  that  pretty  women  lose  by  it.  This  is  true 
enough,  but  where  are  the  women  who  will  confess  them- 
selves mature,  faded,  passies,  or  plain? 

Sir  Alfred  Milner,  the  newly-appointed  Governor  of  the 
most  difficult  dependency  of  the  British  Empire  for  an  ad- 
ministrator, is  one  of  the  many  brilliant  pupils  of  the  late 
Dr.  Jowett,  the  Master  of  Baliol  College,  Oxford.  As  an 
undergraduate,  Milner  of  Baliol  made  a  reputation  by  his 
splendid  speeches  at  the  debates  of  the  Oxford  Uoion  So- 
ciety, of  which,  as  were  W.  E.  Gladstone  and  the  late  Sir 
Stafford  Northcote  before  him,  he  was  President.  After 
hearing  him  speak  at  the  Union,  Mr.  Goschen  came  away 
saying  that  he  had  heard  "an  undergraduate  speaking 


I 


May  15.  1897. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


like  •statesman."  At  the  dinner  given  in  his  honor  in 
London  prior  to  his  departure  for  Cape  '  'olony,  there  were 
present  sixteen  former  IV  Ui  ion,  the  best 

known  of  them  being  H.  II.  Asquilh   and    the    Ban.  0.  N 
Curi.  1    under  eminent   teachers:  as 

Mr    Asquith  Slid  of  him,  he  studied  scholarship  and  meta- 
ler  Jowett  and  Creen;  the  art  of  writing  under 
John  Morloy.  he  was  introduced  to  official  life  by  Mr.  Gos- 
chen,  learnt    the   practice   of  administration  under   Lord 
Cromer,  and  the  discharge  of  the  delicate  and   responsible 
-  which  fall  to  the  permanent  head  of  a  great  depart- 
nu  nt  of  the  State  under  Mr    Balfour  and  Sir  William  II  a  r- 
Alfred  is  a  Liberal,    but  of  a  decidedly   uon- 
I  artisan  type:  he  is  too  thoughtful,  too  earnest,    and    too 
l» ighminded  to  care  for  party  politics.     In  no  other  coun- 
try than  (Jreat  Britain  could  a  man  of  Sir  Alfred's   tastes 
and  qualities  reach  eminent  public  position. 

The  following  interesting  item  is  culled  from  the  Court 
Journal:  "A  remarkable  circumstance  in  relation  to  the 
so-called  unlucky  number  thirteen  is  recalled  by  Lord  Rob- 
erts in  "Forty-one  Years  in  India."  On  January  1,  1853, 
thirteen  officer?,  including  himself,  messed  together  at 
Peshawu-,  and  so  far  from  any  of  them  coming  to  an  un- 
timely end  within  the  year,  eleven  years  afterwards  they 
were  all  alive,  despite  the  fact  that  nearly  the  whole  of  the 
party  had  taken  part  in  the  suppression  of  the  Mutiny  and 
tive  or  six  had  been  wounded.  Another  instance  is  the 
fact  that  >>  arisen  and  his  crew  of  twelve  have,  notwith- 
standing their  unpopular  number,  returned  safely  to  teach 
us  more  about  the  northern  regions  than  we  ever  knew 
before.  These  facts  should  of  themselves  be  sufficient  to 
knock  the  bottom  out  of  the  superstition  concerning  the 
fate  waiting  those  who  have  the  temerity  to  dine  in  par- 
ties of  thirteen,  and  iudeed  should  be  sufficient  to  promptly 
disband  the  Thirteen  Club  as  an  institution  that  has  no 
reason  for  its  existence." 

The  most  striking  feature  of  the  May  Traveler  is  a  full- 
length  portrait  by  Taber  of  that  winsome  and  winksome 
young  person,  Cissy  Fitzgerald.  There  is  also  a  fine  re- 
production of  a  photograph  of  the  Empire  State  Express 
in  motion  at  the  rate  of  about  sixty  miles  an  hour.  An 
article  on  the  Los  Angeles  Fiesta  by  J.  F.  J.  Archibald 
fills  two  pages,  and  a  story  by  Lillian  Ferguson  nearly 
two  more. 

DURING  the  session  of  the  present  Congress  a  bill  is 
to  be  brought  before  that  body  to  abolish  ticket  scalp- 
ing and  to  make  the  same  illegal.  In  several  of  our  States 
there  already  exists  a  similar  law,  but  it  is  more  or  less 
inoperative,  and  it  is  therefore  desired  to  make  a  national 
one.  The  business  of  ticket  scalping  in  its  incipiency  was 
undoubtedly  a  reputable,  as  well  as  a  needed  one,  when 
there  was  no  provision  made  by  the  railroads  for  redeem- 
ing unused  tickets,  but  all  railroads  now  promptly  redeem 
unused  tickets  or  portions  of  same.  This  being  a  fact, 
the  ticket-scalper  lives  principally  upon  stolen  tickets. 
George  H.  Daniels,  General  Passenger  Agent  of  the  New 
York  Central  and  Hudson  River  Railroad,  during  his  ar- 
gument before  the  Senate  Codes  Committee  recently,  laid 
upon  the  table  counterfeit  tickets  to  the  amount  of  $50,000, 
which  bad  been  taken  up  by  railroads  in  the  State  of  New 
York,  mostly  during  the  year  1896.  Over  two  million 
people  have  already  signed  petitions  favoring  this  bill,  and 
it  is  hoped  that  this  iniquitous  business,  which  a  Supreme 
Court  Judge  has  termed  a  "fruitful  source  of  crime,"  will 
be  entirely  eliminated. 

PICTURESQUE     SAN      FRANCISCO. 

THE  News  Letter  presents  its  readers  to-day  with  an 
interesting  view  of  the  bay,  with  Goat  Island  in  the 
middle  ground  and  the  Berkeley  hills  in  the  distance.  The 
shifting  scenes  on  the  bay  are  always  full  of  life,  and  our 
view  shows  the  shipping  and  water  front  of  one  of  the 
world's  great  commercial  marts. 


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There  has  been  considerable  activity  in 
The  Pine         the  Comstock  mining  market  during  the 

Street  Market,  past  week.  Favorable  official  reports 
on  the  Con.  Cal. -Virginia  mine  have 
served  to  build  up  business  in  connection  with  some  good 
fluctuations  in  the  price  of  these  shares.  All  leaks  having 
been  stopped  from  this  mine  by  a  change  of  men  employed 
in  the  lower  levels,  the  street  has  been  practically  left  at 
sea  in  regard  to  daily  conditions  of  the  new  development, 
and  this  is  another  influence  for  the  good  of  trade.  The 
usuaHaek  of  unanimity  is  of  course  noted  in  the  action  of 
the  other  managements  along  the  lode.  The  rise  at  one 
end  has  been  the  signal  to  throw  cold  water  at  the  other, 
leaving  one  mine  to  do  all  the  dragging.  Of  course,  if  the 
development  holds  out,  all  will  be  well,  and  the  bonanza 
mine  can  stand  the  strain.  If  not,  then  another  general 
falling  to  pieces  can  be  expected,  with  worse  conditions 
than  before.  The  public  will  get  a  stronger  feeling  of 
disgust  than  ever  over  a  dog  in-the-manger  policy  which 
is  only  too  fully  apparent,  no  matter  how  much  its  framers 
may  imagine  they  have  concealed  it,  and  another  nai!  will 
be  driven  into  the  coffin  of  mining  speculation  in  this  city. 
One  would  naturally  expect  that  all  the  different  manage- 
ments along  the  Comstock  lode  would  stand  in  at  a  lime 
like  this  and  help  the  market  along,  but  the  inclination  is 
evidently  the  other  way  for  reasons  which  can  only  be  ap- 
preciated by  people  acquainted  with  the  system  of  busi- 
ness on  the  old-fogy  Stock  Exchange  of  the  Universe. 
That  the  people  here  would  like  to  have  a  chance  to  specu- 
late cannot  be  denied,  but  it  seems  that  if  they  ever  do, 
the  new  growth  of  business  in  that  line  will  be  spontaneous 
and  natural,  free  from  any  cultivation  on  the  part  of  the 
very  men  who,  one  would  think,  are  the  most  interested  in 
the  event.  Chances  like  the  present  cannot  be  thrown 
idly  away,  and  the  folly  of  checking  the  growth  of  a  specu- 
lative movement  at  such  a  time  is  criminal.  All  that  can 
be  done  is  to  hope  for  the  best,  and  that  Con.  Cal.- Virginia 
will  open  out  into  ore  big  enough  to  stem  the  current  of 
all  opposition.  With  an  ore  body  will  come  public  sup- 
port and  a  stimulus  of  the  kind  will  be  apt  to  force  the 
laggirds  eventually  into  action,  for  self  protection  if  for 
nothing  else.  Work  has  been  started  up  again  in  the 
Nevada  Queen  mine  of  Tuscarora. 

Colorado  has  a  little  wonder  in  the  way 

Fortune   Wooed     of  a  mine  dedicated   to  God,    and   the 

by  Religionists,  superstitious  miners  in  the  vicinity  of 
its  location  on  Russel  Gulch  are  on  the 
qui  vice  for  future  developments.  The  ancient  Latins  and 
Greeks,  in  offering  libations  at  the  shrines  of  the  Deities 
presiding  over  the  undertaking  they  were  about  to  engage 
in  for  the  time  being,  were  not  any  more  religious  in  their 
intent  than  the  clerical  owners  of  the  Colorado  property, 
and  the  send-off  the  new  mine  got  was  an  eye-opener  to  the 
heathenish  or  infidel  resident  thereabouts.  A  poor  selec- 
tion has  been  made  in  the  name  of  this  new  bulwark  of 
Zion,  Bmi  Ton  smacking  a  little  too  much  of  the  irreverent 
class,  dwelling  in  shady  Bohemia  or  amid  the  revelers  of 
the  Latin  Quarter.  If  the  churches  stand  in  now,  as  will 
naturally  he  expected,  the  "cheerful  giver"  will  have 
abundant  opportunity  to  ante  up  for  working  expenses. 
As  might  be  expected  from  such  good  people  back  of  a 
good  enterprise  of  the  kind,  good  luck  will  provide  profits 
to  be  "set  aside  for  a  good  cause."  And  the  clerk  says 
Amen  ! 

London  still  seems  to  have  full  confidence 

Africa's  Shares  in  the  good  judgment  of  John  Hays  Ham- 
Picking  Up.  moud  as  a  mining  engineer.  Since  his 
return  from  Souch  Africa,  the  shares  of 
the  different  companies  working  there  have  strengthened 
up,  due,  according  to  the  financial  papers,  to  some  favor- 
able remarks  made  by  Hammond  in  an  iuterview  on  the 
prospects  for  deep  level  mining  on  the  Rand.  This,  too,  in 
spite  of  the  previous  failure  to  stimulate  them,  it  is  said, 
by  "various  rumors  concerning  political  events"  which 
were  circulated  in  the  hope  of  bulling  prices. 


It  is  a  source  of  pleasure  for  thejold-time 
Winning  Out  in     California  friends  of  Henry  Callahan  and 
Westralia  W.  A.  Irwin  to  note  the  continued  suc- 

cesses which  have  marked  their  career 
since  taking  up  their  residence  in  Australia.  Both  are 
rich  men  now,  with  the  self-gratification  of  knowing  that 
their  wealth  is  clue  entirely  to  their  own  brains  and  abil- 
ity. The  Sydney  Bulletin  has  just  published  some  very 
complimentary  notices  of  both  of  these  gentlemen  in  the 
mining  department  of  a  recent  issue.  Mr.  Irwin,  who  is 
now  manager  of  the  Associated  mines  at  Kalgoorlie, 
thought  better  of  a  ten-acre  strip  of  mining  ground  than 
the  Wentworth  Company  did,  and  bought  it  from  them, 
the  result  showing  that,  as  the  Californian  had  figured, 
the  ore  pitched  into  the  ground  he  acquired  much  above 
the  1,000  level.  This,  says  the  Bulletin,  is  "truly  a  nice 
state  of  things  for  the  Earl  of  Kilmorey  to  reflect  over. 
He  is  chairman  of  the  Wentworth  mines,  and  has  come  out 
to  see  them.  This  puts  a  feather  into  the  judgment  cap  of 
W.  A.  Irwin,  now  managing  the  associated  mines  at  Kal- 
goorlie. But,  at  the  same  time,  it  is  a  bit  of  a  staggerer 
for  the  present  company,  which  has  over  1,000  acres 
mostly  where  it  doesn't  want  them.  Another  strip  of  the 
ten  acres  of  the  Wentworth  estate  would  have  carried  the 
contract  down  another  1,000  feet,  and  then  there  would 
have  been  no  DArcy  mine.  At  the  Lake  View  Consols, 
Manager  Henry  Callahan  is  also  doing  big  work  according 
to  the  same  paper,  and  preparing  for  a  larger  output  of 
ore  than  ever.  In  all  respects  his  judgment,  it  is  said,  is 
being  fully  borne  out  by  the  results.  A  correspondent, 
addressing  the  News  Letter  on  the  success  of  Messrs! 
Callahan  &  Irwin,  and  the  glowing  opinions  expressed  of 
them  from  time  to  time  in  print,  says :  "If  there  were 
more  of  this  kind  of  California  mining  engineers  in  Austra- 
lia, there  would  be  relatively  just  as  good  results  obtained, 
due  to  both  experience  and  knowledge  of  the  different 
propositions  they  undertake  to  treat  or  to  work." 

Some  years  ago  a  number  of  Mint  offi- 
A  Maxican  cials  picked  up  a  prospect  hole  in  Mex- 
Bonanza  Mine,  ico,  which  was  very  favorably  reported 
upon  by  an  expert.  The  fact  that  em- 
ployees in  this  branch  of  the  Federal  Department  took 
shares  in  the  mine  was  the  signal  for  a  general  attack 
from  a  portion  of  the  local  press  always  on  the  lookout  for 
misconduct  on  the  part  of  officials,  and  some  even  went 
the  length  of  charging  jobbery  and  compulsion  upon  the 
part  of  the  Superintendent  himself.  The  sequel  to  the 
affair  has  been  such  as  to  make  many  outsiders  wish  they 
had  been  "  jobbed  "  to  the  same  tune,  as  the  shareholders 
are  now  receiving  about  as  much  in  dividends  as  they  get 
in  salary  from  the  Government.  .The  mine  has  turned  out 
to  be  even  better  than  was  predicted  for  it,  and  seems 
destined  to  exceed  even  the  most  sanguine  expectations. 
Some  waste  ore  shipped  from  the  property  during  the 
past  month,  averaged  somewhere  in  the  neighborhood  of 
$1100  per  ton  in  gold.  The  shares  of  the  Santa  Rosalia 
mine  could  command  a  high  premium  in  the  open  market 
just  now,  were  any  of  them  marketable. 

There  are  some  of  our  readers  in  this   city 

The  Burmah     interested  in  hearing  how  the  Burmah  ruby 

Ruby  Mines,      mines  are  opening  out.     A  meeting  of  the 

original  founders'  shares  has  just  been  held, 

at   which   the   chairman's   report   showed   a  satisfactory 

profit  on    the  working,  a   diyidend  being  suggested  at  a 

rate  of  25   per   cent   to   the   shareholders.     In  January, 

rubies  to  the  value  of  67,000   rupees  were  obtained,  and  in 

February  to   the,  value  of  70,000  rupees.     The  famine   in 

Upper  Burmah   and   the   plague  in  Rangoon  had  checked 

the  production,  but   the   prospects  were  considered   very 

bright.     Some   trouble   has    been  experienced  in  dealing 

with  the  founders'  shares,  which  it  was  decided  should  not 

be  declared   remunerative   until   the   company  had  a   net 

profit  of  upwards  of  £37,300  per  annum. 

The  Victorian  mining  industry  is   ably 
A  Victorian        handled   in    a    supplement   of   the   Mel- 
Mining  Review,     bourne  Leader,  under  the  direction  of 
Minister  of  Mines  Foster.     The  different 
gold   fields   are   taken   up  seriatim  and  treated  at  great 
space,   showing  the  leading  mines,  with   the  output  and 
prospects.     Victoria  still  holds  her  own  among  the   later 
gold  producing  sections  of  the  Australian  Continent. 


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SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


'3 


■  Hear  Ihel'rlrr '"    "Wb»l  ibe  devil  art  I  bout" 
'Ooethal  wlllpl.t  ibadtTll  Mr.wtlb  jou." 


Hir.H  ml,   who  aturally 

ictl  willi  a  prival  tl»'  next  world,  avers 

.1  junketing    every   night 
al  txxlies  at  y  reposing  in  their  ac- 

Tbe  Crieb  emphatically  denies  thai  liis 
soul  is  cavorting  among  the  angels  of  other  spheres,  the 
while  h«>  is  placidly  snoring  in  his  hunk  in  S.m  Francisco. 
hut  it  may  be  that  this  is  I  B  has   no  soul    to  pro- 

ject into  space.     Nocturnal  picnics  sans   the  formality  of 
id  fare  must  be  a  pleasurable  sort  of  excursion,  but 
the  CailB  fears  that  such  ghostly  pilgrimages  ore  not  for 
him.     Fre<  ir  sot.ls  are,  however,  to  be  expected. 

Naturally,  we  will  all  be  dead  heads  in  the  spiritual  world. 

F3T<  IRBOTNTON,  once  guardian  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  flock,  has  resigned  after  a  three-months' 
period  of  bitter  factional  strife  with  the  pew-holders,  some 
twenty  of  whom,  it  is  claimed,  want  to  engineer  the  re- 
ligious machinery  of  the  edifice  themselves,  and  decline  to 
recognize  the  authority  of  any  other  pebble  on  the  beach. 
The  Reverend  Boynton  says  he  resigns  in  the  interests  of 
Christ.  He  is  endowed  with  sense  in  thus  leaviug  his 
congregation  to  light  matters  out  among  themselves,  and 
is  certainly  a  shining  contrast  to  one  C.  O.  Brown,  who 
should  have  resigned  in  the  interests  of  Christ,  but  who 
preferred  to  hang  on  in  the  interests  of  Satan. 

FAIR  but  fractious  Evelyn  Ferry,  who  distinguished 
herself  once  upon  a  time  in  gay  Paree  by  biting  off  her 
husband's  nose  because  he  happened  to  object  to  such  a 
trifling  defection  as  her  marital  infidelity,  is  heard  from 
again  as  defendant  in  a  suit  brought  against  her  for  re- 
covery of  furniture,  the  lady  having  blossomed  out  as  a 
San  Francisco  lodging-house  keeper.  Considering  the 
litigant's  unsavory  reputation  and  proclivities  for  mayhem, 
there  were  more  reasons  than  one  for  those  pre- 
sent at  the  trial  in  Judge  Hunt's  court  to  hold  onto  their 
nasal  appendages. 

MOVEMENTS  are  on  foot  to  close  the  city  cemeteries. 
Not  yet,  gentlemen,  not  yet.  Graves  are  yawning 
for  local  prey  that  should  have  been  planted  long  ago. 
What  this  city  needs  is  an  increase  of  cemetery  facilities 
or  else  an  appropriation  for  a  nice  large  crematory,  where 
batches  of  defunct  miscreants  and  soulless  sinners  can  be 
roasted  properly.  It  might  damage  the  tombstone  trade, 
but  it  would  keep  out  Satan  wonderfully,  for  if  His 
Majesty  were  to  get  his  share  of  San  Francisco  patronage 
he  would  be  laid  up  with  nervous  prostration  for  the  next 
decade. 

¥B.  BRADBURY,  capitalist  and  champion  expector- 
,  ator  at  large,  is  again  in  the  cold  clutches  of  the 
law  for  making  a  public  nuisance  of  himself.  The  aged 
offender  is,  however,  a  public  benefactor  as  well,  for  by 
paying  a  five  dollars'  fiue  into  the  city  treasury  every  time 
he  boards  a  street-car,  the  municipal  revenue  will  materi- 
ally increase.  Similar  offenses  at  the  same  rates  on  the 
part  of  other  pigheaded  millionaires  are  respectfully 
solicited. 

BLANTHER'S  brides  are  popping  up  with  the  usual 
posthumous  celerity,  and  so  far  San  Francisco  has 
furnished  the  largest  number  of  his  supposed  spouses. 
This  is  indeed  a  happy  hunting-ground  for  would-be  widows. 
The  Town  Cbier  himself  is  beginning  to  fear  death,  lest 
his  unsullied  bachelor  name  be  dragged  in  the  postmortem 
matrimonial  mire. 

IT  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  recent  publication  of  a  poem  by 
Theodore  Durrant,  the  popular  young  murderer,  will 
not  encourage  ambitious  but  obscure  bards  to  follow  his 
example  in  order  to  get  their  effusions  printed.  As  the 
author  of  that  poem,  if  not  of  the  murders,  the  gallows 
yearns  for  him. 

IT'S  an  ill  wind  that  blows  nobody  any  good,    and  the  gas 
companies  must  be  making  a  good  thing  out  of   the   re- 
cent suicides. 


M  Lillian    Ashley,    whose   claims   against    Lucky 

Baldwin  as  Ibe  popper  of  innmmer's  blue  eyed  baby 
girl  have  been  exploited  in  court"./  noiitram,  says  that  the 
bogus  Count  von  Turkbetm  was  also  an  ardent  suitor  for 
1  it  somewhat  damaged  and  blase  affections,  but  that  she 
gave  him  the  glassy  rye.  It  would  add  another  interest 
ing  chapter  to  the  detective's  dizzy  history  if  the  Amazon- 
ian Mrs.  John  Martin,  who  when  last  heard  from  was 
painting  houses  instead  of  painting  the  town  red,  were  to 
come  forward  with  the  same  blushing  confession. 

CHRISTIANS  are  quarrelsome  folk.  The  Chieh  does 
not  hear  tales  of  dissension  from  the  other  places  of 
amusement.  One  objection  made  against  Mr.  Boynton, 
the  pastor  of  the  First,  Baptist  Church,  and  which  had  its 
weight  in  bowling  the  divine  gentleman  out,  is  that  he  is 
too  young.  Now.  this  seems  unreasonable,  for  youth  is  a 
fault  that  is  soon  outlived,  and  in  any  ease  it  isn't  Mr. 
Boyntnn's  own  fault  that  he  is  so  young — it's  the  faultof  his 
parents.  And  really,  retroactive  punishment  should  be 
barred.     The  future  Hades  is  enough. 

AN  Oaklander  named  White  is  attracting  considerable 
attention  because  he  has  erected  a  house  adjoining  the 
family  homestead  where  he  can  retire  in  solitude  when  the 
fusillade  of  flatirons,  rolling-pins  and  other  paraphei  nalia 
incident  to  domestic  disagreement  gets  too  exciting  for 
him  to  dodge  the  missiles.  The  idea  is  not,  however,  an 
original  one.  Many  a  San  Francisco  benedict  maintains 
I  one  or  more  establishments  between  which  he  divides 
I  his  time,  but  he  is  not  so  eager  as  the  Oakland  man  to  take 
the  public  into  his  confidence. 

BROTHER  Hayes  C.  French  and  Brother  William 
Rader,  both  of  them  salaried  toilers  in  the  Lord's 
vineyard,  are  at  loggerheads  about  Jonah  and  the  whale, 
the  former  being  ready  to  swallow  the  whale  and  its  cabin 
passenger,  while  the  latter  discredits  the  literal  applica- 
tion of  the  scriptural  story.  The  Crier,  being  a  peaceable 
devil  with  no  religious  prejudices  whatever,  advises  that 
these  excited  gentlemen  be  "heard  to  cease."  The  case 
should  be  promptly  dismissed,  owing  to  the  absence  of  the 
principal  witness. 

WILLTAM  G.  Bell,  an  aspirant  for  Senatorial  honors  at 
the  last  election,  appropriated  a  horse  and  buggy  be- 
longing to  License  Collector  Lees  the  other  day,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  enjoy  himself,  under  the  supposition  that  he  was 
playing  a  practical  joke  on  a  friend.  He  wound  up  by  be- 
ing arrested.  Of  course,  it  is  but  natural  that  a  Senator 
should  want  to  take  everything  in  sight,  but  the  startling 
part  of  this  transaction  is  the  law's  prompt  intervention. 

ftN  appeal  is  to  be  made  for  the  pardon  of  John  W.  Flood, 
ex-cashier  of  the  Dcnohoe  Bank,  who  appropriated 
$161,000,  and  is  now  serving  a  seventeen-years'  term  of 
imprisonment  in  consequence.  If  the  case  were  a  mere 
murder  one  could  better  understand  such  misplaced  sym- 
pathy, but  to  the  passionless  crime  of  embezzlement  no 
mercy  is  due.  As  Flood  is  reported  to  be  an  exemplary 
convict  he  has  evidently  found  his  proper  sphere. 

Jkfl  AYOR  PHELAN  is  to  be  commended  in  his  efforts  to 
J  I  obtain  better  fire  protection  for  patrons  of  the 
theatre,  but  the  good  work  of  protection  should  not  be 
confined  to  the  exits  and  entrances  of  playhouses.  What's 
the  matter  with  extending  the  work  of  reform  to  the  stage 
and  affording  the  public  protection  from  bad  acting? 

TONY  Hellman,  the  Bohemiau  Club  wag,  says  he  finds 
himself  so  much  sought  after  by  the  ladies  that  he 
seriously  contemplates  making  merchandise  of  his  ponu- 
larity  by  selling  his  conversation  at  so  much  an  hour.  Why 
don't  he  sell  his  jokes  by  the  pound  ?  They  would  fetch 
more. 

PASTOR  Gibson  yearns  for  companionship  and  declares 
that  he  does  not  care  to  live  alone.  It  will  be  re- 
membered that  Pastor  Brown,  now  exerting  his  demoral- 
izing influence  upon  the  susceptible  Chicagoese,  holds  to 
the  same  doctrine  that  it  is  not  good  for  man  to  be  alone. 

IT  is  said  that  Mr.  Stead  is  writing  a  sequel  to  his  "  If 
Christ  Came  to  Chicago,"  the  book  which  created  such 
a  sensation  three  years  ago;  it  is  entitled  "When  Dr. 
Brown  Came  to  Chicago,"  and  promises  to  be  even  more 
spicy  reading  than  the  former  famous  work. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  15,  1897. 


T1 

1         And  a  man  as  old  as  Be  feels. 

Perhaps ;  but  the  question  of  size  is  the  one 
With  which  this  short  homily  deals. 

For,  size  up  humanity's  hustling  hordes. 

From  the  Four  Hundred  down  to  the  cooks: 

How  seldom  a  man  is  as  big  as  he  feels. 

Or  a  woman  the  size  that  she  looks ! — Life. 

"Where  do  all  tbe  pins  go  to  ?"  said  the  girl  to  her  best 
beau,  when  the  talk  about  bicycles  had  lapsed  into  obnox- 
ious quietude.  "I'm  pretty  sure  I  know  where  a  million 
of  them  go,"  he  answered.  "Iudeed!  Why,  where?" 
she  asked,  with  a  start  of  surprise  that  made  him  with- 
draw his  arm  hastily  from  around  her  belt.  Gazing  rue- 
fully at  the  brand-new  scratches  on  his  wrist,  he  pointedly 
replied,  ''They  go  to  waist."  The  next  time  he  called  she 
wore  her  brother's  ulster. — Judge. 

"  It  is  unnecessary  for  me  to  dwell  longer  on  the  many 
virtues  of  the  deceased,"  said  the  Rev.  Dr.  de  Biker,  at 
the  close  of  the  solemn  services.  "You  all  know  the 
spleDdid  account  he  has  rendered  of  his  stewardship,  and 
he  always  rode  his  wheel  on  the  right-hand  side  of  the 
street." — Detroit  News. 

Choiiy — Beg  pawdon,  deah fellah — yawseem  to  be — aw — 
limping  this  mawniog,  doncherknow.  GrssiE — Yaas,  don- 
cherknow — I  was  courting  an — aw — young  lady  in  a  con- 
servatory lawst  evening,  when  her — aw — father  came  in 
and  gave  me  a  rare  old  plaunt,  doncherknow. — Judge. 

"Brothrr  Jim  has  the  bicycle  face,  Joe  has  the  bic3'cle 
back,  and  sister  Sue  has  the  bicycle  leg."  "Any  other 
bicycle  ailments  in  your  family?"  "Well,  papa  says  he 
has  the  bicycle  pocket,  and  its  badly  punctured." — Truth. 

Bighead — I  wonder  what  Cain's  curse  was?  You  remem- 
ber he  claimed  that  his  burden  was  greater  than  he  could 
bear.  Pertley— He  was  the  first  man  in  the  world  to 
have  a  mother-in-law. — Truth. 

"I  noticed  the  doctor's  carriage  at  your  door  yester- 
day afternoon.  Was  it  auything  serious?"  "Serious? 
It  is  absolutely  mournful — cries  all  the  time  it  is  awake." 
— Typographical  Journal. 

A  Hot  Springs  merchant,  who  is  a  baseball  enthusiast, 
hung  nine  dressed  chickens  out  in  front  of  his  store  the 
other  day,  and  labeled  them  thus  :  "A  picked  niDe." — Ar- 
kansaw  Thomas  Cat. 

May — I  wouldn't  break  my  heart  over  the  best  man  in 
the  world.  Chaperon— Certainly  not,  dear.  It  is  over 
the  worst  man  that  the  girls  break   their  hearts. — Truth. 

"  Marriages  are  made  in  heaven,"  remarked  the  observer 
of  men  and  things.  "  There  is  an  odor  about  matches  that 
suggests  where  they  are  made." — Detroit  Journal. 

Young  Squire — And  what,  John,  do  you  intend  doing,  to 
commemorate  Her  Majesty's  glorious  reign  ?  Old  Drunk 
— I  shall  try  to  keep  sober  for  a  week. — Judge. 

"My  pa's  goin'  into  the  chicken-raisin'  business,"  said 
Johnny.  "  He's  goin'  down  town  to-morrer  to  buy  a  incu- 
bus to  put  the  eggs  in." — Puck. 

Teacher— How  old  are  you,  Willie  ?  Willie — I'm  five 
at  home,  six  at  school,  and  four  in  the  cars. — Washington 
Times. 

Grace— Harold,  why  did  pa  call  that  Mr.  Blowhard  a 
liar?     Harold — 'Cause  he's  smaller  than  pa. — Punch. 

Tourist — How  did  the  gentleman  come  to  his  death?  Ari- 
zona Pete — He  didn't  come;  we  went  after  him. — Ex. 

An  III  Wind — That  which  escapes  the  puncture. — Ex. 

S.  Strozynski.  24  Geary  street.  Expert  European  hairdressers  and 
cutters  employed;  no  appren  ices;  prices  equal  toothers.  Artistic  hair 
work  and  shampooing  by  a  modern  process.    Telephone  Main  5697. 


CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 


RESTAURANTS. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 
rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantlni,  Proprietor. 

cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 
Tel.  489.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Brun. 


Poodle    Dog    Restaurant,  S.  E. 
dining  and  banquet  rooms, 


DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 


MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105 O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.   F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 


CANDIES. 
Maillard's  Chocolates  In  y2  and  Mb  boxes. 


Roberts1,  Polk  and  Bush. 


LADIES'    HAIR    DRESSING. 

Hermann  Schwarze    (known    as    Hermann    at  Strozynski's)  has  opened 
Ladies' Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  225  Powell  St.    Telephone  Main  5820 


BANKING. 


The  Pbess  Clipping  Bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics ,  business 
and  personal. 


Bank  of  British  Columbia. 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush  and  "Sansome  Sts. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up  83.000.00 

Reserve  Fund $  500  000 

HEADOFFICE 60  Lombard  Street, London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C  : 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transac  ts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  Its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants' Bank  of  Canada;  Chicago— First  National  Bank; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan — Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  or 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies) — Colonial  Bank. 

San  FranGisGO  Savings  Union. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 824,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  andSurplus 1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E,  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee.G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.    No  charge  Is  made  for 

f (ass-book  or  entrance  fee.    Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  even- 
ngs,6:30  to  8. 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

No.  526  California  Street.  San  Francisco 
Guarantee  capital  and  surplus.... $2 040.201  66 
Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash..   1  000  000  00 

Deposi's  December  31,  )896 27,7:0  247  45 

OFFICERS:  Pres'dent,  B  A  Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Presidem,  H  Horsimau;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cas-hier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary.  George  Toumy;  Assist- 
ant Secretary.  A.  H.  Muller:  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann,  Ign.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt 

Wells  Fargo  &  Go.'s  Bank. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 

John  J.  Valentine President 

Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.    Wadsworth Cashier 

F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 86,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington.  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evano. 

Securitu  Savings  Bank. 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 

LOANS  MADE. 
DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O.  D  Baldwin  E  J.  McCutchen 

Adam  Grant  W.S.Jones  J.B.Lincoln 


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SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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DEATH    OF    WILLIAM    B.    CARR. 

THK  detth  of  William    B    '    irr,   which   cK-curroil  at  his 
•  nee  in  this  rrfav   ni^ht.    bj 

>l  asphyxiation,    came   .1-   .1  profound   shock    to   the 
thou* ..  sol  the  deceased,   and   a  heavy 

and  abiding  sorrow  to  his  family        Saturday  evening  Mr. 

retired  in  excellent  health  and  untroubled  spirits  .  on 
the  following  morning  his  wife,  entering bbeleepiog  apart- 
found  her   husband  dead   in  his   bed,  legal   papers 

i)  about  him,  and  the  room  charged   with  gas.  wmVh 

was  escaping   from   an   accidentally   half-opened  burner. 

ear  that  Mr.  Carrbad  grown  drowsy,  and 

in  extinguishing  the  light  had  unconsciously  half  turned  it 

on. 

Few  men  were  better  known   in   California   financial  or 

al  circles  than  William  I!  Carr.  He  had  long  been 
a  resilient  of  this  State,  having  arrived  here  in  1851,  and 
had  from  poverty  and  obscurity  won  his  way  to  wealth 
and  great  influence  in  the  shaping  of  public  affairs.  He 
ited  with  J.  B.  Haggin  and  Lloyd  Tevis  in  heavy 
land  and  other  investments,  from  which  he  amassed  a  large 
fortune.  He  was  equally  successful  in  political  as  in  finan- 
cial matters:  and  for  many  years  was  an  important  factor 
in  the  Republican  party  of  the  State.  He  was  sixty-seven 
years  old.  having  been  born  in  Clark  County,  Indiana, 
November  16,  1830,  Mr.  Carr  had  a  very  wide  acquain- 
tance throughout  the  State,  and  numbered  his  warm,  per- 
sonal friends  by  the  hundreds.  He  was  a  true  man,  faith- 
ful in  all  his  obligations,  warm  in  his  friendships,  earnest, 
aggressive  and  forceful  in  all  his  undertakings.  He  leaves 
a  widow  and  three  children — George  6.  and  Ralph  M.  Carr 
of  this  city,  and  Mrs.  Mary  M.  Leeb  of  Louisville,  Ky. 
The  funeral  services  were  held  at  the  family  residence, 
Broadway  and  Fillmore  street,  on  last  Tuesday  afternoon. 

ANTIQUITY     OF     CHESS. 

THE  latest  excavations  on  the  pyramid  field  of  Sakkara 
have  led  to  an  extraordinary  discovery  as  to  the  origin 
of  chess.  Hitherto  it  was  assumed  that  the  ancient  In- 
dians had  invented  the  game,  that  it  was  introduced  from 
India  to  Persia  in  the  sixth  century,  and  that  by  the 
Arabs,  and  in  consequence  of  the  Crusades  it  spread  from 
east  to  west.  This  theory  was  substantiated  by  the  fact 
that  an  Indian,  Persian,  and  Arabic  influence  is  traceable 
in  the  character  of  the  figures  at  present  used,  and  in  some 
of  the  words  connected  with  the  game,  such  as  "shah" 
(check)  and  "matt"  (mate).  Now,  north  of  the  pyramid 
of  King  Tetu  or  Teti,  two  grave  chambers  have  been  dis- 
covered, which  were  erected  for  two  high  officials  of  that 
ruler.  Their  names  were  Kakin  and  Mernker,  called  Mera. 
The  grave-chamber  ("mastaba")  of  the  former,  consisted 
of  five  rooms,  says  the  British  Chess  Magazine,  built  up 
with  limestone.  Its  walls  are  covered  with  exceedingly 
well-preserved  bas-reliefs  and  pictures  representing  vari- 
ous scenes.  The  other  grave-chamber,  that  of  Mera,  is 
the  most  valuable.  Up  to  now  no  fewer  than  twenty-seven 
halls  and  corridors  have  been  uncovered.  There  are  beau- 
tiful grave-columns;  in  the  chief  room  there  is  in  a  niche 
a  tinted  statue  of  the  departed,  about  seven  feet  high, 
with  a  sacrificial  table  of  alabaster  before  it.  Among  the 
many  wall-paintings  in  this  and  other  rooms,  hunting  and 
fishing  scenes,  a  group  of  female  mourners,  the  three  sea- 
sons, Mera  and  his  sons,  holding  each  other  by  the  hand, 
and  Mera  playing  chess,  are  to  be  seen.  King  Tetu  be- 
longed to  the  sixth  dynasty,  and  his  reign  was  assigned  by 
Professor  Lepsius  to  about  the  year  2700  b.  c.  Professor 
Brugsch,  correcting  this  chronology,  puts  it  back  to  still 
greater  antiquity,  namely  to  the  year  3300  B.  c,  so  that 
chess  would  have  been  known  in  the  once  mysterious  land 
of  Misraim  something  like  5200  years  ago. 

The  Overland   Limited, 

ONLY  Z%   DAYS  TO  CHICAGO.  i%   DAY8  TO  NEW  YORK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Doable  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  8an  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


BANKING. 


Bank  of  California,  San  Frandsco. 

Capital  13,000,000  00 

Surplus    and    Undivided 

Profit!    (October  1.  IfiWt..     3.158,120  70 

WILLIAM  ALVORD President  I  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP.  .Vtce-Pres't 

ALLEN  M.CLAY Secretary     THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Prentiss  Smith.  ...Ass't  Cashier  1 1.  P.  Moui/ton 2d  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laldlaw  &  Co.;  the  Bank  or  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  Bank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sods;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Rothschild  Freres;  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— 
Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Australia  and  New  Zealand— Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China,  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Lotus—  Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Chrlstlania,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy. 

California  Sale  Deposit  and  Trust  Company. 

Cor.  California  and  Montgomery  Sts. 

Capital  Fully  Paid $1,000,000 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  Interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity.  Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  'o  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  and  valuab'es  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  Fry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickersham.  Jncob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R  B.  Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry.  A,  D.  Sharon  and  J    Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams,  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry.  Second  Vice-President;  J.  Lulzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.  Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Eooih  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

33  Post    Street,   below   Kearny, 
Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000 

Paid-Up  Capital $  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John  A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Granc. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY.  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co. ,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    When  opening  accounts  send  signatute. 

London,  Paris  and  American  Bank,  Limited. 

N.W.  Cor.  Sansome  &  Sutter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital 12,600.000 

Paid  Up  Capital «2,ouo.ikio 

Reserve  Fund I    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Ageney  of  the    London,  Paris,  and  American 

Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.    Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 

&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 

world.    Commercial  and  Travelers1  Credits  Issued. 


SIG.  GREENEBADM)  M..„„. 
C.  ALTSCHUL  | Managers. 


The  flnoJo-Galifornian  Bank,  Limited. 

Capital  authorized 16,000,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000 

Paid    Dp 1,600,000 

Reserve    Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pike  and  Sansome  Sts 

Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars.  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills  'or  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  IG" 

P. 


Dans  money,   buys   and  sells  exchat 
IGN.  STEINHART     1  Mana„r8 
P.  N.  LILJENTHAL  f  Managers 


Grocker-Woolworth  National  Bank  of  S.  F. 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery, 
and  Post  Streets. 

Paid-Dp  Capital tl.000,000 

WM.  H.CROCKER..  President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond.  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

The  Sather  Banking  Company. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 

Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

Capital 11,000,000 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolfe.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E  G.  Lukens,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil- 
ler Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J. P.  Morgan&Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
ional  Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  C» 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  15,  1897. 


(fit    Q  «?«* 


DEAR  EDITH:— No  doubt  you  have  observed  that 
ready  made  costumes  of  wash  materials  are  just  now 
leading  features.  An  opening  of  this  style  of  costume  is 
rather  an  unusual  event,  but  at  one  of  recent  date  were 
shown  some  smart  designs  in  new  cotton  and  linen  fabrics, 
including  such  novelties  as  the  linen  and  cotten  and  cotton 
grenadines,  the  canvas  cloths,  and  foulard  lawns,  batistes, 
organdies,  dimities  and  linens.  Tailored  outing  suits  and 
separate  skirts  in  pique,  cotton  tweeds,  crash,  denim  and 
duck  are  now  chief  lines  of  interest. 

Their  severe  simplicity  is  in  sharp  contrast  with  the 
elaborate  blouse  waist  and  trimmed  skirt  of  the  cloth  or 
wool  tailor  suit,  but  they  must  be  even  more  carefully  cut 
and  fitted.  The  skirts  measure  from  four  to  live  yards  in 
width  and  have  the  front  breadths  narrow  at  the  top  and 
broad  at  the  foot.  When  possible  the  circular  side 
breadths  are  fitted  without  darts,  and  when  darts  are 
necessary  they  are  made  to  show  very  little  by  careful 
cutting  and  pressing  of  the  seams  on  the  inside.  The 
skirts  are  Dnished  with  a  deep  hem,  with  no  lining  or 
stiffening.  The  Empire,  Eton  or  bolero  jackets  are  all 
popular  for  the  wash  material  outing  suit.  The  short 
blazer  is  one  of  the  most  approved  styles,  while  the  Eng- 
lish mess  jacket  is  an  extreme,  the  least  appropriate  of 
all.  The  material  for  a  wash  suit  should  be  shrunk  before 
making  up,  otherwise  the  first  washing  will  render  it  untit 
to  wear.  A  dark  blue  denim  suit  will  be  four,d  both  smart 
and  seiviceable  for  one  expecting  to  spend  the  summer  in 
the  country. 

Cotton  canvas  cloths  can  be  purchased  in  an  almost  end- 
less variety  of  tints  and  colors  by  those  who  desire  to  have 
such  suits  made  by  the  home  dressmaker.  Tan,  blue  and 
red  are  suited  for  these  simple  costumes,  also  the  designs 
in  blue,  striped  with  narrow  white  lines.  All  kinds  of 
braiding  show  to  advantage  upon  canvas  cloth,  although 
toilets  of  this  fabric  will  not  be  so  much  adorned  with 
braid  as  dresses  made  of  denim. 

Embroidered  muslins  and  linens  in  dress  patterns  are 
very  effective  and  are  not  so  expensive,  when  you  remem- 
ber that  they  require  no  trimming.  For  the  most  part 
they  are  made  over  colored  silk  slips  which  throw  the  em- 
broidery pattern  into  strong  relief.  Full  and  fluffy  looking 
waists  are  made  up  with  ribbon  belts  and  stocks.  Lawn 
is  another  cotton  fabric  which  is  popular  for  youthful 
gowns.  One  of  pale  pink  is  made  with  a  skirt  trimmed 
with  numerous  rows  of  insertion.  The  waist  has  the 
fronts  cross  each  other  in  surplice  fashion,  leaving  a 
pretty  modest  V  at  neck  which  can  be  filled  in  with  lace 
or  worn  open.  A  smart  white  lawn  waist  is  trimmed  with 
band  of  insertion  and  has  a  double  ruffle  of  Valenciennes 
down  the  front. 

Irish  point  and  guipure  are  favored  laces  for  these  wash 
dresses.  Ruffles  edged  with  narrow  Valenciennes  are  al- 
ways dainty  and  pretty.  In  Swiss  muslin  embroidery 
there  are  many  new  styles.  Linen  batiste  embroidery  is 
very  beautiful  aud  much  worn. 

It  is  generally  conceded,  except  in  midsummer,  that  the 
best  dressed  woman  is  the  one  in  a  plain  tailor-made  gown, 
but  the  productions  of  this  season  are  not  confined  to  the 
simple  coat  and  skirt  models.  The  English  women  are  es- 
pecially addicted  to  the  severe  style  in  tailor-built  gowns, 
but  the  French  woman's  tailor  dress  is  a  thing  of  beauty, 
embracing  every  opportunity  for  decoration.  One  strik- 
ing example  is  a  green  cloth  dress  with  a  yellow  and 
green  brocaded  silk  vest,  a  cloth  bolero  embroidered  all 
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SMED  v    Zealand,    has   been 

Ifton  by  the  (Jovernment   on  bus 

.nt      The  Colonel  will  be 
wife  ami  daughter. 
I.    I.    nromwell,   of   tin-   Milwaukee   Mechanics',  is 


Major  D.  E.  Miles,  of  the  Ijondon  and  Lancashire,  who 
has  I-  Iwich    Islands   during    the  past 

month,  is  expected  home  next  week. 

The  entrance  of  the  Home,  of  New  York,  to  the  Hoard 
of  I'oderwriters.  cements  that  body  and  guarantees  its 
permanence  as  an  organization. 

T.  M.  Morgan,  of  Oregon,  la  acting  as  the  Pacific  Coast 
manager  of  the  Preferred  Accident   Insurance  Company, 
pending  the  appointment  of   a  permanent  successor  to  E. 
deceased. 

Russell  R.  Osburn,  of  the  Pennsylvania  Kire,  has  re- 
turned from  a  months  visit  to  the  North. 

The  Guarantors'  Insurance  Company  is  thinking  of  es- 
tablishing a  Coast  agency,  and  there  are  many  applicants 
for  the  position  of  manager. 

The  poor  example  set  by  the  Aachen  and  Munich  in 
constituting  a  tirm  of  brokers  United  States  managers, 
has  been  followed  by  the  Alliance  of  London,  Weed  & 
Kennedy  having  secured  the  management  of  the  latter 
company  for  all  territory  East  of  this  department. 

The  old  Alliance  building,  on  California  street,  has  been 
torn  down,  and  will  be  replaced  by  a  new  five-story  busi- 
ness block,  which  the  Alliance  Insurance  Company  will 
occupy  jointly  with  the  Commercial  Union. 

The  regular  meeting  of  the  San  Francisco  Life  Under- 
writers' Association  was  held  on  May  14tb.  A  banquet 
will  be  given  by  the  Association  on  June  11th  next. 

Those  companies  remaining  outside  of  the  Compact  are 
pretty  generally  adhering  to  the  rates  established  by 
those  working  under  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the 
majority. 

The  American  Protective  Accident  Association  has  be- 
gun operations  on  this  Coast,  with  headquarters  at  401 
California  street. 

A  British  manufacturer  is  now  giving  to  each  purchaser 
of  a  bicycle  made  by  him  an  insurance  policy  against  death 
or  disablement  while  using  the  machine,  or  against  loss  of 
the  same  by  theft  or  fire. 

The  Equitable  Aid  Union,  of  Columbus,  Penn.,  has  gone 
by  the  board  with  heavy  liabilities  and  no  assets.  There 
are  about  six  hundred  members  in  this  State. 

Mrs.  Clara  Case,  editor  and  publisher  of  the  Insurance 
Sun,  delivered  an  able  address  before  the  Convention  of 
Homiropathic  Physicians,  held  last  week  in  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Henry  J.  Reinmund  has  retired  from  the  Presi- 
dency of  the  Security  Mutual  Life  of  New  York.  The 
Security  is  authorized  to  do  business  in  California,  but  has 
no  representative  at  present. 

Charles  C.  Little,  Vice  President  and  Secretary  of  the 
PbtL-nix  Insurance  Company,  is  dead. 

The  San  Francisco  premiums  reported  to  the  Fire 
Patrol  for  the  first  quarter  of  1897,  amounted  to  $310,697, 
nearly  eighty  thousand  less  than  during  the  corresponding 
period  of  last  year. 

President  Irving,  cf  the  Fire  Association  of  Philadelphia, 
was  in  this  city  last  week. 

The  fire  chiefs  will  meet  in  National  Convention  at  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  next  August. 

A  State  Association  has  been  organized  among  the  local 
agents  of  Colorado. 

There  is  a  law  in  this  State  forbidding  the  insurance  of 
State  buildings. 

The  semi-centennial  of  the  Penn  Mutual  Life  will  be  cele- 
brated on  the  25th  of  this  month. 

The  Denver  agency  of  the  English-American  has  been 
placed  with  the  Security  Agency  Company. 

A  uniform  rate  of  4  per  cent,  has  been  established  by 
the  Compact  on  growing  grain. 

A    Good    Child 
is  usually  healthy,  and  both   conditions  are  developed  by  use  of 
proper  food.    The  Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  is  the 
best  infant's  food ;  so  easily  prepared  that  improper  feeding  is  in- 
excusable and  unnecessary. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO, 

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INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OP  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


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INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),   OP  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 


SOLID    SECURITY. 


OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 


CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager.  489  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fire  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  1795*. 

Insurance    Company    of  North   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  PENN. 

Paid-up  Capital (3,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,022,010 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000,000 

Assets 3,192,001 .  69 

Surplus  to  Polloy  Holders 1,506,409.41 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD    &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON   Established  im 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON    NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  1799 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.,  LIMITED, 

OF    LIVERPOOL. 

Capital 16,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents. 

No.  316  California  st.,  S.  F 

THE  THURINGIA  INSURANCE  COMPANY. 

Of  ERFIEST,  GERMANY. 
Capital.  $2,250,000        Assets.  $10,984,248. 
Pacific  Coast  Department:  2:4-208  SANSOME  ST.,  S.  F. 

VOSS.  CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 

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and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  State? . 
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SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  15,  1897. 


IT  is  utterly  impossible  for  James  C.  Adams  to  be  any- 
thing but  agreeable,  and  tbe  handsome  young  attorney 
is  locally  famous  for  his  polite  good  humor.  As  he  was  re- 
turning a  few  days  ago  to  his  Oakland  residence,  his 
courteous  nature  received  a  severe  shock,  which  some- 
what ruffled  his  proverbially  sweet  temper.  At  the  ferry 
waiting-room  he  encountered  a  heavily-laden  woman, 
shabbily  dressed,  carrying  a  dozen  parcels  of  varying 
shapes  and  sizes,  her  burdens  not  lessened  by  the  fat  baby 
who  was  the  culminating  point  to  her  mountain  of  pack- 
ages.    Jim  Adams  instinctively  went  to  her  rescue. 

"Can  I  carry  some  of  your  parcels,  madam?"  he  asked, 
with  a  bow,  and  a  suggestion  of  his  engaging  smile. 

"Yes,  sir,  you  can,"  promptly  replied  the  woman,  and, 
without  more  ado,  she  thrust  into  his  astonished  arms  a 
large  package  of  infant.  "I  can  manage  the  rest,"  she 
added  reassuringly,  as  she  again  gathered  up  her  paper 
bundles  and  led  the  way  to  the  boat. 

The  situation  was  decidedly  embarrassing  for  Jim,  and 
his  task  was  not  lightened  by  some  considerate  acquaint- 
ances, who  had  witnessed  the  episode,  and  who  followed 
the  apparently  domestic  procession,  with  personal  com- 
ments, very  audibly  expressed. 

"How  young  to  be  a  father,"  said  one. 

"But  doesn't  the  kid  look  like  him?"  remarked  another. 

"He  is  a  nice  chap,  making  his  wife  carry  all  the  heavy 
parcels,  while  he  amuses  himself  with  the  child,"  was  the 
sarcastic  comment  of  Adams'  younger  brother. 

"Dresses  quite  like  a  gentleman,  too,  and  lets  his  poor 
wife  wear  any  old  thing,"  added  his  particular  chum,  in 
simulated  disgust.  "I  suppose  he  makes  her  support 
him,  too!" 

Strange  to  say,  Jim's  sunny  disposition  was  not  perma- 
nently soured,  but  since  that  unhappy  experience,  he  ig- 
nores all  the  other  passengers  on  his  ferry  trips,  and  now 
devotes  his   attention    to    literature    with   an  eagerness 

which  is  almost  feverish. 

*  *  * 

When  Jim  Hallock  decided  to  escape  the  heat  last  Sat- 
urday by  a  retreat  to  the  country,  at  the  same  time 
accomplishing  a  visit  to  his  suburban  relatives,  he  was 
careful  not  to  go  unfortified,  and  his  ammunition  included 
a  bottle  of  fine,  ten-year-old  Holland  gin.  With  such  an 
ambitious  thermometer  it  was  not  necessary  to  transport 
a  very  extensive  wardrobe  about  the  country,  so  all  tbe 
baggage  Hallock  took  with  him  was  a  small  leather 
satchel,  in  which  he  placed  a  suit  of  pajamas,  carefully 
rolled  around  tbe  bottle  containing  the  precious  elixir. 
He  had  neither  occasion  nor  opportunity  to  open  his  prize 
package  until  he  retired  for  the  night.  When  he  unrolled 
the  pajamas,  what  was  his  surprise  and  grief  to  discover 
that  tbe  bottle  had  been  unaccountably  broken,  its  precious 
contents  spilled,  and  that  a  decided  odor  of  gin  pervaded 
the  pajamas,  which  had  been  saturated  with  the  liquor. 
He  needed  some  garment  to  sleep  in,  and  nothing  else  be- 
ing available,  he  wrapped  himself  up  in  the  intoxicated 
pajamas.  The  night  was  warm,  Hallock  was  restless  and 
rolled  about  in  his  bed  a  good  deal.  When  he  tried  to 
arise  m  the  morning,  he  found  that  he  was  decidedly  un- 
steady, and  his  efforts  to  navigate  his  apartment  were  not 
exactly  successful.  He  says  it  was  twenty-four  hours  be- 
fore he  was  himself  again.  The  pajamas  had  been  the 
cause  of  his  downfall.     He  had  acquired  it   altogether  by 

absorption. 

#  #  # 

From  the  inmost  recesses  of  the  luxurious  Concordia 
club  comes  the  champion  hard  luck  story  of  the  season. 
Hoping  that  the  wager  would  operate  in  the  nature  of  a 
fetich,  Jonas  Erlanger  bet  Moses  Blum  one  hundred  dollars 
that  it  would  rain  in  San  Francisco  during  the  week  ending 
at  midnight  Monday,  the  authority  to  be  the  Weather 
Bureau  official.  It  was  a  dry  week,  and  on  the  last  day 
of  the  seven,  Jonas  had  about  given   up  hope  of  receiving 


five  big  twenties  from  Blum.  In  the  evening,  he  sauntered 
over  to  the  Concordia  Club,  where  he  mentioned  the  wager, 
and  received  the  condolences  of  his  friends.  As  they  sat 
talking,  Nat  Gerson  started  up. 

"Why,  that  sounds  like  the  patter  of  rain  drops  now," 
he  said. 

There  was  a  rush  for  the  windows,  where  a  slight 
drizzle  could  be  discerned  sufficient  to  be  denominated  a 
trace,  and  enough  to  win  a  hundred. 

"Saved,  by  Jupiter!"  exclaimed  Erlanger,  in  accents  of 
thanksgiving.  "I  was  afraid  I  was  a  goner.  But  won't 
Blum  swear?     He  thought  he  was  a  sure  winner. 

"Well,  I  suppose  we  crack  a  bottle  with  you,  Jonas,  on 
your  luck,"  suggested  Mose  Adler. 

"A  bottle?"  repeated  Erlanger,  scornfully. — he  is  the 
prince  of  entertainers.  "Not  a  bottle.  We'll  have 
twenty  bottles!"  and  they  did. 

After  he  had  settled  for  the  wine  cards,  there  was  still 
a  small  balance  left  of  the  wager  and  early  next  morning 
Jonas  hunted  up  Blum,  and  extended  his  palm. 

"Well,  you're  a  promising  youth!"  ejaculated  Blum. 
"I'll  collect  that  bet  myself.     You  are  the  loser,  not  I." 

"Not  at  all,"  persisted  Erlanger.  "We  all  saw  the 
rain  up  at  the  club.     A  dozen  fellows  can  prove  it." 

"Ah,  but  that  was  on  Van  Ness  avenue,"  replied  Blum. 
"There  was  no  rain  at  the  Mills  Building.  I  was  in  the 
Weather  Bureau  till  twelve." 

Bain  Secretary  Hammon  upheld  Blum's  position  and  so 
Jonas  paid  up,  without  a  squeal.  But  his  friends  in  the 
Concordia  Club  thiok  it  is  pretty  hard  lines  to  be  buncoed 
by  a  rain  cloud  like  that. 

*  *  * 

After  a  pleasant  sojourn  with  his  friends  by  the  Golden 
Gate,  Chase  Osborn,  of  New  York,  decided  to  take  the 
Alaska  trip  before  returning  home.  He  engaged  passage 
on  the  north-bound  steamer  Walla  Walla,  and  shortly  be- 
fore the  vessel  sailed,  he  visited  the  steamship  office  to 
purchase  his  ticket.  He  enquired  the  amount  due,  and 
carelessly  drawing  his  check  for  the  required  sum,  ten- 
dered the  paper  to  the  agent.  Now  the  clerks  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  Steamship  Company  know  little  about  New 
York  people,  and  absolutely  nothing  about  Chase  Osborn 
— at  least  that  was  their  mental  condition  on  Thursday, 
but  they  are  better  informed  now.  Osborn  considered 
their  ignorance  regarding  him  as  a  personal  reflection 
necessitating  resentment,  and  he  proceeded  to  furnish  the 
reproof  by  attempting  to  clean  out  the  office.  Before  the 
wreck  of  the  place  was  absolute,  Osborn  was  persuaded 
that  only  current  coin  was  acceptable  in  that  office,  and 
as  he  returned  with  the  cash  half  an  hour  later,  his  apparel 
seriously  disarranged,  the  clerks  were  carrying  back  the 
shattered  steel  safe  from  the  gutter,  into  which  it  had 
been  cast  by  the  infuriated  visitor. 

*  *  * 

The  uncomfortable  habit  of  some  auctioneers  who  take 
advantage  of  a  removal  to  rent  temporarily  the  vacated 
house  and  therein  hold  a  sale  of  furniture,  "as  good  as 
new,"  has  frequently  been  a  source  of  intense  annoyance 
to  people  who  have  had  occasion  to  change  their  residence. 
The  name  of  the  late  occupant  is  generally  mentioned  in 
the  auctioneer's  advertising  announcement,  and  purchasers 
suppose  that  the  frayed  and  tarnished  ornaments,  musty 
and  tattered  carpets,  and  rickety  furniture,  were  actually 
used  by  the  unfortunate  ex-householder.  The  friends  of 
Dr.  W.  J.  Younger  are  indignant,  because  since  the  de- 
parture of  the  fashionable  dentist,  they  say  that  auctions 
of  his  alleged  belongings  have  been  held  periodically.  No 
less  than  six  different  sets  of  villainous  old  furnishings 
have  been  palmed  off  as  Younger's  by  thrifty  wielders  of 
the  hammer,  with  leather  lungs  and  impenetrable  con- 
sciences. 

"No  wonder  he  wanted  to  get  rid  of  such  traps,"  say 
those  who  habitually  follow  the  waving  of  the  red  flag. 

*  #  * 

Fun  abounds  when  Howard  Taylor,  the  Olympic  Club 
leader,  and  Aleck  Rosborougb,  put  on  their  war  paint  and 
make  their  bows  as  christy  minstrels.  The  other  night 
one  of  their  efforts  was  received  with  loud  laughter,  so  out 
of  proportion  to  the  effort  it  inspired,  that  the  minstrels 
were  non-plussed  for  the  nonce.  During  a  curtain  in- 
terval, Taylor  appeared  alone  and  told  a  long  story  full  of 


SAN    IRAN-CISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


ig 


.ml   local   allusions,    about  a  man,    who,  riding  on  a 

.mazo'l   that    the   conductor   should  l(COW 

ally  all  hi-  whenever  be  called 

at  the  door,   "'.  on,  a 

uould  alijjht.    The  yarn  was  received  with  good 

natur.  e    by    the    audience,    but    when,  later  on, 

i-ared  in  a    recitative   solo,    and   told  the 

rv.  with  variai  slight  enough  to  make 

ly  the  more  marked,    his    auditor>   were  6 

with  uncontrollable  convulsions.     The  audience  anticipated 

each  pun  and  when    it    came,    greeted    it    uproariously. 

rough   at   first   bowed    his    acknowledgments   with 

much  gratification,  but  finally  the  audience  got  away  with 

him.  and  he  was   obliged    to   retire   before   he  reached  his 

climax.     When   notes    were   compared   behind  the  scenes 

and  Taylor  and  Rosborougta  each  found  that  the  other  had 

he  property  story,    there    were   mutual  accusations 

en  thunder.     Their  minstrel  repertoire  is  at  present 

lit  an  anecdote. 

*  *  * 

Bast  the   scene  of  many  strange  spectacles, 

but  its  frequenters  have  seldom  seen  anything  more  odd 
than  the  antics  of  a  band  of  burros,  landed  on  the  wharf 
by  the  Stockton  boat  yesterday.  There  were  two  score 
of  these  wi  d  asses,  and  they  had  no  sooner  reached  East 
street  than  they  were  greeted  by  the  braying  welcome  of 
a  passing  team  of  the  same  species.  At  the  first  sound  of 
the  resonant  haw-hee-haw  of  the  domesticated  mules,  the 
long  ears  of  the  entire  drove  were  uplifted  simultaneously, 
and  all  forty  of  them  trotted  off  in  brisk  pursuit  of  the 
rapidly  driven  wagon.  The  burro  drivers  were  in  despair 
how  to  secure  the  return  of  their  troublesome  charges, 
when  valuable  assistance  was  suddenly  received  from  an 
unexpected  quarter.  The  truant  asses  paused,  stopped, 
turned  and  started  back,  first  in  a  walk,  quickened  to  a 
gentle  amble,  and  ending  in  a  mad  gallop.  Passersby 
were  at  a  loss  to  account  for  the  asinine  proceeding,  until 
they  caught  sight  of  a  man  with  an  immense,  broad- 
brimmed  hat,  haranguing  a  group  at  the  ferry.  The 
burros  had  been  lured  by  the  deep,  bass  tones  of  Thomas 
Y.  (ator,  the  Populist  orator. 

*  *  * 

Shipping  and  commercial  circles  can  present  no  more 
unique  character  than  Charles  T>.  Clarke,  agent  of  the 
California  Navigation  and  Improvement  Company.  His 
artistic  possibilities  in  the  line  of  profanity  leave  nothing 
to  be  desired.  Clarke  is  of  the  type  of  the  Mississippi 
steamboat  captain,  and  swears  with  consistent  regularity, 
wearing  a  good-natured  smile  the  while.  His  friends  do 
not  seriously  object  to  his  little  idiosyncrasy,  which  they 
know  is  simply  a  matter  of  habit,  and  they  understand 
that  he  does  not  mean  the  picturesque  oaths  to  which  he 
gives  voice.  Clarke  frequently  employs  at  the  wharves 
men  known  as  lumpers,  who  work  about  the  fleet  of  river 
steamers  for  which  he  is  agent.  The  task  of  supervising 
these  lumpers  keeps  him  in  practice,  and  gives  his  tongue 
daily  exercise.  On  a  recent  busy  day,  Clarke  had  no  time 
to  smile,  as  he  called  upon  all  the  legendary  deities  to  con- 
sign the  lumpers  to  various  unexplored  regions.  He  re- 
gretted the  bad  temper,  and  felt  that  an  explanation  of 
his  unusual  irritation  was  due. 

"  I  have  had  so  much  swearing  to  do  to-day,"  he  said, 
apologetically,  "that  the  first  thing  I  knew  I  was  mad 
clear  through  from  listening  to  myself  ! " 

*  #  * 

While  Judge  Coffey's  sarcastic  tongue  is  the  cause  of 
much  trepidation  among  the  legal  fraternity,  his  shafts 
are  not  always  directed  against  others,  and  he  can  tell  as 
good  a  story  at  his  own  expense  as  if  the  point  is  directed 
at  any  one  else.  The  great  probate  authority  is  fond  of 
swimming  in  the  salt  water,  and  while  he  was  enjoying  a 
recent  dip,  he  was  conscious  of  an  irritating  sensation  in 
one  of  his  legs.  An  investigation  showed  a  young  mack- 
erel shark,  which  was  nibbling,  without  causing  much  in- 
jury, at  the  judicial  calf.  Judge  Coffey  glanced  reproach- 
fully at  his  finny  antagonist.  Then,  with  dignified  pre- 
cision born  of  a  prolonged  occupancy  of  the  bench,  he 
uttered  a  mild  reproof. 

"I  had  supposed,"  he  said,  with  a  tinge  of  sorrow  in  his 
voice,  "I  had  supposed  I  would  meet  with  professional 
courtesy  in  these  waters." 


Members  of  the  local  bar  take  great  delight  in  the  ready 

wit  and  sharp  tongue  of  Attorney  IV   M.   Delmas.       I 

of  his  ironical  comments  on  the  conduct  of  the  Fair-Craven 
controversy,  lawyers  are  recalling  a  story  of  a  passage  at- 
arms  between  the  brilliant  barrister  and  Superior  Judge 
Seawell,  illustrating  how  dangerously  near  Delmas  can 
approach  the  flame  of  judicial  wrath  without  being  burned. 
During  the  trial  of  a  case  before  Judge  Seawell,  Mr.  Del- 
mas was  repeatedly  overruled  on  a  point  which  the  skill- 
ful pleader  presented  under  many  and  various  guises  and 
disguises.     The  court  was  courteous,  almost  deferential. 

"I  am  very  sorry.  .Mr.  Delmas.'  he  said,  soothingly, 
"but  the  law  is  against  you.  You  must  blame  the  law, 
and,  of  course,  you  can  save  your  exception." 

With  a  ('hestertieldian  bow,  Delmas  waved  a  declining 
hand. 

"No,  your  Honor,"  he  replied,  suavely,  but  with 
marked  emphasis,  "I  have  no  fault  to  find  with  the  law." 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  15,  1897. 


THE  society  event  of  the  week  has  been  the  Ginger- 
bread Fete,  for  the  success  of  which  our  prettiest 
maids  and  most  charming  matrons  have  so  untiringly  la- 
bored for  weeks  past.  It  did  seem  too  bad  that  the 
weather  should  have  changed  so  decidedly  for  the  worst 
for  the  opening,  which  took  place  on  Tuesday  evening;  but 
to  judge  from  the  pleased  expression  of  the  crowds  in  at- 
tendance, it  would  not  have  very  much  mattered  to  them 
had  the  elements  been  openly  at  war  outside,  so  long  as  it 
was  so  delightful  indoors.  The  attractions  offered  have 
been  manifold — beautiful  tableaux,  sweet  music,  works  of 
art,  priceless  curios,  Russian  tea,  delicious  refreshments, 
Punch  and  Judy,  the  anamatiscope,  lemonade  and  flowers, 
to  say  nothing  of  the  DeWolf  Hoppers,  Ferris  Hartman, 
and  Henry  Payot.  This  will  be  Children's  Day,  and  the 
arrangements  made  for  the  pleasure  of  the  young  folks  are 
so  perfect  that  they  will  have  a  "real  good  time"  goes 
without  saying. 

The  swim  can  thank  Mrs.  C.  P.  Huntington  for  most  of 
the  festivities  which  have  taken  place  here  this  month,  as 
she  has  not  only  been  the  motif  for  a  number  of  card, 
luncheon  and  dinner  parties,  but  has  also  been  hostess 
herself  on  several  occasions.  It  will,  therefore,  be  a  de- 
cided loss  to  society  when  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Huntington  take 
their  leave  of  San  Francisco,  which  will  probably  be  within 
a  very  short  time.  However,  the  loss  of  one  is  often  the 
gain  of  another,  and  the  pleasantest  news  heard  in  an  age 
is  that  of  the  approaching  return  to  their  native  heath  of 
Mrs.  Herman  Oelrichs  and  Miss  Virginia  Fair  for  an  in- 
definite stay,  for  whenever  they  come  to  San  Francisco, 
gay  doings  follow  in  their  footsteps,  as  witness  the  innu- 
merable lunch  and  dinner  parties  that  are  always  conse- 
quent upon  their  arrival.  The  old  Fair  home,  on  Pine 
street,  was  ever  the  center  of  hospitality  during  Mrs. 
Fair's  regime,  and  Mrs.  Oelrichs  has  proved  a  worthy  suc- 
cessor of  her  mother  as  a  hostess,  so  society  is  to  be  con- 
gratulated upon  the  prospect  of  having  her  here  for  some 
time  to  come. 

There  was  a  pretty  home  wedding  last  Wednesday 
evening,  when  Miss  Agnes  Smedburg  was  the  bride  and 
Max  Rosenfeld  the  groom,  who  were  made  man  and  wife 
by  Judge  J.  M.  Seawell  in  the  prettily  decorated  home  of 
the  bride's  mother,  Mrs.  James  Smedberg,  on  Pine  street. 
Miss  Hallie  Smedberg  was  her  sister's  maid-of-honor,  Miss 
Annie  White  officiated  as  bridesmaid,  and  A.  W.  Follansbee 
appeared  as  the  groom's  best  man.  The  guests,  some 
fifty  in  number,  comprised  relatives  and  intimate  friends 
only,  and  after  the  ceremony  a  handsome  supper  was 
served. 

On  Wednesday  evening,  the  12th  inst.,  Miss  Frances  M. 
Herbert  was  married  to  Harold  C.  Ward,  the  ceremony 
taking  place  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents,  on 
Morton  street,  Alameda.  The  halls  and  dining-room  were 
beautifully  and  profusely  decorated  for  the  happy  occa- 
sion. After  the  ceremony  an  elegant  supper  was  served, 
and  dancing  followed. 

Wednesday  evening,  June  9th,  is  the  date  set  for  the 
wedding  of  Miss  Mabel  Estee  and  Leonard  Everett. 

The  engagement  of  Mrs.  Dolly  Brown  and  Chas.  Wood 
has  at  last  been  officially  announced,  though  it  has  been  an 
open  secret  for  several  weeks  past,  and  while  the  wedding 
day  is  not  actually  named,  it  is  said  the  ceremony  will  not 
be  long  delayed. 

The  most  prominent  of  recently  announced  engagements 
is  that  of  Miss  Laura  Gashwiler  and  Samuel  M.  Short- 
ridge,  so  the  swim  has  yet  another  wedding  to  look  for- 
ward to  in  the  near  future.  The  young  bride-to-be  is  one 
of  the  beautiful  Native  Daughters  that  California  is  so 
proud  of;  and  the  groom  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
attorneys  of  the  State.  The  happy  pair  have  been  receiv- 
ing hearty  congratulations  on  all  sides. 


The  tea  given  by  the  Sketch  Club  at  the  studio  of  Miss 
Kate  Thompson,  on  Sutter  street,  last  Saturday  after- 
noon, was  a  delightful  affair;  the  silver  wedding  anni- 
versary dinner  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Willie  Howard  at  the 
Hopkins  Villa,  near  Redwood  City,  last  Sunday,  was  en- 
joyed by  eighteen  of  their  friends,  who  heartily  wished 
them  "many  happy  returns."  Besides  these,  have  been 
the  Lockett  reception  at  the  Presidio;  Mrs.  McLaren's 
tea  in  honor  of  her  sister,  Mrs.  Harold  Sewell,  who  is 
here  en  route  to  the  Sandwich  Islands,  and  an  unusually 
large  number  of  theatre  parties,  of  which  the  Baldwin 
and  Columbia  have  each  had  their  share. 

Opening  days  continue  to  be  heard  of  at  all  the  summer 
resorts,  but  as  yet  society  has  not  migrated  to  any  great 
extent.  The  season  has  been  delightfully  inaugurated  at 
Santa  Cruz  by  Major  and  Mrs.  Frank  McLaughlin,  who 
gave  a  fancy  dress  ball  at  Golden  Gate  Villa  last  Saturday 
evening.  The  barn,  which  was  lighted  with  Japanese  lan- 
terns, was  elaborately  dressed  with  fancy  draperies,  flow- 
ers and  foliage,  and  here  the  dancing  took  place.  At  mid- 
night a  handsome  supper  was  served  at  the  Villa.  The 
costumes  were  very  pretty,  and  altogether  the  affair  was 
a  great  success. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Phil  Lilienthal  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  N. 
Walter  are  among  those  who  have  selected  Santa  Barbara 
for  their  summer  location.  The  Louis  Gerstles,  Marcus 
Gerstles,  W.  T.  Gerstles,  Leon  Slosses  and  Louis  Slosses 
will  spend  the  summer  at  San  Rafael,  where  they  all  have 
lovely  cottage  homes  of  their  own.  There  also  will  be 
found  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hager  and  her  daughters,  that  lady 
having  taken  a  house  there  for  the  season.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
O.  D.  Baldwin  and  Miss  Blanche  have  gone  to  their  Mill 
Valley  cottage  for  the  summer  months.  The  H.  S.  Crock- 
ers  and  H.  Dutards  have  chosen  the  Hotel  Vendome  as 
their  abiding  place.  Miss  Gertrude  Goewey  is  the  guest 
of  Mrs.  Emma  McMillan  at  Pasadena;  Miss  Lily  Lawlor  is 
visiting  Mrs.  Will  Tevis  at  Bakersfield. 

New  York  has  been  full  of  San  Franciscans  of  late, 
among  the  sojourners  being  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Russ  Wilson, 
Miss  Caro  Crockett,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  McMonagle,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Henry  Scott,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rounceville  Wildman,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Homer  S.  King,  James  V.  Coleman,  J.  C.  Stubbs, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis,  Miss  Breckinridge.  Prince 
Poniatowski  and  Will  Crocker  sailed  from  New  York  for 
Europe  last  Wednesday.  Col.  Fred  Crocker  was  an  East- 
bound  passenger  over  the  road  last  Tuesday  evening.  Our 
newly  fledged  Brigadier,  General  Shatter,  arrived  from 
Washington  on  Tuesday,  and  was  given  a  reception  on 
Wednesday  evening  by  the  Presidio  Club. 

Last  week  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sol  Ehrman  returned  home, 
after  an  extended  tour  of  the  East.  At  Baltimore  Mr. 
Ehrman  visited  his  mother,  whom  he  had  not  seen  in  some 
twenty  years,  and  while  in  New  York  they  were  the  guests 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stiefel  (n4e  Schweitzer),  formerly  of  this 
city.  With  them  came  Miss  Ruth  Meyer,  of  New  York, 
who  will  spend  the  summer  in  San  Francisco  as  the  guest 
of  her  sister,  Mrs.  Abe  Stern.  Being  a  native  daughter, 
and  having  a  host  of  friends  here,  a  good  time  is  already 
assured  her.  The  fact  that  our  city  is  not  altogether  un- 
popular with  the  Eastern  girl  seems  to  be  gaining  every 
day.  A  niece  of  Mrs.  Sylvain  Weill,  Miss  Stettheimer,  sis- 
ter of  Mrs.  Ferichtwanger,  and  the  Misses  Jacobi,  of  this 
city,  will  be  included  in  this  summer's  influx. 

The  "musical"  at  Professor  Alois  Lejeal's  residence  last 
Saturday  afternoon  was  not  only  an  artistic  success,  but  a 
social  one  as  well.  The  rendition  of  a  very  carefully  se- 
lected programme  was  accomplished  in  a  most  satisfactory 
fashion,  especially  the  playing  of  Mrs.  Franklin  and  Miss 
May  Hyman,  both  of  whom  possess  a  touch  and  technique 
excelled  by  few  professionals.  The  solo  by  the  younger 
Lejeal  was  quite  a  feature,  and  if  he  reaches  the  predic- 
tion of  his  friends  and  admirers,  California  may  yet  pro- 
duce a  Paderewski.  The  afternoon's  entertainment  ended 
pleasantly  in  a  sumptuous  repast. 

A  great  many  people  are  just  now  arranging  to  go  out 
of  town  for  the  season,  and  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  have  al- 
ready been  reserved  a  large  number  of  apartments  for  the 
next  few  months.  Manager  Warfield  has  made  elaborate 
preparations  for  the  reception  of  his  guests,  who  may  rely 
on  anticipation  of  all  the  luxuries  and  comforts  usually 
found  only  at  home. 


May  i 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER 


Mine.     Algaria  tfaa   first   lady   of 

Guatemala,   and   wif. 

this 
rived    from    U  wly    tlii--    week. 

Mme.  I>ar:  o;  and 

her   former  acquaint  .  it    to 

make    the   stay    of   U  il    and   distinguished  visi- 

on?.      Mme      Barrioa  is    a   native   of  the 
a  in   New  <  Means.    The 
'  Guatema  .1  very  active  interest 


study  their  children  and  educate  themselves  in  the  princi- 
iml  facts  that  underlie  the  wisest  child-training.    To 
i l»i—  end   this  organisation,   belonging  primarily  to    the 
home,  deeiri  perate  with  kindergarten,  school  and 

university  as  fully  as  possible. 

i  >ne  of  the  must  picturesque  and  sightly  location-  In  Sau 

salito  is  Occupied  by  Hotel  Geneva,  formerly  the  El  Monte. 

on  the  hill  opposite  the  ferry.    The  Geneva  has   rea 

thoroughly  renovated  throughout.      Electric  lights. 
most  sanitary  plumbing,  elegant  and   now  furnishings,  hot 

I  and  cold  salt  water,  the  best  table,  tennis  court — in  fact, 
every  means  for  the  comfort,  both  indoor  and  out,  for 
guests,  is  provided.      The  11  \  a  is  just    a  step  out 

of  the  city,  regular  and  rapid  connections  being  made  by 
the  North  Pacifii  irry.  An  ideal  homo 'for  business 

men  who  must  reach  the  city  daily,  and  yet  who  require  a 
summer  outing.  Chamberlin  &  Co.  are  the  present  pro- 
prietors, and  every  want  of  their  guests  is  anticipated. 

Miss  Virginia  Foltz,  who  is  well  known  in  this  city, 
sailed  on  the  29th  ult.  for  Italy  from  New  York.  The 
young  lady  recently  graduated  from  the  Conservatory  of 
Music  there,  and  later  took  the  role  of  the  Queen  in  Tim 
Bohemian  Girl  in  a  company  of  professionals.  The  mu- 
sical critics  were  enthusiastic  and  unanimous  in  their 
praise  of  her  voice,  which  is  a  deep,  rich  contralto  of 
great  range.  Miss  Foltz  will  complete  her  musical  educa- 
tion abroad.  A  brilliant  future  certainly  awaits  this  ac- 
complished young  lady. 

Mr.  Thomas  Watson,  accompanied  by  Mrs.  Watson,  will 
leave  the  city  on  next  Tuesday,  the  18th  inst. ,  on  his  usual 
business  tour  through  Oregon  and  Washington.  At  Ta- 
coma  they  will  join  the  steamer  Queen,  sailing  for  Alaska, 
on  June  8th.  They  will  be  away  from  here  about  six 
weeks,  returning  on  the  27th  of  next  month. 

The  many  friends  of  Mrs.  Dr.  Byron  Haines  will  be 
pleased  to  learn  that  she  has  fully  recovered  from  her  re- 
cent severe  illness.  The  Doctor,  by  the  way,  seems  to 
have  succeeded  to  the  large  society  practice  enjoyed  by 
Dr.  Younger  previous  to  his  departure  for  Chicago. 

Arrivals  to  date  at  St.  Denis  Hotel,  Broadway  and 
Eleventh  street,  New  York,  are  H.  C.  Coleman  and  Stew- 
art Menzies  of  San  Francisco,  and  M.  Welsh  of  Los  Angeles. 

"On  the  Santa   Fe  There's  No   Delay." 


_\[m,    Algerio  d*  n?i/ii>i  Tiarrion. 

in  the  women  of  her  adopted  country,  and  has  done  much 
to  advance  their  station  in  life.  She  is  a  patron  of  the 
recognized  charities  of  her  country,  and  is  a  most  gener- 
ous as  well  as  a  most  beautiful  woman.  An  illustration  of 
her  generous  nature  was  shown  in  her  prompt  purchase  of 
a  box  at  the  charity  benefit  that  took  place  at  the  Bald- 
win Hotel  on  last  Thursday  afternoon.  Mme.  Barrios  will 
remain  in  the  city  for  some  time,  and  thence  proceed  to 
New  York  and  Europe,  her  trip  covering  a  period  of  five 
or  six  months. 

It  seems  that  the  promised  activities  of  both  the  Calli- 
opean  Club  and  San  Francisco  Yerein  for  summer  outings 
have  dwindled  to  nothing,  and  both  "tug  part}'"  and 
"outing"  will  live  only  in  the  memory  of  some  of  the 
directors. 

The  Palace  Hotel  has  added  materially  to  the  pleasure 
of  its  guests  and  the  attractions  of  the  grill  room  by  the 
introduction  of  a  musical  programme  of  twelve  numbers, 
beautifully  rendered  by  the  Vienna  Trio,  every  Wednesday 
and  Saturday  at  the  noon  hour,  at  which  time  violin,  piano 
and  'cello  will  discourse  popular  airs  of  the  day  and  selec- 
tions from  the  operas. 

"The  Portrait  of  the  Cardiual,"  by  Toby  Rosenthal,  of 
which  Mr.  Jacob  Stern  is  the  fortunate  possessor,  has 
been  on  exhibition  at  the  Gingerbread  Fete. 

The  Board  of  Administration  of  The  Home  and  Child 
Study  Association  will  meet  in  the  parlors  of  Golden  Gate 
Hall  on  Saturday,  May  15th,  at  10  o'clock.  Members  of 
Mrs.  E.  G.  Greene's  Child-Study  classes,  and  other  per- 
sons interested  in  educational  work,  will  be  welcome.  The 
purpose  of  this  organization  is  to  unite  all  persons,  and 
especially  mothers,  who  wish  to  keep  in  touch  with  the 
new  movement  in   child   study;  to  stimulate  mothers   to 


Leave  San  Francisco  Mondays  and  Thursdays,  and  connect  at 
Barstow  with  Santa  Fe  Limited,  Dining  cars,  buffet,  smoking  car, 
Pullman  Palace  Drawing  Room  Sleeping  Cars.  Three  and  one-half 
days  to  Chicago  or  St.  Louis,  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York. 
Ticket  office,  044  Market  street,  Chronicle  building.     Tel.  Main  1531. 


Flatulence  is  cured  by  Beecham's  Pills. 


Coloring  in  tea  serves  one  purpose — keeps 
tea  flavor  in,  other  flavors  out. 

The  package  (vellum)  around  Schilling' 's 
Best  does  this. 

Your  money  back  if  you  don't  like  Schilling 's 
Best. 

A  Schilling  &  Company 
San  Francisco. 


D 


R.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
CREAM,  OR    MAGICAL   BEAUTIFIER. 

R  jioves  Tan,  Pimples,  Freckles,  Moth 
Patches,  Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  beauty,  and  defies  de- 
tection It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-ton  (a  pa- 
tient): ''As  you  ladies  will  use  them,  I 
recommend  'Gouraud's  Cream'  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions," For  sale  by  ail  Druggists  and 
Fancy-Goods  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS.  Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,  X  .  Y- 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  15,  1897. 


"ftf 


,  S  the  two  military  wed- 
_  dings  draw  near,  one 
sees  much  rushing  in  and  out  of  the  stores  by  our  pretty 
belles,  and  the  lovely  gowns  that  will  result  from  all  this 
shopping  will  make  the  weddings  most  attractive  sights. 
A  large  party  of  guests  will  come  over  from  San  Rafael 
for  the  Cohen-Bent  nuptials,  as  well  as  numbers  from 
across  the  bay  on  the  Oakland  side.  Some  novel  and  ar- 
tistic effects  in  decoration,  etc.,  are  promised  at  the  Uni- 
tarian Church,  where  the  ceremony  will  be  performed; 
only  the  bridal  party  and  their  relatives  will  partake  of 
the  wedding  supper  at  Dr.  Gibbons'  residence  afterwards. 
Much  speculation  is  rife  in  the  swim  as  to  which  will  make 
the  prettier  bride  of  the  two,  Miss  Cohen  or  Miss  Burton, 
but  they  are  so  totally  different  in  appearance  and  style 
that  comparisons  cannot  be  instituted.  That  each  will 
look  lovely  goes  without  saying. 


Some  envious  fellows  (and  that  this  state  of  feeling  is  not 
by  any  means  confined  to  the  fair  sex  is  thus  proven)  are 
inclined  to  think  that  Addie  Mizner — our  own  unique  Ad — 
has  had  a  soft  thing  of  it  in  directing  and  arranging  the 
poses,  etc.,  and  being  the  head  center  of  a  flock  of  sweet 
girls  in  the  week's  Gingerbread  Fete.  But  not  so,  thinks 
the  young  man  himself,  say  his  friends,  for  admitting  the 
charm  of  being  surrounded  by,  appealed  to,  and  gazed 
upon  by  so  many  lovely  creatures,  the  unpleasantness 
created  by  having  to  decide  in  favor  of  this  or  that  one, 
and  thus  entailing  loss  of  popularity  from  the  others,  has 
been  a  great  drawback  to  his  happiness.  It  is  a  lucky 
thing  indeed  that  the  "sweet  girl  graduates"  from  our 
fashionable  seminaries  are  used  to  slang  and  somewhat 
strong  expressions,  for  without  this  safety  valve  poor  Ad- 
die might  have  been  a  candidate  for  Stockton  or  Agnews. 
Apropos  of  this  charming  entertainment,  a  wretched  old 
batch  was  heard  growling  to  a  sour-visaged  female  in  one 
of  the  rooms  that  it  was  a  pity  the  pains  bestowed  upon 
the  outside  of  the  heads  could  not  have  been  given  to  the 
inside,  and  tableaux  show  the  progi  ess  made  iu  the  mental 
condition  of  women  in  the  series  of  years  portrayed;  but 
query,  Has  it  been  progress?      Women's  Congress,  reply. 

*  *  * 

Advices  from  abroad  give  our  society  the  pleasing  intel- 
ligence that  at  the  conclusion  of  the  Jubilee  celebration 
ceremonies  and  consequent  thereupon,  a  party  of  Britons, 
swells  all  of  them,  will  make  a  trip  to  California,  coming 
from  England  to  Canada,  and  on  by  the  Canadian  Pacific 
— no  halt  to  be  made  on  American  soil  save  in  our  own 
Golden  State.  We  can  imagine  the  flutter  their  arrival 
will  cause  in  our  leau  monde,  as  not  only  titled  men,  but 
titled  women  will  be  of  the  party;  and  who  knows?  perhaps 
the  ambitions  of  Jim  Phelan,  Fred  Crocker,  or  Terry  Ham- 
ilton might  be  reached  by  capturing  a  sure  enough  i:lady" 
for  a  wife. 

*  *  # 

Mrs.  Millie  Ashe  Sewell's  well-remembered  smile  was 
strongly  in  evidence  at  the  reception  given  in  her  honor 
by  her  sister,  Mrs.  Linie  McLaren,  last  week.  Mrs.  Sewell 
certainly  holds  front  rank  in  the  favor  of  her  friends,  who 
all  crowded  to  meet  and  congratulate  her  upon  representing 
America  in  Hawaii.  Already  numerous  parties  are  being 
talked  of  for  a  trip  to  the  Islands,  and  as  they  are  likely  to 
be  composed  of  jolly  people  they  are  certain  of  a  rousing 
welcome  at  the  U.  S.  Consulate,  and  a  good  time  generally 
is  an  assured  fact. 

*  *  * 

Gossip  from  Gotham  indicates  that  there   is  a  chance  of 
the  long  and  patient  waiting  of  Miss  Jennie  Flood's  Eastern 
admirer  being  rewarded  at  last;  and  another  bit  goes  that 
George  Mayre  will  bring  a  bride  back  with  him. 
*  *  # 

Shakespeare  says,  "  What's  in  a  name  ?  "  But  a  name 
is  sometimes  productive  of  much  annoyance,  to  say  the 
least,  as  must  have  been  the  case  upon  the   announcement 


by  our  dailies  that  Miss  Flora  Low  was  to  be  wedded  m 
New  York.  Hence  Miss  Flora  Low,  daughter  of  the  late 
ex-Governor  Low,  has,  say  her  friends,  been  the  recipient 
of  endless  notes  of  congratulation  from  friends  far  and 
near,  all  of  which  has  proved  somewhat  embarrassing  un- 
der the  circumstances,  as  it  was  not  she,  but  her  cousin 
(a  daughter  of  C.  Adolpbe  Low,  a  former  resident  of  this 
city)  who  was  the  young  lady  alluded  to. 

*  *  * 

If  any  one  supposes  that  high-toned  gambling  is  confined 
I   to  men's  clubs,  they  ought  to  be  guests   at  some  of  our 
aristocratic  card  parties,  when  a  "little  game"  is  hugely 
enjoyed  by  the  women  players,  and  sips  of  champagne  for- 
tify them  for  losses  or  marital  chidings  over  tardy   dinner 

serving. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Chauncey  Boardman's  initial  effort  at  a  dinner 
party  was  pronounced  a  great  success  by  the  guests.  This 
young  matron  is  very  popular  with  her  girl  friends  (as  any 
one  with  three  eligible  brothers-in-law  would  naturally  be),, 
and  every  one  who  knows  Chauncey  himself  is  aware  what 
a  genial  host  and  good  fellow  he  is. 

*  *  # 

The  return  of  those  vivacious  cousins,  the  Misses  Blake- 
man  and  Keeney,  has  set  Berkeley  in  an  uproar  of  delight. 
The  strong  resemblance  in  personal  appearance  between 
Miss  Ethel  Keeney  and  Miss  Gladys  McClung  is  much  com- 
mented upon  by  the  Brownies. 

*  *  * 

The  swim  is  greatly  excited  over  the  rumor  from  the 
rural  districts  that  an  announcement  will  shortly  be  made 
from  San  Rafael,  the  parties  being  a  well  known  belle  and 
a  popular  beau. 

Max  Abraham,  the  caterer  at  428  Geary  street,  superintends  ban- 
quets, marriage  feasts,  dinners,  suppers  or  luncheons  with  perfect 
satisfaction  to  those  who  employ  hiin.  His  services  are  really  in- 
dispensable, for  he  takes  complete  charge  and  relieves  one  of  the 
worry  incidental  to  the  entertainer. 


Pure  Cosmetics— Professor  Wenzell,  the  Pure  Food  Chemist,  says  of 
Mme.  Marchand's  Preparations.  Use  Creme  de  la  Creme.  Positively  pre- 
vents sunburn  and  poison  oak.    Price,  50  cts.    107  Geary  street. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  ' 
children  while  teething. 


Mrs.  Wmslow's  Soothing  Syrup1'  for  your 


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PACIFIC 
CONGRESS 
SPRINGS 
HOTEL 

Santa  Gruz  Mountains, 

Santa  Clara  County. 


Remodeled    and    under 
New   Management  .... 

Only  two-and-a-half  hours 
from  San  f rancisco. 


Six  miles  from  Los  Gatos.  Ten 
miles  from  Santa  (Jib.,  a.  Twelve 
miles  from  San  Jose.    Address 


GEO.    0.    WATKINS, 

523  Market  St     -   -    Sac  Francisco. 


&|ffJ§?§S§Ss?§S§1§J5S§?s^ 


Under   New  ^» 

Management 

Only  19  miles  from  Ukiah. 
Finest  summer  resort  in  California.  R 

Good  hunting,  fishing,  boating,  and  Bathing. 
Finest  cuisine  and  best  accommodations. 


.BLUE  LAKES  HOTEL, 

(Bertha  Postofflce) 
LAKE  COUNTY,  CAL. 


WHITEFIELD, 

Manager: 


C/>o     Rporh     Hnfc>l      California's  favorite  resort 
OOQ     DOGUll     nUbOl»     Located  on  a  flowering  slope  from  the  beach 
Unsurpassed  view  of    Beach,  Bay   and 
Mountains     Salmon  Fishing.    Tennis 
court,  Croquet  grounds,  and  music. 
Reasonable  Rates.    For  terms  address      John  T.  Sullivan,  Manager 


SANTA    CRUZ,     CAL. 


Gomel  Oolong. 


The  oldest  and  most  reliable  brand  on  the 
market.  Sold  only  in  1-3  pound  papers  at 
20  cents  per  paper.  All  grocers  keep  it. 


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SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


By    I^ail,    Boat    ar)d    Sta^e. 


San  Francisco  and  North  Pacltlc  Railway  Co.     Southern  Pacltlc  Companu-Pacitic  System. 


S«»  FR»»ClSCO  10  S»H  IIFlil     Ti  ki  m  ■»  ►ikkt-  Ftoot  ot  Market  Street. 
1  \x>.  11  «.  a  u.  1.   is  1  ju  j  io.«:»p  v     Thursdays— 
Kurt  trip  at  II3UP  m     Sdutjii.     t.m  trip*  at  1  Mi  «n.l  n  :«i  p  11. 
SL'NOAVS— «O0. »JD.  IIMIa  a:  I  .«J    J.li    ,s  ilj.  <VJ>  r  M 

S»N    R*F»EL   TO   SIN    FUNCISCO. 
WEEK  DAYS— «I5,  T:«0.»:su.  11  10  am:  l»:46,  3:40. 6:10 pu.    Saturdays— 
ripe  at   I  :M>  and  6:86  p  M. 

\YS— >  111    »:«.  11:10  a  M:  1  to.  J  tO.SflO, «:»  p  h. 
Between  Sao  Francisco  and  Scburticn  f*arh.  same  schedule  as  above. 


Lute  S.  V 


Week    l>ays  Sunday* 

'  :3U  A  U 

SJOPM  Un» 

6:ll>m  imiPM 


In  Effect  Apr 


DKSTI  NATION. 


Novaio. 

Petaluma, 

Santa  Kusa. 


7-Sjam 


Fullon.    Windsor, 

Hcaldsburg. 

Qeyaerrlllc  Clorerdale 


Ahhitk  in  S.  P. 
Sundays    1  Week  Days 
10:40  AH    I      8:40  A  u 

OIUPM      I       I0:!»   A  M 

7:35  PM    ,      6:22  PM 


10 .26  A   M 

6:22  p  M 


|  8.00  am   |  Pleu,  Hopland,  umah  |    7:36pm    |    '0'..^  p '„ 

Uuernevllle                 ::*,«     |    'J*AJJ 

":•'*'»><            !    ■                                Sonoma,                      ll):4UAM     !      X:40AM 
6:I0pm      1   SrOOPM    1             Olen  Ellen             I     6:10pm     |     6:22  pm 

7:»AM        1    8:00AM     1                 Qeba.tnnnl                1     10:40 AM      1     10:25  A  M 
3:30PM      |    6M0PM    |              Sevastopol.            |     ,.,0p||     |     6;;s  p  M 

Slaves  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  Weal  Springs:  at  Geyservllle 
for  Skaggs'  Springs:  at  Clovenlale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Pieta  for  Highland 
Springs.  Kelscvvllle.  Soda  Bay  and  Lake  port:  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport 
and  bartlett  Springs:  at  Ukfah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs, 
Blue  Lakes.  Laurel  Del  Lake  Upper  Lake.  Pomo,  Potter  Valley.' John 
Day's,  Rlvcr>lde.  Llerley's.  HockneU'9  Sashedoln  Heights,  Hullvllle, 
Bnonevllle.Orr's  Hot  Springs.  Mendocino  City.  Ft.  Bragg.  Westport,  Usal. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  atrt'duced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  TnpTlckels   to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates 

TICKET  OFFICE— «50  Market  St..  Chronicle  Building. 
A.W  FOSTE.-t  Pr^s.  A  Gen.  Manager.      R.  X.  RYAN.  Gen.  Pass  .  Agent. 

Occidental  and  Oriental  Steamship  Company. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf.  FIRST  and  BKAIaNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  M.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG. 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogol.  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting   at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc     No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Belg  re  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29.  1897 

Coptic  Thursday,  June  17,  1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Wednesday.  July  7  1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  July  27,  1897 

ROOND  TRIP  TICKET8  AT  REDUCED    RATES. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 
comer  First.  D.  D.  STUBHR.  Secretary. 


Pacific  Coast  Steamship  Company. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska 
9  a.  m..  May  1,6,  II,  16.  21,  36,  31.  and  every  j  tn  day  .hereafter 

For  Britiso  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  il  A.  m.  May  1  ti  II  16 
81.  86,  81.  and  every  5th  day  thereafter  *     * 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt 'Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  p  m  May  4  8 
12.  16.  20.  2-4.  2H.  ana  every  fourth  day  th  ieafter  '    ' 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  ..nd  all  way  ports,  at  9  A.  m.  ;  May  2,  6  10  14 
18.  22,26  3j.  ana   every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  »t  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  a.  m.,  May  4  8  12  16 
20,  24,  2.S,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter  * 

For  Ensenada,  Mag.alena  Bay.  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba  "  10  A    M 
June  2d,  and  2d  of  each  month  thereafter. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  io  c/hange,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel.  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
QOODALL.  PERKINS  ol  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents.       10  Market  st.S.  F. 

S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu  only,  Tuesday, 
May  18th    at   2  p     m. 

S.  S.  "Alameda."  Thursday,  May  27th,  at  2  p  M. 
Line  to  Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
Somh  Africa. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS&BROS.  CO., 
(umirlflRM-      Agents,  114   Montgomery  St.    Freight  office,  32? 


Trmlna  Leave  »nd  are  Due  to  Arrive  at  SAN     FRANCISCO! 


Leatt.  | 


Frvm  April  /•-,  1897. 


|  Arrivt 


•6:UU  a 
7:UUA 
7AJ0A 

7:30  A 
8  *JA 

•8:30  a 

9:00A 


9:00A 
9: 00  A 

•1:66  P 

1:00  P 

ti.aop 

I   CI)  P 
4:00P 


5:00P 

5:00p 
6:dU  P 
6:00  P 
17:00  P 
7:00P 


Nlles,  San  Jose,  ttnd  way  stations  it :45  A 

Atlantic  Express,  Ogdenand  East —    8:46p 

llcnlcla.    Vaoftvll  [«,    Kumsey,    Sacramento,    Oroville,    and 

Redding,  via  Darla    6:4&p 

Martinez.  Sun  Ktitnon,  Vullejo.  Napa.  Catistoga,  Santa  Rosa    6:15  p 
Nlles,  San  Jose,  Stocktoo,  lone,  Sacramento,  Marysvillo, 

Tehama,  and   Red   Bluff 4:16  P 

Peters  and  Milton *7:15P 

New  Orleans    Express,  Merced,  Fresno,  Bakerstteld,  Santa 
Barbara,  Los  Angeles,  Doming.  El  Paso,  New  Orleans,  and 

East 4:45  P 

Martinez  and  Stockton     4:45  p 

Vatlejo 6:15  P 

Nlles,  San  Jose  Llvermore,  and  Stockton  7:15p 

Sacramento  River  steamers *9:00  p 

Nlles.  San  Jose,  and   Llvermore 8:45  a 

Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations f7:45  P 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa 9:15  A 

Benlcla.    Vacavllle    Woodland,   Knight's    Landing,  Marys- 

ville.  Oroville.  and  Sacramento  ll:15A 

Lathrop,  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yosem- 

ite)  and  Fresno,  going   via  Niles,  returning  via   Martinez. .  11:45  A 

Los  Angeles   Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,   Mojave   (for  Rands- 

burg),  banttt  Barbara,  and  Los  ADgeles ...    7.45a 

Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East 7:45A 

European  mail,  Ogden  and  East 9 :45  A 

Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose 7:45 A 

Vallejo t7 :45  P 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramen'o,  Marysvllle,   Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East 11:15  A 

Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge). 


J7 :45  A  Santa  Cruz  Excursion.  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  J8 :05  P 
8:46a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Moulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations   , . .                        .  5 :50  P 
*2:15p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:2ua 

4 :15  P  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 9 :50  > 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

7 :00  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1 :30  P 
9.00  a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principalway  stations    4:15  P 

10:40  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6:30  P 

11:30  a  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 5:U0p 

*2:30p  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose.  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa 

Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey  PacifloGrove *10:40a 

*3:30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45  A 

♦4:30  P  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8:05A 

5:30  P  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations *8:45a 

6:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6:35  A 

til:45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations f«M5  p 

San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local. 


i»6-00  Al 

7:15  a 

8:00  a 

n-.a  a 

9:00  A 

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10:45  A 

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11:45  A 

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12:45  P 

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Sam  Leandro, 

(1:45  P 

3:00  p 

and 

%■!  :45  P 

i3:00  P 

Haywards. 

4:45  p 

4:00  p 

(5:45  P 

5:00  P 

6:15  P 

5:80  P 

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7:45  P 

7:00  P 

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8:45  P 

8:00  p 

9:45  F 

9:00  P 

10:50  P 

ttll:15  pj 

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CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  i»lip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  a.  m..I1:ou.  »*:uo.  I3:uu.  «4 :00,  J5 :00  and  *8:00p.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  o(  Broadway. —*6:00,  8:00,  10:00  A.  M. ;  J12:00,  «l:00, 
J2 :00,  «3 :00,  J4 :00  *5 :00  P.  M. 

A  for  Morning,     p  for  Atternoon.      *Sundays  excepted.      tSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Tuesdays  and  Saturdays.  gSundays  and  Thursdays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  oall  for  and  ohecU  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  Information. 

Tho    f.pinrl     P<arifif     3°6  Stockton   St.  San    Francisco 
I  IIC    UldllU     rdulllUi         MRS    ELLA  CORBETT.  Proprietress 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day.  week,  or  month        Telephone:  Grant.  507. 


THE  dog  show,  which  opens  next  Wednesday  at  the 
Mechanics'  Pavilion  under  the  direction  of  the  San 
Francisco  Kennel  Club,  will  be  a  howling  success,  the 
greatest  possible  interest  being  taken  in  it.  Entries 
have  been  numerous,  and  everything  points  to  an  immense 
attendance.  The  prizes  are  generous,  and  the  kennels 
benched  are  valuable  and  varied  as  well. 

MADAME  A.  RUPPERT,  complexion  specialist,  and 
sole  manufacturer  of  Madame  A.  Ruppert's  face 
bleach,  has  opened  new  and  commodious  offices  at  rooms 
15  and  16,  No.  131  Post  street. 


RL  CAMPO  is  one  of  the  most  popular  Sunday  resorts 
L/  about  the  bay,  and  is  regularly  attended  by  large 
numbers  of  pleasure  seekers.  The  boats  make  frequent 
trips  to  that  romantic  spot,  and  the  best  of  music,  dan- 
cing, etc.,  may  be  enjoyed  there.  Pour  boats  each  way: 
round-trip  fare,  25  cents. 


Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  332-334  Pine  strret,  below  Mont- 
gomery. Rooms  for  ladies  and  families;  private  entrance.  John  Bergez 
Proprietor. 


Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copperplate  engraving. 
Market  street,  S:m  Francisco. 


Cooper  &  Co.,  746 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


May  15,  1897. 


Sl^^ 


A    SUNSET    DREAM  .—Arthur  l.  salmon,  in  collier's  weekly. 


BESIDE  the  hearthstone  old  and  gray, 
"Whose  tires  throughout  the  passing  year3 
Have  lit  a  home  of  mirth  and.  tears, 
1  sit  and  watch  the  close  of  day. 
Here  where  I  breathed  my  earliest  breath, 
And  cried  my  earliest  cry  of  joy, 
And  played  my  pastimes  when  a  boy, 
I  linger  still— and  wait  for  death. 

I  see  myself  again  a  child, 

With  laughter  ringing  high  and  low, 

And  playmates  of  the  long  ago, 
As  glad  as  I  was  and  as  wild. 
And  voices  through  the  deepening  gloom 

Are  whispering  fondly  in  mine  ear ; 

And  hands  that  seem  so  strangely  near 
Are  beckoning  in  the  dusky  room. 

Then  beckon  to  the  golden  west 
Where  sunset's  perfect  glory  lies ; 
While  higher  in  the  quivering  skies 

Appears  the  star  of  evening  rest. 

And  crimson  clouds— like  angel  bands 
Assembled  near  to  watch  and  pray — 
Have  gathered  round  the  dying  day 

With  palms  of  glory  in  their  hands. 

The  darkened  twilight  deeper  falls; 
The  misty  moon  hangs  large  and  red 
Above  the  forest's  shadowy  head. 

And  hark !— I  hear  a  voice  that  calls ! 

Still  further  do  my  dreamings  roam, 
And  further  take  the  hue  of  truth; 
I  feel  a  sudden  gush  of  youth, 

And  some  one  points  the  pathway  home. 


A  REASON  FOR  SILENCE.— louise  imogen  guinez,  in  current  literature. 


You  sang,  you  sang!  you  mountain  brook, 
Scarce  by  your  tangly  banks  held  in, 

As  running  from  a  rocky  nook, 

You  leaped  the  world,  the  sea  to  win, 

Sun-bright  past  many  a  foamy  crook, 
And  headlong  as  a  javelin. 

Now  men  do  check  and  still  your  course 

To  serve  a  village  enterprise, 
And  leeward  drive  your  sullen  force, 

What  wonder, slave!  that  in  no  wise 
Breaks  from  you,  pooled  'mid  reeds  and  gorse 

The  voice  you  had  in  Paradise. 


THE    CHANGED    ROSE  —  Florence  a    jones,  in  current  literature. 

The  white  rose  leaned  her  stainless  heart 

To  the  red  rose  at  her  feet; 
Ah,  never  was  red,  red  rose  so  false, 

Or  white  rose  half  so  sweet. 

She  breathed,  ,l  Beloved,  I  will  draw 

You  up  to  my  own  fair  height, 
Then  shall  we  smile  at  the  mocking  world, 

When  my  red  rose  blooms  white." 

I  of  the  mocking  world  leaned  out, 

As  they  touched  my  window  sill, 
And  I  saw  a  white  heart  crimson-stained, 

But  ihe  red  rose  was  red  still. 


AT    ANCHOR—  m.  Elizabeth  crouse. 


Sunrise  and  God's  fresh  day, 

The  dew  on  all  the  grass ; 
And  in  the  harbor  ships  that  nestling  lay 

Unfurl  their  sails  and  pass. 

Sunrise  and  God's  fresh  day, 

Life's  craft  the  waters  spurn ; 
And  may  the  vessels  never  go  astray 

But  home  to  God  return. 
Sunset  and  God's  tired  day 

Seek  heaven  thro'  the  west — 
And  in  the  harbor  ships  that  sped  away, 

Now  furl  their  sails  and  rest. 


some  Pearline. 


Take  along 

Keep  a  little 

in  your 

Bicycle 

tool-bae. 


PEARLINE 


It   cleans 
dirty  and 

greasy  hands  quicker  and  better  than  any 
soap  can.  Takes  grease  and  mud  stains  out  of 
your  clothes.  You  need  it  to  clean  yourself  with, 
after  you've  cleaned  your  wheel.  Pearline  and 
water  is  the  best  for  cleaning  and  washing  any- 
thing that  water  won't  hurt.  Wheelmen  and 
wheelwomenhaveahundred  good  uses  for  Pearl- 
ine. Unequalled  as  a  lubricant  for  the  chains.  521 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 
Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company. 

LocatioD  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  20th  day  of  March,  1897,  an  assessment,  No.  Ill,  of  10  cents  per 
share,  was  levied  on  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  Im- 
medrately  in  United  Stales  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  room  11,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
23D  DAY  OF  APRIL,  189  7, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before. will  be  sold  on  Friday,  the  14th  day  of  May, 
1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  11,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal 

OFFICE  OF  THE  HALE  &  NORCROSS  SILVER  MINING  CO., 
Room  U,  331  Pine  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal..  Ap  il  22,  1897. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  this 
company,  held  this  day,  the  date  of  delinquency  of  stock  for  Assessment 
No.  Ill  was  postponed  until  May  24, 1897. 

Any  stock  upon  which  said  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

24th  DAY  OF  MAY,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless 
payment  be  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  June  15,  1897,  to  pay 
said  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  cost  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Chollar  Mining  Company- 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.     Location 
of  works— Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  held  on 
the  10th  day  of  May,  1897,  an  assessment,  No.  43,  of  Fifteen  cents  per 
share,  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  79,  Nevada  Block,  3. 9  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Any  stock  on  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
15th  DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless 
payment  is  made  befcre,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  8th  day  of 
July.  1897,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs 
of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.      By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E    ELLIOT.  Secretary 
Office:  Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St  ,  San  Froncisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Gould  &.  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Virginia,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  29th  day  of  April,  1897,  an  assessment  (No.  81),  of  twenty  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
1st  DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  publio  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is   made  before  will  be  sold  on  the  22d  day  of  June,  1897,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

ALFRED  K    DURBROiV,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Occidental  Con.   Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  27 

Amount  per  Share 10  cents 

Levied May  11,  1897 

Delinquent  in  Office June  12, 1897 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock July  1, 1897 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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Number  21. 


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Kearnm  ttreet.  San  FroneU 
oJUt  at  Steond'datt  Matter. 
Tho  oJUt  0/  the  SEWS  LETTER  in  Ma  York  City  it  at  Tempi*  Court; 
and  at  Chicago,  mi  Boyce  Building .  {front  E  Morriton.  Kaittrn 
Repretentatire).  vkeri  information  may  be  obtained  regarding  tubtcrip 
lion  and  adrertlnng  ram. 

THE   following   little   table,  showing  the  costs  of  two 
libel   suits,    will  be  of  interest  to  the  tax-payers  of 
this  city. 

Biruui  in  pabtmkxt  No.  2. — Jonoi  DAnrammLD'e  Codbt. 
Marriott  Case- 
Jury  Fees $482  00 

Reporters'  Kees lsn  <>0 

Clerk 105  00 

J  udge 'JiiT  in i 

District  Attorney . .  200  00 

Bailiff 90  00 

$1,214  00 
Exmran  Department  No.  I.— Judge  Hbbbabd's  Codbt. 

Judge's  Salary $333  33 

Clerk 175  00 

Bailiff..    125  00 


Williams  Case. 


$633  33 

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1,214  00 


Grand  Total $2,447  33 


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UR  over-worked  injustices   of   the   Peace  are  carving 
up  the  summer  time  for  their  annual  vacations. 

SXEW  suit  may  fit  never  so   well,  and   still  not  make 
the  wearer  proud.     For  further   particulars   the  un- 
duly inquisitive  are  confidently  directed  to  Judge  Hebbard. 

THE  city  of  Glasgow  will  levy  no  taxes  for  municipal 
purposes  after  1897.  The  revenues  from  gas  plants, 
street  railways  and  other  municipal  holdings  will  lift  the 
burdens  from  the  people's  shoulders,  while  at  the  same 
time  giving  them  most  excellent  service.  Here  is  a  hint 
to  San  Francisco;  but  Glasgow  is  run  on  strict  business 
principles.  The  pull  of  the  political  boss,  the  gargantuan 
girth  of  the  average  Supervisor,  and  the  absorbing  enter- 
prise of  the  contractor  are  not  known  in  Glasgow.  The 
difference  is  fatal! 

THE  effort  being  made  to  prevent  the  export  of  adul- 
terated brandy  from  this  State  should  be  backed  up 
in  every  legitimate  way.  The  temporary  advantages  of 
such  traffic  would  in  the  end  prove  a  costly  experiment. 
But  it  would  be  well  for  the  authorities  to  see  to  it  that 
the  adulteration  of  liquor  be  stopped.  It  is  all  right  to 
protest  against  sending  it  abroad,  on  account  of  the  ulti- 
mate injury  to  trade,  but  it  is  even  more  necessary  to  pro- 
test against  its  sale  at  home  as  a  matter  of  self-preserva- 
tion. That  the  domestic  stomach  certainly  equals  the  for- 
eign market  the  rankest  free  trader  will  admit. 

THE  advice  of  that  anarchist,  Boyce,  President  of  the 
Western  Miners'  Federation,  to  the  miners'  meeting 
at  Salt  Lake  last  week,  that  they  arm  themselves  and 
protect  their  "rights"  with  powcier,  bayonet  and  ball,  has 
already  borne  fruit.  Guns  and  ammunition  have  been 
stolen  from  an  armory  of  the  Idaho  National  Guard,  and,  it 
is  said  oy  miners  of  the  Cccur  d'Alene,  as  a  direct  result 
of  the  criminal  advice  of  Boyce.  When  the  clash  comes, 
and  the  strong  hand  of  the  United  States  is  at  the  vitals 
of  the  deluded  and  misguided  followers  of  such  a  cowardly 
torch  as  their  President,  Boyce  will  be  far  from  the  smell 
of  gunpowder,  drawing  a  fat  salary  as  the  price  of  his 
treason  to  the  country  and  enmity  to  labor. 


THE  bowl  against  Mrs.  Atherton's  latest  book,  "Pa- 
tience Sparhawk,"  by  the  Mechanics'  Library,  is  not 
defensible  upon  tbe  theory  of  the  greatest  good  to  the 
greatest  number.  The  action  of  the  Directors  will  cause 
a  run  on  "Patience  Sparhawk"  that  will  surprise  Mrs. 
Atherton's  warmest  admirers,  ami  prove  a  source  Ol  profit 
to  this  hard-speaking  handler  of  twilight  subjects. 

THE  Yerkes  telescope,  like  everything  Chicagoese, 
is  the  biggest  gbss  in  the  world.  It  is  four  inches 
larger  than  the  great  Lick  glass  at  Mt.  Hamilton.  It  is 
said  the  Yerkes  telescope  will  discover  many  new  heavenly 
bodies,  and  vastly  enrich  the  science  of  astronomy.  We 
suggest,  before  its  gaze  be  turned  skyward,  that  the  glass 
be  given  a  test  in  trying  to  locate  the  tide  of  prosperity 
due  to  reach  the  Earth  at  11:45  A.  si.  of  March  i,  1897. 

THE  attache  of  License  Collector  Lees' office  whose  sal- 
ary equalled  his  total  annual  collections,  of  whom 
mention  was  made  last  week,  is,  upon  investigation,  found 
to  have  been  drawing  his  salary  for  an  office  which  had  no 
legal  existence.  This  report  does  not  dislodge  the  tax- 
eater,  however,  who,  his  superior  explains,  is  now  engaged 
in  clerical  work  in  the  office.  If  one  may  judge  from  his 
brilliant  achievements  outside  during  the  past  year,  his 
"work"  indoors  consists  chiefly  in  drawing  his  salary  and 
keeping  the  grass  off  the  political  fences  of  his  boss. 


COMMENTS  upon  the  great  libel  suit,  in  which  Judge 
Hebbard,  from  a  bumptious  and  aggressive  prose- 
cutor and  persecutor,  became  a  badly  damaged  and  beaten 
defendant,  are  pouring  into  the  News  Letter  office;  and 
they  contain,  in  straight-thinking  English,  opinions  on  the 
case.  These  will  appear,  duly  credited,  next  week  and 
thereafter,  as  space  and  time  may  warrant.  These  criti- 
cisms show  where  the  Judge  stands  in  tbe  eye  of  the  pub- 
lic throughout  California,  and,  in  effective  limelights,  un- 
cover a  luckless  jackass  ruthlessly  plucked  of  his  lion's  skin. 

THE  Merchants'  Association  has  turned  its  great  influ- 
ence toward  giving  San  Francisco  better  lights.  The 
Association  is  practical  in  all  it  Undertakes,  and  it  may  be 
able  to  bring  about  the  result  it  now  seeks  to  accomplish. 
Better  street  lights  are  badly  wanted;  but  it  would  give 
more  personal  comfort,  make  a  better  impression  upon 
visitors,  reduce  profanity  and  stimulate  piety — since  clean- 
liness is  next  to  Godliness — if  the  Association  would  choke 
the  miserable  existence  out  of  the  present  street-sprink- 
ling combine,  and  keep  the  atmosphere  of  the  city  clean 
by  wetting  the  streets.  Besides,  the  Park  needs  the  com- 
post which  is  really  superfluous  in  lungs,  ears,  clothing, 
eyes,  and  nostrils. 

JUDGE  Joachimsen  electrified  his  hearers  last  Wednes- 
day by  declaring  from  the  Bench  that  he  would  no 
longer  listen  to  trivial  excuses  for  delays,  continuances, 
and  other  shyster  tricks  familiar  to  the  Police  Court  lawyers 
who  infest  the  City  Hall.  "I  will  not  countenance  any 
such  proceedings,"  said  he,  in  well-simulated  or  genuine 
wrath.  "It  is  about  time  a  halt  was  called  in  such  cases 
as  this,  and  I  propose  to  make  an  end  of  this  business  of 
thieves  and  vagrants  coming  into  court  and  asking  for  fa- 
vors that  would  not  be  granted  to  honest  people."  If  the 
Judge  accomplish  these  miracles,  he  will  have  marked  an 
epoch  in  Police  Court  history  in  San  Francisco  that  will 
richly  entitle  him  to  the  respect  of  honest  men.  Our  Police 
Judges  have  too  long  enjoyed  the  affectionate  regard  of 
the  push,  the  pull,  and  deeper  criminals.  There  is  hope 
for  them  yet.     Joachimsen  leads  the  way. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


WI^L     JUDGE     HEBBARD     RESIGN. 

BY  all  the  rules  that  should  govern  the  personal  action 
of  a  man  fit  to  be  a  Superior  Judge,  Hebbard  ought  to 
drop  the  ermine  and  resign  an  office   for  which  a  high  jury 
of  his  fellow-citizens  have  substantially-declared  him  to  be 
unfit.     The  appeal  to  that  body  was  of  his  own  taking,  and 
be  was   very  persistent,  if   not   malevolent,  in   taking  it. 
Many  of  his  friends  advised  him  that   he  could  make  noth- 
ing, but  might  lose  much,  by  resorting  to  an  attack  upon 
the  liberty  of  the  press  to  criticise   him  as  a  candidate  for 
a  public  office.     It  was  all  without  avail.     "His  usefulness 
was  gone,"  he  said,  "unless  he  obtained  a  vindication  from 
a  jury."     He  is,  or   ought  to  be,  the  best  judge  of  how   to 
safeguard  his  own   honor.     He  has   chosen  that  way,  and 
the  result  is   praGtically  a  verdict  of  "guilty"  as  charged 
by.  this  journal.     If  his   usefulness    was   gone   before  that 
verdict  was  rendered,  how  much  less  is  it  now  that  a  judg- 
ment of  condemnation  has  been  rendered  against  him  ?   By 
all  the  rules  of  logical  reasoning,  by  all   the  impulses   of  a 
conscientious  man,  and  by  all  that  goes  to  constitute  a  ju- 
dicial mind,    he  has   passed   final  judgment  upon  himself, 
from  which   there  is  no   appeal,  except   it  may  be  from 
Philip  sober  to  Philip  drunk.     He  was  charged  with  being 
"  the  tool"  and  "  creature'   of  bank  emptiers,  and  the  ver- 
dict of  an  exceptionally  strong-minded  jury  is  in  substance 
"guilty  as  charged."  The  trial  was  to  him  more  than  fair. 
He  had  two  counsel  to  the  News  Letter's  one.     He  had  a 
Judge  his  warm  personal  friend,  and  probably  had  the  case 
assigned  to  him  for  that  very  reason.  He  had  the  environ- 
ment of  the  court  all  his  own  way.     He  had  a  fat  official 
salary,    and  took   care    to    draw    it    with  regularity  in 
order      to       help      him       to      the      goal      he      finally 
reached.      And    perhaps    above    all,    he    had    his    own 
"Superior"  services  as  a  lawyer   to  help  him  out.     Of  all 
these  he  made  free  use.  Yet  his  path  is  now  blazed  with  the 
words  "guilty  as  charged."     We  have   reason   to   believe 
that  the  jury  directed  their  attention  all  the   time   to   the 
question  as  to   whether    Judge   Hebbard   committed  the 
acts  charged,  and  their  verdict  is  the  result.     If  a  differ- 
ent conclusion  had  been  reached,  Mr.    Marriott   would,  of 
course,  have  been  declared  guilty,  and  would  have  had  to 
suffer  the  full  penalties  of  the  law.     He  has  been   exoner- 
ated, and  his  opponent  is  left  in  the  mire  of  his  own  creat- 
ing as  a  "tool,"   a   "creature,"  and,  as  a  consequence,  a 
dishonored  Judge.     For  him  there  can  be  no  future  on  the 
Bench,  and  nothing  honorable   now  remains  for  him  but  to 
accept  his  own  forewarnings   and   resign.     In  his  former 
libel  trial  against  one  of  the  depositors  of  the   wrecked 
Savings  Bank,  his  counsel,  W.  W.  Foote,  declared  in  his 
presence  and  hearing  that  "a  verdict  of   vindication  was 
necessary  to  his  re-assumption  of  the  Superior  Bench;  that 
he  did  not  seek  revenge,  and   would  himself  pay   any  fine 
over  one  dollar  in  which  the  defendant  might  be  mulcted." 
This   big  bluff   almost    snatched    a   verdict  in  bis  favor. 
Fortunately,  as  it  happens,  he  lived   to   see  another  day, 
and  that   has   proved  his   Waterloo.     His   much  deluded 
constituents  now  know  Hebbard  better  than  they  did,  and 
their  information  will  increase,  unless,  indeed,    he   takes 
the  one  step  obviously  open  to  him,   and   resigns.     By  the 
way,  his  loud-mouthed  organ,  the   Examiner,    barely  pub- 
lished the  judgment  against  him.     That  will  be  accounted 
for  in  due  time.    Those  who  read  that  sheet  will  remember 
how,  contrary  to  a  well-established  rule  of  the  press,  that 
journal  tried  to  prejudice  our  case,  influence  jurymen,  and 
prevent  us  having  a  fair  trial.     The  result  shows  how  lim- 
ited its  influence  is  in  this  city. 


Hawaiian  Canes      Nearly  the   whole   of  the  Hawaiian 
Against  question  is  stated   in   our   head  line. 

California's  Beets.  Shall  the  Hawaiian  cane  sugar  be 
given  a  bonus  of  one  and  one-half  cents 
a  pound,  with  the  effect  of  suppressiug  the  growth  of  the 
most  promising  industry  that  California  has  to-day  ?  Our 
beet  sugar  industry  has  made  a  big  start,  has  great  possi- 
bilities, and,  indeed,  bids  fair  to  become  the  leading  indus- 
try of  the  State.  Our  great  valleys  of  deep,  rich  soil  are 
unsurpassed  for  the  growth  of  the  sugar  beet  by  any  part 
of  the  known  world.  Their  cultivation  and  manufacture 
will  give  our  own  farmers,  carriers,  and  refiners  an  ever 
increasing  amount  of  profitable  labor.  With  our  country 
on  a  protectionist  basis,  why  should  we  give  up  our  own 
home  market  to  the  fat,  lazy,  and  opulent  Hawaiian 
planters,  and  to  their  semi-slave  laborers  of  Chinese,  Jap- 
anese, and  Portuguese  origin.  To  do  that  is  to  reverse 
our  whole  tariff  policy,  and  to  lead  to  the  suspicion  that 
certain  of  our  Senators  have  tasted  Hawaiian  sugar,  and 
found  more  in  it  for  tbem  than  in  that  grown  in  their  own 
country.  The  right  kind  of  legislation  on  this  subject  is  so 
palpable  to  the  Protectionist  majority  that  those  of  them 
who  vote  against  it  are  obvious  betrayers  of  a  great  pub- 
lic trust,  and,  as  such,  unworthy  of  confidence.  The  truth 
is,  that  the  young  missionary  descendants  who  have  filched 
from  the  natives  nearly  all  their  lands,  have  too  long  been 
a  pampered,  coddled  and  spoiled  class.  They  toil  not, 
neither  do  they  spin.  Yet,  by  abusing  the  hospitality  of 
the  natives,  who  so  generously  received  their  sires,  they 
have  become  the  lords  of  the  manor,  and  rule  over  the 
country  as  despots.  They  employ  imported  heathens,  who 
are  paid  and  treated  very  much  as  if  they  were  chattel 
property,  and  all  this  whilst  these  planters  have  been  paid 
over  $80,000,000  by  the  American  wage-earners  in  the 
shape  of  rebated  sugar  duties,  and  that  to  the  injury  of 
what  can  be,  and  ought  to  be,  the  leading  industry  of  Cal- 
ifornia's free  labor.  The  white  population  amounts  to 
only  about  8,000,  or  about  as  many  people  as  are  found 
housed  in  a  single  street  in  San  Francisco.  We  send  this 
select  band  $4,000,000  a  year  in  rebated  sugar  duties,  or 
more,  on  an  average,  than  the  United  States  has  spent  on 
the  whole  State  of  California.  In  return  for  all  this,  the 
Hawaiians  buy  of  California  wines,  brandies,  flour,  lumber, 
canned  goods,  etc.,  to  an  amount  just  about  equal  to  the 
sugar  duties  we  present  them  with.  That  is  to  say,  in 
fact,  we  virtually  make  a  free  gift  of  all  that  they  care  to 
order  from  us.  Machinery,  refinery  material,  and  other 
articles  of  a  more  costly  character,  they  take  either  from 
Germany  or  England,  and  order  from  us  only  what  they 
must,  which  they  would  do  treaty  or  no  treaty.  American 
consumers  get  nothing  out  of  this  subvention  to  the  Ha- 
waiians, because  the  latter  take  care  that  their  sugar 
shall  not  sell  for  less  than  what  is  charged  by  countries  with 
which  we  have  no  treaty.  All  this  is  a  transparent  wrong 
that  has  continued  too  long.  It  should  not  longer  continue 
as  an  example  of  the  jobbery  and  robbery  of  the  period. 

Taxing  New  York  State  did  not  like  the  Su- 
Inheritances.  preme  Court's  overthrow  of  the  income 
tax,  and  is  now  playing  for  even  by 
passing  an  inheritance  tax  bill.  That  it  is  an  extreme 
measure  no  one  can  doubt.  The  rates  are  graduated, 
and  are  as  high  as  ten  to  fifteen  per  cent  on  estates 
which  mount  well  up  into  the  millions.  This  feature  may 
render  it  unconstitutional,  inasmuch  as  it  invades  the  re- 
quirement that  taxation  shall  be  equal.  But  its  almost 
unanimous  passage  by  the  Legislature  of  our  greatest  State 
serves  to  indicate  the  trend  of  the  times,  that  may  well  be 
taken  to  heart  by  the  very  rich.  These  men  have  for  the 
most  part  acquired  their  wealth  through  special  privileges 
of  one  kind  or  another  conferred  upon  them  by  the  Govern- 
ment. They  can  and  they  ought  to  bear  a  larger  propor- 
tion of  Governmental  expenses  than  they  now  do.  That  is 
the  feeling  that  is  abroad  in  the  land,  and  if  it  is  not  in 
some  measure  placated,  it  will  sooner  or  later  breed 
lamentable  mischief.  The  masses  have  votes,  and  they 
are  coming  dangerously  near  to  using  them  for  socialistic 
purposes.  Once  let  them  carry  a  national  election,  and 
we  may  then  witness  scenes  not  unlike  those  of  the  French 
Revolution.  The  prevailing  dissatisfaction  is  dangerous. 
The  present  CoDgress  and  administration  are  doing  nothing 
calculated, to  alleviate  it.     The  promised  good  times   are 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


rable    proportion  of  our 

itive 

gathering 

cir- 

anixalion   of   our   present    Incl- 

■  )h<  feared  that 

it    is    much    longer    | 

•  course  during  its 


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not  being   reuiite.: 
population  is  made 
men  may  well  ' 
clouds  and  put  their  bead 
The  reoi 
dents  of   taxui 

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•  .v  -  Lirrri 

career  renders  it  u 

■  nan  that  we  arc  treating  of  this  matter  nunc  as  a 
friend  and  counselor  of  acquired  capital,  than  as  a  critic. 
The  opposition  to  the  New    York    measure,    which   still 
awai'  -    raising   heaven   and 

earth  to  have  it  vetoed  Being  an  extreme  and  ioequl- 
table  law.  that  ought  to  !»•  its  fate.  But  shelving  the  is- 
sue in  that  way  will  not  solve  it.  Like  Baui|Uo's  ghost  it 
will  not  down.  Its  defeat  now  will  onlv  lend  exasperation 
to  the  dissatisfied  classes.  The  millionaires  of  the  me- 
tropo  1'ined  to  be  struck  dumb   with   amazement 

when  the  bill  was  going  through  the  Legislature,  now 
blazes  forth  u|x>n  the  man  who  alone  is  empowered  to  put 
it  on  or  keep  it  off  the  statute  books.  The  New  York 
Evening  Post  refers  to  the  measure  "as  a  direct  tax  on 
accumulation.'  Hut  are  uot  all  taxes  that?  It  is  only  a 
question  of  degree.  The  New  York  Times  questions 
"'whether  it  wiJl  not  destroy  all  incentive  to  accumulation 
and  industry.'  But  may  not  the  same  thing  be  more 
justly  said  of  the  present  too  heavy  burdens  upon  the 
poor?  These  are  fair  specimens  of  the  arguments  used  up 
and  down  the  State  among  its  newspaper  exponents  of 
public  opinion.  All  of  which  is  as  applicable  to  the  strug- 
gling man's  savings  as  to  the  vast  accumulations  of  the 
very  rich,  with  this  difference:  that  the  latter  is  able  to 
stand  it  without  suffering,  whilst  the  former  is  not.  This 
bold  assumption  on  the  part  of  these  misguided  organs  i« 
that  extraordinary  individual  wealth  is  the  sole  product  of 
honest  thrift  and  industry,  rather  than  of  privileges  cre- 
ated by  the  law,  or  taken  in  spite  of  the  law.  If  the  mil- 
lionaires of  the  land  will  not  abstain  from  buying  vetoes, 
legislatures,  and  court  decisions,  as  they  are  reported  to 
be  preparing  to  do  in  New  York,  we  warn  them  that  a 
worse  evil  than  an  income  tax  will  befall  them.  The  wealth 
of  New  York  will  not  always  impress  its  will  upon  the  laws 
of  this  land,  and  that  is  so  palpable  that  it  would  be  the 
work  of  wisdom  to  study  the  trend  of  the  times,  and  be 
preparing  moderate  measures  that  will  turn  aside  a  con- 
dition likely  otherwise  to  come  upon  us.  It  is  better  to 
yield  in  part  than  to  be  altogether  captured  and  at  the 
mercy  of  the  enemy.  These  are  grave  considerations  for 
accumulated  wealth  in  this  Republic. 

The  President  Usurping  A  suggestive  story  comes  from 
Congressional  Privilege,  our  Eastern  exchanges.  It  ap- 
pears that  a  tall,  finely  formed 
and  well-educated  colored  man  appeared  in  Washington 
with  unexceptionable  credentials,  and  an  application  for 
a  Postmastership  at  the  South.  He  was  presented  at  the 
White  House,  and  by  his  modesty,  manly  bearing  and  rec- 
ord made  a  most  favorable  impression.  He  was  booked 
for  the  place,  and  was  happy.  But  a  storm  arose.  The 
white  lady  clerks  "would  not  retain  their  places  under 
him,  that  they  wouldn't."  The  Senators  from  the  State — 
Georgia — would  harass  the  Executive  "if  the  nigger  were 
appointed."  All  this,  and  much  more,  although  many  of 
the  most  prominent  white  men  in  Georgia  had  signed  the 
man's  credentials.  After  warming  his  heels  around  Wash- 
ington for  weeks,  he  was  at  last  bluntly  told  by  the  Presi- 
dent that  "he  would  not  be  appointed;  was  wasting  his 
time  in  Washington  and  had  better  go  home."  To  this  the 
crestfallen  office  seeker  replied  that  he  would  gladly  follow 
the  President's  advice,  but  that  he  didn't  have  a  cent  to 
go  home  with.  Whereupon  the  President  pulled  out  a  ten- 
dollar  bill  from  his  vest  pocket,  and  sent  the  colored  man 
on  his  way,  if  not  rejoicing,  at  least  able  to  pay  his  fare 
out  of  town.  This  payment  by  the  President  is  a  distinct 
usurpation  of  the  privileges  of  Congressmen.  Every  one 
acquainted  with  the  national  capital  knows  the  ordinary 
stages  which  the  unsuccessful  office  seeker  experiences. 
He  arrives  at  Washington  proud  and  confident.  He  puts 
up  at  an  expensive  hotel,  as  befitting  his  anticipated  dig- 
nity. He  sees  the  Representatives  from  his  district.  He 
files   his   papers   and    "pays   his   respects"  at  the  White 


Then  he  watts,  and  oh  such  a  wait ,  I  It  soon  be- 
that  "hope  deferred  that  maketb  the  heart  sick." 
As  the  days  pas*  hi>  pocketbook  dwindles.  He  abandons 
the  hotel  for  s  cheap  Wiardinghouse.  The  new 
suit  of  clothes  he  bought  before  leaving  home 
begin-,  to  look  seedy.  His  countenance  takes 
on  lines  of  chronic  discouragement.  Sooner  or 
later  he  gives  up  a  struggle  that  has  become 
hopeless,  and  obtains  a  loan  From  his  Congressman  to 
pay  his  return  to  civil  life.  It  is  an  ever-recurring  tale, 
of  more  pathos  than  humor  to  many  of  our  free  and  inde- 
nt. But  it  is  invariably  the  privilege  of  the  Con- 
gressman to  Bend  bis  constituent  home.  Mr  McKinley 
has  been  there  himself,  and  knows  all  about  it.  He  lias 
set  a  bad  precedent,  and  has  only  himself  to  thank  if  he 
Buffers  from  it  in  the  proportion  to  which  s.Mi.iiuo  a  year 
holds  to  16,000  a  year.  The  colored  gentleman  in  question 
is  reported  to  have  spent  his  time  and  not  less  than  $200 
of  his  own  money  to  help  secure  Major  Mc  Kinley's  election. 
Ex-President  Harrison  met  a  similar  difficulty  in  a  very 
different  way.  He  had  appointed  a  colored  man  to  a  po- 
sition in  one  of  the  departments,  whereupon  the  lady 
clerks  addressed  tho  President  a  remonstrance,  saying 
they  "could  not  get  along  with  a  negro  in  their  midst,  and 
would  have  to  resign."  The  General  replied  that  "he  re- 
gretted their  inability,  as  it  was  a  distinct  disability  to 
office  holding. "  They  overcame  their  squcamishness.  His 
weaker  successor  demonstrates  that  he  is  not  of  the  stuff 
of  which  heroes  are  made. 

The  Roll  of  The  News  Letter  would  fail  of  an  honor- 
Honor,  able  and  pleasing  obligation  did  it  not  thus 
publicly  extend  its  earnest  thanks  upon  its 
own  behalf,  no  less  than  of  the  entire  communit}',  to  the 
twelve  citizens  who  sat  in  final  judgment  upon  the  case  of 
Judge  Hebbard  against  the  liberty  of  the  Press  and  the 
rights  of  the  People;  for  the  News  Letter  and  its  pro- 
prietor were  mere  incidents  in  that  happily  abortive  at- 
tempt to  strangle  free  expression  of  opinion  and  protect 
our  judiciary  from  honest  criticism.  The  men  who  gave 
this  emphatic  verdict  are  substantial  and  active  business 
men  of  this  city.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  a  more  thoroughly 
representative  and  intelligent  jury  never  listened  to  testi- 
mony nor  rendered  a  verdict  in  a  San  Francisco  court. 
They  sifted  the  testimony,  reached  the  facts,  and  upheld 
justice  in  an  atmosphere  not  over-friendly  to  the  defense. 
That  they  did  their  duty  courageously,  and  in  their  ver- 
dict maintained  a  great  principle  of  justice,  is  the 
unanimous  opinion  of  the  people  and  press  of  California. 
If  all  our  juries  were  animated  by  the  clear  sense  of  right 
and  personal  recognition  of  their  sworn  duties  as  were 
these  men,  we  would  have  no  cause  to  cry  out  against  the 
insolence  of  office  or  the  law's  delays.  These  are  the  men : 
D.  Farquaharson,  banker;  Wm.  Deeney,  capitalist;  K. 
Gambitz,  commission  merchant;  W.  C.  Kramer,  hotel  pro- 
prietor; R.  Kaiser,  grain  dealer;  Henry  Levy,  manufac- 
turer; A.  M.  Lawyer,  insurance  and  realty;  Willard  Per- 
kins, bicycles;  Joseph  Simon,  grocer;  Thomas  S.  Taylor, 
mining;  Adam  Wagner,  manufacturer,  and  D.  B.  Collins, 
merchant. 

The  Wilson  The  Wilson  tariff  is  working  as  Grover 
Tariff  Working.  Cleveland  predicted  it  would.  It  is 
yielding  all  the  revenue  required,  and 
never  would  have  done  less  had  not  the  Supreme  Court 
knocked  the  income  tax  out.  It  has  yielded  another 
surplus,  this  time  for  April  of  $6,000,000."  The  total  de- 
ficit now  would  be  only  $18,000,000  if  the  last  Congress 
had  not  recklessly  increased  appropriations  without  add- 
ing a  dollar  to  the  revenue,  and  there  is  to-day  a  net  bal- 
ance in  the  Treasury,  above  the  gold  reserve,  of  $128,- 
000,000.  The  folly  of  moving  heaven  and  earth,  putting 
business  on  the  rack,  and  running  big  chances  of  turning 
the  country  over  to  the  Bryanite  Democrats,  all  for  the 
professed  purpose  of  getting  money  into  a  Treasury  which 
already  has  too  much,  is  apparent  on  a  mere  statement  of 
the  facts.  The  Wilson  tariff  is  clearly  working  out  its 
own  redemption,  and  would  have  done  well  enough  if  left 
alone.  Business  men  had  become  accustomed  to  it,  and 
were  abundantly  content  to  work  out  their  salvation  under 
it.  Now  things  are  being  turned  upside  down,  and  the 
end  is  not  yet. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


The  Promotion  of  The  promotion  of  the  Hon.  W.  W. 
Judge  Morrow.  Morrow  from  the  position  of  Judge  of 
the  U.  S.  District  Court  to  that  of 
Judge  of  the  U.  S.  Circuit  Court,  is  one  that  at  once 
honors  the  recipient  and  the  appointing  power  alike.  It 
is  one  that  was  eminently  fit  to  be  made,  and  gives  satis- 
faction to  all  classes  of  our  citizens,  without  distinction  of 
party.  That  he  will  well  and  faithfully  perform  the  duties 
of  bis  new  position  goes  without  saying,  because  he  has 
already  been  tried,  and  never  found  wanting,  no  matter 
what  the  emergency.  His  promotion  brings  him,  we  be- 
lieve, an  increase  of  salary  of  $1,000  a  year.  It  also  en- 
tails less  work,  greater  dignity  and  usefulness,  and  is  one 
step  nearer  to  the  Supreme  Bench:  the  goal  of  the  ambition 
of  all  good  judicial  officers.  It  is  also  satisfactory  from 
the  standpoint  of  civil  service  reform.  As  Judge  of  the 
District  Court,  he  was  in  the  direct  line  of  promotion,  and 
that  he  received  it  is  creditable  to  President  McKinley, 
who  was  elected  on  a  civil  service  platform.  Judge  Mor- 
row is  a  thorough  Californian,  is  singularly  well  acquainted 
with  its  vast  and  varied  interests,  and  few,  if  any,  practi- 
cal issues  will  come  before  him  of  which  he  does  not  know 
the  direct  bearing.  He  is  still  in  the  prime  of  a  sturdy 
and  energetic  manhood,  and  still  well  calculated  to  achieve 
the  hopes  and  expectations  formed  for  him  by  his  many 
friends. 

Exit,  the  Rottanzi  has  triumphed.  The  anti-high  hat 
High  Hat.  ordinance,  with  a  little  sawing  off  of  its 
wings  and  mowing  down  of  its  plumes,  to 
borrow  from  the  art  of  millinery  architecture — has  passed 
the  Board  of  Supervisors,  and  will,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  be- 
come a  law.  There  may  a  danger  lurk  in  the  chamber  of 
his  honor  the  Mayor;  but  we  trust  not.  He  has,  so  far  as 
is  known,  "laid  low  and  kept  dark"  as  to  his  most  secret 
thoughts  of  the  blooming  and  desolating  high  hat.  It  is 
true,  Mayor  Phelan  is  not  a  benedict.  He  yet  delights  in 
the  charms  of  his  club.  But  he  is  a  gallant  gentleman, 
with  all  the  compliment  implies,  and  his  duty — usually 
quickly  seen,  and  no  sooner  seen  than  fearlessly  done — 
may  be  fatally  entangled  in  the  roses,  the  silks,  the  ostrich 
tips,  and  the  laces  and  ribbons  of  one  of  those  fearful 
triumphs  of  the  dry  goods  store  and  taxidermist's  won- 
derful cunning — at  once  the  despair  of  the  first-nighter 
and  the  joy  of  the  feminine  heart.  But  the  Mayor  is 
human;  he  is  not  a  man  of  great  stature;  he  is  an  invet- 
erate patron  of  the  theatres,  and  we  charitably  hope 
that  he  has  suffered  and  torn  his  hair  in  impotent  rage,  as 
others  of  us  have,  when  the  heroine  and  hero — aye,  the 
whole  ballet — have  been  suddenly  engulfed  in  the  gloomy 
shadow  of  the  milliner's  riotous  imagination.  This  is  the 
one  touch  of  the  high  hat  that  makes  male  mankind  kin. 
Let  the  ordinance  be  signed,  and  the  horizon  cleared. 


Tilting  at  Dr.  Lyman  Abbott,  a  man  of  deep  practical 
Windmills  piety  and  profound  knowledge — at  once  an 
honor  to  Plymouth  Congregational  Church, 
Brooklyn,  and  worthy  successor  to  the  garments  of  the 
great  Beecher — has  called  from  the  other  side  of  the  con- 
tinent to  the  small  and  valiant  warriors  of  the  faith  in 
San  Francisco  in  a  voice  that  appeals  to  the  reason  of  the 
unsectarian  world,  even  though  it  fail  to  arrest  the  intol- 
erant attention,  or  stay  the  discordant  babel  that  bursts 
from  the  congregations  of  the  Godly  in  condemnation  of 
the  conservative  doubts  of  the  Rev.  William  Rader,  who 
questions  the  authenticity  of  Jonah's  whale.  Dr.  Abbott  has 
spoken  as  one  who  has  traveled  beyond  the  shallows  near 
the  shore,  and  from  the  deep  ocean  of  a  ripe  and  gracious 
experience  hales  back  the  way  to  those  who  clamor  in  de- 
fense of  the  literal  letter  of  the  law  forgetful  of  the  spirit 
of  charity  and  toleration — the  great  absorbing  and  vital 
facts  for  which  the  name  of  the  lowly  Nazarene  has  stood 
through  the  centuries.  The  eminent  divine,  whose  clear 
vision  and  broad  wisdom  none  may  successfully  contradict, 
reads  the  Bible  without  the  spectacles  of  tradition,  and 
uses  brains  in  penetrating  its  mysteries.  He  does  not  see 
in  this  fable  of  the  fish  and  Jonah  anything  that  bears 
upon  the  spirit  of  true  Christianity;  and  he  has  boldly  de- 
clared from  his  pulpit  that  a  man  may  gain  a  place  in 
Abraham's  bosom  without  consulting  the  possibility  of 
temporary   residence   in   a   whale's   belly.     The  Rev.  Mr. 


Rader  has  been  subjected  to  the  severest  censure  by  many 
of  his  brethren,  and  in  particular  has  he  been  scored  by 
papers  representing  other  than  the  Congregational  faith 
on  this  coast.  He  had  the  temerity  to  say  at  a  meeting 
of  the  ministry,  that  he  did  not  take  much  stock  in  the 
Biblical  allegation  of  Jonah  and  the  whale — in  fact,  he  re- 
garded it  as  improbable,  not  to  say  absolutely  without 
foundation.  For  this  exercise  of  sincere  personal  belief, 
the  brethren  proceeded  to  rend  him.  They  have  not 
sought  to  meet  his  disbelief  by  reason;  argument  and  logic 
are  not  in  their  lexicon.  They  say,  let  him  who  doubts  be 
cast  into  outer  darkness;  may  his  name  be  anathema;  may 
he  fade  from  the  fold  and  perish  from  the  earth.  Blind 
acceptance,  undoubting  belief  must  take  the  place  of  in- 
dividual opinion,  and  because  the  fables  are  of  the  Bible, 
no  question  of  their  literal  truth  can  be  entertained.  To 
be  a  man  first  and  a  Christian  after,  will  not  serve  their 
turn. 

It  is  this  indiscriminate  and  sweeping  position  of  the 
orthodox  faith  that  does  the  cause  of  religion  greatest 
hurt.  There  is  enough  of  vitality,  of  hope  and  divine 
sympathy  within  the  lids  of  Holy  Writ  to  claim  the  respect 
and  stir  to  action  the  best  emotions  in  the  human  heart. 
The  grandest  character  in  history  is  that  of  Jesus  Christ. 
Its  beauty  and  strength  are  not  touched  by  the  trivial 
causes  which  set  by  the  ears  half  of  the  orthodox  world,  and 
exciting  the  mirth  and  inviting  the  ridicule  of  the  struggling 
humanity  of  the  earth.  When  these  furious  Don  Quixotes 
of  the  faith  cease  to  tilt  at  windmills,  and  practically  take 
to  heart  the  eternal  truths  taught  by  the  Carpenter  of 
Nazareth,  and  of  which  He  stands  as  the  sweetest  and 
most  gracious  impulse  and  influence  for  the  happiness  and 
hope  of  a  Race,  they  will  find  less  time  for  small  quarrels 
and  windy  battles  over  incidents  of  doubtful  authenticity 
and  less  significance. 


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BRILLIANT      MARRIAGES     OF      EARLY      DAYS. 

WHEN  one  looks  upon  the  beautiful  and  elaborat 
burch.  the  long  train  of  charmingly 
attired   bridesmaids,    and   the 

program  of  the  organist, 

all  adjuncts  of  a  Iding   nowadays,   the  mind 

turns  back  ■  remomals,  comparing 

the  simplicity  of  weddings  then  with  the  display  of  to-day. 
Take  for  instance  the  wedding  of  Judge  Stephen  J.  Field 
and  Y  rearingen  which   was   performed  at  Grace 

Church  on  the  2nd  of  June,  1889.  Could  anything  be 
simpler  than  that.'  The  congregation  of  Grace  Church  al 
that  time  worshipped  in  a  little  wooden  building  on  P 
street,  near  Jackson.  The  edifice  is  still  standing  and  oc- 
cupied by  a  colored  denomination.  Simple  as  the  little 
church  was  it  bore  the  distinction  of  being  the  fashionable 
church  of  the  city.  Church  weddings  were  very  infrequent 
in  those  days,  but  nearly  all  the  society  weddings  which 
were  performed  in  church  took  place  therein  as  on  this 
occasion.  Such  a  thing  as  ushers  were  then  undreamed 
of,  "reserved  pews"  were  also  still  in  embryo,  and  so  the 
guests  at  this  ceremony,  who  were  many  in  number,  were 
allowed  to  seat  themselves  according  to  their  own  pleasure. 
There  were  no  flowers — not  even  a  bouquet  upon  the  altar; 
the  sun  having  not  yet  set  there  was  no  artificial  light,  and 
the  only  music  heard  was  the  wedding  march  as  the  bridal 
party  entered  the  church  at  seven  o'clock.  Judge  Field 
was  in  full  evening  dress;  the  bride  and  her  sister,  Miss 
Belle  Swearingen  (now  Mrs.  Andy  McCreary),  who  was 
bridesmaid,  wore  gowns  of  simple  white  muslin.  Bishop 
Kip.  who  was  then  acting  as  rector  of  the  church,  tied  the 
nuptial  knot. 

But  simple  as  this  service  was,  the  wedding  of  Miss 
Belle  Swearingen  (the  bridesmaid  at  the  above  mentioned 
ceremony.)  and  Andrew  McCreary  was  still  more  so.  The 
bride  and  groom,  with  a  couple  of  friends,  drove  up  to 
Grace  Church  (the  present  edifice),  at  nine  o'clock  one 
evening  towards  the  close  of  1865,  and  were  married  by 
the  rector,  there  being  no  one  present  but  themselves. 
What  greater  contrast  can  be  presented  to  this  than  the 
elaborate  wedding  festivities  of  their  son  and  Miss  Mc- 
Adam,  which  took  place  so  recently  in  England,  and  of 
which  news  has  just  been  received?  or  of  the  still  grander 
ceremonial  when  their  eldest  son  married  the  only  daughter 
of  Colonel  Lawrence  Kip  in  New  York  not  long  ago? 
Judge  J.  M.  Seawell,  who  so  gracefully  united  in  marriage 
Miss  Agnes  Smedberg  and  Max  Rosenfeld  last  "Wednesday 
evening  was  the  groom  of  one  of  the  prettiest  bridal 
parties  ever  seen  in  San  Francisco.  The  wedding  cere- 
mony of  himself  and  Miss  Gertrude  Ver  Mehr  took  place 
at  Trinity  Church  on  Pine  street,  on  the  evening  of 
November  12,  18G3,  the  father  of  the  bride,  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Ver  Mehr,  (a  pioneer  among  our  city  clergy)  officiat- 
ing. At  the  reception  which  followed  at  the  home  of  the 
Ver  Mehrs  on  Sutter  street  the  beauty  of  the  bride  and  her 
attendants  were  the  subject  of  comment,  the  bride  being 
a  blonde  of  the  most  perfect  type,  the  Misses  Ella  Maxwell 
and  Sarah  Poett,  who  were  the  bridesmaids,  equally 
lovely  and  perfect  brunettes.  These  were  all  church 
affairs,  and  in  contra-distinction  to  the  elaborate  marriage 
ceremony  which  took  place  in  New  York  a  year  or  so  ago, 
of  Burke  Holladay  and  Miss  Clara  Huntington,  was  the 
simple  home  cermony  which  united  the  groom's  parents — 
Samuel  Holladay  and  Miss  Kate  Ord,  performed  by  the 
Rev.  Ferdinand  Ewer  in  the  parlors  of  Judge  H.  I.  Thorn- 
ton's residence  on  Green  street  one  morning  in  September, 
1858.  Judge  H.  J.  Thornton  and  bis  son-in-law,  Judge 
James  Thornton  (ex-Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court)  occupied 
adjoining  houses  on  Green  street  in  1857,  and  both  houses 
were  utilized  for  the  marriage  of  Miss  Bessie  Thornton, 
the  belle  par  excellence  of  that  period,  and  Ben  Nesbitt, 
which  was  solemnized  on  the  sixth  of  November  1857.  It 
was  one  of  the  earliest  weddings  among  San  Francisco's 
swagger  set,  and  the  lovely  bride  and  handsome  groom, 
who  was  a  junior  partner  in  the  banking  house  of  Lucas 
Turner  &  Co.,  were  looked  upon  as  the  most  fortunate  of 
mortals  by  the  host  of  friends  who  crowded  the  rooms  on 
the  occasion.  It  was  an  evening  ceremony,  performed  in 
the  long  parlor  of  her  father's  house  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Scott.  The  bridesmaids  were  Miss  Eliza  Van  Ness  (Mrs. 
Frank  McCoppin),  Miss   Lucy  Judge  (Mrs.  Sam  Brooks). 


and  Miss  .Martha  Scotl  (Mrs,  Nick  Kittle),  and  the  grc 
men  were  Harry  Thornton,  Lieutenant  G,   II.   Elliot,   IT.  8. 

A.  and   Lafayette   Hammond.    Supper  was  laid   in  the 

adjoining    ri  of    the    bride's     sister.      .Mrs.    James 

Thornton.     The  beautiful  bride  wore  a  robe  of  white  D 
trimmed   with   orange  blossoms,    a   wreath   of   the  same 
Bowers,  and  a  tulle  veil. 

Had  the  marriage  of  Wm.  C.  Ralston  taken  place  now 
instead  of  on  the  twentieth  of  May.  1858,  what  a  magnifi- 
cent function  it  would  have  bceul  Ralston,  although  not 
the  mone]  king  be  afterwards  became,  was  even  then 
rapidly  looming  up  in  the  tii  ai  rial  world,  and  his  wife  was 
a  niece  of  Colonel  J.  D.  Fry.  The  marriage  service  was 
performed  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Scott,  in  Calvary  Church  on 
Bush  street,  at  2  o'clock  in  the  afternoon.  Again,  there 
were  neither  flowers,  attendants,  nor  wedding  guests 
proper,  no  invitations  having  been  issued.  The  church 
was  well  filled  by  their  friends,  and  a  reception  followed  at 
the  residence  of  Mrs.  Darling  at  North  Beach.  The  nota- 
ble feature  of  this  wedding  was  the  bridal  trip  to  Yosemite 
Valley,  which  was  a  regular  camping-out  frolic;  the 
ladies  wore  bloomers,  the  trip  having  to  be  made  princi- 
pally on  horseback,  the  valley  being  almost  inaccessible  in 
those  days.  The  party  was  a  lively  one,  consisting  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ralston,  Miss  Sarah  Haight,  Mrs.  Darling,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Kinkead,  Colonel  Fry,  Judge  McCrea,  J.  Y. 
Hallock,  Edgar  Mills,  J.  A.  Donohoe,  Tom  Morrison  and 
General  Josh  Haven. 

A  pretty  home  wedding  was  the  ceremony  which  united 
the  parents  of  those  popular  young  beaux,  Samuel  and 
Danforth  Boardman,  and  Chauncey  Boardman,  whose  recent 
marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Mercado  was  such  a  society  event. 
Mr.  Geo.  C.  Boardman  and  Miss  Julia  Hort  were  married 
by  the  Rev.  Mr.  "Wheeler  in  the  parlor  of  the  handsome 
new  residence  of  the  Horts  on  Sutter  street,  on  the  morn- 
ing of  August  16,  1863.  Sunlight  was  excluded  and  the 
rooms  brilliantly  illuminated  with  gas;  the  bridal  party 
and  many  of  the  guests  were  in  full  evening  dress.  The 
bride  never  looked  prettier  than  she  did  on  that  occasion, 
and  her  bridesmaids  formed  a  trio  of  pretty  maidens. 
They  were  the  Misses  Cora  Lyons,  Nelly  Gordon  and  Sue 
Throckmorton.  Only  a  few  intimate  friends  were  present 
at  the  ceremony,  but  a  large  reception  followed  after- 
wards. 

The  approaching  marriage  of  Atherton  Macondray  and 
Miss  Quita  Collier  recalls  the  wedding  of  the  groom's 
parents,  Fred  Macondray  and  Elena  Atherton,  who  was 
not  only  one  of  the  prettiest,  but  one  of  the  most  popular, 
belles  of  San  Francisco  early-day  society.  It  was  the  first 
country  wedding  ever  celebrated  hereabouts,  the  cere- 
mony taking  place  at  the  country  home  of  the  Athertons, 
near  Menlo  Park,  on  the  11th  of  September,  1865,  and  was 
performed  by  Archbishop  Alemany.  A  special  train  from 
town  conveyed  the  guests  to  the  scene  of  the  nuptials. 
The  lovely  bride  bad  three  pretty  bridesmaids,  her  eldest 
sister  being  one,,  and  the  others  Miss  Ella  Maxwell  and 
Miss  Quita  Smith.  The  dejeuner  which  followed  was  <«  la 
fourchctte,  and  later  the  party  returned  to  town  by  special 
train. 

THE  California  Title  Insurance  and  Trust  Company  elect- 
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lows: Charles  Page,  President;  Oliver  Eldridge,  Vice- 
President;  Howard  E.  Wright,  Secretary.  All  the  gen- 
tlemen are  well  known  in  business  circles  in  this  city.  Mr. 
Wright  was  a  member  of  the  Assembly  in  the  last  Legis- 
lature, and  is  a  prominent  financial  broker.  Capital  stock 
of  the  company  is  $250,000;  reserve  fund  paid  up,  $25,000. 


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naut Whiskey,  and  that  is  the  best.  This  fine  liquor  is  represented 
on  this  Coast  by  E.  Martin  &  Co.  at  411  Market  street,  who  are  sole 
agents.  Argonaut  whiskey  is  pure,  mellow,  and  the  very  perfection 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


'  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 

SEE  Tom  Robertson's  serio-comic  hand- 
me-down  Dacid  Garric/c,  remember 
that  actors  have  played  it  for  many  years, 
will  play  it  many  more,  maybe,  and  think 
to  yourself  that  posterity  is  a  great  critic, 
^?  but  a  slow  one.  Grandchildren  are  apt  to 
be  just  as  bad  judges  as  their  pro-progenitors:  it  is  a  wise 
child  who  knows  more  than  bis  father  knew:  and  bad  art 
often  descends  unto  the  third  and  fourth  degeneration.  It 
is  not  necessary  to  be  an  impertinent  modern  and  a  pro- 
traditionalist  to  recognize  David  Garrick  as  a  fogey  im- 
possible, imposter  "classic" — to  me,  at  least,  it  does  not 
seem  necessary  for  man  to  be  anything  more  than  alive 
and  awake  to  know  that  the  play  is  bad,  downright  bad. 
Yet  I  sat  in  the  neighborhood  of  ostensibly  intelligent  per- 
sons on  Monday  night  at  the  Baldwin  Theatre,  and  heard 
Garric/c  discussed  as  a  master-piece.  Everybody  did  not 
regard  it  that  way;  in  fact,  one  first-nighter  told  me  that 
he  had  always  liked  the  play,  but  somehow  his  illusions 
were  shattered  after  the  Goodwiu  performance.  "Shat- 
tered illusions,"  you  may  have  noticed,  is  a  bit  of  high 
language  applied  by  whioing  man  to  those  sudden  shocks 
that  mark  the  evolution  of  his  taste.  I  am  in  a  bad  way 
to  make  myself  convincing  to  the  old-timer,  who  num- 
bers Garrick  among  his  cherished  traditions,  for  I  have 
never  seen  any  of  the  "great  Garricks"  of  the  stage.  I 
did  not  see  the  elder  Sothern's — for  reasons  best  known  to 
my  parents — nor  Lawrence  Barrett's;  1  was  not  in  Lon- 
don when  Charles  Wyndam  played  the  part — nor  when  he 
did  not,  for  that  matter — and  those  Garricks  whom  I  did 
see  were  acted  by  rough,  inexpensive  actors  whose  names 
would  give  no  formidableness  or  circumstance  to  the 
present  occasion.  If  I  remember  well,  the  David  Garrick 
who  precedes  Mr.  Goodwin's  in  my  experience  was  a  fat 
young  gentleman,  who  wallowed  porkily  in  the  lines,  and 
had  to  be  handled  in  the  drunken  scene  by  three  brave 
men,  and  who  has  now,  I  believe,  fallen  to  conducting  a 
school  of  dramatic  art.  So,  you  see,  I  stand  no  chance  in 
a  discussion  where  comparisons  are  the  weapons.  The 
only  good  Garrick  whom  I  have  ever  seen  is  Nat  Good- 
win's, and  that  is  not  so  good  that  I  have  gained  any  re- 
spect for  the  play,  or  increased  the  almost  unincreasable 
admiration  I  candidly  hold  for  Mr.  Goodwin.  I  wanted  to 
see  him  in  the  part,  just  as  I  would  hear  Paderewski  in  a 
fire-cracker  piano  piece — to  watch  his  fingers  go  round — 
to  watch  Goodwin  in  the  various  phases  of  dramatic  vir- 
tuosity the  part  of  Garrick  is  supposed  to  call  forth.  I 
satisfied  my  curiosity  without  diminishing  by  a  single  crave 
my  art  appetite.  Mr.  Goodwin  wastes  enough  good 
force  on  this  loose,  leaky  part  to  keep  several  lesser 
actors  vitalized  for  the  rest  of  their  lives. 


My  strongest  reasons  for  esteeming  Goodwin  as  the  very 
best  of  American  actors  are  the  degrees  of  humanness, 
naturalness,  unostentation,  that  lift  his  work  to  a  realness 
unattained  by  other  actors.  And  all  this  fine  artisticness 
is  as  good  as  thrown  away,  it  seems  to  me,  on  a  part  that 
is  obviously  artificial  and  theatric  from  start  to  finish.  If 
Robertson  had  said  of  his  Garrick,  "Here  is  a  poser  and  a 
prig,  who  lords  it  over  a  pack  of  ignoramuses,  tells  them 
what  a  devil  of  a  fellow  he  is,  sacrifices  himself  in  one  act 
by  playing  drunk  before  the  girl  he  loves,  because  he  has 
said  to  her  father  with  puffing  pride,  "David  Garrick  has 
given  his  word,"  and  then  goes  off  and  tells  the  whole  busi- 
ness to  the  first  roystering  crowd  he  falls  in  with,  and, 
proud  and  imperious  to  the  last,  will  not  wed  the  girl  uutil 
her  father  remembers  the  Garrick  vow,  never  to  marry 
any  man's  daughter  until  her  father  comes  hat  in  hand  to 
beg  the  honor  of  the  alliance — if  Robertson  had  said  this 
fairly,  and  lived  up  to  something  like  it  throughout  the 
play,  there  might  be  some  chance  for  a  consistent  charac- 
ter. But  he  did  not;  he  intended  his  Garrick  to  be  noth- 
ing less  than  a  hero  to  the  last  letter  of  the  word.  That 
he  reads  a  prig  is  only  the  accident  of  bad  playwriting  and 


worse  ideas  as  to  what  constitutes  the  actions  of  a  hero. 
In  the  time  of  Garrick  the  actor  was  patronized  by  the 
world;  his  praises  were  sung  in  royal  measures  while  fa- 
vor held  him  high;  but  when  luck  was  against  some  unfor- 
tunate member  of  the  "perfesh,"  none  was  too  low  to  hurl 
at  him  the  stinging  epithet  "playactor!"  Garrick,  the 
player,  believed  in  his  craft  and  believed  in  himself.  In  the 
play  he  is  presumed  to  elevate  his  calling.  He  does  it  by 
speaking  of  Shakespeare  in  reverent,  religious  tones,  and 
patronizing  the  world.  His  deportment  is  meant  to  be  1 
lesson  to  one  sex  and  a  joy  to  the  other.  In  a  small  way 
he  is  as  big  a  snob  as  Chesterfield,  and  in  a  big  way  he  is 
as  small  a  snob  as  the  average  star  actor  of  the  present 
day  who  is  suffering  from  an  obese  opinion  of  himself. 

Now  it  would  be  hard  to  find  an  actor  who  damns  the 
oh-me-Gawd  style  of  playacting  as  devoutly  as  Nat  Good- 
win does.  Any  one  who  remembers  his  career — from  low- 
est comedy,  mimicry,  to  that  marvelous  life-likeness,  Jim 
Radburn,  the  Sheriff  in  In  Mizzoura — must  acknowledge 
that  every  detail  of  his  work  has  been  achieved  by  the 
purest  and  most  unaffected  of  legitimate  methods.  In  this 
case  he  tries  to  do  more  for  the  part  than  the  part  justi- 
fies. He  overestimates  the  capacity  of  David  Garrick  for 
fine  treatment.  The  first  act  starts  beautifully;  the  deli- 
cate irony  he  brings  out  of  his  side  of  the  situation  when 
Ingot  questions  him  and  offers  to  bribe  him  to  leave  Eng- 
land; the  eloquence  of  his  facial  expression;  the  rich  hu- 
mor suggested  in  bis  laconic  replies — the  general  assump- 
tion and  execution  of  this  scene  is  nothing  short  of  first- 
rate  comedy  art.  And  the  noiseless  unimportance  which 
he  attaches  to  that  blithering  fine,  "David  Garrick  has 
given  his  word,"  deserves  a  panegyric  on  gold  plate.  I  do 
not  like  so  well  the  scene  where  he  discovers  Ada's  iden- 
tity. It  is  the  only  incident  that  I  remember  in  the  play 
where  Mr.  Goodwin  forces  himself  to  anything  like  iheatri- 
calism,  aud  it  stands  out  incongruously. 


The  drunken  scene — which  has  been  unfavorably  re- 
viewed by  several  of  my  colleagues — strikes  me  as  being 
more  a  question  of  interpretation  than  of  execution.  It 
is  worked  out  in  the  same  spirit  of  delicacy  that  charac- 
terizes the  entire  portrayal.  Mr.  Goodwin  seems  pur- 
posely to  avoid  making  Garrick  as  extravagantly  comical 
as  a  comedian  of  bis  known  resources  could  easily  make 
him.  He  subjects  himself  to  the  tomfoolery  of  the  scene 
with  some  reserve,  never  going  so  far  as  to  completely 
lose  us  the  illusion  of  the  sober  Garrick.  He  is  frankly 
playing  drunk,  not  being  drunk.  He  assumes  a  role  within 
a  role,  and  he  takes  pains  to  maintain  the  two  apart.  The 
average  leading  man,  given  this  part,  would  make  Rome 
howl  with  Garrick's  drunken  revelry,  taking  it  for  a  great 
character  chance.  Goodwin's  comicality  is  an  established 
institution;  in  Garrick  he  asks  for  serious  consideration, 
and  instead  of  hinging  the  entire  play  upon  the  boozing 
episode,  he  makes  that  nothing  more  than  incidental  to 
the  whole.  Many  a  worse  actor  could  get  more  violently 
successful  results  out  of  it — and  make  Chivy's  following 
scene  an  anti-climax.  For  it  is  well  to  remember  that 
Chivy  is  no  imitation;  his  is  a  real  drunk.  The  last  act 
Goodwin  plays  with  unusual  gentleness.  He  is  ingenu- 
ously sentimental  rather  than  volcanic  with  Ada;  and  with 
something  of  superhuman  decency  he  contrives  to  get  real 
comedy  out  of  that  fearful  moment  when,  hat  in  hand,  In- 
got asks  the  honor  of  the  alliance.  But  artistic  discrimina- 
tion, subtle  subtlety,  and  sensitive  magnetism,  get  poor 
return  from  David  Garrick.     It  is  a  rank  old  play. 


The  Smith,  Jones,  and  Brown  people  are  furiously  farci- 
cal, and  "William  Ingersoll  is  excellent  just  so  long  as  Squire 
Chivy  is  boiling  drunk — he  takes  the  sober  moments  with 
bad  grace  —but  there  are  two  palpable  cases  of  miscasting 
in  David  Garrick.  Neil  O'Brien,  who  has  an  honorable 
record  in  "  below  stairs"  bits,  is  woefully  inadequate  to 
Ingot,  and  Miss  Gertrude  Elliott,  who  is  clever  at  the 
"  maudlingly  emotional,"  should  have  saved  her  sister 
from  playing  an  impossible  Ada  Ingot.  I  cannot  see  for  a 
minute  where  Miss  Maxine  Elliott  comes  in  in  this  play. 
She  is  no  more  the  clinging,  cooing,  gushing,  actor-smit- 
ten matinee  girl  of  last  century  than  she  is  of  this;  and  she 
patronizes  the  part  quite  openly. 


May  2:,  1S97. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'  >r   a   rurtoindro|)|MT.  and  la 
well  worth  the  waitii  . 

at  I  know,  and  in  it  Mr  Goodwin  and  Miss  Elliott 
rvaliir  nmrc  art  than  in  a  performance 

to  absolutely  perfect  er  happiest 

edy  pa<  e.  and  Mr.  (JckxIw;  unerring  pantomime 

to  easier  U>  read  than  print. 

*  •  • 

On  Thursday  nitfht  Nat  (lixxlwin  donned  the  Joffersonian 
wijf  for  the  second  time  in  San  Francisco      And  there  was 

••r  Bob  Acres  under  it  than  Joseph  Jefferson  ever 
dared  to  play.     I    have   seen   Jefferson  more  than  once  in 

art  of  Acres.  I  appreciate  all  he  did  in  cutting  and 
•lie  play  to  its  present  practical  form:  but  1 
think  that  the  best  thins  he  ever  did  in  his  life  was  to 
hand  it  over  to  Nat  Goodwin,  together  with  the  famous 
r/i  a  new  chapter  in  stage  history. 
I  reviewed  the  performance  last  December,  when  Goodwin 
played  .Seres  for  the  first  time  in  America.  The  produc- 
tion throughout  is  Improved  now.  and  Goodwin  makes  good 

romise  of  famous  acting  that  was  10  his  first  perform - 
-.  The  delicious  bumptiousness  of  his  Brst  entrance, 
the  irreproachable  nuances  of  expression  with  which  he 
merges  Hob  from  bluster  to  quakes  in  the  challenge  scene, 
the  comical  yet  almost  pitiful  piteousness  at  the  dueling 
why,  from  the  standpoint  of  technique  alone,  these 
scenes  marked  great  acting.  And,  enveloped  and  warmed 
in  Goodwin"s  compelling  magnet  ism.  they  made  old  comedy 
live  again,  rejuvenated  and  humanized.  It  requires  no 
whiskered  traditions  for  one  to  appreciate  the  rare  excel- 
lence of  Tlir  Minis  as  Goodwin  gives  it.  I  sat  there  in  the 
Baldwin,  Thursday  night,  sincerely  believing  that  this  play 
would  be  a  success  had  it  been  written  yesterday.  This 
would  be  a  hard  test  for  any  "classic,"  but  1  think  The 
Rivals  could  stand  it.     That   Irishman,  Sheridan,  was  the 

Oscar  Wilde  of  his  day. 

*  *  # 

During  the  run  of  Shamus  O'Brien  at  the  Tivoli  I  noticed 
that  a  score  or  two  of  people  usually  left  the  bouse  at  the  end 
of  the  second  act — the  music  was  too  much  for  thern.  To 
those  persons  I  commend  Captain  Fmcassa,  a  malty  comic 
opera  composed  by  Dellinger,  book  by  Geneeand  Zell,  done 
into  English,  I  am  told,  by  Harry  Smith  of  De  Koven  fame. 
It  will  see  two  more  performances  at  the  Tivoli,  at  neither 
of  which  shall  I  be  present.  DeWolf  Hopper  once  played 
the  title  role.  Rhys  Thomas  is  following  in  Hopper's  foot- 
steps, and  honestly  confessing  for  once  and  all  that  he  is 
no  comedian.  The  production  is  an  elaborate  and  an  ex- 
pensive one,  and  I  could  easily  praise  nearly  everybody  in 
the  cast — Miss  Millard  particularly — for  not  making  out 
the  melancholy  book  and  the  weinerwurst  music  to  be  any 
deadlier  than  they  really  are. 

*  *  * 

The  Baggensens  (mother  and  son)  are  the  only  fun  to  be 
found  among  the  Orpheum's  novelties  for  this  week. 
Mother  Baggensen  is  very  expert  at  juggling  plates  and 
bottles,  and  son  has  a  new.  if  rather  long-winded, 
scheme  for  playing  stage-drunk.  The  pantomime,  Yvette, 
committed  by  George  Osrani  and  accomplices,  is  vulgar 
without  being  funny. 

Ashton  Stevens. 

Mr.  Goodwin  will  devote  all  of  next  week  at  the  Bald- 
win to  Mrs.  Ryley's  clever  comedy,  An  American  Citizen, 
in  which  he  and  Miss  Elliott  have  scored  one  of  the  biggest 
successes  of  the  season  since  the  piece  was  introduced  to 
us  several  months  ago. 

The  Tivoli  people  will  sing  Martha  next  week,  with  a 
strong  cast.  A  big  ballet  and  several  specialties  will  be 
introduced.  Great  preparations  are  being  made  for  the 
local  satire,  Mist  Frisco. 

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weird  act,  "The  Crocodile  and  the  Demon." 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


The  Celandine  grew  in  the  rank  weeds.  Sad  was  its  life  in 
the  deep  shade.  It  longed  for  a  sight  of  the  sky ;  and  it  loved 
the  sky-bird,  the  Swallow.  Crushed  and  broken  by  rude 
hoofs ;  but  still  alive  and  longing !  Then  chance  cleared  the 
way  and  it  faced  the  sky,  and  the  Swallow,  oh,  joy  !  paused 
for  a  moment  beside  it.  But  the  Swallow's  true  mate  came 
by.  and  away  they  flew  together.  Again  rude  hoofs,  and 
ruder  chance,  o'erwhelnied  the  poor,  little  Celandine.  One 
glimpse  of  sky,  one  moment  of  love,  and  then  lowly  life  in 
the  shadow. 

HE  had  longed  all  his  life  to  be  loved. 
Nature,  by  making  him  a  hunchback,  seemed  to  have 
cut  him  off  from  the  greatest  of  all  things. 

With  what  clinching  of  hands  and  low  forced-out  groans 
had  he  wrestled  with  the  consuming  agony  of  desire  to  be 
in  all  to  someone! 

At  last,  as  the  one  wonderful  gift  from  the  gods,  it 
came. 

He  was  loved;  loved  for  himself  and  for  eternity.  She 
was  going  to  spend  her  life  with  him,  and  in  return  he  had 
given  his  very  soul  into  her  keeping. 

The  habitual  look  of  restless  yearning  in  his  eyes  was 
changed  to  a  happy  sparkle,  and  even  the  weird  bronze 
bell-pull  on  his  outer  gate  in  the  Rue  Boissonade  seemed  to 
grin  with  reflected  joy  as  it  peered  through  the  vines. 

With  unspeakable  happiness  of  heart  he  looked  forward 
to  the  spring  when  they  would  return  to  America  and  be- 
come man  and  wife. 

Ah,  Life  was  rich  and  golden  after  all! 

How  she  came  to  do  it  she  never  quite  knew. 

She  had  been  rash,  perhaps.  He  really  was  very  unsat- 
isfying to  look  upon.  But  then  he  was  so  kind;  his  gray 
eyes  had  looked  at  her  with  such  an  intense  longing.  She 
had  felt  sorry  for  him.  He  was  so  noble  and  so  unselfish, 
and  he  loved  her  so  devotedly — madly;  he  almostfrightened 
her  with  his  intensity  of  feeling. 

There  was  really  no  one  she  liked  better. 

And  these  longings  after  an  ideal,  after  an  indefinable 
something  that  would  complete  her,  were  absurd.  All 
right  for  novels  and  silly  girls,  •  but  for  an  art  student  in 
Paris,  with  the  weary  Philistine  world  to  struggle  against, 
and  the  scarcity  of  prosaic  necessaries — well,  he  was  so 
kind  and  could  give  her  a  home,  and  she  could  work  her 
way  to  fame  so  much  easier  if  she  had  not  that  to  worry 
over. 

And  then  he  was  so  clever,  he  told  such  witty  stories  that 
one  almost  forgot  that — well,  what  difference  did  it  make 
if — if  he  were  not  like  other  men.  Was  she  so  petty  that 
she  prized  a  mere  structure  of  perishable  flesh  and  bones 
to  a  mind  that  she  acknowledged  as  superior  and  to  a  na- 
ture she  knew  to  be  noble? 

No!  she  would  think  only  of  these  things.  And  she 
would  go  back  with  him  on  La  Nhrmandie  and  visit  his 
people  in  Philadelphia,  as  it  had  been  arranged.  And 
they  would  be  married  a  moath  later  and  then — Oh,  well, 
something  would  turn  up,  and  there  was  no  need  of  think- 
ing so  far  ahead. 

The  Friend  does  not  quite  know  how  it  all  came  about. 
Pate,  he  supposes,  the  inevitable  must  be. 

It  was  to  be,  and  that  was  why  his  passage  was  booked 
for  La  Normandie,  and  he  found  himself  traveling  to  Havre 
on  the  same  train  as  Creighton  and  his  fianc&e. 

It  was  deuced  stupid  of  him,  but  he  was  lonely,  and  they 
were  jolly,  so  he  attached  himself  to  their   party. 

Creighton  was  his  best  friend,  and  Alice  Webb  was  a 
beautiful  and  interesting  girl. 

At  Havre,  as  he  watched  Creighton  assist  the  being 
dearest  to  him  on  earth  up  the  long  gang  plank  of  the 
French  steamer,  the  picture  made  his  flesh  creep. 


He  checked  his  thoughts  with  a  start,  astonished  and 
annoyed  at  this  disloyalty  to  his  friend. 

"My  God,  Aline,  I  love  you!  I  can  stand  it  no  longer  ! 
I  despise  myself;  I  feel  that  I  have  lost  all  honor  and  self- 
respect.  I  hate  myself  for  the  treachery  I  have  developed 
since  we  came  on  this  ship  seven  days  ago.  Seven  days — 
or  is  it  seven  years?  Everything  is  chaotic,  everything 
but  my  love  for  you,  Aline.  You  belong  to  me.  You  know 
it;  I  know  it.  You  can't  help  it,  dear  girl,  any  more  than 
I  can.  You  must  tell  him,  Aline!  You  are  mine.  You 
must  tell  Creighton  before  we  leave  this  ship." 

"Carl,  I  cannot.  It  would  be  a  crime.  You  may  as 
well  give  me  a  knife  and  tell  me  to  stab  him.  To  lose  me 
would  be  to  lose  everything."  She  looked  at  his  athletic 
figure.     "  No,  Carl,  I  cannot." 

"Do  you — love  him?"  asked  the  Friend. 

She  hesitated. 

"No!" 

' '  Do  you  love  me  ?  " 

"Yes!" 

"  Then  you  must  tell  him.  You  are  mine.  It  is  but  a 
choice  of  crime,  since  you  put  it  that  way.  Better  one 
stab  than  slow  poison — I  will  go  with  you.     Come  ! " 

The  Friend  assisted  the  tremblirjg  figure  of  Creighton's 
fiancee  to  her  deck  chair  beside  him.  They  had  just  been 
standing  by  the  guard-rail,  partially  screened  by  a  life- 
boat. The  watch  had  just  tolled  eight  bells,  and  in  the 
gloom  the  three  were  together. 

The  sea  was  calm  and  the  sky  free  from  storm,  but  under 
the  very  shadow  of  that  life-boat   took   place  a   wreck,  a 
hopeless  wreck,  not  planned,  but  foreseen,    and   avertible 
— but  at  what  cost!    It  was  one  wreck  or  else  two. 
"  Are  God  and  Nature  then  at  strife? 
So  careful  of  the  type  she  seems, 
So  careless  of  the  single  life." 

Half  an  hour  later  Creighton  was  carried  to  his  state- 
room by  a  steward,  and  the  Friend,  who  had  the  upper 
berth,  changed  to  another  room  for  reasons  not  made  pub- 
lic. 

For  the  three  days  following  Creighton  did  not  appear. 

But  when  the  vessel  steamed  into  New  York  harbor  he 
came  on  deck  and  stood  by  the  guard-rail  waiting  for  his 
friends — those  who  had  come  to  welcome  him  and  his  bride- 
elect. 

He  was  very  pale,  and  alone. 

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studio-room  in  the  Rue  Delambre  on  nothing  to  speak  of  a 
month. 

Creighton  tells  his  witty  stories  in  Philadelphia  among 
the  bachelors.  There  is  more  sarcasm  in  their  texture 
than  formerly,  and  the  look  in  his  gray  eye'  has  changed 
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S.\NT  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


HOW      "TATTERS"     WON      THE     BLUE      RIBBON. 

Iout  time  for  Mi--  \  .in  Alston  to  be  descending 
ire  for  her   afternoon  constitutional. 
•  ertrude  could  be  con- 
•  times  it  wns    too  much  trouble      She 
for  the  line        <  >h    whv  should  the  spirit 

■or   deigned    to   move  other  than  in 

■         leisurely  walked 

hit  to   take  a  down-town 

provoking  that   an  ugly  spike  should  rear 

1  Insist    upon    an   introduction  to  her  patrician 

toe.     However,    upon   inspection,    the   patent   tip   of  her 

I  found    to   be   in   its  pristine  lu-ti  r, 

anil  the  momentary  annoyance  tied.     Once  in  the  car.  Fair 

rude  gave  herself  up  to   maiden   meditation,  scorning 

the  meek  etlorts  of  a  woman    nursing   an  immense  basket 

from  which  peeped  the  family  rations,  who  seemed  to  wish 

,ik  to  her.     The  canaille  never  had  any  interest  for 

Van  Alston,  not  even  as  a  study.     It  was  fatiguing. 

A  messenger  boy,    with   alert  eyes,    was  sitting  opposite. 

and  seemed  to  find  something  very  entertaining  about  the 

floor  in  her  vicinity.       "  Seuse   me,   Miss."   he  began,  but 

when  she  bent  upon  him  one   of   her  most  icy   glances  be 

thought  better  of  his  charitable   impulse,    and  dropped  off 

the  car  at   the   next  crossing,    saying  disgustedly  sotto 

voce.    "Let  der   bloomin' nobiiitv  take  care  o' dereselves. 

Wot  I'  ell's  de  dif .'" 

Arrived  in  the  frivolous  precints  known  as  down  town, 
Mi-s  Van  Alston  left  the  car  and  began  her  demure  pro- 
menade toward  Kearny  street,  pleasantly  conscious  of  the 
fact  that  her  new  Easter  hat  with  cerise  and  violet  trim- 
ming was  in  perfect  accord  with  her  walking  gown  fresh 
from  the  modiste's,  and  also  feeling  the  flattering  looks  of 
the  many  promenaders  of  the  one  sex,  and  the  envious 
glances  of  the  ditto  of  the  other. 

At  Sherman  &  Clay's  corner  some  hypnotic  power 
forced  her  to  glance  up  Sutter  street,  and  there  she  saw 
Reginald  Forbes,  her  fianci,  out  for  an  afternoon  stroll 
with  his  diminutive,  perky  little  terrier  Tatters  ambling 
serenely  along  beside  him.  But  she  had  had  a  little  bit  of 
a  misunderstanding  with  Reggie  the  evening  before,  and 
so  she  decided  that  she  would  not  let  him  see  that  she 
knew  of  his  vicinity.  With  her  most  stately  step  Miss 
\'an  Alston  crossed  the  street  to  the  northwest  corner, 
looking  neither  to  the  right  nor  to  the  left,  but  with  the 
little  blush  of  excitement  on  ber  cheek  so  becomingly 
matching  the  cerise  above  it  that  more  than  one  pair  of 
the  many  masculine  eyes  usually  to  be  found  in  that 
neighborhood  was  ravished  at  the  sight. 

But  what  was  happening?  What  a  peculiar  sensation! 
Something  seemed  to  be  tugging  at  her  skirts  and  almost 
forcing  her  to  a  stand-still — and  at  that  corner  of  all 
places. 

She  tried  to  move  faster — to  break  away  from  the 
clutch  of  the  unseen  power  that  seemed  to  rivet  her  to  the 
spot;  and,  horror  of  horrors!  the  next  time  she  tried  to 
take  a  step  she  found  she  could  not  move  an  inch  backward 
or  forward!  She  glanced  over  her  shoulder  with  some 
wild  thought  of  calling  a  policeman  to  rescue  her,  and 
there,  tugging  with  all  his  little  furious  might,  was 
Tatters  with  several  yards  of  blue  satin  bebe  ribbon 
wound  round  and  round  his  fat  little  body.  Tatters,  firmly 
convinced  that  it  was  some  infernal  machine  seeking  to 
destroy  him,  was  savagely  pulling  and  gnawing  to  get 
away,  while  the  more  he  pulled  the  closer  the  ribbon 
shirred  up  in  the  flounce  of  her  silk  petticoat  and, 
pinioned  the  stately  Miss  Gertrude  Van  Alston  as  if  in  an 
inverted  pudding  bag. 

Just  then  Tatters'  teeth,  vindictively  worrying  the  rib- 
bon, gave  a  long  pull,  a  strong  pull,  and  a  pull  all  together, 
and  something  gave  way.  Tatters  was  sent  sprawling,  the  ill- 
mannered  brutes  in  the  cigar  store  gave  an  extremely 
audible  snicker,  and  Miss  Gertrude  was  free  to  continue 
her  fashionable  promenade,  leaving  some  eight  or  ten  yards 
of  ribbon  as  a  memento  to  Tatters.  But  the  promenade 
had  lost  its  charms,  and  utterly  crushed  the  fair  Gertrude 
went  home  in  hysterics  and  a  cab. 

That  evening,  after  her  nerves  were  somewhat  restored, 
a  messengpr  called  at  the  parental  abode  with  a  large 
parcel  for  Miss  Van  Alston.     Upon  investigation  it  proved 


to  l>e  a  small,  repentant,  appealing   terrier,   and  attached 
to  his  collar  was  the  following  touching  message 
My  Dear  Qerlrod*— 

a  Tttlera  h:i*  formed  mob  an  attachment  for  you,  and 
J  ldgiog from  cenai.i  Indication!  th»t  lepiratlon  wonld  be  >  trying 
urdStl,  though  it  break*  my  heart  to  part  with  him.  he  is  yours. 

Devotedly,     Reginald." 
And  Gertrude  is  undecided,  up  to  dale,  whether  to  keep 
the  dog  and  return  the  ring,    or    vice   versa.     But  at  any 
rate  Tatter-    although  not  entered  at   the  San  Francisco 
bench  show,  won  the  blue  ribbon. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


"Patience  Sparhawk  and  her  Times,"  a  novel,  by  Gertrude  Ather- 
tnn.  Published  by  John  Lane,  The  Bodley  Head,  Loudon  and 
New  York, 

This  is  a  new  edition  of  a  novel  originally   published  in 
1895,  and  is  well  printed  on  good  paper,  and  neatly  bound. 
When  we  first  read  the  title,  we  supposed  the  phrase  "her 
times"  to  mean  the  period  of  the  world  in  which  Patience 
Sparhawk  lived,  but  a  perusal  of  the  book  leads  us  to  the 
conclusion  that  "times"  is  to  be  understood  in   the   same 
sense  as  in  the  phrases  "a  high  old  time,"  or  "a  real  nice 
time."    Patience,  the  daughter  of   a  beautiful  but  dissi- 
pated woman,  spends  her  early  days  on  a  ranch  near  Mon- 
terey. She  is  a  dreamy,  passionate  child,  without  religion  to 
console,  or  principle  to  guide  her.  Often  when  her  mother's 
company  becomes  insupportable,  she  wanders   alone   over 
the  fields  and  through  the  woods.      A  favorite   haunt  of 
hers  is  an  old  tower,  in  which  she  indulges  in  reveries,  and 
the  companionship  of  a  blinking  owl.     In  o"e  of  ber  night 
wanderings  she  meets  a  young  Irishman,  a  lawyer  and   a 
clever  fellow,  who  makes  some  sensible  remarks   that   im- 
print themselves  deeply  on  her  mind.     After  her  mother's 
death  she  is  introduced  to  New  York  society,  and  blooms 
out  into  a  handsome  girl  with  excellent  taste  in  dress.     A 
very  queer  society  she  finds  New   York  "society"   to  be: 
the  women  are  entirely  devoted  to  dress  and   the   arts   of 
captivating  men;  and  the  men   treat   the   women   on   the 
assumption  that  they  are  harlots.  On  a  first  acquaintance 
a  man  takes  a  girl's  hands,  squeezes  tbem,  and  will  not  let 
them  go:  on  next  meeting  her,  he   grasps   her   round   the 
waist,  hugs  her  violently,  and  kisses  her.      No   wonder   a 
girl  of  common  decency  is  disgusted.     If  the  New  Yorkers 
commonly  met  in  "society"   are   the  unlicked  cubs   that 
Mrs.  Atherton  represents  them  to  be,    they   can   be   suc- 
cinctly and  accurately  described  in  four  letters:  they   are 
cads.  Nor  do  they  even  belong  to  that  "improved  species 
of  cads"  of  which  Mr.  M.  W.  Hezeltine  somewhere  speaks. 
They  are  of  the  unadulterated  and  unmitigated  sort.  Even 
Patience,  though  the  more  vulgar  of  the   men   repel   her, 
has  a  fair  number  of  experiences  ("times")  herself.      Ere 
long  she  is  so  unfortunate  as  io  inspire   a  violent   passion 
in  the  breast  (be  has  no  heart)  of  one  Beverley  Peele,  who, 
though  represented  as  belonging  to  one  of  the  best   famil- 
ies in  Westchester  County,  is  a  more  utterly  unredeemed 
and  unredeemable  blackguard  than  the  rest  of  the  men  in 
the  story.  Tempted  beyond  herstrength  by  the  passion,  ani- 
mal magnetism,  and  physical  beauty  of  the  man,  Patience 
marries  Peele.  She  has  not  been  married  long  ere  she  hates 
him:  he  becomes  daily  more  violent  and   unbearable.      At 
last  she  leaves  him   and   takes  refuge  for   a   day   with   a 
friend  of  her  childhood,  Rosita,  now  a  petted  prima   donna 
and  the  spoiled  mistress  of  her  manager.      Patience  takes 
up  journalistic  work,  and  with  considerable  success.     Her 
editorial  chief  is  a  man  named  Steele,    a   clever  journalist 
who,  though  taking  the   queer  and  distorted  views  of  life 
that  work  on  a  "great  daily"  almost  inevitably  gives,  does 
bear  some  remote  resemblance  to  a  gentleman.     Patience 
grows  attached  to   him,    and   they   spend  much  time   to- 
gether.    At  last  Peele's  jealousy  makes  him  ill,    and   Pa- 
tience is  sent  for  to  nurse  him.      She   does   ber  duty,    dis- 
tasteful though  it  is,  faithfully.      Sometimes,  when  he  is  in 
pain,  she  has  to  administer  morphine:  but  one  night  Peele 
pours  it  out  for  himself,  and  dies  from  the  overdose.     Pa- 
tience is  accused  of  murder,  and  after  a  highly  sensational 
trial  is  condemned  to  death.     But  Bourke,    the   Irishman 
whom  she  met  as  a  girl  on  her  night  walk  near  Monterey, 
makes  unceasing  efforts  in  her  behalf,  and   at  last  secures 
an  affidavit  from  one  of  the  most  important  witnesses  at 
the  trial  to  the  effect  that,  through  jealousy   and  hate   of 
Patience,  she  had  lied:  Patience  is  pardoned,  and  falls  into 
Bourke's  arms,  for  she  has   some   time   before   discovered 
that  she  does  not  love  Steele   with  her  whole  heart   and 
soul,  as  she  does  the  voluble  advocate.      That  "Patience 
Sparhawk  and  her  Times"  is  a  clever  and  interesting  story 
we  do  not  deny  (in  spite  of  Mr.  Leggett's  inability   to  per- 


ceive its  literary  merit),  but  we  think  it  an  unwholesome 
one.  It  is  not  often  that  the  professional  and  the  amateur 
coincide  in  their  opinions  about  a  book,  but  in  this  instance 
we  confess  that,  somewhat  to  our  surprise,  we  find  our- 
selves in  accord  with  Messrs.  Joseph  Leggett,  Patrick 
F.  Healey,  and  Ferdinand  Formhals,  the  amateur  book 
critics  of  the  Mechanics'  Institute.  We  think,  as  they  do, 
that  overmuch  rumination  upon  sexual  matters  is  unwhole- 
some. But,  though  we  chance  on  this  occasion  to  take  the 
same  view  as  Messrs.  Leggett  &  Co..  we  hold  that  these 
good  gentlemen  are  entirely  out  of  their  province  in  criti- 
cising books,  the  function  of  one  of  them  being  to  practice 
law  in  the  courts  of  California,  of  the  second  to  buy  and 
sell  books,  and  of  the  last  to  vend  drugs.  We  beg  to  di- 
rect their  attention  to  a  little  essay  entitled  "  A  Case  of 
Bookstall  Censorship."  in  which  Mr.  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch 
discusses  the  similar  case  of  Mr.  Grant  Allen's  "The  Woman 
Who  Did,"  having  been  excluded  by  certain  well-meaning 
but  misguided  persons  from  the  railway  bookstalls  of  Great 
Britain.  Paraphrasing  Mr.  Quiller-Couch's  words,  we 
say:  That  Joe,  Pat,  aud  Ferdie,  by  the  process  of  being 
appointed  the  Book  Committee  of  the  Mechanics'  Institute, 
should  be  exalted  into  supreme  arbiters  of  what  men  and 
women  may  be  allowed  to  read — this  surely  is  unjustifiable 
by  any  argument.  The  public  has  no  reason  to  suppose 
that  they  know  a  good  book  from  a  bad  one.  If  there  must 
be  a  censorship  of  literature,  let  the  community  choose  a 
man  whose  qualifications  have  been  weighed,  and  ou  whose 
judgment  it  decides  that  it  can  rely.  While  we  cannot  pre- 
tend (as  Messrs.  Leggett  et  ah  do)  to  be  shocked  at  the 
mention,  or  even  at  the  sight,  of  a  woman's  legs,  and  while 
we  think  that  some  women  stand  upon  a  better  footing 
than  others,  we  do  not  think  that  Mrs.  Atherton's  highly- 
wrought,  sensational  tales  of  promiscuous  flirtation  are 
calculated  to  do  any  good.  We  observe  that  Mr.  Leggett 
has  recklessly  offered  to  stake  his  "reputation  as  a  man 
aod  as  a  literary  critic"  that  the  recital  of  Patience  Spar- 
hawk's  gay  times  is  not  wholesome.  If  Mr.  Leggett  will 
separate  his  "reputation  as  a  man"  from  his  reputation 
"as  a  literary  critic,"  and  will  lay  the  latter  reputation 
to  a  red  cent,  he  may  find  a  taker. 

At  the  end  of  The  International  Magazine  there  are  now 
several  departments,  one  of  which  is  conducted  b3'  Mr.  W. 
B.  Curtis,  under  the  beading  "Matters  Diplomatic."  In 
the  May  issue  Mr.  Curtis  girds  at  Sir  Julian  Pauncefote, 
the  British  Ambassador  at  Washington,  for  refusing  to 
accept  an  invitation  to  a  dinner  at  the  national  capital,  at 
which  his  host  informed  him  that  he  would  not  be  permitted 
to  occupy  his  proper  place  at  the  right  of  the  hostess.  We 
may  feel  entirely  certain  that  Sir  Julian  was  simply  doing 
what  he  conceived  to  be  his  duty  in  insisting  upon  proper 
respect  being  paid  to  his  official  position  as  the  represen- 
tative of  Great  Britain:  to  himself,  as  a  distinguished 
Englishman,  it  must  be  a  matter  of  incalculable  unim- 
portance whether  he  sits  to  the  north  or  the  south,  to  the 
east  or  the  west,  of  the  consort  of  a  Washington  lawyer  or 
doctor.  A  man  who  would  insist  on  due  respect  from  an 
Emperor  of  Russia,  Germany,  or  China,  cannot  reasonably 
be  expected  to  yield  place  to  a  provincial  attorney. 

Now  we  have  Miss  Gilder  in  her  department,  "The 
Lounger,"  in  the  May  issue  of  that  excellent  literary  peri- 
odical, the  Month,  writing:  "It  is  claimed  that  this  altera- 
tion (the  elimination  of  all  expressions  distinctly  American) 
"will  make  Louisa  M.  Alcott's  'Little  Women'  more  suit- 
able for  reading  in  English  class-rooms."  Instead  of 
"claimed,"  why  does  Miss  Gilder  not  write  simply  "said"? 
that  is  all  she  means.  "Claimed"  in  this  sense  is  cer- 
tainly an  "expression  distinctly  American";  as  also  is 
"hesitancy"  for  "hesitation"  in  such  a  phrase  as  "One 
sometimes  feels  a  hesitancy  in  sending  out  his  manuscript," 
which  we  observe  in  an  earlier  paragraph  of  "The  Loun- 
ger."   

Swain's  bakery  at  213  Sutter  street  has  for  years  been  held  as  the 
standard  oi  excellence  in  this  city.  This  splendid  restaurant  serves 
a  first-class  dinnei'— first-class  in  service,  in  quality,  good  taste  and 
refined  atlention,  between  the  hours  ot  5  and  8  o'clock  every  day  for 
.$1.00.  The  best  dinner  in  the  city.  Also  fine  pastries,  confections 
and  candies  promptly  supplied. 

Cnly  fashionable  gentlemen's  wear  is  to  be  found  at  John  W. 
Carmany's,  25  Kearny  street.    Newest,  latest.    Strictly  up-to-date. 


May  ii,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


--..,. 


Ml  K  Bights  which  one 
enjoyed  at  the  delight- 
ful cbi  .1  l-Y'ti\  hold  at  Ibe 
Crocker  residence  on  Sutter  street  last  week,  were  not  all 
down  on  the  programme  by  any  means,  and  each  evening 
a  new  show  was  to  lie  seen  by  those  who  look  beyond  the 
public  gaze.  What,  for  instance,  more  interesting  to  ob- 
serve than  the  way  the  fjirls  watched  the  of  the 
popular  young  couple  so  soon  to  be  made  one  Hesh.  No 
doubt  about  the  affection  in  this  case,  say  the  girls:  it 
speaks  in  every  action,  every  look.  Then  for  those  who 
seek  the  comic  element  there  was  the  view  presented  of 
the  pretty  spielers  "going  for'  (',  P.  Huntington,  and  a 
gallant  officer  who  was  the  objective  point  for  scores  of 
women,  matrons  as  well  as  maids,  for  women  are  always 
attracted  by  what  is  styled  "toney." 
«  *  # 

"The  sounds  of  revelry  by  night"  are  beginning  to  be 
heard  at  the  Hotel  Rafael — Saturday  night  such  an  influx 
of  Fashion  arrived  there  the  halls  resounded  with  merri- 
ment, and  the  delightful  moonlight  was  taken  advantage 
of  by  several  parties  in  several  ways.  There  is  no  lack  of 
opportunity  for  enjoyment  to  suit  all  tastes  where  the  ur- 
bane Watfield  presides,  and  from  present  indications  the 
trouble  will  be  not  what  to  yive  the  guests  in  the  way  of 
amusement,  but  where  to  put  them,  so  many  applications 
fur  rooms  have  been  received.  Afternoon  card  parties  for 
the  dowagers  are  at  present  in  full  swing  over  there,  and 
sometimes  that  amiable  young  lady.  Miss  Clementina  Kip, 
takes  a  hand  pour  passer  !c  temps. 

*  *  # 

The  reliability  of  the  Examiner  as  a  medium  of  fashion- 
able intelligence  can  be  judged  by  their  New  York  corre- 
spondent asserting  that  the  Herman  Oelrichs  are  at  pres- 
ent in  Newport  preparing  to  open  their  house  there  for 
summer  residence,  when  every  one  knows  that  Mr.  Oel- 
richs is  in  San  Francisco  making  the  Fair  residence  ready 
for  the  occupancy  of  his  wife  and  Miss  Fair,  who  are  ex- 
pected here  shortly  for  an  extended  stay  among  their  old 
friends  in  our  Golden  City. 

*  *  * 

Expressions  of  pleasure  are  heard  on  all  sides  upon  Gen- 
eral Shatter  taking  command  of  the  Military  Department 
of  California,  the  place  vacated  by  General  Forsythe's  re- 
tirement, for  although  the  latter  officer  has  made  himself 
very  popular  with  all,  it  will  be  good  news  to  society,  at 
least,  to  have  the  Black  Point  residence  occupied  once 
more  by  a  family  that  will  undoubtedly  offer  hospitality 
therein. 

*  *  * 

Rumor  says  that  Mrs.  Hager  and  Mrs.  de  Young  will 
rival  each  other  this  summer  in  suburban  festivities,  as 
each  will  be  in  residence  in  San  Rafael.  The  de  Young 
place,  Meadowlands,  is  well  adapted  for  lawn  parties,  and 
'»i  ilit.  Mrs.  Hager  will  have  a  grand  picnic  in  mid-sum- 
mer; so  no  doubt-the  friends  of  both  ladies  will  benefit  by 
their  amiable  intentions. 

*  *  * 

"Al  Bowie  has  been  changing  his  steps  of  late,"  said  a 
girl  at  the  Gingerbread  Fete,  to  a  vacuous-looking  youth, 
whose  mother  has  more  money  than  he  has  brains.  "Ah, 
really;  so  I  suppose  he  cawn't  do  the  two  time  as  well  as 
the  old  glide,"  was  the  response  that  sent  her  into  a  peal 
of  laughter. 

*  #  * 

The  Downey  Harveys  are  gradually  emerging  from  their 
seclusion  and  mourning  for  their  wealthy  aunt,  and  are 
ouce  more  a  bright  feature  in  theatre  parties,  dinners,  and 
dog  shows,  at  which  their  numerous  friends  are  greatly  de- 
lighted. 

Pure  Cosmetics— Professor  Weozell,  the  Pure  Food  Chemist,  says  of 
Mme  Marchand's  Prepara'lons.  Use  Cr^me  de  la  Creme.  Positively  pre- 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


Consuls  as 
Financial   Advisers. 


There  is  little   to  be  said  regarding  the 
The  Pine        speculative  mining  market  for  the  week 

Street  Market,  now  closed.  Business  has  been  dull  and 
altngether  in  the  hands  of  the  small  fry, 
who  still  suffer  themselves  to  be  led  by  absurdities  of  many 
kin<  i  still  greater  than  themselves.  There  is  a  wide  field 
for  the  close  observer  on  Pine  street  in  reviewing  the  pe- 
culiarities of  the  slaves  and  their  herders.  In  no  place  is 
human  credulity  more  elastic,  and,  it  might  be  added, 
more  profitable.  The  official  report  from  Con.  Cal.-Vir- 
ginia  has  to  be  drawn  upon  for  all  information  regarding 
the  new  development,  or  jMnsi-development,  perhaps,  is 
the  safest  way  to  put  it.  This  is  a  benefit  in  the  way  of 
shutting  off  the  avenues  for  robbing  people  on  a  small 
scale  by  small  people  figuring  their  status  from  a  basis  of 
dollars  and  cents.  The  middle  stocks  have  done  a  little 
better  of  late,  and  were  it  not  that  the  fractional  ad- 
vances are  now  on  an  infinitessimal  scale,  a  few  profitable 
turns  could  have  been  made.  Elsewhere  nothing  of  inter- 
est has  developed  to  arouse  enthusiasm  outside  the  ring  of 
investors  who  for  years  have  bucked  the  game  and  grown 
weatherworn  in  their  devotions  to  it.  Outside  patrons 
are  not  to  be  allured  by  such  slow  work  as  that  now 
going  on  the  street. 

A  prominent  London  financial 
weekly  is  inclined  to  dispute  the 
right  of  Consuls  to  act  as  commer- 
cial and  financial  advisers,  or  as  the 
writer  puts  it,  "to  act  as  a  spy  upon  the  business  of  his 
countrymen  which  are  carried  on  in  the  neighborhood.'' 
We  differ  with  our  esteemed  contemporary  on  this  point. 
A  Consul  has  it  in  his  power  to  assist  his  countrymen  very 
materially  by  his  advice  on  all  matters  of  the  kind,  for  the 
reason  that  he  is  in  a  position  to  obtain  direct  information 
of  a  local  bearing  which  is  not  otherwise  readily  available 
to  the  foreign  resident.  Furthermore,  it  is  in  his  power 
to  sound  a  note  of  warning  as  to  cases  of  fraud,  protecting 
the  pockets  of  his  countrymen  as  well  as  their  persons, 
which  he  is  supposed  to  look  after  in  time  of  peril.  It 
matters  not  where  his  lash  may  fall  in  dealing  with  vil- 
lainy in  any  form.  Should  the  delinquent  belong  to  his  own 
people,  there  is  all  the  more  justification  for  special 
severity.  No  argument  can  be  put  forward  to  sustain  the 
position  that  an  honorable  and  scrupulous  official  must 
blind  his  eyes  to  what  is  going  on  around  him  prejudicial 
to  the  interests  of  the  people  he  represents.  The  closer 
watch  he  keeps  upon  commercial  and  financial  enterprise 
of  all  descriptions,  the  better  he  fulfills  the  duties  and 
responsibilities  of  his  position  in  the  opinion  of  honest  men 
without  regard  to  nationalities. 

It  is  about  time  the  result  was  known  here 
Money  for       of  the   effort   made   by   the   Consolidated 

South  Africa.  Gold  Fields  of  South  Africa,  Limited,  to 
raise  additional  capital  to  the  extent  of 
$3,625,000.  An  extraordinary  meeting  of  the  shareholders 
was  called  for  May  8th.  The  money  is  required  to  open 
up  the  deep  levels,  and  the  report  of  John  Hays  Ham- 
mond is  depended  upon  to  sustain  the  management  in  their 
new  departure.  The  company  now  controls  about  609 
claims,  and  by  the  end  of  the  year  it  is  expected  that  a 
new  280-stamp  mill  will  be  dropping,  in  addition  to  the  one 
of  100  stamps  now  running.  There  are  now  7,594  share- 
holders in  the  company,  and  it  is  expected  that  they  will 
absorb  the  new  issue  of  stock.  The  success  of  this  com- 
pany in  raising  the  proposed  capital  is  of  interest  here,  as 
it  will  tend  to  revive  the  market  for  mines,  which  has  been 
practically  closed  to  projects  from  California  and  else- 
where for  some  time  past. 

The  Mexican  Government   has,  it  is  said, 

A  Valuable     renewed  the  concession   originally  granted 

Concession,  in  1882  for  the  colonization  of  the  Angel  de 
la  Guarda,  Tiburon  and  San  Estaban  Isl- 
ands in  the  Gulf  of  California,  which  were  subsequently  for- 
feited. The  concessionaire  has,  however,  been  deprived  of 
two-thi-ds  of  the  Angel  de  la  Guarda  and  San  Estaban, 
originally  held  by  him,  while  he  is  allowed  to  retain  condi- 


tionally two  thirds  of  Tiburon,  his  title  thereto  to  be  hold 
conditionally  on  the  performance  of  the  following  coloniza- 
tion projects:  He  must,  within  eight  years  from  April, 
1897,  settle  on  the  land  in  Tiburon  Island  ten  families,  who 
may  be  either  Mexican,  European,  Japanese  or  Chinese, 
conveying  by  sale  or  otherwise  to  each  family  a  lot  of  not 
more  than  fifty  hectares.  The  concessionaire  is  also  em- 
powered for  twenty-five  years,  terminating  in  1907,  to  es- 
tablish oyster,  seal,  whale  and  general  fisheries  in  the 
Gulf  of  California,  and  to  erect  canneries  and  works  for 
extracting  from  fish  their  fat,  commercial  salts  or  phos- 
phates. This,  on  the  surface,  looks  a  very  valuable  con- 
cession in  the  hands  of  the  right  man,  backed  by  sufficient 
capital.  With  the  embargo  off  regarding  China  and 
Japan,  it  should  not  be  very  difficult  to  fulfill  the  provis- 
ions of  the  concession  in  regard  to  colonization.  However, 
the  scheme  failed  before,  although  the  Government  con- 
fesses that  the  concessionaire  did  all  in  his  power  to  carry 
out  the  terms  of  the  old  concession. 

Residents  of  Nevada  are  excited  over  the 
The  Gold  of  recent  strike  made  in  the  placer  mines  at 
Buckeye.  Buckeye.  Their  wealth  seems  phenomenal, 
and  comparisons  are  now  being  drawn  be- 
tween the  camp  and  the  Rawhide  mine,  both  having  been 
turned  down  by  alleged  experts  as  worthless,  or  practi- 
cally so.  In  this  connection  the  death  the  other  day  of 
Scbiefflin,  the  discoverer  of  Tombstone,  Arizona,  recalled 
the  fact  that  he  also  had  some  experience  with  "ye  ex- 
pert," who  turned  down  as  a  fraud  what  afterwards  turned 
out  to  be  one  of  the  richest  of  Western  mining  camps.  It 
is  easier  to  make  a  condemnatory  report  in  any  case  than 
to  show  possibilities  of  a  favorable  nature,  which  require 
a  peculiar  technical  education  to  understand  and  appre- 
ciate. There  is  one  consolation,  that  the  loss  by  such  ex- 
pert reports  invariably  falls  in  the  long  run  upon  the  men 
who  pay  for  them,  so  that  little  barm  is  done  to  any  one 
else.  The  Schiefflins  lost  nothing  by  the  wild  and  sweep- 
ing denunciation  of  Tombstone,  the  Rawhide  bonanza  has 
reacted  like  a  boomerang  upon  the  savants  who  couldn't 
see  enough  to  take  it  in  for  $150,000,  and  now  the  Buckeye 
will  probably  reiterate  the  force  of  the  moral  that  the  pro- 
fessional expert  is  not  always  as  expert  as  he  thinks  he  is. 
The  statement  which  appeared  in  the 
What  Does  Chronicle  recently,  io  an  interview  with 
This  Mean?  President  Neff,  of  the  California  Miners' 
Association,  to  the  effect  that  that  body 
will  take  no  part  in  the  conflict  between  the  farmers  and 
miners,  precipitated  by  the  Anti-Debris  Association, 
seems  hardly  creditable.  "Our  body  was  not  formed  for 
that  purpose,"  Mr.  Neff  is  quoted  as  saying.  If  not,  for 
what  purpose  was  it  formed?  Not  purely  political  and 
anti-railroad,  surely.  For  some  time  past  the  practical 
mining  man  has  looked  askance  at  the  combination  of 
manufacturers  and  politicians  gradually  working  into  con- 
trol of  the  organization,  and  if  Mr.  Neff  is  now  quoted  cor- 
rectly, the  sooner  dissolution  comes,  the  better  it  will  be 
for  the  honest  contingent  which  lent  a  sustaining  influence 
under  the  impression  that  the  Association  was  a  protec- 
tion to  the  mining  industry  in  all  its  branches.  Is  the 
Anti-Debris  Association  such  a  power  in  the  land  that 
the  politicians  connected  with  the  Miners'  Association  are 
afraid  of  incurring  its  enmity  by  doing  their  duty  in  the 
premises?  If  this  is  the  case,  the  death-k'nell  of  the  organ- 
ization may  as  well  be  sounded,  for  its  end  is  near  at  hand. 
The  London  Shareholder  says:  "The 
Latest  from  Rothschilds  have  had  bad  luck  of  late. 
Bounce  &  Co.  This  celebrated  '  house '  is  known  to  be 
largely  interested  in  South  Africans  and 
in  Brazilian  stocks  which  are  in  a  very  rotten  condition. 
The  Grand  Central  Mine  of  Mexico  is  evidently  doing  badly, 
and  now  something  appears  to  be  wrong  with  Anacondas. 
In  spite  of  the  recovery  in  the  price  of  copper,  these 
shares  have  been  pressed  for  sale  of  late,  and  as  the  price 
of  5f  carries  a  5s.  dividend,  it  cannot  be  attributed  to  in- 
flation. The  sooner  the  real  position  is  known  the  better 
for  all  concerned." 

SNEW  YORK  financial  contemporary  says  :  "It  may 
be  discourteous  to  criticise  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court, 
but  a  decision  that  allows  the  telephone  patent  to  cover  a 
period  of  thirty -four  years,  instead  of  the  ordinary  seven- 
teen, is  open  to  some  comment." 


-\\    I  U.\N\  ;  vVS  LETT!  R 


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llrirlt-rrrif  What  the  derll  »rt  thou  ?" 

■On»lh»l  wiUdUt  \h-  ].  .    .  «ir.  "lib  >■ 


If  t 


■■   ii|x>n    the 
lie  through  i  I  the  dally  press 

ei  moos  tbal 
e  thai 

The  erstwhile  spirit- 

riant,  it  is  averred,    has    the  warm  syni- 

of  tiis  ministerial  brethren       They  Bhould   transfer 

i  Ity  to  the  people   who   pay   out    their   hard  earned 

Is  to  pen;-  sonian  effusions  in    their  episto 

lary  form. 

IK  lie  bold,  had  "Baron  were  indiscreet  enough  tore- 
turn  to  San  Francisco,  he  would  find  himself  amorously 
(fed  by  a  multitude  of  maidens  on  the  shady  side  in 
-  and  morals.  To  have  all  the  sensation  of  a  w< 
and  a  European  honeymoon,  and  none  of  the  reactionary 
Matin  ss  of  the  connubial  state,  is  many  a  woman's  ideal  of 
marriage;  it's  the  plums  without  the  stomach-ache.  And 
the  role  of  forsaken  female  is  highly  popular  just  now — 
there's  money  in  it. 

Gi  >\  ERNOR  BUDD,  in  the  course  of  his  investigations* 
in  the  Durrant  case,  has  visited  that  now  notorious 
edifice.  Emmanuel  Church.  It  is  too  much  to  expect,  how- 
ever, that  the  Recording  Angel  will  chalk  this  pilgrimage 
up  to  gubernatorial  credit,  although  it  is  believed  that 
there  is  always  joy  among  the  heavenly  throng  when  a 
public  officer  enters  the  house  of  God.  Emmanuel  Church, 
however,  is  not  the  house  of  the  Deity. 

ATTORNEY  Deuprey  is  still  looking  ahead.  He  seems 
to  place  but  a  flimsy  hope  in  Governor  Budd's  investi- 
gation, for  it  is  said  he  is  already  getting  up  fresh  evi- 
dence for  the  next  appeal.  He  does  not  expect  to  con- 
duct Ibis  in  person,  but  has  engaged  the  services  of  a 
prominent  archangel,  who  is  now  busy  arranging  the  great 
mass  of  facts,  and  hopes  to  have  all  ready  by  the  time 
Durrant  comes  up  for  his  final  trial. 

CONSIDERABLE  comment  has  been  made  over  ex- 
Mayor  Sutro's  perilous  escape  from  disaster  the  other 
day,  when  the  white-whiskered  Seer  of  Sutro  Heights  and 
Duke  of  Seal  Rock  barely  avoided  collision  with  a  run- 
away. So  much  for  the  brevity  of  the  public's  memory. 
The  narrow  escape  of  our  glorious  commonwealth  from 
municipal  ruin  when  it  came  into  collision  with  Mr.  Sutro 
;eems  to  be  quite  forgotten. 

THE  plea  that  train-wrecking  is  only  murder  in  the 
second  degree,  because  the  malice  of  the  murderer  is 
not  directed  against  a  specific  individual,  is  monstrous; 
and  yet  one  of  the  attorneys  in  the  Worden  case  did  not 
hesitate  to  present  this  argument  to  Governor  Budd. 
Presumably  he  is  one  of  those  people  of  narrow  intelli- 
gence who  think  it  is  more  respectable  to  be  in  a  whole- 
sale business  than  in  a  retail. 

THERE  is  a  row  in  the  Woman's  Press  Association,  but 
it  is  not  true  that  it  originated  in  any  aspersions 
among  its  members  as  to  which  was  the  oldest  pebble  on 
the  beach.  It  was  merely  a  difference  as  to  the  authority 
in  the  managing  board.  Let  the  good  ladies  settle  the 
matter  among  themselves.  Hairpins  are  cheap. 
"  IMMORTALITY"  was  the  subject  of  Reverend  W. 
1  M.  Reilly's  discourse  on  Sunday.  Considering  the 
defections  of  certain  of  his  clerical  confreres  hereabouts, 
it  seems  to  the  Crier's  unorthodox  mind  that  a  disquisi- 
tion on  "Immorality"  would  have  been  a  more  timely 
topic. 

COFFEE  is  by  no  means  the  most  important  of  Guate- 
mala's exports.  Men  with  money  to  burn  are  of 
much  more  value  in  the  cargoes  that  reach  the  local 
market.  At  all  events,  a  heavy  price  is  upon  their  heads, 
as  well  as  a  heavy  tax  upon  their  purses. 

NAT  GOODWIN  is  authority  for  the  statement   that  a 
man  can't  be  a  successful  actor  unless   he  is  an  adept 
at  making  love.     Nat  ought  to  know. 


DrOR  Inner   dubbed  the  Pooh-Bah  of  the  Southern 
tba  position  of  Governor  of  Ger- 
t<<m|iorarily  tarrying  in  the 
midst  of  us.    The  gentleman  has  a  remarkable  record,  for 
■  id  that  tx  a  thoroughly  onto  the  executive 

job.  he  has  administered  justice,  looked  after  commercial 
and  trade  interests  and  kept  the  natives  on  their  good  be- 
This  genius  should  not  be  permitted  to  escape. 
Ot  something  be  done  to  induce  him  to  devote  his  rare 
to  San    '  and   keep    the  natives  here  on 

their  good  behavior  '.' 

POLICE  Judge  Campbell  would  better  encase  his  luxuri- 
ant crop  of  whiskers  in  a  protection  mask,  for  Chief  of 
I  .its  Is  after  his  Si  &lp  and  may  confiscate  the  accom- 
panying beard.  It  all  came  about  through  His  Honor's  too 
pitate  releaseof  Mabel  Keating,  a  light  fingered  lady 
of  the  lower  levels  who  picks  the  pockets  of  gentlemen  for 
a  living.  Her  bonds  were  supposedly  of  straw,  but  this  is 
not  proof  that  the  Campbell  whiskers  are  adorned  with 
hayseed. 

BOSS  Rainey's  pet  lambs  are  being  slaughtered  in  whole- 
sale batches,  and  their  erstwhile  guardian  is  powerless 
to  protect  the  loudly  bleating  Hock  as  their  heads  fall  one 
by  one  into  the  municipal  basket,  while  the  guillotine  goes 
merrily  on  its  decapitating  way.  Ed  Graney,  official  horse- 
shoe r  of  the  city,  is  also  in  jeopardy,  which  proves  that  a 
man  may  be  a  successful  political  heeler  and  still  lose  his 
head. 

BURGLAR  Harris  so  successfully  projected  his  astral 
and  physical  body  through  the  dock  in  Police  Judge 
Low's  courtroom  on  Tuesday  that  he  has  escaped  the 
clutches  of  the  law  and  is  now  at  large.  With  his  natural 
proclivities,  and  bearing  a  charmed  life,  Mr.  Harris  should 
not  confine  his  accomplishments  to  common  burglary.  He 
would  make  a  brilliant  record  as  a  member  of  the  next 
I   legislature. 

UNDER  cover  of  the  fusillade  of  legal  shots  in  the  Baril- 
las-Blair  melodrama,  our  local  Lotharios  have  crept 
;  into  temporary  obscurity.  It  is  indeed  an  ill  wind  that 
i  blows  nowhere.  One  of  the  dizziest  dazzlers  of  them  all, 
[  is  enjoying  a  sweet  surcease  of  public  attention  while  he 
'  murmurs  sympathetically  and  softly  to  himself,  "There  are 
;   others.     Mine  was  not  the  only  Lily  on  the  stem." 

A  DESPONDENT  actress  out  of  a  job  set  fire  to  her 
tresses  this  week,  with  the  desired  result,  free  adver- 
tising. Otber  unlucky  Thespians  of  the  feminine  persua- 
sion will,  it  is  feared,  work  the  conflagration  scheme  until 
it  is  as  common  as  the  lost-diamond  gag.  The  experiment 
is  startling  but  absolutely  safe,  provided  the  incendiary 
wears  a  property  wig. 

SRCE-PRIESTESS  Annie,  surnamed  Besant,  at  present 
turning  a  four-candle-power  astral  searchlight  upon 
San  Francisco  audiences  that  sit  in  spiritual  darkness,  de- 
clares that  there  is  no  hell.  To  substantiate  this  state- 
ment, however,  it  would  be  necessary  to  secure  post- 
mortem affidavits  from  some  of  our  gone-but-not-forgotten 
millionaires. 

SATURDAY  night's  rain,  it  is  stated,  did  considerable 
damage  at  the  City  Hall,  several  of  the  offices  and 
court  rooms  being  flooded.  The  City  Hall  is  a  great  place 
for  leaks,  anyway.  It  is  not,  however,  always  so  easy  to 
locate  them  as  in  this  instance,  most  of  them  being  of  a 
financial  nature. 

THE  morbid  gloating  over  horrors  is  one  of  the  most 
unpleasant  characteristics  of  the  age.  The  story  of 
Hollman,  the  murderer,  anticipating  his  doom  by  cold- 
bloodedly rehearsing  his  own  hanging,  is  thoroughly  re- 
volting— it's  as  bad  as  a  man  rehearsing  his  wedding  cere- 
mony. 

THE  average  citizen  who  is  not  a  householder  takes  no 
interest  in  the  discussion  about  a  cut  in  water  rates. 
So  long  as  the  fluid  does  not  contaminate  his  whiskey  he 
does  not  care  what  its  fate  maybe. 

WHILE  Redwood  City  is  preparing  for  a  sweet  pea  fete 
in  June,  Durrant  is  also  preparing  for  his  June  fate, 
but  the  sweet-pea  girl  with  him  is  but  a  memory  of  the  past. 

BARILLAS,  the  frolicsome  South  American  Don   Juan, 
is  unlike  the  Arkansaw  Traveler.      It  is  impossible  to 
estimate  the  number  of  girls  he  has  left  behind  him. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


¥  * 


■  A  youug  lady  sings  in  our  choir, 
Whose  hair  is  the  color  of  phoir, 

Bat  her  charm  is  unique, 
'  She  has  such  a  fair  chique, 
It  is  really  a  joy  to  be  nhoir. 

Last  Sunday  she  wore  a  new  sacque, 
Low  cut  at  the  front  and  the  bacque, 

And  a  lovely  bouquet 

Worn  in  such  a  cute  wuet 
As  only  few  girls  have  the  knacque. 

Some  day,  ere  she  grows  too  antique, 
In  marriage  her  hand  1  shall  sique: 

If  she's  not  a  coquette, 

Which  I'd  greatly  regruette, 
She  shall  share  my  $6.00  a  wique. 

—Norwich  (N.  Y.)  Telegraph. 

Two  Irishmen,  just  landed  in  America,  were  encamped  on 
the  open  plain.  In  the  evening  they  retired  to  rest,  and 
were  soon  attacked  by  swarms  of  mosquitoes.  They  took 
refuge  under  the  bed  clothes.  At  last  one  of  them  ven- 
tured to  peep  out,  and,  seeing  a  firefly,  exclaimed  in  tones 
of  terror:  "Mickey,  it's  no  use;  there's  one  of  the 
craythers  searching  for  us  wid  a  lantern." — Pearson's 
Weekly. 

"What  did  Noah  live  on  when  the  flood  subsided  and  his 
provisions  in  the  ark  were  exhausted?"  asked  a  Sunday 
school  teacher  of  her  class.  "I  know,"  squeaked  a  little 
girl,  after  the  others  had  given  up.  "Well,  what?"  in- 
quired the  teacher.     "Dry  land." — Chattanooga  Times. 

"They  didn't  have  all  this  slang  and  idleness  in  my  day," 
said  grandma.  "When  a  girl  meant  'no,'  she  said  'no,' 
and  she  put  in  her  time  knitting."  "And  now,"  said 
Gladys  Edyth,  "instead  of  knitting  and  saying  'no,'  the 
girls  are  knowing  and  saying  'nit.'" — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 

Lucy — Such  an  exquisite  skirt  your  dear  little  daughter 
wore  at  the  children's  fancy-dress  party!  Was  it  your 
design?  Ella — Not  exactly.  You  see,  the  time  was 
very  brief,  and  I  just  let  her  wear  the  shade  of  the  draw- 
ing-room lamp. — Exchange. 

"Mr.  Henpeck,''  said  the  doctor,  after  examination,  "I 
fear  your  wife's  mind  is  gone."  "That  doesn't  surprise 
me,"  said  the  poor  man.  "She  has  been  giving  me  a  piece 
of  it  every  day  for  ten  years." — Memphis  Scimitar. 

Mrs.  Janson  said  to  Mrs.  Lammis,  in  perfect  confidence: 
"Do  you  know  mine  is  the  prettiest  baby  ?"  "Well,  really, 
now,  what  a  coincidence,"  said  Mrs.  Lammis.  "So  is 
mine!"— Tit- Bits. 

The  Bright  Youngster — Mamma,  if  I'm  good  will  I  go  to 
heaven?  The  Mamma — Yes  dear.  The  Bright  Young- 
ster— How'll  I  get  back? — Cincinnati  Commercial-Tribune. 

Stranger  (to  man  in  front) — Won't  you  please  ask  your 
wife  to  take  her  hat  off?  I  can't  see  the  stage  at  all. 
Man  in  Front — Ask  her  yourself;  I  daren't. — Exchange. 

Visitor  (behind  the  scenes) — Say,  why  do  you  call  these 
"dressing-rooms?"  No  one  ever  dresses  in  them — do  they? 
Dolly  Dimple — Oh,  yes — after  the  show  is  over. — Life. 

"When  I  was  first  married  I  thought  my  wife  was  the 
only  woman  on  earth."  "How  do  you  feel  about  it  now?" 
"Well,  there's  our  cook." — Chicago  Record. 

"Why  are  they  putting  that  glass  front  in  the  savings 
bank?"  "So  that  the  depositors  can  see  how  homely  the 
president's  typewriter  is." — Chicago  Post. 

"For  a  while  he  was  clear  out  of  bis  mind  about  that 
girl."  "And  now?"  "Oh,  now  the  girl  is  clear  out  of  his 
mind." — Indianapolis  Journal. 


"On  the  Santa   Fe   There's  No   Delay. 


Leave  San  Francisco  Mondays  and  Thursdays,  and  connect  at 
Barstow  with  Santa  Fe  Limited,  Dining  ears,  buffet,  smoking  car, 
Pullman  Palace  Drawing  Room  Sleeping  Cars.  Three  and  one  half 
days  to  Chicago  or  St.  Louis,  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street,  Chronicle  building.     Tel.  Main  1531. 


CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 
Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  332-334  Pine  street,  below  Mont- 
gomery.   Rooms  for  ladies  and  families;  private  entrance.    John  Bergez 
Proprietor. 
Maison  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle    Dog    Restaurant,  S.   E.  cor.    Grant  ave.  and  Bush  St.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Brtjn. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  P.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrell  St.,  S.  P. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

CANDIES. 
Maillard's  Chocolates  in  %  and  1-lb  boxes.    Roberts1,  Polk  and  Bush. 

LADIES'     HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze   (known   as   Hermann   at  Strozynskl's)  has  opened 
Ladies'  Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  225  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main   5b20 

BANKING. 
Bank  of  British  Columbia. 

Southeast  Cob.  Bdsh  and  ,'Sansome  Sts. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up 83.000,00 

Reserve  Fund %  500.000 

HEADOFFICE 60  Lombard  Steeet, London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo.  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transac  ts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  Its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants1  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  Na  tlonal  Bank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand— Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  or 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

San  Francisco  Savings  Union. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 *24,,«W2,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus....     1,575,631 
ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.    No  charge  is  made  for 

f (ass-book  or  entrance  fee.    Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  h.    Saturday  even- 
ngs.6:30to8 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  SoGiety, 

No.  526  California  Street.  San  Francisco 
Guarantee  capital  and  surplus...  $2  040  201  66 
Capiial  actuallv  paid  up  in  cash..   I  000  000  00 

Deposis  December  31,  i896 27,7  0  247  45 

OFFICERS:  Pres'dent,  B.A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Pres'deni,  H.  Hurst  man;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cafhier,  William  Henmann;  Secretary.  George  Touroy;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Muller:  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann.  Jgn.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Obandt 

Wells  Fargo  &  Go.'s  Bank. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 

John  J.  Valentine President 

Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.    Wadsworth Cashier 

F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,250,000 

BRANCHES. 

N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldrtdge  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evann. 

Security  Savings  Bank. 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building, 
interest  paid  on  deposits. 

LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTOKS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O  D  Baldwin  E  J.  M<  Cutchen 

Adam  Grant  W.S.Jones  J.B.Lincoln 


May  11,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


'5 


BANKING. 


A    SONG  —jqm*  ttitts  tvnwt  /*  iotvm. 

*  "ni*  ip  the  crackling  lo(rs. 

Be  merry  while  we  may  ! 

Ic  the  winds  shriek   through   the  bog*. 
The  wailing  cats  ami  howling  d 

We.lu- 
Long  life  iu  Death  ' 

Come,  take  the  jug  and  till  your  glass. 

And  drink  to  all  11 
The  modes!  wife,  the  »hamel«M  lass; 
Life  is  hut  short,  and  soon  we  pass 

From  flesh  and  blood  lo  ghost; 
We  .lie! 

Long  life  to  I>eath  ' 

Come,  while  away  the  passing  hour 

And  give  no  need  to  lime! 
The  Devil  take  the  crabb'd  and  sour, 
We'll  drink  a  toast  to  him  whose  power 

None  on  withstand.     A  rhme 
To  die! 

Long  life  to  death  ! 


THE    MAID    O'    THE    MILL—  Charles   hurray,  in  chaperone  magazine- 

The  cushiedoos  are  cooin'  in  the  birk. 

The  pee-weels  are  cryin'  on  the  lea, 
The  starlings  in  the  belfry  o'  the  kirk 

Are  layin'  plans  as  merry  as  can  be. 
The  mavis  in  the  plantin'  bas  a  mate, 

The  blackbird  is  busy  wi'  bis  nest, 
Then  why  until  the  summer  should  we  wait 

When  Spring  could  see  us  happy  as  the  rest? 

There's  leaves  upon  the  boortree  on  the  haugh, 

The  blussoms  is  drappin'  ira  the  gean, 
There's  buds  upon  the  ran  tree  and  saugh, 

The  ferns  above  the  Lady's  Well  are  green 
A'  the  herd  is  singin'  on  the  bill 
The  o'er  come  o'  ilka  sang's  the  same: 
"  There  are  owre  mony  maidens  at  the  Mill, 

It's  time  the  ane  I  trysted  wi'  came  hame!" 


MEMORY—  CHARLES  C,  NOTTJR,IN  SCRIBNER'S. 

Upon  a  night  long  after  I  had  died 

I  rose  and  passed  the  portals  of  Her  heart, 

Tilt  rein  no  wreck  nor  ruin  I  espied, 

But  fair  and  quiet  its  dim-lit  chambers  lay, 

And  a  sweet  siience  breathed  in  every  part. 

And  I,  w!io  once  had  dwelt  there,  stood  and  sighed, 

And  though',  "  While  I  have  slept  in  the  cold  clay, 

How  soon  the  stains  of  grief  were  washed  away, 

That  soon  some  tenant  new  might  here  abide." 

And  as  I  thought,  one  quietly  entered  in, 

And  in  his  hand  a  key  to  every  door. 

I  bowed  my  head  and  turned  art-ay  and  said: 

"  Pardon  me  if  I  return  here  from  the  dead; 

I  dwelt  here  once,  though  1  dwell  here  no  more." 

But  he  the  keys  did  place  my  hands  within, 

And  said:  "  Whate'er  thy  steward's  is,  is  thine; 

My  name  is  Memory,  and  this  place  is  mine." 

MAY.—  ARTHUR  J.  BUROICK;  IN  BUFFALO  NEWS. 

A  burst  of  melody,  divine, 

From  where  the  leafy  branches  sway  ; 
A  glimpse  of  blue— sweet  violets— 

Amid  the  grasses  by  the  way; 
A  breath  of  perfume  on  the  breeze; 

The  vagrant  brook's  soft,  liquid  lay— 
And  this  is  May. 

A  sheeny  glimmer  on  the  lake 

Where  soft  and  dancing  sunbeams  play ; 

A  hazy,  mazy,  shiting  cloud, 

Of  giddy,  basking  insects  gay ; 

A  medley  rare,  of  scent  and  sound; 
A  dream  of  sweetness  all  the  day— 
And  this  is  May. 


Bank  ol  California.  San  Francisco. 

Capital  W.000,000  00 

Surplu*     and    Undivided 

Pn.ttts  rOetobar  i.  18W)      3.tbf>,is9  70 
WILLIAM  ALVORD  ivraidooi  ICHaklks  it  niSHOP. .  Vlce-Prca't 

ALLKN  M.CLAY  Scrrctirj     THOMAS   HROWN Caahter 

8.  Prentiss  Smith....  Asn't  Cannier  I  1   P.  HotfUMm M  Abbi  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laldlaw  *  Co.;  the  Duck  of  Now  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Trcmont  National  Hank;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Rothschild  Frores;  Virginia  Citt  (Nov.)— 
Agency  ofThe  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Hunk;  Australia  and  New  Zealand—  Hank  of 
New  Zealand;  China.  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Lodis—  Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York.  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris.  Berlin,  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Prankfort-on-Maln,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  Christian!*,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai, Yokohama,  Ocnoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy. 

California  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Gompanu. 

Cor   California  and  Montgomery  Sts. 

Capiiul  Kul  y  Paid »1,M)0  000 

Tnnsacts  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  Interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acis  as  Executor,  Acmlnistrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  In  any 
other  trust  capacity.  W  ills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  aitori.eys  and 
are  takeu  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  'o  rent  at  prires  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
wa  11  ;u  coiding  to  size,  auu  valuab  es  of  alt  kinds  »re  sic ed  at  ow  rates. 

DiitF.CT-'Rs:  J.  D  Kry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickerhbam  Jacob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Treadwell,  P.  W.  L^ugee.  Henry  F.  Fortmunn,  R  B  Wal- 
lace. R.  D  Fry,  A.  D.  Sharon  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  j.  d  Fry,  President:  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry,  Second  Vice-President;  J  Dalzell  Brown.  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

33  Post    Street,   below    Kearny, 
Mechanics'  Institute  Bdiloino 

Guaranteed  Capital 81.000,000 

Pald-Up  Capital I  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President 

JOHN   A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John   A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  MoElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells.  Fargo  &  Co. ,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    WhenopeuiDg  accounts  send  signatme. 

London,  Paris  and  American  Bank,  Limited. 

N.W.  Cob.  Sansomb  &  Sdtteb  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital (2,600.000 

Paid  Up  Capital I2.uuu.uu0 

ReserveFund I   850,000 

Head  Officb 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Pabis— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

SIG.  GRBENEBAUM !„„,__ 
C.  ALTSCHUL  J  Managers. 

The  Anglo- Galifornian  Bank,  Limited. 

Capual   authorized 16,000,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000 

Paid   Up i,5uu,uuo 

Reserve    Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cob.  Pine  and  Sansomb  Sts 
Head  Office—  18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transaots  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 
telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world.    Sends  bills1 'or  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART     lMftna™rR 
P.  N.  LILIENTRAL  fr  Manage" 

Grocker-Woolworth  National  Bank  of  S.  F. 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery, 

and  post  Streets. 

Pald-Up  Capital $1,000,000 

WM.  H.CROCKER..   President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond.  Hy.  J.  Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

The  Sather  Banking  Gompanu. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 
Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

CAPITAL 11.000,000 

Jambs  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vioe-President 

L.I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolfe.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedlot,  E  G.  Lukens,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
t!o  lal  Raok.  St.  T.nufs— Tbe  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City — First  Na- 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


DEAR  EDITH  :  The  color  epidemic  this  spring  was  red, 
and  for  this  reason  red  is  the  scarcest  and  most  care- 
fully handled  color  in  the  wardrobes  for  summer.  It  has 
such  use  as  for  bicycle  hats,  toned  down  with  black,  and 
for  accessories  of  rough  serge  outing  gowns;  having  been 
made  popular,  it  is  felt  to  be  in  best  harmony  with  utility 
dress — dress  that  is  meant  to  be  frankly  democratic.  The 
fever  for  red  has,  in  fact,  brought  about  a  reaction  in 
favor  of  blue,  green,  and  mauve.  The  large  use  of  these 
colors  has  already  been  noticed  in  the  matter  of  Scotch 
plaids.  These  plaids  remain  in  vogue,  and  there  is  no  need 
to  return  to  them  here;  but  what  is  entirely  new  is  the 
mingling  of  blue  and  green  in  separate  materials,  which 
takes  the  form,  principally,  of  green  trimming  on  blue. 
Thus,  blue  veiling  gowns  and  blue  jackets  of  various 
material  are  covered  with  green  silk  appliques,  scroll  work 
stitched  flat;  thus,  blue  serges  are  trimmed  with  green 
soutache.  Last  year  these  colors  were  mixed  in  the 
weave,  now  they  are  placed  in  contrast  side  by  side,  and 
the  principal  novelty  lies  in  this  change. 

But  if  a  truly  aristocratic  color  is  wanted,  a  color  that 
only  the  few  will  or  can  wear,  this  color  is  yellow.  Among 
all  the  others  yellow  has  an  air  of  distinction,  and  will  give 
value  to  a  gown  that  has  cost  almost  no  money  at  all.  For 
example,  a  burlap  skirt  of  tow  color  and  a  silk  blouse  of 
deep  saffron  is  an  easily  made  gown  that  has  great  effect. 
Over  the  blouse  goes  a  little  sleeveless  bolero  of  the  bur- 
lap with  square  jockeys  that  stand  out  straight,  and  the 
skirt  and  bolero  are  lined  with  the  tint  of  the  burlap.  The 
sleeves  of  the  blouse  are  in  ridges  running  round  from  top 
to  bottom,  an  effect  seen  on  many  new  gowns.  The  ridges 
are  made  by  stitching  the  smallest  possible  tucks  at  regu- 
lar intervals  apart  in  a  piece  of  cloth  and  then  cutting  out 
the  sleeve  from  the  piece.  The  bolero  has  an  application 
of  white  cotton  embroidery  that  enriches  the  gown,  but 
adds  nothing  to  the  style.  To  complete  this  dress  should 
be  a  hat  of  yellow  straw,  trimmed  with  white  ribbon  and 
black  gauze  rosettes  and  coque's  plumes. 

Serge  and  flannel  costumes  are  being  made  with  a  loose 
jacket,  whose  principal  new  feature  is  the  cut  of  the  col- 
lar. Last  winter  the  high  collar  stood  close  to  the  ears, 
but  the  new  one  falls  away  from  the  face  with  a  look  more 
conformed  to  warm  weather.  It  is  made  by  sewing  to  the 
top  of  a  band  a  collar  that  flares  or  that  in  godets  falls  out 
with  a  more  or  less  fluted  effect.  The  edge  is  round,  or 
it  may  be  irregularly  cut.  Simetimes  it  runs  only  across 
the  back.  This  collar  may  be  faced  so  as  to  contrast  with 
the  gown,  and  a  stylish  effect  is  got  by  facing  it  to  match 
the  blouse,  as  for  example  with  a  black  serge  face  the  col- 
lar with  white  satin  covered  with  yellow  embroidery,  and 
make  the  blouse  front  to  match  the  collar.  This  carries 
the  white  low  down  in  front  and  high  up  behind,  in  a 
slightly  diagonal  line  that  throws  out  the  chest,  and  is  very 
becoming.  But  a  collar  facing  to  contrast  may  be  an  in- 
convenience, for  one  does  not  always  wear  the  same  blouse, 
and  a  similar  effect  is  given  by  setting  a  high  ruffle  in  the 
neck  of  the  blouse  round  the  back.  Another  expedient  is 
worth  mention.  One  of  the  trimming  novelties  this  season 
is  tulle  ruched  up  in  little  ruffles,  forming  a  surface  of 
something  less  than  an  inch  thick,  and  among  other  uses 
to  which  it  is  put  is  the  facing  of  collars. 

The  "sun"  skirt  has  grown  so  id  favor  that  it  is  now 
for  thin  materials  the  one  in  most  frequent  use.  This 
skirt,  as  you  will  recall,  is  in  radiating  plaits,  which,  as 
they  fall  out  loose,  are  rather  crimps  than  plaits.  As 
there  is  no  thickness  at  the  top,  this  skirt  is  advautage- 
ously  worn  by  the  stout.  These  skirts  may  be  trimmed, 
and  some  muslins  have  lace  applique  set  in  before  plaiting, 
with  an  effect  as  exquisite  as  the  doing  is  difficult,  but  or- 
dinarily the  crimped  surface  is  quite  decoration  enough. 
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mnen,  Secretary  of  the  National  Association  of 
Loco  led  President  of   the   recently 

Association. 
a    1     Learitt,  of  the  Union  Mutual  Life,   has 
appointed  J.  W.  Spinney  metropolitan  agent. 

II  T  Lamey.  of  Denver.  Coast  Manager  of  the  Western 
A  British  America,  is  contemplating  making  his  head- 
quarters at  San  Francisco. 

Thomas  \V.  Aishett.  .Manager  of  the  National  Life  Asso- 
ciation of  Hartford,  who  has  been  visiting  this  city  for  the 
past  six  weeks,  left  for  his  home  in  Los  Angeles  yesterday. 

The  Liverpool,  London  <&  Globe  will  do  business  in  South 
Africa. 

Mann  &  Wilson  have  been  appointed  Coast  Managers  of 
the  Teutonia  Insurance  Company  of  New  Orleans. 

The  Frankfort,  through  Voss,  Conrad  &  Co..  has  ap- 
pointed L.  C.  Jones  State  agent  for  Oregon.  Mr.  Jones 
formerly  represented  the  Employers'  Liability,  and  will 
transfer  a  large  block  of  business  to  the  books  of  the  for- 
mer company. 

Mary  A.  Berliner  has  failed  to  win  her  $20,000  suit 
against  the  Travelers'  Insurance  Company. 

George  L.  North  is  waking  up  the  agents  of  the  Provi- 
dent Savings  Life. 

The  appointment  by  the  Governor  of  Andrew  Clunie  to 
fill  the  unexpired  term  of  Insurance  Commissioner  Hig- 
gins,  while  disappointing  to  Mr.  Gesford,  appears  emi- 
nently fitting,  when  it  is  remembered  that  Mr.  Clunie  will 
succeed  himself  a  year  hence. 

The  Fidelity  and  Deposit  Company  has  added  $250,000 
to  its  paid  capital  and  $250,000  to  its  surplus  since  the  1st 
day  of  January  last. 

Mr.  F.  C.  Moore,  President  of  the  Continental  Fire  In- 
surance Company  of  New  York,  seems  to  have  a  busy 
pen.  Now  he  writes  of  an  opponent:  ''I  commend  to  him 
i.Mr.  Kennedy)  the  example  of  the  Kansas  editor,  who,  in 
a  moment  of  indignation  and  excitement,  smarting  under 
a  supposed  grievance  at  the  hands  of  a  brother  editor, 
wrote  to  him:  '  Dear  Sir, — You  are  an  ass!'  and  signed 
himself,  'Yours,  fraternally.'" 


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similar  to  many  in  the  East,  which  guarantees  medical 
and  surgical  attendance  of  the  employees  of  the  assured. 
Thus  it  is  noted  that  the  San  Francisco  Chronicle  has  just 
insured  all  its  employees  in  this  company,  thereby  guar- 
anteeing every  man  on  its  pay  roll  the  needed  attention  in 
case  of  sickness  or  accident.  The  field  of  insurance  would 
seem  to  have  been  exhausted,  and  protection  for  a  fee 
given  against  every  possible  phase  of  misfortune.  The 
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best,  for  it  brings  the  employer  and  employee  into  closer 
and  more  sympathetic  relations,  which  is  always  desirable, 
aside  from  the  material  physical  benefits  which  must  be 
apparent  to  every  one. 

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CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO,  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000,000 

Assets 3,300.018 

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ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager   501  Montgomery  St. 
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PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON    NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  im 

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413  California  St.,  S.  F. 

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Capital 18,700,000 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897- 


QUARRELS  among  his  appointees,  and  dissatisfaction 
between  the  two  wings  of  the  local  Democratic  party 
— the  cbiva'ry  and  the  shovelry — to  say  nothing  of  the 
conflicting  influences  of  the  Durrant  case,  have  occasioned 
Governor  Budd  much  worry  of  late,  and  he  foresees  a 
troublous  path  ahead  of  him  when  he  either  strives  for  re- 
election or,  what  is  nearer  to  his  heart,  the  Senatorial 
prize.  Having  convinced  himself  that  he  is  in  great  need 
of  relaxation,  he  has  been  spending  much  of  his  time  in 
this  city  recently. 

"In  Sacramento  he  feels  his  Governorship  |and  spreads 
his  pinions  a  bit,"  as  Aleck  Vogelsang  says.  "But  when 
he  comes  to  San  Francisco  he's,  only  Jim  Budd,  and  he's 
strictly  on  the  diversion  lay." 

Nor  are  the  galleries  forgotten.  A  Budd  disciple,  meet- 
ing the  Chief  Executive  at  the  entrance  to  a  cheap  restau- 
rant in  one  of  the  markets,  and  recalling  the  fondness  of 
the  gubernatorial  palate  for  dainties,  expressed  his  sur- 
prise. 

"Oh,"  replied  the  Governor,  with  the  pride  that  apes 
humility,  "I  belong  to  the  people — I  must  eat  with  them." 

Somewhat  later  in  the  evening  the  Stockton  ruler  was 
rescued  by  some  friends  as  he  was  addressing  a  boisterous 
but  inappreciative  audience  on  the  Barbary  Coast,  regard- 
ing the  good  fortune  of  Californians  in  the  possession  of  a 
certain  public  servant.     But  that  was  after  dinner. 

*  *  * 

To  be  a  continual  reminder  of  some  one  else  is  the  pen- 
alty for  the  distinguished  bearing  of  Dr.  Daniel  D.  Lustig. 
The  handsome  Insanity  Commissioner  quite  expects  to 
have  a  double,  and  is  properly  resigned  to  the  existence  of 
the  inevitable  twin,  but  he  considers  that  he  has  a  legiti- 
mate ground  of  complaint  when  he  is  made  to  form  one  of 
a  triplicate  series.  As  the  Doctor  was  walking  down 
Market  street  the  other  day,  a  stranger  accosted  him: 

"By  the  way,  Henry,"  he  began,  "there's  a  funny  thing 
about  that  divorce  case  of  mine — this  is  on  the  quiet,  of 
course" 

"  Excuse  me — I  don't  hanker  after  your  confidences — 
my  name  is  not  Dinkelspiel,"  interrupted  Lustig,  who  had 
been  there  before. 

A  few  minutes  later  he  was  mounting  the  steps  to  the 
Press  Club,  when  he  encountered  a  pretty  girl  who  stopped, 
stared  hard  at  him,  and  then  gracefully  seized  Lustig  by 
the  arm. 

"Why,  Mr.  De  Vries,"  she  said,  with  a  radiant  smile, 
"what  cloud  did  you  drop  from?  Now,  when  are  you  coming 
to  see  me  ?  " 

She  had  mistaken  Dr.  Lustig  for  the  grand  opera  star 
of  last  year's  Tivoli  season.  This  time  he  did  not  correct 
the  error.     He  says  it  would  have  been  too  harsh. 

*  *  * 

It  is  a  fortunate  matter  for  E.  W.  Davis,  of  Santa  Rosa, 
whom  the  Board  of  Regents  of  the  University  of  California 
has  just  elected  as  its  secretary,  that  the  University  char- 
ter, requiring  the  incumbent  to  be  an  agriculturist,  does 
not  fix  also  a  standard  of  deportment.  His  manners  are 
brusque,  and  his  usual  remarks  uncouth.  Besides  being 
School  Superintendent  of  Sonoma  county,  he  is  lecturer  for 
the  State  Grange — and  looks  it.  While  recently  address- 
ing a  convention  of  women  teachers  at  Petaluma,  Davis 
was  perceptibly  under  the  influence  of  a  medicine  which, 
as  he  says  he  takes  it  as  a  cure  for  consumption,  was 
probably  cod  liver  oil.  Naturally,  there  were  a  few  whis- 
pered comments  among  the  pretty  young  schoolma'ams 
concerning  the  speaker's  condition. 

"If  3'ou  women  can't  keep  your  mouths  shut,"  shouted 
the  successor  to  the  scholarly  Dr.  Bonte,  "I'll  have  a  po- 
liceman among  you  to  keep  you  in  order!  " 

The  young  ladies,  shocked  and  humiliated  beyond  ex- 
pression, relapsed  into  a  silence  that  was  almost  breath- 
less 

"Didn't   I   give   them  h 1  ?"  audibly  remarked   the 

courtly  Mr.  Davis  as  he  left  the  platform. 


It  has  been  unofficially  announced  that  the  literature  of 
the  Pacific  Coast  is  soon  to  be  enriched  by  an  important 
and  valuable  addition  in  the  form  of  an  autobiographical 
work,  comprising  four  quarto  volumes,  in  which  will  be  re- 
counted the  rise  of  an  eminent  journalist.  It  is  entitled, 
"How  to  Be  Busy  Without  Working— a  Bluff,"  and  the 
name  of  the  author  is  given  as  Andrew  M.  Lawrence.  Ad- 
vance sheets  indicate  that  the  narrative  will  have  a  pecu- 
liar charm  for  one  William  R.  Hearst.  Among  other  in- 
teresting revelations  the  work  will  recount  how  the  author 
succeeded  in  ingratiating  himself  with  his  employer.  When 
the  latter  was  in  his  editorial  office  in  this  city,  Lawience, 
who  then  held  a  subordinate  position,  would  rush  violently 
past  Hearst's  open  [door  with  a  handful  of  proofs  in  his 
hands — proofs  of  articles  already  published,  and,  there- 
fore, harmless — and  at  the  same  time  generously  damning 
some  writer,  who  was,  of  course,  at  a  safe  distance,  the 
while  impressing  his  employer  that  he  was  a  devil  of  a 
fellow. 

"Andy's  a  shrewd,  careful  chap,  devoted  to  my  inter- 
ests," reflected  Hearst.  "He  shall  be  my  managing  edi- 
tor.    I  won't  be  happy  till  I  get  him." 

He  has  got  him. 

*  *  * 

An  artistic  young  lady,  who  is  as  fond  of  her  housekeep- 
ing arrangements  as  of  hsr  adjacent  studio,  delights  in 
giving  little  dinners  as  frequently  as  the  resources  of  her 
slender  purse  will  permit.  She  has  a  morbid  fear  of  the 
claret  dripping  from  the  bottles  and  staining  the  hand- 
some table  linen,  of  which  her  store  is  limited.  As  an 
artistic  preventative,  she  ornaments  the  bottles  with  bows 
of  ribbon,  which  absorb  the  vagrant  wine  drops,  and  the 
color  of  these  ribbons  is  always  made  to  harmonize  with 
the  prevailing  decorations  of  the  dinner.  Her  latest  en- 
tertainment was  a  scarlet  dinner,  and  after  arranging  her 
table  she  went  upstairs  to  put  the  finishing  touches  to  her 
own  toilet.  As  she  was  hurrying  about,  she  heard  the 
bell,  rung  by  the  early  guest.  She  could  not  find  the  rib- 
bons with  which  she  wished  to  bind  the  short  sleeves  of 
her  dinner  gown. 

"Where  can  I  have  mislaid  them?"  she  soliloquized,  ner- 
vously.    "I  cannot  do  without  those  ribbons." 

Then  her  truant  memory  came  to  her  aid. 

"I  am  lost!"  she  wailed,  in  hopeless  desperation.  "They 
are  around  the  bottles!  " 


At  the  Gingerbread  Fete  last  week,  the  central  figure 
in  the  management  of  the  amusement  department  was 
John  G.  Housman,  who  acted  as  stage  director,  and  who 
has  much  local  fame  as  a  lay  reader,  "with  dramatic  ten- 
dencies, in  various  Episcopal  churches  in  and  about  San 
Francisco.  When  becomingly  arrayed  for  his  ecclesiastical 
duties  in  his  black  cotta  and  white  surplice,  with  his  gray 
hair  and  his  contrasting  black  moustache,  carefully  curled 
at  the  ends,  he  is  the  hero  of  many  an  altar  guild  and 
ladies'  aid  society.  On  a  recent  Sunday  as  he  walked 
across  the  chancel  of  St.  Luke's  Church  to  the  reading 
desk,  he  stumbled  over  a  stool,  and  slightly  disarranged 
his  vestments,  displaying  about  two  inches  of  his  shoe. 
Housman  blushed  like  a  girl,  and  was  plainly  disconcerted 
during  the  reading  of  the  first  lesson. 

"How   perfectly  bold  of  him,"   whispered    Lieutenant 

Harry  Benson.     "Did  you  see  his  ankle?     I  tell  you,  he's 

no  ladv!" 

*  *  * 

Neither  hosts  nor  guests  expected  that  it  would  develop 
into  such  a  frolic, — that  quiet  little  stag  party  at  the  old 
fashioned  cottage  on  Buchanan  street  where  Carrington 
Wilson  and  Goodwin  Harris  maintain  joint  bachelor  quar- 
ters. Denis  O'Sullivan  dropped  in  after  the  Tivoli,  Jack 
Casserly  was  already  there, — and  there  were  others.  The 
fun  waxed  faster  and  more  furious  toward  daylight  and  by 
dawn  everyone  firmly  expected  that  the  place  would  be 
raided.  After  the  sun  had  fairly  risen,  Jack  Casserly  made 
several  inarticulate  remarks,  finally  translated  as  an  an- 
nouncement of  his  intention  to  attend  early  mass. 

"Where  are  you  going  for  mass  ?"  was  chanted  by  an 
incredulous  chorus. 

"St.  Dominic's,"  replied  Jack.  "But  I'll  be  back  to 
finish  up  the  evening,"  he  added,  artlessly,  as  he  steered 
for  the  temple  on  Steiner  street. 


May  12,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  N i:\VS  LETTER. 


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have  born  sadly  duped  by  a  ile 
'ividual  o(  insinuating  manner*  and  low  morals, 
who  Astir  •  s,  took  thoir  coin  and. 

when  !au>fhod  in  a  loud  and  coarse  manner 

and  calmly  wen'  ry  suburban 

reside  new  vari.  '  mil    without 

much  trouble  a  gentleman  was  found  in  every  town  on  the 
•  >f  the  bay,  willini;  to  bestow  his  name  on  a  new 
flower  and.  what  was  more  to  the  ooint,  able  to  pay  for  the 
•■aling  a  r 
After  the  negotiations  hail    been  roncluded,  there  was 
much  comparing  of  notes  about  new  flowers  reported  from 
1  >ne  erew  in  Berkeley  i.>  the  garden  of 
ind  was  christened  the  Palache  rose.     Al- 
1    >hen.  the  recluse  of  Alameda,  cam  to  the  front  with 
a  new  flower,  which  he  called  the  Beauty  of  Glazewood, 
and  Harry  Fortune,  of  San  Rafael,  announced  to  the  horti- 
cultural world  the  birth  of  Fortune's  Yellow  Rose.     Other 
enthusiasts  joined  the  amateur  florists  and  felicitations  be- 
came   general.      Congratulations    perceptibly   decreased 
when  one  similarity  after   another  was   discovered,  until 
finally  the  complete  identity  of  the  three  "  varieties  "  was 
shed. 
The  same  rose  had  been  sold  many  times, — and  so  had 
the  purchasers. 

•  #  « 

One  of  those  jovial  characters  whose  fund  of  gojd-fellow- 
ship  wins  jreneral  regard  is  I.  Downey  Harvey.  Owing, 
perhaps,  to  his  stature,  which  is  not  great,  and  to  his 
geniality,  which,  on  the  contrary,  is  large,  he  is  much 
petted  by  the  other  men  in  the  Pacific-Union  Club.  No 
one  thinks  of  addressing  him  as  "Mr.  Harvey."  He  is 
"Downey"  to  every  one,  a  familiarity  to  which  Harvey 
himself  does  not  usually  object,  but  which  his  wife  resents 
as  entailing  some  damage  to  her  husband's  dignity.  He 
was  somewhat  surprised  the  other  day,  however,  at  being 
freely  accosted  by  a  man  whom  he  had  no  recollection  of 
ever  seeing. 

"Hello,  Downey,"  he  called,  in  easy  greeting.  "How 
are  you,  old  felV" 

Harvey  was  somewhat  taken  aback,  and  showed  it. 

"It  is  Downey  Harvey,  is  it  not?"  asked  the  other,  his 
assurance  a  trifle  shaken.     "I  thought — I  believe — I " 

"Oh,  don't  mind  me,"  responded  Downey,  airily. 
"Don't  apologize.     I'm  a  familiar  kind  of  a  cuss,  I  guess!" 

*  *  * 

Church  courts  are  not  usually  sou  -c.es  of  particular  di- 
version, but  a  clerical  joke,  if  slow  in  coming,  pays  for  the 
waiting.  The  Diocesan  Convention  of  the  Episcopal  church 
which  has  been  in  session  here  this  week  has  been,  for  the 
most  part,  as  dignified  and  formal  as  its  own  traditions. 
On  Wednesday  morning,  however,  there  was  a  spasmodic 
effort  to  throw  off  ecclesiastical  restraint.  It  was  "mis- 
sionary day,"  and  a  long  list  of  frontier  parsons  had  re- 
counted the  uninteresting  details  of  church  work  at  their 
respective  stations.  One  good  brother,  whose  parish  is  on 
the  edge  of  Death  Valley,  made  a  report  which  was  as  dry 
as  his  own  locality.     He  was  not  without  hope,  however. 

"All  we  need,"  he  concluded,  in  a  tone  that  was  almost 
sanguine,  "is  water  and  society." 

The  Rev.  George  Edward  Walk,  rector  of  Trinity,  could 
not  let  such  an  opportunity  pass. 

"  That's  all  they  need  in  the  other  hot  place,"  he  said, 
quickly  and  wittily,  "  water  and  society." 

«  QUARTER  of  a  dollar  is   a  small  sum,  yet  it  is  quite 
enough  to  give  one  a  pleasant  Sunday's  outing  at  El 
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SAN  FRANXISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


THE  great  event  of  the  present  week  has  been  the  Dog 
Show,  which  opened  at  the  Pavilion  on  Wednesday. 
Many  of  our  matrons  made  up  parties  for  the  opening 
night,  entertaining  the  members  at  dinner  before  visiting 
the  canines;  and  several  stag  dinners  were  also  given  with 
a  like  conclusion,  and  society  at  large  was  well  repre- 
sented at  the  show  that  evening.  Theatre  parties  have 
again  been  a  feature  this  week,  and  some  of  the  prettiest 
girls  in  the  swim  were  included  in  the  one  given  bv  Mr. 
Wiltsee. 

And  now  approaches  the  time  when  the  sweet  girl  grad- 
uate will  be  largely  in  evidence,  and  for  some  weeks  we 
shall  both  hear  and  see  them  in  their  pretty  gowns,  and  as 
the  recipient  of  school  honors,  diplomas,  and  flowers  in- 
numerable. In  fact,  school  commencements  have  already 
begun — one  of  the  first  being  that  of  the  Irving  Institute, 
which  took  place  at  Golden  Gate  Hall  on  Thursday  even- 
ing, and  those  of  Trinity  School  will  be  held  in  the  school 
hall  on  Tuesday  evening  next,  the  25th.  There  will  be  a 
promenade  concert  at  the  new  building  of  the  Maria  Kip 
Orphanage,  on  Lake  street,  this  afternoon  from  three  to 
seven  o'clock.  The  programme  to  be  executed  promises 
a  musical  treat,  and  the  attendance  will,  beyond  doubt,  be 
large  and  fashionable. 

The  expectations  of  the  swim  are  wrought  up  to  a  high 
pitch  regarding  the  floral  decorations  of  the  Unitarian 
Church  for  the  Cohen-Bent  wedding  on  the  2d  of  June, 
something  very  unique,  beautiful  and  elaborate  in  that 
line  being  promised.  The  fair  bride-elect  has  herself  de- 
signed the  gowns  of  her  bridesmaids,  and  her  well-known 
taste  gives  assurance  that  they  will  be  dainty  creations. 
St.  Luke's  Church  has  been  selected  by  Miss  Mabel 
Estee  for  her  marriage  to  Leonard  Everett  on  the  9th  of 
June,  and  it  goes  without  saying  that  here  also  the  floral 
decorations  will  be  worth  looking  at,  that  little  edifice  be- 
ing one  of  the  easiest  to  dress  effectively. 

On  Thursday  of  this  week  Miss  Maud  Roberts  and  N.  A. 
Borland  were  the  bride  and  groom  of  a  ceremony  taking 
place  at  the  Borland  residence  on  O'Farrell  street.  On 
Wednesday  of  next  week  Miss  Lillian  Mastick  and  Oliver 
Ellsworth  will  be  married  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Frank 
Otis  on  Santa  Clara  avenue,  Alameda.  The  23d  of  June 
will  be  the  date  of  two  weddings  of  note  in  our  social  world, 
though  neither  of  them  will  take  place  in  San  Francisco. 
The  Coleman  residence  in  Oakland  will  be  the  locale  of 
Miss  Jessie  Coleman's  wedding  with  Harry  Knowles,  while 
in  Portland,  Oregon,  the  Macleay-Grant  nuptials  will  be 
solemnized. 

The  recent  wedding  in  Stockton  of  Miss  Louisa  Bours 
and  Charles  Lowell  Otis  was  another  one  in  which  San 
Franciscans  were  interested,  inasmuch  as  the  family  of 
the  groom  has  been  well  known  among  them  for  many 
years.  The  marriage  took  place  in  St.  John's  church  on 
Wednesday  afternoon  of  last  week,  the  Reverend  Mr. 
Bours — a  brother  of  the  bride — performed  the  ceremony. 
Miss  Lily  Bours  was  her  sister's  maid-of-honor.  and  Ather- 
ton  Macondray — a  groom  of  the  near  future  himself — 
officiated  as  best  man.  A  reception  and  wedding  break- 
fast at  the  Bours  residence  followed  the  church  service,  at 
which  all  the  groom's  relatives  and  many  of  his  friends 
from  San  Francisco  were  present. 

Recent  engagement  announcements  include  those  of  Miss 
Anna  Grube  and  Harry  Durbrow;  and  of  Mrs.  Annie  L. 
Worcester,  nee  Jackson,  and  A.  H.  Small,  the  latter  com- 
ing as  a  great  surprise  to  their  friends. 

The  Gingerbread  Fete  was  a  great  point  of  attraction 
last  Saturday,  many  attending  it  before  going  to  the  con- 
cert at  Golden  Gate  Hall,  and  others  dividing  their  time 
between  it  and  the  very  pleasant   tea  given  by  Dr.  Char- 


lotte Brown  that  afternoon.  The  Fete  closed  in  a  blaze 
of  glory  and  dollars  on  Saturday  evening  much  to  the  re- 
gret of  those  who  took  part,  as  well  as  their  visitors,  who 
found  it  the  pleasantest  place  imaginable  to  spend  both 
time  and  money.  It  was  in  every  sense  a  great  success. 
The  unpleasant  state  of  the  weather  rather  spoiled  the 
opening  day  of  the  Pacific  Yacht  Club  at  Sausalito  last 
Saturday  afternoon,  so  far  as  the  out-of-door  arrange- 
ments were  concerned:  but  inside  the  pretty  club  house 
the  guests  bad  a  delightful  time  between  dancing  and 
feasting,  and  enjoyed  every  moment  of  their  stay. 

The  Mills  Club  musical  reception,  in  the  rooms  of  the 
Sorosis  Club,  on  Pine  street,  was  greatly  enjoyed  by  a 
large  number  of  guests.  Other  recent  pleasant  affairs 
were  Mrs.  J.  B.  Crockett's  tea  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Harold 
Sewell;  Mrs.  Asa  Wells'  progressive  euchre  party;  George 
de  Long's  tug  party,  which  was  chaperoned  by  Mrs. 
Willie  Gwin:  Mrs.  Charles  A.  Low's  reception  iu  honor  of 
Miss  Lizzie  Knox,  and  the  luncheon  given  by  Mrs.  O.  F. 
Long  at  the  Requa  residence  in  Oakland.  The  dinner 
d'adieu  given  by  Mrs.  Kruttschnitt  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P. 
Huntington  was  one  of  the  most  elaborate  at  which  they 
were  guests  during  their  visit  here.  Another  feast  in 
honor  of  a  departing  visitor  was  the  luncheon  given  by 
Mrs.  Hager  for  Mrs.  Gale,  who  had  been  spending  some 
weeks  with  her  sister,  Mrs.  H.  L.  Dodge,  and  who  has  re- 
turned to  her  Eastern  home.  A  dozen  ladies  were  invited 
to  meet  her  on  that  occasion.  Mrs.  McKittrick  has  ar- 
rived from  Babersfield  on  a  visit  to  her  mother,  Mrs. 
Shafter,  at  the  Presidio,  and  will  remain  several  weeks. 
The  Shatters  will  be  at  the  Presidio  for  some  time  longer, 
before  taking  up  their  residence  in  the  lovely  quarters  of 
the  Commanding  General  at  Fort  Mason. 

The  swim  are  later  this  year  than  usual  in  deciding  upon 
out-of-town  quarters,  the  several  June  weddings  which  are 
to  take  place  in  society  circles  having  much  to  do  in  keep- 
ing people  in  town.  The  Hotel  Rafael,  from  its  nearness 
to  the  city,  has  already  received  many  acquisitions,  and 
later  on  Castle  Crag  will,  it  is  said,  be  well  patronized.  To 
dwellers  near  the  sea  coast — such  as  San  Franciscans  are 
— what  can  be  more  delightful  than  the  delicious  mountain 
air  and  the  odor  of  the  pine  groves  which  are  obtained  in 
that  locale.  Del  Monte  grows  in  favor  with  Eastern  vis- 
itors every  year,  and  the  assurance  of  meeting  pleasant 
people  from  the  other  side  of  the  continent  is  to  our  resi- 
dents one  of  the  least  attractions  of  that  most  charming 
place. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Whitney,  the  Messrs.  A.  B.  aud  L. 
MeCreary,  Baron  and  Baroness  von  Schroeder,  Henry  L. 
Tatum,  and  others,  are  among  arrivals  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo.  Shreve,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J. 
G.  Walkington  are  at  the  Hotel  Mateo  for  the  season; 
Mrs.  Jarboe  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paul  Jarboe  are  occupying 
their  new  villa  at  San  Mateo;  Mr.  aDd  Mrs.  C.  F.  Kohl  are 
among  the  visitors  at  Del  Monte. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Scott  and  Miss  Laura  McKinstry 
are  at  home  again;  Mr.  Harold  Sewell  has  arrived  from 
the  East,  en  route  to  Honolulu;  he  and  Mrs.  Sewell  are  the 
guests  of  Mrs.  C.  L.  Ashe  on  Sacramento  street.  Mrs. 
Younger  has  decided  to  postpone  her  contemplated  visit 
to  San  Francisco  this  summer,  and  sailed  for  Europe  last 
Monday.  Dr.  Younger  will,  however,  be  with  us  again 
next  month.  Mrs.  John  Skae  and  Miss  Alice,  and  the  C. 
P.  Huntingtons  have  gone  East;  Louis  Sloss,  Jr.,  leaves 
for  Alaska  early  in  June;  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Smedberg,  ac- 
companied bj*  Miss  Cora,  anticipate  an  absence  of  several 
weeks,  paying  visits  to  friends  in  the  East. 

Mme.  Barrios,  of  Guatemala,  is  one  of  the  guests  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael,  and  her  present  intention  is  to  remain  there 
a  month  or  more. 

Dr.  Byron  W.  Haines  contemplates  closing  his  Belve- 
dere home  in  the  early  fall,  and,  with  his  family,  taking  a 
several  months'  vacation  in  Europe. 

An  enjoyable  concert  will  be  given  on  the  evening  of 
next  Friday,  28th  inst..  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s  Hall,  223 
Sutter  street,  at  8  o'clock,  in  aid  of  the  San  Francisco 
Boys'  Club  Association.  Tickets  of  admission,  50  cents,  to 
be  had  of  the  managers,  or  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s, 
Yickery's.  Doxey's,  or  of  any  of  the  patronesses. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


tfa  annual  Festival  of  the  \ 

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doors  will  bo  thrown  open    to  the   general   public   at    7  30 

A  certain  number  of  tickets  arc   set   apart  to  each 

parish  whose  choir  participates  in  the   Festival,  and  may 

be  had  next  Sunday  of  the  parish  authorities.     The  choirs 

taking  part  are  those  of  St.  Luke's  and  St.  John's,   San 

St    .lohn's,  Oakland,   Christ  Church.    Alameda 

lark's,  Berkeley,  and  Trinity,  San  Jos 

Geo.  T.  Marsh,  dealer  in  Japanese  curios  in  this  city, 
who  makes  annual  business  trips  to  Japan,  has  often  been 
requested  to  chaperone  parties  from  here.  Mr.  Marsh 
speaks  the  language  fluently,  and  has  an  intimate 
acqua-ntance  there  that  would  be  invaluable  to  those  who 
might  accompany  him;  and  he  is  thinking  of  organizing  a 
small  party  for  a  trip  to  Japan  early  in  August,  as  that  is 
the  time  to  see  that  country  at  its  best.  The  cost  of  such 
a  trip  would  be  greatly  reduced  by  an  arrangement  of 
this  tort,  to  say  nothing  of  the  superior  opportunities  for 
obtaining  information  and  seeing  sights  under  Mr.  Marsh's 
direction,  that  would  not  otherwise  be  possible. 

The  moonlight  riding  party  that  Miss  Jeannie  Moore  in- 
tended giving  iu  honor  of  Miss  Anna  Simon  was  summarily 
changed,  owing  to  climatic  influences.  It  seems  that  our 
hostess  failed  to  consult  Weather  Prophet  Hammon.  and 
at  the  last  minute  was  compelled  to  change  to  a  theatre 
party  at  the  Columbia.  Sixteen  young  folks  enjoyed  JSx- 
Jr..  and  then  adjourned  to  the  Moore  home,  on  Jack- 
son street,  where  a  delightful  supper  and  dance  were  in- 
dulged in.  Miss  Anna  Simon  has  just  returned  from  Eu- 
rope, where  she  has  been  visiting  friends  for  the  past  year. 
Previous  to  her  departure  she  was  one  of  the  most  popu- 
lar of  the  "Verein"  girls,  and  her  long  absence  has  in  no 
way  impaired  her  popularity. 

One  of  the  most  pleasant  memories  of  a  trip  to  the  top 
of  Mount  Tamalpais  via  the  scenic  railway  is  the  beau- 
tiful Blythedale,  six  miles  beyond  Sausalito.  Blythedale  is 
just  the  sort  of  place  to  visit  for  the  summer's  outing.  The 
hotel  and  cottages,  under  the  management  of  Mrs.  Gregg, 
is  one  of  the  features  of  Blythedale  to  linger  in  one's  mind 
with  a  wish  for  happy  returns. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Marks  left  for  Europe  last  Mon- 
day for  quite  an  extended  tour.  They  will  be  absent 
seven  or  eight  months.  The  trip  is  taken  for  the  enjoy- 
ment of  a  much-needed  vacation. 

Amongst  the  latest  arrivals  from  the  East  are  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Julius  Weill  (nh  Scheffel),  who  are  on  their  honey- 
moon. Mr.  Weill  is  an  ex-resident  of  San  Francisco  and  a 
brother  to  Mrs.  Max  Brandenstein. 

The  latest  planned  Alaskan  trip  is  that  of  Mesdames 
Hellman,  Esberg  and  Weill,  who  contemplate  taking  their 
families  for  an  ocean  jaunt  about  the  end  of  June. 

The  S.  Schwabachers  will  summer  at  Sausalito;  also  the 
Pechheimers.  The  former  have  the  Sheppard  home  and 
the  latter  the  cottage  by  the  sea. 

Mr.  Nathan  I.  Cook  left  last  week  for  an  extended  trip 
south. 


THE  Nelson  Amycose  Company  has  incorporated,  and 
has  established  offices  at  the  corner  of  Clay  and  Front 
streets.  Nelson's  Amycose  is  recognized  by  physicians 
and  dentists  as  being  a  splendid  antiseptic  and  a  toilet 
article — especially  valuable  for  sore  throat,  catarrh,  and 
diphtheria. 

To  get  up  a  banquet,  supper,  or  marriage  dinner— perfect  in  its  ap- 
pointments and  satisfying  the  tastes  of  the  most  refined  is  an  art ; 
but  Max  Abraham  at  42S  Geary  street  is  a  master  of  that  art,  as  his    j 
superintendence  of  all  the  swell  dinners  in   the  city   very  cleariy    i 
proves.    Practice  has  made  him  perfect. 

Wedding  and   Birthday   Presents.       Magnificent  assortment   to 
choose  from  at  Art  Store  o(  S.  &  G.  Gump,  113  Geary  street. 


All  Japan  tea  (except  Schillings  Best),  that 
we  know  of,  on  this  Coast,  is  colored,  and  col- 
oring is  not  good  to  drink.  Your  money  back 
if  you  don't  like  Schillings  Best. 


A  Schilling  &  Company 
San  Francisco. 


Remodeled    and    under 
New  Management  .... 


1  PACIFIC 
CONGRESS 
SPRINGS 
HOTEL 

Santa  Gruz  Mountains, 

Santa  Clara  County . 


Onlij  two-and-a-half  hours 
from  San  frannisco. 

Six  miles  from  Los  Gatos  Ten 
miles  from  Santa  Cla.a.  Twelve 
miles  from  San  Jose.    Address 

GEO.    0.    WATKINS, 


523  MarKet  St 


San  Francisco. 


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BbYTttEDALE 


Now    Open   for   the   Season 


MRS.    GREGG 


Under   New  ^^ 

Management 

Only  19  miles  from  Ukiah. 

Finest  summer  resort  in  California. 

Good  hunting,  fishing,  boating,  and  Bathing 

Finest  cuisine  and  best  accommodations. 


.BLUE  LAKES  HOTEL, 

(Bertha  Postofflce) 
LAKE  COUNTY,  CAL. 

R.  E.   WHITEFIELD, 

Manager. 


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Unsurpassed  view  of    Beach,  Bay  and 
Mountains     Salmon  Fishing.    Tennis 
court,  Croquet  grounds,  and  music 
Reasonable  Rates.    For  terms  address      John  T.  Sullivan,  Manager 


THE  RALSTON^ 

Restaurant. 


315-317'Bush  St.,  S.  F  ,  Cal. 


A  Lunch 
Place. 


Ralston  Koffee— A  delicious  drink.    Ralston  Whole  Wheat  Bread. 
Ralsion  Cooked  Meats.  Ralston  Cereals  and  Mush.      Wm.  E.  Allen.  Prop. 


Gomel,  Oolong. 


The  oldest  and  most  reliable  brand  on  the 
market.  Sold  only  in  1-3  pound  papers  at 
20  cents  per  paper.  All  grocers  keep  it. 

R.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
CREAM,  OR    MAGICAL   BEAUTIFIER. 

R  jQoves  Tan,  Pimples,  Freckles,  Moth 
Patches, Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  brauty,  and  defies  de- 
teciion  It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-ton  (a  pa- 
tient): "As  you  ladies  will  use  them,  I 
recommend  "Gouraud's  Cream*  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions, "  For  sale  by  all  Druggistsand 
FaDcy-Gouds  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS.   Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,  X  .  Y 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS    LKTTF.R. 


May  22,  1897. 


NOTES      OF      THE      ARMY      AND      NAVY. 


THE  News  Letter  has  frequently  received  requests, 
both  from  abroad  and  at  home,  asking  for  news  of  the 
army  and  navy.  Inasmuch  as  we  endeavor  to  do  well 
whatever  may  be  undertaken,  and  as  it  is  somewhat  diffi- 
cult to  arrange  for  complete  and  reliable  information, 
there  has  been  unavoidably  delay.  But,  beginning  with 
this  issue,  the  News  Letter  will  each  week  present  a  full, 
accurate,  and  complete  budget  of  current  army  and  navy 
society  notes,  and  official  movements,  which  will  be  found 
to  cover  this  importaut  department  to  the  complete  satis- 
faction of  our  wide  circle  of  acquaintances  throughout  the 
United  States.] 

In  military  circles  there  is  much  discussion  regarding 
the  system  under  which  men  in  the  service  are  held  in  the 
grade  of  subalterns  until  they  have  reached  the  age  of 
fifty  years  and  upwards.  This  is  considered  radically  de- 
fective, and  an  immediate  change  is  desired.  It  is  argued 
that  although  the  United  States  can  progress  well  with  a 
small  standing  army,  still  the  interests  of  the  public  and 
the  safety  of  the  nation  demand  that  it  shall  be  officered 
by  men  who  have  the  plrysical  as  well  as  mental  qualifica- 
tions to  meet  any  emergency  that  may  arise.  As  it  is 
now,  it  is  a  lamentable  fact  that  many  of  our  field  officers, 
by  reason  of  age  and  physical  infirmities,  are  unable  to 
mount  to  the  saddle,  and  others,  through  a  long  period  of 
inactivity,  are  incapable  of  efficiently  conducting  even  the 
ordinary  drills  of  their  regiments.  By  all  means  give  the 
younger  element  a  chance. 

The  location  of  some  of  the  vessels  in  commission  in  the 
Pacific  and  Asiatic  stations  is  as  follows:  Philadelphia  and 
Marion  at  Honolulu,  Bennington  en  route  to  San  Francisco, 
Alert  at  Mare  Island,  Oregon  at  Bremerton,  Wash., 
Monterey  and  Monadnock  in  San  Francisco  harbor, 
Olympia  and  Yorktown  at  Yokohama,  Monocacy  at  Shang- 
hai, Machais  at  Chemulpo,  Boston  at  Nagasaki,  Petrel  en 
route  to  the  Asiatic  station,  Adams  at  Honolulu,  and  ex- 
pected at  Port  Angeles  on  June  28th.  "When  the  Phila- 
delphia returns  from  Honolulu  she  will  go  to  Mare  Island 
for  extensive  repairs.  The  McArthur  is  surveying  a  part 
of  the  harbor  near  Alvarado.  The  Alert  left  here  Tues- 
day for  Alaska,  and  will  act  as  convoy  to  the  aged  gun- 
boat Pinta  upon  her  return  from  Sitka.  The  Pinta  is 
practically  useless  and  will  doubtless  be  sold.  The  gun- 
boat Concord,  now  at  Mare  Island,  will  go  into  commission 
to-day  under  the  command  of  Commander  Asa  Walker, 
U.  S.  N.  The  Baltimore,  now  at  Mare  Island,  will  not  be 
ready  for  service  until  August  1st.  She  will  then  become 
flagship  of  the  Pacific  station.  The  Charleston,  which  is 
being  overhauled  at  the  Mare  Island  navy  yard,  will  be 
ready  for  service  about  next  January. 

Rear  Admiral  Joseph  N.  Miller,  U.  S.  N.,  who  has  been 
assigned  to  the  command  of  the  Pacific  squadron,  to  suc- 
ceed Rear  Admiral  Lester  A.  Beardslee,  U.  S.  N.,  was 
commandant  of  the  Boston  Navy  Yard  during  the  past 
three  years. 

Commodore  H.  L.  Howison,  U.  S.  N.,  formerly  com- 
mandant at  Mare  Island,  has  succeeded  him  in  the  latter 
position.  Mrs.  Howison  returned  from  Honolulu  last  week 
and  has  gone  to  Boston  to  join  her  husband. 

The  recent  death  of  Rear  Admiral  R.  W.  Meade,  U.S.N., 
retired,  in  Washington,  D.  C,  recalls  the  fact  that  more 
than  three  decades  ago  he  was  attached  to  the  Saranac 
and  the  Cyane  in  the  Pacific  squadron. 

It  is  rumored,  upon  excellent  authority,  that  Colonel 
William  M.  Graham,  Fifth  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  is  making 
strenuous  efforts  to  secure  promotion  to  the  rank  of  Brig- 
adier-General. He  will  be  retired  from  active  service  in 
1898. 

Colonel  S.  B.  M.  Young,  Fourth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  is 
now  on  duty  at  the  Yellowstone  National  Park. 

Colonel  Edmund  C.  Bainbridge,  Third  Artillery,  U.S.A., 
having  attained  the  age  of  sixty-two  years,  has  been  re- 
tired from  active  service. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Evan  Miles,  First  Infantry,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Colonel. 

Lieutenant  Commander  Charles  G.  Bowman,  U.  S.  N., 
has  been  ordered  to  Mare  Island  to  take  charge  of  the 
equipment  department. 

Major  William  H.  Heuer,  Corps  of  Engineers,  U.  S.  A., 
is  on  special  duty  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 


Major  E.  B.  Mosely,  medical  department,  U.  S.  A.,  is 
now  on  duty  at  his  new  station,  Benicia  Barracks.  He 
was  on  duty  in  this  city  in  1884  as  attending  surgeon  of  the 
Division  of  the  Pacific. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Marcus  P.  Miller,  First  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Colonel  of  the 
Third  Artillery. 

Major  William  H.  Bisbee,  Eighth  Infantry,  U.S.A., 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  of 
the  First  Infantry. 

Lieutenant  J.  Franklin  Bell,  Seventh  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A., 
formerly  aide-de-camp  to  Brigadier-General  James  W. 
Forsyth,  U.  S.  A.,  has  been  ordered  to  join  his  troop  at 
Fort  Apache,  Arizona.  Lieutenant  J.  F.  Reynolds  Lan- 
dis,  First  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  who  was  his  fellow  aide-de- 
camp, has  been  ordered  to  Fort  Riley.  The  latter  was 
also  Inspector  of  Small  Arms  Practice  and  Acting  Engi- 
neer Officer.  Both  of  these  gentlemen  were  uniformly 
courteous  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties,  and  their  de- 
parture from  the  Presidio  is  felt  with  regret. 

Captain  Charles  Morris,  Fifth  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Lieutenant  G.  O.  Squier,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  both 
on  leave  of  absence,  are  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Lieutenant     J.    A.    Dapray,    Twenty-third     Infantry, 

U.  S.  A.,  has  returned  to  his  station  after  a  prolonged  de- 

■  tail   on   special   work    at  Washington,  D.  C.     Lieutenant 

Dapray  was  on   the   staff  of  General  Miles  when  he  was 

stationed  here  a  few  years  ago. 

Lieutenant  Warren  P.  Newcomb,  Fifth  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  who  has  been  ill  during  the  past  three  months, 
has  returned  to  Fort  Riley  greatly  improved  in  health. 

Lieutenant  George  A.  Skinner,  Assistant  Surgeon, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  reported  for  duty  at  Fort  Spokane,  as  the 
relief  for  six  months  of  Captain  Edward  R.  Morris,  U.S.A., 
who  has  been  granted  a  leave  of  absence. 

Lieutenant  James  Hamilton,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A., 
has  returned  to  duty  after  enjoying  one  month's  leave  of 
absence. 

Lieutenant  Thomas  Bentley  Mott,  First  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  granted  two  months'  leave  of  absence, 
with  permission  to  go  beyond  the  sea. 

Lieutenant  R.  C.  Croxton,  First  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  appointed  Assistant  Adjutant  at  the  Presidio. 

Lieutenant  Benjamin  H.  Randolph,  Third  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  appointed  Ordnance  and  Engineer  Offi- 
cer and  placed  in  charge  of  the  beautiful  gardens  at  the 
Presidio. 

Lieutenant  Charles  W.  Hobbs,  Third  Artillery,  U.S.A., 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain. 

Second  Lieutenant  Delamere  Skerrett,  Fifth  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  First  Lieuten- 
ant in  the  Third  Artillery. 

Second  Lieutenant  John  W.  Joyes,  Fifth  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  now  on  duty  at  the  West  Point  Military  Acad- 
emy, has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant. 
He  was  very  popular  in  society  circles  when  he  was  sta- 
tioned at  the  Presidio. 

Chief  Engineer  George  J.  Burnap,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been 
appointed  Fleet  Engineer  of  the  North  Atlantic  station. 
It  will  be  remembered  that  he  was  invalided  home  from 
the  Asiatic  station  a  few  months  ago  after  the  sudden 
death  of  his  daughter  at  Vallejo,  so  it  is  a  matter  of  con- 
gratulation to  know  that  he  has  recovered  and  is  again  on 
duty. 

Medical  Inspector  J.  C.  Wise,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  ordered 
to  the  Philadelphia  as  fleet  surgeon,  relieving  Medical  In- 
spector J.  A.  Hawke,  U.  S.  N,  who  has  been  ordered  de- 
tached and  granted  three  months'  leave  of  absence. 

Surgeon  C.  U.  Gravatt,  U.  S.  N,  will  leave  New  York 
to-day  by  steamer  for  Piree  for  duty  on  the  San  Francisco. 
He  will  relieve  Medical  Inspector  H.  J.  Babin,  U.  S.  N., 
who  has  been  ordered  home  and  granted  three  months' 
leave  of  absence. 

Passed  Assistant  Paymaster  T.  H.  Hick,  U.  S.  N,  has 
been  detached  from  the  Marion  and  placed  in  waiting  or- 
ders. Paymaster  J.  E.  Cann,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  ordered 
as  his  relief. 

Assistant  Surgeon  William  M.  Kneedler,  U.  S.  A.,  now 
stationed  at  San  Diego  Barracks,  has  leased  a  cottage  at 
Coronado  Beach  for  himself  and  family. 

The  new  gun  boat  Marietta  will  go  to  Alaska  when  com- 
pleted. 


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FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


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•iel  Kvan  Miles.  First  Infantry,  Q.  S.  A  .  came  down 
irracks  last  Wednesday  and  assumed  com- 
mand at  the 

Del  K  T.  Frank.  First  Artillery.  V .  S.  A.,  of  Fort 
.1  Colonel  T.  M.  Anderson.  Fourteenth  In- 
fantry. I '.  8.  A.,  ol  \  anoouver  barracks,  are  the  leading 
contestants  for  the  vacancy  in  the  rank  of  general. 

The  first  day  of  June  will  witness  a  very  pretty  military 
wedding  at  the  residence  of  Colonel  George  H.  Burton, 
A  .  the  Inspector  (General  of  the  Pacific  District. 
The  bride  will  be  his  beautiful  and  accomplished  daughter. 
Minnie  Burton,  and  the  gallant  son  of  Mars  whom  she 
is  to  wed  will  be  Lieutenant  Thomas  A.  Pearce,  Seventh 
Infantry,  I'  S.  A  ,  now  stationed  at  Fort  Logan.  Colo. 
The  wedding  will  take  place  at  half  past  oneo'clock  at  the 
family  home.  L'lll  Pacific  Avenue.  The  Misses  Lulu  and 
Kathro  Burton  will  be  the  bridesmaids  and  Lieutenant 
William  Sells.  C  S.  A  .  will  act  as  best  man.  An  informal 
reception  will  follow  the  ceremony.  The  young  couple  will 
reside  at  Fort  Logan. 

Lieutenant  Charles  Lyman  Bent,  First  Infantry,  TJ.  S.  A., 
will  become  the  husband  of  Miss  Emelie  Ethel  Cohen,  of 
Alameda,  on  Wednesday.  June  2d.  The  ceremony  will  be 
performed  at  9  o'clock  in  the  evening  at  the  first  Unitarian 
church  in  this  city.  Afterwards  there  will  be  a  reception 
at  the  home  of  the  bride's  uncle  and  aunt,  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  Gibbons,  920  Polk  street.  Miss  Cohen  is  bright, 
vivacious,  handsome,  accomplished  and  wealthy,  so  Lieu- 
tenant Bent  is  to  be  congratulated  upon  securing  such  a 
charming  partner  for  life. 

Captain  G.  W.  Sumner,  U.  S.  X.,  and  Lieutenant  J.  M. 
Roper,  U.  S.  X..  of  the  Monadnock,  and  Chief  Engineer 
Richard  Inch,  U.  S.  N.,  of  the  Mare  Island  Navy  Yard,  are 
to  conduct  the  trial  trips  of  the  Marietta  and  the  Wheel- 
ing that  are  now  in  course  of  construction  at  the  Union 
Iron  Works. 

Past  Assistant  Engineer  Frank  Eldridge,  U.  S.  N.,  has 
been  promoted  to  be  chief  engineer. 

Past  Assistant  Surgeon  M.  J.  Rosenau,  U.  S.  M.  H.  S., 
was  appointed  quarantine  officer  at  San  Francisco  last 
Tuesday. 

Lieutenant  E.  B.  Babbitt,  U.  S.  A.,  of  the  Benicia  ar- 
senal, will  leave  June  8th  on  the  steamer  Queen  to  visit 
Alaska.     Mrs.  Babbitt  will  accompany  him. 

Lieutenant  Harry  M.  Field,  U.  S.  N.,  of  the  Monterey, 
and  Ensign  Louis  A.  Kaiser,  of  the  Monadnock,  will  be  de- 
tached from  duty  on  these  vessels  to-day  and  be  assigned 
to  the  Concord. 

Ensign  Yates  Stirling,  U.  S.  N.,  of  the  Albatross,  is 
being  congratulated  upon  his  engagement  to  Miss  Myra 
Noyes,  a  beautiful  and  accomplished  young  lady  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

The  Albatross  has  been  ordered  to  the  Tacomadry  dock 
for  repairs,  after  which  she  will  go  to  Alaska  to  obtain 
statistical  data  regarding  the  progress  of  the  salmon  can- 
neries. 

Brigadier  General  Elweli  S.  Otis,  U.  S.  A.,  has  been  re- 
lieved from  the  command  of  the  Department  of  the  Colum- 
bia, and  ordered  to  the  command  of  the  Department  of  the 
Colorado,  with  headquarters  at  Denver,  Colo. 


THE  Imperial  Hotel,  at  Stockton,  is  now  under  the 
management  of  W.  S.  Low,  formerly  of  Santa  Bar- 
bara, with  P.  H.  Clark  chief  clerk.  These  gentlemen  are 
thoroughly  competent,  and  will  doubtless  make  a  great 
success  of  the  Imperial. 

Kobn,  the  Hatter,  726  Market  street,  Dear  Kearny,  is  the  sole  agent  for 
Knox.    See  the  latest  spring  styles. 


ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Halt.  Jk  Norcroit  Silver   Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  pla.  •  -San  Frar-ctaco,  Cftl.      location 

of  work.  -    \ada. 

i  ..r  Dtraotoi 
on  the  ■.ntti  day  .»f   Marrh    l«T.  ■  111,  ,.r  10  cents  nor 

•hare,  wa»  1,  apttal  stock  of  the  oorpomtloo,  payable  im- 

mediately In  t  r.-ary,  at  Ihe  office  of  Iho 

Pomna.nl  s,m  Francisco.  Cal 

Any  stock  upon  which  thl»  ii*scssn.<  nt  shall  remain  unpaid  on   the 
l'\Y  HI'  APRIL,   ISOf, 
will  be  delinquent  and  for  Mile  at   public  auction    and   unless 

fiaymenl  la  made  before  will  be  sold   on   Krliluy    the   nth  day  of  May, 
(•7,  to  pay  the  ,1.11:  ..icnt.  blether  with  costs  of  advertising 

and  expenses  ..(  mi;.  .f  tho  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  It    GRAYSON.  Secretary. 
Office—  Room  II,  rvt l  i  San  Francisco.  Cat 

OFFICE    OF    THE    HALF.    &    NORCROSS    SILVER    MINING    CO., 
Room  ii.  3.11  pido strati  s.m  Franolaoo, 0*1 .  Ap  n  tt. 

Nolle.  .en  t tint  at  a  mooting  of  tho  Hoard  of  Directors  of  this 

my.  held  tola  day,  ihe  .late  ef  delinquency  ol  stock  for  Assessment 
No  in   was  postponed  until  May  M.ltB7. 
Any  slock  upon  v.  htth  -.  nt  shall  rcnialr  unpaid  on  the 

■.Mill  DAY  OF  MAY     1807, 
will  be  dellrquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless 
payment  I.,   made  before  will  t>,- sold  on  TUESDAY.  June  15,  1897,  to  pay 
said  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  con  of  advertising  and  ex- 
U  of  sale.     Ily  order  of  the  Hoard  of  Direct  its. 

R.  R   URAYSON,  Secretary. 


ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Challenge  Consolidated  Mining   Company. 

LocallonM  principal  plncoof  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Gold  Hill,  Nt 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  or  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
ontheI3tb  day  of  May.  11-97,  an  assessment  (No  23)  of  Ten  cents  (10c) 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stnek  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  room  35,  third  floor  of  Mills  building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets.  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Any  slock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
J»~*  16th  DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897, 

will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction:  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  v.ill  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  Hth  day  of 
July.  1897.  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

C.  L.  MCCOY,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  35,  third  floor  of  Mills  building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Occidental  Con.   Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  27 

Amount  per  Share 10  cents 

Levied May  11,  1897 

Delinquent  in  Offlce June  12, 1897 

Day  ot  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock July  1, 1897 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Seoretary. 
Office— Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT    NOTICE. 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  81 

Amount  per  Share JO  cents 

Levied , April  24, 1897 

Delinquent  in  Offlce June  1,  1897 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stook June  22,  1897 

ALFRED.  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Offlce:    Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Franoisoo, 
California. 

ANNUAL     MEETING 

Crown  Point  Goldfand  Silver  Mining  Company. 
""The  regular  annual  meeting  of   the  stockholders  of  the  Crown  Point 
Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company, 
rooms  35  and  36,  third  floor  ivlllls  Building,  corner  Bush  and  Montgomery 
streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal .,  on 

MONDAY,  the  7th  DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  M.,  for  the  election  of  a  Board  of  Directors  to 
serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  transaction  of  sueb  other  business  as 
may  come  before  the  meeting.     Transfer  books  will  close  on  Thursday, 
June  3. 1897,  at  3  o'clock  p.  M. 

JAMES  NEWLANDS,  Secretary. 
Office— Rooms  35  and  36,  Mills  Building,  torner  Bush  and  Montgomery 
streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal.  ' 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 
Hutchinson  Sugar  Plantation  Company, 

Dividend  No.  43,  of  25  cents  per  share,  of  the  Hutchinson  Sugar  Planta- 
tion Company,  will  be  payable  at  the  offlce  of  the  company,  327  Market  St., 
on  and  after  Thursday,  May  20,  1897.  Transfer  bookti  will  close  on 
Friday,  May  14.  1897.  at  3  o'clock  e  n.  E  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 

SHIPPING    AND  COMMISSION    MERCHANTS 
General  Agents 

OCEANIC   STEAMSHIP   COMPANY, 
GILLINGHAM   CEMENT. 
337  flARKET  ST.,  Corner  Fremont,  S.  P. 


AMYCOSE 
Cures 

Poison  Oak. 
AMYCOSE 


NELSON'S 
flMY60SB 

For  all  Skin  Irritation 


AMYCOSE 
Cures 
Sunburn 
AMYCOSE 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


By    I^ail,    Boat    apd    Sta^e. 


Soutnern  Pacific  Gompanu--PacifiG  System. 

TruiDh  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  at  SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Leave.  | 


From  Man  JS,  1897. 


I  Arrive 


Niles,  San  Jose,  and  way  stations  

Atlantic  Express,  Ogden  and  East 

Benicia,   Sacramento,  Oroville,   and  Redding,   via   Davis 

Vacaville  aod  Rumsey 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Calistoga,  Santa  Rosa 
Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone,  Sacramento,  Marysville, 

Chico,  Tehama,  and  Red  Bluff 

Peters  and  Milton 

New  Orleans  Express,  Merced,  Fresno,  Bakersfield,  Santa 
Barbara,  Los  Angeles,  Deming,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans,  and 
East. 


•t^OOA 
7:00  A 
7:00  A 
7:00  a 
7:30  a 
8:30a 

•8:30  a 

8:00  a 

9:00  a 
9:00a 

•1:00 p 
1:00  p 

tl:30p 
4:00  P 

6:00P 

5:00  p 
6KWP 
6:00  P 
J8:00p 
8:00  P 


Martinez  and  Stockton 

Vallejo 

Niles,  San  Jose  Livermore,  and  Stockton 

Sacramento  River  steamers 

Niles,  San  Jose,  and  Livermore 

Port  Costa  and  Way  Stations 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Calistoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa 

Benicia,  Vacaville,  Woodland,  Knight's  Landing,  Marys- 
ville, Oroville,  and  Sacramento 

Lathrop,  Stockton,  Modesto,  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yosem- 
ite)  and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles,  returning  via  Martinez.. 
Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,  Mojave  (for  Rands- 
burg),  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles 

Santa  Fe  Route,  AtlantlcExpress, for  Mojave  and  East 

European  mail,  Ogden  and  East 

Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose 

Vallejo 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East 


8:45  P 
5:45P 
8:45  P 
6:15  p 

4:15  p 
*7:15P 


4:45  p 

4:45  p 
12:15  p 

7:15p 
*9:00p 

8:45  A 
f7:45P 

9:15  A 


13:15  P 

7.45A 
7:45  A 
9:45  A 
7:45A 
f?:45P 

7:45  A 


San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local.    (Foot  of  Market  St.) 

t«6-00  at 

Melrose, 

7:15  A 

8:00  a 

Seminary  Park, 

<9:45  A 

9:00a 

FlTCHBURG, 

10:45  A 

10:00  a 

ELMHURST, 

11:45  A 

ill .00  A 

San  Leandro. 

12:45  P 

J12:00  M 

South  San  Leandro, 

*1:45  p 

2:00  P 

estudillo, 

13:45  p 

i3:00  P 

Lorenzo,                                          •< 

4:45  p 

4:00  P 

Cherry, 

«5:45  P 

5:00  P 

and 

6:15  p 

5:30  p 

Haywards. 

7:45  P 

7:00  p 

8:45  P 

8:00  p 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

9:45  p 

9:00  P 

t  From  Niles . 

10:50  p 

ttll:15  P 

LtH2:00  P 

Santa  Crdz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge).    (Foot  of  Market  St .) 


J7:45A  Santa  Cruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  1.8:05  p 

8:15  A  Newark,  Centerville.  San  Jose,  Felton,  Boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations 5:50p 

*2:15p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:2oa 

4:15p  San  Jose  and  Glenwood 8:50> 

H4:15p  Felton  and  Santa  Cruz  §8;50a 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  (Slip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  A.  M.,  11:00,  *2:00. 13:00.  «4:00, 15:00  and  *6:00  P.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway.— *6:00,  8:00, 10:00  A.  M. ;  112 :00,  *1 :00, 
}2 :00,  »3 :00, 14 :00  *5 :00  P.  M. 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

*7:O0A 
17:30  A 


10:40  a 
11:30  a 
*2:30p 

•3:30 P 
«4:30P 
5:30p 
6:30P 
til  :45p 


San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1 : 
Sunday  excursion  for  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove, 

and  principal  way  stations 18 

San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles 
San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principalway  stations    4 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 7 

Palo  Alto  and  way  stations  5 

San  Mateo,  Redwood,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres 

Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Salinas, Monterey, PaciflcGrove *10 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 9 

San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8 

San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations *8 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 6: 

San  Jose  and  way  stations     


15  P 
:30P 

uop 

40A 
45  A 
05A 


A  for  Morning,     p  for  Afternoon.     *Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

{Sundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Saturdays  and  Sundays.  ^Sundays  and  Mondays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information 


Thft    Apanrl     Parifir     306  Stockton   St.  San    Francisco 
1  110    UIC1IIU     r  001 1  lb,         MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day.  week,  or  month       Telephone:  Grant.  507. 


San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific  Railwau  Co. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.   Tibdron  Ferry-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 
WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  a  :U0,  11:00  am;  12:35,  3:30  5:10,  6:30  p  m.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trip  at  11:30  p  m.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :50  and  11 :30  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00,  9:30.  11:00  A  M;  1:30.  3:30,  5:00,6:20PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO  SAN    Ff  ANCISC0. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  am;  12:45,  3:40,5:10PM.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at  1 :55  and  6 :35  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10.  9:40,  11:10  AM;  1:40,  3:40,  5:00,  6:25  P  M. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave 

S.  F. 

In  Effect  April  26,  1897 

ARRIVE  IN  S.  F. 

Week  Days. 

7:30am 
3:30  pm 
5:10  pm 

Sundays . 

8:00AM 
9:30  am 
5:00  pm 

Destination. 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

Sundays 

10 :40  A  M 
6:10  pm 
7:35  pm    1 

Week  Days 

8:40  AH 
10:25  am 
6:22  PM 

8:00  am 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyserville,  Cloverdale 

7:35pm 

10:35  A  M 

7:30AM 
3:30  PM 

6:22  p  M 

7:30  AM 
3:30  PM 

8:00  AM 

Hopland,  Ukiah 

7:35  pm 

10:25  AM 
6:22  p  M 

7:30AM 
3:30pm 

8:00AM 

Guernevllle. 

7:35pm 

10:25  A  H 
6:22  p  M 

7:30  am 
5:10pm 

8:00AM 
5:00pm 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40am 
6:10pm 

8:40  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:30AM 
3:30PM 

8:00am 
5:00pm 

Sebastopol. 

10:40am     I 

6:10pm     1 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  lor  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs' Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Hopland  for  High- 
land Springs.  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del 
Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lier- 
ley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville,  Booneville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal. 

Saturday- to-Mond ay  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  W.  FOSTE  R.  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass  .  Agent. 

Paciiic  6oast  Steamship  6ompany. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  a.  m..  May  1,  6,  11, 16.  31,  36,  31,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Britisn  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  &.  m..  May  1,  6,11, 16, 
21,  26,  31,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  p.m.  May  4,  8, 
12,  16,  20,  24.  28,  and  every  fourth  day  th;reafter 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  A.  m.  ;  May  2,  6, 10, 14, 
18,  22,  26,  3  J,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  A.  m.,  May  4.  8, 12, 16, 
20,  34,  23,  and  every  fourth  day.  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz,  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  A.  m., 
June  2d,  and  2d  of  each  month  thereafter. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERSONS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents,       10  Market  st.  S.  F. 

Occidental  and  Oriental  Steamship  Gompany. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  AND  BKANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  P  M.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting  at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc     No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

BelgiC  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29,  1897 

Coptic  Thursday,  June  17,  1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Wednesday,  July  7.  1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  July  27, 1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS.  Secretary. 

iVHHlf  S-  s-  "Alameda,"  Thursday,  May  27th,  at  2  p  M. 

iPMIaife  S   S   "Australia",  for  Honolulu    only,  Tuesday, 

I  fa  June  15th.  at  2  p    m. 

,J     .^TT^-  Line  to  Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 

0>TG3iT151liPcJ  "    ■    j  D  SPRECKELS&BROS.CO., 

(omRfWH-      Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.    Freight  office,  327 
vuiiipuuq       Market  St..  San   Francisco. 


THE  EemiDgton  Typewriter  Company  has  found  it  nec- 
essary to  establish  a  fully  equipped  and  direct  branch 
of  the  manufactory  in  this  city,  where  machines  and  sup- 
plies of  all  kinds  are  kept  in  quantity,  and  the  trade  sup- 
plied from  the  branch.  Excellent  quarters  have  been  fitted 
up  at  211  Montgomery  street. 


THE  National  Athletic  Club  will  give   an   exhibition  at 
Woodward's   Pavilion   on   next  Wednesday  evening. 
May  26th. 


M  RS.  Alice  Lee  Stratton,  "wife  of  Senator  P.  S.  Strat- 
]  1  ton,  of  Oakland,  died  at  her  home  in  that  city  Sun- 
day morning.  Mrs.  Stratton  was  widely  known  through- 
out the  State  as  a  woman  of  unusual  mental  attainments, 
and  a  leader  among  the  most  intelligent  people  of  Oakland. 
Her  death  will  be  a  long  time  remembered,  and  her  de- 
mise at  the  early  age  of  38  years  mourned  by  those  who 
knew  her.  

The  Press  Clipping  Bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics,  business 
and  personal. 


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5/1  tf  FRANCISCO.  MAY  22.  1897. 


Uhe   jfcebbard  JSibet  Suit. 


Argument     of   Samuei    77J*     Shortridge,     Attorney    for    the    Defendant, 

Frederick   97farriott,     Department    2,     Superior    Court  for 

the    City    and   County   of  oan    Jtrancioco, 


Uhursday,    9/fay  J3,    1S97. 


Argument  of  SAMUEL  M.  SH0RTR1DGE,  in  behalf  of 
Free  Speech  and  a  Free  Press,  >-n  the  trial  of  Fritter ick 
Marriott,  accused  of  libeling  J.  C.  B.  Hvhhard :  /"  the 
Superior  Court  of  San  Francisco.   Mai/  V->,   1897. 

Mai  it  please  vous  Honor,  \bi>  I  tbost  it  will  please  y<iu, 
UEBTLEMEfl  01  tin:  jury:  i  would  do  myself  a  wrong  and  my  pro- 
fession an  injustice  if  I  did  not,  at  the  outset,  return  to  you  my 
grateful  thanks  for  the  patient  attention  jou  have  given  to  a  ca*e 
which,  from  my  point  of  view.  1  regard  so  important  10  every  citi- 
zen. The  nature  and  importance  of  this  case  cannot  be  over-stated. 
It  is  nil  the  personalities  of  the  prosecuting  witness  or  the  defendant 
which  give  dignity  to  a  cause  which  you  have  been  listening  to  for 
four  weeks,  and  which  you  will  very  soon  be  called  upon  to  decide. 
The  prosecuting  witness  will  run  his  little  course  and  be  forgotten. 
The  Judge  upon  the  bench  and  his  successors,  in  the  fulness  of  time, 
will  pass  away,  and  you  ami  1  and  all  of  us  will  lie  down  to  sleep  in 
the  quiet  and  equal  grave.  Our  lives,  our  deeds,  our  names,  may  not 
be  remembered  among  men  ;  but  the  great  principles  which  are  here 
at  slake— the  principles  of  free  speech  and  a  free  press, the  principles 
of  free  government,  of  self-government,  which  are  here  attacked,  and 
feebly  but  earnestly  by  me  defended— are  vitally  essential  to  the  per- 
manence of  our  country,  and  will  be  enduring,  if  future  jurors  are  as 
brave  and  tearless  and  true  to  the  spirit  of  liberty  as  I   believe  you, 


each  and  all,  to  be.  It  is  not,  I  repeat,  a  question  of  mere  person- 
alities. If  it  were  so,  this  would  be  a  smalt  and  inconsequential 
case.  No ;  it  is  the  mighty  cause,  the  great  principles,  which  are  here 
at  stake  that  give  our  deliberations  dignity,  and  your  decision  far- 
reaching  importance.  And  it  is  because  of  these  very  principles, which 
underlie  and  give  life  and  vitality  to  ourgovernment,  that  the  people 
await  with  solicitude,  but  not  without  confidence,  your  verdict. 
These  principles,  here  attacked,  scoffed  at  and  derided,  are  as  alive 
and  vigorous  to-day,  I  trust,  as  they  were  when  our  ancestors  fought 
and  bled  and  died  for  them.  The  principles  thus  attacked  and  in 
peril  are  the  same  principles  for  which  English  patriots  laid  their 
beads  upon  the  block,  and  Irish  patriots  mounted  the  scaffold. 
Gentlemen,  you  are  called  upon  to  perform  a  high  duty,  and  to  de- 
termine by  your  calm  and  mature  verdict,  whether  these  principles 
shall  be  upheld  and  triumph  or  perish  to  gratify  private  vengeance  and 
un-Cbristian  revenge.  In  a  word,  the  principles  at  stake  are  these:  In 
a  free  country,  in  a  republic,  in  a  self-government  such  as  ours, 
have  the  people  a  right  to  criticise  their  public  servants,  or  to  com- 
ment upon,  or  express  their  sentiments  concerning,  those  who  seek 
public  office  of  great  importance  and  of  great  powet?  I  beg  to  re- 
peat to  you,  and  to  impress  upon  your  minds,  that  this  is  not  a  case 
wherein  a  private  citizen  has  been  criticised  and  de- 
nounced; it  is  a  case  where  a  public  servant,  your  servant  and  mine, 
has  been  justly  and  severely  censured  for  his  official  misconduct. 
For  I  need  not  remind  you  that  the  Judge  upon  the  bench  is  the 
servant  of  the  people,  subject  to  their  law,  charged  with  carrying 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


out  and  enforcing  their  decrees,  the  same  as  the  hurab'est  and  poor- 
est man  thtt  to- Jay  works  upon  our  streets.  The  Judge  is  not 
above  but  below,  and  governed  by  the  law,  and  you  and  I  and  every 
■  itizen  his  the  ngbt  freely  to  discuss  his  merits  or  demerits,  freely 
o  c  jLumeiit  upon  his  official  conduct,  freely  to  approve  or  to  oppose 
him.  freely  to  eulogize  and  praise  him,  or  to  censure  and  denounce 
him;  and  no  man  shall  deny  us  that  right,  guaranteed  to  us  by  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States  and  the  Constitution  of  California. 
And  if  you  or  oiher  juries,  or  other  Courts,  shall  deny  that  light  to 
the  cin'zen,  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  self-government  will  be  at 
an  end  and  liberty  a  dream  not  realized. 

Free  Speech   and  a   Free   Press. 

These  observations  carry  us  back  to  the  great  struggles  of  our 
fathers  for  self-government,  for  freedom  of  conscience,  and  for  lib- 
erty of  speech.  Thus  far  we  have  preserved  in  this  country,  and  en- 
joy at  ibis  hour,  what  our  ancesiors  fought  for  and  achieved.  No 
man  who  is  familiar  with  the  struggles  of  England  and  Ireland  for 
self  and  free  government;  no  student  who  is  acquainted  with  the 
struggles  of  our  .Revolutionary  fathers,  and  with  the  debates  and  dis- 
cussions which  led  up  to  and  culminated  in  the  framing  and 
adoption  of  our  Federal  Constitution,  is  unacquainted  with 
the  studied  and  tyrannical  efforts  of  Government  to 
suppress  free  discussion,  or  with  the  vital  impor- 
tance of  free  lips  and  an  untrammeled  and  unli- 
censed press.  Time  was  when  to  criticise  Government 
or  men  in  high  official  place,  was  to  be  flung  into  a  dungeon,  robbed 
of  propprty,  stripped  of  reputation,  or  to  die  upon  the  scaffold.  When 
our  faihers  came  to  the  great  work  of  adopting  a  Constitution  for  the 
naw  nation,  they  sought  to  preserve  for  all  time  ibe  inestimable 
blessing  of  free  speech  and  a  free  press;  and  to  that  end  threw  around 
them  the  shield  of  the  Constitution  itself.  Indeed,  had  not  free 
speech  and  a  free  press  been  guaranteed  to  the  people  for  all  time, 
the  Constitution  itself  never  would  have  been  adopted.  It  is  a  well 
known  historical  fact  that,  had  not  Marshall,  and  Washington,  and 
Ad  im*,  and  Jefferson,  and  others  of  the  great  champions  of  the 
Constitution,  prorntsed  Patrick  Henry  and  those  who  opposed  the 
adoption  of  the  Constitution  through  fear  of  centralization,  fear  of 
tryanny  growing  up,  that  they  would  agree  to  the  original  eleven 
Amendments  being  engrafted  upon  the  Constitution,  the  great  char- 
ter of  our  liberties  would  never  have  been  ratified  by  the 
people  of  the  original  thirteen  States.  What  was  that 
fear?  What  did  our  fathers  seek  to  protect  us  against? 
It  was  not  an  idle,  but  a  well-founded  fear,  that 
the  press  might  be  shackled,  and  that  the  citizen  might  be  stripped 
of  his  liberty  to  criticise  Government  and  men  in  official  station. 
There  was  a  fear  that  power  would  become  arrogant,  that  govern- 
ment would  become  tyrannical,  and  that  unless  prevented,  Congress 
in  gbt  pass  laws  in  restraint  of  the  liberty  of  the  press.  To  guard 
against  usurpation  of  power  and  the  enslavement  of  the  people,  our 
fathers  made  haste  to  adopt  certain  amendments  to  the  Federal 
Constitution,  first  and  chief  among  which  is  Amendment  No.  1.  That 
Amendment  reads  as  follows: 

'"Congress  shall  make  no  law  respecting  an  establishment  of  re- 
ligion, or  prohibiting  the  free  exercise  thereof;  or  abridging  the  free- 
dom  of  speech  or  of  the  press;  or  the  right  of  the  people  peaceably  to 
assemble,  and  to  petition  the  Government  for  a  redress  of  griev- 
ances." 

This  great  bulwark  against  tyranny,  this  great  shield  against  op- 
pression, was  proposed  as  early  as  the  25th  of  September,  1789,  and 
ratified  on  the  15lh  of  December,  1791.  This  constitutional  guar- 
antee of.  free  speech  and  a  free  press  is  a  castle  of  refuge,  not  an  am- 
buscade of  danger.  The  pioneers  of  California  bore  with  them  a 
love  of  free  government  and  a  belief  in  this  doctrine  of  free  speech 
and  a  free  press,  and  lest  a  venal  Legislature  should  teek  to  rob  the 
people  of  their  heritage,  the  people  enacted  in  their  organic  law  that 
lips  of  men  and  the  press  should  be  free  forever.  In  their  Declar- 
ation of  Rights  the  people  of  California  declared : 

"  Every  citizen  may  freely  speak,  write  and  publish  bis  sentiments 
on  all  Mibj-cts.  being  responsible  for  the  abuse  of  that  right;  and  no 
/aic  fh'Ul  be  pawed  to  restrain  or  abridge  the  Itberty  of  speech  or  of 
the  press.  In  criminal  prosecution*  "for  libels,  the  truth  maybe 
given  in  evidence  to  the  jury ;  and  if  itshall  appear  to  the  jury  that 
tne  matter  charged  as  libelous  is  true,  and  published  with  good  mo- 
tive* and  for  jiiNiirinble  ends,  the  press  shall  be  acquit'ed;  and  the 
jury  shull  have  the  right  to  ditermine  the  law  and  the  farts.'" 

Gentlemen,  the  defendant  in  this  case  invokes  the  protection  of 
these  Constitutional  provisions,  and  I  appeal  to  you  to  uphold  them 
in  their  true  spirit  and  their  true  meaning.  If  men  may  not  express 
their  sentiments,  to  use  the  good  word  of  our  Constitution,  their 
opinion,  upon  public  questions  and  public  men,  then  indeed  have  we 
fallen  from  where  our  fathers  started  us;  then,  indeed,  are  these 
Constituiional  guarantees  a  delusion  and  a  snare!  And  who,  let  me 
ask  yon,  wishes  it  established  in  this  country  that  a  man  can  only 
exercise  his  Constitutional  privilege  of  criticising  public  officials  at 
his  peril,  that  he  must  express  his  honest  sentiments  with  fear  and 
trembling?  1  answer,  none  but  the  rogue,  none  but  the  hypocrite, 
none  but  the  unworthy. 

Impressed  with  the  importance  of  these  great  principles,  T  almost 
forget  that  I  am  defending  Mr.  Marriott ;  I  almost  forget  the  small 
personality  of  the  prosecuting  witness.    I  stand  by  the  Constitution 


and  for  a  great  principle,  and  I  look  with  confidence  to  the  uphold- 
ing of  that  principle  by  you.  What  if  the  sentiment  expressed  is 
hostile  in  the  extreme?  What  if  the  censure  is  severe?  What  if  the 
opinion  of  the  citizen  is  expressed  in  language  strong  and  indignant? 
What  if  he  employs  withering  invective,  biting  sarcasm  and  destroy- 
ing irony?  May  not  the  citizen  employ  his  native  tongue  to  express 
bis  sentiment  or  his  opinion?  Are  we  to  be  told  that  a  citizen  must 
express  his  opinion  of  public  servants  at  his  peril,  lest  others  may 
nut  ngree  with  him,  and  therefore  seek  to  punish  him?  Are  we  to 
measure  men's  rights  and  rob  them  of  their  liberty  by  their  peculiar 
use  of  the  English  language?  Are  we  to  deal  lightly  with  wrong  in 
high  places,  with  iniquity  in  the  Temple  of  Justice,  and  when,  ex- 
pressing wiih  righteous  indignation  a  just  wrath,  indulge  in  soft 
mellifluous  phrases?  Are  we  to  deal  lightly  with  official  corruption 
—dally  with  it.  handle  it  gently,  gloss  it  over  with  cowardly 
phrases?  Shall  malfeasance  in  office  and  breach  of  public  trust  go 
unexposed,  unwhipped  of  justice?  If  so,  the  Constitu- 
tional guarantees  which  I  have  read  are  meaningless,  and  the 
labors  and  struggles  of  our  forefathers  were  in  vain. 

The    People   the   Source  of   Power. 

In  ibis  country,  gentlemen  (and  we  should  be  so  grateful  for  it) 
the  people  are  the  source  of  all  power,  and  officers  are  the  servants 
oE  the  people,  chosen  by  the  people  to  act  for  the  people,  and  for 
their  greatest  good.  We  have  long  since  exploded  and  discarded 
the  notion  of  divine  right  of  kings— the  notion  which  enslaved  the 
world. 

As  we  proceed,  you  will  observe,  if  you  do  not  fully  realize 
it  now,  that  this  is  a  prosecution  urged  against  a  citizen  for  express- 
ing his  political  sentiments,  in  regard  to  a  public  question,  and  as  to 
the  merits,  or  rather  demerits,  of  a  man  then  a  candidate  for  public 
office,  who,  at  the  time,  wa3  an  officer  and  servant  of  the  people. 
And  I  say  now,  and  may  have  frequent  occasion  to  repeat  it  in  the 
years  to  come— and  will  stand  or  fall  by  it— that  when  I  see  a  m«nin 
public  office,  or  seeking  public  office,  that  I  regard  unfit  or  disquali- 
fied by  virtue  of  passion  or  of  ignorance,  by  virtue  of  his  associates, 
his  conduct,  his  private  life  or  public  official  action,  I  shall  oppose 
him,  I  shall  denounce  him  with  whatever  vigor  of  language  I  possess, 
and  I  shall  expect  every  honest  citizen  to  exercise  the 
ssnie  privilege  and  perform  the  same  duty.  Let  the 
press  be  free;  let  discussion  be  without  restraint;  let 
men  voice  their  sentiments  upon  all  public  questions  without  fear, 
and  then  let  the  people  decide  the  fate  of  men  and  measures.  If  Mr. 
Marriott,  who,  let  me  here  observe,  is  not  proved  to  be  the  author  of 
this  alleged  editorial  opinion;  if  Mr.  Marriott,  the  cilizpn,  the 
elector,  like  j  ou,  like  me,  is  to  be  prosecuted  for  the  expression  of 
his  political  opinion,  I  doubt  if  there  is  one  of  us  who  might  not  be 
subjected  to  a  like  prosecution.  I  had  hoped  that  the  expression  of 
political  opinion  would  not  be  the  subject  of  personal  vengeance  or  of 
personal  and  revengeful  prosecution  in  the  courts  of  our  State.  I  had 
hoped  that  when,  in  the  heat  of  a  campaign,  fellow-citizens  wrought 
to  excitement  expressed  in  strong  and  vigorous  language  of  invec- 
tive, or  of  denunciaiion,  men  would  allow  something  for  the  passions 
and  beat  of  the  hour,  and  that  the  Stale  would  not  be  made  to  pros- 
ecute one  of  her  own  people  for  freely  expressing  his  political 
opinion.  I  had  hoped  that  when  the  late  campaign  was  over,  after 
the  discussion  in  newspapers,  from  the  rostrum,  from  the  platform, 
from  the  stump  had  ceased,  after  the  heat,  the  passions,  the  excite- 
ments of  the  hour  were  over,  men  would  let  the  campaign,  its 
battles  and  its  strife,  rest  and  be  at  an  end.  Some  of  you  may  have 
championed  that  peerless  orator,  William  J.Bryan;  some  of  yon 
may  have  followed  the  banner  of  that  masterful  statesman.  William 
McKinley ;  some  of  you  may  have  expressed  yourself  with  powerand 
vigor  and  earnestness  in  favor  of  one  and  against  the  other,  and 
feeling  that  the  one  or  the  other  was  the  friend  or  the  enemy  of  his 
country,  you  may  have  advocated  or  opposed  him ;  or,  believing 
that  the  purposes  or  policy  of  the  one  was  dangerous 
and  injurious  to  your  country,  you  may  have  denounced  him  as  the 
enemy  of  the  people.  But  are  you  to  be  brought  into  Court  for  ex- 
pressing those  political  sentiments?  Are  you,  and  is  this  citizen,  to 
be  prosecuted  for  expressing  a  sentiment  concerning  a 
public  question?  May  not  men  oppose  candidates  fearlessly?  Is 
the  citizen  to  have  the  danger  of  a  criminal  prosecution  hanging 
over  him  when  he  dares  to  assert  himself  during  the  campaign, 
whether  it  be  by  spoken  or  by  written  words?  Is  this  tbe  beginning 
of  a  series  of  political  prosecutions?  These  are  the  questions,  and 
this  is  the  great  issue  which  we  are  here  now  to  consider  and  to 
decide. 

The  Wrong   Done   the   State. 

Who  are  the  parties,  gentlemen,  to  this  case?  Who  are  the 
parties  that  have  engaged  yonr  attention  thus  long?  The  nominal 
parties— the  parties,  so  to  speak,  on  the  record — are  The  People  of 
the  State  of  California — my  Stateand  yours— and  the  defendant,  Mr. 
Marriott,  a  citizen.  My  State  is  made  to  come  here,  and  day  after 
day  seek  to  punish  one  of  her  own  people  for  doing  what  our  State 
Constitution  says  he  may  do— express  himself  on  a  public  subject — 
touching  tbe  qualifications  of  a  candidate  for  public  office. 
The  real  parties  however,  gentlemen,  are  otherwise.  The  Teal 
parties  to  this  case  are  the  prosecuting  witness  here,  J.  C.  B.  Heb- 


May  ti,  1897. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


mad*   to   tx*ar  tor  >:  «nd 

T-!  »t  (he  Btati 

I   Tfl 

-  late  upon  the 
cuittn  rather  ih»-  in  an  equality 

with  the  ifrfpndant,  a*  man    I"    man,  ami   Sgtal   his  own  pt 

Hut   in   a   civil    rait    he   would   haw    bad  to   bear 

trial ;     Hi  tajfal     lo     avoiil.    and    ha* 

avoid*  ■    provocation.    The 

r  Mr.   K  ibn;  Lb«  !: 
mlsiwpfaaanasd  bjroaa  srhoee  name  tsi  my  lips* 

I  repeat  ihtt  the  State  \§  here  made  to  nay   that  one  of  her  oiUtens 
■la ted  her  law?>;  thi  ■  my  ami  to  take  the  posi- 

upon  political 

antlers  Incl  end  censoring  a  candl- 

ie criminal  law.    I  venture  to 
*ay  that  every  on-  guilty*.     I    venture  to  say  that 

every  one  of  us  ha?  uttere-1  sentiment?  which,  if  brought  against  us 
aroold  show  as  equally,  if  not  more,  guilty  than  Mr.  Marriott. 
Hut  I  thank  God  that  we  are  not  guilty  ot  «ny  infraction  of  our  laws, 
nor  i*  this  defendant  when  he  uttered  his  sentiments,  expressed  his 
opinion  as  to  the  merits  or  the  demerits  of  a  candidate  fur  judicial 
office. 

It  is  said  that  Mr.  Marriott  has  done— what?  That  he  has  violated 
some  law  hurtful  to  the  State  —  that  he  has  disturbed  the  peace  and 
inputted  the  dignity  of  the  State.  Wherein  ha*  our  old  State  suffered? 
Wherein  ha?  her  peace  been  dWiurbedf  What  has  Mr.  Marriott 
done  to  wound  her  dignity?  And  wherein  has  this  prosecuting  wit- 
ness suffered  at  his  bauds?  We  had  it  flung  out  to  us  here  during 
this  trial— and  we  know  from  the  public  record*— that  despite  the>e 
expressions  of  opinion,  this  particular  candidate,  like  another 
O'DonneU,  swept  into  office.  Whether  he  was  elected  or  defeated, 
no  crime  was  committed ;  but  we  know  that  no  harm  was  done  to 
bim,  as  is  evidenced  fully  by  the  result.  It  must  have  been  harm- 
I  must  have  had  no  effect;  it  must  have  been  easily  nullified 
and  corrected,  because  nobody  sealed  hia  lips,  nobody  prevented  Mm 
from  speaking  through  the  press,  nobody  prevented  Aim.  a  hearing 
before  the  great  body  of  the  people;  and  the  record  shows  that  the 
people,  for  reasons  which  perhaps  to  them  then  seemed  sufficient, 
treated  this  little  editorial  as  harmless,  without  hurt,  and  disregarded 
it.  Consequently  I  have  a  right  to  say,  and  I  do  say.  that  it  did  no 
harm  even  to  the  prosecuting  witness,  who  comes  here  day  after  day 
and  week  after  week,  urging  on  this  revengeful  prosecution.  It  did 
not  provoke  a  breach  of  the  Deace;  it  did  not  cause  a  riot.  It  was 
the  truth  then ;  it  is  the  truth  now ;  and  as  the  truth  it  stands  and 
will  stand  forever  on  the  records  of  this  Court. 

Equal   Before  the    Law. 

Gentlemen,  you  are  American  citizens— whether  born  on  this  soil 
or  coining  from  foreien  country— I  would  do  violence  to  you  to  say 
or  to  suggest  or  to  hint,  that  you  did  not  love  this  country  just  as 
much  as  I  do,  or  just  as  much  as  the  defendant  loves  it.  There  is  no 
privileged  class,  there  is  no  official  class,  in  this  country.  We  are 
all  equal;  we  are  all  on  a  common  level;  and  whether  a  man  stands 
in  raga  or  is  clothed  in  purple  and  fine  linen,  whether  he  stands 
single  and  alone,  or  with  the  vast  majority,  he  has  a  right  to  express 
his  sentiments  freely  and  fearlessly.  This  Mr.  Marriott  has  done. 
Majorities  are  not  always  right;  heroes  are  generally  in  the  minority. 
But  what  if  Mr  Marriott  stood  alone  in  the  expression  of  his  opinion  ? 
He  was  entitled  to  that  opinion  and  to  the  expression  of  that  opinion. 
I  have  yet  to  learn  or  to  hear,  either  in  a  court  of  law  or  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  world,  drowned  as  it  has  been  in  blood  and  tears,  that  the 
majority  are  right.  Is  the  majority  right  to-day,  yonder  on  the 
plains  of  Tbessaly?  Is  the  majority  right,  yonder  bearing  the  cres- 
cent and  trampling  on  the  cross?  May  not  the  humblest  man  stand 
up  and  express  the  truth,  regardless  of  those  who  oppose  him?  Is  a 
citizen  to  be  stripped  of  his  rights  to  criticise  or  comment  upon,  or 
to  oppose  a  candidate  for  office,  because  he  may  chance  to  be  in  the 
minority?  If  this  be  so,  then  we  have  a  despotism  worse  than 
anarchy.  But,  gentlemen,  I  am  proud  and  happy  to  believe  that  no 
such  monstrous  doctrines  will  find  approval  in  your  minds.  So  to 
fear  or  to  doubt,  would  be  to  insult  your  manhood  and  to  despair  of 
the  Republic! 

Julius  Csesar   Bonaparte   Hebbard. 

Through  the  influence  of  the  prosecuting  witness,  who  was  at  that 
time  a  candidate  for  office,  and  upon  the  eve  of  a  heated  political 
campaign,  an  indictment  was  filed  against  Mr.  Marriott.  By  whom 
and  under  what  circumstances  was  lhat  indictment  found?  It  was 
found  by  a  body  of  cwiz-*ns  holding  secret  session— the  Grand  Jury. 
That  body  .of  citizens  did  not  know  what  you  know,  what  the  people 
of  this  city  now  know.  Had  they  known  what  this  record  discloses, 
t his  indictment  would  never  have  been  filed,  nor  would  you  have 
been  taken  thus  long  from  your  business  and  your  families.  Who 
appeared  before  that  secret  tribunal?  One  who  dared  not  get  upon 
this  stand  and  look  us  in   the  face  and  speak  to  you!    Before  lhat 


tribunal,  where  there  was  no  crot»»-examinntt<m*<.  where  there 
««■«  DO  opportunity  of  la>  ing  the  fact",  and    nil    the   facts,  bffofl  ibe 

Jory,  where  there  idveravry  to  question  htm— In  ibat  secret 

tribunal,  Iba  prosecuting  witness  and  one  R  ohard   Dillon  sppeared 
and  testified.    Whi  ••  proeecutlng  witness  when  the  time 

irblni  to  speak  here  In  this  conn  room?  Where  was  Mr, 
Dillon  whoever  beta  I  know  not-  where  Is  thai  creature.  Richard 
Dillon,  who.  In  the  darki  ret  and  private  tribunal,  aided 

the  prosecuting  witness  In  bringing  shoal  (be  Indictment  *-f  Mr. 
Marriott?  And  whers  I  repeat ll  again  — where  was  Julius 
Bona  parte  Hebbard  '  Why  not  appear  hi  fore  you,  gentlemen  ;  *by 
nnt  appear  before  you ;  why  not  come  out*  man  toman,  when  ihe 
Opportunity  was  offered,  when  the  light  was  streaming  through 
these  windows,  when  counsel,  able,  vigorous  and  attentive,  WBB 
watching  his  Interettt  !  Why  not  0  me  here  and  exculpate  himself 
from  Ibe  grave  and  serious  charges  preferred  B gainst  him  originally 
anil  proved  by  sworn  leetltuonj  ?  Why  go  into  the  stcret  chambers 
of  a  Grand  Jory.  where  many  a  reputation  has  been  stabbed  and 
many  a  heart  broken,  and  then  not  dare  to  appear  in  the  Open, 
whin-  nil  brave  men  livht?  It  is  only  the  coward  who  goes  into  the 
star  chamber;  it  is  only  the  coward  who  fights  in  the  dark.  Why 
did  he  not  come;  why  did  he  not  exonerate  himself ;  why  did  he  re- 
main silent,  and  by  all  the  arts  and  all  the  objections  good  or  bad, 
know  11  to  the  law,  seal  his  own  lips,  and  lock  forever  the  hooka 
which  we  sought   to  open  and  spread  their  contents  before  you? 

Dared   Not   Deny. 

Under  the  circumstances,  gentlemen,  I  submit  it  to  you— to  your 
consciences,  to  your  judgment,  to  your  sense  of  fairness,  which,  I 
hope,  and  have  always  believed,  and  still  do  believe,  is  in  the  heart 
of  all  true  Americans— why  did  he  remain  silent  here?  On  some 
occasions  'silence  is  golden,"  and  speech,  we  are  told,  is  silver.  But 
as  we  are  taught  in  Sacred  Writ,  there  is  a  time  to  speak  and  a  time  to 
keep  silence.  And  the  lime  to  speak  is  when  charges  have  been 
made.  After  a  man  has  spoken  in  the  secret  chambers  of  the 
Crand  Jury,  in  the  absence  of  his  adversary,  the  time  to  speak  is, 
and  was,  here  in  this  courtroom  before  you  and  before  all  men.  Gen- 
tlemen, the  prosecuting  witness  dared  not  take  ihe  witness  stand. 
Silence,  under  the  circumstances,  and  in  view  of  the  damaging  les- 
timony  from  so  many  honorable  and  respected  citizens,  is  confession 
of  guilt.  You  will  remember  the  great  speech  of  Webster,  wherein 
he  said  that  there  were  but  two  thiiigs  for  a  certain  wretch  to  do — 
confession  or  suicide.  And  suicide  is  confession.  I  say  it  with  sor- 
row, and  with  a  blush  for  our  courts,  that  the  silence  of  the  prosecut- 
ing witness  in  this  case,  in  the  face  of  the  testimony  of  so  many 
gentlemen  who  came  here  and  testified  from  this  witness  chair,  is 
confession  that  they  uttered  and  spoke  the  truth.  Hedartdnot 
deny,  under  oath,  the  testimony  of  official  conduct  which  was  so 
grossly  reprehensible.  He  dared  not  contradict  Mr.  McCarthy.  He 
dared  not  contradict  Mr.  Pike.  He  dared  not  contradict  Mr.  Thomas 
Williams.  He  dared  not  contradict  Mr.  Arthur  Williams.  He  dated 
not  contradict  Mr.  Kendall.  Hedared  not  contradict  Mr.  Mahoney. 
He  dared  not  contradict  Mr.  Harris.  He  dared  not  contradict  Mr. 
Frace.  He  dared  not  contradict  Mr.  Steadman.  He  dart d  not,  con- 
tradict^ Mr.  Spelling.  He  dared  not  contradict  Mr.  Dickson.  He 
dared  not  contradict  Dr.  Harris.  Hedared  not  conlradict  Mr.  Conant. 
He  dared  not  contradict  Mr.  Lucy.  Hedared  not  contradict  Mr.  Hut- 
ton.  He  dared  not  contradict  Mr.  D»  Imas.  He  dared  not  contradict 
Mr.  Henley.  He  dared  not  contradict  Judge  Denson,  He 
dared  not  contradict  Mr.  Flournoy.  He  dared  not  con- 
tradict Mr.  Livernash.  He  dared  not  look  any  one  or  all  of  these 
gentlemen  in  the  face,  and  contradict  their  statements  of  his  miscon- 
duct, official  and  otherwise.  Hedared  not  deny  that  he  received 
those  resolutions  passed  by  the  assembled  depositors,  censuring  the 
unlawful  acts  of  his  Receiver,  and  addressed  and  sent  to  him  by  ihe 
secretary,  Mr.  Pike.  He  dared  not  deny  that  he  hail  received  the 
letter  written  and  addressed  to  bim  by  Mr.  Steadman,  recalling  his 
name  from  that  bogus  protest,  which  served  the  court  and  others  as 
an  excuse  for  violating  a  promise  voluntarily  and  solemnly  made. 
He  dared  not  deny  that  Mr.  B^rtnett,  in  open  court,  begged  him  to 
desist  from  his  contemplated  action,  the  discharge  of  that  unlawlul 
Receiver,  and  the  exoneration  of  his  bondsmen.  Hedared  not  deny 
—and  I  would  impress  this  upon  you— he  dared  not  deny  that  in  the 
darkness  of  night,  when  good  citizens  are  supposed  to  be  at  home  or 
attending  to  some  legal  and  proper  business— that  in  the  darkness  of 
night,  here  in  this  courthouse,  he  was  conveniently  present  to  re- 
ceive certain  politicians  who  came  in  a  hack  from  the  Palace  Hotel, 
and  then  and  there  entered  orders  and  made  appointments  which 
were  utterly  null  and  void.  You  remember  that  Mr.  Spelling  testi- 
fied as  to  the  issuance  of  the  injunction  and  the  appointment  of  toe 
Receiver  the  second  time  in  the  Knight  case.  Here  was  the  Judge  of 
our  high  Superior  Court,  at  nignt  alone  iu  his  chambers,  no  Clerk  of 
the  Court  present,  to  receive  his  favorites  and  his  political 
friends,  and  to  make  au  appointment  which  he  must 
have  known,  if  he  was  qualified  for  the  bench,  was 
contrary  to  law  and  in  the  direct  face  of  the  decisions  of 
our  Supreme  Court.  Shameful  and  disgraceful  as  was  that  trans- 
action, he  did  not  have  the  courage  to  make  even  a  plausible  excuse 
or  explanation.  Nor  did  he  have  the  courage  to  get  upon  this  wit- 
ness stand  aud  deny  knowledge  of  all  these  wrongful  things,  dot.e 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


by  the  Receiver  and  his  advisers.  This  partiality  shown  by  the  Re- 
ceiver, the  insults  heaped  upon  the  committee  of  depositors,  the 
trampling  upon  ihe  rights  of  tbo^e  who  htve  lost  all  and  begged  only 
for  the  poor  privilege  of  representation  in  that  bank — he  dared  not, 
I  say,  deny  that  he  knew  of  all  those  illegal  and  shameful  thing?, 
and  had  knowledge  of  them  from  these  resolutions  presented  and 
forwarded  to  him,  from  letters  addressed  to  him,  from  private  con- 
versations, from  public  rumor,  from  the  daily  papers — from  all  those 
well-known  source*  of  knowledge  which  we  know  he  had.  He  did 
not  have  the  audacity  to  deny,  and  he  dared  not  deny,  that  he  had 
oroken  a  promise  voluntarily  and  treely  given— a  promise  given  as  a 
Judge  to  parties  interes.ed  in  the  subject  matter  of  that  promise. 
He  dared  not  deny  that  he  had  violated  a  promise  which  was  given, 
or  supposed  to  have  been  given,  for  the  purpose  of  putting  men  in 
control  of  that  bank,  whose  savings  were  there,  and  which  savings 
represented    the  toil  and    the  tears  of    widows   and  of  orphans. 

His  Silence    was   Confession. 

Why  did  be  not  go  upon  the  stand  like  a  brave  and  fearless  mm  and 
deny  those  charges,  or  seek  to  palliate  their  enormity?  Why  not 
make  a  clean  breast  of  it,  and  state  why  he  did  those  things  and 
deny,  if  he  could  under  his  oath,  that  he  knew  all  about  the  infa- 
mous transactions  which  have  now  for  the  first  time  been  brought 
into  the  light  of  day  ?  I  repeat  that  his  silence,  when  given  an  op- 
portunity to  speak  in  open  C  jart,  is  a  confession  that  he  could  not, 
in  honor  and  in  truth  deny  the  truth  of  the  statements  made  by  all 
the  gentlemen  I  have  named  ;  could  not  deny  that  he  had  been  con- 
sorting with  evil  men,  and  doing  things  which  reflected  discredit  on 
himself  and  dishonor  on  the  Bench.  His  silence  is  no  more  signifi- 
cant than  the  silence  and  the  absence  of  his  detective,  John  Gamage. 
Gentlemen,  the  State's  representatives  may  think  and  may  indulge 
in  the  foolish,  fond  belief  that  you  did  not  see  quite  through  that 
whole  business,  and  the  connection  of  this  private  detective  with  a 
Superior  Judge!  When  I  called  Mr.  Benjamin  Lucy  to  the  stand— 
and  I  have  yet  to  learn  that  it  is  any  dishonor  to  be  a  poor  man  and 
to  work  in  the  Union  Iron  Works— when  I  called  Mr.  Lucy  to  the 
stand  and  he  said  that  this  creature  Gamage  had  approached  him  a 
few  days  before  the  late  election,  when  he  was  at  his  work,  and  had 
asked  him  to  go  to  the  office  of  certain  lawvers  who  were  the  friends 
and  boon  companions  of  the  prosecuting  witness,  there  was  a  chorus 
of  objections  upon  the  ground  that  there  was  no  showing  that  Gam- 
age was  the  agent  nf  this  candidate !  What  was  the  prosecuting  wit- 
ness afraid  of  ?  What  bad  he  done  which  should  be  kept  secret? 
What  had  he  urged  or  advised  ihat  should  be  kept  hidden?  I  was 
not  aware,  and  perhaps  you  were  not  aware,  that  under  our  reform 
election  laws,  passed  to  insure  the  purity  of  elections,  candidates  for 
the  Superior  Bench  had  to  have,  or  would  so  disgrace  the  Bench  as 
to  employ  private  detectives  or  agents  to  advocate  their  qualifica- 
tions or  fitness  for,  public  office.  Although  we  were  there  checked 
for  the  moment  iu  proving  what  the  detective  Gamage  had  said  to 
Mr.  Lucy,  do  3*ou  for  a  moment  question  why  and  for  what  purpose 
he  had  sought  out  that  gentleman?  Prevented  from  disclosing  the 
truth  by  Mr.  Lucy,  the  prosecution  having  obj-cted  and  closed  his 
mouth,  we  undertook  in  the  utmost  good  faith  to  bring  that  detec- 
tive here  before  you,  and  with  what  success  you  know.  He  had 
been  here  in  this  court-room,  flitting  about  the  corridors  lik^a  guilty 
thing,  whispering  in  the  earof  the  prosecuting  witness,  advising  with 
him,  suggesting  to  him— his  bosom  friend,  his  particular  friend— he 
was  in  evidence  uniil  he  was  called  for  as  a  witness  to  go  upon  the 
stand;  and  then,  like  a  guilty  thing,  he  fled  away,  and  every  effort 
was  made  by  me — not  by  -he  other  side— by  me  to  serve  him  with  a 
subpcenaand  bring  him  here.  Although  I  knew  he  would  be  a  hos- 
tile witness,  I  was  not  afraid  to  grapple  with  his  conscience  and  to 
tear  out  the  guilty  secrets  from  his  breast.  And  we  all  heard  the 
prosecuting  witness  pretend  to  make  an  effort  to  nave  that  de- 
tective in  Court.  "  He  will  be  here  in  the  morning."  said  he;  "  I  will 
go  and  telephone  to  him  and  bring  him  here."  He  went;  he  tele- 
phoned; and  Gamage  never  came!  He  had  gone  to  Sacramento! 
Why  didn't  this  bosom  friend,  this  particular  friend,  of  a  Superior 
Court  Judge,  come  into  Court  and  tell  why  and  for  what  purpose 
he  had  interviewed  Mr.  Lucy  and  asked  him  to  go  to  the  office  of 
certain  lawyers?  Gentlemen,  the  prosecuting  witness,  though  pro- 
fessing great  friendship  for  this  detective,  dared  not  produce  him 
before  you.  I  pause  to  remark  that  I  was  not  before  aware  that  oui 
Superior  Judges  were  so  proud  of  their  close  relationship  and  warm 
comradeship  with  that  class  of  private  detectives!  I  have  heard 
something  about  "  men  being  known  by  the  company  they  keep." 
At  any  rate  we  wanted  that  man  here,  and  1  regret  to  say  that  we 
were  not  successful  in  our  efforts  to  produce  him. 

What  was  Gamage  doing  in  and  about  these  things?  Why  was  he 
calliDg  on  Mr.  Lucy?  What  was  he  doing  in  and  about  this  court- 
room? And  why,  when  he  heard  that  he  was  wanted,  did  he  dis- 
appear? Gentlemen,  Mr.  Lucy  was  a  depositor  in  that  bank;  he  was 
a  member  of  the  committee  of  seven,  representing  as  it  is  admitted, 
originally  some  1600,  and  later  on  some  2800  depositors,  whose  little 
savings  had  been  sunk  in  that  institution ;  and  this  prosecuting  wit- 
ness was  seeking  then,  as  he  seeks  now,  to  stifle  public  censure  and 
.  to  intimidate  men!  He  failed  then;  and  if  I  know  aught  of  you  or 
your  character,  he  will  fail  now. 


Judges   Should   be   Above   Reproach. 

I  again  observe,  gentlemen,  that  the  prosecuting  witness's  silence 
here  was  the  best  evidence  of  the  truth  of  the  statements  made  by 
gentlemen  who  were  upon  this  stand— a  confession  of  the  truth  of 
facts  which  reflect  the  highest  dishonor  and  disgrace  upon  the 
bench;  a  confession  that  the  opinion  expressed  and  the  facts  stated 
in  the  editorial  in  the  News  Letter  were  well  founded  and  true.  I 
can  imagine  that  an  inferior  ministerial  officer,  such  as  a  Sheriff, 
might  do  some  things  which  might  not  square  with  exact  morality, 
or  comport  with  the  dignity  which  should  mark  the  walk  and  the 
lire  of  a  public  official.  I  can  well  imagine  that  such  inferior  officers 
might  do  things  questionable,  if  not  criminal,  and  conduct  them- 
selves without  dignity  and  carry  on  the  business  of  their  offices  with- 
out courtesy  ;  but  we  have  been  taught  to  believe  that  our  Judges 
should  be  above  reproach,  and  above  suspicion,  should  not  be  con- 
sorting with  milk  inspectors — with  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  political 
hirelings  and  "hangers-on,"  with  private  detectives  who  fear  to  show 
their  faces  from  the  witness  stand!  And  I  doubt  not  that  you  were 
shocked  and  ashamed  to  learn  that  one  of  our  Superior  Court  Judges 
was  confederating  with  such  a  motley  gang  in  breaking  up  a  private 
meeting  of  respectable  citizens,  met  together  to  discuss  their  own 
private  affairs  and  consider  their  distressing  grievances. 

No   Proof   Against   Marriott. 

When  the  State  (dosed  its  case,  the  defendant  might  have  safely 
rested  without  putting  in  one  word  of  testimony.  The  State  has  the 
burden  of  proof,  as  you  understand;  it  must  prove  every  essential 
fact;  it  must  prove  those  facts,  not  only  by  a  preponderance  of  testi- 
mony, but  beyond  all  reasonable  doubt.  The  presumption  of  inno- 
cence in  favor  of  the  citizen  goes  with  him  from  the  beginning  to  the 
end,  and  the  defendant,  presumed  to  be  innocent,  throws  around 
him  the  barrier  and  the  shield  of  that  presumption,  as  it  is  now 
thrown  around  and  protects  you  and  protects  all  men.  The  State 
undertook  to  prove— to  establish  beyond  all  reasonable  doubt— that 
the  defendant  was  guilty  of  a  crime.  In  ord=?r  to  make  out  their 
case,  they  asserted  that  he  was  the  author  and  the  publisher  of  a  cer- 
tain editorial.  It  is  enough  to  say  that  there  was  no  prouf  at  all  that 
he  was  the  author  of  the  editorial  in  question;  not  one  word  of  proof, 
not  even  a  suggestion  of  proof.  Is  there  any  testimony  that  he  was 
the  publisher  of  that  editorial?  1  ask  you  gentlemen,  as  business 
men,  as  men  of  affairs,  would  you  buy  the  News  Letter  and  take 
title  to  it  upon  the  testimony  which  you  have  heard  in  this  court- 
room? For  you  will  pardon  me  if  I  remind  you  that  under  your 
oaths,  you  are  to  act  upon  the  testimony  which  yon  have  heard  in 
this  court.  Would  you  take  the  testimony  of  Mr.  Drey polcher  as 
evidence  (and  that  is  the  only  testimony)  of  title  to  the  San  Fran- 
cisco  News  Letter?  1  say,  there  was  no  proof  of  ownership.no 
proof  of  anihorship.  You  might  as  well  think  of  convicting  Mr.  Ca- 
hill,  Mr.  Whitcomb  or  Mr  Scott  for  any  publication  in  the  Examiner, 
the  Chronicle  or  the  Call,  as  to  convict  Mr.  Marriott  upon  the  prop- 
sition  that  he  is  the  owner  and  the  publisher  of  the  News  Letter. 
It  may  be  his  venerated  mother  who  owns  that  journal ;  it  may  be 
the  estate  of  his  lamented  father;  it  may  be  a  corporation  ;  we  do 
not  know,  and  all  we  do  know  about  the  title  to  that  paper  is  a  state- 
ment of  Mr.  Drevpolcher  that,  sorre  two  years  before  October  31st, 
1895 — the  dav  of  the  publication  in  question — he  had  heard  Mr.  Mar- 
riott  speak  of  the  News  Letter  as  "my  paper."  If  that  were  proof 
of  title,  every  reporter  in  this  city  would  be  the  owner  of  a  newspaper; 
if  that  were  proof  of  title,  every  clerk  in  every  store  would  be  a  merch- 
ant;  if  that  wereproof  of  title,  every  driver  of  a  team  would  own  that 
team.  If.  to  speak  of  a  paper  as  "my  paper"  two  years  prior,  is 
proof  of  title  on  the  31st  day  of  October,  1896,  then  any  idle  remark 
which  I  might  make  or  which  you  might  make,  touching  property 
with  which  we  had  to  do,  would  be  to  establish  our  title  to  that 
property.  Since,  therefore,  it  was  the  duty  and  the  burden  was 
upon  the  State  to  prove  that  Mr.  Marriott  was  the  publisher  of  the 
News  Letter  on  the  31st  day  of  October,  1898,  and  to  prove  that  es- 
sential fact  beynnd  all  reasonab'e  doubt,  and  since  they  failed  to  in- 
troduce any  proof  at  all  Ihat  he  was  such  owner  on  that  day,  the 
defendant  was  not  obliged,  under  the  law,  to  say  one  word,  and  he 
might  have  confidently  appealed  to  your  oaths  and  to  your  con- 
sciences, and,  rapping  on  your  breasts,  asked  you  for  and  received 
from  you  an  acquittal.  But  I  have  never  yet  where  great  principles 
were  at  stake,  or  where  there  might  be  the  least  doubt,  or  the  remot- 
est shadow  of  a  d'iubt  upon  any  essential  point,  rested  a  case  until  I 
had  laid  every  fact  possible  before  the  jury  which  seemed  to  me 
proper,  or  which  might  strengthen  the  case  of  my  client,  or  assist  the 
cause  of  justice.  I  remind  you  again,  that  whatever  proof  of  title 
was  adduced,  was  at  a  time  two  years  prior  to  October  31st,  1898— the 
day  cf  the  publication  which  has  caused  this  iniquitous  persecution. 
I  am  very  far  from  regarding  that  as  the  important  proposition  here 
to  determine;  but  I  am  doing  what  you  would  expect  to  be  done  for 
you;  lam  reminding  you,  and  do  now  insist,  that  the  State  failed, 
and  has  failed  utterly,  to  prove  title  to  this  paper  in  Mr.  Marriott  on 
the  day  named.    And  for  that  reason  he  is  entitled  to  an  acquittal. 

Is  there  any  evidence  that  he  caused  his  name  to  be  put  in  the 
paper  as  its  editor  and  publisher?  Not  one  word.  Such  proof,  if  I 
may  dignify  such  testimony  by  that  word,  is  no  proof  at  all  in  a 
court  of  law ;  it  is  not  proof  in*  the  ordinary  transactions  of  life,  and 
there  is  not  one  of  you  gentlemeD,  as  business  men,  who  would  take 
the  testimony  of  Mr.  Dreypolcher  as  evidence  of  title  and  pay  one 
dollar  at  this  moment  for  the  News  Letter,  no  matter  what  the 
value  may  be.  The  State  must  prove  beyond  all  reasonable  doubt 
and  if  there  is  any  reasonable  doubt  upon  this  question  of  title.  I 
need  not  remind  you  again  for  the  court  will  instruct  you,  that  it  be- 
comes your  duty  to  adquit  the  defendant;  for,  otherwise,  you  might 


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The   Right*   of  the   Citizen. 

lt>it   irrntlenien.  that  la  -non  which   wt  are  here  t«>  <  1 1 > 

nd  determine,  although  upon   il  nl  the  defendant  is 

an  tit  led  10  on  acquittal  at  your  hands.   You  cannot  presume  a  man  to 

be  an  owner;  you  cannol  presume  a  man  to  be  an  author;  youcau- 

a  man  to  he  guilty   because  every  presumption  la  the 

other  way.      And   then-  Ihti  g3    I  n  li  anil  all  of  lot  m,  the  State  was 

to  prove  and  I  submit  to  your  Rood  judgment  has  faded  to 

C  Tne  defendant  is,  therefore,  entitled  10  an  acquittal.     That 

e  will  receive  it  upon  other  and  broader  grounds  I  do  believe  inv 
faith  In  this  result  is  unshaken  from  my  view  ol  the  testimony  and 
my  appreciation  of  your  good   judgment,  courage  and  fairness. 

It  is  charged,  however,  gentlemen  that  Mr.  Marriott  is  the  owner 
of  the  New*  Letter  and  thai  he|  i  blifhed  this  editorial.  Well,  what 
is  this  editorial  winch  semi-  to  have  so  greatly  wounded  Ihesensi- 
live  nature  ol  I  be  prosecuting  witness,  which,  we  aie  told,  threatens 
ihe  pence  and  offends  the  dignity  of  I  he  state?  Why.  if  you  and  I 
should  I  urn  aside  to  pursue  people  who  now  and  then  indulge  in  play- 
ful merriment,  or  irony .  <>r  sarcasm,  or  flippant  humor,  or  idle  jest, 
at  our  expense  we  would  he  busy  the  remainder  of  our  lives  in  hunt- 
ing down  reporters.  Talk  about  De  Wolf  Hopper  and  "El  Cap) tan," 
and  his  bloodthirsty  propensities  !  Whv.  every  lawyer  in  this  town, 
perhaps  every  citizen,  would  be  buckled  on  with  armor,  with  a  knife 
in  each  boot  and  a  revolver  in  each  pocket,  pursuing  reporters  and 
publishers,  if  we  took  afront  at  editorials  of  this  character.  But.  I 
lake  the  bold  position,  and  will  maintain  it  before  you.  that  a  citizen 
has  a  right  to  oppose  with  invective,  with  sarcasm,  with  scorn,  'with 
Irnny—  with  all  the  arts  and  force  of  language— a  candidate  who 
offers  himself  before  the  people,  asking  i heir  suffrages.  I  maintain 
that  it  is  not  a  criminal  libel  to  oppose  a  man  bitterly  and  vigorously  ; 
to  express  in  strong  terms  your  opposition  to  men  or  the  principles 
which  they  represent.  And  I  say  it  is  not  criminal  libel  to  tear  the 
mask  from  brazen  impudence  and  speak  the  truth  concerning  official 
misconduct.  If.  by  your  verdict,  you  shall  deny  to  the  citizen  that 
right,  yon  have  gone  back  live  hundred  years,  and  we  are  again  on 
Ihe  fields  of  battle  where  our  fathers  fought  and  died  in  order  that 
ihey  might  be  free  in  religion,  in  politics,  and  in  their  government. 
1  biu  not  dealing  in  abstractions.  Let  us  realize  where  we  are— that 
we  are  in  a  court  of  justice,  and  that  a  citizen  is  prosecuted  for  utter- 
ing his  political  sentiments  and  speaking  the  truib.  Was  he  obliged 
to  use  gentle  and  complimentary  words  in  denouncing  wrongdoing, 
and  is  the  citizen  obliged  to  express  ecorn  and  contempt  and  opposi- 
tion in  eulogistic  phrases?  Suppose  a  judge  in  private  life  is  a  liber- 
tine; on  the  bench,  arrogant  and  partial;  in  his  knowledge  of  law, 
ignorant  and  obstinate— on  the  bench,  a  tyrant;  off  the  bench,  con- 
sorting with  vile  rnen— and  you  oppose  him  for  these  reasons,  and 
express  your  opposition  with  vigor  and  indignation.  Are  you  to  be 
convicted  of  criminal  libel  because  you  had  the  hardihood,  or  the 
want  of  prudence,  to  call  attention  to  that  official's  unfitness  or  un- 
fairness, or  because  you  expose  him  to  those  whose  support  and 
sntTiage  he  seeks?  Has  the  citizen  a  right  to  express  bis  sentiments 
and  to  state  the  truth  ?  That  is  the  great  question.  I  had  supposed 
that,  in  this  country,  in  California,  the  time  of  political  prosecutions 
bad  ended.  I  had  supposed  that  the  labors  of  English  patriots  and 
the  blood  of  Irish  patriots  had  done  something  towards  fixing  the 
laws  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  race,  or  established  certain  principles  which 
were  imported  into,  or  which  had  further  grown  up  in  the  United 
.Slates.  I  had  supposed  men  were  free,  politically,  in  this  country, 
and  that  the  beggar  might  look  the  prince  in  the  face  and  tell  him 
that  he  was  a  scoundrel!  I  had  supposed  lhat  poverty  had  the 
same  rights  to  express  its  sentiments  as  wealth  and  power.  But 
here  we  see  the  spectacle  of  official  power  and  influence  seeking  to 
stifle  public  criticism  of  official  misconduct  and  to  degrade  and  con- 
vict a  citizen  who  has  ventured  to  plead  the  cause  of  the  lowly  and 
the  poor. 

Is  it  a  crime  to  plead  the  cause  of  the  widow  and  the  orphan, 
without  money  and  without  price?  Is  it  a  criminal  libel  to  say  of  a 
demagogue  judge  that  he  is  a  disgrace  to  the  Bench?  Is  a  man  lo 
lie  convicted  and  imprisoned  for  saying  that  tools  should  not  be 
elected  to  office,  but,  rather,  that  they  should  be  relegated  to  the  obliv- 
ion they  so  richly  merit?  Is  it  a  crime  to  censure,  denounce,  and  oppose 
a  s-.ipefior  Judge  whose  bosom  friends  are  private  detectives  and 
whose  ideas  of  decency  and  dignity  cause  him  to  break  into  a  private 
meeting  and  by  the  presence  of  an  obsequious  Seargent  of  Police. 
attempt  to  overawe  and  intimidate  into  silence  citizens  lawfully 
assembled  to  consider  their  grievances?  Time  was  when  men  dared 
not  criticise  officers,  and  for  so  doing  patriots' heads  have  dropped 
into  baskets  over  the  block.  But  that  cruel  time  has  gone,  thank 
God,  forevermore.  You  cannot  now  stifle  just  criticism.  The  letter 
of  our  laws  and  the  spirit  of  our  country  proclaim  the  equality  of 
man,  and  no  Superior  Judge— not  even  the  President— can  terrorize 
the  people  by  prosecutions  for  the  utterances  of  hones1:  sentiments, 
or  censure,  however  severely.  We  are  the  inheritors  of  the  past;  we 
have  succeeded  to  and  enjoy  much  from  our  ancestors,  I  trust  we 
shall  not  throw  away  all  they  won  by  their  sacrifice  and  their  blood. 
No,  gentlemen;  although  in  moments  of  p:que  or  anger  we  may 
question  the  utility  of  free  speech  and  a  free  press,  yet  are  they  vitally 


imeofl  and  the  pure  administration   of  law 

t<>   believe  and  I  do  behevr   thai   principles 

for  which  I  contend  to-day  art  aa  fall  of  Ufa  and  strength  a-*  iney 

wera  when  Ereklne  pleaded  In  English  forami  ami   Fox  declaimed 

in  the  Uouaa  of  *  ommona. 

Judges  of  the   Law   and  the   Facta. 

The  mention  of  these  immortal  names  brings  me  to  consider  and 
to  Impreaa  upon  you  what  I  deem  to  be  :i  most  important  legal 
truth— essential  at  once  to  treatability  of  the  Government  and  the 
liberty  of  the  citizen  and  that  truth  is,  thHt  you  twelve  men,  within 
the  railing  of  that  box,  ara  not  only  toe  Judges  of  the  fact*  of  this 
iUt  also  judges  of  the  (OH  of  thin  rase.  And  I  ii  m  glad  lhat  it 
l  mi*  i  ence  never  reared  10  look  Into  the  face  of  an  American 
jury.    Much  as  I  resprcl  lha  Bench,  and  much  as  our  forefathers 

respected  tbt  well  that    In    criminal    libel    cases  the  jury 

are  the  fudges  Oi  both  farts  and  law.  And  great  as  the  power  oJ  the 
Judge  Is.  under  our  system,  ha  dare  not  Invade  lhat  sacred  place 

the  exclusive  province  of  the  jury.  It  was  because  venal  Judges 
In  the  olden  time  dared  to  do  it.  and  did  do  it.  against  the  more 
ancient  and  better  law  and  against  the  protests  of  patriots,  in 
order  to  work  out  the  tyranny  of  English  Kings,  that  by  statute  of 
Parliament  the  law  was  enacted  In  Kngland  and  by  Constitution  es- 
tablished in  this  country,  that  In  all  criminal  libel  cases  the  jurys — 
the  people  should  lie  the  judge  of  the  law,  as  well  as  of  the  facts. 
To  secure  this  great  protection  to  Ihe  citizen  meant  a  struggle  that 
threatened  the  throne  of  Kngland  ;  and  had  not  our  forefathers  been 
assured  that  that  protection  would  be  vouchsafed  to  them,  byway  of 
Amendment,  the  Constitution  of  the  1'niled  States  never  would  have 
been  adopted.  So  important  did  our  fathers  regard  this  privilege. 
In  the  old  and  tyrannical  times,  when  Judges  were  the  pliant  tools 
and  creatures  of  power,  the  Courts  assumed  the  right  to  decide  that 
a  publication  was  a  libel,  and  the  Judge  would  say  to  the  Jury: 
'This  publication  is  a  criminal  libel:  all  you  have  to  decide  is, 
whether  the  defendant  published  it."  What  chance  for  life  or  liberty 
had  the  innocent  who  had  incurred  the  frown  of  the  King?  A  cor- 
rupt and  infamous  spy  or  private  detective  would  set  in  motion  a 
prosecution  against  a  patriot  for  criticising  the  Crown,  or  its  Minis- 
ters, perhaps  lor  pointing  out  the  iniquities  of  Government  or  the 
wrongs  done  the  people.  The  patriot  citizen  would  be  imprisoned 
and  dragged  into  Court.  A  corrupt  and  vile  judge,  appointed  by  a 
vile  and  venal  King,  would  say  to  the  overawed  jury :  This  fa  a 
criminal  libel  on  the  Crown,  or  against  the  State.  The  only  ques- 
tion for  you  to  decide,  is:  Did  the  defendant  publish  that  article, 
thateditorial?  That,  1  repeat,  was  the  only  question  submitted  to 
the  jury.  The  cowardly  or  corrupt  Judge,  cringing  before  power 
and  seeking  to  bask  in  its  smile,  would  declare  certain  words  to  be 
criminally  libelous,  which  were,  perhaps,  an  honest  protest  against 
official  abuses,  and  the  question  of  criminal  intent,  without  which 
there  can  be  no  such  thing  as  a  crime,  was  withdrawn  from  the  jury. 
The  Court  invaded  and  usurped  the  province  of  the  jury,  and  thus 
tyranny  oppressed  the  people  and  undermined  and  destroyed  their 
liberties. 

It  was  agaimt  this  enroachment  upon  the  ancient  libarties  of  Eng- 
lishmen, this  infamous  subversion  and  overthrow  of  the  powers  of  a 
jury,  which  enlisted  the  genius  of  the  great  and  liberty-loving  Erskine 
and  his  compatriots.  It  required  his  and  their  united  efforts,  and 
the  efforts  of  the  patriots  of  Ireland  toeet  a  bill  through  Parliament, 
changing  this  Judge-made  law  and  going  back  to  the  more  ancient 
and  correct  theory— that  the  jury  were  the  judges  of  the  law  in 
criminal-libel  cases.  Our  forefathers  who  fled  from  the  tyranny  of 
Ihe  old  world  to  find  liberty  in  the  new,  bore  with  them  in  their 
hearts  a  knowledge  of  this  great  principle,  so  essential  to  liberty; 
namely,  that  in  criminal  libel  cases  the  jury  are  the  judges  oi  the 
law,  as  well  as  of  the  facts.  This  law,  as  I  have  heretofore  sought  to 
impress  forcibly  on  your  minds,  is  engrafted  in  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States  and  in  the  Constitution  cf  our  State.  This  law  I 
have  sought  to  impress  upon  you— not  that  I  am  fighting  against  the 
Court,  not  that  I  think  it  will  in  this  case  or  in  any  other  case, 
attempt  to  usurp  power  not  rightfully  belonging  to  it— because  it 
knows  its  province  and  will  not  seek  to  invade  yours;  but  I  love  to 
look  into  the  faces  of  a  jury,  drawn  immediately  from  ihe  people, 
and  to  remind  them  thatthey  are,  after  all,  the  true  and  best  guard- 
ians and  defenders  of  free  speech  and  of  a  free  press,  and  that  it  is 
for  them  to  determine  what  may  or  may  not  be  said  of  or  concerning 
candidates  for  office,  or  of  and  concerning  official  conduct  of  our  ser- 
vants, chosen  to  execute  our  laws.  When  the  day  comes— long  may  it 
be  deferred— when  a  bitizen  cannot  express  his  sentiments  on  any 
and  all  political  questions,  without  fear  and  without  being  hounded, 
pursued  and  prosecuted,  then,  indeed,  will  the  light't  upon  Liberty's 
altar  be  put  out;  then,  indaed,  will  we  have  fallen  into  the  dust  and 
our  country  be  not  worth  preserving.  I  impress  this  great  proposi- 
tion—your power  to  pass  on  law  and  facts— upon  you,  because  from 
this  time  on  to  the  close  of  your  deliberations  I  wish  you  to  feel  that 
you  are  called  here  to  render  a  great  and  important  service  which 
includes  something  more  than  merely  to  pass  upon  facts.  You  are 
to  determine  the  law.  In  and  about  your  deliberations,  the  Court 
can  advise  you.  can  suggest  to  you.  can  give  you  rules  as  to  the  pre- 
sumption of  innocence,  as  to  the  law  upon  the  doctrine  of  reason- 
able doubt,  and  upon  other  matters  helpful  to  you  in  arriving  at 
your  conclusions;  but  when  it  comes  to  the  final  question  as  to 
whether  this  citizen  is  guilty  of  a  crime  against  the  people  of  Califor- 
nia for  expressing  his  sentiments,  yon.  and  you  alone,  are  the  judges 
—you.  ana  you  alone,  determine  whether  a  crime  has  been  com- 
mitted. 

The  defendant  is  charged  with  having  published  the  following 
words  of  and  concerning  J.  0.  B.  Hebbard : 

A  Worthy   Judge   Forsooth. 

"In  another  part  of  thel^Kws  Letteh  appears,  an  article  signed  by 
a  committee  of  the  People's  Home  Savings  Bank  depositors,  show- 
ing adequate -cause  why  Judge  Hebbard  should  Dot  be  re-elected. 
The  statements  made  in   this  terrible  document  will  cause  every 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


honest  man  to  shrink  from  voting  for  a  creature  who  is  therain 
clearly  proven  to  be  the  enemy  of  numerous  widows  and  orphans, 
and  morally  liable  for  the  loss  of  their  little  savings.  Is  that  the  sort 
of  man  to  re-elect  Judne?  Not  so.  Intelligent  men  will  learn  well 
the  lesson  that  article  teaches,  and  will  see  to  it  that  he  is  removed 
from  the  high  position  he  disgraces.  If  tools  are  to  be  elected  to  the 
Judiciary,  then  honest  men  had  better  get  out  of  the  city.  But  it 
will  be  more  natural  for  us  to  relegate  the  tools  to  the  oblivion  they 
so  richly  merit." 

Gentlemen,  in  view  of  the  testimony  in  this  case,  may  we  not  say 
that  this  is  a  mild  and  temperate  censure  of  official  conduct?  Are 
not  the  opinions  therein  expressed  supported  and  well-grounded  in 
the  facts  proved  in  ihis  Court?  And  did  not  the  defendant,  under 
the  law.  have  a  perfect  right,  as  it  was  his  duty,  to  communicate 
that  opinion  to  the  people? 

And  here  I  beg  lo  read  10  you  from  the  opinion  of  a  great  Judge  in 
a  great  S' ate— the  case  of  Bnggs  vs. Garrett,  decided  by  the  Supreme 
Courtof  Pennsylvania.  This  was  a  case  of  libel,  and  among  other 
things  the  Court  said  and  decided,  that  the  utmost  freedom  of  dis- 
cussion, touching  the  qualification  and  fitness  of  men  for  office  must 
be  allowed  to  the  citizen.    1  read  from  this  decision : 

"  The  case  narrows  itself  down  to  this:  Conceding  that  a  public 
officer,  or  a  candidate  for  a  public  office,  may  not  be  falsely  and  ma- 
liciously charged  with  crime,  or  wilh  anything  else  injurious  to  his 
reputation,  have  the  voters  whose  suffrages  he  solicits  the  right  to 
canvass  and  di-cuss  his  qualifications,  openly  and  freely,  without  sub- 
jecting themselves  to  fine  or  imprisonment,  or  a  ruinous  suit  for 
damages!?  If  the  voters  may  not  speak.,  write  or  print  anything  but 
such  facts  as  they  can  establish  wilh  iudicial  certainty,  the  right 
does  not  exist,  unless  in  such  form  that  a  prudent  man  would  hesi- 
tate to  exercise  it.  Is  not  the  fact  that  a  candidate  is  charged  wilh 
crime  by  reputable  citizens,  a  matter  proper  for  public  informa- 
tion?" 

And  here,  gentlemen,  you  will  observe  it  is  in  the  testimony  that 
2800  men.  women  and  children  were  complaining;  they  were  ap- 
pealing to  the  people  for  a  redress  of  their  grievances. 

"Suppose,  in  the  case  in  hand,  the  charge  against  Judge  Bnggs  had 
been  one  for  which  he  might  have  been  indicted.  Is  it  possible  that 
when  two  or  three  voters  are  gathered  together,  or  where  two  or 
three  hundred  are  assembled  to  consider  his  fitness  for  his  office, 
the  fact  that  such  a  charge  bad  been  made  may  not  be  stated  by  one 
voter  to  the  other  without  the  peril  of  being  mulcted  in  damages  in 
case  the  charge  should  subsequently  appear  to  be  unfounded?  And 
this  for  an  office  for  which  the  incumbent  or  the  candidate  should 
be  like  Csesar's  wife?  A  man's  reputation  may  be  bad  upon  many 
points,  that  it  would  be  difficult  to  prove.  So  long  as  he  remains  in 
private  life  it  matters  little.  But  when  he  becomes  a  candidate  for 
office,  even  his  private  vices  become  a  matter  of  public  concern. 
There  are  some  official  positions  as  to  which  the  people  ara  properly 
jealous  of  the  character  of  those  who  aspire  to  them.  The  judicial 
office  is  one  of  tbem,  and  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  there  are 
many  private  vices  which  the  people  would  not  tolerate,  if  openly 
and  notoriously  indulged  in  by  a  judge.  They  would  tear  the  ermine 
from  his  shoulders  and  hurl  him  from  the  bench.  If  then  a  caudi- 
date  be  a  person  of  evil  repute  in  the  sense  that  it  affects  his  fitness 
for  the  office  which  he  seeks;  if  respectable  citizens  honestly  so  be- 
lieve and  so  state,  may  not  such  statement  be  repeated  by  others  in 
connection  with  the  canvass,  at  proper  times  and  upon  proper  occa- 
sions without  the  penalty  of  a  libel  suit?  If  not,  we  have  indeed 
fallen  upon  evil  limes,  and  our  boasted  freedom  is  but  a  delusion. 
The  principle  contended  for  here,  if  sustained  by  this  court,  would 
put  a  padlock  upon  the  mouth  of  every  voter,  and  intelligent  free  dis- 
cussion of  the  fitness  of  public  men  for  office  would  cease.  It  would 
be  a  burden  too  grievous  to  be  borne,  and  the  people  would  be  swift 
to  reverse  our  decision,  either  by  an  Act  of  Assembly,  or  if  necessary 
a  change  in  the  organic  law. 

"  Referring  to  the  three  tests  of  privileged  communications  to 
which  I  have  already  alluded,  they  will  all  be  found  in  this  case. 
The  occasion  was  a  proper  one.  The  meeting  was  compo-ed  of  a 
body  of  citizens  and  voters  assembled  for  this  very  purpose  of  con- 
sidering the  merits  of  candidates  for  office.  At  such  meeting  it  cer- 
tainly was  the  right,  if  not  the  duty,  of  any  person  present  to  state 
any  fact  bearing  upon  the  fitness  of  either  of  said  candidates  for  the 
positions  they  respectively  aspired  to.  The  circumstance  that  one  of 
the  candidates  had  been  charged  by  a  reputable  citizen  with  conduct 
which  was  not  consistent  with  a  proper  performance  of  official  duty, 
was  a  fact  which  every  elector  present  had  a  right  to  know  and  state. 
For  anght  that  appears  it  was  done  from  a  proper  motive,  and  we 
have  already  said  it  was  based  upon  probable  cause.  It  was  a  mis- 
lake,  but  an  honest  one,  and  corrected  as  soon  as  discovered.  It 
was  a  subject  of  just  annoyance  to  Judge  Briggs,  and  if  the  law  does 
not  furnish  him  the  redress  he  seeks,  it  is  because  of  a  rule  of  public 
policy  of  far  more  importance  than  the  inconvenience  of  a  single 
citizen.  That  rule  requires  that  free  discussion,  especially  upon  po- 
litical topics  and  candidates,  shall  not  be  so  hampered,  as  to  make  its 
exercise  dangerous.  The  rule  furnishes  no  shelter  for  the  malicious 
libeller  of  private  character,  but  it  will  not  impute  malice  to  one  who 
honestly  acts  npon  information  received  from  other  reputable  citi- 
zens. We  are  accustomed  so  to  act  in  all  the  affairs  of  private  life, 
and  if  we  restrain  it  in  public  matters,  we  afford  protection  to  all  the 
rogues  and  thieves,  who  niay  by  their  own  cunning  or  the  negligence 
of  the  people,  ge*.  into  public  office. 

"In  the  enforcement  of  all  general  rules  there  will  always  be  cases 
of  individual  hardship.  But  this  is  the  sacrifice  which  tbe'individual 
must  make  for  the  public  good  just  as  the  soldier  is  shot  down  in 
batile  to  preserve  for  others  the  blessings  of  free  government. 
Speaking  for  myself.  I  would  rather  endure  undeserved  reproach, 
than  by  any  act  of  mine  impair  a  rule  of  so  much  importance  to 
the  public  welfare.  The  people,  sometimes  hasty,  are  in  the  end 
always  just,  and  will  not  long  permit  any  public  man  lo  remain 
undera  cloud,  unless  it  is  one  of  his  own  raising." 

The  Supreme  Court  of  the  imperial  and  splendid  State  of  Texas 


hasannonnced  the  same  broad  aud  wholesome  rulein  the  case  of  the 
Express  Printing  Company  vs.  Copeland.  Permit  me  to  read  briefly 
from  the  decision  in  that  case,  which  was  one  of  libel : 

"In  our  form  of  government,  the  supreme  power  is  in  the  people; 
they  create  offices  and  select  the  officers.  Then,  in  the  exercise  of 
this  high  and  important  power  of  selectingtheiragents  to  administer 
for  them  the  atfairs  of  government,  are  the  people  to  be  deprived  of 
the  right  of  discussion  and  comment  respecting  (be  qualification  or 
want  of  qualification  of  those  who,  by  consenting  to  become  candi- 
dates, challenge  the  support  of  the  people  on  account  of  iheir  pecu- 
liar fitness  for  the  office  sought?  Usually  it  is  by  such  discussion 
and  comment  concerning  the  qualification  of  opposing  candidates 
that  the  people  obtain  the  requi-ite  information  to  enable  them  in- 
telligently to  exercise  the  eleciive  franchise.  Any  abridgment  of 
this  right  of  discussion  and  comment  beyond  the  limitations  hereto- 
fore stated,  it  seems  to  us,  would  be  extremely  unwise.  And  in  this 
respect  the  press  occupies  the  same  position  and  should  be  included 
in  the  same  category  with  the  people.  Public  journals  are  supported 
by  and  are  published  with  a  view  to  the  dissemination  of  useful 
knowledge  among  the  people,  and  the  comments  and  discussions  of 
these  journals  are  entitled  to  the  same  privileges,  subject  to  the 
same  limitations,  respecting  the  qualification  and  suitableness  of 
candidates  for  office,  as  those  of  the  people." 

Gentlemen,  the  editorial  to  which  I  have  invited  your  attention, 
and  of  which  the  prosecuting  witness  in  this  case  complains,  is  the 
statement  of  facts  which  we  have  proved  to  be  true,  and  of  opinions 
and  sentiments  which  those  facts  fully  warrant  and  justify. 

What  Constituted  the   Libel. 

If.  then,  gentlemen,  this  editorial  be  the  expression  of  the  opinion 
of  Mr.  Marriott,  he  is  guiltless  of  crime;  for  the  Constitution  guaran- 
tees to  the  citizen  absolute  freedom  to  publish  his  sentiments  on  pub- 
lic questions.  If  the  language  complained  of  charges  the  proscuting 
witness  with  specific  wrongful  and  criminal  acts,  involving  ami  im- 
puting to  him  moral  turpitude,  Mr  Marriott  is  guiltless  of  crime; 
for  the  testimony  abundantly  establishes  the  truth  of  each  and  ah 
of  tho-e  charges.  Before  the  Stare's  representatives  had  paused  to 
consult  a  dictionary  they  told  us  that  the  word  "creature"  was  very 
harmful,  that  it  imputed  moral  delinquency,  that  it  implied  crimin- 
ality, that  to  make  use  of  it  and  apply  it  to  a  candidate  for  office  was 
to  be  guilty  of  libel.  Why,  such  a  contention  is  ridiculous  and 
absurd.  The  Judge  of  the  Courtis  but  the  creature  of  the"  law:  fur- 
thermore, he  is  our  creature,  ami  1  know  he  will  not  take  offense 
when  I  tell  you  that  he  is  our  servant.  And  who  has  not  been,  at 
some  time  of  his  life,  the  creature  of  circumstances?  What  o(  the 
word  "tool," used  in  the  editorial?  We  all  know  that  amounts  to 
nothing.  1  have  said  again  and  again,  that  a  man  may  be  the  tool 
of  another,  knowingly  or  unknowingly.  A  ''tool"  applied  to  persons, 
may  be  a  simple  fool  or  a  designing  knave.  The  word,  however, 
as  generally  used  in  a  light,  playful,  or  sarcastic  sense,  or  by  way  of 
riducle.  It  does  not  necessarily  impute  wrongdoing.  The"  diction- 
aries show  this:  the  text  of  the  best  authors  proves  it.  Mr.  Kahn 
has  admitted  that  there  is  nothing  libelous  in  the  word  "creature;" 
we  see  there  is  nothing  libelous  in  the  word  "tool."  And  the  Court 
has  told  us  that  it  is  not  libelous  to  say  of  a  Judge  that  he  disgraces 
the  bench.  Well,  then;  if  to  say  of  this  candidate  that  he  was  a 
'creature"  is  not  a  criminal  libel:  if  to  say  of  him  that  he  is  the 
"tool"  of  others  is  not  a  criminal  libel;  if  to  say  of  him  asaJudge 
that  heis  a  disgrace  to  the  Bench  is  not  a  criminal  Jibel,  what  is  left 
in  this  editorial  which  makes  it  such  a  dangerous  and  such  a  crim- 
inal publication? 

Is  it  libelous,  and  a  crime,  to  say  that  facts  have  come  to  light 
"showing  adequate  cause  why  Judge  Hebbard  should  not  be  re- 
elected? '  Is  it  libelous  to  say"  that '•the  statements  made  in  this 
terrible  document"  (put  forth  by  the  Depositors  of  the  People's 
Home  Savings  Bank)  will  cause  every  honest  man  to  shrink  from 
voting  for"  him?  Is  it  libelous  to  express  the  honest  opinion  that 
he  is  'clearly  proven  to  be  the  enemy  of  numerous  widowsand 
orphans,  and  morally  liable  for  the  loss  of  their  little  savings?"  Is 
it  libelous  to  say  that  intelligent  men  "will  see  to  it  that  he  is  re- 
moved from  the  high  position  he  disgraces?"  Is  it  libelous  to  say: 
"If  tools  are  to  be  elected  to  the  Judiciary,  then  honest  men  had 
better  get  out  of  the  city?"  Finally,  was  it  libelous  for  Mr.  Marriott 
to  say  that  the  conduct  and  judicial  acts  of  this  Judge  and  candidate 
weresuch  as  should  cause  him  to  be  "relegated  to  the  oblivion  he  so 
richlv  merits?"  If  this  be  criminal  libel,  how  many  of  us  are  in 
noceni?  Are  we  not  all  guilty?  For  have  we  not  all  expressed  that 
sentiment'    Do  we  not  ?ll  entertain  that  sentiment  now? 

In  view  of  the  facts  which  we  have  dragged  into  the  light  cf  day, 
and  in  spite  of  every  effort  of  the  prosecuting  witness  to  suppress 
them,  the  editorial  in  que-tion  was  altogether  too  mild,  too  gentle ; — 
"the  punishment  did  not  fit  the  crime."  However.it  was  the  opin- 
ion ot  an  elector,  touching  a  candidate  for  office,  and  regarding  one 
of  his  and  our  servants.    That  is  all ;  no  more,  no  less. 

Would  you  like  to  be  sitting  here  as  defendant  for  having  said  that 
some  candidate  was  the  tool  or  creature  of  some  vile  boss?  Would 
you  think  it  just  to  be  convicted  and  imprisoned  because  in  discuss- 
ing the  merits  of  candidates,  you  had  in  good  faith  said  that  one  was 
the  tool  or  creature  of  men?  Great  God  !  our  language  was-given  to 
us  to  use  — to  express,  not  to  conceal,  thought.  And  these  are  words 
of  common  use  among  common  people.  I  concede  that  the  word 
"creature,"  or  "tool"  may  be  used  by  way  of  censure  and  to  express 
a  feeling  of  scorn  or  detestation.  Applied  toacandidate.it  mav 
mean  that  he  is  not  independent,  that  he  is  subservient,  that  he 
would  do  the  bidding  of  corrupt  men,  his  masters,  that  he  would 
grovel  and  crawl  in  the  dirt  at  ihe  feet  of  wealth  or  power,  that  he 
was  devoid  of  honor  and  character  and  manhood.  Spoken  of  a 
Judge,  either  word  might  mean  that  he  would  deny  justice  to  the 
widow  and  theorphan  :  that  he  would  prefer  the  empurpled  rich  to 
the  ragged  poor  or  — which  is  just  as  bad— decide  in  favor  of  the  po  t 
and  against  the  rich,  when  the  latter  are  right  They  might  mean 
that  the  Judge  was  not  upright  of  heart,  pure  in  character,  spotless 


22,  l897- 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


or  learned  in  the  law.     They  might  mean  to  convey 

■    .»  .    •    1    anil  most 

ng  on  eenh  from 

Is,  spoken 
•  an  that  he  wa»  *  -  .int  fellow,  a 

play 
hi  be  ad  mil  it   through 

hi*  friends   wa<   their  1  1  man 

il  <«f  h«»nnr  ai.il  trniti  and  vet  be  made  the  tool  of  others: 


hi*  v-  ;v   makes  hi 


tl. 


rity   of  heart 
ol   h\  poc rites.     1  am  in- 
m'idiiii,    whose  voice    has 
Mimeiit.  and  who  now  sits 
and  this  truth.    A  man  whose 
-    were   the 
00 try,  was   made  a  tool  by  de- 
light to  gain  power  by  conjuring 


■>  him  an  easy    prey 
debted    to  a  learned    ami 
•  hoed  so  often  for  freedom  m.A  gii 
in  thb  courtroom,  for  tin* 
heart  wa«   pure   who 

-.".ven  to  our   beloved 
g  ambitious  politiciou-.  who 

it's    name.    A   few  yean  ago.  not   whose   image  lain 
fo  art.  whose  name  is  on  hIi  hpa,  whose  splendid  services  to  his 
rj  enthroned  him  In  the  atTe<  liona  of  ■  grateful   people,  whose 
-hed  immortal  lostre  on  our  ever-triumphant  ilHg,  wa«  in- 
duced by  canning  politicians  to  seek  the   Presidency  for  the  ihird 
Me  failed.     And  those  who  loved   him    most,    who  speak   his 
name  with  emotion,  said  and  sav.  in   sorrow  and  In  pity:  (leneral 
Crant,  victor  in  war,  lover  of   peace,  was  made  a  tool   by"  ambitious 
men  who  sought  to  accomplish  through  him  their  selfish  purpose?. 

Not  Libelous   if  False:   Not  Libelous   if  True. 

Gentlemen,  you  cannot  presume  that  a  man  uses  a  word  in  its 
criminal  sense;  you  must  presume  that  he  u^es  it  in  a  legal  and 
harmless  sense;  because  the  presumption  is  that  a  man  is  innocent, 
not  that  he  is  guilty  Presi  motion,  theie'ore.  is  that  the  objection- 
able woids  htre  complained  of  were  used  in  a  proper  and  legitimate 
se  n-e.  rather  than  in  a  criminal  sense.  The  burden  is  upon  The 
Stale  to  show  the  criminal  us^  of  the  words  in  question.  And  if  you 
will  not  be  offended  by  my  reminding  you  ol  it.  under  your  oaths 
yon  most  presume  that  the  defendant  used  the  words  in  a  proper, 
legal  and  harmless  >ense.  rather  than  in  a  hunful  and  criminal 
sense.  But  perhaps  it  will  be  said  that  it  was,  and  is,  a  criminal  libel 
to  say  of  this  candidate  that  he  was  the  enemy  of  widows  and 
orphans.  Such  language  is  uot  libelous,  even  if  false:  certainly  it  is 
nut  libelous  when  we  know  it  now  to  be  true.  If  I  see  a  man  aspir- 
ing tor  office  whose  purposes  I  think  are  bad,  whose  qualifications 
unfit  him.  who'e  principles  I  deem  hurtful  to  niv  country,  I  will  op- 
pose him  and  denounce  him  a*  the  enemy  of  my"  country.  If  I  see  a 
man  aspiring  to  high  judicial  office  whoni  I  deem  di-qua'lified  bv  rea- 
son of  hts  past  lif*.  by  reason  of  his  evil  associates,  bv  reason  of  the 
influences  that  surround  him  and  control  him.  1  will  oppose  him, 
and  1  will  say  that,  he  is  an  enemy,  not  only  of  widows  and  orphans, 
hut  to  every  good  citizen.  And  is  Mr.  Marriott  to  be  convicted  of  a 
crime  against  the  people  for  saying  what  you  would  say,  saying  what 
1  would  say,  or  what  any  good  citizen  might  legally",  properly  and 
justifiably  say?  Thus  analyzed,  thus  torn  apart,  we  see  that  the 
editorial  which  seems  to  have  so  wounded  the  sensitive  nature  of 
the  prosecuting  witness  is  but  the  simple  expression  of  an  opinion, 
or  the  truthful  statement  of  facts.  And  1  say  that  if  tbi«  defendant 
i-  to  be  conviced  for  publishing  such  an  editorial,  we  will  have  com- 
menced p  series  of  pro«ecu'ions  wh;ch  will  involve  every  ciiizen  and 
engross  the  time  of  our  courts  not  only  until  the  Christmas  bells  are 
ringing,  but  ironi  this  time  forward,  from  the  time  onecampaign 
f  lose*;  until  the  echoes  of  the  next  are  beard.  If  citizens  are  to  be  in- 
lim  dated  and  prosecuted  for  the  expression  of  their  sentiments  upon 
j  nblie  questions  and  public  men,  then  I  say  in  the  language  of  our 
great  judges  that  liberty  in  this  country  is  a  delusion  and  the  consti- 
tution is  as  brittle  as  glass,  its  foundations  as  insecure  and  unsafe  as 
quicksand.  Such,  however,  is  not  the  law.  If  it  were  the  law,  I 
should  seek  to  leave  a  country  whose  Declaration  of  Independence 
meant  nothing,  whose  constitution  was  a  sham,  and  whose  boasted 
liberties  were  the  dreams  of  idealists,  not  the  possession  of  men.  If 
it  be  the  law,  or  if  there  can  be  found  twelve  honest  men  in  San 
Francisco  to  say  that  a  citizen  shall  be  punished  because  he  opposes 
with  vigor  and  expresses  his  sentiments  with  force  and  earnestness, 
a  candidate  for  office,  then  it  were  better  indeed  that  we  all  leave  this 
town.  Public  censure  is  a  mighty  weapon  to  deter  rogues  and 
thieves  from  plundering  the  people.  Mr.  Marriott  is  charged  with 
saying  "if  tools  are  lo  be  elevated  to  the  judiciary,  it  were  better  that 
honest  men  get  out  of  the  city."  Is  not  that  true?  Is  that  a  senti- 
ment which  meets  with  your'approval  or  your  condemnation?  "If 
toots  are  to  be  elevated  to  the  judiciary,  then  honest  men  had  better 
get  out  of  the  city."  Is  there  anything  the  matter  with  that  senti- 
ment? What  do  we  want  upon  the  bench?  We  want  learning;  we 
want  purity:  we  want  character;  we  want  men  above  suspicion  ;  we 
want  men  about  whom  there  is  no  rumor  even,  or  suggestion,  of 
wrongdoing;  we  want  good  men,  with  "high  erected"  thoughts;  good 
men  with  pure  past  lives,  good  men  of  charitable  and  merciful 
natures,  fearless  and  impartial  in  the  discharge  of  all  their  duties. 
We  want  Judges  to  whom  we  can  look  up  with  respect  and  reverence; 
from  whom  we  may  expect  and  receive  justice— men  whose  private 
lives  are  as  pure  as  their  ermine  is  spotless.  We  don't  want  political 
Judges;  we  don't  want  ignorant  Judges;  we  don't  want  Judges  of 
evil  temper,  whose  natures  are  full  of  petty  spite  and  vulgar  revenge, 
and  enmities,  and  passions,  and  all  uncbaritableness.  We  don't 
want  Judges  who  violate  the  law  they  are  sworn  to  enforce,  who 
trample  upon  principles  they  should  uphold,  who  load  their  favor- 
ites with  buunty  and  deny  justice  to  the  poor,  receive  politicians  in 
their  court  rooms  at  dead*  ot  night,  and  turn  a  deaf  ear  to  the  appeals 
of  widows  and  orphans  in  open  court!  We  ask  for  men  to  sit  in 
judgment  whose  knowledge  of  tbe  great  body  of  the  law  is  drawn 
trom  years  cf  study,  and  whose  hearts  and  natures  are  filled  with 
the  true  spirit  of  equity.  We  want  as  Judges  neither  tools,  nor 
creatures,  nor  demagogues,  nor  boon  companions  of  private  detec- 
tives, nor  prosecutors  of  the  people.  We  want  Judges  wrapped  up  in 
honor,  whom  we  can  trust,  knowing  that,  if  the  wealth  of  the  Indies 
were  put  into  one  scale  and  the  tears  of  a  widow  into  the  other, 


Troth  would  her*  a  hearing  and  Jostles  would  prevail.     We  want 

men  who,  ,,1  tbe  termination  of  their  -hi  qoI  Immodestly 

or  untruthfully  Bay  ; 

"  The  young  men  saw  me.  and  hid  themselves;  and  the  aged  arose 

1  up. 
"The  princes  refrained  talking,  and  laid   their  hand  upon  their 
momb. 

•  Whan  the  ear  heard  me.  then  it  blessed  ma,  and  when  the  eye 
.■•aw  ma  it  gave  witness  to  me. 

•  Beoanas  I  delivered  the  poor  that  cried,  and  tbe  fatherless,  and 
mm  thai  had  none  to  help  him. 

■   The  blessings  of  htm  that  was  ready  to  perish  came  upon  me, 
And  l  oantad  the  widow's  bear!  losing  for  joy. 

1  pnton  righteousness  and  it  clothed  rae.  My  judgment  waasa 
11  robe  and  ■  diadem.  I  was  eves  to  the  blind,  and  feet  was  I  to  the 
lame. 

"  I  was  a  father  to  the  poor,  and  the  cause  which  I  knew  not,  I 
searched  out. 

And  I  brake  the  jaws  of  the  wicked,  and  plucked  the  spoil  out  of 
nis  teeth." 

How  far  the  prosecuting  witness  falls  below  this  sublime  character 
of  the  ideal  Judge,  this  record  discloses  and  the  people  know! 

What  are  the  Facts? 

What  are  the  facts,  gentlemen,  which  warrant  the  opinion  ex- 

Ere.-sed  in  the  editorial  complained  of?  What  are  the  facts  as  they 
ave  been  developed  in  this  case?  What  attempt  has  been  made  lo 
suppress  truth,  to  conceal  facis;  and  who  has  attempted  to  suppress 
the  truth  and  to  conceal  the  facts?  Did  I  not  undertake  to  reveal 
them?  Did  I  not  call  for  the  books;  did  I  not  call  for  every  bit  of 
evidence  that  would  throw  light  upon  every  transaction?  And  who 
was  it  that  sealed  the  lips  of  witnesses  and  locked  the  books  of  this 
b;ink?  Wl.o  was  it  objected  again  and  again,  and  was  successful 
in  most  instances,  in  keeping  the  facts  from  your  knowledge?  I 
called  Judge  Denson  to  the st^nd  to  tell  of  certain  transactions  in 
which  the  bank  was  interested.  Who  was  it  objected  and  kept  the 
lips  of  Judge  Denson  closed?  i  called  Mr.  John  Flournoy, one  of 
the  most  able  and  one  of  the  purest  gentlemen  practicing  at  this 
bar,  and  who  was  it  that  kept  his  lips  closed  and  denied  and  pre- 
vented him  from  telling  us  why  he  was  dismissed  and  discharged 
from  his  position  as  attorney  for  that  bank?  I  called  Dr.  Harris, 
who  was  selected  by  the  depositors  in  meeting  to  act  as  a  Director, 
and  who  was  it  that  prevented  him  from  telling  us  what  the  attorney 
for  the  Receiver  had  said  to  him,  touching  his  relations  with  the 
prosecuting  witness?  I  called  Mr.  Dickson,  also  selected  to  act  as 
one  of  the  Directors  of  this  Bank,  and  who  was  it  that  prevented 
him  from  telling  what  this  same  attorney  had  said  to  him?  I  called 
Mr.  Benjamin  Lucy,  who, according  to  the  prosecutiou,  has  the  sin- 
gular misfortune  and  the  disgrace  of  being  a  poor  man.  Who  was  it 
that  prevented  him  telling  us  what  that  private  detective  had  said  to 
him  when  he  visited  him  at  the  Union  Iron  Works?  I  asked  Mr. 
McCarthy  what  the  attorney  for  the  Receiver  had  said  to  him  in  the 
office  of  Mr.  Hutton,  and  who  was  it  that  kept  the  lips  of  Mr. 
McCarthy  closed?  1  produced  the  Minute:  Book  and  asked  to  read 
the  transactions  of  that  July  meeting.  Who  was  it  objecied  and 
prevented  you  from  knowing  what  then  and  there  transpired?  I 
called  for  and  produced  the  Cash  Book,  to  ascertain  where  the  money 
of  ihis  bank  had  gone,  and  to  whom,  and  for  what  purposes;  and 
who  was  it  that  objected  to  opening  those  pages  and  spreading  before 
you  the  facts  which  they  revealed?  I  called  for  every  book  and  pa- 
per and  document  which  would  throw  light  upon  these  matters,  and 
in  every  instance  the  prosecution  objected,  and  for  reasons  which 
seemed  sufficient  to  the  Court,  we  were  denied  the  privilege  of  laying 
before  you  many  facts  which  we  deemed  vital  and  fully  justifying 
the  charges  preferred  against  this  candidate.  And  throughout  this 
whole  trial  there  was  and  has  been  the  cowardly  pretense  that  the 
Judge  of  the  Department  was  ignorant  of  what  he  did.  and  ignorant 
of  the  law!  Why,  the  most  ragged  tramp  that  walks  the  dusty 
roads  in  the  San  Joaquin  is  presumed  to  know  the  law.  and  is  held 
liable  for  the  consequences  of  his  voluntary  acts.  And  here  we  have 
been  told  that  a  Judge  upon  the  bench  is  not  to  be  presumed  to  know 
the  facts  about  which  he  enters  important  decrees,  makes  important 
orders;  not  presumed  to  know  the  law  which  he  is  charged  with  ad- 
ministering. We  have  been  told  that  he  is  not  presumed  to  know 
anything  that  he  does;  that  he  does  nothing  but  sit  upon  the  bench 
like  an  automaton,  worked  by  a  string  pulled  by  some  one  else! 
And  when  his  official  conduct  is  brought  into  question,  when  his  acts 
are  being  scrutinized,  when  the  reasons  for  his  decrees  or  orders  are 
being  inquired  into,  he  throws  around  him  the  cowardly  barrier  of 
ignorance!  In  this  case,  you  are  asked  to  believe  that  he  did  not 
know  what  his  Receiver  was  doing;  did  not  know  what  his  attorney 
was  doing;  did  not  know  how  they  were  trampling  upon  The  hearts 
of  widows  and  orphans,  how  they  were  throwing  their  defenders  out 
of  the  Bank  building,  and  traducing  men  who  had  toiled  for  their 
money  and  who  were  seeking  to  guard  and  husband  it;  did  not 
know'that  men  were  dismissed  from  office  who  had  been  willing  to 
resign;  did  not  know  that  fraud  and  trickery,  misrepresentation 
and  chicanery  had  been  indulged  in  to  gain  and  to  keep  control  of  a 
bank  whose  management  and  assets  should  have  been  turned  over 
to  the  watchful  care  of  the  depositors!  You  are  asked  to  believe, 
gentlemen,  through  all  these  days  and  weeks  and  months  of  agita- 
tion, of  appeals,  this  Judge  had  ears  and  heard  not;  had  eyes  and 
saw  not!  You  are  asked  to  determine  that  it  is  honorable  to  make  a 
promise  and  break  it;  to  appoint  a  receiver  against  the  law;  to  ap- 
point him  a  second  time  without  authority,  to  appoint  him  a  third 
time  without  a  pretense  of  authority;  and  nnally,  to  discharge  him 
without  an  accounting!  In  some  countries  it  might  be  a  crime  to 
criticise  such  a  Judge;  but  not  in  this  country.  In  Turkey,  in 
Russia,  or  ir  other  despotic  governments  it  might *be  a  crime  to  criti- 
cise a  Czar,  or  a  Sultan,  or  a  Judge,  for  this  reprehensible  conduct; 
but  in  this  country  it  cannot  be  a  crime  10  express  your  detestation 
for  such  conduct,  whether  the  person  guilty  of  it  be  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  a  Superior  Judge,  or  the  President  of  the  United  States. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897. 


Home   Savings   Bank  Scandal, 

I  again  repeat  that  if  you  wish  to  find  a  reason  which  prompted 
this  editorial,  you  will  find  it  in  the  facts  proved  in  this  case. 
Against  law,  in  the  face  of  the  decisions  of  our  Supreme  Court,  and 
directly  in  the  face  of  a  late  decision  of  Judge  Ross,  of  the  United 
States  District  Court  for  the  Southern  District  of  California,  this 
prosecuting  witness,  on  the  first  of  May,  1891,  appointed  a  Receiver 
and  turned  over  to  him  all  the  assets  of  the  Peoples  Home  Sav- 
ings Bank.  A  complaint  had  been  filed  wherein  many  charges  were 
made  against  the  then  Directors,  all  of  whom  have  since  been  ac- 
quitted aud  vindicated  by  juries  of  honorable  citizens,  called  to  look 
into  and  pass  upon  their* conduct  as  Directors  of  that  bank.  The 
at  orneys  for  the  hank  at  that  time  claimed  that  the  lower  court  had 
no  power  to  appoint  a  Receiver  of  the  bank's  property,  and  their 
contention  was  upheld  by  the  unanimous  decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court.  At  the  time  of  appointing  the  Receiver,  the  Court  al-o 
granted  acertain  injunction,  about  whichwe  have  heard  so  much. 
The  injunction  was  so  broad  and  so  sweeping  tbat  the  Directors  were 
prevented  from  meeting  as  a  Board  of  Directors  for  any  purpose 
whatsoever.  The  depositors  were  clamoring  against  them;  the  de- 
positors were  angry,  hostile  and  aggressive,  and  they  demanded  that 
the  Directors  lay  down  the  trust  which,  it  was  alleged,  had  been  by 
them  grossly  violated.  In  other  words,  the  depositors  demanded 
that  the  old  Board  of  Directors  resign;  and,  gentlemen,  they  were  will- 
ing and  anxious  to  resign.  The  in  junction,  however,  stood  in  the  way. 
They  were  threatened  with  severe  punishment  by  the  Judge  if  they 
met  tor  any  purpose  or  transacted  any  business,  however  lawful  and 
however  necessary  for  the  welfare  of  the  bank,  and  were  in  so  many 
terms  commanded  not  to  meet  for  the  purpose  of  resigning.  The 
Judge  of  the  Court,  who  had  appointed  the  Receiver  and  granted 
this  sweeping  and  binding  injunction,  was  then  appealed  to  by  the 
depositors.  An  interview  was  held  in  the  Judge's  chambers  in  this 
very  building.  The  testimony  is  absolutely  uncontradicted  that  he 
then  and  there,  pretending  to  be  anxious  to  serve  the  depositors, 
promised  to  make  an  order  modifying  that  injunction,  so  as  to  per- 
mit the  old  board  to  meet,  resign,  and  elect  their  successors.  But, 
it  was  sugg<  sted  that  they  might  meet  and  resign  and  elect  their  crea- 
tures as  successors,  and  thereby  continue  their  power.  Therefore  it, 
was  agreed  between  the  Judge  and  all  parties  in  interest,  that  if  the 
depositors' committee  of  seven,  would  meet  and  decide  upon  a  new 
Board  that  was  suitable  to  them,  he,  the  Judge,  wuuld  modify  the 
injudction,  to  the  end  that  the  old  Board  might  retire  and  the  new 
Board,  a  majority  of  whom,  at  least,  might  be  depositors,  or  selected 
by  the  depositors*  committee,  might  take  charge  of  this  sinking 
bank.  It  is  in  evidence  that  thereupon  a  meeting  of  the  depositors' 
committee,  with  the  counsel  then  representing  the  bank,  did  take 
place.  This  meeting  resulted  in  an  amicable  selection  of  six  gentle- 
men, all  of  whom  were  men  above  reproach,  and  all  of  whom  were 
willing  and  expressed  their  willingness  to  serve  as  Directors.  The 
names  of  the  gentlemen  agreed  upon  were:  Mr.  P.  B.  Flint,  the  wool 
merchant;  Mr.  J.  K.  Wilson,  of  Wells.  Fargo  Express  Co. ;  Mr.  S.  A. 
McDonnell,  the  druggist;  Dr.  H.  M.  Logan,  Dr.  Frederick  W.  Har- 
ris and  George  W.  Dickson,  President  of  various  building  and  loan 
societies.  The  seventh  gentleman  who  was  acceptable  to  all  parties  in 
interest  was  a  member  of  the  old  Board — a  man  who  was,  and  has 
been,  abused,  misrepresented  and  outraged,  more,  perhaps,  than  any 
other  man  in  this  city,  but  a  man  upon  whom  I  look  and  regard  as 
one  of  the  truest  Christian  gentleman  that  ever  engaged  in  charity 
or  Christian  work.    I  refer  to  Charles  Montgomery.    If  there  be  one 

fenuine,  true  Christian  in  this  town— one  who  has" gone,  and  will  go, 
own  into  the  gutter  to  lift  up  the  fallen  and  to  put  hope  into  the 
heart  of  the  despairing;  one  who  goes  among  thieves  and  robbers, 
the  outcast  and  the  abandoned,  into  the  brothels,  into  the  dives  of 
iniquity  and  sin,  to  rescue  men  and  girls  and  boys  from  paths  of  evil 
and  moral  death ;  one  who  examplifies  in  his  work  the  teachings  of 
Christ— that  man  is  and  was  Charles  Montgomery. 

So  it  was  agreed  that  these  seven  gentlemen  should  constitute  the 
new  Board  of  Directors.  And  I  invite  your  attention  to  a  most  sig- 
nificant fact:  The  attorney  for  the  Receiver,  who  theretofore  had 
affected  to  be  friendly  with  the  depositors,  was  informed  of  the 
names  that  had  been  agreed  upon  to  succeed  the  old  Board  of  Di- 
rectors. Thereupon,  as  we  now  know,  that  attorney  immediately 
-  called  upon  Dr.  Harris  to  make  certain  inquiries  of  him.  Dr.  Har- 
ris was  prevented  by  the  objection  of  the  prosecution  from  telling  us 
what  the  attorney  had  6aid ;  but  you  may  well  imagine  what  he  said 
from  subsequentdevelopments.  The  attorney  for  the  Receiver  then 
callfd  upon  Mr.  Dickson;  and  you  can  well  imagine  his  purpose. 
Thereafter,  pursuant  to  notice,  the  matter  of  modifying  this  sweep- 
ing injunction  came  up  in  open  court.  The  attorney  for  the  plaintiff 
was  present,  the  attorneys  representing  the  bank  were  there,  the  de- 
positors' committee  represented  by  council  was  there;  and  all  joined 
in  asking  the  court  to  carry  out  its  agreement  and  modify  the  in- 
junction to  the  extent  promised.  These  depositors,  through  their 
counsel,  represented  nearly  three-quarters  of  a  mrtlion  dollars— over 
hilf  of  the  total  liabilities  of  the  bank.  They  asked  for,  they  de- 
manded representation  on  the  board,  and  the  court  had  promised  to 
give  it  to  them.  Indeed,  it  was  in  pursuance  to  that  promise,  as  I 
have  said,  that  the  meeting  was  held  and  the  new  Board  agreed 
upon.  Had  one  word  been  said  against  the  character  or  the  fitness  of 
the  men  selected?  Was  there  one  word  against  Mr.  Flint,  or  Mr. 
McDonnell,  or  Mr.  Wilson,  or  Dr.  Logan,  or  Dr.  Harris,  or  Mr.  Dick- 
son, or  Mr.  Montgomery?  No  one  in  interest  had  said  one  word 
against  them  because  they  stood  above  reproach  and  enjoyed  the 
confidence  of  men. 

The  Court  Dishonored   its   Promise 

And  so,  counsel  and  depositors  and  all  parties,  other  than  those 
in  the  secrets  of  the  court,  confidently  expected  that  the  injunction 
would  be  modified  and  the  troubles  be  at  an  end.  But  in  that  court 
there  was  enacted  a  scene  which  aroused  the  righteous  indignation 
.of  every  honest  man.  The  Court,  disregarding  its  promise,  in  the 
face  of  the  fact  that  the  old  Directors  sought  to  lay  down  their  trust, 


had  expressed  their  willingness  to  resign,  and  bad,  in  fact,  put  their 
resignations  in  writing— that  Court,  turning  a  deaf  ear  to  the  depos- 
itors' appeal,  refused  absolutely  to  keep  its  promise  and  modify  the 
injunction;  and  so  refused,  and  so  violated  its  promise,  either  upon 
its  own  motion  or  at  the  request  and  at  the  behest  of  the  Receiver 
whom  he  had  appointed  and  the  attorney  who  represented  him. 

Why  did  he  refuse  to  modify  that  injunction,  gentlemen?  Subse- 
quent events  and  developments  tell  us  why.  Consider  for  a  moment 
the  situation  then.  Upon  the  one  hand  was  theold  Board,  hounded, 
assaulted,  charged  with  all  manner  of  crimes,  called  upon  to  resign, 
threatened  with  violence  if  they  did  not  resign,  and  begging  for  the 
poor  privilege  of  meeting  that  they  might  retire,  having  lost  the  con- 
fidence of  the  depositors.  Upon  the  other  hand,  there  stood  the  de- 
positors who  should  have  been,  and  had  a  right  to  be  represented, 
whose  wishes  should  have  been  respected,  asking  that  the  Court  per- 
mit the  old  Board  to  meet  and  resign,  to  the  end  that  the  depositors 
might  have  representation  and  control  of  the  affairs  of  the  bank. 
And  the  Court  turned  a  deaf  ear  to  all,  except  the  Receiver  and  those 
who  represented  him, 

In  the  meantime,  however,  an  appeal  bad  been  taken  to  the  Su- 
preme Court,  the  object  of  which  was  to  have  declared  void  the  order 
appointing  the  Receiver.  To  defeat  that  proceeding,  we  now  know, 
that  in  the  dead  of  night,  without  authority,  without  power  to  do  so, 
the  Court,  upon  the  application  of  the  attorney  for  the  Receiver  and 
without  notice  to  any  one.  appointed  John  F.  Sheehan  for  a  second 
time  Receiver  of  thiscorporation.  So  tbat,  when  the  unanimous  de- 
cision of  the  Supreme  Court  reversing  and  annulling  the  first  appoint- 
ment was  handed  down,  lo  and  behold,  the  Receiver  was  in  possession 
under  the  second  appointment!  And  so,  the  old  Board  of  Directors, 
against  their  wish  and  the  wish  of  the  depositors,  was  prevented 
from  meeting  and  could  not  resign.  Although  they  were  advised 
that  they  might  safely  disregard  the  injunction  of  the  Court,  it  being 
utterly  null  and  void, "still,  out  of  deference  to  the  Court  and  fearing 
contempt  proceedings,  they  did  not  venture  to  disregard  the  injunc- 
tion. A  proceeding  was  instituted  in  the  Supreme  Court  to  set  aside 
and  annul  the  second  appointment  of  the  Receiver.  Then  a  scheme 
was  set  on  foot  to  remove  the  old  Board ;  and  we  know  now  from  the 
lips  of  Mr.  Livernash  and  other  gentlemen  what  the  Supreme  Court 
never  knew— we  know  how  tbat  meeting  was  brought  about  and  the 
old  Board  removed.  Why,  the  very  Receiver  and  his 
attorney,  who  should  have  been  absolutely  impartial,  and 
no  more  take  sides  than  the  Judge  upon  the  bench,  engineered 
and  carried  out  the  whole  transaction — prepared  and  published  the 
notice  calling  the  stockholders'  meetings;  got  possession  of  and 
voted  stock  which  was  fraudulent;  and  dismissing  the  old  Board, 
elected  successors  to  do  their  bidding.  We  see  it  all  now.  Having 
elected  the  new  Board,  the  purpose  of  these  conspirators  was  revealed. 
They  put  into  the  office  of  Secretary  the  then  Receiver  of  the  bank, 
and'substituted  his  attorney  as  the  attorney  for  the  bank.  Then 
they  went  before  the  Judge  of  that  Department  and  had  the  attorney 
for  the  Receiver  substituted  on  the  record  as  the  attorney  for  the 
bank;  so  that  be  stood  in  the  double  position  of  attorney  for  both 
Receiver  and  corporation!  The  purpose  of  this  movement  was,  to 
enab.e  this  attorney  to  go  to  the  Supreme  Court  and  be  substituted 
there  as  the  attorney  for  the  bank,  and  then  dismiss  as  he  did  dis- 
miss, the  petition  there  of  the  bank,  so  that  the  Supreme  Court 
'  would  have  no  chance  to  pass  on  the  order  appointing  the  Receiver 
for  the  second  time.  Thus,  and  in  this  way,  could  the  new  Board  so 
elected  retain  its  grasp  on  the  assets  of  the  bank;  and  thus,  and  in 
this  way,  were  the  depositors  denied  any  representation. 

Juggling   of  the   Appointments. 

Prior  to  this  last  move,  however,  and  fearing  that  there  might  be  a 
reversal  of  the  order  making  the  second  appointment,  these  same 
parties  caused  to  be  commenced  a  third  suit;  and  the  Receiver  was 
appointed  for  the  third  time.  Having  got  control  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  in  the  manner  which  you  know,  there  was  no  one  to  peti- 
tion the  Court  for  the  reversal  of  the  order  making  the  third  ap- 
pointment. I  remind  you  that  the  Receiver  was  first  appointed  and 
took  possession  of  the  bank's  property  on  May  1st,  1894.  He  con- 
tinued to  hold  possession  as  Receiver  up  to  the  month  of  January, 
1895,  when,  it  seems,  having  in  the  meantime  been  elected  Secretary 
of  the  bank,  having  in  the  meantime  got  control  of  the  Board  of 
Directors,  he  desired  to  be  discharged  as  Receiver  and  to  have  his 
bondsmen  exonerated.  Gentlemen,  what  do  you  think  of  the  action 
of  the  Court  in  discharging  that  Receiver  and  exonerating  his  bonds- 
men? It  seems  that  his  accounts  had  been  passed  upon  and  ap- 
proved. By  whom?  By  a  Board  of  Directors  who  had  been  chosen 
through  his  own  influence,  and  by  the  use  of  means  which  must 
have  amazed  and  shocked  you  as  they  were  related  by  Mr.  Liver- 
nash!  What  do  you  think  of  the  so-called  accounting  which  he 
filed  in  Court?  It"  was  not  even  sworn  to.  nor  did  he  appear  in 
Court  in  person  to  swear  or  testify  to  its  correctness.  But  there 
were  othe'rs  in  Court.  There  was*  Mr.  Spelling,  who  represented 
somebody  in  interest,  and  who  objected  to  a  discharge  of  the  Re- 
ceiver upon  a  so-called  accounting,  which  he  pointed  out  was  utterly 
insufficient  in  point  of  law.  There  was  Mr.  Bartnett,  representing 
the  California  Safe  Deposit  &  Trust  Co.,  the  assignee  of  some  twen- 
ty-eight hundred  depositors,  who  then  and  there  asked  the  Court  not 
to  discharge  the  Receiver,  but  to  require  of  him  a  full,  proper  and 
itemized  statement  of  receipts  and  disbursements,  a  full  and  legal 
report  of  his  stewardship.  Observe  the  so-called  accounting  was  not 
sworn  to;  nor  was  the  Receiver  present  in  person  to  verify  it  as  cor- 
rect. Both  of  these  gentlemen  asked  the  Court  to  continue  the  mat- 
ter and  to  order  the  Receiver  to  make  a  proper  accounting.  To  all 
of  these  reasonable  and  proper  requests,  lhe  Judge  of  that  depart- 
ment, the  prosecuting  witness  here,  turned  his  deaf  ear;  to  all  of  these 
requests  he  would  not  listen,  and  discharged  the  Recener  and  exon- 
erated his  bondsmen.  Why  did  he  do  these  things?  You  will 
answer  by  your  verdict.  During  all  tbis  time,  and  throughout  all 
these  proceedings,  the  depositors,  represented  by  their  committee  of 
seven  gentlemen,  were  protesting,   were  passing  resolutions,  were 


lS97- 


SAX  FRAXCISCO  NEWS   I.KTTER. 


roromuniritiii);  lh«  »nd  when  they  asked  (or 

bread 

vtw.-en   the«e  two 
Kwftoeae.ln  whoei 

■ 

that  the 
u  we  know  he  lie  must  have  known-   be 

'lime  thai    I  I  r  and  his  at- 

ii   lhal  whole  period 
-  a   moment 
the  bank  at  the  meeting 
Ion  <>f  all  the 
i.  to  January.  1895,     lie 
ive  possession  of  the  he  record  and  according 

to  the  le  time  he  I  on  up  to  the  time  of  his 

irge.  or  up  to  a  few  day*  before  the  order  discharging  him. 
When  we  undertook  to  tind  out  what  that  Receiver  and  his  advis- 
er? had  done  during  that  period  ol  eight    month?,  we  were  met  by 
ns    that    the  Court    was  not  aware  of  his  notions,  and, 
>uld  not  be  bound  by  them      Whether  in  point  of  fact  he 
did  know  of  each  and  all  the  illegal  acts  of  the   Receiver,  we  have 
i  throughout  ihi-  case  that  the  '  ourl  was  morally  responsible 
and  morally  liable  for  the  acts  of  the  Receiver,  and,  therefore,  ruor- 
altv  responsible  and  morally  liable  for  the  losses  that  accrued  to  the 
orphans  whose  property  was  in  his  keeping.     We  have 
-aid  that  the  Court  w;is   the  "creature"   through  whom  these  men 
1  out  their  purposes.     We    have  said   that  he  was  the  "tool," 
without  which  thev  could  not  have  accomplished  their  designs,  and 
we  hive  said,  and  do  say,  that  he  was  and  is  morally  responsible  and 
liable  for  the  red.     It   is  a   monstrous  doctrine—  a  reflec- 

tion upon  the  Bench— to  say  that  a  Judge  can  shut  his  eyes  to  the 
appeals  of  men  and  women,  and  thereby  permit  wrongs  to  be  done 
to  them,  and  then  claim  that  he  was  ignorant  of  the  facts,  and  seek 
ape  moral  liability.  From  May  I,  1894,  to  January,  1895,  and 
later  on.  we  find  that  certain  men  were  appointed  to  place  and  power 
in  this  bank,  who  were  the  particular  political  and  social  friends  of 
that  .1  udge ;  and  that  in  spite  of  all  protest,  in  spite  of  all  appeals,  in 
spite  of  every  effort,  they  continued  to  hold  positions  of  emolument, 
either  as  Receiver  or  as  Secretary,  or  as  agent  for  the  sale  of  all  the 
real  property  of  that  corporation.  And  never  to  this  day  has  that 
Receiver  and  Secretary  and  agent  been  called  upon  by  the  Court  for 
a  proper  and  legal  accounting! 

Who  is  this  great ''General"  who,  if  he  ever  smelt  gunpowder, 
smelt  it  on  some  dress  parade  on  a  peaceful  May  day;  or,  perhaps, 
mounted  on  some  charger  on  the  Fourth  of  July  !  Who  is  this  great 
Receiver-General?  What  services  did  he  perform,  what  abilities  had 
he  displayed,  which  so  commended  him  to  the  Court,  and  qualified. 
him  to  take  charge  of  a  great  banking  institution?  The  record  tells 
us  that  he  belongs  to  that  very  plentiful  class  in  California  known 
as  professional  office-holders. 

Denied  the   Prayer  of  Widow   and  Orphan. 

Gentlemen,  you  remember,  and  will  not  soon  forget,  the  startling 
testimony  of  Edward  J.  Livernash.  Able  lawyer,  clever  journalist, 
clear-eyed  and  brave-hearted,  he  told  you  how  these  conspirators- 
bogus  Generals  and  office-loving  Colonels— gained  a  victory  over  the 
depositors,  and  held  control  of  this  bank.  According  to  the  low  con- 
ceptions of  duty  of  the  person  who  addressed  you  yesterday,  Mr. 
Livernash  was  guilty  of  some  impropriety  in  defending  R.  H. 
McDonald,  Jr.  Mr.  Livernash  told  you  that  he  was  at  that  time  the 
attorney  of  McDonald ;  nor  did  he  insult  and  disgrace  his  profession 
by  apologizing  for  defending  a  man  accused  of  crime.  Is  there  a 
doubt  in  your  minds  as  to  the  entire  truth  of  every  word  he  uttered? 
He  told  you  how  he,  as  the  attorney  for  McDonald,  sought  to  co- 
operate with  and  aid  the  depositors  in  modifying  the  sweeping  in- 
junction, and  inducing  the  old  Board  to  resign,  and  in  gaining  con- 
trol of  the  bank  at  the  July  meeting  of  stockholders;  and  he  told  you 
how  his  every  effort,  so  worthy  and  so  honorable,  was  thwarted  and 
defeated  by  men  who  should  have  been  fair  and  impartial.  And 
during  all  these  disgraceful  proceedings— outrages  on  decency— the 
worthy  Judge  looked  on,  nor  stayed  the  hands  of  those  who  were 
striking  down  the  widow  and  the  orphan.  If  the  testimony,  or  any 
word,  of  Mr.  Livernash  was  false,  why  did  not  this  great  Fourth-of- 
July  General  and  May  Day  warrior,  this  Three-Times-Receiver, 
come  upon  the  stand  and  deny  it?  If  what  Mr.  Livernash  told  you 
was  not  true,  why  not  confront  him  with  that  lawyer,  who  at  one 
and  the  same  time  was  attorney  for  plaintiff,  attorney  for  defendant, 
and  attorney  for  Receiver,  in  a  litigation  pending  before  this  prose- 
cuting witness?  "Why  not  deny  and  disprove  the  ugly  things  with 
which  they  were  charged?  Gentlemen,  they  dared  not;  they  could 
not ;  and  they  sought  the  poor  protection  of  silence.  Mr.  Livernash 
threw  light  on  those  dark  transactions,  of  which  the  Court  had 
knowledge  or  means  of  knowing,  and  no  one  has  dared  to  come  for- 
ward to  explain  or  deny. 

The  old  Board  of  Directors  were  bound  hand  and  foot,  like  slaves 
in  the  shambles,  and  prevented  from  even  resigning,  while  the  Court 
permitted  these  conspiring  villains  to  call  a  meeting  to  remove  them 
from  office  and  elect  as  their  successors  the  creatures  of  the  Re- 
ceiver! The  Court  had  been  deaf  to  the  law,  deaf  to  appeal,  deaf  to 
entreaty.  Petitioned  in  open  court  to  modify  his  own  void  order  of 
injunction— petitioned  by  depositors,  women  and  children,  by  law- 
yers, by  the  Committee  of  Seven,  the  Judge  sat  there,  denied  the 
prayer  ol"  the  poor,  and  allowed  his  own  favorite  appointee  to  plan 
and  scheme  to  secure  control  of  that  bank.  Yes,  in  spite  of  the 
efforts  of  Mr.  Liverna&h ;  in  spite  of  the  efforts  of  the  old  Board ;  in 
spite  of  the  efforts  of  their  attorneys  (if  you  will  pardon  me  for  allud- 
ing to  Mr.  Delmas  and  myself) ;  in  spite  of  the  efforts  of  the  Depos- 
itors'Committee;  in  spite  of  us  all,  the  Court  would  not  move. 
Think  of  it.  And  then,  when  these  poor  people  went  into  Court 
complaining,  or  as  American  citizens  dared  to  lay  their  grievances 
before  the  public,  and  to  express  their  sentiments  on  his  outrageous 
and  infamous  conduct,  this  Judge  goes  into  the  darkness  of  a  Grand 


Jury  room  and  oauses  seven  of  them  to  be  Indicted  !    Gracious  God  I 
Indtot  the  strong,  the  powerful;  don't  strike  down  thehelple 
the  poor  1     And  this  honest,  this  "worthy  Judge,  forsooth,     who  de- 
nied the  prayer   of    the   widow   and   the  orphan,  now  permit 
orge*  on  attorneys   to  Maud   in   this  Conn   and  traduce  and  vllllfy 
their  champions  and  defenders    the  Committee  oi  Seven,    i1 
believe  that  Mr.  McCarthy    yoo  saw  and  heard  bim,  gray-haired, 
one-armed  teacher  in  our  public  schools,  honored,  respected,  loved— 
was   seeking    to    loot    or  'hog"  that    bank— to    repeal    the   vulgar 
language  which  was  used  here  yesterday?    Do  you  think  thai  Mr. 
Lucy,  honest,  straight-forward  workingman,  was  seeking  to  plunder 
widows  when  he  acted  on  that  Commit  ou  think  that  Mr. 

l'ike.  Intelligent  and  courageous,  burning  with  righteous  indigna- 
tion, was  a  scoundrel  when  be  acted  for  the  depositors  '  Do  y* 
lievethat  Mr.  Williams,  Mr.  Con  ant,  Mr.  Kendall.  .Mr.  t'asavaw.and 
Mr.  Qualman  are  each  and  all  thieves  because  they  acted  the  part 
of  brave  men  and  spoke  the  words  of  fearless  men?  Do  you  discredit 
them  because  they  were  indicted  through  the  instrumentality  of  a 
coward,  who  went  into  the  secret  chambers  of  a  Grand  Jury  toswear 
away  their  reputation  and  liberty,  outdared  not  confront  them  here, 
in  the  broad  light  of  day,  from  the  witness  stand  7 

Looting   the    Bank. 

Why  did  he  not  modify  that  Injunction  and  permit  the  depositors 
to  take  control  and  place  on  the  Board  of  Directors  the  names  of  the 
well  known  and  honorable  gentlemen  agreed  upon?  You  remember 
their  names— Mr.  Flint,  Mr.  Wilson,  Mr.  McDonnell,  Mr.  Dickson, 
Dr.  Harris,  Dr.  Logan,  and  Mr.  Montgomery.  Why  not  let  them 
take  charge  of  the  bank?  The  answer  is,  because  the  Court  knew 
that  that  Board  would  not  perpetuate  in  office  the  Receiver  and  his 
friends.  Were  the  Generals,  and  the  Colonels,  and  the  politicians, 
and  the  office-holders — were  they  the  only  men  who  knew  how  to 
run  banks  and  conduct  business  affairs?  And  when  Mr.  Livernash 
sought  to  have  the  Crocker-Woolwoith  National  Bank  or  the  Anglo- 
Californian  Bank  take  charge  of  and  conduct  the  liquidation  of  the 
Peoples  Home  Savings  Bank,  why  did  the  Judge  of  that  department 
not  co-operate  with,  and  assist  him  in  carrying  out  that  very  desira- 
ble plan  ?  Why  did  the  Court  prefer  this  cheap  and  ignorant  office- 
holder, this  May  Day  General,  instead  of  putting  the  affairs  of  that 
bank  into  the  hands  of  a  corporation  such  as  Mr.  Livernash  sug- 
gested? Had  the  Court  not  given  his  favorite  enough?  Had  he 
not  appointed  him  referee  and  allowed  him  some  $11,000.00  for  his 
services?  We  know  now  that  without  any  order  of  Court  and  in 
direct  violation  of  law,  this  great  Receiver-General  took  $1000  from 
the  Peoples  Home  Savings  Bank  for  a  few  months' looking  on  and 
looking  wise.  We  know  that  the  money  was  taken  during  the  period 
of  a  void  Receivership,  and  we  know  that  the  Court  against  the  pro- 
test of  men  in  interest,  discharged  him  upon  the  pretense  that  that 
Board  of  Directors  which  he  himself  had  called  into  being,  had 
passed  upon  and  found  his  accounts  to  be  correct.  How  much  more 
was  paid  to  him,  we  were  prevented  from  proving;  for  you  remem- 
ber that  when  we  began  to  investigate  his  accounts,  the  prosecution 
would  not  permit  us  to  open  the  books  of  that  corporation.  How 
much  more  he  was  paid  while  Secretary,  we  were  not  permitted  to 
prove.  How  much  more  he  hasbeen  paid,  or  is  to  be  paid,  for  act- 
ing as  agent  for  the  sale  of  the  real  property  of  that  little  bank,  we 
do  not  know ;  for  the  prosecuting  witness  closed  the  door  on  inquiry  in 
that  direction.  How  much  this  Receiver's  attorneys  or  the  Directors 
received  out  of  the  funds  of  that  bank  we  do  not  know ;  and  for  the 
same  reason— a  padlock  was  put  upon  the  books.  But  we  have  it  in 
the  record  that  thousands  of  dollars  were  illegally  paid  to  this  Re- 
ceiver, because  the  Supreme  Court  decided  that  his  appointment 
was  utterly  null  and  void.  And  1  beg  to  remind  you  again,  gentle- 
men, that  it  was  after  the  Supreme  Court  had  so  decided  that  the 
prosecuting  witness  here  authorized  and  approved  this  illegal  pay- 
ment of  money  to  the  Receiver. 

Gentlemen,  it  makes  me  indignant  to  think  that  men  of  the  char- 
acter of  Mr.  McCarthy,  Mr,  Conant,  Mr.  Williams,  Mr.  Jenkins,  Mr. 
Kendall,  and  their  associates,  having  been  outraged  in  the  past, 
should  now  be  denounced  in  this  Court  as  vile  persons,  when  their 
object  was  open  and  above  board  and  their  only  aim  and  desire  the 
preservation  of  the  assets  of  that  bank.  Observe,  they  did  nothing 
in  secret.  They  did  not  go  at  night  to  Court  for  ex  parte  orders; 
they  did  not  draft  blanket  resolutions,  passing  upon  the  accounts  of 
a  Receiver,  nor  discharge  him  without  an  accounting;  they  did  not 
violate  promises;  they  did  not  deny  justice;  they  did  not,"  like  cow- 
ards, sneak  into  Grand  Jury  rooms;  they  did'not  employ  private 
detectives;  they  did  not  invade  and  attempt  to  break  up  meetings 
of  gentlemen.  They  acted  the  part  of  brave,  honest  and  fearless 
men,  and  as  such  they  stand  before  you,  unimpeached  and  unim- 
peachable. 

A  Fatal   Comparison. 

But  what  is  this  prosecution,  gentlemen.  Is  it  a  crime  to  say  of  a 
Judge  who  will  gather  about  him  a  gang  of  cheap  politicians  and 
office-holders,  and  under  false  pretenses  break  into  a  meeting 
where  gentlemen  are  assembled,  to  over-awe  free  men  and  to  stifle 
free  speech— is  it  a  crime  for  men  to  say  that  such  a  judge,  guilty 
of  such  outrageous  conduct,  is  a  disgrace  to  the  bench,  if  he  is  not 
a  disgrace  to  humanity?  What  do  you  think  of  that  performance  at 
the  Bush-street  theatre?  What  do  you  think  of  that  stenographer 
of  his  court  going  there  under  false  pretenses  as  a  spy  to  take  down 
the  proceedings?  What  do  you  think  of  the  Clerk  of  his  Court 
going  under  false  pretenses,  to  assist  in  breaking  up  that  meeting? 
What  do  you  think  of  the  Receiver  and  one  of  the  Directors  at- 
tempting to  get  into  that  meeting  through  false  pretenses?  What 
do  you  think  of  the  Judge,  who,  forgetting  the  dignity  of  his  station, 
called  in  a  Sergeant  of  Police  to  force  his  way  without  right  into  that 
meeting  of  indignant  citizens?  Can  you  imagine  Chief  Justice 
Beatty  engaged  in  such  a  disgraceful  adventure?  Can  you  imagine 
Judge  Coffey  or  Judge  Seawell  or  any  other  of  our  honorable  Judges, 
taking  part  in  such  a  cowardly  affair?     That  whole  proceeding  and 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  22,  1897 


the  part  played  by  the  prosecuting  witness  here  were  characteristic 
of  low-biowed  and  ignorant  political  strikers,  rather  than  of  a  digni- 
fied, pure-minded,  upright  Judge  of  our  Superior  Court.  And  yet, 
because  these  citizens  who  have  lost  their  money,  who  have  been 
denied  a  hearing,  who  had  been  refused  a  place  on  the  directory, 
who  had  been  denounced  and  thrown  out  by  the  Receiver,  the 
servant  and  the  creature  of  the  court  itself,  whose  rights  had  been 
trampled  on,  whose  petitions  had  been  ignored— because  these  men 
expressed  their  indignation  and  commented  upon  official  misconduct 
seven  of  them  stand  indicted  upon  statements  made  by  this  prose- 
cuting witness  in  the  secret  Grand  Jury  room.  And  because  Mr. 
Marriott  expressed  his  sentiments,  and  gave  thedepositors  a  hearing 
before  the  people,  he  stands  indicted,  and  it  is  asked  that  you  find 
him  guilty  of  a  crime. 

Gentlemen,  as  for  myself  personally,  when  the  time  comes  that 
I  shall  feel  it  necessary  to  turn  aside  to  answer  the  criticisms 
or  the  comments  of  men,  when  I  feel  that  the  time  has  come 
when  it  is  necessary  for  me  to  go  into  court  and  indict  men  in 
order  that  I  may  vindicate  myself,  I  trust  that  I  shall  meet  with 
such  a  reception  as  I  hope  and  believe  this  prosecuting  witness  will 
meet  with  here.  When  a  man  is  conscious  of  his  own  rectitude, 
and  of  the  purity  of  his  own  purpose,  when  he  knows  the  truth  and 
dares  to  stand  by  or  to  fall  with  it,  he  does  not  fear  the  criticisms  of 
men  or  of  newspapers.  As  was  said  in  the  Pennsylvania  case,  "The 
people,  sometimes  hasty,  are  in  the  end  always  just,  and  will  not 
long  permit  any  public  man  to  remain  under  a  cloud,  unless  it  is 
one  of  his  own  raising."  Thus  far  in  life,  I  have  followed,  and  shall 
continue  to  be  guided  by  the  advice  of  Lord  Wolsey  to  Cromwell: 

Cherish  those  hearts  that  hate  thee; 

Corruption  wins  not  more  than  honesty. 

Still  in  thy  right  hand  carry  gentle  peace, 

To  silence  envious  tongues ;  Be  just,  and  fear  not; 

Let  all  the  ends  thou  aim'st  at  be  thy  country's. 

Thy  God's,  and  truth's. 
Gentlemen,  Mr.  Marriott  is  charged  with  saying  that  the  prosecut- 
ing witness  was  the  enemy  of  numerous  widows  and  orphans. 
Apart  from  his  past  conduct,  what  is  he  doing  now?  What  has  he 
done,  and  what  is  he  doing  to  their  champions?  What  has  he  done, 
and  what  is  he  doing  to  the  Committee  of  Seven,  who  speak  for  them 
and  represent  them?  Indicting  them,  pursuing  them,  hounding 
them— poor  men  as  they  are— following  them  into  courls  with 
criminal  prosecutions  1 

Proved   Every  Allegation. 

Gentlemen,  the  defendant  stands  here  charged  with  a  crime.  He 
is  presumed  to  be  innocent.  It  is  for  the  State  to  establish  his  guilt 
—to  batablish  every  proposition  essential  to  a  criminal  libel.  But  it 
is  for  you  to  determine  what  a  criminal  libel  is.  It  is  for  yon  to  de- 
termine what  a  citizen  may  speak  of  and  concerning  a  candidate 
for  public  office.  It  is  for  you  to  determine  whether  this  Judge  was 
morally  liable  for  things  that  took  place.  It  is  for  you  to  determine 
whether  these  depositors  were  justified  in  opposing  his  candidacy. 
This  you  will  determine.  Neither  libelous,  neither  malicious,  this 
editorial  is  the  expression  of  an  honest  man's  opinion  touching  this 

E articular  candidate,  and  every  fact  that  we  set  out  to  prove  we 
ave  proved.  "Creature,"  "tool,"  "enemy  of  numerous  widows  and 
orphans,"  "morally  liable  for  the  loss  of  their  little  savings,"  "a 
disgrace  to  the  Bench"— these,  and  more,  we  have  proved  this  pros- 
ecuting witness  to  be.  We  have  justified,  and  we  may  safely  rest. 
You  know  the  story;  I  think  you  understand  it.  I  think  you  un- 
derstand how  the  first,  second  and  third  appointments  of  Receiver 
were  made;  how  the  old  Board  was  willing  to  resign;  how  the  Court 
agreed  that  they  should  resign;  how  they  met  and  agreed  upon  a 
new  Board;  how  the  Court  refused  to  modify  the  injunction;  how 
the  meeting  was  called  in  July  to  remove  the  old  Board  and  to  elect 
a  new  one;  how,  in  January,  the  Receiver  was  discharged  without 
any  legal  accounting,  and  how  these  men,  by  the  active  assistance  or 
silent  acquiescence  of  this  prosecuting  witness,  have  held  control  of 
that  bank  from  May  1,  1894,  down  to  the  present  moment.  I  think 
you  understand  how  the  depositors  have  struggled  and  fought  in 
vain  for  representation  or  control  on  that  Board  of  Directors.  I 
think  you  understand  all  this,  perhaps  quite  as  well  and  remember 
the  story  just  as  distinctly  as  I  do.  I  have  only  to  ask  you  to  render 
unto  otners  what  you  would  have  measured  out  to  yourselves,  and  I 
have  only  to  ask  you  to  do  what  we  have  been  taught  is  right  in 
morals  as  it  is  Justin  law — "Do  unto  others  as  ye  would  that  oth- 
ers should  do  unto  you."  And  unless  you  are  ready  to  determine 
that  the  citizen  has  no  right  to  express  his  opinion  upon  public 
questions,  and  unless  yon  are  willing  to  deny  to  others  a  privilege 
which  you  demand  for  yourselves,  you  must  acquit  this  defendant. 
Gentlemen,  is  this  to  be  the  beginning  of  a  long  series  of  political 
prosecutions?  We  have  seven  now  of  these  depositors  indicted,  and 
Mr.  Marriott  is  on  trial  for  championing  the  cause  of  the  poor  and 
helpless.  Is  this  worthy  Judge  to  go  on  and  indict  the  rest  of  the 
depositors,  or  indict  others  of  the  committee,  or  indict  other  citi- 
zens who  have  opposed  his  candidacy  in  the  last  campaign?  Is  that 
the  programme?    If  so,  where  is  this  thing  to  end? 

Important  Principles  at  Stake. 

I  have  necessarily  detained  you  long:  but  I  have  not  discussed  the 
matter  in  greater  detail  than  I  deemed  the  interests  of  my  client 
demanded  and  the  importance  of  the  case  warranted.  I  do  not 
apologize  to  you  for  perlorming  my  duty ;  but  I  thank  you  for  your 
thougntful  attention.  The  case,  I  said  at  the  outset,  is  of  great  im- 
portance— important  because  of  the  principles  at  stake.  These  prin- 
ciples are  alive  to-day.  They  may  perish;  but  I  trust  in  God  not  at 
your  hands.  These  principles  which  are  by  the  State  attacked  and  by 
me  defended,  have  been  fought  out  for  five  hundred  years  by  the 
labor  and  valor  of  our  ancestors.  The  moment  it  is  established 
that  we  cannot  criticise  public  officers  and  candidates  for  office,  that 
moment  liberty  in  the  true  sense  perishes  in  this  country.  I  do  not 
upon  bended  knee  ask  you  for  merciful  consideration.    No,  no;  I 


ask  you  for  a  just,  fearless,  American  consideration  of  this  cause. 
This  is  our  country,  and  if  there  be  anythingin  it  worth  preserving  it 
is  free  speech  and  a  free  press,  and  free'  speech  and  a  free  press,  to  be 
of  any  value,  include  the  right  of  freely  and  openly  commenting  upon 
andceDsuring  public  servants.  These  rights  and  privileges  we  must 
not  sacrifice  under  any  circumstances,  or  at  anybody's  request  or  de- 
mand. No  harm  has  come  to  any  human  being  from  this  publica- 
tion or  from  the  expression  of  opinion  here  complained  of;  but  a 
great  harm,  a  mortal  hurt,  may  come  to  us  and  to  our  country  if 
you,  confused  by  sophistry  or  inflamed  by  passion,  shall  feel  it  your 
duty  to  say  that  the  citizen  shall  be  punished  for  expressing  his 
opinion.  I  feel  satisfied  that  you  will  not  take  such  a  narrow  view 
of  this  case  or  the  questions  involved.  I  want  you  to  remember 
that  you  sit  here  as  your  forefathers  sat,  defending  the  true  principles 
of  liberty,  and  that  you  are  to  decide  the  law  and  the  facts  in  this 
criminal  libel  case.  Each  one  of  you  must  be  a  judge  for  himself, 
each  one  of  you  is  answerable  to  his  own  conscience,  answerable  to 
his  country,  and  answerable  to  God,  for  the  verdict  he  renders. 
Although  I  hope  and  believe  that,  under  the  law  and  the  evidence, 
you  must  and  will  speedily  send  Mr.  Marriott  back  to  the  wife  of  his 
bosom,  back  to  his  home  and  his  labor,  (I  have  a  right  to  expect  it), 
I  do  earnestly  ask  it  of  you  as  a  citizen,  interested  as  much  as  any 
one  else  in  the  laws  and  their  enforcement.  Acquit  him  promptly; 
rebuke  this  prosecuting  witness;  condem  him  and  his  confederates, 
and  vindicate  the  true  principles  of  our  government.  I  ask  you  to 
do  this  in  the  name  of  the  law,  in  the  name  of  justice,  in  the  name  of 
these  widows  and  orphans  whose  property  has  been  squandered,  in 
the  name  of  these  seven  honorable  men  who  have  been  tradu.  d  and 
indicted  because  they  took  up  the  cause  of  the  poor  and  spoku  their 
honest  sentiments  concerning  official  misconduct.  I  ask  you  to 
acquit  Mr.  Marriott  on  behalf  of  yourselves,  and  on  behalf  of  every 
citizen  in  this  State.  Determine  for  all  time  by  your  verdict  that 
there  can  be  no  such  thing  in  this  State  or  in  this  country  as  political 
prosecutions  for  the  expression  of  political  opinion. 

Gentlemen,  I  have  done.  On  behalf  of  the  defendant,  whose  cause 
I  now  leave  with  you,  on  behalf  of  myself  for  the  Datient  attention 
you  have  been  pleased  to  accord  me,  I  again  return  to  you  my  grate- 
ful thanks,  and  await,  not  without  confidence,  a  verdict  w"-:ch  I  be- 
lieve will  be  approved  by  all  the  people. 


NOTE  — The  Jury  returned  a  verdict  of  NOT    G    ILTY. 


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Number  22. 


frietted  and  r*t>liiKea  erery  Saturday  (■»  the  proprietor.  FRED  MAERI0T7 

:»^   A-jr'.y  street,  nan  Francisco.     Entered   at    San    Francisco  Post- 

oftce  at  second-class  Matter. 
The  ofce  of  the   SEWS  LETTER  in   .Wu-  York  City  U  at  Temple  Court; 

and  at    Chicago.  903    Boycf    Building.  (Frank  E     Morrison. 

Representatire).  irhere  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  subserip. 

tion  and  advertising  rates. 

THE  Supervisors  are  indulging  in  a  criticism  of  the 
Hoard  of  Health.  Perhaps  they  are  doing  this  to  get 
even  on  the  taxpayers  who  are  in  the  habit  of  saving  un- 
complimentary things  of  the  Honorable  Supervisors  with 
far  greater  cause. 

M  AYOR  Phelan  says  that  he  will  probably  sign  the 
1  \  high  hat  ordinance.  Speaking  of  the  proposed  law 
he  said  :  "  Whatever  may  be  its  weak  points,  I  am  of  opin- 
ion that  its  moral  effects' will  be  felt."  The  high  hats,  un- 
like the  ordinance,  have  no  weak  points.  The  trouble  is, 
they  are  all  adult,  well-grown,  clearly  defined,  and  in  ag- 
gressive evidence.  The  Mayor  may  feel  certain  the  pro- 
posed law  will  promote  morality.  Men  will  forget  their 
thirst  between  acts  and  cease  swearing  duriag  the  pla}'. 

THE  great  Craven-Fair  case  is  drawing  out  a  vast  deal 
of  expert  testimony  in  handwriting.  Mr.  Max  Gum- 
pel,  a  resident  of  this  city,  and  who  has  for  many  years 
figured  as  an  expert  in  all  the  great  local  will  cases  when- 
ever such  testimony  has  been  necessary,  is  one  of  the  prin- 
cipal witnesses;  and  m  his  appearance  before  the  jury  is 
demonstrating  a  remarkable  knowledge  of  the  theory  and 
bases  of  value  of  such  testimony.  He  is  particularly 
skillful  at  practical  illustrations,  and  his  blackboard  trac- 
ings are  one  of  the  features  of  this  important  case. 

WHEN  Adolph  Kutner,  the  California  millionaire  and 
philanthropist,  presented  himself  at  the  Russian  Le- 
gation in  Washington  the  other  day,  and  was  refused  the 
vising  of  his  passport  by  the  Charge  d' Affairs,  he  was 
doubtless  very  much  surprised  and  chagrined.  Accumu- 
lation of  wealth,  a  position  of  influence,  and  the  respect  of 
his  fellow-citizens  in  California  should  be  a  sufficient  en- 
dorsement to  admit  a  man  into  any  country  where  civiliza- 
tion is  even  partially  recognized.  The  Czar  of  all  the 
Russias  ought  to  amend  his  laws  so  that  men  of  honorable 
station  in  life  could  call  upon  him  without  fear  of  a  trip  to 
Siberia.  Kutner  is  a  better  man  than  the  Czar  of  Russia, 
and  we  can  prove  it. 

WHEN  General  Dimond  was  among  us  he  gave  his  en- 
ergies and  unremitting  efforts  up  to  business  ;  and  in 
the  course  of  his  honored  life  accumulated  a  moderate  for- 
tune, which  at  his  untimely  death  was  divided  equitably 
among  his  children.  Not  millions  were  so  divided,  but  an 
abundance  for  their  comfort,  and  even  luxury.  This  being 
true,  it  is  with  regret,  notunmixed  with  surprise,  that  those 
who  knew  and  loved  him  see  that  the  heirs  of  the  General 
have  permitted  his  good  name  to  be  drawn  into  a  scandal 
in  the  hope  that  a  few  extra  thousand"?  may  be  added  to 
the  bequests  he  made.  The  life  insurance,  for  which  suit 
has  been  brought  by  a  once-named  beneficiary  of  General 
Dimond,  is  hardly  worth  enough  to  his  children  to  permit 
its  inevitable  consequent  scandal.  If  he  were  alive,  it  is 
unlikely  that  he  would  value  the  $10,000  in  issue  as  of  suffi- 
cient importance  to  justify  the  parade  in  courts  and  public 
print  of  the  circumstances  from  which  this  action  springs. 
Without  respect  to  exact  material  justice — waiving  the 
final  distinctions  which  may  have  influenced  General  Di- 
mond in  this  matter — the  friends  of  his  memory,  who  are 
legion  in  this  State  and  wherever  he  was  known,  can  look 
on  this  spectacle  only  with  profound  regret. 


CLAUS  Spreckels  has  given  a  practical  turn  to  the 
efforts  now  being  made  to  colonize  the  poor  of  the 
city  on  country  lands.  The  six  hundred  acres  which  he 
proposes  to  turn  over  to  the  colonists  is  adapted  to  sugar 
licet  culture.  If  the  theory  pans  out  in  practice  the  labor 
question  will  be  nearer  a  solution  in  this  State  than  ever 
before,  and  the  Sugar  King  will  have  produced  another 
reason  for  calling  him  Santa  Claus. 

THE  earth  has  not  yet  settled  upon  the  grave  of  our 
honored  fellow-citizen;  but  already  is  the  air  filled 
with  intrigues,  and  the  wires  between  San  Francisco  and 
Washington  made  hot  with  telegrams  planning  and  plot- 
ting for  the  shoes  of  Frank  McCoppin.  The  office-seeker 
is  a  sort  of  ghoul  who  has  neither  self-respect  nor  ability. 
He  is  oblivious  of  contempt,  and  to  him  true  dignity  of 
character  is  a  thrice-sealed  volume. 


THE  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company  is  adding  to  its 
Trans-Pacific  service.  The  company  desires  to  meet 
more  than  half-way  the  Japanese  vessels  soon  to  be  laid  on 
regularly  between  San  Francisco  and  Yokohama,  but  it 
does  not  wish  to  cut  rates.  San  Francisco  can  endure  a 
cutting  of  rates  of  transportation  with  equanimity,  even 
joy,  in  all  directions  excepting  Hades,  Hongkong,  Yoko- 
hama, et  ah;  but  for  these  ports  they  cannot  be  too  high 
to  our  liking.. 

IT  will  be  in  order  for  the  University  Regents  to  explain 
why  they  paid  Attorney  Julius  Kahn  twelve  hundred 
and  fifty  hard  dollars  for  services  which  it  is  not  apparent 
that  gentleman  performed  at  the  last  Legislature.  The 
fact  is,  the  whole  system  of  lobbying  is  bad,  and  usually 
operates  as  a  premium  upon  dishonesty.  The  Regents 
should  explain.  It  is  obvious  that  Mr.  Kahn  will  not :  be- 
ing the  chief  and  perhaps  only  beneficiary  of  their  unusual 
generosity,  his  modesty  will  keep  him  silent. 

TIT  last  the  great  Bly  the  case  has  been  settled.  Four- 
TV.  teen  years  have  passed  since  Thomas  H.  Blythe  joined 
the  innumerable  caravan,  and  the  final  disposition  of  his 
estate  has  just  been  determined.  In  view  of  the  location 
of  the  property  and  its  increase  in  value,  Mrs.  Florence 
Blythe  Hinckley  will  have  something  left  to  remind  her 
pleasantly  of  her  father's  sound  business  judgment  after 
the  lawyers  have  been  paid.  There  is  consolation  to  the 
profession  in  the  fact  that  this  is  the  bright  particular  ex- 
ception which  proves  the  general  rule  of  universal  disap- 
pearance through  legal  absorption. 

«&.  BALDWIN  recently  returned  from  an  Eastern 
,  trip,  and  in  response  to  an  interviewer  said  :  "If  our 
people,  instead  of  continually  harping  on  the  'dollar  limit,' 
would  go  and  see  what  other  cities  are  doing  to  add  to  the 
comfort  and  enjoyment  of  their  inhabitants  in  the  con- 
struction of  superb  boulevards  and  new  parks,  it  would 
arouse  some  civic  pride  in  their  breasts.  The  proper  sort 
of  economy  in  the  administration  of  the  city  government  is 
all  right,  but  I  tell  you  strangers  won't  come  to  San  Fran- 
cisco to  see  the 'dollar  limit,' and  the  sooner  we  realize 
and  appreciate  the  importance  of  spending  mone},  not  ex- 
travagantly, but  liberally,  for  the  beautifying  of  our  city 
the  sooner  we  will  have  good  times."  There  is  more  good 
hard,  practical  sense  in  this  admirable  avowal  of  Mr.  Bald- 
win than  was  ever  dreamed  of  in  the  moldy  philosophy  of 
all  the  aggregated  Silurians  of  this  city.  The  "dollar 
limit"  has  too  long  been  worshiped  as  the  salvation  of  the 
city  and  the  safeguard  of  the  mossback  brigade.  The  fact 
that  the  policy  outlined  by  Mr.  Baldwin  might  produce  a 
few  deaths  from  paralysis  of  the  pocket  should  hasten  its 
practical  adoption. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  29,  1897. 


THE     TRUTH      ABOUT     THE     CUBAN      INSURGENTS. 


THERE  has  all  along  been  a  mystery  about  the  Cuban 
insurgents.  Who  and  what  are  they?  They  fight  no 
battles,  make  no  progress,  and  pretty  nearly  all  the  re- 
ports favorable  to  them  emanate  from  a  New  York  syndi- 
cate, which,  with  large  promises,  has  secured  more  or  less 
press  support  in  this  country.  But  the  truth  is  beginning 
to  leak  out.  The  Boston  Transcript  prints  the  reports  of 
two  tried  correspondents,  one  from  an  Eastern  and  Demo- 
cratic newspaper,  and  the  other  representing  a  Western 
and  Republican  journal.  They  have  recently  returned 
from  Cuba,  where  both  men  spent  some  months  quietly 
but  thoroughly  investigating  the  real  situation.  Each 
found  a  way  to  go  everywhere  and  see  everything.  They 
agree  that  there  is  no  army,  to  be  properly  described  as 
such,  representing  the  so-called  Cuban  Government,  which 
cannot  be  found,  and  has  no  existence,  except,  perhaps,  in 
the  aforesaid  syndicate  in  this  country.  What  there  is  of 
an  insurgent  force  is  formed  of  bands  of  brigands,  which 
have  for  years  flourished  in  Cuba,  living  off  natives  and 
Spanish  indifferently.  They  are  pelf  seekers,  and  any- 
thing but  liberty-loving  heroes.  There  has  been  "war- 
fare," if  the  term  is  to  be  used  at  all,  against  these 
brigands,  but  the  facility  with  which  they  are  summoned 
for  action,  to  be  speedily  dissolved  upon  the  approach  of 
an  organized  force  of  police  or  soldiers,  makes  it  extremely 
difficult  to  come  up  to  them  in  a  body,  or  to  capture  or 
punish  them  except  in  detail.  The  Cuban  insurgents  are 
lawless  thieves,  worse  than  the  moonshiners,  who  descend 
from  the  mountain  passes  of  the  South  to  dispose  of  their 
unlawful  wares,  and  steal  their  way  back  agaio,  and  not 
at  all  unlike  the  early  Highlanders  of  Scotland,  who  made 
such  frequent  and  devastating  raids  upon  the  flocks  and 
herds  of  the  Lowlanders.  The  Cuban  insurgents  do  not, 
it  is  admitted,  include  the  business  or  property  owning  in- 
habitants of  the  island.  They  are  lawless  mercenaries, 
who  live  on  what  they  can  pick  up  by  the  way,  and  upon 
what  the  schemers  in  this  country  can  send  them.  Yet 
these  are  the  heroes  over  whom  our  Senate  waxes  elo- 
quent, and  would  violate  treaties  with  a  weak  but  friendly 
power,  and  even  throw  down  the  gage  of  battle! 

According  to  both  these  correspondents,  there  is 
nothing  to  recognize.  No  head,  no  cabinet,  no  responsible 
men,  no  seat  of  government,  and  nothing  but  detached 
bands  of  brigands,  who  are  here  to-day  and  gone  to-mor- 
row. They  are  much  like  Geronimo's  band  ot  Arizona 
Indians,  who  gave  General  Miles  and  his  sturdy  soldiers 
so  much  and  so  prolonged  and  arduous  a  struggle.  They 
refuse  to  stay  and  be  caught.  Their  knowledge  of  the 
fastnesses  of  the  country  gives  them  an  immense  ad- 
vantage over  the  regular  troops.  If  we  want  Cuba,  let 
us,  in  the  name  of  all  that  is  creditable,  say  so,  appraise 
its  value,  pay  the  price,  and  take  it.  But  let  us  cease 
this  long  drawn  out  pretense  of  helping  an  independent 
and  brave  people  to  gain  self-government  and  freedom. 
To  talk  of  extending  belligerent  rights  to  such  half-savage 
knights  of  the  road,  is  as  much  like  Mexico  extending  aid 
and  comfort  to  Geronimo's  band,  as  are  two  peas.  Neither 
of  the  correspondents  sees  any  hope  for  Cuban  achieve- 
ment of  independence,  and  are  not  clear  as  to  how  the 
trouble  can  be  ended  unless  the  bands  are  captured  and 
deported,  as  was  Geronimo's.  They  are  agreed  that  the 
circumstances  are  so  peculiar  that  the  insurgents  may  be 
able  to  keep  up  their  desultory  resistance  long  after  the 
island  has  become  uninhabitable  by  civilized  workers. 
Truly  a  pretty  possession  to  hanker  after! 

Our  only  trouble  is  that  not  a  little  American  capital  is 
invested  in  Cuban  sugar  plantations.  We  have  some  show 
of  right  to  protect  our  own  interests  even  in  Cuba.  How 
can  we  do  that  ?  Certainly  not  by  lending  support  to 
guerilla  bands,  incapable  of  stable  and  intelligent  govern- 
ment. So  long  as  the  Cubans  cannot  meet  the  test  of  in- 
ternational law  in  regard  to  their  recognition  as  belliger- 
ents, we  cannot  afford  to  belittle  ourselves  in  the  eyes  of 
the  world  by  a  step  that  would  have  no  justification,  but 
would  leave  us  open  to  much  misapprehension  and  suspi- 
cion. If  the  Cubans,  as  Secretary  Olney  declared  as  late 
as  December  last,  have  not  so  much  as  a  "nucleus  of  state- 
hood," let  us  approach  the  Cuban  situation  from  an  en- 
tirely different  direction.  There  is  another  way,  and  that 
is  friendly  intervention,  or  intervention  by  force  in  the  last 


resort.  If  the  Cubans  cannot  show  that  they  are  entitled 
to  belligerent  rights,  as  they  certainly  cannot,  the  fact  re- 
mains that  they  are  making  a  fruitless  war  upon  our  inter- 
ests and  on  our  humanitarian  impulses.  We  have  a  right 
to  say  that  this  state  of  affairs  has  lasted  long  enough,  and 
must  now  end.  We  should  stop  such  irregular  and  mon- 
strous warfare,  take  guaranties  for  the  better  govern- 
ment of  the  island  in  the  future,  warn  other  powers  that 
Cuba  is  not  for  them,  and  rest  at  that,  satisfied  that  we 
have  done  the  best  we  could  under  the  circumstances. 

Still  Humbugging  The  unscrupulous  Examiner  refuses  to 
Its  Readers.  be  set  right,  because  it  wants  to  be 
wrong,  to  serve  a  personal  end.  It 
persists  that  we  should  tax  ourselves  over  $4,000,000  a 
year  to  literally  give  to  the  Hawaiian  planter.  It  then  en- 
deavors to  humbug  its  readers  into  the  belief  that  there  is 
large  profit  to  us  in  this  absolute  gift.  It  has  the  temer- 
ity to  foist  these  manifestly  false  deductions  upon  a  people 
believed  to  be  intelligent.  It  says  that  during  the  last 
calendar  year:  "  We  received  from  Hawaii  $15,244,977  in 
goods,  whilst  we  sent  only  $4,184,351  in  exchange.  On 
any  system  in  private  business,  these  figures  would  show 
that  we  made  a  profit  of  $11,060,626."  What  arrant  non- 
sense !  Fancy  those  notably  avaricious  planters  being 
satisfied  with  about  twenty-seven  cents  on  the  dollar! 
But  this  planters'  organ  tries  again  in  these  words:  "We 
sent  to  Hawaii  during  the  year  1896  the  sum  of  $1,065,278 
in  gold,  and  $73,900  in  silver.  This  is  the  total  shipment 
in  settlement  of  the  balance.  The  other  $9,921,448  was 
profit.  We  swapped  off  $5,323,529  in  cash  and  merchan- 
dise for  goods  worth  $15,244,977."  It  then  estimates  that 
we  have,  during  the  twenty  years  the  so-called  reciprocity 
treaty  has  been  in  existence,  received  from  Hawaii  $107,- 
557,455  more  than  we  have  paid  her.  Poor  little  country 
of  only  8000  whites  !  How  in  the  name  of  conscience  has 
she  stood  such  a  drain  upon  her  very  limited  resources? 
Marvelous,  is  it  not,  that  such  hungry  blood  suckers  of 
peon  laborers  should  be  distinguished  by  such  unbounded 
and  unparalleled  generosity  towards  the  rich  children  of 
Uncle  Sam  ?  But  the  Examiner's  statement  is  on  its  face 
an  obvious,  bold,  and  unblushing  lie,  intended  to  delude  and 
obfuscate  the  ignorant  and  unwary,  and  to  serve  an  end 
the  Examiner  dare  not  frankly  state.  The  truth  is,  that 
Honolulu  is  not  a  money  center.  The  little  coin  it  takes 
from  here  is  what  it  needs  to  pay  its  Japanese,  Chinese, 
Portuguese  and  native  laborers  with,  and  that,  it  appears, 
amounts  one  year  with  another  to  only  one-fifteenth  part 
of  its  total  export.  In  other  words,  the  planter  pays  his 
labor  less  than  six  and  one-quarter  per  cent  upon  his  sur- 
plus product,  with  nothing  for  that  required  for  the  home 
market.  The  remainder  of  the  balance  of  trade  in  favor 
of  Hawaii  goes  from  here  to  whe-rever  the  planter  can  find 
the  best  use  for  it,  which  is  certainly  not  Honolulu.  It 
goes  either  for  investment  or  debt  paying  wherever  it  is 
needed.  It  is  certain  we  owe  not  those  money  grabbing 
planters  a  dollar.  We  pay  either  them  or  their  assigns  a 
hundred  cents  on  the  dollar  all  the  time.  Furthermore, 
we  have  made  them  a  total  present  of  $80,000,000  in  re- 
bated sugar  duties,  and  this  whilst  they  have  exacted  from 
us  the  same  price  for  their  sugar  as  the  least  favored  na- 
tion.    All  this  in  the  much  misused  name  of  reciprocity. 

Are  the  Japanese  A  daily  contemporary  attempts  to 
Handicapping  explain  how  the  Japanese  are  handi- 
Tnemseives  ?  capping  themselves  in  the  race  for  en- 
larged commerce.  It  first  quotes 
from  an  English  trade  journal,  which  says  that  the  Japan- 
ese are  manifesting  a  strong  inclination  to  prohibit  the 
employment  of  foreign  capital  in  the  development  of  their 
industries.  There  is  no  doubt  but  that  the  tendency  to 
exclude  all  foreigners  from  employment  in  Japan  is  in- 
creasing, and  it  may  safely  be  predicted  that  the  few  out- 
siders now  in  her  service  will  soon  be  discharged.  Under 
the  existing  treaty  foreigners  cannot  own  real  estate,  ex- 
cept in  a  few  square  rods  abutting  on  or  near  the  treaty 
ports,  nor  can  tbey  own  shares  in  Japanese  enterprises. 
This  leads  our  contemporary  to  remark  that  "if  such  a 
policy  of  exclusion  be  persevered  in,  much  of  the  appre- 
hension created  by  the  really  remarkable  forward  strides 
made  by  the  Japanese  will  be  removed.  It  was  feared  by 
many  that  the  Japs  would  take  advantage  of   the  mobility 


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SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


and   permit    their   cheap  laboi  ..loited 

for  the  benefit  of   foreigners,  b  ,  stein, 

and  the  virtual   adop"  Laudard,  have  de- 

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•ossible  co  .  le  of  the  > 

ome  from  ;i 
high  protectionist,  ami  .1  BUpporter  of  the  St.  Louis  plat- 
form. The  Japanese  are  bu'  carrying  the  principles  of 
protection  to  their  ultima'  do,  and  are  but  saying 

ditto  to  the  Republican  sold  platform.  Here  at  borne  the 
Chronicle  predicts  that  these  two  things  will  bring  progress 
and  prosperity  to  our  country.  Hut  we  cannot  for  tin 
life  of  us  understand  how  our  contemporary  cau  say  that 
the  application  of  its  own  principles  to  Japan  "removes 
that  country  from  the  list  of  possible  competitors  for  the 
trade  of  the  world."  That  is  precisely  what  our  own  free 
traders  have  all  along  been  saying  must  be  the  ultimate 
effect  of  our  own  exclusive  policy.  It  is  true  that  the 
Japanese  borrow  but  little,  whilst  "we  stretch  our  credit 
to  its  utmost  limit.  Hut  Japan  hoarded  money  for  hun- 
dreds of  years,  and  has  recently  come  into  possession  of  a 
vast  sum  from  China.  She  appears  to  have  all  the  money 
she  wants,  for  she  establishes  vast  steam  lines,  and  is  bid- 
ding for  commerce  all  over  the  world,  without  any  disturb- 
ance of  her  finances  at  home.  Well  would  it  be  for  us  if 
we  could  say  as  much.  We  have  borrowed  abroad  to  ex- 
cess. Our  profits  in  trade  and  production  go  to  repay  the 
foreign  bondholder.  Happier  is  Japan  with  those  profits 
staying  at  home.  One  hundred  years  to  come  will  not  see 
us  in  the  freedom  from  debt  that  Japan  now  enjoys.  Our 
railroads  alone  owe  to  foreigners  a  sum  about  equal  to  all 
the  gold  and  silver  there  is  in  the  world,  and  our  country 
is  being  drained  of  its  productiveness  all  the  time  to  pay 
the  interest.  Our  contemporarj'  must  have  been  nodding 
when  it  spread  such  stuff  before  California  readers. 

Inspector  Dockery  Whatever  the  technical  merits  of  the 
and  case  may  be,  the  sympathies  and  in- 

Collector  Wise.  terests  of  the  public,  and  the  equities 
of  the  case,  are  all  in  favor  of  Inspec- 
tor Dockery  in  his  fight  to  prevent  the  exportation  from 
this  city  and  State  of  impure  brandy.  The  facts  already 
developed  in  the  case  are  a  sufficient  basis  for  intelligent 
opinion.  The  stuff  sought  to  be  held  by  Dockery  bears  the 
label  "  Pure  California  Braudy,''  and  thanks  to  the  zeal  of 
Collector  Wise,  is  now  speeding  across  the  continent,  bound 
for  England.  The  liquor  so  labeled  is  known  to  be  a  miser- 
able decoction  of  prune  juice,  bad  whiskey,  grape  brandy, 
water,  and  disreputable  "stiffening,"  and  if  it  were  ac- 
cepted anywhere  as  a  fair  sample  of  "Pure  California 
Brandy, "  would  do  the  greatest  possible  injury  to  the  honest 
industry  of  this  State.  This  is  sufficient  cause  to  justify 
the  pure  food  inspector  in  taking  the  vigorous  steps  which 
precipitated  the  interference  of  the  Federal  authorities. 
Collector  Wise  can  have  no  object  in  this  matter  distinct 
from  the  interests  of  the  State,  and  while  he  no  doubt 
acted  in  good  faith,  there  is  abundant  room  for  criticism 
of  his  judgment.  The  "brandy"  is  not  perishable;  no  pen- 
alty would  have  resulted  from  its  detention  for  three  or 
four  days,  or  until  the  legal  rights  of  theofficialsin  contact 
could  have  been  determined.  In  any  event,  its  shipment 
abroad  is  a  disgrace  to  the  State,  and  a  direct  and  posi- 
tive injury  to  a  growing  industry.  These  facts  should  have 
had  weight  with  the  Collector. 

The  publicity  that  has  been  given  this  particular  fraud 
will  no  doubt  defeat  its  consummation.  Telegrams  have 
been  sent  to  Washington  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury, 
and  the  consignees  of  the  stuff  in  England,  as  well  as  Eng- 
lish customs  authorities  will  be  warned  of  the  "Pure  Cali- 
fornia Brandy"  to  arrive.  The  English  pure  food  laws 
are  stricter  than  our  own;  and  while  goods  for  export 
manufactured  there  may  be  impure  or  adulterated  to  any 
degree,  under  all  sorts  of  labels,  foods  for  consumption  at 
home  are  subject  to  the  most  careful  investigation,  and 
violation  of  the  laws  are  rigidly  enforced.  This  shipment 
of  prune  juice  and  bad  whiskey  will  be  given  a  warm  re- 
ception should  it  be  lauded  in  England.  There  is  not  one 
chance  in  a  hundred  that  a  single  quart  of  the  fraudulent 
stuff  will  find  its  way  down  British  throats. 

California  is  just  now  making  every  effort  to  prevent  the 
manufacture  of  impure  food  products,  and  also  stop  their 
import  from  the  East  or  elsewhere.     This  attempt  to  defy 


the  clear  will  of  the  people!  perpetrate  ;i  gross  fraud  upon 
Innocent  purchasers  abroad,   and  strike  a  most  hurtful 

blow  at  the  brandy  industry  of  this  State,  should  be  throt- 
tled.   Technicalities  may  sometimes  be  Interposed   in  the 

Interests  Of  Justice,  but  in  this  instance,  no  trivial  defense 
should  be  permitted  to  defend  such  dishonorable    methods, 

or  shield  the  perpetrators  (ram  the  utmost  consequences 

of  their  acts. 

The  Tariff  The  tariff  debates  in  open  Senate  have  be- 
Struggle  gun  in  excitement  which  there  is  little 
As  It  Stands,  hope  of  ending  until  about  the  1st  of 
August.  As  one  Senator  truly  remarked, 
if  closure  obtained  in  the  Senate  the  tariff  could  be  put 
through  within  a  week,  and  fully  $100,000,000  saved  to  the 
Government  in  duties  that  would  at  once  be  collectable. 
But  there  is  no  Czar  in  the  Senate,  and  it  must  as  usual 
drag  its  slow  length  along.  The  final  outcome  is  a  mere 
matter  of  chance.  Compromise  is  the  order  of  the  day 
and  will  have  to  be  resorted  to  in  regard  to  almost  every 
item  in  every  schedule.  The  state  of  parties  is  such  that 
no  hard  and  fast  lines  can  be  drawn,  and  the  ultimate 
shape  of  the  tariff  is  altogether  in  doubt.  Meanwhile, 
there  is  a  sudden  awakening  of  Republican  organs  all  over 
the  country  to  the  fact  that  the  proposed  tariff  will  not 
do,  that  it  violates  the  principle  of  protection,  and  fails  to 
realize  the  expectations  raised  by  the  St.  Louis  platform. 
The  taxes  "for  revenue  only"  are  so  numerous  as  to  pretty 
nearly  constitute  it  a  Democratic  tariff.  There  is  no  pro- 
tection in  a  tax  on  tea,  and  none  that  is  necessary  in  an 
increased  tax  on  beer.  It  is  true  that  a  considerable 
revenue  will  thereby  be  raised  but  that  is  throwing  up  the 
sponge  in  favor  of  the  Democrats.  This  is  more  than  con- 
sistent Republican  journals  can  stand,  and,  in  consequence, 
they  are  kicking  up  a  lively  racket  all  over  the  land  that 
bodes  no  good  to  Senators  bound  by  all  sorts  of  dickers 
and  compromises.  The  sugar  schedule  is  just  where  it 
was  when  the  Wilson  tariff  was  in  the  Senate.  What 
Gorman  and  Brice  were  to  that  measure,  Aldrich.  and 
Piatt  of  Connecticut,  are  to  the  one  now  under  considera- 
tion. In  both  parties  the  sugar  trust  has  friends  who 
must  be  placated,  or  tariff  legislation  is  impossible.  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  worn  out,  disgusted  and  unable  to  see  his 
way  to  better  legislation,  was  constrained  to  let  the  Wil- 
son bill  become  law  without  his  signature.  As  the  new 
bill  gives  the  go-bye  to  McKinleyism,  it  looks  as  if  Cleve- 
land's successor  may  have  to  follow  in  his  footsteps. 

The  Turk  Defies  It  looks  as  if  the  European  Concert 
Europe's  Concert,  will  have  more  on  its  hands  than  it 
bargained  for.  Turkey  flatly  refus- 
ing to  relinquish  her  conquests,  has  determined  to  retain 
Thessaly.  She  sends  defiance  as  an  answer  to  the  collect- 
ive note  of  the  powers,  and  at  Athens  active  preparations 
are  being  made  for  a  possible  renewal  of  the  war.  At  the 
same  time  it  is  believed  that  England  has  made  known  to 
the  powers  her  intention  to  retire  from  the  concert  if 
Turkey  be  allowed  to  take  territory,  except  in  rectifica- 
tion of  boundaries,  from  Greece.  She  claims  that  the 
principal  purpose  of  the  concert  was  to  maintain  in  all 
Europe  the  statu  quo  as  to  territory.  No  power  was  to 
be  allowed  to  take  more  than  she  then  owned.  That  was 
thought  to  remove  all  motive  for  war.  If  that  idea  is  now 
to  be  abandoned,  the  purpose  of  the  Concert  is  at  an  end 
and  England  proposes  to  withdraw.  The  Czar  and 
Emperor  William  are  believed  to  be  secretly  directing  the 
Sultan's  course.  The  Grand  Turk  has  been  pleased  to  di- 
rect his  Grand  Vizier  to  talk  out  in  meeting,  and  to  direct 
his  speech  to  be  published.  The  Ministers  refused  to  dis- 
cuss the  abandonment  of  Thessaly  and  the  Vizier  urged 
the  Sultan  to  regard  the  powers  "as  enemies,  who  were 
plotting  to  destroy  Turkey"  and  he  went  on  to  say  that 
"if  we  yield  to  European  pressure  now  we  shall  alienate 
Mussulmans.  Therefore  I  emplore  your  majesty  for  the 
sake  of  your  victorious  ancestors  to  retain  Thessaly.  Re- 
fuse to  be  dictated  to  as  you  did  in  the  case  of  Armenia, 
with  the  result  that  your  Majesty  gained  the  victory." 
All  of  which,  if  true,  looks  more  serious  than  anything 
that  has  happened  since  the  Greco-Turkish  controversy 
began.  What  the  end  of  all  this  secret  diplomacy  may 
prove  to  be  no  man  can  tell.  It  looks  like  a  reopening  of 
the  dangerous  Eastern  question. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  EETTER- 


May  29,  1897. 


The  Problem     During   the   past   five   months   Dr.    J.  H. 

Of  Municipal     Stallard  of   this  city   contributed   to  the 

Government.  Overland  Monthly  a  series  of  interesting 
and  timely  articles  upon  the  problem  of 
"Municipal  Government  as  illustrated  by  the  Municipal 
Government  of  San  Francisco."  The  articles  have  since 
been  gathered  together  and  published  in  convenient  form 
for  general  circulation.  The  pamphiet  is  full  of  practical 
matter  bearing  directly  upon  the  intricate,  and  as  yet  ad- 
mittedly unsolved,  questions  of  Municipal  Government, 
and  will  abundantly  repay  careful  study.  In  summing  up  the 
subjects  treated  and  the  suggestions  contained  in  them 
we  cannot  do  better  than  chose  Dr.  Stallard's  own  words: 

"  It  would  be  presumptuous  and  premature  to  dictate 
the  details  of  the  form  of  government  proposed  in  the  fore- 
going pages.  It  is  obvious  that  great  care  and  delibera- 
tion will  be  necessary.  But  it  may  be  useful  to  present  a 
brief  recapitulation  and  also  to  submit  for  discussion  some 
important  subjects  which  have  not  received  the  attention 
they  deserve. 

1.  The  evils  connected  with  the  franchise  and  the  en- 
rollment of  the  citizens  have  been  pointed  out,  and  the 
remedies  suggested  are,  some  better  method  of  ascertain- 
ing the  fact  of  citizenship  and  the  adoption  of  a  special 
register. 

2.  The  complete  separation  of  the  municipal  from  the 
State  and  federal  elections  is  necessary. 

3.  The  question  of  selecting  councilors  from  electoral 
districts  or  from  the  city  at  large,  is  one  of  great  impor- 
tance. If  by  districts,  the  boundaries  need  to  be  revised 
from  time  to  time. 

■i.  It  having  been  clearly  proved  that  the  present  sys- 
tem of  election  by  a  plurality  of  votes  is  not  truly  repre- 
sentative, the  introduction  of  proportional  representation 
ought  to  be  seriously  entertained,  especially  as  it  seems  to 
promise  the  election  of  a  better  class  of  councilors. 

5.  Laws  for  the  prevention  and  punishment  of  bribery 
need  to  be  improved. 

6.  The  initiative  and  referendum  might  probably  be 
adopted  with  advantage,  in  order  to  determine  the  incid- 
ence and  limit  of  taxation,  the  creation  of  a  public  debt, 
the  exercise  of  the  right  of  eminent  domain,  the  imposition 
of  any  new  duty  on  the  government,  the  removal  of  dis- 
honest and  incompetent  officials,  and  the  control  of  cor- 
porations. With  the  election  of  a  council,  the  initiative 
and  referendum  will  be  very  little  used. 

7.  The  relations  between  the  city  and  the  governor  of 
the  State  will  need  to  be  accurately  defined. 

8.  The  construction  of  the  council  is  of  paramount  im- 
portance, and  either  the  English  or  Italian  systems  may 
be  taken  as  a  model,  although  the  former  seems  more  con- 
formable to  republican  ideas.  The  number  of  councilors 
should  be  large  enough  to  supply  supervising  committees 
for  every  department  of  the  public  service  and  to  prevent 
the  possibility  of  combinations  of  seven  or  nine  for  evil 
purposes.  From  twent}'  to  twenty-five  for  every  one  hun- 
dred thousand  of  the  population  would  probably  be  advis- 
able. A  degree  of  permanence  is  necessary,  and  at  no  one 
election  should  it  be  possible  to  revolutionize  the  council's 
policy. 

By  this  means  alone  is  it  possible  to  exclude  the  impro- 
per influence  of  politics  and  popular  clamor.  The  term  of 
office  being  thus  prolonged,  every  councilor  will  enjoy  the 
advantage  of  acquiring  knowledge,  experience,  and  inter- 
est, in  the  work  entrusted  to  him,  and  this  becoming 
known  will  contribute  to  his  re-election.  The  longer  a 
councilor  retains  hi^  office  with  respect,  the  better  will 
the  citizens  be  served.  The  council  must  be  entrusted 
with  complete  authority  and  sole  responsibility. 

9.  The  mayor  must  be  divested  of  his  veto,  but  the 
proposal  to  give  him  disciplinary  power  ought  to  be  dis- 
cussed. It  would  probably  be  well  to  give  him  authority 
to  suspend  any  member  or  employee  of  the  city  government 
for  malfeasance,  dishonesty,  or  neglect  of  duty,  and  if 
given  the  power  to  submit  any  important  question  to  the 
referendum  of  the  citizens,  the  importance  of  his  office 
would  surely  be  increased.  The  English  method  of  ap- 
pointing the  assessor  works  well,  and  is  probably  better 
than  popular  election. 

10.  Accounts  should  be  audited  and  published  twice  a 
year, — one  auditor  to  be  a  member  of  the  council  appointed 
by  the  mayor,  the  other   elected    yearly   by   the  citizens. 


The  auditors  should  have  no  control  over  the  items  of  ex- 
penditure. 

11.  The  people  must  relinquish  their  right  to  put  se- 
parate checks  upon  their  own  elected  government.  They 
elect  one  auditor,  but  all  other  officials  must  be  appointed 
by  the  council,  including  the  tax  collector,  treasurer, 
sheriff,  heads  of  departments,  and  employees,  without  re- 
striction as  to  salaries  or  numbers.  It  would  be  wise  to 
consult  the  practice  of  other  countries  with  regard  to  the 
conditions  under  which  appointments  shall  be  made,  taking 
the  best  from  each.  Special  care  should  be  taken  that  no 
official  be  discharged  on  political  or  religious  grounds. 


THE     HON.      FRANK      MoCOPPIN. 

IN  the  lamented  death  of  this  distinguished  gentleman 
San  Francisco  loses  a  most  useful  and  public-spirited 
citizen.  He  died  full  of  honors  in  this  city  on  Wednesday 
morning  last  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years,  from  an  op- 
eration, made  two  days  previously,  for  cancer  in  the  stom- 
ach. He  leaves  a  widow,  the  daughter  of  the  late  General 
Van  Ness,  after  whom  our  most  celebrated  boulevard  is 
named.  He  came  here  in  the  early  fifties,  when  only 
twenty-five  years  old,  and  at  once  took  rank  as  a  clear- 
headed and  a  most  capable  and  responsible  man.  He  was 
at  once  entrusted  with  the  building  of  the  Market  street 
railroad  line,  which  he  managed  with  success  for  years. 
His  ability  was  soon  recognized  by  the  voters  of  the 
Eleventh  Ward,  who  again  and  again  elected  him  to  serve 
as  a  Supervisor,  or  Councilman,  as  the  office  would  in  some 
places  be  called.  In  1867  he  was  chosen  by  the  people  at 
large  as  Mayor,  or  Chief  Magistrate,  of  this  city,  in  which 
place  he  proved  himself  a  most  efficient  opponent  of  the 
reigning  corruption  of  that  period.  No  jobs  could  get 
through  the  Board  of  Supervisors  without  being  met  with 
his  veto.  As  an  instance  of  his  strici  sense  of  duty,  it  may 
be  related  how,  at  the  last  moment,  he  abandoned  a  pleas- 
ure tour  through  Mexico  as  the  companion  and  guest  of 
the  late  Secretary  of  State,  Wm.  H.  Seward,  in  order  to 
defeat  the  ruling  ring  and  protect  his  constituents.  Mr. 
Seward's  reception  in  this  city  much  pleased  him,  and  he 
was  greatly  taken  with  its  Mayor,  Democrat  though  he 
was.  An  invitation  to  accompany  him  on  his  celebrated 
Mexican  tour  was  given  by  Mr.  Seward,  and  accepted 
by  Mr.  McCoppin,  who  had  but  three  weeks  of  his 
official  term  to  serve.  It  soon  leaked  out,  however, 
that  with  his  powerful  veto  out  of  the  way,  the  Super- 
visors contemplated  putting  through  several  jobs  in- 
imical to  the  well-being  of  the  young  municipality.  Mr. 
McCoppin  at  once  explained  the  situation  to  Mr.  Seward, 
begged  to  be  released  from  his  promise,  and  remained  at 
his  post  to  defeat  official  jobbery  and  corruption.  He  was 
subsequently  elected  to  the  Senate  of  the  State,  where  he 
originated  legislation  which  at  once  stamped  him  as  a 
practical  statesman  of  no  mean  order.  He  took  the  police 
out  of  politics,  gave  us  a  uniform  street-car  fare,  and  by 
his  "  One-twelfth  Act"  kept  San  Francisco  out  of  debt 
from  that  day  to  this.  He  settled  the  outside  land  ques- 
tion, and,  in  spite  of  much  opposition,  saved  Golden  Gate 
Park  to  the  future  use,  recreation  and  pleasure  of  our 
people.  He  was  offered  by  President  Cleveland  the  posi- 
tion of  Minister  Plenipotentiary  to  Japan,  but  avoided  its 
acceptance  by  giving  it  as  his  opinion  that  the  public  in- 
terests would  not  be  best  served  by  taking  the  Minister  to 
either  China  or  Japan  from  this  Mongolian-hating  part  of 
the  country.  He  was  given  a  most  pleasant  trip  as  United 
States  Commissioner  to  the  Melbourne  Exhibition,  where 
he  discovered  the  lady-bug  which  has  done  so  much  to  save 
our  southern  orange  groves  from  the  ravages  of  the  cot- 
tony cushion  scale.  He  was  subsequently  appointed  Post- 
master of  this  city,  which  office  he  held  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  San  Francisco  never  had  a  more  faithful,  upright 
or  useful  citizen.  He  passed  through  a  long  period  of  cor- 
ruption in  official  life  without  so  much  as  the  breath  of  sus- 
picion attaching  itself  to  his  name.  With  all  his  chances 
to  enrich  himself,  he  died  a  comparatively  poor  man.  A 
proud,  self-respecting  man,  he  was  not  always  popular 
with  the  crowd,  but  he  was  at  all  times  singularly  trusted 
by  those  who  knew  him,  and  no  man  ever  found  that  trust 
misplaced.     Peace  to  his  ashes. 

Drink  Jackson's  Xapa  Soda  before  breakfast. 


-'9.  '897- 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


OPINIONS     OF      THE     STATE     PRESS. 

Till  iter  has  been  literally  overwhelmed  with 

co'  roughout    the 

ow  famoi.-  •,  from  which  its  pro- 

com- 

would  till  this  jnurnal  if  published  in  full,  so 

i   reproduce  only  brief  ex- 

•n  from  articles  running  from  twenty  live  lines 
•lumn  in  length,  appearing  in  such  papers  as  bave 
reached  us.  Hut  only  second  t"  the  appreciation  of  prompt 
▼indication  of  right  as  it  has  been  presented  to  the  pro 
'  u.  will  ever  be  held  the  stanch 
and  hearty  support  of  the  contemporaneous  Press  of  his 
State 

,i  victory  for  free  speech.— San  Jose  Mercury,  16th 
inst. 

•  •  more  the  rights   of  a  free  press  have  been  upheld. 
— Hay-wards  Review.  14th  inst. 

It  is  not  libel  to  say  that  Hebhard  is  a  disgrace  to  the 
Bench. — Oakland  Telegram.  15th  inst. 

The  jury  has  virtually  determined  that  the  News  Let- 
ter's charge  is  true. — Redding  Free  Press,  18th  inst. 

This  case  presents  a  situation  that  would  justify  execu- 
tive attention. — San  Bernardino  Times-Index,  15th  inst. 

It  wo'ild  seem  to  be  in  order  for  Judge  Hebbard  to  re- 
sign and  retire  to  private  life. — Alameda  Encinal.  loth  inst. 

The  verdict  was  unanimous,  and  a  merited  rebuke  was 
given  to  unscrupulous  politicians. — Auburn  (Cal.)  Repub- 
lican, 20th  inst. 

A  jury  has  decided  that  it  is  not  libel  to  say  that  Judge 
Hebbard  is  a  disgrace  to  the  Bench. — Stockton  Indepen- 
dent, 15th  inst. 

The  suit  was  a  crucial  test,  and  public  estimation  of 
Hebbard  has  slumped  to  a  disastrous  degree. — Alameda 
Argus,  15th  inst. 

A  striking  illustration  of  the  newspaperman's  course  in 
fearlessly  criticising  a  candidate  for  office. — Santa  Cruz 
Sentinel,  15th  inst. 

It  was  proved  at  the  trial  that  Hebbard  had  permitted 
himself  to  become  the  tool  of  unscrupulous  men. — Sacra- 
mento Bee,  15th  inst. 

The  verdict  was  unanimous,  and  a  merited   rebuke  was 

fiven  to  unscrupulous  politicians. — Placer  Co.  Republican, 
_0th  inst. 

The  acquittal  of  the  editor  of  the  News  Letter  of  the 
charge  of  libeling  Judge  Hebbard  will  meet  public  ap- 
proval.— San  Jose  Herald,  15th  inst. 

The  verdict  of  the  jury  iD  this  case  is  a  victory  for  free- 
dom of  speech,  personal  rights,  and  criticism  of  public 
officials. — Solano  Republican,  21st  inst. 

The  only  way  he  (Judge  Hebbard)  could  bave  won  this 
damage  suit,  was  to  have  tried  the  case  himself  and  re- 
fused the  defendant  a  jury. — Los  Angeles  Capital,  22d  inst. 

The  jury  before  whom  the  case  was  heard,  by  their  ver- 
dict decided  that  Hebbard  was  not  libeled,  and  that  what 
Editor  Marriott  said  was  true. — Arizona  Citizen,  22d  inst. 

The  acquittal  of  Marriott  is  a  great  victory  for  the  ac- 
cused. The  case  is  one  in  which  every  publisher  and  every 
citizen  is  interested,  and  the  craft  generally  will  rejoice  in 
the  outcome. — Stockton  Mail,  20th  inst. 

Hebbard  was  accused  with  entire  truth,  *  *  *  but 
the  unjust  Judge  dared  not  take  the  witness  staDd  in  his 
own  behalf,  and  the  jury  promptly  acquitted  the  defendant. 
— Sunday  Welcome  (Portland,  Or.)  22d  inst. 

The  "Holier  Than  Thou"  toga  of  Julius  Cajsar  Bonaparte 
Hebbard  has  been  pulled  aside,  and,  after  all,  it  is  a  very 
common  man  inside  it — one  to  whom  no  one  of  twelve  men 
could  find  it  in  his  heart  to  afford  the  balm  of  a  disagree- 
ment.— San  Francisco  Call,  15th  inst. 

Men,  women  and  children  had  been  heartlessly  robbed 
by  these  official  custodians.  *  *  *  Marriott  took  it 
upon  himself  to  lay  the  matter  before  the  public.  *  *  * 
Twelve  good  men  and  true  unanimously  declared  that  Mr. 
Marriott  had  published  no  untruth. — Greater  Los  Angeles, 
22d  inst.  

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May  29,  1897. 


\S      Ul  "L»      W    U  Tj>"" 


"  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's."—  Tom  Moore. 


M[ 


ES.  RYLEY'S  comedy,  An  American 
Citizen,  is  enduring.  It  stands  the 
test  of  repetition  securely,  and  one  feels  as 
one  felt  when  Mr.  Goodwin  produced  it 
__  first  at  the  Baldwin  some  six  months  ago, 
*"  that  the  part  of  Beresford  Cruger  exploits 
him  in  the  best  quality  of  his  popular  work.  It  does  not 
exact  from  him  anything  like  the  best  of  which  he  is  capa- 
ble, but  it  is  a  lovable  character,  human  and  true  in  a 
bright,  optimistic  way;  and  even  those  of  us  who  would 
always  see  Goodwin  advancing  to  greater  things  can  take 
satisfaction  out  of  the  fact  that  he  plays  this  part  as  no 
one  else  could  play  it.  And  after  a  week  of  public  sacri- 
fice at  the  Goodwin  shrine  in  such  misfit  roles  as  those  of 
Ada  Iogot  and  Lydia  Languish,  common  courtesy  de- 
manded that  Miss  Maxine  Elliott  be  given  a  chance  to  re- 
claim herself.  I  can  imagine  no  one  finding  fault  with  her 
Beatrice  Carew  in  An  American  Citizen,  or  praising  her 
beauty  to  the  point  of  patronizing  her  art.  Nearly  all  of 
us  who  write  about  the  things  we  see  on  the  stage  had 
more  to  say  of  Miss  Elliott's  beauty  than  of  her  acting 
1  when  she  first  came  to  San  Francisco  and  played  with  the 
Frawleys.  I  daresay  we  were  just.  The  one  critic  who 
did  not  agree  with  us — a  ladicritic,  too — thought  Miss  El- 
liott foredoomed  to  fatness,  and  said,  as  I  remember  it, 
that,  all  things  being  equal  at  the  time,  if  Miss  Elliott  did 
not  look  to  her  diet,  in  a  twelvemonth  she  would  be  more 
actress  than  beauty.  The  time  is  up;  Miss  Elliott,  it 
seems,  has  looked,  not  only  to  her  diet,  but  to  her  acting. 
I  cannot  see  that  she  is  any  less  of  a  beauty,  but  it  is  per- 
ceptible that  she  is  twelve  times  over  a  better  actress — 
which  was  not  exactly  what  the  critic  meant. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Elliott  has  evidently  worked  hard,  since  it  is  work, 
and  nothing  but  work,  that  brings  perfection  in  this  craft, 
as  in  all  others.  People  prate  of  the  born  actor.  They 
might  as  well  talk  of  the  born  playwriter.  Neither  ever 
happened.  It  is  common  enough  to  hear  Goodwin  spoken 
of  in  this  way — Goodwin,  who  by  twenty  years  of  incessant 
work  has  evolved  himself  from  a  song-and-dance  comedian 
into  the  finest  dramatic  artist  in  the  country.  Acting  is 
a  hard  art;  there  are  so  few  really  good  actors  that  it 
must  be  the  hardest  of  all  -bar  play-writing.  It  requires 
some  knowledge  of  dramatic  values  to  walk  across  a  stage 
and  appear  like  a  human  being  to  the  people  in  front;  it 
requires  skill  to  talk  on  the  stage  with  a  voice  that  will 
sound  like  a  human  being's  to  the  audience.  To  be 
"natural"  on  the  stage  requires  an  artifice  that  has  be- 
come second  nature  and  lost  every  trace  of  its  artificiality. 
Actors  go  to  school,  even  when  they  are  their  own  school- 
masters. 

*  #  # 

The  critic  is  not  born  either,  and  in  the  long  run  the 
best  of  critics  gets  less  appreciation  from  the  worst  of 
actors  than  the  actor  gets  of  him.  Criticism  is  a  peculiar 
craft.  The  critic  is  commemorative  or  annihilative, 
rather  than  constructive.  He  is  to  see  much,  and  out  of 
his  experience  select,  compare,  analyze;  he  is  to  have 
effect  upon  actual  dramatic  effort  by  lifting  his  voice  in 
intelligent,  logical  praise  of  what  is  good,  and  intelli- 
gent, logical  condemnation  of  what  is  bad;  his  is  not 
supposed  to  be  the  voice  of  the  people,  the  voice  of  the 
people  is  rather  his,  for  the  people  will  absorb  what  he 
writes  and  unconsciously  give  it  out  as  their  own  opin- 
ions, and  so  the  word  passes  round,  and  public  opinion  is 
influenced,  if  not  made.  Whether  he  be  a  critic  of  plays, 
play-actors,  pictures  or  pies,  makes  no  difference:  his 
office  is  that  of  taster  and  commentor.  Having  made  a 
business  of  the  thing,  he  will  cultivate  himself  to  a 
point  where  his  senses  tell  him  what  is  good,  or  bad, 
as  the  case  may  be,  and  his  technical  training  tells  him 
how  to  express  the  opinion  to  whosoever  may  listen.  He 
is  not  supposed  to  be  able  to  personally  paint  a  picture, 
play  or  write  a  play,  or  build  a  pie,  but  presumed  to  have 


a  cultured  taste  and  both  facility  and  discretion  in  the  ex- 
pression of  it. 

The  dramatic  critic  is  practically  an  expert  audience  on 
whom  the  author  and  actor  (whose  sole  aims  are  to  create 
illusion  and  produce  effect)  try  their  craft.  He  is  sensitive, 
impressionable,  appreciative,  fearless,  and  learned,  above 
influence  and  beyond  prejudice  ....  All  this,  of  course, 
means  the  ideal  critic,  who  has  yet  to  be  born. 

In  the  meantime,  the  critic  is  considered  a  bane  or  a 
blessing  by  the  boxoffice,  a  self-appointed  unnecessary  by 
the  actor.  For  all  of  which  he  cares  little.  His  obliga- 
tions are  entirely  to  the  public  and  himself. 

*  *  * 

I  have  sought  the  journals  of  the  world  for  a  perfect 
critic,  and  found  him  never.  George  Bernard  Shaw  is 
immense  and  dazzling,  but  he  loves  Shaw  and  Ibsen  too 
much  to  be  really  just  to  the  rest  of  the  world.  And  he 
sells  plays  to  Richard  Mansfield  and  calls  him  a  good  actor. 
That  is  too  much.  A.  B.  Walkeley  is  scholarly  and  beau- 
tiful to  read,  but  he  lacks  suddenness.  Clement  Scott 
has  middle-class  prejudices  and  favoritisms,  and  he  writes 
with  painful  lack  of  distinction  and  without  enterprise. 
William  Archer,  who  brought  Ibsen  out  into  the  broad 
glare  of  English  daylight,  is  placid,  conservative,  learned, 
but  limited — for  he  cannot  be  blithe  on  occasion — and  there 
are  occasions,  you  know,  when  nothing  but  blitheness  will 
do.  These  all  are  of  London.  In  our  own  land  the  play- 
reporter  usurps  the  office  of  the  critic.  William  Winter 
has  tried  to  preserve  some  of  the  critic's  pride  and  ele- 
gance, but  a  generation  has  passed  by  his  vast,  wet 
•hetoric  and  his  old-school  standards.  There  is  no  critic 
whose  judgment  may  be  accepted  as  final  and  infallible. 
There  is  no  man  in  England  or  America  fit  to  serve  his 
country  as  a  censor  of   plays  and  players. 

*  *  * 

We  English-talking  people  have  some  pretense  to  a 
standard  of  moral  decency,  in  our  plays  and  play-actors, 
but  of  artistic  decency  we  have  none.  I  see  actors  on  the 
stage  who  are  obscenely  inartistic  in  every  essential  of 
their  craft.  While  they  are  on  the  stage  vision  is  be  fouled 
hearing  outraged,  and  civilization  retarded.  There  is  no 
man,  there  is  no  law,  to  banish  such  as  these.  If  there 
were,  dark  thousands  of  actors  and  actresses  who  now 
exist  with  the  help  of  soft-hearted,  soft-beaded  writers, 
would  be  driven  to  the  sturdier  trades.  Talk  about  elevat- 
ing the  stage!  Push  off  the  sodden  weight  of  men  and 
women  who  soil  the  picture  and  mutilate  the  speech,  and 
the  stage  will  rise  up  with  the  buoyancy  of  a  balloon.  The 
Dramatic  Art  is  robbing  us  of  too  many  good  plumbers, 
gasfitters,  and  chambermaids. 

*  #  * 

There  is  undeniable  uniqueness  in  Francis  Powers's 
Chinatown  melodrama,  The  First  Born.  The  locale  is  un- 
mistakable; any  one  who  has  ever  visited  the  Chinese 
quarter  of  an  American  city  will  feel  the  realness  of  the 
pent,  mystic  atmosphere  which  the  author  has  contrived  to 
translate  to  the  Alcazar  stage.  Compared  with  the  good 
scheme  of  general  construction  and  the  vivid  treatment  of 
externals,  the  lines  are  not  valuable.  One  feels  that  the 
piece  would  be  more  wonderful  played  as  pantomime.  The 
diversity  of  dialect  that  Mr.  Powers  has  given  his  char- 
acters is  very  confusing  and,  I  should  say,  a  drawback 
rather  than  an  aid  to  illusion.  I  cannot  understand  why  a 
Chinese  should  speak  his  own  language  one  moment,  a 
Fenimore  Cooper  version  of  ours  the  next,  and  pigeon- 
English  the  next.  He  might  use  the  Cooper  oratory — 
I  understand  that  the  Chinese  tongue  translated  reads 
not  unlike  the  garlanded  rhetoric  of  the  Leather  Stocking 
Indians — to  represent  John  Chinaman  as  he  is  to  his  own, 
and  the  pigeon-English  in  depicting  his  discourse  with  the 
trustful  tourist,  and  maintain  probability;  but  for  the  life 
of  me  I  cannot  see  the  utility  of  John  jabbering  something 
that  sounds  very  much  like  real  Chinese  just  as  we  are  de- 
lightfully accepting  him  done  into  Cooper  Americanese. 
The  First  Born  is  well  staged  and  well  acted  by  the  author, 
George  Osborne,  Miss  May  Buckley,  Harry  Benrimo, 
George  Fullerton,  and  other  members  of  the  Alcazar  com- 
pany. 

*  *  * 

I  have  an  apology  to  make.  In  alluding  to  the  Baggen- 
sens  in  my   Orpheum   paragraph   of  last  week,  I  stated 


SAX    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


that  V  was    Ml  mother.     1 

was  told  this  by    an    Orpbcmn    halvitue.    am)    printed  it  in 
good  faith.     I  ba  I  that  my  Informant 

Mi>. 

ildren,  and  the  Mr   Baggensen  alluded 

's  husband,  and  I  am  pained  to 

t>een  love,  kisses,  fruit   and  flowers  in  the 

•nsen  menage  Vince  the  publication  of  my  paragraph. 

urthermore.  Mrs.    Baggensen   is   only   twenty-three 

old,  and  therefore  could   at    no   time   have  been  the 

mother  of  Mr    Baggensen.  who  is  thirty-six. 

[OK   Sik\  n- 


There  is  rich,  new  blood  in  the  l'rawley  Company,  aud  a 
long  list  of  plays  of  reputation  in  prospect  for  the  season 
which  opens  Monday  night  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  with 
Tlf  Fatal  I'm/,  a  modern  melodrama  that  saw  260  per- 
formances in  New  York.  The  coming  of  the  Frawleys  has 
been  long  heralded  ;  the  company  should  be  stronger  than 
ever  this  season,  made  up  as  it  is  of  such  players  as  Frank 
Worthing,  Blanche  Bates.  Eleanor  Moretti.  Gladdis  Wal- 
lis  and  J.  M.  Colviile.  Monday  nif_'ht  will  tell  the  tale. 
There  will  be  a  swell  crush  at  the  Columbia. 

On  the  evening  of  last  Friday  week  the  Sherman,  Clay 
St  Co.  Hall  was  formally  opened  by  the  Musicians'  Club. 
The  concert  programme  was  versatile  and  entertaining, 
and  the  new  hall  easily  proved  to  be  the  best  in  town. 
Having  the  advantages  of  size,  appointment  and  location, 
it  will  doubtless  house  whatever  concerts  of  consequence 
are  given  here.  On  Tuesday  night  it  was  the  scene  of  a 
novel  entertainment — "An  Irish  Evening,"  consisting  of 
Irish  poems  read  by  Daniel  O'Connell,  and  Irish  songs  sung 
by  Denis  O'Sullivan.     A  big  audience  and  a  big  success. 

For  next  week  the  Orpheum  promises  a  real  sensation 
in  the  engagement  of  Adgie,  who  dances  a  serpentine 
dance  in  the  cage  with  her  troupe  of  trained  lions.  Others, 
too:  Biily  Carter,  the  comedian  and  banjoist;  Morton  and 
Elliott,  musical  entertainers;  and  The  World's  Trio,  con- 
sisting of  Perry  Ryan.  Lulu  Ryan  and  Emma  Wood,  intro- 
ducing what  they  significantly  term  "the  latest  craze  of 
the  day."  The  Eclair  Brothers,  who  are  a  big  hit,  the 
Garrisons.  Omene  and  others  of  this  week's  show  will  be 
on  the  new  bill. 

Mr.  Goodwin  closes  his  engagement  at  the  Baldwin  to- 
night, presenting  a  special  bill  composed  of  Act  II  David 
Gqrnck,  The  Silent  System,  Act  II  The  Rivals,  and  Act  III 
.In  American  Citizen.  Our  diminutive  friends  The  Lilipu- 
tians  will  open  at  the  same  theatre  a  week  from  Sunday 
night,  presenting  their  latest  spectacle,  Merry  Tr.am.pi. 

Martha  will  continue  to  be  the  bill  at  the  Tivoli  until 
Monday  night,  when  Nanon  will  be  revived,  with  Miss 
Morella  in  the  title  role,  and  Raffael,  Hartman,  Thomas, 
West  and  Miss  Millard,  Miss  Holmes  and  Mrs.  Seabrooke 
in  the  cast.  The  week  following  will  bring  out  the  Tivoli's 
first  annual  review,  Miss  Frisco. 

Traviata  will  be  sung  at  the  Baldwin  to-morrow  night  by 
the  Italian  Society  Philharmonic. 

THERE  are  many  pretty  places  for  summer  residence 
outside  of  the  city  and  near  by  it,  and  among 
them  the  man  who  forgets  Blythedale  will  overlook  the 
most  beautiful  of  all.  Nestling  at  the  foot  and  in  the 
shadow  of  grand  oldTamalpais,  lying  directly  on  the  route 
of  the  scenic  railway  to  the  mountain's  peak,  and  within 
frequent  and  comfortable  reach  of  the  city,  it  presents 
realh'  ideal  attractions  for  summer  residence  for  city 
folks.  There  are  numerous  convenient  cottages  at  that 
place,  and  Mrs.  Gregg,  who  has  had  very  large  experience 
in  the  hotel  business,  and  is  most  favorably  known,  has 
charge  of  Blythedale — which  is  another  way  of  saying  that 
the  guests  of  that  pretty  place  are  well  treated." 

The    Second     Summer, 
many  mothers  believe,  is  the  most  precarious  in  a  child's  life;  gen- 
erally it  may  be  true,  but  you  will  find  that  mothers  and  physicians 
familiar  with  the  value  of  the  Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed 
Milk  do  not  so  regard  it. 


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Now  open  every  Sunday  during  the  season. 

Music,  Dancing,   Bowling,  Boating,    Fishing,  and  other 

Amusements. 

Refreshments  at  city  prices. 

FARE,    ROUND  TRIP,   25c. 

Children  15  cents.  Including  admission  to  grounds. 

The  steamer  Dkiah  will  leave  Tiburon  Ferry  10:30  a.m.,  12:10, 

2:00,  and4:00p   M. 

Returning  leave  El  Campo  11:15  a.  m  ,  1:00,  3:00,  and  5;00p.  h. 


Lfl  GRANDE  LAUNDRY, 


Tel.  Bosh  12. 


Principal  Office— 23  Powell  street,  opp.  Baldwin  Hotel. 

Branch— 11  Taylor  street,  near  Golden  Gate  avenue. 
Laundry— Fell  streets,  between  Folsom  and  Howard. 
SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  29,  1897. 


ll^f? 


■  Prisoners  of  Conscience,"  by  Amelia  E.  Barr. 
Century  Company,  New  York.    1897. 


Published  by  the 


Liot  Borson,  of  Lerwick  in  the  Shetland  Islands,  is  a 
brave,  strong,  tall  fellow,  the  descendant  of  a  long  line  of 
sturdy  fighters  and  fishermen,  but  oppressed  by  the  feel- 
ing that  he  and  his  family  lie  under  the  curse  of  God,  and 
that  none  of  his  undertakings  will  prosper.  He  falls  in 
love  with  Karen,  the  handsome  niece  of  Matilda  Sabiston, 
the  richest  woman  in  Lerwick  and  a  pillar  of  the  church. 
But,  though  Karen's  heart  is  soon  won  by  Liot,  Matilda 
favors  Bele  Trenby,  Captain  of  The  Frigate  Bird,  as  her 
niece's  suitor.  Bele  and  Liot,  being  candidates  for  the 
hand  of  the  same  girl,  naturally  become  enemies,  and  one 
stormy  night,  while  Liot  is  guiding  Bele  across  a  danger- 
ous morass,  his  (Liot's)  shoes  become  undone  :  he  stops  to 
tie  them:  Bele,  angry  at  the  delay,  foolhardily  presses 
forward  alone,  misses  the  only  safe  crossing,  and  perishes 
in  the  black  peaty  waters.  Matilda  accuses  Liot  of  being 
a  murderer,  but  no  one  believes  her.  Karen  leaves  her 
aunt's  house  and  marries  Liot,  who  grows  very  fond  of 
their  only  son  David.  But  soon  Karen  sickens  and  dies: 
Liot,  broken-hearted,  and  attributing  her  death  to  God's 
displeasure,  leaves  Lerwick  and  sails  away  with  David,  his 
only  and  dearly-beloved  son.  He  suffers  wreck  and  sick- 
ness, and  after  years  of  hardship  in  a  strange  land,  dies, 
an  exile,  in  the  island  of  Skye.  After  his  father's  death, 
David,  now  a  strong  young  man  and  a  splendid  sailor,  is 
seized  by  a  fervent  longing  to  return  to  Shetland  and  re- 
visit his  kindred.  The  story  of  his  love-making,  and  of  his 
slow  release  from  the  stern  Calvinistic  creed  in  which  he 
had  been  brought  up  into  a  brighter  belief,  is  strongly 
told.  Evidently  Mrs.  Barr  has  had  good  opportunities  for 
stud3'ing  the  people  of  the  Shetland  Islands  and  familiar- 
izing herself  with  their  habits  of  life  and  modes  of  thought. 
The  unyielding,  harsh  Calvinism  that  plays  so  important  a 
part  in  "Prisoners  of  Conscience"  appeals  with  strong 
force  to  religious,  narrow,  and  bitter  natures,  and  is  cap- 
able of  being  used  by  them  as  an  instrument  of  the  greatest 
cruelty.  Gentler  natures  are  embittered,  stunned,  op- 
pressed, and  frequently  crushed  by  it.  Matilda  Sabiston 
exemplifies  the  former  effect,  and  Karen  and  Nanna 
(David's  cousin)  the  latter.  The  story,  though  sombre,  is 
strong,  and  shows  that  an  excellent  tale  may  be  woven  out 
of  simple  and  apparently  unpromising  materials  by  one 
who  has  the  art  to  use  them  skillfully.  The  volume  has 
scattered  through  it  several  photogravures  which  really 
serve  to  illustrate  the  text:  they  are  reproductions  of 
sketches  by  Louis  Loeb,  who  was  sent  to  the  Shetland 
Islands  to  make  them. 

Godey's  Magazine  for  May  contains  "  Washington 
Favorites,"  by  Carolyn  Halsted,  illustrated  with  about  a 
dozen  portraits;  "Power  Boats,"  by  Fred  Worden,  with 
pictures  of  electric  launches  and  boats  propelled  by  gas- 
engines  of  various  sorts;  and  Beaumont  Fletcher's'  "Eu- 
logy of  Vaudeville,"  with  portraits  of  Cissy  Loftus,  Marie 
Dressier,  Juniori  Valarez,  and  several  other  lights  of  the 
variety  stage.  Of  course,  it  is  impossible  to  avoid  seeing 
the  cloven  foot  in  these  articles,  but  it  seems  that  a  ten- 
cent  magazine  cannot  get  along  without  interjecting  rev- 
enue-producing articles  among  its  letterpress.  The  great 
superiority  of  the  six-penny  "popular"  English  magazines 
over  the  American  ten-cent  periodicals  lies  largely  in  the 
fact  that  you  do  not  meet  in  their  pages  with  obvious  puffs 
of  manufactures,  paid-for  eulogies  of  unknown  persons,  or 
advertisements  of  notorious  ones.  Some  of  the  ten-cent 
periodicals  are  galleries  of  portraits  of  high-priced  mem- 
bers of  the  half- world.  You  do  not  see  these  things  in  the 
pages  of  The  Strand,  Pearson's,  or  the  New  Illustrated 
Magazine.  The  passion  for  cheap  notoriety  seems  by  no 
means  so  highly  developed  in  Europe  as  it  is  (thanks 
largely  to  the  daily  press)  in  this  country,  where  it  seems 
possible,  by  persistent  spending  of  money,  to  swell  almost 
any  frog  into  a  bull.      An  article  on  "American  Literary 


Diplomates"  mentions  many  of  the  writers  who  have  at  vari- 
ous times  held  office  as  Ambassadors,  Ministers,  Envoys, 
or  Consuls.  But  we  must  object  to  "Consuls"  being 
termed  "diplomates":  there  are,  properly  speaking,  no 
"diplomates"  at  all  in  the  United  States,  there  being  no 
diplomatic  service.  It  is  the  quaint  practice  of  the  Gov- 
ernment of  the  United  States  to  send  men  who  have  spent 
their  early  days  in  measuring  ribbons  behind  a  dry-goods 
counter,  setting  up  type  in  the  office  of  a  little  country 
newspaper,  or  inhaling  the  atmosphere  of  Police  Courts, 
ignorant,  moreover,  of  the  language  of  the  people  among 
whom  they  are  to  live,  to  cope  with  men  who  from  boyhood 
have  made  modern  languages  their  study,  have  lived  among 
statesmen  and  men  of  affairs,  and  since  twenty  years  of  age 
have  passed  through  all  the  grades  of  a  highly  organized 
diplomatic  service.  And,  even  if  there  were  a  diplomatic 
service  in  the  United  States,  "consuls"  would  not  be 
"diplomates";  consuls  are  commercial  agents.  However, 
for  lack  of  others  better  fitted,  the  literary  men  of  the 
United  States  have  honorably  represented  their  country 
in  foreign  lands,  and  it  is  earnestly  to  be  hoped  that  the 
important  Ambassadorships  may  not  be  made  the  prizes 
of  political  party  service.  If  you  cannot  get  trained  men 
as  Ministers,  it  is  at  least  well  to  get  men  of  cultivation 
and  wide  reading. 

The  International  Magazine  for  May  announces  that 
hereafter  its  price  will  be  25  cents  per  copy,  and  three 
dollars  per  annum,  instead  of  ten  cents  and  one  dollar,  as 
hitherto.  The  proprietors  say  that  it  is  not  possible  to 
supply  a  really  good  magazine  for  ten  cents,  unless  adver- 
tisers are  permitted  to  enter  the  body  of  the  publication, 
and  largely  to  influence  its  contents.  It  is  just  this  neces- 
sity which  has  rendered  the  most  successful  of  the  ten- 
cent  periodicals — Munsey's — little  else  than  a  collection  of 
inferior  stories  and  portraits  of  actresses  and  other  peo- 
ple willing  to  pay  for  notoriety.  Interspersed  among  the 
pictures  of  the  people  who  pay  are  the  portraits  of  a  few 
real  celebrities,  just  to  keep  up  appearances  and  lend  an 
air  of  genuineness  to  the  whole  business.  So  far  as  we 
have  observed,  the  Cosmopolitan  is  the  only  ten  cent 
magazine  that  has  kept  its  pages  clear  of  this  advertising 
matter,  and  it  has  gained  greatly  in  dignity  thereby.  Our 
own  Overland  Monthly  is  just  about  to  make  exactly  the 
opposite  change  to  that  proposed  by  The  International, 
that  is,  whereas  it  has  hitherto  been  a  twenty-five  cent 
magazine,  it  will,  beginning  with  its  June  issue,  become  a 
ten-cent  one.  It  certainly  does  seem,  with  so  attractive 
publications  as  the  Cosmopolitan,  McClure's,  and  Munsey's 
before  the  public,  almost  impossible  to  secure  a  very  large 
circulation  for  a  two-bit  magazine.  In  Great  Britain,  the 
magazines  of  large  circulation  are  retailed  at  nine  or  ten 
cents,  and  the  New  Illustrated  and  the  Strand  are  sold  in 
the  United  States  at  ten  cents.  Pearson's  and  the  Lud- 
gate,  both  of  them  excellent  periodicals,  do  not  seem  to 
have  much  sale  in  this  country,  though  Mr.  Arthur  Pear- 
son some  time  ago  told  us  that  he  hoped  to  introduce  his 
monthly  here.  The  Pall  Mall  Magazine  sells  at  one  shilling 
in  Great  Britain,  and  at  twenty-five  cents  here,  and  is  a 
very  handsome  publication.  We  wish  the  Overland  suc- 
cess in  its  new  departure. 

Mr.  P.  J.  Healey,  of  this  city,  is  about  to  publish  a  little 
volume  of  poems  by  Howard  V.  Sutherland,  who  has  for 
several  years  been  a  well-known  contributor  of  verse  to 
the  newspapers  of  San  Francisco.  The  volume  will  contain 
eighty  or  ninety  poems,  many  of  them  reprinted  from 
various  publications,  but  many  which  will  be  presented  to 
the  public  for  the  first  time.  The  collection  has  our  best 
wishes,  and  will,  we  doubt  not,  add  to  Mr.  Sutherland's 
reputation  as  a  writer  of  graceful  verse. 


The  Overland  Limited, 

OKLT  3}4  DATS  TO   CHICAGO.      i%  DATS  TO   NEW  TOEK. 

The  Union  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman. 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 

Indigestion  dies  where  Jackson's  Napa  Soda  lives. 


29.  i897- 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


TDK     Dog    Show     was 
.1  fun.     The  girl- 
oter  the  canine   beauties  and  petted   them  so 
unremittingly  its  to  rouse  the  jealousy  on  Saturday   of  one 
uttered  the  plaint    that  he  would   like  to 
fith  "the  curs"  if  only  for   that   evening. 
n  quite  another  grade."  was  the  reply  made  by 
i  girl  "f  the  swim,  who  sparkles 
with  subdued   ir.so'ence  "on  oi  .  asions."    remarked    that. 
after  all.  01  ee  the  same  tiling  in  society  life  at  any 

time,  if  only  the  human  brutes  were  classified,  the  same 
names  even  would  suit.  curs,  puppies,  etc.,  being  pecul- 
iarly tit.  while  other  dot;  names  were  also  equally  appli- 
This  remark  so  ruffled  a  man  of  the  party  that  he 
i  to  her  and  said,  coolly:  "  Well,  you  would  never  be 
put  on  the  list  of  thoroughbreds,  that's  quite  certain." 

*  #  • 

This  has  been  a  week  of  harvest  for  jewelers  and  art 
dealers,  as  wedding  presents  have  been  flying  about  in 
profusion,  the  two  charming  next  week's  brides  being  the 
happy  recipients.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  the  Unitarian 
Church  of  Brother  Stebbins  has  never  seen  such  an  assem- 
of  beauty  and  fashion  as  will  crowd  it  to  see  Miss 
Ethel  Cohen  and  Lieutenant  Bent  united,  while  the  wedding 
reception  <f  Miss  Burton  and  Lieutenant  Pearce  will  fill 
her  father's  residence  to  its  utmost  capacity.  The  swim 
is  agog  over  these  two  weddings,  but  one  that  is  not  yet 
announced  as  coming,  will,  it  is  safe  tosay,  astonish  society 
more  than  anything  in  the  l!ne  of  nuptials  for  many  a  long 

day. 

*  *  * 

San  Rafael  holds  its  own  bravely,  and  each  week  Fashion 
sends  over  a  quota  of  her  followers  to  swell  the  crowd  of 
guests  already  there.  A  great  point  in  favor  of  this  re- 
sort is  the  number  of  dwellers  in  Ross  Valley  who  are  al- 
ways ready  and  willing  to  do  the  civil  towards  the  hotel 
guests;  and  picnics,  riding  parties,  and  tennis  ditto,  are 
of  frequent  occurrence.  The  hospitable  home  of  Consul- 
General  Warburton  is  sure  to  be  a  head  center  of  enjoy- 
meut  during  the  summer;  his  charming  daughter,  so  noted 
as  a  perfect  horsewoman,  is  very  popular  with  the  resi- 
dents of  the  Vallev. 

*  #  * 

The  insolence  of  wealth,  as  it  is  called,  is  getting  more 
apparent  daily.  Time  was  when  shocking  bad  manners 
and  bad  taste  were  endured  socially  if  the  exhibitor 
thereof  were  rich,  and  there  was  an  air  of  deprecation  on 
the  part  of  the  newly  rich  which   appealed  for  tolerance, 

but  now The  swagger  and  assurance  of  the   money- 

bac  contingent  is  as  marked  a  feature  as  their  wealth.  It 
really  seems  a  pity  that  the  people  who  go  about  with  a 
"can  buy  any  or   everything"  air,  do  not   purchase   good 

manners. 

*  #  * 

Del  Monte  still  stands  first  with  the  tourist  fraternity, 
notably  the  British  traveler,  who  finds  the  hotel,  with  its 
perfectly  appointed  service,  its  highly  ornamented  grounds 
and  delightful  bathing  advantages  unequaled  the  world 
over.  Our  city  folk  seem  to  fancy  the  mountain  air  of 
Castle  Crags  where,  even  when  old  Sol  beams  most  fer- 
vently upon  them,  the  air  has  a  bracing  effect  and  the 
thoroughly  unconventional  life  that  may  be  enjoyed— if  one 
so  minds— is  very  attractive   to   those  seeking   a  respite 

from  the  cares  of  society. 

*  *  *  • 

Gossip  says  that  the  English  friend  of  the  Sharons,  who 
rejoices  in  a  name  composed  of  one  for  Christian  and  sur- 
name alike,  will  at  last  decide  to  take  a  Californian  bride, 
and  the  fair  lady  will  be  a  connection  of  his  patron. 

*  *  * 

Rumor  has  it  that  the  queenly  Emily  has  switched  off 
from  railroad  tracks  to  a  time  table  of  quavers  and  semi- 
tones, but  alas,  there  are  bars  in  music  as  in  otber  things, 


Our  i  ions  oause  of  complaint  against 

the  Sunday  newspapers  for  giving  out  such  fearful  carica- 
tures of  their  sweet  faces,  and  many  are  the  pouts  in  con- 
sequence. As  one  maiden  says  ".lust  as  if  we  were  more 
Durrant  «  8  side  notorious   characters  and 

on  the  other,    oins.  It's  simply  outraj  Miss  Leila 

Burton,  too,  Lav  been  unceasingly  dubbed  "I.ulu."  much 
to  the  disgust  of  the   admirers  of  her  poetical  cognomen. 

*  *  • 

Apropos  of  British  Consuls,  "Oldman  Booker,"  as  his 
numerous  friends  delight  in  styling  the  venerable  ex-Con- 
sul of  Her  Uriliii  iv  at  this  port,  has,  with  his 
American  wife,  gone  hark  to  England,  altera  lengthy  visit 
to  his  old  haunts  here.  He  found  >o  many  gaps  in  his  circle 
of  by-gone  days  he  felt  strange,  so  he  said,  and  he  hied 
him,  like  a  loyal  Briton,  to  take  in  the  sightsof  his  Queen's 
Jubilee. 

»  •  # 

On  dit  that  the  Presidio  people  are  whispering  about 
giving  a  welcome  home  to  Lieutenant  Bent  aud  his  bride 
upon  their  return  from  their  honeymoon  trip,  and  one  of 
the  bridesmaids  is  credited  with  the  intention  of  playing 
hostess  at  a  dance  in  their  honor,  so  no  wonder  the  girls 
prefer  choosing  an  outing  place  that  is  of  easy  access  to 
the  city  with  all  this  gaiety  in  perspective. 

*  *  # 

The  Hotel  Rafael  guests  will  take  much  to  console  them 
for  the  loss  of  the  Baron  von  Schrocder  and  bis  family,  who 
have  all  departed  for  their  San  Benito  ranch,  and  much 
speculation  is  indulged  in  as  to  who  can,  and  will,  take  the 
popular  German's  place  in  giving  the  young  people  a  good 
time. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  29,  1897. 


"  JT  LADY  tosee  you,  sir. 


Jeremy  Grigson  used  very  unparliamentary  lan- 
guage, but  taking  into  consideration  the.  fact  that  his 
visitor  might  be  close  at  hand,  in  compliment  to  her  sex, 
his  anathemas  were  uttered  in  German. 

"How  charming!"  she  exclaimed,  coming  into  the  room 
with  a  little  rush.  "I  got  my  first  point  already.  You 
are  familiar  with  the  modern  languages."  And  she  made 
a  note. 

"Madam,"  said  Jeremy  Grigson,  with  a  severe  bow,  "I 
have  an  excellent  memory,  but  I  cannot  recollect  having 
made  your  acquaintance  on  any  previous  occasion." 

"You  have  an  excellent  memory?  Thanks."  She  made 
another  note.     "May  I  set  down?     I  am  rather  tired." 

"Certainly,  madam,"  Jeremy  placed  a  chair  for  her. 
"And  you  will  then,  perhaps,  kindly  let  me  know  to  what 
I  am  indebted  for  the  pleasure  of  your  company." 

"Just  let  me  take  down" — she  scribbled  rapidly,  mur- 
muring to  herself:  "Rigid  manner,  stately,  old-world 
form  of  address,  furniture  chosen  with  an  eye  of  comfort 
rathed  than  beauty." 

Her  pencil  paused,  and  she  glanced  at  him  with  a  smile 
apparently  intended  to  set  him  at  his  ease. 

"I  am  from  the  Weekly  Chatterer,"  she  said.  "Can  you 
let  me  have  a  photograph  to  go  in  with  the  interview?" 

"Never  had  one  taken  in  my  life,"  said  Jeremy.  He 
was  not  a  handsome  man,  yet  there  was  something  in  his 
face  better  than  good  looks. 

"Not  even  when  you  were  a  baby?  Almost  anything 
would  do." 

"Not  even  then." 

"An!  of  course  not.     And  you  were  reared  on — " 

"Green  tea,  I  believe.     Don't  I  look  like  it?" 

She  wrote  down.  "Highly  nervous,  rather  dyspeptic," 
and  went  on.  "Talking  of  things  that  came  after  your 
time — how  old  are  you  exactly!  Of  course  it  is  only  wo- 
men who  are  guilty  of  the  weakness  of  objecting  to  tell 
their  ages." 

"I  shall  be  a  hundred  if  I  live  to  the  end  of  this.  Allow 
me  one  question:  "What  have  I  done  that  I  should  be  in- 
terviewed." 

She  wrote  again,  murmuring:  "Modest,  and  apparently 
unaware  of  his  own  fame,"  and  then  answered: 

"Don't  you  know  that  the  whole  town  is  talking  of  your 
book?" 

"I  don't  know  anything  about  it,"  he  said  savagely, 
"except  that  I  sold  the  copyright  for  £20,  and  that  the 
£20  pounds  is  spent." 

She  had  got  hold  of  an  immeuse  fact,  but  she  dropped 
her  pencil,  and  her  flippant,  aggressive  air  with  it. 

"What  a  shame!"  she  said;  "what  a  wicked  shame! 
Your  publishers  will  make  hundreds  and  thousands  out  of 
that  book.  It  is  creating  a  furore.  Such  a  case  should 
not  be  possible;  and  especially  when  a  man  really  needs 
the  money." 

He  looked  attentively  at  her  for  the  first  time.  He  had 
seen  already  that  she  was  young  and  pretty;  but  he 
noticed  now  that  there  was  a  worn,  pinched  look  about 
her  small,  very  pretty  face.  He  had  seen  the  same  look 
growing  on  other  faces  in  Bohemia;  it  had  grown  upon  his 
own;  and  he  knew  the  meaning  of  it. 

"You  understand  about  needing  money?"  he  asked  her. 
"I  should  think  I  do,"  she   answered  sharply.     "Do  you 
suppose  I  should  be  here  now  if  I  didn't?" 

"Sometimes  people  work  at  a  trade  because  they  like 
it." 

"If  it  were  a  trade  I  liked,  everything  would  be  differ- 
ent.    I  aspired  to  literature  once,   but  I  could  not  even 


'  —^  FroV^<GA<-£°5y 


make  dry  bread  by  it.  Ever  since  I  have  been  hanging 
on  to  the  skirts  of  journalism,  and  sometimes  there  is  a 
great  deal  of  mud  on  them.  If  you  only  knew  how  people 
treat  me  now  aud  again  when  I  go  to  interview  them! 
You  may  thank  your  stars  and  your  genius  for  having 
placed  you  above  all  that  at  any  rate." 

"Are  they  often  as  brutal  as  I  was?"  he  asked  gently. 
"I  am  awfully  sorry;  won'tyou  forgive  me?" 

"Don't  mind  about  it,"  she  said  huskily.  "I  know  very 
well  what  I  must  have  seemed  like  to  you — an  impudent, 
brazen  little  wretch.  I  am  horribly  nervous  by  nature, 
and  I  put  all  that  side  on  just  to  cover  up  the  fright,  and 
impress  people  with  the  idea  that  I  intend  to  get  any  in- 
formation I  want,  no  matter  how  reticent  they  try  to  be. 
Often  they  tell  me  more  than  they  intend — as  you  did  just 
now — merely  to  get  rid  of  me,  because  they  think  I  am 
writing  down  a  whole  lot  that  they  don't  want  said  about 
them.  I  should  stand  a  bad  chance  if  they  only  knew  that 
I  am  quite  as  anxious  to  get  away  from  them  as  they  are 
to  get  away  from  me." 

"If  this  interview  is  any  object  to  you,"  he  said,  in  an 
awkward,  shame-faced  way,  "I  will  tell  you  all  you  want 
to  know.  I  am  not  quite  such  a  churl  as  I  pretended  to 
be.  Only — well,  I  am  proud  as  well  as  poor,  and  I  suppose 
there  is  no  need  to  make  the  details  of  my  poverty  pub- 
lic?" He  glanced  first  at  the  meager  furnishing  of  the 
room,  and  then  at  his  threadbare  clothes. 

"Oh!"  It  was  actually  a  little  cry  of  pain.  "Do  you 
think  so  badly  of  me  as  that  still?  I  will  go  now.  I  wish 
I  had  not  come." 

She  turned  very  white  as  she  rose,  and  caught  at  the 
chair  to  steady  herself. 

"For  heaven's  sake,  don't  faint!"  cried  Jeremy,  desper- 
ately. He  made  a  stride  toward  her,  and  without  a  word 
of  apology  he  caught  her  by  the  arm  and  pushed  her  back 
into  the  chair.  ""What  did  you  do  it  for?"  he  asked  with  a 
great  show  of  indignation.  "What  is  the  matter  with 
you?" 

"I  couldn't  help  it,"  she  said.  "If  I  had  gone  on  walk- 
ing I  should  have  been  all  right,  but  the  short  rest  finished 
me.  I  am  very  tired,  and" — she  gave  a  little  gasp  and 
her  eyelids  fluttered. 

Jeremy  dived  into  the  wall  cupboard,  and  came  forth 
with  a  brandy  bottle.  There  was  very  little  in  it,  but 
enough  for  the  purpose.  He  stood  over  her  in  a  threaten- 
ing attitude  until  she  consented  to  drink  a  teaspoonful. 
He  tried  to  insist  on  a  second. 

"I  cannot,  really,"  she  said.  "I  dare  not.  It  would  go 
to  my  head  at  once,  because — because"  — 

Jeremy  Grigson  knelt  down  beside  her  and  took  her 
hand. 

"Is  it  because  you  have  had  no  luncheon?"  he  asked. 

"Yes,"  she  said;  and  her  color  began  to  return. 

"  Do  you  know  how  it  feels  ?  " 

He  nodded  wilh  sympathetic  gravity. 

"  Been  there  dozens  of  times,"  he  said;  and  he  did  not 
let  go  her  hand,  neither  did  she  withdraw  it.  "Possibly 
you  have  walked  the  whole  way  from  the  Chaterer's  office 
to  this  house  !  " 

"  I  had  no  choice.  This  represents  my  whole  fortune 
until  such  time  as  I  am  paid  for  the  interview." 

She  pulled  three  half-penceoutof  herpocketand  showed 
it  to  him  lying  on  th8  worn  palm  of  her  little   gray  glove. 

Quite  involuntarily  be  lifted  to  his  lips  the  hand  he  was 
holding.  Then  she  drew  it  away,  and  tried  to  return  to 
her  former  manner. 

"  Just  tell  me  where  you  were  born,"  she  said,  "and 
how  the  central  idea  of  your  book  first  occurred  to  you, 
and  I  will  go." 

"  You  will  do  nothing  of  the  kind,"  said  Jeremy,  firmly. 
"I  am  just  going  to  have  my  tea — ' high  tea ' — because  I 


May  39.  1897. 


PAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


am  a  homely  sort  of   fellow      I   will   not  toll   you  another 
and  share  it  with  me." 
to  up  the  interview  now  at  or.ce.     It 
must  be  put  into 

"  \ "erv  well  In  it  here  while  our  cut'n 

pi  D8,  anil  ink 

II fir  are  B  few  notes 

sheet  of  paper  quickly  in  a  • 

clear  hand.     "  Now  I  shall  leave  you  for  half  an   hour   to 

work,  if  you  will  solemnly  promise  me  not  to   run   off 

while  I  am  au.i 

"  I  don't  want  to  run  off  in  the  very  least.''  she  said;  and 
she  looked  away  from  him  to  liiile  the  tears  in  her  eyes. 
But  ho  saw  them  all  the  same. 

When  he  came  book  he   was  accompanied   by   a  waiter 
laden  with  material  for  a  feast,  brought  from  the  Dearest 
.rant,  and  he  had  letters  in  his  hand,  because  he  had 
encountered  the  evening  postman  on  the  doorstep. 

She  wanted  to  help  him  to  spread  the  tablecloth  and 
arrange  the  food,  hut  he  said  it  would  make  him  ill  if  he 
did  not  wait  on  himself,  because  he  was  so  used  to  it.  So 
she  read  her  manuscript  aloud  to  him  instead,  and  he  criti- 
cised it  as  he  stumbled  about  with  plates,  knives,  and  forks. 

They  took  their  meal  together  in  merry,  picnic  fashion, 
like  children  who  had  known  each  other  all  their  lives,  and 
when  hunger  was  satisfied  they  exchanged  s~me  further 
confidences.  They  were  both  alone  in  the  world,  both  de- 
pendent on  their  pens,  although  in  vastly  different  lines  : 
and  they  were  both  young,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that 
Jeremy's  hair  had  a  sprinkling  of  gray  in  it.  Her  name 
was  Margaret,  and  he  told  her  that  had  been  his  mother's 
Dame.  She  was  very  glad,  although  she  scarcely  knew  why. 

"I  have  several  literary  irons  in  the  fire,"  he  said,  pres- 
ently, "and  those  letters  look  like  business.  May  I  open 
them  ?  Thanks.  Then,  if  the  news  is  good,  you  will  be  the 
first  to  corgratulate  me;  and  if  it  is  bad,  it  will  be  some 
consolation  to  hear  you  say  :  '  Poor  dev' — I  beg  your  par- 
don, I  mean  'poor  fellow  '  I  have  not  spoken  to  a  lady  for 
three  years." 

He  opened  the  first  letter. 

"Good,"  he  said.  "  The  Tip-Top  Magazine  accepts  Mr. 
Grigson's  serial,  the  first  installment  of  which  will  appear 
next  month.  That  manuscript  has  been  lying  at  the  office 
of  Tip-Top  for  six  months,  and  I  have  written  about  it  three 
times  without  being  able  to  elicit  a  reply." 

"  Nothing  succeeds  like  success,"  said  Margaret.  "Open 
the  next." 

He  did  so. 

"Still  better  !  "  he  exclaimed.  "I  applied  for  a  post 
just  vacant  on  the  staff  of  the  Pulverizer.  It  means  $300 
a  year  for  a  weekly  column  of  criticism.  The  last  man  was 
a  great  swell,  and  he  gave  it  up  because  one  of  his  own 
books  was  smashed  to  atoms  by  mistake  in  another  part 
of  the  paper.     Well,  I  have  got  the  post." 

"Splendid!"  she  said.     "Now,  the  last  one." 

"Best  of  all  I"  he  cried,  as  he  glanced  through  it.  "Be- 
cause it  shows  human  nature  in  an  agreeable  light.  My 
publishers  inclose  a  check  for  £200  in  consideration  of  the 
phenomenal  success  of  'The  Book,'  and  they  will  be  happy 
to  allow  me  to  make  my  own  terms  for  the  next  one.  Mar- 
garet, 1  am  waiting  to  be  congratulated." 

He  had  called  her  by  her  Christian  name  quite  uncon- 
sciously. 

She  sprang  to  her  feet,  blushing  furiously,  and  began 
hunting  for  her  gloves. 

"I  can't  say  half  I  mean  about  it,"  she  stammered. 
"  Won't  you  take  for  granted  how  glad  I  am?  I  must  go 
now;  the  evenings  are  long,  but  they  don't  last  forever. 
I  want  to  thank  you,  and  I  don't  know  how." 

"When  may  I  come  to  see  you?"  he  asked,  retaining 
her  hand  again. 

"Oh,  never  1  I  live  in  such  a  wretched  place,  and  you 
are  among  the  great  ones  of  the  world  now,  you  know." 

"Of  course,"  he  said,  coolly,  "  it  doesn't  matter  in  the 
least  whether  you  give  me  your  address  or  not,  because  I 
am  going  to  escort  you  home,  and  then  I  shall  find  it  out 
for  myself.  Are  you  ashamed  to  be  seen  with  me?  We 
could  stop  at  a  tailor's  on  the  way,  but  there  would  be  cer- 
tain drawbacks  to  that  compromise." 

"  My  clothes  are  infinitely  worse  than  yours,"  she  said, 
humbly. 


tea differi  he  assured  her.     "I  believe 

you  would  look  well  dressed  In  a  'hum 

Thou  tin--.  rather.      He  <liii  not  offer  to  take  a 

cab,     An  hour  1  arlier  1  0  would  have  done  so,  but  he  was, 
comparatively  speaking,  a  rich  man  now,  and  be  dared  not 

run  the  risk  of  seeming  10  patroni/.o  her  poverty.     She  un- 

od,  ami  liked  him  all  the  better  for  It. 

This  was  a  day  t"  be  remembered  In  both  their  lives. 

Three  months  later  there  was  a  much-talked-of  little 
wedding  breakfast,  at  which  most  of  the  guests  were  lit- 
erary celebrities,  but  another  interviewer  "wroteltup" 
for  the  Weekly  ( 'hat  terer.  Jeremy  had  married  Margaret. 

Quaint  carvincs.  rich  tapestries,  and  the  roost  rnrfous  of  Carlos 
are  to  be  found  at  George  T.  Mareb  A:  Co. '8,  ai  iiL'.">  .Market  street. 
Japanese  art  is  distinctive,  unique,  delightful.  Mursb  always  car- 
ries a  fall  line,  and  the  newest  os  well  as  the  oldest  creations  of  .lun- 
nnese  skill  are  to  be  seen  there. 


A  drink  of  J.  F.  Cutter  Whiskey  is  always  in  order,  because  it  is 
the  tinest  liquor  made  and  is  the  recognized  standard  of  excellence 
by  all  good  judges  throughout.  Ii-'slike  g. .Id— there's  no  discount 
on  it.  E.  Martin  &  Co.,  Ill  Market  street,  are  sole  Pacific  Coast 
agents  for  J.  F.  Cutler  Whiskey. 


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May  29,  1897. 


On  Wednesday  last  the  new  State  mining 
The  New  law  went  into  effect.  Under  its  provisions 
Mining  Law.  locators  of  miniug  claims  within  this  State 
are  given  sixty  days'  time  in  which  to  per- 
fect their  locations,  subject  to  the  following  requirements: 
viz.,  the  discoverer  of  auy  vein  or  lode  shall  immediately 
upon  making  a  discovery  erect  at  the  point  of  discovery  a 
substantial  monument  or  mound  of  rocks,  and  post  thereon 
a  preliminary  notice  which  shall  contain:  1,  The  name  of 
the  lode  or  claim;  2.  The  name  of  the  locator  or  locators; 
3.  The  date  of  the  discovery;  4.  The  number  of  linear  feet 
claimed  in  length  along  the  course  of  the  vein  each  way 
from  the  point  of  discovery;  5.  The  width  claimed  on  each 
side  of  the  center  of  the  vein;  6.  The  general  course  of  the 
vein  or  lode,  as  near  as  ma}'  be;  7.  -That  such  notice  is  a 
first  or  preliminary  notice.  This  first  or  preliminary  no- 
tice must  be  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  County  Recorder 
in  the  county  in  which  the  location  is  situated  within 
twenty  days  after  the  posting  thereof.  Within  sixty  days 
from  the  date  of  discovery  the  discoverer  must  do  $50 
worth  of  work  in  developing  his  discovery,  and  distinctly 
mark  the  location  on  the  ground,  so  that  its  boundaries 
can  be  readily  traced,  and  within  that  time  the  locator 
must  file  in  the  office  of  the  County  Recorder  of  the  county 
in  which  the  claim  is  situated  a  certificate  of  location, 
which  said  certificate  shall  state:  The  name  of  the  loca- 
tion, name  of  locator,  date  of  discovery  and  posting  of 
notice;  description  of  claim,  defining  boundaries,  etc.;  also 
a  statement  that  the  aforesaid  S50  worth  of  work  has  been 
completed.  Further  than  this,  it  must  be  remembered 
that  the  work  required  by  the  State  law  upon  a  mining 
claim  is  in  addition  to  the  annual  assessment  work  re- 
quired by  the  United  States  law,  as  such  labor  must  be 
done  during  the  second  year  of  the  location  to  be  effective. 
One  thing  can  be  said  of  the  new  law,  that  it  will  be  fruit- 
ful enough  in  dispute,  being  just  sufficiently  complicated  in 
its  requirements  to  slate  the  efforts  of  the  illiterate  pros- 
pector, no  matter  how  good  his  intentions  may  be  to  carry 
out  its  provisions  to  the  letter.  It  will  serve,  however,  to 
bar  out  a  lot  of  individuals  who  never  overlook  jumping  a 
piece  of  ground  when  nothing  more  was  required  than  to 
stick  a  notice  up. 

The  thirteenth  annual  report  of  the 
State  Mining  Bureau  is  the  subject  of 
caustic  criticism  by  the  Mining  and 
Electrical  Review.  Among  other  things 
"No  sane  business  man  will  suppose  for 
a  moment  that  certain  so-called  mines,  some  of  them  mere 
prospects,  would  be  written  up  and  even  'puffed'  with 
half-tone  illustrations,  unless  somebody  had  paid  for  the 
advertising."  Also  that  "it  is  a  significant  fact  that  the 
mines  which  have  received  extended  notices  and  illustra- 
tions in  the  report  are,  with  a  few  exceptions,  for  sale." 
The  News  Letter  expressed  its  opinion  of  the  report  at 
the  time  it  came  out,  and  citizens  and  taxpayers  generally 
are  privileged  to  their  own  views  on  the  production,  and 
whether  it  fairly  represents  an  outlay  of  the  thousands 
spent  annually  in  support  of  the  institution.  Of  course,  it 
is  not  fair  to  pull  the  newly  appointed  State  Mineralogist 
into  a  matter  for  which  he  is  not  responsible,  and  for  this 
reason  it  is  unfortunate  that  the  present  charges  have 
been  delayed  until  this  late  day.  We  understand  that  one 
of  the  Directors  has  written  to  the  proprietor  of  the  pa- 
per, asking  for  some  proof  of  his  charges,  and  also  that, 
the  paper  avers,  this  will  be  forthcoming  in  at  least  one 
case.  An  investigation  into  the  matter  by  the  Board  of 
Directors,  which  consists  of  men  of  the  highest  reputa- 
tion, will  be  satisfactory  even  at  this  late  day.  Let  the 
truth  be  told  on  whichever  side  it  exists. 

A   company   has  just  been   formed  in 

A  New  London,  with   a  capital  of  $400,000,  to 

Copper  District,      open   copcer    mines    in  the  districts  of 

Ario  and  Morelia,  in  the  State  of  Mich- 

oacan,  Mexico.     This  find  is  a  more   modern  one  than  the 

usual  run  of  investments  of   the  kind  in  this  quarter,  and 

something  of  an  experiment. 


That   Thirteenth 
Mining  Report. 

the  Review  says: 


Business  during  the  past  week  has  been 
The  Pine  kept  active  by  Chollar,  where  an  im- 
Street  Market,  provement  has  taken  place  in  drifting 
south  on  the  500-level  of  the  Brunswick 
ground.  The  ore  was  cut  in  the  east  side  of  the  drift,  but 
was  not  followed  for  the  present,  the  workings  being  more 
westerly  of  late.  The  change  for  the  better  in  this  ground 
again  has  been  a  source  of  much  gratification  to  those  who 
believe  that  the  Brunswick  lode  has  a  future  before  it,  and 
that  on  it  depends  largely  the  salvation  of  the  market, 
notwithstanding  the  maledictory  croaking  of  its  enemies, 
who  have  poured  forth  their  virulent  denunciations  ever 
since  the  first  pick  was  stuck  in  the  ground.  The  ore 
from  the  new  find,  above  1650-level  of  Con.  Virginia,  has 
been  lower  in  grade  of  late,  but  the  Superintendent  still 
speaks  hopefully  of  the  appearance  of  the  mine  in  that 
section.  That  the  ground  thereabouts  is  fertile  in  mineral 
there  is  no  doubt.  Whether  the  stringers  found  from 
time  to  time  are  feeders  of  a  new  ore  body  or  not,  is 
another  question,  and  a  highly  important  one  for  the  share- 
holders. The  drift,  or  cross-cut,  in  the  South-end  mines, 
run  jointly  by  the  Confidence,  Challenge  and  Imperial  com- 
panies, is  still  being  pushed  westward  in  search  of  the  ore 
supposed  to  exist  in  that  direction.  The  results  so  far 
have  been  far  from  satisfactory,  but  the  management  do 
not  seem  to  have  lost  any  of  their  confidence. 

A  proposition  has  been  made  by  the  corn- 
American  Fiat  pany  formed  to  develop  the  mines  of 
Development.  American  Flat  by  draining  them  through 
connection  with  the  Sutro  Tunnel,  which 
seems  very  fair. on  its  face.  These  companies  are  asked 
to  give  up  two-thirds  of  their  ground,  and  in  return  will 
have  their  ground  opened  up  for  them  free  from  cost  if  no 
ore  is  found,  and  on  a  percentage  if  it  is.  The  sticking 
point,  of  course,  is  the  Comstock  Tunnel,  which  does  not 
seem  disposed  to  act  as  promptly  as  might  be  desired.  The 
trouble  at  this  end  is  lack  of  funds  to  carry  on  work  of  the 
kind  independently.  The  treasury  of  the  concern  is  not 
overflowing  with  money,  and  it  is  not  likely  that  any  of  the 
wealthier  men  who  hold  stock  are  going  to  take  the  money 
from  their  own  pockets  in  the  interest  of  the  small  fry 
who  have  nothing  wherewith  to  meet  demands  of  the  kind. 
It  is  a  pity  that  this  company  is  not  better  heeled  finan- 
cially, as  it  could  do  much  to  help  matters  out  many  ways 
if  it  were.  Vesting  the  control  of  the  different  mining 
companies  owning  in  this  location  in  one  corporation  is 
also  a  good  idea,  if  it  serves  to  check  the  rapacity  of 
the  chronic  office-holder,  who  only  sees  in  operations  of  the 
kind  a  chance  to  levy  assessments  for  salaries. 

Outside  of  the  sugar  stocks  there  is  little 
going  on  in  the  local  Stock  and  Bond  Ex- 
change. The  brokers  manage  to  keep  the 
pot  boiling,  and  that  is  about  all.  The 
combination  in  the  powder  stocks  has  rather  deadened 
speculation  in  that  line,  and  lighting  shares  are  about  as 
dead.  By  way  of  variety,  the  Board  keeps  a  discipline 
among  its  members,  and  its  laws  are  like  those  of  the 
Medes  and  Persians — unalterable — unless  at  a  heavy  cost 
to  those  who  make  the  attempt.  The  Directors,  in  such 
a  case,  unite  into  a  veritable  personification  of  the  great 
Artaxerxes,  and  their  vengeance  is  swift  and  sure.  Just 
now  two  members  are  walking  the  pave  as  exiles  from  the 
Board,  under  a  sentence  of  suspension  for  a  twelve-month, 
each  $1000  poorer  in  pocket,  the  extent  of  fines  which 
have  found  their  way  into  the  treasury  of  the  association. 
It  pays  the  Directors  to  be  strict  in  more  ways  than  one. 
Not  long  ago  the  reported  discovery 
of  nitrate  in  South  Africa  was  an- 
nounced with  a  flourish  of  trumpets 
which  made  South  American  holders 
A  company  was  immediately  formed 
in  London  to  open  up  the  industry,  known  as  the  African 
Saltpetre  Company.  Its  capital  was  $1,500,000,  out  of 
which  $225,000  was  paid  in  cash  to  the  owner  of  the 
ground.  He  is  just  that  much  richer  and  the  company 
the  poorer,  as  the  ground  is  not  worth  a  cent  upon  in- 
vestigation. Storms  do  not  improve  a  deposit  of  the  kind, 
but  the  interposition  of  a  Divine  Providence  was  not  taken 
into  consideration  by  the  experts  who  made  the  examina-' 
tions.  An  effort  will  be  made  now  to  rent  the  land  as  a 
farm  to  pay  office  expenses. 


The   Local 
Stock  Board. 


African   Nitrate   has 
Petered  Out. 

quake  in  their  shoes. 


May  19.  1897. 


FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER 


13 


Hear  the  Crter!"   "What  the  devil  an  thouf" 
"One that  wlllolav  tbedevtl.alr.  with  vou." 


Til  K  number  of  "actress*  .    tljr  graduated  from 

the  •  great  that   it  la  Impossible  for  them 

all  to  shine  as  stars,   despite   their  willingness   to   assist 
theatrical  managers  by  appearii  g  in  a  minimum  of  clolh- 
•  here  are  not  firmaments   enough.      It    is    therefore 
'hat  they  all  come  out  together  in  a  ballot,  thus 
enabling  many  people,  whose  respectability  prevents  them 
from  observing  the  planets  singly,   to   Indulge   their   curi- 
;nder  cover  of  a  constellation.      Each  lady  should  be 
ticketed  with  the  name  of  her  particular  affair  to  prevent 
confusion  among  the  audience,  as  the   stage  is  likely  to  be 
extremely  crowded. 

THE  Crikk  notes  with  pain  to  his  civic  pride  that 
Eastern  despatches  relative  to  the  doings  of  such 
notorious  gentry  as  thieves,  cut  throats  and  professional 
thugs,  including  the  passing  of  senile  rich  men  from  the 
sepulchre  to  the  will-contest  courts,  now  invariably  con- 
clude with  the  significant  statemeut:  'it  is  suspected 
that  he  has  a  wife  in  San  Francisco."  Is  it  possible  that 
our  city  has  in  the  eyes  of  the  world  become  but  an  incu- 
bator for  wives,  widows  and  fatherless  progeny?  Away 
with  such  lying  insinuators. 

TAXPAYERS  of  this  glorious  commonwealth  are 
paralyzed  by  the  statement  of  Inspector  O'Brien  that 
$283  770  must  be  forthcoming-  to  repair  the  school  buildings 
of  the  city.  Strange  what  a  difference  the  object  makes 
in  the  willingness  or  reluctance  of  taxpayers  to  pari  with 
their  coin.  To  the  high  and  noble  cause  of  education  our 
wealthy  citizens  are  apt  to  give  the  glassy  eye,  while  in 
little  matters  of  the  heart  the  miser  and  his  money  are 
easily  parted.  Education  is  great,  but  petticoat  persua- 
sion is  greater.     Selah. 

COLONEL  A.  Andrews  believes  that  California  is  a 
good  diamond  field,  and  that  by  exploring  in  hidden 
places  in  the  interior  he  can  unearth  these  coveted 
treasures.  The  Colonel  is  not  alone  in  his  theory.  It  is 
not  necessary,  though,  to  pay  railroad  fare  in  order  to 
strike  a  diamond  pocket.  San  Francisco  offers  a  lucrative 
field,  and  one  which  women  have  worked  with  brilliant 
success.  The  latest  operator  in  this  interesting  industry 
was  a  young  woman  of  the  name  of  Blair. 

WATERFALLS  will  replace  asbestos  as  fire-protectors 
in  the  theatrical  drop  curtain.  The  next  move  in 
the  line  of  stage  improvements  should  be  a  patent  of  some 
kind — a  hose  or  any  old  thing  that  accomplishes  the  pur- 
pose will  suffice — to  quench  the  conflagrant  fires  of  genius 
that  burn  with  such  alarming  persistency  in  the  brain 
cavities  of  stage-struck  thespians  hereabouts.  The  Crier 
craves  permission  to  turn  on  the  faucet. 

JELLY  is  doing  such  deadly  work  in  our  midst  that  we 
have  flown  to  fresh  fruit  as  a  substitute.  Now  comes 
Inspector  Dockery  with  the  alarming  intelligence  that 
there  are  disease  germs  in  fruit.  The  Crier  is  indifferent 
to  all  these  discoveries  so  loner  as  his  favorite  regime  of 
beer  and  hardtack  is  not  proscribed  by  scientific  investi- 
gation. May  science  pass  favorably  upon  the  pretzel; 
and  may  the  beer  supply  never  be  damned. 

SINCE  one  reform  is  being  made  among  theatrical  audi- 
ences, why  not  several  more?  Small  fines  should  be 
exacted  for  petty  nuisances,  such  as  late  arrivals  and 
whisperings,  and  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  one  thousand 
dollars  upon  the  atrocious  nuisance  who  persists  in  telling 
you  what's  coming  next. 

EMMA  Ashley's  theatrical  debut  in  tights  as  a  statue 
may  not  be  an  outrage  upon  the  poseur's  feeliugs,  but  it 
is  a  most  frightful  outrage  upon  art.  The  Ashley  curves 
are  fearfully  and  wonderfully  made. 

FULLY  four  days  have  elapsed  since  Mrs.  John  Martin 
has  been  heard  from.  The  circumstance  is  suspicious. 
Silence  from  such  a  source  is  ominous,  and  points  to  foul 
play. 


FR<  »SPE(  rs  ai  ■  looming  up  cheerfully  for  the  perman- 
'  retirement  from  local  courts  of   dank    and  mouldy 

ave  erstwhile  made  music 
like  unto  the  clicking  of  castanets  at  a  legal  dance,  or  the 
merry  rattle  of  bits  of  vertebra  In   the  dexterous  paws  of 

a  minstrel  end  man.      I  tones  must    and    shall  go.      In  their 

place  come  job  lots    of    a>.hes,  fresh    from    the  crematory, 

duly  labeled  and  classified  like  other  exhibits.     Such  Is  the 

lent  and  novel  custom  inaugurated    this  week  in  the 

l>a\  is  will  contest  Certainly,  for  cleanliness  and  sauitary 
recommendations  generally  it  can't  be  beat 

ITls  Said  that  Mr.  Leggetl  and  his  satellites  are  reju- 
venating the  Mechanics'  Library  to  suit  the  fabulous 
taste  of  lajeunt  till.,  and  are  about  to  close  their  present 
extensive  premises,  as  they  find  that  one  small  apartment 
will  be  sufficient  accommodation  for  their  volumes.  The 
Town  Cried   is  apprehensive   about  the  results  of  this 

action,  for  at  present  it  is  only  through  reading  novels 
that  lajeum  filli  acquires  a  knowledge  of  the  spicy  side  of 
life,  and  if  this  channel  is  denied  her — well,  she's  bound  to 
find  out  somehow. 

WK  are  threatened  with  another  influx  of  Brahmins  in 
this  unfortunate  burg,  and  now  comes  the  terrifying 
intelligence  that  William  J.  Bryan  will  swoop  down  upon 
us  with  his  cyclonic  oratory  in  the  near  future.  What  we 
need  is  a  supply  of  Gatling  guns  and  the  legal  authority  to 
use  them  upon  all  such  noisy  disturbers  of  our  peace.  We 
already  have  a  Cator  and  an  O'Donnell,  and  all  other  windy 
Demosthenes  politicians  of  the  stump  variety  should  be 
kept  at  bay. 

FORKED  lightning  is  synonymous  with  flashes  of  anger 
in  frail  humanity,  according  to  the  philosophy  ex- 
pounded by  Theosophist  Besant,  the  lady  who  has  suc- 
ceeded Blavatsky  in  the  occult  right  to  reincarnate  her- 
self and  smoke  cigarettes.  Now  we  know  what  it  was  that 
struck  the  Woman's  Congress  all  of  a  heap,  when  the  tur- 
baned  and  turbulent  Bramacharin  Bob  snorted  forth  his 
wrath  because  his  Hindu  trousers  were  tweaked. 

WITH  the  passing  of  the  high  hat  ordinance,  some 
lively  scenes  are  expected  at  the  theatres.  The 
ushers  are  already  practicing  warwhoops,  in  anticipation 
of  scalping  excursions  between  the  acts;  these  will  excite 
the  keenest  emulation,  he  who  has  the  greatest  number  of 
millinery  trophies  dependending  from  his  girdle  at  the  end 
of  the  performance  being  accounted  the  most  valiant. 

RYTKA,  handwriting  expert  on  the  witness  stand  in 
the  Fair  case,  referred  familiarly  to  the  Lord  the 
other  day,  for  which  he  was  justly  rebuked  by  Judge  Slack. 
His  Honor  realized  that  the  Deity  ought  not  to  be  called 
into  the  case.  A  San  Francisco  court  room  is  the  last 
place  on  earth  where  the  Lord's  influence  could  penetrate. 

THE  protraction  of  suspense  about  Durrant's  fate  is  an 
intolerable  nuisance  in  more  ways  than  one.  It  is 
serving  as  an  excuse  for  obscure  persons  to  gain  free  ad- 
vertisement for  themselves  and  their  wares  after  the  man- 
ner of  Mrs.  Schwartzler  and  her  cosmetics. 

BELSHAZZAR,  of  biblical  fame,  was  startled  by  hand- 
writing upon  the  wall.  He  would  probably  have  suc- 
cumbed to  heart  failure  then  and  there  had  it  assumed  the 
terrifying  proportions  of  the  pencil-will  characters  as 
magnified  in  the  Fair-Craven  case. 

"  'T>HE  tightening  of  the  rope  around  his  neck  caused 
1  Lopez  to  complain,"  says  the  Examiner  in  describ- 
ing the  hanging  of  the  ancient  Spaniard.  This  complaint 
is  so  commonly  heard  at  the  scaffold  that  it  seems  hardly 
worth  a  special  mention. 

HOWLS  are  going  up  from  the  site  of  the  Hall  of  Jus- 
tice, concerning  the  delay  in  the  construction  of  that 
building.  It  is  comfoiting  to  know  that  Justice  in  these 
diggings  is  blessed  with  any  sight  at  all. 

THE  difficulties  of  the  uphill  road  to  Fame  have  been 
so  often  proclaimed  that  people  have  become  dis- 
couraged and  taken  to  the  down  grade — it's  much  quicker 
and  just  as  sure. 

A  CONTEMPORARY  observes  that  the  difference  be- 
tween Democracy  and  Americanism  is   the  difference 
between  "Any  man  is  my  equal"  and  "I   am  any  man's 

equal." 


H 


SAN  FRANCISCO 


NEWS  LETTER.  May  29,  1897. 

CITY   INDEX   AND  -PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 
Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  333-334  Pine  street,  below  Mont- 
gomery,   Rooms  for  ladies  and  families;  private  entrance.    John  Bergez 
Proprietor. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle    Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Brdk. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutiar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St..  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrell  St.,  S.  P. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.   F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  oesigned  and  constructed. 

CANDIES. 
Maillard's  Chocolates  in  %  and  1-lb  boxes.    Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 

LADIES'     HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze    (known   as    Hermann    at  Strozynski's)  has  opened 
Ladies' Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  £25  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main  5d20 

BANKING. 
Bank  of  British  Columbia. 

Southeast  Cor.  Bdsh  and  'Sansome  Sts. 

Incorporated  by   Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up J3.000.00 

Reserve  Fund ft  suu.uoo 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  Lombard  Street,  London 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo.  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C; 
Kaftlo,  B.  C 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  York — Merchants' Bank  of  Canada;  Chicago— First  National  Bank; 
LiverpooIv— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Irelajjd— Bank  of  Ireland:  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand — Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  oi 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

San  Francisco  Savings  Union. 

Corker  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits.  Dec  31,  1895 fcf4,AJa,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 1,575,631 

ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday  even- 
ings, 6:30  to  8. 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  SoGietu- 

No.  526  California  Street.  San  Francisco 

Guarantee  capital  and  surplus $2  040  201  66 

Capiial  aciunllv  paid  up  in  cash..  1  000  000  00 

Deposiis  December  31,  i896 27,7  0  247  45 

OFFICERS:  Pres'dent,  B.A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Presideni.  H.  Horsiman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Ca>hier,  William  Hen  matin;  Secretary.  George  Tourny;  Assist- 
ant Secretary.  A.  H.  Muller:  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann.  Ign.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Oh'andt 

Wells  Fargo  &  Go.'s  Bank. 

N-  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 

John  J.  Valentine President 

Homer  S.King Manager 

H.    Wadsworth Cashier 

F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus $6,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington.  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evanr.. 

Securitu  Savings  Bank. 

222  Montgomery  St.   Mills  Building. 

INTEREST   PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 

LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S-  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O  D  Baldwin  E  J.  McCutchen 

Adam  Grant  W.  S.  Jones  J.  B.  Lincoln 


THOUGHTS    OF    MIDDLE    AGE—  chaperone  magazine. 

I  STOOD  on  the  level  hilltop, 
In  the  glowing  hour  of  noon; 
I  knew  my  faithful  -hadow 

Must  fall  behind  rue  soon. 
I  sighed  as,  looking  backward, 
I  saw,  in  the  light  of  Truth, 
So  little  but  vain  endeavor, 

And  Ihe  barren  dreams  of  youth. 

There  were  broken  cups  of  promise, 

There  many  a  wasted  day; 
There  were  shrines  my  hands  had  builded. 

To  gods  with  feet  of  clay. 

Then  I  wept  to  know  the  morning. 

With  all  its  blossoms  fair, 
Had  left  but  withered  thistles 

To  fill  the  noontide  air. 


THE  PHANTOM  JOY  —charlotte  mellen  Packard,  in  current  literature. 

"  I  see  their  unborn  fiices  shine 
Around  the  never  lighted  fire," 

Forever  and  forever  they  will  shine, 

The  mocking  Barnes  consume 
Shadows  that  lurk  about  a  phantom  hearth, 

Within  a  phautom  room. 

For  Love  and  Fancy  paint  in  rarest  tones 

The  things  that  shall  not  be, 
And  light  with  haunting  faces  many  a  hearth 

No  human  eye  can  see. 
In  song-pierced  twilight,  in  the  hurrying  dark 

Of  winter  afternoons, 
In  lonely  watches  of  the  solemn  Digbt. 

Beneath  fair  harvest  moons. 

The  life  forbidden,  sways  the  life  that  is, 

Turougb  the  one  Joy  we  miss, 
Husband,  or  wife,  or  child,  who  never  came 

To  take  the  waiting  kiss. 

As  it  hath  been,  it  evermore  shall  be, 

Wuh  vague,  unmet  desire, 
Men  will  behold  the  unburn  faces  shine 

Around  an  unlit  fire. 


KISSES—  CURTIS   HIDDEN   PAGE.   IN   COSMOPOLITAN. 


I  kis«  thee  first,  love,  as  I  would  a  queen- 
Kneeling,  just  touching  with  my  reverent  lips 
The  quivering  sweetness  of  thy  finger-tips. 

And  then  I  kiss  thy  hair,  where  with  the  sheen 

Of  shredded  jet.  it  falls  to  cool  and  screen 

Thy  beating  breast.    Then ,  as  a  bee  fi  rst  slips 
In  honey-longing  round  a  rose,  then  dips 

Deep  into  it,  as  if  there'd  never  been, 

Nor  ever  was  to  b?,  another  flower, 

So  I  first  touch— just  touch— my  lips  to  thine; 
Then  with  deep  Kisses,  that  are  strong  to  bring 

Thy  inmost  soul  beneath  my  passion's  power, 

I  take  possession,  make  thee  mine,  all  mine. 

My  rose  thou  art!     My  queen,  I  am  thy  king! 

LIFE  —UNIDENTIFIED. 

We  meet  and  part;  the  world  is  wide; 
We  journey  onward  side  by  side 
A  little  way,  and  then  again 
Our  paths  diverge;  a  little  pain, 
A  silent  yearning  of  the  heart 
For  what  had  grown  of  life  a  part, 
A  feeling  of  somewhat  ber  ft, 
A  closer  clasp  on  what  is  left, 
A  shadow  pissing  o'er  the  sun. 
Then  gone,  and  light  again  has  come. 
We  meet  and  pirt,  and  then  forget, 
And  life  holds  blessings  for  us  yet. 


A    MADRIGAL.— laura  c.  bedden. 


The  sun  stole  to  a  red  rose,  and  wiled  her  leaves  apart; 

May  dew  and  June  air  had  wooed  her  at  the  start; 

Butwas't  not  fair  the  sun  should  have  her  golden  perfect  heart  ? 


May  29,  1897. 


FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


BANKING. 


He  swore  that  for  tm-  irry; 

-  tthcr  larry. 
With  hi- 1 

Than  take  for  bis  brida 
A  girl  who  hail  Millions  lo  carry. 
-  as  twenty. 

Years  pa..*eii ;  ho  wn.  thirty  and  single; 
In  at  ■  hiil  be'd  mingle. 

He  had  loved  It.  , 

He  wai  lot 
Alas*''    No.     Har  coin's  golden  jingle. 

He  was  thtrty. 
A  bachelor  still,  the  old  sinner 
Met  a  maiden  and  triad  hard  to  win  her. 

Not  becsasaaha  »;i*  fair 

Or  had  money  to  spare. 
Bat—  becatua  Bbe  eon  Id  order  a  dinner. 

He  was  f.irty.  —What  to  Bat. 

"Now,"  said  the  anxious  mother,  "you  do  not  want  to 
marrv  that  reporter.  Think  of  having  a  husband  who 
never  pets  home  until  two  or  three  o'clock  in  the  morn- 
ing." Hut.'  >aid  the  shrinking  maiden,  "aren't  all  hus- 
bands that  nay?  Papa  is  n.t  a  reporter,  and  yet — " 
But  the  anxious  mother  declined  to  listen. — Typographical 
Journal. 

"On  our  last  trip. "  said  the  captain  of  the  ocean  grey- 
hound, "we  had  a  temperance  advocate  aboard  who 
lectured  on  two  occasions.''  "Well,"  replied  his  funny 
friend,  "I  believe  waterspouts  are  common  at  sea." — 
Yonkers  Statesman. 

"Mrs.  Skimmins  says  that  her  husband  never  spoke  a 
hasty  word  to  her  in  his  life."  said  the  lady  who  gossips. 
"That's  perfectly  true."  replied  Miss  Cayenne.  "The 
dear  man  stutters." — Washington  Star. 

"We  have  decided  not  to  send  our  son  John  away  to 
college."  "What;  changed  your  mind?"  "Well,  there 
wouldn't  be  anything  for  him  to  learn;  he  is  head  over  ears 
in  debt  already."— Chicago  Record. 

"What  is  the  difference  between  an  alias  and  an  in- 
cognito?" asked  the  examiner.  "About  the  same  as  the 
difference  between  kleptomania  and  theft,"  said  the  stu- 
dent.— Typographical  Journal. 

"You  refused  me,  and  then  boasted  that  I  had  proposed 
to  you."  "Of  course;  your  offer  was  a  distinction  that  I 
hadn't  any  reason  to  be   ashamed   of." — Chicago  Tribune. 

Clay — By  thunder!  that's  the  worst  cigar  I  ever 
smoked?  Concha — That's  what  I  suspected.  It's  the  one 
you  gave  me  the  last  time  we  met. — Boston  Transcript. 

"Jack,  dear,  it  isn't  a  bit  nice  of  you  to  let  such  small 
troubles  worry  you  so  soon  after  our  marriage."  "They 
do  seem  insignificant  when  I  thbk  of  that." — Life. 

"I  wonder  why  the  proprietor  of  that  society  sheet  calls 
his  paper  'The  Keyhole?'"  "Wants  people  to  look 
through  it,  I  suppose." — Typographical  Journal. 

He — My  mind  has  been  running  all  day  on  that  song  I 
heard  last  night.  She — It  is  soft  enough  to  run,  goodness 
knows. — Typographical  Journal. 

Cat — What  are  you  running  for?  Mouse  (shivering) — 
I'm  cold.  Cat — Poor  little  thing.  Come  inside  and  get 
warm. — Chicago  Tribune. 

She — I  wonder  why  they  hung  that  picture?  He— Per- 
haps they  couldn't  catch  the   artist. — Philadelphia  Press. 

"Poor  Jim!  Just  as  he  recovered  he  was  paralyzed." 
"What  paralyzed  him?"     "His  doctor's  bill." — Life. 

Caller — Are  you  sure  that  Miss  Rich  is  not  in?"  Maid 
— Can  you  doubt  her  word,  sir? 

The  French  are  the  greatest  cooks  in  the  world.  To  receive  a 
pleasing  illustration  of  this  one  has  only  to  visit  the  Maison  Itiche, 
Geary  and  Grant  avenue,  between  the  hours  of  5  and  0  o'clock,  and 
enjoy  a  French  dinner  served  daily.  Beautiful  string  orchestra, 
choicest  wines,  and  refined  service. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  29,  1897. 


NOTES  OF   THE  ARMY  AND    NAVY. 


THE  retirement  of  officers  who  have  recently  been  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  Major  General  is  due  to  cer- 
tain conditions  precedent  to  their  advancement  and  not 
1  particularly  a  matter  of  personal  desire.  By  those  in  the 
service  the  motive  of  President  McKinley  is  deemed  highly 
commendable,  as  its  proper  execution  will  result  in  a  large 
number  of  promotions  iD  all  grades  of  the  army.  Our 
chief  executive  has  borne  iu  mind  the  fact  that  all 
brigadier  generals  should  become  major  generals  before 
retTrement  as  a  reward  for  long  and  valuable  services 
rendered  to  the  country.  His  plan  of  nominating  three 
new  major  generals  means  the  promotion  of  three  colonels, 
three  lieutenant-colonels,  three  majors,  three  captains, 
three  first  lieutenants,  and  three  second  lieutenants,  in 
addition  to  one  officer  in  each  of  these  grades  who  will  be 
advanced  as  the  result  of  the  selection  of  Major-General 
Forsyth. 

The  composite  gunboats  Whaling  and  Marietta  took 
preliminary  spins  around  the  bay  last  Monday  and  Tues- 
day. It  is  confidently  expected  that  on  their  trial  trips 
they  will  attain  a  speed  of  fifteen  knots  an  hour,  which  is 
three  knots  in  excess  of  the  contract  rate. 

Owing  to  the  present  scarcity  of  seamen  to  fit  nut  the 
new  gunboats  it  is  possible  that  the  Marietta  and  Whaling 
will  have  to  wait  a  couple  of  months  for  their  crews. 

The  Petrel  has  arrived  at  Yokohama.  The  Adams  left 
Honolulu  last  Thursday  en  route  to  Port  Angeles. 

Major-General  Nelson  A.  Miles.  U.S.  A.,  and  his  aide- 
de-camp,  Captain  Marion  P.  Maus,  U.  S.  A.,  were  granted 
a  special  audience  03'  the  Sultan,  at  Constantinople,  on 
May  21st.  They  were  introduced  by  United  States 
Minister  Terrill  after  the  ceremony  of  the  Selamlik  which 
the  party  attended.  President  McKialey  has  assigned 
General  Miles  to  represent  the  United  States  military 
service  at  the  Queen's  Jubilee  in  London,  and  he  will  ar- 
rive there  on  June  Kith. 

Mayor-General  James  W.  Forsyth,  U.  S.  A. ,  formerly 
Commander  of  the  Department  of  California,  and  his 
successor,  Brigadier  General  William  R.  Shafter,  U.  S. 
A.,  were  the  guests  of  honor  in  the  evening  of  May  21st 
at  a  banquet  given  at  the  Pacific  Union  Club  by  a  number 
of  their  friends.  .  Covers  were  laid  for  about  fifty  promin- 
ent gentlemen  and  a  most  elaborate  menu  was  enjoyed. 
Some  happily  expressed  toasts  were  given  and  responded 
to.  Colonel'O.  D.  Greene,  U.  S.  A.,  Major  A.  E.  Bates, 
U.S.A.,  and  Major  Charles  P.  Eagan,  U.  S.  A.,  were 
among  the  officers  present. 

When  Major-General  Frank  WheatoD,  U.  S.  A.,  was 
placed  upon  the  retired  list  it  was  after  a  continuous  ser- 
vice of  more  than  fort5'-two  years,  exclusive  of  five  years 
of  service  with  the  topographical  engineers.  This  length 
of  service  is  greater  than  that  of  any  officer  on  the  active 
list.  During  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  he  participated  in 
more  than  fifty-five  battles  and  skirmishes,  and  since  then 
his  services  have  been  valuable  and  creditable. 

Major-General  Z.  R.  Bliss.  U.  S.  A.,  after  one  day's  ser- 
vice with  that  rank,  was  placed  upon  the  retired  list  last 
Saturday  upon  his  own  application  under  the  forty  years' 
service  clause. 

Brigadier-General  John  R.  Brooke,  U.  S.  A.,  command- 
ing the  Department  of  the  Missouri,  has  been  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Major-General,  succeeding  Major-General  Z. 
R.  Bliss,  U.  S.  A.  retired.  It  was  generally  supposed 
that  Brigadier-General  J.  J.  Coppinger,  U.  S.  A.,  would 
receive  the  advancement,  but  as  he  has  been  promoted 
twice  over  the  head  of  General  Brooke,  the  latter's  pro- 
motion was  deemed  advisable. 

Brigadier-General  E.  S.  Otis,  U.  S.  A.,  assumed  com- 
mand of  the  Department  of  the  Colorado  this  week,  having 
been  relieved  of  the  command  of  the  Department  of  the 
Columbia  by  Colonel  T.  M.  Anderson,  Fourteenth  Infantry, 
U.  S.  A.  General  Otis  has  his  headquarters  in  Denver. 
Lieutenant  F.  W  Sladen,  Fourteenth  Infantry,  U.  S.  A., 
is  his  aide-de-camp. 

Brigadier-General  William  R.  Shafter,  U.  S.  A.,  com- 
manding the  Department  of  California^  has  appointed 
Lieutenant  R.  H.  Noble.  U.  S.  A.,  and  Lieutenant  Jchn 
D.  Miley,  U.  S.  A.,  his  aides-de-camp. 

It  seems  that  Rear  Admiral  T.  O.  Selfridge,  U.  S.  N,,  is 


considerably  nettled  over  the  detailing  of  Rear  Admiral 
Miller,  U.  S.  N,  as  the  naval  representative  of  the  United 
States  at  the  coming  celebration  of  the  Queen's  Jubilee, 
and  has  so  informed  the  Secretar}' of  the  Navy  by  cable, 
much  to  the  displeasure  of  the  latter  official.  Admiral 
Selfridge  was  promptly  notified  to  keep  in  close  communi- 
cation with  the  United  States  Ministers  at  Athens  and 
Constantinople,  in  order  that  he  might  be  able  to  dispatch 
a  vessel  to  an}'  point  where  American  interests  were  in 
danger.     Rear  Admiral  Miller  will  go  to  London. 

There  is  an  esoteric  rumor  that  Commodore  H.  L.  Horei- 
son,  U.  S.  N.,  will  be  appointed  to  the  command  of  the 
Pacific  Station  instead  of  Rear  Admiral  Miller,  U.  S.  N. 
The  selection  would  be  an  admirable  one,  as  Commodore 
Howison  is  well  and  favorably  known  here,  and  through 
years  of  service  is  thoroughly  cognizant  of  the  require- 
ments of  this  station. 

Commander  George  M.  Book,  U-  S.  N,  has  been  ordered 
to  the  command  of  the  Marion,  now  at  Honolulu. 

Chief  Engineer  R.  W.  Gait,  U.  S.  N.,  arrived  here  from 
Portland,  Or.,  last  Sunda3T,  on  a  visit,  and  is  at  the  Palace 
Hotel. 

Chief  Engineer  W  H.  Harris,  U.  S.  N.,  formerly  of  the 
Columbia,  sailed  from  New  York  last  Saturday  to  join  the 
San  Francisco  as  fleet  engineer. 

Passed  Assistant  Engineer  T.  F.  Burgdorff,  U.  S.  N.,  of 
the  Oregon,  has  been  commissioned  Chief  Engineer. 

Passed  Assistant  Engineer  Horace  W.  Jones,  U.  S.  N., 
has  been  detached  from  the  Thetis  and  assigned  to  the 
Concord. 

Paymaster  A.  W.  Bacon,  U.  S.  N,  came  down  from 
Mare  Island  last  Sunday  for  a  brief  visit,  and  registered 
at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Assistant  Surgeon  Richard  G.  Broderick,  U.  S.  N. ,  has 
been  detached  from  duty  at  the  New  York  navy  yard  and 
ordered  to  the  Concord.  He  was  formerly  on  the  training 
ship  Constellation. 

Captain  Cunliffe  H.  Murray,  Fourth  Cavalry,  has  been 
transferred  from  the  Brown  University  at  Providence, 
R.  I.,  to  the  Starrs  Agricultural  College,  at  Starrs.  Conn., 
where  he  will  act  as  professor  of  military  science  and  tac- 
tics. 

Captain  and  Mrs.  Nicoll  Ludlow,  U.  S.  N,  are  passing 
the  summer  at  their  country  place  on  Long  Island,  and 
will  remain  there  until  next  fall. 

Captain  Seldon  A.  Day,  Fifth  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  who 
has  been  passing  part  of  his  leave  of  absence  at  Fresno, 
came  to  the  city  last  Sunday  to  visit  bis  fellow  officers  at 
the  Presidio. 

Captain  G.  W.  Crabb,  Fifth  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  now  on 
leave  of  absence,  is  quite  ill  at  Fort  Hamilton. 

Captain  E.  Rice,  Fifth  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  of  Fort  Mc- 
Pherson,  Ga.,  has  been  assigned  militar}'  attache  of  the 
United  States  Legation  at  Tokio,  Japan,  upon  the  request 
of  Mr.  Buck,  the  newly-appointed  Minister  to  Japan. 

Captain  Rogers  Birnie,  U.  S.  A.,  has  been  visiting  Fort 
Stevens,  Or.,  and  Seattle,  Wash.,  on  official  business  con- 
nected with  the  ordnance  department. 

Captain  Merritte  W.  Ireland,  Assistant  Surgeon,  U.  S. 
A.,  has  been  assigned  to  duty  with  Troop  K.,  Fourth  Cav- 
alry, at  the  Yosemite  National  Park. 

Captain  Alexander  Rodgers.  U.  S.  A.,  Lieutenant  Sam- 
uel McP.  Rutherford,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Lieutenant  Harry  A. 
Benson,  U.  S.  A.,  of  the  Fourth  Cavalry,  left  the  Pre- 
sidio on  Saturday  for  the  Yosemite  and  Sequoia  National 
Parks. 

Lieutenant  J.  C.  Cresop,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  detached 
from  the  Franklin  and  ordered  to   the  Concord. 

Lieutenant  H.  H.  Ludlow,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A., 
will  return  to  dut}'  about  June  10th. 

Lieutenant  Frank  L.  Winn,  Twelfth  Infantry,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  granted  four  months'  leave  of  absence,  to  com- 
mence on  August  14th.  As  he  has  permission  to  go  be- 
yond the  sea,  a  trip  to  Europe  is  within  the  possibilities. 

Lieutenant  Milton  F.  Davis.  Fourth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A., 
after  enjoying  part  of  his  leave  of  absence  in  Los  Angeles, 
is  visiting  the  City  of  Mexico  and  other  points  of  interest 
in  the  land  of  the  Montezumas. 

Lieutenant  H.  A.  Field,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  detached 
from  the  Monterey  and  assigned  to  the  Alert. 

Lieutenant  R.  M.  Sturdevant,  U.  S.  R.  C.  S.,  has  been 
detached  from  the  Grant  and  ordered  to  the  Perry, 


May  iu.  1897. 


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Lieutenant  Commander  C.  A.  Adams    0    S    X  .  was  de- 
tached from  the  R'chmoml  last  Wednesday  and  ordered  to 
inmand  of   the   Monterey.     Lieutenant   Commander 
S   N..  has  been  ordered  home  and  placed 
on  waiting  orders. 

Lieutenant  R.  E.  Peary.  V .  S.  N'..  was  detached  from 
duty  at  the  Brooklyn  Navy  Yard  last  Wednesday,  and 
pranted  five  years'  leave  of  absence.  The  Secretary  of  the 
Navy  took  this  aetion  in  order  to  allow  Lieutenant  Peary 
to  continue  his  Arctic  explorations.  The  latter  has  made 
no  definite  arrangements  yet.  and  will  not  leave  for  the 
Far  North  until  next  year. 

The   order  issued   detailing   Lieutenant  J.    C.    Cresop. 
\\.  to   the   Concord    was   revoked,  and  Lieutenant 
T.  B.  Howard.  T".  S.  N.,  was  ordered  here  instead. 

Assistant  Engineer  D.  E.  Dismukes,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been 
appointed  Passed  Assistant  Engineer.  He  is  now  at  the 
Norfolk  Navy  Yard. 

The  Bennington  went  to  the  Mare  Island  Navy  Yard 
last  Wednesday  to  receive  a  thorough  overhauling  in  the 
dry  dock. 

The  Oregon  has  gone  to  Port  Angeles  for  target  prac- 
tice and  battalion  drills. 

The  Comanche  will  soon  take  the  Naval  Battalion  out  for 
a  cruise,  after  which  she  will  go  to  the  Mare  Island  Navy 
Yard  to  be  overhauled. 

Lieutenant  P.  W.  Hourigan,  U.  S.  N.,  who  has  been  on 
duty  at  the  Naval  Academy  in  Annapolis,  Md.,  has  been 
ordered  to  the  Concord. 

Lieutenant  D.  P.  Menefee,  U.  S.  N.,  who  has  been  on 
duty  with  the  Monocacy  at  the  Asiatic  Station,  arrived 
here  May  21st.  en  route  home  on  a  leave  of  absence. 

Lieutenant  John  W.  Joyes,  Fifth  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  relieved  from  duty  at  the  West  Point  Military  Acad- 
emy, and  ordered  to  report  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnanre  for 
assignment.  Lieutenant  Joyes  was  formerly  on  duty  at 
the  Presidio,  and  is  well  known  in  society  circles  here. 

Lieutenant  T.  B.  Howard,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  ordered 
to  take  a  draft  of  men  to  the  Concord,  instead  of  Lieu- 
tenant J.  C.  Cresap,  U.  S.  N. 

Lieutenant  C.  C.  Marsh,  U.  S.  N.,    and  Miss   Charlotte 
Evans,  daughter  of  Captain  R.  D.  Evans,   U.  S.  N.,    were 
.  united  in  marriage  recently  at  Fort  Monroe,  Va. 

The  home  of  Lieutenant  R.  E.  Coontz,  U.  S.  N.,  in  this 
city,  was  brightened  recently  by  the  advent  of  a  son. 

Lieutenant  George  P.  Colvocoresses,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been 
detached  from  duty  at  the  Naval  Academy  in  Annapolis, 
Md.,  and  ordered  to  the  Concord. 

Lieutenant  H.  McL.  Powell,  First  Infantry,  U.  S.  A., 
of  the  Presidio,  has  been  joined  by  his  charming  wife  and 
her  mother,  Mrs.  McClelland,  of  Omaha. 

Lieutenant  C.  P.  Elliott,  Fourth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  is 
passing  his  leave  of  absence  at  San  Diego. 

Lieutenant  Paul  F.  Straub,  Assistant  Surgeon,  U.  S. 
A.,  has  been  assigned  to  duty  with  Troop  C,  Fourth  Cav- 
alry, at  the  Sequoia  National  Park. 

Ensign  F.  B.  Bassett,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  detached  from 
the  Thetis  and  assigned  to  the  Alert. 

Ensign  L.  S.  Thompson,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  detached 
from  the  Alliance  and  ordered  to  the   Naval  War  College. 


THE  Partington   School  of  magazine  and  newspaper 
illustrations,  at  424  Pine  street,  gives  an  exhibition  of 
work  by  the  scholars  to-day  from  2  until  6  o'clock. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Sootbiug  Syrup  "  for  your 
ohlldren  while  teething . 

Jackson's  Napa  Eocla  lemonade  is  a  luxury.    Try  it. 


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fund  by  tin-  ni.  es  (riven  last  Tuesday  and  Wednesday. 

0  being  turned  over  to  aid  the 

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ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Justice  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Gold  Hill.  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  third  (3rd)  day  of  May,  1897,  an  assessment.  No.  62,  of  five 
(5)  cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Moatgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
?th  DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897,; 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  2Hth day  of  June, 
1897,   to   pay  the  delinquent    assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  ad- 
vertising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  E.  KELLY,  Secretary. 

Office;  Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  303  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
Cal, 

ASS  "SS  ME  NT     NOTICE. 

Altu  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Gold  Hill.  Gold  Hill  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  2ist  day  of  May,  1897,  an  assessment  (No.  56),  of  five  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
25th    DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  Friday,  the  Itithday  of  July,  1897,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.   E.   JACOBUS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Challenge  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Locationof  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works— Gold  Hill,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  13th  day  of  May,  lt-97,  an  assessment  (No  23)  of  Ten  cents  (10c) 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  UDited  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  room  35,  third  floor  of  Mills  building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
16th  DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction:  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  \>ill  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  8th  day  of 
July,  1897.  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

C.  L.  McCOY,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  35,  third  floor  of  Mills  building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 
Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  81 

Amount  per  Share 20  cents 

Levied , April  24, 1897 

Delinquent  in  Office June  I,  1897 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock June  22,   1897 

ALFRED.  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office :    Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 
Occidental  Con.  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  27 

Amount  per  Share 10  cents 

Levied May  11,  1897 

Delinquen  t  in  Office June  12, 1897 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock July  i,  1807 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  69,  Nevada    Block,  309  Montgomery  St ,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  29,  1897. 


ONE  of  the  most  dasbing  and  debonair  members  of  the 
Stock  Exchange  is  not  quite  so  happy  as  he  was,  but 
with  his  lost  peace  he  has  purchased  some  valuable  ex- 
perience. He  has  long  prided  himself  on  the  number  and 
variety  of  his  feminine  conquests,  and  his  trail  is  easily 
identified  by  the  broken  hearts  strewn  in  his  wake.  At 
an  adjoining  table  in  a  fashionable  restaurant,  he  noticed, 
one  evening  not  long  ago,  a  handsome  young  woman 
dressed  in  black.  As  he  gazed,  a  passing  diner,  much  the 
worse  for  wear,  upset  the  carafe  on  the  lady's  table, 
deluging  her  sombre  garments  with  the  water.  The  gal- 
lant broker  hastened  to  her  assistance,  and  so  cleverly  did 
he  turn  to  his  advantage  the  little  accident,  that  before 
her  departure  for  Boston,  three  days  later,  he  had  been 
permitted  to  pay  various  little  attentions,  including  a  long 
drive  in  the  Park,  to  his  new  friend,  who  proved  to  be  a 
fascinating  widow. 

As  he  wished  her  bun  voyage,  he  could  not  conceal  his 
elation  at  her  evident  sadness,  which  he  attributed  to  sor- 
row at  leaving  him.  Noticing  his  ill-concealed  air  of 
triumph,  she  explained  that  her  depression  was  the  result 
of  her  assiduous  labors  in  nursing  her  husband,  whom  she 
had  lost  only  about  five  days  earlier. 

"Ah,  ha!"  said  Mr.  Narcissus  complacently  to  himself, 
"she  does  not  wish  me  to  see  that  she  cares  for  me." 

Then,  by  way  of  showing  a  polite  interest,  he  asked: 

"Of  what  ailment  did  your  husband  die?" 

"Smallpox!"  replied  the  sorrowing  widow,  demurely. 

That  unhappy    broker    now    fumigates    himself    twice 

daily,  to  the  great  edification  of  his  friends,  who  happen 

to  know  that  the  widow's  bereavement  occurred  two  years 

ago,  and  that  her  husband  died  of  no  more  contagious 

disease  than  old  age. 

*  *  * 

A  little  story,  hitherto  unpublished,  concerning  Henry 
M.  Stanley,  is  told  by  Chief  Engineer  Robert  Ware  Gait, 
U.  S.  N.  The  anecdote  concerns  Stanley's  early  days  at 
Charleston,  where,  on  one  occasion,  a  negro  lad  who  had 
stolen  a  package  of  cotton,  or  had  committed  some  other 
equally  heinous  crime,  was  in  imminent  danger  of  lynching 
at  the  hands  of  a  mob.  In  behalf  of  the  life  of  the  con- 
demned boy,  Stanley  essayed  to  make  a  mollifying  speech 
to  the  crowd.  This  oration  was  worse  even  than  some  of 
his  efforts  recently  delivered  before  his  English  constitu- 
ents. 

"Hang  it  all,  boys,"  he  said,  "you  don't  want  to  hang 
the  boy." 

Crude  as  this  rhetoric  was,  it  served  to  effect  the  re- 
lease of  the  captive.  The  Southern  crowd,  with  its  inher- 
ent love  of  eloquence,  was  so  disgusted  with  Stanley's  at- 
tempt at  oratory  that  they  turned  their  indignation 
against  the  speaker,  and  meanwhile  the  boy,  in  whose  be- 
half he  had  interfered,  made  good  his  escape. 
*■  *  * 

Bohemiamsm  in  San  Francisco  suffered  a  sad  blow  three 
years  ago,  when  Eddie  Morphy,  the  gifted,  went  to  Japan 
as  a  war  correspondent.  Every  one  predicted  that  he 
would  return  by  the  first  steamer,  but  Morphy  disproved 
all  prophecies,  and  not  only  remained  in  the  Orient  until 
the  conclusion  of  the  trouble  between  Japan  and  China, 
but  is  there  still,  the  editor  of  a  Tokio  paper.  His  brother 
Alex  not  long  ago  received  an  appointment  in  the  service 
of  the  China  fleet,  and  upon  his  arrival  at  Yokohama  on 
his  first  trip  across  the  Pacific  he  sent  a  message  to  Eddie 
at  Tokio  that  "a  gentleman  who  had  formerly  known  him 
would  like  to  see  him."  Eddie  somewhat  grumblingiy 
obeyed  the  summons,  and  was  met  by  a  figure  gorgeous  in 
brass  buttons  and  gold  braid. 

"And  is  it  you,  Alex  ?  "  he  asked,  in  inimitable  greeting. 
"What  a  lovely  creature  you  are!  Now,  tell  me,  do  you 
own  the  ship,  or  are  you  only  the  captain  ?  " 

On  the  following  day  no  issue  of  Eddy's  paper  was  ob- 
tainable. 


A  notable  instance  of  a  man  rising  superior  to  his  calling 
is  that  of  Jim  McGinn,  who,  although  an  undertaker,  is 
exceedingly  popular  among  the  Native  Sons,  enjoying  a 
practical  monopoly  of  the  patronage  of  that  order  in  his 
particular  branch  of  the  pathetic  business.  In  the  parlor 
to  which  McGinn  belongs,  the  Committee  on  Visiting  the 
Sick  was  drafted,  for  the  current  quarter,  from  the  M's  on 
the  roster,  the  names  including  that  of  the  subject  of  this 
anecdote.  Now,  Jim's  visits  are  not  usually  made  to  the 
sick,  and  he  feared  such  an  innovation  on  his  part  might 
be  considered  a  trifle  premature,  but  as  a  fine  is  imposed 
on  each  committeeman  derelict  in  his  duty,  be  could  not 
profitably  avoid  the  service  assigned  to  him.  So,  despite 
his  distaste  for  the  duty,  he  determined  to  perform  it  con- 
scientiously, and  promptly  called  at  the  residence  of  the 
Native  Son  at  the  head  of  his  list.  The  young  under- 
taker's praiseworthy  motives  deserved  a  more  happy  re- 
sult, but  the  fact  remains  that  at  first  glimpse  of  him,  the 
sick  brother  suffered  a  severe  relapse. 

"No,  Jim.  Not  yet!  Not  yet!"  he  constantly  cried,  in 
the  delirium  which  succeeded  the  visit  of  the  committee- 
man. "Go  away!  Oh,  Jim,  not  yet!"  he  moaned,  in  an 
agony  of  apprehension. 

In  vain  McGinn  assured  the  invalid  that  his  call  was  not 
professional,  but  fraternal.  The  sick  man  was  driven 
frantic  at  mere  sight  of  his  gruesome  visitor. 

Jim's  name  no  longer  glooms  the  roll  of  the  Sick  Visiting 

Committee. 

*  *  # 

Police  Judge  H.  L.  Joachimsen  has  been  almost  twenty 
years  on  the  bench,  and  the  worst  enemy  of  the  usually 
genial  old  gentleman  is  the  gout,  which  periodically  turns 
him  into  a  suffering  cripple,  and  which  has  as  injurious  an 
effect  upon  his  temper  as  upon  his  gait.  With  his  feet 
swathed  in  countless  bandages,  the  lenient  disciplinarian 
of  the  followers  of  Bacchus  hobbled  into  the  lounging  room 
of  the  San  Francisco  Verein  a  few  days  ago. 

"What's  the  matter,  Judge?"  inquired  a  callow  youth, 
who  has  not  yet  discovered  that  he  possesses  a  liver. 

"Gout,"  replied  the  jurist,  shortly,  disliking  the  refer- 
ence to  bis  ailment. 

"That's  too  bad,"  was  the  sympathetic  rejoinder.  "How 
does  it  affect  you,  Judge?" 

Joachimsen  looked  at  his  interrogator  with  wrath  in  his 
optic.  He  meditated  committing  him  for  contempt,  but 
the  young  clubman  looked  innocent  and  interested,  so  the 
judicial  anger  was  slowly  transformed  to  disgust.  He 
turned  away  without  answering. 

"How  does  it  affect  you?"  repeated  the  tormentor, 
thinking  his  question  had  not  been  heard. 

"First  in  one  foot — then  in  the  other,"  snorted  the 
gouty  Judge,  as  he  stumped  out  of  the  rooms. 

*  #  * 

If  the  Reverend  Robert  C.  Foute  had  not  chosen  to  leave 
the  deck  for  the  pulpit,  his  qualifications  for  command 
would  have  ensured  high  rank  in  the  navy,  of  which  he  was 
an  officer  many  years  before  he  became  rector  of  Grace  ' 
Church.  Among  the  worshipers  in  that  fashionable 
temple  on  the  California-street  hill,  last  Sunday  evening, 
were  two  sailors  who  had  migrated  by  easy  stages  from 
Chinatown  into  the  sanctuary.  They  watched  the  pro- 
gress of  the  service  with  more  curiosity  than  devotion, 
until  finally  Mr.  Foute  thundered   out  in  stentorian  tones; 

"Let  us  pray." 

The  peremptory  accents  reminded  the  sailors  of  the 
quarter-deck.  They  exchanged  glances  apprehensively, 
the  influence  of  long  discipline  strong  within  them. 

"I  guess  we  had  better,"  whispered  the  older  mariner, 
fearfully,  referring  to  the  rector's  command,  and  then  the 
pair  sank  submissively  to  their  knees. 

*  *  * 

When  Governor  Budd  appointed  Druggist  Waller  to 
membership  in  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  the  latter 
signified  his  desire  that  the  further  honor  of  the  Secretary- 
ship should  also  be  conferred  upon  him.  The  Governor 
suavely  "thought  it  cou'd  be  managed,"  and  straightway 
proceeded  to  forget  all  about  the  matter.  Relying  on 
what  he  considered  as  equivalent  to  a  gubernatorial 
promise,  Waller  prepared  to  assume  the  secretarial  func- 
tions, and  on  the  night  of  the  first  meeting  of  the  new 
board  he  ordered  an    elaborate    banquet  at   a    French 


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SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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restaurant  Id  honor  of  hi*  fortt;  tion.  The  board 

was  duly  constituted,  a  Presid.  .   and  then  nom 

Inati"  nvited    f  a  dream, 

r  heard  John  Culvert  proposed,  and  a  motion  that 
nominations  do-  I  any  mention  of   his   own  name. 

Fearful  that  he  had  been  overlooked,  the  man  who  had 
•vernor  hastily  proposed  himself,  but  Cal- 
vert was  elected,  on'  I  I  for  Waller.  The 
latter  was  dated  for  a  few  moments  at  the  sudden  collapse 
of  his  ambition.  Then  he  thought  of  the  costly  feast  he 
had  prepared. 

.  well,"  he  said,  philosophically,  "we  may  as  well 
(father around  that  table  It  -.  Calvert's  board — but  it's 
my  whistle. "  

CATCHING     THE      PUBLIC      EVE. 

CATCHING  the  public  eye  in  the  chase  for  the  elusive 
dollar  has  in  one  particular,  at  least,  in  San  Francisco, 
into  astounding  popularity.  This  is  out-door 
advertising.  Its  success  lias  been  phenomenal  and  un- 
questionable. Closely  identified  with  its  growth  and  now 
.  nized  as  leaders  and  masters  of  the  field,  are  George 
H  Siebe  ami  J.  Charles  (Jreen.  comprising  the  firm  of 
Siebe  &  Green.  They  own  three-fourths  of  all  the  bill 
posting  and  painted  sign  privileges  in  San  Francisco  and 
nil  in  Oakland  and  Alameda  Co.,  having  lately  succeeded 
to  the  business  of  the  Stillwell  Advertising  Co.  of  Oakland. 
Under  their  aggressive  business  methods,  out-door  adver- 
tising has  become  better  understood  and  has  demonstrated 
its  usefulness  to  the  general  satisfaction  of  most  advertisers. 
Both  Mr.  Siebe  and  Mr  (ireen  have  ripe  business  ex- 
perience and  are  known  wherever  there  is  business  as  an 
alert,  up-to-date  business  team,  who  have  won  success  by 
working  for  it. 

PROFESSOR  Charles  F.  Graeber  gave  a  very  interest- 
ing musical  entertainment  at  Native  Sons'  Hall  on  the 
evening  of  May '21st,  which  was  enjoyed  by  a  large  number 
of  people.  The  Professor  is  teacher  for  the  banjo,  man- 
dolin and  guitar,  and  has  the  distinction  of  having  gathered 
at  one  time  on  a  single  stage  the  largest  number  of  pupils 
in  concert  ever  seen  in  this  city.  At  his  concert  of  Friday 
evening  sixty-four  of  his  scholars  were  present  and  took 
part  in  the  entertainment.  He  has  large  classes  for  each 
of  the  instruments  named,  and  is  a  popular  instructor. 


THE  races  to  be  given  on  Monday  afternoon  next.  31st 
inst.,  by  the  Pacific  Jockey  Club,  at  Ingleside,  in  aid 
of  the  Boulevard  fund,  promises  to  be  largely  attended,  as 
it  will  be  unusually  interesting.  Many  fast  horses  will  be 
entered,  and  both  trotting  and  running  races  are  on  the 
card.  The  Boulevard  Committee  hope  that  Monday's  effort 
will  close  the  active  work  of  money  getting  for  the  com- 
pletion of  the  work.  As  the  31st  is  a  holiday,  and  the 
charity  doubly  worthy,  thousands  of  people  of  the  city  will 
doubtless  attend. 

THE  camping  paraphernalia  of  the  average  Californiaais 
so  complete  that  it  is  small  wonder  that  people  pre- 
fer to  live  in  tents  rather  than  cottages.  What  with  awn- 
ings and  partitions,  floors  and  hammocks,  to  make  one 
comfortable,  the  odds  are  rather  in  favor  of  the  camp. 
Neville  &  Co.  say  they  are  outfitting  an  unusual  number 
of  campers  with  these  facilities  for  a  month's  comfortable 
outing  among  the  trout  streams  and  many  resorts  about 
the  State. 

EVERYBODY  goes  to  El  Campoon  Sunday  for  a  pleas- 
ant outing.     Frequent   boats   each   way,    and   round 
trip  costs  only  twenty-five  cents. 

Moore's    Poison     Oak    Remedy 
cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    The  oldest  and  best  remedy, 
which  has  oured  thousands.    At  all   druggists. 


An  elderly  gentleman  of  literary  ability  and  extensive  travel  is  desirous 
of  securing  a  quiet  home  in  exohange  for  his  services  as  tutor  in  a  family 
orcompanlon.  Town  or  country .  References.  Address  E.  J.  J.,  553  Mis- 
sion street,  San  Francisco. 


Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copperplate  engraving.    Cooper  &  Co.,  746 
Market  street,  San  Francisco. 


Other  waters  try — Jackson 'a  Napa  Soda  gets  there. 


The  Best  Tool-bag 

s  the  one  that  carries  a  little  can  or 

l«>ttlr  <>1"  Pearline. 

I  hen  you're  ready 

or  anything  in  the 

shape  of  mud,  dust, 

grease,  or  dirt 

Nothing  will  si)  quickly  and   thoroughly 

take  away  all  wheeling-grime  and  stains, 

i\n  hands  or  clothes  or  anywhere.     There's  no 

[ht  or  bulk  to   speak  of.      How    many  times 

you  have  needed  Pearline  when  far  from  home  ! 

Unequalled  as  a  lubricant  for  Bicycle  chains.   ,,.,., 


Remodeled    and    under 
New   Management  .... 


PACIFIC 
CONGRESS 
SPRINGS 
HOTEL 

Santa  Gruz  Mountains, 

%    Santa  Clara  County . 


Only  two-and-a-half  hours 
from  San  franclsco. 

Six  miles  from  Los  Gatos  Ten 
miles  from  ttanta  <jlb..a  Twelve 
miles  from  San  Jose,    Address 


GEO.    0. 


523  Market  St 


WATKINS, 
-    San  Francisco. 


Vichy  Springs- 


Three  Miles  from 
URIAH. 


Terminus  of  S.  F,  &.  N.  P.  Railway 
Mendocino  County 

The  only  place  in  the  United  States  where  Vichy  Water  is  abundant.  Only 
natural  electric  waters.  Champagne  baths.  The  only  place  in  the  world 
of  this  class  of  waters  where  the  bathtubs  are  supplied,  by  a  continuous 
flow  of  natural  warm  water  direct  from  the  springs.  Accommodations 
first  class. 

Miss  D.  D.  Alien,  Prop. 


Jjlytheciale, 


-NOW    OPEN.       Hotel  and   Cottages 


A  pretty  California  spot  on  line  of  Mt  Tamaipais  Scenic  Railway. 
Carriage  meets  all  trains  at  Mill  Valley.    Five  minutes'  drive. 


Mrs.  Gregg, 


Under   New  <gs^ 

Management 

Only  19  miles  from  Ukiah. 

Finest  summer  report  in  California. 

Good  hunting,  fishing,  boating,  and  Bathing 

Finest  cuisine  and  best  accommodations. 


_BL>U&  LAKES  HOTEL, 

(Bertha  Postoflflce) 
LAKE  COUNTY,  CAL. 

R.  E.  WHITEFIELD, 

Manager. 


Q.P2     Rparh    ■Hnfpl      California's  favorite  resort 
dOu    DOUUll    TlUbOif    Located  on  a  flowering  slope  from  the  beach 
Unsurpassed  view  of    Beach,  Bay  and 


Mountains     Salmon  Fishing.    Tennis 
court,  Croquet  grounds,  and  music. 


SANTA    CRUZ,     CAL. 

Reasonable  Rates.    For  terms  address      John  T.  Sullivan,  Manager 

^^>  A   Lunch 

315-317  Bush  St.,  S.  F  ,Cal.  Place. 

Ralston  Koffee— A  delicious  drink.    Ralston  Whole  Wheat  Bread. 
Ralston  Cooked  Meats.  Ralston  Cereals  and  Mush.      Wm.  E.  Allen.  Prop. 


THE  RALSTON. 

Restaurant. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  29,  1897. 


SOCIETY  was  well  supplied  with  attractions  last  Sat- 
urday. At  the  Maria  Kip  Orphanage  there  was  a 
large  crowd  of  fashionables  to  inspect  the  new  building 
and  listen  to  the  music,  which  was  both  vocal  and  instru- 
mental. The  Dog  Show  had  its  devotees  also,  and  in  the 
evening,  which  was  the  closing  night  of  the  exhibition,  the 
place  was  fairly  packed  when  the  awards  were  announced 
and  the  prizes  bestowed  by  Henry  Crocker,  who,  his 
friends  declared,  performed  the  ceremony  with  a  happy 
blending  of  grace  and  dignity. 

Gastronomy  has  been  taking  quite  a  leading  place  of 
late  with  our  entertainers,  dinners  and  luncheons  being 
almost  the  sole  items  to  be  heard  of  in  that  line.  Mrs. 
Charles  Josselyn's  luncheon  was  a  veritable  feast,  as  was  to 
be  expected;  Mrs.  McBean  entertained  fourteen  ladies  at 
her  rose  luncheon,  and  Mrs.  Charley  Page  had  eleven 
guests  at  hers.  Of  the  two  most  elaborate  dinners,  or 
rather  banquets,  to  properly  designate  them,  the  one 
given  by  Mr.  James  Phelanin  compliment  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Harold  Sewell,  took  place  at  the  Cliff  House  ;  and  the 
other,  which  had  General  Forsyth  as  a  guest  of  honor, 
was  at  the  Pacific-Union  Club,  General  Shatter,  our  new 
Commanding  General,  sharing  the  honors  of  the  occasion. 
Mrs.  James  Otis,  Mrs.  Hager,  Mrs.  Center  and  Mrs.  Hop- 
kins have  also  appeared  among  the  dinner  hostesses. 

Last  evening  the  Loring  Club  gave  the  closing  concert 
of  their  season  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall. 

To-day  the  Lawn  Tennis  Association  will  hold  its  annual 
tournament  at  the  Hotel  Mateo,  where  there  will  be  a  ball 
given  this  evening  in  celebration  of  the  event.  Tennis  will 
be  one  of  the  leading  attractions  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  this 
summer,  the  courts  there  being  admittedly  among  the 
best  in  the  State,  and  are  always  occupied  by  devotees  of 
the  game. 

The  present  week  has  not  been  so  prolific  of  weddings  as 
the  previous  weeks  of  May  have  been,  while  several  of 
those  to  take  place  the  first  week  in  June  will  be  among 
the  most  brilliant  known  in  our  social  world.  One  of  last 
week's  wedding  celebrations  was  a  very  pretty  one,  tak- 
ing place  at  the  California  Hotel  on  Thursday  evening, 
when  the  Rev.  Jacob  Nieto  united  in  marriage  Miss  Flor- 
ence Olcovich  and  Henry  Goldstone  in  the  presence  of  a 
large  number  of  guests.  The  bridal  procession  entered 
the  parlors  led  by  the  three  flower  girls,  Miss  Pauline 
Olcovich,  Miss  Ethel  Cooper  and  Miss  Jeannette  Lewis. 
They  were  all  dressed  in  pink  satin,  covered  with  white 
accordion  pleated  tulle  and  trimmed  with  pink  roses.  The 
maid-of-honor,  Miss  Esther  Goldstone,  was  dressed  in 
light  blue  satin  covered  with  white  mousseline  de  soie,  and 
was  accompanied  by  Joseph  Goldstone,  the  best  man.  The 
bride  was  accompanied  by  her  father.  Her  gown  was 
white  satin  covered  with  tulle  and  trimmed  with  point 
applique  lace  and  satin  ribbons.  The  veil  was  attached  to 
the  hair  with  a  diamond  sunburst,  the  gift  of  the  groom, 
and  she  carried  a  shower  bouquet  of  bride's  roses  and 
orange  blossoms.  The  mother  of  the  bride  wore  a  corn- 
colored  moire,  trimmed  with  duchesse  lace,  and  diamond 
ornaments.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Goldstone  will  leave  for  the 
East  Thursday  evening  for  a  six  weeks'  tour.  On  their 
return  they  will  reside  at  1716  Geary  street. 

One  of  next  Tuesday's  weddings  will  be  that  of  Miss 
Helen  Wright  and  Charles  L.  Davis,  which  is  to  take 
place  at  noon  at  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  Church  in  Berkeley. 
The  marriage  of  Miss  Quita  Collier  and  Atherton  Macon- 
dray  will  be  solemnized  at  Lakeport  on  Wednesday  even- 
ing, and  a  number  of  their  friends  will  go  up  from  the  city 
to  be  present  at  the  ceremony.  The  young  couple  will 
make  their  home  at  Menlo  Park,  occupying  one  of  the 
Atherton  cottages  in  that  vicinity.  The  wedding  of  Miss 
Anna  Grube  and  Harry  Durbrow  will  also  take  place  on 
Wednesday   evening,    at    the    residence    of  Mrs.  Henry 


Williams  on  Octavia  street.  It  will  be  a  very  quiet  one, 
with  only  relatives  and  intimate  friends  present.  One  of 
this  week's  announcements  is  the  engagement  of  Miss 
Stella  Locan  and  Fritz  Denicke. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Bessie  May  Stevens,  daughter  of 
Mr.  Wm.  T.  Stevens,  of  this  city,  and  Dr.  Henry  Simpson 
Goddard,  of  Goldendale,  Washington,  took  place  on  the 
afternoon  of  Wednesday,  the  19th  inst.,  at  the  home 
of  Mrs.  J.  W.  Carlyle,  sister  of  the  bride,  in  Portland, 
Oregon.  The  wedding  was  private,  only  relatives  and  in- 
timate friends  being  present.  The  young  couple  will  make 
their  home  at  Goldendale,  Washington.  The  bride  is  a 
sister  of  Mr.  A.  C.  Stevens,  well  known  in  this  city. 

There  will  be  three  weddings  next  week  in  which  army 
officers  will  be  interested.  On  Tuesday,  June  1st.,  Second 
Lieutenant  Thomas  A.  Pearce,  Seventh  Infantry,  U.  S.  A., 
will  be  married  at  half-past  one  o'clock  to  Miss  Minnie 
Burton,  daughter  of  Colonel  George  H.  Burton,  U.  S.  A., 
Inspector  General  of  the  Pacific  District.  The  wedding 
will  take  place  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  father,  2111 
Pacific  avenue.  The  Misses  Kathro  and  Lulu  Burton  will 
be  the  bridesmaids,  and  Lieutenant  William  Sells,  U.  S.  A., 
will  act  as  best  man.  There  will  be  a  small  reception  after 
the  ceremony.  Lieutenant  Pearce  will  take  his  young 
bride  to  Fort  Logan,  Colo.,  where  he  is  stationed.  The 
next  wedding  will  take  place  at  the  First  Unitarian 
Church  on  Wednesday  evening,  the  contracting  parties 
being  Lieutenant  Charles  Lyman  Bent,  First  Infantry, 
U.  S.  A.,  and  Miss  Emilie  Ethel  Cohen,  daughter- of  the 
late  A.  A.  Cohen,  of  Alameda.  Several  hundred  invita- 
tions have  been'  issued.  Miss  Emma  Butler  will  be  the 
maid  of  honor  and  the  bridesmaids  will  comprise  Miss 
Julia  Crocker,  Miss  Bernie  R.  Drown,  Miss  Marguerite 
Jolliffe,  Miss  Moffitt,  Miss  Helen  Wagner,  and  Miss  Ida 
Gibbons.  Lieutenant  T.  G.  Carson,  U.  S.  A.,  is  to  be 
best  man  and  the  ushers  will  be  Lieutenant  S.  M.  P. 
Rutherford,  U.  S.  A.,  Lieutenant  D.  E.  Nolan,  U.  S.  A., 
Lieutenant  L.  F.  Kilbourne,  U.  S.  A.,  Lieutenant  R.  F. 
Gardner,  U.  S.  A.,  Lieutenant  John  P.  Harns,  U.  S.  A., 
and  Lieutenant  R.  C.  Croxton,  U.  S.  A.  A  reception  will 
be  held  afterward  at  the  residence  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Henry 
Gibbons,  920  Polk  street.  The  third  wedding  will  take 
place  at  half  past  eight  o'clock  next  Wednesday  evening 
at  the  home  of  Captain  William  Bell  Collier,  U.  S.  A., 
retired,  in  Lakeport,  Lake  Co.,  Cal.  The  bride  will  be 
his  daughter,  Miss  Mary  McPherson  Collier,  and  the 
groom  Mr.  Faxon  Atherton  Macondray.  Gerald  Rath- 
bone  will  act  as  best  man. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Helen  Elizabeth  Wright  to  Charles 
Lott  Davis  will  take  place  on  next  Tuesday,  June  1st,  at 
12  o'clock,  at  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  Church,  Berkeley. 

Mrs.  Lilly  Coit  and  her  mother,  Mrs.  Hitchcock,  are  on 
the  eve  of  departure  for  a  visit  to  Europe,  which  may  ex- 
tend over  the  rest  of  the  year.  They  expect  to  take  in  the 
Queen's  jubilee  in  London,  and  afterwards  spend  some 
time  in  Paris.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Douglas  Dick  and  family  left 
this  week  for  a  trip  to  Europe — especially  Great  Britain — 
and  will  be  away  several  months.  Major  Groesback, 
CJ.  S.  A.,  accompanied  by  Mrs.  Groesback,  left  last  Satur- 
day to  spend  his  leave  of  absence  in  the  East,  and  expects 
to  return  about  the  first  week  in  August.  The  Von 
Schroeders  have  gone  to  their  ranch  near  San  Luis  Obispo 
for  the  summer  months.  The  Ignatz  Steinharts  have  been 
visiting  their  ranch  in  Napa  Valley. 

Raphael  Weil,  of  the  White  House,  who  has  been  absent 
in  Paris  for  some  time,  has  returned  to  this  city. 


$1,000.00 


for  those  who  find  the  missing  word. 

Rules   of  contest  in  daily   papers  June  1st. 

Schilling's  Best  money  back  tea  is  at  your 
grocer's. 


May 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER 


following  »ro  t>  <-ated  at  Hotel  Rafael  for 

the  summer    Mr.  and  Mr-  Mr-   .1    M.  Cuii 

ninctium  and  family.  Mrs    S    II    Hort,  Mis-  M    K     V 

-     Madam  Barrios 
and    party   of   eight,    S     '       Pardee,    Mr    and   Mrs    S.   B. 

Mr  .  Mrs    and   Miss  D.   B. 

-on.  Mr.  and    Ml  Mr-     Henry   Srhmiedell, 

.    V.    Smith.    M<ss    Evelyn    II.  Stacker, 
Rosenbaum.  wife  and  children.  Mr.  and  Mis    I'.  H.  I 
Miss  M     M.    Hnminif,   Mr.    Harrison  DlbMee,   Mr.   A.J. 
Dibblee.    Mrs     A     Cook,    Mr.    and    Mr-.    \V    I.  Kip.  Miss 
Kip    Mi—  Mary  Kip.   Mr.   and  Mrs.    W.   (i.  Curtis.  P.  A. 
Finn:.  -    Maud,    Lillian   and  Marie  Fionijrat),  Dr. 

Miss  Belle  Sliiels.  Dr.  C.  Biddle.  U.  S.  N., 
and  wife.  Ward  McAllister,  and  others.  Transient  <*uests 
at  Hotel  Hafael  are  Mr.  E.  R.  Johnston.  Mrs.  L.  Ellis, 
J.  A.  Ptriger,  Dr.  C.  M.  Ricbtern,  Geo.  C.  Boardman, 
Mrs    li.iardman.  Miss  Kate  Dillon.  S.  D.  Freshman.  E.  M. 

a;iy.  S  l.ewi-  and  wife.  C.  W.  Rosenbaum  and  wife, 
Mr.  and  Mr-  Warren  D.  Clark.  San  Francisco:  Miss  Han- 
nah Lvnde.  Melrose.  Mass  ;  Mrs  W.  liuekman,  Caroline 
Wharton.  Trenton.  X.  V  ;  Dr.  W.  X.  Watson,  Dr.  J.  H. 
Grove,  Philadelphia:  Mrs.  Thos.  Dibblee,  Santa  Barbara; 
Hugo  H.  Moore,  wife  and  child,  Chicago. 

Walter  Raymond,  Presiaent  of  the  Raymond  &  Whit- 
comb  Excursion  Company,  and  owner  of  the  Raymond 
Hotel  at  Pasadena  and  Colorado  Glenwood  Springs,  ar- 
rived at  the  California  Hotel,  this  city,  from  the  Yosemite 
last  Saturday  afternoon  at  2  o'clock.  One  hour  later  he 
left  for  San  Rafael,  returning  at  6  o'clock,  and  at  8  that 
evening  was  ou  his  way  to  Portland.  The  veteran  excur- 
sionist could  not  visit  San  Francisco  without  taking  a 
glimpse  at  the  Hotel  Rafael,  where  he  sends  all  his  people 
who  visit  the  West. 

On  Thursday,  June  3d,  the  marriage  of  Miss  Annette 
Lander  West  and  Hugh  McDonnell  will  be  solemnized  in 
this  city.  Miss  West  is  well  known  in  society  circles,  and 
is  the  daughter  of  the  late  Charles  L.  West,  a  pioneer  of 
I860  Mr.  McDonnell  is  a  successful  miner,  and  has  accu- 
mulated a  fortune  in  these  enterprises  during  the  past  few 
years,  and  is  a  widely  known  and  popular  gentleman.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  McDonnell  will  extend  their  wedding  tour  to  Eu- 
rope, and  will  be  absent  from   the  city  for  several  months. 

All  those  who  recall  what  a  delightful  success  the  his- 
torical carnival,  given  by  the  Woman's  Educational  and 
Industrial  Union,  proved  to  be  last  year,  will  be  pleased 
to  hear  that  it  is  to  be  repeated,  and  will  be  held,  as  it 
was  before,  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  commencing  on  the  20th 
of  September  ;  and  the  indications  are  that  it  will  be  in 
every  way  even  better,  were  that  possible,  than  its  pre- 
decessor. 

Dr.  Luella  Cool,  who  has  been  practicing  dentistry  for 
two  and  a  half  years  in  Central  America,  and  recently 
escaped  death  from  yellow  fever,  is  slowly  recovering,  and 
will  return  to  California  about  June  and  open  dental  offices 
in  Oakland  and  Haywards. 

FRED  H.  PRAY  has  just  become  chief  clerk  at  the 
Imperial  Hotel,  Stockton.  He  is  a  most  affable  and 
obliging  gentleman,  and  the  Imperial  is  fortunate  in  ob- 
taining his  services. 

Another  Victory   In  Court  For  The   Imperial   Hair  Regenerator. 

After  the  remarkable  victory  which  the  Imperial  Chemical  Manu- 
facturing Co.,  of  393  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  obtained  in  the  Cir- 
cuit Court  of  the  United  States,  against  the  firm  of  Stein,  Hyman  & 
Oppenheim  another  infringer  was  enjoined  Saturday. 

This  time  it  was  the  so-called  Victoria  Hair  Regenerator  which 
Judge  Kirkpatrick  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  in  Trenton 
was  decided  to  be  an  infringement  of  the  Imperial  Chemical  Manu- 
facturing Company's  patent.  The  decisions  hold  that  the  invention 
of  complainant,  which  consists  of  ingredients  that  restore  the  natural 
color  to  grey  hair,  and  which  at  the  same  time  has  been  proven  per- 
fectly harmless,  is  one  of  the  most  important  discoveries  of  the  age 
and  properly  patented. 

Practice  makes  perfect;  and  Max  Abraham,  at  42S  Geary  street, 
is  master  of  the  art  of  preparing  banquets  of  any  dimensions,  dinners 
at  all  times,  and  marriage  suppers  to  suit  parties  large  or  small.  He 
officiates  at  all  the  swell  weddings  and  functions,  and  always  gives 
perfect  satisfaction. 

Jackson's  Napa  Soda  leaves  a  good  taste  in  the  mouth. 


MM 


When"the  grinders  cease^jj 
Because  they  are  few," 
It's  too  late  ! 
Take  care  of  the  Teeth 

BEFORE    OLD    ACE. 


So^odont 


cannot  be  tried  too  early  in 
life — the  liquid  daily,  the  pow- 
der twice  a  week.  Many  fami- 
lies have  used  it  nearly  forty 
years. 

HALL  &  RUCKEL 
NEW   YORK  Proprietors  LONDON 

■^f    A  sample  of  sozodont  and  Sozoderma  Soap    ff= 
■it  for  the  postage,  three  cents.  pi 

-3  k^sM 


Gomel  OolonQ. 


The  oldest  and  most  reliable  brand  on  the 
market.  Sold  only  in  1-3  pound  papers  at 
20  cents  per  paper.  All  grocers  keep  it. 

THE 

UNITED  STATES 

CIRCUIT    COURT 


has  granted  an  injunction  against  all  infringers  on  the  patented  Imperial 
Hair  Regenerator,  manufactured  only  by  the  Imperial  Chemical  Mfg.  Co., 
292  5th  avenue,  N,Y.,  and  the  learned  Judge  on  the  bench  pronounced  it 
"  a  useful  and  meritorious  invention." 

IMPERIAL  HAIR  REGENERATOR 

FOR     GRAY     OR     BLEACHED     HAIR. 

Clean,  odorless,  lasting.  It  does  not  contain  an  atom  of  poisonous  mat- 
ter, will  not  stain  the  scalp  and  baths  do  not  affect  it.  Neither  does  curl- 
ing nor  crimping.    Price  $1.5U  and  $3.00. 

ANY  SHADE    OF    ANY    COLOR. 
Sole  Manufacturers  and  Patentees 

1HPERIAL     CHEMICAL    MANUFACTURING    CO, 
292  Fifth  Avenue,  N.  Y. 
In  San  Francisco  sold  by  :    Stanislas  Strozynski,  24  Geary  street;  Gold- 
stein &  Colin,  3J2  Market  street;  G.  Ijederer,  111  Stockton  street. 

DR.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
CREAM,  OR    MAGICAL   BEAUTIFIER. 

Removes  Tan,  Pimples,  Freokles,  Moth 
Patches,  Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  beauty,  and  defies  de- 
tection. It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-ton  {a  pa- 
tient): ''As  you  ladies  will  use  them,  I 
recommend  'Gouraud's  Cream*  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions," For  sale  by  all  Druggists  and 
Fancy-Goods  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS,  Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,N.Y. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


May  29,  1897. 


DEAR  EDITH: — How  can  a  woman  make  up  her  mind 
what  is  "style"  when  almost  everything  seems  ad- 
missable,  and  yet  there  was  never  a  season  when  the  inde- 
finable halo  of  vogue  was  so  indispensable  to  any  costume, 
no  matter  how  simple.  In  mid-winter  we  were  told  that 
fancy  waists  were  on  the  wane,  yet  as  the  season  for 
making  ourselves  comfortable  in  warmer  weather  ap- 
proaches fancy  waists  multiply.  And  while  they  are  all 
stylish,  yet  so  varied  are  they,  and  the  "style"  is  accom- 
plished in  so  many  different  ways  that  the  investigator  be- 
comes confused.  The  adviser,  too,  finds  it  difficult  to  con- 
vey instruction.  She  cannot  proclaim  that  round  waist 
effects  are  essential,  because  many  of  the  prettiest  models 
disappear  under  some  sort  of  belting  at  the  waist.  It 
won't  do  to  insist  upon  frills  and  elaborations,  for  lots  of 
stunning  bodices  are  dependent  for  their  style  on  the 
dashing  attractiveness  of  the  material  of  which  they  are 
made.  And  yet  you  can't  dictate  tailor-made  severity, 
for  what  has  a  ruff  away  up  about  the  ears  to  do  with  a 
tailor-made  effect  ? 

The  strictly  tailor  girl  may  follow  the  qollar-and-cuff 
dictates  of  her  brother's  taste,  but  the  feminine  girl, 
shirt-waist  beauty,  runs  her  hard  with  an  apparently 
severe,  yet  all  feminine,  affair.  This  type  of  waist  hasn't 
a  frill,  except  the  fetching  one  about  neck  and  ears,  and 
the  other  at  the  wrist.  It  fits  neither  in  flat-chested, 
gentlemanly  fashion,  nor  yet  in  rounded,  unyielding  and 
skin-tight  modeling  of  the  form. 

The  material  of  these  waists,  which  are  a  blend  of  shirt 
waists  and  fancy  bodices,  may  be  either  glazed,  stunningly 
plaided  gingham,  cheviot,  or  silk,  or  a  gossamer  lawn, 
with  filmy  lace  insertions.  Only  one  thing  may  be  claimed; 
the  belt  usually  droops  at  the  front.  Much  of  the  stylish 
effect  depends  upon  the  kind  of  belt  and  its  management. 
Nearly  all  droop  a  little  towards  the  front,  but  that  is  not 
essential.  Many  of  the  newest  belts  are  finished  with 
buckles  set  slightly  aslant,  which  aids  the  down-droop  in 
front,  and  yet  permits  the  belt  to  be  drawn  close  about 
the  figure.  Belts  of  plaided  ribbon,  the  plaid  bearing  no 
relation  to  the  color  or  material  of  the  bodice  with  which 
it  is  worn,  or  with  anything  else  in  the  costume,  are  en- 
tirely correct,  and  seem  to  make  the  waist  especially 
small.  Such  a  belt  may  be  worn  either  as  a  finish  to  the 
edge  of  a  bodice  or  the  bodice  may  appear  below  it.  Other 
belts  fit  the  figure  with  elastic  smoothness  from  the  waist 
line  to  just  below  the  bust  line.  Many  of  these  bodice  belts 
as  they  are  called,  are  actually  of  elastic  webbing.  They 
lace  at  one  side,  and  a  flap  goes  over  the  fastening  almost 
invisibly,  so  that  when  adjusted  the  belt  seems  to  be  all  in 
one.  Quaint  and  becoming  effects  are  secured  with  these 
belts,  by  allowing  them  to  pass  over  the  bodice  except 
nere  and  there  where  tabs,  folds,  or  other  portions  of  the 
bodice  itself  fall  free  over  the  belt.  Length  of  waist  is 
restored  by  these  effects,  while  all  the  trimness  of  waist 
circumference  is  still  given  by  the  round  of  the  belt. 

All  sorts  of  expedients  are  restored  to  increase  the  ap- 
parent round  of  the  bust,  and  at  the  same  time  to  em- 
phasize, or  at  least  not  to  sacrifice,  the  length  and  slender- 
ness  of  the  waist.  The  bolero  is  much  used,  though  often, 
it  is  simulated  by  braiding,  the  "cut-off"  under  the  arms 
and  under  the  bust  seeming  to  exist.  The  back,  extend- 
ing long  and  panel-like  to  the  edge  of  the  bodice  in  such 
cases  usually  appears  below  the  belt.  The  panel  piece 
may  pass  under  the  belt  or  not,  as  seems  most  becoming. 
Belinda. 

Pore  Cosmetics— Professor  Wenzell,  the  Pure  Pood  Chemist,  says  of 
Mme.  Marchand's  Preparations.  Use  Creme  de  la  Creme.  Positively  pre- 
vents sunburn  and  poison  oak.    Price,  50  cts.    107  Geary  street. 


Xjhe   jCatest  Tfovelti/ 


The  Press  Clipping  Bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  P.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast ,  and  supplies  clippings  on  all  topics ,  business 
and  personal. 

Fine  Watch  and  Jewelry  Repairing.  Low  prices.  All  work  guaran- 
teed .    J.N.  Brittan,  watchmaker  and  jeweler,  SO  Geary  street. 


ess 


jackets 

All  colors, 
regular  price 

SI 2. 50 

On  special 
Sale  at 

#7.45 


MURPHY  BUILDING,  Market  and  Jones  Sts.,  San  Francisco, 

203  to  207  N  Spring  St.  bet.  Temple  and  First  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


When  playing  poker  drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda. 


EGYPTIAN 
ENftMEL 

MEDICATED" 
GERftTE. 

Endorsed  by  leading  physicians  and  the  theatrical  profession. 
Trade  supplied  by  REDINGTON  &  CO.  where  I  have  no  Agent, 


An  incomparable  beautifler.  It  defies  detection  and 
is  perfectly  harmless. 

50  cents  and  $1.00 

The  Famous  Skin  Food.  It  makes  the  skin  soft  and 
smooth,  the  complexion  clear,  and  cures  tan,  sun- 
burn, and  pimplos. 

50  cents  and  81,00 


Mrs.  M.  J.  Butler 


131  POST  STREET, 

San  Francisco,  Cal.,  TJ-  S.  A. 


Dr.  D.  R.  Dupuis, 

The  only  physician  in  the  city 
who  makes  a  specialty  of  .  .  . 


FACIAL  TREATMENT 


Permanently  removes  Wrinkles,    mall-pox 
Scars,  and  all  Facial  Disfigurations 

713    POST  ST., 


Near  Jones. 


Josepn  Gillott's  Steel  Pens, 

Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1889.    These  pens   are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mr.  Henry  Hob,  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers. 

ANNUAL     MEETING 

Crown  Point  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of   the  stockholders  of  the  Crown  Point 

Gold  and  Silver  Minine  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company, 

rooms  35  and  36,  third  floor  Mills  Building,  corner  Bush  and  Montgomery 

s  treets,  San  Francisco,  Cal .,  oo 

MONDAY,  the  7th  DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.m.,  for  the  election  of  a  Board  of  Directors  to 
serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as 
may  come  before  the  meeting.     Transfer  books  will  close  on  Thursday, 
June  3.  1897,  at  3  o'clock  P.  M. 

JAMES  NEWLANDS,  Secretary. 
Office— Rooms  35  and  36,  Mills  Building,  corner  Bush  and  Montgomery 
streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal. _____ 

ANNUAL    MEETING- 
Caledonia  Gold  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Caledonia  Gold 
Mining  Company  will  be  held   at  the  office  of  the    company,  ninth  floor, 
Mills  building.  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

TUESDAY,  THE   1ST  DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  11  o'clock  a.  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Direc- 
tors to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  busi- 
ness as  may  come  before  the  meeting. 

F.  G.  DRUM,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  30,  ninth  floor,  Mills  Building,  San  Francisco,  Cai. 


May  ;>j.  1897. 


>\N   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Southern    Pacific    Co.     Pacific  System.      San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific  R'y  Co. 


Trmica  L«*t«  »nd  »r»  Due 


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Nlles.  San  Joae.  »od  way  sutler-  

Atlantic  Eiprv.s.  Otrden  and  K-,  

Beulela.  SacrampDto.  Ororllle,  and  Redding,  rla  Darts 
Vararlltc  and  Rumv  v 

Martinez.  San  Ramon.  Valtojo,  N»pa.  CalistoRa,  Santa  Rosa 
Nlles.  San  Jose.  Stockton,  lorn-.  Sacramento,  Marysvlllc. 

Cblco.  Tcbama.  and  Red   Bluff  

Peters  and  Milton 

New  Orleans  Kinross,  Mr.  "1  Fresno.  Bakerstlcld.  Santa 
Barbara.  Los  Angeles,  Demlng,  El  Paso.  New  Orleans,  and 

East 

Martinez  and  Stockton    

Vallejo 

Nlles.  San  Jose  Llvermore,  and  Stockton 

Sacramento  River  steamers 

Nlles,  San  Jose,  and  Llvermore 

Port  Costa  and  V7ay  Stations 

Martinet.  San  Ramon,  Vallejo.  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa. 

Benlcla,   Vacavllle.  Woodland.  Knight's   Landing,  Marvs- 

vllle.  Orovllle.  and  Sacramento 

Lathrop.  Stockton.  Modesto.  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yosrm- 
lte)  and  Fresno,  going  via  Nlles.  returning  via  Martinez.. 
Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy.  Fresno,  Mojave  (for  Rands- 
burg),  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles 

Santa  Fe  Route.  Atlantic  Express,  Tor  Mojave  and  East  ... 

European  mall,  Ogden  and  East   

Haywards,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 

Vallejo .. 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  MarysvlUe,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East  


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San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local.    (Foot  of  Market  St.) 

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MELROSE, 

7:15  a 

Seminary  Park. 

18:45  A 

8:00a 

FITCHBURO, 

10:45  A 

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11:45  A 

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San  Leandro. 

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South  San  Leandro, 

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Lorenzo, 

4:45  p 

4:00  p 

Cherry, 

(5:45  p 

5:00  p 

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5:15  p 

5:30  P 

Haywards 

7:45  p 

7:00  P 

8:45  p 

8:00  p 

i  Runs  through  to  Nlles. 

8:45  p 

8:00  P 

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10:50  p 

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Santa  Cruz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge).    (Foot  of  Market  St.) 


J7:*5  a  Santa  Cruz  Excursion.  Sauta  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  J8:05  p 
8:15  a  Newark,  Centerville.  San  Jose,  Felton,  Boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations  .  ..  5:50  p 

•2:15  p  Newark,  Ceoterville,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Pelton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations .*11:2ua 

4:15  p  San  Jose  and  Gienwood  8:50> 

1H:15p  Felton  and  Santa  Cruz §8;5Ga 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  islip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11  :Uu  a.  M.,  II  :Uu.  *2  :ix>.  13  :UU.  *4  :00,  J5 :00  and  *6 :00  P.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway.— *6:(J0,  8:00, 10:00  A.  m.;  112:00,  *1:00, 
J2 :0U, «3 :00,  J  4 :00  *5 :00  P.  M. 

Coast  Division  (Third  aud  Townsend  streets). 


•7  :00  a 
:7:3Ua 


San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1:30  p 
Sundav  excursion  for  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove, 

and  principal  way  stations .,  18:35  p 

San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz.  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Sari  and  principalway  stations    4:15  p 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 7 :3Lt  p 

Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 5  :U0  p 

San  Mateo,  Redwood,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose.  Gilroy,  Tres 
Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Salinas, Monterey, PacificGrove     .   .     .,*10:40a 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45  A 

SanJose  and  Way  Stations    *8:05A 

San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations  *8:45a 

SanJose  and  way  stations.. 6:35  a 

San  Jose  and  way  stations  


a  for  Morning,     p  for  Afternoon.     'Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

JSundaysonly.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

USaturdays  and  Sundays.  gSundays  and  Mondays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

Tho    Aninrl    Di/Mfir     306  Stockton   St.  San    Francisco. 
I  lit)    UI  dllll     rdullll).         MRS    ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month        Telephone :  Grant.  507. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    TlBDHON  FlKHT-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 
WEEK  hays— ?:3u,w:(Ju,  i.:uu  a  m;  W:»,  3:JW  6:10,  6:30  p  m.    Thursdays— 
Extra  trlpat  I1:30p  m.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at   1 :50  and  11 :3U  i*  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00.  9:30.  II  :(X»  a  m:  1 :3U.  3:30.  5:«i.  6:20  P  M. 

SAN    RAFAEL    TO   SAN    FRANCISCO, 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,7:50.  V  '."J.  ll:IU  ah;  12:46,  3:40,  5:10  P  M.     Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at    1 :64  and  6:35  P  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10.  9:40,   ll.HJ  am;  1:40.3:40.5:00,6:25  p  m. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  s.  F. 

In  EBeot  April  M,  lBfT 

Arrive  in  S.  F. 

Week   Days. 

Sundays 

Destination. 

Sundays 

10:40  am 
6:10  pm 
7:35  PM 

Week  Days 

7:30AM 
3:30PM 
5:10  pm 

8:00  AM 
8:30  AM 
5:00pm 

Novato, 

Petaluma, 

Santa  Rosa. 

8 :40  A  M 
10:25  AM 
6 :22  p  M 

7:3uam 
3:30  pm 

8:00  am 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyservllle.  Cloverdale 

7:35PM 

10:25  A  M 

6:22  p  M 

7:30  am 
3:30  pm 

8:00  AM 

Hopland,  Uklata 

7:35PM 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:30a  m 
3:30pm 

8:0UAM 

Quernevllle. 

7:35PM 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:30  AM 
5:10PM 

8:0il  AM 
5 :00  p  m 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40am 
6:10pm 

8:40  A  M 
6:22  p  M 

7:30am 
3:30  pm 


8:00am 
5:00  pm 


Sebastopol. 


10:40  am 
6:10  pm 


10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 


Stages  conneot  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyservllle 
for  Skaggs' Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Hopland  for  High- 
land Springs.  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del 
Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Pomo,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lier- 
ley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedofn  Heights,  Hullville,  BooneviUe,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg.  Westport,  Usal. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  W.  FOSTER  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agent. 

Pacific    Coast    Steamship    Co. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  a.  m..  June  5,  10,  15. 20,  25,  30  and  every  isth  day  thereafter. 

For  Britisn  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  a.  m.,  June  5,  10,  15, 
20.  25,  30,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  P  M.June  1,5, 
9,  14,  18.23,26,31  ;  July  5,  9.  13,  17.  21,26,  30  ;  Aug.  3,  7.  11,  16.  20,24,28 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.m.;  June  3,  7,  11, 
15.  19.  23.  27.  and  everv  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  a.  m.,  June  1.  5,  9. 13, 
17.  21,  25,  29  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  a.  m, 
the  2d  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  wilhout  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  GenU  Agents,       10  Market  st,  S.  F. 

Occidental  and  Oriental  Steamship  Co. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  m.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG. 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),   Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and    connecting    at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc     No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Belgtc  (via  Honolulu) Saturday,  May  29,1897 

Coptic  Thursday,  June  17. 1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Wednesday,  July  7.  1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu), Tuesday,  July  27,  1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reddcbd  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS.  Secretary. 


S.  S.  "Alameda,"  Thursday,  May  27th,  at  2  P  M. 
S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu  only,  Tuesday, 
June  J5th.  at  2  p    m. 

Line  to  Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &  RROS.  CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St..  San    Francisco. 


THERE  are  many  beautiful  camping  places  in  the  Santa 
Cruz  mountains,  among  them  Ben  Lomond,  Pacific 
Congress  Springs,  Camp  Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Rewardenan.  Also  on  the  upper  Sacramento,  at  Sweet 
Brier  Camp,  Shasta  Springs,  Castle  Crag,  Shasta  Retreat 
and  Mt.  Shasta.  The  Southern  Pacific  has  made  a  low 
round  trip  excursion  rate,  including  berth,  from  this  city, 
and  good  until  October  1st,  which  brings  these  places 
within  the  reach  of  everyone,  as  follows:  To  Sweet  Brier 
Camp,  $11.50;  Shasta  Retreat  and  Shasta  Springs,  $12; 
andMt.  Shasta  Camp,  $12.50. 


AW.  FOSTER,  President  of  the  San  Francisco  & 
a  North  Pacific  Railway,  has  been  appointed  a  Direc- 
tor of  the  Mendocino  Insane  Asylum.  Governor  Budd 
could  not  have  made  a  better  selection.  Mr.  Foster  is 
not  a  politician,  but  he  is  a  broad-minded,  vigorous,  and 
successful  business  man,  and  will  fill  the  bill  with  credit 
to  himself  and  the  distinct  betterment  of  that  institution. 


Korn,  the  Hatter,  726  Market  street,  near  Kearny,  is  the  sole  agent  for 
Knox.     See  the  latest  spring  styles. 


All  sensible  people  drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


May  2g,  1897. 


INSURANCE 

THE  Security  Mutual  Life,  of  Binghampton,  New  York, 
will  establish  an  agency   in  this  city.     The  office  will 
be  located  in  the  Columbia  building. 

The  Fidelity  Mutual  Aid  Association,  J.  L.  M.  Shetterley 
Secretary  and  General  Manager,  has  established  a  general 
agency  in  Michigan,  with  headquarters  in  Detroit. 

J.  D.  Maxwell  is  in  Los  Angeles. 

James  N.  Reynolds,  of  the  Royal,  was  in  town  this  week. 

The  notorious  Jos.  R.  Dunlop,  of  Chicago,  at  one  time 
busily  engaged  in  throwing  mud,  through  his  journal,  at 
reputable  insurance  companies,  and  who  was  convicted  of 
sending  obscene  matter  through  the  mails  and  sentenced 
to  two  years  at  Joliet,  has  failed  in  his  efforts  to  secure  a 
pardon  from  President  McKinley.  During  President 
Cleveland's  administration  he  was  refused  a  pardon  in 
very  vigorous  language,  President  Cleveland  saying  that 
in  his  opinion  the  sentence  was  a  righteous  one  and  should 
be  served  out. 

John  W.  Connell,  of  Montana,  was  injured  by  a  falling 
tree  at  11  A.  m.  November  22d  last.  He  held  an  accident 
policy  expiring  at  noon  the  same  day,  but  at  the  time  of 
the  accident  it  was  1  o'clock  at  the  place  of  issue,  New 
York,  so  the  company  disclaims  liability.  This  is  splitting 
hairs  with  a  vengeance. 

State  Auditor  McCarthy,  of  Iowa,  excluded  the  Bankers' 
Life,  of  St.  Paul,  from  that  State,  and  in  retaliation  Com- 
missioner Dearth,  of  Minnesota,  excludes  the  Bankers' 
Life,  of  Des  Moines,  from  his  State,  although  the  latter 
has  complied  with  the  law  in  every  respect.  Now  McCarthy 
threatens  to  expel  all  of  the  Iowa  associations  from  his 
State,  some  thirteen  or  more. 

An  asbestos  fireproof  wallet,  to  keep  valuable  papers 
in,  is  the  latest  offer  of  fire  insurance  companies  to  clients, 
and  in  cases  of  fire  certainly  would  prove  to  be  very  use- 
ful. The  entire  envelope,  pockets  and  flap,  also  encircling 
strap  and  loop,  are  of  asbestos.  Smaller  envelopes  are 
also  made  by  stationers  for  single  papers  or  cherished 
souvenirs  of  our  sentimental  age. 

The  purchase  of  the  Pacific  Bank  premises  from  the 
Continental  Insurance  Company  by  the  Royal  Assurance 
Company,  of  London,  represented  on  this  coast  by  Rolla 
V.  Watt,  will  add  to  that  company's  popularity  among 
those  having  the  city's  interests  at  heart,  and  make  a 
convenient  office  for  the  Royal  and  Queen  Insurance  Com- 
panies. Improvements  will  be  made  and  the  premises  be 
occupied  by  the  new  purchaser  within  the  next  sixty  days. 
Office  buildings  are  now  owned  in  this  city  by  the  following 
insurance  companies:  Fireman's  Fund,  Home  Mutual, 
Liverpool  and  London  and  Globe,  Mutual  Life  of  New 
York,  Royal  Assurance,  Pacific  Mutual  Life,  and  Alliance 
of  London. 

The  Norwich  Union  Fire  Insurance  Company,  of  Nor- 
wich, England,  celebrates  its  centennial  this  year,  and  the 
event  is  celebrated  in  the  issue  of  a  special  stamp  to  be 
used  on  all  correspondence  sent  out  by  the  company  and 
its  numerous  employees  throughout  the" world. 

In  a  recent  case  against  the  Fidelity  and  Casualty  Com- 
pany by  the  widow  of  a  man  who  had  died  from  drowning, 
the  heart  of  deceased  was  exhibited  in  court  and  passed 
around  f>-om  hand  to  hand  in  an  effort  to  disprove  the 
company's  liability.     The  jury  found  for  the  widow. 

VICHY  Springs  is  now  open  to  receive  guests  for  the 
season.  Vichy  Springs  is  the  only  place  in  the 
United  States  where  champagne  baths  are  to  be  enjoyed 
without  costing  a  fortune.  The  hotel  is  kept  by  Miss  D. 
D.  Allen,  and  the  guests  are  provided  with  every  comfort 
and  luxury.     Take  the  S.  F.  and  N.  P.  Railway  to  Ukiah. 

"On  the  Santa   Fe  There's  No  Delay." 

Leave  San  Francisco  Mondays  and  Thursdays,  and  connect  at 
Barstow  with  Santa  Fe  Limited,  Dining  cars,  buffet,  smoking  car, 
Pullman  Palace  Drawing  Room  Sleeping  Cars.  Three  and  one-half 
days  to  Chicago  or  St.  Louis,  tour  and  one-half  days  to  New  York. 
Ticket  office,  644  Market  street.  Chronicle  bnilding.     Tel.  Main  1531. 

The  Kio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedaker,  General  Agent. 

Jackson's  Napa  Soda  kills  malaria. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 

309  and  311  Sansome  St.        -         -        -         -        San  Francisco,  Cal 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  16Threadneedle  St.,  London 

SIMPSON,  MACKIRDY  &  CO 29  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 

INSURANCE. 

FIRE,   MARINE,    AND   INLAND  INSURANCE. 

Firemans    Fund 

INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),   OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager.  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fire  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Gompanu    of   North   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  EENN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,022,018 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000,000 

Assets :. 3,300.018 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,668,332 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD   &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 
PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  Established  1782. 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON   NSURANCE  CO.  incorporate*™ 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.P. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO,  LIMITED, 

OF   LIVERPOOL. 

Capital 16,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents. 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 


THE  THURINGIA  INSURANCE  COMPANY, 

Or  ERFIEST,  GERMANY. 
Capital.  $2,250,000        Assets,  $10,881,248. 
Pacific  Coast  Department :  204-208  SANSOME  ST.,  S.  F. 

VOSS.  CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 

nr)  DirTlDrYQ  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu 
Ur\.  nl^UnU  O  lne_ Aspecifio  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physical 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
J.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED— Box  of  50  pills,  II  25;  of  100  pills.  J2;  of  200  pills, 
13  50;  of  400pllls,»6;  Preparatory  Pills  »2.    Send  for  circular. 


PANORAMIC  SERIES.  PLATE  64. 


WITH  S.  F.  NEWS  LETTER,  JUNE  5, 1897. 


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Vol.  LIV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  JUNE  5,  1897. 


Number  23. 


Printed  and  Published  etery  Saturday  by  tat  proprietor,  FRED  MARRIOTT 
b%  Kearny  street,  San  Francisco.  Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post, 
office  as  Second-class  Matter. 

The  ofice  of  the  SEWS  LETTER  in  Scic  York  City  is  at  Temple  Court; 
and  at  Chicago.  90S  Boyee  Building,  {Frank  E  Morrison,  Eastern 
Representative),  where  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  subscrip- 
tion and  advertising  rates. 


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OW  let  the  high  hat  be  heard  to  cease. 


THERE  appears  to  be  some  question  among  the  gentle- 
men having  charge  of  the  Queen's  Jubilee  banquet,  to 
be  given  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  the  21st  inst.,  as  to  the 
admission  of  ladies.  The  dinner  without  the  gracious  pres- 
ence of  the  fairest  of  God's  creation  would  be  much  like 
the  play  of  Hamlet  without  the  melancholy  Dane.  Gentle- 
men, let  us  solemnly  remind  you  that  Queen  Victoria  is  a 
woman. 

THE  Yosemite  Commissioners  contemplate  making  im- 
provements in  the  Valley  by  the  erection  of  a  more 
commodious  hotel  aud  the  construction  and  improvement 
of  the  loads.  No  doubt  the  utmost  care  will  be  taken  to 
add  to  the  attractions  of  this  marvelous  picture  land,  and 
this  can  be  done  by  leaving  the  majestic  scenery  in  all  par- 
ticulars as  it  is,  aside  from  a  more  commodious  tavern  for 
travelers  and  the  mending  of  the  means  of  locomotion. 


IT  is  gratifying  to  note  that  the  "pure"  California 
brandy,  sent  out  of  this  State  despite  the  vigorous  ef- 
forts of  the  health  authorities  here,  will  be  detained  at 
New  York  pending  investigation.  Ex-Collector  Wise  may 
find  food  for  thought  in  the  action  of  the  Eastern  author- 
ities. His  zeal  exceeded  his  judgment  by  the  difference 
between  right  and  wrong.  The  disgrace  of  sending  a 
fraudulent  and  hurtful  product  out  of  the  country  as  an 
article  of  California  manufactu-e  would  have  been  his,  ex- 
cepting for  the  prompt  action  and  clearer  judgment  of  the 
Eastern  authorities. 

THERE  is  to  be  a  mouument  in  honor  of  Prank  McCop- 
pin  placed  in  Golden  Gate  Park.  Such  remembrance 
of  that  honest  citizen  has  been  earned  by  him  many  times. 
The  people  of  San  Francisco  owe  to  him  more  than  any 
other  man  their  beautiful  park — a  heritage  for  all  time. 
The  qualities  possessed  by  McCoppin,  and  which  were 
recognized  by  every  one  who  knew  him,  were  enduring. 
With  many  opportunities  for  wealth  in  public  service,  he 
died  a  poor  man.  Let  the  marble  shaft  be  reared.  It 
will  speak  a  well-defined  and  lasting  tribute  to  a  lofty  and 
self-respecting  character. 

CLAUS  SPRECKELS  has  sued  the  Examiner  for 
$1,000,000  because  that  object  of  general  disesteem 
has  made  false  statements  about  certain  transactions  of 
his.  In  this  community,  where  the  character  of  the  Ex- 
aminer is  known,  it  would  be  hard  to  convict  of  libel,  for 
the  reason  that  its  bad  reputation  destroys  the  venom  of 
its  utterances.  But  Mr.  Spreckels  has  large  interests, 
and  his  business  connections  extend  beyond  local  condi- 
tions and  influences.  The  untruths  appearing  in  the  Ex- 
aminer are  likely  to  be  copied  by  publications  throughout 
the  country,  where  Hearst's  paper  is  not  appreciated  at 
its  true  value.  For  this  reason,  doubtless,  Mr.  Spreckels 
feels  called  upon  to  take  notice  of  the  Examiner's  ut- 
terances, and  bring  it  to  account  for  its  libelous  state- 
ments. Wherever  it  is  known  the  Examiner,  being  with- 
out character  is  without  influence,  is  powerless  for  either 
good  or  evil. 


EUGENE  V.  DEBS  is  sending  missionaries  out  West, 
in  the  hope  of  organizing  labor  for  the  seemingly  inev- 
itable struggle  between  labor  and  capital.  Mr.  Debs  is 
forwarding  his  missionaries  in  a  "co-operative  commercial 
van,"  and  his  representatives  are  men  who  were  connected 
with  the  Chicago  riots  and  the  events  which  preceded 
them.  Debs  will  find  in  many  localities  soil  awaiting  this 
sort  of  seed;  and  if  the  harvest  is  not  ripe  by  the  fall  of 
1899,  we  shall  be  surprised.  The  elements  are  plainly  to 
be  seen  looming  through  the  distance,  and  their  combina- 
tion may  very  well  excite  apprehension. 


WORDEN,  the  murderer  and  train  wrecker,  has  been 
respited,  pending  the  action  by  the  Supreme  Court 
upon  his  case.  In  the  interests  of  good  order  and  the  sanc- 
tity of  life,  this  man  should  pay  the  penalty  of  his  crime. 
Governor  Budd  did  well  hie  duty  when  he  refused  to  inter- 
fere in  his  behalf.  When  Worden  planned  to  wreck  that 
train  at  Sacramento  he  did  not  know  whether  the  life  of 
one  man  or  of  a  dozen  men  would  be  sacrificed;  and  it  is 
evident  that  at  that  time  he  did  not  care.  The  bones  of 
engineer  Clark  lie  under  the  ground,  but  they  call  in  an 
unmistakable  voice  for  justice.  The  safety  of  society  de- 
mands that  Worden  shall  hang.  Durrant's  life  is  also 
temporarily  spared;  but  there  is  the  least  possible  hope 
for  him.  These  delays  will  put  off  but  not  defeat  the  day 
of  retribution. 


SENOR  ANDRADE,  the  new  Mexican  Consul  at  Los 
Angeles,  is  the  right  sort  of  a  man.  On  the  21st  inst. 
the  Manufacturers'  Association  of  that  city  holds  a  meet- 
ing, and  Seiior  Andrade  says  he  will  urge  upon  that  organ- 
ization the  sending  of  two  energetic  representatives  to 
Mexico  for  the  purpose  of  drumming  up  trade  for  Los 
Angeles.  The  Consul  says  there  is  business  in  his  country 
to  be  had  for  the  asking,  and  that  the  merchants  of  Los 
Angeles  are  entitled  to  it.  This  is  an  object  lesson  for 
San  Francisco.  There  is  business  in  Mexico  that  belongs 
to  this  city,  in  the  sense  that  San  Francisco  has  the  best 
facilities  for  getting  it  and  holding  it.  But  it  will  be 
necessary  to  be  awake,  to  utilize  every  advautage,  and 
1o  overcome  every  opposition.  Beautiful  resolutions  and 
ponderous  whereases  will  hardly  fill  the  bill.  The  people 
at  the  South  use  a  different  sort  of  ammunition  to  bring 
down  their  trade. 


«  NOTORIOUS  woman  chose  to  end  her  life  in  this 
city  one  evening  this  week  by  taking  poison,  because 
of  the  sudden  termination  of  a  temporary  attachment. 
There  was  nothing  remarkable  in  such  a  tragic  ending  of 
an  unfortunate  existence,  for  the  records  of  every  great 
city  remorselessly  spell  out  the  fate  of  those  who  travel 
such  a  path.  But  the  daily  press  of  San  Francisco  seize 
upon  this  draggled  page  torn  from  the  half-world's  his- 
tory, and  flaunt  it  iu  the  face  of  innocent  youth  and  self- 
respecting  men  and  women  in  all  its  repulsive  and  unclean 
details  as  being  worthy  of  their  attention  and  fit  for  the 
atmosphere  of  their  homes.  Pictures  embellish  their 
pages,  and  columns  of  space  are  devoted  to  the  parade  ot 
subjects  that  ought  to  be  excluded  from  the  fireside  as  one 
would  shut  the  door  against  the  plague.  And  if  in  its  re- 
cital the  reputations  of  respected  and  innocent  persons 
can  be  dragged  into  the  circle  of  the  nameless  creature  of 
a  moment,  so  much  greater  the  satisfaction.  There  is 
no  limit,  no  bound,  to  the  brutal  "enterprise"  of  the  daily 
press,  which  thrives  on  scandal  and  gloats  over  the  re- 
pulsive. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  5,  1897. 


THE      PRACTICE     OF     THE       LAW      AND     OF      MEDICINE 


PROFESSOR  JORDAN,  President  of  the  Stanford 
Junior  University,  invariably  knows  the  truth  of  the 
matter  about  which  he  is  going  to  talk,  before  he  opens 
his  mouth.  He  is  not  a  man  given  to  making  assertions 
first  and  seeking  proof  of  them  afterwards.  He  has  just 
said  substantially  that  there  are  not  more  than  twelve 
able  lawyers  of  the  first  class  in  the  whole  bar  of  San 
Francisco,  and  not  more  than  the  same  number  of  really 
skilled  physicians  in  the  whole  city.  This  is  a  strikingly- 
small  percentage  of  genuine  ability  to  find  in  a  city  that 
contains  about  1,800  lawyers  and  1,200  doctors.  Accord- 
ing to  this  showing,  there  is  but  one  lawyer  in  every  150  to 
whom  a  man  may,  in  case  of  need,  entrust  the  legal  safe- 
guarding of  his  life,  liberty,  or  fortune,  and  only  one 
physician  in  every  hundred  who  excels  in  the  greatest  of 
all  the  professions.  Of  course  it  is  not  possible  to  de- 
monstrate the  truth  of  these  statements  with  the  accuracy 
of  absolute  mathematical  precision.  But  with  good  op- 
portunties  for  judging,  and  undoubted  capacity  to  judge, 
it  is  very  possible  to  come  near  enough  to  the  facts.  In 
opinions  formed  in  that  way,  Professor  Jordan's  judgment 
does  not  stand  alone.  It  has  been  expressed  in  these 
columns,  time  and  time  again,  during  the  past  tweDty 
years.  Indeed,  in  regard  to  the  doctors  it  has  been  more 
than  expressed.  Some  years  ago  it  was  pretty  well  de- 
monstrated by  the  News  Letter  in  one  of  the  most  per- 
sistent and  thorough  journalistic  efforts  ever  made  any- 
where. Something  like  400  doctors  (?)  were  found  to  be 
in  active  practice,  who  were  mere  charlatans  without 
education,  license,  or  fitness.  After  a  long  struggle 
against  this  state  of  affairs,  a  law  was  placed  on  the 
statute  book  which  required  doctors  to  have  a  license 
from  some  school  "incorporated"  for  that  purpose.  It 
was  a  poor  measure  of  relief,  but  was  the  best  that  could 
be  had  at  that  time,  and  has  only  been  slightly  improved 
since.  As  a  result,  all  the  medical-isms  "incorporated" 
and  begau  to  turn  out  others  of  their  own  kind  at  short 
order.  That  is  how  it  comes  that  the  State  is  flooded  to- 
day with  the  class  of  medicos  that  President  Jordan  must 
have  in  his  mind's  eye.  Even  at  this  late  day,  there  are 
five  medical  "schools"  in  this  young  city,  where  there  are 
not  hospital  and  other  facilities  for  more  than  one. 
Though  both  the  Toland  and  Cooper  Colleges  are  making 
very  creditable  efforts  to  reach  a  fair  degree  of  efficiency, 
they  are  not  producing  physicians  of  a  high  order  of 
merit.  Even  their  own  faculties  seem  to  be  con- 
scious of  this,  for  they  persistently  resist  every  effort  to 
have  their  graduating  classes  examined  by  an  independ- 
ent State  Board,  or  by  anybody  but  themselves. 

The  same  lack  of  sound  and  thorough  training  afflicts 
most  of  our  lawyers  in  about  the  same  degree  that  it  does 
our  doctors.  Half-educated  attorneys  are  the  result  of 
any  legal  education  being  imparted  in  this  State  at  pre- 
sent, and,  unfortunately  the  office  practice  that  young 
men  can  acquire  with  too  many  firms  is  about  as  bad  as 
it  can  be.  In  the  pioneer  days,  the  gold  fever  drew  many 
able  lawyers  here,  and  the  Bar  of  the  State  was  at  one 
time  a  credit  to  it.  But  the  giants  of  those  days  have 
nearly  all  passed  away,  and  their  places  have  seldom  been 
taken  by  men  of  anything  like  their  mental  stature.  The 
practice  of  the  law  has  fallen  from  its  high  estate,  and 
many  of  the  successful  attorneys  of  to-day  are  those  who 
join  clubs,  societies,  and  even  churches  for  unworthy  per- 
sonal purposes;  who  dip  into  the  filthy  pool  of  politics  in 
order  to  secure  pushes,  and  pulls  and  other  malign  influ- 
ences with  which  to  defile  our  Temples  of  Justice;  who  fix 
juries,  tamper  with  officials,  find  witnesses  to  order,  and 
even  trump  up  cases  with  which  to  bedevil  honest  citizens. 
To  stem  this  evil  tide  we  have  underpaid  judges  at  the 
mercy  at  every  election  of  these  corrupt  owners  of  pushes 
and  pulls.  It  is  really  a  marvel  that  we  have  judges  as 
good  as  the  many  who  now  adorn  the  Bench.  The  twelve 
really  able  and  strong  men,  who  are  at  the  head  of  their 
profession  and  to  whom  President  Jordan  refers,  are  the 
men  who  ought  to  be  our  judges.  Seats  on  the  Judicial 
Bench  ought  to  be  the  Supreme  ambition  of  such  men's 
lives.  It  is  the  fault  of  the  State  that  it  is  not.  It  would 
find  it  cheaper  in  the  long  run,  and  in  every  way  more  ac- 
ceptable, to  attract  the  best  talent  in  the  only  way  that  it 
can  be  attracted,  i.  e.  by  paying  for  it.     As  to  the  trickey, 


unscrupulous,  and,  in  too  many  instances  criminal  practices 
of  attorneys,  some  way  must  early  be  found  to  bring  them 
out  into  the  light  of  day,  and  to  prevent  them  further 
abusing  the  high  privileges  conferred  upon  them  by  law. 
New  York  has  made  a  fair  beginning  in  this  direction. 
The  Legislature  has  provided  a  new  and  easier  way  of 
purging  the  profession  of  the  law  of  its  unscrupulous 
members.  Proceedings  for  disbarment  in  this  State  are 
available,  but  the  initiative  is  left  to  the  Bar  Association, 
and,  as  a  consequence  nothing  is  done.  There  is  a  feeling 
growing  up  in  the  public  mind  that  will  not  much  longer 
tolerate  the  crying  abuses  found  around  too  many  of  our 
Courts. 

Cover  the  The  patrol  wagons  of  the  Police  De- 
Patroi  Wagons,  partment  of  this  city  should  all  be  cov- 
ered, so  that  those  who  are  compelled 
from  any  cause  to  ride  in  them,  may  be  hidden  from  the 
gaze  of  the  curious.  Nor  is  it  at  all  an  inspiring  spectacle 
to  note  the  hurried  transit  through  the  streets  of  gentle- 
men inebriated  or  injured,  elevated  to  the  view  of  all  the 
street,  on  the  seat  of  a  patrol  wagon,  and  literally  forced 
upon  the  gaze  of  everyone  within  the  block  by  the  violent 
and  continuous  clanging  of  a  bell.  ISIo  sight  can  be  more 
disgusting  to  the  refined,  or  brutalizing  to  the  vulgar 
than  the  viesv  of  a  broken  and  bruised  head  or  face — 
bloody,  dirty  and  sickening,  as  its  unfortunate  possessor 
is  literally  paraded  toward  the  Receiving  Hospital  on  a 
perch  in  the  official  van.  The  innocent  unfortunate  de- 
serve no  such  disgraceful  distinction,  and  the  guilty  should 
not  be  thus  inflicted  upon  the  sight  of  inoffensive  citizens 
abroad  on  the  streets.  There  ought  to  be  a  defense  for 
both;  and  it  can  be  brought  about  at  once  at  small  cost, 
and  to  the  distinct  advantage  of  San  Francisco's  good 
name.  Not  being  barbarians,  we  should  look  upon  this 
sort  of  thing  as  civilized  people  elsewhere  do.  The  wagons 
should  not  be  sent  out  uncovered. 

Again,  there  is  another  feature  of  this  particular  branch 
of  service  which  requires  different  treatment.  When  the 
patrol  wagon  is  sent  from  the  Receiving  Hospital,  it  should 
be  accompanied  by  one  of  the  attendant  physicians. 
Within  the  memory  of  the  writer  a  considerable  number 
of  injured  persons  have  died  in  the  wagon  from  their  in- 
juries on  their  way  to  the  hospital.  A  few  simple  remedies 
taken  by  the  physician  to  the  scene  of  accident  or  sudden 
illness — a  brief  account  of  which  might  in  the  great  major- 
ity of  cases  be  telephoned  to  the  office — and  by  him 
judiciously  used,  might  save  life  that  would  otherwise  be 
lost.  In  cases  of  poisoning,  or  apoplexy,  or  violent 
hemorrhages,  and  in  many  other  troubles,  the  time  lost 
between  the  scene  of  accident  and  the  hospital  frequently 
means  death.  Should  the  patrol  wagon  be  accompanied 
by  a  physician,  temporary  relief  could  be  at  once  given, 
and  so  much  precious  time  saved. 

But,  first  of  all,  let  us  have  no  more  such  disgusting 
spectacle  as  was  witnessed  on  last  Wednesday  afternoon, 
when  a  poor  wretch  was  hauled  through  Kearny  and 
Market  streets  in  the  clanging  patrol  wagon,  his  face 
streaming  with  blood  and  his  hair  matted  with  gore — a 
sight  to  sicken  men  and  horrify  women. 

Bibles,  Phiianthrop'sts    In  themindsof  intelligent  and  un- 
and  Chinese.  prejudiced  men,  who  are  by  care- 

ful observation  entitled  to  re- 
spectful consideration  and  weight,  the  opinion  is  practically 
unanimous  that  the  efforts  made  by  Eastern  philanthro- 
pists and  Western  enthusiasts  for  the  moral  elevation  of 
the  Chinaman  and  his  ultimate  salvation  along  the  perplex- 
ing and  multiplied  theological  highways  honored  by  civili- 
zation, have  been  a  disappointment  and  a  failure.  It  is 
held,  and  not  without  corroborative  testimony  strong  as 
proof  of  Holy  Writ,  that  the  well-meant  efforts  of  the 
Christian  churches  are  wasted  upon  the  child-like  Celestial, 
whose  Confucian  philosophy,  backed  by  four  thousand 
years  of  tradition  and  precedent,  has  thus  far  been  able  to 
withstand  the  tender  messages  of  the  gospel  of  peace  on 
earth,  good  will  to  men,  so  justly  dear  to  the  hearts  of  the 
faithful.  It  is  asserted  that  the  thunderbolts  of  truth  have 
been  broken  and  shivered  about  the  feet  of  Joss,  whose 
followers  absorb  only  such  knowledge  from  the  wreck  as  is 
instructive  in  the  ways  of  wickedness  and  a  light  to  the 
paths  of  deceit.     Those  who  have  watched  with  dispassion- 


June  5,  1897. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


ate  eye  the  grafting   of  our  civilization  upon  the  peculiar 
character  of   the  Chinese,    through   uncolored   |M( 
noted  practical  developrm  -ummed  up  toe  ' 

tial  vineyard,  have  ahaml  •!  the  contest,  anil  de- 

clare loudly  that  the  prayers  of  the  righteous  and  labors 
of  the  missionaries  avail  the  millions  of  bibles 

sent  them  effect  no  good  end,  aid  the  millions  of  money 
lured  from  the  reluctant  pockets  of  Eastern  philanthro- 
pists and  poured  into  the  Chinese  Empire  accomplish  noth- 
ing. 

There  are  two  sides  to  this  question,  as  there  are  to  all 
others.  Those  who  are  looking  at  che  moral  advance 
of  the  Chinese,  through  the  importation  of  millions  of  bibles, 
have  confined  their  observation  to  the  Chinese  character 
alone;  they  have  failed  to  follow  out  in  all  its  branches  the 
vast  industry  of  book-making  as  applied  to  the  Chiuese 
trade,  and  have  overlooked  the  beneficent  results  of  such 
enterprises.  It  is  a  fact  that  the  Chinese  use  many  of  the 
bibles  sent  to  them  for  fuel;  and  it  is  equally  undeniable 
that  the  thrifty  heathen  have  a  habit  of  stuffing  the  leaves 
of  their  missionary  bibles  into  the  soles  of  their  shoes.  Ow- 
ing to  the  primitive  make  of  celestial  walking  gear,  they 
are  of  great  thickness,  and  it  is  undeniably  true  that 
the  Chinese  use  up  thousands  upon  thousands  of  bibles 
in  making  their  shoes.  As  a  means  of  education  applied  in 
this  manner,  even  the  bible  would  be  seriously  handicapped, 
and  its  power  for  good  very  greatly  curtailed.  But  there 
is  another  and  much  more  hopeful  view  to  take  of  this  in- 
dustry of  Chinese  bible  trade.  The  manufacture  involves 
the  employment  of  many  thousands  of  deserving  and  in- 
dustrious people  of  our  own  color.  Men,  women,  girls, 
and  boys  are  necessary  to  the  production  of  these  books. 
Machinery,  paper-makers,  bookbinders,  packers,  ink- 
makers — and  a  hundred  and  one  articles  necessary  to  the 
work  must  be  paid  for.  The  wealthy  philanthropist  whose 
generosity  turns  toward  China  as  a  field  for  spiritual  de- 
velopment and  moral  elevation,  usually  has  no  time  to  note 
the  wants  of  humanity  at  home,  nor  has  he  particular  care 
for  the  sufferings  of  those  about  his  door.  He  is  not,  as  a 
rule,  the  man  who  heads  the  subscription  for  fresh-air 
funds,  free  ice  in  summer  and  free  coal  in  the  winter  for 
those  of  his  own  blood  whose  misfortunes  bring  them  want 
and  suffering.  In  his  advance  upon  idols  beyond  seas  he 
unconsciously  tramples  on  the  flowers  at  his  feet.  If  his 
money  did  not  swell  the  Chinese  bible  funds  it  would  remain 
hoarded  in  his  strong  boxes.  When  bis  purse  strings  are 
loosened  for  the  saving  of  the  heathen  he  sets  machinery 
in  motion,  gives  employment  to  thousands  of  deserving 
poor,  and  thus  indirectly  is  made  to  perform  a  valuable 
service — circulate  his  wealth  at,  home  and  his  bibles  abroad 
— at  once  putting  bread  in  the  mouth  of  want  and  a  cov- 
ering to  its  body,  and  affording  fuel  to  the  heathen  and  a 
foundation  for  their  feet. 

As  To  The      The  Board   of  Supervisors   by   a  vote  of 
New  eight  to  four  have  adopted  a  schedule  of 

Water  Rates,  charges  which  the  Spring  Valley  Water 
Company  may  not  exceed  in  its  dealings 
with  its  customers.  It  is  admitted  all  round  that  under 
this  schedule  the  company  will  have  difficulty  to  maintain 
the  6  per  cent  dividends  which  it  has  paid  for  years. 
Under  no  circumstances  can  it  earn  more,  whilst  the 
chances  are  that  it  will  earn  less.  The  owners  of  a  public 
use,  such  as  our  city's  water  supply  undoubtedly  is,  are 
entitled  to  earn  a  reasonable  interest  on  their  capital 
stock,  and  any  rates  that  will  not  permit  them  to  do  that 
are  clearly  illegal  and  void.  There  can  be  no  doubt  about 
that  fact,  because  the  law  of  the  matter  has  been  finally 
determined  in  our  Courts.  In  the  case  of  this  very  com- 
pany a  test  case  was  made  up  and  taken  before  three  of 
the  ablest  and  most  upright  judges  that  even  sat  upon  the 
Superior  Bench,  and  it  was  by  them  decided  that  the 
Supervisors  could  not  fix  water  rates  at  a  point  below 
that  which  would  permit  of  the  payment  of  reasonable 
dividends.  We  all  know  that  6  per  cent  per  annum  is  be- 
low, rather  than  above,  the  earning  power  of  loanable 
money  in  this  city.  Our  principal  Savings  Banks  charge 
from  o'J  to  7  per  cent  for  loans  on  the  most  stable  securi- 
ties. With  risks  of  damage  from  floods  and  other  causes, 
and  with  the  cost  of  repairs  and  betterments  that  are 
nearly  always  needed,  our  local  water  company  has  every 
right  to  earn  a  margin  above  the  market   value  of  money. 


It  follows  necessarily  that  a  bare   <>  per  cent  is  a  very  low 
allowance.      It  is  not  up  to  what   the  use  of  monc\  we 
cured,   brings  in  this  market,  tosay  nothing  of  the  attend 

ant  risks  in  the  case  before  us,  Cn  fixing  the  rates  they 
have,  the  Supervisors  favored   water  consumers  as  much 

as  they  dared  to  do,  in  view  of  the  law.  It  is  almost  cer- 
tain that  they  went  too  far,  and  thata  test  case  would  re- 
sult in  the  silting  aside  of  schedules  of  more  than  doubt- 
ful adequacy.  We  know  not  what  the  company  may  de- 
cide to  do,  but  we  do  know  that  many  of  the  stockholders 
favor  legal  resistance  to  the  reductions. 

In  the  face  of  this  plain  and  undeniable  statement  of  the 
situation,  that  demagogic  organ  of  the  mob  and  enemy  of 
everything  that  is  fair  aud  of  good  repute,  the  Examiner, 
comes  with  glaring  head-lines,  statements  that  it  must 
know  to  be  false,  and  accusations  that  are  as  atrocious  as 
they  are  libelous,  aud  endeavors  to  work  up  an  excite- 
ment that  either  means  destruction  of  the  company's  in- 
vestments, or  its  inflammatory  words  mean  nothing.  The 
eight  Supervisors  who  went  as  far  on  the  road  to  confisca- 
tion as  they  dared,  are  nevertheless  branded  as  "enemies 
of  the  people,"  and  charged  with  a  "brazen  disregard  of 
duty,"  as  "men  who  have  betrayed  their  friends,"  aud 
have  "abandoned  honesty  for  plunder."  All  this  and  much 
more  of  the  same  tenor.  These  Supervisors,  be  it  remem- 
bered, have  not  been  deciding  a  political  question,  but  one 
of  mere  equity.  They  were  in  a  sense  judicial  officers,  and 
were  bound  by  clear  decisions  of  the  courts.  They  knew, 
by  hard  figures,  that  they  could  not  travel  further  on  the 
road  with  the  Examiner  than  they  did,  without  their  work 
being  set  aside,  to  the  great  detriment  of  everybody  con- 
cerned. Yet  we  are  told  that  these  men  "violated  their 
public  and  private  pledges"  (which,  by  the  way,  they  had 
no  right  to  give  in  a  quasi-judicial  matter),  and  that  they 
standout  as  "a  band  who  have  sacrificed  honesty,  de- 
cency, and  reputation,"  and  as  having  been  "elected  for 
honesty  but  worked  for  plunder."  Is  this  outrageous 
language  such  as  self-respecting  men  ought  to  endure 
without  rebuke,  such  as,  perhaps,  only  the  courts  can  ad- 
minister? We  think  not.  It  is  due  to  public  life,  and  to 
the  men  in  it,  that  such  charges  should  be  answered. 
That  they  are  without  an  atom  of  truth  is  obvious  to  every 
man  with  an  understanding  of  the  situation.  This  annual 
recurrence  of  turmoil  and  attempts  at  confiscation  of 
vested  interests,  ought  to  be  brought  to  an  end,  and  no 
better  time  to  end  it  could  possibly  be  than  right  now.  It 
should  be  remembered  that  there  are  something  like  8,000 
stockholders  in  the  company,  and  that  its  shares  are  well 
scattered  around  among  the  thrifty  middle  class. 

They  have  invested  their  money  for  the  city's  good,  and 
have  no  right  to  be  annually  subjected  to  the  hounding, 
harassing,  and  plunder-threats  of  this  unscrupulous  organ 
of  the  great  unwashed,  who  for  the  most  part  pay  no 
water  rates.  If  the  popularly  elected  Supervisors  with- 
stand this  pressure  as  well  as  they  do,  it  is  because  of  the 
persuasion  and  influence  of  the  many  friends  they  have 
among  the  respectable  classes  of  our  citizens,  who  are  in- 
terested in  Spring  Valley.  It  is  well  that  the  stock  of  the 
compauy  is  so  well  held  at  home.  It  is  that  fact  which 
annually  defeats  the  would-be  confiscators,  and  will,  let  us 
hope,  succeed  in  protecting  this  valuable  public  use,  until 
the  people  see  fit  to  make  it  their  own  by  honest  purchase. 


Our  Penal  The  outbreak  of  the  prisoners  at  San  Quen- 
Institutions.  tin  should  bring  home  to  every  reflecting 
mind  the  truth  of  what  the  News  Letter 
has  been  saying  for  long  years  past,  namely,  that  our 
whole  penal  system  badly  needs  reforming  and  should  be 
made  to  conform  more  nearly  to  the  practices  and  princi- 
ples of  modern  penology.  The  world  during  the  last  half 
century  has  not  been  standing  still  in  the  matters  of  de- 
terring and  reforming  criminals.  Penology  has  become 
almost  an  exact  science,  and  very  beneficent  have  been 
the  results  of  its  rigid  application.  Gaols  once  crowded 
are  now  almost  empty,  and  crime  has  been  lessened  from 
sixty  to  seventy  per  cent.  Those  are  the  latest  figures  of 
the  British  Penal  Department.  In  our  own  land  good 
work  has  been  done.  The  prisons  of  Massachusetts,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  New  York  are  a  credit  to  those  States. 
Unfortunately,  up  to  this  time  little  or  no  attention  has 
been  paid  in  California  to  reforms  in   this  direction,    and, 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


June  5,  1897. 


as  might  well  be  expected,  we  are  bound  to  pay  dearly 
for  our  neglect.  Our  easy-going  prison  discipline  is  at- 
tracting criminals  from  all  over  the  union,  whilst  it  is  fail- 
ing to  reform  those  of  home  manufacture.  Our  two  peni- 
tentiaries are  full  to  overflowing,  and  the  end  is  not  yet, 
lor  the  criminal  classes  are  increasing  at  a  lamentable 
rate.  The  trouble  at  San  Quentin  may  be  subdued  for  the 
time  being,  but  it  will  remain  a  smoldering  fire  that  will,  as 
surely  as  effect  follows  cause,  break  out  into  a  flame  some 
day.  It  is  the  system,  or  rather  want  of  system,  that  is  to 
blame.  Warden  Hale  we  know  to  be  a  kind-hearted  man, 
and  that  the  prisoners  are  only  too  well  fed  and  treated 
generally,  we  have  reason  to  believe;  but  he  is  not  a  good 
disciplinarian,  and  has  not  the  means  and  appliances  to  be 
one,  if  his  bent  were  that  way.  No  man  alive  to-day  could 
make  good  prisoners  out  of  the  congregated  system,  which 
necessarily  prevails  in  the  inadequate  buildings  at  San 
Quentin.  "Of  the  inmates,  about  one-third  are  young  hood- 
lums, who  freely  mix  with  hardened  criminals,  of  whom 
many  have  passed  half  their  lives  in  durance  vile.  In  con- 
sequence, the  youth  who  once  enters  those  walls  leaves  all 
hope  behind,  and  we  manufacture  criminals  instead  of  re- 
forming them.  Young  men  with  criminal  opportunities, 
and  perhaps  inclinations,  can  be  reformed,  and  it  is  being 
done  in  a  most  marked  degree  wherever  the  principles  of 
modern  penology  are  applied.  It  is  not  possible  within  the 
limits  of  a  newspaper  article,  to  give  a  clear  and  intelli- 
gent description  of  what  have  become  the  tried  and  estab- 
lished principles  of  prison  treatment,  nor  to  spread  before 
our  readers  statistics  of  the  happy  results  that  have 
flowed  from  their  adoption.  These  things  must  be  studied 
by  our  Legislators  and  others  responsible  for  the  manage- 
ment of  our  public  institutions.  Perhaps  a  special  com- 
mission, composed  of  the  right  kind  of  men,  would  be  bet- 
ter still.  Clearly  our  stock  of  knowledge  on  this  exceed- 
ingly important  subject  badly  needs  to  be  increased.  For 
the  present  it  is  enough  to  say  that  it  is  a  burning  outrage 
and  a  shame  that  women  prisoners  are  confined  within  the 
walls  of  San  Quentin  in  the  sight  and  hearing  of  men  there 
for  the  period  of  their  natural  lives.  There  is  more  in  this 
than  meets  the  eye,  but  it  may  not  be  stated.  It  is  bound 
to  be  a  disturbing  element  as  long  as  it  continues.  Again, 
there  is  little  doubt  that  the  sudden  stoppage  of  opium 
sales  produced  the  recent  outbreak.  It  ought  not  to  have 
been  done  in  the  way  it  was,  and  especially  as  the  officers 
were  mainly  responsible  for  its  existence.  For  many 
years,  and  under  all  administrations,  guards  have  engaged 
in  this  traffic  and  grown  rich  on  official  salaries  of  $60  a 
month.  Tbe  penitentiary  at  Folsom  should  be  enlarged 
and  improved.  Its  large  area  of  untitled  land  should  be 
walled  in  and  made  to  produce  most  of  the  food  required 
by  the  prisoners,  and  those  nearing  their  discharge  should 
be  treated  differently  from  the  others,  and  taught  how  to 
use  their  liberty  when  they  get  it. 

John  H.  Wise  John  H.  Wise,  the  ex-collector  of  the  Port, 
And  The  is  in  an  unenviable  position  with  certain 
Slave  Girls.  strong-minded,  but  possibly  mistaken  wo- 
men after  him  with  grave  charges  that 
whilst  in  office  he  lent  aid  and  comfort  to  Chinese  engaged 
in  the  nefarious  traffic  of  importing  Chinese  slave  girls  for 
immoral  purposes.  We  do  not  pretend  to  know  what 
truth  there  is  in  the  charges,  but,  if  they  can  be  proven, 
he  has  violated  a  law  that  is  very  sacred  in  tbe  eyes  of 
many  of  our  people,  and  the  case  against  him  is  all  the 
worse,  in  that  he  was  the  chief  executive  officer  whose 
oath  and  duty  alike  made  it  obligatory  upon  him  to  rigidly 
enforce  the  law.  If  he  has  been  aiding  and  abetting  the 
rascally  Chinese  engaged  in  its  violation,  or  even  winking 
at  their  operations,  he  is  in  a  bad  fix.  Whilst  referring 
to  this  matter,  however,  we  can  not  refrain  from  saying 
that  whereas  that  law  was  approved  by  almost  everybody 
at  one  time,  circumstances  have  since  arisen  that  render 
its  wisdom  more  than  doubtful.  We  have  amongst  us  in 
this  State  over  100,(100  China-m™,  and  only  a  few  hundred 
China-women.  The  world  is  the  world,  and  the  men  and 
women  in  it  do  not  much  change  because  of  the  color  of 
their  skins.  We  know  how  it  would  he  in  a  like  case  with 
men  of  our  own  race  and  higher  civilization.  There  are 
startling  facts  within  our  knowledge  that  this  restrictive 
law  is  indirectly  responsible,  together  with  the  hard  times, 
in  instilling  a  very  shocking  degree  of  vice,  and  demorali- 


zation generally,  into  women  of  our  own  race.  The  sub- 
ject may  only  be  very  lightly  touched  here,  but  it  needs 
probing  by  some  authorized  body.  If  an  ordinance  existed 
rendering  it  a  misdemeanor  for  white  women,  (female 
missionaries  and  teachers  included)  to  be  found  within 
certain  described  limits  known  as  Chinatown,  we  believe  it 
would  soon  prove  a  measure  that  would  commend  itself  to 
all  men.  If  there  be  any  doubt  about  the  urgent  necessity 
of  such  an  ordinance,  the  Finance  Committee  of  the  Board 
of  Supervisors  has  full  power  to  investigate  and  get  at 
the  bottom  facts.  If  they  could  be  fully  published,  we 
think  there  would  be  danger  of  Chinatown  being  razed  to 
the  ground  within  24  hours.  Australia,  notwithstanding 
a  British  treaty,  adopted  an  exclusion  act  25  years  before 
we  did,  and  did  it  on  the  sole  ground  of  the  social  demoral- 
ization that  would  inevitably  flow  from  a  one-sexed  immi- 
gration. Our  people  will  yet  be  driven  to  attack  the  evil 
from  that  point  of  view. 

Marriages  The  people  who  are  rushing  off  in  tugs  to  be 
At  Sea.  married  in  evasion  of  the  laws  of  the  State 
are  likely  to  bring  upon  themselves  a  peck 
of  trouble.  They  remain  citizens  of  the  State  and  as  such 
are  bound  by  its  laws.  Our  statutes  provide  how,  and 
between  whom  marriages  may  be  contracted,  and  it  is  a 
well  known  rule  of  law  that  that  cannot  be  done  indirectly 
which  is  forbidden  to  be  done  directly.  A  tug  or  other 
vessel  with  an  American  register  is  deemed  at  sea  to  be 
part  of  American  soil,  and  a  marriage  entered  into  on  one 
is  subject  to  the  laws  of  the  State  whence  she  hails  or  to 
which  she  returns.  A  marriage  on  a  local  tug  outside  the 
three  mile  limit  is  as  if  it  were  entered  into  within  the 
boundaries  of  the  State,  and,  to  render  it  legal,  it  must 
be  recorded  in  the  same  manner  that  all  other  marriages 
are.  The  rule  that  a  marriage  that  is  legal  where  it  is 
contracted  is  legal  everywhere,  does  not  apply  to  the 
class  of  cases  we  are  discussing.  That  rule  is  intended 
merely  to  legalize  foreign  marriages.  There  is  no  law  at 
sea,  except  the  Captain's  will,  and  that  must  not  be  exer- 
cised in  contravention  of  his  country's  laws.  He  cannot 
by  any  act  of  his  legalize  that  which  would  be  illegal  if 
done  at  home.  He  cannot,  without  the  consent  of  parents 
or  guardians,  legalize  marriage  between  parties  under 
age,  nor  those  within  the  forbidden  degree  of  consan- 
guinity, nor  protect  bigamy  from  its  due  punishment. 
Divorced  persons  cannot  now  remarry  in  California  within 
twelve  months  of  the  filing  of  tbe  final  decree.  No  sea 
Captain,  at  any  distance  from  the  shore,  could  relieve 
parties  of  the  disability  imposed  by  this  section.  It  is  a 
popular  fallacy  to  believe  that  a  streak  of  water  three  miles 
wide  legalizes  that  which  would  otherwise  be  illegal. 

The  Labor  The  labor  leaders  have  recently  been  at- 
Leaders'  Way  tempting  to  solve  the  problem  as  to  how 
To  Prosperity,  to  bring  about  better  times.  The  Exe- 
cutive Council  of  the  American  Federa- 
tion of  Labor,  at  the  head  of  which  stands  Mr.  Samuel 
Gompers,  has  addressed  to  the  President,  Cabinet,  and 
Congress  of  the  United  States,  a  memorial  describing  in 
strong  terms  "the  humiliating  poverty  and  countless  pri- 
vations suffered  by  multitudes  of  our  working  people,"  and 
appealing  to  the  National  authorities  for  speedy  relief.  It 
is  to  be  feared  that  there  is  only  too  much  truth  in  many 
of  the  representations  made,  and  if  there  were  any  merit 
in  the  remedies  proposed,  the  Labor  League  would  be  en- 
titled to  all  possible  sympathy  and  support.  It  makes 
four  recommendations  for  immediate  adoption:  (1)  it  wants 
a  rigid  enforcement  of  the  8  hour  law,  (2)  restricted  immi- 
gration, (3)  an  increased  volume  of  the  National  currency, 
and  (4)  "liberal  appropriations  for  government  public 
works  and  for  the  improvement  of  rivers  and  harbors. " 
If  all  classes  of  labor  are  to  work  but  8  hours,  the  cost  of 
production  must  be  enhanced,  and  our  commerce  corres- 
pondingly reduced.  The  exclusion  of  the  right  kind  of  im- 
migrants is  an  impossibility  in  this  country.  An  inflated 
currency  never  has  and  never  will  prove  a  lasting  benefit 
to  working  men.  Appropriations  for  public  works  are 
simply  taxes,  of  which  the  poor  have  to  bear  their  full 
share,  and  usually  prove  wasteful  devices  to  rob  Peter  in 
order  to  pay  Paul.  The  Labor  League  should  try  again. 
There  is  obviously  nothing  for  them  in  their  present  re- 
commendations. 


June  5,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Th«  Man       The  duties  of  the  postmaster  of  this  city  are 
for  of  a  practical  character.      The  fact  that 

Poitmattor.     an  aspiring  am)  ambitious  citizen  has  made 
a  certain  numl  ■  losdurinjfa  polit- 

ical campaign,  or  that  he  has  held  oflice  through  the  kindly 
ance  of  political  friends  who  may  have  found  him  use- 
ful to  their  personal  ends,  do  not  constitute  a  valid 
claim  to  the  place  made  vacant  by  the  death  of  the  la- 
mented McCoppin.  It  has  been  the  custom  to  regard  this 
hifjh  and  responsible  office  as  a  |«ilitical  perquisite,  and.  as 
a  result,  the  best  men  have  not  always  filled  the  position 
If  the  will  of  the  people  of  San  Francisco  were  consulted  in 
the  selection  of  their  postmaster  it  would  be  found  that 
they  would  select  one  of  two  men — either  an  employee  who 
has  been  in  the  department  for  years,  who  has  shown  him- 
self capable  and  efficient,  and  who  has  by  practical  appli- 
cation mastered  the  intricacies  and  details  of  the  service: 
or  they  would  choose  a  business  man  whose  successful  ef- 
forts were  known  to  them  and  whose  recognized  qualities 
would  guarantee  their  application  to  the  office.  A  practi- 
cal business  man  would  necessarily  measure  the  position  of 
postmaster  by  the  same  general  principles  obtaining  in 
his  private  fortunes;  and  such  application  would  mean  that 
thepostoffice  would  be  conducted  on  strict  business  princi- 
ples. The  introduction  of  civil  service  into  the  various 
branches  has  gone  very  far  toward  relief  of  the  public 
from  the  unfortunate  effects  of  changing  administrations; 
but  why  not  go  a  step  further  and  advance  to  the  highest 
office  a  subordinate  who  is  familiar  with  all  details  and  per- 
sonally well-equipped  for  the  greater  responsibility  1  Such 
a  course  would  meet  the  hearty  approval  of  business,  which 
knows  little  and  cares  less  about  politics,  and  reward 
faithful  service  by  merited  recognition.  But  if  this  cannot 
be  done,  then  give  us  a  business  man  who  will  devote  bis 
personal  attention  to  the  details  of  the  office.  The  politi- 
cian who  is  always  hanging  on  for  something  to  turn  up — 
whose  lips  are  expectantly  puckered  to  grasp  the  plethoric 
public  teat,  should  be  given  a  prolonged  rest. 

The  Queen's  Long  to  be  remembered  will  be  the  scenes 
Jubilee.  to  be  witnessed  in  and  around  London 
during  the  week  of  the  Queen's  Jubilee. 
The  press  of  that  city  came  down  hard  on  the  disposition 
at  first  evinced  to  make  money  and  a  gaudy  display  of 
wealth  out  of  the  occasion,  and  matters  are  reported  to 
have  improved  in  that  regard.  It  would  have  been  a  pity 
if  the  idealism  that  should  mark  this  great  commemora- 
tion, should  have  been  lost  sight  of  in  the  most  sordid 
money  grubbing.  It  is  not  alone  the  60th  anniversary  of 
the  Queen's  reign  that  is  to  be  celebrated,  but  the  ideal- 
ism of  a  mighty,  peaceful  and  prosperous  Empire  upon 
which  the  sud  never  sets.  The  British  people  at  home 
and  abroad,  owe  even  more  than  they  probably  realize  to 
their  constitutional  Queen,  who  throughout  ber  long  reign 
has  reconciled  the  theory  of  Monarchy  with  the  fact  of 
Republicanism,  without  diminishing  either  the  dignity  of 
the  throne,  or  the  self-governing  habit  of  the  people;  who 
has  enabled  the  unwritten  constitution  to  pass  in  quiet  and 
safety  over  the  deep  ravine  which  divides  the  England  of 
the  past  from  the  England  of  to-day.  Her  people  every- 
where are  rejoiced  at  the  length  and  achievements  of  a 
reign  not  even  yet  terminated,  and  with  a  very  natural 
instinct  are  disposed  to  look  upon  it  as  an  answer  to  their 
oft  repeated  prayer,  "God  save  the  Queen!"  Our  local 
British  residents" will  on  the  occasion  be  as  united  and  as 
enthusiastic  as  are  their  brethren  all  over  the  world. 
For  Americans,  we  think,  we  can  truly  say  that  they  res- 
pect good  Queen  Victoria,  and  are  at  one  with  their  kins- 
men in  doing  her  honor. 

Drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda  before  breakfast. 


When  a  gentleman  drinks  whiskey  he  wants  the  best.  He  calls 
for  Argonaut  and  gets  I  he  finest  and  purest  liquor  known  to  the 
maker's  art.  Has  stood  the  test  of  years,  and  rests  securely  on  ap- 
proved merit.  E.  Martin  &  Co.,  411  Market  street,  are  sole  Pacific 
Coast  agents. 

The  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway  and  connections  are  offering 
low  rates  and  superior  accommodations  to  all  points  East.  Before 
purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

W.  H.  Snedaker,  General  Agent. 

Jackson's  Napa  Soda  lemonade  is  a  luxury.    Try  it. 


|nwrought 


the  number 


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emington 

Standard  Typewriter 

are  certain  sterling  qualities  of  Excel- 
lent Construction  and  Reliable  Service 
for  which  all  Remington  models  have 
always  been  famous.  LIKEWISE... 
Scientific  Improvements  notably  in- 
creasing its  usefulness  and  durability. 

Wyckoff.  Seainans  &  Benedict 

211   Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco. 

GEORGE  MORROW  &  Go.,      (*»»«  «g 

HAY  AND  GRAIN 

Commission  Merchants 
39  Clay  St.  and  28  Commercial  St.,  S.  F. 

Branches  at  Bay  District,  Ingleside,  and  Third  St.  Hay  Wharf. 
Telephone  No.  38. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 

SHIPPING    AND  COMMISSION    MERCHANTS 
General  Agents 

OCEANIC   STEAMSHIP   COMPANY, 
GILLINGHAM  CEMENT. 
337  rlARKBT  ST.,  Corner  Fremont,  S.  P. 


A    Wonderful  Medicine 

For  Bilious  and  Nervous  disorders,  such  as  Wind  and  Pain  in  the  Stom- 
ach. Sick  Headache,  Giddiness.  Fullness  and  Swelling  after  meals.  Dizzi- 
ness and  Drowsiness.  Cold  Chills,  Flushings  of  Heat,  Loss  of  Appetite, 
Shortness  of  Breath,  Costivenees,  Blotches  on  the  Skin,  Disturbed  Sleep, 
Frightful  Dreams,  and  all  Nervous  and  Trembling  Sensations,  etc.,  when 
these  symptoms  are  caused  by  constipation,  as  most  of  them  are.  THE 
FIRST  DOSE  WILL  GIVE  RELIEF  IN  TWENTY  MINUTES- 
This  is  no  fiction  Every  sufferer  is  earnestly  invited  to  try  one  Bos  of 
these  Pills  and  they  will  be  acknowledged  to  be 

A    WONDERFUL    MEDICINE. 

BEECHAM'S  PILLS,  taken  as  directed,  will  quickly  restore  Females  to 
complete  health.  They  promptly  remove  obstructions  or  irregularities  of 
the  system.     For  a 

Weak   Stomach 

Impaired    Digestion 

Disordered    Liver 

they  act  like  magic— a  few  doses  will  work  wonders  upon  the  Vital  Organs ; 
strengthening  the  muscular  system,  restoring  the  long-lost  complexion, 
bringing  back  the  keen  edge  of  appetite,  and  arousing  with  the  Rosebud 
of  Health  the  whole  physical  energy  of  the  human  frame.  These  are 
facts  admitted  by  thousands,  in  all  classes  of  society,  and  one  of  the  best 
guarantees  to  the  Nervous  and  Debilitated  is  that  Beecham's  Pills  have 
the  Largest  Sale  of  any  Patent  Medicine  in  the  World. 

WITHOUT  A   RIVAL. 

Annual  Sales  more   than  6.000,000   Boxes. 

35c.  at  Drugstores,  or  will  be  sent  by  U.  S.  Agents,  B.  F.  ALLEN  CO. 
365  Canal  St.,  New  York,  post  paid,  upon  receipt  of  price.  Book  free  upon 
application. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  5,  1897. 


1  we  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's."—  Tom  Moore. 


V 


*>HE  third  season  of  the  Prawley  Com- 
pany opened  Monday  night  at  the 
Columbia  Theatre,  with  an  indifferent  per- 
formance of  The  Fatal  Card,  a  worse  than 
_  indifferent  melodrama  made  by  Haddon 
'**'  Chambers  and  B.  C.  Stephenson.  The 
theati-e,  freshly  beautified  for  the  occasion,  was  crowded 
to  the  walls  with  a  fairly  representative  first-night 
audience,  many  of  whom  could,  without  exceeding  the 
bounds  of  modesty,  feel  themselves  to  be  persons  of  better 
taste  than  Mr.  Prawley's  choice  of  play  would  pre-suppose. 
The'-e  were  those,  however,  who  approved  the  piece  riot- 
ously, and  others  still  who,  loving  the  Prawleys  with  some- 
thing of  fierce,  domestic  loyalty,  found  entertainment  in 
the  personalities  of  such  members  of  the  old  band  as  were 
in  the  cast,  which  was  wholly  disproportionate  to  their  en- 
joyment of  the  drama  itself.  I  have  a  friendly  feeling  of 
my  own  for  the  Frawley  players,  a  little  of  that  local  pride 
which  seems  to  have  infected  the  community;  but  fortun- 
ately for  the  entente  cordiale  that  exists  between  my  editor 
and  my  conscience,  it  is  the  kind  of  friendship  that  is  an 
incentive  rather  than  a  drawback  to  candor.  In  all  good- 
will, I  can  say  that  I  did  not  enjoy  myself  Monday  night; 
that  The  Fatal  Card  is  not  the  sort  of  a  play  to  invite  the 
enjoyment  of  persons  who  purposely  stay  away  from 
Morosco's;  that  it  was  a  big  managerial  error  for  Mr. 
Frawley,  in  the  face  of  having  seen  an  Eastern  perform- 
ance of  this  nightmare,  to  have  been  gulled  into  purchas- 
ing the  rights  to  it  by  the  old  gold  brick  game  of  "New 
York  success;"  and,  after  once  having  it  on  his  hands, 
that  it  was  a  bigger  managerial  error  still  to  have  un- 
loaded it  upon  himself  on  the  very  first  week  of  the  most 
ambitious  and  expensive  season  he  has  yet  undertaken  in 
San  Francisco.  The  present  Frawley  Company  is  no  joke; 
it  is  a  high-salaried  organization,  consisting  mainly  of 
players  of  reputation.  It  is  not  to  be  slighted  by  faint 
praise  from  the  critics,  for  it  aims  to  give  first-class  pro- 
ductions that  as  such  challenge  criticism.  The  opening 
week  is  naturally  the  most  important  of  the  season — it  is 
supposed  to  give  us  a  fair  sample  of  the  quality  of  the 
plays  and  the  quality  of  the  players.  And  in  justice  to  the 
company  and  the  repertory,  it  must  be  said  that  both  had 
a  very  bad  introduction  on  Monday  night. 

It  is  a  question  if  even  a  good  melodrama  would  have 
justified  opening  the  season  with  a  type  of  play  so  foreign 
to  the  clean  and  Godly  drama  in  which  the  Frawleys  have 
made  their  prosperous  record.  I  am  not  on  principle 
opposed  to  melodrama,  even  of  the  common  or  kinder- 
garten variety;  there  are  melodramas  that  are  wholesome, 
exciting  and  diverting.  Bar  the  scene  between  the  father 
and  son  in  this  Fatal  Card,  and  you  have  a  play  that  is  an 
offense  to  sanity.  In  it  there  are  practically  no  inventive 
originality,  no  legitimate  constructive  skill,  no  picture  of 
manners  that  may  appeal  to  civilized  man — absolutely 
nothing  that  is  not  an  affront  to  the  intellectual  and 
artistic  senses.  It  out-yellows  fake  journalism  on  its  own 
field  of  crime,  underclothes,  illiterature,  disordered  sensa- 
tion and  cheap  vulgarisms. 

*  *  * 

The  fatal  card — an  ordinary  playing  card — is  torn  in 
two  in  the  prologue,  which  is  laid  "At  the  foot  of  the 
Rockies"  (a  London  pastoral  picture  of  the  wild  and 
bleeding  West,  which  looks  as  though  the  author's  cred- 
ulity had  been  imposed  upon  by  one  of  those  daring  tour- 
ists who  shoot  bear  and  bison  in  Golden  Gate  Park),  and 
it  takes  four  acts  loaded  with  action  and  remarks  of  an  ex- 
traneous character  before  they  are  brought  together 
again.  The  hero  saves  the  villain  from  the  lynchers'  rope, 
and  receives  from  him  one-half  of  the  card  to  serve  in  lieu 
of  a  strawberrj'  mark  for  future  identification.  And  later, 
after  the  Wild  West  has  gone  home  to  England  and  the 
villain  has  been  an  accomplice  to  the  murder  of  the  hero's 
father  and  finally  got  the  hero  himself  bound  to  a  newel 
post  in  front  of  an  infernal  machine  that  is  guaranteed  to 
blow  him  into  shreds  in  five  minutes  by  the  clock,  the  long- 


lost  pasteboard  is  discovered  in  the  hero's  bosom  and — he 
is  sa-haved.  Somebody  has  to  die  in  order  to  oblige  the 
plot,  so  the  villain  does  it  in  dynamite  and  pink  calcium. 
The  hero  loves  the  villain's  daughter,  and  they  are  united 
in  the  same  rosy  glow  that  illumines  poppa's  demise. 

I  have  only  told  the  beginning  and  end.  I  could  never 
hope  to  tell  all  that  happens  between.  There  is  a 
bathing  scene  that  for  sheer,  clumsy  vulgarity  beats  any- 
thing I  have  ever  seen.  The  suggestion  of  a  naked  man 
behind  a  fence,  decorating  the  air  with  his  raiment,  being 
peered  upon  by  a  lascivious  old  maid,  wallowing  in  disre- 
putable doable  entendre  with  the  soubrette,  is  something  of 
a  shock  even  to  my  shiny  morals.  Mr.  Thomas  Ross  was 
to  have  played  this  part  of  the  merman,  but  it  was  an- 
nounced from  the  stage  that  Mr.  Ross  had  been  attacked 
by  tonsilitis  (doubtless  having  caught  cold  at  the  undress 
rehearsal)  and  Mr.  Frawley  sacrified  himself  to  the  occa- 
sion. Mr.  Frawley  had  already  announced  his  annual  for- 
swearance  of  the  stage,  and  I  felt  rather  sorry  to  see  him 
make  his  annual  reappearance  under  these  embarrassing 
circumstances.  I  can  only  hope  that  the  complications 
which  attended  Pilar  Morin's  similar  specialty  will  not 
overtake  Mr.  Frawley  in  the  very  flower  of  his  career. 
*  *  * 

As  I  intimated  earlier,  there  is  one  good  scene — that  be- 
tween the  hero  and  his  father.  It  is  the  single  touch  of 
character  in  the  play,  and  Frank  Worthing  and  Theodore 
Hamilton  make  it  stand  out  beautifully.  Mr.  Worthing's 
acting  in  the  prologue  was  surprisingly  ghastly  and  atro- 
cious, but  after  that  he  pulled  himself  together  and  put 
some  very  excellent  work  into  this  very  bad  play.  Mr. 
Hamilton  had  only  the  one  scene,  but  it  was  enough  to  mark 
the  artist. 

Miss  Gladys  Wallace  acted  a  poor  soubrette  role  rather 
uneasily,  and  Miss  Eleanor  Moretti's  genius  was  smothered 
in  a  bad  dialect.  There  seems  to  be  a  superstition  at  the 
Columbia  that  because  Miss  Madge  Carr  Cook  is  an  impos- 
sible actress  she  should  always  play  an  impossible  part. 
If  this  is  going  to  continue  I  should  prefer  Miss  Cook  when 
there  is  no  impossible  part  in  the  cast — she  fits  altogether 
too  well.  Miss  Bates,  as  the  heroine,  had  little  to  do  and 
accepted  it  gracefully.  Wilson  Enos  had  a  great  deal  to 
do  as  the  assistant  villain,  and  I  am  sorry  to  say  that  he 
largely  overdid  that.  If  Mr.  Enos  would  be  satisfied  with 
exerting  the  energies  of  one  man  instead  of  two,  I  see  no 
reason  why  he  should  not  be  a  character  actor.  J.  M. 
Colville,  an  actor  of  excellent  experience  and  repute, 
added  gratuitous  comedy  to  the  agonies  of  the  villain.  The 
part  is  bad  enough  as  it  stands,  an  arrogant,  introspec- 
tive, self- worshiping,  and  self-pitying  villain,  highly  psy- 
chologized and  gloweringly  pessimistic,  who  envies  the 
dead  and  makes  wide  ironic  speeches  as  he  crimes.  A 
character  of  this  kind,  abetted  by  blind  staggers  and  other 
wild  actorisms  which  Mr.  Colville  brought  to  bear  upon  it, 
not  only  exceeds  humanity  but  passes  imagination. 
*  *  * 

At  the  end  of  the  third  act  Mr.  Prawley,  in  a  charac- 
teristically sincere  and  ineloquent  speech,  thanked  every- 
body, including  the  critics,  for  having  made  the  Prawley 
company  a  possibility.  He  said  that  he  believed  in,  asked 
for,  criticism,  but  that  he  did  not  believe  in  personal  criti- 
cism which  ridiculed  the  player.  Then  he  said,  "I  am 
glad  of  this  opportunity  to  square  myself  with  the  critics." 
This  was  apropos  of  an  interview  with  Mr.  Frawley, 
published  by  Mr.  Frawley  in  the  Dramatic  Mirror, 
wherein  it  would  seem  that  the  only  criticism  in  San 
Francisco  that  Mr.  Frawley  admires  is  written  by  Mr. 
Peter  Robertson  for  the  Chronicle.  Some  of  the  other 
critics,  it  was  intimated  in  the  interview,  indulge  in 
"brutal  personal  attacks"  that  are  very  trying  to 
the  manager  and  the  actor.  Now,  for  the  life  of  me,  I 
cannot  see  that  it  was  necessary  for  Mr.  Frawley  to  thus 
publicly  "square  himself,"  as  he  phrased  it.  Mr.  Frawley 
has  just  as  much  right  to  publish  his  opinion  of  the  critics 
as  the  critics  have  to  publish  their's  of  him;  and  I  cannot 
find  it  in  my  heart  to  believe  that  any  of  us  are  so  vindic- 
tively sensitive  as  to  resent  Mr.  Frawley's  judgment  to  an 
extent  where  it  would  influence  our  judgment  against  him. 
Criticism,  as  I  take  it,  considers  the  actor,  the  author,  or 
the  manager  only  as  subject  matter  of  a  particular  de- 
partment of  art  in  which  the  people  are  largely  interested. 


June  5,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


The  oritique  i.»  supposed  to  t>o  the  opinion  of  one  mini  writ- 
ton  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge,  and  impartially  for  an  im- 
partial public       If  the  critic's  reward  were  only  to  bask  In 

nshine  of  Mr.  Frawley's,  or  any  actor-manager's 
approval,  Mr.  Frawli  wing"  of  himself  on  Mud 
day  night  would  have  had  promise  and  purpose.  Hut  Mr 
-  that  criticism  is  not  written  for  the  actor, 
but  about  the  actor;  and  while  it  is  part  of  the  actor's 
business  to  please  the  critic.  1  have  never  heard  that  it  is 
any  honest  concern  of  the  critic's  whether  be  pleases  the 
actor  or  not.  ASHTON  BtBTBNs 

Daniel  Boone,  the  veteran  lion-tamer,  contends  that  it 
is  only  a  question  of  time  and  opportunity  when  the  best 
regulated  lion  in  the  business  will  try  to  make  a  meal  of 
his  master.  At  the  Orpheum  arc  three  lions,  all  in  the 
pink  of  appetite,  and  a  young  woman  named  Adgie,  who 
sii)g<,  dances  and  ma  merriment    with  them  in 

the  cage.  Up  to  the  time  of  writing  Adgie  is  still  alive 
and  active,  but  she  can  scarcely  be  regarded  by  life  insur- 
ance men  as  a  good  risk.  There  is  excitement  in  Adgie's 
act,  and  there  is  a  lot  of  fun  left  in  old  Billy  Carter,  who 
is  again  at  the  Orpheum  with  his  trusty  banjo.  Next 
week  Russell  Brothers,  'the  Irish  servant  girls;"  Vaidis 
Twin  Sisters,  aerial  experts,  and  Johnson  and  Dean,  im- 
perial exponents  of  cultured  colored  aristocracy. 

Nanon  is  being  well  done  at  the  Tivoli.  Next  week 
comes  the  long-promised  review  of  the  town,  Miss  Frisco, 
mirroring  familiar  characters,  scenes  and  incidents  in  the 
manner  of  the  New  York,  Boston  and  Philadelphia  re- 
views, which  have  been  very  successful.  Emperor  Norton, 
Ned  Weanaway,  aud  various  local  celebrities  will  be  gently 
satirized.  The  entire  Tivoli  company,  augmented  by 
Tommy  Leary,  who  has  just  finished  a  successful  season  in 
the  East,  will  be  cast  in  the  production.  Special  features 
will  be  the  ballet,  and  a  novel  light  dance  executed  by 
Miss  Ida  Watt. 

Sunday  night  the  Liliputians  open  at  the  Baldwin  in 
their  new  extravaganza.  Merry  Tramps.  Bertha  Jaegar, 
Adolph  Zink,  and  Franz  Ebert  have  tramp  parts,  and 
tiny  Ludwig  Merkel  is  said  to  be  drolly  cast  as  Pisang, 
the  missing  link.  The  scenery  will  of  course  be  gorgeously 
spectacular,  and  it  is  promised  that  the  music  is  new  and 
snappy.  Special  matinees  will  be  given  on  Wednesdays 
for  children,  old  and  young. 

The  Fatal  Card  will  run  another  week  at  the  Columbia, 
at  the  expiration  of  which  the  Frawleys  give  the  first  pro- 
duction of  Lorimer  Stoddard's  new  comedy,  which  has 
been  named  The  Interloper.  The  author  is  now  in  San 
Francisco,  and  will  witness  the  premiere. 

Mr.  Danis  O'Sullivan  will  be  given  a  testimonial  concert 
at  the  Native  Sons'  Hall  on  Monday  night,  prior  to  his  de- 
parture for  London.  Mr.  O'Sullivan  will  sing  fifteen  or 
more  songs.  Mrs.  Walter  McGavin  will  also  sing.  Mrs. 
Carmichael-Carr,  accompanist. 

Mrs.  Eunice  Westwater.  whose  fine  contralto  voice  has 
won  her  the  reputation  of  an  artist  of  ability,  aunounces  a 
song  recital  to  take  place  next  Wednesday  evening  at  Na- 
tive Sons'  Hall.  The  lady  will  present  an  excellent  pro- 
gramme, and  this,  with  her  rich  voice  and  artistic  method, 
should,  and  doubtless  will,  insure  a  large  attendance  of 
music  lovers. 

Moet  and  Chandon. 
Toe  cellars  of  Messrs.  Moot  &  Obandon,  the  largest  champagne 
house  in  the  world,  contain  over  eight  miles  of  walks  and  about 
twenty-six  million  bottles  of  champagne.  The  different  sections  of 
the  vast  cellars  are  named  alter  the  various  countries  to  which 
shipments  are  made.  Russia  and  England  occupy  the  largest  place, 
special  provision  having  been  made  for  the  requirements  of  the 
Courts.  In  this  country  Mot't  &  Chandon  has  also  been  received 
with  great  favor. — Hotel  Gazette. 


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was  through  his  stomach,  must  have  just  dined  at  the  Maison  Riche, 
(irant  avenue  and  Geary  street,  where  the  magnificent  service,  splen- 
did viands,  fine  wines,  and  appropriate  music,  drive  discontent  and 
care  away  every  evening  from  5  to  9  o'clock.  The  man  who  hasn't 
dined  at  the  Maison  Riche  has  yet  a  delightful  surprise  in  store  for 
him. 

Jackson's  Napa  Soda  is  a  gentle  aperient. 


S.  d  s. 


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vVeek  commencing  Monday,  June  7th,  the  zenith  of  vaudeville 
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"  The  Irish  servant  girls;11  Vaidis  Twin  Sisters,  aerial  won- 
ders; Dailey  &  Hilton,  comedy  creators;  Johnson  &  Dean,  the 
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Martinez,  pianist. 

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Wednesday  evening. 


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Now  open  every  Sunday  during  the  season. 

Music,  Dancing,  Bowling,  Boating,    Fishing,  and  other 

Amusements. 

Refreshments  at  city  prices. 

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Children  15  cents.  Including  admission  to  grounds. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  5,  [897. 


The  Ape.  the  Idiot,  and  Other  People.  By  W.  C.  Morrow. 
Published  by  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company,  Philadelphia.  1897. 
In  a  brave  cover  gleaming  with  scarlet  and  gold  there 
comes  to  us  from  the  Lippincott  press  a  collection  of  short 
stories  by  Mr.  W.  C.  Morrow.  Who  Mr.  Morrow  is  it  is 
not  necessary  to  tell  the  readers  of  the  daily  or  weekly 
papers  of  San  Francisco  (and  how  few  there  be  that  es- 
cape reading  them !)  for  of  the  fourteen  stories  in  the 
volume  a  baker's  dozen  appeared  first  in  The  Overland, 
the  News  Letter,  the  Argonaut,  the  Examiner,  or  the 
Call.  They  are  remarkable  stories,  and  manifest  a  strong 
and  active  imagination — an  imagination  predisposed  to 
dwell  upon  the  weird,  the  terrible,  and  the  abnormal.  It 
is  not  easy  to  say  which  is  the  best  of  the  stories:  suffice 
it  to  say  that  we  read  all  with  interest  and  pleasure,  and 
liked  best  "The  Inmate  of  the  Dungeon,"  and  "An  Uncom- 
mon View  of  It. "  Some  of  the  stories  tend  to  raise  the 
hair  more  than  we,  personally,  quite  like:  but  then  we 
have  perhaps  an  over-fastidious  dislike  to  getting  our 
locks  ruffled.  For  this  reason  "An  Uncommon  View  of  It" 
pleases  us  better  than  "His  Unconquerable  Enemy"  or 
"The  Monster-maker,"  both  of  which,  however,  are  excel- 
lently told.  "An  Uncommon  View  of  It"  tells  how  an  able 
and  prosperous  lawyer  discovered  that  his  most  trusted 
and  intimate  friend  had  stolen  his  wife's  affections:  and 
follows  the  workings  of  his  mind  from  the  first  wild  ani- 
mal desire  to  kill  the  guilty  pair  to  his  ultimate  resolve  to 
kill  himself,  and  leave  them  all  his  property.  There  is 
little  that  is  funny  in  any  of  these  stories:  indeed,  only  one 
of  them  can  be  said  to  have  any  humorous  touches  at  all; 
the  one  entitled  "Two  Singular  Men."  Mr.  Morrow  is  a 
practised  and  skillful  teller  of  a  short  story:  indeed,  he 
tells  a  tale  so  well  that  we  would  fain  see  him  now  and 
then  devote  his  pen  to  themes  less  somber  and  tragic  than 
these,  to  gentler  scenes  and  a  lighter  vein.  Why  should 
the  writers  of  Western  short  stories  turn  so  coustantly  as 
Mr.  Morrow,  Francis  Emma  Dawson  and  Ella  Higginson 
do,  to  the  tragic  and  terrible?  Is  there  nothing  light, 
gay,  or  joyous  in  this  Western  life?  Of  course,  there  are 
tragedies,  wasted  lives,  broken  hopes,  shattered  fortunes, 
and  blasted  characters  in  pleoty:  and  it  is  not  the  fashion 
nowadays  to  retain  the  simple  faith  that  sustained  our 
parents  in  their  hours  of  suffering  and  adversity,  but  are 
we  therefore  to  be  forever  deprived  of  our  just  due  of 
"cakes  and  ale?"  Even  the  tragedies  of  Shakespeare  are 
relieved  by  touches  of  humor  and  flashes  of  fun.  Aristotle 
tells  us  that  the  function  of  tragic  poetry  is  to  excite  fear 
and  horror  by  contemplation  of  fit  objects  of  those  emo- 
tions, and  we  suppose  that  the  rule  is  applicable  to  the 
short  story  as  well.  We  congratulate  Mr.  Morrow  upon 
the  elegant  appearance  of  his  little  collection  of  stories, 
and  thank  him  for  the  pleasure  which  a  perusal  of  them 
has  given  us. 

Lady  Kilpatrick,  a  tale  of  to-day,  by  Robert  Buchanan.  Published 
in  the  Globe  Library  by  Raad,  McNally  and  Company,  of 
Chicago  and  New  York. 

Many  years  before  the  date  at  which  the  story  opens,  a 
young  Irish  nobleman  had  fallen  in  love  with  a  beautiful 
peasant  girl,  Moya  Macartney,  by  whom  he  has  a  son, 
Desmond,  who  is  brought  up  in  ignorance  of  his  parentage, 
and  becomes  a  great  favorite  with  the  people  who  dwell  in 
and  around  Kilpatrick  Castle.  He  is  a  handsome,  jovial, 
open-hearted  youth,  full  of  fun  and  love  of  sport.  His 
father  has  long  believed  Moya  to  be  dead,  but  in  due  time 
she  turns  up,  is  rescued  from  a  burning  building  by  her 
sod,  and  acknowledged  as  Lady  Kilpatrick.  For  it  is 
satisfactorily  proved  that  the  good-for-nothing  fellow  who 
performed  what  was  believed  to  be  a  mock  ceremony  of 
marriage  between  the  peer  and  the  peasant  was  really  a 
clerk  in  Holy  Orders,  and  that  the  marriage  was  binding. 
Thus  the  schemes  of  the  villains,  Conseltine  and  his  son 
(the  latter  of  whom  expects  to  be  the  next  Lord  Kilpatrick) 
are  foiled,  and  Desmond  and  his  sweetheart,  Lady  Dulcie, 
a  charming,   saucy,    Irish   girl,   are   united.       The   best 


character  in  the  book  is  the  old  Scotchman,  Peebles,  Lord 
Kilpatrick's  body-servant  and  conscience,  and  the  deus  ex 
machina  who  solves  all  the  difficulties  in  the  path  of  the 
lovers.  The  tale  is  interesting,  but  seems  hardly  to 
possess  the  strength  that  we  expect  to  find  in  a  story  by 
the  author  of  "God  and  the  Man." 


Recently,  in  commenting  on  Mr.  Edmund  P.  Dole's 
novel,  "The  Stand-By, "  we  remarked  on  the  singular  and 
distorted  views  of  morality  entertained,  and  strenuously 
fought  for,  by  John  Denman,  the  millionaire  whiskey-dealer 
in  the  story.  In  connection  with  this  it  is  interesting  to 
read  the  following  words  recently  spoken  by  one  of  the 
officers  of  the  Liquor  League  of  Ohio,  and  quoted  in  The 
Outlook  of  May  1st:  "The  success  of  our  business  is  largely 
dependent  upon  the  creation  of  the  appetite  for  drink. 
Men  who  drink  liquor,  like  others,  will  die,  and  if  there  is 
no  new  appetite  created,  our  counters  will  be  empty,  as 
will  be  our  coffers.  After  men  are  grown,  and  their 
habits  are  formed,  they  rarely  ever  change  in  this  regard. 
It  will  be  needful,  therefore,  that  missionary  work  be  done 
among  the  boys;  and  I  make  the  suggestion,  gentlemen," 
(this  is  the  word  actually  used)  "that  nickels  expended  in 
treats  to  boys  now  will  return  in  dollars  to  your  tills  after 
the  appetite  has  been  formed!  Above  all  things,  create 
appetite."  Exactly  so:  and  a  few  dollars  expended  now 
in  strong  rope  for  the  necks  of  these  "gentlemen"  of  the 
Liquor  League  will  save  thousands  of  lives  from  misery, 
of  homes  from  ruin,  of  souls  from  damnation. 

People  who  are  sick  unto  death  of  the  vapidities,  inan- 
ities, banalities,  vulgarities,  and  brutalities  of  "metro- 
politan journals,"  may  now  boldly  abandon  the  reading 
of  the  daily  papers,  and  trust  to  a  weekly  for  their  news. 
The  Outlook  is  published  every  week:  it  costs  ten  cents  a 
copy:  is  of  convenient  size  to  hold  in  the  hand:  is  decently 
printed  on  decent  paper:  tells  all  that  one  need  know,  and 
a  hundred  times  as  much  as  the  reader  of  daily  papers 
remembers  after  an  interval  of  seven  days,  and  has  as 
many  illustrations  as,  even  in  this  age,  when  a  world  that 
is  entering  its  second  childhood  has  reverted  to  picture- 
writing,  seem  necessary.  Each  issue  has  about  140  pages, 
quite  as  many  as  are  required  to  chronicle  and  comment 
upon  the  really  important  doings  of  the  world  during  the 
space  of  a  week.  Mr.  Justin  McCarthy's  "Life  of  Glad- 
stone" is  running  through  the  pages  of  The  Outlook,  and 
has  already  reached  its  twenty-fourth  or  twenty-fifth 
chapter.  It  is  copiously  illustrated  with  portraits  and 
other  pictures.  "  The  Higher  Life  of  Paris,"  by  Charles 
Wagner,  is  another  fully  illustrated  article. 

The  Incendiary,  a  story  of  mystery,  by  W.  A.  Leahy, 
has  just  been  issued  in  book-form  by  Messrs.  Rand,  Mc- 
Nally  &  Co.,  of  Chicago  and  New  York.  To  this  tale 
was  awarded  the  fourth  prize  in  the  Chicago  Record  com- 
petition. It  is  the  story  of  a  mysterious  fire,  and  of  the 
efforts  made  to  trace  its  origin.  The  volume  is  well- 
printed,  and  has  an  effective  cover  in  light  green,  with  red 
and  gold  embellishments.  We  do  not  doubt  that  the  com- 
plications of  the  story  are  as  numerous  and  puzzling  as  the 
most  devoted  admirer  of  the  apparently  inexplicable  could 
desire.  As  we  do  not  care  a  particle  whether  A.  B.  or  C. 
D.  or  the  devil  himself,  started  the  fire,  we  have  wisely 
refrained  from  burning  the  midnight  (or  any  other)  oil  in 
disentangling  the  confusion  of  a  tale  which  is  entirely  out 
of  our  line.  But  we  do  no  wish  to  throw  cold  water  upon 
the  fires  of  enthusiasm  of  those  who  care  for  printed 
things  of  this  sort:  and  we  feel  satisfied  that  lovers  of  the 
mysterious  will  suck  out  of  this  tale  much  satisfaction. 


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The  Japanese  temperament  is  truly  artistic,  and  the  art  work  , 
carvings,  tapestries,  and  curios,  to  be  seen  at  George  T.  Marsh  & 
Co.'s,  625  Market  street,  under  the  Palace  Hotel,  are  both  interesting 
and  instructive.  A  visit  'o  their  store  will  repay  the  time  it  takes, 
and  also  give  the  visitor  some  fine  bargains. 

When  playing  poker  drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda. 


June  5,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  I.KTTER. 


v 


"Mil;  I",  is  an  old  pro- 
verb which  runs  :  "To 
him  who  hatb  shall  be  Riven,"  aid  the  recent  appoint- 
ment of  <  >ddv  Mills  (s  <\i  nf  |)  11.  Mills)  as  secretary  to  his 
brother-in-law.  Whitelaw  Reid,  the  special  Envoy  of  the 
■'1  States  to  the  Queen's  Jubilee,  would  seem  to  forci- 
bly illustrate  the  truth  of  it  Truly  the  country  is  called 
upon  to  pay  the  junketing  expenses  of  enough  military  and 
naval  representatives,  attaches,  and  the  like,  without 
helping  the  Mills  family  to  nay  its  passage  to  Europe.  This 
is  the  view  the  taxpayer  tikes  these  hard  times,  when 
more  taxation  is  called  for  to  meet   national   expenditure. 

*  #  » 

How  funny  our  fashionable  set  is.  Here  the  town  has 
been  as  stupid  as  possible,  nothing  but  Wiltsee's  theatre 
parties  to  enliven  it  ever  since  Lent  closed,  the  promised 
Easter  gaieties  having  turned  out  "nit,"  and  then  came 
several  weddings,  all  crowded  into  three  days.  Miss  Bur- 
ton had  the  advantage  of  no  counter-attraction;  but  the 
Collier-Macondray  wedding  up  at  Lakeport  the  same  night 
as  that  of  Miss  Cohen,  carried  off  a  number  of  society 
beaux  and  belles — notably  Al  Bowie,  EJ  Sheldon,  et  al., 
and  Miss  Emily  Carolan,  Edith  McBean,  and  Mollie  Thomas. 
However,  there  were  enough  and  to  spare  of  lovely  faces 
at  the  Unitarian  Church  on  Wednesday  evening.  Which 
was  the  prettiest  bride  of  the  army  weddings?  is  the  ques- 
tion on  all  sides.  There  was  no  comparison  to  be  made 
at  all — they  were  each  so  different.  One  was  tall,  spark- 
ling, and  dashing:  the  other  daiuty,  quiet  and  clinging. 
Both  extremely  distingue,  and  b_>th  exquisitely  gowned, 
while  the  bevy  of  lovely  maids  in  attendance  on  each 
showed  the  beauty  and  fashion  of  our  buds  in  an  eminent 
degree.  Gossip  whispers  that  a  third  military  wedding 
will  be  seen  ere  the  winter  comes;  a  pretty  maid-of-honor 
and  a  gallant  soldier  the  parties  thereof. 

*  *  » 

The  Taylors  are  going  to  spend  the  entire  summer  out 
of  town.  Mrs.  George  Pope  having  rented  the  old  Howard 
homestead  at  San  Mateo,  will  undoubtedly  add  another 
attraction  to  B'lingham,  and  although  that  settlement  has 
been  somewhat  dormant  of  late,  when  it  does  wake  up 
things  will  "hum"  in  a  lively  manner.  Joe  Grant  will  soon 
bring  bis  bride  to  his  home  there,  which  arrival  will  be  the 
motif  tor  many  social  attentions  at  this  swagger  spot,  and 
no  doubt  when  the  Wilsons  and  Crocketts  are  in  residence 
there,  much  gaiety  will  ensue.  The  place  needed  new 
blood  to  avert  stagnation.  Much  pressure  is  being  brought 
to  bear  on  Herman  Oelrichs,  they  say,  to  induce  him  to 
bring  his  wife  and  Miss  Fair  down  there  as  householders 
this  summer,  but  the  chances  are  strongly  in  favor  of  Del 
Monte  being  the  choseu  locale  of  these  ladies  in  the  event 
of  their  summering  among  us — the  love  of  Miss  Pair  for 
aquatic  sport  making  a  swim  to  the  raft  a  thing  of  joy  to 
her  not  equaled  by  anything  B'lingham  can  offer. 

*  *  # 

The  Hotel  Rafael  is  now  in  the  full  swing  of  a  pros- 
perous season,  and  every  day  adds  an  accession  of 
people  from  the  city's  beau  monde.  Various  schemes  for 
the  pleasure  of  his  guests  are  concocted  by  the  popular 
Warfield,  who  lives  but  to  please  the  ladies;  hence  his  be- 
ing such  a  favorite  with  them.  Tennis  is  being  played 
vigorously  these  cool  days  before  the  heat  of  summer  sets 
in. 

*  *  * 

It  is  astonishing  that  fashion  does  not  take  up  the  Tara- 
alpais  trip  more  than  it  does.  Surely  no  better  oppor- 
tunity for  a  girl's  making  a  conquest  could  be  found  than 
a  jolly  companionship  up  the  mountain  the  utter  sans  </<nr- 
of  it  all  making  it  doubly  attractive  to  people  satiated 
with  the  fuss  and  feathers  of  conventional  regulations  of 

society  life. 

*  *  * 

Can  the  report  be  true  that  our  own  Donald  deV.  is 
meditating  matrimony?  The  Bohemian  Club  must  be  in  a 
twitter  about  the  possibility  of  such  a  thing. 


Mento  Park  folks  are  credited  with  the  determination  of 
running  a  race  with  B'lingham  this  summer  in  social  fes- 
tivities, the  arrival  from  the  K.ist  .if  I'M    Hopkins's    yi 

daughters  to  spend  their  vacation   there  and   the   w 

married  young  Blacondray  couple  will  make  things  lively 
at  the  same  place.  Mis  Willie  Howard  having  become  the 
chatelaine  of  the  Moses  Hopkins  place  at  Redwood  City  is 
another  cause  of  hilarity  to  Menlo  residents,  that  lady  be- 
ing noted  for  her  hospitality. 

*  #  « 

Santa  Cruz  is  pretty  sure  to  have  many  sweet  speeches 
made  by  the  sad  soa  waves  this  season,  that  little  place 
having  been  chosen  for  their  summer  residence  by  Miss 
Julia  Crocker  and  Miss  Emma  Butler.  Castle  Crags  wi  1 
have  several  wealthy  widows  as  guests  at  the  Tavern,  and 
some  of  our  prominent  men  are  going  up  there  for  their 
holiday.  The  abtence  of  form  and  ceremony  in  the  life 
make  the  Tavern  an  ideal  spot  for  those  who  seek  repose 
as  well  as  healthful  recreation,  and  it  is  a  perfect  Para- 
dise for  those  who  love  the  Join:  far  niente  in  life,  while  the 
children  find  fun  and  freedom  combined, 
ft  #  * 

Is  there  any  place  except  California  where  the  sensibili- 
ties of  people  appear  so  blunted  that  it  is  possible  for  a 
lady  to  figure  as  testifying  to  her  husband's  insolvency  one 
day  and  as  the  hostess  of  a  theatre  supper  party  the  next? 

*  #  * 

One  of  the  sights  of  the  day  is  the  carriage  exercise  of 
Mrs.  Craven  and  her  lovely  daughter  Margaret,  accom- 
panied by  the  "will  smasher,"  Counsel  Curtis,  as  they  take 
their  outing. 

ft  ft  ft 

Shakespeare  says,  "the  evil  that  men  do  lives  after 
them."  Speculation  as  to  what  the  heirs  of  a  prominent 
citizen — now  defunct — think  on  this  point,  is  rife  at  pres- 
ent.    Who  next  ? 

*  *  * 

Is  there  to  be  another  match  in  the  Kip  and  McCreary 
families  ?  ask  the  guests  at  the  Hotel  Rafael. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  5,  1897. 


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—by   (^.^.©^ozigev: 


CHAPTER  £. 

WAS  she  beautiful?  Yes.  From  her  limpid  and  plead- 
iDg  eyes  to  the  small  foot,  there  was  a  melting  of 
serene  dignity  into  fragrant  suppleness.  Everything  was 
perfect:  the  Greek  masters  could  have  conceived  of  no 
finer  symmetry,  could  have  given  no  more  majestic  pose. 
From  her  wonderful  face  to  the  gentle  motion  of  her  full 
bosom,  thence  to  the  gracefully  contoured  hips — she  was 
as  desirable  as  Eros  in  the  gown  of  a  nun. 

To  be  sure,  her  name  and  her  relations  were  just  a  little 
disappointing  at  first — but  nature  does  not  take  into  con- 
sideration names  and  relations,  and  Mary  Ann  O'Flanni- 
gan  was  more  beautiful,  aye,  more  desirable  than  a  titled 
dame,  and  her  teeth  and  complexion  far  more  reliable 
and  charming. 

Her  smile  iwas  intoxicating;  it  made  one  deliriously 
happy. 

I  cannot  recall,  nor  do  I  care  to,  the  many  thoughts  we 
exchanged  or  how  often  we  met.  She  was  an  assistant 
school  teacher,  and  I  became  madly  interested  in  educa- 
tional affairs.  I  could  afford  the  luxury;  1here  was  a  triple 
combination  that  assisted  in  this  laudable  purpose:  love, 
e'ucation:n!  money,  of  all  of  which,  singly  and  collec- 
tively, I  had  an  abundance. 

But  happiness  is  a  relative  term,  and  though  prismatic 
in  color,  it  sometimes  turns  into  positive  blue;  and 
one  day  Mary  Ann  was  blue;  and  I  was  blue,  because  she, 
my  bright  sunbeam,  would  not  smile. 

Her  father  had  an  exaggerated  notion  of  a  parent's  pre- 
rogative and  the  destitution  of  young  men's  morals  in 
general. 

By  a  certain  intuitiveness  quite  unaccountable,  I  sought 
to  eschew  an  acquaintance  with  the  father  of  Mary  Ann. 
It  might  have  been  due  to  the  fact  that  he  was  big  in 
stature,  with  fists  like  sledge  hammers.  But  it  was  more 
probably  because  he  was  a  blacksmith  and  his  hands  and 
lace  would  naturally  be  black — I  had  never  seen  him  in 
person. 

Be  that  as  it  may,  Mary  Ann  felt  blue,  and  as  this  was 
the  first  time  this  color  had  become  thus  manifest,  I  in- 
quired the  reason. 

The  information  was  Dot  tranquillizing.  Her  father  had 
discovered  her  secret  and  had  "an  eye  on  her,"  which 
annoyed  me — no  one  should  have  an  eye  on  Mary  Ann  but 
myself. 

She  implored  me  to  go  and  see  her  father;  I  promised 
and  asked  her  to  meet  me  next  day  in  Golden  Gate  Park 
in  San  Francisco  at  10:30  A.  sr.  For  once  I  wanted  to  be 
alone  with  Mary  Ann  and  consider  means  of  straightening 
our  tangled  affairs. 

"Never  fear,  darling,"  I  said,  "I  will  settle  that  busi- 
ness, and  then  you  shall  introduce  me  to  your  folks." 

And  thus  it  was  settled:  she  was  to  go  to  Golden  Gate 
Park  and— in  case  I  was  not  there — wait  for  me  behind 
the  new  music  stand.  But  I  was  sure  to  be  there  ahead 
of  time,  for  "time  has  the  pace  of  a  snail  in  the  race  with 
love." 

CHAPTER  II. 

"Hello,  Al,  what  are  you  doing  round  here  so  early?" 
said  Jim  Peterson,  the  champion  middle  weight  of  the 
world,  meeting  me  on  the  way  to  the  music  stand. 

"Why,  hello,  Jim,"  I  cried,  "I  am  delighted  to  see  you." 

May  I  be  forgiven  this  prevarication;  for,  as  a  matter 
of  fact  I  wished  Jim  to  the  wilds  of  Africa  just  then. 
This  statement  is  made  to  assist  my  soul  at  a  time  when 
an  open  confession  may  prove  an  advantage — 

"Wither  are  you  bound.  Jim?"  I  asked  with  dread  in  my 
heart. 

"  To  the  music  stand,"  he  said. 

"Ah,  I  am  going  there  myself,"  I  said,  with  an  emerald 


smile  that  would  have  offended  any  person  less  coarse 
grained. 

"I  have  an  appointment  at  half-past  ten,"  he  said. 

It  was  fortunate  that  I  had  left  my  hatchet  at  home 

"You  know,  Jim,  I  am  not  inquisitive,  but  I'll  bet  the 
drinks  you  are  going  to  meet  a  woman." 

"  They  are  on  you,  old  man,"  he  said,  with  a  g  -in. 

I  could  have  embraced  him;  but  I  refrained.  Nor  could 
I  have  explained  to  him  the  situation;  Jim  Peterson  was 
the  slowest  thinker  in  the  world  and  dreadfully  prosaic. 

On  reaching  the  coveted  spot,  I  thought  of  many  schemes 
to  remove  Jim  from  this  world,  but  it  was  easier  to  think 
than  to  act.  Seeing  no  way  out  of  the  dilemma,  I  told  him 
that  I  was  going  to  meet  a  certain  party  somewhere  in 
the  vicinity,  and  left  him  ensconced  in  my  place  with  a 
paper  in  his  hand. 

Taking  a  position  whence  I  cou'.d  overlook  the  entire 
field  I  waited  for  Eros  (as  I  loved  to  call  Mary  Ann),  with 
a  melange  of  misgiving  and  delight.  To  while  away  the 
time  I  smoked. 

I  was  just  about  lighting  a  fresh  cigar,  when  I  saw  a 
man  cross  the  "equestrian  ring"  and  walk  toward  the 
music  stand. 

"  That  lucky  dog,  Jim,"  I  thought,  "here  comes  his 
man,  and  God  knows  bow  long  I  shall  have  to  wait  for  my 
sweetheart — if  she   comes." 

As  I  looked  at  the  man,  a  strange  thought  entered  my 
mind — there  was  something  in  bis  movements  that  spoke 
of  "fight."  I  wondered  if  Jim  was  going  to  have  an 
"open-air  bout  "  ;  in  that  case,  Jim  Peterson,  I  thought, 
was  going  to  have  a  fair  subject  for  lunch,  as  the  man 
was  gigantic  in  stature,  and  was  sure  to  give  a  good  ac- 
count of  himself. 

The  big  fellow  peered  sharply  behind  the  music  stand, 
jumped  nimbly  over  one  of  the  benches  and  walked  up  to 
Jim. 

The  latter  looked  up  for  a  second,  and  then  continued 
reading  his  paper.  The  man  was  evidently  not  the  one  he 
expected. 

The  big  fellow  planted  himself  squarely  before  Jim,  and 
said  : 

"  Who  in are  you  waitin'  fer  here,  jou " 

As  I  said,  Jim  was  not  a  fast  thinker  at  the  beginning 
of  a  proposition,  but  when  he  had  mastered  it,  then  a  cas- 
ual observer  would  have  been  struck — if  he  happened  to 
be  the  proposition — by  the  marvelous  quickness  of  Jim's 
thinking  ability  and  the  power  of  his  logic — a  sort  of 
sledge-hammer  logic. 

For  a  moment  Jim  looked  into  the  man's  face  without 
dropping  the  paper — then  Jim's  foot  shot  out  and  the  man 
dropped. 

In  a  moment  Jim  was  on  his  feet,  calmly  waiting  for  the 
man  to  rise.  The  fellow  did  rise  with  some  difficulty;  but 
he  was  ro  sooner  on  his  legs  than  he  squared  off,  and  in 
spite  of  Jim's  watchfulness,  caught  him  straight  between 
the  eyes.  It  was  done  so  quickly  that  it  surprised  Jim. 
But  it  left  him  undaunted,  and  a  moment  later  he  was 
executing  his  marvelous  feats  of  fighting  that  made  him 
famous. 

Forgotten  were  love  and  disappointment.  I  took  out 
my  watch  and  timed  them,  and  behold,  in  precisely  two 
minutes  and  four  seconds  the  big  fellow  was   knocked  out. 

Who  was  the  man?  I  did  not  know,  nor  did  I  care  to 
inquire  even  of  Jim,  as  a  crowd  was  fast  gathering  and  a 
policeman  approached.  I  did  what  any  sensible  man  would 
have  done  under  the  circumstances — I  walked  rapidly  away. 

At  the  Haiaht-street  entrance  to  the  Park  I  experienced 
a  shock;  for  there,  right  before  me,  stood  the  ideal  of  my 
sleepless  night  and  watchful  morning. 

She  colored  to  the  proverbial  "roots  of  her  hair,"  and  a 
few  minutes  later  we  were  flying  toward  the  historic  Cliff 
House. 


June  5,  1897. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Seated  in  a  nook  facinj.'  the  'ClifTs,"  I  told  her  bow 
anxiously  I  had  awaited  her  arrival,  and  that  I  was  ,|iiite 
determined  to  call  on  her  Ibe  very  next  day  for  the  pur- 
pose of  asking  her  parent-  to  oar  engagement. 

Mary  Anns  face  lit  up  with  heavenly  smiles:  she  sank 
into  my  arms  with  the  abandon  of  pure  love. 

"  I  tod  Pa  that  you  were  honorable,"  she  said. 

I  felt  touchy. 

"  You  dint  mean  to  say  that  your  father  thought  me 
otherwise  '.'  "  I  cried. 

"Ob,  darling,  don't  be  angry;  hut  papa  is  awful  strict. 
At  first,  be  would  not  let  me  go  out,  and  swore  he  would 
take  me  away  from  school.  Then  he  made  me  confess  all, 
that  \ou  called  on  meat  school.  You  won't  be  angry,  pet, 
will  you '.' " 

*'  No,  no,  sweetheart:  go  on — it  is  all  right. " 
Wei1,  I  had  to  tell  him  of  my  appointment  at  the  music 
stand — and — and — he  said  he  would  teach  you  a  lesson — he 
was  gains  to  fight  you.     oh.  he  is   terrible.      But,    thank- 
God,  he  did  not  meet  you." 

"  No,  darling,  he  did  not  meet  me,"  I  said,  with  a  si«h 
of  relief. 


Our  boy  is  seven  years  now.  He  goes  to  school  and  is 
exceedingly  bright  for  his  age.  The  other  day  he  asked 
his  mother  what  "proxy"  meant. 

'Ask  papa,"  said  his  mother,  with  a  knavish  smile. 

The  dear  little  fellow  encircled  my  neck. 

"  Papa,  what  is  a  proxy  ? 

''A  proxy  -is — a  proxy — is "  I  stammered;  "a  proxy 

is — you  see,  my  son,  if  you  deserve  a  punishment  and  an- 
other boy  takes  it,  that  is  a  proxy." 

"  Was  you  ever  a  proxy,  papa  1 " 

"  No,  dear;  your  grandpapa  was  once." 

Mary  Ann  smiles  and  threatens  me  with  her  finger. 

"Naughty  boy,"  she  says. 

THE  scenic  railway  to  the  top  of  Tamalpais  passes 
through  romantic  scenery,  and  Blythedale  is  the  most 
charming  of  all  the  points  of  interest  along  the  line.  Mrs. 
Gregg  takes  everv  care  of  the  guests  who  stop  at  beauti- 
ful Blythedale.       

GET  a  breath  of  fresh  air  at  El  Campo  to-morrow.  Fare 
twenty-five  cents;  four  boats  each  way;  refreshments 
served  at  city  prices.     Quiet  and  orderly. 


THE     SOCIAL     SECRET. 


"Oh,  my!  How  charming  you  look  this  morning,  Mrs. 
Cleveland.  Do  you  know,  Mr.  Eedington  made  us  all 
envious  of  you  by  saying  you  had  the  most  beautiful  complexion  of 
any  lady  at  the  Browning  Reception.  We  are  old  friends,  and  if  I 
appear  a  iittle  inquisitive  on  this  matter,  pardon  me?  There  are 
half  a  dozen  oi  us  in  our  set.  of  about  the  same  age,  while  you  are 
the  only  one  who  looks  positively  ten  years  the  youngest  of  us  all. 
There  is  some  secret  in  this;  as  a  friend,  yon  should  impart  it  to 
me." 

"My  dear  Lilian,  if  I  did  not  know  your  sincerity,  I  would  surely 
believe  you  were  trving  to  flatter  my  vanity;  but.  knowing  your 
candor  in  all  our  affairs,  I  will  tell  you  to  what  I  attribute  those 
charms  you  mention,  and  how  I  was  induced  to  use  the  great  Elixir. 
Dr.  T.  Felix  Gouraud's  Oriental  Cream.  My  mother  has  always 
been,  and  is  now.  a  very  beautiful  woman— her  years  lending  a 
charm  to  that  beauty,  which  care  and  art  have  preserved  by  the  aid 
of  Gouraud's  Beautifier  and  Puritier  of  the  skin.  Although  she  is 
now  over  tifty,  she  passes  for  forty,  thanks  to  the  'Oriental  Cream' 
that  has  been  prescribed  for  nearly  half  a  century  to  the  very  elite  of 
American  and  continental  society;  it  is  easy  of  application  and 
harmless  in  its  effects.  By  applying  tbe  'Cream'  through  the  day  or 
evening,  and  washing  the  face  well  on  retiring,  afterwards  using 
Mutton  Tallow  or  Camphor  Ice.  the  skin  is  given  a  soft,  pearly 
whiteness,  removing  alt  skin  blemishes,  leaving  the  complexion 
clear  and  bright  as  crystal,  while  its  certainty  and  naturalness  of 
operation  are  such  that  the  use  of  a  cosmetic  is  not  suspected,  and, 
dear  Lilian,  it  is  the  only  preparation  that  meets  the  wants  of  re- 
fined ladies,  who  require  a  harmless  and  efficient  beautitier,  and  we 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  5,  1897. 


Business  during  the  past  week  has  been 
Pine  Street  dull  in  the  local  mining  share  market. 
Mining  Market.  Prices  have  held  firm  in  the  Middle  and 
North  Ead  shares,  however,  much  to  the 
satisfaction  of  dealers,  who  still  look  forward  to  a  lively 
deal  in  this  quarter.  At  one  time  it  looked  as  though  Con. 
Cal- Virginia  might  lead  off  with  some  of  the  old-time  vigor, 
but,  although  it  must  be  admitted  that  the  news  from  this 
mine  is  favorable  enough,  interest  seems  to  center  again 
in  Chollar.  where  the  Brunswick  workings  on  the  500  level 
are  especially  flattering  just  now.  This,  of  course,  will 
serve  to  wake  up  the  gnats  in  the  business,  who  will  die 
hard  battling  against  the  Brunswick  lode.  Results  so  far 
have  established  very  clearlj  in  the  public  mind  the  fact 
that  this  antipathy  is  due  entirely  to  purely  personal 
reasons.  The  Chollar  mine  has  turned  out  considerable 
money  from  the  200-level  down  to  the  point  where  work  is 
now  being  carried  on,  and  nothing  serves  to  offset  un- 
friendly comment  like  the  steady  extraction  of  a  high  grade 
of  ore.  Friends  of  the  business  who  are  not  swayed  by 
prejudice  in  matters  of  the  kind,  will  continue  to  hope 
that  this  new  ground  will  develop  into  a  valuable  prop- 
erty. The  prospects  that  such  will  be  the  case  are  favor- 
able just  now,  and  this  serves  to  sustain  confidence  among 
live  operators  who  never  falter  in  their  belief  that  there  is 
a  future  for  the  market,  despite  the  dull  times  which  have 
prevailed  for  3'ears  past.  At  the  South  End  interest  still 
attaches  to  the  drive  now  being  made  westward  by  the 
Confidence  and  other  companies.  A  strike  there  would  in 
itself  ignite  a  flame  that  would  soon  spread  along  the  en- 
tire lode,  ushering  in  a  new  era  of  prosperity  and  activity 
in  pushing  explorating  work  in  this  direction.  From  which- 
ever quarter  it  may  come  matters  little  to  the  folks  on  the 
street  so  that  the  happy  event  is  hastened.  Assessments 
are  not  coming  along  very  heavy  at  present,  and  collections 
of  those  now  pending  are  good  in  Jhe  majority  of  cases. 

The  work  of  recovering  the  gold  de- 
Dredging  the  posits  in  river  beds  by  dredging  will 
River  Channels,     soon  become  fashionable.      A  company 

has  been  formed  in  London  to  begin 
operations  on  the  Fraser  River,  and  within  the  week  an- 
other syndicate  at  Tacoma  announces  its  intention  of  start- 
ing work  with  a  Bowers'  dredger  on  rivers  in  Washington. 
A  concession  has  also  been  granted  by  the  representatives 
of  the  same  machine  in  this  city  to  Eastern  people  for 
Rogue  River,  and  work  is  about  to  begin  there  immedi- 
ately. So  far,  the  idea  does  not  seem  to  have  caught  on 
with  Californians.  This  might  be  strange  were  it  not  for 
the  pronounced  slowness  which  always  attends  the  forma- 
tion of  any  home  enterprise  which  would  necessitate  the 
outlay  of  money  for  a  plant.  With  millions  of  dollars  on 
hand  for  a  gamble  of  any  kind,  from  horse  racing  down  to 
lotteries,  and  betting  on  prize-fights,  capital  becomes  shy 
at  once  when  sought  for  the  legitimate  work  of  developing 
the  vast  resources  of  the  State  which  are  still  practically 
uncovered.  Time  will  undoubtedly  change  all  this,  but  it 
is  a  weary  wait  for  the  man  of  energy  and  progressive 
ideas.  With  the  knowledge  that  no  richer  river  beds  exist 
than  those  of  the  Golden  State,  it  is  more  than  likely  that 
before  long  Eastern  or  outside  money  will  be  forthcoming 
to  carry  out  plans  of  work  similar  to  that  now  inaugurated 
on  the  other  side  of  the  line. 

Outside  ox  private  enterprise,  which  is 
Gold  Mining  slow  enough,  and  the  one  or  two  large 
In  California,     mines  going  in   full   blast,   investment  in 

California  gold  mines  is  not  what  people 
might  infer  from  the  rose-tinted  narratives  which  appear 
continuously  of  sales.  The  names  of  certain  properties 
here  become  like  household  words,  and  prospectuses  are 
hawked  around  from  office  to  office  with  a  freedom  which 
does  anything  but  benefit  the  reputation  of  the  mines. 
Mining  engineers  who  have  yet  to  win  their  spurs  as  suc- 
cessful guarantors  in  effecting  a  sale,  are  as  plentiful  as 
the  ubiquitous  promotors,  but  everything  goes  now,  it 
seems,  in  this  line  of  business.     The  only  scarcity  noted  in 


the  way  of  making  up  the  deficiency  is  the  supply  of  men 
with  money,  and  people  are  beginning  to  wonder  why  they 
do  not  come  along  to  pick  up  the  good  things  tied  up  in 
their  behalf.  English  and  continental  money  is  plentiful 
enough  over  the  border,  and  British  Columbia  miners  find 
Utile  difficulty  in  obtaining  all  the  financial  aid  they  re- 
quire. This  is  explained  to  some  extent  by  one  of  the 
London  financial  papers  in  commenting  on  the  absence  of 
any  desire  for  California  mines,  by  a  statement  of  facts 
showing  that  the  Canadians,  like  the  Australians,  are  ever 
ready  to  back  their  propositions  up  with  their  own  money. 
Outsiders  only  share  the  investments  in  the  northern 
mines;  they  do  not,  nor  are  they  expected  to  monopolize 
the  business  for  stock  jobbing  purposes.  Confidence  be- 
gets confidence  here  as  elsewhere.  There  is  much  truth 
in  these  remarks  as  applied  to  California.  Here  a  prop- 
erty might  go  a-begging  at  a  reasonable  figure,  so  far  as 
interesting  a  dollar  of  San  Francisco  capital,  and  if  it  is 
taken  up  abroad  the  value  is  inflated  to  a  degree  calcu- 
lated to  awaken  a  suspicion  of  robbery  among  all  sensible 
investors  and  drive  them  away.  It  is  nothing  to  find  com- 
missions tacked  on  by  middlemen,  aggregating  in  many 
cases  over  twice  the  purchase  price  of  the  property.  It 
is  not  a  promoter  seeking  the  sensible,  level-headed  in- 
vestor, but  a  hungry  horde  of  irresponsibles  angling  in 
muddy  waters  for  "suckers."  This  game  has  been  played 
once  too  often,  with  the  result  that  the  "pig  in  the  poke" 
trade  is  played  out  so  far  as  California  is  concerned.  The 
worst  of  it  is  that  honest  men  are  forced  at  the  same  time 
to  suffer  for  the  sins  of  others. 

W.  Pritchard-Morgan,  M.  P.,  who  arrived 
Mined  Gold  here  from  Australia  the  other  day,  is  set 
in  Wales.  down  very  truly  as  one  of  the  great  miners 
of  the  day,  and  accredited  with  most  won- 
derful success  in  Australia.  No  one,  however,  touched  on 
one  of  his  greatest  achievements — the  mining  of  gold  in 
Wales.  Some  years  ago  Mr.  Pritchard-Morgan  began 
work  in  his  native  mountains  on  a  large  scale,  and  with 
good  success.  The  Crown  rights  in  the  product  brought 
him  eventually  into  a  dispute  with  the  authorities,  who 
found  a  lively  fight  on  their  hands  before  they  got  through 
with  the  sturdy  Welshman.  It  will  be  hoped  that  the  in- 
fluential visitor  will  find  time  to  visit  our  leading  mining 
districts  and  thereby  familiarize  himself  with  California 
mines  to  an  extent  which  may  prove  useful  at  times  in  the 
hereafter. 

F.  H.  Pettingill,  one  of  the  most  ener- 
A  Visitor         getic  and  prosperous  mining  men  of  Col- 
From  Colorado,     orado,  registered  at  the  Palace  during 
the  week  from  Colorado  Springs.     Mr. 
Pettingill  is  well-known  all  over  the  States  and  abroad 
where  the  circular  letter  of  his  firm  has  penetrated.     As 
a  man  well  informed  on  mining  matters  his  visit  to  Califor- 
nia will  doubtless  put  him  in  touch  with  the  situation  of  af- 
fairs in  the  industry.     The  resources  of  California  in  the 
way  of  mineral  are  unexcelled.     So  far,  with  a  few  excep- 
tions,   it   has   been  all  surface  scratching.      There  is  no 
reason,  outside  of  lack  of  enterprise,  why  this  State  should 
not  be  the  largest  gold-producing  territory  in  the  world. 

It  is  an  unusually  cold  day  when  the  Lon- 
The  Jubilee      don  promoter  fails  to  take  advantage  of 
Pandora  Box.     a  chance  to  bring  grist  to  his  own  mill. 
The  Jubilee  season  is  to  be  worked  for  all 
there  is  in  it.      Compauies  have  already  been  launched  by 
benevolently  inclined  individuals  who  link  patriotism  and 
coin  together.     Among  these  may  be  noted   the    "Com- 
memoration Syndicate,"  "  Unparalleled  Reign  Syndicate," 
"Prince  of  Wales  Hospital"  Jubilee  Syndicate,  and  half  a 
dozen  others  similar,   all  ringing  the  change  on  "The  Jub- 
ilee." 

MR.  Ernest  Terah  Hooley,  the  latest  financial  accident 
of  the  century  in  London,  is  behind  a  scheme  to  pro- 
mote Schweppe's,  a  company  brought  out  to  take  over 
the  old  firm's  business  in  aerated  waters  for  £950,000.  The 
magic  name  of  Hooley  is  expected  to  scare  up  the  millions 
in  short  order. 

NEXT  to  Tuolumne  County,  Amador  is  the  most  active 
mining  region  of  the  State  just  at  present.  A  num- 
ber of  mines  there  are  opening  up  well  under  the  intelligent 
management  of  men  who  learned  their  business  thoroughly 
before  branching  out  as  mine  managers. 


June  5,  1897. 


SAN   PRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


*  Hear  the  Crter:"   "What  the  Jevll  art  thout" 
'One that  wlllplav  t ho dcv  11. sir.  with  you." 


THE  Tows  Crier  has  long  fell  that  his  views  on  the 
marriage  question  are  quite  unfit  for  print,  but  he  was 
in  hopes  that  some  of  thediftk-ulties  incidental  totheir  reali- 
zation might  be  overcome  when  he  heard  that  "  Hob" 
Mti  aully  of  Portland  had  eloped  with  Mrs.  Brady  and  her 
nine  children.  Though  the  risk  of  detection  by  Pater- 
familias Brady  must  have  been  great  while  the  ten  de- 
scents from  the  lady's  lattice  were  in  progress,  the  escape 
was  accomplished  successfully,  and  the  problem  of  the  dis- 
posal of  children  in  cases  of  temporary  marriage  seemed 
at  last  solved.  But  subsequently  the  family  flight  was  ar- 
rested; Paterfamilias  experiencing  no  difficulty  in  getting 
on  the  trail,  owing  to  its  unusual  length,  and  now  the  Town 
Chikk,  like  Senator  Perkins  in  a  crisis,  doesn't  know  what 
to  say. 

THE  mauling  of  helpless  infants,  with  which  gentle 
diversion  the  ''Reverend'-  Allan  L.  Kennedy  has  be- 
guiled his  leisure  hours  at  the  so-called  home  presided  over 
by  himself  and  wife,  is  regarded  by  Judge  Whiskers  Camp- 
bell as  so  trifling  an  offense  that  a  $25  fine  is  quite  suffi- 
cient to  cancel  it  in  the  courts.  It  is  many  a  decade  since 
the  Judge  graduated  from  swaddling  clothes,  but  if  he  had 
been  subjected  to  similar  facial  punishment  in  the  long 
ago,  the  chances  are  that  his  injuries  would  have  been 
such  as  to  make  his  present  luxuriant  hirsute  crop  a  fail- 
ure, and  San  Francisco  would  have  been  deprived  of  a 
peculiarly  picturesque  bench  show. 

IT  is  useless  for  Mayor  Phelan  to  try  and  improve  the 
appearance  of  the  streets  while  they  continue  to  be 
used  as  picture  galleries  illustrating  the  horrible  results 
of  scandal.  It  is  high  time  some  restriction  were  placed 
on  the  revolting  exhibitions  of  matronly  limbs,  bulging  like 
over-charged  sausages,  which  were  lately  so  numerous. 
It  was  bad  enough,  though  more  natural,  when  the  pre- 
miere of  a  ciiusc  celebre  revealed  herself  to  our  disgusted 
gaze,  but  if  sisters  and  cousins  and  aunts  are  allowed  the 
same  privilege,  where  is  the  nuisance  to  stop  ?  If  the 
ladies  must  pose,  let  them  wait  till  the  new  zoo  is  ready; 
that's  the  proper  place  for  Fat  Woman  Shows. 

THE  Crier  understands  that  the  Book  Committee  of 
the  Mechanics'  Institute  Library  (the  chairman  of 
which  is  Joseph  Leggett)  objects  to  a  passage  in  Mrs. 
Gertrude  Atherton's  story,  ''Patience  Sparhawk  and 
Her  Times,"  because  it  contains  mention  of  a  girl's  legs. 
Surely  the  chaste  chairman  must  blush  every  time  he  hears 
his  own  name  mentioned.  How  did  he,  or  will  he,  ever 
dare  to  ask  a  lady  to  become  Mrs.  Leg-gett?  In  certain 
strata  of  society  "lower  limb  "  is  the  accepted  euphemism 
for  the  offending  "leg."  Why  not,  in  the  interests  of  pro- 
priety and  delicacy,  let  the  worthy  man  change  his  name 
to  Lower-limb  bet. 

ONE  of  the  most  remarkable  characteristics  of  the  age 
we  live  in  is  the  variety  of  accomplishments  found  in 
a  single  individual.  An  actor  is  at  the  same  time  a  poet, 
a  painter  and  a  musician,  or  a  business  man  is  also  a 
novelist  just  as  Governor  Budd  and  the  Emperor  William, 
not  content  with  governing,  are  ambitious  to  shine  in  the 
world  of  art  or  journalism. 

RETRENCHMENT  is  the  order  of  the  day.  Mayor 
Phelan  has  been  making  sweeping  reforms  at  the 
City  Hall  and  his  excellent  example  has  so  permeated  the 
whole  State  that  an  enormous  decrease  of  public  expendi- 
ture is  expected.  The  judges  are  all  to  be  discharged  as 
Governor  Budd  considers  them  entirely  superfluous. 

WR.  HEARST'S  extravagance  has  broken  out  in  a 
,  new  form.  From  dogs  to  haberdashery  is  a  far 
cry,  but  Willie's  fickle  fancy  has  lightly  turned  from 
canines  to  a  brand  new  million-dollar  suit. 

SWIT  of  the  Town  Crier's  circle  objects  to  the  French 
Hospital  being  used  as  a  home  for  fallen  women.  Last 
Sunday  a  girl  was  taken  there  after  falling  out  of  an  upper 
story  window. 


IT  is  true  that  the  purpose  of  the  drama  is  to  hold  the 
mirror  up  to  nature,  but  when  it  comes  to  holding  the 
mirror  up  to  San  FraiirUrn.  the  most  unprejudiced  must 
admit  that  there  arc  subjects  which  areuntit  for  dramatic 
representation,  Mitt  Frisco,  who  makes  her  dtbvt  at  the 
Tivoli  next  Monday  evening,  promises  us  "a  review  of  the 
town's  doings  for  the  year."  After  this  announcement, 
no  one  need  be  told  that  we  have  no  public  censor  of  plays, 
interludes,  and  other  entertainments  of  the  stage. 

ONE  Maguire,  who  became  a  bridegroom  this  week, 
had  a  little  altercation  with  somebody  on  his  wedding 
day.  and  went  home  with  a  broken  nose.  It  is  easy  for 
any  loving  spouse  to  make  the  best  of  such  a  misfortune, 
but  he  who  values  domestic  peace  and  would  keep  forever 
burning  the  altar-fires  to  wifely  devotion,  would  better 
confine  his  mishaps  to  broken  bones.  The  one  calamity 
that  tender  woman  cannot  forgive  is  to  have  hubby  come 
home  with  his  pocketbook  broke. 

BOSTON  blushed  at  Bacchante,  and  the  raimentless 
statue  was  hustled  back  to  the  sculptor's  studio. 
Out  here,  however,  we  are  not  so  careful  of  our  art  repu- 
tation. The  hapless  ladies  whose  plaster-o'-Paris  curves 
are  barked  at  by  the  distant  seals  and  blushed  at  by  the 
art  connoisseurs  who  stray  unguardedly  to  Sutro  Heights, 
still  totter  on  their  pedestals.  They  should  without 
further  delay  be  encased  in  nice,  warm,  opaque  bloomers. 

SAN  QUENTIN  has  been  the  scene  of  remarkable  whole- 
sale conversion  this  week,  and  Warden  Hale  appears 
in  a  new  but  eminently  successful  role  as  an  exhorter  of  sin- 
ners to  repentance  by  the  nozzle  route,  smashing  all  previous 
records  and  casting  the  Salvation  Army  completely  into 
the  shade.  In  one  day  he  baptized  no  less  than  b'00  insub- 
ordinate souls  and  brought  them  to  repentance.  Evangelist 
Hale's  methods  may  be  damp,  but  they  are  efficacious. 

YOUNG  Lynch,  the  bosom  friend  and  confidant  of  Dur- 
rant's  former  spiritual  adviser,  has  taken  the  terri- 
fied Gibson  under  his  wing,  and  will  hereafter  protect  the 
parson  from  kidnapers  and  newspaper  reporters.  He  de- 
clares that  he  will  not  permit  his  dearly  beloved  associate 
to  write  any  more  letters  to  local  journals.  The  Crier 
herewith  offers  up  a  hymn  of  thankfulness  that  Pastor 
Gibson  is  within  jurisdiction  of  Lynch  law. 

TEMPTING  bargains  in  baby  carriages  are  being 
offered  this  week  by  a  local  firm,  and  the  public  pat- 
ronage in  response  ought  to  be  encouraging  to  such 
pessimistic  souls  hereabouts  as  gloomily  exaggerated  the 
blighting  influence  of  the  new  woman.  Even  Dr.  George 
Fitch  would  be  gratified,  could  he  know  the  present 
activity  of  the  perambulator  trade  in  our  midst. 

MATTERS  in  the  pencil-will  case,  now  dragging  its 
Fair-Craven  way  through  the  courts,  are  assuming 
an  alarming  aspect.  Judge  Denson  has  been  accused  by  a 
brother  lawyer  of  perpetrating  poetry,  and  very  naturally 
smarts  under  so  damaging  a  reflection  upon  his  character. 
The  will-smashers  should  be  at  once  bound  over  to  keep 
the  peace. 

IT  is  something  of  a  coincidence  that  the  pastor  of  Oak- 
land's First  Congregational  Church  should  bear  the 
name  of  C.  R.  Brown.  The  cognomen  is  painfully  reminis- 
cent of  our  own  First  Congregational  and  its  erstwhile 
evil  genius,  C.  O.  B.  Fortunately  for  Oakland  the  Over- 
man is  missing. 

REVEREND  E.  H.  Jenks  gave  an  address  on  "The 
Perfect  Man"  at  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion last  Sunday  afternoon.  As  the  ladies  are  always  on 
the  lookout  for  this  desirable  specimen,  it  seems  a  little 
hard  that  they  should  have  been  excluded  on  this  interest- 
ing occasion. 

LANGTRY,  the  Jersey  Lily,  fearing  that  her  California 
ranch  is  going  to  pieces  for  lack  of  her  personal 
supervision,  is  hastening  hither  to  repair  it.  The  actress 
evinces  far  more  interest  in  her  farm  than  she  has  ever 
manifested  in  her  reputation. 

"  TN  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  there  is  neither  manying 
1  nor  giving  in  marriage," — a  highly  scandalous  state 
of  things,  considering  that  love  is  not  tabooed,  but  one 
which  will  commend  itself  to  the  California  contingent  of 
' '  angels." 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO 


NEWS  LETTER.  June  5,  1897. 

CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 

Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  333-334  Pine  street,  below  Mont- 
gomery.   Rooms  for  ladies  and  families;  private  entrance.    John  Bergez 
Proprietor. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111  O'Fatrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Brun. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 

Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St. .  near  Jones .    Diseases  of  women  and  children 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  In  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827  Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  V2  and  I-lb  boxes.    Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 

LADIES'     HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann   Schwarze   (known    as    Hermann    at  Strozynski's)  has  opened 
Ladies'  Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  225  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main  5»20 

BANKING. 
Bank  of  British  Columbia. 

Southeast  Cob.  Bosh  and  ISansome  Sts. 
Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up 83.000,00 

Reserve  Fund $  500.U00 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo.  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C: 
Kaslo,  B.  C 

This  Bank  transac  ts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  National  Bank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland — British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America — London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand— Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  or 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

San  FranGisco  Savings  Union. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 824,402,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus —     1,575,631 
ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.    No  charge  is  made  for 

fiass-book  or  entrance  fee.    Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.    Saturday  even- 
ngs,6:30  to  8 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  SoGiety. 

No.  526  California  Street.  San  Francisco 

Guarantee  capital  and  surplus $2  040  201  66 

CaDiial  aciuallv  paid  up  in  cash..  1  (XO  000  00 

Deposi's  December  31,  J896 27,7  0  247  45 

OFFICERS:  Pres'dent,  B.A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Presiden'.  H.  Horsiman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Henmann;  Secretary.  George  Tourny;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Mullerl  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann.  Jgn.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohtandt. 

Wells  Fargo  &  Go.'s  Bank. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 

John  J.  Valentine President 

Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.    Wadsworth Cashier 

F.  L.  Lipman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 86,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier,  j  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  HomerS.  King,  George  E.Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evann. 

SeGuritu  Savings  Bank. 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

interest  paid  on  deposits. 

LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott.  Jr.  H.H.Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O    D   Baldwin  E   J.  MeCutchell 

Adam  Grant  W.  S.  Jones  J.B.Lincoln 


ORGIA.— er  caylpso. 


w 


A   RHAPSODY    OF   MADNESS. 

HO  cares  for  nothing  alone  is  free— 
Sit  down,  good  fellow,  and  drink  with  me, 

With  a  careless  heart  and  a  merry  eye, 
He  laughs  at  the  world  as  the  world  goes  by. 

He  laughs  at  power  and  wealth  and  fame ; 

He  laughs  at  virtue  and  laughs  at  shame: 
He  laughs  at  hope  and  he  laughs  at  fear, 

At  memory's  dead  leaves  crisp  and  sere. 

He  laughs  at  the  future  cold  and  dim, 
Nor  earth  nor  heaven  is  dear  to  him, 

O,  that  is  the  comrade  fit  for  me, 
He  c.ire3  for  nothing  his  soul  is  free. 

Free  as  the  soul  of  the  fragrant  wine, 

Sit  down,  good  fellow,  my  heart  is  thine, 
For  I  heed  not  custom,  nor  creed,  nor  law, 

I  care  for  nothing  that  ever  I  saw. 
In  erery  city  my  cup  I  quaff, 

And  o'er  the  chalice  I  riot  and  laugh, 
I  laugh  like  the  cruel  and  turbulent  wave, 

I  laugh  at  the  church  and  I  laugh  at  the  grave. 

I  laugh  at  joy,  and  well  I  know 

That  I  merrily  laugh  at  woe. 
I  terribly  laugh  with  an  oath  and  a  sneer, 

When  I  think  that  the  hour  of  death  is  near. 

For  I  know  that  death  is  a  guest  divine. 

Who  shall  drink  my  blood  as  1  drink  this  wine. 
And  he  care3  for  nothing,  a  king  is  he — 

Come  on,  old  fellow,  and  drink  with  me. 
With  you  I  will  drink  to  the  solemn  past, 

Though  the  cup  I  qujff  shall  be  my  last, 
I  will  drink  to  the  phantoms  of  love  and  truth, 

To  ruined  hope  aud  a  wasted  youth. 

I  will  drink  to  the  woman  who  wrought  my  woe 

In  the  diamond  morning  of  long  ago. 
To  a  heavenly  face  in  sweet  repose, 

To  the  lily's  snow  and  the  blood  of  the  rose, 
To  the  splendor  caught  from  Orient  skies 

That  thrilled  in  the  dark  of  her  hazel  eyes. 
Her  large  eyes  wild  with  the  fire  of  the  south. 

And  dewy  wine  of  her  warm  red  mouth. 

I  will  drink  to  the  thoughtof  a  belter  time, 

To  innocence  gone  like  a  death-bell  chime, 
1  will  drink  to  the  shadow  of  coming  doom, 

To  the  phantoms  that  wait  in  my  lonely  tomb. 
1  will  drink  to  my  soul  in  its  terrible  mood, 

Dimly  and  solemnly  understood, 
And,  last  of  all  to  the  monarch  of  sin, 

Who  conquered  that  palace  and  reigns  within. 
My  sight  is  fading — it  dies  away — 

I  cannot  tell,  is  it  night  or  day  ? 
My  heart  is  burnt  and  blackened  with  pain, 

And  a  horrible  darkness  crushes  my  brain. 

I  cannot  see  you— the  end  is  nigh. 
But  we'll  laugh  together  before  I  die. 


SOMETHING    MISSING  -harry  romaine.  in  life. 

I  know  that  she  is  going  away, 
Because  the  sodden  skies  are  gray 

Instead  of  blue; 
Because  the  sun  shines  hot  and  fierce, 
Or  else  too  cold  and  weak  to  pierce 

The  dull  clouds  through. 
Because  the  thronging  crowds  I  meet 
Wear  mournful  faces  on  ihe  street, 

And  downcast  eyes; 
The  horses  have  a  jided  Iook; 
The  sparrow  chirps  from  out  his  nook 

With  restless  cries. 
I  know  that  she  is  gone  away, 
Because  each  moment  seems  a  day : 

Eich  day  a  year; 
Because  the  city  lacks  that  grace 
Which  marks  here  mere  abiding  place 

When  she  is  here! 


June  5,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


15 


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BANKING. 


"lt'»  very  absurd  for  men  to  make  fun  of  the  fashions 
which  women  adopt."  said  Miss  Cayenne,  "when  their  own 
attire  is  so   unreasonable.  It   seems   to   me,"   replied 

Willie  Wisbioglon,  "that  men  dress  very  sensibly."  "Gut 
look  at  the  absurdly  hijjh  collars  they  wear! "  "Don't  you 
know  what  they  are  for?"  "No."  "They're  for  us  to 
rest  our  chins  on  so  that  we  won't  get  so  tired  looking 
over  the  hats  in  the  theatre.   —Washington  Star. 

Mr.  Rounder  i  who  has  been  reading  the  Greek  war  news) 
—  Actium?  Let's  see,  wasn't  that  the  place  where 
Anthony  learned  the  folly  of  depending  on  a  woman's 
lidelity'.'  MB8.  ROUNDER— Nc,  sir,  it  wasn't!  Actium  was 
where  Cleopatra  tjught  an  old  masher  the  folly  of  mid- 
dle-aged men  in  running  after  other  women,  instead  of 
staying  at  home  to  support  their  families.  Served  him 
right,  too. — Truth. 

Farmer  Hayrick— Yaas,  back  f'um  collidge,  and  yer  don't 
do  nawtbin'  but  set  roun'  an'  see  other  folks  work.  I've  a 
darn  good  mind  tew  send  ye  up  tew  t1  county  fair  as  a 
prize  pig!  Claude  Hayrick—  I  wouldn't  take  a  prize, 
rather.  'Ye  wouldn't!  Yer  a  big  'nuff  pig!"  "Yes, 
father,  but  I  haven't  any  pedigree!" — New  York  Evening 
Journal. 

"I  think,"  said  the  man  who  had  bought  a  season  ticket 
to  the  opera,  whispering  to  his  neighbor,  "that  I'll  try  to 
have  my  seat  changed.  Every  night  that  girl  sits  in  front 
of  me  with  that  same  huge  hat  on  and — "  "Excuse  me," 
said  the  girl,  turning  round  indignantly,  "it's  a  different 
hat  every  night." — Truth. 

He — Well,  what  are  you  speaking  about,  now?  She 
(severely) — Why  were  you  so  cool  to  Mrs.  Masham  this 
evening?  He — Was  I?  I  didn't  know  it.  Sue — Oh  yes, 
you  did,  wretch!  You  were  afraid  of  arousing  my  sus- 
picions by  showing  your  real  feelings.  Oh,  you  brute! — 
Truth. 

Dismal  Davis — Say,  boss,  yer  believe  in  de  savin'  dat 
money  talks'  Uncle  Ruben — Yes,  what  of  it?  Dismal 
Davis — Yez  see  I  gets  so  lonesome  walkin'  around  wid  me- 
self  dat  if  yer  could  give  me  a  dime  fer  company  it'd  make 
me  feel  better. — Odds  and  Ends. 

Mother — Well,  what  did  the  minister  ask  you  to-day, 
Willie?  Willie — He  asked  me  what  I'd  hev  done  if  I'd 
lived  durin'  the  flood.  Mother— And  what  did  you  tell 
him?  Willie — I  told  him  I  wouldn't  a'  done  a  t'ing  but 
fish  and  swim. — Odds  and  Ends. 

"Of  course,  all  my  aunts  say  that  the  baby  looks  like 
me,"  said  the  blushing  young  man.  "What does  your  wife 
say  to  that?"  asked  the  elder  man.  "Well,  she  admits 
that  perhaps  I  may  resemble  the  baby  a  little."— Indiana- 
polis Journal. 

Visitor  (in  Washington) — Isn't  it  unusually  dark  this 
morning?  Democratic  Congressman  (with  much  ferocity) 
— Yes;  the  sun  is  rising  very  reluctantly.  It  is  afraid 
Speaker  Reed  won't  recognize  it. — Chicago  Record. 

Smith — I  wish  I  had  studied  boxing  when  I  was  a  boy. 
You  see,  I  need  it  so  much  ic  my  profession.  Jones  (sur- 
prised)— What!  As  a  lawyer?  Smith — No.  As  a  father. 
— Odds  and  Euds. 

The  Poet — Poets  are  born,  not  made.  She — I  know.  I 
wasn't  blaming  you. — Town  Topics. 

Food  Value  of  Cocoa. 
The  International  Journal  of  Surgery  says:  "  Experience  bas  shown 
that  a  properly  prepared  cocoa  product  constitutes  an  ideal  beverage 
for  invalids  and  convalescents,  acting  as  a  mild  nerve  stimulant  and 
at  the  same  time  supplying  a  considerable  amount  of  available  nutri- 
tive material.  Such  a  product  is  Walter  Baker  &  Co.'s  Cocoa,  which 
differs  from  all  preparations  of  its  kind  in  tbat  in  the  process  of  manu- 
facture great  care  is  taken  to  retain,  in  a  pure  and  unaltered  form, 
those  active  principles  and  nutritive  elf  ments  of  cocoa  seed  which 
render  it  both  a  luxury  and  a  food.  This  preparation  is  esteemed  an 
agreeable,  comforting,  and  nourishing  beverage  in  chronic  disorders, 
during  convalescence  from  exhausting  diseases,  for  feeble  children, 
and  during  the  alter  treatment  of  severe  surgical  operations." 


Bank  of  California,  San  Francisco. 

Capital  $3,000,000  00 

Surplus    and    UndlvUIrd 
Profits    (Octoni-r  I.  I8M1        3, 1.=.K,I2P  70 

WILLIAM  ALVORU Preside!  E8  R,  UISHOP.  VloePres't 

ALLEN  M.  CLAY BecretarS    THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Prentiss  Smith...  Ass't  Cannier  1 1.  F.  Moui.ton 2d  Ass't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laldlaw  &  Co.;  the  Bank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Boston— Tremont  National  Bunk;  London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  & 
Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Rothschild  Freres;  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— 
AgeocyofThe  Bank  of  California;  Chicago— Union  National  Bank,  and 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  [tank;  Australia  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
New  Zealand;  China.  Japan,  and  India— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Austra- 
lia and  China;  St.  Louis— Boatman's  Bank. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Draws  Direct  on  New  York.  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louts,  Salt  Lake 
Denver,  Kansas  City,  New  Orleans.  Portland,  Or.,  Los  Angeles,  and  on 
London,  Paris,  Berlin.  Bremen,  Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-Maln,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm, Chrlstianla,  Melbourne,  Sydney.  Auckland,  Hongkong,  Shang- 
hai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  olties  fn  Italy. 

California  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Gompanij. 

Cor   California  and   Montgomery  Sts. 

Capi till  Fully  Paid $1 ,000  000 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  interest  on  duposiis  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice. 

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator,  and  Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity.  W  ills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  takeo  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE  DEPOSIT  BOXES  'o  rent  at  prices  from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward according  to  size,  am  valuab'es  of  all  kinds  are  sto<ed  at  low  rates. 

Directors:  J.  D  b'ry,  Henry  Williams,  I.  G.  Wickerj.ham  Jacob  C. 
Juhnson,  James  Treadwell,  F.  W.  Lougpe.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R  B.  Wal- 
lace. R.  D  Fry.  A    D  Sharon    and  J    Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  .1.  D  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry,  Second  Vice  President;  J  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.  Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary ;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

33   Post    Street,    below    Kearny, 
Mecbanics'  Institute  Buildinr 

Guaranteed  Capital 81 .000.000 

Paid-Up  Capital *  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vioe-President. 

JOHN  A.   HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors — James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,   John   A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks,    WhenopeuiDg  accounts  send  signatuie. 

London,  Paris  and  American  Bank,  Limited. 

N.w.  Cor.  Sansome  &  Sdtter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital 82,500,000 

Paid  Up  Capital 82,iwi).ti(i0 

Reserve  Fund 8    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Poissoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.    Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM1  Ma_a_.p. 
C.  ALTSCHUL  J  Managers. 

The  flnglo-Galifornian  Bank,  Limited. 

Capital   authorized 86,000,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000 

Paid    Up I,5uu,ou0 

Reserve   Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cob.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts 
Head  Office—  18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co..  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills 'or  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  IGN.  STE1NHART     lManft„prH 

P.N.  LILIENTHAL  f  managers 

GroGker-Woolworth  National  Bank  of  S.  F. 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery, 

and  Post  Streets. 

Paid-Op  Capital $1,000,000 

WM.  H.  CROCKER President 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond.  Hy.  J.Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

The  Sather  Banking  Company.. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 
Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

CAPITAL 11.000.000 

James  K.Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller.  Vice-President 

L.  I.Cowgill.  Cashier.  F    W.Wolfe.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E  G.  Lukens,  F.  W.  Sumner.  Albert  Mil 
ler   Wm  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf.  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics*  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Barjes  &  Co 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  5,  1897. 


NOTES   OF  THE   ARMY  AND   NAVY. 


THERE  has  been  considerable  talk  about  a  wholesale 
transfer  of  troops  this  year  from  one  station  to  an- 
other, which  would  have  involved  the  removal  of  the  First 
Infantry  from  this  coast,  but  as  the  cost  of  transportation 
and  other  necessary  expenses  would  mean  an  outlay  of 
about  $75,000,  Secretary  Alger  has  decided  not  to  make 
the  transfers. 

A  matter  of  interest  to  army  and  navy  officers  who  con- 
template going  abroad  is  the  fact  that  hereafter  special 
passports  will  be  issued  to  them  whether  the  trip  be  made 
officially  or  personally.  Heretofore  only  those  officers  who 
went  on  official  business  were  granted  these  special  pass- 
ports, which  was  a  certain  deprivation  to  those  who  trav- 
eled for  personal  reasons  and  at  their  own  expense. 

In  New  York  city,  on  May  20th,  Mr.  H.  E.  Keyes,  son 
of  the  late  General  E.  D.  Keyes,  U.  S.  A.,  was  married  to 
Miss  Mary  Louise  Ward,  daughter  of  Captain  G.  S.  L. 
Ward,  U.  S.  A.,  retired. 

One  of  our  esteemed  weekly  contemporaries  indulged  in 
a  semi-satirical  editorial  last  Saturday,  in  which  it  inveighed 
against  Lieutenant  Peary,  of  the  United  States  Navy,  who 
is  known  prominently  as  the  Arctic  explorer.  There  was 
one  thing  correct  about  the  editorial:  to  wit,  that  Civil 
Engineer  C.  E.  Peary  is  not  a  naval  officer.  There  is  not 
an  officer  of  that  name  in  the  naval  service,  but  there  is  a 
Civil  Engineer  R.  E.  Peary  in  the  naval  service  who  is 
properly  registered  as  an  officer  in  the  United  States 
Navy,  and  who  bears  the  relative  title  of  Lieutenant.  It 
may  also  interest  the  writer  of  the  article  to  know  that  a 
Lieutenant  is  never  addressed  colloquially  by  his  title;  he 
is  simply  Mister. 

The  vessels  in  the  United  States  Revenue  Cutter  Service 
on  this  coast  are  the  Bear,  en  route  to  Bering  Sea,  the 
Grant,  Perry,  and  Rush,  all  at  Seattle,  Washington,  and 
the  Golden  Gate,  at  San  Francisco. 

The  Minneapolis  will  be  ordered  home  and  go  into  the 
reserve  squadron  as  soon  as  hostilities  cease  in  Europe. 
She  has  been  found  to  be  too  expensive  to  keep  in  active 
service  when  the  extent  of  her  usefulness  is  taken  into  con- 
sideration. 

The  Marion,  which  was  scheduled  to  sail  to  Samoa,  is  dis- 
abled at  Honolulu.  A  board  of  officers  declared  a  new  en- 
gine bed  necessary  to  make  her  seaworthy,  and  it  is  now 
being  constructed. 

At  last  accounts  the  Adams  was  at  Honolulu  preparing 
to  sail  for  Puget  Sound. 

Rear  Admiral  J.  N.  Miller,  U.  S.  N,  will  sail  to  England 
on  the  cruiser  Brooklyn  to  represent  the  United  States 
Navy  at  Queen  Victoria's  Jubilee.  His  staff  consists  of 
Commander  William  H".  Emory,  U.  S.  N.,  chief  of  staff; 
Lieutenant  T.  S.  Rodgers,  U.  S.  N.,  flag  lieutenant;  and 
Lieutenant  Philip  Andrews,  U.  S.  N,  secretary.  The 
Brooklyn  was  recently  presented  with  a  handsome  set  of 
silver  service  by  the  citizens  of  the  city  of  Brooklyn. 

Rear  Admiral  George  Brown,  U.  S.  N,  the  senior  rear 
admiral  in  the  service,  was  placed  on  the  retired  list  last 
Tuesday. 

Major  General  Frank  L.  Wheaton,  U.  S.  A.,  retired, 
and  his  family  intend  to  pass  the  next  two  years  abroad. 

Three  Colonels  have  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Brigadier-General.  They  are  Colonel  William  M.  Graham, 
Fifth  Artillery,  U.  S.  A. ,  Colonel  James  F.  Wade,  Fifth 
Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Colonel  John  K.  Mizner,  Tenth 
Cavalry,  U.  S.  A. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  John  I.  Rodgers,  Second  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Colonel  and 
transferred  to  the  Fifth  Artillery. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  William  E.  Waters,  Medical  Depart- 
ment U.  S.  A.,  will  be  relieved  from  duty  at  Columbus 
Barracks  on  July  15th,  and  then  proceed  home  to  await 
retirement  at  his  own  request. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Marcus  P.  Miller,  First  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  is  enjoying  six  weeks'  leave  of  absence. 

Colonel  B.  J.  D.  Irwin,  U.  S.  A.,  retired,  is  residing  at 
Aiken,  S.  C. 

Lieutenant-Commander  Richardson  Clover,  U.  S.  N., 
has  been  detached  from  the  command  of  the  Dolphin,  and 
granted  tive  months'  leave  of  absence. 


Major  William  L.  Haskins,  First  Artillery,  U.S.A., 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  and 
transferred  to  the  Second  Artillery.  He  was  stationed 
at  the  Presidio  several  years  ago. 

Major  John  A.  Darling,  U.  S.  A.,  is  apparently  between 
the  devil  and  the  deep  blue  sea.  President  McRHey  has 
an  idea  of  revoking  the  order  of  the  last  administration 
which  provided  for  Major  Darling's  retirement  in  June,  in 
order  that  the  latter  may  be  sent  to  Austria  as  military 
attache  of  the  United  States  Legation  at  Vienna.  Secre- 
tary Alger,  so  it  is  said,  has  declined  to  order  Major  Dar- 
ling to  Vienna,  but  influence  is  being  put  to  bear  upon  him 
to  reconsider  this  determination. 

Major  Thomas  H.  Barry,  First  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  relieved  from  duty  at  the  War  Department  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  and  ordered  to  perform  the  duties  of  en- 
gineer and  signal  officer  at  the  headquarters  of  the  De- 
partment of  Columbia. 

Major  M.  J.  Cooney,  Fourth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  has  been 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  trans- 
ferred to  the  Third  Cavalry. 

Captain  G.  H.  Gale,  Fourth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  is  en 
route  to  the  Yosemite  National  Park  with  Company  C. 

Captain  J.  A.  Augur,  Fifth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  has  been 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major  and  transferred  to  the 
Fourth  Cavalry. 

Captain  James  B.  Erwin,  Fourth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  is 
en  route  from  Fort  Walla  Walla  to  Fort  Yellowstone  with 
Troops  D  and  H,  and  expects  to  reach  his  destination 
about  June  21st. 

Medical  Director  George  W.  Woods,  U.  S.  N,  formerly 
of  Mare  Island,  is  now  on  duty  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Medical  Director  A.  L.  Gihon,  U.  S.  N,  retired,  is  re- 
siding at  233  Fifth  avenue,  New  York  city. 

Passed  Assistant  Paymaster  E.  D.  Ryan,  U.  S.  N.,  has 
been  ordered  to  duty  on  the  Concord. 

Passed  Assistant  Engineer  H.  W.  Jones,  U.  S.  N,  of 
the  Thetis,  came  down  from  Mare  Island  last  Saturday  to 
visit  friends  for  a  few  days,  and  registered  at  the  Occi- 
dental Hotel. 

Assistant  Engineer  G.  H.  Shepard,  U.  S.  N.,  is  at  Sa- 
linas, Cal.,  on  waiting  orders. 

Post  Chaplain  W.  F.  Hubbard,  U.  S.  A.,  is  at  943  Tenth 
street,  San  Diego,  on  sick  leave. 

Lieutenant  Clermont  L.  Best,  First  Artillery  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain. 

Lieutenant  W.  C.  P.  Muir,  U.  S.  N.,  is  on  waiting  orders 
at  Shelbyville,  Ky. 

Lieutenant  H.  Osterhaus,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  ordered  to 
a  course  of  instruction  at  the  War  College. 

Lieutenant  William  C.  Davis,  Fifth  Artillery,  U.  S.  A., 
will  go  to  Fort  Collins,  Colo.,  on  September  1st,  to  act  as 
professor  of  military  science  and  tactics  at  the  State  Agri- 
cultural College  of  Colorado. 

Lieutenant  John  W.  Joyes,  Ordnance  Department, 
U.  S.  A.,  will  be  relieved  from  duty  at  the  West  Point 
Military  Academy  on  July  21st,  and  then  report  to  the 
Chief  of  Ordnance  for  duty. 

Second  Lieutenant  E.  S.  McGlauchlin  Jr.,  Fifth  Artil- 
lery, U.  S.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  First 
Lieutenant  and  transferred  to  the  First  Artillery. 

Additional  Second  Lieutenant  Lloyd  England,  Third  Ar- 
tillery, U.  S.  A. ,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Second 
Lieutenant  and  transferred  to  the  Fifth  Artillery. 

Ensign  L.  S.  Thompson,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  detached 
from  the  Alliance  and  ordered  to  a  course  of  instruction 
at  the  War  College. 

The  reported  engagement  of  Miss  Myra  Noyes,  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  to  Ensign  Yates  Stirling,  U.  S.  N.,  has 
been  denied  by  the  young  lady. 

Passed  Assistant  Surgeon  E.  P.  Stone,  U.  S.  N.,  came 
down  from  Mare  Island  last  Tuesday  and  passed  a  few 
days  at  the  California  Hotel. 

The  army  and  navy  were  represented  at  four  weddings 
during  this  week  and  each  affair  possessed  many  elements 
of  pleasure.  The  first  wedding  was  that  of  Lieutenant 
Thomas  A.  Pearce,  Seventh  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Miss 
Minnie  Burton,  daughter  of  Colonel  George  H.  Burton, 
U.  S.  A.,  Inspector  General  of  the  Pacifio  District.    The 


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wedding  took  place  last  Thursday  afternoon  at  the  home 
of  the  bride's  parents  on  Pacific  avenue.  Rev.  G.  E.  Walk- 
officiating. 

Next  in  line  came  the  wedding  of  Miss  Btbel  Cohen  "\nd 
Lieutenant  Bent,  which  was  solemnized  at  the  First  Uni- 
tarian Chur.h  on  Wednesday  night.  Two  noticeable  fea- 
tures in  the  Church  programme  were  promised — the  deco- 
rations and  music — and  in  both  respects  the  anticipations 
formed  were  fully  realized.  The  decorations  were  more 
military  in  character  than  are  usually  seen  in  a  church, 
the  national  colors  taking  a  very  prominent  part,  stacks 
of  arms,  etc.,  etc.,  and  were  artistic  to  a  degree.  The 
front  of  the  organ  was  draped  with  flags  and  ornamented 
with  palm  leaves  and  white  flowers.  To  the  left  of  the  or- 
gan two  large  flags  gracefully  draped  the  window  at  the 
rear  of  the  platform  in  the  center  of  the  church,  and  di- 
rectly in  front  of  it  stood  a  pretty  tent-like  canopy  of  Bags, 
which  was  adorned  with  white  flowers,  giant  palms  being 
placed  at  the  foot  of  the  four  supports  and  stacks  of  arms 
surrounding  it;  the  background  was  filled  in  with  a  solid 
bank  of  Bermuda  lilies,  the  effect  of  the  whole  being  ex- 
tremely beautiful.  From  the  moment  that  the  doors 
opened  until  the  bridal  party  entered,  the  ushers,  Lieut- 
enants R.  C.  Croxton,  J.  P.  Haines.  R.  F.  Gardner,  S.  McP 
Rutherford.  Dana  Kilburn.  and  D.  E.  Nolan,  who  were  all 
in  full  uniform,  had  their  hands  full  finding  seats  for  the 
immense  throng  of  friends  who  filled  the  church;  a  few 
were  in  evening  dress,  the  majority  being  in  calling  cos- 
tume. During  the  assembling  of  the  guests  the  Lyric 
Quartette,  under  the  leadership  of  Mrs.  Martin  Scbultz, 
sang  several  selections,  and  finally  the  Bridesmaid's  chorus 
from  Lohengrin,  which  changed  to  a  bridal  Hymn,  the 
words  of  which  were  written  by  Greer  Harrison.  At  its 
first  notes  forth  from  the  door  to  the  right  of  the  organ 
emerged  the  maid  of  honor,  Miss  Emma  Butler,  and  the  six 
bridesmaids — the  Misses  Julia  Crocker,  Helen  Wagner,  Ida 
Gibbons,  Alice  Moffatt,  Bernice  Drown,  and  Marguerite 
Joliffe.  They  proceeded  down  the  center  aisle  to  meet  the 
rest  of  the  party  as  it  entered  the  church.  The  proces- 
sion then  re-formed,  the  ushers  leading,  then  the  brides- 
maids, followed  by  themaid-of-honor,  and  finally  the  stately 
bride  walking  alone.  She  presented  a  striking  and  hand- 
some appearance;  her  robe  of  heavy  white  satin  was  made 
with  a  court  train,  the  body  trimmed  with  chiffon  and 
orange  blossoms;  she  also  wore  orange  blossoms  in  her 
hair.  A  voluminous  tulle  veil  quite  enveloped  her  figure, 
and  she  carried  on  her  left  arm  a  large  cluster  of  St.  Jos- 
eph lilies.  Miss  Butler,  as  maid  of  honor,  wore  a  gown  of 
blue  organdie  cut  decollete,  and  with  innumerable  little 
frills  upon  the  skirt;  the  gowns  of  the  bridesmaids  were 
similar  in  style,  but  were  all  of  pure  white.  They  also 
wore  short  tulle  veils  from  the  back  of  their  heads,  and 
each  carried  a  shower  bouquet  of  red  sweet  peas.  At  the 
bower  the  groom  and  his  best  man,  Lieutenant  Carson, 
awaited  their  coming,  and  the  Reverend  Dr.  Stebbins 
speedily  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  After  the  church  ser- 
vice the  bridal  party,  relatives,  and  a  tew  intimate  friends 
of  the  family  proceeded  to  the  residence  of  the  bride's  un- 
cle, Dr.  Henry  Gibbons,  where  supper,  prepared  by  the 
well  known  caterer,  Max  Abraham,  was  served  at  a 
number  of  small  tables  placed  in  the  several  rooms.  The 
decorations  here  were  simple  but  pretty,  pink  being  the 
prevailing  hue.  Lieutenant,  and  Mrs.  Bent  departed  upon 
their  honeymoon  trip  on  Thursday,  and  upon  their  return 
will  occupy  one  of  the  cottages  at  the  Presidio.  Wednes- 
day was  prolific  of  society  weddings,  for  in  addition  to  that 
of  Miss  Cohen  were  those  of  Miss  Anna  Grube  and  Harry 
Durbrow;  Miss  Josephine  Eichbaume  and  Frank  Hosmer. 

The  navy  was  represented  on  Tuesday  at  a  quiet  little 
wedding  that  took  place  over  in  Oakland.  The  groom  was 
Assistant  Paymaster  John  Irwin  Jr.,  U.  S.  N.,  of  the 
Thetis,  son  of  Rear  Admiral  Irwin,  U.  S.  N.,  retired. 
The  fair  bride  was  Miss  Genevieve  English,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  M.  English,  a  bright  and  handsome 
girl  who  is  very  popular  in  society.  Only  intimate  friends 
and  relatives  were  present  at  the  wedding.  The  honey- 
moon is  being  passed  on  a  trip  up  north.  They  will  make 
Oakland  their  home. 


Jackson's  Napa  Soda  leaves  a  good  taste  in  the  mouth. 
Liver  Complaints  cured  by  Beecham's  Pills. 


ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 
Justice  Mining  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  1. f  business— Sun   Francisco,  Cal. 


Looatlon 
of  works— Gold  Hill.  Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  nt  a  mccltug  of  the  Board  of  Direotors,  held 
on  the  third  (SruJ  >iu>  of  May,  1897,  an  assessment.  No.  62,  of  live 
(5)  cents  per  si  tried  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 

payable  immediately  in  Urn  U  -ul  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 

offloe  of  tho  company,  room  23,  Nevada  Block,  *09  Montgomery  street,  San 
l-'ram-iseo,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
7th  DAY  OF  JUNK,  1897,; 
will  bo  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  publio  auction;  and,  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  2xth day  of  June, 
1897,   to   pay  the  delinquent   assessment,  together  with  the  eosts  of  ad- 
vertising and  expenses  of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Direotors. 

R.  E.  KELLY,  Secretary. 

Office;  Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Franolsoo, 
Cal. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Alta  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Looa- 
tlon of  works— Gold  Hill.  Gold  Hill  M  lning  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on   the    2lst   day  of    May,  1897,  an  assessment   (No.  56),  of   five  cents 

fier  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco, 
California. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
25th    DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent,  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before  will  be  sold  on  Friday,  the  tethday  of  July,  1897,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  E.  JACOBUS,  Secretary. 
Office — Room  33,  Nevada    Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,   San  Francisco, 
Cal. 


ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 

Challenge  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Locationof  principal  plnce  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location 
of  works — Gold  Hill,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  13th  day  of  May,  11-97,  an  assessment  (No  23)  of  Ten  cents  (10c) 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  room  35,  third  floor  of  Mills  building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
16th  DAY  OF  JUNE,  1897, 
will  be  delinquent  and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction:  and  unless 
payment  is  made  before,  -w  ill  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  8th  day  of 
July.  1897.  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

C.  L.  McCOY,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  35,  third  floor  of  Mills  building,  N.  E.  corner  Bush  and 
Montgomery  streets,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 
Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company, 

Assessment No.  81 

Amount  per  Share 20  cente 

Levied April  24, 1897 

Delinquent  in  Office June  1,  1897 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock June  22,  1807 

ALFRED.  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary 
Office:    Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

ASSESSMENT     NOTICE. 
Occidental  Con.  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  27 

Amount  per  Share 10  cents 

Levied May  11,  1897 

Delinquent  In  Office June  12, 1897 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock July  1,  1897 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ANNUAL     MEETING 

Crown  Point  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

The   regular  annual  meeting  of   the  stockholders  of  the  Crown  Point 

Gold  and  Silver  Mlniny  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company, 

rooms  35  and  36,  third  floor  Mills  Building,  corner  Buth  and  Montgomery 

streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal .,  on 

MONDAY',  the  7th  DAY'  OF  JUNE.  1897, 
at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  M.,  for  the  election  of  a  Board  of  Directors  to 
serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as 
may  come  before  the  meeting.     Transfer  books  will  close  on  Thursday, 
June  3.  1897,  at  3  o'clock  p.  M. 

JAMES  NEWLANDS,  Secretary. 
Office — Rooms  35  and  36,  Mills  Building,  corner  Bush  and  Montgomery 
streets,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

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Importers  and  Jobbers  of 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  5,  1897. 


OP  all  the  accomplishments  which  Henry  J.  Crocker  has 
mastered,  that  which  gives  him  the  greatest  pleasure 
and  of  which  he  is  most  proud,  is  his  dexterity  as  an  ama- 
teur pickpocket.  The  deftness  with  which  he  can  "nip" 
a  handkerchief,  or  "lift"  a  watch,  is  often  a  cause  of  un- 
pleasant surprise  to  his  friends,  who  miss  scarf-pins  and 
jewelled  pencils  after  a  tUe-a-tUe  with  the  genial  founder  of 
the  Horse  Show.  He  often  affects  to  join  in  the  search 
for  such  missing  articles,  and  when  the  lost  is  found, 
Crocker's  simulated  surprise  is  a  rare  study. 

At  the  Call  Board,  on  Tuesday,  he  quietly  appropriated 
Henry  Sherwood's  timepiece.  The  intrinsic  value  of  the 
watch  was  not  great,  but  Sherwood  had  owned  it  for 
twenty  years,  it  had  been  with  him  in  the  big  Sperry  fire 
at  PasoRobles,  and  it  Dot  only  registered  the  day,  month 
and  year,  but  it  also  called  the  turn  on  the  moon.  Sher- 
wood was  in  despair  until  be  recalled  Crocker's  practical 
jokes.  Then  he  lost  no  time  in  demanding  its  return,  and 
what  was  apparently  his  watch  was  promptly  passed  over 
to  him.  It  was  really  an  ancient  timepiece  of  Crocker's 
own,  of  a  similar  design  to  Sherwood's,  but  the  former  had 
had  the  face  repainted  so  that  the  numeral  twelve  ad- 
joined seven,  two  came  after  niue,  and  the  moon  was  hope- 
lessly mixed  up  with  the  date.  Sherwood  studied  it  in  be- 
wilderment, to  Crocker's  huge  delight. 

"Better  swear  off,  my  boy,"  cautioned  the  joker. 
Sherwood  made  no   reply,    but,  in   an   affected  frenzy, 
dashed  the  watch  on  the  floor.     Crocker  ceased   to  smile. 
"What  are   you  doing   that  for?"  he   demanded.     "Do 
you  want  to  ruin  the  watch?" 

"It's  no  good,"  said  Sherwood,  gloomily.  "Besides,  it's 
my  watch,  isn't  it?"  and  he  procured  a  poker  to  complete 
the  work  of  demolition. 

Crocker  never  realized  how  much  he  prized  his  own  old 
watch,  until  he  saw  the  destructive  poker  descending 
towards  its  face. 

"Here,  that's  mine!"  he  shouted.  "Take  your  own," 
and  he  fished  the  genuine  article  from  the  depths  of  his 
pocket. 

Sherwood  smiled  blandly,  but  said  nothing. 
"It's  no  fun  playing  a   joke  on  you,"  growled  Crocker. 
"You  lack  the  saving  sense  of  humor!" 
And  tben  Sherwood's  smile  broadened. 

*  *  * 
Opinions  are  divided  in  the  Bohemian  Club  on  the  gen- 
eral question  of  whether  Bert  Stone's  temporary  resump- 
tion of  bachelorhood  is  altogether  an  unmixed  blessing. 
However,  Bert  has  not  failed  to  improve  the  shining  mo- 
ments, and  he  considers  that  the  others  should  not  object 
to  his  spreading  his  wings  once  in  two  years,  even  at  the 
cost  of  a  little  momentary  disturbance.  His  constant 
companions  during  his  vacation  are  Ed  Hughie  and  the 
latter's  brindled  bull-pup.  After  a  day  of  exacting  enjoy- 
ment, the  three  went  to  a  German  restaurant  a  few 
nights  ago,  when  the  pup  ate  shrimps  iu  the  shell,  but 
struck  at  drinking  Bavarian  beer  from  a  stein.  There 
were  several  disagreements  about  other  courses,  but 
finally  alt  three  dined  to  their  general  satisfaction. 

Thereafter,  the  men  concluded  to  spend  the  evening  at 
the  Orpheum,  but  the  dog  objecting,  it  was  decided,  after 
a  prolonged  debate,  to  go  without  him.  Accordingly, 
Hughie  dragged  the  pup  by  a  rope  to  Powell  street,  and 
hailed  a  passing  green  car.  After  a  hard  tussle,  the 
canine  sport  was  landed  on  the  dummy,  where  be  was  se- 
curely fastened  by  his  master,  Stone  meanwhile,  with 
folded  arms,  assuming  his  favorite  Napoleonic  attitude  of 
victory  on  the  pavement.  Then  Hughie  also  jumped  off 
the  car,  and  started  to  walk  unconcernedly  away. 

"By  the  way,"  he  called  over  his  shoulder  to  the  grip- 
man,  with  cheerful  coolness.  "Just  let  that  dog  off  at 
Octavia  street,  will  you?" 

"Well,  of  all  the  dashed  cheek!  But  I'm  damned  if  I 
don't,  young  fellow!"  ejaculated  the  admiring  gripman. 


To  the  guests  of  the  Palace  Hotel  is  periodically  ac- 
corded a  spectacular  treat  when  Chris  Henne,  the  Beau 
Brummel  of  Stanford  University,  comes  up  from  Palo 
Alto  from  Saturday  to  Monday.  His  apparel  is  unique  in 
its  gorgeousness,  lavish  of  flaming  colors,  and  fantastical 
in  its  effects.  As  he  sails  about  the  court  of  the  Palace, 
spectators  line  the  balconies  and  gaze  upon  his  glory 
through  opera  glasses.  Chris  is  said  to  be  the  beloved 
son  of  adoring  parents,  who,  residing  in  an  interior  town, 
desire  their  offspring  to  dazzle  the  world,  and  to  that  end 
lavish  their  ducats  upon  the  whimsicalities  of  the  radiant 
young  creature.  Henne  was  being  piloted  about  town  a 
few  days  ago,  by  a  hotel  acquaintance,  when  the  organ- 
izer of  the  Yukon  River  expedition  espied  one  of  the  tall, 
narrow  ladders  used  by  window  cleaners.  He  became  so 
deeply  interested  that  he  examined  the  ladder  carefully 
from  every  point  of  view. 

"Now,  what  do  you  suppose  that's  for?"  inquired 
Henne. 

"Rescue  work — dive  brigade!'"  was   the  staccato  reply. 

"Really!"  exclaimed  the  scholarly  fop,  innocently.  "I 
have  often  wondered  how  they  got  down  to  the  slums!" 

*  *  * 

The  Bohemian  Club  has  made  a  movement  to  encourage 
its  artist  members,  which  is  already  meeting  with  marked 
success.  Under  the  direction  of  Mr.  W.  G.  Stafford,  who 
is  an  art  connoisseur,  and  always  an  active  friend  of  the 
artists,  the  social  room  is  now  used  for  the  exhibition  of 
pictures,  not  merely  for  the  delectation  of  the  members  of 
the  club,  but  for  sale.  A  memorandum  is  kept  of  the 
prices  the  painters  put  upon  their  works,  and  the  club 
acts  really  as  the  artists'  agent.  Another  change  has  been 
the  restriction  of  ladies'  day  to  the  first  Wednesday  of  the 
month.  Formerly  the  female  friends  of  the  members  were 
free  of  the  club  rooms  every  Wednesday  afternoon.  This 
rule  meets  the  approbation  of  those  stern  old  bachelors 
who  do  not  like  to  be  disturbed  at  their  whist  or  news- 
paper, while  the  young  fellows,  who  enjoy  the  frou-frou  of 
the  silken  garments  of  the  sex,  growl  at  the  change. 

*  *  * 

To  defray  the  expenses  of  the  coming  Christian  En- 
deavor convention  in  this  city,  the  societies  connected  with 
the  various  churches  were  assessed  certain  sums  propor- 
tionate to  their  numerical  strength.  The  Swedish  church 
was  eager  to  contribute  its  quota,  but  experienced  no 
little  difficulty  in  securing  the  actual  cash  from  many  en- 
thusiastic subscribers.  A  meeting  of  the  congregation 
was  called  to  discuss  ways  and  means,  and  it  was  gener- 
ally agreed  that  it  would  be  necessary  to  canvass  the 
church  for  the  needed  amount.  Old  John  Swanson,  the 
sailmaker,  was  an  interested  listener,  and  anxious  to 
assist. 

"  You  needn't  worry  'bout  dat,"  he  said,  heartily.  "1 
thank  I  got  plenty  cloth  in  my  loft  to  canvas  the  church. 
You  can  have  it  for  notting  to  canvas  the  church  !  " 

*  *  * 

It  is  not  generally  known,  but  it  is  nevertheless  a  fact, 
that  Ambrose  Bierce,  now  a  resident  of  Los  Gatos,  de- 
votes nearly  all  his  leisure  time  to  the  training  of  horned 
toads.  Mr.  Bierce  has  collected  several  hundreds  of  those 
intelligent  reptiles,  and  puts  them  through  their  "acts"  in 
great  shape.  They  can,  under  his  direction,  draw  toy 
carriages,  tumble,  wrestle,  stand  on  their  heads,  play 
dead  toad,  roll  over,  play  leap-frog  to  perfection,  and 
execute  many  other  surprising  feats.  Mr.  Bierce's 
"toadery"  is  remote  from  the  public  eye,  but  the  small 
boy  still  peereth  through  the  hole  in  the  fence  at  the 
satirist's  circus,  and   is   aghast   at   the  magical  power  he 

wields. 

*  *  * 

The  University  Club  has  been  boasting  so  much  of  late 
about  the  superiority  of  its  cuisine  to  that  of  any  other 
club  in  town,  that  a  tournament  of  chefs  may  be  looked  for 
among  the  novelties  of  the  near  future.  A  dinner,  or 
rather  a  series  of  dinners,  cooked  by  the  artists  of  the 
different  clubs  in  competition,  and  their  merits  judged  by 
a  syndicate  of  epicures,  would  be  a  most  interesting  con- 
test. Of  course  the  epicures  would  have  to  lay  up  for  re- 
pairs after  their  trying  labors,  but  then  this  much  mooted 
and  perplexing  question,  "Which  club  has  the  best  cook?" 
would  be  settled  at  once  and  forever. 


June  5,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  I.KTTKR 


Business  frequently  take>  Frank  Shea,  the  City  Hall 
architect,  to  the  Other  side  of  the  hay.  ami  a  story  relat- 
ing to  one  of  these  pilgrimages  is  ^oiii^'  the  rounds  of  the 
Builders'  Exchange,  where  Shea  is  held  in  hiph  esteem. 
When  he  boards  his  train  at  the  Oakland  mole,  Shea  usu- 
ally occupies  a  certain  seat,  where  he  is  frequently  joined 
by  one  or  two  friends,  who  endeavor,  through  various  de- 
vices, to  break  the  tedium  of  the  trip.  After  he  had  com- 
fortably settled  himself  in  the  car  one  day,  about  a  week 
ago,  Frank  was  disappointed  to  find  no  one  about  whom 
he  knew.  As  it  happened,  he  had  just  come  from  a  hii;h 
lunch,  lasting  all  afternoon,  and  was  in  a  particularly 
talkative  mood.  Immediately  behind  him,  in  the  car,  sat 
a  lady  who  was  escorting  home  a  nice,  new,  green  parrot. 
With  somewhat  of  an  effort,  he  squared  himself  in  his  seat. 

"'  Polly  talk  ?  "  he  inquired,  jauntily. 

No  reply  being  vouchsafed  by  the  bird,  Shea  turned  to 
the  owner,  and  asked,  blandly  : 

"  Madam  does  your  parrot  speak  ?  " 

The  lady  paid  no  attention  to  the  question,  and  the  ar- 
chitect again  addressed  her. 

"Madam  !  "  rather  reproachfully.  "Madam  !  "  louder. 
Then  crescendo  "Madam!  I  say,  does  your  parrot 
talk  ?" 

Much  affronted,  the  woman  affected  not  to  hear,  and 
gazed  with  seeming  unconcern  out  of  the  window.  Shea  re- 
garded her  attentively  for  several  seconds.  Then  he  rose 
with  an  air  of  having  solved  a  problem,  bowed  a  trifle  un- 
steadily, and  with  inimitable  dignity  made  a  concluding 
remark : 

"Madam."  he  said,  solemnly,  "I  comprehend.  There 
is  the  place  for  you  and  the  parrot — that  long,  red  building 
over  yonder." 

And  with  an  indicating  finger  he  pointed  to  the  Institu- 
tion for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb. 

*  *  * 

Young  Addison  Mizner,  many  of  his  girl  friends  believe, 
has  not  a  few  features  and  characteristics  in  common  with 
the  famous  Fat  Boy  of  the  Pickwick  Papers.  They  have 
much  quiet  sport  at  his  expense,  and  tbey  aver  that  it  is 
a  most  congenial  task  to  elude  the  attentions  of  the  pon- 
derous youth.  He  was  the  unconscious  butt  in  a  coterie 
of  society  girls  the  other  day,  and  the  wit  of  the  young 
women  flashed  harmlessly  about  him. 

"It  was  delightful,  meeting  you  on  the  ark  at  Sausalito 
last  Saturday,  Mr.  Mizner,"  remarked  one  plquante  damsel, 
with  suspicious  sweetness. 

"How  I  envy  you,  meeting  Mr.  Mizner  in  the  d-ark!'' 
exclaimed  another. 

If  it  had  not  been  for  the  general  laughter  which  greeted 
this  sally,  Addison  would  have  plumed  himself  at  receiving 
such  an  appreciative  tribute.  As  it  is,  he  is  still  trying  to 
fathom  the  precise  sentiments  of  this  admirer. 

*  *  * 

It  was  the  misfortune  of  Attorney  Edward  P.  Cole  to 
run  up  against  Superior  Judge  Wallace  not  long  ago,  and 
he  says  his  fate  was  similar  to  that  of  a  wave  which 
strikes  against  a  rock.  Cole  had  made  a  motion,  and  was 
overruled — improperly,  as  he  thought. 

"Permit  me  to  remind  your  Honor,"  he  said,  gravely, 
"that  the  Supreme  Court  of  this  State " 

"Overruled."  said  the  positive  Judge. 

"Well,  the  United  States  Courts " 

"Overruled,"  calmly  reiterated  the  terror  of  all  crim- 
inals brought  to  the  Superior  Court. 

"And  even  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States " 

"Overruled,"  shouted  Wallace,  imperiously. 

"Oh,  well,  if  your  Honor  overrules  the  Constitution," 
remarked  Cole,  with  a  profound  obeisance,  "I  withdraw 
my  motion!" 

Dr.  Jordan  says  there  are  but  twelve  first-class  physicians  in  the 
city.  Swain's,  at  213  Sutter  street,  is  the  first-class  restaurant  of  the 
city,  where  a  strictly  f.rst-class  table  d'hote  dinner  is  served  daily  be- 
tween the  hours  of  5  and  80'clock  for  the  low  sum  of  one  dollar.  Ele- 
gant service;  choicest  viands. 

"The  apparel  oft  proclaims  the  man,"  says  Shakespeare ;  and  Car- 
many,  25  Kearny  street,  has  all  the  latest  and  most  fashionable  gen- 
tlemen's furnishing  goods. 


Moore's     Poison     Oak    Remedy 
cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    The  oldest  and  best  remedy, 
which  has  oured  thousands.    At  all   druggists. 


PACIFIC 
CONGRESS 
SPRINGS 
HOTEL 


Remodeled    and    under 
New   Management  .... 

Onlij  two-and-a-half  hours 
from  San  Francisco. 

Six   miles   from    Los  Galos      Ten 
miles  from  .^unta  Clari.     Twelve 
miles  from  San  Jose. 
For  rates  sind  printed  matter  address  || 

JOHN    S.    MATHESON,        I 

Manager     M 


VI6I.11  Springs, 


Three  Miles  from 

UKIAH. 


Terminus  of  S,  F.  &  N,   P.   Railway 
Mendocino  County 

The  only  place  in  the  United  Statrs  where  Vichy  Water  is  abundant.  Only 
natural  eleotrlc  waters  Champagne  baths.  The  only  place  in  the  world 
of  this  class  of  waters  where  the  bathtubs  are  supplied  by  a  continuous 
flow  of  natural  warm  water  direct  from  the  springs.  Accommodations 
first  class. 

Miss  D.  D.  Allen.  Prop.. 


<J3lt/thedate, 


-NOW    OPEN.       Hotel  and   Cottages 


A  pretty  California  spot  on  line  of  Mt  Tamalpais  Scenic  Railway. 
Carriage  meets  all  trains  at  Mill  Valley.    Five  minutes'  drive. 


Mrs.  Gregg. 


Under  New 
Management 


<^-BLU&  LAKES  HOTEL. 

(Bertha  Postofflce) 


Only  19  miles  from  Ukiah. 
Finest  summer  resort  in  California 


Good  hunting,  fishing,  boating,  and  Bathing 
Finest  cuisine  and  best  accommodations. 


LAKE  COUNTY,  CAL. 

R,  E.  WHITEFIELD, 

Manager. 


Qf>3     Rp^rh    HAiPl      California's  favorite  resort 
dOd     DOUUlI     MUuDii     Located  on  a  flowering  slope  from  the  beach 
Unsurpassed  view  of    Beach,  Bay   and 


SANTA    CRUZ,     CAL. 


Mountains     Salmon  Fishing.    Tennis 
court,  Croquet  grounds,  and  music. 


Reasonable  Rates.    For  terms  address      John  T.  Sullivan,  Manager 

Mel  Bella  Vista 

1001  Pike  street 


The   Pioneer 'Fiist-class  Family 
Hotel  of    San    Krancisco. 


MRS.  A.  P.  TRACY 


THE,  RALSTON. 

Restaurant. 


315-317  Bush  St.,  S.  P  ,  Cal. 


A  Lunch 
Place. 


Ralston  Koffee— A  delicious  drink.    Ralston  Whole  Wheat  Bread. 
Ralsion  Cooked  Meats    Ralston  Cereals  and  Mush.      Wm.  E.  Allen.  Proo. 


Lft  GRANDE.  LAUNDRY, 


Tel.  Bush  12. 


Principal  Office— 23  Powell  street,  opp.  Baldwin  Hotel. 

Branch— ll  Taylor  street,  near  Golden  Gate  avenue. 
Laundry— Fell  streets,  between  Folsom  and  Howard. 
SAN  FRANCISCO.  CAL. 


Pacific  Towel  Company. 


Lick  Place 


Furnishes  clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates:  Clean  hand 
towels  each  week,  $1  per  month;  12  clean  band  towels  each  weeks 
$1  50  per  month;  4  clean  roller  towels  each  week,  i\.  6  month; 
6  clean  roller  towels  each  week.  $1  25  per  month. 


Josepti  Gillott's  Steel  Pens. 


Gold  Medals.  Paris.  18T8-1S89.     These  pens  are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States, 
Mr.  Henry  Hob.  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  5,  1897. 


IF  the  brides  whom  the  sun  shines  on  are  said  to  be  more 
blessed  than  others,  surely  the  first  brides  of  June  may 
justly  feel  they  cau  claim  that  distinction.  In  fact  a  more 
lovely  day  than  Tuesday  does  not  often  fall  to  our  lot,  and 
that  was  the  day  upon  which  the  first  of  the  June  army 
weddings,  of  which  so  much  has  been  said  and  printed, 
took  place  at  the  residence  of  Colonel  Geo.  H.  Burton  on 
Pacific  avenue,  when  his  eldest  daughter,  Miss  Minnie, 
and  Lieutenant  Thos.  A.  Pearce,  of  the  Seventh  Infantry, 
U.  S.  A.,  were  the  bride  and  groom.  The  entire  house  was 
beautifully  decorated  with  a  floral  garniture,  the  prevail- 
ing tints  being  pink  and  green;  in  the  hall  and  dining- 
room,  and  in  the  parlor  to  the  left  of  the  entrance,  the 
flowers  used  were  white  roses  and  sweet  peas.  Here  the 
ceremony  was  performed  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Walk  at  half- 
past  one,  the  bridal  party  standing  in  the  bow  window, 
which  had  been  converted  into  a  bower  of  fern  leaves, 
with  an  overhanging  canopy  of  white  roses  and  smilax. 
The  lovely  brunette  bride  wore  an  exquisite  robe  of 
white  satin  en  traine,  trimmed  with  chiffon  and  orange 
blossoms,  a  cluster  of  those  sweet  blossoms  and  sev- 
eral diamond  pins  confining  the  tulle  veil  to  her 
coiffure.  The  Misses  Leila  and  Kathro  Burton,  who  were 
their  sister's  only  bridesmaids,  wore  dainty  gowns  of  pale 
blue  mousseline  de  soie  over  blue  taffeta,  and  carried  bou- 
quets of  La  France  roses.  This  being  a  button  wedding, 
the  groom  and  his  best  man,  Lieutenant  Sells,  U.  S.  A., 
as  well  as  the  bride's  father,  Colonel  Burton,  and  most  of 
the  army  and  navy  officers  present,  were  in  full  uniform. 
Mrs.  Burton  wore  a  handsome  gown  of  black  brocade 
trimmed  with  rare  old  point-lace,  and  looked  remarkably 
well.  The  rooms  were  all  artificially  lighted,  and  an  ex- 
tremely pretty  incident  of  the  ceremony — which  was  wit- 
nessed by  a  small  circle  of  intimate  friends — occurred  as 
the  clergyman  pronounced  the  nuptial  blessing.  A  puff 
of  air  from  the  open  window  at  the  back  lifted  the  drawn 
blind,  and  a  burst  of  sunlight  enveloped  the  kneeling  figure 
of  the  bride.  A  large  reception  followed  the  ceremony, 
during  which  time  an  orchestra  discoursed  sweet  music, 
and  elaborate  refreshments  were  served  in  the  dining- 
room.  A  bevy  of  pretty  maidens,  Miss  Sabin,  Miss  Stone, 
Miss  Drown,  Miss  Conner,  Miss  Hooper  and  others,  gave 
efficient  aid  in  looking  after  the  guests;  and  at  4  o'clock  the 
bride  cut  the  wedding  cake,  using  her  husband's  sword  in 
doing  so.  Lieut,  and  Mrs.  Pearce  departed  by  the  evening 
train  on  their  honeymoon  trip,  which  will  include  Salt 
Lake  and  other  points  of  interest  en  mute,  expecting  to 
reach  Fort  Logan,  where  the  groom  is  stationed,  about 
the  20  th  of  June. 

In  Berkeley,  on  Tuesday  last,  Miss  Helen  Wright  and 
Charles  L.  Davis  were  married  at  the  hour  of  noon,  the 
ceremony  being  performed  by  Rev.  George  A.  Swan,  at 
St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church.  The  fair  bride,  who  wore  a 
beautiful  gown  of  moire  trimmed  with  chiffon,  was  at- 
tended by  Miss  Ella  Holmes,  who  wore  white  organdie 
over  pink  silk,  and  Miss  Katherine  Warfield,  whose  gown 
was  of  "white  organdie  over  yellow  silk,  and  both  wore  leg- 
horn hats  trimmed  to  correspond  with  the  gowns.  Fred 
Pierson  appeared  as  best  man,  and  Messrs.  Hedley,  Field, 
de  Long,  and  Danforth  Boardman  officiated  as  ushers. 
After  the  ceremony  a  wedding  breakfast  was  served  at 
the  residence  of  the  bride's  brother,  Hallock  Wright. 

Next  Thursday  evening,  Miss  Mabel  Estee  and  Leonard 
Everett  will  be  married  at  St.  Luke's  church;  the  cere- 
mony, for  which  a  large  number  of  invitations  have  been 
issued,  to  be  followed  by  a  reception  at  the  Estee  residence 
on  Sacramento  street.  Another  wedding  of  the  near  future 
will  be  that  of  Mrs.  Olive  Reed  and  Seth  Cushman,  which 
is  named  to  take  place  at  the  Reed  residence  on  Filbert 
street,  Oakland,  on  Wednesday  evening,  June  16th. 

The  weddings  of  the  week  have  been  of  such  absorbing 
interest  that  society  has  not  given  much  thought  to  any 
other  subject.  There  have  been  some  theatre  parties  to 
welcome  back  the  Frawley  Company  at  the  Columbia,  and 
to  witness  the  Chinese  play  at  the  Alcazar,  which  seems 
to  grow  in  interest  with  each  performance. 


The  marriage  of  Miss  Annette  Lander  West  and  Hugh 
McDonnell,  took  place  in  New  York  on  last  Thursday. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  McDonnell  will  make  an  extended  European 
tour  before  their  return  to  California. 

A  recent  engagement  announcement  is  that  of  Miss  Car- 
rie Koshland  and  Emile  Greenebaum. 

The  season  has  been  so  backward  that  society  has  not 
seemed  inclined  to  exchange  the  comforts  of  their  city 
homes  for,  in  many  cases,  the  discomforts  of  country  quar- 
ters. However,  the  month  of  June  will  no  doubt  see  a 
large  hegira  from  town,  and  already  many  have  decided 
upon  their  locale  for  several  weeks  to  come.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Wagner  have  taken  a  house  in  Berkeley  for  the  sum- 
mer months;  Miss  Eva  McAllister  will  remain  in  the  East 
with  her  other  sister,  Mrs.  Frank  Newlands,  and  will, 
with  Mr.  Newlands  and  family,  spend  the  summer  in  Can- 
ada. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Parrott  are  to  be  among  the 
Alaskan  tourists,  and  leave  by  the  "Queen  "  to-day.  Del 
Monte  has  been  chosen  by  Mrs.  Thomas  Breeze  and  family, 
Mrs.  Towne,  the  Clinton  Wordens,  Mrs.  Low  and  Miss 
Flora,  Captain  Payson  and  family,  Mrs.  George  Wells  and 
Miss  Marie,  Mrs.  Simpkins,  the  R.  L.  Colemans,  Mrs. 
Charley  Keeney,  the  Oysters,  Tubbs,  Adam  Grants,  etc.; 
and  the  George  Popes  will  be  there  in  July.  The  Butlers 
and  Clark  Crockers  go  to  Santa  Cruz,  and  the  Ed  Hopkins 
to  Menlo  Park.  Burlingame  will  claim  the  Tobins,  Joe 
Crocketts.  Frank  Carolans,  Will  Crockers,  George  New- 
hall,  and  others.  The  Spencer  Buck  bees  and  J.  J.  Crooks 
will  be  found  at  San  Mateo.  Among  the  householders  at 
San  Rafael  will  be  the  Gerstles,  Slosses,  Sydney  M.  Smiths 
(who  are  there  already),  the  Rudolph  Spreckels,  who  go 
over  this  week.  Mrs.  Hager,  who  leaves  town  about  the 
10th,  and  the  Ignatz  Steinharts  have  taken  the  cottage  of 
the  de  Youngs,  who  have  gone  abroad  for  a  lengthened 
absence.  At  the  Hotel  Rafael  will  be  found  among  others: 
Mrs.  Schmieden,  Mrs.  John  Cunningham  and  family,  the 
Fred  Greens,  Ward  McAllister,  Ed  Greenway,  Miss  Kate 
Dillon,  etc.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chauncey  Boardman  have  been 
over  visiting  Mrs.  Hort.  The  Greenwoods  have  taken  a 
house  in  Ross  Valley;  the  Jim  Robinsons  and  the  Will 
Barnes  at  Sausalito;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lovell  White  and  Judge 
Seawell  and  family  at  Mill  Valley;  the  Sands  Formans,  the 
Babocks,  and  Brighams  go  to  Lake  Tahoe;  the  Currys  to 
Wawona,  and  the  Phil  Lilienthals  left  last  week  for  Santa 
Barbara,  where  they  will  spend  the  summer.  Bishop 
Nichols  expects  to  leave  for  the  East  in  a  few  days  en 
route  to  the  Conference  of  Bishops  -to  be  held  in  London. 
Mrs.  Nichols  and  family  will  accompany  him  as  far  as  New 
York,  and  there  await  his  return,  visiting  friends  in  the 
East  during  his  absence.  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Richard- 
son Clover  are  coming  to  spend  the  summer  in  California 
at  the  Miller  place  in  Napa  Valley. 

At  the  final  meeting  for  the  season  of  the  Channing 
Auxiliary  next  Thursday  afternoon,  Miss  Lilian  O'Connell 
will  appear  in  the  dramatic  essay,  "Puritan  Pictures." 
An  unusually  large  audience  is  expected,  as  Miss  O'Con- 
nell's  work  has  excited  so  much  interest,  that  those  who 
were  unable  to  see  her  in  the  Colonial  Recitals  last  winter, 
are  seizing  this  opportunity  of  enjoying  the  first  of  the 
series. 

Mrs.  Romualdo  Pacheco,  the  distinguished  authoress, 
who  has  many  friends  in  this  city,  is  stopping  at  the  Hotel 
Bella  Vista.  Mrs.  Pacheco's  health  is  at  present  not  the 
very  best,  but  her  early  recovery  is  hoped  for. 


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See  daily  papers  about  the  first  and  middle  of  the  month  for  details. 


June  5,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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On  Thursday  ni^ht    the  Schwabaober  mansion,  on  Clay 

•.  was  ajrain  tho  scene  of  festivities.  Mr,  ami  Mrs. 
Louis  Schwabacher,  assisted  by  tbeir  daughter.  Minnie 
Louise,  entertained  about  fifty  of  their  friends  at  dinner, 
after  which  the  young  folks  scattered  themselves  through- 
out the  house— most  of  them  seeking  the  beautiful  ballroom 
— where  dancing  was  indulged  in.  Their  beautiful  home 
was  most  artistically  decorated,  and,  with  the  aid  of  the 
handsome  furnishings  for  a  background,  presented  a  very 
pretty  picture.  Mrs.  Julius  Weil,  of  New  York,  looked 
quite  the  belle  of  the  matrons:  while  among  the  younger 
girls  Miss  Madelaine  Bear,  Miss  Norma  Bachman,  Miss 
Jacobi.  Miss  Ruth  Meyer,  and  the  young  hostess  herself 
were  most  charming. 

On  Monday  evening  Mrs.  D.  N.  Walter  gave  a  theatre 
party  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  in  honor  of  Miss  Madelaine 
Bear,  of  New  York,  who  is  visiting  friends  in  Sau  Fran- 
cisco. The  party  included  some  twenty  couple— both  mar- 
ried and  single — all  of  whom  enjoyed  The  Fatal  Card  with 
all  its  exciting  features.  Mrs.  Walter  being  in  mourning, 
her  daughters,  Mrs.  Adele  Walter  Heller  and  Mrs.  Abe 
Meertief  acted  as  chaperones. 

In  the  general  exodus  to  the  seashore  and  mountains, 
Hotel  Rafael  is  receiving  its  full  quota  of  people.  Being 
so  near  town,  and  so  delightfully  situated  from  a  social  as 
well  as  business  standpoint.  Hotel  Rafael  presents  advan- 
tages that  are  not  combined  elsewhere;  and  then,  General 
Warfield.  the  lessee,  gives  his  personal  attention  to  the 
wants  of  his  guests,  which  fact  is  a  guarantee  for  every- 
thing. 

The  annual  return  of  the  Misses  Jacobi  has  caused  the 
usual  nutter  among  their  friends,  each  trying  to  out-do 
the  other  in  order  to  make  the  time  pass  pleasantly  dur- 
ing their  sojourn  on  the  Coast.  Already  have  theatre 
parties,  dinners,  etc.,  been  planned,  and  later  a  monster 
excursion  to  Alaska  is  on  the  tapis. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Colin  M.  Boyd  will  spend  nearly  all  of 
June,  July,  August,  and  September  at  "Casa  Boyd,"  their 
lovely  summer  retreat  in  Alameda  County.  Mrs.  Boyd 
will,  during  these  months,  discontinue  her  "at  home"  day 
in  the  city. 

Mrs.  Sylvain  Weil  is  entertaining  as  a  guest  her  niece, 
Miss  Madelaine  Bear,  who  will  spend  the  summer  here. 
She  is  a  delightful  girl  of  the  brunette  type.  She  has  been 
here  but  a  short  time,  and  has  already  won  a  host  of 
friends. 

Mrs.  Feuchtwanger,  who  has  always  been  a  great  favor- 
ite with  the  members  of  the  younger  set,  shortly  expects 
a  visit  from  her  sister,  Miss  Stettheimer,  from  New  York. 

General  E.  C.  Humphreys  and  Frank  H.  Pettingell,  a 
prominent  banker  and  broker  of  Colorado  Springs,  are 
guests  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Mrs.  Edwin  Stevens,  wife  of  the  famous  comedian,  is  iri 
the  city,  and  a  guest  at  the  Hotel  Bella  Vista. 


«N  important  decision  in  the  celebrated  Hale  &  Nor- 
cross  case  has  just  been  rendered  by  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  State  of  Nevada.  The  decision  of  the  court 
is  averse  to  the  Fox,  Baggett,  and  Lynch  interests,  and 
means  that  Joseph  Ryan,  the  Superintendent  recently 
choseu  by  two- thirds  of  the  stockholders,  who  are  opposed 
to  the  Fox-Lynch  combination,  but  to  whom  possession  of 
the  mine  was  deuied,  will  assume  active  charge  of  the 
property,  vice  James  Cronan,  present  Superintendent. 
The  decision  is  a  substantial  victory  for  the  majority  of  the 
stock  of  the  property,  and  sustains  and  makes  permanent 
the  control  and  possession  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  in  the 
hands  of  R.  R.  Gravson  and  his  friends. 


AT  the  enjoyable  concert  given  by  the  First  Congrega- 
tional church  on  the  28th,  several  numbers  were  ren- 
dered by  Professor  Graeber's  mandolin  and  guitar  club; 
and  also  at  the  Hibernian  concert  on  the  29th  the  Profes- 
sor's banjo  and  guitar  classes  were  heard  to  advantage. 

Wedding  and   Birthday    Presents.       Magnificent  assortment  to 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  5,  1897. 


DEAR  EDITH— A  friend  of  mine  just  returned  from 
Paris  brings  a  lot  of  fashion  gossip.  She  declares 
that  the  best  dressed  woman  in  the  gay  French  capital  is 
the  beautiful  Princess  de  Sazan.  Here  is  one  of  the  cos- 
tumes in  which  this  charming  butterfly  recently  appeared : 
Her  frock  was  of  cerise  and  velvet  taffeta,  trimmed  ex- 
quisitely with  narrow  black  velvet  ribbon  and  black  tulle. 
The  skirt  was  made  up  over  an  independent  underskirt, 
and  it  was  seen  plaited  from  the  waist  to  the  ground,  the 
plaits  being  very  small  at  the  top,  and  lost  in  the  waist- 
band, but  widening  out  downward.  The  black  velvet  rib- 
bon trimmed  the  bottom,  and  was  set  on  in  points  in  sev- 
eral rows.  The  corsage  was  in  blouse  shape  and  accordion 
plaited.  Over  the  shoulders  was  a  large  collar-like  cape 
descending  very  low  in  the  center  of  the  back  and  just 
covering  the  upper  part  of  the  sleeves.  This  was  made  of 
black  frilled  tulle,  embroidered  with  silver  and  steel  beads 
and  with  passementerie  of  gold  thread  and  silk.  The 
waistband  was  of  black  piece  velvet,  cut  on  the  bias  and 
forming  a  high  corslet  at  the  sides,  slightly  hollowed  in 
the  center  both  in  front  and  behind  and  fastening  on  the 
left  side  with  a  large  bow  of  black  velvet.  The  sleeves 
were  slightly  draped  at  the  shoulder,  and  were  lightly 
gathered  from  the  elbow  to  the  wrist  on  the  inner  side, 
and  the  outer  side  were  trimmed  with  a  frilled  crest  of 
cerise  taffeta.  The  bat  which  crowned  the  princess'  bronze 
coiffure  was  of  white  satin  straw.  The  brim  was  narrow 
and  the  crown  high.  On  the  left  side  was  a  white  aigrette, 
falling  over  the  edge,  and  beside  this  stood  a  tall  white 
ostrich  plume,  and  there  was  a  narrow  half  wreath  of  pink 
roses  which  turned  behind  to  form  a  cache  peigne. 

She  also  is  in  raptures  over  the  chapeaux  affected  just 
now  by  the  ladies  of  Paris.  They  are  dashing  and  dazzling 
and  so  gorgeous  with  color  that  tbey  make  your  eyes 
blink.  They  are  worn  tilted  far  over  the  eyes,  and  are  all 
sorts  of  shapes  and  styles.  They  are  trimmed  with  every- 
thing that  is  beautiful.  Tulle"  flowers,  ostrich  plumes, 
taffeta  silk,  ribbons,  wings,  birds,  everything.  The  straw 
is  usually  coarse,  and  satiny,  and  fanciful,  and  comes  in 
brilliant  purples,  cerises,  yellows,  greens,  and  scarlets. 
There  are  sunburnt  manillas  and  fine  white  Milan  straws, 
too,  and  horsehair  straw,  chip  and  leghorn,  so  one  is  sure 
to  be  in  the  fashion  whatever. 

One  of  the  most  fetching  styles  she  describes  is  the  walk- 
ing hat  of  either  fine  or  coarse  straw,  with  the  brim  rolled 
up  to  the  crown  on  each  side  and  the  trimming  consisting 
of  great  fluffy  ostrich  plumes,  the  latest  fad  being  to  have 
one  black  plume  and  one  pure  white;  sometimes  these  are 
both  on  one  side,  or  again  one  on  each  side,  but  always 
hanging  far  down  over  the  back  of  the  coiffure. 

Hats  of  vivid  cerise  straw  are  extremely  pouular,  and 
no  end  pretty.  They  are  always  trimmed  with  different 
shades  of  cerise,  and  are  tremendously  becoming  to  all 
women.  One  of  these  hats,  shown  by  a  Place  Vendome 
shop,  was  of  coarsely  plaited  straw,  with  a  medium  brim. 
It  was  trimmed  with  enormous  ruches  of  cerise  mousseline 
de  soie  of  two  shades,  and  on  one  side  an  aigrette  of  cerise 
goura  feathers  placed  in  the  center  of  a  bow  of  cerise 
silk.  The  back  was  dashed  up  sharply,  to  show  a  smart 
cache  peigne  of  cerise  flowers. 

Belinda. 

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ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
and  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 

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silver  at  J.  N.  Brittain's,  watchmaker  ana  Jeweler,  20  Geary  street. 


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FACIAL  TREATMENT 


Permanently  removes  Wrinkles,    mall-pox 
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713   POST  ST.,  Near  Jones. 


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Art  Studio. 


All  branches  of  china  painting  taught;  instruction  daily  from  &  A.  M.   to 
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SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Vacavtllc  and  Rum&cy H:45P 

Martinez,  Sao  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Catistoga,  Santa  Rosa    0:15  p 
Ntles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone,  Sacramento,  MarysvlHe, 

Cbico,  Tehama,  and  Red  Bluff 4:15p 

Peters  and  Milton *7:15p 

New  Orleans   Express,  Meroed,  Fresno,  Bakersfleld,  Santa 
Barbara.  Los  Angeles,  Deming.  El  Paso,  New  Orleans,  and 

East 6:15  P 

Vallejo 12:15  p 

Niles,  San  Jose  Llvermore,  and  Stockton 7:15p 

Sacramento  River  steamers *9 :0U  p 

N lies,  San  Jose,  and  Llvermore 8:45  a 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 7:45p 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa ...  9:15a 

Benlcta,   Vacaville.  Woodland,  Knight's   Landing,  Marys- 
vlHe. Oroville,  and  Sacramento 9:45  a 

Lathrop,  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yosem- 
iie)  and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles.  returning  via  Martinez..  12:15  P 
Los  Angeles   Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,   Mojave  (tor  Rands- 
burg),  Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles 7.45a 

Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East....    7:45a 

European  mail,  Ogden  and  East 9 :45  A 

Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose 7:45a 

Vallejo f?:45p 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  MarysvlHe,   Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East     7 :45  A 


San  Leandro  and  Haywahds  Local.    (Foot  or  Market  St.) 

»«eoo  ai 

Melrosk, 

f      7:15  A 

8:00  a 

Seminary  Park, 

<9:45  A 

9:00  A 

FITCBBDRG, 

10:45  A 

10:00A 

El.MnCKsT 

11:45  A 

ill. 00  A 

San  Lkandro. 

12:45  p 

{12:00  M 

South  San  Leandho, 

<1:45  P 

2:00  P 

ESTUDILLO, 

$3:45  P 

*3:00  P 

Lorenzo, 

4:45  P 

4:00  P 

Cherry, 

(5:45  P 

5:00  P 

and 

6:15  P 

5:30  P 

Haywahds. 

7:45  p 

7:00  P 

1 

8:45  p 

8:00  P 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 

9:45  P 

9:00  P 

1  From  Niles. 

10:50  p 

ttll:15  p 

[ttl2:00  p 

Santa  Crqz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge).    (Foot  of  Market  St.) 

7 :45  a  Santa  Cruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  J8 :0o  P 
8:15a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations ...  5:50p 

•2 :  16  p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:2ua 

4:15  p  San  Jose  and  Glenwood  8:50  > 

114:15  p  Felton  and  Santa  Cruz  §8;50  A 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  <dlip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  a.  m.,I1:uu.  *2:uu.  13:00.  *4 :00,  J5:00and  *6:00p.  m. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway.— *6:00,  8:00.  10:00  a.  m.;  112:00,  *1:00, 
J2 :00,  *3 :00, 14 :00  *5 :00  P.  M. 

Coabt  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

*7:0Oa  San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)  1:30  p 
17:30  a  Sunday  excursion  for  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove, 

and  principal  way  stations    18:35  p 

9 :00  a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Paoiflc  Grove,  Paso  Robles 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principal  way  stations    4:15  p 

10 :40  a  San  Jose  and  way  stations 7 :30  p 

11:30  a  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations  5:00p 

*2:30p  San  Mateo,  Redwood,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose.  Gilroy,  Tres 

Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Salinas, Monterey, PaclflcGrove  .,   *10:40a 

•3:30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45  a 

*4:30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations  *8:05  a 

5 :30  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations  *8 :45  a 

6 :30  P  San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 :35  A 

fll  :45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations  

A  for  Morning,     p  for  Arternoon.     "Sundays  excepted.     fSaturdays  only. 

tSundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Saturdays  and  Sundays.  ^Sundays  and  Mondays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

Thf>    r^panH    Paritfir     306  Stockton   St.  San    Francisco 
IIIO    UldllU     rdblllUt         MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT.  Proprietress 

Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month.      Telephone:  Grant.  W7. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    TiBDKON  Fehkt-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 
WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  9:U>,  ii:uu  a  M;  14:36,  3:30  5:10,  6:30  P  M.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trlpat  U:30p  h.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 :50and  11:30  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00,9:30.  11:00  a  M;  1:80,  3:30,  5:00,6:20PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL   TO  SAN    FFANCISCO. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:15,7:50.9:20,  11:10  am;  12:45,3:40,6:10PM.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at  1 :55  and  6:35  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10.  9:40,  11:10  a  m;  1 :40,  3:40.5:00,6:25  p  m. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  F. 

In  Effect  April  SB,  189? 

Arrive 

INS.F. 

Week  Days. 

Sundays. 

Destination. 

Sundays 

10:40  AM 
6:10  pm 
7:35  PM    1 

Week  Days 

7:30  am 
3:30pm 
5:10pm 

8:00  am 
9:30  am 
5 :00  p  m 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

8:40  am 
10:25  am 
6:22  pm 

8:00  am 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyservllle.  Cloverdale 

"7:35PM 

3:30  pm 

6:22  P  M 

7:30  AM 
3.30  pm 

8:00  am 

Hopland,  Uklah 

7:35PM 

10 :25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:30a  m 
3:30pm 

8:00AM 

Guernevllle. 

7:35  PM 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  p  M 

7:30am 
5:10pm 

8  :Uma  M 
5:O0PM 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40  AM 
6:10PM 

8 :40  A  M 
6:22  p  M 

7:30am 
3:30pm 

8:00am 
5:00  pm 

Sebastopol. 

10:40AM     1 
6:10pm     1 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyservllle 
for  Skaggs' Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Hopland  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Ba>,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del 
Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Pomo,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lier- 
ley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullvllle.  Booneville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg.  Westport,  Usal. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  TrlpTlckecs  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  W.  FOSTE  R.  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X.  RYAN ,  Gen.  Pass  .  Agent. 

Pacific    Coast   Steamship    Co. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  a.  m..  June  5.  10,  15. 20,  2.>,  30  and  every  E-.th  day  thereafter. 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  0  a.  m..  June  5,  10,  15, 
20.  25,  31,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  P.  M.  June  1,5, 
9,  14,  18.  22,26,31  ;  July  5,  9,  13,  17.  21,26,  30  ;  Aug.  3,  7.  II,  16,  20,24,28. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.m.;  June  3,  7,  11, 
15.  19,  23,  27.  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  a.  m.,  June  1.  5,9.  13, 
17,  21,  25,  29  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  a.  m., 
the  2d  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents,      10  Market  st.S.F. 

Occidental  and  Oriental  Steamship  Co. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  m.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting   at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  et?c.    No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Coptic  , Thursday,  June  17,  1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Wednesday,  July  7. 1897 

Doric   (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  July  27,   1897 

Belgic Saturday,  August  U,  1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office,  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS,  Secretary. 


[ANIC 


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S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu  only,  Tuesday, 
June  15th.  at  2  p    m. 

S.  S.  "Mariposa," Thursday,  June  24th,  at  2  pm. 
Line  to  Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa. 

J.  D.  SPREOKELS  &BROS.  CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St.. .San    Franofsco 


REPINED  ladies  pay  no  more  attention  to  any  article 
of  wearing  apparel  than  to  their  footwear.  A  handsome 
foot  appears  clumsy  in  a  poorly-made  shoe;  while  a  well- 
shaped,  fashionably-made  shoe  gives  an  aristocratic  air. 
The  Siebe  shoe  is*  one  of  the  best-made  and  handsomest 
in  this  market,  or  fouud  anywhere  in  the  world.  It 
is  made  of  the  most  carefully  selected  leather  and  on  the 
most  stylish  last.  Comfort  and  wear  are  united  with 
beauty  and  elegance  of  finish.  To  wear  a  Siebe  shoe  is  to 
wear  the  best  shoe  in  this  market.  Ask  your  dealer  for 
this  make  and  see  that  you  get  it.  Every  dealer  is  the 
agent  for  these  splendid  goods. 


THE  committee  having  in  charge  the  coming  Queen's 
Jubilee  exercises,  to  take  place  here  on  the  19th,  20th 
and  21st  of  this  month,  held  a  meeting  on  Wednesday  even- 
ing. All  arrangements  are  being  made  for  a  splendid 
celebration  of  that  event,  and  the  jubilee  in  San  Francisco 
will  doubtless  be  worthy  the  good  Queen  and  her  loyal  sub- 
jects on  this  shore  of  the  Pacific. 


Fink  stationery,  steel  and  copperplate  engraving. 
Market  street.  San  Francisco. 


Cooper  &  Co.,  746 


Cther  waters  try— Jackson's  Napa  Soda  gets  there. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


June  5,  1897. 


INSURANCE 

GEO.  C.  PRATT,  until  recently  Coast  Manager  of  the 
Provident,  has  been  appointed  general  agent  of  the 
Union  Central  Life,  with  J.  F.  J.  Archibald.  The  office 
will  be  removed  from  303  California  street  further  up 
town. 

Insurance  Commissiouer  Clunie  has  removed  the  office 
from  401  California  street  to  the  Parrott  Building.  The 
move  is  decidedly  unpopular  with  insurance  men,  as  it  is 
out  of  their  district. 

The  Pacific  Mutual  Life  has  added  $100,000  to  its  cap- 
ital, just  doubling  its  original  stock.  The  present  stock- 
holders will  be  privileged  to  take  their  pro  rata  of  the 
new  issue  at  par. 

H.  E.  Webster  has  been  appointed  general  agent  of  the 
Security  Mutual  Life,  of  Binghampton,  N.  Y.,  vice  C.  N. 
Comstock,  resigned. 

P.  B.  Armstrong,  the  California  fruit  grower,  has  sued 
the  American  Union  Life  and  its  directors  for  8300,000. 
Mr.  Armstrong  organized  the  American  Union  three  years 
ago,  and  this  suit  is  brought  for  services  rendered  then; 
and  for  libel. 

The  widow  of  Luther  Egbert  has  recovered  $11,118 
from  the  Fidelity  and  Casualty  Company  on  a  policy  issued 
to  her  husband  in  this  State. 

The  Bankers'  Fidelity  and  Security,  capitalized  at 
$100,000,  has  been  organized  at  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa. 

A  party  of  Japanese  insurance  men,  who  have  been  in- 
vestigating the  science  of  insurance  as  it  is  exemplified  in 
the  United  States,  have  returned  home  loaded  with  val- 
uable information. 

The  Franklin  Mutual  Fire  has  been  placed  in  the  hands 
of  a  receiver. 

The  newly-elected  officers  of  the  Fire  Underwriters' 
Clerks'  Association  are:  J.  S.  French,  President;  H.  H. 
Young,  Vice  President;  H.  P.  Blanchard,  Secretary;  T. 
P.  D.  Gray,  Treasurer. 

The  National  Convention  of  Life  Underwriters  will  meet 
in  annual  session  from  the  22d  to  the  25th  of  this  month  at 
Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

W.  H.  Whiting,  the  Actuary  of  New  York,  was  in  the 
city  last  week. 

Complaint  is  made  that  Referee  Reed  is  permitting  his 
duties,  as  speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  to  in- 
terfere with  his  insurance  office. 

R.  W.  G-roff  has  been  appointed  special  agent  of  the 
Pacific  Mutual,  under  Kilgarif  &  Beaver. 

A  new  insurance  company  has  been  started  in  Chicago, 
for  the  purpose  of  insuring  employees  against  the  loss  of 
positions — the  only  one  of  its  kind  in  the  United  States. 

The  officers  of  the  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters  of  the 
Pacific  are:  Chas.  D.  Haven,  President;  Wm.  J.  Dutton, 
Vice  President;  George  Butler,  Treasurer;  Executive 
Committee,  Chas.  L.  Haven,  Wm.  J.  Dutton,  Robert 
Dixon,  A.  E.  Magill,  Harry  Mann,  C.  F.  Mullins,  H.  K. 
Belden,  George  H.  Tyson  and  G.  W.  Spencer. 

An  insurance  company  has  been  organized  at  Richmond, 
this  State,  to  insure  the  lives  of  women  only. 

The  tire  insurance  companies  have  reconsidered  their 
determination  to  leave  the  State  for  Washington  on 
account  of  recent  hostile  legislation;  but  rates  will  have  to 
be  elevated  very  materially. 

Of  the  twelve  largest  cities  in  the  United  States,  San 
Francisco  has  fewest  fire  hydrants. 

Mr.  Theobald,  of  the  Union  Casualty,  has  returned  from 
a  business  trip  East. 

Unless  a  desirable  tenant  can  be  found  for  the  ground 
floor  of  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company's 
building,  made  vacant  by  the  removal  of  the  Royal  to  its 
new  building,  the  former  company  will  probably  move 
downstairs.  These  offices  are  the  handsomest  in  the  city, 
and  should  be  occupied  by  the  Pacific  Mutual. 

"On  the   Santa   Fe   There's   No   Delay." 

Leave  San  Francisco  Mondays  and  Thursdays,  and  connect  at 
Barstow  with  Santa  Fe  Limited,  Dining  cars,  buffet,  smoking  car, 
Pullman  Palace  Drawing  Room  Sleeping  Cars.  Three  and  one-half 
days  to  Chicago  or  St.  Louis,  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York. 
Ticket  office,  041  Market  street.  Chronicle  building.     Tel.  Main  1531. 

All  sensible  people  drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO. 


SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 

309  and  311  Sansome  St.         -         -         -  -         San   Francisco,  Cal 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  46  Threadneedle  St., London 

SIMPSON,  MACKIRDY  &  CO 29  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 

INSURANCE. 

FIRE.  MARINE,    AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OP  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),   OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager.  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fiek Insurance. 

Pounded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Company    of  Nortn   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA.   PENN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,028,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT   FIRE   INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000.000 

Assets 3,300.018 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,668,332 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD    &    DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON   Established  1732. 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON    NSURANCE  CO.  m^porated  1799 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  P. 


BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO., 

LIMITED, 

OP    LIVERPOOL. 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents. 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  P 

THE  THURINGIA  INSURANCE  COMPANY. 

Of  ERFIEST,  GERMANY. 
Capital.  $2,350,000         Assets.  $10,983,248. 
Pacific  Coast  Department :  2:4-208  SANSOME  ST.,  S.  F. 

VOSS.  CONRAD  &  CO.,  General  Managers. 

DR  RIPORrVQ  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu 
un.  r\l\^vr\LV  O  ine_Aspecinc  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physioal 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris. 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States, 
J.  G.  STEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED— Box  of  50  pills,  *1  25;  of  100  pills,  $2;  Of200 pills, 
$3  50;  of  400pllls,S6;  Preparatory  Pills  $2.    Send  tor  circular. 


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Vol.LlV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  JUNE  12,  1897. 


Number  24. 


Printed  and  Fubiiehed  every  Saturday  by  the proprietor,  FRED  MABR10T1 
&H  Kearny  strtel,  Auti  Francxsco.  Entered  at  Aun  Francisco  Post- 
office  a*  Second-does  Matter. 

The  office  oj  the  Ai'lls  LETTER  In  Hem  Tort  City  is  at  Temple  Court; 
and  at  Chicago,  t*03  Boyce  Building.  {Frank  E  Morrison,  Eastern 
Representative),  where  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  subscrip 
tion  and  advertising  rates. 


ii 


GREATER  New 
Francisco  ?  " 


York":    why   not    "Greater    San 


THE  star-gazers  at  Mount  Hamilton  Observatory  are 
again  in  a  turmoil;  and  it  is  apparent  that  the  useful- 
ness of  old  James  Lick's  splendid  gift  to  the  people  of  Cal- 
ifornia and  the  world  is  being  seriously  impaired.  It  is 
also  equally  obvious  that  Professor  Holden  has  a  keener 
faculty  for  discovering  faults  in  his  assistants  than  he  has 
for  finding  stars  in  the  heavens. 


INSPECTOR  Doekery  has  said  that  he  would  follow  the 
fraudulent  brandy  recently  sent  out  of  this  State,  bound 
for  England,  to  London  if  necessary,  and  there  denounce 
the  mixture  as  impure  and  unfit  for  use.  The  duties  of 
the  efficient  inspector  will  hardly  carry  him  so  far.  He 
can  do  more  good  peering  into  vagrant  milk  wagons  about 
San  Francisco  than  in  pursuing  prune  juice  abroad. 

WE  shall  have  to  change  the  hitherto  accepted  statis- 
tics that  ten  thousand  murders  are  committed  in  the 
United  States  every  year;  for  if  Isaac  Hoffman  took  his 
own  life,  it  is  evident  that  there  has  been  many  an  innocent 
person  hanged  by  the  neck.  It  is  suggested  that  here- 
after the  murdered  man  leave  an  affidavit  setting  out  the 
facts  of  his  taking  off — that  is,  if  Hoffman  killed  himself:  it 
will  be  a  necessary  protection  against  the  stain  of  suicide. 

THE  endorsement  of  C.  O.  Brown  by  a  Chicago  congre- 
gation and  the  denouncing  of  this  city  as  "hell  "  by  a 
fellow  gospeler,  need  excite  no  concern.  The  Congrega- 
tionalists  of  San  Francisco  have  warned  their  Chicago 
brethren  of  the  true  character  of  Brown,  and  their  skirts 
are  clean.  The  man  who  defended  him  and  denounced  this 
city  is  both  fool  and  knave,  his  mouthings  bringing  only 
himself  into  contempt.  That  this  man  and  the  unspeakable 
Brown  are  not  in  San  Francisco  goes  far  to  disprove  his 
utterance. 

THE  usual  deficit  bobs  serenely  up  in  the  Street  De- 
partment, and  Superintendent  Ambrose  has  laid  off 
about  150  men.  Possibly  no  serious  inconvenience  will  re- 
sult from  this  course,  but  the  regularity  of  the  deficit 
ought  to  suggest  some  way  of  avoiding  its  recurrence. 
The  general  withholding  of  the  salaries  of  employees,  and 
the  neglect  of  the  streets  are  necessary  in  order  that 
merchant  creditors  of  the  city  may  get  their  money.  All 
of  which  shows  that  San  Francisco  has  need  of  a  new 
financial  policy  conducted  on  lines  of  old-time  integrity. 

IT  is  said  that  William  Jennings  Bryan,  late  Democratic 
candidate  for  President,  and  at  this  moment  statesman 
minus  a  job,  is  planning  a  trip  around  the  world.  This  is 
a  shrewd  move,  and  about  the  only  thing  the  Kansas  ora- 
tor could  do.  He  cannot  talk  all  the  time  intervening  be- 
tween the  present  and  the  meeting  of  the  next  free  silver 
Presidential  convention;  and  if  he  leaves  the  United  States 
for  two  years,  returning  just  before  the  national  meeting 
of  his  party,  he  will  sweep  all  opposition  into  the  ditch,  and 
unless  signs  fail,  come  very  near  warming  McKiuley's 
chair. 


IT  is  not  improbable  that  an  armor  plate  plant  will  be 
erected  at  San  Francisco  at  no  distant  day.  There  is 
necessity  of  such  an  enterprise  here,  and  there  would  be 
work  for  it  from  the  first.  The  Scotts  have  proved  that 
this  coast  can  make  warships  and  armored  cruisers  second 
to  none  in  the  world.  California  can  show  other  products 
than  fruits  and  grain,  beautiful  women,  mossbacks,  fast 
horses,  and  politicians.  We  make  ships  that  stay  on  top 
of  the  water — something  rather  more  than  Atlantic  build- 
ers of  Uncle  Sam's  new  navy  have  been  able  to  accomplish. 

THE  department  at  Washington  has  finally  refused  to 
prevent  the  shipment  abroad  of  the  stuff  called  pure 
California  brandy,  which  was  recently  hauled  across  the 
continent  from  this  city.  In  view  of  the  undoubted  fact 
that  the  English  authorities  will  be  notified  of  the  quality 
of  the  prune  juice  and  poor  whiskey,  the  position  of  our 
government  is  in  this  case  somewhat  immaterial.  English 
law  demands  a  straight  certificate  of  character  for  every- 
thing consumed  at  home,  and  the  "  pure  California  brandy  " 
made  of  Nebraska  corn  and  diseased  prunes  will  be  very 
apt  to  be  used  in  flushing  London  sewers  instead  of  illumin- 
ating English  throats. 

THE  sons  of  ex-Presidents  of  the  United  States  appear 
to  imagine  that  they  have  a  claim  by  inheritance  upon 
the  patience  and  the  people  of  this  country.  Young  Ar- 
thur has  been  tagging  about  the  Capital  in  search  of  a 
foreign  appointment.  R.  B.  Hayes  Jr.  is  willing  to  accept 
a  job  in  the  library  at  Washington;  the  Grants  are  a  stand- 
ing joke  and  a  source  of  disgust  to  ordinary  folks,  and 
Russell  Harrison  has  his  lightning  rod  up  for  a  collector- 
ship.  Robert  Lincoln  is  engaged  in  the  difficult  task  of 
chasing  pedigrees  for  Chicago's  hustling  Four  Hundred, 
and  is  about  the  best  of  the  lot.  These  degenerate  sons  of 
illustrious  sires  annoy  the  President,  and  by  their  pre- 
sumption add  to  the  gaiety  of  nations. 

THE  high  hat  ordinance  has  been  on  trial  one  week,  and 
it  has  worked  like  a  charm.  Ladies  are  finding  out 
what  any  man  could  have  told  them  long  ago — that  they 
are  more  attractive  indoors  without  the  addition  of  mil- 
linery adornments  than  with  them.  There  has  been  de- 
veloped no  opposition  to  the  humane  and  kindly  order  of 
the  Supervisors,  which  is  based  on  the  foundation  of  good 
breeding,  kindness,  and  consideration  for  the  feelings  of 
others.  If  we  desire  to  study  birds,  we  naturally  go  to  an 
aviary  or  museum,  and  we  seek  nodding  flowers  and  buds 
at  the  florist  or  in  the  garden;  they  are  out  of  place  at 
the  theatre  or  opera.  Thanks  to  the  brave  Mayor  and  the 
persistent  Rottanzi.  the  high  hat   "has  went." 


IN  the  mind  of  the  average  San  Franciscan  the  distinc- 
tion between  the  thick-necked,  low-browed  bruiser, 
whose  breeding  is  confined  exclusively  to  his  fists,  and 
those  who  plan  for  his  appearance  and  take  in  the  dollars 
earned  by  the  exercise  of  his  developed  animal  instincts,  is 
so  thinly  drawn  that  he  refuses  to  admit  its  existence. 
This  observation  has  been  brought  out  by  the  recent  amaz- 
ing action  of  the  Olympic  Club.  That  this  organization  of 
gentlemen  has  been  led  into  the  business  of  giving  prize- 
fights, and  permitting  the  meeting  of  professional  bruisers 
for  gate  money,  is  a  harsh  and  most  ill-seeming  descent 
from  the  original  intention  of  the  organization.  A  serious 
mistake  has  been  made,  and  the  sooner  the  Olympic  Club 
recognizes  the  fact  and  gets  back  to  more  familiar  and 
higher  ground,  the  better  will  it  be  for  its  reputation. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  12,  1897. 


CAN     WE      HAVE     A     GREATER     SAN      FRANCISCO? 


THE  present  tendency  of  large  American  cities  is  to  ab- 
sorb their  outlying  suburbs.  In  union  there  is  strength, 
and  in  numbers  there  are  power  and  grandeur.  Moreover, 
there  are  many  favors  conferred  by  our  national  govern- 
ment upon  large  majorities,  that  are  altogether  denied  to 
small  communities.  Ours  is  a  Government  by  numbers 
and  the  many  rule.  Therefore,  the  more  citizens  we  can 
claim  for  San  Francisco,  the  greater  will  be  its  power  at 
home,  and  its  importance  before  the  world  at  large.  A 
city  of  half  a  million,  ranks  higher  and  is  deemed  of  more 
consequence  than  one  of  only  300,000  inhabitants.  Chicago 
was  prompt  to  find  out  how  that  was,  and  exalted  herself 
as  a  city  of  consequence  and  renown  by  uniting  with  all  of 
her  suburbs.  She  increased  her  population  over  one  third, 
without  increasing  her  Governmental  expenses  in  a  like 
ratio.  The  union  of  her  different  parts  increased  the 
strength  of  the  whole,  resulted  in  greater  economy,  and  an 
improved  administration.  Better  men  got  elected  to  her 
councils,  her  civic  pride  became  aroused,  and  to-day  the 
promise  of  her  future  no  man  can  set  bounds  to.  New 
York  was  not  slow  to  take  note  of  what  her  great  rival 
was  doing,  and  to  go  and  do  likewise.  It  is  not  necessary 
to  recount  what  has  happened  in  the  Empire  City.  It  is 
now  "The  Greater  New  York"  in  both  name  and  fact. 
Mighty  difficulties  had  to  be  overcome  before  this  much  to 
be  desired  result  could  be  reached.  But  an  era  of  good 
will  and  reform  sprung  up,  the  leaders  of  both  political 
parties  were  agreed,  and  the  independents  did  not  differ. 
To  all  of  which  was  to  be  added  the  general  confidence  in- 
spired by  the  really  great  men  who  were  persuaded  and 
elected  to  serve  as  the  greater  charter  makers.  What 
Chicago  has  completed,  and  New  York  has  almost  finished, 
may  with  undoubted  profit  commend  itself  to  cities  simil- 
arly situated. 

The   peculiar   situations   of  New  York  and   Brooklyn, 
and  of  San  Francisco  and  Oakland  are  as  alike  as  two  peas. 
Both  New  York  City   proper   and  San   Francisco  are  lo- 
cated on  peninsulas  not  capable  of  expansion  to  the  extent 
that  will  be  required  by  both  places  a  few  years  hence. 
Between  New  York    and  Brooklyn   there  is   a   wide  and 
rapid  stream,  whilst  between  San  Francisco  and  Oakland 
there  is  an  arm  of  our  beautiful  bay  which  may  be  easily 
tunnelled.     Within  a  less  area  than  Greater  New  York,  or 
Chicago  now  occupy,   we  have  some  five  or  six  municipal 
governments,  which  are  run  at  an  extravagant  cost,  and 
where  efficiency  is  almost  unknown,  and  rascality  abounds 
on  every  hand.     One  government,  strong  because  of  the 
greater  admixture  of  good  men  behind  it,  could  hardly  fail 
to  be  an  improvement  upon  the  municipalities,  more  or  less 
rotten,  which  now  constitute  the  petty  little  governments 
around  us.     The   men  of   Oakland   would   not  be  likely  to 
care  overmuch  for  Buckleyism  on  this  side  of  the  water, 
whilst  we  should  be  still    less    enamored    of    the  pettier 
bosses  that  are  everlastingly  capturing  more  or  less  of  the 
territory  on  the  other  side  of  the  bay.     We  should  help  to 
blot  out  the  Oakland   bosses,    whilst  Oakland   would  lend 
her  aid  to    defeat    ours,    and    between    the  two,  honest 
government    would  be  given    a   chance.      The  voters    of 
Alameda  County  would  be  as  desirable  an  addition  to  those 
of  San  Francisco  as  it  is  claimed  those  of  Brooklyn  will  be 
to  New  York.     The  greater  the  number  of  men  of  standing 
and  good  repute,  the  greater  the  chance  of  securing  good 
men  for  nominees,  with  increased  probabilities  of  electing 
them.     The  day  will  come  (it  ought  to  have  arrived  before 
this)  when  there  will  be   tunnels   across   the  bay  through 
which  steam  or  electric  cars   can   pass  with  ease.     There 
will  also  be  tunnels,   very   easily   constructed,  running  up 
and  down  Market  street  where  the  water  channels  now  are 
and  having  means  of  ingress  and   regress   at  the  corners. 
There  would  thus  be  continuous  rail  communication  between 
the  extreme  West  of  our  City  to  the  far  East  of  Alameda, 
or,  better  still,  from  our  open  ocean  clear  through  to  the 
Atlantic.     That  is  an  extension  or  improvement  that  must 
be  accomplished  at  no  distant  day,  but  to  render  it  practic- 
able we   need  municipal  union.     That  is   what  our   new 
charter  makers  ought  to  set    themselves    to  accomplish. 
It  is  one  of  the  first  duties  before  them.     Convinced  of  the 
value  of  these  suggestions,  the  News  Letter  will  not  let 
them  die  for  want  of  clear   exposition   and  zealous  advo- 
cacy. 


Extraordinary  Talk  about  dull  trade,  indeed  !  As  a  mat- 
Imports,  ter  of  fact,  our  commerce  never  reached 
such  proportions  as  now.  The  Bureau  of 
Statistics  at  Washington  shows  during  the  month  of  April 
last  the  heaviest  importations  of  foreign  merchandise  that 
ever  took  place  in  the  history  of  the  United  States.  For 
April  of  1896  the  aggregate  value  of  imports  was  about 
$58,000,000.  In  March  1896  it  was  but  $16,000,000.  In 
April  1897  the  total  amounted  to  $101,305,131.  Of  course 
there  is  no  disguising  the  purpose  of  these  excessive  impor- 
tations. It  is  1o  get  around  and  evade  the  higher  duties 
of  the  new  tariff,  over  which  Congress  is  still  wrangling. 
There  is  an  estimated  profit  to  the  importer  on  April's 
business  of  from  $25,000,000  to  $30,000,000.  That  is  what 
we  pay  for  our  bungling  system  of  changing  one  tariff  for 
another.  Jobbery  and  robbery  are  the  outcome  of  tariff 
legislation,  and  will  be  so  long  as  our  methods  are  based 
on  temptation  and  fruitful  of  dishonest  rewards.  Our  pro- 
posed tariffs  should  not  be  known  or  allowed  to  miss  fire 
for  periods  varying  from  five  to  nine  months,  and  when 
they  are  so  allowed,  somebody  is  about  to  turn  a  dishonest 
penny.  Tariffs  should  be  introduced  either  by  a 
committee,  or  a  special  commission,  or  by  the  administra- 
tion, and  a  joint  resolution  of  both  Houses  should  make 
them  law,  and  collectable  as  such  from  the  moment  of  their 
introduction.  If  any  proposed  duty  fails  to  pass  or  is  re- 
duced, the  difference  is  refunded  to  the  importer.  That  is 
the  method  in  vogue  in  England,  France,  and  Germany, 
and  in  all  other  civilized  countries  we  know  of,  except  the 
United  States,  and  it  would  be  the  practice  here  but  for  an 
overweening  desire  to  leave  doors  open  through  which 
money  may  be  passed.  These  large  importations  mean 
that  the  new  tariff  will  be  practically  inoperative  for 
nearly  a  year  after  its  passage,  and  that  it  will  produce 
little  or  no  revenue  during  that  time.  About  half  of  Mc- 
Kinley's  term  will  have  expired  before  the  great  cure-all 
is  applied  to  the  disease  of  hard-times.  It  has  been  com- 
puted that  about  70  per  cent,  of  the  cost  of  manufactur- 
ing goes  to  labor.  Hei-e,  then,  are  over  $70,000,000  of 
money  turned  over  to  the  pauper  labor  of  Europe,  and 
that  at  a  time  when  one  million  of  our  own  working  men 
are  out  of  employment.  No  such  blundering  will  bring 
about  better  times  or  satisfy  the  people.  The  times  are 
growing  harder. 

A  Bounty  On  It  is  reported  from  Washington  that 
Wheat  Exported,  several  Republican  Senators  have  de- 
cided to  block  the  passage  of  the  tariff 
unless  a  bounty  on  wheat  to  be  exported  is  provided  for. 
This  is  important,  if  true,  and  should  make  David  Lubin  of 
Sacramento  happy,  as  he  has  for  many  years  advocated  it 
as  the  only  possible  way  of  permitting  our  farmers  to 
share  in  the  general  protective  policy  of  the  country.  He 
holds  that  a  tariff  on  products  of  which  we  have  a  surplus 
for  export,  is  absolutely  without  protective  effect,  and  he 
is  obviously  right.  Hence  the  farmer,  as  the  case  stands 
at  present,  must  work  to  a  disadvantage  under  any  tariff; 
for  he  must  sell  under  free  trade  conditions,  whilst  he  is 
compelled  to  buy  in  a  protected  market.  Either,  then, 
the  farmer  must  be  given  a  bounty  on  his  exports,  or  in 
self  defense,  and  in  all  fairness,  he  must  insist  upon  free 
trade  all  round.  It  is  logically  a  strong  position  to  take 
up.  It  has  taken  a  strong  hold  upon  the  farmers  of  the 
West,  and  Grange  after  Grange  has  passed  resolutions  in 
its  favor.  A  number  of  Pennsylvania  Ministers,  taken 
with  the  idea  recently  waited  upon  the  President  to  learn 
what  he  proposed  to  do  about  a  policy  so  manifestly  just. 
Mr.  McKinley  promised  an  early  reply  but  it  has  not 
come  yet,  and  it  will  not  come,  for,  from  his  standpoint, 
no  reply  is  possible. 

How  We  The  State  Board  of  equalization  is  made 
Are  Assessed,  up  of  five  members.  Four  are  elected 
by  districts,  and  one,  the  Comptroller, 
is  a  member  ex-ofncio.  Thus  it  comes  that  the  country  is 
usuallv  represented  by  four  representatives,  whilst  San 
Francisco  has  only  one.  In  this  condition  of  things  it  is, 
perhaps,  not  to  be  wondered  at  that  the  Board  almost  in- 
variably evinces  a  disposition  to  cinch  the  city  whilst  let- 
ting the  country  off  as  light  as  possible.  It  is  not  at  all 
unusual  for  the  city's  assessments  to  be  raised  from  10  to 


June  is,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


20  per  cent,  over  ttie  values  our  local  assessors  deem  to  be 
fair  and  just.  This  lias  time  and  again  caused  intense  dis- 
r  citizens,  and  a  disposition  to  resist  pay- 
ment, if  they  only  knew  how.  It  is  a  misfortune  that  the 
State  Board  ca"not  increase  individual  assessments  that 
may  be  too  low,  but  must,  in  order  to  cure  a  few  evils, 
perpetrate  a  great  many  wrongs,  It  is  safe  to  say  that 
most  of  the  owners  of  moderate  homes  in  our  suburbs  are 
paying  on  the  basis  of  a  fair  and  full  assessment,  but  that 
is  hardly  quite  as  true  in  regard  to  large  establishments 
down  town.  Tax  shirking  is  as  old  as  tax  collecting.  It 
is  as  natural  for  many  of  us  to  shirk  taxes  as  it  is  for  a 
duck  to  swim.  The  remedy  is  the  procurement  of  officials 
who  will,  with  fairness  and  courage,  assess  both  the  rich 
and  the  poor  alike.  The  possessors  of  great  establish- 
ments should  be  assessed  proportionately  as  much,  but  no 
more  that  the  dweller  in  a  humble  cottage  in  Richmond  or 
at  the  Mission.  When  that  is  not  done  at  present,  the 
only  remedy  permissible  is  to  still  further  cinch  the  class 
that  are  fully  taxed  already.  The  assessment  of  the 
whole  city  must  be  raised,  and  not  merely  the  parts  that 
are  favored  with  comparative  immunity.  The  law  badly 
needs  changing  in  this  particular.  There  is  no  right  or 
reason  in  punishing  the  many  for  the  sins  of  the  few.  In 
regard  to  the  assessing  of  personal  property,  there  is  not 
one  good  word  to  be  said.  That  kind  of  property  is  not 
always  to  be  detected  by  the  eye  of  an  assessor,  and  it  too 
often  escapes  taxation  altogether.  Then  it  is  an  invidious, 
prying  tax,  which  nobody  likes  and  everybody  tries  to 
escape.  It  is  in  human  nature  so  to  do,  and  the  only 
remedy  is  a  less  obnoxious  system  of  taxation.  The  Exam- 
iner is  as  demagogic  in  regard  to  this  vexed  question  as  it 
is  in  respect  to  all  others.  Yet  it  is  the  most  under-taxed 
institution  in  the  city.  Assessed  at  less  than  $50,000,  that 
sum  does  not  to-day  equal  the  value  of  its  book  debts,  or 
of  half  its  presses,  and  one  million  would  not  buy  the  whole 
concern.  It  is  easier  to  excite  the  mob  than  to  solve  the 
ever-recurring  difficulty  as  to  equality  of  taxation. 

Valueless  As  they  are  at  present  operated,  the  com- 
Agency      mercial  agencies  of   this  country  fall  very  far 

Reports.  short  of  their  true  usefulness,  and  it  would 
appear  that  in  these  days  of  almost  universal 
insurance  their  alleged  mission  might  be  made  of  far  more 
practical  value  to  the  business  community  than  is  at  pres- 
ent derived  from  it.  The  commerc'al  agencies  are  sup- 
posed to  furnish  confidential  and  reliable  information  to 
their  subscribers  concerning  the  standing  of  men  in  busi- 
ness throughout  the  country.  The  information  is  accepted 
as  of  sufficient  accuracy  to  form  the  basis  of  commercial 
Credit,  and  upon  it  accounts  are  opened  and  goods  are 
sold.  The  subscriber  feels  that  the  rating  given  the  per- 
son or  firm  seeking  to  establish  credit  justifies  a  certain 
financial  standing.  The  demonstrated  facts  show  that  the 
information  paid  for  by  subscribers  if  often  misleading  and 
unreliable,  and  to  its  acceptance  may  be  directly  charged 
a  very  considerable  percentage  of  the  losses  of  business. 
The  writer  has  in  mind  a  striking  illustration  of  the  value 
of  these  so-called  "reliable"  reports.  A  firm  in  this  city 
desired  credit  for  several  thousand  dollars,  and  as  its  rat- 
ing justified  the  credit,  the  wholesaler  readily  granted  the 
accommodation.  A  short  time  thereafter  the  principal  of 
the  debtor  firm  died,  and  even  a  hasty  investigation 
showed  that  the  business  was  actually  insolvent,  and  had 
been  for  a  long  time.  The  wholesaler  who  trusted  to  alleged 
protection  for  which  he  pays  annually  a  large  sum,  found 
himself  out  and  injured.  The  goods  had  not  been  opened, 
so  short  a  time  had  elapsed  between  their  delivery  and  the 
purchaser's  death;  but  the  seller  failed  to  recover  them, 
or  up  to  the  present  moment  get  one  dollar.  This  is  a 
single  instance  of  the  unreliability  of  the  average  commer- 
cial agency.  To  those  who  know  bow,  it  is  not  difficult  to 
get  a  rating;  and  as  we  have  shown  in  this  single  instance, 
it  is  misleading  and  becomes  a  positive  trap,  which,  being 
accepted  in  place  of  a  more  thorough  personal  investiga- 
tion or  satisfactory  security,  does  the  merchant  out  of  his 
goods  and  destroys  his  profits.  There  is  something  radi- 
cally wrong  where  such  a  condition  exists.  The  agencies 
should  be  held  responsible  for  reports  for  which  good 
money  is  demanded,  but  which,  when  the  facts  are  devel- 
oped, are  found  to  be  misleading,  worthless,  and  in  reality 
the  very  instrument  by  which  losses  are  incurred. 


How  to         There  is  just  one  sure  way  to  make  money 
Make  Money,     in  this  country  that  we  know  of.     It  is  as 

simple  as  it  is  sure.  Take  twenty-four 
cents  worth  of  silver  of  standard  fineness,  put  it  into  a 
crucible  over  a  hot  tire:  when  it  is  melted  pour  it  into  a 
mold,  and  when  it  is  cool  it  is  equal  to  fifty  cents  in  United 
States  coin,  With  the  cost  of  this  operation  subtracted, 
there  remains  about  100  per  cent,  profit  on  the  transac- 
tion. It  is  estimated  that  fully  12,000,000  worth  of  these 
half  dollars  are  already  in  circulation,  and  their  number  is 
being  added  to  everv  day.  To  what  limit  they  may  reach 
no  man  can  tell.  They  so  exactly  imitate  the  Govern- 
ment's coinage  as  to  defy  even  experts  to  determine  which 
is  the  genuine  and  which  the  false.  The  banks  and  even 
the  .Sub-Treasury  have  about  abandoned  the  task  Oi  deter- 
mining which  is  which.  So  that  the  business  goes  on  sub- 
stantially unmolested!  Detection  and  prosecution  are 
next  to  impossible.  The  coinage  is  believed  to  take  place 
over  the  Mexican  border,  so  that  the  venue  for  false  coin- 
age does  not  lie  in  our  own  country.  The  "passing,"  of 
course,  takes  place  here,  but  it  must  be  "knowingly  passed 
with  intent  to  defraud,"  but  with  the  bogus  coin  in  such 
general  circulation  that  even  the  Government  accepts  it, 
how  is  it  to  be  proven  that  any  one  "knowingly"  passes 
it?  It  is  the  easiest  way  ever  invented  to  make  money, 
and  where  there  is  so  much  profit  in  times  like  these, 
bogus  coins  are  bound  to  increase  abundantly.  The  mak- 
ing of  money  is  the  game  we  are  all  trying  to  play,  and  if 
"  free  and  unlimited  coinage  of  silver  at  the  ratio  of  10  to 
1 "  will  enable  us  to  succeed,  who  has  the  right  to  say  us 
nay?  Not  the  Democrats,  the  Popocrats,  or  the  silver 
Republicans,  or  even  the  straight  Republicans,  who  are 
pledged  to  silver  in  a  round-about  way.  Certainly  the 
6,500,000  citizens  who  voted  for  Bryan  will  not  object  to 
this  kind  of  coinage,  except  that  it  is  not  being  coined  free 
of  cost  by  the  Government.  As  Congress  is  at  present 
constituted,  this  spurious  coinage  cannot  be  legislated 
against,  and  yet  it.  cannot  go  on  forever  without  bank- 
rupting the  Government.  It  is  an  almost  perfect  object 
lesson  on  the  silver  question.  We  must  either  have  the 
white  metal  backed  by  the  yellow,  or  fifty-cent  dollars 
must  be  the  consequence. 

The  Merchants'  The  Merchants'  Association  has 
Association's  Review,  just  published  its  third  annual  re- 
view of  the  work  it  has  accomp- 
lished, all  of  which  is  deeply  interesting,  and  marks  no 
small  part  in  the  history  of  our  city's  new  departure  on 
the  matter  of  civic  pride.  Of  the  past  our  citizens  are 
pretty  well  informed.  But  the  association  marks  out  not 
a  few  plans  for  the  future  of  which  it  is  well  to  take  cog- 
nizance. It  calls  attention  to  the  fact  that  Mayor  Phelan 
has  been  asked  to  appoint  a  committee  of  one  hundred 
citizens,  representing  all  classes  in  the  community,  to  pre- 
pare a  new  charter  for  San  Francisco.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  the  result  will  be  the  early  preparation  of  a  model 
charter  that  will  merit  and  win  the  support  of  every  citi- 
zen who  has  the  welfare  of  the  Queen  City  of  the  Pacific 
at  heart.  With  a  new  organic  law,  and  the  new  primary 
election  law,  it  is  hoped  and  believed  that  San  Francisco 
will  at  last  have  a  real  home  rule,  and  be  in  a  position  to 
govern  herself  in  her  own  way.  The  construction  of  a  new 
sewer  system  is  ardently  recommended.  The  health  of  the 
people  should  be  the  first  duty  of  their  municipal  officers. 
By  reason  of  the  exceptionally  favorable  environment  of 
this  peninsula,  San  Francisco  should  be  one  of  the  health- 
iest cities  in  the  world,  but  it  has  a  large  death-rate,  by 
reason  of  its  defective  drainage.  This  can  be  and  must  be 
remedied.  With  a  new  charter  and  good  officials,  our 
citizens  would  be  very  willing  that  bonds  should  be  issued 
for  the  consummation  of  this  much-needed  improvement. 
The  re-pavement  of  Market  street  with  modern  and  im- 
proved paving  would  constitute  this  great  artery  of  San 
Francisco's  travel  and  commerce  one  of  the  most  imposing 
streets  in  the  world.  It  is  thought  that  asphalt  or  bitum- 
inous rock  still  hold  the  field  as  the  best  paving  for  sub- 
urban streets.  The  efforts  of  the  present  Mayor  and 
Board  of  Supervisors  to  bring  about  economy  and  reform 
in  the  management  of  the  city  government  are  very  highly 
and  deservedly  commended,  and  the  cooperation  of  every 
civic  organization  is  urgently  invited.  The  hope  for  the  fu- 
ture of  our  community"  rests  in  the  civic  pride  of  our  people. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


June  12,  1897. 


Criticism  Unfair  The  Examiner  is  in  a  rage  because  it 
and  Unscrupulous,  cannot  so  fire  the  popular  heart  as  to 
induce  it  to  do  something  rash  and 
lawless  to  a  two-thirds  majority  of  the  City  Fathers. 
Vituperous  and  grossly  libelous  language  is  employed  with 
total  disregard  to  reason  acid  sense,  to  describe  action  that 
is  only  open,  at  worst,  to  an  honest  difference  of  opinion. 
The  Supervisors  say,  and  produce  evidence  in  proof  of 
what  they  say,  that  the  schedules  they  have  adopted  will 
oarely  permit  of  SpriDg  V alley  paying  a  dividend  of  (1  per 
cent.  The  Examiner  declares  that  they  will  yield  not  far 
from  7  per  cent.  Admit,  for  the  sake  of  argument,  that 
the  Examiner  is  right,  and  what  then?  Seven  per  cent, 
is  what  most  of  our  savings  banks  charge,  and  is  about  the 
average  loanable  value  of  money  at  this  time  when  the 
security  is  gilt-edged  and  the  danger  of  loss  nil.  The 
Spring  Valley  has  always  to  take  the  risk  of  floods,  repairs 
of  plant,  and  the  need  of  betterments.  In  view  of  the 
facts,  net  earnings  of  seven  per  cent,  are  not  out  of  the 
wav,  and  certainly  not  such  as  ought  to  lead  to  incite- 
ments to  riot  and  public  disorder,  such  as  the  Examiner  is 
indulging  in.  The  majority  of  us  would  doubtless  like  to 
obtain  water  free,  but  then  there  are  about  8000  stock- 
holders who  invested  their  money  in  a  belief  in  the  honesty 
of  purpose  of  a  vast  majority  of  our  ratepayers,  and  we 
think  that  belief  well  founded.  The  signs  all  point  that 
way,  the  consumers  appear  contented,  and  the  Examiner's 
fur}'  does  not  prove  to  be  catching.  Certainly  no  condition 
has  arisen  which  justifies  our  contemporary  in  hurling 
charges  easily  within  the  purview  of  the  libel  law.  We  are 
told  that  the  Supervisors  have  "performed  the  services 
for  which  they  were  ]>airl"  and  that  "they  attempted  to 
justify  their  action  with  a  foolish  and  ridiculous  plea  *  *  * 
Such  men  are  not  expected  to  reason,  but  simply  to  do  as 
they  are  bidden  by  the  owners  who  have  bought  and  paid 
for  their  political  souls  and  bodies."  City  Fathers  are 
expected  to  stand  much,  but  no  men  who  know  what  honor 
is  care  to  associate  with  public  officials  who  can  stand  such 
language  as  that.  If  what  the  Examiner  says  be  true,  and 
there  is  not  the  slightest  indication  that  it  is,  eight  of  our 
Supervisors  ought  to  be  forced  to  step  down  and  out.  If 
it  be  not  true,  and  we  are  convinced  to  a  moral  certainty 
that  it  is  not,  they  owe  it  to  themselves,  their  families,  and 
to  the  good  name  of  the  city  to  apply  the  usual  remedy. 
The  laws  of  their  State  will  afford  them  adequate  protection. 

Brutal  and  The  attention  of  the  Society  for  the  Preven- 
Depraved.  tion  of  Vice  and  the  eyes  of  Postal  Inspector 
Monroe  are  pointedly  called  to  a  pamphlet 
issued  by  Kapp  &  Street,  whose  place  of  business  is  at  the 
corner  of  Market  street  and  Golden  Gate  avenue.  This 
firm  has  had  printed,  and  is  busily  engaged  in  circulating, 
a  large  number  of  these  little  advertising  books,  in  which 
are  pictures  so  obscene  and  suggestive  that  further  de- 
scription of  them  is  forbidden.  Every  copy  of  this  filthv 
publication  is  cause  for  prompt  and  vigorous  action  by  the 
local  authorities,  as  it  constitutes  a  distinct  attack  upon 
morality  and  virtue.  That  men  who  claim  respectability 
will  employ  such  methods  to  advertise  their  traffic  or  gain 
a  few  dollars  is  amazing;  but  if  their  vulgar  propensities 
find  no  restraint  in  the  instincts  of  self-respect  and  claims 
of  ordinary  decency,  they  shouid  be  taught  a  lesson  at  the 
rough  hands  of  the  law  that  will  in  the  future  restrain 
them  from  further  offense.  The  law  says  that  every  ob- 
scene, lewd,  or  lascivious  pamphlet,  picture,  print,  or 
other  publication  of  an  indecent  character  is  declared  to 
be  non-mailable;  and  that  any  person  who  shall  know- 
ingly deposit,  or  cause  to  be  deposited,  for  mailing  or 
delivery,  anything  declared  by  this  section  (333  U.  S. 
Statutes)  to  be  unmailable  matter,  shall  unon  conviction 
be  fined  not  more  than  15,000,  or  imprisonment  at  hard 
labor  not  more  than  five  years,  or  both,  at  the  discretion 
of  the  Court,  United  States  Courts  have  defined  indecent 
literature  as  anything  the  tendency  of  which  is  to  "de- 
prave and  corrupt  the  minds  and  morals  of  those  open  to 
lascivious  influences."  Many  copies  of  this  indecent  pub- 
lication have  doubtless  been  sent  out  through  the  mails; 
and  for  each  and  every  such  offense  the  above  penalty  may 
be  enforced  upon  those  against  whom  it  can  be  proved. 

Aside  from  the  attention  of  the  postal  authorities,  the 
local  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Vice  will  find  this  illus- 
trated pamphlet  worthy  of  its  immediate  and  vigorous  at- 


tention. The  strong  hand  of  the  law  should  be  at  once  laid 
upon  these  offenders.  They  have  printed  literally  tens  of 
thousands  of  these  abominations,  which  are  designed  and 
expected  to  fall  into  the  hands  of  the  youth  of  the  city. 
Let  prompt  action  be  taken;  let  such  brutality  and  moral 
depravity  find  swift  and  merited  punishment. 

The  Ferry  There  have  been  many  complaints  made  be- 
Depot.  cause  of  the  delays  that  have  prevented  con- 
tinuous labor  and  early  completion  of  the 
ferry  depot  at  the  foot  of  Market  street.  Injunction  after 
injunction  has  confronted  the  Harbor  Commissioners,  de- 
spite their  united  effort  to  hasten  the  work,  and,  even 
when  the  courts  have  not  been  called  upon  to  settle  other 
difficulties,  the  contractors  adopt  dilatory  tactics.  It  will 
be  remembered  that  the  durability  of  the  foundation,  which 
is  the  largest  concrete  work  of  its  kind  in  the  world,  was 
called  in  question,  and  charges  made  that  it  was  not  built 
according  to  the  specifications.  After  repeated  tests 
made  by  borings,  it  was  found  to  be  everything  that  could 
be  desired.  But  the  test  cost  a  year's  time.  The  solidity 
of  the  foundation  having  been  passed,  the  Commissioners 
advertised  for  the  superstructure,  but  were  met  by  further 
obstructions,  which  resulted  in  the  enactment  of  laws  com- 
pelling them  to  let  the  contract  in  six  different  parts,  thus 
causing  further  delays  for  which  the  Board  was  in  no  man- 
ner responsible.  Then  came  up  the  question  of  the  stone 
to  be  used.  Oregon  gray  stone  was  competing  with  Colusa 
rock — a  home  product — and  the  power  of  the  Commis- 
sioners to  choose  the  latter  material  had  to  be  settled  in 
the  Courts.  Commissioner  Chad  bourne  brought  the  differ- 
ent quarrjf  owners  together,  so  that  the  matter  was  finally 
patched  up;  home  material  was  used,  and  the  State  saved 
more  than  $50,000  by  the  deal. 

Now,  however,  the  contractors  are  resorting  to  dilatory 
methods.  They  are  delaying  the  completion  of  the  depot 
by  working  a  small  number  of  men,  when  every  condition 
favors  the  employment  of  a  large  force  and  the  speedy 
completion  of  the  structure.  The  patience  of  the  Board  is 
about  exhausted;  and  Commissioner  Chadbourne  is  espe- 
cially incensed,  and  has  finally  declared  that  he  will  sign 
no  more  contractors'  demands  unless  they  put  on  more 
men  and  rush  the  work  to  its  finish.  He  favors  the  use  of 
electric  light  and  night  shifts  in  order  that  the  depot  may 
be  completed  by  the  first  of  December  next.  In  this  de- 
termination the  entire  Board  are  united,  so  that  we  may 
expect  to  observe  the  greatest  activity  at  the  foot  of  Mar- 
ket street  until  the  last  spike  is  driven  and  the  great  work 
an  accomplished  fact. 


Fise  Watch  and  Jewelry  Repairing.    Low  prices.    All  work  guaran- 
teed.   J.N  Brlttan.  watchmaker  and  jeweler,  20  Geary  street. 


Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copperplate  engraving. 
Market  street.  San  t'rancisco. 


Cooper  &  Co.,  746 


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W.  W.  MONTAGUE  &  GO., 

309  to  317  Market  St.,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 
Cor.  N.  First  and  St.  John 
Sts.,  San  Jose,  Cal. 


June  12,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


ART     JOTTINGS. 


THE  admission  to  the  green  room  in  the  Bohemian  Club 
of  the  pictures  of  the  artist  members  for  exhibition 
anil  sale,  has  had  a  most  salutary  effect  upon  the  artists. 
rovinoes  them  that  their  theory  that  the  town  is 
"dead  "  in  an  art  sense  is  not  correct,  and  that  there  are 
many  disinterested  people  who  are  more  than  willing  to 
assist  talented  artists  with  their  own  purse  and  their  in- 
fluence upon  the  purses  of  others.  The  men  who  lie  back, 
and  growl,  and  wax  lazy,  will  kick  at  everything,  and  want 
the  coin  current  of  the  country  slipped  into  their  socks, 
but  the  genuine,  industrious  fellows  always  get  a  helping 
band,  and  all  of  them,  with  a  very  small  exception,  need  it. 

Fred  Yates  has  placed  his  strong  and  effective  picture 
of  General  Barnes  on  exhibition  in  the  green  room,  anil  also 
a  quaint  illustration  of  the  verses  of  Omar: 

A  book  of  verses  underneath  the  bough, 
A  iup  of  wine,  a  loaf  of  bread,  and  thou 
Beside  me  singing  in  tbe  wilderness, 
Oh,  wilderness  were  paradise  enough. 

The  old  philosopher  is  represented  graybearded  like 
Merlin,  and  the  girl,  a  weird-looking  lassie,  lies  at  his  feet. 
The  cartoon  is  of  the  Beardsley  type,  and  is  quaint  and 
forcible. 

Arthur  Bennett,  of  Memphis,  the  animal  painter,  is 
here,  and  has  been  doing  some  work  in  a  quiet  way  for  the 
owners  of  crack  dogs  and  horses.  Mr.  Bennett  was  here 
several  years  ago,  and  painted  several  of  the  pets  of  Harry 
I.  Thornton's  stable.  His  work  is  of  the  very  best  in  this 
line. 

Joseph  D.  Strong  exhibits  a  portrait  in  pastel  of  Mr. 
Clift,  which  will  rank  among  tbe  best  things  in  this  line  he 
has  accomplished.  It  is  not  alone  a  perfect  likeness,  but 
has  an  artistic  virility,  so  to  speak,  which  is  not  often 
found  in  the  counterfeit  presentment  of  the  human  face. 

Charley  Rollo  Peters  is  finding  a  good  market  here  for 
his  moonlight  pictures.  He  has  sold  to  W.  G.  Stafford, 
Fred  Yates,  and  others,  and  meanwhile  keeps  painting  for 
the  fall  exhibition  in  New  York. 

Amadee  Joullin  exhibits  a  study  in  Alameda,  a  landscape 
full  of  nice  effects  and  tender  feeling.  The  marsh  in  the 
foreground,  the  sluggish  water  in  the  middle  distance,  and 
the  faint  greens  on  the  other  shore,  with  High-street 
bridge  on  the  left  of  the  picture,  make  a  clever  composi- 
tion,   and  in  all  respects  a  most  desirable  picture. 

Charles  Robinson  is  at  work  at  some  marines  which  will 
shortly  meet  the  public  eye.  Robinson  is  a  most  conscien- 
tious artist  who  studies  from  nature,  and  his  work  of  late 
shows  excellent  progress. 

Alexander  Harrison,  the  very  swell  American  artist  of 
Paris,  and  the  intimate  friend  of  the  eccentric  Whistler, 
will  soon  be  here,  and  the  Bohemian  Club  will  make  merry 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  12,  1897. 


"  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 

THE  Baldwin  Theatre  opened  quietly 
Sunday  night  with  the  Liliputians  in  a 
new  fairy  tale  called  Merry  Tramps.  If  you 
feel  any  burning  anxiety  to  know  what  it  is 
all  about,  buy  a  libretto.  The  secret  is 
sold  in  the  lobby  for  ten  cents.  To  nay 
simple  un-German  mind  it  would  seem  that  this  "grand 
spectacular  production"  is  not  quite  so  grand,  spectacular 
and  productive  as  other  pieces  in  which  we  have  seen  the 
Liliputians.  The  scenery  is  proud  and  sufficient,  the 
ballet  is  commodious  and  energetic,  and  the  music  is  bald 
and  banal — no  particular  innovation  there — yet  the  oppor- 
tunities of  exploiting  the  specialized  cleverness  of  these 
condensed  comedians  is  fewer  than  usual  and  farther  be- 
tween. Ebert's  miniature  jag  and  undressing  scenes — 
how  sacredly  they  are  preserved  and  handed  down  from 
year  to  year! — are  still  valuable,  and  a  gaiety-girl  dance 
and  a  chorus  of  "East  side,  Vest  side,"  are  exorbitantly 
comical;  several  instances  of  clever  pantomime,  too, — but 
these  are  not  half  enough  for  artists  of  the  mammoth 
capacity  of  Zink,  Ebert  and  Merkel.  Merry  Tramp.':  is  a 
bit  slow  for  us  children,  but  of  course  it  will  give  the  old 
people  a  good  time. 

Franz  Ebert,  poor  old  gentleman,  is  ageing!  Gout  is  in 
his  step,  and  his  gestures  are  beginning  to  dodder.  He  is 
funnier  than  ever  to  us,  but  it's  no  joke  to  him.  His 
grandson,  Kaleb  the  Giant,  is  not  with  the  company  this 
season — gone  home  to  learn  German,  I  understand. 

The  ballet  is  composed  of  Native  Daughters  of  the 
Golden  West,  mostly  Floral  Queens.  This  saves  transpor- 
tation. The  big  people  of  the  cast  are  shipped  as  freight, 
and  three  adult  tickets  will  carry  the  eight  stars. 

#  *  * 

This  is  the  season  when  the  Tivolite  turns  to  idiocy,  and 
he  gets  it  by  the  asylumfull  in  the  new  review,  Miss  Frisco. 
Sixty  minutes  have  been  cut  since  the  opening  Monday 
night,  which  means  that  several  dead  scenes  and  dull 
songs  are  out  entirely  and  the  pace  hastened  generally. 
As  the  show  stands  now,  it  is  wild,  terrible  and  funny. 
Joseph  B.  Cassell  is  guilty  of  the  book,  the  music  seems  to 
have  been  committed  by  everybody  on  earth.  Tommy 
Leary's  song,  "There's  no  place  like  'Frisco,"  has  made 
the  particular  hit.  It  is  a  wonderful  tribute  to  the  town, 
and  Leary  sings  it  with  lusty  enthusiasm.  Hartman  has  a 
good  one,  too,  "Nit,  nit,  nit."  Hartman  is  really  funny 
this  time  as  Tommy  Nothing,  a  caricature  of  the  old  fellow 
who  used  to  shout  "matrimonial  papers!"  on'  the  streets. 
Darcy  is  his  companion  grafter,  Sammy  Less,  and  not  so 
good — perhaps  for  the  lack  of  a  fit  song.  Darcy  can  dance 
anything,  and  the  part  of  Mike  in  Shamus  O'Brien  stamped 
him  sterling  as  a  character  Irishman,  but  nature  draws 
the  line  when  Darcy  tries  a  coon  song.  Who  is  there  in 
the  Tivoli  can  sing  a  coon  song?  Hartman? — never! 
It's  a  State's  Prison  offense  whenever  he  tries.  To  sing 
the  modern  coon  song  requires  the  real  rag  temperament 
and  the  fancy  nigger  essence — the  scarcest  commodities 
in  the  business  to-day. 

*  *  * 

West,  like  Raffael,  is  indispensable  to  the  Tivoli.  Ob- 
serve the  easy,  legitimate  worth  of  him  as  he  plays  the 
Emperor  Norton.  Raffael  is  less  kind  to  Greenway.  In 
fact,  he  doesn't  flatter  him  a  little  bit,  except  when  he 
sings  like  a  ripe  'cello.  And  he  makes  him  wear  a  ready- 
made  evening  tie.  Raffael's  life  will  not  be  worth  Adgie's, 
when  the  original  finds  this  out.  Greenway  is  a  South- 
erner, you  know.  Miss  Morella  has  the  title  part.  I 
should  like  her  better  if  she  would  acquire  the  blessed  art 
of  occasional  repose,  arch  herself  less,  and  wreathe  fewer 
smiles.  Of  the  women,  Miss  Seabrooke  and  Miss  Intro- 
podi  are  the  best.  There  is  brutal  truth  well  acted  in  Miss 
Intropodi's  boozing  scene,  and  Miss  Seabrooke's  gracile 
gentleness  is  a  reproach  to  all  the  aggressive  chirpiness 
she  has  given  us   in   shows   past.     I  admire   her  work  im- 


mensely as  Mrs.  Alameda  Mole,  the  dashing  widow  of  a  de- 
praved county;  she  takes  her  songs  sweetly  and  un- 
affectedly, and  gives  picturesqueness  and  human  pose  to 
her  acting.  I  congratulate  Miss  Seabrooke  on  her  reform- 
ation. 

*  *  * 

The  author  has  lean  chances  of  distinction  in  this  sort  of 
a  review,  where  specialties  are  of  first  consideration  and 
satire  an  after- thought.  Mr.  Cassell's  scheme  is  all 
>-ight  so  far  as  the  beginning  and  the  ending  are  concerned. 
He  was  oddly  inventive  to  vitalize  Emperor  Norton's  por- 
trait and  turn  it  loose  on  the  town,  and  cleverer  still  to 
get  it  back  into  its  frame  by  means  of  the  mystic  Brahma- 
charin — in  fact,  the  hypnotic  dance  in  this  last  scene 
makes  the  best  situation  in  the  piece.  But  anybody  could 
have  written  what  goes  between,  which  is  only  so  clever  as 
the  actors  can  make  it  by  upholstering  with  all  sorts  of 
extraneous  specialties.  Maybe  Mr.  Cassell  is  not  to  blame. 
Maybe  the  eager  actors  crowded  him  out.  Anyway,  the 
show  fills  the  bill.  It  is  full  of  Junebug  craziness,  and 
serves  those  people  right  who  want  to  see  something  fast, 

furious  and  irresponsible. 

*  #  * 

You  have  seen  the  young  woman  who  associates  with 
the  three  life-sized  lions  at  the  Orpheum  ?  Well,  here  are 
her  announced  prospects,  just  as  I  received  them: 

Special !  Positively  last  week  of 
Adcjie.  At  the  conclusion  of  her 
dancing  entertainment  the  animals 
will  be  fed  in  view  of  the  audience. 

Deliberate  and  horrible!  isn't  it? 

*  *  * 

That  act  of  Adgie's  is  a  wonder.  It  dwarfs,  pales,  and 
tranquilizes  everything  else  on  the  Orpheum  bill.  Who  is 
going  to  become  excited  over  the  peaceful  Irishuess  of  the 
Russell  Brothers  or  the  life-prolonging  exercise  of  the 
Vaidas  Sisters  on  the  domesticated  trapeze  ?  There  was 
a  time  when  Daily  and  Hilton's  "  eccentric  comedy  crea- 
tions "  would  have  been  attended  by  considerable  risk — but 
the  Orpheum  gallery  seems  to  have  lost  much  of  its  old 
wildness;  weapons  are  the  exception  rather  than  the  rule 
now;  almost  any  old  act  is  allowed  to  live. 

*  #  * 

■  Very  often  I  find  myself  thinking  of  Adgie;  then  I  leave 
some  listless  show  in  time  to  see  her  enter  the  cage.  The 
fine,  cruel  excitement  of  it  fascinates  me,  and  the  picture 
is  something  that  painters  do  not  paint.  I  shall  not  for- 
get it  soon — those  big,  lissome  brutes,  nervous-eyed,  clean- 
jawed,  with  their  paws  of  velvet  and  steel,  and  their  soft, 
feline  gestures  that  are  so  beautiful,  so  false,  so  ominous! 
And  the  girl,  sometimes  dressed  in  white,  sometimes 
in  a  red  that  reflects  blood  in  the  beasts'  eyes,  is  as 
stirring  to  see  as  one  of  her  lions.  She  has  the  face 
of  a  lioness — the  broad,  strong  nose,  the  bodeful  eyes, 
and  the  alert,  sensuous  mouth.  In  the  cage  she  is  one  of 
them.  She  sings  to  them,  dances  to  them — not  to  us; 
sings  the  Paloma  with  sultry  seduction  in  the  rhythm  of 
it,  dances  with  indolent,  catty  grace.  And  the  lionesses 
bound  and  hiss,  and  the  big  young  brute  of  a  lion  snugg'es 
lovingly,  and  goes  confidingly,  through  his  silly  little  tricks. 
Of  him  she  has  no  fear;  the  others  she  watches — as  they 
watch  each  other. 

*  *  * 

I  sit  and  see  this  act  many  times,  and  each  time  I  go 
away  wondering  from  what  breed'of  devils  this  girl  Adgie 
sprang,  wondering  when  the  last  night  will  come.  I  re- 
member what  Daniel  Boone  said:  "There  is  no  such  ani- 
mal as  the  tamed  lion.  It  is  only  a  question  of  time  and 
opportunity  when  the  best  lion  caged  will  try  to  kill  his 
master."  Boone  never  would  enter  the  cage  without  a 
dog,  a  Dane,  the  only  animal,  he  said,  that  will  fight  a 
lion  at  a  pinch.  And  Boone's  lions,  compared  to  Adgie's 
looked  like  moth-eaten  rugs  stuffed.  Adgie  has  no  dog. 
There  is  nothing  between  her  and  death  but  her  nerve  and 

the  beasts'  caprice. 

*  #  # 

Prize-fights  are  against  the  laws  of  some  States,  be- 
cause they  are  dangerous,  I  believe.  I  saw  a  prize-fight 
once  in  which  one  of  the  combatants  was  killed  by  the 
other.     I  do  not  remember  that  it   affected   me  to  any  ex- 


June  12,  1S97. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


tent.  I  felt  rather  ashamed  of  beinn  there,  that  was  all. 
If  anything  happens  in  Adgie,  I  shall  cry,  and  write  her 
epitaph. 

*  «  » 

I  missed  two  concerts  at  Native  Sons'  Hall— Mr.  Denis 
ivan's  farewell  of  Monday  Bight,  and  Mrs.  Eunice 
Westwater's  annual  of  Wednesday  night.  So  with  all 
good  will  I  can  join  with  my  colleagues  in  celebrating  both 
as  brilliant  successes.  I  hope  that  Mr.  O'Sullivan  will  re- 
turn next  year  and  bri"i;  with  him  another  new  opera. 

*  *  * 

Monday  will  see  a  genuine  first-night  at  the  Columbia — 
the  first  production  on  any  stage  of  Lorimer  Stoddard's 
comedy.  Tin  Question.  A  prize  of  fifty  dollars  was  offered 
for  the  best  title,  and  somebody's  idea  of  The  Question  won 
it  hands  down.  It  is  almost  as  good  a  title  as  that  ot 
George  Bernard  Shaw's  new  piece,  )'<<//  Never  Can  Till, 
which  is  to  follow  Under  ttu  Red-  Robt  at  the  Haymarket, 
Loudon.  Both  titles  are  speculative  to  a  degree.  I  hope 
Mr.  Stoddard's  comedy  is  a  good  one.  Another  bad  play 
would  be  a  hard  blow  to  the  Frawleys.  In  any  event  it  is 
to  the  credit  of  FYawley  that  he  has  the  nerve  to  buy  un- 
tried plays.  While  it  would  seem  that  he  has  a  pretty 
sure  thing  in  the  work  of  Mr.  Stoddard— who  dramatized 
Texs  for  Mrs.  Fiske — you  never  can  tell.  The  Question  is 
said  to  concern  itself  satirically  with  Knickerbocker 
society,  two  unsophisticated  Westerners  are  introduced 
by  way  of  contrast,  and  there  is  a  scene  in  a  woman's  club 
wherein  the  author  has  undertaken  the  manipulation  of 
fifteen  female  characters  of  various  excitability.  But 
everyone  will  want  to  find  out  for  himself,  and  I  can  per- 
haps write  better  about  The.  Question  next  week. 
»  »  * 

The  Liliputians  play  another  week  at  the  Baldwin,  then 
the  Lyceum  Company  in  The  Prisoner  of  Zemin,  The  First 
Gentleman  of  Europe,  The  Mayflower,  and  The  Lute.  Mr.  Cos- 
tello.  It  was  in  this  last-named  play  that  Miss  Mary  Man- 
nering,  the  Lyceum's  new  leading  woman,  won  her  first 
success  in  New  York.  James  K.  Hackett  heads  the  com- 
pany. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Frisco,  you  know,  is  only  an  incident  at  the  Tivoli. 
It  is  bridging  time  up  to  the  Stevens  engagement.  Edwin 
Stevens,  N.  S.  G.  W.,  comic  opera  king,  ex-Dalyite,  and 
past  master  in  the  geutle  art  of  painless  comicality,  has 
gone  back  to  his  first  love.  A  week  from  Monday  night 
he  will  begin  an  eight-weeks'  season  of  light  opera  at  the 
same  Tivoli  Opera  House  that  sheltered  his  first  efforts 
ten  years  ago  and  more.  He  brings  with  hima  valisefull 
of  metropolitan  vogues,  The  Princess  Jicmiie,  The  Isle  if 
Champagne,  The  Grand  Vizier,   Wang,  and  others. 

*  *  * 

Conway  and  Leland,  merry,  merry  monopedes  (don't 
ask  me  what  that  means)  and  Josephine  Sabel,  who  can 
sing,  come  to  the  Orpheum  Monday  night. 

That's  all.  Ashton  Stevens. 


BLYTHEDALE,  in  addition  to  occupying  one  of  the 
most  beautiful  locations  on  the  line  of  the  scenic  rail- 
way, is  fortunate  in  having  a  proprietor  whose  large  ex- 
perience has  peculiarly  fitted  her  for  the  duties  of  hostess. 
The  neat  and  convenient  cottages  scattered  about  are 
everything  one  could  desire,  and  the  hotel  is  supplied  with 
every  comfort  and  luxury  that  the  most  exacting  and 
traveled  guest  could  wish.  One  thing  beyond  these  boun- 
tiful tables  and  admirably  arranged  accommodations  which 
is  particularly  noticeable  is  the  perfect  system  of  lighting 
employed.  Incandescent  lights  are  scattered  everywhere 
within  and  without,  and  add  greatly  to  the  picturesque 
and  charming  appearance  of  Blythedale. 


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2:00,  and4:00p   M. 

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Joseph  Gillott's  Steel  Pens, 


Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1889.    These  pens  are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States. 
Mr.  Henry  Hoe.  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Staitoners  . 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  12,  [897. 


The  Autobiography  of  a  Professional  Beauty,  by  Elizabeth  Phipps 
Train.  Illustrated.  Published  by  J.  B.  Lippincott  Co.,  Phila- 
delphia. 1896. 
This  is  a  record  of  the  experiences  of  Evelyn  Hilliard,  a 
handsome  American  girl,  in  English  upper  class  society. 
Evelyn  has  been  regularly  trained  by  her  mother,  whose 
own  social  antecedents  are  somewhat  dubious,  to  play  the 
role  of  a  beaut}',  and  she  does  it  with  great  success. 
Quite  early  in  her  career  she  is  invited  to  good  houses, 
and  makes  herself  so  charming  that  two  or  three  noble- 
men are  anxious  that  she  should  share  their  rank  and 
titles.  One  of  these,  the  Earl  of  Denbigh,  who  is  really  a 
splendid  fellow,  she  admires  exceedingly,  but  does  not  love. 
It  is  at  the  Earl's  country  seat  that  the  most  important 
incident  of  the  story  takes  place.  A  rich  French  girl, 
named  Yvonne  d' Alembert,  who  is  in  keen  pursuit  of  Lord 
Denbigh's  coronet,  is  visiting  at  Denbigh  Court  at  the 
same  time  as  Evelyn.  Yvonne  has  a  valuable  collection  of 
jewels,  part  of  which  she  carries  about  with  her  in  a  trunk, 
only  herself  and  her  maid,  however,  being  supposed  to 
know  the  precise  place  and  manner  of  their  concealment. 
One  da}',  when  the  guests  are  kept  in  the  house,  Yvonne 
displays  her  jewels  to  Evelyn  Hilliard,  and  a  day  or  two 
later  a  Mr.  Tresham,  also  a  guest  at  the  Court,  in  per- 
forming some  hypnotic  experiments  to  amuse  the  party, 
becomes  aware  of  Miss  Hilliard's  knowledge  of  the  place 
of  concealment  uf  Yvonne's  jewels.  Having  placed 
Evelyn  under  complete  control,  he  sends  her  to  abstract 
the  jewels  from  Yoonne's  trunk,  and  hand  them  over  to 
her  maid,  who  subsequently  gives  them  to  Tresham.  An 
evening  or  two  after  the  hypnotic  experiments,  an  earring 
belonging  to  Yvonne  is  found  clinging  to  the  ruche  at  the 
edge  of  Evelyn's  skirt,  and  it  seems  almost  impossible  to 
resist  the  conclusion  that  she  stole  the  jewels.  A  bright 
lady  suggests  that  a  clever  hypnotist  be  sent  for,  who  will 
throw  Evelyn  again  into  a  hypnotic  condition,  and  make 
her  do  all  that  she  had  done  on  the  night  when  Tresham 
controlled  her.  This  is  done:  where  upon  Evelyn  at  once 
goes  to  Yvonne's  room,  opens  the  secret  compartment  at 
the  bottom  of  the  trunk,  and  behaves  precisely  as  she  had 
done  before.  Tresham  had  meanwhile  left  Denbigh  Court, 
and  was  about  to  leave  England,  but  was  delayed  by  ill- 
ness. On  investigation  being  made,  the  jewels  are  dis- 
covered in  his  rooms.  Cleared  of  this  charge,  Evelyn  pur- 
sues her  triumphant  career:  at  the  next  country-house 
she  goes  to  she  engages  in  an  outrageous  flirtation  with 
her  host,  and  captivates  him  so  that  he  throws  discretion 
to  the  winds,  and  makes  violent  love  to  her:  then,  of  course, 
as  the  sweet  creatures  generally  are,  she  is  frightened  by 
his  impetuosity,  and  throws  cold  water  upon  the  fire  she 
has  lighted  and  industriously  fanned  into  a  blaze.  But,  not 
being  an  altogether  bad-hearted  girl,  Evelyn  sees  that  she 
has  done  wrong;  and  experiences  a  revulsion  of  feeling  in 
favor  of  Paul  Sturgis,  an  American  lawyer,  and  one  of  her 
earliest  admirers,  who  has  been  much  shocked  and  pained 
at  her  somewhat  reckless  behavior  since  she  became  a  re- 
cognized beauty  in  English  society.  How  Evelyn  and 
Paul  are  ultimately  united  may  be  left  untold.  The  story 
is  a  good  one,  and  well  written,  the  author,  unlike  many 
of  her  sister  novelists,  seeming  to  be  reasonably  well  ac- 
quainted with  the  details  of  the  life  she  describes.  The 
little  volume  is  well  printed,  and  embellished  with  photo- 
gravures from  wash-drawings.  It  forms  one  volume  of  the 
Lotos  library,  a  collection  of  stories  issued  by  the  Lippin- 
cott company  at  seventy-five  cents  a  volume.  The  volumes 
are  16  mo.  in  size,  and  are  covered  with  "polished  buck- 
ram," a  material  which  looks  to  our  inexpert  eves  like 
glazed  calico. 

There  recently  fell  into  our  hands  a  pleasantly  written 
article  entitled  "An  American  Woman's  Glimpse  of  Ox- 
ford," illustrated  by  views  of  Oxford  Cathedral,  the 
cloisters  of  Magdalen  College,  the  Tower  of  Magdalen  from 
the  Botanical  Gardens,  etc.  One  luckless  paragraph 
bristles   with  mistakes:   it   reads   thus:     "Christ  Church 


meadows,  opposite  to  which  are  moored  the  skiffs  and  boats 
and  the  University  barge.  A  stroll  through  the  famous 
Broad  Walk,  which  is  bordered  on  either  side  by  magnifi- 
cent old  oaks,"  etc.  Now  "skiffs"  are  in  University  lan- 
guage 1  acing  single-sculling  boats,  and  are  never '  'moored, ' ' 
but  are  taken  out  of  the  river  as  soon  as  the  scullers  step 
out  of  them.  "The  Broad"  is  "bordered"  with  grand 
elms,  not  with  "oaks."  The  article  proceeds:  "Though 
the  racing  does  not  take  place  at  this  point"  i.  e.,  opposite 
Christ  Church  meadows.  This  is  just  where  much  exciting 
racing  does  take  place:  the  Oxford  University  Boat  Club 
barge,  moored  just  off  Christ  Church  meadows,  is  the  fin- 
ishing point  for  the  Eights,  the  Torpids,  and  the  Fours. 
But  Oxford  is  a  peculiarly  dangerous  place  to  write  about 
after  a  day's  visit:  to  write  correctly  requires  an  esoteric 
knowledge. 

In  a  recent  issue  of  The  Dial  Mr.  John  Jay  Chapman 
makes  some  true  and  interesting  remarks  upon  the  ten- 
dency of  the  Magazines,  especially  the  older  and  more 
prosperous  ones,  to  fall  into  ruts,  and  to  exclude  good 
matter  because  it  does  not  coincide  with  "the  policy  of 
the  magazine."  He  says  that,  once  a  periodical  has  at- 
tained success  (i.  e.,  in  the  eyes  of  nearly  everybody,  a 
large  circulation)  every  new  departure  represents  risk: 
the  safest  thing  to  do  is  to  go  on  printing  the  same  issue 
every  month.  An  article  or  phrase  that  does  not  chime 
in  with  the  ignorance  or  lack  of  taste  of  the  average  sub- 
scriber, that  does  not  pander  to  popular  prejudice,  but 
perhaps  even  audaciously  opposes  it  or  tries  to  remove  it, 
will  alienate  subscribers,  and,  worse  than  all,  cause  adver- 
tisers to  drop  off.  For  nowadays  it  is  not  truth,  good 
sense,  or  right  reason  that  are  considered,  but  patent 
soap,  infants'  food,  and  washing  powders.  The  editor  of 
no  periodical  in  the  country  dare  print  a  line  likely  to 
affect  injuriously  the  sale  of  a  pill  or  a  porous  plaster. 
Such  is  the  boasted  independence  of  the  press. 

It  is  really  hard  to  keep  track  of  the  changes  of  form 
and  policy  that  come  over  some  of  the  periodicals. 
Romance  began  as  a  publication  devoted  to  short  stories: 
then,  despite  its  name,  it  became  a  somewhat  feeble  illus- 
trated collection  of  odds  and  ends.  In  September,  1896, 
it  doubled  its  price  and  the  superficial  area  of  its  pages. 
The  enlarged  Romance  was  published  by  the  Current  Lit- 
erature Publishing  Company,  and  promised  to  supply  to 
its  purchasers  information  of  a  literary,  scientific  and  ro- 
mantic sort,  with  abundant  pictures.  In  January,  1897, 
it  passed  into  the  hands  of  a  new  proprietor,  Mr.  Gilson 
Willets,  of  1440  Broadway,  New  York,  who  announced 
that  Romance  would  become  a  story  book,  pure  and  simple, 
once  again.  Of  course,  by  "pure  and  simple"  we  merely 
mean  that  the  periodical,  which  is  now  of  a  small  octavo 
size,  will  be  wholly  made  up  of  stories.  We  do  not  vouch 
for  their  purity  or  their  simplicity.  Indeed,  we  have  not 
been  encouraged,  on  turning  over  the  pages  of  some  issues, 
to  tackle  any  of  them. 

Mr.  C.  B.  Fernald.  the  short  story  writer,  has  returned 
to  the  United  States  after  a  bicycling  trip  with  his  wife 
through  Japan.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fernald  penetrated  into 
the  interior  of  Japan,  where  cycles  are  objects  so  un- 
familiar that  the  children  offered  carrots  to  them  as  food. 
Mr.  Fernald,  however,  was  disappointed  with  Japan  and 
the  Japanese.  Both  the  country  and  the  people  have  de- 
parted considerably  from  their  old  picturesque  national 
life,  and  so  much  has  been  written  about  them  in  late 
years  that  it  is  difficult  to  find  new  material.  Altogether, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fernald  found  China  more  interesting  than 
the  laud  of  the  chrysanthemum. 

The  story  of  the  Farallones,  by  C.  Barlow,  with  half-tones 
by  Bolton  and  Strong,  has  just  been  issued  from  the  Press 
of  Town  Talk.  It  is  a  neatly  got-up  brochure,  giving  an 
account  of  the  islands,  with  views  of  the  principal  points 
of  interest,  pictures  of  the  sea-lions,  puffins,  cormorants, 
and  other  creatures  found  there.  Some  of  the  pictures 
are  from  photo-engravings  that  have  been  already  pub- 
lished in  "The  Museum"  and  The  Overland  Monthly,  but 
many  are  new.  Mr.  Barlow  is  evidently  an  enterprising 
photographer,  for  several  of  the  pictures  repro- 
duced can  have  been  by  no  means  easy  to  secure.  The 
little  book  costs  fifty  cents. 


J  ii  n  c  12,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


o\V  that  tbeweddioga 


beginning  to  turn  their  thoughts  country  wards.  To  the 
swim,  however,  "going  to  the  country  does  not  mean 
green  fields,  cozy  nooks  in  winding  paths  under  shady 
trees,  sweet  milk  and  freshly-churned  butter,  a  pel 
freedom  from  social  obligations,  one  dress  all  day,  with  a 
fresh  one  for  dinner — if  so  inclined,  hut  not  a  necessity — 
a  good  book  and  a  lazy  life  generally:  not  much.  But  to 
the  fashionable  devotee  the  country  visit  means  a  change 
of  base  merely  from  the  fun  and  fuss  of  society  life  to  a 
place  where  a  shady  spot  means  a  quiet  flirtation,  a  club- 
house balcony,  a  place  for  mixed  drinks  and  jolly  good,  fel- 
lowship with  the  men.  Thin  dresses  and  simple  muslins 
are  allowable.  Yes,  but  toilettes  must  be  changed  several 
times  a  day,  and  full  evening  costume  for  dinner  obligatory. 
Cards  day  and  night,  and  pleasure  in  any  and  every  shape 
the  one  thirg  sought,  whether  a  sacrifice  results  or  no. 
Daughters  to  be  settled  iu  life  require  the  outlay,  so  pater- 
familias learns  to  acquiesce. 

*  *  * 

"  Why  is  it,"  said  a  girl  at  one  of  the  recent  weddings, 
"that  Wiltsee  always  has  so  many  nice  men  friends,  real 
men,  and  most  always  bailing  from  New  York  ?  "  This 
probably  is  one  reason  of  the  great  popularity  of  the  re- 
turned African  traveler.  However,  Wiltsee  is  so  univer- 
sal an  admirer  of  the  fair  sex,  and  so  general  in  his  atten- 
tions to  the  girls,  it  is  hopeless  to  think  of  him  as  a  possible 
ftitur.  Southard  Hoffman  is  another  society  beau  very 
popular  with  the  women,  but  as  a  pretty  girl  just  back 
from  the  East  is  said  to  have  lamented,  "Old  man  Mayne 
didn't  leave  the  Hoffman  boys  anything."  Young  Brooks 
seems  to  be  getting  his  hand  in.  preparatory  to  next  win- 
ter's gaieties.  At  one  of  the  weddings,  lately,  he  did  the 
"sitting  on  the  stairs  "  act  with  admirable   complacency. 

#  *  * 

Miss  Leontine  Blakeman's  bright  eyes  have  been  doing 
much  damage  among  the  beaux  since  her  return  from  New 
York.  She  is  universally  admired.  Another  girl  who 
bids  fair  to  make  many  conquests  next  winter  is  an  Oak- 
land belle  who  figured  as  bridesmaid  to  Miss  Ethel  Cohen 
when  she  became  Mrs.  Bent.  Miss  Alice  Moffatt's  sweet 
face  attracted  many  admiring  glances  on  that  auspicious 
occasion. 

#  #  * 

Latest  news  from  a  popular  young  couple  making  the 
tour  of  Europe  on  their  wedding  trip,  finds  them  in  Paris 
enjoying  every  moment  as  people  only  can  in  the  French 
capital.  On  their  return  they  will  make  their  home  in  the 
brown  stone  mansion  on  Jackson  street.  The  knowing 
ones  repeat  the  oft  told  report,  that  there  will  be  a  con- 
solidation of  these  two  families,  and  the  home  on  the 
Avenue  will  be  abandoned. 

*  #  * 

Two  of  the  prettiest  buds  at  tho  Bent-Cohen  wedding 
were  Miss  Carroll  and  Miss  Pollis,  who  attracted  universal 
attention;  their  piquante  brunette  style  is  very  fetching. 
Buds  and  blossoms  will  have  to  look  to  their  laurels  next 
winter,  and  from  present  indications  several  manly  hearts 
are  beating  rapidly  on  their  account. 


On  dil,  the  Downey  Harveys  are  going  to  do  a  lot  of  en- 
tertaining in  a  suburban  way  at  their  newly-acquired  sum- 
mer home  at  Belvedere.  Downey  is  the  soul  of  hospitality 
and  can  be  relied  upon  for  giving  his  friends  a  rattling 
good  time.  The  wonder  among  society  folk  has  been  that 
the  Harveys  did  not  select  San  Rafael  for  the  summer. 
*  #  * 

The  visit  of  the  Italian  prince  did  not  cause  the  sensa- 
tion expected;  but  he  was  so  evidently  bent  on  climbiug 
the  big  mountain  to  the  exclusion  of  all  social  attractions 
that  it  was  a  great  disappointment  to  those  who  wished 
to  entertain  him. 


Mrs.  Benrj  Scott  is  already  collecting  her  guests  for 
the  "house  party"  on  the  Fourth  of  July  holidays,  and 
those  who  are  of  the  fortunate  number  say  that  B'llngham 
never  saw  such  a  merry  crowd  before. 

«  11  * 

People  frequently  ask  why  Mrs.  McLane- Martin  is 
so  long  in  bringing  out  in  society  her  daughter,  Miss 
Cook,  that  young  lady  being  an  embryo  belle  at  Santa 
Cruz  for  some  time  past. 

Pork  Cosmetics—  Professor  WeDzell,  ttao  Pure  Food  Chemist,  says  of 
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purchasing  tickets,  call  at  14  Montgomery  street. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  12,  1897. 


WHEN  Bernard  Lawton,  artist,  litterateur,  and  Bos- 
tonian,  announced  bis  intention  of  going  to  San  Fran- 
cisco for  the  summer,  instead  of  piloting  his  mother  and 
sisters  about  the  continent,  there  was  much  pouting  and 
dismay  in  the  household.  It  is  really  very  inconvenient 
junketing  over  Europe  without  a  trousered  accessory  to 
look  after  the  family  luggage.  But  Bernard  was  deter- 
mined to  enjoy  his  outing  after  his  own  fashion,  and  having 
served  in  the  capacity  of  envoy  extraordinary  to  his 
womenkind  the  summer  previous,  felt  that  he  had  earned 
the  privilege  of  "  flocking  by  himself  "  for  one  season,  at 
least.  Accordingly,  after  seeing  his  relatives  safely 
aboard  an  Atlantic  steamer,  and  the  last  flutter  of  a  Law- 
ton  handkerchief  or  a  Lawton  petticoat  was  no  longer 
visible,  he  started  westward  with  a  sigh  of  relief.  One 
may  love  one's  relatives  and  still  not  yearn  to  be  a  peren- 
nial guide,  philosopher,  and  friend  to  them. 

The  young  man  had  two  reasons  for  acquainting  himself 
with  San  Francisco,  He  was  collecting  material  for  a 
book  of  travel,  with  sketches,  and  wished  to  explore  the 
western  metropolis;  and  it  was  in  San  Francisco  that  all 
trace  had  been  lost  of  his  uncle  and  godfather  in  the  early 
fifties.  When  the  latter  disappeared,  leaving  a  bag  of 
gold  dust  and  his  personal  belongings  in  his  lodgings,  his 
friends,  believing  him  dead,  had  in  time  forwarded  his 
effects  to  his  brother  in  Boston,  the  will  naming  the  lat- 
ter's  son  as  his  heir.  The  money  had  been  applied  to  Ber- 
nard's education,  and  Bernard  had  always  cherished  a  feel- 
ing of  warmest  gratitude  for  the  donor,  official  proof  of 
whose  death  had  never  been  established.  Of  late,  a  de- 
sire had  come  over  him  to  trace  for  himself,  if  possible,  the 
career  of  his  relative  in  San  Francisco. 

He  had  been  in  the  city  some  weeks  without  learning 
more  than  he  already  knew.  A  number  of  the  white- 
haired  pioneers  whom  he  had  hunted  up  gave  him  corrobo- 
rative information,  but  of  an  unsatisfactory  and  meager 
kind.  They  remembered  Lawton  well,  but  shook  their 
heads  when  Bernard  suggested  foul  play  as  an  explana- 
tion of  bis  disappearance.  He  had  no  enemies,  they  ar- 
gued, and  none  of  his  money  was  missing.  It  seemed  to 
be  the  general  belief  that  he  had  met  with  a  fatal  accident 
and  that  the  body  had  not  been  discovered  in  time  for  iden- 
tification. 

Bernard,  however,  could  not  or  would  not  abandon  his 
search  for  the  final  chapter  in  his  benefactor's  romantic 
history.  He  recalled  him  as  the  idol  of  his  childhood,  a 
fine-looking  man,  to  whom  he  was  declared  by  his  parents 
to  bear  a  striking  resemblance.  When  the  elder  Lawton 
had  started  for  California  with  the  gold  fever  burning 
high  in  his  veins,  he  bad  kissed  Bernard,  then  a  little 
chap,  good-bye,  with  many  promises  of  the  good  times 
they  should  have  when  he  returned.  He  had  also  left  a 
sweetheart,  a  tall,  blue-eyed  girl,  now  one  of  Boston's 
stateliest  matrons,  with  two  sons  at  Harvard,  for  her 
heart  had  not  broken  when  her  lover  failed  to  come  back. 
Even  in  those  days  it  was  not  considered  good  form  in 
Boston  to  wither  away  for  mere  love. 

To  Bernard,  with  his  artist's  soul  alive  to  impressions 
and  his  mind  renewing  its  activity  amid  surroundings  that 
everywhere  appealed  to  his  literary  sense,  San  Francisco 
and  its  environs  were  a  fascinating  study.  Bay  after  day 
he  wandered  here  and  there,  drawn  by  a  whim  in  one 
direction,  by  an  impulse  in  another,  from  Russian  Hill  to 
the  bay,  from  Chinatown  to  Bernal  Heights,  always  find- 
ing something  new  and  interesting  by  land  or  sea.  The 
Spanish  side  of  life  attracted  him  strongly,  and  he  took 
especial  delight  in  sketching  the  relics  of  adobe  architec- 
ture that  mark  the  earlier  era   of  romance,    and  form   a 


picturesque    link    between   the   conventional,   mercenary 
present  and  the  soul-stirring,  chivalrous  past. 

One  day  after  adding  the  finishing  touches  to  a  sketch 
of  an  alcalde's  moss-grown,  ivy-embowered  resting  place 
in  the  Mission  Dolores  burying  ground,  which  he  had  ob- 
tained permission  from  the  church  authorities  to  visit,  he 
strolled  for  some  time  about  the  neighborhood,  when, 
turning  the  corner  into  a  narrow,  unfrequented  street,  he 
came  upon  a  crumbling  adobe  which  immediately  caught 
his  fancy.  There  was  an  air  of  inscrutable  mystery  about 
the  quaint,  tumble-down  dwelling.  He  drew  nearer  it, 
impelled  by  something  more  than  an  artist's  desire  for  de- 
tails. An  influence  that  he  could  not  until  afterward 
account  for  or  define  led  him  to  lift  the  latch  of  the  wooden 
gate,  which  creaked  on  its  hinges  under  a  mass  of  honey- 
suckle that  twined  over  and  about  it.  A  gnarled  grape- 
vine arbor  covered  the  plank  walk  leading  to  a  low  porch 
that  ran  the  width  of  the  house.  The  place  was  silent  as 
death  itself.  Evidence  of  the  inmate's  fondness  for  flowers 
was  seen  in  the  brilliant-hued  geraniums  that  brightened 
the  shade  from  every  available  nook,  rooted  in  rusty  tin 
cans.  Cacti  blossomed  in  cracked  earthen  pots,  and 
blood-red  roses  nodded  at  him  from  boxes  where  they 
bloomed  luxuriantly.  Bernard  had  to  stoop,  so  low  had 
sunk  the  roofing,  with  bits  of  sunlight  piercing  its  ti'es, 
while  the  porch  almost  gave  way  beneath  his  tread.  He 
seated  himself  on  a  wooden  bench  against  the  wall,  for  no 
answer  had  come  to  his  knock.  It  had  been  his  intention 
to  beg  forgiveness  for  the  intrusion,  and  state  that  he  was 
a  tourist  anxious  to  get  a  glimpse  of  the  interior  of  what 
must  be  one  of  the  city's  oldest  landmarks.  He  knew 
that  the  Spaniards  are  the  most  kindly  and  hospitable  of 
people  in  their  casas,  and  so  did  not  fear  rebuke. 

The  afternoon  was  warm,  and  Bernard  bared  his  head, 
enjoying  the  solitude  of  the  spot,  though  a  trespasser  upon 
its  peace.  He.  was  so  near  to  the  prosaic  world  that  he 
could  almost  hear  its  heartbeats,  yet  hidden  from  the 
sight  of  passers-by.  It  was  a  bit  of  Arcady  itself  within 
the  city  limits;  an  oasis  in  the  desert  of  civilization. 

A  bright-eyed  lizard  crept  from  under  the  doorsill  and 
shot  past  him  into  the  garden.  He  closed  his  eyes,  yield- 
ing to  the  dreaminess  about  him.  Whether  he  slept  a 
moment  or  an  hour  he  never  knew.  He  was  abruptly 
awakened  by  an  exclamation  of  terror.  A  Spanish  woman 
of  middle  age  and  imposing  figure  stood  before  him  in  the 
arbor,  which  she  had  entered  from  the  street.  Her  face, 
singularly  handsome  yet,  was  ashen  under  its  olive  tint. 
Her  large  eyes,  black  and  dilated,  were  fixed  upon  her 
visitor  as  though  they  beheld  a  ghost.  When  Bernard 
sprang  to  his  feet,  about  to  ar  ologize  for  alarming  her,  she 
sank  to  her  kness,  crossed  herself,  murmured  "  Dios  ! 
Dins!''  and  would  have  fallen  to  the  ground  had  he  not 
caught  her.  Presently  she  staggered  to  her  feet,  and 
flinging  him  off  with  sudden  strength,  rushed  to  the 
house,  unlocked  the  door  and  slipped  the  bolt  sharply  into 
place  behind  her. 

Bernard,  nonplussed,  and  blaming  himself  for  what  be 
had  done,  picked  up  bis  hat  from  the  bench  and  turned  to 
go,  when  he  caught  sight  of  his  own  initials  cut  in  deep 
letters  in  the  panel  of  the  door — B.  M.  L.  He  stood  as 
though  stunned  for  a  few  seconds,  and  then  a  light  flashed 
across  the  darkness  of  the  situation.  His  uncle's  initials 
were  his  also.  This  woman's  fright  at  seeing  him  who  was 
the  living  embodiment  of  the  other — surely  here  was  some- 
thing more  than  a  coincidence. 

Inquiries  in  the  neighborhood  revealed  little  more  than 
the  fact  that  the  Senora  Ygnacia  had  lived  alone  in  the 
adobe  house  as  far  back  as  any  one  could  remember.  The 
house  itself  had  been  there  when  all  around  was  but  a 
knee-deep  drift  of  sand.  She  was  very  devout,  and  never 
left  home  excepting  to  go  to  the  Mission  or  on  an  errant 
of  mercy  or  necessity;  as  much  of  a  recluse  as  though  she 
were  a  nun  in  a  convent. 

Bernard  went  to  his  hotel  in   an   excited  condition  of 


June  12,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


mind.  His  sleep  that  oight  was  disturbed  by  dreams  of 
his  uoe'e,  who  seemed  to  be  alternately  beckoning  him  on 
and  entre.ilinjf  him  to  keep  silence.  In  the  morning  he 
resolved  to  learn  at  any  cost  what  the  Senora  might 
know.  Her  manifest  fear  at  sight  of  him  led  him  to  the 
belief  that  she  of  all  others  in  Sau  Francisco  was  the  one 
to  go  to  for  the  truth. 

That  afternoon  he  invaded  for  the  second  time  the  old 
garden  of  the  adobe.  No  one  answered  his  knock,  but  he 
could  hear  the  sound  of  a  woman's  sobs  within. 

"Sefiora,"  he  called,  softly  but  distinctly,  ':I  must 
speak  with  you.  Upon  my  honor,  as  upon  that  of  my 
uncle.  Bernard  Melville  Lawton,  I  will  not  harm  you." 

Still  there  was  no  reply.  "Senora,"  he  finally  said,  "if 
you  do  not  open  the  door.  I  shall  be  compelled  to  force  it 
open.     I  must  speak  with  you." 

There  was  a  quick  movement  within,  and  the  Senora 
Ygnaeia  stood  with  flashing  eyes  and  quivering  nostrils  in 
the  dimness  of  the  room  before  him. 

"Coward  !"  she  said,  as  Bernard  advanced.  "Would 
you  break  like  a  thief  into  my  house?" 

Removing  his  hat,  he  walked  close  to  her.  "Senora," 
said  he,  with  winning  gentleness,  "I  am  not  the  brute  that 
I  seem.  I  seek  news  of  my  uncle,  whose  initials  are 
carved  upon  your  door.     What  of  him,  Senora?" 

The  woman's  eyes  were  searching  every  line  of  his  face. 
"  Dios .'  "  she  muttered;  "the  very  image — even  the  voice. " 
Then  she  paused  and  regarded  Bernard  defiantly.  There 
was  silence  for  a  few  moments.  "Yes,"  she  added, 
finally,  "  1  once  knew  the  Seiior  Lawton,  but  that  was 
many  years  ago.  He  weut  away,  no  one  knew  where." 
She  lifted  her  hand  nervously  to  brush  a  thickly  curling 
lock  of  gray  hair  from  her  temple,  and  the  young  man  saw 
upon  her  finger  a  ring  which  he  had  often  when  a  child 
turned  round  upon  his  uncle's  finger.  He  decided  upon  a 
bold  stroke,  though  a  blind  one. 

"Senora  Ygnaeia,"  he  said,  slowly,  gazing  at  ber  as 
though  he  would  read  her  very  soul,  "  I  have  come  to  find 
the  murderer  of  my  uncle." 

The  woman  fell  to  her  knees,  clasped  his  hands  in  both 
of  her's,  and  burst  into  a  torrent  of  weeping. 

"  It  was  because  I  loved  him,"  she  confessed.  "Oh, 
when  we  of  Spanish  blood  love,  we  love;  and  when  we  hate, 
mother  of  mercy,  how  we  hate!  And  I  hated  the  Seiiorita 
in  the  East  whose  picture  he  wore  and  whom  he  must 
marry,  be  said,  although  it  was  I  whom  he  loved.  "Honor" 
he  called  it.  But  what  was  her  love  compared  with  mine? 
When  he  said  good-by  to  me  that  night,  I  was  maddened 
with  jealous  rage.  I  stabbed  him.  Then,  terrified  at  my 
crime,  dug  a  grave  for  him  in  the  sand.  Since  then  I  have 
lived  only  to  expiate  my  sin.  I  pray,  day  and  night,  for 
forgiveness." 

Bernard  helped  her  to  rise.  "  Take  me  to  his  grave," 
he  said. 

"  He  has  no  grave  but  my  heart."  the  unhappy  woman 
replied.  "I — I  removed  him  after  awhile.  I  could  not 
bear  to  be  separated  from  my  beloved.  You  may  as  well 
know  all,"  she  added.  "Follow  me,  and  then  give  me  up 
to  the  authorities  if  you  will.     I  shall  deserve  my  fate." 

Crossing  the  room  to  the  door  of  an  inner  chamber,  she 
beckoned  to  Bernard.  The  apartment  which  they  entered 
was  strewn  with  freshly-cut  flowers.  At  the  head  and 
foot  of  a  couch  tapers  were  burning.  The  Senora  lifted  a 
black  cloth,  disclosing  a  skeleton,  over  which  she  mur- 
mured the  name  of  her  lover  with  ineffable  tenderness. 
Her  eyes,  with  remorse,  gloom  and  unquenchable  devotion, 
sought  those  of  her  companion  in  mute,  helpless  inquiry. 

Bernard's  voice  sounded  huskily  strange  to  his  own  ears 
as  it  broke  the  stillness. 

"Senora,"  he  said,  "your  secret  is  safe."  Then,  softly 
closing  the  door,  he  went  forth  into  the  summer  sunshine. 

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but  a  trip  to  Japan  is  not  necessary  to  learn  it.  Just  step  in  to 
George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.'s,  at  625  Market  street,  under  the  Palace 
Hotel,  and  there  one  can  see  ail  manner  of  quaint  tapestries,  rare 
carvings,  and  strangest  curios.  It  is  a  veritable  little  Japan  right 
in  the  middle  of  San  Francisco. 


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June  12,  1897 


Theie  is  little  to  be  said  of  the  market 
The  Pine  during  the  past  week  on  Pine  street. 
Street  Market.  Notwithstanding  the  cheery  talk  of  good 
times  ahead,  another  season  of  dry  rot 
has  set  in,  which  has  cut  the  earnings  of  commission 
brokers  down  to  the  bare  bone,  and  placed  the  "ehip- 
pers "  in  a  position  where  they  can  not  turn  a  dollar 
one  way  or  the  other.  The  prospects  at  some  of  the  mines 
are  all  right,  but  a  pity  it  is  people  cannot  live  on  pros- 
pects. A  manipulator  with  some  money,  and  the  brains  to 
use  it,  would  be  the  biggest  kind  of  a  god-send  on  the 
street  just  now.  Bonanza  strikes  would  then  come  along 
in  good  time,  with  more  likelihood  of  their  being  some  use 
in  the  way  of  building  up  business.  Now  in  face  of  the 
prevailing  inactivity,  news  of  ore  discoveries  falls,  to  a 
great  extent,  upon  deaf  ears.  Chollar  held  up  pretty 
well  during  the  early  part  of  the  week.  Con.  Cal- Virginia 
did  not.  For  some  reason  the  last  named  stock  has  been 
drooping  for  days  past,  notwithstanding  favorable  re- 
ports from  the  mine,  which  continues  to  produce  a  fine 
grade  of  ore.  Chollar-Brunswick,  the  despised  and  re- 
gretted of  the  pharasaical  censors  on  the  street,  is  turn- 
ing out  gold  at  the  rate  of  some  $300,000  a  year.  Many 
people  will  incline  to  the  belief  that  a  property  of  this  de- 
scription must  be  possessed  of  some  merit,  while  surprised 
at  the  yield  of  much  decried  gypsum,  with  its  streaks  and 
bunches  of  ore.  To  the  ordinary  mind  the  adoption  of  a 
policy  which  would  lead  to  more  active  development  work 
along  the  line  of  the  Brunswick  lode,  would  seem  sensible 
just  about  this  time,  when  money  for  practically  dead  work 
in  other  quarters  is  difficult  to  raise.  This  and  the  prose- 
cution of  the  development  of  the  west  country  by  the  South 
end  companies  is  of  chief  importance.  The  constantly  re- 
iterated reports  of  progress  elsewhere  are  beginning  to 
wear  a  little  on  public  patience.  No  new  assessments  are 
reported  for  the  week. 

If  a  new  machine  invented  in  this  city  for 
A  New  the  saving  of  gold  in  dry  districts  works 

Dry  Washer,  out  as  well  in  practice  as  it  does  in  theory, 
the  much  vexed  question  of  water  supply 
has  been  solved  satisfactorily  for  all  time.  These  machines 
are  portable  in  sizes,  which  will  permit  of  a  profitable 
day's  work.  They  are  also  simple  in  the  way  of  gearing. 
A  cylinder,  through  which  a  tight-fitting  screw  revolves, 
receives  the  feed,  carried  downward  under  pressure  by 
the  blades  of  the  screw  to  a  tank  of  quicksilver,  where 
amalgamation  goes  on,  the  waste  being  subsequently  run 
off  after  rising  above  another  charge  of  quicksilver  filling 
the  space  around  the  cylinder.  So  far  the  experimental 
machine  has  done  good  work,  and  one  will  soon  be  shipped 
to  the  southern  portion  of  the  State  to  be  tested  on  aurif- 
erous deposits  found  there,  hitherto  valueless  owing  to  a 
lack  of  water.  One  good  feature  about  this  machine  is 
that  the  greatest  expense  about  it  is  the  quicksilver. 

The  announcement  that  a  syndicate  of 
The  Gold  of  American  capitalists  had  at  last  taken 
Silver  Peak,  hold  of  the  celebrated  Blair  mines  at  Silver 
Peak,  Nev.,  is  of  the  most  interesting 
character,  both  from  the  magnitude  of  the  property  and 
the  wealth  of  the  purchasers.  The  only  wonder  is  that 
such  a  piece  of  property  should  have  remained  lost  to  the 
industry  for  so  many  years  past,  with  so  many  alleged 
buyers  peregrinating  throughout  the  country  looking  for  a 
mine,  the  more  especially  as  the  price  asked  has  never 
been  exorbitant,  not  nearly  so  much,  in  fact,  as  the  figures 
placed  upon  old,  worked-out  shells  in  California,  depending 
for  a  sale  upon  their  past  reputation.  All  that  is  to  be 
paid  for  the  Blair  mines  is  a  million  dollars,  and  it  would 
not  be  difficult  to  point  to  many  an  investment  of  more 
than  that  money  in  this  State  and  elsewhere  with  little  in 
the  way  of  value  to  back  it.  The  new  owners  of  the  Blair 
mine  will  be  James  3.  Haggin,  Marcus  Daly,  J.  B.  Canda, 
John  W.  Mack  ay  and  George  D.  Roberts.  The  experts 
reporting  on   the  ground   are   James  T.  Hague  and  Alex- 


The   Anaconda 
Of  Gold    Mining. 


ander  M.  Womble.  These  gentlemen,  both  of  whom  are 
well  known  in  ihe  mining  world,  have  been  on  the  ground 
with  a  corps  of  assistants  for  some  time  past,  and  their 
reports  are  voluminous.  Mr.  Roberts  would  have  reported 
too,  had  he  been  permitted  to  make  an  examination, 
which  was  not  done  through  some  misunderstanding. 
Roberts,  however,  did  not  get  left,  for  he  ensured  his 
position  in  the  deal  no  matter  who  carried  it  to  completion, 
by  shrewdly  corralling  all  the  available  water  in  the  vicin- 
ity, which  is  about  as  valuable,  if  not  more  so,  than  the 
gold  itself.  It  will  be  an  uncommonly  cold  day  when  the 
same  festive  George  D.  gets  left,  and  he  is  just  about  as 
safe  to  fool  with  in  a  mining  operation  as  a  mule's  hind 
foot,  as  the  manipulators  of  the  Blair  deal  have  now 
learned  by  experience. 

For  over  thirty  years  the  Blair  prop- 
erty, consisting  of  some  sixteen  claims, 
has  lain  idle.  This  was  the  will  of  its 
whimsical  owner,  James  I.  Blair,  of 
New  York,  reputed  worth  more  money  than  any  other 
man  in  the  Empire  State.  Blair  had  a  good  deal  of  bother 
with  the  mine,  more  than  he  cared  to  have,  situated  as  he 
was  in  point  of  wealth.  Located  too  far  away  for  personal 
supervision,  thievery  was  rampant  in  all  directions,  and  in 
sheer  disgust  the  order  was  given  to  close  down  opera- 
tions, although  even  then,  with  crude  machinery  and 
methods,  the  property  had  established  the  reputation  of 
being  a  bonanza.  Since  then,  from  time  to  time,  lessees 
have  worked  on  the  mine  with  excellent  results,  and  judg- 
ing from  these  and  the  extent  of  the  ore  deposits,  the 
new  owners  claim  that  the  Blair  will  prove  in  gold  mining 
what  the  Anaconda  has  been  in  the  world  of  copper.  John 
Chiatovich,  one  of  the  former  lessees,  worked  in  all,  it  is 
said,  some  10,030  tons  of  ore,  which  yielded  at  the  rate  of 
$15.00  to  the  ton,  some  $6.50  having  been  subsequently  re- 
covered from  the  tailings  by  the  cyanide  process.  Sam 
Wasson,  the  latest  lessee,  worked  1,900  tons,  and  got 
$21.00  to  the  ton,  and  assays  by  F.  F.  Thomas,  now  of  the 
Gwinn  mine,  for  a  term  covering  three  years,  show  an 
average  value  of  $15.90.  The  mining  conditions  are  similar 
to  those  at  the  Alaska  Treadwell  mine,  with  two  separate 
and  distinct  veins,  one  fifteen  feet  and  the  other  twenty- 
five  feet  wide,  which  can  be  literally  quarried  out  of  the 
hillside.  The  surface  exposuie,  where  the  vein  has  already 
been  opened,  is  said  to  equal  a  height  of  700  feet.  It  is 
expected  that  an  immense  plant  will  be  erected  at  the 
mines  by  the  new  owners,  who  will  only  be  limited  in  ex- 
penditures by  the  capabilities  of  the  property  in  the  mat- 
ter of  ore  production.  The  passing  of  the  Blair  mine  into 
the  hands  of  such  wealthy  and  enterprising  men  will  be  a 
great  thing  for  this  part  of  Nevada. 

A  letter  from  Hamilton  Smith  is  now 
The  Grand  Central     going    the    rounds    of     the    press    in 
Purchase.  which  that  gentlemaa  takes   the  re- 

sponsibility of  advising  the  purchase 
of  the  Grand  Central  mine  of  Mexico,  originally  accredited 
to  Henry  Janin.  Smith  claims  to  have  recommended  the 
purchase  of  this  ground  independent  of  any  advice  from 
Janin.  The  latter  will  doubtless  not  object  to  this  explana- 
tion, which  does  not  seem  altogether  necessary,  consider- 
ing that  the  recommendation  was  made  upon  the  report  of 
Janin  and  Mr.  Farish.  If  the  mine  turns  out  all  right, 
there  will  possibly  be  others  ready  to  assume  any  respon- 
sibility, covering  both  prelimijary  reports  ;  their  confirma- 
tion and  subsequent  recommendation  as  a  purchasable 
venture.  In  the  meantime,  as  it  now  stands,  betwixt  and 
between,  the  heroism  of  Mr.  Smith  stands  out  noticeably 
in  black  and  white. 

A  company  is  about  to  begin  work    dredg- 

Will  Dredge    ing  the  Yuba  river  for  gold,  near  what  is 

the  Yuba.       known  as  Park's  Bar  bridge.     The  system 

to  be  used  is  one  patented  in  New  Zealand, 
consisting  of  two  boats  fitted  with  buckets  of  a  light  draft 
of  water,  the  capacity  being  estimated  at  between  eighty 
and  one  hundred  tons  of  material  in  the  hour.  This  is  a 
step  in  the  right  direction,  although  so  far  the  bucket  ar- 
rangement has  not  proved  successful.  The  newer  system 
of  suction  will  eventually  be  adopted  in  work  of  this  kind, 
being  both  cheaper  and  more  effective.  It  will  not  be  long 
now  until  all  the  rivers  of  California  will  be  systematically 
exploited  for  the  gold  they  are  known  .to  contain. 


June  12,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


13 


'  Hear  the  Crier:"      What  the  devil  an  thou?" 
■One  that  wlllplar  the  Jerll.ilr.  irtlh  you." 


REVEREND  George  R  Wallace,  before  a  recent  meel- 
i <i tr  of  that  anomalous  job  lot  of  soul  savers,  the 
atioD  of  Congregational  Churches,  rose  up- 
on hit  rear  extremities,  laid  back  his  ears,  opened  the 
cavernous  mouth  of  him,  and  braved  forth  the  statement 
that  "San  Francisco  is  hell."  Brother  Wallace  was  moved 
to  this  declaration  because  we  had  the  good  taste  to  kick 
C.  Overman  Brown,  bis  colleague,  out  of  the  local  fold. 
The  Reverend  ( George  has  gotten  things  slightly  mixed. 
San  Francisco  is  not  hell.  But  Dr.  Brown,  now  of  Chicago 
in  general  and  the  delil  in  particular,  tried  hard  enough 
1o  raise  hell  when  he  was  here. 

REVEREND  V.  Marshall  Law,  rector  of  the  Church  of 
the  Advent,  in  Oakland,  made  the  astounding  an- 
nouncement last  Sunday  that  electricity  is  God,  and  that 
the  penteeostal  flame  was  an  electric,  illumination,  pre- 
sumably something  like  the  electric  ballet  at  the  Tivoli 
last  winter.  But,  alas,  if  the  holy  man's  theory  of  a  God 
who  is  seldom  found  in  churches,  but  turns  up  nightly  in 
nearly  all  the  theatres  and  saloons,  is  true,  it  is  only  the 
rich  who  can  affurd  to  live  in  daily  communion  with  the 
Deity,  and  the  Town"  Crier's  well-known  penury  compels 
him  to  still  live  a  godless  existence. 

THE  Town  Crier's  excellent  friend,  Mrs.  Perkins,  says 
she  don't  see  the  sense  in  making  such  a  fuss  over 
pulling  down  that  house  in  Florida,  Mo.,  just  because 
Twain  was  born  there,  and  as  for  people  begging  for  bits 
of  wood  or  brick  as  relics,  she  thinks  it 's  ridiculous.  Why, 
she  could  show  them  dozens  of  houses  right  here  in  San 
Francisco  where  triplets  and  even  quartettes  were  born, 
and  she  ain't  aware  that  it  ever  raised  the  value  of  the 
property;  for  her  part  she  don't  think  it  delicate  to  call 
so  much  attention  to  an  occurrence  of  that  nature. 

WHAT  with  cavorting  around  the  country  in  ashes 
form,  or  having  one's  last  place  of  repose  in  a  grave- 
yard placarded  over  with  interment  bills  against  relatives 
of  the  deceased,  as  in  the  case  of  the  Blanche  plot  in  Laurel 
Hill  Cemetery  and  Billposter  Florist  Danvilliers.  there  is 
really  no  inducement  to  die.  One  might  as  well  stay  alive 
and  take  his  chances,  as  be  subjected  to  persecution  and 
prosecution  when  he  can't  fight  back. 

PLAGIARISM  is  the  somewhat  grave  charge  of  which 
Br'e'r  W.  D.  Williams,  erstwhile  pastor  of  Plymouth 
Church,  stands  accused.  It  appears  that  the  touching 
verselets  appended  to  certain  obituaries  of  late  and 
signed  by  the  gentleman  of  the  cloth  were  pilfered  from  no 
less  a  poetical  source  than  Whittier.  Our  brother's  sin  is 
great  but  it  might  have  been  greater.  He  might  have 
made  the  poetry  original. 

NICHOLAS  HENNICKER,  a  frisky  septuagenarian, 
confesses  to  a  fondness  for  the  fair  sex,  and  admits 
that  playing  the  races  is  his  pet  diversion.  This  combina- 
tion of  temptations  has  proved  disastrous  to  many  a  man, 
and  Nicholas  should  endeavor  to  reform  before  it  is  too 
late.  It  would  be  sad  indeed  were  he  to  become  a  con- 
firmed sport  in  the  very  flower  of  his  youth. 

CHRISTIAN  Endeavorers  are  proudly  pointing  to  the 
increased  attendance  at  divine  service  last  Sunday  as 
a  sign  of  spiritual  growth  in  our  midst,  and  not  unnatur- 
ally appropriate  some  of  the  credit  themselves.  But  the 
real  reason  is  to  be  found  elsewhere;  since  the  ladies  can- 
not show  off  their  high  hats  in  the  theatres  there  is  nothing 
for  them  but  to  go  to  church. 

ftSTRO^'OMICAL  disturbances  aloft  of  Mount  Hamilton 
are  to  be  investigated  at  the  next  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Regents.  It  is  whispered  that  a  total  eclipse  of 
salaries  will  be  visible  to  the  naked  eye  when  the  pro- 
fessors and  their  judges  come  into  perihelion. 

IT  is  a  common  saying  that  good  Americans  go   to  Paris 
when  they  die;  it  is  probable  that  the   bad  ones  go  to 
Chicago. 


PENDING  the  reinstatement  of  one  hundred  and  ihirtv- 
purtment  employes,   laid  off  on  account 

of  municipal  poverty.  San    Francisco's    thoroughfares  will 

probably  resemble  a  garbage  heap  In  the  interim.  ( >ur 
streets  are  none  too  clean  at  any  time,  and  the  summer 
winds  are  likely  to  have  a  merry  time  of  it  during  the  com- 
ing weeks.  Placards  explaining  the  embarrassing  situa- 
tion should  be  posted  at  the  ferries,  that  strangers  may 
not  be  scandalized  at  our  disorderly  condition. 

THIS  Golden  Slate  has  heen  painted  yellow  with  bogus 
live  dollar  pieces,  and  the  gang  of  counterfeiters  en- 
gaged in  the  nefarious  task  now  repose  behind  the  bars. 
The_ efforts  of  other  offenders  to  blacken  our  reputat'01 
having  succeeded  equally  well,  California  will  soon  loom  up 
as  brilliantly  beside  its  sister  States  as  a  circus  donkey  in 
a  corral  of  thoroughbreds.  San  Francisco  is  becoming 
very  weary  of  posing  as  a  goal  for  the  criminal  element  of 
the  world  at  large. 

THE  other  day  Senor  Argandanos,  a  young  Peruvian, 
avenged  an  insult  tendered  his  sister  by  chopping  off 
the  ears  of  the  insulter,  who  was  an  attache  of  the  Chilean 
legation  in  Bolivia.  The  report  goes  on  to  say  that  "the 
Bolivian  War  Minister  has  been  commissioned  to  visit  Eng- 
land for  the  purpose  of  buying  arms."  But  it  doesn't  seem 
likely  that  a  man  would  accept  arms  as  a  compensation 
for  his  ears. 

WILLIAM  J.  BRYAN,  the  boy  orator  from  the  rippling 
Platte,  will  be  here  with  the  rest  of  the  fireworks  on 
the  Glorious  Fourth.  William  is  not  a  dangerous  explo- 
sive, although  he  makes  a  good  deal  of  noise.  His 
pyrotechnics  in  the  late  presidential  contest  were  dazzling, 
but  attended  with  no  fatal  results  excepting  the  injury  to 
bis  party,  which  went  up  in  campaigu  smoke. 

THAT  very  "gentlemanly  female  person,  Mrs.  John 
Martin,  who  is  invariably  spectacular,  whether  paint- 
ing a  house  in  pantalettes  or  lecturing  to  empty  seats  in 
behalf  of  a  condemned  murderer,  appeared  this  week  in 
court  as  her  own  attorney,  disproving  the  adage  that  he 
who  argues  his  own  case  has  a  fool  for  a  client.  Mrs.  John 
is  several  other  things,  but  she  is  not  a  fool. 

THE  Chicago  divines,  who  welcomed  Dr.  C.  O.  Brown 
so  eagerly  into  the  midst  of  them,  seem  to  have  but  a 
slight  opinion  of  San  Francisco;  they  compare  it  to  Hell, 
gteatly  to  the  advantage  of  the  latter  region.  Well,  if 
they  take  Brown  as  a  representative  Californian,  we  can 
forgive  them  their  low  opinion  of  us;  he  certainly  did  give 
the  town  a  bad  name  while  he  was  here. 

SLAMEDA  COUNTY  is  excessively  agitated  because 
so  much  beer  soaked  into  her  soil  in  Niles  Canyon 
while  the  Brewers'  Picnic  was  in  steamy  progress.  It  is 
not  so  much  on  temperance  grounds,  however,  as  upon 
those  of  economy.  It  grieves  Alameda,  its  politicians 
particularly,  to  have  had  so  much  good  jag  material 
wasted  on  the  desert  soil. 

BLANKS  innumerable  are  being  submitted  as  evidence 
in  the  Fair-Craven  case,  now  dragging  its  intermin- 
able way  through  the  courts.  The  blankety-blanks  used 
from  time  to  t:me  by  exasperated  legal  counsel  and  im- 
patient witnesses  have  not,  however,  been  placed  on  re- 
cord. They  would,  it  is  feared,  cause  spontaneous  combus- 
tion. 

FOUR  society  young  men  across  the  bay  will  turn 
tramp  for  their  summer  vacation.  It  is  just  the 
other  way  with  us  over  here.  Our  gilded  youth  are  fre- 
quently tramps  first  and  society  men  afterward.  Vide 
Singer,  the  Chicago  tenderfoot,  who  bilked  his  way  to  the 
charmed  circle. 

CAPITALIST  BRADBURY,  the  obnoxious  millionaire 
who  has  expectorated  his  way  to  notoriety,  will  take 
his  case  to  the  Supreme  Court.  En  route,  he  should  be 
provided  by  the  authorities  with  portable  cuspadors. 

THE  fear  of  death  is  common  to  all,  and  is  attributed  to 
the  uncertainty  of  what  comes  after  death;  but 
strange  to  say,  the  certainty  of  what  comes  after  death 
increases  this  fear  in  San  Francisco  capitalists. 

SALARIES  at  the  State  University  have  gone  up.  The 
move  toward  an  increased  altitude  of  compensation  is 
quite  consistent  with  a  higher  education. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  12,  1897. 


ST.    MARTIN'S    SUMMER  —cassells  magazine. 

We  must  take  our  lives  as  we  made  thero,  love; 

St.  Martiu's  summer,  though  bright,  is  brief; 
And  where  in  spring  was  the  violet's  home 

Is  now  the  grave  of  the  fallen  leaf. 
We  quarreled  once  when  the  spring  was  here, 
But  peace  is  made  with  the  failing  year. 
The  summer  time  of  our  life  is  passed, 

We  faced  its  glare  and  its  heat  alone, 
With  aching  hearts  and  with  weary  hand-5 

That  the  mournful  farewell  touch  had  known; 
Now  the  fisrcest  struggles  of  life  are  o'er, 
Our  hands  are  met  to  unclasp  no  more. 
The  bitter  thought  of  "  what  might  have  been  " 

Must  never  trouble  your  heart  again ; 
Hide  it  away  from  memory's  eyes. 

With  our  angry  words  and  our  parting  pain  ; 
Forget  the  grief  that  for  me  you  bore, 
In  the  love  that  is  yours  for  evermore. 

We  mmt  take  our  lives  as  we  made  them,  love; 

St.  Martin's  summer,  though  brief,  is  bright, 
And  could  there  aught  in  the  spring  compare 

With  the  tender  glow  of  the  autumn  light? 
I  loved  you  first  when  the  spring  was  here, 
More  dearly  now  in  the  failing  year! 

THE    MODERN    BACCHANTE.— rosaue  m.  jonas,  in  town. 

She  is  crowned  with  deep  rubies,  not  vine  leaves, 

She  is  gowned  in  dull  gold,  her  brightiiair 
Ripples  down  to  her  feet  in  soft  splendor, 

Tiny  feet  in  French  slippers,  not  bare. 
She  reclines  not  on  hills,  where  mad  tendrils 

Clamber  high  to  be  trod  by  her  feet, 
But  she  nestles,  white,  languorous,  lovely, 

'Mid  satins  as  perfumed  and  sweet. 
She  upholds  the  gold  weight  of  the  goblet 

In  the  tremulous  clasp  of  her  hand. 
And  her  lips  glow  like  bright  poison  berries, 

As  her  eyes  feed  the  flame  they  have  fanned. 

Foolish  Bacchus !    You  are  but  a  mortBl ! 

And  the  wine  has  made  heavy  your  brain, 
While  your  love,  ah ;  the  goddess !  or  devil ! 

With  a  kiss  locks  your  shackles  again. 


INTROSPECTION  —carrie  blake  morgan. 

0  heart  of  mine,  for  shame!  to  ache,  and  ache! 

Because  a  few  things  thou  didst  love  are  lost! 

What  if  some  treasures,  yielded  up,  have  cost 
Thee  dear?— is  that  a  sign  that  thou  needst  break? 

Millions  of  hearts  did  ache  ere  thou  didst  feel 
One  stab  of  pain ;  for  any  heart  can  break; 
Butfewcan  play  the  game  of  give  and  take, 

And  come  out  whole  from  under  life's  hard  heel. 

So  heart,  brace  up,  and  twang  thy  quivering  strings 
Into  new  strength.    Ask  no  more  tears  of  me; 
Nor  beg  of  me  to  voice  thy  grief  for  thee. 

Poor  heart,  thou  and  thy  kind  are  weakling  things! 


FETTERED  -—Florence  hoare. 

Bring  me  not  roses  red  or  white, 

For  they  belong  to  the  past— 
I  look  in  your  tender  eyes  to-night 

And  know  the  truth  at  last; 
The  love  you  took  and  the  love  you  gave 

Have  woven  a  life-long  chain, 
And  your  soul  is  sighing  to  be  free, 

Tho'  constant  you  remain. 

The  white-winged  gulls  in  the  open  fly, 

Where  your  restless  soul  would  go ; 
'Tis  only  the  love  that  will  not  die 

That  chains  your  heart  I  know — 
And  because  I  hold  you  dearest— best, 

I  long  for  the  time  to  be 
When  you'll  lay  the  roses  where  I  rest 

And  think  no  more  of  me. 


CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 
________ 

Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  333-334  Pine  street,  below  Mont- 
gomery.   Booms  for  ladies  and  families;  private  entrance.    John  Bergez 
Proprietor. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  St.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.       A.  B.  BLANCO  &  B.  Brun. 

DENTISTS. 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 
Dr.  Franklin  Pancoast    removed  to  20  O'Farrell  street,  rooms  16,  17  &  26 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St.,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  _  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval;  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,827Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  8tamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105  O'Farrell  St.,  S.  F. 

BOILERMAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 

CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  V2  and  Mb  boxes.    Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 

LADIES1     HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze   (known  as   Hermann  at  Strozynski's)  has  opened 
Ladies' Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  225  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main  5»20 


BANKING. 


Bank  of  British  Golumbia. 

Southeast  Cob.  Bush  and  [Sansome  Sts. 
Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up 83,000,00 

Reserve  Fund $  500,000 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

New  York — Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  National  Bank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland — British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan — Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand— Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  01 
Sydney,  Ld;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

The  flnglo-Galifornian  Bank,  Limited. 

Capital  authorized (8,000,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000 

Paid    Up 1,600,1X0 

Reserve    Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cob.  Pine  and  Sansohe  Sts 
Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bill*  'or  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    1  „„_„„„„ 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL  f  M»"aeers 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Societu. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco 

Guarantee  capital  and  surplus $2,040,201  66 

CaDital  actually  paid  up  in  cash. .  1,000  000  00 

Deposits  December  31,  1896 27,7ii0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B.A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary,  George  Tourny;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Mullerl  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B.  A.  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann,  Ign.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt. 

Wells  Fargo  &  Go.'s  Bank. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 

John  J.  Valentine President 

Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.    Wadsworth Cashier 

F.  L.  Llpman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus r 16,250,000 

BRANCHES. 
N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

Securing  Savings  Bank. 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 

LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O.D.Baldwin  E  J.  McCutchen 

Adam  Grant  W.S.Jones  J.  B.  Lincoln 


June  la,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


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BANKING. 


"Ye«,"  said  the  wealthy  member  of  Congress,  "I  will 
name  your  charitable  institution  in  my  will  for  a  consider- 
able sum  of  money.''  "You  are  very  kiod."  said  the 
philanthropist,  "but — "  "Speak  frankly,  I  beg  of  you." 
"We  need  the  money  now,  and  I  called  to  see  if  we  couldn't 
devise  an  arrangement  by  which  the  bequest  could  be  re- 
troactive.— Pittsburg  News. 

"My  wife  caught  me  last  night.  When  I  come  home  late 
I  usually  sit  down  on  the  top  step  of  my  porch  and  hunt 
for  my  latchkey.  She  says  I  never  get  home  until  after 
midnight.  I  say  it's  before.  She  caught  me  all  right  last 
night."  "How  was  that?"  "Just  at  midnight  she  sneaked 
out  and  painted  the  top  step." — Cleveland  Plain  Dealer. 

Brewer — Why,  what's  the  matter,  old  man?  You  look- 
upset!  Jones— I  should  think  I  am!  My  wife's  learnt 
typewriting,  "as  a  pleasant  surprise  for  me,"  and  now 
she's  coming  to  the  office  to  save  the  expense  of  Miss 
Plumply's  salary! — London  Society. 

"My  dear,  you  should  not  be  so  angry  about  my  not  mail- 
ing that  letter.  Let  your  motto  be:  'Forgive  and  for- 
get!" "Oh,  yes,  indeed.  You  do  the  forgetting,  and  I 
can  do  the  forgiving,  I  suppose." — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 

Laura — I  can't  help  thinking  that  Aladdin,  in  the  story 
books,  did  not  show  much  sense.  Nonie — In  what  way. 
Laura — There  he  had  a  lamp  and  never  ordered  the  genii 
to  bring  him  a  wheel  for  it. — Pittsburg  News. 

Smytho  (from  his  paper) — If  the  Cretans  want  autonomy, 
why  doesn't  the  sultan  give  it  to  'em?  Mrs.  Smythe — He's 
a  wretch,  of  course,  but  perhaps  he  can't  afford  it.  They 
do  say  he's  awfully  hard-up. — Brooklyn  Life. 

Nonie — How  did  Nettie  come  out  in  her  breach  of  pro- 
mise case?  Laura — Oh,  the  jury  gave  her  a  new  heart. 
Nonie— What  was  that?  Laura — The  marble  heart,  you 
know. — Pittsburg  News. 

Mrs.  Jorkins — This  book  on  natural  history  says  that 
seals  sometimes  shed  tears  just  like  men.  Jorkins— Yes; 
]ust  like  men  who  have  to  pay  for  sealskin  jackets. — Odds 
and  Ends. 

"Ah,  my  poor  man,"  said  the  benevolent  old  lady,  "I 
suppose  you  are  often  pinched  by  want  and  hunger,  are 
you  not?"  "Yessum;  and  sometimes  by  the  cops." — Pick- 
Me-Up. 

"I  have  here  a  neat  and  pretty  little  letter  opener,"  be- 
gan the  agent.  "So  have  I  at  home,"  said  the  business 
man,  sadly.  "I'm  married." — Cincinnati  Commercial  Tri- 
bune. 

"I've  given  up  working,"  said  the  hard  cider.  "I  can 
still  work  all  right,"  said  the  yeast  cake,  "but  I  hate  to 
think  of  the  loaf  I'll  get  afterward." — Exchange. 

Strawber — Why  do  you  think  you  will  have  any  trouble  in 
keeping  the  engagement  secret?  Singerly — I  had  to  tell 
the  girl,  hadn't  I?— Scottish  Nights. 

"Why  don't  you  tell  your  troubles  to  your  wife,  Waxly?" 
"Cai't  possibly.  She's  always  telling  ber  troubles  to  me." 
— Detroit  Free  Press. 

"I  saw  a  rabbit  run  through  that  hedge?"  "No,  dear, 
it  was  imagination."  "Has  'maginations got  white  tails?" 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  12,  1897. 


NOTES   OF  THE   ARMY  AND   NAV/Y. 


The  United  States  Naval  Academy  graduates,  who  are 
located  here,  gave  a  most  enjoyable  banquet  at  the 
Bohemian  Club  last  Saturday  evening.  Covers  were  laid 
for  twenty-five,  and  Mr.  Symmes  Harrison  Hunt,  of  the 
class  of  '61,  presided.  An  elaborate  menu,  music,  and 
many  felicitous  toasts  made  the  affair  very  pleasant. 

The  reports  of  the  officers  of  the  Inspector  General's 
Department,  who  are  now  in  their  final  tours  of  the 
fiscal  year,  will  be  very  interesting.  There  are  103 
colleges  and  other  institutions,  with  more  than  40,000 
students,  nearly  20,000  of  whom  are  enrolled  in  the 
military  department.  Enough  army  officers  for  two 
fighting  regiments  are  detailed  upon  this  duty. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Evan  Miles.  First  Infantry,  U.  S.  A., 
has  assumed  command  at  the  Piesidio. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  John  I.  Rodgers,  Second  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Colonel.  He  is 
now  at  Fort  Schuyler,  N.  Y. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  L.  S.  Babbitt,  U.  S.  A.,  and  his  son, 
Lieutenant  E.  B.  Babbitt,  U.  S.  A.,  with  their  wives, 
have  been  down  from  Benicia  Barracks  during  the  past 
week  and  stayed  at  the  Occidental  Hotel. 

Major  S.  W.  Groesbeck,  Judge  Advocate,  U.  S.  A.,  was 
recently  granted  one  month's  leave  of  absence,  with  per- 
mission to  apply  for  an  extension  of  one  month. 

Rear  Admiral  Samuel  Philip  Lee,  U.  S.  N.,  retired,  was 
stricken  with  paralysis  and  died  last  Saturday  at  Silver 
Springs,  near  Sligo,  Md.  His  death  is  a  matter  of  deep 
regret  to  many  officers  on  this  coast. 

Commander  Richardson  Clover,  U.  S.  A.,  arrived  here 
last  Monday  with  his  wife  and  two  daughters.  They  will 
pass  the  summer  on  their  beautiful  ranch  in  Napa  Valley. 

Paymaster  Charles  T.  J.  Cowie,  U.  S.  N.,  who  was  de- 
tached from  the  Monocacy,  arrived  here  from  Shanghai 
last  Sunday  en  route  home  on  a  leave  of  absence. 

Lieutenant  William  G.  Sills,  First  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A., 
has  returned  to  Fort  Logan,  Colo.,  after  his  brief  but 
pleasant  visit  here. 

Lieutenant  James  Hamilton,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  granted  an  extension  of  three  months  on  his  pre- 
sent leave  of  absence. 

Lieutenant  John  S.  Culp,  Medical  Department,  TJ.  S.  A., 
has  been  appointed  medical  officer  of  the  squadron  of  the 
Fourth  Cavalry  now  marching  to  Fort  Yellowstone.  Up- 
on the  arrival  of  the  squadron  at  its  destination  he  will 
return  at  once  to  his  station. 

Lieutenant  S.  L.  Graham,  U.  S.  N.,  retired,  and  Mrs. 
Graham  are  at  Coronado  Beach.  They  have  been  residing 
in  the  City  of  Mexico  for  some  time. 

Lieutenant  H.  D.  Todd  Jr.,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A., 
was  one  of  the  two  secretaries  of  the  Academic  Board  at 
the  graduation  exercises  at  the  Military  Academy. 

Lieutenant  F.  B.  McKenna,  Fifteenth  Infantry,  U.  S. 
A.,  who  is  stationed  at  Fort  Sheridan,  111.,  has  been  visit- 
ing his  father,  Judge  Joseph  McKenna,  in  Washington. 
D.  C.  He  was  formally  presented  to  President  McKinley 
at  the  White  House  on  June  4th. 

Lieutenant  J.  F.  Reynolds  Landis,  First  Cavalry,  U.  S. 
A.,  has  been  detached  from  duty  at  the  Presidio  and 
ordered  to  join  his  regiment  at  Fort  Riley,  Kansas. 

Lieutenant  Clermont  L.  Best,  U.  S.  A.,  has  been  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  Captain  in  the  First  Artillery.  He 
is  at  Fort  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  but  was  formerly  stationed  at 
the  Presidio. 

Lieutenant  Herbert  Winslow,  U.  S.  N.,  of  the  Yorktown, 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Commander. 

Second  Lieutenant  G.  F.  McGlachlin  Jr.,  Fifth  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  First  Lieuten- 
ant. 

All  officers  of  the  United  States  Navy  retire  by  law 
when  they  reach  sixty-two  years  of  age.  If  the  President 
would  adopt  this  rule  for  the  army  it  would  rejuvenate  the 
service  immensely.  He  can  at  once  retire  two  Colonels  of 
cavalry,  two  Colonels  of  artillery,  and  three  Colonels  of  in- 
fantry. This  would  cause  promotions  from  Lieutenant- 
Colonels  all  down  the  line,  and  make  several  enlisted  men 
Second  Lieutenants.  It  would  bring  younger  men  into 
higher  grades,    and  enable  many  officers  to  obtain  well- 


deserved  promotions  before  they  are  retired  for  age.  The 
Germans  are  rejuvenating  their  army  by  retiring  Generals 
as  young  as  fifty-three  years  of  age. 

There  is  a  rumor  at  the  War  Department  that  General 
William  M.  Graham,  U.  S.  A.,  will  soon  retire,  but  those 
who  are  best  informed  state  that  he  will  serve  his  entire 
term.  He  retires  on  the  age  limit  on  September  28,  1898. 
He  will  therefore  be'  a  Brigadier  about  sixteen  months. 
There  is  a  bare  possibility  that  he  will  be  assigned  to  the 
Department  of  Dakota. 

Secretary  Gage  has  issued  an  order  prohibiting  officers 
of  the  Revenue  Cutter  Service  from  soliciting  the  exercise 
of  the  official  or  personal  influence  of  prominent  public 
citizens  to  obtain  for  them  assignments  to  duty,  revocation 
of  orders,  and  other  persoual  favors,  often  detrimental  to 
the  public  interest  and  always  injurious  to  the  morale  of 
the  service.  Any  infraction  of  this  order  will  be  con- 
sidered ample  cause  for  summary  action. 

Commander  William  H.  Whiting,  U.  S.  A.,  will  be  de- 
tached from  duty  as  commandant  of  the  Puget  Sound 
Naval  Station  next  Tuesday  and  ordered  to  command  the 
Monadnock. 

Lieutenant-Commander  C.  A.  Adams,  U.  S.  N,  was  de- 
tached from  the  Richmond  at  Philadelphia  last  Tuesday 
and  ordered  to  the  Monterey  as  executive  officer.  He  will 
relieve  Lieutenant-Commander  A.  B.  Speyers,  U.  S.  N, 
who  will  proceed  home  on  wailing  orders. 

Lieutenant-Commander  J.  D.  Briggs,  U.  S.  N.,  arrived 
here  last  Sunday,  en  route  to  Honolulu.  He  was  recently 
detached  from  the  New  York  Navy  Yard  and  ordered  to 
the  Philadelphia  as  executive  officer.  He  will  relieve 
Lieutenant-Commander  R.  R.  Ingersoll,  U.  S.  N. ,  who  has 
been  ordered  home  and  granted  two  months'  leave  of  ab- 
sence. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  F.  M.  Coxe,  Paymaster's  Depart- 
ment, U.  S.  A.,  has  been  elected  senior  Vice-Commander 
of  the  Commandery  of  Oregon,  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal 
Legion. 

Paymaster  T.  J.  Cowie,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  detached 
from  the  Monocacy  and  ordered  home.  Prior  to  his  de- 
parture, the  crew  of  the  Monocacy  presented  him  with  a 
handsome  gold-headed  cane,  suitably  inscribed,  as  a  testi- 
monial of  their  esteem. 

Paymaster  J.  B.  Redfield,  U.  S.  N. ,  is  now  general  store 
keeper  at  Norfolk,  Va. 

Passed  Assistant  Engineer  G.  Kaemmerling,  U.  S.  N., 
has  been  detached  from  the  Bureau  of  Steam  Engineering 
and  ordered  to  the  Olympia  at  Yokohama,  per  steamer 
of  June  26th.  He  will  relieve  Passed  Assistant  Engineer 
W.  B.  Dunning,  U.  S.  N.,  who  will  proceed  totbeMachias 
at  Chemulpo  to  relieve  Chief  Engineer  A.  V.  Zane,  U.  S. 
N. ,  who  has  been  granted  two  months'  leave  of  absence. 

Captain  G.  W.  Sumner,  U.  S.  N,  has  been  detached 
from  the  commano  of  the  Monadnock  and  granted  one 
month's  leave  of  absence. 

Mrs.  S.  D.  Sturgis,  wife  of  Lieutenant  Sturgis,  Fourth 
Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  is  visitiug  her  parents  in  St.  Paul, 
Minn. 

Mrs.  W,  H.  Allen,  wife  of  Lieutenant  Allen,  U.  S.  N, 
has  changed  her  mail  address  to  the  care  of  the  Navy  Pay 
Office  in  this  city. 

Lieutenant  J.  A.  Hoogemerff,  U.  S.  N,  has  been  under- 
going examination  for  promotion  during  this  week  at 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Ensign  S.  V.  Graham,  U.  S.  N,  has  been  detached  from 
the  Oregon  and  ordered  to  the  Albatros. 

Brigadier  General  James  W.  Forsyth,  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  appointed  President  of  the  Retiring  Board  here. 

Captain  C.  L.  Hooper,  U.  S.  R.  C.  S.,  commanding  the 
Bering  Sea  fleet,  arrived  in  Port  Townsend  last  Tuesday 
and  left  the  same  day  for  Sitka.  He  will  join  the  fleet 
there  and  then  proceed  to  Unalaska. 

Major  Delafield  Du  Bois,  U.  S.  A.,  retired,  arrived  here 
last  Monday  in  the  steamer  Newport  and  is  at  the  Occiden- 
tal Hotel.     He  has  been  visiting  Panama. 

Passed  Assistant  Surgeon  J.  W.  Baker,  U.  S.  N,  of  the 
Bennington,  and  Mrs.  Baker,  are  enjoying  an  outing  in  the 
Santa  Cruz  Mountains  at  the  Hotel  Rowardenan. 

Lieutenant  J.  D.  C.  Hoskins,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A., 
has  rejoined  at  Fort  Monroe,  Va.,  after  a  visit  to  New 
Rochelle,  N  Y. 


June  12,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   T.KTTER. 


'7 


Lieutenant  O.  A.  Detchmendy.  First  Infantry.  U.  S.  A., 
who  is  on  leave  of  absence  from  the  Presidio  until  Septem- 
ber 1st.  is  visiting  friends  at  Milton,  K_v. 

Lieutenant  Thomas  Hentlv  M  Artillery. 

A  .  has  obtained  permission  to  pass  the  summer  abroad. 

Mr.  William  Russell  Wright,  formerly  of  Yisalia,  who 
was  appointed  a  radet  at  Annapolis,  from  Nevada,  has 
been  ordered  to  report  to  the  Monterey  on  June  19tb.  Mr. 
Clarence  Kemp,  of  Oakland,  who  is  also  a  member  of  the 
graduating  class,  has  been  ordered  to  the  Oregon. 

Major  John  A.  Darling,  Third  Artillery,  D.  S.  A.,  was 
retired  from  active  service  last  Tuesday.  He  and  .Mrs. 
Darling  will  continue  to  reside  at  Madrone  Villa,  their 
country  home  in  Hutherfonl.  Napa  County.  It  has  been 
thought  all  aloDg  that  Major  Darling  would  be  appointed 
military  attache  at  the  United  States  embassy  at  Vienna, 
but  no  official   announcement  of   this   has  yet  been  made. 

Captain  James  Chester,  Third  Artillery.  U.  S.  A.,  com- 
manding Alcatraz  Island,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Major. 

Captain  Charles G.  Starr,  First  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  ar- 
rived in  Santa  Cruz  last  Monday  after  making  the  trip 
from  the  Presidio  on  a  bicycle.  It  is  probable  that  the 
First  Infantry  will  camp  at  Santa  Cruz  later  in  the 
season. 

Civil  Engineer  Richard  C.  Hollyday,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been 
detached  from  Port  Orchard  and  ordered  to  Mare  Island. 
Civil  Engineer  F.  O.  Maxson,  U.  S.  N. ,  formerly  of  Mare 
Island,  is  his  successor. 

General  Nelson  A.  Miles,  IT.  S.  A.,  was  in  Rome  last 
Tuesday,  en  route  to  London,  where  he  is  expected  next 
Tuesday. 

VICTORIA'S      DIAMOND     JUBILEE. 

ftLL  arrangements  for  the  coming  celebration  in  this 
city  of  Queen  Victoria's  Diamond  Jubilee  are  now 
completed,  and  the  three  days  commencing  Saturday,  19th 
inst.,  will  be  memorable  amoEg  the  local  British  born  and 
their  friends.  Very  general  and  active  interest  is  being 
taken  in  the  celebration,  among  the  many  W.  J.  Calling- 
ham,  Reverend  W.  W.  Bolton,  Dr.  H.  Isaac  Jones,  the 
well-known  oculist,  W.  Greer  Harrison,  besides  the  vari- 
ous members  of  the  committees. 

The  festival  will  commence  early  on  Saturday  morning 
with  Highland  games,  aquatic,  and  other  sports  at  the 
Chutes.  Then  there  are  to  be  literary  exercises,  includ- 
ing an  oration  by  General  W.  H.  L.  Barnes,  an  ode  writ- 
ten by  George  A.  Adam,  music  by  H.  J.  Stewart,  and 
sung  by  250  voices,  and  a  historic  poem  read  by  its  author, 
Dan  O'Connell.  The  day  will  conclude  with  a  grand  ball, 
splendid  fireworks,  and  magnificent  illuminations. 

On  Sunday  afternoon  there  is  to  be  a  grand  Te  Dcum 
sung  at  Metropolitan  Temple,  with  two  hundred  voices, 
fifteen  instruments  and  the  Metropolitan  organ  accom- 
panying. This  is  the  same  music  sung  at  Westminster 
Abbey  at  the  last  jubilee.  Reverend  John  Hemphill,  Rabbi 
Nieto,  and  Reverend  W.  W.  Bolton  will  speak.  A  general 
admission  of  twenty-five  cents  will  be  charged  and  fifty 
cents  for  reserved  seats,  tickets  for  which  will  be  on  sale 
on  Monday  at  Sherman  &  Clay's.  The  Jubilee  will  fittingly 
end  with  a  splendid  banquet  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Mon- 
day night,  at  which  State  and  municipal  officials,  judges, 
and  noted  citizens  will  be  present.  The  Consul-General 
will  preside,  and  representatives  of  other  countries  here 
resident  will  be  invited.  Covers  will  be  laid  for  between 
three  hundred  and  four  hundred  guests.  The  general  com- 
mittee are:  Wm.  Doxey,  chairman;  Joseph  McNab,  1st 
Vice-President;  Andrew  Wilkie,  2nd  Vice-President;  Jos- 
eph McGaulay,  secretary;  Joseph  B.  Freeland,  assistant 
secretary.  It  will  be  well  to  remember  that  the  money 
received  for  admission  to  the  Chutes  and  Temple  will  be 
added  to  the  fund,  the  interest  on  which  is  wisely  expended 
in  alleviating  the  suffering  of  needy  British  subjects. 

$25  Rate  to  Chicago  via  the  Great  Santa  Fe  Route. 
The  low  rates  made  for  Christian  Endeavorers  will  be  open  to  the 
public  as  well,  it  they  travel  via  the  Great  Santa  Fe  Route.     Ticket 
Office,  644  Market  street,  Chronicle  Building.    Tel.  Main  1531. 

Mothers,  besure  and  use  "Mrs.  WinsLow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
obtldren  while  teething, 


FROM      TAMALPAIS'      LOFTY      BROW. 


Jackson's  Napa  Soda  is  a  gentle  aperient. 


THERE  are  many  beautiful  bits  of  pastoral  scenery 
about  San  Francisco  bay:  and  there  are  also  points 
within  easy  reach  when  the  eye  may  touch  the  mountain 
tops  and  sweep  the  many-tempered  ocean  from  Point 
Reyes  Light  to  the  distant  Farallones.  The  most  acces- 
sible of  all  these  is  Mt.  Tamalpais,  from  whose  bold  sum- 
mit before  and  beneath  the  eye  unrolls  a  panorama  of  bay, 
mountain,  valley,  ocean,  sky  and  city  of  unrivaled  beauty 
and  continual  change.  One  who  has  stood  on  this  ribbed 
dome  at  sunrise  has  witnessed  a  sight  not  to  be  forgotten. 
Only  the  highest  points  come  first  into  view — the  shadows 
lying  deep  and  dark  below;  but  as  old  Sol  glows  brighter 
in  the  firmament,  darkness  fades  and  the  shimmering  sea, 
the  glittering  spires  and  remoter  objects  salute  the  vision. 
Sometimes  the  early  riser  is  greeted  by  an  entirely  differ- 
ent but  more  magical  scene.  Not  infrequently  the  heavy 
fog  lies  like  a  vast  white  robe  upon  land  and  sea — only 
Tamalpais'  lofty  top  standing  like  a  sentinel  upon  the  wide 
expanse  of  snowy  white.  With  the  warming  rays  of  the 
sun  the  spotless  garment  of  the  night  sinks  silently  down; 
but  the  appearance  is  as  if  the  land  were  rising  slowly 
from  a  vast  and  voiceless  sea.  First  may  be  seen  the  heights 
of  Angel  Island;  then  the  top  of  Telegraph  Hill;  next  the 
lower  distances  are  forced  upward  as  if  from  the  depths  of 
an  ocean.  The  scene  is  almost  weird,  but  none  the  less 
beautiful.  Finally,  the  fog  melts  into  air  and  the  beautiful 
picture  opens  clear  and  near  upon  the  vision.  Such 
scenery  were  well  worth  a  long  journey  to  see;  but  when 
it  is  scarcely  sixty  minutes  from  the  city,  and  is  made  in 
pleasant  safety,  the  attractions  of  Tamalpais  are  doubled. 
Thanks  to  the  Mill  Valley  and  Tamalpais  Scenic  Railway, 
the  traveler  is  carried  through  lovely  and  romantic 
Blythedale,  nestling  at  the  mountain's  feet  and  in  its 
shadow — an  ideal  spot  for  repose  and  quiet,  homelike  com- 
forts; beneath  the  towering  redwood  trees,  skirting 
gorges,  through  patches  of  sunshine  and  cool  shadows, 
glimpses  of  city  aud  ocean,  winding  about  the  mountain's 
sides,  always  upward  until  the  summit  is  reached,  and  the 
eye  drinks  in  the  scenery — unsurpassed,  magnificent, 
beautiful,  grand.  The  illustration  accompanying  this  num- 
ber of  the  News  Letter  expresses  better  than  any  words 
the  romantic  and  beautiful  scenery  to  be  enjoyed  on  the 
scenic  railway  in  going  to  the  top  of  Tamalpais. 

When  playing  poker  drink  .lackson's  Napa  Soda. 


A-head  of 

Pearline  ? 

Never  !  Not  a  bit  of  it ! 
That  is  out  of  the  ques- 
tion. Not  one  of  the  many 
washing-powders  that 
have  been  made  to 
imitate  Pearline  claim  to  excel 
it  in  any  way.  All  they  ask  is 
to  be  considered  "the  same  as"  or  "just  as 
good  as  "  Pearline.  v>4 


NOTICE    TO    CREDITORS. 
Estate  of  JOSEPH  HOCH,  Deceased. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  by  the  undersigned,  A.  C.  Freese,  administrator 
of  the  estate  ol  Joseph  Hoch,  deceased,  to  the  Creditors  of,  and  all 
persons  having  claims  against  the  said  deceased,  to  exhibit  them  with  the 
necessary  vouchers,  within  ten  months  after  the  first  publication  of  this 
notice,  to  the  said  A.  C.  Freese,  administrator  of  said  estate,  at  his  office, 
room  No.  85,  third  floor  Chronicle  Building,  corner  Geary  aDd  Kean  v  Sis  , 
San  Francisco,  Cal.,  the  same  being  his  place  for  the  transaction  of  the 
business  of  the  said  estate  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  State 
of  California.  A.  C.  FREESE, 

Administrator  of  the  Estate  of  Joseph  Hoch,  deceased. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  June  9,  1897. 

J.  D.  SULLIVAN,  Attorney  for  Administrator. 


i8 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  12,  1897. 


THE  usual  poker  party  at  the  little  table  in  the  corner 
of  the  card  room  at  the  Concordia  Club  received  an 
addition,  the  other  night,  in  the  person  of  Joe  Friedlander, 
who  rarely  plays  draw,  but  who  covets  the  reputation  of 
being  a  reckless,  daring  spendthrift,  when,  as  a  matter  of 
fact,  he  is  exceedingly  thrifty,  careful  in  his  habits  and 
economical  in  his  expenditures.  Nat  Gerson  was  in  the 
game  as  well  as  Ed  Salz  and  other  jack  pot  veterans,  so 
Joe  played  very  warily,  and  gradually  accumulated  a  little 
tower  of  blue  chips.  Then  he  was  dealt  one  of  those 
phenomenal  hands,  which  occasionally  fall  to  the  lot  of 
every  persistent  player.     He  had  four  kings. 

"  Of  course  1  won't  get  a  play  on  them,"  sighed  Joe,  to 
himself,  as  he  looked  dubiously  at  his  hand,  and  hesitatingly 
threw  in  one  blue  chip,  as  if  he  expected  to  lose  it. 

To  his  inward  delight,  Ed  Salz  came  back  with  a  good 
stiff  raise.     Joe  pretended  to  be  deeply  puzzled. 

"Damme  if  I  don't  believe  you're  bluffing,  Ed,"  he  said, 
and  raised  back,  to  the  extent  of  a  moderate  bet. 

Tbey  tilted  each  other  back  and  forth,  until  Joe  was 
afraid  of  arousing  his  opponent's  suspicion,  and  asked  for 
one  card.     Ed  also  drew  one. 

"He  has  threes,"  thought  Friedlander,  "and  he's  play- 
ing me  for  two  big  pair.  I've  got  him!"  and  he  laughed 
softly  to  himself. 

After  the  draw  Salz  made  a  big  bet,  as  if  be  had  an 
invincible  hand.  Joe  was  convinced  it  was  all  a  bluff,  but 
he  responded  cautiously,  tilting  slightly  every  raise  Ed 
made. 

The  pot  assumed  enormous  proportions,  and  men  from 
other  tables  stopped  to  watch  the  battle.  Finally  Joe 
threw  in  his  last  stack  of  chips. 

"I  have  to  call  you,  Ed,"  he  said,  preparing  to  haul  in 
the  pot.     "What  have  you  got?" 

"I  have  four  aces,"  replied  Ed,  modestly.  "What  have 
you  got,  Joe?" 

Friedlander  looked  reproachfully  at  his  four  kings,  and 
mentally  estimated  his  losses. 

"I've  got  a  headache,"   he   announced,  as  he  buried  his 

cards. 

*  *  * 

Before  he  studied  art,  Douglas  Tilden,  the  sculptor,  took 
some  lessons  in  carpentering  at  the  Institution  for  the  Deaf, 
Dumb  and  Blind,  and  he  still  cherishes  the  idea  that  he  is 
an  expert  mechanic.  He  had  given  his  wife  to  under- 
stand, so  often,  that  nothing  in  the  line  of  construction  was 
beyond  him,  that  one  day  last  week  she  requested  her- 
husband  to  make  her  a  bracket.  Tilden  readily  accepted 
this  commission,  and  set  vigorously  to  work.  A  few 
minutes  later,  John  Stanton,  the  artist,  called  to  see  the 
sculptor,  bringing  a  friend  with  him.  The}'  were  ushered 
into  the  workshop,  just  as  Douglas  was  bringing  his  ham- 
mer down  on  the  head  of  a  refractory  nail.  But  the 
sculptor's  aim  was  bad,  and  the  nail  which  the  hammer 
struck  was  attached  to  the  thumb  on  Tilden's  hand.  He 
drooped  the  hammer,  and  began  gesticulating  wildly,  wav- 
ing his  arms,  clasping  and  unclasping  his  fingers,  thrust- 
ing his  thumb  in  his  mouth,  and  then  between  his  knees. 

"What  is  he  saying?"  asked  the  stranger,  who  did  not 
understand  the  language  of  signs. 

"Oh,  he's  just  swearing  a  little,"  answered  Stanton,  who 
can  use  the  dumb  alphabet. 

The  other  watched  Tilden's  antics  and  noted  the  look  on 
the  sculptor's  expressive  face. 

"By  George,"  he  said  admiringly.  "What  a  command 
of  profanity  he  has!" 


Clergymen  become  accustomed  to  audiences  of  varying 
.  sizes,  but  it  is  seldom  that  the  congregation  is  represented 
by  a  unit.  Such  was  the  experience  of  Reverend  M.  S. 
Levy,  rabbi  of  the  Congregation  Beth  Israel,  whose  kind- 
liness and  good  nature  are  illustrated  by  the  story  which 
is  going  the  rounds  of  newspaperdom.     It  had  its  founda- 


tion in  an  important  festival  of  the  Hebrew  calendar,  fit- 
tingly observed  by  Rabbi  Levy,  who  preached  an  eloquent 
sermon  on  the  occasion.  A  reporter  for  a  morning  paper 
had  been  detailed  to  cover  this  service,  and  had  also  been 
given  a  prior  assignment.  When  he  had  finished  his 
earlier  task,  and  proceeded  to  the  synagogue,  he  found 
that  the  service  had  been  concluded  and  that  the  sanctuary 
was  closed.  There  was  no  alternative  but  to  follow  Dr. 
Levy  to  his  home,  and  to  beg  the  privilege  of  inspecting 
his  manuscript.  Unfortunately  for  the  reporter,  however, 
the  Rabbi  preaches  without  notes,  and  the  visitor's 
dilemma  was  worse  than  ever.  The  latter  explained  that 
his  City  Editor  would  accept  no  excuse  for  failure.  Dr. 
Levy  was  sympathetic  but  puzzled. 

"I  will  tell  you  what  I  might  do,"  he  suggested,  after 
thinking  the  matter  over.  "I  think  I  could  preach  that 
sermon  over  again." 

In  addition  to  his  rabbinical  duties,  he  is  editor  of  the 
Jewish  Times  and  Observer,  and  so  had  a  fraternal  inter- 
est in  his  visitor. 

Although  thoroughly  tired  by  his  labors  in  the  synagogue, 
the  good  Rabbi  walked  up  and  down  his  study  and  re- 
preached  his  eloquent  sermon  to  the  favored  reporter, 
who  made  notes  of  the  discourse.  Seldom  did  Dr.  Levy 
preach  better  and  never  did  he  have  a  more  appreciative 
audience  than  the  grateful  journalist  who  continues  to  in- 
voke blessings  on  the  Rabbi's  head  whenever  his  name  is 
mentioned. 

#  *  * 

Having  dined  so  generously  that  be  was  quite  convinced 
that,  like  Monte  Cristo,  the  world  was  his,  Jack  Chretien 
hurriedly  rushed  into  a  barber  shop  at  ten  minutes  before 
eight  a  few  evening  ago.  He  waved  his  arm  imperiously 
but  all  the  chairs  were  occupied,  and  no  one  paid  any  at- 
tention to  him. 

"Have  an  appointment  at  eight,"  he  fumed.  "Must 
keep  it.  Have  to  be  shaved.  What  am  I  to  do?  I  have 
it.  The  bootblack  shall  shave  me," — all  this  in  his  best 
dramatic  style. 

The  bootblack  grinned  with  delight  at  the  prospect  of 
the  temporary  promotion.  His  assurance  rose  to  the  oc- 
casion, and  with  the  utmost  sang  froid,  he  proceeded  with 
his  task.  The  theatrical  lawyer's  face  was  soon  a  white 
field  of  lather. 

"Don't  shave  against  the  grain,"  cautioned  Chretien. 

The  bootblack  tried  to  look  as  if  he  understood  what  this 
meant,  pursed  his  lips,  nodded  wisely,  but  made  no  audible 
reply.  He  scraped  away  after  a  fashion  of  his  own,  and 
pretty  soon  the  shaven  territory  of  the  Chretien  counten- 
ance was  a  vivid  shrimp  pink. 

"I  thought  I  told  you  not  to  shave  against  the  grain," 
angrily  remonstrated  Jack. 

The  bootblack  could  not  comprehend  all  this  talk  about 
grain.  He  concluded  that  his  customer  must  be  a  farmer, 
and  he  looked  carefully  through  what  hair  remains  for  bits 
of  new  mown  hay.  Then  he  passed  his  little  black  paw 
over  Chretien's  unshaven  side. 

"Dat's  not  grain,  boss,"  he  said,  reassuringly.     "Dat's 

only  stubble!" 

*  #  * 

Stout,  solemn  and  important  Donald  de  V.  Graham 
marched  up  Sutter  street  the  other  day,  in  the  rear  of  an 
unattractive  woman  of  about  his  own  age.  Graham  paid 
no  attention  to  her,  although  once  or  twice  she  glanced  at 
him,  timorously,  over  her  shoulder.  During  these 
manoeuvres  she  dropped  her  purse,  and  proceeded,  uncon- 
scious of  her  loss,  on  her  way.  The  tenor  robusto  nimbly 
picked  up  the  pocket  book,  and,  overtaking  the  woman, 
raised  his  hat,  with  a  very  grand  air,  as  he  was  about  to 
return  her  lost  property.  Utterly  mistaking  his  purpose, 
the  lady  drew  herself  up  in  offended  dignity. 

"Sir!"  she  said,  impressively.  "It's  a  mistake," — this 
rather  weakly.  "I'm  a  lady!"  triumphantly  recovering 
her  self  possession. 

Graham  was  amazed  at  the  effrontery  of  the  person  in 
supposing  he  was  making  advances  to  her.  For  once  he 
was  absolutely  speechless,  and  turned  purple  with  rage. 
He  is  still  unable  to  refer  to  the  episode,  in  the  Bohemian 
Club,  with  calmness. 

Without  deigning  to  reply  to  the  remarks  of  the  woman, 
he  indignantly  deposited  the  purse  on  the  stone  steps  of  a 
near-by  house,  and  marched  silently  and  wraihfully  away. 


June  12.  iJ 


^\N    FRANCISCO   NKWS   I.KTTICR. 


'9 


At  the  exclusive  Town  and  Country  Club,  where  women 
can  meet   In  Becrat  oonolave,   and  where   the  foot  of  man 
may  not  tread,   two  member.-   were  sitting  in  the  library 
rhen  they  noticed  a  man  at  the  desk,  arranging 
to  take  books  out  on  a  m>  ,ird.     The  ladies  could 

not  overhear  all  the  conversation  at  the  librarian's  desk. 
aught  the  words,  "Baron  vonScbroeder."    They  had 
never  met  the  Baron,  aud  they   grazed   at   the  man  before 
them  with  veneration. 

•  What  a  magnificent  head,''  said  one. 

"Yes,  he  shows  his  breeding,''  replied  the  other.  "Blood 
always  tells,  you  know. " 

Why  one  could  not  fail  to  pick  him  out  for  an  aristo- 
crat, anywhere.''  was  a  further  comment. 

Presently  the  subject  of  so  much  discussion  departed, 
and  one  of  the  ladies  sought  the  librarian. 

"]  thought  it  was  a  rule  that  no  gentleman  should  enter 
this  club,"  she  said,  severely. 

eutleman?"  echoed  the  librarian  in  some  surprise. 
Yes.     I  refer,  of  course,  to  the  Baron  von  Schroeder," 
replied  the  member,  who  desired  to  be  impressive. 

"But  he  has  not  been  here,"  said  the  bewildered  custod- 
ian of  the  books. 

"Why,  I  saw  him  not  a  moment  ago,"  persisted  the 
member. 

"Oh!"  replied  the  librarian,  sweetly.  "That  was  not 
the  Baron.     That  was  his  servant!" 

*  #  * 

A  Democratic  politician  in  a  country  town,  a  Southerner 
and  one  of  Mr.  Budd's  most  enthusiastic  supporters  before 
and  immediately  after  the  Governor's  election,  has  for 
many  months  ceased  to  love  the  Sacramento  Knight  of  the 
Double  Cross,  the  promised  office  never  having  material- 
ized. Nor  did  Budd's  little  joke  about  his  friend's  disap- 
pointed hopes  prove  much  of  a  balm  for  wounded  political 
pride. 

"That's  all  right,  Judge,"  said  the  Governor,  easily; 
"you're  hft  in  good  company." 

That  pleasantry  was  a  trifle  too  true,  and  the  Judge 
studied  over  a  way  to  get  even.  He  was  finally  inspired 
with  a  brilliant  scheme  for  humbling  the  pride  of  the  Chief 
Executive.  The  former's  daughter  was  an  undergraduate 
at  the  University,  and  on  the  occasion  of  some  college 
function,  the  Governor  was  to  be  the  principal  guest. 
When  he  heard  of  this,  the  old  man  wired  to  the  girl  : 

"Refuse  to  allow  Governor  Budd  to  be  presented  to  you. 
He  is  unworthy." 

The  only  particular  in  which  this  drastic  treatment 
failed  as  a  punitive  measure  was  that,  there  being  some 
three  thousand  other  girls  present  at  the  "doings,"  the 
daughter  of  the  Judge  was  lost  in  the  shuffle,  especially  as 
the  Governor  peremptorily  refused  any  presentations. 
The  snub,  in  a  perfect  state  of  preservation,  is  still  ready 
and  waiting  for  the  Governor,  but  the  opportunity  to  ad- 
minister it  is  sadly  lacking. 

*  *  * 

Willie  Hearst  has  purchased  another  gold  brick,  and 
as  usual,  it  proved  to  have  but  a  thin  veneer.  At  the 
Maher-Sharkey  fight,  in  New  York  on  Wednesday  night, 
the  telegraph  companies  had  arranged  to  place  wires  at 
the  ringside,  so  that  the  bulletins  of  the  rounds  could  be 
sent  over  the  country.  Just  before;  the  encounter,  how- 
ever, Hearst  bought  the  exclusive  right  for  the  bulletin 
service,  paying  the  club  ten  thousand  dollars  in  good  gold 
coin  for  the  privilege.  All  the  other  wires  were  ordered 
out,  and  Willie  prepared  to  enjoy  a  huge  monopoly.  But, 
like  other  well-laid  plans,  this,  too,  "went  aglee."  The 
fight  was  tame,  lasted  only  seven  rounds  when  the  police 
"interfered,"  and  everyone  pronounced  it  a  fake.  The 
bulletins  were  worthless,  and  everyone  was  disgusted 
except  the  athletic  club  management,  which  joyfully 
jingled  Willie's  golden  dollars,  while  the  pugilists  thrust 
their  tongues  into  their  magnificently  developed  cheeks. 

*  *  * 

The  irrepressible  Willis  Polk  has  blossomed  out  with  a 
new  adventure,  indicating  that  his  modest  and  retiring 
qualities  still  continue  to  be  his  dominant  features.  With 
a  party  of  friends,  Willis  was  dining  in  a  private  apart- 
ment of  a  large  restaurant  recently.  In  an  adjoining  room 
a  number  of  Native  Sons  were  enjoying  an  official  banquet. 
Among  the  Polk  contingent  the  fun  grew  so  fast   and   be 


came  so  very  furious  that  Willis  conceived  the  character- 
istic idea  of  enlivening  the  neighboring  party,  which,  he 
considered,  was  conventional  to  the  point  of  dullness. 

The  unsuspecting  Native-Sons  were  still  several  steps 
from  their  coffee,  when  the  door  of  their  private  room  was 
thrown  violently  open.  Willis  burst  upon  them  like  a  shoot- 
ing star,  and  before  any  one  comprehended  the  purport  of 
his  visit,  he  was  sharing  the  space  with  the  flowers  and 
■  ■labra,  and  making  an  impromptu  speech  fr,,m  the 
center  of  the  table.  This  was  very  good  fun  for  Polk's 
dinner  companions,  who  were  In  a  mood  to  mjoy  almost 
anything,  but  it  was  not  quite  so  amusing  lor  the  Native 
Sons,  whose  appreciation  of  the  oratory  was  decidedly 
limited.  His  eloquence  was  punctuated  with  bits  of  bread, 
which  Willis  at  first  mistook  for  tributes  of  praise,  but 
when  a  cloud  of  asparagus  stalks  was  showered  over  him, 
the  young  architect  looked  around  in  pained  surprise. 

The  speech  came  to  an  abrupt  conclusion  when  a  discern- 
ing Native  Son  sacrificed  his  favorite  vegetable,  and  deco- 
rated Willis's  shirt  bosom  with  an  accurately  thrown  beet 
of  enormous  dimensions. 


Local  politicians  at  the  Union  League  Club  are  gather- 
ing like  bees  around  honey  about  W.  W.  Dudley,  the  fam- 
ous Republican  campaigner  of  Indiana.  Dudley  achieved 
the  major  part  of  his  fame  during  Harrison's  first  race  for 
the  Presidency,  when  he  was  Chairman  of  the  Indiana 
State  Committee  in  Harrison's  interests.  When  Dudley's 
authorship  of  the  statement  that  his  party  "would  do  the 
business  in  blocks  of  five  "  had  made  him  notorious,  the 
appreciation  of  his  chief  was  materially  weakened.  After 
the  inauguration  Dudley  went  to  Washington  for  the  prom- 
ised reward,  but  the  malodorous  "blocks  of  five"  effectu- 
ally blocked  his  own  path,  and  through  deference  to  public 
sentiment,  President  Harrison  felt  obliged  to  turn  him 
down.  Dudley  never  forgave  this  ingratitude,  and  his  re- 
marks to  San  Francisco  politicians,  in  the  light  of  his  own 
party  history,  can  be  thoroughly  understood. 

"Harrison's  no  statesman,"  says  Dudley,  deprecat- 
ingly. 

"  But  McKinley  's  the  man,"  with  enthusiasm. 

At  the  Union  League  Club  they  are  making  bets  re- 
garding Dudley's  problematic  appointment  under  this  ad- 
ministration. 

To  enjoy  an  artistic  gastronomic  triumph  it  is  only  necessary  to 
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accomplished  French  chef  can,  and  every  day,  from  5  to  9  o'clock,  a 
dinner  fit  for  the  gods  is  spread  at  this  famous  restaurant.  Fine 
wines,  sweet  music,  elegant  service. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  12,  1897. 


ON  Wednesday  last  Bishop  and  Mrs.  Nichols  held  a  re- 
ception at  the  Divinity  School  in  San  Mateo,  which 
gave  many  of  their  friends  an  opportunity  of  wishing  them 
bon  voyage,  as  they  departed  the  next  day  on  their  trip 
abroad.  Quite  a  number  went  down  from  San  Francisco 
to  be  present  at  the  ordination,  which  took  place  at  St. 
Matthew's  Church,  San  Mateo,  it  being  the  first  one  of 
graduates  from  the  Divinity  School,  making  it  therefore  a 
memorable  occasion. 

Banquets  appeared  to  be  the  rule  last  Saturday.  The 
Red  room  of  the  Bohemian  Club  was  the  place  selected  by 
the  graduates  of  the  U.  S.  Naval  Academy  for  their  an- 
nual dinner,  when  twenty-five  guests  were  seated  at  a 
table  made  beautiful  with  flowers  and  other  decorations; 
and  after  the  elaborate  menu  had  been  discussed,  speeches 
were  made  and  reminiscences  indulged  in  by  those  present. 
On  Saturday  afternoon  the  Bar  Association  gave  a  ban- 
quet in  its  rooms  on  California  street,  in  honor  of  the 
newly-appointed  Judges,  Morrow  and  de  Haven,  which  is 
spoken  of  as  having  been  a  remarkably  pleasant  gather- 
ing; there  were  upwards  of  sixty  guests  present,  and  wit 
and  wine  flowed  together  to  the  enjoyment  of  all. 

On  Saturday  evening  Mr.  A.  Schilling  entertained  the 
members  of  the  Deutscher  Verein  Club  in  a  very  handsome 
manner  at  his  residence  in  Oakland,  the  spacious  house 
and  beautiful  grounds  being  used  for  the  purpose,  while 
Lake  Merritt  was  also  pressed  into  service  to  afford 
pleasure  to  those  of  his  guests  who  cared  for  a  row  upon 
the  water.  The  club  colors  were  used  in  decorating  the 
mansion;  electric  lights  made  the  grounds  almost  as 
bright  as  day,  while  upon  the  lake  colored  lights  gave 
brilliancy  to  the  scene.  The  guests,  upon  arriving,  were 
received  in  the  grounds,  which  resembled  fairy  land,  by 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schilling,  where  varied  attractions  were 
provided  for  their  amusement,  such  as  an  electrical  dis- 
play, music,  recitation  and  light  refreshments  in  pretty 
nooks  and  arbors,  an  elaborate  supper  being  served  in  the 
house. 

On  Sunday  the  Country  Club  gave  their  annual  bull's- 
bead  breakfast  to  the  members  of  the  Pacific-Union  Club 
at  their  quarters  near  Point  Reyes,  and  about  seventy-five 
guests  enjoyed  the  feast,  which  was  served  in  the  grounds 
on  tables  laid  under  the  branches  of  wide-spreading  oak 
trees. 

The  25th  of  June  has  been  named  by  the  San  Francisco 
Scottish  Thistle  Club  for  their  grand  banquet,  which  will 
be  given  at  B'nai  B'rith  Hall. 

The  chief  society  wedding  of  the  week,  a.s  well  as  one  of 
the  prettiest  of  the  year  thus  far,  took  place  at  St.  Luke's 
Church  on  Wednesday  evening,  when  Miss  Mabel  Estee 
and  Leonard  Everett  were  the  bride  and  groom.  Pretty 
as  St.  Luke's  Church  always  appears  when  effectively 
dressed,  it  never  looked  more  charming  than  on  this  occa- 
sion. The  decorations,  which  were  very  elaborate,  were 
all  in  white  and  green.  The  walls  of  the  church  on  either 
side  were  hidden  by  large  palm  and  fern  leaves;  garlands 
of  ivy  festooned  the  spaces  between  the  pillars,  around 
which  they  were  also  twined,  and  in  the  centre  aisle  every 
sixth  pew  was  adorned  with  a  cluster  of  white  sweet  peas, 
fastened  to  a  large  stalk  of  bamboo  with  knots  of  white 
satin  ribbon.  In  the  chancel  stood  a  giant  palm,  smaller 
ones  being  placed  at  intervals  here  and  there.  The  altar 
was  a  mass  of  Bermuda  lilies  and  white  gladiolas;  and 
white  sweet  peas  decorated  the  altar  rails,  pulpit,  reading 
desk,  choir  benches — in  fact,  they  were  placed  in  every 
available  spot.  The  church  was  crowded,  not  an  inch  of 
standing  room  being  unoccupied  when  the  notes  of  the 
Lohengrin  Chorus  gave  notice  of  the,  coming  of  the  bridal 
party.  The  cortege  was  led  by  the  six  ushers,  Messrs. 
Woods,  Morton,  Gibbons,  Lucien  Knight,  J.  Hoitt  and  W. 
Nichols,  who  wore  sprays  of  white  gladiolas  as  wedding 
favors,  and  as  they  proceeded  up  the  centre  aisle  they 
took  positions  on  either  side  as  they  neared  the  chancel. 
They  were  followed  by  the  six  bridesmaids,  the  Misses 
Churchill,  Lowell,  Bradford,  Ayres,  Thompson  and  Bras- 
tow,  who  were  costumed   alike   in  green  organdie  gowns 


trimmed  with  Valenciennes  lace,  each  carried  a  bunch  of 
white,  gladiolas,  and  they  also  wore  sprays  of  the  same 
flower  in  their  hair.  They  also  placed  themselves  on  either 
side  of  the  aisle  nearer  the  door  below  the  ushers,  and  be- 
tween the  lines  thus  formed  passed  the  bride  escorted  by 
her  father,  M.  M.  Estee,  who  gave  her  away.  The  maids 
and  ushers  then  followed  the  bride,  instead  of,  as  usual, 
preceding  her  to  the  altar,  where  the  groom  and  his  best 
man,  James  Hobbs,  awaited  her,  and  the  Rev.  W.  Shaw, 
assistant  rector  of  St.  Luke's  Church,  performed  the  cere- 
mony. The  lovely  bride  wore  a  beautiful  robe  of  heavy 
white  satin  en  traine,  trimmed  with  duchesse  lace;  a  fleecy 
tulle  vail  was  fastened  to  her  hair  with  a  pearl  and  diamond 
pin  and  spray  of  orange  blossoms,  and  she  carried  a  large 
cluster  of  Bermuda  lilies  on  her  left  arm.  After  the  cere- 
mony a  reception  was  held  at  the  Estee  residence  on  Sac- 
ramento street,  where  sweet  peas  in  every  variety  of  tint 
were  used  lavishly  for  decorative  purposes,  in  combination 
with  gladiolas,  ferns  and  scarlet  geraniums.  Later  a 
handsome  supper  was  served.  The  bouquet  was  caught 
b}'  Miss  Mary  Heath;  Miss  Netta  Edwards  received  the 
coin  that  was  in  the  cake,  and  Miss  Anna  Wainwright  re- 
ceived the  ring.  Some  very  handsome  presents  were  re- 
ceived by  the  young  couple,  and  upon  their  return  from 
their  honeymoon  trip,  they  will  reside  in  a  home  of  their 
own  on  Baker  street. 

The  23d  of  June,  which  is  to  witness  the  Macleay-Grant 
nuptials  in  Oregon,  and  the  Coleman-Knowles  bridal  in 
Oakland,  is  the  date  set  for  a  wedding  in  San  Francisco, 
which  will  be  that  of  Miss  Carrie  Koshland  and  Emil  Green- 
baum,  which  is  to  take  place  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's 
mother  on  Pine  street  on  the  morning  of  that  day.  From 
Oakland  comes  the  announcement  of  Miss  Edna  Wyman's 
engagement  to  John  Spencer  Riley,  both  of  Fruitvale, 
where  the  wedding  will  take  place  at  an  early  date. 

It  will  seem  like  old  times  at  Del  Monte  this  summer,  so 
many  of  those  who  used  to  be  regular  habitues  of  that 
charming  place  deciding  to  return  to  their  old  love  instead 
of  seeking  pastures  new.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  S.  Crocker 
expect  to  spend  the  greater  part  of  the  summer  there,  as 
well  as  the  Bruguieres.  The  Clark  Crockers  will  only  give 
a  part  of  their  time  to  Santa  Cruz;  they  are  altogether 
too  fond  of  Castle  Crags  to  neglect  the  Tavern  for  any 
other  resort;  and  there  also  will  be  found  Colonel  Fred 
Crocker's  family,  that  gentleman  and  his  daughter  having 
returned  this  week  from  the  East.  Quite  a  large  party 
of  their  friends  will  pass  the  Fourth  of  July  holiday  with 
them  in  the  mountains. 

House  parties  are  to  be  the  rule  this  summer,  it  seems, 
and  a  succession  of  them  are  to  be  given  by  those  who  own 
places  of  their  own  in  the  country,  from  Burlingame  to 
Menlo  Park,  from  Mill  Valley  to  Lakeport,  to  which  latter 
place  quite  a  party  are  going  from  hereabouts  to  see  how 
Miss  Sallie  Collier  will  deport  herself  as  Queen  of  the  water 
carnival  about  to  take  place  in  that  part  of  the  State. 

Mr.  Henry  P.  Bowie,  who  has  lately  returned  from  his 
Oriental  trip,  is  at  San  Mateo,  superintending  the  building 
of  his  Japanese  villa.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  D.  Baldwin  have 
taken  possession  of  their  cottage  in  Mill  Valley,  where 
they  will  spend  the  summer  months.  Mrs.  Frank  Pixley 
has  gone  over  to  her  cottage  in  Marin  County  for  the  sum- 
mer. The  Charley  Josselyns  are  at  their  San  Mateo  villa 
for  the  season;  the  Downey  Harveys  are  to  pass  several 
weeks  at  Lake  Tahoe.  Cal.  Byrne  is  the  head  and 
front  of  a  camping-out  party  in  Yosemite.  Louis  Sloss  Jr. 
has  gone  to  Alaska;  Carey  Friedlander,  Alex  Hamilton, 
and  Eugene  Garten  are  keeping  bachelor  hall  in  Sausalito, 
where  they  are  occupying  the  Wakefield-Boker  cottage. 
Horace  Piatt  is  also  a  denizen  of  that  hilly  suburb,  his  sis- 
ter, Mrs.  Kent,  of  New  York,  being  his  guest. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Homer  King  have  returned  from  their 
Eastern  trip,  which  took  in  Mexico  en  route;  and  the  Russ 
Wilsons  are  with  us  once  more.  Miss  Mollie  Phelan's 
friends  have  been  giving  her  a  warm  welcome  home  from  a 
six  months'  visit  to  Los  Angeles. 

One  of  last  week's  pretty  brides,  Mrs.  Pearce,  and 
Lieutenant  Pearce,  have  been  the  guests  of  Colonel  and 
Mrs.  Burton  a  part  of  this  week  at  their  residence  on 
Pacific  avenue. 

Leo  Cooper  is  enjoying  his  annual  summer  outing  this 
season  at  Highland  Springs. 


June  12,  1897. 


SAX   I'RANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


The  California  Hotel  is  \pry  jxipular  with  Hawaiians. 
Many  of  the  leading  people  of  the  Islands  can  be  found 
there  at  ail  times.     Anion::  tl  lent  sojourning  at 

this  hospitable  house  are  Judge  ami  Mrs.  H.  A.  Wide-man. 
Mr.  E.  C  Macfarlane,  Miss  Wideman,  Mr.  Barry  Macfar- 
lane,  Miss  Imgard  Macfarlane,  Colonel  6.  Vf.  Macfarlane 
and  family.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  .1.  I-alk,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  1\ 
Wilder,  and  others.  The  California  seems  to  be  very  much 
favored  by  newly  married  couples,  t lie  bridal  apartments 
in  constant  demand,  and.  if  the  present  influx  con- 
tinues, extra  accommodations  will  have  to  be  provided  for 
these  interesting  triiests. 

Mrs.  Lily  Eastings-Jerome  and  Miss  Marie  Zane  an-  en- 
joying life  together  in  New  York;  the  Misses  Alice  and 
Lucille  Younger  are  also  in  Gotham;  M  iss  Maud  still  lingers 
in  San  Francisco.  Mrs.  and  the. Misses  Withrow.  who  have 
been  the  guests  of  Mrs.  \V.  H.  Mills  this  week,  left  on  Thurs- 
day for  their  annual  trip  to  Europe,  where  they  will  pass 
several  weeks.  Mrs.  Marriner-Campbell  expects  to  leave 
about  the  20th,  but  her  travels  will  not  extend  beyond  New 
York,  where  she  goes  to  attend  the  musical  convention 
which  will  be  held  in  July. 

At  Hotel  Mt.  View,  in  Ross  Valley,  quite  a  number  of 
social  events  have  occupied  the  guests'  attention  for  the 
past  fortnight.  Progressive  euchre,  hearts  and  whist 
parties  have  been  in  order,  and  Mrs.  Bauer  being  the 
most  lucky  winner,  was  suitably  rewarded  with  a  very 
handsome  souvenir,  in  the  shape  of  a  silver  ornament.  On 
the  other  hand,  the  contestants  for  the  booby  prize  were 
indeed  many.  A  ball  was  given  on  Saturday  evening  last, 
and  numerous  friends  of  the  guests  were  present  from  this 
city  and  San  Rafael. 

General  A.  W.  Barrett  entertained  a  number  of  ladies 
and  gentlemen  very  delightfully  on  Sunday,  June  6th,  by  a 
sail  on  the  bay.  The  party  lunched  at  Hotel  Rafael,  re- 
turning to  the  city  in  the  evening.  The  General's  guests 
were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  L.  Gray,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Kee- 
gan,  Mrs.  W.  Beekman,  Colonel  J.  B.  Puller,  Mr.  John 
Fuller,  and  General  R.  H.  Warfield. 

Hotel  Rafael  has  one  very  great  advantage  for  sum- 
mer residence  in  that  it  is  just  the  distance  from  the 
city  necessary  to  a  pleasant  morning  and  evening  trip; 
and  the  arrangements  for  and  care  of  guests  are  as  nearly 
perfect  as  it  is  possible  to  get  them.  General  Warfield 
leaves  nothing  for  the  imagination  to  fill  in,  as  those  who 
have  once  stopped  with  him  at  that  beautiful  hostelry  can 
testify. 

Tamalpais  is  certain  to  become  all  the  rage  now  that 
society  has  turned  its  discriminating  eyes  in  that  direction. 
On  last  Tuesday  evening  Messrs.  Wiltsee  and  Hoffman 
chaperoned  a  party  to  the  summit.  It's  just  the  right 
distance  from  the  city,  and  the  whole  journey  is  one  con- 
tinual scene  of  beauty. 

Much  sympathy  is  being  expressed  for  Mrs.  McCoppin 
in  her  great  loss  by  the  death  of  her  husband.  Mrs.  Mc- 
Coppin is  herself  only  slowly  recovering  from  a  very  seri- 
ous illness,  and  is  at  present  residing  at  the  Hotel  Pleas- 
anton. 

The  many  friends  of  Alfred  R.  Grim  will  regret  to  learn 
that  he  is  confined  to  his  bed  at  the  residence  of  his  sister, 
Mrs.  Herold,  2302  Webster  street.  He  had  the  misfortune 
to  slip  and  fall  from  an  electric  car  and  split  his  knee-cap. 
Some  time  will  elapse  before  he  will  again  be  out. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Julius  Weil,  accompanied  by  Miss  Francis 
Jacobi  and  Miss  Madelaine  Beer,  left  Saturday  for  an  ex- 
tended trip  in  the  Yosemite  Valley. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Schwabacher  will  spend  the  summer 
at  Lucerne,  on  Lake  Washington,  while  their  daughters 
will  be  members  of  the  Greenbaum  Alaska  party. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  H.  Pease  have  returned  from  a  three 
months'  visit  East,  and  are  again  at  their  home,  2(100  Pa- 
cific avenue. 

Mr.  S.  Gump  and  his  grandchild  will  spend  their  vaca- 
tion at  Ben  Lomond  this  year,  leaving  the  city  for  that 
place  next  week. 

Weddings  are  frequent  in  these  early  summer  days,  and  banquets, 
suppers,  and  swell  luncheons  theorder  of  the  time.  Max  Abraham, 
the  society  caterer  at  423  Geary  street,  it  kept  busy  getting  up  these 
important  features  of  social  functions  and  marriage  feasts.  He  is 
prompt,  reasonable,  and  strictly  up  to  date. 


$1,000.00 


You  might  as  well  have  some  of  that  thousand 
dollars. 

Besides,  Schilling's  Best  money-back  tea  is 
good — at  your  grocer's. 

ltules  of  contest  in  newspapers  about  the  lirst  and  middle  of  June, 
July,  and  August. 


Remodeled    and    under 
New   Management  .... 

Only  two-and-a-half  hours      I 
from  San  francisco.  m 

Sis   miles   from   Los  Gatos.     Ten  Is* 

miles  from  Santa  Clara.     Twelve  fc^ 

miles  from  San  Jose.  |J 

For  rates  and  printed  matter  address  fei 


I  PACIFIC 
CONGRESS 
SPRINGS 
HOTEL 

Santa  Cruz  Mountains, 

Santa  Clara  County. 


JOHN    S, 


MATHESON, 

Manager. 


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Vlctiy  Springs. 


Three  Miles  from 
UKIAH. 


Terminus  of  S.  F.  &.  N.  P.  Railway 
Mendocino  County 

The  only  place  in  the  United  States  where  Vichy  Water  is  abundant.  Only 
natural  electric  waters.  Champagne  baths.  The  only  place  in  the  world 
of  this  class  of  waters  where  the  bathtubs  are  supplied  by  a  continuous 
flow  of  natural  warm  water  direct  from  the  springs.  Accommodations 
first  class. 

Miss  D.  D.  ftllen.  Prop. 


Biui)ii6(iai6- 


NOW    OPEN.       Hotel  and   Cottages 


A  pretty  California  spot  on  line  of  Mt.  Tamalpais  Scenic  Railway. 
Carriage  meets  all  trains  at  Mill  Valley.    Five  minutes'  drive. 


Mrs.  Gregg. 


Under   New 
Management 


o^BkUfi  LAKES  HOTEL, 


Only  10  miles  from  Ukiah. 

Finest  summer  resort  in  California. 

Good  hunting,  fishing,  boating,  and  Bathing 

Finest  cuisine  and  best  accommodations. 


(Bertha  Postofflce) 
LAKE  COUNTY,  CAL. 


R.  E.  WHITEFIELD, 

Manager. 


Sea  Beacn  Hotel, 


SANTA    CRUZ,     CAL. 


California's   favorite  resort. 

Located  on  a  flowering  slope  from  the  beach 

Unsurpassed  view  of    Beach,  Bay  and 

Mountains     Salmon  Fishing.    Tennis 
court,  Croquet  grounds,  and  music. 

Reasonable  Rates.    For  terms  address      John  T.  Sullivan,  Manager 

DR.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
CREAM,  OR    MAGICAL   BEAUTIFIER. 

Removes  Tan,  Pimples,  Freckles,  Moth 
Patches,  Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  beauty,  and  defies  de- 
lection  It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  h&ut-ton  (a  pa- 
tient): "As  you  ladles  will  use  them.  I 
recommend  'Gouraud's  Cream'  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions," For  sale  by  all  Druggists  and 
FaDcy-Goods  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS.  Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,  X .  Y. 


SAX  FRANCTSCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  12,  1897. 


DEAR  EDITH: — I  notice  that  collarettes  are  still  worn 
as  a  finish  and  are  elaborated  ruffs  that  do  not  hang 
as  did  the  much-lamented,  but  at  last  defunct,  feather 
boa.  A  great,  handsome  sash  bow  may  finish  them,  and 
some  of  the  new  ones  are  thus  finished,  only  they  fasten  at 
the  back.  Many  of  these  collarettes,  by  the  addition  of  a 
rather  deep  lace  frill,  become  almost  a  cape,  and  are  suit- 
able for  theatre  wear.  Among  the  current  capes  are 
severe  tailor-made  ones,  but  the  ripple  and  fluty  effects  of 
last  season  are  all  gone.  Collars  of  tailor  capes  are  high 
and  severe,  and  the  horrid  gimped  and  belaced  cloth  affair 
of  last  season — well,  if  we  have  one  we  don't  mention  it, 
and  we  would  rather  die  than  wear  it. 

The  next  grade  to  tailor  finish  in  capes  is  a  long  ways 
from  it,  for  between  the  severe  sorts  and  the  very  fanciful 
"confections"  no  compromise  exists.  These  dainty  gar- 
ments are  made  of  pretty  much  everything  nice,  like  the 
little  girl  of  the  nursery  rhyme.  I  saw  one  which  had  a 
cream  lace  yoke  cut  into  tabs  in  front  and  finished  with 
fluffy  ruches  of  black  chiffon  edged  with  black  velvet  rib- 
bon. Attached  to  the  yoke  were  three  more  ruffles;  two 
of  lace,  between  which  was  a  third  of  black  chiffon.  This 
cape  accompanied  a  dress  of  black  and  white  striped 
liberty  silk.  This  was  taken  diagonally  for  the  skirt, 
which  was  trimmed  at  the  hem  with  black  silk  embroidery. 
The  bodice  was  a  simple  blouse  finished  with  a  lace  trim- 
med collar  and  a  folded  black  satin  belt. 

Jacket  bodices  have  been  in  fashion  so  long  and  have  ap- 
peared in  so  many  forms  that  it  seems  as  if  a  radical 
change  in  styles  must  soon  relegate  them  to  the  despised 
rank  of  "has  been."  Yet  this  very  same  condition  has 
existed  for  many  months  without  change,  and  new  jacket 
devices  have  been  coming  out  all  the  while.  They  are  still 
coming,  and  I  saw  two  somewhat  novel  ones  which  are  well 
worth  describing. 

One  was  a  pale  gray  suiting  that  had  a  shaggy  white 
nap,  and  was  trimmed  with  dark  gray  braid  and  narrow 
steel  galoon.  The  jacket  was  fitted  at  backs  and  sides, 
and  its  open  fronts,  with  their  pendant  tabs,  were  edged 
with  braid.  Revers  and  sailor  collar  were  edged  with 
steel  galoon,  and  the  chemisette  was  yellow  silk  banded 
with  embroidered  lace-edged  stripes.  A  wide  band  of 
braid,  headed  on  both  sides  with  galoon,  trimmed  the 
dress  skirt  near  the  hem.  Green  and  white  mixed  suiting 
was  the  fabric  of  the  other  dress,  whose  bodice  was 
slightly  bloused  at  either  side  of  its  fitted  vest.  A  vest- 
like insertion  at  the  back  was  of  the  same  materials  as  the 
front — ecru  batiste  embroidered  with  white  and  plaid  over 
ecru  silk.  Reseda  green  satin  supplied  the  revers  and 
collar,  a  band  of  the  satin  trimmed  with  ecru  lace  coming 
next  to  the  vest. 

The  empire  coat  is  dethroned — is  so  utterly  out  that  wo- 
men are  now  wondering  how  they  could  have  thought  it 
pretty.  A  few  are  shown,  very  jaunty,  cut  much  shorter 
in  the  back  than  in  the  front  and  no  longer  than  the  hips 
anywhere.  These  are  boxed  so  that  they  stand  well  out 
at  the  back  and  have  an  undeniably  saucy  look,  but  an  em- 
pire coat  that  comes  below  the  hips  is  simply  intolerable. 
Boxy  boleros,  fastening  in  front  or  at  the  side,  have  taken 
their  place.  Other  coats  are  of  the  covert  cloth,  short- 
jacket  order,  slightly  boxed  in  front  and  fitted  back  and 
sides.  These  come  just  below  the  hips  and  are  made 
strictly  tailor  finish,  the  skirts  below  the  waist  line  fitting 
closely  without  a  trace  of  fulness  except  at  the  very  back, 
where  there  is  a  demure  box  pleat  or  so.  No  buttons 
show  anywhere,  and  the  coat  is  light  weight. 

Belinda. 

Recalled  Stormy  Times. 
"  Well,  that  looks  natural."  said  the  old  soldier,  looking  at  a  can  of 
condensed  milk  on  the  breakfast  table  in  place  of  ordinary  milk  that 
failea  on  account  of  the  storm.     "  It's  the  Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand 
we  used  during  the  war." 


Uhe   jCatest  TJovelty 


tlfess 

jackets 

All  colors, 
regular  price 

$12.50 

On  special 
Sale  at 

#7.45 


MURPHY  BUILDING,  Market  and  Jones  Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

203  to  207  N  Spring  St.  bet.  Temple  and  First  St.,  Los.Angeles,  Cal. 

EGYPTIAN 
ENAMEL. 


An  incomparable  beautifler.  It  defies  detection  and 
is  perfectly  harmless. 

50  cents  and  $1.00 


Gr*     r  dcml        A  celebrated  French  preparation.     It  prevents  and 
•  U.  VmDJYlD  I     removes  wrinkles.    81  00.    Sent  to  any  address  on 
[     receiptor  price.    Trial  pot  10  cents. 

FACE  BLEACH.    Guaranteed  superior  to  all  others,  $1;    trial  bottle  15o. 
at  office ;  25c .  by  mail.    I  use  only  plain  wrappers  and  envelopes . 


Mrs.  M.  J.  Butler  £V 


131  POST  STREET, 


Francisco,  Cal.,  U.  S.  A. 


Mme.  ft.  RuDpen  I 

Sole  originator  of  the  world  renowned  ® 

•« FACE  BLEACH  I 

FACE   BLEACH    has  stood  the  test  of  20  § 

years,  and  is  to-day  acknowledged  to  be  (?, 

the  best  remedy  known  for  Blackheads,  ^ 

Oily  Skin.  Pimples,  Freckels,  and  all  gj 

Facial  Blemishes.  J* 

Sample  bottle  sent  to  any  address  in  plain  (<B 

wrapper  accompanied  with  my  book,  m 

"  flow  to  be  Beautiful."  f 

on  receipt  of  25  cents  fo 

Madame  Ruppert  also  carries  a  full  line  ^ 

:  COSMETICS,  guaranteed  to  be  harmless.  § 

MME.  A.  RUPPERT.  Rooms  16-16,  131  Post  St.,  S.  F.  % 

TAKE  ELEVATOR    ®&€®&§S®>§f§®®$> 


Dr.  D.  R.  Dupuis, 

The  only  physician  in  the  city 
who  makes  a  specialty  of  .  .  . 


FACIAL  TREATMENT 


Other  waters  try— Jackson's  Kapa  Soda  gets  there. 


Permanently  removes  Wrinkles,    mall-pox 
Scars,  and  all  Facial  Disfigurations 

713   POST  ST.,  Near  Jones. 


Mrs.  M.  e,  Perley  . 
Mrs.  S.  v.  Culp. 


"  Keramic"  Decorative 
Art  Studio. 


All  branches  of  china  painting  taught;  instruction  daily  from  9  A    m.    to 
12  m,  and  from  1 :30  to  4 :30  P.  M.     Lessons  $1  00  each.    Call  and  see  our  nov- 
elties in  white  china. 
Tel.  Grant 48.  ^— -         215  Post  St.,  S.   F. 


June  i »,  1897. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


By    l^ail,    Boat    ai}d    Sta^e. 


Southern    Pacific    Co. --Pacific  System. 

Train!  Leave  and  are  Due  to  ArrlTe  at  SAN     FRANCISCO'. 


7OTA 
7SU  A 
7:00  a 
7:30  a 
8:3UA 

•8:30  a 
9:00  a 


I  Arriv* 


•1:00  p 
lKBp 
1:30  p 
4:00  P 

4:00  P 


5:00  P 
5:00  P 

«3«P 

6:00  P 
t8:U0P 
8:00  P 


Sin  Jose,  and  way   stations  

Atlantic  Express,  Ogdcn  and  East  

Bcnlcia,    Sacramento,   Orovlllc,    and  Redding,    via    Davis 

Vacuvllle  and  Rumscy    ....  

Martinez.  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Calistoga,  Santa  Rosa 
Nlles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone,  Sacramento,  Marysvllle, 

Cblco.  Tehama,  and  Red  Bind 

Peters  and  Milton  

New  Orleans  Express,  Merced.  Fresno,  BaUerslield,  Santa 
Barbara.  Los  Angeles,  Deming,  El  Paso,  New  Orleans,  and 

■Ml 

Vallejo 

Nlles,  San  Jose  Livermore,  and  Stockton 

Sacramento  River  steamers 

N:1-s.Sbd  Jose,  and  Llvermore 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa 

Benlcla,  Vacuville.  Woodland.  Knight's  Landing,  Marys- 
vllle. Orovllle,  and  Sacramento 

Lathrop.  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yosetn- 
lle)  and  Fresno,  going  via  Nlles,  returning  via  Martinez.. 
Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,  Mojave  (for  Rands- 

bU"*g).  rianta  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles 

Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East 

European  mall,  Ogden  and  East .  

Haywards,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 

Vallejo 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysvllle,  Redding,  Port- 
land. Puget  Sound  and  East 


8:46  p 
6  Ah  v 
8:45  r 
0:lo  p 

4:15  p 
•7:15 P 


6:15P 
12:15  P 

7:15P 
•9:00P 

8:45  a 

7:45P 

9:15  A 


12:15  p 

7. 45  A 
7:45  a 
9:45  a 
7:45  a 
f?:45p 


San  Leandro  and  Haywards  Local.    (Fool  of  Market  St.) 


7:45  a 


(•600  Al 

MELROSB, 

7:15  A 

8:U0A 

Seminary  Park, 

n  At,  a 

9:0Ua 

FITCBBURG, 

10:45  A 

10:00  A 

ElMHORST. 

11:45  A 

'11.10  A 

San  Leandro. 

12:45  p 

112:00  H 

South  San  Leandro, 

fl:45  p 

2:00  p 

Estcdillo, 

J2:45  P 

(3:00  P 

Lorenzo, 

4:45  P 

4:00  P 

Cherry, 

'5:45  p 

5:00  P 

and 

6:15  p 

5:30  P 

Haywards. 

7:45  p 

7:00  P 

I 

8:45  P 

8:00  P 

1  Runs  through  to  Nlles. 

9:45  P 

9:00  P 

t  From  Nlles.                                           ! 

10:50  P 

nil:15  P 

lfH2:00  p 

Santa  Cruz  Division  {Narrow  Gauge).    (Foot  of  Market  St. ) 

7 :45  A  Santa  Cruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  18 :05  P 
8:15  a  Newark,  CenterviUe.  San  Jose,  FeLton,  Boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations    ..  ....  5:50  p 

•2:15P  Newark,  CenterviUe,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cm z.  and  principal  way  stations *11:20a 

4 :15  P  San  Jose  and  Glenwood 8 :50  > 

U4 :  15  p  Felton  and  Santa  Cruz §8;50a 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  irtlip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  a.  m.,I1:0U.  *a:0U.  I3:U0.  M:00,t5:00and  *6:00p.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway.— *6:00,  8:00, 10:00  A.  M.;  112:00,  *1:00, 
12 :00, *3 :00, 14 :00  *5 :00  P.  M. 


Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 


*7:00a  San  Joseand  waystations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1:30  p 
J7:30a  Sunday  excursion  for  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove, 

and  principal  way  stations  J:8;35  P 

9 :00  a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos ,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  prlncipalway  stations    4:15  p 

10:40a  San  Jose  and  way  stations  7:30p 

11:30  a  Palo  Alto  and  way  stations  5:00  p 

•2:30  p  San  Mateo,  Redwood,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres 

Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey,  Pacific  Grove  ..  *10:40A 

•3:30p  San  Jose  and  way  stations 9:45  A 

•4  :30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations *8:05A 

5 :30  p  San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations  *8 :45  a 

6 :30  p  San  Jose  and  way  stations . . .    6 :35  A 

til  :45p  San  Jose  and  way  stations  


A  for  Morning,     p  for  Afternoon.     'Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

JSundaysonly.  tt  Monday,  Thursday  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

USaturdays  and  Sundays.  gSundays  and  Mondays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  oheck  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

Tha    AponH    Dor-ifiV     306  Stockton   St.  San    Francisco. 
I  IID    Ul  dllU     rdblllOf         MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day,  week,  or  month.      Telephone:  Grant.  507. 


San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific  R'y  Co. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    TiBDKON  FBRRY-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 
WEEK  DAYS— 7:30,  y:00,  ll:UU  am;  12:35,  3:50  6:10,  8:30  p  m.    Thursdays— 
Extra  trlpat  11 :30  p  M     Saturdays— Extra  trips  at   1 :50  and  11:30  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00,9:30.  ll:uu  a  m;  1:30.  3:30,  5:00,6:20PM. 

SAN    RAFAEL  TO   SAN   FMNCISC0, 
WEEK  DAYS— «:16,  7:50,  9:20,  11:10  A  u;  12:45,  3:40,6:10pm.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at   1:55  and  0:35  P  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40,  11:10  am;  1:40.8:40,6:00,6:25  P  M. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  F. 

In  Effect  April  26,  1897 

ARRIVE  IN  S.  F. 

Week   Days.!  Sundays. 

Destination. 

Sundays    1  Week  Days 

7:30  AM 
3:30  PH 
6:10  PM 

8:00am 
9:30am 
6:00  pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40AM    1      8:40  AM 
6:10PM         10:25  AM 
7 :35  p  m    |      6 :22  p  M 

8:00  am 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyservllle.  Cloverdale 

7:35PM 

7:30AM 
3:30PM 

6:22  P  M 

sltora     |  8:00  am 

Hopland,  Uklab        |    7:35pm    |    '{jjljpa 

7:30A  m      I    8:00am 
3:30pm 

Guerneville.          |    7:35  pm    |    'jiH  p  ", 

7:30am      I    8:00AM 
5:10pm       1    5:00PM 

Sonoma,              1    10:40  am    1     8:40  A  M 
Glen  Ellen.             |     6:10PH     |     6:22  PM 

7:30am      I    8:00am 
3:30pm      1    5:00  pm 

o.k..t™i             1    10:4OAM     I    10:25  AM 
Sebastopol.           |     6:]0pM    |     6:32  p  M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  (or  Mark  West  Springs:  at  Geyservllle 
for  Skaggs'  Springs ;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers ;  at  Hopland  (or  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah,  (or  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del 
Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lier- 
ley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville,  Booneville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  atreduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  W.  FOSTER.  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass .  Agent. 

Pacific    Coast   Steamship    Co. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Franoisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  a.  m..  June  5, 10, 15, 20,  25,  30  and  every  6tb  day  thereafter. 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  A.  M..  June  5,  10,  15, 
20.  25,  30,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  p.  M.  June  1,  5, 
9,  14,  18.  22,  26,  31  ;  July  5,  9,  13,  17.  21,  26,  30  ;  Aug.  3,  7.11,  16,  20,  24,  28. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.m.;  June  3,  7,  11, 
15.  19.  23.  27.  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  {Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  A.  M.,  June  1.  5,  9. 13, 
17,  21,  25,  29  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  A.  M., 
the  2d  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents,       10  Market  St,  S.  F. 

Occidental  and  Oriental  Steamship  Co. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  AND  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  P  M.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG. 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hlogo),  Nagasaki  and  Shanghai,  and  connecting  at 
Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc  No  cargo  received  on  board  on 
day  of  sailing. 

Coptic Thursday,  June  17, 1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Wednesday,  July  7. 1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  July  27,  1897 

Belgic Saturday,  August  1 1, 1897 

Round  Trip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS,  Secretary. 

ItfHMlf"  s   s    "Australia",  for  Honolulu    only,  Tuesday, 

I  VMrlEb  June  15th.  at  2pm 

•»  S.  S.  "Mariposa,"  Thursday,  June  24th,  at  2  p  M. 

\*i/ — [~^N  Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 

QjlEulllSlliP^  °Ut  r0&'  J.  D.  SPRECKELS&BROS.CO., 
(RmRVIPU-  Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Wllipuua       Market  St..  San    Francisco 

ON  the  27th  of  May,  A.  O.  Mulligan  withdrew  by  mutual 
consent  from  the  firm  of  George  P.  Morrow  &  Co. 
The  firm  is  now  temporarily  located  at  122  Clay  street, 
and  is  fully  prepared  to  transact  all  business  entrusted  to 
it  with  promptness  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  customers. 
George  P.  Morrow  &  Co.  have  been  in  business  in  San 
Francisco  for  more  than  fifty  years,  and  the  public  may 
feel  assured  that  the  same  cordial  and  faithful  treatment 
of  old  times  will  be  extended  hereafter. 


THE  letter  carriers'  annual  picnic  will  be  held  on  the 
Fourth  of  July  at  Schuetzen  Park,  San  Rafael.  The 
proceeds  of  the  outing  will  be  devoted  to  the  entertain- 
ment of  the  visiting  delegates  of  the  8th  Annual  Letter 
Carriers' Convention,  which  meets  herein  September.  The 
letter  carriers  are  good  fellows  to  a  man;  they  work  hard, 
and  their  picnic  should  be  well  attended. 


THE  official  bulletin  of  the  North  Pacific  Railway  for 
June  is  just  out.  It  contains  illustrations  concerning 
points  of  interest  along  the  line  of  the  road;  is  a  neat  little 
book  published  by  E.  P.  Fish  &  Co.,  at  424  Sansome  street. 


See  Rome  and  die:  drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda  and  live. 
Drowsiness  is  dispelled  by  BEECHAM'S  Pii.ls. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


June  12,  1897. 


NSURANCE 


THE  semi-annual  banquet  of  the  San  Francisco  Life 
Underwriters'  Association  was  held  at  the  Occidental 
Hotel  on  the  evening  of  the  11th  inst.  Interesting  papers 
were  read  by  the  members  and  guests.  These  social 
gatherings  of  the  underwriters  are  increasing,  and  it  has 
been  determined  that  the  second  annual  banquet,  which 
takes  place  December  10th,  shall  exceed  in  its  importance 
anything  of  its  character  held  on  the  Coast. 

The  recent  action  of  the  Western  British  America  and 
Westchester  Fire  Insurance  Companies  in  withdrawing 
from  the  Coast  Association,  will  have  the  effect  of  throwing 
rates  wide  open  again.  This  course  has  been  decided  upon 
by  the  Executive  Committee,  unless  the  resignations  of 
these  companies  are  withdrawn. 

E.  P.  Marshall,  Secretary  of  Union  Central  Life,  will 
visit  the  Coast  early  next  month. 

Major  John  B.  Day,  of  the  Washington,  has  returned 
from  an  extended  trip  to  the  South. 

Insurance  Commissioner  McNall,  of  Kansas,  has  notified 
Robert  Dixon,  United  States  manager  of  the  Royal  Ex- 
change, that  unless  he  complies  with  the  Kansas  insurance 
law  he  must  withdraw.  Dixon  holds  that  his  company  has 
complied  with  all  the  requirements;  but  has  thus  far  failed 
to  bring  McNall  to  his  point  of  view. 

The  Equitable  Indemnity  Company,  of  Seattle,  has  been 
closed  up  by  Commissioner  Jenkins.  The  assets,  which  it 
was  claimed  equaled  $25,000,  consisted  of  country  lands 
about  Seattle,  which  were  the  worst  sort  of  wild-cat.  In 
consequence,  Jenkins  shut  its  doors  in  the  interest  of  those 
who  had  insured  in  it.  This  concern  has  a  number  of  vic- 
tims in  this  State.  Its  methods,  as  are  those  always 
adopted  by  similar  irresponsible  companies,  were  to  oper- 
ate away  from  home,  where  its  character  was  least 
known  and  consequently  most  respected. 

The  United  States  Casualty  has  ceased  writing  burglar 
insurance  in  Chicago,  owing  to  the  fact  that  the  festive 
burglar  is  too  active  for  the  police. 

The  widow  of  a  Kentucky  man  has  received  $5,000  from 
the  United  States  Mutual  Association  for  the  death  of  her 
husband,  which  was  caused  by  a  mosquito  bite. 

Thos.  Godwin  has  been  appointed  Pacific  Coast  manager 
of  the  Preferred  Accident,  vice  E.  S.  Fowler,  deceased. 

Coast  agents  do  not  take  kindly  to  the  proposed  reduc- 
tions of  commissions,  and  are  preparing  to  give  battle  to 
the  managers. 

One  of  the  anomalies  of  insurance  is  found  in  that  Eng- 
lish fire  companies  are  doing  an  enormous  business  in  this 
country,  with  not  a  single  life  company  in  the  United 
States.  American  fire  companies  are  starving  to  death 
in  England,  while  American  life  companies  are  making 
money. 

Russell  W.  Osborn,  a  bright  insurance  man  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, has  published  a  valuable  treatise  on  the  elements  of 
insurance  law. 

The  new  Insurance  Commissioner  intends  to  devote 
some  attention  to  the  numerous  fraternal  and  other  insur- 
ance associations  which  have  not  complied  with  the  strict 
letter  of  the  law.  Those  concerns  that  are  not  meeting 
claims  promptly  will  be  likely  to  get  into  chancery. 


A    SUMMER    SONG.— Harriet  wihthrop  warihg. 

Golden  grasses, 

Summer  lasses, 
Flowering  Dink  and  white  and  blue, 

Bold  sun  shining, 

"White  arras  twining — 
O  my  love,  be  true,  be  true! 

Moonlight  flooding, 

Flowers  a-budding, 
(Pity  hearts  that  never  knew), 

Young  blood  rushing, 

Fond  words  gushing— 
O  my  love  for  you  I  sue! 

Far  we  wander, 

Deep  we  ponder, 
Life  and  love  forever  new — 

O  the  rapture 

Of  my  capture — 
O  the  world  was  made  for  two ! 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION   MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 

309and  311   Sansome  St."        -         ■         ■         e         San   Francisco,  Cal 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BRODIE 43  and  46  Threadneedle  St.,  London 

SIMPSON,  MAOKIRDY  &  CO 29  South  Castle  St.,  Liverpool 


INSURANCE. 


FIRE,   MARINE,    AND   INLAND  INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),   OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager.  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fire  Insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Company    ot  Nortn   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  FENN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,022,016 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up 11,000,000 

Assets 3,300.01 8 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,668,332 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  501  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD   &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 
PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  Established  1782. 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON    NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  1799 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 


BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO., 

LIMITED, 

OF    LIVERPOOL. 

16,700,000 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents. 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

THE  THURINGIA   INSURANCE  COMPANY. 

Of  ERFIEST,  GERMANY. 
Capital.  $3,250,000         Assets.  $10,P81.248. 
Pacific  Coast  Department:  2C4-208  SANSOME  ST.,  S.  F. 

VOSS,  CONRAD&  CO.,  General  Managers. 

nD  RIPnRrVQ  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu 
Un.  muwrvu  O  ine— A  specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physioal 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris- 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  StateB, 
J.  G.  STEELE  &.  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED— Box  of  50  pills,  tl  25;  of  100  pills,  $2;  of  200 pills, 
1350;  of  400  pills,  J6;  Preparatory  Pills  82.    Send  for  circular. 


PANORAMIC  SERIES,  PLATE  66. 


WITH  S.  F.  NEWS  LETTER,  JUNE  19,1897. 


PICTURESQUE    CALIFORNIA. 

YOSEMITE    UALLEY-Qlacier    Point    (3300   feet   hioh>    and    South    Dome. 


Tabtr  Pho'o.     S.   F, 


Price  per  Copy.  10  I 


Annual  Suhscrij,tion,  $4.00 


Vol.  LI  V. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  JUNE  19.  1897. 


Number  25. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the proprietor,  FRED  MARRIOT1 
t%  Kearny  street,  San  Francisco.  Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post- 
office  at  Second-class  Matter. 

Tks  office  of  the  NEWS  LETTER  in  yew  York  City  it  at  Temple  Court; 
and  at  Chicago.  903  Boyce  Building.  (Frank  E  Morrieon.  Eastern 
Representative),  where  information  may  be  obtained  regarding  subscrip 
tion  and  advertising  rates. 

GREATER  New  York  and  Greater  Chicago  lead  the 
way.     Shall  the  cities  about  the  Golden  Gate  fail   to 
profit  by  their  experience  ? 


HAVE  the  officers  of  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
Vice  turned  their  attention  to  the  indecent  advertis- 
ing pamphlets  issued  by  Kapp  &  Street?  This  lewd  pub- 
lication has  been  sent  through  the  mails  by  the  thousands, 
but  we  hear  of  no  arrests  for  using  the  postal  service  for 
immoral  purposes. 

S  SPLENDID  celebration  of  the  Queen's  Diamond  Jub- 
ilee is  arranged  by  loyal  Britons  in  San  Francisco  for 
to-day,  to-morrow,  and  Monday.  The  Stars  and  Stripes 
ripple  in  the  breeze  with  1he  EDglish  flag  to-day,  and 
Americans  everywhere  mingle  in  the  chorus,  "God  Save 
the  Queen."  heard  wherever  a  Briton  salutes  the  rising 
sun. 

M  ANY  ship  masters  coming  to  this  port  show  a  de- 
]  1  cided  aversion  to  existing  quarantine  regulations, 
and  the  Board  of  Health  is  very  wisely  taking  steps  to  re- 
fresh their  recollections  upon  this  important  matter.  Ar- 
rest and  fine  would  have  a  very  wholesome  effect  upon 
those  who  refuse  to  respect  the  laws.  The  memory  of  a 
great  many  men  lie  in  their  pockets. 

THE  action  of  the  Supervisors  in  refusing  to  allow  the 
use  of  the  sidewalks  by  the  owners  of  abutting  prop- 
erty, for  show  windows,  will  be  regarded  with  satisfaction 
generally.  The  sidewalks  belong  to  the  public,  and  to  per- 
mit the  least  encroachment  upon  them  by  ambitious  mer- 
chants would  result  in  their  ultimate  absorption  for  pur- 
poses of  display,  and  pedestrians  would  have  to  take  to 
the  streets. 

AUDITOR  Broderick  has  refused  to  pay  the  School  cen- 
sus marshal  and  his  assistant  for  alleged  overtime 
amounting  to  $580.  The  News  Letter  holds  with  the 
Auditor.  The  presumption  is  against  the  idea  that  any 
city  official  works  overtime.  The  precedents  are  all  the 
other  way.  That  a  large  percentage  of  them  work  under- 
time could  be  easily  proved,  but  we  have  never  heard  of 
any  drawback  on  their  salaries  on  this  account. 


THE  Supervisors  have  informed  the  directors  that  the 
schools  of  San  Francisco  must  get  along  next  year 
with  less  money  than  is  demanded.  The  people  of  this  city 
are  always  willing  to  vote  money  for  legitimate  educational 
purposes;  but  it  has  been  practically  demonstrated  that 
our  public  school  system  has  been  gradually  loaded  up 
with  all  manner  of  useless  frills  and  fancies;  that  thou- 
sands upon  thousands  of  dollars  have  been  frittered  away 
in  salaries  and  useless  flourishes.  Children  should  be 
taught  the  practical  branches.  The  public  schools  are  for 
the  purpose  of  fitting  boys  and  girls  for  bread-winning, 
and  all  the  fineries  and  superfluities  of  which  we  have 
heard  so  much  should  be  cut  out.  The  grafting  of  special- 
ties on  to  a  general  system  of  education  can  do  no  good, 
and  really  does  much'harm.  Keep  the  appropriation  down 
to  its  original  and  legitimate  intent. 


I 


T  is  said  that  no  more  public  boxing  matches  for 
money  are  to  be  allowed  in  New  York.  This  ought 
to  fill  the  prize  ring  managers  of  the  Olympic  Club — which 
organization  has  turned  itself  into  a  small,  cheap  purveyor 
of  unsavory,  not  to  say  fake,  prize-fights,  for  a  few  ill- 
smelling  dollars — with  deep  concern.  Should  San  Fran- 
cisco follow  the  cleaner  example  of  New  York,  this  con- 
genial occupation  of  uncongenial  fellows  would  be  gone, 
and  they  might  have  to  do  something  more  genteel  for  a 
living. 

JAMES  Stranahan,  a  resident  of  Brooklyn,  was  the  first 
man  to  suggest  the  economy  and  necessity  of  the 
Greater  New  York.  He  began  this  agitation  fourteen 
years  ago,  and  to-day  he  sees  his  dream  an  accomplished 
fact.  The  News  Letter  advocates  a  Greater  San  Fran- 
cisco, but  does  not  expect  to  wait  fourteen  years  to  see  it 
an  accomplished  fact.  The  political,  economical,  and  physi- 
cal necessity  of  a  great  united  city  about  this  Gateway 
of  the  Pacific  only  requires  investigation  to  convince  the 
most  pessimistic  of  its  practicability. 

T^HE  act  of  S.  G.  Murphy,  Presideni  of  the  First  Na- 
X  tional  Bank,  in  discharging  George  Maxwell,  for 
twenty  years  the  faithful  paying  teller  of  that  institution, 
because  as  an  involuntary  witness  he  was  compelled  to 
testify  to  certain  facts  in  the  Davis  will  case)  as  an  expert 
in  writing,  shows  the  character  that  he  is.  Maxwell  had 
no  choice  in  the  matter  of  his  testimony.  It  is  possible 
that  he  was  unacquainted  with  the  peculiar  qualities  which 
mark  the  President  of  the  First  National,  and  define  his 
unique  position  among  gentlemen.  Murphy  had  consented 
that  Maxwell  should  testify,  but  with  that  fine  and  delicate 
sense  of  honor  for  which  he  is  noted,  discharged  him  because 
he  failed  to  perjure  himself  or  go  to  jail  for  contempt. 

THE  Superintendent  of  the  Nevada  Insane  Asylum  has 
endeavored  to  boycott  the  Gazette  of  that  city  for 
having  published  articles  reflecting  upon  bis  management 
of  that  institution.  He  informed  the  merchants  of  Reno 
that  they  could  have  no  asylum  trade  if  they  advertised 
in  the  Gazette.  The  Superintendent  has  adopted  a  course 
of  retaliation  that  should  be  hailed  with  delight  by  the 
Reno  paper ;  for  if  the  merchants  of  his  town  have  the 
least  independence  they  will  resent  such  a  low  attempt 
upon  the  part  of  the  asylum  official  to  shield  himself  from 
criticism.  The  Gazette  should  continue  its  roast — more 
partic  ulaily  as  the  Superintendent  has  undertaken  to  stop 
its  mouth  by  the  most  despicable  of  all  methods,  the  cow- 
ardly boycott.        , 

THE  Supreme  Court  has  rendered  a  decision  in  regard 
to  the  collateral  heirs  law  that  is  of  considerable  im- 
portance. It  decides  that  the  Legislature  did  not  exceed 
its  powers  in  taxing  the  right  to  inheritance,  which  it  de- 
clares to  be  a  very  different  thing  from  taxing  an  income. 
The  case  at  bar  was  that  of  Henry  W.  Payne  on  an  appeal 
from  the  court  below  ordering  him  to  pay  the  sum  of 
*7.44!)  as  a  tax  on  a  legacy  left  him  by  his  uncle,  J.  C. 
Wilmerding,  deceased.  The  court  holds  that  the  act  is 
valid  because  it  lays  down  a  general  rule  for  the  taxation 
of  inheritances,  which  it  has  an  undoubted  right  to  do. 
Inheritance  is  a  privilege  conferred  by  the  State,  and  the 
State  has  a  right  to  tax  it  as  a  privilege.  It  is  not  a 
right,  and  could  not  be  claimed  as  such.  It  is  something 
the  State  could  give  or  withhold,  and  is  therefore  amen- 
able to  State  taxation  as  the  State  may  decide.  This  is 
an  important  decision  because  of  its  beanng  upon  quite  a 
number  of  unsettled  estates  within  the  borders  of  Cali- 
fornia. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  ig,  1897. 


FOR     A     GREATER     SAN      FRANCISCO. 


THE  Half  Million  Club,  enthusiastic  and  capable  as  it 
was,  lamentably  failed  of  its  purpose  and  disbanded. 
The  end  it  had  in  view  was  the  increasing  of  the  city's 
population  to  half  a  million.  It  got  up  junketing  tours, 
spread  itself  over  the  land  considerably,  sent  much  read- 
able advertising  around,  and  generally  did  a  good  work 
that  may  yield  results  some  day.  But  the  times  were 
hard,  and  the  people  not  in  an  immigrating  mood;  so  that 
little  or  nothing  came  of  the  movement.  The  purpose  of 
the  club,  however,  could  be  accomplished  in  an  incredibly 
short  space  of  time.  Population  would  not  come  within 
the  city,  but  a  Greater  San  Francisco  can  be  made  to  go 
to  enough  people  to  make  up  the  desired  half  million.  The 
addition  of  Oakland,  Alameda,  Berkeley  and  Sausalito 
would  just  about  do  it.  Without  a  doubt  it  would  be  a 
very  desirable  thing  to  do.  It  has  proven  to  be  so  in  the 
cases  of  the  New  Chicago  and  the  Greater  New  York. 
Cities  are  judged  of  abroad  by  the  number  of  their  people. 
Half  a  million  sounds  a  great  deal  more  important  than 
three  hundred  thousand.  Moreover,  a  city  which  finds 
work  and  bread  for  a  large  suburban  population  has  a 
right  to  claim  them  as  citizens,  and  they,  in  turn,  owe 
loyalty  to  the  city  that  supports  them.  The  closer  the 
union  between  them,  the  stronger  they  will  be,  and  the 
better  their  interests  will  be  subserved.  This,  we  think, 
will  be  admitted  on  all  hands.  Why  not,  then,  set  about 
creating  a  Greater  San  Francisco? 

We  notice  that  Mayor  Phelan  and  the  election  Commis- 
sioners are  proposing  to  have  two  elections  this  year,  the 
first  to  give  us  a  Board  of  fifteen  freeholders,  and  the  sec- 
ond to  vote  on  a  new  charter.  The  cost  will  be  consider- 
able, and  the  final  result  is  pretty  sure  to  be  as  abortive 
as  it  always  has  been.  Our  ratepaying  citizens  do  not 
want  a  charter  framed  solely  in  the  interests  of  the  tax- 
eaters,  and  none  other  can  be  passed  as  things  stand  at 
present.  With  the  help  of  Oakland,  Berkeley  and  Ala- 
meda, the  thing  would  be  accomplished  at  the  first 
attempt.  Let  a  committee  of  one  hundred  take  in  hand 
the  union  of  our  city  and  suburbs,  hold  interviews  with 
leading  citizens  on  the  other  side  of  the  bay,  prepare  a 
practicable  scheme,  which  ought  not  to  be  difficult  with 
the  examples  of  Chicago  and  New  York  before  them,  and 
with  less  effort  than  it  will  take  to  frame  a  charter  to  be 
defeated,  the  Greater  San  Francisco  will  be  an  estab- 
lished fact.  Before  the  men  who  may  undertake  this  en- 
terprise a  great  opportunity  lies.  The  new  and  greater 
city  would  be  taken  out  of  many  bad  grooves  in  which  it 
has  too  long  been  run.  A  desirable  class  of  voters  would 
be  added,  who  would  give  strength  to  our  own  taxpayers, 
and  the  taxeaters  and  their  friends  would  be  restrained 
from  getting  away  with  everything  in  sight.  That  has 
been  the  result  in  Chicago,  and  in  New  York  it  is  believed 
that  Tammany  will  cease  to  be  the  grave  danger  and 
menace  that  it  so  long  has  been.  At  present  we  can  un- 
dertake nothing  of  importance  because  of  corrupt  Bosses 
and  the  large  class  of  voters  who  sympathize  with  them. 
We  cannot  issue  bonds  for  water  works,  better  sewers,  or 
other  desirable  purposes,  because  we  are  pretty  sure  the 
Bosses  and  their  henchmen  would  divert  most  of  the 
money  to  their  own  uses.  How  long,  O  Lord!  how  long  is 
this  shame  to  last! 

The  city  united  would  have  larger  credit,  a  better  popu- 
lation, and  more  economical  government  than  it  now  has 
divided  into  some  half  dozen  parts.  One  Mayor  should 
come  cheaper  than  four  or  five,  one  street  department 
should  be  stronger  and  more  equal  to  its  work  than  half  a 
dozen  of  the  kind  we  now  have,  and  so  it  would  go  nearly 
all  along  the  whole  line  of  municipal  offices.  San  Francisco 
at  present  pays  a  great  deal  too  much  for  the  little  it 
gets.  It  should  secure  a  better  conduct  of  its  public  busi- 
ness, and  pay  much  less  for  it.  In  union  there  is  strength, 
durability,  and  economy.  San  Francisco,  on  both  sides  of 
the  bay,  needs  more  and  better  schools.  Sanitary  sewers, 
good  lighting,  and,  perhaps,  it  would  be  better  if  it  owned 
its  own  water  works.  The  purchase  of  these  large  plants 
already  in  successful  operation  could  be  brought  about  by 
issue  of  long  time  low-rate  bonds,  and  their  operation 
made  more  secure,  economical  and  satisfactory  as  a  whole 
under  municipal  control  than  under  separate  manage- 
ment.    It  is  becoming  almost  imperative  that  one  or  more 


of  these  works  should  be  undertaken  at  once.  With  a 
perfect  union  established  these  things  could  soon  be  ob- 
tained, our  capacity  to  borrow  money  on  low  terms  would 
be  increased,  and  the  pro  rata  burden  of  taxation  would 
be  less.  There  are  no  serious  legal  difficulties  in  the  way 
of  accomplishing  such  a  union,  and  by  the  time  the  Leg- 
islature meets  again  the  whole  business  should  be  cut  and 
dried,  ready  for  action.  If  this  view  be  approved,  'it 
follows  that  it  would  be  a  waste  of  time  and  money  to  set 
to  work  on  a  new  charter.  We  cannot  get  a  desirable 
one,  no  matter  how  hard  we  try,  and  no  matter  how  strong 
the  noise  is  at  the  time  for  reform.  We  have  tried  several 
times,  and  failed  always.  The  majority  of  our  iucongruous 
voters  have  not  changed  for  the  better,  and  the  prospects 
for  the  success  of  a  good  measure  are  darker,  rather  than 
fairer.  As  we  could  constitute  the  Greater  San  Fran- 
cisco as  quickly  and  more  surely,  than  we  could  frame  and 
ratify  a  New  Charter,  the  bolder  and  better  project  should 
be  adopted. 

Pan-American  The  Manufacturers'  and  Producers'  Asso- 
Delegates.  ciation  of  this  State  is  determined  that 
the  delegates  from  the  Central  and  South 
American  countries  to  the  Pan-American  Congress  shall 
visit  California  before  they  return  home;  and  to  that  end 
the  directors  of  the  organization  have  invited  all  import- 
ant local  commercial  bodies  to  join  in  an  effort  to  secure 
the  presence  of  these  influential  representatives  in  this 
State,  where  they  may  investigate  the  products  of 
California  and  study  the  trade  relations  of  our  State 
with  the  countries  south.  California  is  just  now  reach- 
ing out  for  foreign  commerce.  The  rich  countries  South 
of  us  are  more  closely  united  by  commercial  ties  with 
Germany  and  England  than  they  are  with  this  State.  The 
distant  foreign  nations  have  sent  representatives  to  them, 
have  studied  their  necessities,  trade  wants,  and  business 
methods,  have  met  them  in  a  practical  way,  and  have  cap- 
tured their  commerce.  These  Central  American  States 
lie  at  our  doors;  their  products  are  largely  dissimilar  to 
our  own;  they  want  the  products  of  California's  soil,  the 
machinery,  agricultural  implements,  and  fabrics  of  Califor- 
nia manufacture.  The  Pan-American  Congress  was  in  the 
direction  of  more  profitable,  larger  and  closer  commercial 
relations.  Having  seen  the  East,  the  South  and  the 
Middle  West,  it  would  be  especially  fitting  that  the  repre- 
sentative members  from  our  neighbors  leave  this  country 
only  after  they  have  seen  the  fairest  portion  of  it.  We  hope 
that  the  Manufacturers'  and  Producers'  Association  may 
be  met  promptly  by  other  local  commercial  bodies,  and 
as  a  result  of  their  united  efforts,  that  these  Central  and 
South  American  business  men  may  be  brought  to  this 
State  and  obtain  a  practical  knowledge  of  Californian  pro- 
ducts, trade  conditions,   opportunities,  and  people. 

is  It  To  Be  It  begins  to  look  as  if  Hawaii  is  to  be 
Annexation  annexed  right  or  wrong.  President 
Right  Or  Wrong  ?  McKinley  appears  to  have  lent  his  ear 
to  a  few  not  over  scrupulous  Hawaiian 
Planters  and  to  have  been  beguiled  thereby.  The  treaty 
of  annexation  has  already  been  negotiated  by  the  Ex- 
ecutive and  is  now  informally  before  the  Senate  s  Finan- 
cial and  Foreign  Relation's  Committees,  to  the  end 
that  it  may  be  promptly  reported  the  moment  the  tariff 
is  out  of  the  way.  It  is  a  rule  or  ruin  policy  on  the 
part  of  the  administration,  and  must  te  fought  to 
the  bitter  end.  It  is  a  long  and  rough  road  through 
both  Houses,  especially  when  a  two-thirds  majority  must 
be  had.  As  the  treaty  involves  the  finances  of  the 
country,  it  must  needs  go  to  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives. But  we  do  not  believe  it  will  ever  reach  there. 
Two-thirds  of  the  Senators,  we  are  persuaded,  are  not 
ready  to  vote  for  a  measure  so  fraught  with  future  mis- 
chief as  is  this  indefensible  departure  from  the  teachings 
of  the  early  fathers  and  from  the  uniform  precedents  es- 
tablished from  the  foundation  of  the  Government  until 
now.  America  for  the  Americans  has  been  our  watch- 
word, "the  eschewing  of  foreign  entanglements"  was  the 
advice  of  the  Father  of  his  Country  and  has  so  far  been 
followed  with  safe  and  otherwise  excellent  results.  The 
Monroe  doctrine  has  been  the  keystone  of  our  foreign 
policy,  not  always  allowed  by  other  countries,  but  always 
stoutly  maintained   by   us  until  now.     Annex   a   country 


Juno  ifj,  1897, 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


-.  1<M>  miles  away  from  our  continent  and  away  goes  the 
Monroe  doctrine'  We  might  as  well  claim  to  take  Ireland. 
Moreover,  we  have  unrepealed  treaties  with  France  and 
England  guaranteeing;  the  independence  of  the  Hawaiian 
Islands.  What  do  we  want  to  do  all  this  for?  Is  it  iu  the 
line  of  protecting  our  home  industries?  It  would  forever 
let  in  the  island  sugar  duty  free,  and  therein  lies  the  kernel 
of  the  scheme.  The  planters  want  it  for  that  reason  and 
that  alone.  They  would  tight  annexation  to  its  death,  if  it 
were  not  for  the  monstrous  advantages  that  would  be  ex- 
tended to  sugar  production  for  all  time.  We  are  all  re- 
joicing at  the  vast  promises  of  our  sugar  beet  productions, 
but  annex  Hawaii,  and  beet  sugar  growing  and  manu- 
facturing must  die.  It  cannot  compete  with  cane  sugar, 
grown  on  stolen  lands,  and  produced  under  labor  conditions 
that  can  never  be  permitted  to  grow  up  in  our  own  dear 
country.  The  semi-slave  labor  of  the  Chinese,  Japanese, 
and  Kanakas,  as  it  exists  on  the  islands  to-day,  is  revolt- 
ing to  our  people.  To  support,  or  even  tolerate  it,  ou 
what  it  is  proposed  to  make  a  territory  or  State  of  this 
Unioo,  would  be  to  demean  ourselves  in  our  own  eyes,  and 
to  render  us  a  byword  and  a  reproach  to  other  nations. 
Yet  if  we  annex  Hawaii  these  people  will  constitute  nine- 
tenths  of  its  population.  They  are  there  and  there  they 
will  continue.  We  cannot  drive  them  out  if  we  would. 
The  talk  of  Americans  taking  their  places  is  idle;  Ameri- 
cans, thank  God!  do  not  work  their  hours,  nor  for  their 
amount  of  pay,  nor  could  they  work  at  all  in  such  a  cli- 
mate. Hawaii  has  about  enough  population  to  constitute 
her  a  State  of  the  Union,  and  that  she  would  soon  seek 
admission  we  may  be  sure.  Out  of  her  population  there 
is  only  about  1  in  14  a  white  person,  so  that  it  is  easy  to 
see  who  would  soon  govern.  We  are  bound  by  our  consti- 
tution to  set  up  a  Republican  form  of  Government,  so  that 
we  could  not  if  we  would  confine  the  franchise  to  the  8,000 
whites,  the  majority  of  whom  are  not  Americans  and  pro- 
bably would  not  accept  citizenship.  It  is  not  conceivable 
that  we  could  set  up  a  free  state  at  such  a  distance  and 
made  up  of  such  ignorant  and  incongruous  elements,  with- 
out trouble  following.  Why  make  the  experiment?  Simply 
that  a  few  planters,  many  of  them  not  Americans,  may 
get  the  advantage  of  our  otherwise  protected  market. 
We  would  not  obtain  our  sugar  any  cheaper.  That  has 
been  determined.  Under  the  reciprocity  treaty  the 
planters  not  ouly  exacted  the  rebated  duty,  but' the  2 
cents  a  pound  freight  rate  from  the  East  to  here.  Prom 
a  naval  point  of  view,  what  possible  use  would  islands 
2, 100  miles  away  be  to  the  defense  of  this  country?  If  we 
want  a  coaling  station  there,  we  have  one  already.  Hawaii 
would  be  a  point  of  weakness  in  time  of  war,  because  she 
would  have  to  be  defended,  a  task  to  which  our  entire 
navy  would  not  be  adequate.  The  trade  with  her  would 
remain  ours  anyhow,  and  the  bulk  of  her  sugar  would  come 
here  until  beet  growing  overtakes  our  demands.  Until 
these  arguments  are  answered — and  they  never  can  be — 
annexation  remains  an  indefensible  proposition,  and  that 
being  so  the  proposed  action  by  Congress  is  an  outrage. 

The  New  The  Examiner  prides  itself  on  nothing  so 
Journalism,  much  as  that  it  is  a  conspicuous  example  of 
"new  journalism."  It  is!  It  is!  1  It  is 
something  new  for  a  newspaper  to  swallow  itself  whole, 
body,  soul  and  breeches.  Yet  that  is  about  what  it  has 
just  done.  The  other  day  it  affected  to  be  terribly  wrath 
at  the  Federal  courts  for  listening  to  an  application  for  a 
writ  of  habeas  corpus  for  Durrant.  The  Federal  courts, 
and  all  courts,  are  hectored,  lectured  and  abused  in  the 
most  approved  style  of  the  "new  journalism,"  and  the 
lawyers  who  apply  for  writs  of  habeas  corpus,  and  the 
Judges  who  grant  them,  are  told  that  they  must  be  "dis- 
ciplined," and  that  their  action  must  be  rendered  odious  to 
the  community.  Fancy  such  sentiments  in  regard  to  the 
noblest  buttress  with  which  personal  liberty  is  safe- 
guarded. They  could  only  emanate  from  the  new  journal- 
ism, which  affects  to  lack  veneration  or  respect  for  any- 
thing older,  or  with  more  promise  of  long  life,  than  Willie 
Hearst's  fortune.  The  oldest  and  noblest  of  liberty's  laws 
is  scoffed  at,  and  those  whose  sworn  and  constitutional 
duty  it  is  to  operate  it,  are  threatened  with  all  sorts  of 
dire  consequences.  Then  think  of  this  for  impudence!  The 
last  man  before  Durrant  to  go  to  that  court,  and  invoke 
that  self-same  writ,  and,  by  its  means,  get  released  from 


the  Sacramento  jail,  was  Long  Green  Lawrence,  the  Exam- 
iner editor!  If  the  court  was  wrong  in  the  case  in  which 
a  human  life  was  involved,  it  follows  that  it  was  no  less 
wrong  when  it  prevented  a  fellow  serving  a  sentence  for 
lying.  We  notice  that  Governor  Rudd  is  being  bespattered 
almost  daily  with  the  most  nauseous  flattery.  It  is  proba- 
bly about  the  worst  thing  that  can  be  said  of  that  gentle- 
man that  he  undoubtedly  likes  it.  In  requital,  he  gives  out 
news  in  advance  to  the  Examiner,  and  even  constitutes 
himself  its  reporter.  He  is  credited  with  some  smartness 
as  a  politician.  Clearly  a  mistake!  There  is  no  "  smart- 
ness "  in  thus  angering  all  the  other  dailies.  The  ugly 
fact  leaks  out  that  Ross  Martin  Kelly  had  a  private  knock 
which  would  give  him  private  audience  to  the  Governor  at 
a  moment's  notice  and  at  all  hours.  The  Examiner  has 
said  such  terrible  things  against  Kelly  that  one  cannot 
help  marvelling  at  its  defending  anybody  for  keeping  such 
a  man's  company.  It  considers  him  such  a  bad  egg  that 
his  libel  suit  is  about  the  only  one  it  ever  had  the  courage 
to  stand  by.  It  approves  of  the  Governor's  course  because 
he  was  afraid  of  a  recount,  and  needed  Kelly,  the  Ross  of 
the  opposite  party,  to  save  him  his  office.  Well  may  Rudd 
cry:   "Save  me  from  my  friends!  " 

The  Mercantile    The  Mercantile  Library  has  just  been 
Library.  made  the  fortunate  recipient  of  a   sub- 

stantial bequest,  which  comes  at  a  most 
opportune  time,  and  will  \ory  materially  reduce  the  debt 
of  that  institution.  John  W.  Hendrie,  an  old-time  San 
Francisco  merchant,  who  has  for  many  years  lived  in  New 
York,  spending  his  winters  only  in  this  State,  has  given 
to  the  President  of  the  library  a  piece  of  real  estate  valued 
at  $15,000,  the  conditions  of  the  gift  being  that  it  should 
be  applied  to  the  principal  of  the  debt  of  the  Library  As- 
sociation, which  amounts  to  $75,000  and  is  held  by  the 
Hibernia  Rank.  The  Mercantile  Library  Association  has 
for  a  long  time  been  struggling  with  its  debts,  and  the 
question  of  the  sale  of  its  valuable  property  on  Van  Ness 
and  Golden  Gate  avenues  has  more  than  once  been  can- 
vassed; but  this  substantial  and  generous  gift,  which  re- 
duces the  principal  of  the  obligation  by  one-fifth,  will  give 
new  hope  to  the  members,  who  are  struggling  to  extin- 
guish this  debt  and  improve  the  usefulness  of  the  Associa- 
tion. The  action  of  this  disinterested  non-resident  pre- 
sents an  object  lesson  of  significance  to  wealthy  citizens  of 
San  Francisco.  If  Mr.  Hendrie,  who  no  longer  is  identi- 
fied with  the  city  and  its  institutions,  can  without  solici- 
tation donate  one-fifth  of  the  fixed  debt  of  the  library,  it 
should  not  be  difficult  to  raise  the  remaining  $60,000  here, 
and  so  free  the  library  of  a  harassing  obligation,  and  very 
materially  enlarge  its  field  of  usefulness. 

Thomas  Magee,  the  President  of  the  Association,  ex- 
presses the  hope  that  the  donation  of  books  to  the  library 
may  be  of  a  more  practical  and  scientific  character.  His 
desire  is  that  the  institution  may  widen  its  sphere  in  a  prac- 
tical way,  and  by  its  facilities  of  education  for  young  men 
and  young  women,  become  of  greater  value  than  ever.  It 
may  be  added  that  the  library  is  now  open  to  young  ladies 
free  of  charge.  The  library  room  is  one  of  the  largest  and 
most  comfortable  in  the  country,  and  young  women  who 
have  no  place  to  spend  their  leisure  may  feel  free  to  go 
there  and  enjoy  the  privilege  of  its  magazines,  papers, 
and  books  every  evening  without  cost.  Surely,  the 
Mercantile  Library  is  a  most  worthy  object,  and  its  debt, 
now  reduced  to  $60,000,  should  be  soon  liquidated. 


Queen  Victoria's     At  last  evil  days  are  beginning  to  come 
Affliction.  upon   the  Rritish   Queen.     During  her 

long  reign  she  has  been  lucky  in  many 
things.  The  politics  of  the  State  have  been  quiet  but  ex- 
ceedingly successful.  With  such  men  as  Melbourne,  Grey, 
Wellington,  Peel,  Canning,  Palmerston,  Reaconfield,  Der- 
by, Gladstone  and  Salisbury  she  has  bad  advisers  never 
equaled  in  Rritish  history,  except,  perhaps,  in  the  single 
case  of  William  Pitt.  To  each  and  all  of  them  she  was  in 
the  highest  sense  of  the  term  a  persona  grata.  Loyal  to 
her  throne  as  they  necessarily  were  by  reason  of  the 
offices  they  held,  they  were  still  more  loyal  to  her  person, 
and  not  one  of  them,  save  Sir  Robert  Peel,  ever  gave  her 
one  hour's  worry  that  she  could  possibly  be  saved.  She 
has  unquestionably  been  fortunate  in  her  Ministers.    With 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


June  19,  1897. 


infinite  tact  she  succeeded  in  marrying  her  family  well  off. 
Her  blood  runs  in  the  veins  of  most  of  the  royal  families  of 
Europe.  She  was  fortunate  in  her  marriage,  but  unfortu- 
nate in  its  too  early  termination  by  the  death  of  her  con- 
sort. Even  in  the  matter  of  weather,  on  days  of  State 
displays,  she  was  lucky,  and  "Queen's  weather"  became  a 
household  word  among  her  subjects.  In  the  increase  of 
her  Empire,  and  in  the  peaceful  conquering  and  occupa- 
tion of  many  lands,  her  reign  far  and  away  surpasses  all 
previous  records.  Are  evil  days  drawing  nigh?  In  her 
old  age  the  good  Queen  is  stricken  with  blindnpss.  The 
great  Jubilee  to  celebrate  the  completion  of  the  60th  year 
of  her  reign  will  be  to  her  a  blank.  She  will  not  be  able 
to  see  the  multitudes  who  have  come  from  afar  to  see  her. 
They  will  be  disappointed  that  their  Queen  could  not  see 
them,  and  the  disappointment  will  be  mutual.  Has 
Victoria's  career  ended?  We  believe  not.  The  eye  trou- 
ble that  has  so  suddenly  overtaken  her  is  cataract,  or 
darkening  of  the  lens.  By  a  delicate,  but  safe  and 
usually  successful  operation  her  sight  can  be  restored. 
Mr.  Gladstone,  at  a  still  greater  age  than  hers,  became 
afflicted  with  the  same  trouble,  and  within  a  few  weeks 
was  as  keen  of  sight  as  ever.  Her  people  will  pray  that 
her  usual  good  fortune  will  see  her  successfully  through 
this  great  calamity. 

Mrs.  Langtry's    The  Court    Journal,    referring    to  Mrs. 
Divorce.  Langtry's  divorce,  intimates  that  she  had 

better  not  remarry  and  appear  in  Eng- 
land with  that  as  her  justification.  Judge  Crump's  decree 
from  Lake  County  would  not  run  in  England  or  in  America 
or  anywhere  outside  of  Lake  County,  and  there  only 
whilst  he  is  the  Superior  Judge.  The  law  of  California 
provides  that  the  party  complaining  shall  have  had  a  bona 
fide  residence  within  the  county  for  three  months,  and 
within  the  State  for  twelve.  It  is  a  matter  of  the  utmost 
notoriety,  and  as  such  perfectly  well  known  to  Judge 
Crump,  that  the  Jersey  courtezan  never  resided  for  the 
statutory  period  in  either  his  County  or  in  the  State.  We 
all  know  that,  and  it  is  but  an  idle  falsification  of  the  things 
that  are  which  permits  Judge  Crump,  or  anybody  else,  to 
give  judicial  credence  to  affidavits  that  are  contrary  to 
their  own  personal  knowledge  of  the  facts.  Judge 
Crump  should  have  taken  counsel  of  his  own  knowledge, 
and  acted  accordingly.  He  knew  that  Mr.  Langtry 
knew  nothing  of  the  proceedings,  that  they  were  in 
the  nature  of  a  farce,  that  the  real  grounds  for  sep- 
aration existed  on  his  side,  that  the  Langtry  woman 
was  within  this  very  Judge's  jurisdiction  as  the  open 
and  notorious  mistress  of  Gebhart,  and  that  if  the  law  had 
received  its  just  dues,  she,  at  any  rate,  would  have  passed 
considerable  time  in  that  dirty  little  jail  which  is  hardly  fit 
for  human  habitation,  but  perhaps,  is  too  good  for  a  wanton 
who,  forgetting  the  parsonage  in  which  she  was  raised  and 
married,  and  the  good  country  squire  whom  she  married, 
advertised  her  God-given  attractions,  did  her  best  to  ren- 
der vice  known  to  our  young  folks,  and  to  put  the  decent 
people  of  two  continents  to  shame.  Such  divorces  as  her's 
are  doing  more  harm  to  California  than  any  other  cause 
of  which  we  have  knowledge.  They  become  notorious,  se- 
cure wide  advertising,  and  are  far-reaching  in  their  bad 
influence.  We  wish  we  could  say  that  they  were  confined 
to  far-off  Lake  County,  but  they  are  as  easily  obtained,  as 
notoriously  false,  and  altogether  as  unworthy  of  Judicial 
sanction  in  San  Francisco  as  in  any  part  of  this  State,  or 
any  other. 

Detectives  who  The  Hoffman  case  furnishes  an  example 
do  not  Detect,  of  the  state  of  affairs  that  has  existed 
in  this  municipality  for  at  least  a  quar- 
ter of  a  century  past.  During  all  that  time  we  have  had 
a  detective  force  that  cannot  detect— when  it  does  not 
want  to  do  so.  Ordinarily  a  bank  forger  or  a  burglar  of 
Nob  Hill  or  the  Western  Addition  is  run  to  earth,  no  mat- 
ter to  what  part  of  the  world  he  flies.  That  is  unobjec- 
tionable and  all  right.  But  why  cannot  the  same  vigi- 
lance and  sagacity  be  displayed  in  regard  to  crimes  against 
the  person,  ranging  upwards  from  murderous  assault  to 
murder  ?  The  reason  is  that  our  detective  department 
has  no  stomach  for  crimes  against  the  person — if  it  does 
not  like  the  person.  It  has  to  our  knowledge  employed 
stool-pigeons  upon  whom  it  has  had  its   hands  to  murder 


citizens  whose  boots  the  whole  department  is  unworthy  to 
black.  Now  comes  the  Hoffman  case,  in  regard  to  which 
the  detectives  cannot  detect.  The  concensus  of  opinion 
among  intelligent  men  points  clearly  in  a  certain  direction. 
One  man  had  the  opportunity  and  the  motive  to  commit 
the  deed,  but  the  Chief  of  Police  says  he  did  not  commit 
it,  and  of  course  that  settles  it,  so  far  as  he  is  concerned. 
The  astounding  fact  remains  that  the  whole  Force  is  en- 
gaged in  protecting  this  man  from  the  charge  of  guilt, 
whilst  it  appears  to  be  doing  nothing  to  find  out  who  else 
fills  the  bill  of  probability,  not  to  say  of  certainty.  In 
other  words,  it  would  not  detect  if  it  could.  All  the  indi- 
cations are  that  it  is  retained  the  other  way.  It  will  not 
work  with  those  who  are  sincere  in  tLeir  efforts  to  probe 
the  facts  to  the  bottom,  but  who  are  insulted  to  a  degree 
that  is  disreputable  on  the  part  of  public  officials.  But 
then,  of  such  is  the  kingdom  of  the  San  Francisco  Police 
Department,  though  certainly  not  of  the  kingdom  of 
Heaven.  The  daily  press  must  needs  get  most  of  its 
police  news,  reliable  and  unreliable  as  it  often  is,  from  the 
Police  Department,  and  unless  it  will,  when  called  upon, 
report  the  thing  that  is  not,  it  cannot  have  the  news  that 
is  essential  to  its  life.  We  know  this  to  be  true  from  per- 
sonal experience.  No  police  news  that  filters  through  the 
dailies  is  to  be  relied  upon,  unless  other  wise  fortified.  The 
Chronicle  is  the  worst  sinner  in  this  connection,  and  the 
Call  the  least.  The  former  knows  that  Chinatown  has  al- 
ways been  levied  upon  in  case  of  need,  and  about  all  our 
morning  and  evening  contemporaries  know  that  all  the 
known  women  of  shame  in  our  city  have  to  pay  for  police 
protection.  The  Examiner  at  one  time  made  a  bluff  at 
exposing  and  breaking  up  this  state  of  affairs,  but  it  had 
personal  reasons,  as  we  well  know,  for  calling  off  its  dogs 
of  war.  The  external  Police  Department  still  goes  on  in 
its  old  track  rejoicing. 

Up-to-Date  Straws. 
The  trip  out  of  town  is  incomplete  and  uncomfortable  without  a 
straw  hat.  Groom  &  Hagan,  the  up-to-date  hatters  at  942  Market 
street,  under  the  Baldwin  Hotel,  have  a  choice  assortment  of  the 
latest  styles  in  straw  hats.  The  warm  weather  in  the  country  makes 
it  imperative  on  every  man  contemplating  an  outing  to  secure  one  of 
these  light  and  airy  hats  before  starting.  This  popular  firm,  recog- 
nizing that  the  straw  hat  is  not  worn  as  much  as  the  derby  hat,  has 
put  them  on  sale  at  very  reasonable  prices. 

Summer  wear  for  gentlemen  in  the  latest  and  most  fashionable 
shades  and  patterns  at  Carmany's,  25  Kearny  street. 

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June  19,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


AMERICA    TO    BRITAIN- 


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{  Lines    commemorating  the  Sixtieth  Anniversary  of   Her  Brltannfe  Majesty's   K 

IGH  o'er  the  standards  of  Europe  flutter  the  colors  of  Britain, 

Britain  the  white-cliffed  and   roek-girt — loved  of  the  passionate  sea  ; 
Britain,  whose  arm  through  long  ages  won  for  her  honour  and  glory  ; 

Britain,  the   mother   of    nations — mother  of    nations    to   be. 
Under  the  echoing  heavens  wanders  the  boisterous  storm  wind, 

Kissing  the  breasts  of  his  mistress  robed  in  their  mantle  of  green, 
Singing   the   proud    name   of  Britain    over   the   face   of  creation, 

Telling  the  stars  of  her  daughters — gems  round  the  throne  of  their  Queen. 

Over   the   flags   of    the    west   world   towers   America's   banner, 

Emblem  of  manhood's  grand  freedom,  subject  to  God  and  to  law  ; 
Flag  of  a  nation  whose  pages  still  are  unsullied  and  perfect, 

Flag  long  devoted  to  justice — patient  in  peace  and  in  war. 
Hovers  the  sun-nurtured  eagle  over  her  mountains  and  valleys, 

Watching  the  Nation's  advancement  up  the  steep  steps  of  the  years  ; 
Passing  from  youth  into  manhood,  mighty  and  sure  of  attainment, 

Sure  of  the  glories  that  follow  youth's  early  struggles  and  fears. 


Over   the  rest  of   the    nations    America    towers    with    Britain, 

E'en   as  the   lion  or  eagle   rules    o'er   its   separate   kind  ; 
Both  have  the  highest  of  missions — both  are  humanity's  keepers, 

Teachers  of  virtue  and  honour,  bearers  of  light  to  the  blind. 
So  let  our  peoples  move  onward,  shoulder  close  buttressed  to  shoulder, 

Strong  in  their  unified  power,  putting  all  foemen  to  flight  ; 
Working  for  peace  and  for  plenty,  helping  the  world  to  advancement 

Out  from  the  gloom  that  retards  it,  into  the  broadening  light. 
San  Francisco.  HOWARD  V.  SUTHERLAND. 


DEATH  OF  GEORGE   E.   BARNES. 


THE  death  of  George  E.  Barnes,  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Morning  Call,  and  a  dramatic  critic  widely  known 
and  as  generally  respected,  occurred  on  last  Wednesday, 
the  16th  inst.,  in  this  city.  Mr.  Barnes's  health  had  been 
bad  for  several  years,  but  his  demise  was  totally  unex- 
pected. Had  he  lived  until  the  4th  day  of  next  month  he 
would  have  been  seventy  years  old,  having  been  born  in 
St.  Johns,  New  Brunswick,  July  4,  1827.  He  came  to  Cali- 
fornia in  1854,  and  practically  from  that  time  down  to  the 
day  of  his  death  was  identified  with  San  Francisco  news- 
paper work.  Throughout  his  long  career  he  was  regarded 
as  an  able  and  conscientious  writer;  he  was  more  prone 
to  kindness  in  his  work  than  barsnness,  and  in  his  private 
life,  no  less  than  his  public  career,  earned  and  enjoyed  the 
friendship  of  all  who  knew  him,  and  the  affectionate  esteem 
of  many.  He  filled  a  distinct  place  in  the  history  of  jour- 
nalism in  San  Francisco,  and  his  pleasing  personality  and 
generous  character  will  long  be  tenderly  remembered  by 
a  wide  circle  of  friends.  The  remains  were  interred  yester- 
day in  Mountain  View  Cemetery,  the  Press  Club  having 
charge  of  the  obsequies. 

BOAT  racing  will  be  the  chief  attraction  at  El  Campo 
to-morrow.  The  oars  for  the  shell  races  are  from 
Weeks  &  Co.,  ship  chandlers,  at  31  Market  street,  whose 
racing  oars  are  the  lightest  and  best  to  be  found  in  the 
market. 

False   Economy 
Is  practiced  by  people  who  buy  inferior  articles  of  food.     The  Gail 
Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  is  the  best  infant  food.    Infant 
Health  is  the  title  of  a  valuable  pamphlet  for  mothers.     Sent  free  by 
the  New  York  Condensed  Milk  Co.,  N,  Y. 


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increased  Usefulness,  prolonged 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  19,  1897. 


'  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's."—  Tom  Moore. 


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THEN  I  went  to  the  Columbia  Theatre 
on  Monday  night,  I  took  with  me  an 
appreciation  that  was  ready  to  flame  at 
the  first  spark.  I  had  read  many  convinc- 
ing eulogies  of  Mr.  Lorrimer  Stoddard's 
dramatization  of  Tess,  had  even  heard  it 
whispered  that  he  might  be  that  vague  Messiah,  the 
American  Dramatist,  and  somebody  who  had  seen  a  re- 
hearsal of  The  Question  told  me  that  the  play  was  delicate 
and  true,  with  something  of  the  polished  irony  of  Henry 
James  in  its  composition. 

*  *  * 

Here  are  some  Jamesey  shafts  from  Mr.  Stoddard's  wit 

works: 

*  *  * 

"How  do  you  like  my  ruff?" 
"It's  rough  on  you." 

*  *  # 

"Your  eyes  are  as  deep  as  lakes — 
I  wonder  what's  underneath?" 
"Mud,  probably." 

*  *  * 

"See  that  shooting  star!  it's 
out  of  sight." 

*  *  * 

"If  they  black-ball  me,  I'll 
black-eye-ball  them." 

*  *  * 

Now,  in  what  language  may  a  man  express  his  apprecia- 
tion of  that  jobberslop  and   keep  within  the  law? 

*  *  * 

The  scene  of  this  play  is  Paradeo,  New  York.  (Don't 
tell  anyone,  this  means  Tuxedo.  This  was  published  con- 
fidentially in  all  the  advance  notices.) 

The  inmates  of  Paradeo  are  Knickerbockers.  (This  is 
no  secret,  it  is  printed  on  the  play  bill,  and  corroborated 
by  their  conversation). 

*  *  * 

Listen  to  the  Knickerbockers  knicking  on  their  native 
heath: 

"His  wife  is  a  perfect  fright." 
"Oh,  she  is  a  good  woman." 
"She  has  to  be  with  that  face." 

*  *  * 

The  Question  is  called  A  Satirical  Comedy. 
If  Stoddard  is  a  satirist,  so  is  Sharkey. 
I  should  like  to  see  these  two  gentlemen  in  an  exchange 
of  satire. 

I  should  bet  my  money  on  Stoddard. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Lorrimer  Stoddard's  question  seems  to  be  this: 
If  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cannon,  wealthy,  estimable  country  folk 
from  the  town  of  Morris,  111.,  are  landed  open-mouthed 
and  dazed  at  Paradeo,  and  Mr.  Morris  is  immediately 
taken  in  tow  by  what  is  known  to  society  intelligencers  as 
a  ravishing  blonde,  and  pure  but  imprudent  Mrs.  Morris 
therefore  permits  a  rakish  young  homebreaker  to  make 
love  to  her,  and  is  horribly  shocked  when  he  kisses  her  full 
upon  the  mouth,  and  the  kissing  is  witnessed  by  the  Home- 
breaker's  jealous  mistress  and  other  persons  of  high  de- 
gree, and  the  jealous  mistress  calls  a  meeting  of  the 
Daughters  of  Old  New  York,  of  which  she  is  vice-president, 
and  endeavors  to  expel  poor  little  Mrs.  Cannon,  who  has 
only  just  attained  membership,  and  through  the  efforts  of 
Mr.  Cannon  and  the  Homebreaker  and  several  other 
trusty  witnesses  and  lusty  speech-makers  Mrs.  Cannon  is 
acquitted  of  the  charge  of  osculation,  and  the  jealous  mis- 
tress is  expelled  in  her  stead— if  all  these  things  be  con- 
sidered, is  it  just  retribution  that  in  the  last  minute  of  the 
play  Mrs.  Cannon  should  be  elected  by  acclamation  to  the 
office  of  vice-President  of  the  Howling  Daughters  of  Old 
New  York  ? 

I  think  not.     What  do  you  think  ? 


This  question,  however,  has  only  a  slight  bearing  on  the 
real  motive  of  the  play,  it  is  merely  to  satisfy  the  title  and 
thicken  the  plot.  I  have  learned  that  Mr.  Stoddard's 
purpose  is  to  expose  the  social  practices  of  the  Knicker- 
bockers in  three  acts.  He  is  a  strong  young  man  and 
willing,  and  he  hits  bard.  Every  Kniekerbockered  joke, 
every  Amsterdamned  pun,  all  the  slugs  of  patrician 
repartee  are  bagged,  and  bandied  in  a  play-house  by 
coarse,  plebeian  play  actors  to  make  a  Western  holiday. 
Mr.  Stoddard  has  spared  nothing  and  nobody.  He  is  the 
only  dramatist  who  ever  has  dared  to  paint  the  manners 
and  morals  of  this  pet  aristocracy  as  they  are.  After  the 
last  curtain  there  is  not  a  manicure  in  the  family  circle 
but  feels  she  would  die  sooner  than  be  tainted  by  base 
Knickerbocker  blood. 

You  can  imagine  the  consternation  the  news  of  this  play 
will  strike  to  the  corrupt  firesides  of  Tuxedo.  It  will  kill 
the  place.  Gentle  strangers  from  Morris,  111.  will  no 
longer  immigrate  to  be  taken  in;  even  the  Sabbath  pic- 
nicker will  give  it  a  wide  berth;  and  the  Kilkenny  servant 
girl  will  ask  Tuxedo  for  its  references. 

#  *  * 

It  is  not  to  be  expected  of  modest  talents  like  the 
Prawleys  that  they  play  this  piece  exactly  as  the  author 
would  have  it  played.  Several  members  of  the  company 
persisted  in  being  human  beings  whenever  the  lines  gave 
them  the  slightest  chance,  and  while  that  undoubtedly 
galled  Mr.  Stoddard,  the  audience  was  very  tolerant. 
These  rebels  were  Mr.  Frank  Worthing,  Miss  Blanche 
Bates,  Miss  Gladys  Wallis,  Mr.  Thomas  Ross  and  Miss 
Georgia  Busby.  The  others,  particularly  Miss  Eleanor 
Moretti  and  her  dialect  laugh,  were  as  much  like  Mr. 
Stoddard's  Tuxedoodles  as  he  could  ask  them  to  be  at  their 
regular  salaries. 

*  *  # 

The  Question  will  be  quietly  buried  after  to-morrow 
night's  performance.  Mr.  Frawley  and  the  gentlemen 
who  share  with  him  the  proprietorship  of  the  Frawley 
Company  are  neither  philanthropists  nor  reformers,  and 
they  have  found  that  anarchistic  drama  has  a  very  depres- 
sing effect  on  the  box  office.  I  wish  that  Mr.  Stoddard's 
play  had  been  a  good  one,  or  even  a  brilliant  failure.  Such 
violent  collapses  as  The  Social  Trust  and  The  Question  are 
dangerous  to  the  Frawley  company:  they  shake  the  grit 
of  the  management.  It  requires  money  and  nerve  to  buy 
untried  plays,  and,  without  a  new  one  that  is  a  success,  it 
will  be  impossible  to  maintain  the  company  in  its  present 
state  of  expensiveness.  To  make  anything  like  a  decent 
profit,  the  territory  must  be  increased.  New  York,  Chi- 
cago and  other  big  cities  must  be  invaded,  and  of  course 
this  will  require  a  new  play.  It  does  not  seem  to  me  that 
the  season  here  and  the  Coast  tour  will  be  sufficient  to 
support  this  high-salaried  company.  There  are  two  more 
chances.  One  is  a  play  now  being  written  for  the  Fraw- 
leys  by  William  Haworth,  the  author  of  The  Ensign;  the 
other  is  The  Game  of  Life,  by  Malcolm  Watson,  the  critic 
of  the  "St.  James's  Gazette."  Charles  Wyndham  thinks 
enough  of  the  latter  piece  to  announce  it  for  the  opening  of 
his  winter  season  at  the  Criterion. 


At  the  Orpheum  Miss  Josephine  Sabel  is  warbling,  and 
if  your  senses  thirst  for  something  that  is  galvanic,  im- 
mediate and  special,  I  recommend  Miss  Sabel.  She  has 
personality,  and  sings  sparks  out  of  her  polished  steel- 
piped  throat. 

*  *  * 

It  is  a  matter  of  history  that  that  insinuating  music  to 
which  the  hypnotic  step  is  danced  in  Miss  Frisco  was  com- 
posed by  young  Mr.  Melville  Ellis,  of  this  city.  It  is 
supple,  intimate  and  funny,  and  to  my  mind  the  best  bit  of 

music  in  the  piece. 

#  *  * 

The  Prisoner  of  Zenda  did  not  exhaust  half  its  popularity 
when  Frobman's  players  gave  it  here  last  season,  so 
with  it  the  Lyceum  Company  will  open  the  season  at 
the  Baldwin  on  Monday.  Miss  Mary  Mannering,  a  young 
woman  who  has  come  in  for  no  end  of  newspaper  panegy- 
rics since  her  metropolitan  debut  last  season,  will  play  the 
Princess  Flavia.  Mr.  Hackett  retains  his  admirable  mon- 
opoly of  the  three  Rudolphs.  The  company  reads  much 
stronger  than  the  one  we  saw  in  the  first  production. 


June 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


The  Columbia  is  sure  of  a  good  week  with  Bronson  How- 
ard's famous  money-maker.  Skauuuloak.  It  was  rehearsed 
surreptitiously  all  through  •/.'.<  days  of  prepara- 

tion, and  a  second-to-none  performance  is  promised 
»  •  • 

Edwin  Stevens  open-,  bis  engagement  at  the  Tivoli  Mon- 
day ni>;ht  in  Wnng.  Everything  from  "a  nine-foot  giant" 
to  a  band  of  tamed  banjoists  will  be  used  in  the  production, 
never  has  been  overdone  here,  and  with  such  an 
artist  as  Mr.  Stevens  and  at  Tivoli  prices,  there  should  be 
a  merry  crush  at  the  little  opera  house  around  the  corner. 

#  •  • 

The  Orpheum  announces  four  big  cards:  Lew  D.wb- 
stader,  the  veteran  minstrel:  Alex.  Heindl,  'cello  soloist; 
John  Canfield  and  Violet  Carleton,  comic  opera  burles- 
quers.  and  Carton  and  Herbert,  comedy  acrobats. 

*  #  * 

Xo  novelties,  you  will  observe,  at  the  playhouses,  but 
compared  to  our  present  afflictions  it  looks  like  the  coming 
of  a  busy,  brilliant  week.  Ashton  Stevens. 

ART     JOTTINGS. 

KEITH  exhibits  this  week,  in  the  Sutter  street  gallery, 
a  picture  which  shows  all  the  merit  and  character- 
istics of  bis  later  work.  It  is  a  view  of  Mount  Shasta, 
with  the  Sacramento  river,  then  a  pure  mountain  torrent, 
brawling  in  the  foreground.  The  light  is  strong  and  bold, 
and  the  detail  more  closely  painted  than  was  Keith's  wont 
in  his  earlier  works.  The  exquisite  transparency  of  the 
water,  the  rich  brown  foliage,  and  the  delightful  atmos- 
phere are  all  in  Keith's  best  vein. 

Charles  Judson  exhibits  a  Venetian  scene  in  the  Bo- 
hemian Club  green  room,  entitled  "Flirtation" — a  gondolier 
smiling  at  a  fair  Venetian  serving  wench,  as  she  stands  on 
the  threshold  of  one  of  the  grand  palaces  of  the  bride  of 
the  sea.  The  composition  is  good,  and  the  handling  clever, 
though  lacking,  perhaps,  some  strength  in  color. 

A  really  exquisite  picture  is  a  view  of  slough  and  marsh 
exhibited  by  W.  S.  Fonda  in  the  same  room.  The  artist 
has  caught  that  marvelous  blending  of  browns  and  sub- 
dued purples  which  make  our  marshes  a  symphony  in 
color,  nature's  mellow  old  tapestry,  as  it  were.  It  is  an 
evening  effect,  and  the  shadows  of  the  dun  bank  lie  heavy 
on  the  water. 

A  portrait  of  William  Greer  Harrison  by  Yates,  and 
two  clever  pastel  portraits  by  J.  D.  Strong  comprise  the 
new  features  this  week  of  the  green  room's  exhibit. 

De  Haas  exhibits  a  good  moonlight  in  the  Sutter  street 
gallery.  But  he  has  painted  in  the  moon  itself,  which  is  a 
mistake.  The  best  that  the  most  skillful  artist  can  do 
with  the  moon  is  to  make  it  a  big  yellow  blotch,  usually 
out'of  proportion  with  the  rest  of  the  picture.  Hide  away 
the  moon  and  use  the  light,  and  then  the  picture  has  more 
of  the  reproduction  of  nature. 

ONE  of  the  most  fashionable  resorts  in  this  State  is 
Vichy  Springs,  on  the  line  of  the  San  Francisco  and 
North  Pacific  Railway.  The  Springs  are  famed  for  their 
champagne  baths,  whose  beneficial  effects  make  a  visit  to 
this  place  doubly  desirable.  A  bus  meets  every  train, 
and  visitors  are  quickly  whirled  away  to  the  Springs, 
where  a  commodious  modern  hotel  and  neat  cottages  await 
their  choice.  The  tables  are  the  best,  and  every  comfort 
and  attention  are  paid  to  the  guests  who  resolve  on  spend- 
ing a  week  or  a  month  at  this  beautiful  resort. 

Nothing  can  be  more  delightful  during  the  aurnruer  months  than 
dining  out;  and  Swain's  Restaurant,  at  213  Sutter  street,  offers  a 
table  d'hote  dinner  between  the  hours  of  5  and  8  o'clock  for$t,  which 
includes  the  best  the  market  affords,  elegantly  Berved  by  the 
politest  waiters.         

Anything  constantly  before  the  public,  and  which  stands  the  test 
of  popular  criticism,  may  claim  merit.  Argonaut  "Whiskey  is  such 
an  articie— the  man  who  has  not  enjoyed  Argonaut  is  a  curiosity. 
This  liquor  is  pure,  mellow,  and  aged.  E.  Martin  &  Co.,  at  411  Mar- 
ket street,  are  sole  agents  for  this  popular  whiskey  on  the  Pacific 
Coast.  

Dyspeptics  will  find  Taroena,  the  new  Hawaiian  health  food,  a 
natural  cure  for  dyspepsia.  It  cures  others  and  will  you  by  bringing 
about  a  normal  condition.    All  druggists. 

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Commencing  Monday,  June  2lst.  Dvnlel  Frohman's  Lyceum 
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The  minstrel  or  minstrels;  Caron  &  Herbert,  comedy  acrobats; 
Alexander  Heindl  'cello  virtuoso;  John  Canfield  &  Vlole  Carl- 
ton, comic  opera  and  burlesque  artlsis;  in  conjunction  with 
Josephine  Sabel.  Conway  &  Leland.  '-the  merry  monopedes"; 
Russeil  Bros  ,  Dailey  &  Hilton,  and  a  great  olio  oi'  novelties. 
Reserved  seats,  25c  ;  balcony  10c;  opera  chairs  and  box  seats  50c. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday.  Matinee  Prices: 
Parquet,  any  seat,  25c;  balcony,  any  seat,  10c;  children.  10c, 
any  part. 

Mrs.  Ernestine  Kreling, 

Proprietor  and  Manager 

The  event  of  the  season  Commencing  Monday.  June  2tst ;  every 
evening,  the  eminent  comedian,  MR.  EDWARD  STEVENS,  in 

WANG. 

Written  by  J.  Cheever  Goodwin:  music  by  Woolson  Morse.  The 
g  eatest  or  all  comic  operas.  Splendid  cast;  correct  costumes: 
beautiful  scenery. 

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Branch— II  Taylor  street,  near  Golden  Gate  avenue. 
Laundry— Fell  streets,  between  Folsom  and  Howard. 
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Pacific  Towel  Company 


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Furnishes  clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates:  Clean  band 
towels  each  week,  $1  per  month;  12  clean  hand  towels  each  weeks 
II  50  per  month;  4  clean  roller  towels  each  week,  fi,  6  month; 
6  clean  roller  towels  each  week,  tl  25  per  month. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  19,  1897. 


"  Marvelous  Evidence;  or,  A  Witness  from  the  Grave."  A  psy- 
chological study.  Published  by  Thomas  H.  Bates,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 
•  The  story  tells  of  three  young  New  Yorkers,  relatives 
and  intimate  friends,  who  went  forth  into  the  world  to 
seek  adventure,  and,  if  chance  might  so  ordain,  to  better 
their  fortunes.  Two  of  them,  induced  by  the  offer  of  a 
high  bounty,  enter  the  Imperialist  army  in  Mexico  at  the 
time  of  the  French  Intervention,  and,  in  attempting  to« 
escape  to  the  frontier  of  the  United  States,  are  shot.  At 
the  very  hour  of  their  death  the  third,  Henry,  on  board  a 
vessel  off  the  coast  of  Europe,  heard  a  rattle  of  musketry, 
and  on  reaching  New  York,  learned  that  his  mother  had 
heard  the  same  sound  at  the  same  hour.  An  Agnus  Dei 
that  one  of  the  young  men  had  worn  comes  mysteriously 
into  the  hands  of  Harry,  who,  fully  resolved  to  find  out  if 
his  cousins  are  really  dead  or  not,  makes  his  way  down  to 
Mexico.  There  Harry  finds  a  priest  who  knew  his  cousins, 
and  buried  their  bodies  :  the  priest  recognizes  the  Agnus 
Dei  at  once,  and  with  the  readiness  of  men  of  his  profes- 
sion, pronounces  its  restoration  to  Harry  a  miiacle.  The 
rest  of  the  story  is  taken  up  with  various  hypnotic  experi- 
ments in  which  Harry  took  part  in  San  Francisco.  The 
general  purpose  of  the  book  seems  to  be  to  induce  people 
to  pay  more  attention  to  hypnotic  and  kindred  phenom- 
ena, and  to  lead  them  to  the  belief  that  there  is  a  future 
life.  The  author  is  apparently  not  exempt  from  the  curi- 
ous DOtion  in  lo  which  all  professors  of  and  believers  in 
spiritual  manifestations  who  are  not  conscious  humbugs 
fall,  which  is  this:  if  they  can  produce  certain  phenomena, 
apparently  inexplicable,  and  which  you  frankly  confess 
yourself  unable  to  understand,  they  at  once  offer  you,  and 
demand  that  you  accept,  some  solution  much  harder  to 
swallow  than  the  phenomena  themselves.  They  do  not  for 
a  moment  appear  to  understand  that  a  man  may  confess 
himself  completely  mystified  by  an  occurrence  without  be- 
ing in  the  least  degree  bound  to  accept  the  first  solution 
offered  to  him  by  a  man  in  the  street.  Nor  do  they  seem 
capable  of  understanding  how  intelligent  people  are  quite 
content  to  admit  their  inability  to  explain  many  things, 
and  are  not  at  all  worried  thereby.  The  world  is  full  of 
mysteries,  and  there  is  plenty  of  plain,  honest,  every-day 
work  to  be  done  without  delving  over-deeply  into  what 
seems  hidden  from  mortal  ken.  A  weak  mind  is  much 
more  disturbed  at  a  strange,  inexplicable  occurrence  than 
a  strong  one,  which  has  long  ago  accepted  the  fact  that, 
man's  vision  being  finite,  he  cannot  very  well  expect  to 
comprehend  the  infinite.  And,  fortunately  for  us,  no  un- 
derstanding of  the  unknowable  is  necessary  to  the  per- 
formance of  our  daily  duties,  and  excessive  contemplation 
of  the  mysterious  tends  to  weaken  the  powers  of  mind  and 
body  lor  good  purposes.  For  this  reason,  although  we 
have  read  "Marvelous  Evidence"  with  some  interest,  we 
have  not  been  much  impressed,  and  are  of  the  opinion  that 
a  perusal  of  it  is  unlikely  to  do  anybody  any  particular 
good  or  to  make  anything  clearer  than  it  was  before.  The 
eulogistic  passages  quoted  from  the  remarks  of  the  liter- 
ary critics  of  the  newspapers  of  San  Francisco  and  Fresno 
do  not  shake  us  in  the  smallest  degree  from  our  opinion. 

'*  A  Change  With  the  Seasons;  or,  An  Episode  of  Castle  Crags."  A 
novel  by  Duncan  Cumming.  Published  by  the  Dunsmuir  Pub- 
lishing Company  and  for  sale  by  the  San  Francisco  News  Com- 
pany. 

The  young  and  lovely  bride  of  an  old  and  unattractive 
millionaire  meets  the  hero  of  this  tale  at  the  Tavern  of 
Castle  Crags.  The  two  are  much  impressed  with  each 
other,  and  carry  on  a  somewhat  lively  "flirtation  together. 
Later,  when  they  meet  again  on  a  snow-bound  train,  and 
spend  a  night  in  each  other's  company  in  a  little  solitary 
cabin  in  the  mountains  during  the  prevalence  of  a  violent 
storm,  they  fall  madly  in  love.  The  old  husband  is  conven- 
iently killed,  and  the  lovers  retire  to  a  lonely  rancho  in 
Southern  California,  where  we  are  to  suppose  they  spend 
the  rest  of  their  days  in  bliss.  The  people  in  the  story, 
both    men    and    women,    are   vulgar    and    commonplace, 


and  all  speak  the  same  queer  English.  The  general  style 
of  the  language  used  may  be  gathered  from  the  fact  that 
the  grill-room  of  the  Palace  Hotel  is  described  as  "that 
clean,  savory-conducted  department  of  San  Francisco's 
greatest  caravanserai."  The  Lord  deliver  us!  Other 
queer  phrases  are:  "You  was  worse  scared  than  she  was." 
"  It  is  better  for  a  girl  to  marry  most  any  kind  of  a  man." 
"  Mr.  B.  did  not  have  a  very  exalted  opinion  of  some  of  the 
ultra-ultra  guests,  who  were  aping  to  such  an  extent  that 
they  were  killing  off  the  vegetation  of  the  Sierras  with 
their  agony."  At  the  end  of  the  volume  there  is  a  list  of 
sixteen  printer's  errors,  but  ten  times  that  number  stand 
uncorrected.  Altogether,  the  story  is  a  very  poor,  trashy, 
vulgar  production,  apparently  the  work  of  a  country  school- 
toy.  We  should  be  sorry  to  think  that  the  visitors  to 
Castle  Crags,  many  of  whom  come  from  San  Francisco, 
speak  and  behave  no  better  than  this  writer  represents 
them  as  doing. 

In  the  June  issue  of  Godey's  is  a  short  story 
entitled  "Two  Maids  and  a  Man,"  which  is  illustrated 
by  photographs  taken  from  life.  Though  we  think 
this  a  most  inartistic  method  of  illustrating  a  piece 
of  fiction,  the  photographs  themselves  are  quite  satisfact- 
ory. An  article  on  Cairo  by  Dr.  F.  E.  Clark,  an  emissary 
of  the  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor,  is  well  illustrated,  as 
also  are  "French  Opera  in  New  Orleans,"  and  "Pottery 
in  America."  Fred  Werden  contributes  an  article  on 
"Woman  and  her  Boat,"  in  which  the  following  queer  sen- 
tence occurs:  "It  is  my  opinion  that  every  woman  who 
expects  to  go  upon  the  water  ought  to  learn  to  row  and 
to  manage  a  boat  before  she  ventures."  That  is  to  say, 
that  a  woman  ought  to  know  how  to  row  and  manage  a 
boat  before  she  steps  into  a  boat.  Very  good:  but  how  in 
the  world  is  she  to  acquire  the  knowledge?  This  is  just  on 
a  par  with  the  advice  not  to  go  into  the  water  until  you 
can  swim.  In  "The  Bookery"  Chelifer  says  that,  though 
foreigners  would  probably  accuse  Americans  of  "ubiqui- 
tous flippancy"  (whatever  this  may  be),  "mysticism  is  one 
of  the  most  prominent  traits  of  the  American  character." 
Abraham  Lincoln,  Poe,  Hawthorne,  Emerson,  and  Walt 
Whitman,  are  all  classed  as  mystics.  We  do  not  often 
find  ourselves  in  accord  with  the  sentiments  expressed  in 
the  Editorial  department  of  Godey's,  but  in  the  issue  be- 
fore us  we  read  some  remarks  upon  the  so-called  pictures 
supplied  to  a  long-suffering  public  by  the  "great  dailies," 
with  which  we  are  pleased  to  confess  our  agreement. 

"Fifty  Years  of  Masonry  in  California,"  if  one  may  de- 
termine by  the  first  part  just  issued  by  George  Spaulding 
&  Co.,  is  to  be  a  most  beautiful  work.  Part  I.  is  printed 
in  large,  clear  type,  elegantly  illustrated,  and  is  worthy 
of  the  noble  order  of  which  it  treats.  The  work  will  ap- 
pear in  twenty  parts,  and  is  compiled  and  edited  by 
Edwin  A.  Sherman,  33rd  degree  Mason. 

Mr.  George  W.  Cable,  till  lately  Editor  of  The  Sympos- 
ium, is  now  editing  Current  Literature,  the  June  issue  of 
which  contains  an  article  on  Henry  M.  Alden,  Editor  of 
Harper's  Magazine,  the  first  of  a  series  entitled  "Great 
Magazine  Editors."  


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SAN  FRAXCISCO  NBWS  LETTER. 


Til  E  weather,  which  is 
so  unsatisfactory    In 

the  city,  is  by  no  means  perfect  at  the  nearby  resorts, 
and  old  Boreas  roars  and  whistles  more  or  less  every  where. 

Notwithstanding  the  somewhat  sturdy  zephyrs  of  late, 
San  Rafael  has  been  crowded  with  visitors  and  the  Hotel 
Rafael  the  objective  point  for  pleasure  seekers.  Sheltered 
in  a  nook  of  the  broad  veranda,  the  women  sit  and  chat, 
do  fancy  work  or  read,  while  indoors,  in  the  long  parlor, 
the  elder  women  gather  for  cards  and  gossip  Alter  lunch 
comes  the  siesta  till  lime  for  a  drive  or  ride,  then  train 
time  brings  the  men.  and  a  dainty  dinner  gown  is  in  order, 
and  the  evening  goes  by  with  merriment.  The  club  house 
is  a  favorite  place  for  lounging;  bowling  vies  with  teunis, 
and  the  moonlight  has  been  a  thing  of  beauty  and  joy  for 
all.  No  wonder  that  people  like  this  popular  hotel,  where 
General  Warfield  is  ever  on  the  <;///'  vive  to  promote  the 
comfort  and  pleasure  of  his  guests. 

*  #  * 

The  Tamalpais  trip  up  the  big  mountain  is  growing  in 
favor  with  our  swagger  set,  and  since  San  Rafael  and  Sau- 
salito  have  taken  it  up,  it  has  become  quite  the  thing  for 
society  people  to  make  up  parties  to  spend  the  night  on 
the  summit  and  watch  the  sun  rise  on  the  heights  next 
morning.  And  now  that  that  universal  joy-giver,  Wiltsee, 
has  led  the  way,  no  doubt  others  will  follow.  On  /lit,  that 
favorite  beau  has  of  late  shown  such  a  preference  for  May 

that  Juue  is  nowhere. 

*  *  * 

Apropos  of  San  Rafael,  the  resident  colony  there  will 
suffer  a  serious  loss  in  the  departure  of  Miss  Juliet  Wil- 
liams, whose  trip  East  is  said  to  be  for  a  lengthened  period, 
and  if  Rumor  speaks  by  the  card,  we  may  never  see  the 
young  lady  as  a  girl  again.  When  Hymen  claims  her  de- 
votion a  change  will  ensue  that  will  add  another  to  the 
many  charming  young  matrons  who  are  so  distinctive  a 
feature  of  our  California  swim. 

*  *  * 

How  strange  it  is  that  people  who  are  the  pink  of  pro- 
priety and  good  manners  at  their  homes  in  the  city  appear 
to  throw  aside  these  qualities  when  they  "  go  to  the  coun- 
try." Not  alone  do  they  exhibit  bad  manners  to  a  marked 
degree,  but  a  lack  of  prudence  as  well,  seemingly  unaware 
(or  indifferent)  of  the  fact  that  numberless  eyes  and  tongues 
are  upon  them  and  their  actions. 
*  *  * 

Delightful  Del  Monte  is  beginning  to  fill  up  its  list  of 
guests  for  the  summer.  The  Alvords,  Paysons,  and  Lows, 
are  all  old  stand-bys,  the  Bruguieres  ditto,  and  later  in 
the  season  all  the  other  resorts  will  send  a  quota  of  their 
guests  to  swell  the  number.  The  Lloyd  Tevises  are  said 
to  have  engaged  rooms  for  September,  when  it  is  expected 
that  Fred  Sharon  and  family  will  join  their  party. 

*  *  # 

Gossip  says  that  society  will  have  a  genuine  surprise  ere 
long  in  an  engagement  of  two  well-known  members  of  the 
charmed  circle.  Much  speculation  on  the  subject  was 
indulged  last  winter,  but  the  soft  impeachment  was  so 
strenuously  denied  that  it  died  away.  Recently  the  mat- 
ter has  been  taken  up  again,  and  now  is  regarded  as  some- 
thing to  surprise  those  not  on  the  inside. 

*  *  * 

Lieutenant  Bent's  charming  young  bride  is  credited  with 
the  power  of  making  the  Presidio  the  center  of  jollity  when 
she  is  once  fairly  established  in  residence  at  that  delightful 
post.  

$25  Rate  to  Chicago  via  the  Great  Santa  Fe  Route. 
The  low  rates  made  for  Christian  F.ndeavorers  will  be  open  to  the 
public  as  well,  if  they  travel  via  the  Great  Santa  Fe  Route.     Ticket 
Office,  644  Market  street,  Chronicle  Building.    Tel.  Main  1531. 

Pure  Cosmetics— Professor  Wenzell,  the  Pure  Food  Chemist,  says  of 
Mme  Marchand's  Preparations  Use  Creme  de  la  Creme.  Positively  pre- 
vents sunburn  and  poison  oak.    Price.  50  cts.    107  Geary  street. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  19,  1897. 


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THE  hour  was  late,  and  even  the  guardian  owls  of  the 
Bohemian  Club  were  blinking  when  Jack  Watson,  the 
junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Taylor  &  Co.,  was  breaking 
away  from  a  half  dozen  friends  when  his  ohum,  George 
Baxter,  called  to  him  : 

"By  the  way,  Jack,  can't  we  induce  you  to  attend  our 
eotilUon  next  Friday  night  ?  " 

"Thanks,  old  man;  but  you  know  I  have  no  time  to 
waste  on  such  niceties  as  are  required  for  these  social 
'functions,'  I  think  you  call  them,  nor  inclination  to  shine, 
even  if  I  could,  in  their  superficial  atmosphere,  which  has 
light,  but  no  warmth,  and  even  less  sincerity.  J'm  too  old 
to  change  tactics  and  mingle  in  society,  take  part  in  its 
nothings,  and  drink  its  froth — even  under  penalty  of  losiDg 
the  favor  of  San  Francisco's  pretty  buds  and  matrons." 

A  fellow  of  high  principle  and  noble  character  was  Jack 
Watson.  He  was  square  and  upright  in  all  his  dealings, 
took  a  broad,  unbiased  view  of  all  subjects  but  Society,  the 
mere  mention  of  which  was  most  distasteful  to  him.  His 
mother  often  remarked  that  the  hardest  task  in  her  life 
was  to  induce  Jack,  when  a  mere  child,  to  attend  his  dan- 
cing school  on  Saturday  afternoons.  When  asked  a  few 
years  ago  to  mention  the  happiest  day  of  his  life,  be  unex- 
pectedly answered :  "The  day  my  mother  said  I  might 
quit  dancing  school." 

Watson  claimed  he  would  rather  saw  five  cords  of  wood, 
with  the  thermometer  100  deg.  in  the  shade,  than  partici- 
pate in  any  affair  of  a  social  nature  for  five  minutes.  When 
asked  for  an  explanation  regarding  his  ideas  on  the  sub- 
ject, he  somehow  or  other  evaded  all  further  questioning 
by  replying  that  he  simply  disliked  it  on  general  principles. 
His  friends  called  him  a  crank  on  the  subject,  but  he  was 
rather  proud  of  the  distinction.  More  than  one  ambitious 
mother,  with  marriageable  daughters  and  a  penchant  for 
entertaining,  was  heard  to  say  :  "  What  a  pity  that  such 
a  fine  specimen  of  manhood  in  every  particular  should 
make  such  a  social  recluse." 

The  following  evening  found  Jack  and  his  chum  in  the 
latter's  rooms,  ensconced  in  deep,  easy  chairs,  and  waxing 
rather  confidential  over  the  soothing  effects  of  their 
Havanas ;  by  means  of  the  most  diplomatic  measures, 
worthy  of  a  Tallyrand,  Baxter  succeeded  in  bringing  the 
conversation  round  to  the  hated  theme,   "Society." 

"Tell  me,  Jack,"  be  asked,  as  he  nonchalantly  puffed 
away  at  his  cigar,  narrowing  his  eyes  as  he  watched  each 
successive  ring  of  smoke  break  and  fade  away,  "why  have 
you  such  a  dislike  of  taking  part  in  social  functions  ?  " 

"Because,"  answered  Watson,  "society  is  not  unlike 
those  rings  of  smoke  you  so  artistically  formed  during  the 
past  half  hour — attractive  enough  at  first  glance,  I'll  ad- 
mit; they  look  so  real  that  you  are  deluded  with  the  idea 
that  they  are  substantial  enough  to  grasp;  you  attempt 
it,  and  lo,  you  find — nothing.  You  take  a  cursory  glance 
at  Society,  and  you  find  it  attractive,  even  fascinating,  if 
you  will  have  it  so;  you  make  a  study  of  it,  and  you  will 
find  that  it  possesses  the  same  qualities  as  the  ring  of 
smoke — it  is  false  and  flimsy." 

"You  miserable  cynic,"  he  replied,  "just  mark  my 
words,  when  I  say  that  the  time  is  not  far  distant  when 
you  will  entertain  entirely  different  ideas.  Your  object 
is  to  be  stamped  as  a  man  with  a  marked  individuality, 
and  what  is  more,  pardon  my  candor,  when  I  say  that  I 
really  do  not  think  you  feel  at  heart  about  it  as  you  so 
eloquently  claim  you  do." 

"Many  thanks,  dear  George,  for  the  very  polite  way  in 
which  you  tell  me  that  I  lie;  however,  be  that  as  it  may, 
let  us  dismiss  the  subject,  as  I  am  positive  you  will  be  as 
incapable  of  convincing  me  as  I  you." 


"As  you  will,  old  boy;  but  in  conclusion  let  me  say  that 
if  you  were  only  to  give  Society  a  fair  trial,  and  take  it  as 
you  find  it,  you  would  be  a  great  deal  better  off." 

The  only  answer  that  Jack  vouchsafed  was  to  suggest  in 
a  half-suppressed  yawn  that  they  finish  the  evening  at  the 
Baldwin  Theatre,  at  which  place  El  Capitan  was  nightly 
drawing  big  crowds. 

The  usher  had  escorted  them  to  their  seats  at  the  con- 
clusion of  the  second  act. 

"  Hello,"  said  George.  "  If  my  eyes  deceive  me  not,  I 
see  my  brother  Charley  and  his  wife  and  her  sister  occupy- 
ing the  box  opposite. 

Looking  in  the  direction  indicated,  Jack  exclaimed: 
"Quite  an  aristocratic-looking  trio,  and  no  mistake;  but, 
by  the  way,  George,  you  have  never  mentioned  even  the 
existence  of  your  sister-in-law.     How  's  that?" 

"  Very  natural,  considering  the  fair  sex  are  not  supposed 
to  have  any  charms  for  you." 

"  True  enough;  but  tell  me  her  name.  An  Eastern  girl? 
New  York  or  Chicago?" 

"  Edith  Thornton;  she  has  been  visiting  here  for  the 
past  two  weeks.  Her  home  is  in  Washington,  to  which 
city  she  intends  shortly  to  return.  She  is  one  of  the  finest 
young  women  I  have  ever  met,  but — what's  all  this  to  you, 
anyway  ?  "  Heaving  a  heavy  sigh,  somewhat  indicative  of 
the  fact  that  he  wished  to  change  the  subject,  he  said: 
"We  must  not  forget  to  reserve  our  seats  for  the  first 
night  of  the  Lyceum  people.  They  will  be  here  in  a  short 
time." 

George  smiled  quietly  to  himself  when  he  noticed  that 
Jack's  eyes  were  directed  more  frequently  toward  Box  A 
than  to  the  stage;  but  wisely  refrained  from  saying  any- 
thing. At  the  conclusion  of  the  play,  they  slowly  walked 
along  Market  street  toward  Powell.  Just  as  they  reached 
the  corner,  they  came  face  to  face  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bax- 
ter and  Miss  Thornton;  and  George  proudly  presented  his 
chum  to  Miss  Thornton. 

Just  before  parting  for  the  night,  Jack  almost  apolo- 
getically exclaimed:  "Say,  George — nice  girl — that  Miss 
Thornton.     Pity  she  goes  East  so  soon." 

A  few  days  after  the  foregoing  incident,  a  number  of 
Jack's  closest  friends  held  a  meeting  in  order  to  devise 
ways  and  means  to  ensure  his  appearance  at  the  coming 
cotillion  on  Friday  night.  So  long  as  the  scheme  were 
practicable,  it  was  immaterial  to  them  whether  the  means 
resorted  to  should  be  more  foul  than  fair.  After  much  de- 
liberation, they  finally  hit  upon  a  capital  scheme.  One  of 
their  number  contemplated  joining  the  Benedicts  shortly; 
it  was  agreed  upon  giving  a  last  bachelors'  dinner  in  his 
honor,  which  was  to  take  place  at  their  club  on  the  same 
evening  as  the  cotillion. 

In  due  time  the  unsuspecting  Jack  was  asked  to  the  din- 
ner; he  accepted  with  alacrity,  laughing  in  his  sleeve  at 
the  folly  of  the  man  who  was  to  sacrifice  all  the  comforts 
of  a  bachelor's  life  for  a  "silly  little  girl."  As  for  me,  he 
continued  in  his  soliloquy,  the  world  is  more  likely  to  come 
to  an  end  than  that  I  should  ever  find  myself  the  honored 
guest  at  a  dinner  of  such  a  nature.  Such  rank  idiocy  to 
tie  oneself  for  life  even  to  the  best  woman  in  the  world! 
They  might  call  me  a  "fool,"  but  "he  laughs  best  who 
laughs  last." 

The  eventful  dinner  took  place  shortly  after  this  deeply 
laid  scheme.  It  passed  off  with  eclat,  and  it  was  indeed  an 
occasion  where  there  was  a  "feast  of  reason  and  a  flow  of 
wit."  The  repartee,  the  retorts,  and  bandying  of  words 
flew  thick  and  fast,  and  it  really  seemed  that  the  guests 
were  disciples  of  the  man  who  first  said  that  it  is  wise  to 
"eat,  drink,  and  be  merry,  for  to-morrow  ye  die."  It 
was  with  a  shadow  of  regret  that  the  conspirators  were 
finally  forced  to  tear  themselves  from  their  brandy  and 
soda;  but  the  time  was  ripe  for  the  carrying  out  of  the 
conspiracy,  and,  after  cheering  the  future  Benedict  with 
real  gusto,  they  departed  for  the  cotillion,  and  left  Jack 
Watson  in  the  company  of  his  cynical  thoughts  and  his 
cigar.  Heaving  a  heavy  sigh  of  relief,  after  the  cessation 
of  all  the  noise  and  excitement,  he  scanned  the  evening 
rjaper  in  a  desultory  manner  for  a  few  seconds,  and  ere 
many  minutes  had  gone  by  he  passed  into  the  land  of 
"Nod,"  dreaming  of  the  fools  who  would  have  to  talk  them- 
selves tired  and  dance  themselves  sick   at  tte_  cotillion. 

Just  when  his  slumber  was  the  deepest  and  his  dreams 


June  19,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


the  sweetest,  be  «.i>  ceremoniously  awakened  by  the  stew- 
ard of  the  club,  who  - 

BOrry   to  disturb  you,  but  there  is 
someone  that  wis  ak   with  you  at  the  telephone, 

and  he  seems  to  be  most  excited  like." 

Hurrying  to  the  instrument  he  ascertained  that  George 
■r  had  suddenly  been  taken  seriously  ill,  and  was 
wailing  in  the  corridor  of  the  building  in  which  the  cotillion 
took  place,  to  be  taken  to  h"s  home.  The  party  at  the 
other  end  said  that  Baxter  insisted  on  having  Watson  call 
for  him,  as  he  did  not  wish  to  cause  any  undue  excitement 
either  there  or  at  his  home.  He  preferred  instead  to 
share  Watson's  rooms  with  him  that  night. 

It  all  came  so  suddenly  that  the  idea  that  he  would  have 
to  appear  at  the  cotillion  never  for  one  moment  entered 
his  mind.  His  closest  friend  was  ill.  and  it  was  his  bourdon 
duty  to  be  on  hand.  Without  further  delay,  he  rang  for  a 
cab.  and  in  five  minutes  found  himself  in  the  corridor  cf 
the  building  and  being  heartily  welcomed  by  the  reception 
committee,  foremost  among  whom  was  George  Baxter, 
but  rot  as  he  anticipated — finding  him  lying  prostrate 
with  a  physician  anxiously  bending  over  him,  but  George 
Baxter,  spick  and  span  in  his  fine  full  dress,  with  a  face 
wreathed  in  smiles.  In  a  second  he  was  received  by  the 
rest  of  his  companions  of  the  recent  dinner,  all  of  whom 
comprised  the  reception  committee. 

Baxter  rather  sheepishly  advanced  towards  Watson, 
holding  out  his  hand  for  forgiveness. 

,:  Forgive  me,  old  boy.  for  what  no  doubt  appears  to  you 
as  a  mest  diabolic  al  scheme.  We  simply  wanted  to  cure  you 
of  your  unwarranted  ideas,  and,  realizing  that  we  could  do 
nothing  with  you  by  argument,  we  concluded  that  main 
force  would  be  used  as  a  last  resort." 

Watson  did  not  pay  the  slightest  attention  to  his  belated 
explanation,  but  made  a  desperate  dash  for  the  door;  he 
had  gone  but  two  steps  when  he  found  himself  beseiged  on 
all  sides. 

"You  can't  escape  us,  Jack,"  said  Baxter,  "for  what 
can  one  man  do  against  such  a  formidable  army  ?  Just 
as  well  capitulate.  The  cloak-room  is  to  your  left,  and, 
after  you  have  relieved  yourself  of  your  hat  and  overcoat, 
I  shall  wait  at  the  door  for  you  and  shall  be  most  happy 
to  escort  you  to  the  ball-room. 

The  expression  of  Jack's  face,  in  fact  his  entire  attitude, 
beggared  description.  He  stood  there  as  if  rooted  to  the 
spot.  He  saw  that  he  was  caught  and  could  do  nothing 
but  surrender.  He  did  not  relish  the  idea  of  making  a 
scene,  and  so  was  forced  to  "face  the  music"  in  two  senses 
of  the  word. 

He  had  reached  the  threshho'.d  of  the  ball  room  on  the 
faithful  arm  of  George,  when  he  espied  Miss  Thornton, 
looking  sweeter  and  more  beautiful  than  ever.  A  tell-tale 
glow  in  her  cheeks,  which  found  its  counterpart  in  the 
voice  (>f  the  cynical  Jack,  might  have  been  seen  had  Bax- 
ter used  half  an  eye,  but  he  was  conveniently  oblivious, 
and  after  a  moment's  talk  drifted  away.  The  perfume  of 
the  flowers,  the  seductiveness  of  the  music,  the  brilliancy 
of  the  illuminations,  ar.d  ihepieturesqueness  of  the  decora- 
tions all  seemed  to  wield  a  peculiar  fascination  over  Wat- 
son, and  as  he  recognized  his  many  friends,  one  by  one,  and 
exchanged  a  word  here  and  there,  he  felt  entirely  en  rap- 
port with  his  surroundings,  and  for  the  time  being  forgot 
that  he  had  ever  entertained  any  hostile  ideas  toward  So- 
ciety. Ere  he  was  aware  of  the  fact,  he  had  filled  his  card, 
on  which  the  name  of  Miss  Thornton  played  no  unimportant 
part.  Four  hours  later,  as  the  delighted  man  handed  that 
young  lady  into  her  carriage,  it  was  easy  to  see  that  he  had 
not  only  buried  the  hatchet,  but  was  both  a  convert  and  a 
captive. 

California  climate  is  sometimes  precocious;  and  it  was 
but  a  few  weeks  later  that  the  following  notice  appeared 
in  the  society  columns  of  the  News  Letter: 

"The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Ediih  Thornton, of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  and  Jack  Watson,  of  San  Francisco.  This  is  rather  a 
surprise,  but  it  is  a  pleasant  one,  as  Miss  Thornton  is  a  beautiful  and 
accomplished  girl  and  Mr.  Watson  a  man  of  weahh  and  personal 
worth.  Watson  has  always  been  looked  on  as  a  wc  man  hater  and  a 
confirmed  bachelor.  If  rumor  tells  the  truth,  Cupid  shot  his  arrow 
at  this  would-be  misogomist  a  few  weeks  ago  at  the  Baldwin  Theatre, 
at  which  place  he  first  saw  the  young  lady." 

Jack's  club  friends  are  now  waiting  for  an  invitation  to 
his  final  stag  dinner. 


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Speculation  on 
Pine  Street. 


Dealers  cannot  complain  of  inactivity  in 
the  local  mining  share  market  during 
the  past  week.  Chollar,  for  one,  has 
done  some  lofty  tumbling,  and  judging 
from  the  indications  of  manipulation  on  all  sides,  the  end  is 
not  yet.  At  one  time  the  north  and  south  end  mines 
offered  an  attraction  for  dealers,  the  rise  in  value  being 
sufficient  to  enable  a  line  operator  to  make  a  handsome 
turn  on  an  investment.  The  market  certainly  looks  more 
promising  than  it  has  for  months  past,  and  the  induce- 
ment offered  by  activity  in  the  fluctuations  will  not  fail  to 
attract  capital  to  1he  street.  Chollar  reports  a  bullion 
yield  of  nearly  $29,000  net  for  the  past  month  from  the 
workings  of  Brunswick  ore.  This  has  been  rather  a  sur- 
prise to  many  people  who  had  accepted  the  statements 
about  the  worthlessness  of  the  newly  purchased  ground  as 
gospel.  It  will  also  serve  to  strengthen  confidence  in  the 
possibilities  of  the  future  in  developing  the  Brunswick  lode, 
more  especially  as  all  of  the  ore  already  encountered  runs 
very  high  in  gold.  If  the  other  companies  would  devote 
the  same  attention  to  the  ground  they  own  there,  as  the 
Chollar  people  have,  it  might  be  better  for  them  in  the 
long  run.  Great  things  are  hoped  for  from  the  work  now 
being  done  in  the  Gold  Hill  group,  as  the  west  country 
now  being  opened  up  is  believed  to  be  rich  in  mineral. 
Sierra  Nevada  has  a  very  flattering  prospect  on  the  900- 
level  west,  and  some  energetic  work  is  now  promised  to 
determine  the  extent  and  value  of  the  new  find. 

The  attempt  now  being  made  to  revive 
Should  Be  American  Flat  has  hardly  passed  into  the 
Postponed,  initiatory  stages  of  development  before  an 
assessment  is  slapped  on  Rock  Island.  The 
holders  of  some  30,000  shares  have  revived  the  company 
by  means  of  a  Board  of  Directors,  consisting  of  three  hold- 
overs and  two  newly-elected  men,  and  it  is  said  that  the 
assessment  is  levied  for  the  purpose  of  locating  the  rest  of 
the  stock.  Many  of  the  holders  may  have  died  since  the 
stock  dropped  out  of  sight,  and  others  are  ignorant  possi- 
bly of  the  fact  that  some  of  their  co-shareholders,  and  a 
minority  at  that,  are  about  to  sell  them  out  should  they 
not  pay  up  two  cents  a  share  on  their  holdings.  It  would 
be  interesting  to  know  in  what  manner  this  money  is  to 
be  expended,  more  especially  as  the  American  Flat  De- 
velopment Company  has  offered  to  carry  on  the  work  of 
opening  up  the  mines  for  a  certain  interest  in  the  ground. 
There  is  no  expense  attached  to  this  arrangement  in  so  far 
as  any  of  the  companies  is  concerned,  and  in  view  of  the  fact 
the  present  demand  for  money  is  totally  unwarranted.  The 
assessment  should,  in  all  justice  to  outside  holders,  be 
postponed  indefinitely  or  rescinded  altogether  until  such 
time  as  necessity  arises  for  funds  to  carry  on  work  for  the 
benefit  of  ali  concerned. 

Charles  D.  Lane,  the  wealthy  mining 
Lane's  Mission  man,  has  left  for  London  to  effect,  if 
to  London.  possible,  the  sale  of  the  La  Esperanza 
mine  of  Mexico  to  English  capitalists. 
Mr.  Lane  is  a  man  of  a  different  calibre  from  the  ordinary 
type  of  mining  promoter.  He  is  a  capable  expert  in  all 
branches  of  his  profession  and  honest  in  his  convictions, 
which  are  not  likely  to  be  changed  in  a  hurry.  Whatever 
he  may  say  in  regard  to  a  mine  will  come  as  close  to  being 
correct  as  anything  could  be  within  the  power  of  human 
ken.  In  this  respect  he  will  be  a  novelty  in  London  among 
the  mining  faculty.  He  ought  to  score  a  grand  success  in 
his  undertaking,  and  this  might  be  depended  upon  were  it 
not  for  the  peculiar  disposition  of  the  English  investor. 
People  who  turn  a  Rawhide  down  for  a  catch-penny  scheme 
like  the  Union  Gold  and  other  wild-cat  ventures,  cannot 
be  accredited  with  a  strong  sense  of  discrimination  in  mat- 
ters of  the  kind.  If  Lane  carries  his  point  in  this  case,  it 
must  be  accepted  as  an  indication  of  a  healthier  condition 
of  aff-iirs  and  a  more  judicious  conduct  of  invest- 
ments. 


The  close  down  of  the.  Texas  Consolidated 
A  Row  Over  Mine,  near  Redding,  was  announced  in  a 
Water  Righis.  dispatch  from  that  town  during  the  week, 
worded  in  such  a  manner  as  to  give  the 
impression  that  the  power  company  was  to  blame.  If 
what  the  representatives  of  that  concern  say  is  correct, 
the  blame  rests  entirely  with  the  Mountain  Copper  Com- 
pany, which  desires  to  monopolize  the  entire  water  supply 
available,  despite  a  prior  right  to  a  certain  number  of 
inches  claimed  by  the  power  company.  As  there  was  an 
injunction  taken  out  by  the  English  company's  representa- 
tive, Fielding,  before  he  left  for  London  the  other  day,  the 
matter  will  come  up  immediately  before  the  United  States 
Circuit  Court  in  this  city.  This  will  likely  throw  some 
light  on  the  case,  which  is  all  the  more  interesting  from 
the  fact  that  a  tie-up  in  the  work  of  an  active  mine  like  the 
Texas  must  involve  one  or  other  of  the  parties  to  the  dis- 
pute in  heavy  expense  sooner  or  later.  As  the  contestants 
are  well  off  financially,  there  is  every  opening  for  a  lively 
and  protracted  litigation,  which  might  expand  materially 
should  the  mine-owners  decide  to  interfere,  provided  the 
counsel  retained  on  all  sides  are  able  to  raise  some  knotty 
law  points  which  will  require  interpretation  at  the  hands 
of  the  higher  courts.  For  aught  any  one  knows  this  may 
develop  int]  another  cause  celebre  in  the  local  annals  of 
mining  litigation.  A  close-down  just  now  must,  how- 
ever, be  particularly  unfortunate  for  the  owners  of  the 
mine,  which  has  been  on  the  market  for  some  time  past. 
No  one  can  tell  where  a  battle  over  water  rights  is  apt  to 
end,  unless  the  matter  is  settled  at  an  early  stage  out  of 
courts,  which  would  be  the  most  sensible  plan. 

The  death  of  Mr.  Barnato  is  to  be  regretted 
The  Dead  in  many  ways.  To  his  manipulations  was  due 
Barnato.  in  a  large  measure  the  enthusiasm  which  en- 
abled so  many  people  to  make  money  in  the 
mining  market,  and  the  popularity  generally  of  mining 
speculation.  Westralia,  British  Columbia  and  California 
itself,  in  a  very  small  way,  unfortunately,  all  felt  the  bene- 
ficial influences  of  the  boom  in  the  Kaffir  stocks.  The 
question  is  now  as  to  the  man  capable  of  filling  the  gap 
left  vacant  by  Barnato,  inspired  with  the  same  ambition 
and  possessed  of  the  natural  talent  for  the  peculiar  line  of 
operations.  Of  course  it  is  certain  that  the  puffy  little 
parasites  waxen  fat  and  proud  through  the  beneficence 
of  the  dead,  will  cry  parvenue  as  they  strut  their  little 
course  of  ignobility.  The  toady  is  always  an  ingrate.  The 
name  of  Barnato  will  live,  however,  as  one  of  the  success- 
ful men  of  the  century,  irrespective  of  an  early  career, 
which  was  from  all  accounts  honest,  if  not  quite  dignified 
enough  to  suit  the  ideas  of  some  people  who  could  not  in 
turn  say  as  much.  Friends  of  John  Hays  Hammond  in 
this  city,  who  know  him  well  enough  to  judge,  will  not  for 
a  moment  credit  him  with  such  bad  form,  to  put  it  mildly, 
as  that  displayed  in  an  alleged  interview  on  the  death  of  a 
man  to  whom  he  is  so  largely  indebted  for  his  success. 
The  interview  referred  to  is  not,  it  is  unnecessar}'  to  state, 
accepted  here  as  genuine.  The  vulgarity  of  tone  itself  is 
sufficient  to  justify  the  assertion. 

An  Exchange  says:  "Poor  old  Aurora 
Faded  Glories  has  struck  hard  lines,  sure  enough.  The 
Of  Auro-a.  Postoffice  there  has  been  closed  down, 
and  all  mail  for  Aurora  will  go  to 
Fletcher's.  Aurora,  once  the  best  known  town  in  the  in- 
ter-mountain county,  with  a  city  government,  8,000  popu- 
lation, and  piles  of  money,  has  so  degenerated  that  it's 
about  forgotten  officially.  The  mining  regions  are  dotted 
with  have-been  towns,  but  few  have  fallen  from  prestige 
equal  to  Aurora."  This  was  the  scene  of  the  labors  of  the 
estimable  Mr.  Alfred  E.  Ann,  who  flourished  while  the 
Esmeralda  Con.  boomlet  lasted.  Mr.  Ann  like  many 
another  foreign  investor  fell  a  victim  to  an  over  estimate 
of  his  personal  knowledge  of  mining  and  ability  to  cope 
with  an  undertaking  which  had  already  proved  a  failure  in 
the  hands  of  more  experienced  men.  Aurora  had  lived  and 
died  in  history  as  a  mining  camp  long  before  Mr.  Ann 
resurrected  it  and  the  fortunes  of  the  men  who  landed  him 
after  angling  in  more  or  less  troubled  waters  for  over  a  de- 
cade. In  years  to  come  some  other  Ann  may  arise  to  ring 
another  change  on  the  old  old  story  of  the  bonanza  mines  of 
Aurora  revamping  its  glories  for  another  short  lived 
period. 


June  19,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


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•  He»r  the  Crier:"  "Wb»i  ihederlltrt  thoul" 
'Onethal  wlllol»v  iheJcvtl. sir.  with  you." 


PERJl'RY.  Forgery  and  a  few  other  trifling  offenses 
prevented  a  supposititious  wife  and  widow.  Laura 
Mileu,  accompanied  by  the  inevitable  infant  exhibit,  from 
being  awarded  the  valuable  estate  of  the  late  Charles  A. 
James,  a  medico  of  three  score  and  more.  Miss  Mileu 
claimed  to  have  captured  the  doctor  by  her  rendition  of 
the  song  "Love's  Sorrow. "  It  is  feared  that  this  may 
simulate  the  ballad  evil  among  other  adventuresses  after 
the  sacks  of  aged  millionaires.  Fair  woman  may  talk  man 
to  death,  but  singing  him  there  is  indeed  horrible  torture. 

THE  estimable  Mrs.  Perkins  says  she  hopes  if  they 
think  of  annexing  Hawaii  they'll  have  some  dress  re- 
forms before  they  turn  the  South  Sea  ladies  into  Ameri- 
cans, as  she  hears  they  are  quite  without  what  she  con- 
siders the  essential  parts  of  their  garments  and  simply 
wear  trimmings,  which  would  give  foreigners  coming  here 
by  way  of  the  Orient  quite  a  wrong  impression  of  the 
American  girl. 

FINDS  for  firecrackers  on  the  Glorious  Fourth  have 
reached  the  several  thousand  dollar  mark.  The 
Crier  is  in  sympathy  with  the  popping  of  the  restive 
cracker,  but  is  apprehensive  that  the  literary  committee 
on  celebration  affairs  will  promulgate  another  poem  con- 
test, repeating  its  sin  of  last  year.  Poetical  pyrotechnics 
are  hereby  respectfully  unsolicited. 

M  RS,  Florence  Blythe-Hinckley  is  sole  heiress  of  the 
J"  Blythe  estate  but  this  does  not  signify  that  her  con- 
nection with  the  local  courts  is  at  an  end.  The  young 
widow  is  defendant  in  several  new  suits  already.  These 
are  probably  as  nothing  in  numbers,  compared  with  the 
matrimonial  suits  which  this  interesting  little  heiress  will 
have  to  dodge  in  the  future. 

IT  is  to  be  hoped  that  all  possible  leniency  will  be  shown 
to  young  Lipp,  who  shot  and  killed  Miss  Goodman  the 
other  night,  while  she  and  a  party  of  serenaders  from  Yell 
County,  Arkansas,  were  catawauling  under  his  window. 
It  is  all  very  well  to  uphold  the  name  of  your  county,  and 
these  yellers  from  Yell  County  may  have  meant  well,  but 
there  are  limits. 

ft  FIGHT  is  inaugurated  against  the  Fisk  will.  The 
late  Asa's  shade  may  not  be  hovering  in  the  lower 
regions  but  if  it  transpires  that  his  cherished  gold  be 
eventually  gobbled  up  by  the  lawyers  in  process  of  litiga- 
tion, assuredly  the  released  Fisk  spirit,  disembodied  but 
doubtless  a  spectre  at  the  feast,  will  languish  in  an  exclu- 
sive hades  of  its  own. 

A  LOCAL  contemporary,  which  is  naught  if  not  insanely 
sensational,  advertises  San  Francisco's  impending 
doom.  The  1.  c.'s  influence  is  indeed  devastating  but  not 
so  fatal  as  that.  Its  destructive  operations  are,  of  course, 
a  frightful  blight  upon  our  fair  commonwealth  but  they 
have  not  yet  wrought  our  everlasting  doom. 

THIS  week  there  has  been  another  terrible  case  of  sui- 
cide by  a  reckless  speculator.  No  one  can  help  pity- 
ing poor  Barney  Barnato  who  remembers  the  awful  straits 
to  which  the  poor  man  was  reduced.  It  is  said  that  three 
million  sterling  was  all  he  had  in  the  world. 

CORSETS  are  again  to  the  fore  in  an  objeot-lessou  on 
health  of  the  female  form  divine.  The  subject  is  by  no 
means  a  new  one,  and  it  concerns  the  wearers  only,  yet 
men  evince  both  eagerness  and  ability  to  grasp  that 
same. 

FROM  the  legal  discord  over  the  famous  Bell  estate, 
and  the  family  jars  revealed  by  this  week's  filing  of 
complaints  in  court,  it  would  appear  that  the  Bells  are 
loudly  out  of  tune  and  harsh. 

OAKLAND  is  being  held  up  nightly  by  thugs  and  light- 
fingered  gentry.  We  have  'em  over  here,  too,  but 
they  usually  do  their  looting  after  they  get  elected  to 
office. 


THE  charge  of  -riling  liquors  without  a  license,   for 
which  linv.  Forrest,   an  employee  of  a  Market  street 
ii-ai.t.  was  arrested  by  a  Btup'id  policeman,   in  which 

unjust  act  the  officer  was  sustained  In  Sergeant  Gleason. 

has  been  dismissed  without  trial.    The  Sergeant  endeav 
ored  to  have  the  girl  plead  guilty,  when  he  Knew  that  she 

was  in  reality  innocent.  Her  an  est  was  an  outrage,  for 
which  the  incompetence  Of  the  1  eanl  is  responsi- 

ble. The  mere  right  to  go  in  peace  is  small  salve  for  the 
indignity  of  arrest  and  the  brutality  of  detention  in  pti,ou 
as  a  common  criminal. 

"IMS  true  that  ( Oakland  has  her  Honorable  Leila  Klrk- 
1  bam  Yarde-Buller,  who  has  managed  to  keep  her- 
self notoriously  before  the  public  of  two  continents.  Tis 
true  that  Lake  County  has  her  own  many-tinted  Lily,  the 
now  mature  Langtry  divorcelet  who  once  enjoyed  a 
Priuce's  favor.  But  San  Francisco  has  a  petticoated 
freak,  too,  in  Madame  Johnnie  Martin,  who  as  an  Amazon 
of  amazing  resources  in  the  notoriety  business  can't  be 
beat.  Queer  girls,  these  three,  but  the  greatest  of  all  is 
Mrs.  Johnnee. 

WEATHER  Prophet  Hammon  wants  to  fly  a  kite  in 
order  to  test  the  weather,  and  is  waiting  for  Uncle 
Sam  to  buy  him  an  assortment  of  them.  The  Weather 
Bureau  has  decided  to  establish  twenty  or  thirty  of  the 
air  stations  advocated  by  Hammon  and  his  associate  in  the 
weather  business,  McAdie.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  such 
operations  will  be  delayer1  however,  until  after  the  Bryan 
cyclone  has  safely  passed  over  our  heads.  Too  much  wind 
might  do  serious  damage. 

CONSIDERING  the  sensational  scenes,  deathbed  re- 
citals and  dramatic  denouements  generally  that  are 
now  a  regular  part  of  our  court  proceedings,  it  is  surpris- 
ing that  the  local  theatres  do  not  suffer  from  a  falling  off 
in  patronage.  It  speaks  well  for  San  Francisco's  pride 
that,  it  does  not  run  entirely  to  free  shows  in  the  alluring 
line  of  choice  family  scandals,  last  will  fracases,  and 
murder  mysteries. 

THAT  worthy  Judge,  Campbell,  has  added  another  to 
the  long  list  of  reasons  why  he  should  not  be  a  Court. 
He  was  accosted  one  evening  this  week  by  a  young  woman 
with  a  salutation  of  "hello,  Judge  Campbell,"  and  the  dis- 
tinguished jurist  ordered  her  locked  up.  All  of  which 
shows  that  a  whiskered  vacuum  is  a  sensitive  curiosity 
where  women  have  no  votes. 

THERE'S  a  most  unholy  row  in  the  ranks  of  the  Re- 
formed Episcopalians  over  the  garb  in  which  they 
shall  tread  their  earthly  way  to  spiritual  glory.  Why  not 
confine  yourselves  to  the  cloak  of  religion,  plain  and  simple, 
Oh  warring  representatives  of  an  improved  brand  of 
gospel,  and  leave  all  drygoods  differences  to  the  vain  and 
ungodly  who  have  not  your  passports  to  heaven? 

WILLIE  HEARST'S  paper  advertises  that  it  will  soon 
contain  an  article  on  the  strangest  thing  that  ever 
happened  in  San  Francisco.  It  would  be  easy  to  say  what 
would  be  the  most  remarkable  thing  that  could  ever  occur 
in  this  community:  The  faking  Examiner  turned  into  an 
honest  and  decent  paper;  but  it  will  never  be  truthfully 
written. 

THE  water  schedule  is  agitating  Oakland  consumers, 
and  pending  the  final  settlement  of  rates  the  citizens 
of  that  suburban  centre,  refusing  to  imbibe  the  liquid  at 
its  present  price,  are  assuaging  their  thirst  with  whiskey. 
Any  old  thing  for  an  excuse  to  patronize  their  favorite 
beverage. 

IT  is  to  be  deplored  that  young  girls  with  mistaken  long- 
ings for  the  tinsel  glitter  of  a  gay  life,  do  not  take 
warning  from  the  suicides  of  almost  daily  occurrence  in 
this  city  that  mark  the  miserable  close  of  some  wretched 
creature's  misspent  life. 

THERE  is  a  smile  so  debonair 
Upon  her  face  engraven, 
As  if  she'd  have  you  think  her  Pair, 
But  I  believe  her  Craven. 

THERE  is  complaint  among  business  men  that  the 
mails  are  unnecessarily  delayed  in  landing  at  this 
port.  Delay  in  the  landing  of  males  is  also  a  cause  of 
perennial  complaint  with  a  large  contingent  of  spinsters 
hereabouts. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  19,  1897. 


ALL    SOUL'S    EVE  —  dora  sigerson,  in  the  bookman. 


All  Soul's  Day  is  a  day  on  which  prayers 
fa  ihful  dead. 


are  said  for  the  souls  or  the 


I  cried  all  night  to  you, 

I  called  till  day  was  here; 
Perhaps  you  could  not  come, 

Or  were  too  lired,  dear. 

Your  chair  1  set  by  mine, 
I  made  the  dim  hearth  glow. 

I  whispered,  "When  he  comes 
1  shall  not  let  hiru  go." 

I  closed  the  shutters  tight, 

I  feared  the  dawn  of  day, 
I  stopped  the  busy  clock 

That  timed  your  hours  away. 

Loud  howled  my  neighbor's  dog, 

0  glad  was  I  to  hear, 
The  dead  are  going  by, 

Now  you  will  come  my  dear, 
To  take  the  chair  by  mine — 

Until  the  cock  would  crow — 
O,  if  it  be  you  came, 

And  could  not  let  me  know. 
For  once  a  shadow  passed 

Behind  me  in  the  room, 
I  thought  yoor  loving  eyes 

Would  meet  mine  in  the  gloom. 

And  once  I  thought  I  heard 

A  footstep  by  my  chair, 
I  raised  my  eager  hands, 

Bat  no  sweet  ghost  was  there. 

We  were  !o  j  wide  apart — 

You  in  your  spirit  laud— 
1  knew  not  when  you  came, 

1  could  not  understand. 
Yaur  ej'e3  perhaps  met  mine, 

Repiotched  me  through  thegloom, 
Alas,  for  me  alone 

The  empty,  empty  room  ! 
The  dead  were  passing  home, 

The  cock  crew  loud  and  clear, 
Mavourneen,  if  j*ou  came, 

I  knew  not  you  were  here. 

LOVE    WAS    TRUE    TO_ME  -john  bo yl<  o-reuly. 

Love  was  true  10  me, 

True  and  tender, 
I  who  ought  to  be 

Love's  defender. 
Let  the  cold  winds  blow 

Till  they  chilled  him, 
Let  the  winds  and  sun 
Shroud  him— and  I  knew 

That  I  killed  him. 

Years  he  cried  to  me 

To  be  kinder, 
1  w  is  blind  to  see, 

And  grew  blinder, 
Years  with  soft  hands  raised, 

Fondly  reaching, 
Wept  and  prayed  and  praised, 

Still  beseeching. 

When  he  died,  I  woke, 

God,  how  lonely  ! 
When  the  gray  dawn  broke 

On  one  only. 
Now  beside  Love's  grave 

1  am  kneeling, 
All  he  sought  and  gave 

I  am  feeling. 


VAIN. 

"  The  blossoms  fell,  the  thorn  was  left  to  me; 

Deep  from  the  wound  the  blood-drops  ever  flow ; 
All  that  I  have  are  yearnings,  wild  desires, 
And  wrath  and  woe. 
"  They  brought  me  Lethe's  water,  saying,  'Drink, 

Drink,  for  the  draught  is  sweet/  I  heard  them  say- 
'Shalt  learn  how  soft  a  thing  forgetting  is,' 
I  answered,  •Nay.'" 


CITY   INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 
Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  333-334  Pine  street,  below  Mont- 
gomery.   Rooms  for  ladies  and  families;  private  entrance.    John  Bergez 
Proprietor. 
Malson  Tortoni,  French  Rotlsserie,  111  O'Farrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor- 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B.  Blanco  &  B.  Bruit. 

DENTISTS. 

Dr.  Franklin  Pancoast    removed  to  20  O'Farrell  street,  rooms  16,  17  &  26 
Dr.  R.  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 
Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St. ,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 

POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,  827Brannan 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    105 O'Farrell  St.,  S.  P. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 


CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  V2  and  1-lb  boxes. 


Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 


LADIES'     HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze  (known  as   Hermann   at  Strozynskl's)  has  opened 
Ladies'  Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  all  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main  5b20 


BANKING. 


Bank  of  British  Golumbia. 

Southeast  Cor.  Bosh  and  ^Sansome  Sts. 
Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up 83.000,00 

Reserve  Fund $  500.000 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON 

Branches— Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
iamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Colombia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C. ; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants' Bank  of  Canada;  Chicago— First  National  Bank; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland— Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand— Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  of 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

The  flnglo-Galifornian  Bank,  Limited. 

Capital  authorized W.OOO.OOO 

Subscribed 3,000,000 

Paid    Up l.SOU.UUO 

Reserve    Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cob.  Pine  and  Sansohe  Sts 
Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 
telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART     lMana„»ra 
P.  N.  LILIENTRAL  ;  managers 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

No.  526  California  Street.  San  Francisco 
Guarantee  capital  and  surplus  —  $2  040.201  66 
Canital  actually  paid  up  in  cash. .   1.000  000  00 

Deposits  December  31,1896 27,7.0.247  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B.A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-Presldeni,  H.  Horstman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary.  George  Tourny;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Muller!  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS:  B  A.  Becker.  Daniel  Meyer.  H.  Horst- 
mann,  Ign.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt. 

Wells  Fargo  &  Go.'s  Bank. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  &  Sutter  Streets 

John  J.  Valentine President 

Homer  S.  King Manager 

H.    Wadsworth Cashier 

F.  L.  Llpman Assistant  Cashier 

Cash  Capital  and  Surplus 16,250,000 

BRANCHES. 

N.  Y.  City,  H.  B.  Parsons,  Cashier.  |  Salt  Lake  City,  J.  E.  Dooly,  Cashier 
Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.  King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  Charles 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

Securitu  Savings  Bank. 

222  Montgomery  St..  Mills  Building. 

INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 

LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O.  D  Baldwin  E  J.  McCutohen 

Adam  Grant  W.S.Jones  J.B.Lincoln 


June  19,  1897. 


SAX   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


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BANKING. 


Mrs  Jones — You  wretch!  You  disgrace  me  before  ray 
neighbors  coming  home  in  such  a  drunken  state.  Mr. 
Joni  -  But,  m'dearsh,  no  one  saw  me.  Mits.  Jones — No 
one  saw  you  I  No — but  everyone  ran  hear  me  telling  you 
of  it.— Sketchy  Bits. 

Etienne — You  look  despondent,  Peters.     You  must  have 
got  it  hot  and  heavy  from  your  wife  this  morning.   Peters 
—That's  just  what  I  did  get.  Etienxe— What?  Peters 
One  of  her  amateur  cooking  school  biscuits. — Town  Topics. 

Lea  (sadly) — I  don't  know  what  to  do  with  that  boy  of 
mine.  He's  been  two  years  at  the  medical  college,  and 
still  keeps  at  the  foot  of  his  class.  PERKINS  (promptly) — 
Make  a  chiropodist  of  him. — Odds  and  Ends. 

Her  Tiresome  Admirer  — I  don't  believe  you  have  thought 
of  me  once  since  I've  been  away.  She — Well,  you  know 
very  well  that  the  doctor  gave  me  strict  orders  to  do 
nothing  that  would  tire  me. — Pick-Me-Up. 

"Hicks  is  crazy  about  etiquette.  He  saw  in  the  paper 
the  other  day  that  in  the  best  circles  the  wife  ladles  out 
the  soup,  and  he  has  consequently  given  up  soup." 
"Why?"      'He  has  no  wife.'' — Free  Press. 

Mis.  Airtight — Where  shall  we  spend  the  summer,  John? 
Mr.  Airtight  (fretfully) — I  wish  you'd  say  "pass  the 
summer,"  Marv;  "spend"  is  so  confoundedly  suggestive. — 
N.  Y.  Sun. 

Robert — Funny  bout  Charley;  he  persists  in  calling  his 
bicycle  "he."  Richard — That's  right;  it  would  never  do 
to  call  it  "she."  It  is  the  silentsteed,  you  know. — Boston 
Transcript. 

Chumpleig* — What  do  you  think  she  means  by  asking 
me  to  sit  in  the  hammock  with  her  so  often?  Siiarpleigh 
— Perhaps  she  hopes  you  will  tumble. — N.  Y.  Evening 
Journal. 

Ragman — Any  old  bottles  to  sell?  Porter — Ring  the 
third  bell  aud  tell  Mr.  Gayboy  I  sent  you.  I  heard  his 
wife  was  coming  home  from  the  country  to-morrow. — 
Pearson's. 

Her  Father — I  thought  I  told  you  once  I  never  wanted  to 
see  you  here  again.  Young  Suitor — So  you  did,  and  I 
didn't  come  until  I  thought  you  would  be  in  bed. — N.  Y. 
Journal. 

Mrs.  Tupenny — Why  don't  you  leave  your  husband  if  he 
neglects  you  so?  Mrs.  Manhattan — He  doesn't  give  me 
a  chance.  He's  out  seven  nights  a  week  himself. — Town 
Topics. 

Beggar — Ain't  ye  got  a  dime  for  a  poor  blind  chap? 
Old  Gentleman — Why,  you  are  only  blind  in  one  eye. 
Beggar — All  right,  make  it  a  nickel,  then. — Odds  and 
Ends. 

"This  game  of  golf  always  reminds  me  of  a  butcher 
shop."  "In  what  respect?"  "Golf  and  sausage  both 
come  in  links." — New  York  Times. 

Hobbs — Why  did  the  cashier  leave  the  country?  Dobbs 
— The  only  reason  was  that  he  couldn't  take  it  with  him. 
—Odds  and  Ends. 

She — And  do  you  mean  to  tell  me  I  am  the  only  woman 
you  ever  loved.  He — Yes!  All  the  rest  were  girls. — 
Brooklyn  Life. 

The  Overland   Limited, 

ONLY  &}4   DAYS  TO   CHICAGO.     4^   DAYS  TO  MEW   YORK. 

The  Onion  Pacific  is  the  only  line  running  vestibuled  Pullman 
Double  Drawing-room  Sleepers  and  Dining  Cars  daily.  San  Fran- 
cisco to  Chicago  without  change.  Vestibuled  buffet  smoking  and 
library  cars  between  Ogden  and  Chicago.  Upholstered  Pullman 
Sleepers,  San  Francisco  to  Chicago,  without  change,  daily.  Steam- 
ship tickets  on  sale  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe.  For  tickets 
ar.d  sleeping  car  reservations  apply  to  D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General 
Agent,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 

Drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda  before  breakfast. 


For  Morbid  Conditions  take  Beecbam'b  Pills. 


California  Sale  Deposit  and  Trust  GomDanu. 

Cor   California  anil   Montgomery  Sts, 

Capital  Fully  Paid $1,000,000 

Transacts  a  general  banking  business 
and  allows  Interest  on  deposits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice- 
Acts  as  Executor,   Administrator,  and   Trustee  under  wills  or  In  any 
other  trust  capacity.    \\  ills  arc  ilrawu   by   the  company's  a  torneys   and 
are  taken  care  of  without  charge. 

SAFE    DEPOSIT  BOXES  10  rent  at    prires   from  $5  per  annum  up- 
ward ;l<  t\  and  valuab'es  of  all  kinds  are  stored  at  low  rates. 
DIRECTORS :  J.  D   Fry,  Henry    Williams,   I.    G.   Wtokersham.  Jacob  C. 
Johnson,  James  Treadwcll,  F.  W.  Lougee.  Henry  V.  Fortmann,  R    B.  Wal- 
lace. It    D    Fry.  A.  I>.  Sharon   and  J.  Dalzcll  Drown. 

Offh  Kits:  J,  D  Fry,  President;  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry.  Second  Vice-President ;  J.  Dalzell  Drown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; E  E.Shotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Boo*.h  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

33  Post    Street,   below    Kearny, 
Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranteed  Capital 81.000,000 

Paid-Up  Capital S  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN   A.  HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
Directors— James  D.  Phelan,  L.  P.  Drexler,  John   A.   Hooper,  C.  G. 
Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Frank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  McElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  approved  se- 
curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

Deposits  may  be  sent  by  postal  order,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  Exchange 
on  City  Banks.    When  opening  accounts  send  signatuie. 

San  Francisco  Savings  Union. 

Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits.  Dec.  31,  1895 «24,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus —    1,575,631 
ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E   B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country 
remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  oheck  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  In  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday  even- 
ings, 6:30  to  8. 

London,  Paris  and  American  Bank,  Limited. 

N.w.  Cor.  Sansome  ss  Sutter  Sts. 

Subscribed  Capital 13,500,000 

Paid  Up  Capital 12,000.000 

ReserveFund I    850,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

AGENTS— New  York— Agenoy  of  the  London,  Paris,  and  American 
Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  FrereB 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Polssonlere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
world.   Commercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued. 

SIG.  GREENEBAUM 1  Mantteera 
C.  ALTSCHUL  | Managers. 

Grocker-Woolworth  National  Bank  of  S.  F. 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery, 

and  Post  Streets. 

Paid-Up  Capital 11,000,000 

WM.  H.CROCKER President 

W.  E.  BROWN : Vice-President 

GEO.  W.KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

The  Sather  Banking  Gompanu. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 

Established  1S51V  San  Francisco. 

Capital 11,000,000 

James K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowgill.  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolee.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E  G.  Lukens,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm,  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents  :  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.   Paris— Morgan.  Harjes  &  Co 

Bank  of  California,  San  FranoisGO. 

Capital  and  Surplus,  $6,000,000 

WILLIAM  ALVORD President  1  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP.  .Vlce-Pres't 

ALLEN  M.CLAY Secretary    THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

S.  Prentiss  Smith Ass't  Cashier  1 1.  F.  Moulton 2d  Ass 't  Cashier 

CORRESPONDENTS. 

New  York— Messrs.  Laidlaw  &  Co.;  the  Bank  of  New  York,  N.  B.  A. 
Baltimore— The  National  Exchange  Bank.  Boston— The  Tremont  Na- 
tional Bank;  Chicago— Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Union  National 
Bank.  Philadelphia— National  Bank  of  the  Republic  St.  Louis— Boat- 
man's Bank.  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California. 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.Rothschild  &  Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Roths- 
child Freres.  Berlin— Direction  der  DIsconto  Gesellschaft.  China, 
Japan  and  East  Indies— Chartered  Bank  of  India.  Australia  and  China 
Australia  and  New  Zealand — The  Union  Bank  of  Australia,  Ltd.,  and 
Bank  of  New  Zealand. 

Letters  of  Credit  Issued  available  In  all  parts  of  the  world. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  19,  1897. 


3  ©  ©e«< 


DEAR  EDITH: — A  friend  of  mine  writing  from  Paris 
says:  I  saw  two  American  girls,  one  of  them  the 
young  woman  with  eleven  uew  gowns,  disporting  at  a 
little  country  place  in  the  suburbs  of  Paris,  in  gowns  that 
were  inexpensive  but  very  chic. 

One  wore  a  cream  challie  skirt  with  large  crimson  roses 
nestling  in  their  green  leaves.  The  vest  of  the  gown  was 
crimson  taffetta,  with  sleeves  and  bolero  of  cream  challie, 
over  which  set  a  collar  of  home  embroidered  muslin. 

The  other  wore  a  white  pique  dress  with  a  band  of 
batiste  around  the  foot.  The  waist  was  of  the  batiste, 
with  the  skirt  trimmed  upon  the  hips  to  form  a  basque. 
There  were  revers  and  epaulettes  of  book  linen,  and  tiny 
panels  of  embroidered  linen  upon  the  skirt. 

With  these  were  two  other  young  women,  also  inexpen- 
sively gowned.  One  wore  a  green  gingham,  with  tiny  blue 
silk  thread  running  through  it.  A  big  double  ruffle  of 
plaid  set  over  the  shoulders.  A  tall,  pointed  stock  of 
white  linen  encircled  in  the  neck. 

Both  young  women  wore  hats  of  cream  straw,  tiimmed 
with  ribbon  and  flowers.  The  second  girl's  gown  was  of 
figured  mull,  over  plain  taffeta,  of  the  20c.  weight.  There 
was  no  effort  at  show,  the  object  beirjg  a  pretty  and  cheap 
gown  for  summer  wear.  She  wore  a  wrap  of  pale  green 
striped  batiste,  edged  with  silk  embroidery,  and  with  long 
taffeta  streamers  in  the  front.  The  wrap  was  bordered 
with  a  ruffle  of  white  embroidered  muslin. 

The  piques  and  cloth  gowns,  which  are  to  be  worn  in  the 
early  fall,  have  sleeves  that  are  long  and  tight  fitting, 
fulled  very  slightly  at  the  arm-hole.  The  collars  are  high 
and  without  trimming,  and  all  of  the  skirts  are  trimmed 
elaborately.  But,  of  course,  this  is  anticipating  matters. 
The  light  gowns  we  first  catch  a  glimpse  of  are  hardly  as 
unusual  as  that.  We  are  coming  to  tight  sleeves  and 
severe  neck  effects  by  degrees. 

I  saw  such  a  pretty,  girlish  gown  of  pique  trimmed  with 
a  bright  shade  of  bluet. 

The  skirt  was  a  godet,  rather  moderate  in  width,  with 
the  fullness  all  carried  to  the  back.  It  was  trimmed  with 
narrow  bluet  braid.  Three  rows  of  the  braid  followed  the 
seams  of  the  front  gore  to  within  (i  inches  of  the  waistband. 
There  the  braid  was  turned  in  sharp  corners  and  continued 
around  the  skirt.  Below  this  was  another  trimming  of 
braid. 

The  jacket  was  a  bolero  of  the  pique  over  a  vest  of  bluet 
linen.  It  fastened  at  the  bust  with  a  large  white  pearl 
button.  There  was  a  broad,  round  collar  and  lapels  of 
pique,  edged  with  three  bands  of  the  braid,  that  followed 
the  edge  of  the  jacket.  The  sleeves  were  the  usual  coat 
sleeves,  with  a  finish  of  braid  at  the  wrists. 

The  hat  to  be  worn  with  this  gown  was  of  rough,  pure 
white  straw.  It  had  a  broad  brim,  faced  with  bluet  tulle. 
The  crown  was  surrounded  by  a  plisse  of  bluet  tulle  and  a 
plaiting  of  white  taffeta  ribbon.  The  hat  was  turned  up 
at  the  back,  and  trimmed  with  tall  bows  of  taffeta  ribbon. 

The  combining  of  startling  colors  that  fairly  make  you 
wince  is  just  now  a  freak  of  fashion,  but  all  do  not  see  fit 
to  follow,  I  am  glad  to  say.  For  instance,  the  most  bril- 
liant royal  purple  hat  is  trimmed  with  alternate  ruches  of 
vivid  scarlet  and  purple  tulle,  and  an  emerald  green  straw 
has  flowers  of  bright  orange  and  bows  of  clear  crude  pur- 
ple. Scarlet  and  crude  pale  blue  is  another  combination, 
but  the  softer  tints  are  far  more  becoming. 

It  is  almost  an  inexplicable,  but  nevertheless  very  im- 
portant fact,  that  any  skin  under  a  well-lined  shadow  veil 
appears  to  excellent  advantage,  and  that  under  this  cob- 
web covering,  whether  bought  in  black  or  white,  defects 
of  the  facial  cuticle  are  not  apparent  to   the  keenest  eye. 


Belinda. 


Mothers,  be  sure  and  use '-Mrs.  Wmslow's  Soothing  Syrup '"  for  your 
children  while  teething . 


Indigestion  dies  where  .lackson's  :<apa  Soda  lives. 


"Uhe   jCatest  Tfoveliy 


Tlfess ' 
jackets 

All  colors, 
regular  price 

$12.50 

On  special 
Sale  at 

$7.45 


MURPHY  BUILDING,  Market  and  Jones  Sts.,  San  Francisco. 

203  to  207  N  Spring  St.  bet.  Temple  and  First  St.,  Los  Angeles,  Cat 


EGYPTIAN 
ENAMEL 


An  incomparable  beautifier.  It  defies  detection  and 
is  perfectly  harmless. 

50  cents  and$l  00 


Gf*    rppuc        A  celebrated  French  preparation.     It  prevents  and 
•  O.  OlAD/Vlb  I     removes  wrinkles.    81  00.    Sent  to  any  address  on 
|     receipt  of  price.    Trial  pot  ]0  ceDts 

PACE  BLEACH.    Guaranteed  superior  to  all  others,  $1;    trial  bottle  15c. 
at  office;  25c.  by  mail.    I  use  only  plain  wrappers  and  envelopes. 

MPS.     M.    J-     DllllCr    San  Francisco,  Cal.,'u.  S.  A. 

Dr.  D.  R.  Dupuis, 

VZBSFgS&f&l?.     FACIAL  TREATMENT 

Permanently  removes  Wrinkles,    mall-pox 
Scars,  and  all  Facial  Disfigurations 

713   POST  ST,  Near  Jones. 


MORRIS  &  KENNEDY'S 
Art  Galleru «= 


fit  Greatly  Reduced  Prices. 


19  and  21   POST   ST.,  S.    F. 

New  and    Elegant  PAINTINGS, 
PICTURES  and    FRAMES. 


Mrs.  M.  E.Peblet. 
Mrs  S.  V.  Culp. 


"  KeramiG"  Decorative 
Art  Studio. 


All  branches  of  china  painting  taught;  instruction  daily  from  9  A    M.    10 
12  m  and  from  1:30  to  4:30  P.  m.    Lessons  $1  10  each.    Call  and  see  our  nov- 
elties in  white  china. 
Tel.  Grants.  ^^-j— 215  Post  St,,  S.   F. 


THOS.  PRICE  &  SON, 


Thos.  Price.    Arthur  F.  Prick 


ASSAY  OFFICE,    CH EMIGAL LABORATORY 
BULLION  ROOMS  and  ORE  FLOORS. 
524  Sacramento  St. ,  S.  F. 


«-■-.  ~  ',  .   .-■-■  -..  - 


June  19,  1897. 


s.\x   PRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


INSURANCE 

THE  Mutual  Kire  of  New    York    has  entered  Vermont. 
J.  L.  Itoyd  A  Son  of   Denver  have   been  appointed 
General  Agents  of  the  Globe  Fire  for  Colorado. 

The  friends  of  Colonel  Alexander  G.  Hawes,  formerly 
Coast  Manager  of  the  New  York  Life,  and  now  a  resident 
of  London,  will  be  pleased  to  know  that  he  is  prospering 
and  enjoying  unusual  good  health. 

The  Northwestern  National  has  appointed  A.  A.  Allen 
Special  Agent  for  Southern  California. 

In  consequence  of  the  Governor's  veto  of  the  printing 
bill,  the  California  Iusdrance  Report  for  18!t"  has  not  yet 
been  printed. 

The  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters  have  collected  $100 
from  G.  H.  Cmbsen  &  Co..  insurance  brokers,  as  a  fine 
for  cutting  rates. 

A  local  board  has  been  formed  at  San  Luis  Obispo. 

A  new  policy  is  being  issued  by  the  Kansas  Mutual  Life. 

The  Duluth  Title  Insurance  Company,  through  its  attor- 
neys, has  filed  a  deed  of  assignment  in  the  District  Court. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  National  Association  of  Mu- 
tual Accident  Underwriters  will  be  held  at  Put-in-Bay 
June  28-30. 

Edward  Baumer,  who  has  been  connected  with  the  Sun 
Insurance  Office  of  London  for  over  forty  years,  for  the 
last  twenty  years  as  assistant  secretary,  has  been  elected 
secretary,  succeeding  E.  H.  Mannering,  resigned. 

The  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of  Indiana  was 
placed  in  the  hands  of  a  receiver  in  May  by  Judge  Harvey 
at  Indianapolis. 

The  assignee  of  the  Wisconsin  Odd  Fellows  Life  Insur- 
ance Company  has  begun  suits  throughout  that  State  to 
collect  unpaid  assessments. 

A  committee  consisting  of  Rolla  V.  Watt  of  the  Royal, 
George  W.  Spencer  of  the  ^Etna,  and  Herbert  Folger  of 
the  Aachen  &  Munich  Insurance  Companies,  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters  to  confer  with 
the  Governor  of  Washington  regarding  the  hostile  legisla- 
tion recently  enacted  in  that  State,  and  its  effect  upon 
the  business  as  at  present  transacted. 

E.  W.  Carpenter,  formerly  coast  manager  of  the  Royal 
and  Norwich  Union,  has  returned  to  San  Francisco  after  a 
two  years'  absence  in  the  old  world,  during  which  time  he 
has  visited  nearly  every  country  on  the  globe. 

The  Kansas  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  has  entered 
Colorado. 

President  Nichols  of  the  National  Fire  visited  San  Fran- 
cisco this  week. 

E.  G.  Laughton  Anderson,  home  secretary  of  the  Guar- 
antee and  Accident  Insurance  Company,  is  visiting  the 
United  States. 

The  United  States  Fidelity  and  Guarantee  Company  of 
Baltimore,  Md.,  has  applied  for  authority  to  do  business 
in  this  State. 

The  New  England  Burglary  Company  is  reinsuring  the 
bulk  of  its  business  with  the  Fidelity  and  Casualty  Com- 
pany.   

In  this  fast-living  age  it  is  natural  that  people  should 

resort  to  stimulants,  and  one  of  the  best  is  Vin  Pasteur, 
which  is  sold  everywhere.  It  is  a  heart  stimulant  and 
nerve  tonic  of  merit.  It  cures  iusomnia,  aids  digestion,  and 
has  no  unfavorable  reactionary  effects. 

NEW     SAFE-DEPOSIT     VAULTS. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  19,  1897 


BM.  LELONG,  Secretary  of  the  State  Board  of  Hor- 
,  ticulture,  is  remembered  by  three  of  his  friends  more 
in  sorrow  than  in  anger,  and  this  is  why  :  During  the  last 
Legislature  he  entertained  a  crowd  with  tales  of  perilous 
encounters  with  wild  boar  in  Butte's  sylvan  glades. 
Among  his  listeners  were  Assemblyman  John  W.  Keegan, 
William  Alford,  the  political  tenderfoot  from  Tulare,  and 
Carleton  H.  Johnson,  the  popular  and  good-looking  young 
secretary  of  the  People's  Party  County  Committee,  who 
laughingly  accused  Lelong  of  running  to  earth  no  more 
dangerous  a  beast  than  a  tame  pig,  whereupon  Lelong  in- 
vited them  to  his  house,  where,  sure  eciough.  suspended  in 
chunks  from  the  basement  ceiling,  were  sections  of  Butte 
boar,  cured  by  the  doughty  Sacramento  hunter  over  a 
manzanita  wood  fire  to  impart  a  fragrant  delicacy  to  it. 
After  a  pleasant  half  hour  holding  up  their  host's  side- 
board, the  guests  departed,  Lelong  insisting  upon  pre- 
senting them  with  samples  of  the  meat.  Johnson,  upon 
reaching  his  hotel,  stowed  his  share  away  in  a  bureau 
drawer.  That  night  he  was  rudely  awakened  from  dreams 
of  Populistic  victory  by  a  fearful  scrimmage  in  his  apart- 
ment. Springing  up,  he  prepared  to  wage  mortal  combat 
with  the  miscreant  who  had  mistaken  the  room  of  an 
honest  Populist  for  that  of  a  San  Francisco  boodler;  but 
it  proved  to  be  an  army  of  rats,  and  next  day  he  had  to 
foot  a  bill  for  damaged  furniture.  Keegan  boarded  the 
train  after  packing  his  pig  in  a  grip  along  with  some 
choice  old  Bourbon,  and  was  smoking  placidly  when  he 
heard  a  commotion  in  the  baggage  car.  He  hurried  for- 
ward, to  find  his  grip  a  wreck,  two  large  hunting  dogs 
having  located  the  wild  game  therein,  the  precious  whis- 
key being  smashed  in  the  melee.  Alford,  on  his  homeward 
journey,  deposited  his  prize  in  a  paper  on  the  rack  above 
the  seat  occupied  by  a  young  lady.  Induced  by  the  heat, 
the  pork  commenced  to  drip,  and  in  time  the  almost  frying 
fat  permeated  the  millinery  beneath,  presently  precipitat- 
ing some  essence  of  wild   boar  down   the   wearer's  neck. 

Alford  paid  for  the  hat. 

#  *  * 

A  day  or  two  after  Col.  John  P.  Jackson's  appointment 
as  Collector  of  the  Port,  he  repaired,  early  in  the  morning, 
to  the  Customs  House.  In  the  ancient  elevator,  which 
crawled  at  a  snail's  pace  toward  the  roof,  there  was  only 
one  other  passenger,  and  the  boy  who  managed  the  lift, 
not  recognizing  Col.  Jackson,  improved  the  occasion  by 
improvising  a  lively  clog  dance,  at  which  the  collector 
gazed  in  silent  disapproval.  When  Jackson  made  his  exit 
from  the  elevator,  the  other  passenger  remarked: 

"Well,  young  fellow,  you  have  queered  yourself  beauti- 
fully." 

'As  how?"  asked  the  unabashed  Native  Son  of  the 
Golden  West. 

"That  was  your  new  boss.     That's  all!" 

"The  h — 1!"  ejaculated  the  kid,  dismayed  for  the  first 
time  in  his  career.  "I  must  square  myself  with  His  Cus- 
toms, somehow." 

He  studied  over  the  situation  silently,  and  when  the 
Collector  left  his  office  several  hours  later,  the  boy  greeted 
him  with  great  affability. 

"Col.  Jackson?"  he  inquired,  condescendingly. 

The  Colonel  nodded. 

"Ah!  Congratulate  you,"  proceeded  the  boy,  blandly. 
"Glad  to  have  you  with  us,  colonel,"  he  added,  as  Jackson 
gazed  upon  him. 

"I  hope  you  and  I  will  be  friends,  Collector,"  continued 
the  amiable  youth. 

Then  he  concluded  to  pursue  his  advantage  and  "strike 
the  Collector  for  a  job,"  as  the  elevator  creaked  slowly 
downward. 

"By  the  way,  Colonel,"  he  began.  "I've  been  running 
this  elevator  for  eighteen  months  and, " 

Just  then  the  wheezy  old  lift  struck  the  ground  floor, 
and  the  door  flew  open. 

"Well,  you  run  it  d — n  slowly,  sir,"  interrupted  the 
Colonel,  as  he  stepped  into  the  corridor. 


When  Ed  Cutter's  wife  went  away  for  the  summer,  the 
worthy  grain  merchant  thought  he  could  properly  allow 
himself  a  little  more  latitude  than  when  under  his  usually 
strict  domestic  government.  After  the  conclusion  of  the 
ritual  at  his  Masonic  lodge,  the  other  evening,  he  gladly 
assented  to  the  proposition  of  his  friend  Pulaski  to  have  a 
quiet  little  time.  In  the  course  of  their  rambling  they 
were  joined  by  Tom  Walkington  and  Captain  Mills,  and 
the  latter,  finding  that  Cutter  had  never  seen  what  he 
dubbed  "the  Circassian  show"  in  an  old  building  not  far 
from  Grant  avenue  and  Geary,  offered  to  pilot  him  thither. 
Cutter  was  game,  and  at  the  darkened  entrance,  Tom 
Walkington  collected  five  dollars  from  the  novitiate,  for 
the  prospective  sights  he  was  to  see.  Cutter  paid  up  like 
a  thoroughbred,  and  then  was  guided  through  an  unlighted 
and  tortuous  maze  of  narrow  passage  ways  and  steep 
steps.  From  time  to  time,  his  trio  of  guides  stimulated 
his  flagging  interest  to  the  summit  of  expectancy,  so  that 
poor  Cutter  was  continually  on  the  qui  vice  without  pro- 
curing anything  more  gratifying  than  a  hat  covered  with 
cobwebs  and  a  pair  of  badly  barked  shins.  Finally  they 
told  him  that  the  fun  was  actually  about  to  commence. 

"Now,  my  boy,"  said  Tom  Walkington,  cheerily.  "You 
are  about  to  see  something  which  will  make  your  hair 
stand  on  end.     You  have  to  go  it  alone,  though." 

Cutter  stumbled  along  in  the  darkness  for  several 
minutes,  and  finally  found  a  door,  which  he  opened  with 
some  difficulty, — only  to  emerge  on  the  sidewalk,  where  he 
was  greeted  by  the  jeers  of  his  faithful  friends. 

*  *  * 

Two  old-time  cronies  are  Sam  Beaver,  the  veteran  pay- 
ing teller  of  the  Bank  of  California  and  Captain  Rowe,  the 
Exempt  Fireman  and  man  about  town.  Each  is  past  his 
first  youth,  is  jovial,  portly  and  fond  of  a  joke.  Beaver 
was  gazing  into  the  window  of  a  fashionable  haberdasher, 
a  few  days  ago,  when  the  Captain  sauntered  up. 

"I  was  just  looking  at  that  necktie,"  said  Beaver,  point- 
ing to  a  handsome  cravat. 

"Yes?    Go  in  and  get  it,"  advised  Rowe  promptly. 

Without  a  word  Beaver  entered  the  store,  said  he  would 
take  the  beautiful  two  dollar  scarf,  and  ordered  the  bill 
sent  to  Captain  Rowe.  The  latter  was  hardly  prepared 
for  this  outcome  of  his  suggestion,  but  be  was  too  game  to 
repudiate  the  obligation.  He  meditated  revenge,  how- 
ever, and  presently  he  got  it. 

The  Captain  is  a  stylish  dresser,  and  he  expressed  his 
regret  to  his  chum  that  he  could  not  find  a  colored  silk 
waiscoat  of  sufficient  dimensions  to  suit  his  girth. 

"That's  easy,"  replied  Beaver.  "I  know  a  store  where 
there  is  a  beauty.  It  fits  me  like  a  glove  and  you  and  I 
are  about  of  a  size.     We'll  go  there  now  if  you  like." 

The  garment  proved  all  that  Beaver  had  promised  for  it 
in  texture  and  fit. 

"I'll  take  it,"  said  Rowe.  "Ten  dollars?  That's  all 
right.     Send  the  bill  to  S.  Beaver,  Bank  of  California!" 

*  *  * 

Much  difference  of  opinion  prevails  among  hotelmen, 
restaurant  keepers  and  these  who  desire  to  rent  lodgings  as 
to  the  benefits  to  be  derived  from  the  forthcoming 
Christian  Endeavor  Convention.  One  such  had  been  asked 
for  a  subscription  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  gathering. 
He  was  perfectly  willing  to  subscribe,  provided  he  could 
receive  an  assurance  that  the  amount  of  his  donation 
would  be  returned  to  him  many  times  multiplied,  in  pro- 
fits from  his  increased  business.  To  satisfy  himself  on  this 
mooted  point,  he  requested  that  the  question  of  his  sub- 
scription be  held  in  abeyance  while  he  quietly  hied  him  to  the 
office  of  Horace  G.  Piatt,  and  sought  counsel  from  his  at- 
torney. Horace  listened  gravely  while  his  client  stated 
his  dilemma.  Then  he  sat  silent,  apparently  wrapped  in 
profound  thought,  while  the  client  watched  him  admiringly. 

"We  may  learn  the  lesson  of  experience,"  Horace  re- 
marked sagely,  after  an  interval.  "I  am  informed  that 
at  the  Christian  Endeavor  Convention  in  Boston  last  year, 
the  delegates  came  with  one  shirt  and  one  five  dollar 
piece, — and,  during  their  stay,  changed  neither." 

Piatt  refused  to  make  any  statement,  but  that  sub- 
scription is  still  withheld. 

Moore's     Poison     Oak     Remedy 

cures  Poison  Oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    The  oldest  and  best  remedy, 
which  has  cured  thousands.    At  all  druggists. 


June  19,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NKWS   I.KTTER. 


'9 


Down  at  Burliogame,  there  is  a  very  popular  and  lively 
girl,  bright  and  pretty,  her  only  regret  being  too  much 
flesh — a  decided  tendency  to  corpulence.  To  hide  it  she  as- 
sumesavery  English  gait.  She  was  calling,  theotherday,  at 
one  of  the  houses  in  her  set,  and,  with  mannish  stride,  went 
the  rounds  of  the  drawingroom,  shaking  bands  with  all  pre- 
sent. When  she  sat  down,  little  three-year-old  Elizabeth, 
the  daughter  of  the  house,  who  had  been  gazing  open- 
mouthed  at  the  visitor,  said,  in  shrilly,  penetrating  tones: 

"Do  some  more." 

The  girl  did  not  understand,  and  turned  to  the  chiM, 
with  her  most  engaging  manner. 

"What  do  you  want,  darling?"  she  asked,  sweetly. 

"Won't  loo  please  walk  dat  funny  way,  again,"  repeated 
Elizabeth  promptly,  and  to  the  horror  of  her  mother,  be- 
gan to  swagger  about  the  apartment  in  exact  imitation  of 
the  caller. 

The  kid  was  promptly  hustled  out  and  now  the  girl  with 
the  English  gait  is  trying  to  devise  a  new  style  of  locomotion. 
#  *  » 

The  dean  of  dramatic  critics  died  when  George  E. 
Barnes  passed  away.  His  embarkation  on  the  sea  of 
theatrical  censorship  was  due  entirely  to  ill-luck,  although 
it  afterwards  proved  no  misfortune  to  his  disciples.  When 
he  sold  his  interest  in  the  Call,  thirty  years  ago,  to  Loring 
Pickering,  for  $60,000,  Barnes  planned  to  return  to  his 
Eastern  home,  there  to  invest  his  money  in  some  safe  en- 
terprise which  would  ensure  him  a  competence.  Unfort- 
unately for  him,  he  considered  his  capital  hardly  sufficient 
for  his  purpose,  and  before  his  departure  he  concluded  that 
he  could  increase  the  amount  of  his  "stake"  quickly  and 
surely  by  a  few  investments  in  stocks,  then  the  prevailing 
California  craze.  He  began  to  dabble  on  Pine  street,  and 
sustained  a  few  losses,  which,  of  course,  his  pride  forced 
him  to  retrieve.  The  upshot  of  his  speculations  was  the 
loss  of  his  entire  capital  and  he  was  obliged  to  seek  em- 
ployment in  the  very  office  where  he  had  so  recently  been 
proprietor.  His  calamity  gave  birth  to  a  notable  journal- 
istic career. 

11  #  * 

If  it  were  not  for  his  good  looks  and  the  unintentional 
admiration  which  he  evokes  from  his  fair  friends,  the  life  of 
Cornelius  Sullivan  would  be  a  happy  one.  When  he  is  not 
soliciting  life  insurance,  he  is  generally  dabbling  in  Demo- 
cratic politics,  but  he  occasionally  takes  time  to  dine,  and 
a  few  nights  ago,  on  the  recommendation  of  a  friend,  he 
went  to  a  restaurant  where  the  customers  are  at  the 
tender  mercies  of  a  corps  of  feminine  waiters, — steward- 
esses, they  call  themselves. 

After  he  bad  been  served  with  black  coffee,  Cornelius 
peered  through  his  eye  glasses  at  his  check,  upon  which 
he  placed  a  big,  round  dollar.  The  fashionably  attired 
attendant,  supposing  that  such  a  handsome  man 
could  not  but  be  generous,  especially  to  a  poor  girl  and  a 
pretty  one,  gently  placed  her  hand  upon  the  dollar. 

"Is  this  for  me?"  she  inquired,  with  a  coy  smile. 

"Yes,"  replied  Sullivan, — "to  pay  the  check  with,"  he 
added,  sententiously. 

"Oh,"  rejoined  the  disappointed  waitress,  tossing  her 
head.     "You  can  do  that  yourself." 

"Great  Scott!"  said  Cornelius,  reddening.  'She  thought 
my  other  name  was  Vanderbilt!" 

HIRAM  TUBBS,  a  pioneer  of  1853,  and  widely  known 
as  a  man  of  wealth,  high  character,  and  influence  in 
this  community,  died  at  his  home  in  East  Oakland  last 
Sunday.  Mr.  Tubbs  was  a  gentleman  of  great  energy  and 
executive  ability,  and  during  his  long  and  successful  career 
in  San  Francisco  built  up  a  large  manufacturing  plant, 
the  Tubbs  Cordage  Company,  besides  controlling  and  di- 
recting other  interests.  He  was  seventy-four  years  of 
age  and  a  native  of  New  Hampshire.  He  leaves  a  widow 
and  five  children.  The  funeral  services  were  held  at  2 
o'clock  on  Tuesday  last,  and  were  largely  attended. 

Thh  Press  Clipping  bureau,  510  Montgomery  street,  S.  P.  reads  all 
papers  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  supplies  dippings  on  all  topics ,  business 
and  personal.  ^^__^^^^____^_^^^__ 

Great  Reduction  In  prices  during  the  summer  months  on  Art  Goods, 
Plotures.  Crookery,  Glassware,  etc.    S.  &  G.  Gump,  113  Geary  street. 

Pink  stationery,  steel  and  copper-plate  engraving.  Cooper  &  Co.,  "46 
Market  street,  San  Francisco. 

All  sensible  people  drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda. 


J'irewor/cs  •  •  •  • 


FOR  THE    FOURTH 

Assorted  Bones  for  Children,  ^        ^  _ 

(Including  FirfcnickiTK.  Torpcdoos,  010.)    *r'i    ■P^    Kf\Q    .pj. 

Lawn   Assortments     $5,    $8,    $12,    $20, 

And  Upwards. 
Save  money  by  buying  direct  from  the  makers. 

California   fireworks   Co. , 

219  FRONT  ST.       Paotory,  16th  avenue  and  L  street. 


'm®$>mi§&d&&S®§®&G>S®@®&®&®& 


9/.  a. 


race, 


.1020-3032  Sixteenth  St 
Branch— 2704  Mission 
Tel.  Mission  161 


jrfouse  and  u/yn    IPainting 

|j    Whitening  and  Papei  Hanging, 
$    Dealer   in   wall    paper,   etc. 

For  a  first-class  Fish,     For  a  first-ciass  Hunt, 

For  a  first-class  Camp, 

For  a  delightful  rest  at  some  beautiful  Resort, 

Go  to  that  country  tributary  to  the 


Free  Camping  Grounds, 
Clean,  Comfortable  Hotels, 
Moderate  prices  within  the 
reach  of  all. 
Low  Railroad  Rates. 


San    J'rancisco    and 
7forth    Pacific    &y. 


For  detailed  iuformation  apply   at  TICKET  OFFICE:  650  MARKET  ST., 
tCaronicJe  Building), or  GENERAL  OFFICE:  Cor.  Sansome   and  Califor- 
nia streets. 
A.  W.  FOSTER,  Pres.  and  Gen'l  Mgr.        R    X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


Sells  Burial  Lots 
and  Graves. 
Perpetual  Care, 


LAUREL  HILL, 

Cemetery 
Association 


Junction  of  Bush 
street  and 
Central  avenue, 
San   Francisco. 


Gomet  Oolong. 


The  oldest  and  most  reliable  brand  on  the 
market.  Sold  only  in  1-3  pound  papers  at 
20  cents  per  paper.  All  grocers  keep  it. 


Scotch  Whisky  I 

3 U 


Sole  agents  wanted  in  San  Francisco  by 
one  of  ttafi  largest  Distillers,  command- 
ing five  Distilleries  in  Scotland.  Agents 
must  be  able  to  influence  a  large  Trade 
and  will  be  well  supported.  Apply  con- 
fidentially to  "Distillers,"  care  Street 
&  Co.,  30  Cornhill,  London,  England. 


Nelson's  Ampse. 


Unequalled  for  Poison  Oak,  Sunburn,  all  Irritation  of  the  Skin, 

and  for  the  Toilet  generally. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  19,  1897. 


THERE  was  a  pretty  wedding  in  San  Jose  last  Monday 
evening,  when,  at  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
the  Rev.  F.  E.  Fisher  united  in  marriage  Miss  Lottie 
Brosins,  of  the  Garden  City,  and  Robert  E.  Russ  of  San 
Francisco.  The  lovely  bride,  who  looked  charming  in  a 
robe  of  white  silk  covered  with  white  tulle,  was  attended 
by  the  Misses  Lizzie  Hilderbrandt  and  Olga  Buneman  as 
bridesmaids;  the  groom  was  supported  by  Robt.  A.  Lowen- 
stein  as  best  man.  Following  the  ceremony  a  large  recep- 
tion was  held  at  the  home  of  the  bride  on  South  Fourth 
street,  house  and  grounds  being  elaborately  decorated 
with  flowers  and  Chinese  lanterns,  and  later  a  handsome 
supper  proved  a  delightful  finale  to  the  wedding  festivi- 
ties. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Russ  will  reside  in  San  Francisco  at 
the  groom's  handsome  new  house  on  Folsom  and  Twenty- 
fourth  streets. 

Oq  Wednesday  evening  there  was  another  wedding  in 
Oakland,  when  Mrs.  Olive  Reed  and  Seth  Cushman  were 
the  bride  and  groom,  the  marriage  taking  place  at  the 
Reed  residence  on  Filbert  street. 

There  will  be  a  number  of  weddings  next  week.  On 
Monday  Miss  Ada  Smith  and  Arthur  F.  Bridge,  whose 
engagement  was  recently  announced,  will  be  wedded 
at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alex- 
ander Smith.  The  marriage  of  Miss  Carrie  Koshland  and 
Emil  Greenbaum  will  take  place  on  Wednesday  morning 
at  the  family  residence  on  Pine  street. 

On  Wednesday  afternoon  Miss  Jessie  Coleman  and  Harry 
Knowles  will  be  married  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  mother, 
in  Oakland.  It  will  be  a  quiet  ceremonial  to  which  only 
relatives  and  intimate  friends  are  bidden.  The  bride  will 
be  attended  by  the  Misses  Dickson  and  Smith,  as  brides- 
maids, and  by  Miss  Donaldson,  of  Philadelphia,  who  will 
officiate  as  maid-of-honor  Thomas  Knowles  is  to  be  bis 
brother's  best  man.  Joe  Grant  and  his  bride,  who  are  also 
to  be  united  the  same  day  in  Portland,  Oregon,  will  go  di- 
rect to  Europe  for  their  honeymoon,  where  they  will  spend 
several  months  in  travel  before  coming  to  reside  in  Cal- 
ifornia. 

Among  last  week's  weddings  was  that  of  Miss  Francis 
Coleman  and  Arthur  Holden,  of  Boston,  which  was  solemn- 
ized at  the  Coleman  residence,  on  California  street,  on 
Wednesday  evening.  Pink  was  the  prevailing  tint,  that 
color  being  used  almost  exclusively  for  decorative  pur- 
poses, the  bridal  party  standing  in  a  bower  of  pink  blos- 
soms, lit  by  pink  shaded  electric  lights  during  the  cere- 
mony, which  was  performed  by  the  Reverend  Dr.  McKen- 
zie  in  the  presence  of  a  large  number  of  guests.  The  bride 
was  robed  in  white  satin  en  traine.  She  wore  a  tulle  vail 
and  wreath  of  orange  blossoms  and  carried  a  bouquet  of 
bride's  roses.  Miss  Sara  Coleman,  as  maid-of-honor,  was 
gowned  in  pale  pink  satin  trimmed  with  duchesse  lace,  and 
the  Misses  Alice  Boggs  and  Emma  Robbins  wore  gowns  of 
pink  crepe  de  chine,  and  all  three  young  ladies  carried  bou- 
quets of  Duchesse  of  Albany  roses.  J.  C.  Coleman,  Jr.,  ap- 
peared as  the  groom's  best  man.  Boston  will  be  the  future 
home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Holden. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Denis  O'Sullivan,  who  left  us  on  their  re- 
turn to  Europe  last  Friday,  had  a  good  send-off  in  the  way 
of  teas,  dinners,  etc.  The  afternoon  at  the  Presidio,  where 
they  were  the  guests  of  Captain  and  Mrs.  O'Connell,  was 
a  most  pleasant  affair;  and  the  banquet  d'adieu  in  the  red 
room  of  the  Bohemian  Club,  at  which  Mr.  O'Sullivan  fig- 
ured as  chief  guest,  was  a  gathering  long  to  be  remem- 
bered by  all  who  participated. 

Benj.  J.  Schmidt  left  the  city  last  Thursday  for  New 
York,  going  by  way  of  Los  Angeles  (where  he  will  spend 
several  days)  and  Colorado  Springs.  Mr.  Schmidt  will  be 
absent  some  time,  returning  to  San  Francisco  early  in 
August. 


Principal  among  the  events  of  the  month  is  the  celebra- 
tion got  up  by  our  loyal  British  residents  to  do  honor  to 
the  diamond  jubilee  of  Her  Gracious  Majesty  Victoria,  not 
the  least  enjoyable  feature  of  which  will  no  doubt  be  the 
banquet  to  take  place  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Monday 
evening,  when  General  Barnes,  Rabbi  Voorsanger,  and 
Mayor  Phelan  will  be  among  the  speech  makers  of  the 
occasion. 

A.  B.  Forbes  has  succeeded  Joe  Grant  as  President  of 
the  Burlingame  Club,  the  change  being  necessitated  by 
Mr.  Grant's  anticipated  prolonged  absence  from  California. 
To-day  and  to-morrow  will  be  the  second  set  of  "luncheon 
days,"  which  have  recently  become  a  feature  of  the  club, 
and  lunch  will  be  served  on  the  veranda  of  the  club  house, 
during  which  orchestral  music  will  be  in  order. 

Mrs.  E.  J.  Pringle,  of  Oakland,  is  in  the  van  this  year 
among  ihe  campers,  her  party  of  about  a  dozen  having 
gone  on  a  tour  of  the  country  from  Oakland  to  Clear  Lake, 
intending  to  camp  en  route,  and  remain  at  each  as  long  as 
the  fancy  pleases  them,  and  it  must  be  acknowledged  that 
it  will  be  both  pleasant  and  instructive.  They  expect  to 
be  away  until  towards  the  end  of  August. 

The  Tavern  of  Castle  Crags  is  now  open  for  the  season, 
and,  it  goes  without  saying,  will  be  eagerly  sought  by 
those  who  delight  in  the  pure  mountain  air  which  is  there 
to  be  enjoyed  in  such  perfection.  Life  at  the  Inn  passes 
as  a  restful  dream,  and  those  who  once  pay  a  visit  to  it 
are  always  sure  to  go  again.  A  large  party  are  booked 
for  the  Fourth  of  July  holiday,  and  a  gala  time  is  antici- 
pated. 

There  have  been  a  number  of  departures  this  week  for 
Del  Monte.  Those  who  left  on  Tuesday  include  Mrs.  Low 
and  Miss  Flora,  Mrs.  A.  N.  Towne,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clinton 
Worden,  who  will  pass  the  entire  season  there,  as  well  as 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  G.  Irwin,  who  arrived  from  Honolulu 
last  week.  Mrs.  Thomas  Breeze  and  family  are  spending 
the  month  of  June  at  Del  Monte. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Sullivan  will  pass  the  summer  at 
Phelan  Park,  in  Santa  Cruz;  Mrs.  Henry  McLane  Martin 
is  at  "The  Cabin's,"  as  her  Santa  Cruz  cottage  is  called. 
Claude  Terry  Hamilton  is  occupying  his  cottage  known  as 
"The  Hutch,"  at  Sausalito.  Porter  Ashe,  Jere  Sullivan, 
Dr.  Livingston,  and  H.  H.  McPike  are  off  on  a  fishing  ex- 
pedition in  Lake  County.  Mrs.  Mollie  Latham  is  among 
the  guests  at  Highland  Springs.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moody 
and  Miss  Mae  are  at  the  Geysers.  Rudolph  Spreckels  has 
gone  to  Honolulu,  and  during  his  absence  Mrs.  Spreckels 
will  be  at  San  Rafael. 

Miss  Juliet  Williams  accompanied  her  cousin,  Miss  Ethel 
Rogers,  who  has  been  visiting  her  at  San  Rafael  for  sev- 
eral months,  when  she  left  for  the  East  this  week,  with  the 
intention  of  remaining  as  her  cousin's  guest  in  Ohio  for  the 
rest  of  the  summer.  Miss  Jennie  Flood's  present  intention 
is  to  remain  at  the  Windsor  Hotel,  in  New  York,  until  au- 
tumn. 

Mrs.  Leland  Stanford  has  arrived  in  London,  for  which 
destination  Mrs.  Irvine  and  her  sons,  J.  W.  and  Cal.  Byrne, 
left  us  on  Thursday,  anticipating  an  absence  of  several 
months. 

The  wife  of  Admiral  Beardslee  and  Mrs.  George  M. 
Stoney  were  among  the  passengers  of  the  steamer  Aus- 
tralia, for  Honolulu  last  Tuesday. 


$1,000.00 


Be  sure  you  get  the  yellow  ticket  in  every 
package  of  Schilling' s  Best  Tea.  It  gives  you 
one  guess  at  the  thousand-dollar  word. 

Many  tickets — many  guesses. 

Watch  for  details  in  daily  papers  about  the  first  and  middle  of 
Jane,  July,  and  August. 


June  19,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NBWS   LETTER. 


Alaska  is  attracting  many  visitors  from  San  Francisco 
this  summer  Mr.  ami  Mrs*.  Thomas  Watson  have  already 
departed.  Among  those  thither  bound  this  week  were  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  I.  YV.  Hellman  and  family.  Mrs  Esters  and  the 
Misaea  Pranoto,  Kdith  and  Rena  Jacobi  of  New  York,  who 
went  in  a  party,  leaving  here  last  Thursday  via  Oregon. 
Mrs.  M.  Eisner,  the  Misses  Keinstein.  Alice  Wolf  and 
Florence  Crowley  form  another  party  leaving  to-day. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Jewett,  Mrs.  Louis  Parrott.  Mrs. 
Ehrman,  Mr.  and  Miss  Florence  Brown,  and  Mr.  Heller 
leave  next  week.  Mrs.  A.  P.  Whittell  and  daughter  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  F.  Kohl  are  among  those  who  will  sail  in 
July:  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  H.  Sherwood  have  chosen 
August  for  their  trip 

Mrs.  Philip  Peck  and  the  Misses  Peck  sailed  on  Tuesday 
for  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  where  they  will  spend  the  sum- 
mer months  at  the  Peck  plantation. 

B.  Herrmanand  hisdaughters,  Misses  Dorothy  and  Daisy, 
have  gone  to  Oregon,  where  they  will  spend  several  weeks 
at  the  seaside  resorts  of  that  State. 

Mrs.  Cora  Ives,  Mrs.  Samuel  Fitzgerald,  and  Herman 
Oelrichs,  of  New  York,  are  at  the  Hotel  Paso  Robles,  and 
will  spend  the  next  two  months  at  that  sanitarium. 

Raphael  Weil,  who  has  been  in  Paris  for  the  past  year, 
will  not  return  until  some  time  next  month. 


ATTORNEY     HENRY     ACH. 


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Henry  Ach. 


iNE  of  the  most  active  and 
progressive  attorneys  at 
the  San  Francisco  bar  is  Henry 
Ach,  of  the  firm  of  Rothchild  & 
Ach,  and  just  at  this  time  es- 
pecially prominent  because  of 
his  participation  in  the  effort  to 
solve  the  mystery  surrounding 
the  death  of  Isaac  Hoffman. 
Mr.  Ach  is  a  man  of  strong  con- 
viction and  great  energy.  Once 
enlisted  in  a  case,  he  never  rests 
content  until  he  has  solved  it 
and  uncovered  the  bottom  facts. 
This  admirable  trait  of  char- 
acter, so  necessary  to  the  equip- 
ment of  the  lawyer,  is  brought 
into  very  prominent  light  in  the 
case  alluded  to  above.  Mr.  Ach 
is  a  young  man,  and  enjoys  a 
successful     legal     career     not 


usually  the  reward  of  longer  professional  effort. 

BEAUTIFUL  Blythedale  is  one  of  the  most  attractive 
places  in  easy  daily  reach  of  the  city.  Commodious 
cottages,  a  hotel  where  every  convenience  is  at  the  com- 
mand of  visitors,  a  proprietress  whose  constant  efforts 
and  long  experience  are  exerted  for  the  pleasure  of  her 
guests;  a  table  par  excellence,  delightful  view,  on  the 
direct  route  of  the  Mt.  Tamalpais  scenic  railway— in  short, 
the  location,  service,  and  communication  all  tend  to  make 
Blythedale  an  ideal  summer  resort. 

JF.  BONNET,  for  a  long  time  connected  with  the 
,  Daily  Report,  was  on  last  Monday  selected  by  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  License  Collector,  to  supercede 
Frederick  Lees.  The  choice  of  the  Board  was  a  good  one. 
Mr.  Bonnet  is  a  capable  gentleman,  and  will  make  a  faith- 
ful and  efficient  Collector.  His  appointment  is  a  just 
recognition  of  merit. 

Foremost  among  the  restaurants  of  the  country  stands  the  Maison 
Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Grant  avenue  and  Geary  street,  which  has 
entertained  many  notable  Americans  and  foreign  visitors.  From 
5  to 9  o'clock  in  the  evening,  an  elegant  dinner  is  served.  The  finest 
wines,  sweet  music,  and  most  refined  service  to  be  had  in  the  city. 


Preparation  of  banquets,  dinners,  and  wedding  suppers  requires 
excellent  natural  taste,  coupled  with  much  experience.  Max  Abra- 
ham, the  well-known  society  caterer  at  428  Geary  street,  has  both 
these  qualifications,  and  never  fails  to  give  satisfaction. 

Great  Reduction  in  prices  during  the  summer  months  on  Art  Goods, 
Pictures,  Crockery,  Glassware,  eto     S.  &  G.  Gump.  113  Geary  street. 

Jackson's  Napa  Soda  kills  malaria. 


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Patches,  Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  beauty,  and  defies  de- 
tection. It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  we  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made.  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-ton  (a  pa- 
tient): ''As  you  ladies  will  use  them,  I 
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For  Bilious  and  Nervous  disorders,  such  as  Wind  and  Pain  in  the  Stom- 
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Shortness  of  Breath,  Costiveness,  Blotches  on  the  Skin,  Disturbed  Sleep, 
Frightful  Dreams,  and  all  Nervous  and  Trembling  Sensations,  etc.,  when 
these  symptoms  are  caused  by  constipation,  as  most  of  them  are.  THE 
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these  Pills  and  they  will  be  acknowled"ed  to  be 

A    WONDERFUL    MEDICINE. 

BEECHAM'S  PILLS,  taken  as  directed,  will  quickly  restore  Females  to 
complete  health.  They  promptly  remove  obstructions  or  irregularities  of 
the  system.    For  a 

Weak   Stomach 

Impaired    Digestion 

Disordered    Liver 

they  act  like  magic— a  few  doses  will  work  wonders  upon  the  Vital  Organs ; 
strengthening  the  muscular  system,  restoring  the  long-lost  complexion, 
bringing  back  the  keen  edge  of  appetite,  and  arousing  with  the  Rosebud 
of  Health  the  whole  physical  energy  of  the  human  frame.  These  are 
facts  admitted  by  thousands,  in  all  classes  of  society,  and  one  of  the  best 
guarantees  to  the  Nervous  and  Debilitated  is  that  Beecham's  Pills  have 
the  Largest  Sale  of  any  Patent  Medicine  in  the  World. 

WITHOUT  A  RIVAL. 

Annual   Sales   more   than  6.000,000   Boxes. 

25c.  at  Drugstores,  or  will  be  sent  by  U.  S.  Agents,  B.  F  ALLEN  CO. 
365  Canal  St.,  New  York,  post  paid,  upon  receipt  of  price.  Book  free  upon 
paplication. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  19,  1897. 


NOTES  OF  THE  ARMY  AND  NAVY. 


Owing  to  the  fact  that  there  are  no  vacancies  in  any 
branch  of  the  service  in  the  grade  of  Second  Lieutenant, 
all  of  the  graduating  class  at  West  Point  this  year  will  re- 
ceive commissions  as  Additional  Second  Lieutenants. 

The  cruiser  Brooklyn,  in  command  of  Rear-Admiral  J. 
N.  Miller,  U.  S.  N.,  arrived  at  Southampton,  England, 
last  Monday. 

The  new  gunboats  Marietta  and  Wheeling  are  at  Mare 
Island  and  will  be  ready  for  service  about  September  1st. 
The  guns  are  to  be  mounted  there  and  military  masts  put 
in. 

The  battleship  Oregon  has  been  ordered  to  Victoria,  B. 
O,  to  be  present  at  the  festivities  attending  the  celebra- 
tion of  the  Queen's  jubilee. 

The  Monadnock  and  the  Monterey  will  sail  next  Tuesday 
for  Portland,  Ore.,  and  will  remain  there  until  after  the 
Fourth  of  July. 

The  naval  department  has  decided  to  retain  the  Marion 
at  Honolulu,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  she  is  sadly  in 
need  of  repairs. 

Brigadier-General  William  Montrose  Graham,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  Department  of 
Texas,  with  headquarters  at  San  Antonio. 

Mrs.  Lester  A.  Beardslee,  wife  of  Admiral  Beardslee, 
U.  S.  N.,  arrived  here  last  Saturday  and  is  at  the  Occi- 
dental Hotel. 

Rear  Admiral  George  Brown,  U.  S.  N.,  will  be  retired 
from  active  service  to-day. 

Commander  J.  G.  Green,  U.  S.  N.,  formerly  of  the 
Marion,  has  gone  to  Puget  Sound  to  take  command  of  the 
naval  station  there. 

Lieutenant  Commander  U.  Sebree,  IT.  S.  N.,  of  the 
Thetis,  passed  the  early  part  of  the  week  at  the  Occiden- 
tal Hotel. 

It  is  generally  conceded  that  Colonel  Henry  C.  Merriam, 
U.  S.  A.,  will  be  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Columbia  when  his  promotion  to  the  rank  of 
Brigadier-General  is  confirmed. 

Colonel  William  R.  Smedberg,  TJ.  S.  A.,  retired,  is  at 
the  West  Point  Military  Academy  acting  as  one  of  the 
Board  of  Visitors.  Mrs.  and  Miss  Smedberg  are  with  him. 

Colonel  Marcus  P.  Miller,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  who 
was  recently  promoted  from  the  First  Artillery,  will  join 
his  new  regiment  upon  the  expiration  of  his  present  leave 
of  absence. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  William  H.  Bisbee,  Eighth  Infantry, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Colonel  of  the 
First  Infantry,  and  ordered  to  report  for  assignment  to 
station. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Henry  W.  Lawton,  U.  S.  A.,  who  is 
Inspector  General  of  the  Southern  district,  has  been 
ordered  to  change  his  station  from  Santa  Fe,  N.  M.,  to 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Lewis  C.  Forsyth,  TJ.  S.  A.,  of  the 
quartermaster's  department,  has  been  retired  from  act 
ive  service. 

Major  J.  B.  Babcock,  TJ.  S.  A.,  of  the  adjutant  general's 
department  of  Washington,  D.  C,  arrived  here  last  Satur- 
day on  a  visit  and  has  been  at  the  Palace  Hotel  during  ihe 
past  week. 

Major  Charles  A.  Woodruff,  TJ.  S.  A.,  of  the  Subsistence 
Department,  has  been  granted  two  months  leave  of  ab- 
sence, to  take  effect  June  30th. 

Major  W.  B.  Kennedy,  TJ.  S.  A.,  retired,  is  nowcresiding 
at  687  Rampart  street,  Los  Angeles. 

Paymaster  J.  B.  Redfield,  TJ.  S.  N.,  has  been  granted  a 
sick  leave  of  four  months. 

Surgeon  C.  TJ.  Gravatt,  TJ.  S.  N.,  has  been  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Medical  Inspector. 

Assistant  Medical  Inspector  James  M.  Flint,  TJ.  S.  N., 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Medical  Inspector. 

Surgeon  and  Mrs.  Clement  Biddle,  TJ.  S.  N.,  have  been 
at  the  Hotel  Rafael  during  the  past  week. 

Passed  Assistant  Surgeon  V.  C.  B.  Means,  U.  S.  N., 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Surgeon. 

Civil  Engineer  R.  E.  Peary,  TJ.  S.  N,  will  leave  about 
July  10th  for  the  north-west  coast  of  Greenland  to  make 
preliminary  arrangements  for  his  expedition  to  the  North 
Pole,  which  will  start  next  year.     He  will  be  accompanied 


by  Mr.  Hugh  J.  Lee,  who  was  with  him  on  his  last  trip. 
Mr.  Lee  will  be  married  late  in  June  to  Miss  Florence  A. 
Leonard.  Their  wedding  tour  will  be  an  uncommon  one, 
as  they  will  pass  their  honeymoon  in  the  Arctic  region. 

Chief  Engineer  G.  B.  Ransom,  TJ.  S.  N.,  has  been  de- 
tached from  the  Boston  and  ordered  to  the  CoEcord. 

Chief  Engineer  Richard  Inch,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been  de- 
tached from  duty  at  Mare  Island  and  ordered  to  the  Bos- 
ton. 

Passed  Assistant  Engineer  E.  T.  Warburton,  TJ.  S.  N., 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Chief  Engineer. 

Assistant  Engineer  John  K.  Robinson,  TJ.  S.  N,  of  the 
Olympia,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Passed  Assist- 
ant Engineer. 

Captain  William  H.  Whiting,  U.  S.  N,  will  take  com- 
mand of  the  Monadnock  next  Tuesday,  relieving  Captain 
George  W.  Sumner,  TJ.  S.  N. 

The  order  relieving  Captain  Cunliffe  H.  Murray,  Fourth 
Cavalry,  TJ.  S.  A.,  from  duty  at  Brown  University,  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  has  been  revoked. 

Captain  Gilbert  P.  Cotton,  First  Artillery,  TJ.  S.  A.,  has 
been  granted  six  months'  leave  of  absence.  He  will  take 
a  trip  to  Europe. 

Mrs.  H.  E.  Parmenter,  wife  of  Lieutenant  Parmenter, 
U.  S.  N.,  will  sail  on  July  28th  for  Alaska  to  join  her  hus- 
band, who  is  on  the  Albatros. 

Lieutenant  Charles  J.  Bailey,  First  Artillery,  TJ.  S.  A., 
has  been  granted  two  months'  leave  of  absence,  to  com- 
mence July  1st. 

Lieutenant  J.  Franklin  Bell,  Seventh  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  granted  one  month's  extension  on  his  leave  of 
absence. 

Lieutenant  Delamere  Skerrett,  Third  Artillery,  TJ.  S.  A., 
is  now  on  duty  with  Battery  E,  at  Fort  Mason. 

Lieutenant  S.  L.  Graham,  U.  S.  N.,  retired,  is  in  this 
city,  and  may  be  addressed  in  care  of  the  Navy  Pay 
Office. 

Lieutenant  Thomas  R.  Adams,  Fifth  Artillery,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  appointed  aide-de-camrj  to  Brigadier-General 
William  M.  Graham,  U.  S.  A. 

Ensign  T.  J.  Senn.  TJ.  S.  N.,  now  on  duty  in  Alaskan 
waters,  became  the  father  of  a  bouncing  baby  boy  last 
month  at  Sitka. 

A  son  of  Rear  Admiral  J.  G.  Walker,  TJ.  S.  N.,  retired, 
is  an  applicant  for  the  recent  vacancy  created  in  the  Corps 
of  Civil  Engineers  in  the  Navy. 

The  following  cadets  have  been  detached  from  the  Naval 
Academy  and  ordered  to  join  vessels  as  follows:  To  the 
Monadnock,  cadets  P.  L.  Pratt,  L.  R.  Sargent,  and  W. 
R.  Sexton;  to  the  Oregon,  cadets  C.  R.  Miller,  W.  P. 
Giles,  H.  E.  Yarnell,  H.  N.  Jensen,  W.  D.  Leahy,  C.  S. 
Kempff,  S.  G.  Magill,  and  L.  M.  Longstreet:  to  the  Mon- 
terey, cadets  W.  R.  White,  I.  F.  Landis,  and  D.  S.  Maho- 
ney. 

General  Nelson  A.  Miles,  TJ.  S.  A.,  arrived  in  London 
last  Tuesday. 

Commander  William  H.  Whiting,  TJ.  S.  N.,  assumed 
command  of  the  Monadnock  last  Tuesday. 

Major  and  Mrs.  John  A.  Darling,  tj.  S.  A.,  retired, 
came  down  from  Rutherford,  Napa  County,  last  Tuesday 
and  have  been  passing  the  week  at   the  Occidental  Hotel. 

Lieutenant  J.  M.  Robinson,  U.  S.  N.,  formerly  of  the 
Monocacy,  arrived  here  last  Tuesday  from  the  Asiatic 
Station  en  route  home. 

Naval  Cadet  Cyrus  W.  Miller,  TJ.  S.  N,  who  was  grad- 
uated recently  at  Annapolis,  visited  his  father,  Mr.  Frank 
Miller,  in  Sacramento,  while  en  route  to  Puget  Sound  to 
join  the  Oregon. 

George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.  will  be  closed  this  Saturday  afternoon  on 
account  of  the  Queen's  Jubilee  celebration,  but  on  Monday  and  every 
day  thereafter,  one  can  buy  at  their  store,  625  Market  street,  under 
the  Palace  Hotel,  the  rarest  Japanese  curios,  carvings,  tapestries, 
etc.,  at  bed  rock  prices. 

See  Rome  and  die :  drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda  and  live. 


GEORGE  W.  SflREVE,  7S3IRMEAERTKET 

Headquarters  for  Hunters',  Anglers',  and 

Sportsmen's  Goods. 

Guns,  Fishing  Tackle,  Athletic  Goods. 

Supplies  for  Hunters,  Campers,  Wheelmen,  Boxers, 
Base  Bailers,  Trampers.    Jtfed  rock  prices. 
Send  for  catalogue.    Tel.  Clay  41. 


Juno  i«j,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   M:\VS  I.ICTTKR. 


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Southern    Pacific    Co. --Pacific  System.  ,  San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific  R'y  Co 


Tramp  Leave  and  are  Duo  to  Arrive  at  SAN     FRANCISCO: 


rrvm  •/«*.  /«,  imn. 


•8:00  a  Nile*.  San  Jose,  and  way  stations 

7:00  a  A 1  Ian  tic  Express,  Ogdcoand  East 

7:00a  Benlcla,    Sacramento,    Orovllle,    and  Redding,    via   Davis 

»    Vacartllc  nod  Rums,  r 
7:3u  a  Martinez.  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa. Caltstoga,  Santa  Rosa 
8:8Ua  Ntles,  San  Jose,  Stockton.  lone,  Sacramento,  Marysville. 

Chico.  Tehama,  and   Red    Bluff  

•8:30  a  Peters.  Hilton,  and  Oakdalc 

9:00a  New  Orleans  Express.  Merced,  Fresno.  Hakerstleld.  Santa 
Barbara.  Los  Angeles,  Demlng,  El  Paso.  New  Orleans,  and 
E*st 


I  Arri*4 

8:i5  P 
S:«  p 

V45  r 
0:16  p 

4:16  p 

•7:15  P 


•IrUUP 
1.-00  P 
1:30  p 

4:0UP 

4:0OP  1 


8:16  P 

0:00a  Vallejo 1-.':16p 

Nlies,  San  Jose  Llvermore,  and  Stockton 7:15 V 

Sacramento  River  steamers *9:0UP 

Ntles, San  Jose,  and  Llvermore 8:45A 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 7:*5p 

Martinez,  San  Ramon.  Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  £1  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa  9:16a 

Benlcta,   Vacavllle  Woodland,  Knight's   Landing,  Marys- 

vllle.  Oroville.  and  Sacramento 10:15a 

Lathrop.  Stockton.  Modesto.  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yosem- 

lie)  and  Fresno,  going  via  Niles.  returning  via  Martinez. .  18:15  p 

Los  Angeles   Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,   Mojave  (for  Rands- 

Ranta  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles 7.45a 

Santa  Fe  Route.  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East 6:15p 

European  mail,  Ogden  and  East 10:15  A 

Hay  wards,  Niles  and  San  Jose 7:46  A 

Vallejo t7:4&P 

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysvllle,   Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East    .  ...    7:46A 

San  Leandro  and  Haywabds  Local.    (Foot  of  Market  St.) 


i*600  Al 

8:00  a; 

9:00  a 

10:00  a! 

ill. 00  A 

J12:0O  M 

2:00  p 

{8:00  p 

4:00  P 

5:00  P 

5:30  P 

7:00  P 

8:00  P 

9:00  P 

tfii:16p 


MELROSE, 

Seminary  Park., 

FlTCHBURG, 

elmhdrst. 

San  Leandro. 

South  San  Leandro, 

estddillo, 

Lorenzo, 

Cherry, 

and 

Haywabds. 

i  Runs  through  to  Niles. 
t  From  Niles 


7:15  A 
£9:45  A 
10:45  A 
11:45  A 
12:45  p 
rfl:4B  P 
13:46  P 
4:45  P 
(5:45  P 
6:15  P 
7:45  P 
8:45  P 
9:46  p 
10:50  p 
ttl2:00  p 


Santa  Crpz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge).    (Foot  of  Market  St.) 

7:45  a  Santa  Cruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  J8:05P 
8:15  a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Felton,  Moulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations     ...  ...  5:50  P 

•2:15  p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *H:9oa 

4 :15  p  San  Jose  and  Glen  wood 8 :50  > 

i4:t5  p  Felton  and  Santa  Cruz  g8;50  A 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  (rtlip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  A.  M. ,11:00.  *a:0U.  13:00.  «4:00,  J5:00  and  *6:0OP.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway.—  *6:00,  8:00,  10:00  A.  m.;  112:00,  *1:00, 
J2 :00, *3 :00, J4 :00  *5 :00  P.  M. 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1 :30  p 
Sunday  excursion  for  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove, 

and  principal  way  stations     J8;35  p 

San  Jose,  Tres  Plnos,  Santa  Cruz.  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles 
San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principalway  stations    4 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 7 

Palo  Alto  and  way  stations 5 

San  Mateo,  Redwood,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose.  Gllroy,  Tres 

Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey,  Pacific  Grove *10 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 9 

San  Jose  and  Way  Stations  *8 

San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations  *8 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 6 

San  Jose  and  way  s  tatlons  


•7  :00  a 
J7:30a 

9:00  A 

10:40A 
11:30  a 
•2:80  P 

•3:30  P 
«4:80p 
6:30  p 
6:30p 
tll:45p 

15  P 
:30P 
:U0p 

40a 
45  A 
05A 
:45A 
35A 


A  for  Morning,     p  for  Atternoon.     *Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

ISundays  only.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Saturdays  and  Sundays.  ^Sundays  and  Mondays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  oheck  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  information. 

Tho    Cr>lnr\    P-arifir>     306  Stockton   St.  San    FraDcisco. 
lilt)    UldllU     rdullll).         MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT.  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day.  week,  or  month       Telephone:  GraDt,  507. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.    Tibokun  FIRRT-  Foot  of  Market  Streat. 
WEEK  DAYS—  7:30,11:00,  I1:0U  A  m;  12:35.  3:30  5:10,  9:30  P  M.    Thursdays— 
Eitra  trip  at  11:30  P  M.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at  1 Sound  11 :80  P  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00,0:30.  11:00  A  m;  1:30   3:80,  6:00,  8:20  P  M. 

SAN    RAFAEL   TO  SAN    Ff  ANCISCO. 
WEEK  DAYS— 8:10,  7:60,»:20,  11:10  AM;  12:45,  3:40,  5:10  p  u.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at   1:55  and  l):35  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10,  9:40.  11  :iu  ah;  1 :40,  8:40.6:00,  6:25  P  M. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave  S.  f. 

In   Effect  .lune  13,  1897 

ARRIVE  IN  S.  F. 

Week  Days.   Sundays. 

Destination. 

Sundays    1  Week  Days 

7:30am      J    8:00AM 
3:30PM           9:30AM 

5:10pm     I    6:00pm 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40AM    1      8:40  AM 
6:10PM         10:25  A  M 
7:35  pm    1      6:22  PM 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Healdsburg, 

Geyaervllle.  Ctoverdale 

7:30  AM 
3:30  PM 

8:00  AM 

7:35pm 

6:22  P  M 

slur!!      1  8:00  am 

Hopland,  Uklah 

»»«  1  %S*5 

7:30am      1   8:uoam 
3:30pm 

Guernevllle. 

7:35PM     |     6;22  p  M 

7:3UAM      I    8:0uam 
5:10pm      [   5:00pm 

Sonoma, 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40  AM     1      8:40  AM 
6:10PM     1     6:22  PM 

7:30am      I    8:00AM 
3:30pm      1    5:00  PM 

„„h.„tA„„,              |    10:40AM     1    10:25  AM 
Sebastopol.           |     7.35pM    |     6:23  p  M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs' Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Hopland  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lake  port,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del 
Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Pomo,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lier- 
ley's,  Bucknell's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville,  Boonevllle,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg.  Westport,  Usal. 

Saturday-to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE— 650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  W.  FOSTER,  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass .  Agent. 

Pacific    Coast    Steamship    Co. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  in  Alaska, 
9  a.  m..  June  5.  10,  15. 20,  2h,  30  and  every  htn  day  thereafter. 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  a.  m..  June  5,  10,  15, 
20.  25,  30,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  "Pomona,"  at  2  p.  m.  June  1,  5, 
9,  14,  18.  22,  26,  31  ;  July  5,  9,  13,  17.  21,  26,  30  ;  Aug.  3.  7.  11,  16,  20,  24,  28. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.m.;  June  3,  7,  11, 
15.  19.  33.  27,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  A.  m.,  June  1.  5,  9. 13, 
17.  21.  25,  29  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay,  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  A.  m., 
the  2d  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents,       10  Market  st,  S.  F. 

Occidental  and  Oriental  Steamship  Co. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  m.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and   connecting   at 

Hougkong  with  steamers  for  India,  efec     No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Coptic Thursday,  June  17, 1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu). Wednesday,  July  7.  1897 

DORrc   (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  July  27,  1897 

Belgic Saturday,  August  1*,  1897 

Round  Taw  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 
corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS.  Secretary. 


[AlilE 


S.  S.  "Mariposa,"  Thursday,  June  24th,  at  2  PM. 
S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu  only,  Tuesday, 
July  13th.  at  2  p    m. 

Line  to  Coolgardie,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &RROS.  CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St..  San    Francisco. 


THE  many  friends  of  President  Albert  Miller  of  the  San 
Francisco  Savings  Union  are  congratulating  him  upon 
escape  from  what  might  easily  have  been  a  fatal  accident. 
Last  Thursday  morning,  accompanied  by  Mrs.  Miller,  he 
drove  from  his  residence  in  Oakland  to  the  train,  when 
the  team  became  frightened  and  ran  away,  the  coachman 
being  unable  to  stop  them.  The  carriage  was  overturned, 
and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Miller  thrown  to  the  ground.  Mrs. 
Miller  was  uninjured,  but  her  husband  was  somewhat 
bruised  and  cut  about  the  face. 


Other  waters  try— Jackson's  Napa  Soda  gets  there. 


HON.  Samuel  M.  Shortridge  has  accepted  an  invitation 
to  deliver  the  oration  on  July  4th  at  Vallejo.  The 
people  up  the  bay  may  safely  congratulate  themselves 
upon  securing  this  splendid  orator  as  the  speaker  upon 
that  particular  occasion. 


UNUSUALLY  interesting  sports  at  El  Campo  to-mor- 
row.    An  oarsman's  regatta  takes  place  there.  Four 
trips  each  way;  25  cents. 

Fine  Watch  and  Jewelry  Repairing.    Low  prices.    All  work  guaran- 
teed.   J.  N.  Brittan,  watchmaker  and  jeweler,  20  Geary  street. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  19,  1897. 


THE     WHEEL     OF     FORTUNE. 

No.  I. 

A  QUARTER  of  a  century  ago,  to  engage  the  tiger  in 
his  lair,  and  play  blue  chips  all  through  a  deal  was  not 
considered  a  reprehensible  pastime.  Everybody  gambled. 
The  merchant,  the  judge,  the  lawyer,  the  soldier,  the 
granger,  all  enjoyed  the  excitement  of  a  night  in  the  halls 
of  the  Egyptian  King.  The  professional  sports  were  on 
terms  of  social  equality  with  the  highest  in  the  land.  True, 
they  did  not  invite  the  Knights  of  the  Green  Table  to  their 
houses,  but  they  drank  and  dined  with  them  elsewhere, 
and  were  entertained  by  them  at  banquets  of  royal  profus- 
ion. For  the  sports  of  old  were  a  lavish  and  princely  class, 
and  always  had  money  to  throw  to  the  birds.  Easily  come, 
easily  go  was  their  motto.  If  fortune  was  kind  on  Mon- 
day, she  might  change  her  mind  by  Tuesday,  so  it  was  well 
to  let  the  cash  fly  while  they  had  it.  They  dressed  fashion- 
ably and  expensively.  Indeed,  well-dressed  as  a  gambler 
was  among  the  epigrams  of  the  times. 

One  of  the  very  swell  faro  banks  of  the  city  was  situated 
on  Montgomery  street  in  a  building  opposite  the  Occiden- 
tal Hotel,  and  over  Garcia's  saloon.  John  Scott,  a  vet- 
eran sport,  was  its  keeper,  and  his  favorite  dealer  was 
Charley  Burroughs,  a  man  who  had  graduated  from  Yale 
with  honors,  and  who  never  lost  his  taste  for  English  lit- 
erature. Scott  had  the  reputation  of  running  an  abso- 
lutely square  game.  When  Burroughs  was  at  the  box  all 
knew  that  Charley  was  incapable  of  taking  the  slightest 
advantage  of  a. player,  and  would  rather  yield  than  insist. 
There  was  almost  no  limit  to  the  betting,  and  any  man  of 
standing  could  have  bis  check  cashed  by  Scott.  Around 
the  table  one  met  the  best-known  characters  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, chatting  merrily,  and  playing  as  much  for  the  ex- 
citement of  the  sport  as  for  the  gain.  It  was  not  consid- 
ered the  correct  thing  to  show  any  annoyance  at  losing, 
and  most  stoically  those  old  Spartans  watched  their  blue 
and  red  chips  vanish  into  the  dealer's  draw. 

In  a  room  adjoining  the  play-room  an  all-night  supper 
was  served,  free  to  all  comers.  There  were  hot  and  cold 
dishes,  fine  wines,  the  best  of  brandies  and  whiskies,  and 
respectful  and  attentive  waiters.  The  cooking  was  unex- 
ceptionable. So  as  long  as  the  game  was  running,  drinks 
and  cigars  free  were  served  to  the  guests.  Burroughs, 
while  dealing,  could  maintain  a  conversation  with  those 
near  him,  and  never  made  a  mistake  in  the  paying  or  re- 
ceipt of  a  debt.  He  had  that  dual  quality  of  observation 
which  is  so  valuable  to  a  man  of  his  occupation.  Poor 
Charley  fell  down  stairs  in  a  lodging  house  on  Bush  street 
in  the  early  "eighties,"  and  broke  his  neck.  He  was  a 
prince  among  gamblers. 

Large  sums  changed  hands  in  Scott's  house.  John 
Saunders,  a  wealthy  lawyer  who  resided  in  San  Rafael, 
played  under  the  most  varying  luck  at  Scott's  one  night. 
Saunders  strolled  in  after  a  big  dinner  at  the  old  Poodle 
Dog,  with  but  twenty-five  dollars  in  his  pocket.  He 
reached  the  table  just  as  Burroughs  had  placed  the  cards 
in  the  box  for  a  new  deal,  and  planked  all  his  capital  on 
the  ace.  It  won.  Saunders  let  the  bet,  now  fifty,  re- 
main, and  the  ace  won.  Still  the  plucky  player  refrained 
from  "pinching  his  bet,"  and  the  ace  won  again.  '.'I'll  bet 
any  man  fifty  it  wins  clear  out,"  said  Saunders.  He  backed 
his  judgment,  and  it  did,  giving  him  four  hundred  dollars 
on  the  original  investment  of  twenty-five.  With  this  stake 
Saunders  took  in  $3,000,  then  it  melted  to  $600,  and  he 
finally  left  after  a  dashing  play  during  the  last  deal  $1,400 
ahead  of  the  game,  all  raked  in  from  his  twenty-five  dollar 
grub  stake. 

But  this  was  only  the  luck  of  the  minority.  A  quarter- 
master from  the  Presidio,  who  was  an  inveterate  gambler, 
visited  Scott's  one  night  with  $800  of  the  regimental  funds 
in  his  pocket.  He  doubled  them  in  an  hour  or  so,  and 
then  sat  down  to  supper.  Disregarding  that  superstition 
almost  universal  with  gamblers,  that  those  who  make  a 
break  on  a  winning,  and  then  play  again,  must  invariably 
lose,  the  soldier  lit  a  cigar,  and  thought  he'd  venture  a 
twenty  just  as  a  flyer.  He  did,  and  lost  it,  and  in  the 
attempt  to  recoup,  every  dollar  of  his  winnings  and  the 
original  capital  followed  it.  He  was  in  a  bad  way,  but  was 
saved  from  disgrace  by  one  of  the  men  who  had  played  at 
the  table  with  him. 


It  was  after  a  big  game  at  Scott's  that  Harry  Logan 
and  Gus  Guerrero  met  in  Garcia's  saloon,  and  some  hot 
words  passed.  Finally  Guerrero  drew  his  pistol  and  shot 
Logan  in  the  side,  inflicting  a  wound  which  was  at  first 
considered  fatal.  But  Logan,  a  big,  healthy  stock  broker, 
recovered,  and  Guerrero  paid  some  thousands  of  dollars  to 
avoid  prosecution.  This  became  the  nucleus  of  Logan's 
fortune  in  New  York,  where  he  moved  shortly  afterward. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO,  JUNE  26,  1897. 


Number  26. 


Printed  and  Pu&litkea  nery  Saturday  by  in,  proprietor.  FRED  MAR  Ma  '1 7 
6*4  Kearny  street,  San  Francisco.  Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post- 
ofice  at  Second-class  Matter. 

Tks  ofice  of  the  SEWS  LETTER  in  .\>ir  York  City  is  at  Temple  Court; 
and  at  Chicago,  90S  Boyce  Building.  {Frank  K  Morrison,  Eastern 
Representative),  ichcrs  information  maybe  obtained  regarding  subscrip- 
tion and  advertising  rates. 

Iff.   Lees  is  almost  as   good   a  Chief  of  Police  as  he  is 
•  an  attorney. 


JUDGE  Campbell  this  week  turned  loose  some  sixty 
Chinamen  who  had  been  caught  by  the  police  in  the 
very  act  of  gambling.  The  Judge  usually  rules  against 
the  evidence  of  a  case;  but  this  is  a  little  surprising,  from 
the  fact  that  the  Chinese  have  no  votes. 


DURING  the  absence  of  James  D.  Phelan,  Supervisor 
Rottanzi  is  acting  Mayor.  The  Doctor's  name  is  in- 
separably connected  with  the  municipal  legislation  of  the 
present  year.  It  was  owing  to  his  persistent  efforts  that  the 
high  headgear  worn  by  ladies  is  prohibited  at  the 
theatres,  and  men  enabled  to  view  the  amusements  their 
money  pays  for;  besides  escape  from  a  desire  to  commit 
justifiable  homicide. 

CONGRESSMAN  Bailey,  of  Texas,  has  publicly  de- 
clared that  he  is  for  Bryan  for  President  at  the 
next  general  election.  The  dispatch  conveying  this  an- 
nouncement adds  that  it  created  something  of  a  sensation. 
This  is  the  only  element  of  surprise.  It  is  as  well  settled 
now  that  Bryan  will  be  a  candidate  in  1900  as  that  he  was 
defeated  in  1896,  or  that  he  is  totally  unfitted  for  the  office. 

IN  order  to  placate  a  patron  of  his  bank,  S.  G.  Murphy 
discharged  a  faithful  and  competent  paying  teller,  be- 
cause his  testimony  as  a  truthful  man  was  distasteful  that 
patron.  Accepting  this  reasoning  as  correct — and  it  is 
certainly  justifiable  in  view  of  the  facts — Murphy  would 
have  promoted  his  employee  if  he  had  sworn  to  a  false- 
hood. This  is  a  peculiar  sort  of  moral  code  for  a  bank 
president,  and  Murphy  is  the  only  man  in  the  banking  bus- 
iness in  San  Francisco  who  occupies  such  an  uncomplimen- 
tary position. 

SUBSCRIPTIONS  for  the  entertainment  of  the  Christ- 
ian Endeavorers  who  will  be  here  next  month  are  be- 
ing promptly  met.  These  people,  who  are  to  visit  San 
Francisco  from  the  East,  are  representative  young  men 
and  women,  and  no  doubt  many  of  them  will  remain  here. 
or  return  later.  They  are  vigorous,  active,  intelligent, 
and  are  very  different  from  the  contingent  which  annually 
visits  the  southern  part  of  the  State  in  search  of  lungs  and 
other  necessities  of  existence,  and  who  unfortunately  in- 
crease the  cemetery,  rather  than  the  school,  census. 

THE  Merchants'  Association  has  addressed  a  communi- 
cation to  the  Supervisors  requesting  conticued  sweep- 
ing on  the  principal  streets,  notwithstanding  the  shortage 
in  the  street  department  funds.  The  Christian  Endeav- 
orers are  coming  many  thousands  strong,  and  it  would  be 
very  bad  policy  to  let  them  see  our  streets  as  dirty  as  they 
would  soon  become  if  the  sweeping  were  neglected.  It  is 
to  be  hoped  that  some  effort  will  be  made  to  sprinkle 
much  more  liberally  during  the  sojourn  of  the  Endeav- 
orers. It  would  be  a  most  excellent  idea  to  sprinkle  Mar- 
ket street  on  Sundays  during  their  stay,  otherwise  the 
visitors  who  risk  an  afternoou  promenade  on  that  street 
will  have  neither  time  nor  miod  for  Sabbath  evening  de- 
votions. 


M  AYOR  Phelan  has  vetoed  the  ordinance  prohibiting 
I  L  the  laying  of  asphaltum  roofs  within  the  fire  limits. 
The  Mayor  justified  his  veto  on  the  sound  ground  that  the 
ordinance  would  injure  and  displace  a  local  industry  and 
product,  without  compensation.  If  the  insurance  com- 
panies are  prepared  to  accept  asphaltum  roofings,  the 
Supervisors  should  be  content.  There  are  a  number  of 
leaks  in  the  municipal  roof  that  require  plugging,  and 
the  Supervisor  who  applies  a  material  warranted  to  stop 
them  need  have  no  fear  of  Mayor  Phelan's  veto. 

THE  movement  by  Mayor  Phelan  to  put  all  the  overhead 
wires  of  the  city  underground  has  met  an  encourag- 
ing response  from  the  Southern  Pacific  Company,  which 
has  written  a  letter  to  the  Supervisors  signifying  its  will- 
ingness to  put  its  electric  liaes  in  a  properly  constructed 
conduit  within  the  next  six  months.  This  is  a  good  begin- 
ning. Now  let  us  hear  from  the  telegraph,  telephone,  and 
other  corporations  whose  poles  disfigure  the  streets  and 
whose  wires  are  a  menace  to  life. 


WW.  Montague  has  been  appointed  postmaster  at 
,  San  Francisco.  He  is  a  capable  man  and  a  success- 
ful merchant,  and  for  this  reason  will  give  the  office  a  bus- 
iness rather  than  a  political  administration.  Mr.  Mon- 
tague is  a  Republican.  It  is  understood  that  he  will  select 
Benjamin  F.  McKinley,  uncle  of  William  McKinley,  as  his 
deputy.  He  has  had  some  experience  in  the  department, 
and  is  now  in  charge  of  Station  F.  The  fact  that  Uncle 
Ben  is  a  close  relative  of  the  President  does  not  necessarily 
impl_v  that  he  will  not  make  an  excellent  deputy  to  Mr. 
Montague,  although  that  fact  may  have  something  to  do 
with  his  appointment. 

THE  Balboa  Boulevard  fund  has  been  expended,  and 
the  gentlemen  who  had  charge  of  it  have  made  their 
final  report.  They  are  entitled  to  the  sincere  thanks  of 
all  good  citizens,  for  their  efforts  have  resulted  in  food 
and  shelter  to  many  of  the  deserving,  and  in  the  comple- 
tion of  a  considerable  public  improvement.  Nearly  every 
one  is  willing  to  contribute  to  movements  of  this  charac- 
ter; the  difficulty  always  is  to  find  business  men  who  will 
give  their  time  to  the  work.  In  the  present  instance 
every  member  of  the  committee  did  well  his  duty;  but 
Daniel  JHeyer,  Lipman  Sachs,  L.  R.  Ellert,  and  William 
Bunker,  proprietor  of  the  Report,  are  entitled  to  and 
freely  accorded  especial  credit.  Mr.  Bunker  really  was 
the  father  of  the  boulevard  plan  for  helping  the  poor,  and 
the  News  Letter  thinks  Bunker  Boulevard  would  have 
been  a  more  euphonious  name  for  that  handsome  roadway 
than  the  one  selected. 

IT  is  more  than  likely  that  young  Figel  owes  his  present 
unfortunate  predicament  to  his  passion  for  the  race 
track;  and  it  is  admitted  that  Isaac  Norton  lies  in  the 
grave,  a  suicide,  because  he  "  played  the  races. "  There 
are  two  prominent  instances  of  the  curse  of  race  track 
gambling.  How  many  deaths,  how  much  crime,  disgrace, 
and  misery  have  been  caused  by  this  desperate  game  of 
chance  cannot  ever  be  approximated.  It  is  amazing  that 
men  on  moderate  salaries,  occupying  positions  of  great 
responsibility,  handling  thousands  of  other  people's  money, 
are  permitted  to  regularly  visit  the  race  tracks,  and  be 
seen  in  the  betting  ring  day  after  day  unchallenged.  For 
the  losses  and  disgrace  which  frequently  follow,  employer 
is  almost  as  much  to  blame  as  the  weak  employee.  As  long 
as  such  freedom  is  permitted,  the  story  of  defalcations, 
embezzlements,  and  suicides  will  be  told — bringing  shame 
and  sorrow  to  the  innocent  and  retribution  to  the  guilt}'. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  26,  1897. 


WHO    OBJECTS    TO    A    GREATER    SaN    FRANCISCO? 

SAN  FRANCISCO  at  present  is  reckoned  eighth  or  ninth 
in  the  rank  of  large   American  cities.     Let  it  unite 
with  the  suburban  population  that  naturallj  belongs  to  it, 
and  it  would  at  once  jump  up  to  the  position  of  about  sixth. 
In  a  few  years  it  would  be   surpassed  only   by  Chicago, 
Philadelphia,    and   New  York.     Who  objects  to   this  ad- 
vancement ?    Nobody,  we   think,   who  has  given  a  little 
study  to  the  advantages,  rather  than  to  the  difficulties,  of 
bringing  about   such   an   arrangement.      The   difficulties 
would  be  insignificant  compared   with   those   which  have 
successfully  been  overcome  in   the   cases  of  Chicago   and 
New  York.     Whilst  San  Francisco  would  be  benefited,  the 
municipalities  around  her  would   be  advantaged  in  a  still 
larger  degree.     The  weaker  would   draw  strength   from 
the  stronger,  as   is  invariably   the  case.     There  would  be 
more  civic  pride,  more  friendly  rivalry,  and  in  such  a  union 
there  would  be  more  power  to  effect  any  great  project  of 
common  interest,  and  there  will  be  many  such  in  the  near 
future.      Oakland,   Alameda,  and    Berkeley  have   to  be 
brought  into  closer  touch  with  San   Francisco  than   they 
are.     A  tunnel  under  the  bay,  from  the  ferry  depot  to  the 
Oakland  water  front,    is   a   certainty  of  the  not  distant 
future.    Its  accomplishment  would  be  quicker  and  surer  if 
the  two  sides  of  the  bay  were  one  great  city.      Then  the 
Market-street  cars  will  have  to  be  run  under  ground  ere 
long.     It  is  not  possible   that  that  great   boulevard  can 
carry  for  many  years  more  the  traffic  that  is  coming  to  it. 
No  great  street  in  the  world  is  constructed  like  it.   As  all 
the   streets    to    the    north    and    south    run    into    it  at 
an    acute    angle,     and     as     the     ferries     are     located 
at    one     end     of     it,      its     traffic     is     already      more 
than     it     comfortably     carries.      It     is    now      almost 
more  than  an  aged  person's  life  is   worth   to  attempt 
to  cross  it  during  the  busy  hours  of  the  day,  and   its  dan- 
gers would  be  insupportable  were  it  not  for  the  excellent 
service  of  the  police  at  the  more  crowded  crossing  places. 
An  under-ground  system  of  cars,  with  electricity  for  light- 
ing and  as  the  motive  power,  could  be  so  easily  constructed 
and  so  cheaply  operated  that  the  marvel  is  that  it  is  not 
already  in  existence.     It  is  bound  to  come  sooner  or  later. 
There  is  no  use  in  trying  to  dam  up  Niagara  or  to   try  to 
empty  the  ocean  with  a  clam  shell.      The  march  of  pro- 
gress will  not  be  stayed  by  any  little  difficulties  that  at 
present  stand  in  the  way  of  putting  San  Francisco  on  "the 
right  side  of  the  bay."     It  will  be  remembered  that   when 
the  Goat  Island  terminus  question  excited   all  attention, 
the  late  Senator  Stanford  declared  that  San  Francisco  was 
on  "  the  wrong  side  of  the  bay,"  and   although  his  words 
were  not  very  cheerfully  received  at   the  time,  he  was  un- 
doubtedly right.     Had  the  founders  of  this  city  imagined 
that  there  would  so  soon  be   a   railroad  eastward   to   the 
Atlantic,  they  never  would  have  looked  to   this  side  of  the 
bay  for  a  great  metropolis.     But  with   a   not  very  large 
sum  of  money,  it  is  now  about  as   easy  to  put   San  Fran- 
cisco in  direct  railroad  connection   with  the   rest  of   the 
country  as  it  is  to  wink  one's  eyes.     The  change  will  come 
because  it  will  be  necessary,  profitable,  and,  therefore,  in- 
evitable.    With  that  accomplished,    the   two  sides   of  the 
bay  will  become  materially  one,  and   to  hasten  its   accom- 
plishment they  cannot  too  soon  become  united  in  the  bonds 
of  municipal  union. 

Then  again,  the  Alameda  side  of  the  bay  would  bring  to 
our  aid  in  governing  this  city  wisely  and  well  a  large  and 
most  desirable  class  of  voters.  Five  times  have  we  tried 
to  pass  a  fair  and  clean  charter,  but  have  failed  every 
time,  because  the  powers  that  make  for  corruption  in  pub- 
lic office  were  able  to  poll  more  votes  than  honest  citizens, 
anxious  only  for  good  and  clean  Government.  It  is  a 
lamentable  confession  to  have  to  make,  but  every  man 
amongst  us  knows  it  to  be  true.  We  are  about  to  try  a 
sixth  time,  with  sure  and  certain  failure  staring  us  in  the 
face.  No  charter  that  ought  to  be  passed  will,  as  matters 
political  stand,  be  ratified  by  a  majority  of  the  men  en- 
titled to  votes.  To  attempt  it  is  a  mere  waste  of  time  and 
money.  With  a  Greater  San  Francisco  established,  the 
taxpaying  owners  of  homes  would  be  largely  in  the  major- 
ity, and  a  better,  stronger,  and  more  vice-suppressing 
charter  than  has  ever  yet  been  proposed  for  this  city 
oould  easily  be  enacted  into  a  law.  A  respectable  major- 
ity of  from  three  to  four  thousand  from  the  other   side  of 


the  bay,  which  could  pretty  certainly  be  depended  upon, 
would  end  Buckleyism,  Raineyism,  and  Kellyism,  and  with 
them  the  voting  power  of  the  Rockrollers  of  Tar  Flat  and 
of  the  Tigers  of  Telegraph  Hill.  People  of  saving  proclivi- 
ties, with  the  responsibility  of  families,  and  a  desire  for 
decent  environment,  betake  themselves  to  the  suburbs,  if 
they  can.  It  is  a  distinct  loss  to  the  city  to  have  such 
people  move  away.  As  we  cannot  keep  them  within  our 
present  boundaries,  we  cannot  do  better  than  to  enlarge 
the  city  until  it  embraces  as  safe  voting  power  for  munici- 
pal purposes  as  there  is  in  the  State.  We  believe  the 
sixth  attempt  to  procure  a  charter  will  be  as  abortive  as 
its  five  predecessors.  The  attempt,  in  our  judgment,  will 
be  full  of  worry,  annoyance,  expense,  and  ultimate  failure. 
The  men  are  foolish  or  over-sanguine  who  imagine  lhat 
they  can  succeed  where  others  have  failed.  It  is  hardly 
conceivable  that  a  better  charter  can  be  framed  than  the 
last  defeated  one,  and  there  is  not  an  atom  of  evidence 
that  the  voting  power  has  changed  for  the  better  since 
then.  The  uniform  verdict  of  San  Francisco,  as  it  at 
present  exists,  is  against  an  honest  charter.  The  tax- 
eaters,  with  their  friends  and  allies,  outvote  the  taxpayers, 
and  that  being  so,  the  way  to  secure  relief  is  to  join  forces 
with  enough  other  taxpayers  to  bring  the  taxeaters  under 
subjection.  The  union  of  cities  with  their  suburbs  is  the 
trend  of  the  age.  It  is  found  to  work  well  wherever  tried. 
There  are  very  special  reasons  why  it  should  be  applicable 
to  the  peculiar  case  of  San  Francisco. 

The  Folly     There  is  not  one   really  good  word  to  be 
of  said  for  annexation — not  one!    Wherever 

Annexation,  it  is  advocated  there  is  an  underlying  mo- 
tive that  takes  no  account  of  the  public 
good.  It  means  the  sure  and  certain  death  of  the  beet 
sugar  industry  of  California,  and  that  will  be  a  disaster  to 
our  State.  As  the  Springfield  Republican  well  says:  "The 
sugar  is  grown  upon  the  Islands  by  about  the  cheapest 
and  most  degraded  coolie  and  contract  labor  known  in  the 
world.  *  *  *  The  inadequacy  of  a  protective  policy 
that  uncovers  our  own  product,  whilst  levying  high  taxes 
on  that  of  Cuba  and  other  places  is  absurd."  Hardly  be- 
fore the  ink  is  dry  upon  the  closing  pages  of  his  volume  of 
memoirs,  where  John  Sherman  put  forth  his  solemn  con- 
viction of  the  unwisdom  of  a  policy  of  territorial  expansion 
beyond  the  present  borders,  temporary  political  expe- 
diency has  driven  him  to  append  his  signature  to  a  treaty 
of  annexation  of  a  country  2,100  miles  away,  and  of  a 
people,  save  a  few,  as  remote  in  civilized  attainment  and 
kindred  character  as  the  Terra  del  Fuegans.  Yet  Hawaii 
is  to  be  admitted  as  a  territory,  and  all  its  inhabitants, 
save  the  Chinese,  are  admitted  to  citizenship  at  once.  The 
natives  number  31,000,  the  Japanese  24,000,  the  Chinese 
22,000,  the  Portuguese  15,000,  leaving  a  remainder  of 
only  8,000  of  American,  English  and  German  origin.  We 
say  without  much  fear  of  successful  contradiction  that 
such  an  incongruous  people  are  incapable  of  self-govern- 
ment on  American  principles.  A  very  large  majority  are 
against  such  a  system  being  forced  upon  them.  If  a  popu- 
lar vote  were  taken  on  the  Islands  it  would  be  found  that 
a  four-fifths  vote  would  be  found  opposed  to  annexation. 
Nothing  but  turmoil  and  trouble  can  arise  from  the  at- 
tempt. Contrary  to  the  advice  of  the  early  fathers,  in 
violation  of  the  Monroe  doctrine,  and  destruction  of  our 
most  promising  industry,  annexation  has  nothing  to  com- 
mend it  to  anybody  save  a  handful  of  Hawaiian  planters. 
It  is  true  that  it  is  claimed  that  we  would  lose  a  trade  of 
about  four  millions  a  year.  A  more  unfounded  assertion 
was  never  made.  That  trade  is  ours  because  of  our  near- 
ness to  the  Islands,  and  because  we  alone  have  most  of  the 
articles  the  Hawaiians  buy.  Nothing  can  reverse  these 
conditions,  and  therefore  nothing  can  change  the  course 
of  that  trade  away  from  us.  Moreover,  if  that  trade  is 
to  be  kept  only  under  existing  conditions,  it  is  not  worth 
having.  We  pay  just  about  the  total  value  of  that  trade 
in  rebated  sugar  duties,  and  now  propose  a  total  sacrifice 
of  our  beet  growing  and  sugar  manufacturing  industries. 
Then,  again,  it  is  said  that  Japan  had  a  covetous  eye  on 
Hawaii;  to  which  Premier  Ito  at  once  made  reply  that 
Japan  would  not  take  the  Islands  if  tendered  them  as  a 
gift.  The  truth  is  that  no  country  wants  Hawaii  at  any 
price,  and  most  countries  of  Europe  are  glad  to  see  us  de- 
part from  our  safe  policy  of  splendid  isolation.    Whilst  we, 


June  26,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    NEWS    I.KTTKR. 


in  both  canes  and  beets,  have  a  pretty  considerable  home 
product,  to  ttx   exist  of  which  protection  19  absolutely 

.  violation  of  party   pledges,  and  of  tl 
•  !  policy  of  the  country,  to  lei   in   duty  free  the  pro- 
duct of  tlv  ograded  labor  system,  and 
that  argument  alone  ought    in    right  and  justice  to  deter- 
mine the  whole  quest1                  rding  to  the  treaty,  t 
having    Hawaiian    registry,  are   at  once  to  be  entll 
American  registry.     What  this  will  amount  to  will  be  sur- 
prising.    By  the  time  the   treaty  can  lie  ratified,  m 
the  foreign   bottoms  of   the  Pacitic  will  be  found   t. 
gained    American    registry.     It    is   a   tricky,  unwise,  and 
even  a  deplorable  measure  all  through. 

Our  esteemed  contemporary,  the  Evening  Bulletin,  does 
injustice  to  its  own  good  name,  and  seems  to  have  "goue 
and  got  ruined"  on  this  subject.  It  falsifies  when  it  says 
that  the  record  shows  that  the  Japanese  want  the  Islands. 
The  Japanese  emigrated  to  Hawaii  because  of  a  treaty 
giving  them  rights  equal  to  those  of  the  most  favored 
nation,  including  that  of  naturalization.  What  Japan  now 
protests  against  is  a  treaty  that  would  at  once  sweep 
away  all  rights  already  acquired.  We  would,  were  we  in 
her  place,  insist  upon  the  maintenance  of  those  rights,  and 
the  indications  are  that  sbe  will  do  that  at  all  hazards. 
Otherwise,  her  Prime  Minister  says,  she  "would  not  take 
the  Islands  as  a  free  gift."  With  that  declaration  she 
clearly  has  the  best  of  the  argument.  Moreover,  Japan 
is  in  the  family  of  nations  to  stay,  and  may  not  be  ruled 
out  and  her  treaties  set  at  naught,  without  a  grave  re- 
flection resting  upon  the  civilization  of  the  country  that 
would  engage  in  the  enterprise.  The  latest  dispatches 
show  with  what  cheerful  alacrity  Great  Britain  assents 
to  annexation,  provided  that  the  rights  of  her  citizens  are 
guaranteed.  We  shall  concede  those  rights  cheerfully. 
What  is  sauce  for  the  goose  is  sauce  for  the  gander.  What 
we  concede  to  Great  Britain,  we  must  necessarily  yield  to 
Japan,  and  then  to  China,  and  upon  those  terms  Hawaii 
would  not  be  worth  having. 

Newspaper  A  most  remarkable  accusation  has  been 
Charity  Funds,  made  against  the  New  York  Herald 
by  the  New  York  Sun;  and  it  is  noth- 
ing less  than  a  direct  charge  that  the  Herald,  after  hav- 
ing collected  more  than  fifteen  thousand  dollars  for  the  pur- 
chase of  ice  to  be  distributed  free  among  the  poor  of  New 
York,  spent  less  than  three  thousand  dollars  for  that  pur- 
pose— leaving  a  balance  of  more  than  twelve  thousand  dol- 
lars unaccounted  for.  It  is  to  be  noted  that  the  Herald, 
instead  of  making  prompt  denial,  backed  up  by  itemized 
statement  of  its  free  ice  fund,  failed  to  make  response  at 
all,  even  after  having  been  very  pointedly  requested  to  do 
so  by  several  of  the  New  York  papers  besides  the  Sun. 

The  charge  of  the  Sun  opens  up  a  particularly  pert- 
inent question,  which  is  well  worth  the  attention  of  the 
the  whole  public.  The  Herald,  as  a  paper,  may  be  called 
ultra-respectable  in  its  general  character,  as  contra-dis- 
tinguished from  the  distempered  yellow  journalism  of  New 
York  and  San  Francisco.  Its  proprietor,  James  Gordon 
Bennett,  is  a  very  wealthy  man,  liberal,  high-minded,  gen- 
erous; and  it  may  be  assumed  if  the  Herald,  charged  with 
acts  compared  with  which  everyday  theft  becomes  virtue 
and  ordinary  crime  a  recommendation  of  good  character, 
refuses  to  clear  its  skirts  by  undisputable  proofs  of  innocence 
— or  any  proofs  at  all — that  it  is  time  for  people  generally 
to  look  strictly  to  the  ultimate  end  of  their  subscription 
for  charitable  purposes,  of  which  "enterprising"  daily 
papers  are  the  frequent  and  self-appoiuted  custodians.  If 
the  old-fashioned  and  staid  Herald  endures  a  charge  of 
this  character  in  silence,  contributors  who  generously  re- 
spond to  every  appeal  of  the  new  journalism — and  they  are 
not  infrequent — have  a  right  to  look  with  interest  for  the 
balance  sheets  of  these  eager  purveyors  of  public  charity, 
filtered  through  irresponsible  or  unknown  hands. 

The  trouble  with  this  sort  of  collections  is  that  the  pub- 
lic do  not  know  who  takes  the  money  contributed  by  a 
generous  people;  it  is  an  easy  thing  for  a  daily  newspaper 
to  gather  large  sums  on  behalf  of  any  really  laudable  pur- 
pose. It  would  be  quite  as  easy,  and  usually  a  perfectly 
safe  matter,  for  a  paper  engineering  a  scheme,  and  boosted 
by  a  big  original  subscription,  to  recoup  itself  for  its  sup- 
posed gift,  beside  absorbing  a  large  part  of  the  hard  coin 
taken  from  the   pockets  of  credulous  contributors.     The 


Starting  of  these  charitable  collections  by  heavy  donations 
may  very  well  give  the  public  an  appetite  for  information 
a-  to  who  tin'  custodians  of  their  thousands  of  dollars  are! 
Are  they  men  who  arc  entitled  to  large  confidence?  Are 
they  noted  for  integrity  and  personal  honor?  Are  they 
known  at  all?     A  great  newspaper  like  the  Herald 

many  employees.  The  people  know  the  paper— not  the 
men  who  work  for  it.  In  the  ease  of  the  Herald  it  appears 
that  receipt  of  the  funds  was  acknowledged  from  day  to 
day.  but  the  itemized  statement  of  expenditures  was  not 
published— else  such  a  scandal  would  have  been  impossible. 
Charity  is  the  sweetest  and  most  precious  word  known 
to  the  human  heart,  and  its  practical  expression  should 
never  be  checked  nor  embarrassed;  but  this  amazing  pre- 
dicament of  the  Herald  may  well  cause  the  unsuspecting 
public  to  hesitate  and  make  inquiry  before  they  give  their 
thousands  to  men  utterly  unknown  to  them,  or  who,  if 
known,  might  not  be  trusted  with  enough  to  black  their 
boots. 


Debs,  the    Eugene  V.  Debs  let  thecat  out  of  the  bag  at 

Anarchist.  Chicago  the  other  day  when  he  declared  that 
the  "present  American  system  of  government 
would  be  overthrown  by  peaceable  means  if  possible,  but  by 
force  of  arms  if  necessary,"  and  that  himself  and  his  blind 
followers  were  prepared  to  resist  United  States  troops 
whenever  the  occasion  presented  itself  and  the  moment 
was  opportune.  In  making  this  announcement,  this  revo- 
lutionist served  timely  notice  upon  the  Federal  authorities, 
upon  vested  accumulations,  and  people  who  respect  the 
rights  of  others,  and  who  love  peace  and  stability  rather 
than  anarchy  and  insecurity  of  life  and  property. 

Debs  is  at  present  making  an  effort  to  bring  an  army  of 
idle  men  from  the  great  centers  of  population  in  the 
Middle-West  to  some  State  nearer  the  Pacific  Ocean, 
where  they  may  colonize  a  large  area  of  land,  build  cities 
and  homes,  and  as  he  has  declared,  secure  control  of  the 
machinery  of  State  government,  and  practically  demons- 
trate the  Socialistic  theories  of  which  he  is  the  chief  pro- 
moter and  exponent  in  this  country.  Until  his  outburst 
in  Chicago,  it  was  generally  supposed  that  Debs  was  op- 
posed to  the  use  of  force  in  relieving  the  distress  of  the 
laboring  element  and  permanently  elevating  the  poorer 
classes.  His  Chicago  harangue  has  shown  him  up  in  his 
true  colors,  and  places  him  in  the  direct  ranks  of  the 
anarchists,  and  an  enemy  of  all  that  society  cherishes. 
He  proposes  to  aid  the  laboring  man  by  assailing  and 
striking  down  the  laws  under  which  property  is  acquired 
and  its  security  guaranteed;  to  substitute  chaos  for  ordei- 
and  revolution  for  peace.  His  open  declarations,  into 
which  he  was  betrayed  in  the  frenzy  of  the  moment,  is  now 
denied  by  him, 'but  its  truth  is  indisputable.  Its  disastrous 
effect  upon  the  colonization  scheme  will  be  immediately 
apparent.  No  State  will  welcome  Debs  and  his  army  of 
tramps  when  it  is  known  that  their  determination  is  the 
ultimate  control  of  State  governments  and  their  announced 
purpose  to  reach  their  ends  even  should  it  involve  an  ap- 
peal to  arms.  The  Western  States  are  in  need  of  money 
to  develop  their  resources,  and  in  order  to  obtain  it  they 
must  offer  first  of  all  reasonable,  conservative  and  safe 
laws.  The  Governor  of  Washington  sent  to  Debs  a  press- 
ing invitation  to  lead  his  anarchists  to  that  State,  where 
they  would  be  welcomed;  but  it  is  doubtful  if  he  would  have 
done  so  had  the  real  character  and  intent  of  this  enemy  of 
society  been  known.  The  introduction  of  the  colonists  would 
be  the  signal  for  the  desertion  of  that  State  by  every 
trust  company,  every  foreign  banking  institution,  every 
insurance  company — in  fact,  every  dollar  that  could  be 
moved  would  disappear. 

Unfortunately  for  Mr.  Debs  and  fortunately  for  the 
State  to  which  he  turns,  the  distance  between  his  head- 
quarters in  Chicago  and  the  great  West  is  far;  to  walk  is 
impossible,  and  the  payment  of  railroad  fares  not  to  be 
thought  of.  His  appeal  to  Secretary  Alger  for  transpor- 
tation, after  his  declaration  of  intent  to  defy  the-  laws 
and  overthrow  the  government,  is  a  joke  which  he  may 
appreciate  hereafter.  Under  ordinary  conditions  Debs 
would  be  simply  amusing;  in  the  present  social  and  finan- 
cial conditions  of  the  country  this  anarchist  and  his  lieu- 
tenants may  require  the  attention  of  the  government 
which  they  despise. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  26,  1897. 


Foreign  Facts   And 
Telegraphic  Fiction. 


The  more  experience  we  gain  the 
more  satisfied  we  are  that  little  or 
no  reliance  is  to  be  placed  in  the 
despatches  from  abroad,  which  are  undoubtedly,  in  great 
part,  cooked  up  to  suit  what  are  believed  to  be  the  Ameri- 
can sympathies  of  the  hour.  Some  years  ago  the  writer 
bad  occasion  to  visit  London  and  there  met  the  principal 
agent  of  the  Associated  press.  The  statements  he  tele- 
graphed to  this  side  of  the  water  were,  as  a  rule,  either 
h.ghly  colored  or  grossly  false.  When  taken  to  task  for 
such  work,  his  answer  was  that  if  he  did  not  devote  him- 
self to  catering  to  American  prejudices  he  would  not  re- 
tain his  official  head  for  a  single  week.  As  close  observers 
we  are  bound  to  say  that  the  evil  has  gone  on  increasing 
from  that  day  to  this.  We  are  convinced,  for  instance, 
that  scarcely  a  word  of  truth  has  ever  yet  been  telegraphed 
to  this  country  about  either  Spain  or  Cuba.  Without 
knowing  how  the  facts  certainly  are,  we  venture  the  be- 
lief that  Spain's  darkest  days  are  over.  Gomez  has  dis- 
banded his  forces,  and  the  Philippines  are  again  subdued. 
The  "Cuban  patriots"  has  all  along  been  only  a  synonym 
for  a  band  of  cutthroats  and  banditti  in  the  pay  of  a  New 
York  syndicate.  There  never  at  any  time  has  been  any- 
thing but  mere  guerilla  warfare,  and  the  only  interference 
needed  from  our  Government  ought  to  have  begun  at  home. 
In  the  cases  of  both  Hawaii  and  Cuba,  their  troubles  were 
originated  in  the  United  States,  and  are  yet  being  kept 
alive  by  selfish  interests,  for  the  purpose  of  plunder.  We 
think  that  Spain  sees  daylight  ahead.  Seeing  what  this 
country  and  continent  owe  to  her  early  enterprises,  she 
has  certainly  been  very  badly  treated.  The  case  of  Hawaii 
is  still  worse.  We  found  her  happy  and  prosperous  under 
a  wise  king  and  a  mild  form  of  government.  We  sent  her 
missionaries,  bibles  and  rum,  stole  her  lands,  degraded  her 
people,  filled  them  with  diseases  that  they  knew  not  how 
to  control,  stole  their  government,  and  left  them  as 
foreigners  in  their  own  land,  to  which  they  had  so  hospit- 
ably and  generously  welcomed  the  missionary  authors  of 
all  their  woes.  When  the  record  is  a  little  further  re- 
peated, and  annexation  an  accomplished  fact,  a  page  in 
the  history  of  this  country's  connection  with  Hawaii  will 
be  reached  that  will  bring  a  blush  to  the  faces  of  genera- 
tions of  Americans  yet  unborn. 

The  English  The  past  has  been  a  wonderful  week  in 
Empire  And  London.  There  was  probably  never  on 
Its  Queen.  earth  such  a  show.  It  far  exceeded  the 
triumphal  entries  of  returned  warriors  into 
ancient  Rome.  It  concentrated  for  one  purpose,  and  with 
one  mind,  all  civilized  nations  of  the  globe.  A  part  of  that 
never-to-be  forgotten  pageantry  was  there  in  the  highest 
spirit  of  chivalry  to  do  honor  to  the  good  old  Royal  Lady 
who  has  for  sixty  years  presided  successfully  over  the 
mightiest  Empire  of  these  days,  and  a  still  larger  part  was 
there,  not  only  out  of  loving  regard  for  their  Queen,  but  to 
demonstrate  by  their  personality,  and  by  all  that  it  repre- 
sents the  mightiness  of  that  Empire  upon  which  the  sun 
never  sets,  and  throughout  which  there  is  unity  and 
strength  of  Government,  and  peace,  progress,  and  pros- 
perity healthily  proceeding  on  the  highest  plane  of  civilized 
advancement.  England  may  have  jealous  rivals.  In  these 
days  of  commercial  competition,  rivalries  are  of  the  nature 
of  the  business.  But  Great  Britain,  notwithstanding,  is 
respected  the  wide  world  over.  Her  flag  floats  over 
every  sea,  and  it  yet  remains  true  that  Britannia  rules  the 
waves.  Her  commerce  is  carried  everywhere  and  is  in- 
variably attended  by  fair  dealing,  justice  and  right. 
Wherever  an  enterprise  is  to  be  developed,  there  her 
money  goes  in  larger  volume,  and  at  cheaper  rates,  than 
it  can  generally  be  obtained  elsewhere.  The  world  has 
borrowed  ten  billions  of  dollars  from  her,  which  is  at  least 
two  billions  more  than  all  the  gold  and  silver  there  is  in 
existence  to  repay  it  with,  and  it  is  remarkable  that  she 
still  continues  to  lend  more  liberally  than  other  nations. 
By  this  process  she  has  become  deeply  interested  in  the 
progress  and  prosperity  of  well  nigh  all  the  world,  and  be- 
comes a  force  for  peace  everywhere.  She  is  concerned  in 
the  welfare  of  every  country  in  which  she  has  invested  her 
money,  and  that  is  in  pretty  nearly  all  countries.  By  far 
her  largest  loans  have  been  placed  in  the  United  States, 
and,  as  a  consequence,  she  cannot  make  any  serious  at- 
tack upon  us,  or  permit  ar  vbody  else  to  do  so  if  she  can 


help  it.  We  are  her  largest  creditor.  There  is  much  of 
her  money  in  our  railroads,  telegraphs,  municipal  debts, 
breweries,  manufactories,  irrigation  works,  and,  in  short, 
there  is  hardly  "a  good  thing"  in  all  our  broad  domain 
that  she  has  not,  so  to  speak,  got  her  fingers  in.  Thus  it 
comes  that  even  we  free  and  independent  Americans  are 
workers,  and  profit  earners  for  our  cousins  across  the 
ocean.  It  is  really  a  marvellous  condition,  when  one 
comes  to  think  of  it  seriously.  We  sometimes  predict  the 
ultimate  decadence  of  Great  Britain,  but  how  can  that 
take  place  when  all  nations,  kindreds,  and  tongues  are 
working  for  her  and  making  her  richer  and  stronger  every 
day?  She  takes  very  remarkable  care  of  her  citizens 
abroad,  and  of  her  foreign  loans.  Therein  lies  much  wis- 
dom. The  British  would  not  have  been  the  explorers  and 
pioneers  that  they  are,  had  not  the  fact  been  well  under- 
stood that  they  could  rely  upon  the  support  of  the  strong 
government  at  the  back  of  them.  There  is  not  a  foreign 
nation  to-day  that  thinks  of  defaulting  to  British  creditors, 
because  they  know,  from  the  Egyptian  and  other  exam- 
ples, what  would  follow.  The  larger  Nations  cannot 
afford  to  default  because  they  still  need  to  borrow.  Eng- 
land is  not  likely  to  lose  much  by  reason  of  bad  debts;  her 
investments  have  been  too  shrewdly  made  for  that.  Her 
navy,  which  is  constantly  being  enlarged  and  strengthened, 
is  believed  to  be  equal  to  any  conceivable  emergency,  and 
her  army  is  stronger  than  is  generally  suspected.  In 
India  alone  she  has  over  a  million  of  as  good  soldiers  as  the 
world  knows.  This  is  an  emigrating  age,  and  now  that  the 
United  States  are  pretty  well  filled  up,  England  owns  the 
bulk  of  the  available  new  countries.  She  is  rapidly  spread- 
ing herself  over  the  Earth's  surface.  These  are  surprising 
material  advantages.  Beyond  these  she  is  well  to  the 
front  in  matters  of  higher  civilization,  her  government  is 
deeply  rooted  in  the  hearts  of  her  people,  and  honesty  is 
the  rule  of  the  land.  To  the  good  woman,  who,  as  Queen, 
has  acted  well  her  part  for  sixty  years,  the  world  in 
general,  and  Great  Britain  in  particular,  owe  much,  and 
they  have  justdemonstrated  their  appreciation  of  the  fact. 

The  Right  It  is  always  your  mob  organ  that  wants  to 
Of  trample  on   individual  liberty.     The  right  of 

Petition,  petition  has  for  nearly  six  centuries  and  a 
half  been  deemed  one  of  the  most  cherished 
guarantees  to  be  found  in  Magna  Charta.  No  Monarch 
has  dared  to  set  it  at  naught,  and  no  free  state  has  been 
successfully  established  without  adopting  it.  But  now 
comes  the  most  pronounced  representative  of  "the  new 
journalism"  of  the  period,  as  well  as  of  the  unwashed  mob 
that  backs  it,  and  practically  declares  that  the  right  of 
the  individual  citizen  to  petition  is  now  and  henceforth  to 
cease  and  determine,  and  to  be  exercised  only  in  such 
cases  as  it  may  please  the  Examiner  to  grant  an  indulgence 
for  that  purpose.  The  other  day  a  large  number  of 
citizens  signed  a  petition  against  annexation,  and  ever 
since  this  mob's  organ  has  been  "roasting"  those  citizens 
for  exercising  their  right.  Their  motives  have  been  as- 
sailed, their  characters  attacked,  their  business  harassed, 
their  private  affairs  brought  to  public  view,  and  dire 
threats  of  more  and  worse  treatment,  if  their  signatures 
be  not  withdrawn.  It  is  painful  to  observe  the  number  of 
men  who  are  succumbing  to  this  threat.  They  are  unworthy 
of  their  manhood  and  should  be  ashamed  of  themselves. 
Fortunately  a  large  majority  stand*  by  their  convictions, 
and  only  hold  in  contempt  the  threats  of  a  journal  without 
a  particle  of  influence  with  decent  people.  It  happens 
that  two  can  play  at  the  Examiuer's  game.  The  oppon- 
ents of  annexation  have  no  reason  to  shrink  from  such  a 
contest.  Than  a  majority  of  the  Hawaiian  planters,  no 
worse  men  ever  cut  a  throat,  or  scutt'ed  a  ship,  and  the 
creatures  they  have  hired  to  villify  better  men  than  them- 
selves, are  doing  the  work  for'  which  they  have  been 
trained,  and  that  seems  altogether  to  their  tastes.  Turn 
about  is  said  to  be  fair  play,  and  as  the  treaty  will  not  be 
ratified  this  year,  if  at  all,  there  will  remain  plenty  of 
time  in  which  to  give  the  men  in  whose  service  the  Ex- 
aminer acts,  a  little  of  their  own  sauce. 


Babies  thrive  on  Taroena.    A  natural  food.    Druggists. 


When  out  nights  drinking:  use  Bromo-Kola  in  the  morning. 
Jackson's  Napa  Soda  kills  malaria. 


June  26,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


THE     WHEEL     OF      FORTUNE. 

II. 

ONE  of  the  most,  indeed  it  may  be  said  the  most,  strik 
in^r  flgure  among  the  old-tune  gamblers,  was 
Briggs,  wbo  kepi  ■  gambling  bouse  on  Bush  street,  adjoin- 
ing the  Cosmopolitan  Sotel,  Bin  e  displaced  to  make  room 
for  Crocker's  building.  Briggs  was  a  Cherokee,  and  a  man 
of  truly  magnificent  physique.  He  was  about  six  foot  three 
in  height  and  exquisitely  proportioned.  His  complexion 
was  of  no  deeper  color  than  bronze,  his  eyes  large  and 
lustrous,  and  his  entire  /»  rtomm  'dignified  and  commanding. 
Briggs'  game  was  well  patronized  by  the  sporty  element 
of  the  town,  though  his  entertainments  after  dark  were 
not  as  lavish  as  those  set  forth  by  John  Scott.  He  was, 
like  most  of  his  class,  a  man  of  generous  impulse,  and  many 
kindly  acts  are  credited  to  him.  On  one  occasion  a  young 
man  engaged  in  an  English  bank  in  a  responsible  capacity 
entered  Briggs'  room,  very  much  intoxicated.  He  played, 
and  in  the  beginning  won.  but  like  the  majority  his  luck 
deserted  him,  and  at  two  o'clock  in  the  morning  he  had 
dropped  nearly  two  thousand  dollars.  Briggs,  who  had 
watched  his  play  narrowly,  noticed  that  the  checks  the 
dealer  honored  were  in  different  names,  and  were  endorsed 
by  the  young  banker  before  he  cashed  them  in  the  bank's 
name.  The  steady  run  of  disaster  completely  sobered  the 
unfortunate  gambler.  As  he  was  leaving,  with  a  look  of 
dispair  upon  his  face,  Briggs  stopped  him. 

"  Didn't  you  marry  Miss ,"  he  asked,  naming  an  old 

Californian. 

"  I  did,  eighteen  months  ago,''  was  the  reply, 

"He  was  an  old  friend  of  mine,"  said  the  gambler,  "and 
did  me  many  a  good  turn  in  early  days,  and  I  won't  see  his 
daughter  suffer.  Now,  young  man,  you  know  you  have 
got  yourself  into  a  bad  scrape  and  that  you  dare  not  show 
up  at  the  bank  to-day  without  those  checks.  Wait  a  few 
minutes  for  me."  He  went  to  the  money  drawer,  made  a 
package  of  all  the  checks  the  youth  had  lost,  and  handed 
it  back  to  him. 

"Mr.  Briggs,  you  have  saved  my  life,"  cried  the  clerk, 
"  what  car  I  do  to  show  you  my  gratitude  ?  " 

"Nothing,"  replied  the  gambler;  "hold  on,  though; 
there  is  one  thing.  Promise  me,  for  your  wife's  sake,  that 
you  will  never  enter  a  gambling  house  again."  He  did, 
and,  what  is  more,  kept  it,  and  is  now  the  manager  of  a 
large  bank  in  the  northern  country. 

Another  of  the  dashing  type  of  Californian  gamblers  was 
Bill  Barnes.  Colonel  Barnes,  for  such  was  his  title  by 
common  consent,  was  a  dark,  handsome  man,  of  lithe, 
sinewy  form,  of  intellectual  tastes,  and  was  a  most  perfect 
horseman.  He  could  ride  and  subdue  the  wildest  bronco 
that  ever  came  from  the  "round  up,"  and  in  early  days, 
in  Sacramento,  used  to  wear  a  portion  of  the  costume 
usual  to  the  Spanish  caballero.  During  the  sessions  of  the 
Legislature,  Colonel  Barnes  used  to  give  the  most  lavish 
banquets  at  Bill  Hunt's,  Hotel  de  France,  or  at  Guinean's 
Arcade.  Hunt  was  himself  an  oddity.  He  was  a  big, 
heavy-boned  fellow,  bearded  like  a  miner,  and  a  decidedly 
tough  appearing  character.  Yet  he  was  a  graduate  of 
Yale,  and  a  man  of  the  most  perfect  manner,  when  he 
choose,  and  of  refined  tastes.  When  he  and  Barnes  put 
their  heads  together  to  compose  a  menu,  the  whole  State 
had  to  yield  tribute — Canadian  geese,  woodcock  and  grouse 
from  the  East,  and  Northwestern  country  patty  furnished 
iorth  their  table.  Their  wines  were  the  best  and  rarest 
that  the  cellars  of  San  Francisco  could  yield.  White  Her- 
mitage, Chateau  La  Fitte,  Mouton  Bothschilde,  all  the 
finest  brands  were  theirs.  And  the  guests  were  composed 
of  the  leaders  at  the  Bar,  and  the  most  prominent  mer- 
chants, and  men  of  all  the  professions.  Barnes  and 
Hunt  have  long  since  gone  across  the  river.  It  is  related 
of  Barnes  that  one  night,  when  dining  with  a  friend  of  his, 
he  heard  his  wife  laughingly  complain  that  they  were  too 
poor  to  afford  a  piano.  "Madam,"  said  the  gambler,  "I 
have  here  three  hundred  dollars,  and  I  am  one  of  the  most 
superstitious  men  alive.  Now,  if  you  will,  while  you  keep 
your  mind  on  that  piano,  press  those  bills  against  your 
heart,  I  think  we  shall  have  no  trouble  about  making  the 
riffle."  The  lady  did  so,  and  Barnes,  remarking,  "  I  will 
be  back  directly  for  another  cup  of  coffee,"  took  his  hat 
and  went  directly  to  Pat  Robson's  gambling  house  on  Post 
street.     It  was  the  middle  of  the  deal,   and  the  ace  had 


won  twice.  .  Karnes  placed  the  entire  amount,  $300,  on 
thai  card,  and  it  came  up  third  time  winner.  He  "pinched" 
it  just  half,  letting  1300  still  remain  on  the  ace,  winch 
turned  up  for  the  fourth  time,  winning  straight  through 
the  deal.  Returning  to  the  house  of  his  entertainer,  he 
presented  the  lady  with  six  hundred  dollars,  telling  how  he 
believed  that  fortune  had  favoied  him  through  her  in- 
fluence. And  that  same  night,  long  after  the  family  had 
gone  to  sleep.  Barnes  again  turned  up  at  the  gambling 
Bouses  and  cleared  16000  on  his  own  account. 


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June  26,  1897. 


"  We  obey  no  wand   but  pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 

THE  air  of  prosperity  is  jingling  in  the 
box-office,  tbe  managerial  waistcoat  is 
bland  and  unwrinkled,  the  manager  dines 
punctually  at  every  day.  The  repertories 
?S  are  stocked  with  novelties,  but  no  novelty  is 
to  be  seen  on  any  local  stage.  The  reliables 
of  the  past,  immediate  and  remote,  have  been  exhumed. 
Good  old  Shenandoah  is  booming  at  the  Columbia,  valuable 
Zenda  is  boarding  at  the  Baldwin,  foolish  Wang  is  fooling 
at  the  Tivoli. 

And  Wang  is  tbe  best  show  in  the  town. 

I  know  that  only  one  manager  out  of  a  possible  three 
will  agree  with  me;  but  it  would  be  the  same  on  any  other 
choice;  and  this  one  has  the  advantage  of  being  excellent 
and  true.  It  is  not  a  question  of  the  comparative  values 
of  war  melodrama,  costume  melodrama  and  comic  operetta 
— Shenandoah,  The  Prisoner  of  Zenda,  Wang,  is  each  an  es- 
tablished institution,  which  has  been  discussed  here  when 
the  institution  and  myself  were  of  tenderer  years.  At 
present  Wang  glitters  as  a  performance,  a  production.  It 
goes  as  smooth  as  a  summer  drink.  The  costumes  are 
new  and  smashing,  the  scenery  is  rich,  the  color  scheme  is 
not  indigestible;  the  elephant  is  a  copious  work  of  art;  the 
chorus  is  composed  of  live,  willing  members,  who  act  as 
well  as  sing;  tbe  orchestra  is  delightfully  subordinate  to 
the  singers,  firm  and  official  in  the  choruses;  the  average 
work  of  the  cast  is  as  lofty  as  that  of  any  road  show  at 
three  times  the  admission;  and  Edwin  Stevens  is  the  star. 
Mr.  Stevens,  I  regret  to  say,  is  no  relation  of  mine,  but  he 
is  a  comedian  of  the  first  quality.  He  makes  you  laugh 
without  and  within;  he  is  an  actor  of  not  one  personality, 
but  twenty;  and  what  is  more  pertinent  to  this  occasion, 
he  is  an  artist  where  artists  are  rarest  found,  and  that  is 
in  comic  opera.  Unlike  most  of  his  bounding  brethren 
along  this  line,  Mr.  Stevens's  ideas  of  comicality  are  not 
centered  in  that  anatomical  feature  unmentionable  in 
polite  criticism.     His  hits  are  achieved  at   the  other  end. 

For  many  years — it  must  date  back  to  the  time  when 
Edwin  Stevens  left  San  Francisco  and  went  outinto  the  wide, 
wide  world  to  expand  his  reputation,  the  Tivoli  stage  has 
nursed  the  superstition  that  the  Tivoli  audience  could  be 
moved  to  mirth  only  by  the  most  superhuman  efforts  on 
the  part  of  the  comedian.  Hence  Tivoli  comedians  have 
been  somewhat  in  excess  of  humanity  as  it  is  found  at 
large.  Ferris  Hartman  was  a  faithful  believer  in  this 
superstition;  he  employed  in  his  work  nothing  less  than 
the  strength  of  ten  ordinary  men;  he  had  the  constitution 
of  a  lion,  the  temperament  of  dynamite,  and  the  persuas- 
iveness of  a  battering  ram.  In  good  time  be  became  a 
cult;  nature  evolved  men  and  women  to  a  mould  where 
Hartman,  and  only  Hartman,  could  strike  laughter  to  their 
souls.  These  were  the  Hartmanites.  They  oared  little  for 
the  softer  comic  operas,  because  in  such  as  these  Hartman 
often  had  a  legitimate  character  part  to  play,  and  fre- 
quently played  it  with  something  of  legitimate  character 
skill.  It  was  the  burlesques,  extravaganzas,  spectacles, 
and  operatic  farces,  in  which  Hartman  was  several  thirds 
of  the  performance,  that  drew  them  by  the  thousands 
strong. 

I  was  interested  Monday  night  to  see  tbe  Hartmanite  all 
over  the  place,  and  I  wondered  what  the  outcome  would 
be.  I  had  good  reason  to  believe  that  Ed  Stevens,  who 
had  been  a  wonderful  man  at  the  Tivoli  years  ago,  would 
be  a  success  on  his  reappearance.  But  I  doubted  if  the 
audience  would  succeed  as  well. 

The  very  entrance  of  Mr.  Stevens  was  a  reproach  to 
doubt.  He  came  down  the  stage  gently,  with  several 
tons  of  elephant  pressed  between  his  knees,  dolefully  dis- 
mounted by  means  of  an  adjacent  building,  and  told  in 
touching  song  the  story  of  the  elephant  on  his  hands — "  the 
elephant  ate  all  night  and  the  elephant  ate  all  day."  He 
sang  with  the  humble  sincerity  of  a  man  who  had  made  a 
mistake  and  could  own  up  that  it  was  an  elephant  on  him. 
There  were  fervor,  disappointment,  grief,  and  responsi- 
bility in  his  voice;  it  was  he,   nobody  else  but  long,  lean 


himself,  who  had  Siamesed  with  an  animal  whose  diurnal 
capacity  for  food  would  strain  a  warehouse.  It  was  a 
vivid  reality,  sad,  sorry,  and  appealing.  And  comical  it 
was  to  the  limit,  for  everyone  saw  the  joke  except,  appar- 
ently, the  man  who  joked  it.  It  was  the  humor  of  Cer- 
vantes— Cervantes,  the  founder  of  tall  comedians.  And 
the  Hartmanite,  the  plain  Tivolite,  and  the  casual  play- 
goer came  over  in  a  single  ecstasy  of  wonder  and  delight. 

*  *  * 

I  have  said  before  that  Mr.  Stevens  was  brilliantly  sup- 
ported. Let  me  particularize.  Miss  Seabrook  seems  to 
have  settled  down  to  exacting  from  herself  nothing  but 
the  best  of  which  she  is  capable;  her  Marie  is  conspicu- 
ously the  best  of  the  women's  parts,  easily  acted  and  sung 
with  delicate  particularity.  Miss  Morella  does  not  do  so 
well  with  the  Crown  Prince;  she  gives  a  fair  performance, 
but  clouds  it  with  a  frightful  consciousness  of  her  costumes 
and  many  instances  of  bad  articulation.  The  same  fault — 
articulation,  I  mean — is  all  that  stands  between  Mr. 
Raffael  and  an  ideal  Boucher.  Miss  Helen  Harrington 
plays  the  widow;  she  sings,  too,  at  times,  atrociously,  but 
she  is  very  tactful  as  a  "feeder"  to  Mr.  Stevens,  and 
therefore  is  not  entirely  to  be  despised.  Mr.  Leary  is  fat 
and  funny  as  the  elephant  keeper;  Mr.  Darcy's  idea  of  the 
inn-keeper  is  not  one  of  his  best.  Captain  Fracasse  is  an- 
other first-rate  character  by  Mr.  West.  Gustav  Hinrichs 
has  the  baton,  and  whatever  private  opinion  he  may 
harbor  of  Wang  as  a  musical  work  (or  of  light  opera  as  an 
institution)  he  makes  the  very  most  of  its  performance. 

Altogether  the  Tivoli's  Wang  is  given  with  pomp, 
celerity,  humor  and  sweet  sound.  It  is  the  best  comedy 
performance  I  have  ever  seen  at  this  house,  and  it  does 
not,  I  am  glad  to  write,  seem  like  the  same  old  Tivoli 
smile.  It  is  something  new  and  individual,  and  asks  no 
odds  for  price,  place  or  people. 

*  *  * 

The  Lyceum  Theatre  Company  of  tnis  season  is,  with 
several  advantageous  changes,  the  same  company  that 
brought  us  the  Prisoner  of  Zenda  last  October.  It  is  not 
the  Lyceum  company  that  we  are  used  to,  and  it  is  im- 
possible fairly  to  compare  the  present  players  with  their 
predecessors  until  we  have  seen  them  in  a  moderately 
quiet  play,  where  it  is  to  be  hoped  they  will  strike  a  softer 
key.  The  melodramatization  of  Anthony  Hope's  romance 
will  stand  a  deal  of  noisy  acting;  it  was  noisily  acted  last 
season,  and  we  all  more  or  less  liked  it.  It  is  noisier  than 
ever  now — so  loud,  in  fact,  that  many  of  its  pretty  improba- 
bilities and  brave  heroics  have  lost  all  seeming  of  plausi- 
bility. In  the  various  roles  of  Rudolph,  Mr.  Hackett  has 
three-fifths  of  the  play,  and  it  is  only  fair  to  say  that  he 
makes  four-fifths  of  the  noise.  This  play  is  a  good  one, 
and  Mr.  Hackett  is  a  young  actor  of  marked  abilities;  but 
his  present  work  has  a  tendency  to  conceal  both  those 
facts.  His  drunken  scene  would  be  an  affront  to  the  worst 
wine  ever  vinted,  his  cadenza  of  madness  in  Black  Michael's 
castle  is  much  like  a  bad  comedian's  Gaspard  in  The  Chimes 
of  Normandy,  and  his  scene  with  Flavia  at  the  end  of  the 
third  act  has  degenerated  into  cheap  melodrama.  Mr. 
Hackett's  over-acting  is  a  menace  to  the  company.  Miss 
Odell  does  anything  and  everything  to  Antoinette  de  Mau- 
ban,  and  Miss  Mary  Mannering,  the  new  leading  woman, 
affects  a  strenuousness  in  Flavia  that,  even  if  better  than 
Miss  Irving's  anaemic  acting,  is  nothing  to  what  Miss  Man- 
nering- might  accomplish  by  being  more  herself,  and  less  a 
feminine  Hackett.  Mr.  Walcott's  Sapt  remains  the  best 
character  in  tbe  piece.  George  W.  Middleton  is  good,  too, 
as  Hentzau;  also  Edward  Morgan,  who  plays  Black 
Michael. 

*  *  * 

Shenandoah,  at  the  Columbia,  is  better  given  than  Zenda 
at  the  Baldwin.  There  is  money  still  in  Bronson  Howard's 
old  war-horse,  and  after  three  unfortunate  weeks  I  am 
glad  to  see  Mr.  Frawley  and  his  managers  once  more  on 
the  road  to  opulence.  Shenandoah  takes  a  big  cast,  and 
the  acting  is  bound  to  be  variegated.  The  pitfalls  of 
Southern  dialect  are  carefully  avoided:  in  the  Frawley 
production  no  dialect  is  used — except  Mr.  Worthing's 
fashionable  Londonese,  which  voices  Col.  Kerchival  West, 
U.  S.  A.,  somewhat  incongruously;  and  Mr.  Clarke's 
brogue,  which  is  not  classic,  but  atoned  for  by  the  first 
respectable  command  of  his  legs  that  I  ever  have  seen  him 
execute.     Captain  Heartsease   is  a  character  not  unlike 


June  26,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


the  woodeo  Lieutenant  in  Thr  Senator,  and  Mr.  Frawley 
i>  without  a  peer  in  that  sort  of  part.  Ho  is  tl>. 
man  in  the  play  this  week.  Still,  such  parts  only  come 
once  or  twice  in  a  lifetime,  and  I  should  not  advise  Mr 
Frawlev  to  take  U17  chances  on  the  years  that  lie  between. 
I  hesitate  to  criticize  Miss  Bates's  version  of  the  Southern 
heroine.  I  once  made  a  brutal  attack  on  a  young  woman 
who  played  just  such  a  part.  "Her  dialect."  quoth  I, 
"came  from  Maine."  I  afterwards  discovered  that  she 
was  bo'n  an'  raised  in  ole  Virginity,  and  that  dark  reflec- 
tions had  been  cast  upon  her  color  line.  But  I  insist  that 
Miss  W.i.is  is  of  the  North  all  ripht.  She  is  all  right,  any 
way.  Life  is  too  long  and  beautiful  for  me  to  dwell  on  the 
balance  of  the  cast.     I  would  rather  praise  it. 

Abbtom  Stkvbms. 

#  ft  » 

All  the  new  turns  are  worth  while  at  the  Orpbeum  this 
week,  particularly  Lew  Dockst&der's.  The  veteran  min- 
strel sings,  gags,  lectures  and  anecdotes  for  something 
like  half  an  hour  before  the  audience  will  part  with  him. 
Alex  Heindl,  the  'celloist  of  reputation,  plays  popular 
music;  John  Canfield  and  Violet  Carlton  do  a  clever  oper- 
atic burlesque;  and  Caron  and  Herbert,  the  comedy  acro- 
bats, who  were  such  a  go  at  the  Orpheum  two  years  ago, 
are  repeating  their  success.  All  in  all,  it  is  the  best  bill 
the  Orpheum  has  had  in  many  months.  Next  week  will 
be  added  to  the  roll  Smith  and  Fuller,  Oriental  instru- 
mentalists. 

Wang  continues  at  the  Tivoli. 

Next  week  at  the  Columbia  the  Frawley  Company  pre- 
sents for  the  first  time  here  A  Social  Highwayman,  the 
play  in  which  the  Holland  brothers  scored  a  national  suc- 
cess. The  piece  is  an  adaptation  by  Mary  T.  Stone  of  a 
novelette  written  by  Elizabeth  P.  Train  for  Lippincott's. 

The  First  Gentleman  of  Europe,  "a  play  of  sentiment  and 
manners,"  in  which  Mrs.  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett  has 
undertaken  to  redeem  the  profligate  George  of  Wales, 
will  be  tbe-Lyceum  Company's  bill  at  the  Baldwin  next 
week.  Mrs.  Burnett  believes  that  George  was  not  as 
black  as  George  Reynolds  printed  him,  but,  it  is  said,  she 
has  left  him  with  sins  enough  to  be  interesting. 

The  First  Born  has  been  a  blessing  to  the  Alcazar;  Mon- 
day night  it  enters  upon  the  third  month  of  its  successful 
career.  For  sixty  nights  it  has  packed  the  little  theatre, 
and  another  week  and  a  day  and  it  will  have  achieved 
the  longest  run  on  record  in  San  Francisco.  The  accom- 
panying piece  for  next  week's  bill  is  a  comedy  in  two  acts 
by  Dion  Boucicault,  Andy  Blake ;  or,  The  Irish  Diamond. 
Mr.  Mark  Thall,  a  theatrical  man  of  extensive  experience, 
is  now  associated  with  the  Alcazar  management.  He  an- 
nounces the  following  players  engaged  for  the  new  stock 
season:  Frank  Carlyle,  leading  man;  Miss  Selene  Johnson, 
leading  woman,  and  George  Trader,  comedian. 


THE  old  and  widely  known  wholesale  drug  firm  of  Mack 
&  Co.  will  soon  move  into  their  own  substantial  five- 
story  brick  building  at  13  and  15  Fremont  street.  The 
firm  are  now  at  11  Front  street,  where  they  have  been  lo- 
cated for  the  past  seventeen  years.  Mack  &  Co.  are  pro- 
prietors of  Peruvian  Bitters,  Moore's  Poison  Oak  Remedy, 
and  other  proprietary  medicines. 


SINCE  Wyckoff,  Seamans  &  Benedict  opened  a  branch 
for  the  Remington  typewriter  here,  there  has  been  a 
very  material  increase  of  business.  Under  the  energetic 
direction  of  the  Pacific  Coast  manager,  F.  E.  Van  Bus- 
kirk,  the  Remington  has  more  than  justified  the  expecta- 
tions of  the  New  York  office. 


The  Maison  Riche,  the  justly-famous  French  restaurant,  corner 
Geary  street  and  Grant  avenue,  sets  a  splendid  dinner  between  the 
hours  of  5  and  9  o'clock  every  day.  The  reputation  of  the  Maison 
Riche  extends  around  the  world.  Every  delicacy  of  the  season 
served  in  most  faultless  manner,  lures  the  jaded  appetite,  and  sweet 
music  and  tine  wines  serve  to  make  up  a  menu  unexcelled  anywhere 
on  earth. 

Christian  Endeavor  souvenirs,  official  medals,  pins  and  badges. 
Sterling  silver  souvenir  spoons  from  50  cents  up.  J.  N.  Brittain, 
Jeweler,  20  Geary  street,  near  Kearny. 

Jackson's  Napa  Soda  is  a  gentle  aperient. 


/■>     i  1   *        TL        A.  The"  Gem"  Theatre  of  the  Coast. 

OolurnDia    I  neatre-  rriedisndcr, Qottu>b&oo„ Lessees 

and  Managers. 
Monday,  June  Wtb.  fifth  week  of 

THE    FRAWLEY   COMPANY, 

Another  Rrciil  |.1,it.     A  SCK1AI.  HH1HWAYMAN." 
\Y,.-k  of  July  Slli.  Comi'dy  W«ek.     KcvItbI  of  "The  Great  Un- 
known" and  "The  Two  Kscutch' 


A  I..  HATMAN  &  Co., 


(Incorporated) 
Proprietors. 


Baldwin     Theatre 

Monday,  June  28th.     Second  week.    Daniel  Frohman's 

LYCEUM  THEATRE  STOCK  CO., 

headed  bJV  .!;tnies  K  Hack-It  and  Mary  Mannerlng,  from  the 
Lvceum  Theatre,  Now  York  Presenting  for  the  first  time  here 
THE  FIRST  GENTLEMAN  OF  EUROPE  A  play  of  senti- 
ment and  manners.  By  Mrs  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett  and 
George  Fleming  To  be  followed  by  "The  Mayflower,"  "The 
Late  Mr.  OasteUo,"  etc 

Mrs.  Ernestine  Krelinq, 

Proprietor  and  Manager 

The  hit  of  (he  season.  Triumphant  welcome  accorded  the  emi- 
nent comedian,  MR.  EDWIN  STEVENS.    Every  evening, 

WANG. 

Written  by  J.  CbeeverGoodwin;  music  by  Woolson  Morse.  The 
greatest  of  all  comic  operas.  Splendid  cast;  correct  costumes; 
beautiful  scenery. 

Next— First  time  in  this  city,  THE  ISLE  OF  CHAMPAGNE. 
Comedy  opera  in  three  acts. 
PopularPrlces 25c  and 50c 

r\  I  TL         i.  Belasco  &  La  Faille,  Lessees  and  Man- 

/AlCaZar       I   n6aX.re.     agers;  Mark  Thall,  Director. 


Tivoli  Opera  Mouse. 


Week  of  June  28th.    Matinee  Saturday  at  2.    Dion  Boucicauli's 
comedy  in  two  acts, 

ANDY    BLAKE, 

Or,  The  Irish  Diamond 
THIRD  MONTH  of  Powers'  Chinese  drama, 
THE    FIRST    BORN. 

Oi  San  Francisco's  Greatest  Music    Hall.      O'Farrell 

rprieUm  .    street,  between  Stockton  and  Powell  streets. 

Commencing  Monday  evening,  June  28th.    Anniversary  week. 
First  time  of  the  eminent  musical  artists, 

SMITH    Z>    FULLER, 

Bamboo  Bell  Players;  Lew  Dockstader,  Caron  &  Herbert,  Alex- 
ander Heindl,  CaDfleld  &  Carlton,  Josephine  Sabel,  Conway  & 
Leland,  Russell  Brothers,  and  Johnson  &  Dean.  The  greatest 
bill  ever  offered  anywhere.  SPECIAL— Wednesday  evening. 
June  30th,  every  lady  will  be  presented  with  a  Tenth  Anniver- 
sary Souvenir  of  the  Orpheum  An  elaborate  work  of  art. 
Reserved  seats,  25o  :  balcony  10c ;  opera  chairs  and  box  seats  50c. 
Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday.  Matinee  Prices: 
Parquet,  any  seat,  25c;  balcony  any  seat,  lOo.;  children.  10c, 
any  part. 

For  a  first-class  Fish,      For  a  first-ciass  Hunt, 

For  a  first-class  Camp, 

For  a  delightful  rest  at  some  beautiful  Resort, 

Go  to  that  country  tributary  to  the 


Free  Camping  Grounds, 
Clean.  Comfortable  Hotels, 
Moderate  prices  within  the 
reach  of  all. 
Low  Railroad  Rates. 


San    d*rancisco    and 
Tforth    Pacific    fty. 


For  detailed  information  applv  at  TICKET  OFFICE:  650  MARKET  ST., 
(Canratcle  Building), or  GENERAL  OFFICE:  Cor.  Sansome  and  Califor- 
nia streets. 
A    W.  FOSTER,  Pres.  and  Gen'l  Mgr.       R  X.  RYAN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


J'irewor/cs 


•  •  •  • 


FOR  THE    FOURTH 

Assorted  Boxes  for  Children,  ^        a  ,    ^.^ 

(Including  Firecrackers,  Torpedoes,  etc)    *r'i    *P^    ano-    4>^- 

Lawn    Assortments     $5,    $8,    $12,    $20, 

And  Upwards. 
Save  money  by  buying  direct  from  the  makers. 

California   J'irewor/cs   Co., 

219  FRONT  ST.       Factory,  16th  avenue  and  L  street. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  26,  [897. 


THE    UBIQUITOUS    SUMMER    MAN. 


W 


HO  spends  the  dollars  be  has  made, 
On  iee  cream  soda,  lemonade, 
At  ninety-something  in  the  shade? 
The  summer  man. 

Who  is  it  baits  the  fishing  hooks, 
The  hammock  swings  in  cosy  nooks, 
And  buys  the  girls  the  latest  books  ? 
The  summer  man. 

Who  parts  the  briers  overhead, 
And  on  the  turf  his  coat  will  spread 
For  some  divinity  to  tread? 
The  summer  man. 

Who  fetches,  carries,  night  and  day, 
A  slave  to  every  woman's  way — 
Who  is,  indeed,  her  lawful  prey? 
The  summer  man. 

Who  tunes  guitar  and  banjo  strings, 
And  smashes  rattlesnakes  and  things, 
And  revels  in  engagement  rings? 
The  summer  man. 

Who  is  it  dives  in  from  the  brink 
When  some  fair  swimmer  fain  would  sink, 
And  is  rewarded — I  don't  think? 
The  summer  man. 

Who  narrowly  escapes  sunstroke, 
Gets  tangled  up  with  poison  oak, 
And  reaches  home,  sweet  home,  dead  broke? 
The  summer  man. 
San  Francisco.  Lillian  Ferguson. 

PICTURESQUE     CALIFORNIA. 


ONE  of  the  many  strange  and  beautiful  sights  for 
which  Yosemite  Valley,  California's  wonderland,  is 
noted  is  presented  with  this  issue  of  the  News  Letter's 
picturesque  series.  It  represents  sunrise  in  Mirror  Lake. 
Everyone  who  has  stood  in  the  early  dawn  upon  the  margin 
of  this  lake  will  well  remember  the  exquisite  tracery  of  the 
massive  walls,  the  delicate  outlining  of  trees,  and  the  bold- 
cut  elevation  of  the  mountain  which  sleeps  at  his  feet. 
Through  the  notched  peak  at  the  bottom  of  this  picture 
the  sun  glows  like  burnished  gold  in  the  water  long  before 
it  greets  the  wondering  traveller's  eyes  above  the  rugged 
mountain's  eastern  battlements.  A  more  imperious  leaf 
of  Nature's  book  is  rarely  seen,  and  is  always  remembered. 

FOR  some  time  it  has  been  understood  that  the  Golden 
Rule  Bazaar  would  take  over  the  business  of  the  Em- 
porium, and  negotiations  have  progressed  so  far  that  a 
lease  was  executed  Thursday  between  Mrs.  Parrott. 
owner  of  the  Emporium  building,  and  Mr.  Andrew  M. 
Davis,  of  the  Bazaar,  terminating  August  1st.  Meantime 
it  is  expected  that  negotiations  will  be  completed  and  a 
twenty  years'  lease  be  executed  between  Mrs.  Parrott 
and  the  Golden  Rule.  Mr.  Andrew  M.  Davis,  than  whom 
no  man  is  more  widely  or  favorably  known  in  the  city,  has 
charge  of  the  negotiations,  and  will  no  doubt  successfully 
conclude  this  important  deal.  His  past  business  career 
justifies  the  belief  that  the  Emporium,  under  his  direction, 
would  become  one  of  the  permanent  and  most  important 
mercantile  establishments  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 


«N  immense  crowd  visited  El  Campo  last  Sunday;  but 
there  is  nothing  unusual  in  that.  El  Campo  is  a  popu- 
lar resort,  and  just  the  place  for  a  quiet  Sunday's  outing. 

NEW     SAFE-DEPOSIT     VAULTS. 

Safes  $4.00  to  $150.00  Per  Annum.— The  Union  Trust  Com- 
pany's new  safety  vaults,  corner  of  Market  and  Montgomery  streets, 
are  the  strongest,  best  guarded,  and  best  lighted  in  the  city. 
Superior  accommodation  for  its  patrons.  Ladies  will  find  apart- 
ments for  their  exclusive  use.  The  company  transacts  a  general 
banking,  trust,  and  savings  business,  and  acts  a  executor,  adminis- 
trator, trustee,  and  as  custodian  of  wills,  and  consults  as  to  trust 
matters  without  charge. 

Valuables  of  all  kinds  taken  on  storage. 

Drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda  before  breakfast. 


Bromo-Kola  cures  headaches,  neuralgia,  and  nervous  troubles  . 


®®  ©SS®  &&£/§&$>  ©eXS®  ■&&&§>  &®S®& 

SECOND-HAND 

BICYCLES 


We  want  to  be  rid  at  once  of 
all  the  second-hand  wheels 
We  have.  All  are  in  good  con- 
dition; some  are   as   good  as 

neW.    S£S8Sgf§S§§SS85g® 

There  is  one  sure  way  to  get 
them  out--the  prices.  We 
have  made  the  most  tempting 
prices  We  ever  knew  on  wheels 
of  equal  Value.     ^8   %8   %8   $8    S§ 


1  Pope  Mffl.  60.,  Hartford,  Gonn.  § 

SAN  FRANCISCO  BRANCH: 

344 Post  Street. 

GOLDEN  GATE  PARK  BRANCH: 

Renting,  Teaching.  Storage.  Lockers,  Baths, 

1970  PAGE    NEAR  STANYAN  ST. 

SANDS  W.    FORMAN, 

Notary  Public 
and  Commissioner. 

19  Montgomery  St.,  Lick  House  Block.  San   Francisco. 

dOHN    D.   SULLIVAN 

Attorney-at-  Law 
Rooms  34-35,  3d  Floor  Chronicle  Building,  San  Francisco. 


Nelson's  flmycose. 


"Unequalled  for  Poison  Oak,  Sunburn,  all  Irritation  of  the  Skin, 
and  for  the  Toilet  generally. 

DR.    BYRON    W.    HAINES 


14  Grant  Avenue 
Rooms  16-17-18-19 


Dentist 


over  "Gity  of  Paris.' 


DR.    ARTHUR    T.    REGENSBURGER, 

Dentist, 

Office  and  Residence,  409'/2  Post  street,  San  Francisco. 

Office  Hours ,  9  to  12  A .  M. ;  1  to  5  p .  M.  Telephone  Clay  84 


Dr.  F.  C.  PAGUE 

Dentist 

Rooms  4  and  5,  Academy  ot  Sciences  Building, 


819  Market  street 


HAVE   YOUR 


Bathing  suit 


KNIT  TO  ORDER     We  have  them  al  all  prices. 
TAILOR  MADE 


BIGUCie  SUI15,  dU 

JAftufe* 

KIMITjriNGCO. 


Bicycle  Suits,  Sweaters,  Golf  Hose,  etc. 
103  POST  ST., 

Near   Kearny, 
Upstairs, 

San    Francisco, 


June  26,  1897. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NBWS  I.KTTER. 


T' 


'HOSE  of  our  swim  who 
own  or  rent  country 
places  for  the  summer.  ha\e  not.  so  far  at  least,  fulfilled 
the  hopes  of  their  friends  in  providing  entertainment  for 
man  and  beast.  The  de  Youngs  are  imm  «f,  the  Louis 
Parrotti  . ^through  illness,  and   Mrs.    Hager 

late  in  taking  up  her  rural  abode.  At  B'lingham  things 
are  not  as  lively  as  they  were  last  year.  To  be  sure, 
Walter  Hobart  and  Charley  Baldwin  are  now  married 
men,  Joe  Grant  is  off  on  his  wedding  trip  abroad.  Joe  Tobin 
mourns  his  erstwhile  British  pal.  and  Alfred  Ford  is  bent 
upon  making  an  aristocratic  tone  pervade  the  gatherings 
at  the  Club  House.  Every  one  at  all  conversant  with  An- 
glican "upper  circles  "  knows  how  pokey  the  tone  is  to  an 
American  idea,  "'awfully  good  form "  being  opposed  to 
noisy  acts  or  utterances.  Hence  the  decidedly  quiet  air 
of  that  swagger  settlement.  With  the  advent  of  the 
Crockett  and  Wilson  families  no  doubt  more  of  an  Ameri- 
can element  will  obtain.  We  hear  already  of  Fourth  of 
July  festivities  being  planned  down  there. 

*  »  * 

A  good  story  is  told  of  a  young  merchant  of  this  city, 
whose  first  marriage  anniversary  was  celebrated  not  long 
ago.  Old  habits  with  him  are  hard  to  break.  Recently 
he  was  entertaining  his  more  or  less  fair  inamorata  (who 
for  want  of  a  better  name  will  be  called  "Gussie")  at  the 
usual  semi-weekly  French  dinner,  when,  suddenly  remem- 
bering the  orange  blossoms  and  Lohengrin  march  but  a 
brief  twelve  month  gone,  he  jumped  up  from  the  table,  and 
explaining  that  he  must  buy  a  present  for  his  wife  and 
take  her  out  to  dinner,  as  that  was  the  day  of  his  marriage 
one  year  ago,  hastily  departed.  Imagine  the  surprise 
of  the  sphinx-like  waiter  who  one  hour  later  took  his  order 
for  a  second  dinner,  and  with  another  vis-a-vis  (his  wife)  in 
the  identical  room  from  which  he  had  hastened  sixty  min- 
utes before  ! 

*  *  # 

The  British  exile  and  his  Anglo-American  brethren  were 
unlucky  in  the  weather  for  the  Jubilee  rejoicings.  The 
proverbial  "Queen's  weather "  did  not  show  up,  but  if 
anything  could  emphasize  the  difference  between  the  genu- 
ine Briton  and  his  would-be  English- Yankee  brother,  it 
was  the  manner  of  taking  the  unwelcome  rain.  Johnny 
Bull,  with  the  natural  phlegm  of  his  race,  tramped  along, 
"  trews"  turned  up,  umbrella  in  hand,  and  stoical  phiz, 
while  the  Anglo-American  growled,  grumbled,  and  hob- 
bled along  in  discomfort  and  disgust. 

*  *  * 

The  guests  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  have  taken  up  tennis 
with  a  vim,  and  since  Mr.  J.  J.  Crooks  has  organized  a  club 
of  players  under  professional  training,  practice  in  the  fine 
court  over  there  goes  on  daily.  The  chances  are  that 
some  unusually  good  games  will  be  seen  at  the  coming 
tournament  at  the  Hotel.  Gossip  says  that  George  de 
Long's  intention  to  compete  for  the  championship  this 
time  is  to  please  a  certain  charming  fair  one  of  the  West- 
ern Addition. 

*  #  * 

What  a  delightful  life  Mrs.  de  Young  leads,  flitting  here 
and  there  as  fancy  dictates  with  hosts  of  Wends  to  wel- 
come and  entertain  her  everywhere.  The  Oelrichs  party 
do  not  seem  to  be  in  haste  to  leave  the  happy  hunting 
grounds  of  the  East  for  their  native  beai,h.  Rumor  has  it 
that  a  very  swell  crowd  of  New  Yorkers  intend  coming 
out  to  test  the  pleasures  of  famed  Del  Monte  in  the  late 
summer,  and  possibly  Mrs.  Oelrichs  and  Miss  Fair  may  be 

of  the  number. 

*  *  * 

"Ob,  my  !  "  said  one  of  the  buds  to  another  society  girl 
recently,  "if  Captain  Miushad  only  been  playing  for  keeps 
with  some  one  of  the  several  girls  to  whom  he  was  so  de- 
voted when  he  was  here,  what  a  glorious  time  she  would 
be  having  now  over  with  him  at  the  Queen's  Jubilee.  Ain't 
he  just  in  luck  to  be  along  with  old  Miles  on  his  staff  in- 
stead of  flirting  with  the  women  down  at  Coronado." 


The  right  of  a  woman  to  name  her  dogs  after  her  many 
victims  may  doI  be  questioned  so  long  as  she  does  not  im- 
UDOn  the  public  nostrils.  This 
fact  is  brought  to  mind  by  the  last  dog  show  here,  when 
an  animal  named  "July"  sat  the  show  out — and  no  doubt 
felt  the  disgrace  of  his  title.  That  the  humiliated  animal 
has  a  permanent  grievance  against  his  notorious  mistress 
owing  to  the  shameful  conduct  of  his  namesake,  who 
dances  attendance  upon  this  woman,  to  the  brutal  neglect 
of  his  wife  and  her  new-born  babe,  is  not  questioned  by  the 
many  people  who  are  cognizant  of  the  facts. 

The  best  is  always  tbe  cheapest.  Ami  in  thin  case  the  best  whis- 
key is  J.  F.  Cutter.  Smooth  as  oil,  mtllow  wiih  age,  it  is  the  delight 
of  the  connoisstur  and  judge  of  good  drinks  everywhere.  For  this 
rare  liquor,  E.  Martin  .V  Co.,  Ht  411  Market  street,  are  the  sole  Pa- 
Clfio  Coast  scents. 


Pure  Cosmetics— Professor  Wenzell,  the  Pure  Food  Chemist,  says  of 
Mme.  Marchand's  Preparations.  Use  Creme  de  la  Creme.  Positively  pre- 
vents suaburn  and  poison  oak.    Price,  50  els.    107  Geary  street. 

imperial  Hair  Regenerator. 

One  of  the  triumphs  of  modern  science  is  the  discovery 
of  this  InvHluable  and  marvellous  combination  of  harmless 
ingredients,  by  means  of  which  GRAY,  DYED,  or 
BLEACHED  BATR  may  be  restored  to  a  color  that  rivals 
even  Dature  itself  in  its  wonderful  perfection  It  is  not  a 
DYE  or  a  BLEACH.  It  is  a  HAIR  COLORING  of  perfect 
cleanliness. 


No  1    Black 

No  2    Dark  Brown 
No  3    Medium  Brown 


COLORS 

No  4    Chestnut 

No  ft    Light  Chestnut 

No  6    Gold  Blond 


For  sale  by  all  druggists  and  hairdressers  in  San  Francisco, 
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•T>HEY  were  devoted,  and  the  fact  that  he  had  not  yet 
1  succeeded  in  procuring  a  post  that  should  make  it 
possible  for  them  to  marry — that  they  had  not  money 
enough,  in  common  speaking,  to  set  up  a  house — drew 
them  in  a  way  closer  together  and  made  the  long  engage- 
ment the  sweeter  for  the  uncertainty  of  things.  Hope 
was  a  tender,  mirthful  companion  with  them — not  blind, 
only  bandaged  across  the  eyes,  and  capable  of  lifting  the 
bandage  to  give  an  assuring  wink  at  these  pretty  lovers 
on  occasions.  The  day  arrived,  however,  when  the  gods 
seemed  to  turn  away  from  their  concerns  and  everything 
went  suddenly  askew.  An  evil  spirit  came  upon  the 
scenes — a  wealthy  evil  spirit,  old  and  in  love  (it  was  pre- 
posterous!)—in  love  with  Sylvia,  and  Sylvia  fell  under  the 
power  of  his  spell,  for  she  met  her  lover  one  day  with  a 
pale  little  face  and  said:  'Temple,  I  must  marry  him. 
There  are  my  sisters,  you  know,  and  the  boys!  The 
mother  insists.  We  are  so  much  piorer  than  I  knew,  and 
she  says  that  you  and  I  might  wait  forever." 

"Sylvia,"  he  answered,  "this  is  simply  nousense!  I  re- 
fuse to  take  you  seriously." 

"But,  dear,  we  cannot  marry,  can  we?" 

"What  could  we  do  on  five  hundred  a  year?" 

"Well,"  she  answered,  with  a  sudden  merry  look  in  her 
blue  eyes,  "we  might  love  on  that,  you  know." 

"Precisely;  love  in  a  cottage,  etc." 

"Even  in  quite  a  nice  little  house!" 

"You  can't  possible  propose " 

"Certainly  not,  I  don't.  That's  exactly  the  question. 
We  cannot  love  one  another  in  a  nice  little  house  on  five 
hundred  a  year,  therefore  I  must  marry  some  one  else  and 
live  in  a  palace  without  love  on  a  million!" 

Temple  Lewis  opened  his  eyes  in  amazement.  "Ah!"  he 
said  after  a  considerable  pause,  "you  are  all  alike,  you  wo- 
men.    Money,  money — you'd  sell  your  souls  for  money!" 

"I  tried  to  sell  it  for  love!"  she  said,  again  with  a  little 
laugh — a  sad  little  laugh  this  time — but  Temple  did  not 
know  in  the  least  what  she  meant.  Women  are  always 
illogical  when  discussing  any  serious  matter.  He  there- 
fore strode  with  many  strides  up  and  down  the  room  and 
frowned  and  bit  his  lip.  Then  at  last  he  came  to  a  stand- 
still and  said  with  really  noble  calm:  "You  mean  to 
marry  this  millionaire?" 

The  sight  of  his  beautiful,  strong  face,  pale  with  sup- 
pressed indignation — just  indignation — made  the  tears 
creep  into  her  eyes.  "What  do  you  suggest,  then?"  she 
said. 

"Suggest!"  he  repeated  with  a  genuine  look  of  dismay. 
"What  should  I  suggest?" 

"I  don't  know,"  she  answered,  and  the  tears  went  back 
whence  they  had  come. 

*  *  *  *  *  * 

Sylvia  was  engaged  to  the  millionaire,  and  Temple 
Lewis  was  miserable.  "He  is  60,"  he  reiterated  over  and 
over  again  to  himself,  and  set  his  teeth.  "Who  would 
have  thought  that  Sylvia " 

Meanwhile  Sylvia  looked  wistfully  at  her  lover  when  she 
met  him,  so  that  he  who  was  old  caught  the  look  one  day 
and  knew  that  the  little  girl  he  was  to  marry  would  sacri- 
fice all  his  millions  for  that  Jackanapes  even  now  if — What 
was  that  if?  A  month  passed  and  he  watched;  this  evil 
spirit  watched,  peered  into  their  souls;  broke  his  own  heart 
to  see  the  clearer  through  the  cleft  into  theirs.  Sylvia 
loved  the  Jackanapes — the  Jackanapes  loved  Sylvia — and 
money  was  the  "if" — not  with  Sylvia  even,  only  with  the 
Jackanapes.  One  morning  the  millionaire  came  to  Sylvia, 
and  he  said: 


"My  little  girl,  I  have  been  dreaming,  as  old  men  are 
wont  to  dream,  a  very  pretty,  golden  dream.  Well,  that's 
over.  Whilst  I  was  asleep,  dreaming,  the  little  girl  that 
I  loved  was  suffering,  suffering,  and  suffering,  just  that 
my  dream  might  be  golden.  That  sort  of  nonsense  wouldn't 
do,  would  it?     Now  listen;  Jackanapes  has  got  a  post." 

"Jackanapes?" 

"I  beg  your  pardon — Mr.  Temple  Lewis — a  very  good 
post — a  thousand  a  year  to  start  with.  And  now  you  can 
marry  and  be  happy." 

"Marry  and  be  happy!    What  do  you  mean?" 

"Just  that,  little  girl.  That  is  how  I  love  you.  Good- 
bye! It  was  the  prettiest  dream  in  the  world,  my  dream!" 
He  stooped  down  and  kissed  both  her  hands,  and  she 
leaned  suddenly  forward  and  looked  in  to  his  eyes.  "You 
gave  him  that  post,"  she  said,  but  he  only  smiled  sadly  and 
went  away. 

****** 

Temple  Lewis  found  her  next  day  sitting  in  the  great, 
big  drawing  room  alone,  her  hands  idle  in  her  lap  and  a 
wondrous  look  in  her  blue  eyes.  He  felt  suddenly  sby  and 
could  hardly  stammer  out  his  satisfaction  with  her,  with 
himself,  and  with  the  world  in  general. 

"O,  Sylvia!"  he  said,  "you  are  not  going  to  marry  that 
man  after  all,  and  now — now  I  have  such  a  splendid  post." 

"You  will  be  wanting  a  wife,  I  suppose,  in  such  a 
position." 

"Why,  yes,  Sylvia;  I  should  think  so.  They  expect  one 
to  be  married,  you  know."  He  sat  by  her  side  and  took 
her  hand  in  his.  There  followed  a  long  silence;  then  he 
continued:  "Sylvia,  now  we  will  be  married  at  once,  won't 
we?  You  do  really  love  me?  You  did  all  the  time,  didn't 
you?     Now  that  you  have  sent  him  away — " 

"Temple!"  she  said,  looking  oddly  up  at  him,  "I  did  love 
you — but  I  don't  now.  I  don't  love  you  at  all.  *  *  *  I 
love  him.  Loved  you!  Wby,  no;  I  never  loved  you.  What 
am  I  saying?  We  did  not  know  what  the  word  meant.  O! 
it  was  a  mean  sort  of  substitute,  ours — but  now  I  know 
what  a  poor  thing  this  love  is  you,  who  are  young,  offer  to 
us.  Temple,  I  had  read  in  books,  in  so  many,  so  many 
books,  about  love,  and  I  always  said  to  myself:  'There  is 
no  such  thing.  These  are  poets  fancies.  No  one  in  the 
world  loves  like  that.'  And  I  heard  people  say:  'She 
loves  him — he  is  in  love  with  her,'  and  I  thought,  'I  sup- 
pose they  love  as  Temple  and  I  love,'  and  I  began  to  see 
what  an  honor  you  were  conferring  on  me,  for  all  the 
young  men  and  every  one  else  seemed  to  think  a  poor  girl 
was  privileged  whom  young  men  condescended  to  notice." 

"Sylvia,  what  are  you  saying?" 

"O!  you  loved  me  in  your  way,  no  doubt,  but  not  so 
much  as  you  loved  your  clubs,  your  luxuries,  your  very 
smart  clothes,  your  shooting.  1  was  low  down  in  the  list  of 
your  pleasures.  Something  must  be  foresworn,  and  I  was 
the  one  you  found  easiest  to  do  without!"  She  looked  up 
at  him  with  no  malice  in  her  look  and  laughed;  then  added: 
"Some  one  else  determined  to  do  without  me,  too!" 

"Some  one  else?  Do  you  mean  that  that  scoundrel 
threw  you?" 

"Hush!  His  motif  was  different,  you  see — and  I  have 
asked  him  to  come  back.  Temple,  the  books  did  not  lie — 
the  poets' fancies  were  not  only  fancies.  Ah!  when  some 
of  you  are  as  old  as  he  you  may  have  learned  to  be  as 
great  hearted,  and,  perhaps,  if  you  try  very  hard,  as  de- 
lightful," she  added  demurely. 

"I  don't  understand  anything  you  say.  I  have  come  to 
ask  you  to  be  my  wife.     Will  you,  Sylvia?" 

"No,  I  cannot;  I  have  promised!" 

"What!  promised  the  millionaire?" 

"Yes,  Temple;  you  mustn't  tell  anyone,  but  I  love  him 
shamefully." — Westminster  Budget. 

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DEAR  EDITH       Among  all  the   sta^'cring  new  colors 
of  this  the  very  newest  undoubtedly  Is  violet, 

for  preeminence  in  fasliionable  patronage  with 
•ian  iris,  the  most  flaming  shade  of  purple  known. 
All  of  these  glowing  tones,  on  a  black  ground  of  green 
foliage  and  blue  sky.  form  a  picture  well  worth  seeing, 
while  the  details  of  the  toilet  arc  sometimes  as  astonishing 
as  beautiful. 

This  summer,  at  least,  s>  very  lovely  are  the  afternoon 
paraso's.  that  a  woman  who  attends  an  outdoor  party  can 
wear  her  hat  or  not  as  she  pleases.  Hostesses  so  far  have 
abjured  their  hats  and  carry  sunshades  to  exactly  match 
their  gowns,  some  of  them  showing  silk  domes  with  big 
lace  butterflies  appliqued  onto  the  silk,  but  the  net  wings 
left  free  to  flutter  in  every  breeze.  All  of  these  full  dress 
parasols  have  extremely  long  handles,  showing  great  ex- 
travagance and  beauty  concentrated  in  the  handles.  An 
ivory  shepherd's  crook,  prettily  inlaid,  a  long  gold  inlaid 
ebony  staff,  with  a  tiny  miniature  topped  comfit  box  set  in 
the  end.  or  a  remarkable  twisted  serpent,  coiled  near  the 
head  and  with  jewelled  eyes,  are  among  the  novel  and 
costly  sticks,  on  which  flounced  canopies  are  mounted  for 
use  with  fete  dresses. 

The  mention  of  green,  blue  and  cerise  all  tossed  together 
in  one  custume  may  set  sensitive  teeth  on  edge,  and  yet 
the  result  is  exquisite,  and  this  capital  French  model,  by 
enterprising  American  dressmakers,  is  copied  in  blue 
muslin  or  a  pale  shade,  with  bolero  of  rose-pink  taffeta, 
and  the  collar  and  waistband  done  in  iris  velvet.  The 
combinations,  however,  do  not  cease  with  color  alone;  just 
as  important  are  many  arrangements  in  fabrics,  piquet 
and  velvet,  grass  linen  and  satin-brown  canvas  and  delicate 
lisse.  French  crepe  and  tweed  being  all  united  in  the 
worthy  cause  of  glorifying  a  lawn  full  of  pleasure  seekers. 

But  now  for  a  word  concerning  black  and  white  lawn 
dresses.  Too  much  cannot  be  said  nor  written  in  their 
favor.  Moreover,  in  consideration  of  the  chic  air  of  ele- 
gance they  bear,  small  expense  need  beencountered,  and  for 
girls  of  18  they  are  as  appropriate  as  for  women  of  40. 

A  very  pretty  one  is  sketched  with  a  ruffled  skirt.  Here 
the  petticoat  itself  is  of  snow  white  swiss  over  a  clear 
white  silk  slip,  and  two  deep  muslin  flounces,  set  on  in 
pronounced  curves,  are  both  edged  and  headed  with  a 
pretty  imitation  of  black  chantilly.  Over  the  waist  of 
white  silk  many  bands  of  muslin  are  drawn,  each  one  edged 
with  narrow  black  lace,  and  fastened  each  at  the  top  of 
the  rich  black  taffeta  girdle  with  a  skeleton  button  of  cut 
steel. 

The  nearest  rival  to  this  study  in  black  and  white,  is  the 
picturesque  little  suit  in  the  large  sketch,  illustrating  the 
best  use  of  narrow  black  velvet  ribbon  on  white  lawn. 
Over  a  white,  rose,  green  or  blue  silk  slip  this  gown  can 
be  used,  and  its  hat  of  white  chip,  enveloped  in  masses  of 
black  silk  muslin,  make  it,  from  top  to  toe,  a  costume  en- 
tirely within  the  achievement  of  amateur  fingers,  if  need 
be. 

There  is  a  most  commendable  custom  followed  this  sea- 
son, at  teas  and  tournaments,  of  wearing  short  and  per- 
fectly plain  walking  skirts  of  brown  linen,  white  duck,  or 
stiff  dark  blue  piquet,  with  pretty  blouses  of  ecru  lace,  or 
cafe  nu  lait  embroidery  that  have  under  bodies  of  bright 
colored  china  silk.  The  lace  or  embroidery  blouse  fastens 
up  on  the  left  side,  is  caught  in  at  the  waist  by  a  belt  of 
elastic  gilt  studded  with  mock  jewels  and  a  hip-sWt  frill 
of  lace  hangs  out  below  the  belt.  A  bright  ribbon  forms 
the  collar,  and,  with  a  flower  hat,  a  costume  at  once 
smart  and  inexpensive  is  the  result. 

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Formation   of 
the  Placers. 


It  has  recently  become  the  conviction  of 
Our  Neocene  mining  experts — such  men  as  Ross  E. 
River  Gold.  Browne,  Waldemar  Lindgren,  and  numer- 
ous superintendents  of  mines  of  a  high  local 
repute,  that  the  next  immediate  and  prolific  source  of  gold 
in  California  will  be  the  intact  channels  of  the  neocene  river. 
Gravel,  as  that  well-known  authority,  Augustus  J.  Bowie, 
lately  remarked,  has  been  the  source  of  four-fifths  of  all 
the  gold  yield  in  California  since  its  first  discovery,  but 
that  the  auriferous  gravel  is  distinctly  traceable  to  the 
neocene  channels  of  a  pre-volcanic  drainage  system  of  the 
Sierra  Nevada  has  been  clearly  recognized  only  by  a  few. 
The  first  attempt  to  map  out  any  portion  of  that  ancient 
channel  system  in  contrast  to  the  channels  of  modern 
rivers  is  not  yet  seven  years  old.  Mr.  Ross  E.  Browne  in 
1890,  in  the  tenth  Annual  Report  of  the  State  Mineralogist 
of  California,  presented  an  accurate  topographic  study  of 
this  kind  upon  a  part  of  the  American  River  Basin  at  For- 
est Hill,  where  several  very  rich  channel  mines  have  been 
opened  sufficiently  to  afford  abundant  data  on  the  neocene 
river  system  at  that  point.  Undertaking  a  more  compre- 
hensive scheme,  Mr.  Waldemar  Lindgren,  of  the  United 
States  Geological  Survey,  attempted  in  1893  to  show  pic- 
torially  on  a  single  map  the  recent  and  the  neocene  drain- 
age system  of  both  the  Yuba  and  the  American  river 
basins.  The  elaborate  report  accompanying  his  map,  and 
illustrated  by  cross-sections  of  many  open  neocene  chan- 
nels, has  not  yet  been  superseded  as  the  most  accurate 
and  brilliant  study  of  the  gold-bearing  rivers  of  pre-volcanic 
times. 

The  neocene  channels,  at  considerable  ele- 
vations above  the  present  river  beds,  are, 
generally  speaking,  within  the  same  water- 
sheds or  basins  as  the  modern  rivers;  and 
their  courses  (again  generally  speaking)  are  parallel  to 
the  modern  streams.  But  on  comparing  the  two  river 
systems  in  detail,  it  is  seen  that  the  erosion  which  created 
the  modern  channels  has  affected  the  neocene  channels  in 
three  ways:  (1).  It  has  sometimes  chanced  to  follow  the 
same  bed  as  the  ancient  river.  (2).  It  has  sometimes  cut 
across  the  ancient  bed  at  intervals.  (3).  It  has  some- 
times approached  so  closely  to  one  of  the  sides  of  the  old 
bed  as  to  destroy  the  rim  and  lay  bare  the  channel's  con- 
teats.  In  all  such  cases  the  result  of  erosion  has  been  to 
carry  off  and  scatter  the  neocene  gravels  in  new  places, 
the  distance  of  carriage  and  the  ultimate  place  of  deposit 
varying  with  the  declivities  of  the  modern  streams.  Hence 
the  placers  or  deposits  of  displaced  auriferous  gravels, 
which  have  been  the  object  of  hydraulic  mining. 

Not  everywhere,  however,  have  these 
Great  Channels  ancient  channels  been  disturbed.  At 
Still  Intact.  many  points  they  are  yet  intact.  The 
lava  that  originally  filled  them  has  re- 
mained in  place,  and  their  hidden  position  is  often  outlined 
for  miles  along  the  hillsides  by  the  line  of  contact  between 
the  lava  and  the  original  bed-rock  of  the  sides  of  the  chan- 
nel. Once  the  lowest  levels  in  the  neocene  landscape, 
these  lava  capped  channels  when  intact  now  form  un- 
broken ridges  of  varying  width,  on  both  sides  of  which  the 
channel's  rim,  as  defined  by  the  contact  of  lava  and  bed- 
rock, is  traceable  for  miles.  The  mining  problem  is  to  de- 
termine the  level  of  the  channel's  bed,  after  which  a  tunnel 
of  sufficient  drainage,  running  to  that  level,  completes  the 
simplest  and  cheapest  form  of  mining  now  practiced  in 
California.  No  pumping,  no  hoisting,  no  hard  ore  to  mine 
or  to  crush;  nothing  but  a  breast  of  gravel,  usually  free 
or  uncemented,  which  varies  in  gold  bearing  richness  from 
the  bed  of  the  channel,  where  the  coarsest  gold  lies,  up  to 
a  height  of  five  or  ten  feet,  where  the  "pay  gravel" 
ceases. 


It  is  too  early  to  pronounce  yet  in  gen- 
Where  Majestic     eral  from  north  to  south  upon  all  parts 
R  vers  Rolled,      of    the    neocene    river    system   so  far 
opened  by  drift  mining.     But  with  ref- 
erence to  the  dimensions  of  the  channels  and  the  character 


of  the  gold,  certain  facts  are  already  firmly  established. 
The  channels  are  wider  and  the  gold  coarser  in  the  north 
than  in  the  south.  The  seat  of  the  neocene  channels  of  far 
the  widest  dimensions  yet  known  in  California  is  the  high 
divide  between  the  head-waters  of  the  Feather  and  the 
North  Yuba  rivers.  There  the  Thistle  mine,  in  Sierra 
County,  has  been  working  in  a  breast  of  gravel  more  than 
fifteen  hundred  feet  wide,  and  although  this  extraordinary 
width  is  surmised  to  indicate  a  bend  in  the  stream,  it  is 
not  believed  that  the  width  of  the  channel  will  shrink  again 
below  one  thousand  feet.  Further  south,  on  the  contrary, 
on  the  Forest  Hill  divide  between  the  forks  of  the  Amer- 
ican river,  the  ex-Superintendent  of  the  Mayflower  re- 
ports the  average  width  of  the  channel  seventy-five  feet, 
though  the  neighboring  Morning  Star  mine  reached  an 
average  width  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  feet.  These 
averages  are  based  on  a  year's  work. 

To  the  southward,  in  El  Dorado 
Sierra  County's  County,  the  aucient  streams  appear 
Banner  Record.  to  have  undergone  much  subdivision, 
and  neocene  rivers  became  neocene 
rivulets.  As  to  the  character  of  gold  yielded  by  these 
different  river  basins,  whatever  may  be  the  unsolved  cause 
of  the  disparity,  it  is  certain  that  coarse  gold  in  nugget- 
like fragments  is  the  distinguishing  mark  of  the  northern 
channels.  At  the  Thistle  and  other  neighboring  mines  the 
gold  is  of  such  coarseness  that  fully  eighty  per  cent  of  it  is 
caught  in  the  first  forty-eight  feet  of  the  sluice  boxes.  The 
neocene  gravels  of  the  Northern  Yuba  have  also  never 
been  cemented  by  percolations  of  water  saturated  with 
carbonate  of  lime.  They  do  not,  therefore,  involve  the 
expense  of  a  mill  to  crush  them.  Sierra  County,  where 
the  North  Fork  of  the  Yuba  takes  its  rise,  has  produced 
gold,  according  to  records  of  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  alone, 
worth  $250,000,000,  of  which  about  one-tenth  is  ac 
credited  to  quartz  mines.  The  balance,  $225,000,000,  came 
from  auriferous  gravels  from  broken  channels,  and  (to  a 
small  extent)  from  the  intact  channels  of  the  neocene  rivers. 
But  the  intact  channels  are  of  such  re- 
Some  Typical  cent  development  that  a  few  years  ago 
Gravel  Mines,  the  Thistle,  then  an  unopened  channel  in 
the  heart  of  this  gold  region,  went  beg- 
ging for  a  buyer  in  California  for  $100,000.  It  found  buy- 
ers in  Scotland.  How  much  it  has  yielded  in  the  past  six 
years  we  are  not  prepared  to  say,  but  it  is  authoritatively 
stated  that  monthly  shipments  have  frequently  averaged 
$140,000  for  considerable  periods,  while  the  gravel  has  at 
times  reached  as  high  as  $28  per  carload  of  one  ton.  The 
mine  being  opened  by  shaft  instead  of  tunnel,  making 
hoisting  of  gravel  and  pumping  water  constantly  neces- 
sary, the  cost  of  production  has  reached  $1.25  a  car.  The 
best  average  yield  of  the  Morning  Star  and  Mayflower, 
cited  by  the  ex-Superintendent,  for  a  lengthened  period, 
was  $9.50  a  car  for  the  former  and  $5  for  the  latter,  with 
an  average  cost  in  each  of  about  75  cents. 

Even  these  returns,  though  less  startling 
Untold  Wealth     than  the  Thistle,  have  enabled  the  stock 
Yet  in  Store,      of   the   Morning  Star,  which  four  years 
ago  sold  for  $1.25  a  share,  to  pay  in  divi- 
dends an  average  of  $6  per  share  every  month  for  the  past 
two  years.     It  is  impossible  to  estimate  the  gold   which  a 
mine  like  the  Thistle,  with   three  miles  of  channel  and  its 
extraordinary  width,  may  ultimately  produce,  but  in  the 
opinion  of  mining  men  it  stands  easily  first  among  all  gold 
producing  mines  of  California.     Other  examples  might  be 
adduced  from   different  localities,    but   enough  has  been 
cited  to  confirm  the  opening  statement  of  this  article,  that 
California  may  expect  a  greatly  increased  gold  yield  from 
the  intact  lava  capped  channels  of  her  neocene  rivers. 

Pine  street  has  been  dull  during  the  week 
Among  Bulls     and  the  market  has   had    the  customary 
and  Bears.       holiday  decline.      Chollar  has  suffered   the 
most,    although   the  mine   on  the   Bruns- 
wick is  doing  better  in  the  way  of  bullion  production  than 
any  of  the  other  properties  just  now.      Sierra  Nevada  is 
looming  up  again,  and  some  significant  features  are   de- 
veloping in   the   formation  now  encountered  in   the  west 
working  in  south-end  group.     The  outlook  is  very  promis- 
ing for  a  market,  notwithstanding  the  prevalent  weakness. 
THE  regular  monthly  dividend  and  quarterly  coupons  on 
Railroad  and  other  bonds  will  be  payable  next  month. 


June  26,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


•Hear  the  Crier!"   "What  the  de»ll  »rl  ihout" 
'One  that  w  molar  the  devil,  sir.  with  tou." 


"  DASTOR"  C.  O.  Brown,  of  Green-street  church, 
1  Chicago,  is  still  determined  to  thrust  himself  upon 
our  long-suffering  atteution.  though  it  was  reasonable  to 
expect,  from  the  vigorous  way  in  which  he  was  kicked  out 
of  this  city,  that  he  would  be  glad  tocrawl  into  the  nearest 
kennel  and  nurse  his  wounds.  A  two-column  letter  has 
been  inflicted  upon  us  this  week  from  this  ministerial 
mountebank,  in  which  he  declares  that  he  will  ''try  to 
think  no  evil  of  the  brethren  who  pursued  him,  and  who 
could  not  secure  churches  within  one  hundred  miles  of 
Chicago."  The  whining  hypocrite  has  for  the  nonce  uttered 
by  accident  a  truth.  The  brethren  who  made  such  a  bold 
stand  for  morality  and  pulpit  decency  would  not,  of  course, 
be  tolerated  in  Satan's  stronghold. 

OCR  society  girls  of  marriageable  age  and  tendencies 
do  not  appear  to  fall  over  themselves  in  a  wild 
scramble  to  secure  titled  prey.  Their  brilliant  inactivity 
while  Prince  Luigi  of  Savoy  tarried  in  the  midst  of  us  is 
proof  of  their  good  sense,  and  is  likewise  an  example 
which  maids  of  mistaken  ideas  in  other  American  cities 
will  do  well  to  follow.  As  for  the  Prince,  it  is  not  likely 
that  fear  keeps  him  out  of  the  market.  Matrimony  can 
have  no  terrors  for  a  mountain  climber  accustomed  to  be- 
ing snowed  under,  and  to  courting  blizzards  on  precipices. 

BOSTON  is  adjusting  its  spectacles  in  conventional  hor- 
ror to  read  about  the  escapades  in  their  midst  of  one 
Yee  Wah,  a  "Christianized"  Mongolian,  just  arrested  for 
knifing  a  countryman,  Yee  Bang,  it  transpiring  that  the 
wily  Wah  is  a  San  Francisco  highbinder  with  a  gory  rec- 
ord. Boston  has  long  entertained  fanciful  notions  that 
the  Chinese  were  a  real  nice,  tractable,  peace-loving 
brand  of  heathen,  with  a  yearning  for  religious  conversion, 
and  it  is  devoutly  to  be  hoped  that  the  object  lesson  will 
destroy  their  hallucinations. 

CONSIDERING  the  space  which  the  dailies  accord  the 
Hoffman  case,  and  the  ghoulish  glee  with  which  they 
gloat  upon  the  non-unravelment  thereof,  in  conjunction 
with  the  astonishing  tactics  pursued  by  our  Captain  of 
Police,  one  may  be  forgiven  for  wondering  if  there  be 
something  of  a  decaying  nature  in  the  local  Denmark. 
The  question  is,  whose  sack  supplies  the  fuel  for  the  fire  of 
mystery? 

THE  ludicrous  spectacle  of  Royalist  Palmer  salaaming 
in  nightly  obeisance  before  the  Hawaiian  Pat  Lady 
ere  retiring  to  nocturnal  rest  and  pajamas,  is  too  gro- 
tesque to  be  nauseating.  By  good  rights  this  groveler  be- 
fore the  ham-like  charms  of  the  Domini's  aggregation  of 
greasy  avoirdupois  should  be  hustled  out  of  the  country, 
but  not,  please  heaven,  via  the  Golden  Gate. 

THE  attorneys  in  the  Pair  will-and-deed  contest  have 
resorted  to  French  quotations  in  order  to  illustrate 
their  arguments.  This  explanation  is  made  to  relieve  the 
minds  of  those  among  the  spectators  who  erroneously 
imagined  that  the  legal  luminaries  in  question  were  mak- 
ing a  scholarly  bluff  at  hog  Latin. 

SINCE  the  ill-success  of  Laura  Miller,  the  vulturesses 
who  hover  about  San  Francisco,  waiting  for  fat  car- 
casses to  fall,  seem  to  ba,ve  lost  their  nerve.  The  days  go 
by,  and  still  neither  widow  nor  progeny  has  been  raised  up 
for  Barney  Barnato.     The  thing  is  almost  unprecedented. 

THERE  were  panics  in  some  of  the  churches  last  Sun- 
day when  the  earthquake  occurred,  and  people  started 
for  the  doors,  but  in  the  First  Congregational  it  made  no 
commotion,  which  is  not  surprising,  considering  the  up- 
heavals to  which  they  are  accustomed. 

MANY  wise  old  heads  are  wagging  over  the  discord  be- 
tween sweet-voiced  Millie  Flynn  and  her  car-conduc- 
tor husband.  King  Corphetua  and  the  beggar  never 
works  successfully  outside  romance. 

WHAT  a  pitv  that  Sunday's  earthquake  in  this  city  did 
not  arouse  sleeping  Justice  from  her  trance.  Another 
temblor,  please,  O  Lord. 


Fl.ol'l.K  should  stick  to  their  trade,  nor  flounder  in 
devious  pursuits  which  may  lead  to  their  eternal  un- 
doing. There  is  Sister  Craven  for  insta  eon  a  time 
the  mature  but  astute  Nettie  wielded  an  influence  here- 
abouts almost  lobhyistie  in  power,  despite  her  ineligibility 
to  the  ranks  of  her  kind  in  scheming,  for  Nettie  was  never 
B  fascinating  person  from  the  strictly  feminine  point  of 
view.  So  long  as  she  confined  her  ambition  to  the  school- 
ma'am  plane,  all  went  merry  as  a  dinner  bell,  with  only 
the  occasional  yelp  of  a  spanked  kid  to  break  its  harmony. 
But  in  essaying  to  soar  to  contract  widowhood  and  the 
station  of  a  millionairess,  the  Craven  airship  is  fast  coming 
to  grief,  and  the  moral  is  obvious. 

ANDREW  .1.  1TSELL,  pedagogue,  whose  scalp  is  coveted 
by  the  Board  of  Education,  he  being  accused  of  incom- 
petency and  showing  a  general  lack  of  that  perspicacity 
which  is  best  defined  as  not  "onto  his  job,"  need  spend  no 
anxious  moments  regarding  his  educational  salary.  Pros- 
pects are  exceedingly  bright  for  the  disciplinarian  in  ques- 
tion, whose  chief  joy  in  life  is  the  administering  of  corporal 
punishment,  School  Director  Waller  having  declared  that 
action  will  be  taken  by  the  Board  "at  a  legal  pace."  As 
a  legal  pace  is  equivalent  to  a  snail's  pace,  Itsell  is  safe. 

THE  Crier  is  pleased  to  learn  that  "the  mining  outlook 
in  California  was  never  so  encouraging,"  but  notwith- 
standing this  cheerful  statement,  made  by  an  optimistic 
contemporary  of  Republican  principles,  it  would  be  well-nigh 
impossible  to  make  the  local  Democracy  believe  it.  The 
great  Lane  mine,  whose  plethoric  yield  was  expected  to 
pan  out  wealth  galore  with  which  to  receive  in  dazzling 
style  William,  the  Would-be  Conqueror,  has  shut  down  with 
the  energy  of  a  steel  trap  and  can't  be  worked  a  little  bit. 
No,  the  mining  outlook  just  now  is  nit. 

MRS.  PERKINS  says  she's  out  of  all  patience  with  the 
daily  papers;  they  get  their  facts  so  mixed.  Why 
only  the  other  day  one  paper  gave  a  picture  of  London  and 
headed  it,  "  Route  of  the  Gorgeous  Procession  on  Tues- 
day." What  will  foreigners  think  of  us,  she'd  like  to  know, 
when  they  catch  us  making  a  slip  of  that  sort;  she'd  have 
thought  even  a  babe  would  know  that  this  is  the  Victorian 
Jubilee.  The  Gorgeous  era  is  past  long  ago.  It's  just 
that  kind  of  thing  that  makes  them  call  this  a  jay  town. 

THROUGHOUT  this  jubilee  business,  during  which  de- 
served encomiums  have  been  showered  upon  the  great 
and  good  ruler  Britannia,  the  Crier  notes  with  surprise 
that  amid  all  the  bouquet  throwing  across  the  pond  to 
Her  Majesty,  one  of  her  most  prominent  and  unique 
virtues  has  been  given  the  overlook,  hence  he  hastens  to 
bring  up  the  rear  of  the  procession  with  a  tribute  thereto: 
Victoria  has  never  tried  to  conceal  the  truth  about  her 
age. 

GOOD  sometimes  emanates  from  evil.  The  ill-smelling, 
not  to  say  putrid,  atmosphere  in  the  Coroner's 
quarters  is  horrible  in  its  effect  upon  the  olfactory  nerves, 
and  a  deadly  insult  to  the  lungs  that  pump  it  in.  But  it 
creates  a  general  distaste  for  morgue  accommodations, 
which  cannot  fail  to  exert  a  wholesome  influence  upon 
minds  with  suicidal  tendencies.  No  really  self-respecting 
person  would  want  to  be  found  dead  in  such  a  place. 

AFTER  two  years  steady  diet  of  Durrant,  the  Chestnut 
of  the  Century,  it  is  positively  refreshing  to  be  regaled 
on  a  few  courses  of  battle,  murder  and  sudden  death,  with 
arson  charge  thrown  in  by  way  of  imparting  added  flavor 
to  the  morning  menu.  This  five-cent  meal,  dished  up  at 
daylight  by  our  local  journals,  is  nothing  if  not  cheap  for 
the  money.  The  Hoffman-Figel  mystery  is  gruesome  but 
none  the  less  diverting. 

TO-MORROW  a  venerable  San  Francisco  couple,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Adolph  Godchaux,  will  celebrate  their 
golden  wedding,  surrounded  by  their  devoted  descendants, 
presenting  a  domestic  picture  rarely  seen  in  these  degen- 
erate portions  of  God's  footstool,  and  bearing  happy  proof 
that  love  can  outlive  the  ravages  of  time,  and  that  filial 
pride  is  not  a  dead  letter. 

SOMEBODY  should  wire  the  distinguished  globetrotter, 
W.  J.  Bryan  at  large,  tobringhis  overcoat  along  with 
him  when  he  lands  upon  these  golden  shores.  The  chill  in 
the  atmosphere  around  reception-committee  headquarters 
produced  icicles  on  the  corrugated  brows  of  its  members 
when  Angel  Lane  flew. 


'4 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  26,  1897. 


HER    WORLD  — ehiili  Huntington  miller. 


B 


EHIND  them  slowly  sank  the  western  world, 
Before  them  new  horizons  opened  wide — 
"  Yonder,"  he  said,  "old  Rome  and  Venice  wait, 

And  lovely  Florence  by  the  Arno's  tide." 
She  heard,  but  backward  all  her  heart  had  sped, 
"Where  the  young  moon  sailed  through  the  sunset,  red, 
'  Yonder,"  she  thought,  "with  breathing  soft  and  deep, 
My  little  lad  lies  smiling  in  his  sleep." 

They  sailed  where  Capri  dreamed  upon  the  sea, 
And  Naples  slept  beneath  her  olive-trees; 

They  saw  the  plains  where  trod  the  gods  of  old, 
Pink  with  the  Mush  of  wild  anemones. 

They  saw  the  marbles  by  the  Master  wrought 

To  shrine  the  heavenly  beauty  of  his  thought. 

Still  ran  one  longing  through  her  smiles  and  sighs — 
'  Jf  I  could  see  my  little  lad's  sweet  eyes!" 

Down  from  her  shrine  the  dear  Madonna  gazed, 
Her  baby  lying  warm  against  her  breast: 
1  What  does  she  see  ?  "  he  whispered,  "can  she  guess 

"  The  cruel  thorns  to  those  soft  temples  pressed?" 
'  Ah,  no,"  she  said,  "she  shuts  him  safe  from  harms, 
Within  the  love-locked  harbor  of  her  arms. 
No  fear  of  coming  fate  could  make  me  sad 
If  so,  to-night,  I  held  my  little  lad." 

1  If  you  could  choose,"  he  said,  "a  royal  boon, 
Like  that  girl  dancing  yonder  for  the  king, 
"What  gift  from  all  her  kingdom  would  you  bid 
Obedient  Fortune  in  her  hand  to  bring  V  " 
The  dancer's  robe,  the  glittering  banquet-hall, 
Swam  in  tbe  mist  of  tears  along  the  wall  — 
1  Not  power,"  she  said,  "  nor  riches,  nor  delight, 
But  just  to  kiss  my  little  lad  to-night!" 

TO    THE    VANQUISHED  -george  h.  broadhurst. 


Here's  to  the  men  who  lose! 
What  though  their  work  be  e'er  so  nobly  planned, 

And  watched  with  zealous  care, 
No  glorious  halo  crowns  their  efforts  grand, 

Contempt  is  failure's  share. 

Here's  to  the  men  who  lose! 
If  triumph's  easy  smile  our  struggles  greet 

Courage  is  easy  then; 
The  king  is  he  who  after  fierce  defeat 

Can  up  and  fight  again. 

Here's  to  the  men  who  lose ! 
The  ready  plaudits  of  a  fawning  world 

King  sweet  in  victors'  ears; 
The  vanquished's  banners  never  are  unfurled, 

For  them  there  sounds  no  cheers. 

Here's  to  the  men  who  lose ! 
The  touchstone  of  true  worth  U  not  success ; 

There  is  a  higher  test — 
Though  fate  may  darkly  frown,  ouward  to  press 

And  bravely  do  one's  best. 

Here's  to  the  men  who  lose! 
It  is  the  vanquished's  praises  that  1  sing, 
And  this  the  toast  1  choose: 
1  A  hard  fought  failure  is  a  noble  thing, 
Here's  luck  to  them  who  lose!'' 


OF    REMEMBRANCE—  lady  lindsley,  in  the  flower  seller- 

Methinks  that  you'll  remember,  when  I  die, 
Not  some  brave  action,  nor  yet  stately  speech — 
Though  sheltered  lives  to  these  may  sometimes  reach- 
But  just  a  turn  of  lip,  a  glance  of  eye, 
A  trivial  jest,  a  laughing  word,  a  sigh, 
A  trick  too  strong  to  cure,  too  slight  to  teach, 
Scarce  noticed,  haply  mocked  by  all  and  each — 
Now  a  full  source  of  tears  you'd  fain  defy. 

Ah,  do  not  weep!    The  traveler,  having  come 
From  mountain  heights,  cares  not  for  drifted  snow, 
Nor  rock,  nor  branch,  as  record  of  the  day; 
But  plucks  a  gentian  blue  and  bears  it  home, 
Safe  in  his  bosom— I  would  have  you  so 
Keep  one  sweet  speck  of  love  at  heart  alway. 


CITY    INDEX   AND    PURCHASER'S   GUIDE 

RESTAURANTS. 
Bergez's  Restaurant,  Academy  Building,  333-334  Pine  street,  below  Mont- 
gomery.   Rooms  for  ladies  and  families;  private  entrance.    John  Bergez 
Proprietor. 
Maison  Tortoni,  French  Rotisserie,  111  O'Parrell  street.    Private  dining 

rooms  and  banquet  hall.    S.  Constantini,  Proprietor. 
Poodle   Dog   Restaurant,  S.  E.  cor.   Grant  ave.  and  Bush  st.    Private 

dining  and  banquet  rooms,      Tel.  429.      A.  B. -Blanco  &  B.  Bbtjh. 

DENTISTS. 

Dr.  Franklin  Pancoast    removed  to  20  O'Farrell  street,  rooms  16, 17  &  26 
Dr.  R,  Cutlar,  818  Sutter  street. 

MEDICAL. 

,  near  Jones.    Diseases  of  women  and  children. 


Dr.  Hall,  14  McAllister  St. 


POSTAGE    STAMP    DEALERS. 
Hawaiian  Stamps  a  specialty.    MAKINS  &  CO  506  Market  street. 
Selections  on  approval:  any  place  in  world.  W.  F.  GREANY,827BrannaD 
The  W.  H.  Hollls  Stamp  Co.,  (Incorporated),    lOSO'Farrell  Bt.,B.  F. 

BOILER  MAKERS. 
P.  F.  Dundon's  San  Francisco  Iron  Works,  314,  316,  and  318  Main  street. 
Iron  Work  of  every  description  designed  and  constructed. 


CANDIES. 

Maillard's  Chocolates  in  J4  and  1-lb  boxes. 


Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush. 


LADIES1     HAIR    DRESSING. 
Hermann  Schwarze   (known    as    Hermann   at  Strozynskl's)  has  opened 
Ladies*  Hair  Dressing  Parlors  at  211  Powell  st.    Telephone  Main  5820 


BANKING. 


Bank  of  British  Columbia. 

Southeast  Cor.  Bush  and  [Sansome  Sts. 
Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter,  1862. 

Capital  Paid  Up 83,000,00 

Reserve  Fund $  500,000 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON 

Branches— "Victoria,  Vancouver,  New  Westminster,  Kamloops,  Nan 
lamo,  and  Nelson,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon;  Sandon,  B.  C. ; 
Kaslo,  B.  C. 

This  Bank  transac  ts  a  General  Banking  Business .  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches ,  and  upon  its  Agents ,  as  follows : 

New  York— Merchants'  Bank  of  Canada ;  Chicago— First  National  Bank ; 
Liverpool— North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  Scotland— British  Linen 
Company;  Ireland — Bank  of  Ireland;  Mexico— London  Bank  of  Mexico; 
South  America— London  Bank  of  Mexico  and  South  America;  China  and 
Japan— Chartered  Bank  of  India,  Australia  and  China;  Australia  and 
New  Zealand— Bank  of  Australasia  and  Commercial  Banking  Company  of 
Sydney,  Ld ;  Demerara  and  Trinidad  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank. 

The  ftnglo-Galifornian  Bank,  Limited. 

Capital  authorized 16,000,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000 

Paid    Up 1,500,000 

Reserve    Fund 700,000 

N.  E.  Cor.  Pine  and  Sansome  Sts 
Head  Office— 18  Austin  Friars ,  London,  E.  C 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes 

telegraphic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  hills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART     1  Managpps 

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No.  526  California  Street.  San  Francisco 
Guarantee  capital  and  surplus — $2,040,201  66 
Capital  actually  paid  up  in  cash. .  1.000  000  00 

Deposits  December  31, 1896 27,7^0,247  45 

OFFICERS:  President,  B.A.Becker;  First  Vice-President,  Daniel 
Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H.  Horstman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R  Schmidt; 
Assistant  Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary,  George  Tourny;  Assist- 
ant Secretary,  A.  H.  Muller!  Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodfellow. 

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mann,  Ign.  Steinhart,  N.  Van  Bergen,  E.  Rohte,  H  B.  Russ,  D.  N. 
Walter  and  N.  Ohlandt. 

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Directors— John  J.  Valentine,  Benj.  P.  Cheney,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Henry 

E.  Huntington,  Homer  S.King,  George  E.  Gray,  John  J.  McCook,  CharleB 

F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evano. 

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INTEREST  PAID  ON  DEPOSITS. 

LOANS  MADE. 

DIRECTORS. 
William  Alvord  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.  H.  H.  Hewlett 

Wm.  Babcock  O.D.Baldwin  E.  J.  McCutchen 

Adam  Grant  W.S.Jones  J.B.Lincoln 


June  26,  1897. 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


'5 


BANKING. 


1  ; 


The  boy  came  into  the  house  weeping,    and   his   mother 
aturally  solicitous.     "  What's  the  matter.  Tommy?" 
-.coil         The  boy  across  the  street   hit   me,"    I 
plied.      "i>li.  well,  I  wouldn't  cry  for  that."    she  returned. 

Show  that  you  can  be  a  little  man."  "I  ain't  crying  for 
that.  "  he  retorted.     ''Then   what   are  you  crying   for?" 

He  ran  iuto  the  house  before  I  could  get  at  him." — 
Chicago  Post. 

"  I  can't  tell  whether  the  lady  with  Mr.  SterliDgworth  is 
his  wife  or  not."  remaiked  Mrs.  Throckmorton  to  her  hus- 
band, as  she  gazed  across  the  theatre  through,  her  lorg- 
nette. "  Has  Sterlingworth  got  his  dress  suit  on?"  asked 
Mr.  Throckmorton.  "No;  he  is  wearing  a  brown  suit." 
"  Yes:  the  lady  is  his  wife." 

Mrs  Nextdoor — I  haven't  seen  your  parents  for  ever  so 
long.  Litti.k  Fanny — Mamma  has  got  scarlet  fever  and 
cannot  come  out.  Mrb.  Nbxtdoor — And  what  has  your 
papa  got?  Little  Fanny — He's  got  six  months,  and  he 
can't  come  out,  either. — Odds  and  Ends. 

"  Pass  Senator  Tillman  the  sugar,  Jane,  and  hand  him 
an  extra  spoon,"  said  the  smiling  landlady.  "  I  take  my 
tea  straight,  madam  !  "  thundered  the  incensed  statesman, 
"and  I  stir  it  with  a  fork  !  " — Cleveland  Plain  Dealer. 

"  But  you  are  too  young,"  pleaded  the  anxious  mother. 
"  No  girl  should  marry  before  her  mind  is  fully  formed." 
"Oh,"  said  the  gladsome  maiden  of  eighteen  summers, 
"  my  mind  has  been  made  up  for  more  than  a  week." 

"You,"  said  the  man,  "are  not  so  hot."  The  cucumber, 
thus  rudely  addressed,  managed  to  remain  cool  and  re- 
plied: "And  you  are  not  so  many  as  you  might  be." 
Then  to  sustain  its  premise,  it  doubled  the  man  up. — 
Typographical  Journal. 

"I  dreamed  last  night,"  said  the  tourist,  "that  I  had 
found  a  twenty-dollar  bill."  "Gee  !  I'll  bet  you  was 
happy,"  said  the  wanderer.  "No,  I  wasn't.  I  waked  up 
before  I  could  buy  a  drink." — Typographical  Journal. 

"Girls  make  no  objection  to  being  hugged  in  the  waltz, 
and  by  perfect  strangers."  "Of  course  not.  Dancing  is 
the  poetry  of  motion  and  hugging  is  merely  poetical 
license." — Detroit  Journal. 

Soxey — Why  do  so  many  young  men  carry  their  umbrellas 
under  their  arms?  Knoxey — Oh,  I  suppose  it's  because 
they  like  to  have  their  arms  around  some  kind  of  ribs. — 
Pittsburg  News. 

Tommy — Paw,  what  does  it  mean  when  a  man  is  "in  the 
hands  of  his  friends? "  Mr.  Fiog — Well,  a  barkeeper 
under  arrest  is  a  pretty  fair  sample. — Indianapolis  Journal. 

She — I've  told  you  repeatedly  that  I  wanted  steak  rare. 
He — Oh  !  well,  I  suppose  she  thinks  that  whatever  is 
worth  doing  at  all  should  be  well  done. — Puck. 

He — If  in  the  transmigration  of  souls  you  should  become 
a  fish,  what  sort  of  a  fish  would  you  like  to  be  ?  She — A 
star  fish. — Judge. 

Amy — Does  your  husband  wear  broadcloth  ?  Mrs.  Jones 
— No.     He's  a  thin  man,  you  know." — New  York  Journal. 


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Transacts  a  general  bank  Inc  business 
and  allows  interest  on  d«  posits  payable  on  demand  or  after  notice- 
Acts  as  Executor,   Administrator,  and   Trustee  under  wills  or  in  any 
other  trust  capacity.    Wills  are  drawn  by  the  company's  attorneys  and 
are  taken  euro  of  without  charge. 

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Johnson,  James  Trcadwell,  F.  W.  Lougec.  Henry  F.  Fortmann,  R   B.  Wal- 
lace. R.  D.  Fry.  A.  D.  Sharon  and  J.  Dalzell  Brown. 

Officers:  J.  D  Fry.  President:  Henry  Williams.  Vice-President;  R. 
D  Fry,  Second  Vice-President ;  J.  Dalzell  Brown,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer; K  E.Snotwell,  Assistant  Secretary;  Gunnison,  Booth  &  Bartnett, 
Attorneys.  

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

33  Post    Street,   below    Kearny, 
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Guaranteed  Capital 11,000,000 

Pald-Up  Capital t  300,000 

JAMES  D.  PHELAN.  President.      S.  G.  MURPHY,  Vice-President. 

JOHN    A.   HOOPER,  Vice-President. 
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Hooker,  James  Mofflt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Prank  J.  Sullivan,  Robert  MoElroy, 
and  Joseph  D.  Grant. 

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curities. GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

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on  City  Banks.    When  opening  accounts  send  signatme. 


San  FranGisGO  Savings  Union. 


Corner  California  and  Webb  Streets. 

Deposits.  Deo.  31,  1895 124,^02,327 

Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus —    1,575,631 
ALBERT  MILLER,  President  |  E.  B.  POND,  Vice-President 
Directors— Thomas  Magee,  G.  W.  Beaver,  Philip  Barth,  Daniel  E.  Mar- 
tin, W.  C.  B.  De  Fremery,  George  C.  Boardman,  Robert  Watt;  Lovell 
White,  Cashier. 

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remittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  check  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  Is  made  for 
pass-book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  hours— 9.  a.  m,  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday  even- 
ings, 6:30  to  8. 

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Subscribed  Capital 12,500,000 

Paid  Up  Capital i2,000,000 

ReserveFund I    850,000 

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Bank  Limited,  No.  10  Wall  Street,  N.  Y.  Paris— Messrs.  Lazard,  Freres 
&  Cie,  17  Boulevard  Polssoniere.  Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the 
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WM.  H.CROCKER.., President 

W.  B.  BROWN Vice-President 

GEO.  W.  KLINE Cashier 

Directors— Chas.  F.  Crocker,  E.  B.  Pond,  Hy.  J.Crocker,  Geo.  W.  Scott 

The  Sattier  Banking  Gompanu. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co. 
Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

Capital 11,000,000 

James  K.  Wilson  President.  Albert  Miller,  Vice-President 

L.  I.  Cowqill.  Cashier.  F.  W.  Wolfe.  Secretary. 

Directors— C.  S.  Benedict,  E  G.  Lukens,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Mil 
ler  Wm.  P.  Johnson,  V.  H.  Metcalf,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— National  Bank  of  the 
Commonwealth.  Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Continental  Na- 
tional Bank.  St.  Louis— The  Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Na- 
tional Bank.    London— Brown,  Shipley  &  Co.  Paris— Morgan,  Harjes  &  Co 

Bank  of  California,  San  Francisco. 

Capital  and  Surplus,  $6,000,000 

WILLIAM  ALVORD .President  |  CHARLES  R.  BISHOP. .  Vlce-Pres't 

ALLEN  M.  CLAY Secretary    THOMAS  BROWN Cashier 

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CORRESPONDENTS. 

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Baltimore— The  National  Exchange  Bank.  Boston— The  Tremont  Na- 
tional Bank;  Chicago— Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Union  National 
Bank.  Philadelphia— National  Bank  of  the  Republic.  St.  Louis— Boat- 
man's Bank.  Virginia  City  (Nev.)— Agency  of  The  Bank  of  California. 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.Rothschild  &  Sons;  Paris— Messrs.  de  Roths- 
child Freres.  Berlin— Direction  der  DIsconto  Gesellschaft.  China, 
Japan  and  East  Indies— Chartered  Bank  of  India.  Australia  and  China 
Australia  and  New  Zealand— The  Union  Bank  of  Australia,  Ltd.,  and 
Bank  of  New  Zealand. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  26,  1897. 


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Philip  Gilbert  Hamerton:  An  Autobiography,  1834-1858,  and  a 
memoir  by  his  wife,  1858-1891.  With  a  portrait.  Boston.  Rob- 
erts Brothers.  1896. 
The  subject  of  this  autobiography  and  memoir  was  bom 
in  Lancashire  in  1834,  of  one  of  the  oldest  and  best-de- 
scended families  in  the  English  untitled  aristocracy.  His 
father,  John  Hammerton  (as  he  spelled  it),  however,  fol- 
lowed a  profession  that  was  looked  on  by  the  rest  of  the 
family  as  beneath  the  dignity  of  a  direct  descendant  of  Sir 
Stephen  Hamerton,  who  was  condemned  in  Westminster 
Hall  to  death  for  high  treason  against  His  Majesty  King 
Henry  the  Eighth.  We  remember  a  proud  old  English 
lady,  whose  nephew  wished  to  introduce  an  attorney  to 
her,  sniffing  and  saying,  "Barristers  and  physicians  I  have 
heard  of,  but  what'are  attorneys?"  Mr.  Hamerton's  rela- 
tives were,  as  was  this  old  lady,  "county  people,"  and  occu- 
pied a  distinctly  higher  social  position  than  the  lawyers, 
parsons,  and  doctors  of  the  towns  and  villages.  John 
Hammerton  was  an  able,  handsome,  and  unusually  strong 
man,  but  he  had  oue  fatal  weakness — an  over-fondness  for 
conviviality,  which  at  last  ruined  his  health  and  caused  his 
death  at  an  early  age.  Philip's  association  with  his  father 
was  by  no  means  agreeable,  for  the  elder  man's  temper 
was  fitful  and  violent,  and  his  behavior  to  his  young  son 
was  at  times  positively  cruel.  However,  the  affection  and 
kindness  of  one  of  the  boy's  aunts  were  unceasing,  and 
Philip  came  to  regard  her  as  a  mother,  bis  own  mother 
having  died  when  he  was  still  a  young  child.  At  school 
Philip  was  studious,  and  though  not  fond  of  the  ordinary 
sports  of  bis  schoolfellows,  was  still  able  to  take  care  of 
himself.  He  was  much  interested  in  religious  questions, 
and,  as  he  grew  up,  found  himself  unable  to  accept  all  the 
dogmas  of  the  Established  Church,  to  which,  of  course,  all 
bis  relatives  belonged.  Though  he  was  never  aggressive 
in  the  expression  of  his  unbelief,  he  was  always  frank,  and 
incurred  great  odium  among  his  relatives  on  account  of  it. 
He  early  showed  a  fondness  for  literature,  and  at  the  age 
of  thirteen  wrote  a  poem  entitled  "Prmce  Charles  Edward 
after  the  battle  of  Culloden,"  the  versification  of  which  is 
easy,  graceful,  and  vastly  more  elegant  than  that  of  most 
of  the  poems  we  see  printed  nowadays.  He  was  constantly 
reading,  and  was  very  methodical  in  his  studies;  indeed, 
throughout  his  life,  his  love  of  order  manifested  itself 
strongly.  It  was  intended  that  he  should,  like  other  young 
men  of  his  class,  be  edjcated  at  Oxford,  but  he  felt  no  in- 
clination to  go  to  that,  stronghold  of  orthodoxy  and  home 
of  lost  causes,  the  natural  bent  of  his  mind  being  towards 
art  and  modern  literature  rather  than  towards  the  classi- 
cal languages.  Yet  he  fully  recognized  that  the  "schol- 
arly temper — a  patient,  careful,  exact,  and  studious  tem- 
per— is  valuable  in  all  the  pursuits  of  life."  Had  he  been 
a  man  of  the  world,  his  course  would  (as  he  says)  have 
been  quite  clear.  Born  of  an  excellent  county  family,  with 
enough  means  to  live  like  a  gentleman,  possessed  of  a  good 
voice,  a  retentive  memory,  and  the  ability  to  speak  well 
in  public,  he  would  have  gone  to  Oxford,  taken  his  degree, 
married  a  Lancashire  heiress,  offered  his  services  to  the 
Conservative  party,  and  become  a  member  of  Parliament. 
But  though  he  perceived  plainly  enough  the  worldly  wis- 
dom of  this  course,  he  decided  to  be  both  a  painter  and  an 
author.  One  of  his  first  teachers  in  art  was  Mr.  Pettitt, 
who  taught  him  to  draw  in  "a  hard,  clear,  scientific  man- 
ner," but  who  was  not  a  man  of  general,  or  even  of  artistic, 
culture.  In  London,  whither  Mr.  Hamerton  went  to  visit 
the  picture  exhibitions,  he  met  Rogers,  the  poet,  Leslie, 
the  painter,  Mr.  Watkiss  Lloyd  (the  writer  on  Greek  art, 
history,  and  literature),  George  Eliot,  and  other  persons 
of  note.  At  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  published  "The 
Isles  of  Loch  Awe  and  other  poems,"  which,  though  not  a 
pecuniary  success,  was  very  well  received  by  the  reviews. 
On  a  visit  to  Paris,  he  fell  in  with  a  M.  Gindriez,  for 
whose  character  and  conversation  he  conceived  a  great 
liking.  Two  years  later  he  married  Eugenie  Gindriez,  and 
the  young  couple  began  housekeeping  at  Innistrynich  on 
Loch  Awe;  but  in  1861  they  removed  to  France,  in  various 


parts  of  which  they  thenceforward  continued  to  live.  From 
1858  the  narrative  is  carried  on  to  the  death  of  her  hus- 
band in  1894  by  Mrs.  Hamerton,  who  writes  in  an  affec- 
tionate and  very  interesting  manner,  and  in  English  de- 
void, so  far  as  we  can  see,  of  any  trace  of  foreign  idiom. 
Though  their  life  was  by  no  means  without  auxielies  (one 
of  the  greatest  being  that  Mr.  Hamerton  suffered  from 
recurrent  attacks  of  most  painful  nervousness,  which  in- 
capacitated him  from  all  work  and  rendered  it  impossible 
for  him  to  endure  the  slightest  noise,  or  to  travel  by  train) 
it  was  a  happy  one,  and  Mr.  Hamerton  accomplished  a 
vast  amount  of  literary  a^d  artistic  work.  His  culture 
was  so  wide  and  so  various  that  he  illumined  every  subject 
that  he  touched,  and,  above  all,  his  books  are  always  thor- 
oughly interesting,  and  pervaded  by  a  keen  sense  of  honor 
and  high  principle.  Though  ordinarily  very  gentle,  if  he 
felt  that  he  had  been  cheated  or  deceived,  Mr.  Hamerton's 
wrath  was.heroic,  and  never  failed  to  thoroughly  frighten 
its  objects.  Of  Mr.  Hamerton's  many  works  we  like  best 
"The  Intellectual  Life,"  "Human  Intercourse,"  and 
"French  and  English."  The  present  volume,  which  con- 
tains nearly  six  hundred  pages,  is  issued  by  Messrs.  Rob- 
erts, of  Boston,  who  quite  early  in  Mr.  Hamerton's  liter- 
ary career,  republished  his  books  in  America,  and  with 
such  success  that  some  of  them  gained  even  more  readers 
in  the  United  States  than  in  Great  Britain.  Mrs.  Hamer- 
ton more  than  once  gratefully  acknowleges  the  services 
rendered  by  Messrs.  Roberts  to  the  spread  of  Mr.  Hamer- 
ton's fame,  and  the  receipt  of  little  checks,  which  were 
very  welcome  in  a  household  where  the  head,  though  not 
personally  extravagant,  never  stinted  himself  in  the  pur- 
chase of  materials  for  the  pursuit  of  art. 

Matka  and  Kotik,  a  tale  of  the  Mist  Islands,  by  David  Starr 
Jordan ;  published  by  the  Whitaker  and  Ray  Company,  San 
Francisco.    1897. 

President  Jordan's  work  as  a  member  of  the  Bering 
Sea  Commission  for  1896  furnished  him  with  the  material 
for  this  tale,  which  is  dedicated  to  his  associates.  It  des- 
cribes the  life  of  the  seals  upon  the  Pribylof  Islands,  and 
is  most  copiously  illustrated  from  photographs  taken  for 
the  various  Commissions  by  Mr.  Charles  W.  Townsend,  and 
from  drawings  by  Miss  Chloe  Frances  Lesley,  a  zoological 
student  of  Stanford  University.  The  life  of  the 
baby  seals,  of  the  silken-haired  females,  of  the 
bachelors,  and  of  the  great  beachmasters,  is  graphi- 
cally told.  The  beachmasters  are  the  largest,  strong- 
est, and  bravest  seals,  who  gather  round  themselves 
the  most  attractive  females,  and  fiercely  resent  any  inter- 
ference. The  bachelor,  or  unmated,  seals  must  wait  until 
the  beachmasters  are  out  of  sight  and  hearing  before  they 
venture  to  take  any  liberties  with  the  females.  A  fight 
for  supremacy  between  two  beachmasters  is  well  narrated. 
The  volume  is  correctly  printed  on  fine  paper,  and  many 
of  the  full-page  photogravures  are  most  interesting. 

A  recent  issue  of  "The  Bachelor  of  Arts,"  a  monthly 
magazine  published  in  New  York,  and  "devoted  to  Univer- 
sity interests  and  general  literature,"  contains  half-a- 
dozen  poems,  one  of  which  is  by  the  Japanese,  Yone 
Noguchi,  an  article  on  College  Commencements  by  F.  W. 
Crane,  and  a  long  paper  by  Arthur  Inkerslev  entitled 
"Oxford  and  Cambridge:  a  Comparison."  The  writer's 
familiarity  with  both  the  great  English  Universities  has 
enabled  him  to  direct  attention  to  many  points  of  difference 
between  two  institutions  that  much  resemble  each  other, 
and  are  very  unlike  the  Universities  of  other  countries. 
The  issue  also  contains  the  usual  editorial  notes  on  Science, 
Athletics,  the  Colleges,  Music  and  the  Drama.  The  Bachelor 
of  Arts  is  excellently  printed  on  a  long  narrow  page  of 
good  paper,  and  by  its  freedom  from  cuts,  miscalled 
illustrations,  affords  relief  to  eyes  wearied  by  the  contem- 
plation of  the  ordinary  picture-book  magazines. 

The  opening  article  of  the  July  issue  of  The  Overland 
Monthly,  the  price  of  which  is  now  ten  cents,  is  by  Arthur 
Inkersley.  and  deals  with  the  adventurous  career  of  Alex- 
ander Baranof,  the  first  Chief  Manager  of  the  Russian 
Colonies  in  America.  It  is  fully  illustrated  by  reproduc- 
tions of  photographs  and  pen  drawings  by  Boeringer. 
Professor  E.  S.  Holden,  of  the  Lick  Observatory,  contri- 
butes a  freely  illustrated  article  on  the  Mountain  Obser- 
vatories of  the  World. 


June  16, 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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The  City  o«  l>fu**,  a  n«*tl.  1>J  Sir   W.lirr  B««nt 
the  Krcdern  k  A.  Siok  ,  Uompcnjr,  New  York  ami  l-omlon 

This  is  the  BtOTJ  of  a  community  founded  nt  Aiilerman- 
bury,  in  the  state  of  Now  Yorl  .  liyan  English  gentleman, 
and  successfully  maintained  by  him  for  several  vears. 
The  land  and  building  wire  purchased  by  himself  and  his 
first  discii  agnail  couple  of  penile  birth.  The 
members  of  the  community  labor  on  the  farm,  in  the 
gardens  and  workshops,  and  sell  their  surplus  products  in 
the  neighboring  towns.  They  have  no  money,  no  Strong 
drink,  no  tobacco,  no  playing  cards,  though  then 
piano,  and  they  occasionally  indulge  in  a  sort  of  shuffling 
wall;  round  which  serves  as  an  apology  for  dancing.  The 
members,  except  the  three  mentioned  above,  are  all  of  the 
lower  class,  rough  and  uueducated.  Thrice  a  day  they 
meet  in  the  large,  bare,  barn-like  hall  to  eat  their  meals 
of  coarse,  though  plentiful,  food;  after  the  evening  repast 
comes  the  Rite  of  Meditation.  During  "Meditation"  the 
men  and  women  sit  with  their  backs  to  the  tables  and 
gradually  fall  into  a  semi-hypnotised  condition,  and  fancy 
that  they  see  visions  and  receive  communications  from  the 
other  world.  To  this  queer  assemblage  there  enters  one 
day  Sir  Charles  Osterley,  a  Baronet,  once  a  distinguished 
member  of  Parliament  and  a  rising  statesman.  Sir 
Charles's  brilliant  career  had  been  blasted  by  an  incurable 
passion  for  gambling,  which  had  swallowed  up  all  his  own 
fortune,  and  all  of  bis  wife's  property  that  he  could  lay- 
hands  upon.  Broken  and  disgraced,  he  had  come  to  the 
United  States,  and  had  fallen  lower  and  lower  until  he  had 
even  committed  murder.  To  escape  from  the  clutches  of 
the  law  he  entered  "The  House,"  whither  came  in  search 
of  him,  and  with  intent  to  induce  him  to  commit  suicide, 
Gilbert  Maryon,  Lady  Osterley's  oldest  and  most  trusted 
friend.  Gilbert  finds  amid  the  uncongenial  inmates  of 
"The  House"  oue  sweet  girl,  the  child  of  the  English 
couple  who  were  the  Master's  first  disciples.  Having  been 
born  and  brought  up  in  "the  House,"  Cicely  knows  nothing 
of  "Outside,"  as  the  rest  of  the  world  is  termed  by  the 
recluses.  She,  too,  has  her  hours  of  Meditation,  in  which 
she  falls  into  a  sort  of  trance,  and  communes  with  her 
dead  mother.  How  the  desired  deliverance  of  Dorabyn, 
Lady  Osterley,  from  her  worthless  husband  is  effected, 
and  how  Cicely  turns  out  to  be  well-boru  and  a  fit  bride 
for  Gilbert  Maryon,  is  charmingly  told.  The  Master  of 
"The  House"  at  last  sees  the  utter  futility  of  the  life  he 
had  so  long  lived,  and  resigns  his  post.  The  Brothers  and 
Sisters,  after  his  departure,  introduce  newspapers,  books, 
literary  and  dramatic  entertainments,  and  many  other 
things  from  "Outside."  The  story  shows  very  cleverly 
the  folly  of  trying  to  get  out  of  the  world,  while  we  still 
remain  in  it  and  of  it.  All  schemes  of  life,  which  aim  at  re- 
pressing the  natural  instincts  and  tendencies  of  mankind 
are  doomed  to  failure:  you  may,  as  Horace  says,  drive  out 
Nature  with  a  pitchfork,  but  she  will  always  come  back. 
The  prolonged  trances  in  which  the  members  of  the  com- 
munity indulged  every  evening  are  shown  to  result  from 
mere  emptiness  of  heart  and  vacuity  of  mind:  having 
nothing  to  think  about  or  to  excite  their  interest,  they  be- 
came machines  for  the  performance  of  a  certain  amount 
of  work  and  the  digestion  of  a  good  deal  of  food,  until  the 
more  stolid  of  the  men  almost  lost  the  power  of  speech. 
Without  books,  pictures,  or  communication  with  the  out- 
side world,  they  dreamed  their  lives  away,  becoming  mere 
pigs  at  a  well-filled  trough.  Like  all  the  stories  that 
come  from  Sir  Walter's  skillful  and  practised  pen,  "The 
City  of  Refuge"  is  thoroughly  wholesome,  and  unfailingly 
interesting.  We  suppose  that  Sir  Walter  must  be  classed 
as  a  Romanticist:  he  has  certainly  never  fallen  into  the 
slough  of  Realism  by  wallowing  in  which  so  many  writers 
of  the  day  are  faithfully  doing  the  work  of  their  master— 
the  Devil. 

THE  American  Newspaper  Annual  is  an  encyclopedia 
of  newspapers  and  periodicals  published  in  the  United 
States  and  Canada,  and  is  printed  by  N.  W.  Ayer  &  Son, 
newspaper  advertising  agents  of  Philadelphia.  It  is  now 
found  on  many  of  the  Palace  cars  throughout  the  country, 
and  is  a  necessary  adjunct  to  any  library. 

Fine  stationery,  steel  and  copper-plate  engraving.    Cooper  &  Co.,  746 
Market  street,  San  Franolgeo. 

Indigestion  dies  where  Jackson's  Napa  Soda  lives. 


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'■\  cry  grocery ! 
on  a  signboard 

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/  v/i'iiil  \  \  v  \       won't   be   satisfied 
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washing-powder  in  its  place.  It  is  a  fraud  on  the 
customer  and  on  Pearline.  You  can  help  to  put 
a  stop  to  it.  When  you  ask  for  Pearline,  don't 
let  any  imitation  of  it  be  substituted  for  it.      ess 

DIVIDEND    NOTICE. 

Mutual  Savings   Bank  of  San   Francisco. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  June  30,  1897,  a  dividend  has  been  declared 

at  therate  of  four  (4)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  deposits,  and  three  and 

one-third  (3^|)  per  cent,    per  aLnum  on  ordinary  deposits,  free  of  taxes, 

payable  on  and  after  Thursday,  July  1, 1897. 

Office— 33  Post  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.      GEO.  A.  STORY,  Cashier. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 
The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  with  June  30,  1897,  a  dividend  has  been  de- 
clared at  the  rate  of  four  and  twenty  hundredths  (4  20-100)  per  cent  per  an- 
num on  Term  Deposits,  and  three  and  fifty  hundredths  (8  50-100)  per 
cent,  per  annum  on  Ordinary  Deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after 
Thursday.  July  l,  1867.  GEO.  TOURNY,  Secretary. 

Office— 526  California  street. 

DIVIDEND     NOTICE. 
San  Francisco  Gas  and    Electric  Co. 
A  dividend  of  firty  cents  (50c)  per  share  upon  the  paid- up  capital  stock  of 
this  company  has  been  declared  this  day,  payable  July   1, 1897;    Transfer 
boobs  will  remain  closed  from  June  22d  to  July  1st,  inclusive. 

WM,  G.  BARRETT,  Secretary. 
Office :  415  Post  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
San  Francisco   June  23,  1897. 

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For  the  half  year  ending  June  30,  1897.  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at  the 
rate  per  anuum  of  four  and  two-tenths  (4  2)  per  cent,  on  term  deposits  and 
three  and  five-tenths  (3  5)  percent,  on  ordinary  deposits,  free  of  taxes, 
payable  on  and  after  Thursday,  July  1.  1897. 

Office— 532  California  street,  cor.  Webb  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier. 

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Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  tne  oiSce  of  gqo  company,  No.  414  Cali- 
fornia street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

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tors to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  busi- 
ness as  may  come  before  the  meeting.    Transfer  books  will  be  closed  on 
Tuesday,  July  ti,  1897,  at  1  o'clock  p  w 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  26,  1897- 


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EARTHQUAKE  shocks  are  not  the  most  agreeable 
features  of  the  ups  and  downs  in  the  life  of  an  elevator 
boy.  The  usual  Sabbath  quiet  in  the  Crocker  Building  was 
broken  last  Sunday,  soon  after  noon  by  a  violent  jangling 
of  bells.  Only  the  central  lift  was  then  in  operation,  and 
the  youth  in  charge  thought  a  general  alarm  had  been 
turned  in.  A  summons  seemed  to  come  simultaneously 
from  every  floor  in  the  building,  as  soon  as  the  first 
shock  was  felt.  All  the  Sunday  workers  were  apparently 
seized  with  a  sudden  desire  to  escape  from  their  offices  to 
the  nearest  sanctuary.  Expressions  of  their  relief  in  the 
immediate  termination  of  the  world  came  from  all  parts  of 
the  big  structure.  The  elevator  boy  glanced  at  the  indi- 
cator. Only  two  floors  were  unheard  from, — eleven  and 
seven. 

"Come,  seven, — come,  eleven,"  he  repeated,  from  force 
of  habit,  and  a  moment  later  the  missing  calls  came.  That 
from  the  eleventh  floor  was  the  more  insistent,  the  bell 
ringing  again  and  again. 

The  elevator  shot  up  to  the  roof,  and  on  the  top  floor 
was  Hall  McAllister,  pale  as  death,  his  finger  still  pressing 
the  button.  The  intrepid  climber  of  the  Sierra  Club  leap- 
ed into  the  lift. 

"Down,"  he  whispered.     "Down!  Quick." 

"Surely  a  sport  like  you 's  not  afraid,  Mr.  Allister,"  said 
the  elevator  boy,  reproachfully. 

"No, — oh,  no!"  hastily  replied  Hall. 

"I'll  be  blowed!"  remarked  the  manipulator  of  the  lift, 
in  describing  the  scene,  subsequently.  "If  the  post- 
master had  a-made  them  shoots  large  enough,  damme  if 
Judge  McAllister  wouldn't  have  come  down  head  first!" 

*  *  # 

Some  men  pride  themselves  on  their  mechanical  genius 
and  believe  they  can  save  vast  sums  by  performing  various 
trivial  jobs  themselves  rather  than  by  the  employment  of 
regular  artisans.  Of  such  is  Charles  L.  Pierce,  the  com- 
mission merchant.  He  takes  great  pride  in  his  Oakland 
home  and  spends  all  his  leisure  hours  in  its  adornment. 
He  promised,  a  week  ago,  to  paint  the  kitchen  linoleum, 
but  deferred  the  task  from  day  to  day,  until  his  wife  lost 
patience  and  declared  he  had  no  intention  of  attending  to 
it.     This  insinuation  put  Pierce  on  his  mettle. 

"I  will  do  it  to-night,"  he  solemnly  affirmed. 

"But  you  forget  we  are  going  to  that  reception,"  he 
was  reminded. 

"After  we  return,  I  was  about  to  add,"  concluded 
Pierce,  who  had  forgotten  the  reception. 

About  half-past  twelve  that  night,  Pierce  came  home, 
took  off  his  swallow  tail  coat,  turned  up  his  trousers  at 
the  bottom,  and  set  to  work.  The  undertaking  was  more 
elaborate  than  he  had  anticipated  and  the  commission 
merchant  splashed  away  at  the  paint  pot,  while  the  clock 
kept  on  striking.  It  was  after  three  before  he  had  finished, 
and  meanwhile  half  asleep,  he  had  stumbled  over  the  paint 
pot,  covered  his  patent  leathers  with  the  drab  coloring, 
ruined  his  dress  trousers,  and,  he  was  afterwards  informed, 
made  a  very  poor  job  of  the  linoleum.  Pierce  arrived  at 
his  office  at  eleven  o'clock  on  the  following  morning.  He 
hopes  the  paint  will  wear  off  his  hands  and  wrists,  and, — 
next  time  he  will  give  the  painter  a  chance. 

*  *  * 

It  is  a  far  cry  from  the  great  railroad  strike  at  Sacra- 
mento in  1894  to  the  arrest  of  Leader  Fanciulli  of  the 
Marine  Band  on  Decoration  Day  at  Washington,  D.  C. ; 
but  the  New  York  Sun  of  the  6th  inst.,  connects  these  two 
incidents  by  the  free  use  of  Lieutenant  Draper,  now  sta- 
tioned at  the  National  Capital.  The  Sun's  Washington 
correspondent,  must  have  drawn  •  the  Lieutenant's 
thrilling  part  in  the  great  strike  from  the  lips  of  that 
"brainiest,  manliest,  and  fairest  officer  in  the  service,"  as 
the  writer  pleases  to  describe  him.  Instead  of  being  in 
command  of  "three  hundred  marines  from  Mare  Island," 
Draper  was  the  junior  company  officer,  and  was  next  to 
the  junior  in  rank  of  five  who  were  present  for  duty  in 
Sacramento;  and    the  lieutenant's   command    Dever  ex- 


ceeded forty  men.  The  very  laudatory  remarks  applied  to 
Lieutenant  Draper  and  credited  to  Colonel  Graham  by  the 
Sun,  escaped  the  notice  of  all  the  associates  of  the  Lieu- 
tenant, so  far  as  can  be  recalled.  It  is  true  that  Draper 
was  immortalized  by  the  saying  that  "bullets  are  cheaper 
than  bayonets,"  at  Sacramento  upon  the  occasion  of  a  sen- 
try's breaking  his  rifle.  The  Lieutenant,  while  here,  failed 
to  provoke  the  deep  affection  for  himself  expressed  in  the 
Sun;  in  fact,  very  much  the  reverse  is  true.  It  is  declared, 
finally,  that  this  model  of  modern  military  achievements  is 
a  "man  who  can  whip  his  weight  in  wild-cats,  or,  for  his 
rank  and  inches,  any  officer  or  man  in  the  service. "  It  is 
an  even  bet  that  he  will  find  any  number  of  them  about 
Mare  Island  who  would  be  very  glad  of  the  opportunity  to 
represent  the  wildcats. 

*  *  * 

In  front  of  the  paying  teller's  window  in  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  was  a  long  line  of  customers  the  other  day, 
when  a  middle-aged  man,  rather  the  worse  for  wear,  pre- 
sented a  check  for  $100. 

"You  must  get  some  one  to  identify  you,  sir,"  said 
handsome  Charlie  Mcintosh,  who  was  installed  at  the 
teller's  counter. 

"What's  the  matter  with  the  check?"  asked  the 
stranger,  indignantly.     "  Isn't  it  good  ?  " 

"The  check's  all  right,  but  I  don't  know  you.  You  must 
be  identified,"  replied  Mcintosh,  with  courteous  insistence. 

After  various  ineffectual  protests,  the  man  went  out  in 
high  dudgeon,  but  presently  returned,  more  unsteady  than 
before,  and  again  took  his  place  in  the  line.  When  all 
ahead  of  him  had  transacted  their  business,  he  finally 
secured  the  place  at  the  teller's  wicket  a  second  time. 

"I  tell  you  what  I'll  do,  young  man,"  he  said,  insinuat- 
ingly to  Mcintosh ;  '  'I  need  money,  and  I  guess  you  do,  too. 
Now,  you  can  have  that  check  for  $75  !  "  and  he  swelled 
with  a  lively  sense  of  bis  own  generosity. 

Mcintosh  tried  again  to  explain  the  necessity  for  identi- 
fication.    The  man  became  furious. 

"You  make  me  tired,"  he  snorted,  in  great  scorn. 
"This  is  a  hell  of  a  bank  ! "  and  he  bounced  down  the  steps, 
banging  the  door,  in  a  frenzy  of  wrath. 

*  *  * 

There  are  few  more  competent  critics  than  George 
Hamlin  Fitch,  who  is  a  careful  censor  in  the  use  of  the 
language,  and  who  is  especially  annoyed  at  the  inferior 
character  of  much  of  the  newspaper  English  which  finds 
its  way  into  print.  Editor  Fitch  has  a  horror,  too,  of 
stereotyped  phrases,  and  in  the  newsroom  of  the  Chronicle 
they  say  that  his  special  abominations  are  the  use  of  the 
term  "Jupiter  Pluvius,"  and  references  in  interior  dis- 
patches to  the  "  jubilations  of  the  farmers."  One  of  his 
assistants  recently  departed  on  a  vacation  in  the  country. 

"We  have  no  correspondent  in  the  neighborhood  where 
you  are  going,"  said  Fitch,  "and  I  wish  you  would  send  us 
any  news  that  transpires  there." 

The  junior  telegraph  editor  agreed,  but  during  his  ab- 
sence the  only  unusual  event  was  the  heavy  June  rain, 
which,  as  it  happened,  was  very  welcome  in  tbe  particular 
section  in  question.  With  special  reference  to  the  preju- 
dices of  his  superior,  the  young  newspaperman  carefully 
compiled  and  sent  to  the  Chronicle  the  following  news  item: 

"Jupiter  Pluvius  is  in  evidence  here,  and  the  farmers 
are  jubilant." 

Pitch's  face  was  a  study  when  the  dispatch  was  shown 
to  him. 

"Well,"  he  said,  grimly,  recovering  his  equanimity,  for 
he  can  appreciate  a  joke  as  well  as  any  one,  "  that  news 

is  important,  if  true." 

*  *  * 

Young  Henry  Madison  began  his  career  as  a  marine  in- 
surance broker  under  what  he  deemed  a  peculiarly  kind 
stroke  of  fortune.  The  gilding  on  his  business  sign  was 
hardly  dry  when  his  first  customer  appeared,  handing  him 
a  note  from  an  intimate  friend,  to  the  following  effect: 

"Bearer  is  O.  K.,  and  desires  some  marine  insurance. 
Good  luck  to  you!" 

Madison  laughed  softly  to  himself. 

"Here's  a  good  thing,"  he  soliloquized,  sotto  voce.  "They 
come  to  me  a  running.     I  guess  I'll  cultivate  this  a  bit." 

"Have  a  cigar?"  he  said,  aloud,  to  his  first  client,  pro- 
ducing a  box  of  perfectos,  from  a  secret  drawer.     "Take 


June  26,  1897. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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two  or  three,  he  adde  i.  for  he  thought  he  could  afford  to 
be  generous. 

'NBeen  to  lunch?"  be  asked,  a  moment  later,  after  the 
stranger  had  tilled  bis  waistcoat  pockets  with  throe  for-a- 
half  cigars.  "No?  Neither  hare  1  Well,  we  can  have  a 
bite,  and  talk  business  afterwards." 

Henry  insisted  upon  purchasing  two  mellow  cocktails, 
"family  style,"  and  subsequently  played  the  ho>-t.  with 
great  generosity.  at  the  best  French  caterer's.  The 
young  insurance  broker  topped  off  the  high  lunch  with 
some  yellow  chartreuse  and  settled  the  score  without 
wincing,  His  rommission  on  that  prospective  marine 
premium  would  compensate  hini  amply. 

A>  they  left  the  restaurant,  the  customer,  a  resident  of 
San  Rafael,  suggested  that  as  he  was  somewhat  hurried, 
a  condition  which  had  not  previously  occurred  to  him, 
Madison  should  telephone  to  an  Oakland  address,  which 
he  gave,  for  the  details  of  the  cargo  to  be  insured.  They 
parted  with  mutual  expressions  of  esteem. 

Henry  paid  thirty  cents  more  for  the  telephone  charges 
and  learned  from  Black  Steen  hundred,  Oakland,  that  the 
gentleman  had  ordered  for  his  ban  Rafael  house,  eighteen 
pieces  of  sewer  pipe.  He  desired  to  have  the  piping 
covered  with  insurance  m  muti  to  Sausalito! 

It  did  not  take  the  young  broker  long  to  compute  that 
the  premium  on  this  risk  would  be  just  forty-nine  cents, 
upon  which  his  commission  would  amount  to  niDe  and  four- 
fifth  cents! 


Several  young  Englishmen,  crossing  the  bayon  Tuesday, 
went  over  on  the  port  side  of  the  ferry  boat  to  take  a  look 
at  the  small  fleet  of  our  own  White  Navy,  lying  majestic- 
ally at  anchor.    They  discovered  a  stranger  in  the  stream. 

"What's  that  flag  she's  flying  at  her  stern?"  asked  one. 

"That?"  replied  Septimus  de  Greayer,  the  broker. 
'"  You're  a  pretty  man  not  to  know  your  own  flag  !  Why, 
that's  the  Union  Jack.     What  did  you  suppose  it  was  ?  " 

"  But  I  never  saw  a  British  cruiser  that  color  ?  "  per- 
sisted the  first  speaker.  "They  are  always  kept  so  white 
and  clean." 

"Oh,  she's  just  up  from  Callao,"  explained  De  Greayer, 
glibly.  "They'll  paint  her  while  she's  in  port.  Besides, 
she  isn't  a  cruiser.  She's  a  sloop-of-war,"  and  be  pro- 
ceeded to  expatiate  upon  the  peculiarities  of  British  naval 
architecture  which  always  served  as  a  means  of  identifica- 
tion. 

"Pardon  me  for  correcting  you,"  said  a  gentleman  who 
overheard  De  Greayer's  disquisition,  "but  that's  the  Jap- 
anese flag,  not  the  British." 

#  *  * 

There  is  a  little  story  behind  the  recent  action  of  the 
Board  of  Regents  lopping  off  $2000  a  year  from  the  salary 
of  President  Kellogg  of  the  State  University.  Ever  since 
his  appointment,  Dr.  Kellogg  has  been  paid  the  snug  sum 
of  $8000  per  annum,  $6000  being  the  regular  remuneration 
for  the  college  presidency  and  $2000  being  an  additional 
allowance  for  the  entertainment  of  visitors  on  behalf  of  the 
University.  But  President  Kellogg  is  a  thrifty  soul  and 
being  an  ex-Congregational  minister  considered  it  a 
wicked  waste  to  fritter  away  such  a  sum  in  worldly  and 
carnal  entertainment,  when  it  could  be  put  to  so  much 
better  use.  So  he  expended  about  $100  every  year  in  giv- 
ing a  reception  to  the  senior  students  whom  he  fed  on  thin 
sandwiches  and  weak  lemonade,  and  in  giving  a  few  quiet 
"home"  dinners.  The  remaining  $1900  he  applied  where 
it  would  do  more  good, — namely,  in  swelling  his  little  bank 
account.  So  the  wordly  regents  lopped  off  the  perquisites 
and  Dr.  Kellogg  bewails  his  limited  opportunities  "for  do- 
ing good."  

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The  well-known  dentists,  Drs.  Derby  and  Winter,  are  temporar- 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


June  26,  1897. 


HOW  thoroughly  our  British  residents  enjoyed  their 
Jubilee  festivities,  neither  the  earthquakes  nor  the 
rain  appearing  to  dampen  their  enthusiasm  in  the  faintest 
degree.  The  Chutes  were  crowded  during  the  days  and 
nights  given  over  to  the  celebrations  there,  and  the  ban- 
quet at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Monday  night  was  a  feast  fit 
for  even  Royalty  itself. 

June,  the  month  of  roses,  has  been  decidedly  a  month  of 
weddings  as  well,  and  they  seemingly  increase  as  the  days 
go  by.  The  present  week  was  ushered  in  with  the  wedding 
of  Miss  Lillie  Goldstein  and  Isaac  Wolf,  which  took  place 
at  the  Goldstein  residence,  on  Sutter  street,  amid  a  wealth 
of  floral  surroundings,  which  made  beautiful  the  entire  in- 
terior of  the  house.  The  ceremony  was  performed  at  six 
o'clock  by  the  Reverend  Jacob  Nieto,  the  bridal  party  en- 
tering the  room  to  the  strains  of  the  Mendelssohn  wedding 
march.  Little  Stella  Wolf,  as  ring-bearer,  came  first; 
then  Miss  Rosa  Livingston,  as  maid-of-honor,  attired  in 
pink  and  white  silk,  the  Misses  Phoebe  Wolf  and  Miriam 
Levy  as  bridesmaids,  who  wore  gowns  of  white  organdie, 
and  then  the  bride,  who  was  robed  in  white  satin  en  traine, 
trimmed  with  tulle.  She  wore  a  tulle  vail  and  wreath  of 
orange  blossoms,  and  carried  a  cluster  of  Bermuda  lilies. 
Solomon  Wolf  was  best  man.  After  congratulations  had 
been  offered  and  received,  the  company  sat  down  to  a 
bridal  dinner,  and  later  the  bride  and  groom  departed  on 
a  honeymoon  trip  through  the  Southern  counties. 

On  Monday  evening  the  wedding  of  Miss  Edith  Smith 
and  Arthur  Bridge  was  solemnized  at  the  home  of  the 
bride,  on  Ellis  street,  the  ceremony  being  performed  by 
the  Reverend  W.  I.  Kip,  beneath  a  true  lover's  knot,  which 
was  suspended  from  a  floral  arch.  There  were  no  attend- 
ants to  either  bride  or  groom,  but  a  handsome  supper  was 
enjoyed  by  the  relatives  and  friends,  of  whom  only  a  limited 
number  was  present. 

One  of  the  prettiest  weddings  which  Oakland  has  seen 
this  year  was  the  ceremonial  on  Wednesday,  when  Miss 
Jessie  Coleman  and  Harry  Knowles  were  married  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  mother;  and  in  Portland,  Oregon.  Miss 
Edith  Macleay  and  Joe  Grant  were  united  in  marriage  on 
Wednesday  at  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  which  was 
profusely  decked  with  palms,  ferns,  and  flowers,  the  Rev- 
erend Edgar  Hill  tying  the  nuptial  knot.  The  bride,  who 
was  attended  by  her  sister  Mabel,  as  maid-of-honor,  wore 
a  robe  of  white  satin  covered  with  white  chiffon;  Miss 
Mabel's  gown  was  of  white  organdie;  she  wore  a  Leghorn 
hat  trimmed  with  pink  and  carried  a  bouquet  of  La  France 
roses.     Roderick  Macleay  was  the  groom's  best  man. 

A  very  pretty  wedding  of  last  week  was  solemnized  at 
the  home  of  the  bride's  parents  on  Vallejo  street,  when 
the  Reverend  W.  W.  Bolton  united  in  marriage  Miss  Mary 
Irene  Roden  and  Joseph  T.  Monges.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  in  a  bower  composed  of  bridal  roses,  over  which 
hovered  white  doves  holding  in  their  beaks  a  true-lovers' 
knot  of  tulle;  and  the  other  floral  decorations  of  the  rooms 
were  extremely  artistic.  The  pretty  brunette  bride  wore 
a  robe  of  white  satin  trimmed  with  duchesse  lace,  a  tulle 
vail,  and  carried  a  bouquet  of  orange  blossoms.  She  was 
attended  by  her  sister  Bessie  and  Miss  Sallie  Charles  as 
bridesmaids,  who  wore  gowns  of  white  organdie  over  white 
silk,  and  both  carried  shower  bouquets  of  ferns  and 
grasses.  A  reception  and  supper  followed  the  ceremony, 
and  the  happy  pair  have  been  passing  their  honeymoon  at 
Coronado. 

Joe  Grant,  who  was  married  to  Miss  Macleay  at  Port- 
land, Oregon,  last  Wednesday,  with  his  bride  sails  for 
Europe  on  Wednesday  next,  and  as  they  intend  to  do  the 
Continent  as  well  as  the  British  Isles  very  thoroughly, 
they  have  set  October  as  the  time  of  their  probable  re- 
turn to  California,  when  they  will  be  warmly  greeted  and 
welcomed  home. 

To-morrow  there  will  be  a  golden  wedding  anniversary 
celebrated  at  the  Godchaux  residence  on  Webster  street, 
when  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Adolph  Godchaux  will  receive  the  con- 
gratulations of  their  hosts  of  friends  in  San  Francisco  on 
the  completion  of  fifty  years  of  happy  wedded  life. 


On  Wednesday,  at  high  noon,  iu  the  presence  of  the 
family,  Miss  Carrie  Koshland,  daughter  of  the  late  S. 
Koshland,  was  married  to  Mr.  Emile  Greenebaum,  at  the 
residence  of  the  bride's  mother  on  Pine  street.  The  bride 
wore  a  beautiful  gown  of  corded  silk,  with  point  lace 
trimming;  and  her  tulle  veil  was  held  with  orange  blossoms. 
The  marriage  ceremony  was  performed  by  Rev.  Dr.  Jacob 
Voorsanger.  After  the  wedding  breakfast  the  couple  left 
on  a  trip  to  the  southern  part  of  the  State.  Mr.  Greene- 
baum is  the  manager  of  the  King  Morse  Canning  Com- 
pany, and  brother  to  Mrs.  William  Haas  and  Mrs.  I.  N. 
Walter. 

This  will  be  a  gala  day  at  Sar.  Rafael,  as  the  first  paper 
chase  of  the  season  will  take  place  under  the  leadership  of 
Miss  Warburton  and  Dr.  Howett.  It  will  start  from  the 
Hotel  Rafael,  where  this  evening  the  first  hop  of  the  sea- 
son will  be  given,  and  it  promises  to  be  a  charming  affair. 
The  Hotel  is  now  well  filled  with  summer  guests,  and  large 
additions  are  expected  next  week  for  the  tennis  tourna- 
ment, which  is  to  be  held  there  next  Saturday.  General 
Warfield  has  made  every  arrangement  for  the  reception 
and  entertainment  of  his  guests  this  season,  and  Hotel 
Rafael  promises  to  be  even  more  popular  than  ever.  The 
lawn  tennis  tournament  for  the  championship  of  the  Pacific 
States  (gentlemen's  singles)  will  take  place  at  the  hotel, 
commencing  on  Friday,  July  2d,  will  include  Saturday  and 
end  on  Monday. 

Del  Monte  never  looked  more  attractive  than  it  does  at 
present,  and  most  of  the  old  habituSs  are  now  there  for  the 
summer.  There  will  be  music  and  dancing,  tennis,  bathing, 
riding,  fireworks,  and  feasting,  -etc.,  as  a  few  of  the  holi- 
day attractions  for  the  guests,  and  as  usual  it  is  antici- 
pated that  the  hotel  will  be  filled  to  repletion  next  week. 

The  charms  of  the  Santa  Clara  Valley  are  acknowledged 
J  by  all  who  have  ever  been  in  that  part  of  the  State,  and  the 
Hotel  Vendome  is  a  most  popular  resort,  where  one  can 
be  equally  happy  for  a  day  or  for  a  month,  as  the  case 
may  be.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Dean  have  taken  up  their 
quarters  there,  with  the  intention  of  remaining  for  several 
weeks,  and  are  accompanied  by  Miss  Flora,  who  has  just 
returned  from  an  Eastern  school,  at  which  she  is  study- 
ing. Mrs.  O.  C.  Pratt  and  her  son  are  at  the  Vendome 
for  the  summer. 

Great  preparations  are  being  made  at  Castle  Crags  for 
a  proper  celebration  of  the  coming  Fourth  of  July  holi- 
day, and  it  goes  without  saying  that  all  the  guests  at  the 
Tavern  will  have  a  jolly  good  time.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M. 
Goewey,  Mrs.  L.  S.  Spencer  and  Miss  Gertrude  Goewey 
are  amoDg  those  who  have  selected  Castle  Crags  for  their 
summer  quarters. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Downey  Harvey  have  been  visiting  the 
Yosemite  Valley  this  week.  Mayor  Phelan  has  been  a 
guest  at  Bartlett  Springs  of  late.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lloyd 
Tevis  and  Miss  Breckenridge  have  returned  from  their 
Eastern  visit,  and  it  is  probable  that  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred 
Sharon  will  be  here  to  spend  the  month  of  September  with 
them  at  Del  Monte. 

The  first  of  a  series  of  dances  was  given  at  Blythedale 
on  last  Saturday  evening,  and  it  proved  to  be  a  most  en- 
joyable affair.  The  large  reception  room  and  dining-room 
were  thrown  open,  and  excellent  music  was  provided  for 
the  merry  guests  a^d  their  friends,  many  of  whom  were 
present  from  the  city.  Mrs.  Gregg  has  made  arrange- 
ments for  the   attendance  of   a  pianist  every   Saturday 


$1000.°° 

Put  on  your  thinking  cap  and  guess.  The 
money  may  just  as  well  be  yours — or  part  of  it. 

One  guess  to  every  yellow  ticket  from  Schil- 
ling ys  Best  Tea.  Buy  the  tea  and  be  sure  you 
get  the  ticket. 

See  daily  papers  about  the  first  and  middle  of  the  month  for  par- 
ticulars. 


JuiK-  26.    : 


SAN"   FRANCISCO   NEWS   LETTER. 


tight.  The  n  cent  rait  a  had  washed  the  trees  and  made 
them  a  bright,  r  green,  and  .  .cared  the  air  and  tilled  it 
with  the  "•  •.  making  a  beautiful  place 

still  more  attractive. 

On  the  steamship  Queen,  which  sailed  from  Victoria  last 
Thursday  for  the  far  northwest,  were  the  members  of  the 
muchtalked-of  Alaska  party,  which  had  grown  t'>  unex- 
1  proportions  under  the  stimulating  management  of 
Messrs  Baas  and  Ix»w.  The  party  included  Mr.  and 
Mr-  Won  Greeoebaum,  Miss  Madeleine  Bear,  the  Misses 
Jacobi,  the  Misses  Sehwabacher,  Mr.  Louis  Haas.  Mr. 
Joseph  Lowe,  the  Messrs.  Hellman,  from  New  York. 
Esberg,  Weil  and  Hellman,  and  their  respective 
families,  made  up  another  pleasant  party  which  sailed  on 
the  same  ship. 

On  Wednesday  night  the  friends  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jacob 
Xcistadter  assembled  at  their  resideuce.  corner  Van  Ness 
avenue  and  Sacramento  street,  to  celebrate  their  silver 
wedding.  A  most  enjoyable  evening  was  passed,  and 
much  laughter  provoked  when  one  of  the  juniors  of  the 
family  read  a  poem  commenting  upon  several  of  the  more 
important  events  that  were  experienced  by  the  couple 
during  the  twenty-five  years  sail  upon  the  sea  of  matri- 
mony. Each  event  noted  was  cleverly  illustrated  by  a 
large  caricature. 

A  benefit  will  be  given  Sister  Cora,  in  the  interest  of 
her  charitable  work  among  poor  children,  at  the  California 
Theatre  next  Thursday  evening,  July  1st,  under  the  man- 
agement of  Frank  C.  Thompson,  assisted  by  W.  B.  Bird- 
sail  and  E.  M.  Cameron.  A  comedy  by  John  Kendrick 
Bangs  will  be  produced  by  well-known  amateur  talent, 
which  will  be  followed  by  singing,  in  which  the  Police 
chorus  of  thirty  voices  will  take  part.  The  charity  is  a 
most  worthy  one,  and  the  work  of  Sister  Cora  richly  de- 
serves all  possible  encouragement. 

St.  John  Lodge  of  Masons  gave  their  annual  banquet  at 
the  Maison  Riche  last  Thursday  evening.  The  banquet  hall 
was  most  beautifully  decorated  for  the  occasion  with  palms, 
ferns,  and  flowers,  and  presented  a  brilliant  appearance. 
The  banquet  was  a  most  elaborate  affair,  and  fully  main- 
tained the  reputation  of  this  popular  restaurant. 

Marshall  B.  Woodwortb,  who  was  Judge  Morrow's  pri- 
vate secretary  when  he  occupied  the  bench  in  the  District 
Court,  was  last  Thursday  selected  by  the  Judge  for  a  simi- 
lar position  in  the  United  States  Circuit  Court.  The  com- 
pliment is  a  deserved  one,  and  the  promotion  a  source  of 
gratification  to  the  young  man's  many  friends. 

The  Misses  Tay  were  among  the  Californians  who  were 
in  London  for  the  Jubilee  week,  but  expect  to  return  to 
Paris  before  the  end  of  this  month.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P. 
Huntington  arrived  in  London  early  in  the  week  from 
New  York.  Mrs.  Hitchcock  and  Mrs.  Coit  are  en  route 
to  Paris,  having  left  here  for  that  paradise  last  week. 

The  following  well-known  San  Franciscans  were  passen- 
gers for  Honolulu  on  the  Steamship  Mariposa,  which  sailed 
last  Thursday  for  the  Islands  and  Australia:  A.  D.  Bald- 
win, F.  F.  Baldwin,  Professor  and  Mrs.  E.  E.  Brown, 
S.  Castle,  Miss  Eloise  Castle,  Mr.' and  Mrs.  G.  H.  Mead  and 
son. 

Mr.  Arthur  Bachman,  who  for  the  past  two  months  has 
been  sojourning  in  New  York,  hab  returned  home  for  the 
summer.  With  him  come  Mrs.  Henry  Koch  and  family, 
who  are  the  guests  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  Triest. 

Major  and  Mrs.  John  A.  Darling,  U.  S.  A.,  retired,  will 
leave  their  country  home,  Madrone  Villa,  at  Rutherford, 
Napa  County,  about  July  1st,  to  pass  a  month  at  the 
Tavern  of  Castle  Crags.  They  will  be  joined  there  by 
Miss  Ella  Hastings  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Zane.  Later  on 
they  will  go  to  Del  Monte  and  Bartlett  Springs. 

Floyd  Judah  and  H.  R.  Judah,  Jr.,  are  at  Upper  Soda 
Springs,  Siskiyou  Co. 

The  thought  of  wedding  bells  is  always  followed  by  the  thought 
of  wedding  suppers;  and  Mrix  Abraham,  428  Geary  street,  the  most 
popular  caterer  in  this  city,  takes  charge  of  this  important  feature  of 
the  ceremony,  and  always  gives  perfect  satisfaction.  All  the  swell 
people  employ  Abraham. 

Great  Reduction  in  prices  during  the  summer  months  on  Art  Goods, 
Plotures.  Crookery,  Glassware,  etc.    S.  &  G.  Gump,  113  Geary  street. 

When  playing  poker  drink  Jackson's  Napa  Soda. 


PACIFIC 

CONGRESS 

SPRINGS 


Remodeled    and    under 
New   Management  .... 


HOTEL 


Santa  Grw  Mountains, 

Santa  Clara  County . 


Onlu  two-and-a-half  hours 
from  San  franr.isco. 

Six   miles   from   Los  Gatos.     Tod 
mill's   from  Santa   Clan.      Twelve 
mil's  from  San  Jose. 
For  rales  ami  printni  matter  address 


JOHN    S.    MATHESON, 

Manager. 

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Vichy  SprinQS- 


Three  Miles  from 
UKIAH. 


Tefminus  of  S.  F.  &.  N.  P.  Railway 
Mendocino  County 

The  ^nly  place  in  llie  United  States  where  Vichy  Water  is  abundant.  Only 
natural  electric  waters.  Champagne  baths  The  only  place  In  the  world 
of  this  class  of  waters  where  the  bathtubs  are  supplied  by  a  continuous 
How  of  natural  warm  water  direct  from  the  springs.  Accommodations 
first  class. 

Miss  D.  D.  Alien.  Prop. 


BliModale- 


NOW    OPEN.       Hotel  and   Cottages 


A  pretty  California  spot  on  line  of  Mt  Tamalpais  Scenic  Railway. 
Carriage  meets  all  trains  at  Mill  Valley.    Five  minutes1  drive. 

Mrs.  Gregg, 


Under  New 
Management 


Only  19  miles  from  Uklah. 

Finest  summer  resort  in  California. 

Good  hunting,  fishing,  boating,  and  Bathing 

Finest  cuisine  and  best  accommodations. 


BLUE  LAKES  HOTEL, 

(Bertha  Postofflce) 
LAKE  COUNTY,  CAL. 


R.  E.  "WHITEFIELD, 

Manager. 


UNITED    STATES 
LAUNDRY. 


Telephone  South  430, 


Office,  1004  Market  Street. 


SAN  FRANCISCO. 


Lft  GRANDE  LAUNDRY, 


Tel.  Bush  12. 


Principal  Office— 23  Powell  street,  opp.  Baldwin  Hotel. 

Branch— 1 1  Taylor  street,  near  Golden  Gate  avenue. 
Laundry— Fell  streets,  between  Folsom  and  Howard. 
SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

Josepn  Gillott's  Steel  Pens, 

Gold  Medals.  Paris.  1878-1889.    These  pens  are  "  the 
best  in  the  world."     Sole  agent  for  the  United  States 
Mr.  Henry  Hoe,  91  John  street,  New  York. 
Sold  by  all  Stationers . 

WCaK  ilCfl  and  ^VOmCn  TERS,  the  great  Mexican  rem- 
edy ;  It  gives  health  and  strength  to  the  Sexual  Organs.  Depot  at  828  Mar- 
ket street.  San  Francisco      fSend  for  circular.) 


)R.    T.    FELIX    GOURAUD'S    ORIENTAL 
CREAM,  OR    MAGICAL    BEAUTIFIER. 

Removes  Tan,  Pimples,  Freckles,  Moth 
Patches,  Rash,  and  Skin  Diseases,  and 
every  blemish  on  beauty,  and  defies  de- 
tection It  has  stood  the  test  of  48  years 
and  is  so  harmless  v  e  taste  it  to  be  sure 
it  is  properly  made  Accept  no  counter- 
feit of  similar  name.  Dr.  L.  A.  Sayre 
said  to  a  lady  of  the  haut-ton  (a  pa- 
tient): "As  you  ladies  will  use  them,  I 
recommend  'Gouraud's  Cream'  as  the 
least  harmful  of  all  the  Skin  prepara- 
tions," For  sale  by  all  Druggistsand 
Fancy-Goods  Dealers  in  the  United 
States,  Canadas,  and  Europe 

FERD.  T.  HOPKINS.  Prop'r, 

37  Great  Jones  St  ,N.Y. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


June  26,  1897. 


NOTES  OF  THE  ARMY  AND  NAVY. 


There  has  been  much  criticism  recently  bj  the  press  all 
over  the  country  regarding  the  fact  that  General  Nelson 
A.  Miles,  U.  S.  A.,  occupied  a  $500  stateroom  when  he 
crossed  the  Atlantic  to  go  to  Europe.  It  has  even  been 
asserted  that  he  charged  the  War  Department  that 
amount,  but  the  officials  on  guard  deny  this.  They  state 
that  General  Miles  paid  his  fare  at  $100.  He  had  selected 
a  stateroom  but  when  he  reached  the  steamship  it  was  oc- 
cupied by  Mrs.  Abbey.  She  did  not  wish  to  move  so  the 
steamship  company  offered  to  General  Miles  the  use  of  a 
deck  stateroom  for  himself  and  a  member  of  his  party. 
This  was  accepted  and  no  extra  price  was  charged. 

Why  the  artillery  is  stationed  at  Angel  Island  is  a  mys- 
tery. There  is  but  one  mounted  gun  there,  a  small  artil- 
lery piece,  that  is  used  for  the  morning  and  evening  gun. 
Consequently  the  whole  command  is  obliged  to  go  to  either 
Fort  Point  or  the  Presidio  for  drill.  The  privates  have  a 
kick  coming  on  this  for  it  means  simply  a  cold  lunch  in- 
stead of  a  hot  one  for  them.  It  seems  as  if  some  of  the  old 
smooth  bore  guns  in  the  island  could  be  mounted  for 
artillery  drill  for  recruits. 

Secretary  Long,  of  the  Navy,  has  disapproved  of  the 
findings  of  a  recent  court-martial  in  the  case  of  Lieutenant 
Fidelio  S.  Carter,  U.  S.  N. ,  of  the  Independence,  who  was 
accused  of  sending  a  letter  to  a  civilian,  threatening  that 
if  the  latter  did  not  withdraw  a  letter  which  the  former 
erroneously  supposed  he  had  sent  to  the  Navy  Depart- 
ment, making  charges  to  the  officers,  he  would  have  his 
son  arrested  and  tried  for  fraudulent  enlistment.  The 
facts  were  proved,  but  the  officer  was  acquitted  by  the 
court.  In  disapproving  the  decision,  Secretary  Long  de- 
clares his  conduct  most  reprehensible  and  unbecoming. 
The  Secretary  has  no  authority  to  order  a  second  trial  for 
the  same  alleged  offense,  hence  Lieutenant  Carter  will  es- 
cape unpunished. 

The  Monterey  and  Monadnock  left  Thursday  eveniDg  for 
Portland,  to  participate  in  the  Fourth  of  July  celebration 
there.  Captain  William  H.  Whiting,  IT.  S.  N,  assumed 
command  of  the  Monadnock,  vice  Captain  George  W. 
Sumner,  U.  S.  N.  The  Monterey,  while  at  Portland,  will 
receive  the  beautiful  set  of  silver  service  that  is  the  gift  of 
the  people  of  Oregon  to  the  battleship  Oregon.  The 
Monterey  will  receive  a  handsome  silk  banner  in  recogni- 
tion of  its  services. 

Plans  were  forwarded  to  the  Secretary  of  War  this 
week  for  a  new  assembly  building  to  be  erected  at  the 
Presidio.  The  building  will  be  near  the  present  quarters, 
and  will  have  a  frontage  of  216  feet.  It  will  cost  about 
$50,000,  and  will  be  two  stories  in  height  with  a  large 
assembly  hall,  club  rooms,  officers'  mess,  and  sleeping 
quarters.  If  the  plans  be  approved  and  the  building 
erected,  it  will  be  a  much  needed  addition  to  the  Presidio, 
as  the  proposed  concentration  of  forces  here  will  make 
more  room  absolutely  necessary. 

Mr.  Henry  T.  Scott,  who  left  Washington,  D.  C,  last 
Tuesday  for  this  city,  stated  before  leaving  that  he  firmly 
believed  that  at  least  one  of  the  new  torpedo  boats  would 
be  constructed  at  the  Union  Iron  Works. 

The  Navy  Department  has  not  been  at  'all  successful  in 
securing  enlistments  in  the  seamen  branch.  There  are 
now  more  than  700  vacancies,  with  more  recurring  daily. 
The  date  of  commissioning  several  vessels  will  have  to  be 
postponed  on  this  account  unless  the  Navy  Department 
devises  some  scheme  to  overcome  the   existing  difficulties. 

The  Boston,  which  has  been  at  Nagasaki  for  some  time, 
is  expected  at  Yokohama  in  time  to  celebrate  the  glorious 
Fourth. 

Advertisements  for  bids  are  now  out  for  dredging  the 
channel  at  Mare  Island.  There  will  be  work  for  the  con- 
tractors for  at  least  one  and  one-half  years.  When  the 
work  is  completed  any  vessel  in  the  navy  will  be  able  to 
dock  at  the  navy  yard. 

Rear  Admii-al  George  Brown,  U.  S.  N.,  was  retired 
from  active  service  on  June  19th,  owing  to  the  age  limit. 
Recently  he  has  been  in  command  of  the  Norfolk  Navv 
Yard. 

General  A.  W.  Greeley,  U.  S.  A.,  had  the  middle  finger 
of  his  right  hand  amputated  last  Saturday  in  Washington. 
D.  C.     During   the   past   five  years   he  has  suffered  from 


necrosis,  resulting  from  freezing  while  on  duty  in  the 
Arctic.     He  is  now  doing  well. 

Colonel  Anson  Mills,  Third  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  has  been 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Brigadier  General. 

Captain  C.  V.  Gridley,  U.  S.  N,  has  been  ordered  de- 
tached from  the  Richmond  on  July  1st,  and  will  leave  here 
July  7th  by  steamer  for  the  Asiatic  Station  to  assume 
command  of  the"  Olympia  now  at  Yokohama.  He  will  re- 
lieve Captain  J.  J.  Read,  U.  S.  N,  who  will  proceed  home 
and  then  enjoy  two  months'  leave  of  absence. 

Commander  J.  G.  Brown,  U.  S.  N ,  has  been  ordered  to 
command  the  Puget  Sound  Naval  Station. 

Quartermaster  General  George  H.  Weeks,  U.  S.  A.,  is 
en  route  here  from  Washington,  D.  C,  to  make  a  personal 
inspection  of  all  Government  work  now  under  way  in  and 
around  San  Francisco  bay.  Upon  his  report  will  depend 
the  amount  of  money  that  will  be  expended  for  coast  de- 
fense work. 

Colonel  William  John  Lyster,  Ninth  Infantry,_U.  S.  A., 
will  be  retired  from  service  on  the   age  limit  on  June  27th. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  H.  E.  Noyes,  Second  Cavalry,  U.  S. 
A.,  who  was  recently  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Colonel,  has 
had  his  nomination  objected  to  and  is  under  investigation. 
Consequently  all  confirmations  in  the  cavalry  branch  of  the 
army  are  held  up  in  the  Senate  Committee  on  Military 
Affairs  awaiting  the  action  of  the  committee. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  William  H.  Bisbee,  First  Infantry, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  granted  one  month's  leave  of  absence, 
after  which  he  will  join  his  new  station. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Marcus  P.  Miller,  First  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Colonel  of  the 
Third  Artillery. 

Major  Thomas  H.  Barry,  First  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  who 
has  been  on  special  duty  in  Washington,  D.  C,  since 
December  1893,  has  been  appointed  inspector  of  small 
arms  practice  at  the  Department  of  Columbia. 

Paymaster  Edwin  B.  Webster,  U.  S.  N,  who  is  now  at 
Seattle,  Wash. ,  has  been  sued  for  divorce.  He  is  in  re- 
ceipt of  a  salary  of  $2000  a  year  and  his  wife  alleges  that 
he  does  not  contribute  to  her  support.  During  the  past 
year  he  has  sent  her  only  $40.  She  prays  for  $50  a  month 
alimony. 

Captain  J.  C.  Hester,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major. 

Captain  Lewis  Smith,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major  of  the  Fourth 
Artillery. 

Chaplain  T.  A.  Gill,  U.  S.  N,  has  been  ordered  to  duty 
at  tbe  Mare  Island  Navy  Yard. 

Lieutenant  A.  C.  Quay,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain. 

Lieutenant  J.  D.  C.  Haskins,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain. 

Lieutenant  Elmer  W.  Hubbard,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S. 
A.,  has  been  appointed  professor  of  military  science  and 
tactics  at  the  State  University  of  Nevada,  at  Reno,  to  take 
effect  on  September  1st.  He  will  relieve  Lieutenant 
William  R.  Hamilton,  Fifth  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  who  will 
then  join  his  battery. 

Lieutenant  Herbert  Deakyns,  Corps  of  Engineers,  U. 
S.  A.,  has  been  appointed  a  member  of  the  California 
Debris  Commission. 

Lieutenant  J.  Franklin  Bell,  Seventh  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  granted  an  extension  of  one  month  on  his  leave 
of  absence. 

Lieutenant  J.  F.  Reynolds  Landis,  First  Cavalry,  U.  S. 
A.,  has  reported  for  duty  with  his  regiment  at  Fort  Riley, 
Kansas. 

Lieutenant  Delamere  Skerrett,  Fifth  Artillery,  U.S.  A., 
has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Captain  of  the  Third 
Artillery. 

Lieutenant  Charles  W.  Hobbs,  Third  Artillery,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  promoted  to  tbe  rank  of  Captain. 

Second  Lieutenant  Archibald  Campbell,  Third  Artillery, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of  First 
Lieutenant, 

Additional  Second  Lieutenant  Clarence  H.  McNeil, 
First  Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Second  Lieutenant  of  the  Fifth  Artillery. 

Ensign  F.  Boughter,  U.  S.  N,  has  been  detached  from 
the  Thetis,  ordered  home  and  granted  two  months'  leave 
of  absence. 


June  26,  1897. 


SAN   PRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


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Southern    Pacific    Co. --Pacific  System.      San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific  R'y  Co. 


Tram,   [.'are  and   are  Do*  lo   ArriT»  at  SAN 

FRANCISCO: 

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•«  1  » 
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7:00  a 
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■1     HP 

I. -OOP 
1:30  P 
4:00  p 

4:00  p 


6:00P 

6:00  P 
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8:00  p 
I8:O0p 
8:00  p 


Nllea.Saa  Joac.  and  waj  station* 
Atlantic  Eipmi,  Ogdcn and  East  «-4ip 

Bcnlcla.   Sacramento,   Orovtllc.   and  Redding,   rta   Darls    S:tsr 
Vacatille  and  Run.-r  *   i.i  r 

Martinez.  San  Ramon.  Vallejo,  Napa. CattMoga,  Santa  Roaa    a : la  p 
Nlles.  Sao  Jose.  Stockton,  lone.  Sacramento,  Marysvlllc. 

Chlco.  Tcbama.  and  Red   Bluff 4:15  P 

Patera,  Milton,  and  Oak.lal,  «7:I5P 

New  Orleans  Express.  M.rced.  Fresno.  BakcrsBeld,  Santa 
Barbara.  Los  Angelea,  Deming.  El  Paso.  New  Orlcana,  and 

«:16P 

Vallejo 12 :  15  P 

Nllea,  San  Jose  Llvermore.  and  Stockton 7:15P 

Sacramento  River  steamers ««:0op 

Nlles.  San  Jose,  and  Llvermore 8:45  a 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 7:45P 

Martinez.  San  Ramon.  Vallejo,  Napa,  Callstoga,  El  Verano 

and  Santa  Rosa B:16A 

Bcnlcla,    Vacavllle   (Voodland,  Knlgbt's   Landing,  Marys- 

vllle.  Orovllle.  and  Sacramento 10:16A 

Latbrop.  Stockton.  Modesto,  Merced,  Raymond  (for  Yus.-m- 
lie)  and  Fresno,  going  via  Nlles,  returning  via  Martinez..  12:15  p 
Los  Angeles  Express,  Tracy,  Fresno,  Mojave  (for  Rands- 
burg), Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  Angeles 

Santa  Fe  Route.  Atlantic  Express,  for  Mojave  and  East 

European  mall,  Ogden  and  East 

Uavwards.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 

Vallejo.  

Oregon  Express,  Sacramento,  Marysvllle,   Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East 


7.45  A 

6:15p 
10:15  A 

7:45  A 
77:45 P 

7:45  A 


Sab  Leandro  akd  Haywards  Local.    (Fool  of  Market  St.) 


«-00  Al 
8.-00  A 

Melross, 

(      7:15  a 

Seminabt  Park, 

(9:45  A 

9:00  a 

FITCHBCRO, 

10:45  A 

10:00  a 

Elmbdrst. 

11:45  A 

(11 .00  A 

San  Leandro. 

12:45  p 

(.12:00  M 

South  San  Leandro, 

«1:45  P 

2:00  P 

ESTUDILLO, 

18:45  P 

i3:00  P 

Lorenzo, 

4:45  P 

4:00  P 

Cberrt, 

«5:45  p 

5:00  P 

and 

6:15  P 

5:30  p 

Hatwards. 

7:45  P 

7:00  P 

8:46  P 

8:00  P 

i  Runs  through  to  Nlles. 

9:45  P 

9:00  P 

!  From  Nlles 

10:50  p 

7711:16  P 

(.7712:00  P 

Santa  Crpz  Division  (Narrow  Gauge).    (Foot  of  Market  St.) 

7:45a  SantaCruz  Excursion,  Santa  Cruz  &  principal  way  stations  18:05P 
8:15  a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Felton,  boulder  Creek,  Santa 

Cruz  and  way  stations ....  5:50  p 

•2:15 p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose.  New  Almaden,  Felton,  Boul- 
der Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and  principal  way  stations *11:2*ja 

4:15  p  San  Jose  and  Glenwood 8:50> 

14:15  p  Felton  and  Santa  Cruz  g8;S0  a 

CREEK  ROUTE  FERRY. 

From  San  Francisco— Foot  of  Market  street  (Slip  8).— *7:15,  9:00,  and 
11:00  A.  M..  11:00.  •2:00.13:00.  *4:00, 15:00  and  *6:00P.  M. 

From  Oakland— Foot  of  Broadway.—  *6:00,  8:00,  10:00  A.  m.:  112:00,  *1:00, 
12 :00,*3:00, 14:00  *5:00p.  m. 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  streets). 

San  Jose  and  way  stations  (New  Almaden  Wednesdays  only)    1:30  p 
Sunday  excursion  for  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,  Pacific  Grove, 

and  principal  way  stations  ..J8;35P 

San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz.  Pacific  Grove,  Paso  Robles 

San  Luis  Obispo,  Guadalupe.  Surf  and  principal  way  stations    4:15  p 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 7 :30  p 

Palo  Alto  and  way  stations  5:00p 

San  Mateo,  Redwood,  Menlo  Park.  San  Jose,  Gllroy,  Tres 

Pinos,  Santa  Cruz,  Salinas, Monterey, PaciflcGrove *10:40a 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 9 :45  a 

San  Jose  and  Way  Stations  *8:05a 

San  Jose  and  principal  way  stations *8 :45  A 

San  Jose  and  way  stations.. 6:35a 

San  Jose  and  way  stations 


•7:00a 
17:30  a 

9:00  a 

10  :40  a 
11:30  a 
«2:30p 

•3:30  P 
•4:30p 
6:30  p 
8:30p 
tll:45P 

A  for  Morning,     p  for  Afternoon.     *Sundays  excepted.     tSaturdays  only. 

JSundaysonly.  tt  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday  nights  only. 

^Saturdays  and  Sundays.  gSundays  and  Mondays. 

The  Pacific  Transfer  Company  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from 
hotels  and  residences.  Enquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and 
other  Information. 

Tht>    l^ponri     Parifir     306  Stockton   St.  San    Francisco. 
I  IID    Ul  dllU     rdbll  lUp         MRS.  ELLA  CORBETT,  Proprietress. 
Furnished  rooms  by  the  day.  week,  or  month        Telephone:  Grant,  S07. 


S4N  FRANCISCO  TO  SAN  RAFAEL.   Tihijhun  Fikhy-  Foot  of  Market  Street. 
WKKK  UAYS— 7:ao,tf:00,  ||:uu  am;  19:86,  «:S0  5:10,  6:80  P  M.    Thursdays- 
Extra  trip  at  U:30P  m.    Saturdays— Extra  trips  at   1 :50  and  11 :30  P  M. 
SUNDAYS  "Ui.tf:*).  U:i»  A  m;  i  :30    3:30.  f,:0U.  6:20  P  M. 

SAN    RAFAEL   TO  SAN   FMNCISCO. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:10,  7:50,9:20,  11:10  am;  12:46,  8:40,  5:10  P  M.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trips  at   1 :56  and  6:86  p  y. 
SUNDAYS-8:10.  9:40.  11:10  am;  1:40.3:40.6:00.6:26PM. 

Between  San  Francisco  and  Schuetzen  Park,  same  schedule  as  above. 


Leave 

S.  F. 
Sundays. 

In    Effect  .lum-  13,  l(*7 

ARRIVE  IN  S.  F. 

Week  Days. 

Destination 

Novato, 
Petaluma, 
Santa  Rosa. 

Sundays 

10:40  AH    | 
8:10pm 
7:35  pm 

Week  Days 

7:30am 
3:30  pm 

5:10pm 

8:00AM 
9:30AM 
5:00  PM 

8:40  A  M 
10:25  A  M 
6:22  PM 

' "7:30 am   ' 
3:30  PM 

'8:66  am' 

Fulton,    Windsor, 

Uealdsburg, 

Geyservllle.  Cloverdale 

7:35PM 

10:25  A  M 
"6:22' P "n" 

7:30  am 
3  30  P.M 

8:00  AM 

Hopland,  Uklah 

7:36  PM 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  P  M 

7:3Ua  m 
3:30pm 

8:00am 

Ouernevllle. 

7:35PM 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  p  M 

7  :30  am 
5:10pm 

8:0uam 
5:00  PM 

Sonoma, 

Glen  Ellen. 

10:40  AM 
6:10PM 

8:40  A  M 
6:22  p  m 

7:30AM 
3:30PM 

8:00am 
5:00  PM 

Sebastopol. 

10:40  AM      1 

7:85  PM     I 

10:25  A  M 
6:22  p  M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Geyservllle 
for  Skaggs' Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers;  at  Hopland  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah,  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Laurel  Del 
Lake,  Upper  Lake,  Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside.  Lier- 
ley's,  BuckneU's  Sashedoin  Heights,  Hullville,  Booneville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Mendocino  City,  Ft.  Bragg.  Westport,  Usal. 

Saturday- to-Monday  Round  Trip  Tickets  atreduced  rateB.  On  Sundays, 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  all  points  beyond  San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

TICKET  OFFICE-650  Market  St.,  Chronicle  Building. 
A.  W.  FOSTER,  Pres.  &  Gen.  Manager.     R.  X,  RYAN,  Gen.  Pssb  .  Agent. 

Pacific    Coast   Steamship    Co. 

Steamers  leave  Broadway  Wharf.  San  Francisco  for  ports  In  Alaska, 
9  a.  m..  June  5.  10, 15, 20,  25,  30  and  every  fith  day  thereafter. 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports,  9  a.  m.,  June  5,  10,  15, 
20.  25,  30,  and  every  5th  day  thereafter. 

For  Eureka  (Humboldt  Bay),  Steamer  ''Pomona,"  at  2  P.  M.  June  1,5, 
9,  14,  18,  22,  26,  3)  ;  July  6,  9,  13,  17.  21,  26,  30  ;  Aug.  3,  7.  11,  16,  20,  24,  28. 

For  Newport,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports,  at  9  a.m.;  June  3,  7,  11, 
15.  19.  23,  27,  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  t*t  Port  Harford  Santa  Barbara,  Port  Los 
Angeles,  Redondo,  (Los  Angeles)  and  Newport,  11  a.  m.,  June  1.  5,  9, 13, 
17.  21,  25,  2S»  and  every  fourth  day  thereafter. 

For  Ensenada,  Magdalena  Bay.  San  Jose  del  Cabo,  Mazatlan,  Altata.  La 
Paz.  Santa  Rosalia,  and  Guaymas  (Mexico),  steamer  "Orizaba,"  10  A.  m, 
the  2d  of  each  month. 

The  company  reserves  the  right  to  change,  without  previous  notice, 
steamers,  sailing  dates,  and  hours  of  sailing. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Montgomery  street. 
GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents,       10  Market  st,  S.  F. 

Occidental  and  Oriental  Steamship  Co. 

FOR    JAPAN    AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  wharf,  FIRST  and  BRANNAN  STREETS,  at  1  p  m.,  for 

YOKOHAMA    AND    HONGKONG, 

calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki  and    Shanghai,  and  connecting   at 

Hongkong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc.    No  cargo  received  on  board  on 

day  of  sailing. 

Coptic  Thursday,  June  17, 1897 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu) Wednesday,  July  7-  1897 

Doric  (via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  July  27,  1897 

Belgic Saturday,  August  H,  1897 

Round  Teip  Tickets  at  Reduced  Rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  Company's  Office.  No.  421  Market  street, 

corner  First.  D.  D.  STUBBS,  Secretary. 


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S  S  "Australia",  for  Honolulu    only,  Tuesday, 
July  13th.  at  2  p    m. 

S.  S.  "Moana,"  Thursday,  July  22d,  at  2  p  m 
Line  to  Coolgardle,  Australia,  and  Capetown, 
South  Africa. 

J.  D.  SPRECKELS  &RROS.  CO., 
Agents,  114  Montgomery  St.  Freight  office,  327 
Market  St. .  San    Francisco. 


THE  Sausalito  News  has  issued  an  interesting  "Bird's- 
Eye  View  from  Mt.  Tamalpais,"  which  takes  in  a 
wide  sweep  of  surrounding  country.  The  view  contains 
pictures  of  many  hotels  and  pleasure  resorts,  as  well  as 
prominent  business  houses  of  Sausalito.  It  is  accompanied 
by  a  descriptive  foot  note,  a  very  interesting  account 
of  the  vast  panorama  of  land  and  water  which  greets  the 
eye  from  the  top  of  the  mountain,  reached  by  the  Mt. 
Tamalpais  Scenic  Railway. 


Other  waters  try— Jackson's  Napa  Soda  gets  there. 


CAPTAIN  T.  Gamier  Tracy,  a  graduate  of  West  Point, 
and  at  one  time  stationed  at  the  Presidio,  died  last 
week  in  Mendocino  County.  Captain  Tracy  was  married 
to  Miss  Mary  E.  Smith,  of  that  County,  by  whom  he  had 
four  children.  He  was  a  most  polished  and  agreeable  gen- 
tleman, and  a  gallant  soldier.  He  had  a  host  of  friends 
throughout  the  State,  who  will  deeply  regret  him. 

$25  Rate  to  Chicago  via  the  Great  Santa   Fe  Route. 
The  low  rates  made  for  Christian  Endeavorers  will  be  open  to  the 
public  as  well,  if  they  travel  via  the  Great  Santa  Fe  Route.     Ticket 
Office,  (544  Market  street,  Chronicle  Building.    Tel.  Main  1531. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


June  26,  1897. 


INSURANCE 

THE  United  States  Casualty  Company  has  reinsured  its 
entire  burglar  policies  with  the  Fidelity  and  Casualty 
Company,  and  will  abandon  that  branch  of  the  business. 
This  leaves  the  field  practically  in  the  hands  of  the  latter 
company  in  the  Western  field,  as  the  New  England 
Burglar  Insurance  Company  now  confines  its  operations  to 
the  country  lying  east  of  the  Missouri  river. 

Insurance  Commissioner  Clunie  is  stirring  up  the  Assess- 
ment Companies.  He  has  discovered  that  with  one  ex- 
ception— the  Fidelity  Mutual  Aid — none  of  the  policies 
issued  by  them  have  the  assessment  clause  defined  as  re- 
quired by  law.  The  plain  intent  of  the  language  of  these 
policies  is  to  befog  the  insured  so  that  he  hardly  knows 
what  his  policy  does  mean. 

The  New  York  Life  has  sued  the  Pittsburg  Dispatch 
for  $100,000  for  libel.  The  Dispatch  declared  that  one 
DistontookoutS600,000insurance,  dying  two  days  later,  the 
tenor  of  the  article  being  to  the  discredit  of  the  company. 
The  facts  are  that  the  insurance  policy  was  for  $135,000, 
taken  out  in  1880,  and  the  company  paid  the  loss  four  days 
before  the  publication  of  the  criticism. 

Glasgow,  Scotland,  is  to  have  another  big  fire  insurance 
company,  with  a  capital  of  $5,000,000. 

London  now  has  an  umbrella  insurance  company,  with  a 
capital  of  $50,000,  to  insure  the  return  of  umbrellas,  canes, 
etc. ,  when  lost,  strayed  or  stolen. 

George  Ingraham  has  been  elected  Vice  President  and 
Wm.  H.  Wright  Secretary  of  the  Phenix  of  Brooklyn. 

The  Providence-Washington  received  $100,000  cash  in 
its  recent  reinsurance  deal  with  the  Norwood. 

U.  B.  Wilson  and  Daniel  Porter  have  been  sued  for 
libel  by  Chas.  Markwardt,  of  Denver.  Porter  and  Wilson 
charged  Markwardt  with  having  set  fire  to  his  house. 
G.  M.  Stolp  has  returned  from  a  trip  to  the  East. 
General  E.  H.  Magill  has  been  appointed  Special  Agent 
of  the  British  America  and  Western  Insurance  Companies. 
Max  A.  Wesondonck,  Special  Director  of  the  Germania 
Life,  is  visiting  the  Coast. 

Henry  F.  Gordon   will  hereafter   represent  the  Sun  In- 
surance Company  in  Oakland. 
Tom  C.  Grant,  of  the  North  British  and  Mercantile,  has 
!  returned  from  a  vacation  trip. 

E.  W.  Carpenter,  one  of  the  best  known  insurance  men 
of  this  Coast,  has  just  got  back  from  a  voyage  around  the 
world. 

Chas.  D.  Haven,  manager  of  the  Liverpool  and  London 
and  Globe,  accompanied  by  his  wife,  is  taking  a  vacation 
in  Mexico. 

The  British  America  and  Western  Assurance  Companies 
of  Toronto  have  withdrawn  from  the  local  Insurance 
Board;  the  Westchester  has  also  withdrawn  and  will 
probably  abolish  its  Coast  management,  reporting  to 
Chicago.  A  number  of  other  companies  have  notified  the 
Board  of  their  intention  to  resign. 

Owing  to  the  recently  enacted  insurance  laws  of  the 
State  of  Washington,  all  the  compacts  of  local  agencies  in 
that  territory  have  been  abolished. 

Deputy  Insurance  Commissioner  Rohrer,  who  has  held 
his  position  for  the  past  twenty  years,  will  be  retained  by 
Commissioner  Clunie. 

Bicycle  companies  are  being  organized  and  failing 
throughout  the  Coast  with  the  utmost  facility. 

The  Pacific  Mutual  Life  expects  to  have  all  its  recent 
additional  capital  stock  of  $100,000  taken  before  Decem- 
ber 1st. 

P.  B.  Armstrong  last  week  made  application  to  the 
Attorney-General  for  the  removal  of  the  officers,  trustees, 
and  directors  of  the  Mutual  Fire,  on  the  ground  that  they 
have  violated  the  law  in  running  a  mutual  company  as  a 
stock  corporation. 


Feed    Them    Properly 

and  carefully ;  reduce  the  painfully  large  percentage  of  infant  mor- 
tality. Take  no  chances  and  make  no  experiments  in  this  very  im- 
portant matter.  The  Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  has 
saved  thousands  of  little  lives. 


Mothers,  besure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  teething. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO, 


SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 
Fire  and    Marine  Insurance  Agents, 

309  and  311  Sansome  St.  -        San   Francisco,  Ca 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

FINDLAY,  DURHAM  &  BEODIE 43  and  46  Threadneedle  St., London 

SIMPSON,  MACK1RDY  &  CO 29  South  CaBtle  St.,  Liverpool 

INSURANCE. 

FIRE,   MARINE,    AND   INLAND   INSURANCE. 


Firemans    Fund 


INSURANCE  COMPANY,  OP  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Capital,  $1,000,000. 


Assets,  $3,500,000. 


PALATINE 


For  ill  effects  of  over-eating— Beecham's  Pills. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY   (Limited),   OF  MANCHESTER,   ENGLAND. 

SOLID    SECURITY.  OVER    $9,000,000.00     RESOURCES 

CHAS.  A.  LATON,  Manager.  439  California  St.,  S.  F. 
Fire  insurance. 

Founded  A.  D.  179?. 

Insurance    Company    ol  North   America 

OF  PHILADELPHIA,  FENN. 

Paid-up  Capital 13,000,000 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 5,023,018 

JAMES  D.  BAILEY,  General  Agent,  412  California  St.,  S.  F. 

CONNECTICUT  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  HARTFORD. 

Capital  Paid  Up H,000,000 

ABsets 3,300.018 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,808,332 

ROBERT  DICKSON,  Manager  601  Montgomery  St. 
B.  J.  Smith,  Assistant  Manager. 

BOYD   &   DICKSON,  S.  F.  Agents,  501  Montgomery  St 

PHOENIX  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  Established  tm 
PROVIDENCE-WASHINGTON    NSURANCE  CO.  incorporated  1799 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  General  Agents, 

413  California  St.,  S.  F. 


BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO., 

LIMITED, 

OF   LIVERPOOL. 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO.,  Agents. 

No.  316  California  St.,  S.  F 

THE  THURINGIA  INSURANCE  COMPANY. 

Of  ERFURT,  GERMANY. 
Capital.  $2,250  000        Assets.  $10,584,248. 
Pacific  Coast  Department :  2C4-208  SANSOME  ST.,  S.  F. 

VOSS.  CONRAD  &  CO..  General  Managers. 

riD  DIlTlDrVQ  RESTORATIVE  PILLS.— Buy  none  but  the  genu- 
Un.  r\\\s\jnU  O  ine— A  specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physical, 
Debility,  Wasted  Foroes.  Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  medical  celebrities.  Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 
J.  Q.  8TEELE  &  CO.,  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Franciscr. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED— Box  of  50  pills,  »1  25;  of  100  pills,  »2;  01200 pillB, 
J350;  of400pills, $6;  Preparatory  Pills  12.    Send  for  circular.